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Vale Announced as Title Sponsor of Health and Wellness Centre
PORT COLBORNE, December 8, 2011 - Vale today announced a $1.25 million investment in Port Colborne's new Health and Wellness Centre over the next 10 years. In recognition of this donation, the City of Port Colborne will rename the facility, "The Vale Health and Wellness Centre."
The Vale Health & Wellness Centre, located at the T.A. Lannan Sports Complex, will provide a state-of-the-art facility for sport, recreation, wellness, entertainment, and commerce. The 140,000 square foot venue will house two NHL-sized ice pads, an aquatic centre with both lap and leisure pools, a field house containing a double gym and fitness area, eight outdoor bocce courts and a walking/jogging track for all season use.
"Our company has a proud history of support and involvement with the City of Port Colborne," said Del Fraipont, Manager of Vale's Port Colborne Refinery. "Supporting this new facility provides Vale with an exciting opportunity to further demonstrate our commitment to helping to make the community of Port Colborne a better place to live and work."
The Vale Health and Wellness Centre is a $32 million construction project that is expected to open its doors to the public in November of 2012. This multi-purpose facility is designed to create a community hub where citizens of all ages can meet, enjoy and engage in leisure activities focused on health and wellness.
"Vale has been a long standing partner within our community. This investment strengthens their commitment to the City of Port Colborne," stated Mayor Vance Badawey. "This project introduces a one-of-a-kind facility for the Niagara Region and we are extremely pleased that Vale has chosen to team up with us."
December 2011 Update
A quarterly flyer has been developed and will be distributed to the community to communicate updates on the project.
Vale has been named the major sponsor with a $1.25M donation. The facility will named the Vale Health and Wellness Centre.
The City and their Consultants have been progressing on the development of the following:
The total project budget is $32,249,000.
Schedule and Status
Bi-weekly construction meetings are taking place on Tuesdays at 10:00am. The next meeting will be held December 13, 2011.
A meeting to review I.T.; data; security and signage requirements.
A meeting with prospective programming and concession partners, fitness and retail vendors took place. Proposals are due in January.
Expression of Interests for the Signage and the AV Contractor has been issued. The signage EOI and AV EOI will close in December. A contractor short list will be determined in January.
The project is tracking to the scheduled completion of late 2012.
Construction Phase
The storm water retention pond work is complete.
Steel structure has been erected. Structural steel work is expected to be complete by the end of the year.
Concrete and mechanical work for the pools are complete.
Construction of the arena change room walls floors and mechanical systems is ongoing.
Roof assembly over arenas is underway and expected to be complete by the New Year.
Wood decking installation over the pools is complete.
Precast floor construction is underway at the bleacher sections.
The building is scheduled to be closed in by January.
Implementation of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
A LEED update meeting will be held mid December.
November 2011 Update
Requests for Expressions of Interest
Wayfinding and Interior/Exterior Signage
Audio Visual Design, Supply and Installation
View both EOI's on our Project and Tenders page
September 2011 Update
Ground Breaking Ceremony - August 9, 2011
Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen.
Today marks another milestone in our city's desire to both invest in our future while contributing to the overall character of the Niagara Region.
Today, the City of Port Colborne is once again, breaking new ground..
...building a one of a kind facility here in the Niagara Region...proudly contributing a new destination not only for the residents of Port Colborne, but as well the entire region and beyond...
...and although we celebrate the WHAT...the building of a new multi-million dollar facility.
...today we recognize the HOW...how we came to this point.
It has been decades of hard work from many individuals...individuals dedicated to ensuring that the City of Port Colborne offers more tomorrow then it does today - ensuring that our community is better in the future then the way we found it.
This is something that has been instilled in us by our parents and theirs before them, certifying the strength upon which our community was built and continues to be built today.
I can't name all the individuals that have been a part of this project - there are too many and I don't want to forget anyone - you know who you are and I thank you for your community passion and commitment to the future of our city.
However, there are two that I would like to name and thank...
...the federal and provincial governments - if not for you, this project simply would not have happened. You are to be congratulated for your commitment to building communities.
Your commitment to investing in your cities has enabled a city of our size to leverage $11.8 million, building it to $31 million.
And WE didn't stop there. Ladies and Gentlemen look around - the investments that are currently underway throughout our city, proves that a community that works together, walks together forever.
The federal and provincial governments - the region - our community, including all community organizations, the business community, individuals, city staff...investing in our city, continuing to build community...
...and if not for the fact that we are working together, it simply would not happen.
Once again, a community that works together, walks together forever!
Congratulations Port Colborne, together, we are getting it done!!!!
July 2011 Update
June 2011 Update
A quarterly flyer has been developed and the first issue was distributed to the community to communicate updates on the project.
The City and their Consultants have been progressing on the development of the following:
The total project budget is $32,438,600.
Schedule and Status
A ground-breaking ceremony is scheduled for the end of July.
Bi-weekly construction meetings are taking place on Tuesdays at 2:00pm. The next meeting will be held June 28, 2011.
The first commissioning meeting is scheduled for June 28th.
Construction/excavation started the week of May 23rd, 2011.
The project is scheduled for completion in late 2012.
Construction Phase
The Teeder Kennedy Arena has been taken down in its entirety. The demolished materials are being sorted before being removed from the site.
Excavation for foundations and footings of the main building has commenced.
Concrete has been poured for the foundations. Rebar is also on site and being installed in the foundations and capped where necessary.
The site has been rough graded and services have been marked.
The Contractor and their sub trades confirmed the electrical duct bank installation is expected to be complete in early July.
Concrete masonry units were delivered to site and the masons are ready to start once the steel is delivered and erected. Steel Con has confirmed they are on schedule with the first delivery of steel expected in August.
Hoarding was installed around the location of the proposed storm water management pond. Public pedestrian routes will be maintained during construction.
The General Contractor will be working in the boulevard during the next 2-3 weeks installing services and grading. Vehicular traffic may be interrupted.
Implementation of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
A LEED meeting and a commissioning meeting will be held in July.
May 2011 Update
Health and Wellness Fact Sheet # 1
The City and their Consultants have been progressing on the development of the following:
A pretender estimate was received January 19th with a total construction cost including a construction contingency estimated to be $28,343,000. The total project cost was estimated at $32,067,800.
Schedule and Status
The retender was issued February 8th and the closing date was extended to March 22nd. Seven (7) addenda were issued during the tender.
Five (5) bids were received from eight (8) of the re-prequalified contractors.
Aquicon Construction was the lowest bid at $26,396,000 (construction only). Alternative price #1 was recommended to be added to the contract (fit out field house at $330,000) for a total construction contract award of $26,726,000.
After reviewing the bid documents, MJM and MHPM recommended the City award the project to Aquicon.
The project is tentatively scheduled to begin construction in May. Completion is scheduled for late 2012.
Council Approval
A Report to Council was prepared and reviewed by the Advisory Committee on April 6th. A special Council meeting was held April 13th where the report reflecting the Advisory Committee's recommendation to award the project to Aquicon was approved.
Council voted 7-2 (in favour) of awarding to Aquicon and approved a total project cost of $32,249,000.
Construction Phase
The preconstruction kick off meeting was held on Thursday, April 28th.
The City will complete vacating the arena and bocce trailer prior to the General Contractor occupying the site.
Aquicon will begin mobilization on site and installing construction fencing around the perimeter of construction zone in May.
