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The 20,000 acres of wetlands in New Jersey now known as the Meadowlands were once home to hundreds of species of plants and animals. But in the four hundred years since European explorers first arrived in the Meadowlands, people have dammed up, drained, built over, and polluted this formerly vibrant ecosystem and all but destroyed it. Still, signs of life remain under bridges, on the edges of parking lots, and beside train tracks. Slowly but surely, with help from activist groups, government organizations, and ordinary people, the resilient creatures of the Meadowlands are making a comeback, and the wetlands are recovering.
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"The wetlands have retained their power to regenerate, a process that the book's beautiful watercolors bring to vivid life." –Los Angeles Times
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"Thomas Yezerski's pleasingly presented history of this "flat, wet place in New Jersey" helps all of us see the workings of an estuary, spongy ground where a freshwater river meets the ocean tides." –Chicago Tribune
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"Judicious ink and watercolor illustrations pair with tender prose …Yezerski paints a vivid history of the place where the Hackensack River meets Newark Bay, and where the Lenni Lenape lived for thousands of years…The healthy commingling of urban and natural worlds in the final spreads makes this portrait especially poignant." –Starred, Publishers Weekly
"Although readers who know the Meadowlands personally will have a special interest in the topic, the idea of fostering and protecting plant and animal habitats in urban environments can resonate with a broad audience." –Starred, School Library Journal
"Yezerski adroitly captures the tensions and hope in the sometimes adversarial, sometimes beneficial relationship between humans and the environment in this marvelous ecological history of the Meadowlands of New Jersey, an estuary trapped in a dense industrial, commercial, and residential area." –Starred, Horn Book
"Along with the portraits of active conservationists, including young people, who are working to protect the environment, the close-up views of the interconnectedness of each small creature will grab readers." –Booklist
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By lee hansche
From: goffstown, nh
Aug 18, 2007
|hey brian, i looked on RC.com cause they have kept pretty well up to date on the new routes and retros at rumney... that site has juicy fingers still protected by trad gear and a pin but they do list a new bolted route to the left, The Green Mile 5.9, which would make sense if you thought it wasnt quite 5.10a... what we need is photos and maps, they are oh so helpful... hope this helps... peace out...
By BrianWinslow
From: Concord, NH
Aug 19, 2007
|Sorry about the mix up of route names, I've gotten some more info on the route and I will try to get a decent picture the next time I am out.
By lee hansche
From: goffstown, nh
May 2, 2009
|I think its 6 bolts to anchors rather than 5...
By Pat McGinn
Aug 29, 2009
|It is possible to lead this with gear, but I would only recommend it if you are comfortable with a long fall potential. I was able to get a nice red c4 in the crack just after the large ledge. The gear is good but there isn't a lot of it.
By matthewWallace
From: Sandwich, NH
Sep 24, 2009
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|Does anyone have any info on the upper pitches above this route? Panama Hat or if there are any others? It looks like a cool section of rock.
By M Sprague
From: New England
Sep 28, 2009
Yes, Panama Hat goes at around 5.9 and is the left climb off the ledge. Beta: once you reach the roof traverse pretty far left before going up then angling back right and up to the anchors. The best approach to PH is up The Anchovy Caper and on to the ledge where you will find a 2 bolt anchor. With a 70 m rope and good use of slings you can do this and lower as 1 long pitch.
The next route to the right is Chris Smith's route Flying Squirrel. It goes up at the big corner and out rt onto the arete, ending at the anchors of Panama Hat. I think he said it was an easy or mid 11. Again, approach from Anchovy, or perhaps The Green Mile.
The next one over right is Tim Kemple Sr's fun 11c that goes through a couple roofs, best approached from Scene of the Crime. Just continue up onto the ledge where you will find a 2 bolt anchor. Give your self some slack when belaying here so you can move around and see the climber.
Edit: Panama Hat ended up going into the new book as Mister Meaner, just to clear up any confusion
By matthewWallace
From: Sandwich, NH
Sep 28, 2009
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
Thanks Mark i will have to check those routes out and post what I can. I will def get on Panama Hat soon.
P.S. are these all sport?
By M Sprague
From: New England
Sep 28, 2009
|Yup..all bolt protected.
By lee hansche
From: goffstown, nh
Sep 28, 2009
|thanks for the info mark... after that long entry whay not just post the climbs...
By Jeffrey.LeCours
From: New Hampshire
Oct 11, 2010
Here's a video of Jakob making quick work of The Green Mile. Make sure to watch in 720p (Mountain Project strips it from the embedded video link)
By Matt Wilson
From: Vermont, USA
May 29, 2012
|The grade of 5.9 can be very fickle at Rumney... I have climbed ones that feel like 5.8, and I have climbed ones that feel like 5.10c. This one is certainly much closer to 5.9 than a lot of other Rumney 9's. When I was trying to break in to 9's at Rumney I found it very difficult. This climb (and Yoda as well) is an excellent first 5.9 lead. That said, I really enjoyed this climb, and I am going to certainly recommend it. The face moves are really cool and it's a different kind of slab climb than the Meadows, or even the slab sections of other climbs around this one. However, I'm not sure how someone shorter than me can reach the first bolt from the ground. I am just shy of 6 feet tall and I was about a foot short of reaching the bolt.
