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Blackfoot wrote:I was pretty wrong with a lot of my preseason predictions, but I will gladly pat myself on the back for the nuggets at third pick.
You're not alone; we all made some pretty glaring mistakes.
Although, with self-praise, I'm pretty damn proud that I called the Lakers' nabbing the 8th seed while they were still sinking in a pile of sh*t.
32 wrote:Blackfoot wrote:I was pretty wrong with a lot of my preseason predictions, but I will gladly pat myself on the back for the nuggets at third pick.
You're not alone; we all made some pretty glaring mistakes.
Although, with self-praise, I'm pretty damn proud that I called the Lakers' nabbing the 8th seed while they were still sinking in a pile of sh*t.
Not so fast. Looks like Dallas has a chance for that last playoff spot now. It's pretty stupid actually. You'd think it'll be a gimme game for Clippers to give them some cushion against Denver, but hopefully it'll even out when Denver plays in San Antonio tonight.
If we play Denver in the playoffs, we're gonna get smacked. If we play LA or Memphis, there'll be a better chance we take the series although we still wouldn't be considered favorites.
32 wrote:migya wrote:I think we matchup quite well against the Nugs. We didn't have Bogut in any of the games against them this season I think and he'd make a big difference. Beating them in Denver would be hard, but the team has the players to beat them.
You make a couple good points, migs, but Denver worries me because they're a Nellieball, fast-paced team that knows how to rebound and defend (which sounds like an oxymoron, I know). What they lack in a star player, they make up for by being better than the sum of their parts. I'm not sure if I've seen a team achieve this sort of unwarranted hyper success since the 2004 Pistons.
Pertaining to Bogut helping... It's tough to say. Denver used the drive-and-kick, ala Houston, during many of our games, so the biggest factor (besides rotating) is whether or not they're hitting on a particular night. I'm not afraid of their inside play - where Bogut would potentially help the most - I'm worried of them going small and having to watch Lee/Landry crash out against Gallinari, or Andrew Miller bullying Curry at will, or trying to figure out exactly how we'd close out on a lineup of Gallo, Lawson, Iggy, and Chandler. They've got a lot of Nellie-type players; athletic, skillful, can play multiple positions.
As far as the glass, their best rebounder is Kenneth Faried and David Lee is powerless to stop him. Lets say Rebounder 1 has a great nose for rebounds and collects a lot of glass, while Rebounder 2 is solid at boxing out and keeping his opposite number off the boards. Andrew Bogut is a type 2 and Lee is a type 1. Because of this, Bogut's boxing out of guys like McGee, Koufos, and Mozgof (who don't provide a ton of rebounding anyways) is wasted, while Lee's style of going after rebounds is neutralized by a scrappy workhorse like Faried. Against 25 others teams, I'd say our rebounding isn't an issue. But against Chicago, San Antonio, Memphis, Oklahoma City, and Denver... yeah, I'm worried about it.
Personally, gimmie Memphis, LAC, and THEN Denver...
I'm with you on prefering to get the Griz or Clips, but I'm not as worried about getting the Nugs as much as most probably would be.
I think Bogut, when playing properly, neutralises almost any Center they have, though Koufos has been quite good for a few games the last month and McGee can explode any time. Bogut's fundamentals over the course of a series trump bursts like that. I just haven't seen enough monsterly rebounding games from Faried to say that he is an elite rebounder yet, though it looks like he will be very soon. I think Lee can match him and the big difference with those two is that Lee is far more polished offensively. I don't see Faried reacting well enough to stop Lee from getting his points, though Faried has the energy to defend well, just doesn't seem to be great yet. I think the rebounding is pretty equal between the two teams, but yea, Denver has the capability to outrebound every team, all the time, with their bigs that they have.
I think right now the biggest thing about Denver is the incredible performances from their bench. They outscore the starters half the time it looks and our bench just isn't that strong. Unless Jack and Landry are scoring over fifteen each, we get trounced most games against them.
Looks like it will be either them or Griozz now, Clips have lost a few. Either way, both teams are hot, but I see that Denver is without Lawson and have been for a while and now Galinarri might be out the rest of the season. If both are out for the 1st round, I'd rather play them, we'd have matchup advantages I think.
8th ave wrote:The thing is they don't lose at home. It's that simple. They just don't. Hell they're even hard to beat when they're on the road. Maybe both of those injuries changes things. How long is Lawson out for?
Two weeks said the report on the April 3rd.
Denver is without their top two scorers for the 1st round likely then and that makes them ripe for the pickings. Thing is, they'll probably lose some of their last games and not be 3rd. Still, they have lost two players and it is hard to adjust to that. I want them.
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Warriors lose to Jazz at home. The problem is we lose the tie breaker to Houston. They have an easy schedule. We may play the Thunder.
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Did last nights game just cost the Warriors their 6th spot? Man, so unfortunate, they have held the 6th spot for so long. They won't be able to play against the Spurs or Thunder. Would you be excited to face a Spurs team or Thunder? Plus there is pride. It doesn't sit well with me knowing that another young team with Harden as their only dominate force could be higher than us.
Fuk, man. We have OKC, San Antonio, and the Spurs within the next 3 games. Houston has Phoenix twice and Sacramento once. They have a more favorable matchup their next 5 and they own the tie breaker against us. Right now it look like we're going to be 7th seed.


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I couldn't find a "Not Enough to Justify it's own Thread" thread either. Anyways, in ANSI Common Lisp, Graham, Paul writes some functions that can be used to parse dates, but if you're using SBCL, you end up finding out that some weird bug involving defconstant gives some errors. Having said that, I don't mean that it doesn't execute the code, because I found out that the function was usable, but I would much rather not have to fiddle with SBCL error explorer, so I worked around.
If you completely omit the usage of defconstant, you can parse dates using the following code:
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(defvar months (vector "jan" "feb" "mar" "apr" "may" "jun" "jul" "aug" "sep" "oct" "nov" "dec"))
(defun parse-month (str)
(let ((p (position str months :test #'string-equal)))
(if p
(+ 1 p)
;; checks a string to the list of month names and adds 1 to the result
;; so that it matches up with the expectation of the month. ie months are not
;; zero indexed
(defun parse-date (str)
(let ((toks (tokens str #'constituent 0)))
(list (parse-integer (first toks))
(parse-month (second toks))
(parse-integer (third toks)))))
Very little code has to be changed, so it's a trivial fix. As long as you are careful not to accidentally let your code setf months to something else.
PS, if you aren't following along with ANSI Common Lisp, the constituent function is very simple
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(defun constituent (c)
(and (graphic-char-p c)
(not (char= c #\ ))))
It checks a character to make sure it is not equal to a space (ie " ") and that it is also a graphical character. A graphical character is something you can print out. It it returns true or nil.
Ok, that's all, I hope this helps somebody eventually.