Implementation of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
A LEED meeting and a commissioning meeting will be held the same day as part of the construction start-up meeting.
Some credits have been affected by the value engineering revisions. The team is still targeting LEED Silver. The cushion allowing for rejected credits has been reduced. Some credits rest with the City to determine if feasible. These could potentially add credits to the total estimated to date.
April 2011 Update
Award of the tender for construction to Aquicon Construction Co. Ltd.
Report 2011-10 Port Colborne Health and Wellness Centre Tender for Project Construction

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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently said that "America is one big pothole." President Obama, members of Congress, and pundits often claim that our infrastructure is "crumbling." The Senate Budget Committee's new spending plan, for example, uses that word no fewer than ten times in calling for a $100 billion infrastructure package. And in a report released yesterday, the American Society of Civil Engineers gives the nation a grade of D+ on its infrastructure.


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Senator makes comments at DC hearing
Draft messages produced for a Twitter-like social media network that the U.S. government secretly built in Cuba were overtly political and some taunted the Castro family.
The Associated Press obtained the messages in internal documents from the program. The new disclosures came as the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development told Congress on Tuesday that the program was never intended to stir unrest within Cuba's government.
At a hearing, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont told USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah that the social media program was "cockamamie."
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State leaders: increase in drilling to create jobs
Ohio officials are cataloging how much state property sits above the Utica shale as they prepare for potential gas and oil drilling in state parks and forests, which were opened to drilling under a law enacted last year.
When lawmakers were debating that idea, officials from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources had said the state owned less than one-third of the mineral rights under state parks, and they didn't know who held the rights for land in some cases.
State workers have spent three months reviewing property records in 16 eastern Ohio counties with the most active shale drilling, stretching from Trumbull County south to Monroe County and west to Muskingum County, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources says the research in those counties is almost done.
"This demonstrates the level of work that is necessary in terms of identifying the mineral rights that are owned by the state," spokesman Carlo LoParo said. "Many properties contain hundreds of parcels, all of which had to be researched."
More research is planned in up to 19 other counties with less active shale drilling, with possibilities ranging from Ashtabula County in the northeast corner to Meigs County in southern Ohio.
The industry has flooded the state in search of gas and oil deposits in the Utica and Marcellus shale formations, and Gov. John Kasich and other state leaders are hinging much of Ohio's job growth strategy on the increase in drilling. Environmentalists have expressed concerns about pollution from drilling and the method known as hydraulic fracturing, which blasts millions of gallons of chemically laced water into the earth to fracture shale formations and release oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids such as propane.
Drilling companies with high interest in the Utica shale have offered eastern Ohio landowners more than $5,000 an acre for mineral-rights leases, the newspaper said.
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By John PiperJune 3, 2009
I see two kinds of response to social Internet media like blogging, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and others.
One says: These media tend to shorten attention spans, weaken discursive reasoning, lure people away from Scripture and prayer, disembody relationships, feed the fires of narcissism, cater to the craving for attention, fill the world with drivel, shrink the soul's capacity for greatness, and make us second-handers who comment on life when we ought to be living it. So boycott them and write books (not blogs) about the problem.
The other response says: Yes, there is truth in all of that, but instead of boycotting, try to fill these media with as much provocative, reasonable, Bible-saturated, prayerful, relational, Christ-exalting, truth-driven, serious, creative pointers to true greatness as you can.
Together with the team at Desiring God, I lean toward response #2. "Lean" is different from "leap." We are aware that the medium tends to shape the message. This has been true, more or less, with every new medium that has come along—speech, drawing, handwriting, print, books, magazines, newspapers, tracts, 16mm home movies, flannel-graph, Cinerama, movies, Gospel Blimps, TV, radio, cassette tapes, 8-Tracks, blackboards, whiteboards, overhead projection, PowerPoint, skits, drama, banners, CDs, MP3s, sky-writing, video, texting, blogging, tweeting, Mina-Bird-training, etc.
Dangers, dangers everywhere. Yes. But it seems to us that aggressive efforts to saturate a media with the supremacy of God, the truth of Scripture, the glory of Christ, the joy of the gospel, the insanity of sin, and the radical nature of Christian living is a good choice for some Christians. Not all. Everyone should abstain from some of these media. For example, we don't have a television.
That's my general disposition toward media.
Now what about Twitter? I find Twitter to be a kind of taunt: "Okay, truth-lover, see what you can do with 140 characters! You say your mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things! Well, this is one of those 'all things.' Can you magnify Christ with this thimble-full of letters?"
To which I respond:
The sovereign Lord of the earth and sky
Puts camels through a needle's eye.
And if his wisdom see it mete,
He will put worlds inside a tweet.
So I am not inclined to tweet that at 10AM the cat pulled the curtains down. But it might remind me that the Lion of Judah will roll up the heavens like a garment, and blow out the sun like a candle, because he just turned the light on. That tweet might distract someone from pornography and make them look up.
I've been tweeting anonymously for a month mainly to test its spiritual and family effects on me. In spite of all the dangers, it seems like a risk worth taking. "All things were created through Christ and for Christ" (Colossians 1:16). The world does not know it, but that is why Twitter exists and that's why I Tweet.
By his grace and for his glory,
Pastor John
By John Piper. © Desiring God. Website: desiringGod.org
Friday, July 17, 2009
Why and How I am Tweeting
3 days ago, Rick Warren joined Twitter. Yesterday, I started following him. I have a lot of respect for Pastor Rick. Today he tweeted about John Piper's Twitter reasoning. I read it and deemed it the most fantastic explanation of WHY TWITTER that I have ever seen. I wish I would have written it. ;-) Here it is:
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Weather Blog: Here We 'Snow' Again -- Active Pattern Continues
Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 Blog! A recent trend of quick hitting rounds of snow continued to start the work week. In today's blog we look at Monday's snow totals, look ahead to the next round of snow, and discuss how long the active period of weather may last.
Periods of light snow created for a slippery morning commute on Monday. Snow totals through mid-morning generally ranged in the 1"-2" range across the metro area. Slightly higher totals were located near the Wisconsin and Illinois border.
If you have a snow total to share please post it to the Wisconsin Weather Updates Facebook page. We may show your snow total on WISN 12 News!
Just as one system moves east, another is on its heels for Tuesday. The next clipper looks to arrive after 7am Tuesday. This should not cause the big problems that Monday's snow did, considering most of the morning rush should be complete as the snow arrives.
So when does the snow begin? The RPM computer model forecast shown below indicates snow on the doorstep of Milwaukee around 8am. Please remember to give or take at least an hour on the timing estimates. The darker the blue shade, the steadier the snow.
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Close only counts in horseshoes and h-bombs.
We came across two more postcards celebrating Las Vegas's distinction as a city from which it was possible to see nuclear test shots. You may remember we posted a couple of similar items in December. These two promote not just Vegas's dubious proximity to planet-killing nuclear ordnance, but also the venerable Horseshoe Club, a casino owned by Vegas legend Benny Binion. This is the 1950's we're talking about, so of course Binion was mobbed up. He started as a thief and killer in Dallas, and ended up with a commemorative statue on Freemont Street (later moved to the Strip). That simple fact probably says more about old Las Vegas than entire books. We'll get back to him a bit later. No pulp site could be complete without him.