By Devin Krevetski
From: Northfield, VT
Aug 7, 2012
|worth doing if it is dry
By Eric Chabot
From: Salt Lake City, UT
Sep 6, 2013
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|Fun route... challenging when wet. I found myself skipping the first bolt by climbing up right of it and clipping the second but if this climb is pushing it for you then maybe stick clip. Or maybe this bolt is easy to reach when it's dry.
By BenjiDa
Oct 6, 2013
|Careful! Left bolt at anchor is loose.
By Sergey Shevelev
From: San Francisco, CA
Jun 20, 2016
|I don't know which bolt can be reached from the ground (maybe that was the case in the past?), I didn't see it. You can clearly see the first bolt in one of the pictures, it is rather high and I would strongly recommend that it is stick clipped as I saw a very nasty fall that the guy from a different party took after we finished this route. They decided to go with a cam which ripped off when he fell and while everything seems to have ended well (at least no obvious damage), the fall was REALLY scary. He fell on his back onto the boulder below the route, then bounced and hit the ground.
By Graham O.
Aug 5, 2016
|A rad climb! Does anyone know if it's possible to do this thing on gear??
By lee hansche
From: goffstown, nh
Aug 5, 2016
|I think I did it on gear but that doesn't mean its a good idea ;)
By Graham O.
Aug 8, 2016
|Ha ha nice what did you use for the second half of it?!


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Both the Federal Railroad Administration and the Department of Transportation's inspector general have found poorly maintained track and inadequate inspections by the railroads could be partly to blame.
The number of railroad industry inspectors has been reduced and the federal and state governments have only 550 people to make sure that the industry is adequately checking 230,000 miles of track.
FRA's associate administrator for safety, George Gavalla, said the agency has focused its efforts on heavily used tracks and rail yards, and all tracks that carry passengers and hazardous materials. On those tracks, accidents are down, he said. Many of the derailments occur in yards when crews assemble train cars.
''We concentrate on where we think the risk is,'' Gavalla said.
Overall, FRA statistics show that the number of derailments on all tracks and rail yards rose by 18 percent between 1997 and 2000, from 1,741 to 2,059.
The rise in derailments was being addressed Thursday at a House railroads subcommittee hearing.
GM says new SUVs won't carry rollover warnings
DETROIT -- General Motors Corp. has stopped voluntarily posting federal rollover-warning labels on its latest mid-sized sport utility vehicles, saying it is not convinced they make much difference.
Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler unit said that the warnings serve a public good and that they will continue placing them in their SUVs, including vehicles that do not require them.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requires that SUVs with wheelbases, or distances between the center of the front wheel and that of the back wheel, of 110 inches or less carry illustrated warning labels declaring they have a ''higher rollover risk'' than standard autos.
House passes bill to make it crime to harm fetus
WASHINGTON -- A House committee approved a measure that would make it a crime to hurt or kill a fetus during a violent crime against the mother, sending the measure to the full House for a second year.
The GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee approved the bill 15-9 along party lines on Wednesday. It now goes to the full House, which passed a similar measure last year by a 254-172 vote.
The bill's prospects are uncertain in the Senate, where Republicans and Democrats are evenly divided.
Promises made to punish officers for racist e-mail
WASHINGTON -- City officials expressed dismay Wednesday over revelations that police officers have used city-issued computers to send vulgar, racist and homophobic e-mail messages.
''It's offensive and stupid,'' said Mayor Anthony A. Williams. ''Your name and serial number and everything else is all over the transmission.''
Williams praised Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey for an audit of the police e-mail system. Ramsey has promised to find and punish the officers who sent the messages.
''If that's half the force, I'm going to deal with it swiftly,'' said Ramsey who learned last week that a sampling of an estimated 4 million messages transmitted last year included ethnic and racial slurs and sexually inappropriate content. Some of the e-mails reportedly include content about illegal drug use by officers and sexual activity on the job.
Dems increase pressure for census adjustment
WASHINGTON -- Democrats pressed the Bush administration Wednesday to release a second set of 2000 census figures that supporters contend would protect against an undercount of millions of Americans, primarily minorities.
The population figures can't be used for political redistricting, but many Democrats want them adjusted using statistical sampling to distribute over $185 billion in federal dollars nationwide. Census figures are used in various funding formulas that take population into account. At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Commerce Secretary Don Evans defended his decision to release only data from the initial census ''head count'' to states for redistricting, agreeing with a Census Bureau recommendation.
Evans and William Barron, acting director of the Census Bureau, told the Senate Commerce Committee that there are still too many discrepancies with adjusted figures and that the bureau may be unable to determine until fall whether sampled data was accurate enough to be made public for other reasons -- if at all. The Commerce Department oversees the Census Bureau.
Still, Democrats and civil rights groups pressed on with arguments that all figures -- adjusted or not -- should be made public immediately to test Evans' assertion that the 2000 count was ''the most accurate in the country's history.''
This article published in the Athens Daily News on Thursday, March 29, 2001.