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NEMA, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, will be pressing Congress in the next few months to preserve language in House and Senate energy bills that would benefit the industry, the consumer, and the nation. NEMA succeeded in getting several provisions written into the legislation, including (1) language requiring efficiency ratings for transformers to conform to those in NEMA standard TP 1, TP 2, and TP 3; (2) provisions requiring lighted exit signs and traffic signs be certified Energy Star® products; (3) a federal product procurement standard for motors based on the NEMA Premium® motor efficiency standard; (4) higher energy efficiency goals for new federal installations and retrofits; and (5) the establishment of a consortium to develop solid-state lighting technology.
"We're gratified that this important legislation is moving toward passage," says NEMA President Malcolm O'Hagan. "Electric efficiency was last addressed by Congress in 1992 and electric infrastructure was last addressed in 1978. In the last decade, we have witnessed considerable progress in the development of energy efficient technologies; legislation has not kept pace. Since 1978, the entire nature of the electric power business has changed. It's high time for this legislation."
In recent weeks, the national news media has focused on a few politically controversial issues, such as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the automobile Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard, and, in some cases, have inferred, since neither one passed in the Senate energy bill, that there is nothing notable remaining in the legislation. "That is unfortunate," says O'Hagan. "The conference committee has a very important task before it. What the conferees decide will help shape our nation over the next decade."
Both the House and Senate bills are now referred to as H. R. 4., after the House bill passed last August, but significant differences need to be worked out in conference. The original H.R. 4, for instance, had no electricity infrastructure provisions. While NEMA was influential in the crafting of both the House and Senate versions, the association would choose certain provisions over others in the hybrid. NEMA favors, for instance, most of the Senate's electrical efficiency provisions because they include explicit NEMA language covering such products as transformers and exit signs. NEMA supports House provisions, however, for national standards for interconnection and metering, as well as for transmission siting and funding originally included in draft bill H. R. 3406. That bill was developed by the House Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee at the end of 2001, but was never brought to the House floor for a vote.
NEMA also supports provisions for tax incentives for advanced meters and tax deductions for efficient commercial buildings.
During the last few hours of Senate debate in late April, Senators produced a flurry of new tax and energy policy amendments; many are important to NEMA members, including those that would:
mandate a high temperature superconducting technology demonstration for electric infrastructure, which will benefit cable manufacturers;
authorize federal cost sharing funds for state rebate programs for energy efficient products;
require public housing projects to purchase Energy Star® labeled products;
change mandatory climate change reporting to voluntary;
reduce the value of a credit for electricity from renewables from 3 cents to 1.5 cents per kWh in the Renewable Portfolio Standard, which would provide incentive for renewables at less cost to electricity users;
extend tax credits for fuel cells as small as 0.5 kW capacity;
make microturbines eligible for business tax credits available to fuel cells (the amount of the credit allowed is higher for fuel cells);
designate back-pressure steam turbines as eligible for the tax credit available to combined heat and power plants;
extend tax credits for businesses with small wind turbines;
extend the wind energy production tax credit;
widen definition of renewable fuels for electric generation, which will allow broader use and more competitive generation;
allow utilities that sell certain electric transmission assets to pay the tax liability over an 8-year period with no interest, as opposed to paying the full tax liability immediately, which would stifle the formation of independent transmission companies;
authorize rural and remote community electrification grants;
provide tax credits for high efficiency gas furnaces; and
provide tax credits for high efficiency manufactured homes.
O'Hagan says, "We'll continue to work to with members of both chambers to ensure that the bill that goes to the President's desk for signature retains the best features in the House and Senate bills and sets enlightened energy policy. The bottom line is that the nation needs an energy bill. Energy efficiency improvements and enhanced electric infrastructure are vital to our economic prosperity. It's time to pass comprehensive energy legislation."
NEMA is the leading trade association in the United States representing the interests of electroindustry manufacturers. Founded in 1926 and headquartered near Washington, D.C., its 400 member companies manufacture products used in the generation, transmission and distribution, control, and end-use of electricity. Annual shipments of these products are in excess of $100 billion.


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The Williamsburg/Greenpoint civic group OUTRAGE hosted officials from the Department of Transportation on Feb. 27 in St. Francis of Paola Church to present the city's design plans for rebuilding the Kosciuszko Bridge.
Residents expressed concerns the long-term project would have on traffic in the area.
"How much traffic is going to increase in the area when construction begins on the eastbound lanes?" asked Sonia Lopez of Greenpoint. "How am I going to travel in the neighborhood to get home with the traffic already congested as it is?"
The Kosciuszko Bridge, connecting Brooklyn to Queens, is facing a massive $800 million reconstruction project by the city and State. The DOT plans to rebuild a six-lane bridge with bike and pedestrian lanes and some green space. The construction, which will take place next to the current bridge, is expected to begin this spring and will last at least seven years.
DOT project manager Robert Adams said the city has partnered with the Police Department and expects to maintain normal traffic conditions.
"The impact of the project on quality of life has the potential to be enormous," said Councilman Steve Levin. "We need real engagement that is deep and meaningful. OUTRAGE has done a great job of calling attention to it."
Meanwhile, OUTRAGE also introduced its new task force to help improve truck traffic that has plagued and polluted the community for years. The group gave out log sheets for residents to record when they see truck violations in the area.
"The task force was created with the police precincts to monitor illegal truck traffic through Williamsburg and Greenpoint," said Ray Kairya, OUTRAGE chairman.
In addition to garbage trucks, there's also the issue of cement trucks in North Brooklyn.
"Cement companies need to stop dumping on our streets," said David Dobosz of Williamsburg. "They know it's wrong. The streets are littered with stones from their residue and it erodes the streets."
"I've lived on Morgan Avenue for nine years now, and it's hard for me to go to sleep without hearing the noise from the trucks," agreed Councilman Steve Levin.