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Today, we checked into the LaRoche College dorms. I'm not sure how many of us are at the First Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, GRIP for short. The rooms are basic dorm rooms but different than when I was in college (eons ago). Then we had two people to a room, with about 14 rooms sharing one down-the-hall bathroom. These rooms all have private baths. WOW!! AND they come with a small microwave and refrigerator. (Since I flew, I didn't bring snacks, but what a treat for those who drove and could pack snacks.)
While I brought an ethernet cable, as required for internet use in the dorm room, the router, etc. weren't hooked up. And, I didn't know how to connect everything. Well, Jess and Marissa came to the rescue. Thank you ladies. Otherwise, there would be no posting tonight.
After dinner in in the cafeteria (where it was LOUD) with so many genealogists all have a great time, we had our welcome and introduction. And a special announcement. Next year's dates are already set (July 22-26) and there will be SIX (6) classes, not four as this year. Isn't that great! Ican hardly wait to see the brochure and find out what my options will be. Of course, I think I'm going to suggest that everyone here this year gets first choice next year. OR, everyone in the Intermediate Genealogy course automatically gets moved to the Advanced, if they want to. Now wouldn't that be great?!!! At least for a few of us. Oh, well. Wishful thinking.
But the campus is beautiful with some hills, but not too much slope for me and my legs. I'm used to walking on flat, flat ground (Phoenix area, if you didn't know). It is a little more humid, so perhaps I'll try walking in the morning.
Breakfast is 7:30 to 8:30 and classes start at 8:30. It's going to be interesting to see how we all get through the cafeteria line finish eating in only an hour. But we'll see. Perhaps some of the group won't be eating breakfast. Then, on two days, I think Wednesday and Thursday, one of the classes starts at 8:15, not 8:30. So those students are really going to have to be on time if they want to eat.
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Kim Possible
People talk all the time about mixed emotions when someone departs a company for a promotion someplace else and while it's a cliche, there's no better way to describe the way I feel today and the way many people at the Dodgers feel.
Kim Ng, who has been with us for the last nine-plus years and has played an enormous role in our four postseason appearances and two NLCS appearances, is the new Sr. Vice President of Baseball Operations at Major League Baseball. That's an incredible position with huge responsibility and oversight for the sport we all love. We couldn't be more proud.
It's also somewhat ironic that on International Women's Day, Ng becomes (I believe) the highest-ranking female in the history of the game of baseball. How cool is that? Of course, I hesitate even writing about her gender because frankly, I think it's a tired story and an easy one to fall back on when someone is looking for an angle to write about. Kim deserves to be recognized as a top-notch baseball executive, independent of the fact that she's a minority as both a woman and an Asian. She just gets it and she goes about her business in the most professional manner you could ever imagine. She's a great leader, a great baseball mind and she will be a huge asset to the league. Consider this: in her 13 seasons as an Assistant GM, she has reached the postseason eight times, the LCS six times and won three World Championships. I'm pretty sure that's unparalleled.
So, of course, we will miss her. I've learned so much from her both personally and professsionally over the years…at the Dodger Stadium offices and as a roommate (we have rented a house, along with another baseball operations executive for the last five Springs) and the perspective she brings to anything she's discussing is invaluable.
I know she'll be working for the Commissioner's Office and for Joe Torre, but she'll always be a Dodger and we're honored to consider her a friend.
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Congratulations Kim Ng! Please come back to be our GM after Frank is forced to sell the team and the next owner cleans house.
That would be great, Scott!
Congratulations Kim Ng!!! You will be missed!!! I agree with Scott. Come back and be the Dodgers GM when Ned is finally gone!
Another Frank mistake, Kim Ng should have been promoted to GM, Not Ned Colletti, I was disappointed then, and doubly disappointed now that she is out of the Dodgers organization. What was good in the front office is now gone.
From schmidt to now uribe, what else can Ned come up with.
ah I suppose Kim Ng couldn't of landed Cliff Lee or Halladay anyhow with the impending financial debacle. It will be interesting to see what russell martin does now outside the dodgers team. How do you say "sinking ship" with a "T" for team in it: Stinking Shi*
Congratulations Kim Ng!! I was sad when I heard the news last night. I I'll miss seeing you at Dodger Stadium, Spring Training, San Diego, etc.. but I am so happy for you!
To give credit where it's due, someone on another blog said that "only the rats are staying on this sinking ship" – I find that comment highly appropriate.
Congrat's and Good Luck Kim!
Ng denied that the Dodgers' current ownership turmoil — and the possibility that the divorce of Frank and Jamie McCourt ultimately could result in new ownership — played a role in her decision to leave the club.
"I have a chance to help Joe and help the commissioner change policy and impact the game in a meaningful way. That really wasn't part of this. Frank has been very good to me. Ned has been very good to me. This was an extremely difficult decision for me"
–Kim Ng
Ummmmmmmm, right. Kim, you're an ethical young woman…but I don't believe you. In your place, I'd split too.
Hi Everybody
It's sad to know that Kim Ng will no longer be apart of the Dodger head office but this is a great opportunity for her and a plus for baseball.
It surely will add to her resume and make it extremely hard for anybody, I don't care who, to turn here down the next time she interviews For a GM job. I personally think she's the MOST qualified.
Go Kim and don't look back. Unless of course its to flip Frank the bird.
What Gwynn hit a HR off of Saito? Say it isn't so. Go to see Ethier and Kemp hit one but blah at Miles getting one to. Even in ST they were a freaking brawl that I miss.
Oops I mean to say that I'm glad to see Ethier and Kemp hitting one.
Andre Ethier hires mariachi band, now entertaining players and fans. Matt Kemp: "I've got a Jamaican band coming next week."
Congratulations and good luck to Kim Ng!!!
Per Tony Jackson, Mariachi band paid by Andre Ethier and Juan Castro. Wish I was there but I am going back either this weekend or the next
I love my new Dodger season ticket bag!
Everyone have a beautiful Wednesday!
Mariachi bands. Chickens in the clubhouse (Furcal's idea.) So much for Ned's sensing an "urgency" about the team this spring.
Congratulations to Kim Ng!! She has waited in the wings FAR too long. The real loss for the Dodgers is not that she is leaving now, although that will hurt, but more so that she was not hired as GM instead of Ned. Hiring Ned from the Giants clearly showed Frank's total lack of understanding of what was needed to return the Dodgers to greatness. With Kim as GM, things would have been vastly different and all of Ned's devastating blunders would have been avoided. But unfortunately that can't be undone and the Dodgers will continue to suffer from Frank's decision for years to come.
Great — Garland just left the game with 2 outs in the 2nd with what seemed like an ab injury.
Amen RedFox!!! We can complain about Ned, Stan, etc… ad nausium, but, the ineptness and ignorance started with the McCourts being allowed to purchase the team!!! For which I blame Selig and Fox!!! It will only end when they are forced to sell the team to a viable owner!!!!
Here's my early call:
Furcal, Blake, Uribe, and Gibbons are certifiable LOSERS.
Thanks so much for Uribe, Ned. I also doubt that much of value can be had for Furcal and Blake. As for Gibbons, I hope his major league contract is not guaranteed.
Yep Bear, those four have great potential to peg the Dodger Suck-O-Meter!!!! And you are correct, it is not like they have any trade value that we could unload in July!!!!!
It is confirmed that Jon Garland has an oblique injury. Waiting to see doctors to find out the extent of the injury.
