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SHUTDOWN DAY 8 – Dem unity starts to crack in debt fight – DCCC TO BOEHNER: ARE YOU CHICKEN? – Reid knocks Cruz in Esquire – $10M donation to restart Head Start – Sadosky heads to BIO
SHUTDOWN DAY 8: DEMOCRATIC UNITY STARTS TO CRACK IN DEBT FIGHT – Manu Raju and John Bresnahan have the story for the hometown paper: "For the past several weeks, Senate Democrats and the White House have shown a remarkable amount of unity in the controversial fight surrounding the debt ceiling. Then came shutdown Day Seven. Just as top Senate Democrats began to lay the groundwork to raise the U.S. government's borrowing limit through 2014, senior White House officials refused to rule out a short-term increase. The divergent messages caused major heartburn for top Senate Democrats and gave Republicans fresh hope that they could defeat a yearlong debt ceiling hike and win concessions from President Barack Obama in this fall's fiscal battles. By late Monday afternoon, nervous Senate Democrats had reached out to the White House to ensure they were on the same page — and the concerns on Capitol Hill seemed to be alleviated after senior administration officials downplayed the idea of a short-term increase.
-- "But the incident underscored the fear among the congressional Democratic leadership that President Barack Obama may eventually back away from the no-negotiation stance he and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) have voiced for weeks in order to avoid a first-ever default. And it raised questions about Senate Democrats' next step in the debt ceiling debate if Republicans successfully filibuster a bill to increase the $16.7 trillion national debt ceiling. … Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said, 'What does short-term buy us? That buys us Thanksgiving in Washington.' …
Story Continued Below
-- "The Democratic discord started Monday morning when [Obama's top economic adviser Gene] Sperling said the White House would be open to a two- to three-week increase to avert the Oct. 17 deadline when the U.S. government may begin to default on its $16.7 trillion debt. The comments were a shift from the position the White House took in the 2011 debt fight, when it demanded that Congress extend the debt ceiling through the 2012 elections." http://politi.co/17iSfp8
WHERE'S DEALMAKER JOE BIDEN? ask POLITICO's Jonathan Allen and Carrie Budoff Brown: "When President Barack Obama laid out his strategy for the current debt-limit fight in a private meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this past summer, Reid stipulated one condition: No Joe Biden. And while Biden attended the White House dog-and-pony show meeting last week with congressional leaders, Reid has effectively barred him from the backrooms, according to sources familiar with the situation. …Biden was once Democrats' deal-maker-in-chief, designing budget pacts with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in the summer of 2011 and New Year's Eve 2013. But Biden's deals rubbed Democrats raw. He gave up too much, they said. And for that, they have frozen him out — at least for now." http://politi.co/1hyJIUE
-- National Journal's Billy House asks: Where's Paul Ryan? http://bit.ly/1bU1EbS
-- House Republicans have no plans this week to pass a bill to hike the debt ceiling, even with an Oct. 17 deadline looming. A Senate vote to avoid default could come as early as Friday. http://politi.co/1gmrUP1 and http://nyti.ms/1gmtZdz
-- The NRCC is out with an ad this morning urging Harry Reid to "Stop the Games" and have the Senate take up House-passed bills that would reopen critical parts of the government – a piecemeal approach Reid and President Obama have rejected. Watch here: http://youtu.be/RPgFjZlhpi4
-- The DCCC is hitting back, going up with an ad in Speaker Boehner's Ohio district calling him chicken for not holding a vote on the Senate-passed clean CR. Watch here: http://youtu.be/VMx-wM1XU0M
OBAMA TO BOEHNER: I DARE YOU – Following similar calls by Sens. Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer, President Obama challenged Speaker Boehner to hold an immediate vote on a clean bill to fund and reopen the government during a lunchtime visit to FEMA. The agency has seen most of its workers furloughed during the shutdown. Philip Rucker for WaPo: http://wapo.st/1ag7eTR
**A message from National Council of Chain Restaurants: The Renewable Fuel Standard has caused food commodity prices to soar – setting off a multi-billion-dollar chain reaction throughout our economy unfairly increasing costs for small business chain restaurants, farmers, food manufacturers and ultimately American consumers. Learn more at www.rfsoffthemenu.org.
NEW POLITICO POLL LOOKS AT VA. GOV RACE: McAuliffe, the former national Democratic Party chairman, is now 9 points ahead of Cuccinelli, the current state attorney general, in the Va. gubernatorial race that also includes Libertarian nominee Robert Sarvis. For more: http://politi.co/1hxQMkB
POLL: GOP GETS MOST OF THE BLAME – A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows seven in 10 Americans now disapprove of the way congressional Republicans are handling the budget battle, up from 63 percent just a week ago. And 51 percent now say they "strongly" disapprove of the GOP's tactics. Meanwhile, 61 percent disapprove of the Democrats' approach, and President Obama's disapproval rating stood at 51 percent. The president saw his approval rating tick up four points to 45 percent. WaPo has more here: http://wapo.st/1fdw3Wn
TRANSITIONS – Jeff Sadosky, Sen. Rob Portman's communications director, is heading downtown joining the communications shop at Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), the world's largest biotechnology trade association. He was Portman's chief spokesman during his 2010 Senate campaign and worked for former Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Mike DeWine before that. Sadosky is also a veteran of the McCain 2008 and Bush-Cheney 2004 campaigns. He'll be feted by friends and colleagues Thursday evening at Johnny's Half Shell.
GOOD TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 8, 2013, and welcome to The Huddle, your-play-play preview of all the action on Capitol Hill. Send tips, suggestions, comments, complaints and corrections to firstname.lastname@example.com. If you don't already, please follow me on Twitter @scottwongDC.
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TODAY IN CONGRESS – The Senate is in at 10 a.m. and will recess from 12:30 to 2:15 for weekly party caucus lunches. The House is also in at 10 a.m. with first votes expected between 1:30 and 2 p.m. and last votes between 3 and 3:30 p.m. on the Head Start for Low-Income Children Act and Impact Aid for Local Schools Act.
AROUND THE HILL – House Democrats hold a post-conference media availability on the government shutdown at 10 a.m. at the HVC-210 alcove. Speaker John Boehner and other GOP leaders hold a post-meeting availability at 10 a.m. in HC-8. Rep. Zoe Lofgren and others speak on immigration at 10 a.m. at the House Triangle. Sens. Barbara Boxer, Ben Cardin and Bill Nelson speak on the damaging impacts of a government shutdown at 10:30 a.m. in Dirksen 406. House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer holds a pen and pad briefing at noon in H-144. Also at noon, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi presents Rep. Rosa DeLauro with the Fearless Trailblazer Award tomorrow at the Feminist Majority's Women, Money, Power Summit Luncheon, at the Capital Hilton Hotel, 1001 16th St. NW.
Sens. Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte speak on the capture of Al-Libi at 12:45 p.m. in the Senate Studio. Nancy Pelosi gives remarks at the Camino Americano Immigration Dignity and Respect Concert and March at 12:55 p.m. on the National Mall at 10 th Street. Rep. Luis Gutierrez speaks at the rally about 3 p.m. and will join the march to the Capitol.
SHUTDOWN, DEFAULT THREAT DRAG DOWN MARKETS – Alexandra Scaggs and Carolyn Cui report for the Wall Street Journal: "With no end in sight to the stalemate in Washington, global stock markets slid and investors sought out the safer havens of gold and some government bonds. Traders stressed that conditions across financial markets remained calm … But the uncertainty over how the political battle will play out was enough to send U.S. stocks to their 10th decline in the past 13 sessions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 136.34 points, or 0.9%, to 14936.24, its lowest level in a month. The blue-chip index stands 4.7% below its record reached Sept. 18." http://on.wsj.com/17MJ4l7
BILLIONAIRE COUPLE DONATE $10M TO REOPEN HEAD START – Elisha Fieldstadt reports for NBC News: "A philanthropic billionaire couple pledged up to $10 million in an effort to fund Head Start programs that could no longer operate due to the ongoing government shutdown, officials announced on Monday. Laura and John Arnold provided the money needed to reopen the seven Head Start programs in six states that were expecting to receive their federally allotted grants on Oct. 1 but were forced to close when the government closed many of their own offices on Tuesday, said Sally Aman, a Head Start spokeswoman. … A former hedge fund manager, John Arnold, 39, is worth $2.8 billion, according to Forbes. He and his wife started a charity foundation bearing their name in 2008, but Larson said the $10 million that are giving to Head Start is a personal donation." http://nbcnews.to/1ahhHOO
SENATE REPUBLICANS BALK AT SHUTDOWN BACKPAY BILL – The AP: "A bill the House passed to guarantee that furloughed federal workers receive back pay after the partial government shutdown is resolved seems to have hit a snag in the Senate. The second-ranking Senate Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, said Monday that 'it's premature to do it right now.' The measure passed the House unanimously on Saturday and has the backing of the White House, so eventual passage through the Senate seems assured. Federal workers have received back pay in previous shutdowns, even as they're left with unscheduled days off. Unless a worker is deemed essential under agency guidelines, it is illegal for them to work or receive pay during a lapse in federal funding. … Majority Leader Harry Reid, however, isn't inclined to devote a lot of the Senate's time to the bill. He may seek to pass the measure by voice vote, a step that could be blocked by any senator." http://huff.to/19vueSg
SANFORD IN THE HOT SEAT OVER SHUTDOWN – POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt reports from North Charleston, S.C.: "Reminders of how heavily [Rep. Mark] Sanford's congressional district leans on the federal government are everywhere: Charleston's 24,000 federal workers, more than 7 percent of its workforce, the 10th-highest proportion of any city in the country; the veterans who make up nearly one in seven residents; the thousands of defense contractors who count on Washington's largesse; and the multiple military facilities, including the Marine Corps' famous training base and air station, Parris Island, where nearly 300 workers were furloughed. Yet Sanford — who made and then remade a political career on his credentials as a fiscal conservative, and who was a proud member of the Republican Revolution that prompted the last federal shutdowns in the mid-1990s — isn't backing down from his refusal to support a budget bill unless Obamacare is altered." http://politi.co/1hyKiSj
REID TO ESQUIRE: CRUZ GOT THROUGH LIFE 'TALKING DOWN TO EVERYONE' – Here's an excerpt from the Q and A with Mark Warren:
ESQ: What do you make of Senator Ted Cruz?
HR: Senator Cruz has gotten through life by being extremely smart and talking down to everyone. And when he got to the Senate, he learned that there are people there as smart as he is. You know, we have lots of Ivy-leaguers, lots of smart people. And it's been very difficult for him, because he can't talk down anymore.
ESQ: How has he been able to so captivate his party?
HR: They're afraid of him!
ESQ: What do you make of the Republicans now reframing the shutdown that they pushed for as the "Obama shutdown" as they become aware of the damage it might cause them?
HR: I said on the floor that this is Orwell's 1984: Up is down, black is white. They might be saying these things, but it's not working. http://bit.ly/16tylvX (h/t: Seung Min Kim)
MONDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER – Claude Marx was first to correctly answer that Jimmy Carter and William Henry Harrison were two presidents who never appointed a Supreme Court justice. Others were
TODAY'S TRIVIA – Richard Bramer has today's question: President Obama is a resident of Illinois and Speaker Boehner is from Ohio. When was the last time we had a president from Ohio and a speaker from Illinois? And who were they? The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next day's Huddle. Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Robert Platt, of Albuquerque, noticed he had the winning lottery numbers while working on his income tax return yesterday, said Linda Hamlin with the New Mexico Lottery.
Platt had been playing Hot Lotto for about four months. He chose to take the pre-tax cash option of $1.15 million.
The ticket was purchased at the 7-Eleven at 7525 Montgomery Blvd, according to a news release.
Platt plans to retire his home loan and pay for his son's law school loans.
New Mexico Lottery players holding two tickets worth at least $1 million from Saturday's drawing have yet to come forward.
On Saturday night, a Hot Lotto ticket and a Powerball ticket matched winning numbers, according to a news release from the New Mexico Lottery. The Hot Lotto ticket won the jackpot worth $1.54 million.
The Powerball ticket, worth $1 million, matched the white ball numbers, but missed the Powerball and jackpot of $111.4 million, the release said.
For more information on the winning numbers, visit www.nmlottery.com.