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Saturday, January 04, 2014
midwifery directions for 2014
In my first blog entry for 2014, not knowing what lies ahead, I hope this new year brings you valuable learning and the satisfaction of knowing that you have contributed well to whatever your work is.
There is an old saying that the pen is mightier than the sword. I am using the internet to wield a (virtual) pen/sword (whatever that might mean in today's world) in my campaign to protect, promote and support health through childbirth. The midwifery-childbirth scene is in need of protection. The context is discussion around the future of midwives and homebirth in Australia, stimulated by midwife-blogger Rachel Reed. I would encourage you to read the post, and the comments.
Protecting the healthy, natural processes in pregnancy, birth, and nurture of the baby
The struggle we face, for which the virtual pen may be employed, is our duty to protect the ability of women to move naturally and safely through their childbearing, and of babies to achieve health through working in harmony with natural processes, unless there is a valid reason for intervention. There is no safer and better way to proceed. This is not the midwife who uncritically sits on her hands in some sort of utopic idealistic world. It is the midwife who correctly recognises threats, both external and internal, and takes appropriate action.
The big threats that are being discussed within the midwifery profession today relate to insurance and regulatory pressures on the midwife's scope of practice. These threats are not new.
The mandating of professional indemnity insurance (PII) for all regulated health professionals has led to attempts by insurers to provide an affordable and acceptable product for midwives. That product doesn't exist, either in Australia or overseas. The current exemption that has been provided (at present until June 2015), for midwives attending homebirth privately, is inequitable for the midwives and the women in our care. Yet a system by which the client and the midwife can 'opt out' of the law that requires insurance is probably the only way that will keep the professional doors open to privately attended homebirth.
Regulatory pressures that have increased since the previous government's maternity reform package was implemented in 2010 are like the carrot and the stick. The 'eligible midwife' carrot is that certain midwives earn special privileges: Medicare rebates, clinical access to hospitals, and prescriber authority. The 'eligible midwife' stick is the linked requirements and cost of professional indemnity insurance, collaborative arrangements with obstetricians, and getting over increased bureaucratic hurdles such as the midwifery practice review. There is no reliable evidence that this approach will make birth safer for mothers and babies, or eliminate the fear of a rogue element in midwifery.
At present any midwife, except those who have specific restrictions imposed on their registration, is able to practise midwifery without supervision, in the way that they choose. Any midwife is able to set up private practice, and offer fee-for-service arrangements within the scope of midwifery.
The concern that has been expressed amongst midwives, and in the blog post referred to here, is that we are moving in the direction of restriction as to which midwives - only those who are 'eligible' - are permitted to attend women for homebirth. This, to my knowledge, is only "hear-say" at present. I have seen no document from the regulator or from a professional body, committing us to this direction.
I cannot accept such a change. Midwifery, as defined by ICM, and as established in education and professional standards, is not dependent upon the business model under which it is provided, or the intended place of birth. A midwife is able to practise midwifery in any setting. Homebirth midwifery is the most basic level - every midwife should be competent.
The protection of the natural processes in childbirth should not, in itself, be linked to PII and regulatory pressures. But it is. Midwives who work independently are free to establish an individual care plan with a woman. The woman who employs a midwife privately is able to develop trust with that midwife, and vice versa, and with trust comes the ability to challenge.
Private midwifery encourages strengths in the relationship between midwife and woman, at the same time as it allows weaknesses. While the increasing medicalisation of birth can bring harm to many, through unnecessary use of dangerous drugs and potentially risky surgery, medical processes used appropriately can save lives of mothers and babies.
I hope that during the coming year we will see wisdom prevail in decisions made about the midwifery profession.
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Hi Jan
Thanks for opening debate about these issues.
You state re. homebirth being limited to eligible midwivesL
"This, to my knowledge, is only "hear-say" at present. I have seen no document from the regulator or from a professional body, committing us to this direction."
The insurance report clearly recommends this and the ACM is yet to comment on this report or declare their stance in relation to limiting homebirth to eligible midwives. I think we'd all feel better with a clear statement of support for PPMs regardless of model of service.
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- Joy Johnston said...
Rachel, I would think ACM is bound to support midwives who are covered by the ICM Definition - which defines the midwife's scope, 'in any setting', but has no comment on the business model under which the midwife is paid.
I don't think I have seen the insurance report - they may not know about the Definition.
Interesting times ahead!
Joy (not Jan - she's a friend of mine :-)
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- Denise Hynd said...
NZ LMC (self-employed) midwives have PII cover through a combination of levies (based on their Caseloads) to the national Accident Compensation Commission and increased membership fees to the NZ College of Midwives. Bill Shorten tried to get a National Injury Insurance Scheme as well as the National Disability Insurance Scheme up but had to be satisfied only with the later with-in the term of Gillard government! If both of these had, or do eventuate (with a Shorten government) then Australia will have the equivalent of NZ's ACC ( http://www.acc.co.nz/). WA Greens Senator Rachel Sewiert's cheif policy advisor said to me last June in Perth 'this could be a means of part cover for Homebirth in Australia as it is in NZ! Please follow this up with Bill Shroten's or Rachel's offfice. Most recently I have asked Sarah Stewart at ACM who should understand the NZ set-up as she lived and worked here - to check this out, lobby and spread the word!
You could go and see Bill Shorten also!!
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- Joy Johnston said...
Hello Denise, and thankyou for your suggestions. The new national disability compensation scheme which the previous government brought in is being implemented, but (unfortunately!) does not provide the same compensation as the NZ system. The PII requirements are mandated in the legislation. Midwives who want the NZ system will need to follow your example and move there!
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"We made the right decision going long," said Sciacca, who along with Saratoga Snacks' owner, NFL Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells, debated whether to run in the 1 1/8-mile Classic or the six-furlong Hudson Handicap on Empire Showcase Day. "He's a fighter. He's an athlete. Bill says he's like getting a Lawrence Taylor."
While Parcells was in Florida and unable to personally share in the victory, the trainer was able to celebrate in Manhattan with another of Saratoga Snacks' fans, celebrity chef Bobby Flay.
"Bobby wanted to watch the race at home before he had to go host the Tacos and Tequila event," said Sciacca. "In fact, the first text I got after the race was from Bobby: 'Awesome!'"
When Sciacca arrived at the barn, he said Saratoga Snacks was bright-eyed and full of energy after his first race in 2 ½ months. By 11 a.m., the ridgling had his head deep in his feed tub.
• Cluster of Stars, who remained unbeaten in seven starts when she won Saturday's Iroquois by 3 ¼ lengths, could compete again in 2013 but is not being considered for the Breeders' Cup, according to Toby Sheets, who oversees Steve Asmussen's string at Belmont Park.
"She came out of the race in very good shape," said Sheets on Sunday. "I thought she ran great."
In the Iroquois, Cluster of Stars took her customary spot at the front and was never challenged by the runner-up, last year's winner Willet. After the race, Willet's trainer Jimmy Iselin hugged Sheets and later offered his congratulations via telephone.
"He's just a gentleman," said Sheets of Iselin.
• Champion My Miss Aurelia will return from a seven-month layoff on Thursday when she competes in the $100,000 Punkin Pie overnight stakes, a seven-furlong race for fillies and mares who haven't won a stakes in 2013.
My Miss Aurelia, the 2011 Champion Two-Year-Old Filly, will be making her first start for trainer Todd Pletcher. She has raced once in 2013, finishing third in the Grade 3 Azeri in March at Oaklawn Park.
"We were just looking for somewhere for her to bring her back off a long layoff," said Pletcher. "She's indicated to us that she has trained very well and is ready to get started again."
Pletcher said a strong performance on Thursday could propel My Miss Aurelia to the Grade 2, $300,000 Go for Wand Handicap on November 29 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Yesterday, Pletcher and Ed Stanco of King of Prussia Stable confirmed Princess of Sylmar for this year's Distaff after the 3-year-old breezed four furlongs on Belmont's training track in 48.86 seconds.
"She breezed very well, as we've become accustomed to," said Pletcher. "She came out of it in good order, so all systems are go."


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Public performances of Hamilton-Gibson's production of "Commedia Robin Hood" will be given on Sundays, Nov. 5 and 12 at 2:30 pm in the Warehouse Theatre at 3 Central Avenue in Wellsboro. It is appropriate for children of all ages and adults, too. Admission is Pay-What-You-Can. Author Lane Riosley used the Italian tradition of "commedia dell' arte," also known as slapstick comedy, to create this hilarious play about the famous archer Robin Hood and his Merry Men who steal from the rich to give to the poor. Cast members include: Jeanne Ziemak as Punchin, Yolie Canales as Rosetta, Gary Siegfried as Columbine and Aidan Locke as Arlequin. Gabe Hakvaag is the director. Erin Baldwin is in charge of wardrobe and Sarah Knight is creating props. This production is also being performed in November at schools throughout Tioga County.