I'm looking forward to Blake and Furcal being gone next year. Ned screwed us big time by signing Uribe for 3 freaking years. The bad part is, even if we rebuild with good young talent, the current ownership and most notably Ned, will screw it up again!!!! The glass will never be half full while we have a McCourt ownership and Ned GM!!!!
Bad part is, if Furcal stays reasonably healthy and has a decent year, Ned will resign him to some idiotic 3-4 year deal!!!! Geez!!!
Hey, at least it seems they fixed the submission error/time warp problems with the blog!!! Baby steps!!! LOL!!!! At least we can moan, groan, and b*tch in real time without delay!!!!
The Dodgers to me right now are like a Cat Litter Box!! They keep piling on the cheap/ineffective Kitty Litter(Gwynn, Uribe, Gibbons, etc…), fail to remove and bury the t*rds(Frank, Ned, Stan), and hope it doesn't stink too much.
To me the glass can never be half full with Frank and Ned around, because I'm inclined to chug-a-lug whatever is there – gin, vodka, moonshine, etc.
This seems apropos in light of this afternoon?s conversation. I started this one back in 2009. Frighteningly, all I had to do was change a couple names. Elton John – Bennie & The Jets.
Hey Ned, get your shat together
Gibbons ain?t got nuthin?
Matt throws lighter than a feather
Don?t want a Boras fatted cow
Who won?t stick around
You?re gonna hear how Uribe is a
Wonder he foooound
Frankie and Jamie have you seen them yet?
Oh but they?ll soon be ours
N-N-N-Neddy and his ?jects
Oh but they?re weird and not too wonderful
Better ready us some lidocaine
They?ve got defensive goofs, and no strong suits
You know I read it in ol? Billy Jaaaa-mes… oh ho-ooo
N-N-N-Neddy and his ?jects
Great kids, but our GM is faithless.
Gets him a vet?ran
Cuz Neddy thinks they?re ageless
We can?t survive another Neddy dingdong
Fowl in clubhouse, mariachis in cleats
Why can?t you see its just wrong?
Frankie and Jamie have you seen them yet?
Oh but they?ll soon be ours
N-N-N-Neddy and his ?jects
Oh but they?re weird and not too wonderful
Better ready us some lidocaine
They?ve got defensive goofs, and no strong suits
You know I read it in ol? Billy Jaaaa-mes… oh ho-ooo
Neddy and his ?jects
Oh Frankie and Jamie have you seen them yet?
Oh but they?ll soon be ours,
N-N-N-Neddy and his ?jects
Oh but they?re weird and not too wonderful
Better ready us some lidocaine
They?ve got defensive goofs, and no strong suits
You know I read it in ol? Billy Jaaaa-mes… oh ho-ooo
N-N-N-Neddy and his ?jects
Neddy, Neddy, Neddy and his ?jects…
[repeat into fade]
�NedCo Broken Records 2011. NedCo – ?if it ain?t broke, it will be when we get ahold of it.??
I'll drink to that Bear!!! A toast to Jamie. She's the only person/intity that is in a no lose position. Well done girl!!!!
Bravo Beav!!!!! LMAO!!! Outstanding!!!
�NedCo Broken Records 2011. NedCo – ?if it ain?t broke, it will be when we get ahold of it.??
That's it in a nushell!!! LOL!!!
:):):) !!!!!
Meow, meow, meow!!!!
Thank you ladies & germs! Actually, an assist goes to sparkles (if I remember correctly.) Between us we halfast the start of this song back in the summer of '09. Been sittin' in the vault all that time just needing another line or two. Seemed the right time given the conversation and what with all of Ned's acquisitions doing so well.
Nice one e! It was worth the wait! When I posted it into DodgerLyrics I fooled around a little with your first line trying to get the intent into it. Only one alternate spelling worked. If you want it to go back to your original, let me know.
………….and down goes Garland……….for at least a month anyway:
It's only a matter of time before Can'tHe announces Garland's move from the 30 to the 60-day list. So we're back to using our usual flotsam starters. What's Jeff Weaver doing these days I wonder?
I think I can live with that Big E :))
Hell lets give Ely a shot at it again. He has more upside than Redding, though given that Mattingly had no say in his coaching staff, I doubt anyone but Ned picks who else makes the team, and that will be Redding because he's one of Ned's great "finds." Right about now McDonald would be looking pretty good, but that's all water under the Roach Dotel.
Honestly though, given this team's inept offense and poor defense, is a fifth starter all that critcal? On the otherhand, having a fifth nearby is a must for all fans this season.
Can'tHe – LMAO!!!!
Love that smile Jhall!!!
I normal find this thing but can't seem to find it and I wonder what Troncoso numbers look like this ST? I really hope we have the 2009 Troncoso back now that Belisario seem to have trouble again.
Thanks Nelly!!!
A fifth starter is usually a minor concern, but isn't the "dynamic, best-in-the-west starting five" what we've been listening to for the past few months?
On the other hand, maybe we'll see it around July and most of 'em will be rested.
Sell the team, jackassss.
JoJo wants to speed up the game:
lny4loney – I love the last line by the writer…… lol!
No word just yet on how many times Torre changed situational relievers during the interview. You know, to make sure each reporter was facing someone with the same strong hand.
Looks like Brox is showing his mid-season form. I always maintained that the team should have required him to shed about 50 lbs. before he comes into camp. Oh, well – who cares.
I don't know what kind of form Andre is showing, unless it's "I want to get out of here now". One day he can't read a lineup card; the rest of the days he plays like his head is in some restaurant menu for his side-job blog. Nobody dares say anything about Andre, but it might be the right time to let him go rather than wait for free agency. The problem as always is the fact that Ned is the last person you'd want making a deal for him – we don't need half a dozen more PVL's.
I don't think it matters much what anyone does one way or another this season Bear. If it even "competes" I'll be surprised.
Another juggernaut on the offensive and defensive side from what I glanced at on Gameday this afternoon. I'm no expert, but I'm thinking Blake may need to hit a little better than .077 in the 2-hole, which is where 85% of this team belongs in Ned's and Frank's.
Its gotten so that I'm getting guilty pleasures from watching this club fail.


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Preview: Taste of Italy
by guest blogger @iam_robot
The Taste of Italy will be back for its seventh year, and this year's food and beverage participants include food-scene mainstays like Drago Centro, Valentino, Rao's, Locanda Del Lago, Pedroncelli Winery, and Peroni, among others. Benefitting The Italian American Museum of Los Angeles, these restaurants will feature finest Italian cuisine and wines on October 10th in Little Italy's iconic 1869 Pico House, right across from the Union Station. And let's not forget about cooking demos from some of the most revered Italian Chefs such as Chef Peppe Barone (director of the Mediterranean School of Food and Wine in Italy) and Chef Gianfranco Minuz (Locanda Del Lago). Slated to open later on in 2015, the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles will showcase the history and ongoing contributions of Italian-Americans to Southern California and the U.S. In addition to historical exhibitions, the museum will host film screenings, language classes, and a variety of cultural public programming.
Last week I had a chance to sample many of the wonderful bites and wines to be featured at this premier food event. There were many memorable bites but my favorite was the Baked Little Neck Clams with Italian Breadcrumb Stuffing from Rao's.
This dish is the ultimate comfort food – It reminds me of Thanksgiving. Maybe in a better way! Clams were pleasantly supple yet the stuffing didn't mask the inherent brininess of the shellfish. Stuffing was equally delightful - breadcrumbs were warm, moist, and crunchy. I could eat a tub of these!