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A congenital malformation (birth defect) in which the hands and feet are attached to abbreviated arms and legs. The word phocomelia combines phoco- (seal) and melia (limb) to designate a limb like a seal's flipper, one consequence of exposure of the developing foetus to thalidomide.
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I am exercising 6 days a weeks, I am trying harder now than I ever have in my life, it feels like my lower tummy around the incision and pubic area are buldging, my waist is shrinking everyone tells me I look great but I don't see it, will I improve. I feel very discouraged and sad. I do not see my PS until mid november, my visits are further apart now I felt better when I saw her more often. I don't want to let my PS down with my outcome.
5 Months Post Tummy Tuck, Exercising A Ton With No Results Around Incision Site.
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Bulging incisdion
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Bulging at the incision site.
Congratulations on your continued excercise routine. It is important to keep in mind that swelling often "settles" to the most dependent area of the operation - near the incision. This can take 6 months or more until it goes away. Other instances of bulging are due to discrepancies in the amount of fat above and below the incision. This responds well to liposuction to even out any bulges. If you are still very concerned, call your surgeon and go into the office a little sooner. Most surgeons I know would rather have your mind put at ease than to have you feel as though you were "letting them down."
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Tummy tuck
I'm so sorry you are not getting the result you had hoped for. Tummy tuck patients are usually very happy.
My thoughts and suggestions are to call your doctor's office and let them know your concerns and that you want to come in sooner, as it is causing you anxiety.
Sometimes, the answer is different types of exercises to target the specific muscle group, sometimes dietary changes. If extra fat is in the area around the scar, a little touch up liposuction is often helpful.
If you are unsure after seeing you surgeon, sometimes it's worth getting a second opinion with a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon with experience with the procedure.
Best of luck.
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Past tummy tuck with swelling.
Don't be discouraged and continue with your continued efforts to keep up an exercise program.. Please don't overdo this, however. Routine exercising is always better than excessive effort. Tummy tucks may take up to one year to improve to their fullest. You may be a candidate for limited liposuctioning to the abdomen, but your plastic surgeon should be able to answer this question for you. Just let her know that you want to see her more frequently for your followup visits.
Good luck.
Tummy tuck recovery
Thank you for the question.
I would suggest that you continue to do what you're doing with your exercise program and allow for another 6 months before you make a final determination of the outcome of the surgery. I tell my patients were having a tummy tuck procedure that will take at least one year to see the final result.
It is quite common for patients who have had this procedure done to experience severe emotional slings (from depression to elation). It is important to stay even keeled as possible and understand that your results will likely improve with time.
Close communication and follow-up with your plastic surgeon is important; I am sure she will be happy to see you sooner for questions/concerns/reassurance.
I hope this helps.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/procedure_tummytuck.htm
Contour around tummy tuck incision line
Sounds like you are doing all that you need to be doing with excercise. Posting some photos will help. Sometimes liposuction in and around the incision line is helpful if the thickness of fat there is too much. Scar revision can also be helpful if the scar is too high or the appearence of the scar is not ideal. Discuss these specifics with your plastic surgeon at the next go around.
All the best,
Dr Repta
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Management of business is not so easy in today tough competitive era and for successful running it requires extra skill and ability. Today only running of a business is not enough rather you will have to stay in market and also face challenge from your opponents companies. So old fashioned manner and conventional tactics can?t be a guarantee for the success for any particular business.
So a degree of business management is needed for a student who is interested to opt marketing as a career option. The course is design to provide extensive knowledge about the basics of business managements. As business management is nothing but to manage the available resources effectively and efficiently so that organisational goal and objective can be fulfilled. So there is a lot of efficiency and skill is needed to be a part of such an organisation.
Degree of business management course provides all the basic needs and expertise to deal with how to manage the different aspects of management like human resource, marketing, accounts managements and other.
Degree course are designed for the extensive knowledge of all the topics related to business management. For a business organisation role of manager is of vital importance and he has to manage and coordinate between all he aspects of the business management. Today in a very tough marketing environment management has to planned he policy and keep watch on all the factors including marketing, finance, sale promotion, production and other factors. Thus degree courses have been designed keeping those entire things in mind, which enable candidate to run the organisation successfully.
Although there are many courses which comes under business management degree but the core subject remains common in all the courses. All such courses focus on the accounting, finance, marketing, communication skills and public relation.
Mainly three types of courses are available under the degree management course which are associate degree management course, Bachelor degree management course and Master degree management course. The basic aim is to prepare such a candidate who can manage the organisation efficiently and effectively by utilising the available resources.
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About the Book
On a cold, rainy day, ordinary Hannah Price stumbles into the cathedral and does something extraordinary—almost in a trance, she makes a perfect drawing of an antique carving of the Virgin and Child, capturing their every detail.
The next day the statue of the Child is taken from the Virgin's arms, and a few days later Hannah is interviewed by the police. Soon, strange things start happening to her. An odd man keeps appearing. The portrait she painted of her best friend, Sam, is vandalized. Is it all related to the theft? Hannah is determined to find the statue, even if it will take a miracle.
Rebecca Wade has crafted a thriller that will puzzle and provoke every reader until its stunning conclusion.