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|« Karnataka CET Pattern
|Karnataka CET Syllabus »
The merit list, a list with the names of the top ranking students, will be generated based on the marks obtained by the student and published by the end of May. To qualify for the list a student will need to score a minimum of 45% in the CET exam (40% for SC/ST/OBC) in case the student is applying for a course in engineering.
Follow up:
Those applying for courses in Medical/Dental fields will need to score a minimum of 50% (40% for SC/ST/OBC). Those that are applying for courses in architecture will need to score a minimum of 50% (45% for SC/ST/OBC) in the exam. This score is irrespective of the score that you got in your 10+2 exams.
In case a candidate has appeared in the previous years CET exam and obtained a seat in a particular branch, the student can not apply for the same branch during the current exam. If and alternate branch is chosen then the student will forfeit the seat allotted to them the previous year.
The documents that the student will need to bring along will be
Original and attested copies of the SSLC or 10th standard marks card
Original and attested copies of 2nd PU or equivalent examination marks cards
Study certificate duly signed by the principal of the school in case of CBSE, CISCE and J & K candidates if the the student has studied in Karnataka for a minimum of 7 years. If such a certificate is produced, then it need not be signed on by the Block Education Officer or the DDPI
If the candidate has not studied in Karnataka for a minimum for 7 years then the study certificate needs to be countersigned by the BEO (Block Education Officer) or the DDPI (Deputy Director of Public Instructions)
2 passport size photographs
In addition to this if the candidate has requested for any other special consideration then must carry the required certificates for the same.
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Re: Is there a connection with two branches?
In reply to:
Is there a connection with two branches?
Difficult to say that there is a connection between the REIF(F)ERS from the area of three corners (Belgium/Luxemburg/Germany)and the other tribe near Kassel /Hesse. In my knowledge our tribe from the Eifel had two emigrations: 1. to the USA around 1850 and 2. to the area of Solingen and Gelsenkirchen in North-Rhine-Westfalia around 1900-1910. The reason was always the harsh environment of the Eifel.
The reason for spelling the name with one or two F is simply explained with the fact that it was caused by misspelling in the church records (Roman Catholic).Even in my family we have REIFERS with one or two F.
I like the theorie that our name is connected to the little village REIFF. Nevertheless a REIFFER was someone who collected wood or shrubs for fire wood, making brooms etc.
Without any doubt the REIFERS are originated on both sides of the river OUR, dividing Germany and Luxemburg. Today there are more REIFERS living in Luxemburg than on the German side.
It also may be interesting that the whole area was covered with Roman settlements till around 400 A.C. One still can find the remains. The town of TRIER, Treveris was the Roman name, is the oldest town in Germany only 50 mls south. Romansoldiers had outposts in the area where our ancestors lived to provide the legions with food and shelter on their way north.
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This website contains an assortment of things that might be of use to others but don't have a home anywhere else. There is a table of contents under the "subjects" link, and most pages contain a search box. Online information about my physics research is more likely to be found at my official Naval Research Laboratory web page.
If you would like to stay informed about new material and other things that I think are interesting, use the address of my atom ("RSS without the sociopaths") feed at
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General-purpose email can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com, but comments on specific articles should be sent to the address listed for that article, if there is one. Download my pgp (gpg) public key for secure email.
New content, and old content as I convert it, is in html5, served by Apache2 on Debian Linux. The pages and stylesheet validate and I check them in modern browsers (Firefox, Google Chrome, [mobile] Safari) and, occasionally, in other browsers; if they look messed-up in your browser then your browser is broken.
There is no Flash or java here and javascript mainly for the operation of the Google search widgets and the sparse, tasteful Google advertisements. I hope these are not too annoying; they almost pay my hosting expenses.
Most of the site is a web of static pages created by a python program (1175 lines and growing) that processes a collection of notes and articles that I write in xml, using a set of tags that I defined for this purpose (making me another member of that ever enlarging club that has found it convenient to write their own content management system). The program makes heavy use of elementtree to parse the xml, and allows my notes to flow to the front page and appear in the form of news items, to the news feed, and to their own pages and parts of other pages. Anything dynamic on the site uses python on the server, depending on parts of Django and served through mod_wsgi.
I became convinced of the utility of writing in xml, something that I used to consider a horrible idea, by the approach taken by the author of the tbook system for xml authoring and by discovering the pleasure of the text editor vim and its xml support.
In August of 2010 I applied the ideas described in this wonderful article to design my site so that the layout adapts itself to the width of the screen; in this way it's automatically easy to read on both phones and computers. To see how this works, if you're on a computer, shrink the width of your browser window and watch the layout change. That never gets old.
April, 2011: I was very impressed with the techniques described here and am playing with them to generate background textures for these pages.