My other highlight was Rao's Fiocchi Ravioli Filled with Ricotta Cheese and Bartlett Pears.
Initially I was quite thrilled with the buttery flavor of brown butter but as I chewed through I loved the creaminess of the ricotta cheese and the sweet finish of the pear and dried cranberries. All the flavors meshed beautifully in right proportion.


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[UPDATE 02/11/15] My new podcast Potter & Daughter is live now! You can download the first episode here or subscribe via RSS or iTunes (as of 2/12/15 the iTunes link is still waiting on Apple approval).
Fancy Patreon Patrons get each episode a week early and can already download episode 2 HERE.
Here's the description from the podcast website:
Potter And Daughter is a Harry Potter themed podcast where Joel Watson (cartoonist, geek dad and creator of the online comic HijiNKS ENSUE) talked to his seven year old daughter, Lily, as she reads through the Harry Potter book series.
In each episode Joel and Lily cover about 1/4 to 1/3 of a book, discussing what happened, why it happened and what lessons Lily is learning from the books as she reads them. It's part Cliff's Notes and part cute and instrospective conversation between a father and daughter who love the same books for the same (and sometimes totally different) reasons.
RATING: Always safe for work and safe to share with your kids.
My daughter and I made it together, I'm really proud of it and I hope you enjoy it.
I'm pretty sure that's the end of the Girl Scout Cookies storyline. What if my daughter wants to some day join the Girl Scouts? My own child, slinging those delectable discs of deceit?! Or is that the perfect solution? I could get the cookies I NEED straight from the source, without fear of judgement or reprisal. It would be like my very own little coconut dusted, chocolate drenched methadone clinic.
Is there an employee discount? Or would they just credit me for all the boxes I've already purchased and give me some sort of Ultimate Executive Black Level Multi-Platinum Cookie Commander Card that grants me free cookies for life? Any time I wandered up to a Girl Scout and said some code phrase like, "The VEGETABLE CART was OUT of ASPARAGUS," they'd just slyly hand me 40 boxes in a brown paper bag. I know you get a card like that if you ever save the President's life, but it's only good at Subway and only after 5pm.


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First Look: Pancake Month at Clinton Street Baking Co.
There are a lot of reasons to dread February in New York—the cold, the slush, and maybe even that fickle holiday mid-month. Fortunately, we've got the Clinton Street Baking Company on the Lower East Side to give us plenty of reasons to look forward to February's fast approach.
February is Pancake Month at Clinton Street, and if you've ever braved the line at this always-packed spot for a weekend brunch, you understand why. Airy, hearty, and crisp-edged, the Clinton Street Baking Company has won awards for their flapjacks, beat Bobby Flay in a "Throwdown," and even impressed Martha Stewart. In February, they add nine special pancakes to the usual suspects (blueberry, banana walnut, and chocolate chunk), that show up for 1- to 3-day stints on the menu. Even better news: you can eat the pancakes for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. (Or all of the above; we won't judge, we promise.)
We sat down with Clinton Street Baking Company's owners, husband and wife team Neil Kleinberg and Dede Lahman, to sample this year's pancake month offerings ($15-17). (Dede has her favorites, but is quick to point out that chef Neil "is the man behind the pancake craze and all its splendor.") Check out 8 of the 9 in the slideshow above, and the dates the specials will be running. Keep an eye out for Pancake Month's "wildcard flavor," which will be served on February 17 (the flavor will be announced day-of on Clinton Street's website).
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission recently took action against a number of firms for everything from fraud to supervisory failure that in some cases cost the firms dearly.
FINRA Fines Guggenheim Securities $800,000, Sanctions Two Traders
FINRA announced that it has fined Guggenheim Securities, LLC of New York $800,000 for failing to supervise two collateralized debt obligation traders who engaged in activities to hide a trading loss. FINRA also sanctioned the two traders; Alexander Rekeda, the former head of Guggenheim's CDO desk, was suspended for one year and fined $50,000, and Timothy Day, a trader on Guggenheim's CDO desk, was suspended for four months and fined $20,000.
In October 2008, according to FINRA, as the result of a failed trade, Guggenheim's CDO desk acquired a €5,000,000 ($6.469 million) junk-rated tranche of a collateralized loan obligation. After unsuccessful attempts by Guggenheim's CDO desk to sell the position, Rekeda and Day persuaded a hedge fund customer to purchase the CLO for $950,000 more than it had previously agreed to pay by falsely presenting the CLO as part of a package of securities a third party offered for sale.
FINRA found that the traders tried to hide the trading loss on the CLO position by providing the customer with order tickets that increased the price for the CLO position and decreased the price of the other positions that were part of the transaction. When the customer inquired about the pricing adjustments, Day, at Rekeda's direction, lied and said a third-party seller of the CLO position had already settled the trade at a higher price and requested the customer pay the higher price.
The customer agreed to overpay for the CLO and in return, Day and Rekeda agreed to compensate the customer through other transactions, including pricing adjustments on six other CLO trades, a waiver of fees the customer owed in connection with resecuritization transactions, and a cash payment to the customer. The records created to document the transactions did not indicate any connection to the overpayment for the CLO.
FINRA found Guggenheim failed to conduct adequate review of the CDO desk's trades, documentation concerning transactions by traders on the desk, and the traders' email communications. Guggenheim, Rekeda, and Day neither admitted nor denied the charges, but concluded the settlement by consenting to the entry of FINRA's findings. As part of the settlement, Guggenheim must retain an independent consultant to review and make recommendations concerning the adequacy of its supervisory procedures.
FINRA Fines, Censures BrokersXpress on Reporting Failures
BrokersXpress LLC was censured by FINRA and fined $60,000, and without admission or denial, consented to the sanctions and entry of findings that, for nearly two years, it effected municipal securities transactions on a riskless principal or agency basis, and failed to submit required reports to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board for both the trades it effected with other dealers and the trades it effected with its customers.
According to the findings, the firm failed to properly submit some reports of trades it effected with customers, in that some were submitted to the MSRB that reflected that the trades were effected by the firm's affiliated dealer, when the firm itself effected the trades. Also, some reports of trades were not submitted at all. Many that were submitted to the MSRB were inaccurate or deficient. The firm also improperly reported corporate bond trades to the MSRB. Of the 257 transactions the firm effected during this period, confirmations sent to customers for 121 of them were inaccurate because they stated that the bonds were "traded flat" or were in default, when the bonds were not in default. Other failures were also part of the findings.
BrokersXpress had been acquired by Charles Schwab & Co. as part of OptionsXpress Holdings, which it acquired in 2011. However, in May of this year Schwab announced that it would be closing BrokersXpress, saying that it "was difficult to integrate because BrokersXpress does not meet our core business needs." Spokesman Susan Forman said at the time that the company would provide the requisite 90-day notification process for affiliated advisors and clients.
A Schwab spokesperson told AdvisorOne on Oct. 12 that "BrokersXpress is no longer operational" and that the BD's "last day of trading and supporting advisors/end clients was September 4, 2012."
Parent OptionsXpress had previously been hit with two SEC actions, the first for an alleged abusive naked short-selling scheme and the second involving its trading arm, OX Trading LLC, which was charged with continuing to trade after delisting from the Chicago Board Options Exchange and deregistering with the SEC, apparently to avoid an audit. Forman had said in May that closure of BrokersXpress had nothing to do with either case.