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I have to admit that I am so jealous of those lady cachers out there who have a husband or significant other who loves caching as much as they do. Because, let's face it, a woman caching alone, on a trail, in the forest is just not a good idea. I miss so many FTFs because I'm just not comfortable going alone, especially when Mtn-Man is busy publishing at 11pm! So frustrating.
My husband does not get the whole "searching the forest for tupperware thing" but he does love the outdoors. He just loves being out there exploring any backroad that we haven't yet been on. Our two passions aren't exactly the same but they go hand in hand pretty well.
Last week we bought a new 4x4. I knew it wouldn't be long, I hoped it wouldn't be long, before he'd be ready to take it out on a real test drive. Then last Friday he said, "Are there any caches you'd like to find on some mountain road? "Let's take the truck for a real ride." Yah!
I had been waiting for a chance to travel up the West Harrison Forestry Service Road for so long so that's where I suggested we go. There is a series of caches that tjguy98 has placed at a bunch of interesting points along the road and a few others as well. We found all but one of tjguy98's caches. Just want to say here that I LOVE ammo boxes in the forest. Saves the environment from getting torn to pieces... but I digress....
Tony's favourite cache was called "Playtime" (GC1B0FE) - perfect spot to try out the 4 wheel drive - works great apparently. One cache by DanG took us to the most incredible view of the lake and then we paid tribute to Mtn-Man at GC1DCJ4 - another awesome cache!
There was also the fossil bed that we had heard about but never seen. We both love finding these kind of unique places. I had remembered that someone had placed the FVRT cache there once quite a while ago and so I looked at the past logs and found the co-ordinates. We found the site easily enough but then Tony remembered that someone had said they were also lots of fossils at a landslide. We kept going, about 6km, down the road and came to a shale slide. Almost every rock there had a fossil in it! Very cool.
So as you can tell we had such a great time. He got to put his new 'toy' through its paces and I found 8 awesome caches. For about the millionth time we commented on how glad we are to be living in British Columbia.
Thanks honey for the awesome day!
So glad you bought that truck.
Monday, April 12, 2010
New Truck! Let's Go Caching.
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- Eddie said...
welcome to the double joy of getting out into the woods to see "Super Natural BC", combined with the joy of geocaching.
Glad Tony had fun at "PlayTime" - it's a guy thing, you wouldn't understand! :)
PS Next he'll be looking for big puddles to splash through... LOL
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J. K. Rowling: Hermione/Ron Relationship Was "Wish Fulfillment"
Feb 01, 2014
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In a new interview with Emma Watson for the magazine Wonderland (which Watson is guest editing this month) J. K. Rowling shockingly revealed that she regretted putting Ron and Hermione together romantically. The following comments come from The Sunday Times. The full interview between Rowling and Watson will come out with the Feb/March issue of Wonderland on February 7th.
"I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment' she says. "That's how it was conceived, really. For reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it, Hermione ended up with Ron."
"I know, I'm sorry' she continued, "I can hear the rage and fury it might cause some fans, but if I'm absolutely honest, distance has given me perspective on that. It was a choice I made for very personal reasons, not for reasons of credibility. Am I breaking people's hearts by saying this? I hope not."
Watson didn't seem shocked by these comments and agreed with her. "I think there are fans out there who know that too and who wonder whether Ron would have really been able to make her happy."
Rowling also says that Ron and Hermione would have needed "relationship counseling."
Many thanks to Hypable for the tip. Stay close to Leaky for more on this surprise revelation when the full article comes out on the 7th.


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- Adminstration officials say they deported a record number of people last year
- Critics say Obama deserves little credit, and that deportation numbers are basically flat
- Critics have accused the administration of taking steps in the past to inflate deportation numbers
- Liberals and conservatives are concerned over current deportation policy
A record number of people were deported from the United States last year, federal officials announced Tuesday.
But does the Obama administration deserve all the credit -- or blame -- for this record? And is it actually as impressive as it sounds?
Critics say no to both questions, and charge the administration with creative accounting.
President Barack Obama himself may have inadvertently added fuel to the fire.
"The statistics are actually a little deceptive," Obama said last month during a discussion with Hispanic journalists. There has been "a much greater emphasis on criminals than non-criminals." And "with stronger border enforcement, we've been apprehending folks at the borders and sending them back. That is counted as a deportation even though they may have only been held for a day or 48 hours."
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, noted Obama's remarks Wednesday, saying he's "frustrated about the administration's deceptive marketing tactics in claiming that they have deported more undocumented people than ever before."
The administration is "playing a double game," argued Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors tighter immigration restrictions. "They're telling (pro-immigration) advocacy groups that they're focusing on the worst of the worst" by committing more resources to the most dangerous undocumented immigrants.
"But they're telling the broader public they've achieved record levels of deportations. It's a clever spin."
So what are the facts? Nearly 400,000 individuals were removed from the country in fiscal year 2011, which ended September 30, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. ICE Director John Morton trumpeted the news, calling it the result of "smart and effective immigration enforcement" that depends on "setting clear priorities for removal and executing on those priorities."
The 396,906 figure is indeed a record -- but not by much. A total of 392,862 people were deported in 2010 -- a difference of little more than 1%, according to ICE. Almost 390,000 people were deported the year before that.
Significantly larger increases in the total number of deportations occurred during George W. Bush's administration. Fewer than 120,000 people were deported in 2001, when Bush took office.
Analysts say much of the change over the last decade has been due to the implementation of controversial federal-led measures such as Secure Communities initiative and the Criminal Alien Program, which are designed to root out undocumented immigrants accused or convicted of various criminal acts. Both measures predate Obama's presidency.
Recent state-led crackdowns on illegal immigrants in places like Arizona -- despite all the media attention -- have played a less critical role, they insist.
"There certainly has been a tremendous uptick in state activity in the realm of immigration enforcement" in recent years, said Greg Chen, director of advocacy at the American Immigration Lawyers Association. But "in terms of what's driving enforcement, it's (still) really a federal-led issue."
Producing new deportation records -- however slim the margin -- appears to be a priority for the Obama White House. Pundits argue the ability to tout such records could be political gold for a Democratic president wooing independent voters in 2012, though it does risk alienating Obama's liberal base.
A Washington Post story from last December said administration "officials quietly directed immigration officers to bypass backlogged immigration courts and time-consuming deportation hearings whenever possible" in order to break the record for fiscal year 2010.
"Officials (also) told immigration officers to encourage eligible foreign nationals to accept a quick pass to their countries without a negative mark on their immigration record," the story concluded.
Morton told the Post everything had been done "on the merits" and with "no cooking of the books."
Under Obama, the budget for ICE's Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations -- the money spent to identify, apprehend, detain and remove individuals from the country -- has actually remained relatively static, rising from $2.63 billion in fiscal year 2009 to $2.77 billion in fiscal year 2011.
Immigration officials are currently funded "to remove around 400,000 people based on the resources we're given by Congress," an ICE official told CNN. What has changed most recently is "the level of sophistication in finding folks who pose a public safety threat and are eligible for removal."
ICE stressed Tuesday that over half of the roughly 397,000 people deported last year had been convicted of felonies or misdemeanors. That's an 89% increase in deported criminals from three years ago, the agency said. And in August, the Department of Homeland Security announced its intention to individually review roughly 300,000 pending deportation cases in federal immigration courts.
Lower priority cases -- those not involving individuals considered violent or otherwise dangerous -- will be suspended, the department said.
Administration officials call it a matter of prioritizing cases and allocating scarce resources more efficiently. Critics call it backdoor amnesty, a way to push through policy changes that conservatives in Congress would never agree to.
If the administration is trying to walk a political tightrope, it may end up pleasing nobody. Conservatives like Krikorian insist deportations would be increasing at a much faster rate if Obama pushed for more funding for ICE. Progressive like Chen worry that undocumented immigrants who pose no threat to others are nevertheless at increased risk being rounded up by more aggressive ICE officials.
"This has all been part of the administration's strategy to advance reforms on immigration that include tough enforcement as well as providing a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country," Chen said. "But unfortunately that latter component has now fallen off."