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|25 Aug 2010
svchost 100% CPU only when idle
as the subject states lve finally after a while caught why my system randomly shoots up 10C in temp while idle.. it relates to svchost, however this leaves allot of questions because as far as lm aware svchost is a process that runs many others under it...
just for interest l have disabled indexing so it shouldnt be related to that but lm still at a loss to explain because it could be one of many processes, so if possible it would be nice to find out if there are any tools that might help locating where the issue is.
|My System Specs
|25 Aug 2010
Systems 1 and 2: Windows 7 Enterprise x64, Win 8 Developer
Download, install and run process explorer
Process Explorer
Program will tell you where spike in CPU is caused by (e.g., CPU "svchost.exe -DcomLaunch)
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|25 Aug 2010
is there any way to get it to log? because l can leave it running but the likelihood of me catching it before things return to normal is somewhat hard especially seen as how fast the programs are flashing around.
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1)Whenever the desktop loads up, it doesn't load. it sits there as a black screen. so i have to go to task manager and type it in to run explorer.exe... then it does show all the icons, starting programs and etc 2) After running explorer.exe, an error message comes up: svchost.exe stopped...
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Hello, Im just curious about my svchost process. Its using 100MB of my RAM. Is it normal? I remember it wasnt so high, and now my Win 7 x64 is using in idle about 30% (before like 24%) with nothing open, only MSE (70MB of RAM)and some other apps under 5MB.. Thanks for reply, Lord
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With 2011 MLS roster compliance date only a week away, it's likely the Seattle Sounders will have to cut one of their two drafted goalkeepers.
Bryan Meredith (pictured below) and Josh Ford (pictured above) haven't been making that an easy decision. Both goalkeepers are currently in Seattle's Bradenton training camp. Ford played the second half of Tuesday's match vs. Houston, while Meredith was in between the posts against FC Dallas on Monday.
"That one is a tremendous battle," Sigi Schmid said Wednesday during a teleconference with reporters. "They're both great kids and I think they both have great futures in goal."
[inline_node:329332]Schmid joked about finding a way to keep both goalkeepers. With captain Kasey Keller set to retire at the conclusion of the 2011 season, there could be room for all three in the future.
But in the short term, it looks like someone will have to move on.
Keller has been impressed with both netminders, who are battling for the third goalkeeper spot behind backup Terry Boss.
"Terry has pretty firmly established himself in that [backup] spot with his work over the past 18 months," Keller said last week in Tukwila, Wash., "but the two rookies have come along and done a great job. They've assimilated into the team and into training very well.
"It's been a good battle between the two of them, so much so that they've extended their—quote, unquote—'trial period' just because they are that close," Keller added. "We have enough respect for both of them and it's going to be some tough choices."
There may be another Designated Player spot available in Seattle next year. When asked about possible trades of strikers, Schmid indicated with some certainty that this would be Blaise Nkufo's last season.
"We're in a situation where we've got two players that we pretty much know are in their last year, one is Kasey Keller and the other one is Blaise Nkufo," Schmid said.
Schmid also indicated that between Zach Scott and Roger Levesque, finding a backup right back is "less of a concern" than it was in the offseason. James Riley is the incumbent at that position.
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Minnesota Twins: Third baseman Corey Koskie was
placed on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday with a strained sternum.
"We're kind of at a loss here on a timetable, because we just
don't see this very often," manager Ron Gardenhire said before the
Twins' 4-3 victory over Seattle.
Michael Cuddyer will be the starting third baseman during
Koskie's absence, which Gardenhire said would likely last "a
couple weeks." To fill Koskie's spot on the roster, right-handed
reliever Grant Balfour -- who hasn't pitched this season because of
a sore shoulder -- was activated from the DL.
The injury forced Koskie out of Tuesday's game against the
Mariners after the second inning. He said he first started to feel
a strain in his chest area last Friday.
"It was real minor, minor, and then it started getting worse,
worse," said Koskie, who is batting .247 with five homers, 16 RBI and four steals in 97 at-bats.
He felt better Monday, when Minnesota was off, but then he
started to hurt again Tuesday while going through his pregame routine.
Chicago Cubs: Three-time Gold Glove shortstop Rey Ordonez agreed to a minor league contract, one week after Alex Gonzalez broke a bone in his right wrist.
Ordonez, 33, had just 117 at-bats last season, hitting .316 with
three homers and 22 RBI for Tampa Bay in his first season after
leaving the Mets, his team from 1996 to 2002.
He went to spring training with San Diego, then left camp March 20, handing the shortstop job to rookie Khalil Greene.
Gonzalez will be out six to eight weeks after he was struck by
the ball during a checked swing on a pitch from Arizona's Mike Koplove.
Ordonez won Gold Gloves from 1997-1999 and holds six NL fielding
records, including most consecutive errorless games by a shortstop
in one season (100 in 1999) and fewest errors by a shortstop in one
season (four in 1999).
San Diego Padres: The Padres placed right-hander
Antonio Osuna on the 15-day DL with a strained right groin.
The team purchased the contract of right-hander Brandon Puffer from Triple-A Portland to take Osuna's spot on the roster.
Osuna, 31, left Tuesday night's game against Cincinnati after
one-third of an inning because of the injury. In 14 games with the
Padres, Osuna is 1-0 with a 3.94 ERA.
Puffer, signed by the Padres as a minor league free agent in
January, has spent the entire season at Portland, where he was 1-0
with a 1.57 ERA. Puffer, 28, was 3-3 with a 4.60 ERA in 68 career
appearances with Houston.
Detroit Tigers: The Tigers placed second baseman Fernando
Vina on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday and purchased the
contract of infielder Jason Smith from Triple-A Toledo.
Vina, who has been bothered by his right hamstring, was hitting
.226 in 29 games. Smith had a .270 average and three homers for the
Mud Hens.
To make room for Smith on the 40-man roster, the Tigers
transferred pitcher Lino Urdaneta to the 60-day disabled list.
Texas Rangers: Pitcher Doug Brocail was scheduled to undergo an appendectomy and was placed on the 15-day DL.
Brocail was taken to St. Anthony's Hospital after experiencing stomach discomfort. He was put on the DL before the Rangers played at Tampa Bay.
Texas called up right-hander Frank Francisco from Double-A
Frisco to replace Brocail, who is 0-0 with a 21.00 ERA in four
games this season. Francisco went 1-3 with a 2.55 ERA and six saves in 15 games at Frisco.
Arizona Diamondbacks: Utilityman Donnie Sadler was briefly
knocked unconscious during batting practice when a ball struck him
in his head before Arizona's game against the Mets.
Pitcher Casey Daigle was hitting when the ball cleared the
safety net in front of the stretching players, which included
Sadler. The ball hit Sadler in the back of the head and he
collapsed as players quickly gathered around him.
After a few moments, team trainer Paul Lessard helped Sadler to
his feet, and sent him to team physician Roger McCoy for further
Lessard said Sadler had a concussion.


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I wrote this piece after a dream that I had a few weeks ago. I'm not quite sure what it is other than the movie that played through my sleeping brain. My brother is alive and well and our farmhouse never exprienced a fire of any kind. If anything, what I wrote is simply a metaphor for how I felt when we moved from our beloved farm and lived seperately from one another following the divorce of our parents.
Last night I dreamed of our farmhouse.
The white horse galloped past the fence, drawing my eyes beyond to the orange bloom of rising flames.
I began to move forward and watched fire lick the sky.
It raced through the field behind the house, coming to burn our memories.
In the yellow bedroom, my brother watched from the window.
Then, together, we soaked the house with water from a hose.
Tiny fires ignited at our feet.
We stepped back to watch our lives burn,
He turned and began to walk away.
Moving in opposite directions,
I watched as he was swallowed by the smoke.
We never said goodbye.


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I remember the days after first spying that positive pregnancy test feeling like I had a sudden free pass. As someone who struggled with extra weight through high school and college it finally seemed that I was going to be able to eat what I wanted and not worry about it, because I was eating for two. It didn't take long for me to learn that what I thought to be true was really a myth. A teeny tiny fetus does not require the same calories as a full-grown person, or even a five-year-old for that matter.
According to WomensHealth.gov "…'eating for two' doesn't mean eating twice as much. Rather, it means that the foods you eat are the main source of nutrients for your baby." Therefore, eating for two is really just a reminder that during pregnancy every single thing you eat is shared with your baby. Even though I wanted to eat double the ice cream I knew I couldn't. Double the steamed broccoli? Now, that is another story!
It is generally accepted that a pregnant woman should eat about 300 additional calories per day, which is about an extra snack or two added into your day.
- Whole grain cereal with milk and fruit
- yogurt with berries and nuts
- Apple slices and peanut butter
- Sliced vegetable and hummus
- Kale chips
- Whole Grain pretzels and almond butter
- Trail mix
- Whole grain toast topped with peanut butter and sliced banana
- Hard boiled eggs
- Smoothie made with fresh fruit (add a handful of spinach to add even more nutrients)
- Cheese and crackers
- Green salads with sliced almonds and vegetables
The key is to remember to include a wide variety of foods in your diet. Make sure you are eating plenty of fresh healthy foods to help your baby grow. It is also important to remember to drink plenty of water to help your body keep up with the added demands pregnancy brings.
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He returned to the racing office at Churchill Downs in 1989 and was named stakes coordinator the following year, a post Richardson held until he moved to his current role with the track's parent company in 1999. Richardson also serves on the board of overseers of Spalding University, board of directors of the Kentucky Derby Museum, and the advisory committee for the Klein Family Learning Center and WinStar Library at Churchill Downs. He is chairman of the Churchill Downs Horsemen's Racing Committee and is a member of the Thoroughbred Club of America.
The board also voted to invite George Isaacs, general manager of Arthur Appleton's Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Fla., to join RFE as the board's newest member. Under Isaacs' watch, Bridlewood bred grade I winner Southern Image and stands Florida's 2001 Horse of the Year Forbidden Apple, multiple graded stakes winner Honor Glide, and Florida's 2004 leading sire, Halo's Image.