United Planners Censured, Fined over Supervisory Failure on VAs
United Planners Financial Services of America, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., and its principal, Douglas Hall of Phoenix, were censured and fined by FINRA over supervisory failures on variable annuity sales.
Without admitting or denying the findings, Hall and his firm consented to sanctions that included a $200,000 fine for the firm and a $15,000 fine for Hall after FINRA found that that the firm failed to have in place a supervisory system for compliance over VA transactions of field Office of Supervisory Jurisdiction supervisors. The firm permitted these supervisors to self-approve their own VA sales, and the post-transaction review system, also inadequate, delegated to a principal the responsibility for reviewing and approving VA sales, without providing guidance, procedures and tools or auditing.
Also, the firm neither evaluated nor trained properly the person who was assigned to the home-office OSJ supervisor position. Procedures that were defined, for a weekly review of the blotter, for, among other things, suitability and switching, and a compliance department audit of all OSJ locations, were not carried out adequately. Hall was responsible for monitoring compliance, and failed to do so.
Edward Jones & Co. Fined, Censured Over Customer Account
Edward Jones & Co., L.P. was censured and fined $95,000 and consented, without admitting or denying the findings, to entry of FINRA findings that it failed to adequately review activity in a customer account that resulted in lost funds.
FINRA found that that the customer's account was the subject of heightened scrutiny by the firm because, among other things, international wire activity was detected in the account; the activity involved wires of more than a million dollars and the account became subject to a grand jury subpoena and an investigation by law enforcement.
Despite heightened scrutiny on the account, a branch office assistant was able to convert $167,249 from that customer's account by using forged letters of authorization to effect wire transfers out of the account without permission or authority. The improper transfers, with the exception of two, were each for less than $10,000 and occurred several times per month.
FINRA also found that the funds were wired to an outside bank account belonging to the assistant's relative, who was not associated with the customer or his accounts. Despite the heightened scrutiny, inquiries by law enforcement and the size and frequency of the wire activity to a third-party account, the firm failed to perform an adequate account activity review and failed to respond to red flags that would have alerted it to the misconduct. FINRA found that the firm promptly reimbursed the customer for the losses.
Firms Censured, Fined Over Subprime Loans in Income Mutual Fund
Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC and Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Co., Inc., both of Smithfield, R.I., were censured and fined $375,000, jointly and severally, by FINRA. Without admission or denial, both firms consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings related to a mutual fund determined to be unsuitable for conservative investors seeking to preserve capital.
According to FINRA's findings, the firms marketed, sold and/or wholesaled shares in an income mutual fund and, in connection with that, created advertising, training and/or wholesaling materials for that fund that were provided to public customers, retail sales firms, used internally or used for institutional purposes within the selling intermediaries. The fund, however, included securities backed by, among other things, subprime mortgages and credit card and auto loan receivables.
After the subprime crisis began, the fund's net asset value started to fall, and it was obvious that it was no longer suitable for investors trying to preserve capital. However, instead of doing a timely update of their sales materials to reflect the fund's change in suitability, and to accurately depict how the fund was affected by the subprime crisis, or ceasing to distribute them, the firms continued to use materials that were unbalanced to begin with and contained unqualified promises of positive future performance. The materials were misleading, contained unwarranted statements and failed to provide a sound basis by which to evaluate the fund's nature, holdings and risks.
FINRA found that not only did Fidelity Investments continue to distribute certain of these materials to selling intermediaries, but procedures the firms had in place to review and approve sales materials were not reasonably designed to achieve and monitor compliance with applicable laws, regulations and rules.
RBC Capital Markets Censured, Fined for Account Reconciliation Failures
FINRA censured and fined RBC Capital Markets, LLC $250,000 for violations resulting from difficulties in reconciling accounts after a merger. Without admitting or denying the findings, RBC consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that it failed to successfully resolve problems stemming from a merger combining the institutional firm with its affiliated retail firm, and a back-office system conversion.
According to the findings, after the merger and conversion, the firm experienced difficulties in reconciling its accounts. This resulted in customer reserve, net capital, recordkeeping and supervisory violations. The firm failed to prepare an accurate customer reserve formula, made a late deposit to its customer reserve account resulting in an eight-minute hindsight deficiency of approximately $317 million, and made some late withdrawals from customer reserve and proprietary accounts of introducing brokers (PAIB accounts).
The firm also failed to take net capital charges of approximately $366 million for aged debits in some accounts. This amount reduced the firm's excess net capital from approximately $627 million to $260 million, but did not result in a deficiency. FINRA found that in connection with the customer reserve and net capital violations, there were numerous other inaccuracies and failures.
SEC Charges Hedge Fund Managers With Defrauding Investors
The SEC announced that it has separately charged a pair of hedge fund managers and their firms with lying to investors about how they were handling the money invested in their respective hedge funds.
In one case, the SEC alleges that San Francisco-based hedge fund manager Hausmann-Alain Banet and his firm Lion Capital Management stole more than a half-million dollars from a retired schoolteacher who thought she was investing her retirement savings in Banet's hedge fund. In the other case, the SEC charged Chicago-based hedge fund managers Norman Goldstein and Laurie Gatherum and their firm GEI Financial Services with fraudulently siphoning at least $147,000 in excessive fees and capital withdrawals from a hedge fund they managed.
According to the SEC's complaint filed against Banet and Lion Capital Management in federal court in San Francisco, Banet led the teacher to believe that his hedge fund would invest in the stock market using a long/short equity investing strategy. Instead, Banet used the teacher's investment of $550,000 to pay his own personal and business expenses, including his home mortgage, office rent, and staff salaries. He also provided phony account statements showing nonexistent investment gains and listing an independent administrator that performed no actual work for the fund.
In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California also announced criminal charges against Banet.
According to the SEC's complaint against Goldstein, Gatherum, and GEI Financial Services filed in federal court in Chicago, investors in the hedge fund were not told that its adviser removed various performance hurdles when calculating fees. Furthermore, inappropriate capital withdrawals were made from the fund. Goldstein, Gatherum, and their firm disclosed to advisory clients that Illinois regulators had stripped Goldstein of his securities registrations in 2011, barring him from providing investment advisory services in the state. Goldstein nevertheless continued to make all investment decisions on behalf of clients, and he and Gatherum caused GEI Financial Services to violate compliance rules applicable to SEC-registered investment advisers.


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Texas gas driller harasses homeowner, bloggers, and even buys a judge?
A Texas state judge is promoting his recent decisions favoring a gas driller in its dispute with a local landowner as part of his election campaign, a move some legal scholars say may violate state judicial ethics rules.
May violate? May? Read the whole thing. Judge Trey Loftin ruled in favor of gas driller Range Resources (one can't help but wonder how much they donated to his campaign) in every manner possible during this case, including forcing an environmental blogger to turn over private emails. And to top off this steaming shit pile with a lovely rat poison pellet, Judge Trey Loftin is also a limbaugh fan:
Loftin, who is campaigning to keep his state judgeship in a county west of Dallas, also sent out materials with the image of talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who credited the judge's ruling in favor of driller Range Resources Corp. (RRC), based in Fort Worth, Texas, for getting the EPA to reverse course.
For more background on this extremely disturbing case, see the excellent compilation by DeSmogBlog:
Breaking: Obama EPA Shut Down Weatherford, TX Shale Gas Water Contamination Study
The Associated Press has a breaking investigative story out today revealing that the Obama Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) censored a smoking gun scientific report in March 2012 that it had contracted out to a scientist who conducted field data on 32 water samples in Weatherford, TX.