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Critical Praise
"Wade has a terrific talent for characterization and description, her vivid detailing makes these places come alive." — ALA Booklist
"A thrilling time." — Kirkus Reviews
"A fascinating and well-paced story…for readers who enjoy intrigue with a dash of the supernatural." — School Library Journal
"A modern–day mystery with Stephen King overtones…Just the ticket for fantasy and adventure–loving young teens." — KLIATT
"Sophisticated mystery." — Publishers Weekly
"Readers who relish a bit of otherworldly danger may wish to join Hannah and Sam." — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Product Details
- Imprint: Katherine Tegen Books
- On Sale: 06/23/2009
- Pages: 368
- List Price: 4.99 USD
- Ages: 8 to 12
- BISAC1: JUVENILE FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories
- BISAC2: JUVENILE FICTION / Religious / Christian / General
- BISAC3: JUVENILE FICTION / Art & Architecture


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A pedestrian was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Chatsworth on Friday morning.
The accident occurred about 9 a.m., when a man in his 60s was near the entrance of a train tunnel along the 10800 block of Old Santa Susana Pass Road, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Daniel Menesez said, adding the man was hit by a westbound train and knocked into the tunnel and died. The victim's name was not immediately available.
Trains have the right of way at the tunnel, which is located underneath Topanga Canyon Boulevard and is mostly inaccessible to pedestrians and vehicles.
"No pedestrian should ever be on the tracks at all," Menesez said.
The Amtrak train, halted at the scene while Los Angeles police and firefighters investigated, carried "quite a few passengers at the time of the accident," Menesez said. It started moving again at 10:39 a.m. No one on the train was injured.


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NOAA's Carbon Tracker (From NOAA: "Warm colors show high atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and cool colors show low concentrations. As the summer growing season takes hold, photosynthesis by forests and crops draws concentrations CO2 down, opposing the general increase from fossil fuel burning. The resulting high- and low-CO2 air masses are then moved around by weather systems to form the patterns shown here.")
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. NOAA thinks Google's pictures can help NOAA make billions of data bits easier to visualize.
Here's the first part of the release from NOAA:
"NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and Google have signed a cooperative research and development agreement outlining how they will work together to create state-of-the-art visualizations of scientific data to illustrate how our planet works.
"It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Here, we think NOAA's billions of bits of data are worth thousands of pictures," said Richard W. Spinrad, Ph.D., NOAA assistant administrator for oceanic and atmospheric research. "Through this agreement, Google's technical expertise will help to improve access to NOAA data in ways that allow the scientific community and the public to better use our information to understand earth science and make informed decisions."
Under the agreement, NOAA and Google plan to work together on research and development to join NOAA's oceanographic, meteorological, biological, and climatological data with Google's software capabilities. The wide availability of Google's Internet tools has the potential to bring visualizations of NOAA data to new audiences around the world."
The project lists six general areas NOAA plans to use Google to help create better data visualizations. They are:
•Engaging the public in ongoing and historic scientific expeditions including those of the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer;
•Compiling and improving bathymetric datasets to display in Google Earth and make available for downloading;
•Expanding NOAA efforts to publish oceanographic data, especially data from the NOAA-led Integrated Ocean Observing System;
•Expanding NOAA efforts to publish climate data, especially data from the greenhouse gas monitoring system;
•Increasing the amount of data available for NOAA's Science on a Sphere, an educational Earth science display system, [http://sos.noaa.gov/] by adapting it to display files in the Keyhole Markup Language, the file format Google Earth and Google Maps use for geographic data; and
•Providing interactive access to marine zoning and regulatory information concerning regions such as continental shelf boundaries and marine protected areas.
The release does not specify the duration or financial details of the agreement. It will be interesting to see what comes from the project, and how it shows up on our laptops, smart phones and now…iPads.


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Morning Money Memo…
Facebook is a making a massive bet on WhatsApp, paying $19 billion in cash and stock for a company with only 55 employees. Since WhatsApp was formed in 2009, hundreds of millions of people have used it, sending photos and videos for free from their smartphones and tablets.
The blowout deal is the latest example of soaring prices paid for hot startups by technology giants that are anxious to protect their market share. This could be a defensive move, sheltering Facebook from the recent switch by teenagers who left the site and took their social networking elsewhere.
The stunning price for WhatsApp may boost valuations of other messaging firms even though many are still figuring out how to make money from their subscribers. WhatsApp offers messaging without the fees that Verizon, AT&T and other carriers often charge. "It is an immensely popular messaging service," says Dana Wollman of the tech site Engadget. "Globally it has around or over 450 million active users."
Payments are another potential goldmine for tech firms. Soon you may be able to use your smartphone to tap and pay at retailers across the country. No credit card needed. "The idea of doing more things with the phone is very compelling to consumers and payment is one of them," says Mastercard executive James Anderson. His company and Visa have come with cloud-based technology that would make it easier for shoppers to spend money using their phones. "Every transaction requires a consumer to enter a pin number before they actually tap at the terminal." This is far from the only innovation. Other companies are jumping into the rapidly growing field of payment apps and devices.
The Gap is raising its minimum wage to $9 an hour this year and $10 next year. The clothing retailer says its decision will affect 65,000 workers. In a statement, President Obama praised the Gap for its decision. He's urging Congress to pass legislation that would gradually increase the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by the end of his presidency.