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This year is the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson launching his "War on Poverty." Johnson's view that a nation as wealthy as the United States shouldn't have desperate families struggling to get by on a daily basis resonates as strongly as ever.
But there are deep divisions over the various social safety-net programs that LBJ launched. Many Democrats think they are stingy, inadequate and hardhearted. Many Republicans think they are too generous and encourage indolence.
Given this backdrop, it's somewhat miraculous that Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has come up with a proposal to reform the social safety net that's won praise from across the political spectrum for some — but not all — of its elements.
Ryan proposes keeping anti-poverty spending at its present level, but focusing that spending on government programs that are most likely to help the impoverished not just make ends meet but have better lives. This reflects the thinking that drove two highly successful government initiatives in the 1990s: the restructuring of welfare rules to create incentives for recipients to look harder for work and the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit, which subsidizes the wages of low-income workers by giving them tax credits that apply even if they pay little or no income tax.
EITC-type programs have worked around the world because they reward constructive behavior and aren't just transfer payments. Ryan wants to expand and make more generous the U.S. program by extending it to a huge category of workers who are not now eligible: those without children.
He would fund this multibillion-dollar expansion by reducing funding for less successful government programs that tend to promote dependence and by cutting subsidies to profitable agricultural and energy companies.
Ryan also has two other interesting proposals to fight poverty — one obvious, one arcane. The former is ending mandatory-minimum prison sentences for nonviolent crimes; many of the criminals in this category come out after stints behind bars and have no prospects for employment. The latter is reducing occupational-licensing restrictions that are extremely common in most states and that limit access to well-paying jobs and protect those who already have them.
Matt O'Brien, who covers economics for The Washington Post, wrote last week that "Democrats should copy-and-paste [these proposals] from Ryan's poverty plan, and try to pass them tomorrow." We agree.
Ryan has many other ideas, including a plan to consolidate various welfare programs into block grants, that have run into much more blowback. But at the very least, he's started a debate over improving poverty programs that has been badly needed for some time — and he's anchored that debate not in ideology but in sound management principles.
Not many Americans are likely to object to a government trying to get the most bang for its buck and maximizing the good it can do with available funding.


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UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- The talk of buying out Alexei Yashin at the end of the season has disappeared.
Now, the New York Islanders are having a hard time living without the former Senator.
With four years still left on the 10-year, $87.5-million contract Yashin signed with the Islanders in 2001, there was a strong belief that this might be his last year wearing an Islanders' uniform.
But with new GM Garth Snow taking over and coach Ted Nolan behind the bench, Yashin had turned into the Isles' best player before he suffered an MCL sprain to his knee earlier this month.
"I've really felt he's played the best hockey of his career and I don't think there's any question about it," Mark Gandler, Yashin's New Jersey-based agent, said yesterday.
"There's three areas where I've really seen a difference: His defensive play, his physical play and his skating. I don't think he's changed at all, I just believe he's happy from within. He has the trust of his coaching staff and that means a lot to a player like (Yashin). He's happy and that's reflected in his play."
Nolan said Yashin, who has 10 goals and 18 assists in 22 games, was the club's top player before suffering the knee injury.
"Watching Alexei, when I coached in Buffalo and he was in Ottawa, I always thought he was one of the premier players in the league," said Nolan yesterday.
"Unfortunately, the last couple of years, it hasn't been working out so well for him. But this year, he worked extremely hard in the off-season, came in here with a good attitude and we surrounded him with some good character guys. He's enjoying playing again and we're enjoying watching him."
Yashin resumed skating two days ago as part of the recovery from the injury that has forced him to miss six games. The initial estimate was he could be out up to a month, but it's not going to be that long.
He looked good circling the ice, although he was being careful when turning.
"I'd say we'll have him back in the next week to 10 days, but we're not going to push him and we're going to wait until he's 100%," said Nolan.
AROUND THE BOARDS: The NHL's board of governors put off a decision on the changing the schedule yesterday, but Senators president Roy Mlakar believes the issue will resurface again during a meeting at the all-star game in Dallas next month. "I wouldn't be surprised if we decided to revisit this issue," said Mlakar from Palm Beach after the meetings wrapped up yesterday ... There's major concern about Minny RW Marian Gaborik. As reported in the Sunday Sun, he may have suffered a setback with a groin injury that has already forced him to miss 19 games and wasn't on the ice with the club at practice Monday. "I was surprised he wasn't there and I don't know when he will be," said Wild coach Jacques Lemaire ... Nolan has been impressed with the play of LW Viktor Kozlov, who scored four goals against the Rangers in a 7-4 win Sunday. "It's just one of those games where everything he shot went in. Ever since (Yashin) went down, he's got better and better as the games have gone on," said Nolan.
THE BUZZ: The Isles didn't have G Rick DiPietro last night against the Senators because he was out with a nagging "lower body injury." He didn't even dress as the backup to G Mike Dunham, but Nolan maintained he won't be out long. "He played back-to-back games and we're just going to give him a rest. He'll be back and he's just day-to-day," said Nolan ... Senators LW Peter Schaefer, who didn't skate in Ottawa on Monday because of "upper body" soreness, was in the lineup ... The last time the Isles were in first place in the Atlantic Division this late in the season was five years ago. "It's always hard to get somewhere, it's double-hard to stay there," said Nolan. "Our big focus is not so much position, it's playing well. If we play well, we'll be where we deserve to be."


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Two Florida men allegedly controlled a small, unidentified FCU as part of a Bitcoin money laundering operation.
A cop uses his credit union accounts to deposit drug money and repay loans on high-end cars for cartel members.
Documents filed last week say prosecutors preparing new efforts to obtain transaction records showing weapons, gear purchases.
Credit union executives wanting to find data about the performance of banks can consult data that is now included in Callahan & Associates' Peer-to-Peer software.


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Aug. 17, 1896: Leslie Groves is born in Albany, N.Y. Arguably the greatest project manager in U.S. history, Groves joins the Army in the final days of World War I. Assigned to the Corps of Engineers, Groves studies an alternate route to the Panama Canal through Nicaragua in the late 1920s. In 1941, he oversees construction of the Pentagon. He is appointed to lead the Manhattan Project a year later.
Aug. 17, 2004: As mountains are leveled to retrieve the coal inside them, and the state's valleys and streams are filled in with the waste, concern grows over the practice of "mountaintop removal" coal mining (at right). But National Mining Association President Jack Gerard offers the Washington Post a different view on the leveled landscape: "Some of the sites are so beautifully reclaimed, many people can't tell the difference."
Aug. 17, 2010: The Wildlife Conservation Society releases a report citing "devastated" coral populations off the Indonesian island of Sumatra. WCS estimates that 60 percent of the coral off the Aceh region of the island — the same area that was Ground Zero for the 2004 tsunami — has bleached due to rising sea temperatures.
Aug. 17, 2011: Texas Governor and Presidential candidate Rick Perry calls climate change a hoax, and accuses climate scientists of manipulating data "so that they will have money rolling into their pockets. While Perry's comments provoke jeers and satire elsewhere, nearly all of his GOP Presidential rivals agree.
Photo: Silvia Alba/Flickr
This feature is compiled by Peter Dykstra, an MNN contributor and publisher of Environmental Health News and The Daily Climate.


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I am trying to work on the long run schedule for the MMTR. I don't want to overdo it, but I do want to have enough endurance built up. I was stressing for awhile wanting to do the Buckeye Trail 50K at the end of July, but I don't know if I will be prepared for that. So, I am not going to worry about running that race.
It's alot harder finding information on training schedules for ultras than marathons.
I think I am going to keep steady at running about 12 miles a weekend, and just steadily increase from there, and add a longer run on Sundays.
My MMTR Schedule does not "officially" start until July. I think I am going to redo that, and have it start June 1, just as base endurance training.


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This tutorial will show you how to draw a recognisable One Direction in seven easy steps.
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It is sometimes required that I visit a classroom to conduct an art class. Last year, my first grade students were treated to such a visit. I say "treated" because art is usually conducted in my art room but because of standardized testing rules at my school (no movement between classes), it was easier for me to walk to their classroom than vice-versa. I needed a lesson that didn't require too much prep but I really wanted to do a painted bug lesson. I opted to use pan or puck tempera. They are perfect for stacking, sharing, and setting out.
The kids sat on the carpet while I showed them the different parts of a bug and how one might attempt to draw such bugs. For first graders I like to add as much whimsy as possible because that's what 1st graders are good at. I followed the directed-drawing instructions for the Crazy Critters in my Line + Color= Fun Art Lesson Plan.
We started with eyes, added a head, mid-body line and then the body and finally some crazy legs. The kids drew with a Sharpie, but you could use a black oil pastel, black paint and crayon or even a pencil (but that's my least favorite option and here's why). I used 12″ x 18″ white sulphite paper.
Click to download my art supply list.
After the drawing was complete (about 20 minutes), I placed trays of tempera cakes on each table and allowed the children to paint as much or as little of their bug. The drawing is really amazing on its own, so if you opt to leave it as a line drawing (without color), it would be a great option to place the cut-out bug on a colored sheet of paper.
Another option would be to color with crayons, oil pastels or markers. The choices are unlimited!