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Moral treatment
Moral treatment was the cornerstone of mental health care in the 1800s. The idea it rested on was humane but paternalistic: moral treatment's advocates believed that an asylum patient had a better chance of recovery if treated like a child rather than an animal. It was introduced by Quaker asylum director William Tuke at the end of the 1700s. Moral treatment rejected orthodox medical treatments used in asylums of the time, which mostly involved blood-letting, purging and physical restraints such as chains and manacles. Tuke's revolutionary idea was to make his asylum a strict, well-run household. Patients were expected to dine at the table, make polite conversation over tea, consider the consequences of their actions, and clean and garden. The asylum director established comprehensive rules and constant surveillance, enforced by simple rewards and punishments. Sanity was to be restored through self-discipline.
As asylum construction ballooned in the 1800s, moral treatment and medical treatment came together. French asylum physician Pinel championed Tuke's work. Generations of asylum directors, inspired by Pinel, became the strict but benevolent father. But critics in the early 1900s argued moral treatment did not cure patients. They said it made patients dependent on the doctor and the asylum. Later in the 1900s, historians argued moral treatment replaced the actual chains of early asylums with invisible chains, making them even harder to escape from.
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By Julian Zelizer
(CNN) – Hillary Clinton has started to re-enter the public spotlight, very possibly beginning a new stage of her career that may lead to the presidential election of 2016.
In recent appearances, Clinton seems energized and spirited. She has already begun to talk about issues like women's rights and voting rights, causes that have animated her for decades. Gone is the constrained demeanor that turned off many potential supporters in previous years. The real Hillary Clinton seems to be emerging.
Republicans are instantly attacking as might be expected. Former House speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, an arch nemesis of the Clintons in the 1990s, warned that she was promoting "left-wing ideas" that would lead to her defeat.
Those kinds of attacks won't have the same weight as they did eight years ago. The former first lady, senator, and secretary of state is in excellent position to run the kind of campaign that is true to her history, in large part because of the impact that President Obama has had in the past six years.
Democrats are more confident about throwing their support behind a candidate who stands proudly for the key tenets of the liberal tradition: a belief that government can help solve social problems in the United States.
Unlike her husband, who felt in the early 1990s that he had to emphasize his centrist, new Democratic credentials, President Obama has opened the doors for a Democrat to build their campaigns on the tradition of the New Deal and Great Society, rather than running away from that legacy.
How did President Obama make this happen? Most important, the president has been far more assertive in his willingness to use the federal government to address big domestic challenges than many Democrats who preceded him. The Affordable Care Act put into place a large series of regulations aimed at providing better and more accessible care for a health care system whose costs had spun out of control.
The Dodd-Frank Act provided a regulatory framework to prevent the kind of risky behavior that led to the 2008 financial crash, and the economic stimulus provided government money to help get the economy moving again.
Since his re-election in 2012, an important mark for Democrats that these kinds of policies don't result in inevitable defeat, Obama has also fought back against the austerity drives of the GOP, defending key government programs from the scalpel. After the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act, Obama vowed to protect the law and Attorney General Eric Holder announced that he would not allow states to violate rights. Though hesitant at first, President Obama has embraced the major social movement of our day—gay rights—taking a more progressive stand than any president before him.
In short, President Obama has broken an important barrier for Clinton, or any other Democrat, by allowing members of his party to be proud of their ideals and challenging the notion that the only way for their party to win is to agree with the right.
President Obama has also shifted the center of political debate by driving Republicans further to the right ever since the 2010 midterms. Tea party Republicans have placed immense pressure on the Republican leadership to take harder line stances on issues like the budget.
Republicans moved so far to the right they have made liberal Democrats seem much more moderate. Liberal Democrats, who back in the 1990s could still be attacked as "the far left" can appear more "reasonable" to the mainstream when compared with conservative Republicans. The tea party has also opened the door to Clinton, as Obama discovered with Mitt Romney in 2012, to build a campaign that argues the GOP is too extreme to govern.
In a very different way, President Obama has created a huge opportunity for Hillary Clinton because of his failures. Despite his accomplishments, he has failed to make progress on a number of important issues that Clinton can embrace as central to her platform, setting her up to be a leader who can complete and move beyond what President Obama has started.
The most important is the economic insecurity of the middle class. The sluggish economic recovery and historically high rates of inequality, which Obama himself laments but has not been able to reverse, give Clinton a potent theme to run on. Gingrich might call such rhetoric left wing, but for millions of Americans it will strike the exact right chord.
Clinton, who demonstrated her skill on the international stage, also has a chance to address some of the disappointments with President Obama's foreign policy.
Many Democrats are watching the events in Egypt, deeply concerned that the unraveling of democracy will undermine the kinds of promises that Obama made about liberal internationalism and the ability of diplomacy to solve global problems without resort to war. Many Democrats are also unhappy with the ongoing revelations about how Obama continued with President Bush's war on terror programs, making them even more robust with extensive NSA surveillance and drone attacks.
Unlike most of the Democrats who are considering entering into the campaign, Clinton now has an extensive record of experience on foreign policy that will bolster her credentials as she talks about what she would do to correct these problems. If she tackles these issues effectively, she could energize support from liberals in her party who previously dismissed her as the candidate of the status quo. Even if President Obama's approval ratings decline further, Clinton has an opportunity to win public support using the framework Obama put forward.
Hillary Clinton now has an excellent chance to put together the kind of presidential campaign that was elusive in 2008, one that could very well give the nation its first female president. In the coming months she will have to decide whether she wants to take this step or to instead focus on her work as a global leader outside government. But the opportunity for her is there and Obama, who once was engaged with her in some of the most bitter fights that Democrats have seen among their own in many years, has changed the terms of the debate in ways that will greatly benefit her.
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Topical Traditional?
I'm totally comfortable with there being two distinct types of traditional customs:
True traditional and topical traditional.
During a recent visit to a friend's shop, Rudy Rodriguez's Fullerton Fabrication, to see Paul Hoffman's '40 Merc (don't worry, we'll have a full feature on it in the next issue), I got to thinking about my personal custom project … well, more like re-thinking. Among my thoughts were things like color combinations and choice of specific components. But ultimately, I ended up right back in the same mind-set as I'd been in before seeing Paul's black beauty in finished form.
I'm totally comfortable with there being two distinct types of traditional customs: true traditional and topical traditional. The Merc that Rudy's just completed is without a doubt the former type; mine's the latter. As much of a stickler for details as I am, the thought of reverse-engineering my Fleetline in order to put it in the other category would ultimately be more work, take more time, and of course cost more money. But still, to see a car such as Paul's-dropped axle, drum brakes, Columbia two-speed, original Flathead, etc.-sitting with a perfect stance, running like a fine Swiss watch, and whatnot, well, the temptation was hard to resist.
Even though I've never had the greatest luck with Flatheads, I was still able to talk myself into re-thinking my SBC plans for the '33 Tudor (thanks to encouragement from Mike Herman at H&H, among other things). However, an SBC it will still be for the '47 Chevy. Matter of fact, the 350 I've stashed away in the corner of my garage will end up getting fit for a new fuel-injection setup (EZ-EFI) to go along with the already-equipped disc brakes, overdrive automatic trans, and so on. Quite the opposite from a true traditional custom's underpinnings, don't you think? I think so. But I also want to drive this car-hard and very often. (I've entertained all the arguments about the ability to make an early drivetrain functional and efficient-again, that's what the '33 will be the platform for.)
On the exterior of the Chevy, though, it will be for all intents and purposes, a custom-a topical custom, as it were. Early GM spotlights (S1 SportLites), 16-inch GM accessory hubcaps, bias-ply whitewalls, Candy Apple Red-maybe even skirts after all. And peering through the windows, the traditional tuck 'n' roll and sparse accessories (stock column shift, retrofitted stock instruments, etc.) will also give off the appearance of a traditional build. It's under the hood and beneath the body that will be anything but. But as I said, that's OK with me … at least it is nowadays.
Maybe 10 or more years ago, I'd have gone about this project differently. But I'm not the same as I was a decade ago-physically or mentally. Having had two major spine surgeries (in the last two years alone) along with having my son, I now look at things from a completely different standpoint. Laziness may be confused for convenience (or is it the other way around?!), but the older I get, the less I want to mess with things-a custom with certain modern components is just one of the things that makes life easier and more enjoyable.
Despite everything I've just said, I'd kill to have Hoffman's Merc parked in my garage!