The stock market turned lower after yesterday's release of minutes by the Federal Reserve. At the January meeting several top officials sounded willing to consider raising short-term interest rates sooner than expected. But the Fed Funds rate is still near zero. Stock futures are down this morning. Investors today will be watching WalMart's earnings announcement closely. Retail sales have been under pressure recently. The world's largest store chain may report lower quarterly profits.
The University of Maryland is the latest victim of a massive data breach. The school admits more than 300,000 Social Security numbers were stolen from a database containing information on anybody who received a school ID since 1998. "This a bad breach," says Adam Levin, co-founder of the firm Identity Theft 911. "The problem is when they get your Social Security number they have an option on your life, and the question isn't if but when they're going to exercise that option."
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Steamboat Springs snowboarders qualify at Burton event
February 6, 2013
Steamboat Springs — Three Steamboat Springs snowboarders qualified for the finals of the Burton European Open in Switzerland on Wednesday.
Arielle Gold qualified third in the women's semifinals, finishing just behind Kelly Clark and Ellery Hollingsworth.
Gold's first run score of 86.67 was good enough to get her into Friday's finals.
Taylor Gold also qualified for Friday's finals by finishing fourth in the men's first semifinal. Gold scored an 87.33 on his first run. Matt Ladley, in his first competition since crashing at the X Games, also qualified for the finals.
Ladley was third in the men's second heat, registering an 84.67 on his second run.
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The National Association of African American Owned Media (NAAAOM) unites voices across the communications and entertainment industries to fight for economic inclusion, including equal access to distribution, investment capital, sponsorship, and other critical resources.
This is not about entitlement; it's about ensuring that African-Americans will always have an opportunity to express our interests and be heard. Only by creating sustained equal opportunities to communicate can we begin to rectify continued racial imbalances in the economy and society as a whole.
- Protect and promote current African-American owned media.
- Increase the number of African-American owned media ventures.
- Ensure fair unrestricted access to all media platforms, including net neutrality.
- End discrimination in advertising, investment, and licensing.


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This week on PetSugar, we talked about cute pet-centric Evites, ways to stave off dandruff from your kitty's coat, and watched a dog expertly carve up a pumpkin . . . well sort of.
What else did we talk about this week? Take my quiz and find out how well you were paying attention! Since all of the answers can be found in this week's posts, you should get 100 percent, right? Right!
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A Smile as Big as the Moon
What an exciting night, last night. The movie, "A Smile as Big as the Moon" was on ABC Television. Did you watch?
"A Smile as Big as the Moon" is all about a Forest Hills Northern class of special needs students going to Space Camp. The book, written by special ed teacher, Mike Kersjes, followed his 'journey' in not only teaching the kids, but getting them to Space Camp.
I thought the fun part of the whole thing was that it all happened here, and is a true story. Makes you feel proud.
Hallmark picked up the rights to make the movie, so after playing on ABC before millions of people last night, it will move to the Hallmark Channel to be shown several times. If you missed last night, you can catch it over on Hallmark. Here are the next 'play' times according to Zap 2 it. You can watch it this Saturday, February 4th at 8pm and again at 10pm, and Sunday, February 5th at 2pm.
It is a great, feel-good, inspiring, family movie. Everyone should see it.


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California's state capital is an attractive city that's home to around 478,000 people. Sacramento is set in the Central Valley, at the meeting point of two rivers, about 90 miles north east of San Francisco and it's considered to be a nice, livable place to call home. Walk Score ranks the city the 24th most walkable large city in the country, with a score of 49, but what about its individual neighborhoods…
Boulevard Park
The historic residential neighborhood of Boulevard Park is set right in the heart of Sacramento just a few blocks from downtown. It is the most walkable neighborhood in the city with a Walk Score of 92, meaning it's a 'walker's paradise' where just about everything can be done on foot. There are several grocery stores in Boulevard Park while just on the edges of the neighborhood, around I Street and J Street, there are numerous restaurants, bars, cafes, shops, and other facilities, and just outside the boundary is the Wells Fargo Pavilion, so it's all here! Boulevard Park is even great for families with an elementary school and a couple of high schools serving the area. The crime index is 5 percent lower than the city average, and because this is a popular neighborhood, with everything you need, it's expensive to live in!
Downtown Sacramento
Downtown Sacramento is the central business district of the city, home to major businesses, shopping centers, the California State Capitol, Sacramento City Hall, and the events venue Sacramento Convention Center Complex. Of course, downtown is also full of restaurants, bars and cafes, and it's a very walkable neighborhood with almost all errands accomplishable on foot. The Walk Score is 89. You'd think of this as a neighborhood for young professionals who want to be in the heart of it all, but there are plenty of schools here for families too. The main drawback with downtown Sacramento is a higher crime index – 12 percent higher than the city average.
Mansion Flats
Just north of downtown Sacramento, Mansion Flats is in a great location for enjoying a slightly more residential neighborhood with easy access to the city's amenities. Walk Score ranks this the third most walkable neighborhood in Sacramento, with a Walk Score of 88, and you have plenty of restaurants, bars, coffee shops and other services within a short walk. There are grocery stores nearby too, but no elementary or high schools for children, and the other drawback of Mansion Flats is the crime index. It stands at 41 percent higher than the Sacramento average so this isn't an especially safe neighborhood to live in. just on the edge of Mansion Flats is the historic Governor's Mansion.