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When you say inspired by a dream do you actually mean this music played when you had that dream? Sometimes when I dream I hear beautiful music that I actually want to make after I wake up, unfortunately I forget the melody I had most of the times xD
Oh no, it was a dream I had about 10 years ago and it always stuck with me ever since. The music was made to fit the atmosphere of what I saw, and turned out great.
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For whatever reason, this song reminded me of MarbleHornets during the intro.
Anyways, after using this in my game, I quite frankly could not imagine it without it. It created a beautiful moment, eery and quiet, but also with a beat that builds, that made it perfect for the scene I was trying to showcase.
Yeah man, I'm happy you used it. Thanks again.
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I love it! This song makin' me fells asleep...This song can suitable for Hyperlize Neon Orbit: The Stained Dreams ending music...
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It is really good to do work to. It just stops procrastinating for some reason.
Lol. Im glad.
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This is a very nice song. Your mix is crystal clear and the flow of the song is perfect. All I would recommend is to make a more prominent melody. You have very good counter melodies, however, I do not hear a main melody.
That is all I can think of at the moment. Please keep up the awesome work. :) Have a listen to my Drum & Bass song if you want.
Thanks alot. I think if the song was more active then you'd be right, but its more for background purposes.
Sure Ill check it out.
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After previously working with Wood Wood on the X-Caliber, Onitsuka Tiger now got together with Azita. The German boutique chose to work with black, grey and yellow on the running shoe. It comes with a fading effect on the side-panels and a mix of suede and mesh on the upper. The mid-sole, as well as other details come in a strong yellow. The sneaker will be released on November 28th at premium retailers, including Sneakersnstuff, and will come with matching socks.
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Assessing trends in menswear has, perhaps, never been easier. The number of trackers, media outlets and blogs (we all know) is staggering. Contextualizing trends and drawing comparisons between eras is less common. Thanks are due, then, to the New York Times. David Coleman's "Looking Good: The Sequel" refers the current vogue of classic Americana and rugged outdoor layering back to the late 1970s. A nice read with a related slide show that is its equal.
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You don't have to wait until Sunday to see former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on TV again.
In advance of his primetime debut on NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" on Sunday, the former Illinois governor will head to the "Late Show w/ David Letterman" to read a classic "Top Ten."
"He had a blast the last time he was on the show and has a great deal of respect for David Letterman. He looks forward to being on the show again," said Glenn Selig, Blagojevich's spokesman and founder of The Publicity Agency.
Blagojevich appeared on the show 13 months ago, telling the host that he'd wanted "in the worst way for the longest time" to be on the show.
Letterman snapped back: "Well, you're on in the worst way, believe me!"
The former governor has been indicted on 24 counts of corruption in federal court, including racketeering, attempted extorition, bribery, conspiracy to commit bribery and conspiracy to commit extorition.
He maintains his innocence.
Barbara Walters, Olympic gold medal skater Evan Lysacek and Britney Spears have appeared on the show to read the 'Top Ten,' a fact that doesn't escape the media hungry Blago.
"That's quite a group to be a part of," said Selig. "He's honored and excited."
No word on what the list's topic will be, but bet on a couple of hair jokes and a few stabs at his ethical make-up.
Four days later, when "Celebrity Apprentice" debuts, Blagojevich will compete to raise money for his favorite charity, the Children's Cancer Center in Tampa.


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On the first track from ISLANDS' new album—the winsome, tropicalia-inflected "Wave Forms"—front man NICK THORBURN opens the record by singing, "I won't ride another wave and I won't write another word after today.: In light of the rest of the album, the statement is both an admonition and a kind of warning. Ski Mask, the band's fifth album, is equal parts beauty and venom; an album that percolates with the kind of polymorphous pop and hooky, left-of-center rock songs that have long been the band's stock and trade. This time around, however, the artful indie-pop comes with a decidedly melancholy punch, fueled by anger and unrest that lead ISLANDS to their most sonically diverse album yet. MARTIN CRANE, the man behind BRAZOS, is a restless, yearning, young musical adventurer who balances raging power with a lovely articulation of deep feelings. BRAZOS's new album, Saltwater, released earlier this year on Dead Ocean, is a warm and soothing blend of buoyant, expansive pop, with an astonishingly sure hand of craftsmanship.
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TRIBUTES have flowed for a mother with an "infectious smile that lit up photos" and her "beautiful little boy" after they were killed when a runaway petrol tanker crushed their car.
Lisa Turner, 33, and her only child, four-year-old Jack, were driving along Wodonga-Yackandandah Rd in Staghorn Flat when one of the trailers of the BP owned and operated prime-mover uncoupled and veered into the path of her car on Thursday morning.
Police said there was no escape and called it a "tragic accident".
The nurse is survived by her fiance — and Jack's father — Damien Wallace.
The young family lived in Allans Flat, not far from where the crash happened.
"Still trying to get my head around it all," a friend of Ms Turner's said in an online tribute. "That gorgeous smile will never be forgot. Both taken way too soon."
Others described the mother — a tennis lover who was born and bred in Wodonga — and her son as "two beautiful souls" who "have left a hole in many hearts".
A toy puppy attached to a bouquet of daffodils was placed at the crash site in memory of the pair yesterday.
The local community has been left reeling as they try to come to grips with the shocking loss of three of its members.
Local talented badminton player Peta Cox, 67, also died in the crash when her car veered off the road trying to avoid the tanker.
Her brother-in-law, Gary Matheson, 71, and niece Tracey Matheson, 42, returned to the scene yesterday where they remembered Ms Cox for her love of badminton, gardening and dancing.
Ms Cox, who lived alone on her Yackandandah hobby farm after losing her husband, Ted, about seven years ago, was on her way to the Albury tax office where she had worked since 1987.
The couple, who met in England while she was working there as a civil engineer, had no children.
Fellow badminton player and longtime friend Yvette Bentley said Ms Cox was a likable character. "She was a very gentle person, really lovely. There was nothing artificial about Peta," Ms Bentley, 71, said. "It's abhorrent what's happened to her."
As police continue their investigations into the crash, focusing on how the tanker became separated, VicRoads inspectors started testing BP's owned and operated trucks for mechanical faults at a maintenance centre in Williamstown North.
Testing was expected to continue through the weekend.
BP Australasia president Andy Holmes said the truck and dog trailer involved in the crash was the only vehicle of that type in its Victorian fleet and that the truck was last serviced on August 1.
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The latest Montana Colors limited edition is named after Toulouse-based graff writer TILT, whose colorful throw-ups and letter style earned him international recognition. There's a video after the jump where TILT speaks on his artwork, we assume. He speaks throughout in French, but definitely worth a watch for ample imagery of his work.
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Such considerations lead the contractor to examine the equipment and the process to determine what makes sense to "pre-fab" and what should be fabricated and installed in the field. This requires close scrutiny of how the processes will be connected. What utilities or systems can be skid-mounted and which ones should be individual components? These are all decisions that are made during constructability review. The advance planning allows the facility to be properly prepared to accommodate the equipment/process when it arrives, utilizing pre-planned rigging and installation plans to ensure adherence to the schedule.
As part of the constructability review process, the contractor should, ideally, also be part of the Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) team to ensure compliance with the decisions made regarding the means and methods of rigging, verification of dimensions, and installation and connection to the facility's utilities. Also, it is most prudent to be involved with the FAT reviews, as the contractor will also be required to perform the Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) efforts.
Critical Subcontractor Considerations
Prequalification of the right subcontractors is critical to the successful construction of a biotech/life science facility. Understanding the more stringent safety requirements is one thing; understanding the more intense cGMP quality requirements for piping, ductwork, finishes, and clean build protocols is critical, as these are quite different from what nonqualified subcontractors might be accustomed to on general building projects. The level of documentation required to meet commissioning and qualification needs is also something that many subcontractors might not be aware of. Thus, these requirements must be incorporated into the bid documents so that there are no surprises and proper protocols are followed.
This is critically important if the project is performed utilizing an integrated construction, commissioning, and qualification approach, which saves time and money and eliminates many of the redundancies associated with the traditional approach to biotech/life science construction. With this method, more intensive commissioning efforts are required. Services also have to be procured in such a way as to ensure that they are completely understood by all parties, most notably that many systems are commissioned as they come on line, instead of waiting until everything is complete to begin the process. This also allows qualification to be overlapped, reducing the total time needed to get to engineering runs and the all-important start of "real" production.
Your Project, Your Needs
The successful biotech/life science facility construction project requires a unique construction services provider. The basic project concepts are familiar - schedule, budget, VE, constructability review, subcontractor qualification, and procurement, etc. - but as they say, the devil is in the details.
It is essential that your construction services partner understand your business model, not only today but also what your needs will be tomorrow and beyond. In developing that understanding, the construction services provider needs to engage very early on in the project with owner/facility end-users, operators and maintenance staff, the design team, and regulatory personnel. This will ensure that decisions made today facilitate efficient modification tomorrow, without significant facility disruption or inflated costs that could have been avoided with skillful and insightful advance planning.
Jerry Guillorn is vice president of sector business development for Structure Tone and has over 30 years of construction experience, the last 15 specializing in life science facilities.
Stephen Neeson, LEED® AP, is a 22-year construction veteran specializing in life science facilities and vice president of operations for Structure Tone's Lyndhurst, N.J., office.