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2 Ave. bet. E. 29 St. and E. 30 St.
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This Kips Bay park is located on a small portion of the site for one of New York's most ambitious unbuilt engineering projects, the Mid-Manhattan Expressway. The Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (TBTA) acquired the parcel at the northwest corner of Second Avenue and East 29th Street as part of the right-of-way for an elevated highway, which would have run along 30th or 36th Street in order to link the Queens-Midtown Tunnel to the Lincoln Tunnel. Weaving among the skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan, this route was one of the many improvements envisioned in the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs (1929). As head of the TBTA, the Department of Parks, and numerous other city, state, and independent agencies, Robert Moses realized many of the projects outlined in the Regional Plan and attempted many others.
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Iroquois County disbands Regional Planning Commission
WATSEKA -- Building permits and other zoning issues in Iroquois County will be heard by the County Board's Planning & Zoning Committee, now that the Regional Planning Commission has been dissolved.
The County Board (Wed) voted to disband and remove any legal responsibility from the former regional board.
The regional committee, for years, had been the first step in the application process for zoning matters. Decisions were then forwarded to the Zoning Board of Appeals and then to the county board's planning & zoning committee.


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The Mathematics Program offers four degree programs in mathematics and computer science: a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematical sciences, a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics with secondary teacher licensure, and Bachelor of Science degrees in mathematical sciences with emphases in either computer science or physics. Students following the various degree programs may prepare themselves for teaching, positions in private industry or government, or for graduate study in mathematics, computer science, or an allied field.
Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University and the University of Colorado cooperate with Adams State University to facilitate transfer of credit for the courses listed in the pre-engineering program. Engineering programs differ in their requirements for the first two years.


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The Wall Street Journal reports that a bill circulating through the Ohio Legislature "aims to shed light on a nebulous aspect of asbestos litigation: bankruptcy trusts." Such trusts are "pots of money set up by bankrupt manufacturers and sellers of asbestos products that buckled under the weight of lawsuits over asbestos-related illnesses," the newspaper notes. "Billions of dollars are available, collectively, in the trusts to anyone who can prove their ailments stemmed from asbestos products tied to the companies that established them." (The trusts don't disclose personal information about claimants.) Because asbestos use in the past was widespread, "victims of asbestos-related illnesses often tap numerous trusts as well as sue solvent companies in public court," according to the newspaper. Defendants tell The Journal that plaintiffs "sometimes don't disclose in their court cases that they've already received payments from trusts." As a result, solvent defendants say they get stuck paying more than their fair share of liability. The Ohio measure is sponsored by Rep. Louis Blessing Jr., a Republican from Hamilton County. It would require plaintiffs in court cases to disclose all trust claims they've made. The Journal reports that opponents of the measure say it would restrict plaintiffs from seeking justice from companies that harmed them. A measure similar to Ohio's bill fizzled in Congress this year, "but supporters including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for Legal Reform hope that if the measure passes in Ohio, it could spur other states and Congress to act," The Journal reports.
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In a finding that could be big for Ohio, a government study released on Wednesday "concluded that the national economic benefits of significant natural gas exports far outweighed the potential for higher energy prices for consumers and industrial users of the fuel," according to this story from The New York Times. The study, prepared by NERA Economic Consulting for the U.S. Department of Energy, found domestic prices would not rise sharply as a result of exports and that export revenue would generally help most Americans. The Times says energy companies "have proposed more than a dozen projects to export gas in liquefied form to Europe and Asia, where the fuel is typically three to four times more expensive than in the United States." The Obama administration, it notes, "has been cautious on whether to embrace large exports of gas out of concern that consumers who rely on gas for heating and cooking could see their utility prices rise." Higher exports also could raise costs to manufacturers that now benefit from the nation's glut of cheap gas. Now that the report has been finished, observers expect more gas export projects to get the green light. "The report found that higher exports would actually generate more economic benefits," according to The Times. "Noting that gas exports could produce up to $47 billion in new economic activity in 2020, when many new terminals would be up and running, it said, 'Welfare improvement is highest under the high export volume scenarios because U.S. consumers benefit from an increase in wealth transfer and export revenues.'"
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has revised to negative from stable its ratings outlook for Cleveland-based mining and natural resources company Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. The outlook revision "reflects our view that 2012 and 2013 operating performance and liquidity will be worse than we previously expected, owing to lower-than-expected iron ore prices and metallurgical coal prices," according to S&P. The ratings service affirmed its ratings on Cliffs, including the "BBB-" corporate credit rating, Cliffs recently announced significant changes to its 2013 operating plan, which included delaying the expansion of its Bloom Lake mine in Eastern Canada, as well as idling a portion of its U.S. iron ore production, S&P said. S&P said its revision "uses the assumption that 2013 iron ore prices will remain around current levels of $120 per ton. As a result, we anticipate that Cliffs will generate 2012 and 2013 adjusted EBITDA of $1.4 billion and $1.2 billion, respectively, down from our previous estimates of $1.8 billion to $2 billion for each year." In addition, S&P said the negative rating outlook "reflects our view that Cliffs' debt burden is high relative to its EBITDA and cash flow generation in the current price environment."
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Males still dominate the engineering industry these days, but universities, corporations, and others are becoming more and more aggressive at recruiting women engineers across the United States.
That's good news for the country, if a recent Washington Post article was on the right track by suggesting that the US must encourage women to study engineering in order to remain globally competitive, both in terms of the number of engineering graduates and diversity in American businesses.
The engineering field has been underrepresented by women for years: Women received just over 18% of the more than 78,000 engineering degrees conferred in 2003-04, according to the most recent research presented in the US Department of Education's Digest of Education Statistics: 2005.
To increase the number of female engineers, engineering colleges and universities worldwide have been making concentrated efforts to recruit more female engineering students. Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, part of February's Engineers Week, includes the 2007 Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering on March 22 and 23. Planned to coincide with Women's History Month, the Global Marathon will include 24 continuous hours of meetings, live web chats, and teleconferences hosted throughout the world. Each event is designed to encourage girls to consider engineering as a college major as well as address recruitment and retention issues.
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day is a huge event that spans beyond into the weeks after Engineers Week, which was held February 18-24. Businesses, government organizations, universities, youth groups, elementary and secondary schools, professional groups, and volunteer organizations across the nation pledged their involvement in a variety of creative ways to expose females to the world of possibilities an engineering career presents.
The efforts of groups such as Engineers Week seem to be having some impact: 29% more females received engineering degrees in the last 10 years, while the total number of degrees earned remained largely unchanged (Digest of Education Statistics: 2005, Table 281). This 10 year increase, however, only amounts to approximately 3,000 more female engineering degree holders nationwide, and annual increases each year have been minimal. Only 295 additional women earned engineering degrees in 2003 than in 2002.
Many other organizations have mobilized as well to help attract more females to study the various fields of engineering.
Engineers Australia, for example, declared 2007 the Year of Women in Engineering with myriad events to commemorate the industry. In addition, female engineering students at MIT participated in the new MIT Women's Initiative in January and visited high schools across the country to speak with female students about career possibilities in engineering.
Princeton University boasts one of the highest female to male engineering student ratios in the nation: nearly 34% of engineering undergraduates are female, according to the Daily Princetonian. The university attributes this to a high number of female faculty members in the engineering department, as well as a very active student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) that spends a significant amount of time working with high school students to introduce them to the engineering field.
The Society of Women Engineers aims to increase female enrollment in engineering degree programs from 18% to 30% by 2020 and has in place dozens of programs to help meet this goal. Programs are aimed at girls of all ages from kindergarten through high school and include activities such as Lego building and coloring contests, engineering camps, and mentoring opportunities. SWE also works closely with the Girl Scouts to introduce young girls to technical professions and explain how engineering and other technology relate to day-to-day life.
As more and more organizations join the crusade to bring more women into the engineering field, students already thinking about an engineering education will find a wealth of resources at EngineeringSchools.com, including directories of colleges and universities all over the world, financial aid information, and a helpful series of career guidance articles and interviews.