That report, according to the AP, would have explicitly linked methane migration to hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") in Weatherford, a city with 25,000+ citizens located in the heart of the Barnett Shale geologic formation 30 minutes from Dallas.
So there you go. The fossil fuel lobby is so grotesquely powerful it can bully the EPA into censoring factual evidence all so they can continue to poison America's water with impunity. And their puppet judges who grovel about for rush limbaugh's approval are all too happy to help.
On a side note, while "Obama's EPA" is technically correct, let's not forget who's really behind this:
A similar dispute unfolded in west-central Wyoming in late 2011, when the EPA released an initial report that showed hydraulic fracturing could have contaminated groundwater. After industry and GOP leaders went on the attack, the agency said it had decided to do more testing. It has yet to announce a final conclusion.
So what's it going to take to fix this, thousands of people being killed Bhopal-style due to fracking-related water contamination?


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text: Arctic sea ice extent for January 2011 was the lowest on record for the month, and marked the second consecutive month a record low has been set, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Most of the missing ice was concentrated along the shores of Northeast Canada and Western Greenland. Relative to the 1979 - 2000 average, the missing ice area was about twice the size of Texas, or about 60% of the size of the Mediterranean Sea. Hudson Bay in Canada did not freeze over until mid-January, the latest freeze-up date on record, and at least a month later than average. The late freeze-up contributed to record warm winter temperatures across much of the Canadian Arctic in December and January. Bob Henson of the National Center for Atmospheric Research has a very interesting post on this, noting that Coral Harbor on the shores of Hudson Bay had a low temperature on January 6 that was 30°C (54°F) above average--a pretty ridiculous temperature anomaly. He quotes David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada, who discussed the lack of ice near Canada's Baffin Island: "The Meteorological Service of Canada was still writing marine forecasts as of 7 January, well beyond anything we have ever done." Henson also writes:"The extremes have been just as impressive when you look high in the atmosphere above these areas. Typically the midpoint of the atmosphere's mass--the 500-millibar (500 hPa) level--rests around 5 kilometers (3 miles) above sea level during the Arctic midwinter. In mid-December, a vast bubble of high pressure formed in the vicinity of Greenland. At the center of this high, the 500-mb surface rose to more than 5.8 kilometers, a sign of remarkably mild air below. Stu Ostro (The Weather Channel) found that this was the most extreme 500-mb anomaly anywhere on the planet in weather analyses dating back to 1948.Farther west, a separate monster high developed over Alaska in January. According to Richard Thoman (National Weather Service, Fairbanks), the 500-mb height over both Nome and Kotzebue rose to 582 decameters (5.82 km). That's not only a January record: those are the highest values ever observed at those points outside of June, July, and August."Figure 1. Monthly January sea ice extent for 1979 to 2011 shows a decline of 3.3% per decade. Image credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center. The warm temperatures in Canada and record sea ice loss in the Arctic were also due, in part, to a strong negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation (AO). The Arctic Oscillation and its close cousin, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) are naturally occurring pressure patterns in the Arctic and mid-latitudes. A negative AO and NAO results when we have weaker than normal low pressure over the Arctic, and weaker than normal high pressure over the Azores Islands. This fosters an easterly flow of air off the warm Atlantic Ocean into the Canadian Arctic, and also weakens the winds of the polar vortex, the ring of counter-clockwise spinning winds that encircles the Arctic. A weaker polar vortex allows cold air to spill southwards out of the Arctic into eastern North America and Western Europe. Thus, the strongly negative AO and NAO the past two winters have been largely responsible for the cold and snowy winters in these regions, and exceptionally warm conditions in the Arctic. I described this pattern in more detail in my December post titled, Florida shivers; Hot Arctic-Cold Continents pattern is back. It is possible that Arctic sea ice loss is largely responsible for the unusual Arctic Oscillation pattern we've observed during the past two winters, as well as for the record-strength ridges of high pressure observed over Greenland and Alaska this winter. It should not surprise us that Arctic sea ice loss would be capable of causing major perturbations to Earth's weather, since it is well known that changes from average in sea surface temperatures over large regions of the ocean modify the jet stream, storm tracks, and precipitation patterns. The El Niño and La Niña patterns are prime examples of this (though the area of oceans affected by these phenomena are much larger than what we're talking about in the Arctic.) Another example: Feudale and Shukla (2010) found that during the summer of 2003, exceptionally high sea surface temperatures of 4°C (7°F) above average over the Mediterranean Sea, combined with unusually warm SSTs in the northern portion of the North Atlantic Ocean near the Arctic, combined to shift the jet stream to the north over Western Europe and create the heat wave of 2003, the deadliest heat wave in history with 30,000 - 50,000 deaths in Europe.ReferencesFeudale, L., and J. Shukla (2010), "Influence of sea surface temperature on the European heat wave of 2003 summer. Part I: an observational study", Climate Dynamics DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0788-0Figure 2. The 6-10 temperature forecast issued by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center calls for an above-average chance of warm temperatures across most of the U.S. by mid-February.A warmer forecast for FebruaryOver the past two weeks, the Arctic Oscillation has undergone a major transition, changing from negative to positive. This means that low pressure over the Arctic has intensified, which will act to speed up the counter-clockwise spinning winds (the polar vortex.) This spin-up of the polar vortex will tend to keep cold air bottled up the Arctic, leading to more Arctic sea ice formation and warmer winter conditions over the U.S. This warm-up is reflected in the latest 6 - 10 day temperature outlook from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (Figure 2.) Could it be the groundhog was right, and we have only three more weeks of winter left? Time will tell--we have little skill predicting what may happen to the Arctic Oscillation more than about two weeks in advance.


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All opiate drugs come from opium, which is extracted from the poppy plant, or they are synthetic copies of substances in the poppy plant. Oxycodone, like all opiate drugs, is an opiate agonist that readily attaches to the neurons in the brain that are specialized to be involved in the natural suppression of pain, stress, exertion, etc. These drugs have extremely high potential for abuse and the development of physical dependence.
The DEA classifies narcotic medications like OxyContin as Schedule II controlled substances. These substances are highly regulated and can only be legally obtained with a prescription from a physician. In addition, due to numerous issues with the abuse of narcotic medications, the federal government has started monitoring their distribution much more tightly than it monitors the distribution of some other Schedule II substances. Despite the extra attention paid to this class of drugs, opiate drug abuse still remains a major concern among law enforcement agencies, politicians, medical personnel, and citizens.
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According to the medical textbook Substance Use Disorders, an opiate use disorder involves a number of behavioral symptoms that are used by clinicians in the diagnosis of the condition. These include:
- Recurrent nonmedicinal use of opiate substances
- Continued use of opiate drugs despite experiencing significant distress or functional impairment as a result of their use
- A number of behaviors that indicate that the individual has lost control of their ability to use opiate medications
- A number of behaviors that suggest that the individual's nonmedicinal use of opiate drugs has become dysfunctional
- The development of tolerance to opiate medications
- The development of withdrawal symptoms that occur when one either stops using the drug abruptly or significantly cuts down on the amount they use
Treatment for Opiate Addiction
Individuals who develop opioid use disorders have very severe mental health conditions that require professional intervention. Because there is a very strong potential that individuals who abuse these substances on a regular basis over a period of several weeks or more have developed physical dependence on them, it is extremely important that individuals who enter recovery programs for opiate abuse are thoroughly evaluated. The evaluation should consist of a full physical, psychological, and emotional evaluation, assessment of one's social and living situation, and a full cognitive evaluation to determine the individual's ability to become engaged in aspects of treatment. These evaluations will help the individual's treatment providers to design a targeted plan that will specifically address their strengths and weaknesses and also treat any co-occurring mental health disorders or medical conditions.