Marshall School
Sacramento's Marshall School neighborhood is just to the east of Boulevard Park, bordering the I-80B so it's good for interstate access. This small and compact neighborhood includes Marshall Park but there are no schools within the neighborhood. On J Street, at the southern edge of Marshall School there's an abundance of grocery stores, restaurants and coffee shops. Crime is just a little above the city average at 9 percent higher. Marshall School is 'very walkable' with a Walk Score of 87.
As the name suggests, Midtown is centrally located right next to downtown Sacramento so it's a great neighborhood for being close to the action. Midtown itself has tree-lined residential streets with many Victorian-era homes, but it does also have a superb number of restaurants, bars and coffee shops. Midtown is known for being both bike and pedestrian friendly, and Walk Score gives the neighborhood a score of 87. There are a couple of private schools, but no public schools, and if you're into history, Sutter's Fort, where the city began, is in the east of Midtown. Crime-wise Midtown is actually below the Sacramento average with a crime index of 647, making it safer than nearly 85 percent of the neighborhoods in the city.


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Though most of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (30 West Dale Street, Colorado Springs, 1-719-634-5581) is taken over by the mammoth Dale Chihuly retrospective, there is another attraction installed in the side gallery just west of the lobby. ATHLETE/WARRIOR is made up of elegant, beautifully printed black-and-white photos of cadets from the three service academies: West Point, the Naval Academy and Colorado's own Air Force Academy. The wonderfully composed pieces are by internationally known British photographers Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low, who work collaboratively under the name of Anderson and Low.
The series began in Colorado Springs a few years ago when Anderson and Low were completing a portrait project at the United States Olympic Training Center. Officials at the Air Force Academy were impressed with their work and asked the pair to take photos of the school's jocks. That went so well, it led Anderson and Low to expand the project to incorporate the other academies.
The cadets are outfitted as soldiers in some shots, both in dress and battle regalia; in others, they are suited up for the various sports they play. Often the two types of photos are put together as a diptych, with the same individual seen side by side in the alternate guises.
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Because of the current situation in Iraq, some may be queasy taking in heroic depictions of American soldiers. And certainly the fact that the work is open to a pro-military interpretation was demonstrably proved by the CSFAC's military appreciation day held a couple of weeks ago with the show being the centerpiece.
Though it's a problem for some, I say get over it. Clearly Anderson and Low intended to refer not to war but to the tradition of idealizing the athlete and the warrior, which originated in antiquity. Not only that, but they make the cadets look like beefcake models -- as in "Christopher Dingman, Lacrosse player, U.S. Naval Academy" (above) -- and that strikes me as just a little subversive.
The show has been given a shorter-than-usual slot and is set to close July 24.


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Small Engine Troubleshooting Problems? Ask a Mechanic Now.
I've got the same model, but mine is a 1972
Hi Doug,
It is a simple battery point ignition and should only take a few minutes to diagnose. You will need a multimeter.
I wondered if anyone would remember this old tractor!
Have a multi meter.
I will be blowing snow with mine in the morning.
Check for voltage at the coil. You should have 12 volts on the power side.
I'm in Georgia BUT we have had SNOW. A record 6 inches. The High tension lead goes behind the flywheel. I do not see an ignition coil.
Hang on. There were two ignition systems used.
That is why I questioned that some of these early tractors and a magneto.
That's Had a magneto.
The magneto version of that engine doesn't have points or a condenser.
The online John Deere parts catalog appears to be wrong on your model. Give me a few more minutes. I have the factory Kohler manuals and I have the original JD books around here somewhere.
Wow! I am a manual; and book fanatic but I don't have anything on this tractor. Just started working on it so I WILL get proper manuals and books soon!
OK, the online JD parts site is wrong. There was one version of the K161 engine that had a point magneto with an external point. Your tests are simple but you will need to pull the magneto cover. (You may need to remove the engine mount bolts to raise the engine so it clears the frame.) Unplug the wire to the harness. This removes all switches from the system. Crank the motor. If you have spark, the problem is in a switch or the wiring.
If no spark, remove the point wire. Attach an ohm meter, buzz box, test light, etc., to verify the point makes full contact when closed and shows fully open on the meter when open.
If the point checks out, replace the condenser. If still no spark, replace the magneto coil. One note here. I did have a few where the triggering magnet on the flywheel fell off. If so, just epoxy it back on and you are in business.
A magneto works with the turning of the engine! To pull the magneto cover it looks like I need to pull the flywheel and the magneto is behind it.
That's correct.
Looks Good! Thanks for the help. I am Bill Craig [email protected] If you need any Jaguar or any old English car questions answered contact me! Thanks again.
Thanks for the accept. You can still get the engine manual from the Kohler website. Download the K series manual. You will have to watch ebay for the tractor manual.


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Robert Litan
The corporate scandals of the past year and a half have sent shock waves through Wall Street — and generated numerous proposals for reform on Capitol Hill.