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CARSON CITY -- Preliminary details on a $789 billion national stimulus plan show that Nevada is in line for $1.46 billion, a third of that for Medicaid and other human services programs and another third for education.
The preliminary figure, provided by Federal Funds Information for States, a service of the National Governors Association and the National Conference of State Legislatures, is welcome news for Nevada officials trying to deal with a projected revenue shortfall of more than $2 billion.
Earlier versions of the stimulus legislation had put the state's total at about $1.3 billion.
The Nevada stimulus funds include $450 million in Federal Medical Assistance Percentage, or FMAP, funds, primarily for Medicaid. The FMAP figure was confirmed by Jon Summers, spokesman for U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
While Medicaid programs are in line for most of the higher-than-expected FMAP money, other human services programs that are facing cuts in Nevada also could benefit -- depending on conditions imposed by Congress for receipt of the funds.
Josh Hicks, Gov. Jim Gibbons' chief of staff, said the governor would propose to the state Legislature that the FMAP money be used first to ensure that Nevada's growing Medicaid caseload is properly funded. He added that likely would use up all of the $450 million. Medicaid is now budgeted for $1 billion in state funds over the next two fiscal years.
Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, said lawmakers were gearing up for a rapid review of the FMAP and other stimulus funds. Regarding funding for construction projects, she said the goal is to produce jobs and ensure "the biggest jolt to the economy possible."
Ben Kieckhefer, spokesman for state Health and Human Services chief Mike Willden who oversees Medicaid, said the $450 million in FMAP money in the stimulus plan could help other human services programs which currently face budget restrictions.
"There's a lot we can spend that money on and do good things," said Kieckhefer, mentioning the Nevada Check Up program of health insurance for poor children, rural mental health clinics, an indigent accident account that pays for hospital costs of indigents hurt in accidents, and personal care attendants for the infirm and elderly.
The stimulus money for Nevada also includes $480 million in education funding, according to the FFIS report. That includes $150 million for special education and Title 1 programs. There's no construction-project funding for education.
Hicks said initial information on the emerging stimulus plan didn't include details on any higher education funding that Nevada might get.
About $210 million of the stimulus funds for Nevada will be used for "shovel-ready" highway construction projects, mainly in the Las Vegas and Reno areas, Nevada's population centers. Various projects that could get some of that money have a combined total cost of several hundred million dollars.
Also in the stimulus plan is about $30 million for justice assistance grants; and about $70 million in general-purpose funds that give states flexibility in how they're spent.
Hicks said Gibbons would propose to the Legislature that the first use of that be to reduce his proposed 6 percent pay cuts for state employees and educators in the K-12 and higher education systems.
Until now, state officials had been trying without much success to calculate the impact of the stimulus plan on Nevada. The guesswork had been described as "a little bit of nailing Jell-O to the wall" by Dan Klaich, executive vice chancellor of the state's university-college system.


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Last Friday I decided I wanted to change my rom from the sluggish ICJ (Ice Cold Jelly) 4.2.2 to the AICP (Android Ice Cold Project) Kit Kat for HTC One X.
I made the very nooby mistake of not putting the rom onto my phone before flashing the boot.img, kernel etc. via fastboot, so I was stuck with nothing but a bootloader and CWM Recovery 184.108.40.206 (which would not allow me to mount USB storage!!!)
So with no way to put the rom onto the phone, I was stuck with a phone that could not run the currently installed rom = bricked.
Somewhere amongst all this I wiped the rom that was currently installed altogether, leaving no way to go back to it.
Using fastboot I flashed stock boot.img, recovery.img, and relocked bootloader, and tried 3 different stock RUU's to restore my phone, but then later found out that I cannot use an RUU for ICS when my bootloader is version-main: 3.14.980.27 (JB) and a JB RUU for AUS Optus001 does not exist!
I cannot use nandroid backup to restore my phone because I cannot access the sdcard because it will not mount.
Here are the RUU's I tried, for my International HTC One X (CID: Optus001)
RUU_ENDEAVOR_U_ICS_40_Optus_AU_1.26.980.3_Radio_1. 1204.90.13_release_251942_signed,
RUU_ENDEAVOR_U_ICS_40_Optus_AU_1.28.980.10_Radio_1 .1204.103.14_release_258004_signed,
RUU_ENDEAVOR_U_ICS_40_Optus_AU_1.29.980.11_Radio_1 .1204.105.14_release_260560_signed.
If I start the phone normally it stops at HTC Quietly Brilliant.
I can flash a recovery at any time, but I have tried multiple CWM Recoveries to try to mount USB Storage so I can install a ROM but USB storage would not successfully mount, it would just say sdcard0 shared-unmounted.
If helpful, my bootloader reads:
eMMC-bootmode: disbaled
CPU-bootmode : disabled
HW Secure boot: enabled
Nov 16 2012, 18:32:39
I ran 'fastboot getvar version-main' and it came back with
version-main: 3.14.980.27
finished. total time: 0.009s
If someone could point me in the right directions to unbricking my phone, and getting ANY rom working on it again, I would be eternally grateful.
I know I have at least 2 options but I can't seem to figure this out by myself;
1. Find a way to mount USB storage on my phone so I can then install a rom.
2. Downgrade the bootloader so I can install the stock ICS RUU.
Any help at all would be much appreciated as I need my phone working again ASAP.
Thank you.