While any effective recovery program will be personalized to fit the specific needs of the individual, recovery programs also follow a general blueprint. According to Concepts of Chemical Dependency and The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment,this blueprint consists of:
Once the physician has ascertained an initial starting dose where the recovering individual does not experience significant withdrawal symptoms, the physician will slowly taper down the dose of the medication at periodic intervals to help the individual wean off opiate drugs altogether. The process is lengthier than stopping use of opiates suddenly; however, the individual's withdrawal symptoms can be managed so they remain comfortable and able to engage in other aspects of recovery.
Other medications may be used as needed to address specific symptoms or co-occurring conditions. Withdrawal management programs are ideally suited to be delivered on an inpatient basis; however, in very specific instances, they may be initiated for individuals on an outpatient basis.
Substance use disorder therapy can be delivered in individual sessions, group sessions, or in a combination of individual and group sessions.
A key factor in recovery is that individuals maintain their participation in the recovery program for a significant length of time. Research indicates that individuals who maintain participation in recovery programs for 5-7 years after they had been abstinent have higher rates of long-term or lifelong success. This is why resources like social support groups can be extremely useful for ongoing recovery.


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A Few Items of Interest
Pre-Columbian Dinosaur?
Fragment. Late Intermediate Period. A.D. 1000–1476 Pre-Columbian Cotton and wool slit tapestry Height and Width: 7 1/16 x 7 11/16 in. (18 x 19.5 cm) MFA, Boston.
We can't say for certain that this stylized animal represents the dinosaur type shown. It seems clear to us that it is intended to represent a type of dinosaur. What do you think?
Egyptian Dinosaur-like Creature
Tapestry. Egyptian (Coptic) 8th century Linen Height and Width: 6 11/16 x 8 1/16 in. (17 x 20.5 cm) MFA, Boston. Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Ground: cream linen cloth; plain selvedge at right. Stained; small holes. Design: tapestry band in pale-yellow, red, blue, green, and brown silk and cream linen. Red band with pair of grotesque affronted elephants (one blue and one yellow); seperated by yellow triangular shaft. At right is fantastic green animal. Band is edged at top and bottom with narrow cream and red stripes. (The photo is black and white. Color added to match description.) A snake head is created in part by the trunks of each pair of animals in the piece.
Speculation: "PROBOSCIDEA (animals with a proboscis ), the scientific name of the group of mammals represented at the present day only by the two species of elephant.
Although here regarded as a sub-order of UNGULATA (q.v.), the group is sometimes accorded the rank of an order by itself.1 .... Discoveries made during the first few years of the 20th century in the Lower Tertiary deposits of the Fayum district of Egypt have, however, brought to light the existence of several kinds of primitive proboscideans which serve to link the group with other ungulates, and likewise apparently indicate affinity with the Sirenia."..LovetoKnow Encyclopedia
Early Recognition of Bi-pedalism in Dinosaurs?
White cotton Mexican Cotton and brocade Overall: 21 x 42 cm (8 1/4 x 16 9/16 in.) MFA, Boston Denman Waldo Ross Collection
The design, which consists of double headed eagles and rampant animals, is of red, deep violet and yellow wool. Much worn.
"It is generally accepted that the first discovery of dinosaur remains in North America was made in 1854 by Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden during his exploration of the upper Missouri River.
Near the confluence of the Judith and Missouri Rivers (shown above) Hayden's party recovered a small collection of isolated teeth which were later described by the Philadelphia paleontologist Joseph Leidy in 1856, in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
A short two years later, Leidy had the honor of describing the first reasonably complete dinosaur skeleton the world would know, Hadrosaurus foulkii. Named after its discoverer William Parker Foulke, this specimen was recovered during quarrying of a sand pit in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
The real significance of this specimen was in its limb proportions. For the first time scientists studying these animals could see that some dinosaurs were bipedal, walking on two legs instead of on all fours. Bipedalism was a revolutionary thought for a reptilian posture."
…..University of California Museum of Paleontology
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News Summary: US retail sales rise slight 0.2 pct.
MODEST SALES: Americans boosted their spending at retail businesses by a modest 0.2 percent last month, the smallest gain in four months. Sales of autos and furniture jumped, while sales of clothes and sporting goods fell.
CAUTIOUS CONSUMERS: Weak wage growth, modest job gains and higher taxes have limited Americans' spending power. Consumer spending drives roughly 70 percent of economic growth.
SLOWER GROWTH: Most economists forecast economic growth will slow to a 2 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter, down from the 2.5 percent annual rate in the previous quarter.


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Sanford Research-Augustana College Earn $320,000 National Grant for Undergraduate Research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Sanford Research and Augustana College a three-year, $320,000 grant to establish a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site for the exploration of topics in cellular and molecular biology.
The NSF-REU grant will offer $5,000 stipends to 10 students for participation in 10-week research programs. Campus housing is provided and participants will also receive a $750 travel stipend to attend national cellular and molecular biology conferences where they can display their research and learn from other scientists and researchers.
Dr. David Pearce, vice president and chief operating officer of Sanford Research, and Dr. Seasson Vitiello, assistant professor of Biology at Augustana and an adjunct scientist at Sanford Children's Research Center, are the grant administrators.
"This collaboration puts us on a small list of the nation's top research-focused organizations recognized by the NSF and designated as NSF-REU program sites for undergraduate student researchers," said Dr. Pearce, who is the principal investigator on the project.
Sanford Research and Augustana College have already demonstrated the ability to co-administer a successful undergraduate training program in the Sanford Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR). SPUR, which was created in 2010 as a partnership between Sanford and Augustana, drew the attention of the National Science Foundation. The new NSF-REU program will be administered in conjunction with the existing SPUR program, both of which will provide undergraduate students with a 10-week opportunity during the summer to apply their the knowledge and skills gained in the classroom to the laboratory setting. The SPUR program is open to Augustana College students, whereas the new NSF-REU program will be open nationally to students who normally may not be exposed to such an opportunity.
This summer, 70 Augustana students are working alongside faculty researchers on campus and with research partners in laboratories, hospitals and research institutions throughout the U.S.
"Obtaining funding from the NSF for an REU site is the direct result of a strong SPUR program that was already in place," said Dr. Vitiello. "Our existing SPUR program demonstrated that we were ready to expand opportunities for college students to explore complex topics in a unique, challenging environment, and this NSF grant will allow us to do that."
While Augustana has been an NSF grant recipient in the past, this NSF grant is the first in Sanford Research's history. The REU site at Sanford Research and Augustana is just the sixth established in South Dakota and one of only 47 in cell biology across the nation.
PHOTO ABOVE: Dr. Seasson Vitiello, assistant professor of Biology at Augustana and an adjunct scientist at Sanford Children's Research Center, advises junior bio-chemistry major Lauren Cole, a student from Tufts University near Boston and a participant in the Sanford Research-Augustana NSF-REU research program, on a summer research project in her lab inside Augustana's Gilbert Science Center.


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