So far, the most significant piece of legislation to emerge is the Corporate Responsibility Act, more commonly referred to as Sarbanes-Oxley after the law's two sponsors. Among other things, it requires that companies' accounting firms be selected by the audit committees of the boards of directors and that top executives certify personally the accuracy of their companies' financial statements. In addition, the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq have implemented new rules of their own. Some observers have called these reforms inadequate. They argue that accounting firms should not be able to provide both auditing and consulting services for companies, as Arthur Anderson LLP did for Enron Corp., and that companies should have to rotate accounting firms periodically. In the following interview, Robert Litan argues that such additional changes would do little good and that, while the worst of the corporate scandals may be behind us, they are probably far from over.
Litan is vice president and head of economic studies at the Brookings Institution, arguably the most prominent think tank in Washington, D.C. An economist and lawyer, he has held positions with the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Justice. He also has lectured at the Yale Law School and served as a consultant to the Department of the Treasury. In addition to speaking about corporate governance, Litan shares his thoughts on the role of think tanks in the public policy process, the state of international trade policy, and the economic promise of the Internet. Aaron Steelman interviewed Litan at Brookings on Sept. 26, 2002.
RF: Brookings is a large research organization with prominent scholars doing academic work across a variety of fields. Yet many of these scholars are also intensely interested in changing the way Washington operates. How do Brookings and other think tanks affect public policy?
Litan: I think that all think tanks want to be policy-relevant, and to differing degrees they work directly and indirectly toward that goal. One way is through close contact with policymakers. Sometimes, for instance, think tank staffers might help draft a piece of legislation or regulation. That type of influence is direct and often immediate. We also have contact with the media and the academic world. By having our views known through books, articles, and editorials — and then having our ideas diffused through academia — there is an indirect impact from the sum of all these activities.
I'll give you three examples of how I think Brookings has contributed to policy in the past. My predecessor as economic studies director, Joe Pechman, spent his entire career arguing for a fairer and simpler tax code by cutting out loopholes in return for lowering rates. Joe was a Democrat. But the administration that ultimately adopted his view was the Reagan administration. It pushed through the 1986 Tax Reform Act, which I think was a monument to Joe's lifelong work and which unfortunately has been substantially undone by so many incremental changes to the tax code. But I think Brookings helped lay the intellectual foundations for a fairer and simpler tax code.
The second area in which I think Brookings has had an effect is the budget deficit. We wrote about the topic ad nauseum throughout the 1980s. And I think that a lot of the arguments for deficit reduction — the notion that it would lower real interest rates and so on — were made and strengthened by people here at Brookings.
Finally, Charles Schultze and others were very active in opposing large-scale industrial policies that were popular in the 1980s and early 1990s. Fortunately, in the end, the United States didn't adopt the central-planning policies that have been tried without success elsewhere. And part of that, I think, can be attributed to the efforts of people at Brookings.
RF: Let's talk about your work on corporate governance. Some have argued that firms should be prevented from providing both auditing and consulting services for their clients. But you have maintained that such a law would have little effect.
Litan: The charge that has been leveled against the accounting firms is that if they are involved in all these other activities, they will either explicitly or implicitly bend over backward to favor management. Exhibit A, of course, is Enron, where Arthur Andersen had $27 million in fees from nonaudit work and $25 million from audit work during its last year. The claim is that Arthur Andersen went along with Enron's shenanigans because they feared losing the $27 million. My point is that if we end up restricting accounting firms to only audit work, some firms will still be tempted to please management, because they will not want to take the chance of losing their only source of income. This demonstrates that the central problem that needs to be addressed is: Who hires the auditor? If it's management, then there will always be a potential danger of the auditors bending to management's will. But if it's somebody else, that danger is reduced. Through a combination of actions by the exchanges and Congress, the rule now is pretty clear that the auditors have to be hired by the audit committees of boards of directors. These committees are one or two steps removed from management and that, I think, significantly increases the chances for auditor independence. So, in my view, this is the real reform. Telling auditors that they shouldn't be in the consulting business is attacking the symptom of the problem, not the source of the problem.
RF: One problem with such a reform is that you might have difficulty finding people who would be willing to serve on boards of directors. How would you respond to that criticism?
Litan: It is true that serving on a board is now fraught with much greater responsibility and risk than appeared to be the case a couple of years ago, especially if you serve on the audit committee. It's not a full-time job, but it's a significant part-time job. It seems to me that the only way you are going to attract quality people to serve on these kinds of committees will be if you pay them more. This is one example among many of how the Enron-related scandals are going to lead to higher costs for corporate governance.
RF: Given what you said about the proposal to prohibit firms from providing both auditing and consulting services, I assume you are also skeptical of the idea of mandatory rotation of audit companies. Is that right?
Litan: Under the Corporate Responsibility Act, there is a requirement that the auditing firm rotate the individual partner in charge every five years. But the law did not require mandatory rotation of the firms themselves. That idea, I think, is being evaluated by the General Accounting Office. I have been skeptical of such a proposal for at least two reasons. First, the auditing industry is very concentrated, so we are only talking about a handful of firms. The second concern is, if you are worried about auditing firms bending too far in the direction of management, then why aren't you worried, in a world of mandatory rotation, that one of the three firms left to bid for a new job will make an implicit agreement with management to go easy on them?