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Greg Flag's New Diller Build
Greg Flag just built up a prototype Diller frame in trans red and it looks slick! He's been getting some riding in thanks to the balmy weather in Vancouver where, according to Greg, it's 'pretty much been spring since fall.' Check out another pick of his new whip after the jump with a parts list and be sure to watch out for the entire Dillon Lloyd 'Diller' signature line to drop soon!
Frame – Dillon Lloyd 'Diller' signature
Fork – CKS
Bars – Tabarnak
Stem – Top Shelf
Cranks – Connect
Seat – Fat Cap
Wheels – Dubs rims on Network hubs
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Big chains' role in 'the American dream'
The op-ed by Emily Miller of the Washington Times ("Killing the dream," Feb. 2) blames President Obama for killing the American dream. She should have looked at the U-T's own business section that day, with the article about the effect of Walmart on the local economy.
Two ways people used to reach the middle class ("the American dream") was through good-paying jobs in manufacturing or by opening their own businesses. Walmart, while not the sole culprit, contributed greatly to reducing opportunities for advancement in both these channels. Its drive for lower costs and anti-unionism led to the offshoring of manufacturing jobs and put downward pressure on wages.
As the business article shows, Walmart and other big chains have also put many smaller family-owned firms out of business. This is something that has been decades in the making, not something that just happened in the last five years.
Alan Gin
Associate professor
of economics, USD
Public campaign funding not the savior
Those wanting public funding for political campaigns need to consider who would control the funding to be passed out. You would have a government department, supervised by a bureaucrat, overseen by an "elected official" with a political affiliation and agenda.
Now consider our politicians and ask yourself how fair and truthful would these people be? Public money or private money, it all comes with strings attached. I'll take my chances with the private sector and an informed electorate.
Robert Keirsey
San Diego
Brown's approval rating is a mystery
The 60 percent approval rating for Gov. Jerry Brown is baffling ("Poll: Strong support for Brown and the budget," Jan. 30).
California is among the highest in the nation for unemployment, poverty, taxes, and business suppression. And California is a third of a trillion dollars in debt. Fees for licensing and regulations have doubled since Brown has been in office. (I'm a small-business owner, so I can attest to these increases.) Businesses are leaving the state in droves.
So what exactly has he done to rectify these problems? It is mind-boggling to think voters approve of this guy. He hasn't done anything this time around as governor except to appease the do-nothing Legislature.
He wants to build a train from nowhere to nowhere at a cost of billions we don't have. Could it be that this train will provide jobs to unions?
Sandy Bruehling
A call for interstate water pipelines
Regarding the Feb. 3 editorial "Worsening drought requires action," this is not just a California problem. Nevada, Texas and Utah are also experiencing severe drought. On the other hand, parts of the Northeast regularly experience devastating floods.
It therefore seems reasonable to build interstate aqueducts so excess waters from flood-ravaged states could be transferred to drought-stricken states. The benefits to both groups of states would be significant, and undoubtedly more than pay for the costs of construction.
Frank R. Tangherlini
San Diego
Obama's less-than fantastic job
Another letter writer (Feb. 1) asks that we give credit to President Obama because "he was elected by the people of this country to get things done."
Additionally, he suggests that some of the informed Americans don't show respect for the president. "He has done a fantastic job under the circumstances," he writes.
I don't know where the writer has been for the last five years, but an honest evaluation would reveal the lowest percentage of workforce employed, highest use of food stamps, highest number folks claiming disability, lowest trust from our allies, more aggression from our adversaries, and a poverty rate that is higher and more severe than ever.
The writer says, "The ACA has brought millions of people into the health-care system." Really? The latest numbers indicate there has been a modest increase for those without insurance, but at the expense of millions who either lost their coverage or had their premiums and deductibles skyrocket.
Gary M. Boone
Pauma Valley
Ditto on not a fantastic job
I read the letter writers homage to Obama with interest, and since I am not "a partisan politician who only thinks of themselves and the next election" I hope the writer would consider another opinion of the current administration.
He seems to conflate criticism of our beleaguered president with a lack of respect for the office he holds. I am grateful the "right-wing Republicans" have stymied Obama's rush to make the country a socialist mess with a dictator as our "king."
Saying Mr. Obama has done a "fantastic job" when the people living in poverty or on government welfare is at an all-time high and when we have the lowest number of people in the workforce and Mr. Obama continues to disregard the Constitution he swore to uphold, does not equate to a "fantastic job" to me.
Richard Taylor
Delta landowners can help save wildlife
Recently, House Speaker Boehner (R-Ohio), and Central Valley House Republicans held a press conference in Kern County about unveiling emergency drought legislation to send more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to farms.
This would decrease water for fish like steelhead, Delta smelt, and several populations of endangered salmon.
These congressmen see the Endangered Species Act as a road block to their political agenda, but this is far from the truth. The ESA offers many incentives for landowners to work with government agencies responsible for wildlife conservation.
Karen Christine Irwin
El Cajon
Militants can leave the country
The decision by the federal government to seek the death penalty for the Boston Marathon bomber, is a no brainer. It should be a no brainer for any terrorist who kills innocent people no matter where they are from.
What I want to know is, is his mother incarcerated? Because from what I read, she was the militant who pushed her children in to this anti-Western militancy and cost Americans their lives. If individuals do not like this country, despite being provided, as in this case, a fine educational opportunity, get out.
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The ICSH Commission, thanks to the kind invitation of the EGU Precipitation and Climate Division and Hydroinformatics Division co-sponsored two sessions:
HS7.5/NP8.4 "Hydroclimatic stochastics"
Convener: Salvatore Grimaldi
Co-Conveners: Alin Andrei Carsteanu , Demetris Koutsoyiannis , Xiaolan L. Wang , Simon Michael Papalexiou
HS3.3 "Poster Session on Open Source Computing in Hydrology"
Convener: Attilio Castellarin
Co-Conveners: Jan Seibert , Ann van Griensven , Luigia Brandimarte , Paolo Paron , Martinus van den Berg
In the following, or clicking on the workshop title, are available reports, poster and presentation files.
HS7.5/NP8.4 "Hydroclimatic stochastics"
The session involved 6 oral contributions and 11 posters (listed at the end of the report) and was attended by more than 100 people.
All the authors delivered interesting presentations underlined by a rich discussion.
Oral Presentations
Nonlinear models of temporal rainfall: Appropriateness and hydrologic relevance
Carlos Antonio Fernandez-Yañez and Alin Andrei Carsteanu
Assessment of simulation-based calibration of rectangular pulse models
Willem Jan Vanhaute, Sander Vandenberghe, Patrick Willems, and Niko E.C. Verhoest
see the presentation
Stochastic generation of flood events to extend observed hydrological series by combining a copula model with hydrometeorological modelling
Ana Requena, Isabel Flores, Luis Mediero, and Luis Garrote
see the presentation
Stochastic analysis and simulation of hydrometeorological processes for optimizing hybrid renewable energy systems
Georgios Tsekouras, Christos Ioannou, Andreas Efstratiadis, and Demetris Koutsoyiannis
see the presentation
The impacts of precipitation amount simulation on hydrological modeling in Nordic watersheds
Zhi Li, Fancois Brissette, and Jie Chen
Multivariate flood risk assessment: reinsurance perspective
Tatiana Ghizzoni and Tobias Ellenrieder
Posters Presentations
The cross wavelet and wavelet coherence analysis of spatio-temporal rainfall-groundwater system in Pingtung plain, Taiwan
Yuan-Chien Lin and Hwa-Lung Yu
Record breaking properties for typical autocorrelation structures
Eirini Anagnostopoulou, Andriani Galani, Panagiotis Dimas, Alexandros Karanasios, Theodoros Mastrotheodoros, Eleni-Maria Michaelidi, Dionisios Nikolopoulos, Stamatis Pontikos, Fani Sourla, Anna Chazapi, Simon Michael Papalexiou, and Demetris Koutsoyiannis
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Clustering of extreme events in typical stochastic models
Antonios Mystegniotis, Vasileia Vasilaki, Ioanna Pappa, Stelian Curceac, Despina Saltouridou, Nikos Efthimiou, Giannis Papatsoutsos, Simon Michael Papalexiou, and Demetris Koutsoyiannis
see the poster
Extreme rainfall distribution tails: Exponential, subexponential or hyperexponential?
Sofia Nerantzaki, Simon Michael Papalexiou, and Demetris Koutsoyiannis
see the poster
Assessment of the dependence structure of the annual rainfall using a large data set
Theano Iliopoulou, Simon Michael Papalexiou, and Demetris Koutsoyiannis
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The role of teleconnections in extreme (high and low) precipitation events: The case of the Mediterranean region
Yannis Markonis, Simon Michael Papalexiou, and Demetris Koutsoyiannis
see the poster
Probabilistic properties of the Curve Number
Agnieszka Rutkowska, Kazimierz Banasik, Silvia Kohnova, and Beata Karabova
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Stochastic modeling of the connection between sea level pressure and discharge in the Danube lower basin by means of Hidden Markov Model
Ileana Mares, Constantin Mares, and Mihaela Mihailescu
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A bivariate analysis of temperature and rainfall series for snowfall return time estimation
Elena Ridolfi, Salvatore Grimaldi, and Francesco Napolitano
The Castalia stochastic generator and its applications to multivariate disaggregation of hydro-meteorological processes
Anna Venediki, Savvas Giannoulis, Christos Ioannou, Lamprini Malatesta, Georgios Theodoropoulos, Georgios Tsekouras, Yiannis G. Dialynas, Simon Michael Papalexiou, Andreas Efstratiadis, and Demetris Koutsoyiannis
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Weather models as virtual sensors to data-driven rainfall predictions in urban watersheds
Lorenzo Cozzi, Stefano Galelli, Samuel Jolivet De Marc Pascal, and Andrea Castelletti
HS3.3 "Poster Session on Open Source Computing in Hydrology"
The poster session involved 17 posters (listed at the end of the report).
All the authors delivered interesting poster presentations underlined by a rich discussion.
Poster Presentations
The HYPE Open Source Community
Lena Strömbäck, Berit Arheimer, Charlotta Pers, and Kristina Isberg
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Modelling surface hydrology with DR2-SAGA 1.0: development of a user-friendly interface for hillslope water balance assessments
Teresa López-Montero, Manuel López-Vicente, and Ana Navas
Image analysis of dye stained patterns in soils
Christina Bogner, Baltasar Trancón y Widemann, and Holger Lange
Open source data assimilation framework for hydrological modeling
Marc Ridler, Stef Hummel, Nils van Velzen, Anne Katrine Falk, and Henrik Madsen
OpenFLUID: an open-source software environment for modelling fluxes in landscapes
Jean-Christophe Fabre, Michaël Rabotin, David Crevoisier, Aline Libres, Cécile Dagès, Roger Moussa, Philippe Lagacherie, Damien Raclot, and Marc Voltz
Python package for model STructure ANalysis (pySTAN)
Stijn Van Hoey, Johannes van der Kwast, Ingmar Nopens, and Piet Seuntjens
see the presentation
Multi-Hydro: a multi-component model for evaluation of the hydrological behavior of peri-urban catchment
Agathe Giangola-Murzyn, Auguste Gires, Abdellah Ichiba, Julien Richard, Daniel Schertzer, and Iouila Tchiguirinskaia
Large scale stochastic spatio-temporal modelling with PCRaster
Derek Karssenberg, Niels Drost, Oliver Schmitz, Kor de Jong, and Marc F.P. Bierkens
see the presentation
Ethiopian Central Rift Valley basin hydrologic modelling using HEC-HMS and ArcSWAT
Jordi Pascual-Ferrer, Lucila Candela, and Agustí Pérez-Foguet
Spatial rainfall data in open source environment
Hanneke Schuurmans, Jan Maarten Verbree, Hidde Leijnse, Klaas-Jan van Heeringen, Remko Uijlenhoet, Marc Bierkens, Nick van de Giesen, Jan Gooijer, and Gert van den Houten
Automation of SimSphere Land Surface Model Use as a Standalone Application and Integration With EO Data for Deriving Key Land Surface Parameters
George P. Petropoulos, Ioannis Konstas, and Toby N. Carlson
The use of OpenStreetMaps for building hydrological models
Jaap Schellekens, Hessel Winsemius, Reinder Brolsma, Jan Talsma, Ruben Dahm, and Ferdinand Diermanse
see the presentation
MOSAICO, a Fortran 90 Free Open Source library for raster based hydrological applications
Giovanni Ravazzani
see the presentation
Open Source assimilation tool for distributed hydrological model
Julien Richard, Agathe Giangola-Murzyn, Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia, and Daniel Schertzer
High-Resolution Free-GIS operations to assist hydropower potential assessment
Daniele Ganora, Enrico Gallo, Alessandro Masoero, Francesco Laio, and Pierluigi Claps
Rtop - an R package for interpolation of data with a variable spatial support - examples from river networks
Jon Olav Skøien, Gregor Laaha, Daniel Koffler, Günter Blöschl, Edzer Pebesma, Juraj Parajka, and Alberto Viglione
see the presentation
LFSTAT - Low-Flow Analysis in R
Daniel Koffler and Gregor Laaha
R-tools for estimating exceedance probabilities of Envelope Curves of hydrological extremes
Björn Guse and Attilio Castellarin
see the presentation
Modelling Spatial Phenomena and Joint Return Periods with Copulas using R: the spcopula Package
Benedikt Gräler
see the presentation
PICTURES from the SESSIONS
Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare
Institute for Environmental Protection and Research
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CHINA'S biggest publishing company has opened a new UK head office in Laindon.
After signing a deal with Essex County Council in April, Phoenix Publishing and Media Group has opened the office in Hornsby Square, on the Southfields Business Park, creating eight jobs, with more in prospect.
In China the company employs 11,000 people and leads the way in publishing, book distribution and printing as well as having interests in hotels, real estate, and finance. Its annual sales income is about £1.2billion.
The Laindon office will deal with printing, copyright trading and publishing businesses..
Basildon Council leader Tony Ball said: "This investment from China's leading publishing company is fantastic for Basildon and the whole county.
"We have worked very hard to make Basildon an attractive destination for international investment and today's opening is testament to that."
The deal came after an Essex trade mission visited China in March. The trip included a visit to Phoenix Publishing's global headquarters in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
County councillor responsible for economic growth, Kevin Bentley, who led the mission, said: "This is the beginning of a long and prosperous partnership between Phoenix and Essex.
"The county can look forward to an increase in job opportunities and we can add another major international company to the businesses which have chosen to come to Essex."
Speaking at the office's opening on Wednesday, Chen Haiyan, the company's chairman and chief executive, added: "Phoenix Print Digital Printing is the company's first step in the UK.
"We are looking to start our publishing business in a year and we want PPM International to be a platform for cultural exchanges. We hope we can initiate a writers' exchange project with Essex in the near future."