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Starting in the 2000 decennial census, the U.S Census Bureau has used the 1997 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revised standards for the classification of Federal data on race and ethnicity. Thus, race data on the 2000 and 2010 census are not comparable with race data from data systems that continue to collect data using the 1977 OMB standards. The 1977 standards specified four single-race categories: American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian or Pacific Islander, black, and white. The 1997 standards required that Federal data collection programs allow respondents to select one or more race categories when responding to a query on their racial identity. This provision means that there are potentially 31 race groups, depending on whether an individual selects one, two, three, four, or all five of the race categories. For comparability, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), in collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau, developed methodology to bridge the race groups in Census 2000 and 2010 to the four single-race categories specified under the 1977 standards. Even though Federal programs were to fully implement the revised standards by January 1, 2003, the transition from the 1977 to the 1997 OMB standards has been uneven. Federal systems which rely on information obtained from vital records through state-based programs, such as the National Vital Statistics System, have not yet been able to fully implement the 1997 standards. For example, the U.S. standard birth and death certificates were revised in 2003 to include the 1997 OMB standards. However, as of 2011, 41 states, New York City, and the District of Columbia had adopted the 2003 U.S. standard birth certificate, and 36 states, New York City, and the District of Columbia had adopted the 2003 U.S. standard death certificate.
MethodologyThe bridging methodology was developed using information from the 1997-2000 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The NHIS provides a unique opportunity to investigate multiple-race groups because, since 1982, it has allowed respondents to choose more than one race but has also asked respondents reporting multiple races to choose a primary race. The bridging methodology developed by NCHS involved the application of regression models relating person-level and county-level covariates to the selection of a particular primary race by the multiple-race respondents. Bridging proportions derived from these models were applied by the U.S. Census Bureau to the Census 2000 Modified Race Data Summary file. This application resulted in bridged counts of the April 1, 2000 and April 1, 2010 resident single-race populations for the four racial groups specified in the 1977 OMB standards.
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MethodologyThe National Vital Statistics System Mortality component (NVSS-M) obtains information on deaths from the registration offices of each of the 50 states, New York City, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands. By law, registration of deaths is the responsibility of the funeral director. The funeral director obtains demographic data from an informant. The physician in attendance at the death is required to certify the cause of death. When death is from other than natural causes, a coroner or medical examiner may be required to examine the body and certify cause. State death certificates are modeled on a U.S. Standard Certificate that is revised periodically. States provide the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) with death records in electronic format.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - In a baseball game that started over an hour late because of a miscommunication with the umpires, Valdosta State University (35-16) got started early with five runs in the first, riding it to a 15-5 win over No. 13 Georgia College & State University (35-14) at John Kurtz Field tonight (April 18).
The Blazers hit four home runs, including two in the five-run first.
Georgia College started to chip away at the five run advantage, getting a run in the second on a bases-loaded walk and another in the third on a Buddy Elmore (Dallas) single, for a 5-2 score.
VSU then busted the game back open with a three-run fourth. Six runs in the eighth and ninth took the game further out of reach.
Valdosta State's Jeremy Forbus (3-1) worked 4 2/3 innings of shutout ball, allowing one hit and fanning six Bobcats. Righty starter Kyle Cravey (Cordele, Ga.) suffered his first Division II loss (4-1), going just one inning and allowing five runs.
The Bobcats had two multi-hit performers in rightfielder Derek Johns (Waynesville, Ga.) and Elmore. Johns was 2-for-5 with a run and an RBI, while Elmore finished 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored.
For the Blazers, catcher Chase Blackwood led the way, going 3-for-5 with five RBI and three runs, knocking two home runs for 16 on the season. The top two hitters in the order for VSU were a combined 5-of-9, scoring seven times and driving in six.
The Bobcats are back in action tomorrow, April 29 at 5 p.m. hosting a non-conference game against Peach Belt Conference (PBC) opponent Columbus State University.
Visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame. The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports.


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Mascara is one of those things; some people find that cheap ones work well for them others like me, can't seem to get satisfaction from cheaper makes. More fussy lashes always seem to want RMK or something obscure mascara that needs to be imported from Asia. Even so; I think this Guerlain Noir G mascara (£32, refills £17) is one of the most expensive mascara's I have ever tried:
They say:
This innovative mascara combines the extravagant luxury of a mirrored jewel case with a do-it-all formula that adds volume, lengthens, and curls. Black Pigments create perfectly defined eyes without any risk of smearing, smudging, or clumping. A fortifying agent helps to regenerate lashes by stimulating keratin for fortification and lash growth. Noir G goes one step further in creativity with its refillable applicator, making it convenient and easy to switch to a new wand as soon as you need it.
So this mascara is supposed to do everything for your lashes – add length, thicken and care. On the plus side, you can just refill it in the future.
The packaging is amazing – it's super heavy weight and well made although perhaps a bit bulky to carry around.
You can just lift the lid off then the mirror pops up – handy eh! The lid clicks back into place when you close it and yes, it is similar to their lipstick packaging.
The brush:
I'd say the brush is an average medium sized mascara brush – it's pretty standard really and I didn't have any issues using it.
The mascara is a very true deep black and the texture is medium rich which works well for a lot of lashes but tends to not work so well for mine because they are naturally straight, anything too wet weighs them down.
Noir G actually performed better than expected. I used 2 very light coats here:
Length and separation are good. I think this mascara is buildable – it didn't instantly give me super thick lashes though.
Side view – some floppage at the edges.
Curl wise, it didn't hold curl completely but it didn't make them flop entirely either. The best thing to do is use this mascara let it dry completely, then give it a light curl – this worked better for me (not what I did in this photo!):
This is a beautiful mascara to look at and after the initial costs it's not too pricey. I think this mascara works best on people who already have a bit of lash to begin with – this would look great when I've had a lash perm for example, but for my puny lashes in their natural form, the result was fine but wouldn't justify the cost.
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
My Creative Space
In case you can't tell what my picture is, it is a crochet flower. Yes, I know pretty wonky, but if you squint, turn your head and use your imagination, it does look like a flower - sort of :) I received this crochet hook and wool from a friend earlier this year for my birthday. Learning to crochet has been on my crafty bucket list. Yesterday, I finally got a little tutorial and this flower was my first "try" at crocheting something.
As you can probably tell from my image practice is definitely required! I am sure I will get the hang of it, but I did find crocheting a bit hard. Holding the wool on my left hand and keeping the tension just right takes a bit of coordination. After one flower I was exhausted! Maybe I will have some better examples to share next week:)
Hope you are learning or trying something new in your creative space. To see more spaces you can visit here. Cyndy Pin It
6 comments:
- Sam said...
Don't worry, it get's easier, my first one had no resemblance to a flower whatsoever, keep it up :-)Sam
- August 18, 2011 at 1:55 PM
- Seaweed and Raine said...
Oh I hope you do get "hooked" so to speak! :) Getting the tension right at first is a bit awkward, but it does get better with time. The first thing I ever made was a crochet cotton bikini top.. it was cool! I found the pattern, and then the tutorial for it on you tube. It was actually pretty easy.
- August 18, 2011 at 3:13 PM
- Rugrat floormats said...
Yay your Doing well. I'm self taught, but I cannot crochet in wool (yet) They reckon practice makes perfect but just makes me frustrated.
- August 18, 2011 at 3:45 PM
Believe it or not I only learnt to crochet earlier this year...you will be crocheting up a storm in no time :)
btw...I rather like your flower.
- August 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM
- Vic said...
You will definitely get the hang of it; even I can crochet a rudimentary flower or too, and I am baaaaaaaad at crochet!
The hook looks very fancy-pants too; one does need the proper tools for this sort of thing!
- August 18, 2011 at 6:44 PM
- Taylor Made said...
I think the trick to crocheting is not trying too hard...over thinking it....keep at it ..it does get better.
- August 19, 2011 at 4:55 PM