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Roambi ES 4.5 JDBC Connector Gives Businesses Unprecedented Access to Data from Multiple Databases, Crystalized in Captivating Visuals
San Diego, Calif – February 5, 2013 – Roambi, the stunning business app that redesigns the way the world interacts with data, today announced the launch of Roambi ES 4.5 JDBC Connector. The Roambi Connector enables businesses to tap directly into any JDBC-powered database to capture critical data, right from the source and transform it into engaging visuals that reveal key business insights - anytime, anywhere.
With the launch of the JDBC Connector, Roambi is helping democratize the power of big data for all businesses. Companies can now access and integrate data from multiple database sources and garner meaningful information through Roambi's stunning visual reports and graphs.
"Making information available, including big data, through mobile technology is essential and our research finds that only eight percent of users have access to all the information they need," said Mark Smith, CEO & Chief Research Officer, Ventana Research. "By connecting users to big data and relational data through the JDBC driver, Roambi is able to help its customers meet a growing demand to increase mobile deployments and improve workforce productivity."
The Roambi ES 4.5 JDBC Connector was conceived after working directly with customers who were looking for choice and flexibility in how they are able to extract and view data on mobile devices. For example, Airbnb was one of Roambi's first customers requesting a data visualization solution that connected directly to their Apache Hadoop database. Using Hive queries, Unix scripts, and cron jobs, they were able to develop a homegrown business intelligence system that is continuously updated with live information.
"We look for partners that can move at our speed and maximize results using innovative methods," said Riley Newman, Head of Analytics at Airbnb. "We were attracted to Roambi's clean design aesthetic, but we're also predisposed to open source back-end solutions. We partnered with Roambi to develop an infrastructure that could meet our needs. The result was an interactive visualization app that people throughout our company can use to engage with our metrics and better understand our business, while the analytics team can maintain full control over the data pipeline to the app."
"Big data has moved beyond a buzzword to become a real business strategy for companies of all sizes," said Santiago Becerra, Co-Founder and CEO of Roambi. "Roambi is on the forefront of the dynamic trend of data-driven business and with the launch of the ES 4.5 JDBC Connector we are committed to providing organizations with the flexibility to choose the data delivery format that suits their individual needs."
Roambi ES 4.5 JDBC Connector features include:
More sources, more insights: Companies can combine data from multiple database sources into one seamless Roambi report, uncovering unexpected connections and insights that can be shared with more users across the enterprise.
Freedom of choice: IT managers now have a choice of how to deliver data based on their needs and resources.
Greater value: By tapping directly into existing databases or working through BI solutions, companies can cost-effectively leverage Roambi when they choose to quickly visualize data on thousands of mobile devices.
The Roambi ES 4.5 JDBC Connector is licensed to unlock the power of big data and relational data from twelve major databases including Hive/Hadoop 0.9, Oracle 11g, MySQL 5.5, Amazon Redshift, Teradata, Microsoft SQL, IBM Netezza, IBM DB2, PostgreSQL, SAP Hana, ParAccel and Greenplum.
"CGI is committed to helping our customers achieve their business goals and by providing them with a choice to easily pull information directly from a database and publish it directly to a mobile device, we are doing just that," said Thierry Meritan, Innovation Manager, CGI France. "Through CGI's professional services offering, our team of experts can use the Roambi ES 4.5 JDBC Connector to provide customers with the ability to make smarter and more informed decisions as they now have direct access to pertinent business data that previously wasn't accessible on mobile devices."
For more information on the Roambi ES 4.5 JDBC Connector, visit http://www.roambi.com/enterprise-overview
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The Dual Credit programs allow students to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school. Students may become eligible for the awarding of college credit based on scores obtained in the year-end examinations and through taking college-level classes either in their high school or at colleges and universities.
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Dual Credit Look Up Tool
(This tool replaces some static information with an interactive tool, allowing students to search and compare how their high school AP, IB, and Cambridge exam scores will apply as college credit at various public and private independent institutions in Washington State. Overall, this process increases transparency for students, parents, and counselors regarding how students will be awarded college credit for their credit-by-exam courses.)
The Washington Student Achievement Council
College Credit in High School Web site provides extensive information on dual credit programs, including links to individual college policies and Web sites.
This site also features tables, available through the links below, showing how AP test scores translate into possible college credits.
The site also provides background on the Launch Year legislation passed in 2011, which has the goal of enabling Washington high school students to earn at least a year of college credit by the time they graduate.
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November 2017: College in the High School Rules Bulletin
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Legislation that would require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to review tribal, state and county data before listing an endangered species was approved by U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday.
Congressman Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, was a co-sponsor of the legislation and said in a written statement it would increase transparency by requiring the Fish and Wildlife Service to publicly post the data used to list endangered species.
"The legislation we passed today in the House will bring greater transparency to the (Endangered Species Act) process by requiring federal agencies to disclose scientific data, cooperate with state and local governments, and ensure that the listing process works to the best interest of a species and impacted communities," Tipton said in a statement released Tuesday.
The measure is supported by Dolores County Commissioner Julie Kibel, who has been trying to work with federal officials and take steps to prevent the Gunnison sage grouse from being listed under the Endangered Species Act.
"When I first read that bill I was like 'Yahoo!,'" she said.
Fish and Wildlife has cited human population density as the No. 1 factor impacting the grouse, Kibel said. However, in Dolores County, the population has declined since the 1960s, and there are more natural challenges facing the grouse within the county.
Kibel said the county has sent letters and pictures to the Fish and Wildlife service showing challenges including drought, a high number of crows and ravens feeding on grouse eggs and tumbleweeds in the sagebrush canopy that keep the birds from taking cover. The county also submitted information on the county's low population and few housing developments that would cause fragmentation of the population.
The Dolores County has not heard from Fish and Wildlife about their submissions. However, the decision to list the bird has been delayed twice, and a decision is expected in November.
If the bird is listed. 108,000 acres in Dolores County could be listed as critical habitat. Land in Montezuma County isn't being considered for habitat designation. Private landowners on critical habitat could be required to get permits for any action that might impact the grouse population, such as building a fence.
The sage grouse was one of the potential species listings that played an important role in moving these bills forward, but was not the exclusive driving force, said Josh Green, a representative for Tipton's office.
If the legislation passed it would require the federal government to consider the scientific data submitted by tribal state and local governments, but the legislation does not speak to how those local governments conduct studies, Green said.
This is concerning to scientist Brett Hartl because being forced to use local data with potentially conflicting information could work to undermine the scientific listing process. Hartl is a scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity, a group that fights for many endangered species listings nationwide.
"The bill seeks to define the best available science as anything and everything that is submitted by the states and counties," he said.
In addition, he said posting all data used to support the decision to list a species could have unintended consequences, such as populations and locations that could tip off poachers, in some cases.
However, Kibel sees the bill as giving local landowners and governments a voice in the process because they are the ones that can be most proactive in conservation. For example, Dolores County has recently rerouted trucks that were disrupting grouse nesting.
"The best people to help with conservation are the landowners," she said.
However, the future of the legislation may be bleak. Hartl, the Endangered Species Policy Director for the center, said the legislation is unlikely to be approved by the Senate.