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Academic rigor is an important part of the university setting. Just because the young men and women compete in athletics, does not mean they are not here to further their education. We call them student-athletes because the student aspect of their experience is meant to come first.
Academic Endeavors
"Keeping your priorities in the correct order will help you achieve success not only on the athletic field or court, but in the classroom as well. The most important priority is your academics. If you are successful in the classroom, you will be successful in the athletic program that you are involved in." - Lonn Reisman, Tarleton State Athletics Director
We're Not Here Just For The Game
The Tarleton State Athletics Council exists to serve as an advisory body and reports directly to the President.
The council wants to help make sure all student-athletes understand college is not just to play the game, but to further education. Each member of the council, and the athletics department, is dedicated to helping each student-athlete achieve greatly in the classroom.
This website exists to help inform our Tarleton State University community of our commitment to the academic success of our student athletes, to correct false perceptions about the academic rigor of our student athletes, and to support faculty in the pursuit of academic excellence among our student athletes.


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Asian-Flavored Baby Back Ribs
From: National Pork Board
Quick Facts
Servings: 16
Prep Time: 10 min.
Cook Time: 1 hr. 30 min.
Total: 1 hr. 40 min.
Steven Raichlen
Lemongrass, ginger, Thai chiles, cilantro, soy sauce, and fish sauce infuse typically smoky barbecued ribs with Asian flavors.
- 2 racks baby back pork ribs, about 4 pound total
- 4 stalks lemongrass, chopped (white part and some pale green)
- 4 cloves garlic, crushed
- 2 shallots, finely chopped
- 1 2-inch piece ginger root, grated, about 2 1/2 tablespoons
- 2 Thai chiles, (or 4-5 jalapeños), seeded and thinly sliced (wear plastic gloves to protect hands when handling chiles)
- 1 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
- 3 Tbs sugar
- 2 tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 3 Tbs fish sauce
- 3 Tbs lemon juice
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- In medium bowl, stir together all marinade ingredients; pour over ribs in heavy, resealable plastic bag. Seal bag and refrigerate for 4-6 hours.
- Turn the ribs two or three times while marinating. Prepare an indirect medium fire in grill, with a drip pan in the center. For a gas grill heat grill to medium and turn off any burners directly below where the food will go. With the lid closed, the indirect heat method serves as an oven, circulating heat evenly throughout.
- Remove ribs from marinade (discarding marinade), place in rib rack and place on grill over drip pan, away from the heat. Cover grill and grill for 1 1/2 hours, until rib meat is very tender. Transfer the ribs to a cutting board, cut into serving portions.
Recipe courtesy of the National Pork Board
Nutrition Facts
Calories 246
Calories from Fat 127 (52%)
(22%)Total Fat 14g
(18%)Saturated Fat 4g
Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
Monounsaturated Fat 7g
(24%)Cholesterol 73mg
(20%)Sodium 472mg
(15%)Potassium 508mg
Total Carbohydrate 6g
(4%)Dietary Fiber 1g
Sugars 3g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(46%)Protein 23g
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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The NFL Network aired a great segment this afternoon about how Peyton Manning rehabilitated the neck injury that caused him to miss the entire 2011 season.
The most incredible detail: On March, 3 2012 — at the very end of his rehab — Manning and Duke coach David Cutcliffe (who had been working with Manning for three months) set up simulated game that recreated the 2009 AFC Championship Game between the Colts and the Jets.
Manning put a Colts helmet and shoulder pads (that was a week before Indianapolis cut him), and threw the same exact passes — play by play — that he threw in that game. If Manning threw a five-yard comeback to the left sideline on the 5th play of the '09 game, Manning threw that same pass on his fifth play of the simulation, and so on.
Manning and Cutcliffe also brought in some of his former teammates to play themselves. Center Jeff Saturday, wide receiver Austin Collie, tight end Dallas Clark, and wide receiver Brandon Stokley were all there.
There wasn't a full offensive line and no defenders, but Cutcliffe told NFL Network, "I don't think I've ever won a game that I felt any better — after what he accomplished — in this ball game that nobody watched."
Nobody knew about it until now.
Cutcliffe coached Manning when he was at Tennessee. Between December 2011 and March 2012, Cutcliffe was in charge of rebuilding Manning's throwing ability from the ground up. He says it wasn't until February 2012 that he knew for sure Manning would be able to play in the NFL again. The simulated game was the climax of their de facto boot camp.
A week after the simulated game, the Colts cut Manning to make room for Andrew Luck. He quickly signed with the Broncos, and now — 10 months after building his confidence in an obsessively-recreated fake game — he is the quarterback of a 13-3 team, will probably finish No. 2 in MVP voting, and is the favorite to win the Super Bowl.


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Analyst and IT Business Edge blogger Rob Enderle has this to say about executive salaries:
"CEO pay has increasingly become a problem over the last several years as it has drifted well out of line with economic conditions and comparable salaries for the rank and file employees. This excess has been connected to both employee mistreatment and executive misadventure, suggesting that it has crossed the line from asset to liability for many firms. Yet turning this problem around isn't trivial because executives at this level expect these high payments, even though they should know that they are neither good for them personally nor for their respective companies. It is well past time that this topic should be effectively addressed because it's beginning to cause the failures of a growing number of top executives."
Enderle says oftentimes the board is to blame:
"At the source for executive overcompensation are boards largely made up of ex-CEOs who themselves were often overcompensated … There are no repercussions to the board for overcompensation and the boards are compensated as well by the company. The board members are effectively selected by the CEO, leading to what can be an ugly cycle of self-indulgence."
Perhaps a good example of this can be seen with the recent resignation of HP CEO Mark Hurd. He was forced out after board members discovered he had falsified expense reports. Indeed, Don Tennant is unsure "about whether it's Hurd or the HP board that's more inept in terms of leadership."
Aside from the board's role in supporting extravagant executive compensation, the economic climate took its toll on many tech CEOs' compensation, but not everyone was hurting. Take a look at technology's top 10 highest-paid executives in 2009.
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But ACL2 is a logic. We can prove theorems about the model.
Theorem. MC 'mult is a multiplier (implies (and (natp x) (natp y)) (equal (lookup 'z (mc (s 'mult x y) (mclk x))) (* x y))).
This theorem says that a certain program running on the mc machine will correctly multiply any two natural numbers.
It is a statement about an infinite number of test cases!
We know it is true about the model because we proved it.