RF: One could argue that the examples of Arthur Andersen and Enron will lead companies to act more prudently. Do you think that the market could provide much of the discipline necessary to correct the problems of corporate governance?
Litan: Even before Congress and the exchanges took action, there had already been substantial market self-correction. Accounting firms got tougher, boards of directors got tougher, the analysts got tougher, the rating agencies got tougher, and management got scared. This had nothing to do with legislation. And then, of course, we are going to have the lawsuits. All these things are part of the self-correcting mechanism of our system of governance, and they will help prevent future Enrons. But scandals and episodes of excess have a way of coming and going, and memories have a way of fading. For example, we know that when real estate cycles go bust, lending officers are seared by the experience. But when a new crop of officers take their place, they make many of the same mistakes. So, while self-correction is helpful, I don't think it hurts that we have institutionalized some of these additional changes.
RF: Do you think that the worst of the corporate scandals are behind us?
Litan: Speaking here in late September 2002, I still think it is premature to say that we are finished with these type of corporate scandals. The major reason I say this is that Congress has just given the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) several hundred million more dollars to enforce the disclosure laws, and we have a new oversight committee for the auditing industry. With all these extra resources, it would surprise me if we don't find more scandals. I don't know if they will be the size of Enron or WorldCom. But the fact is with more cops on the beat, the chances are more crimes will be reported and discovered. I can virtually guarantee that there will be more earnings restatements and more enforcement actions as a result of all this initial effort that will be poured into scrutinizing accounting standards.
RF: It seems that your last response begs the question: Is it worth it? After all, the optimal amount of crime isn't zero, because it would be too expensive to get such a result. How will we know when we are spending the right amount of resources on enforcement?
Litan: At this point, I don't know how you would do a cost-benefit analysis. All I know is that we are pouring more resources into monitoring: we have increased the budget of the SEC, we are spending more on corporate boards, accountants are charging more money, and liability insurance rates are going up. You add all those things together, and it wouldn't surprise me that you find that several billion dollars more will be devoted to corporate governance. Will that be worth it in terms of restoring investor confidence? I think that the answer is yes. I have recently completed a paper with two colleagues at Brookings in which we attempt to quantify the economic costs of the corporate accounting scandals. We estimate that the macro costs would be somewhere in the range of $40 billion on an annual basis. I'm not going to say that's a permanent cost, because eventually I think the market will recover. But, at least on the surface, it appears that the extra monitoring costs will be worth it.
RF: Is there something about an extended economic expansion that makes Enron-like shenanigans more likely?
Litan: I don't think it was the boom so much as the shift toward performance-based pay and the related move to award executives handsome stock options. Now, I am not against performance-based pay. In fact, I'm all for it. I think that there are very good reasons why management's compensation ought to be tied to corporate performance. However, what I think we have learned as a result of this mess is that when you base compensation on measures that are related to the stock market — and earnings are one such measure — you are tempting the unscrupulous to cook the books. And there is some fraction — some tail of the distribution — that will go over the edge.
I don't know if there is a rise in the number of unscrupulous people running corporations now compared to the early 1990s. Let us assume that it's the same percentage. It's just that with different sets of incentives, the unscrupulous were given greater reasons to act that way in the late 1990s than they were a decade before. I think it's the only plausible explanation as to why we got so many people willing to engage in accounting manipulation.
RF: Are banks special, in some sense, when it comes to corporate governance issues?
Litan: Let's break that question down into two parts. First, do banks have themselves any special obligations to be holier than thou on corporate governance issues? We know banks are special, for reasons that Jerry Corrigan [the former president of the New York Fed] articulated well in the early 1980s. They help create money, and they are critical to the lending process. But we also know that banks are a lot less special than they used to be. But the fact that they are special means that we have ended up insuring their deposits and heavily regulating them. And given that there is a regulatory regime in place, this attenuates the need for any special corporate governance rules.
Now, there's a separate issue. Should banks in their capacity as lenders be more vigilant in exercising oversight of corporations they lend money to? My instinctive response is no. When we speak of corporate governance, we are typically thinking about shareholders, not creditors. Creditors don't need to govern — they have loan agreements and covenants that protect them. The reason why we need governance rules typically is to protect equity shareholders. So, if banks were allowed to directly make equity investments in companies, then I would say that banks would have a tremendous obligation to oversee companies, just as banks now do in Germany. But in our system, banks don't own equity, so I'm not sure that they should be charged with anything extra in the corporate governance area.
RF: In 1998 you and three co-authors published a book called Globaphobia: Confronting Fears About Open Trade. Since that time, there have been a number of high-profile protests at meetings of the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and other groups. What do you think is the current state of the debate on globalization?
Litan: I think that the protest movement has elevated concern for the poor in the Third World. For example, I doubt that Paul O'Neill would have gone on a tour of Africa with Bono talking about debt reduction without the protests. So we should give them credit for raising these issues.
But the protest movement is an amalgamation of many different groups advocating many different things, some of which are contradictory and some of which make no sense. If you were to go out and talk to these people on the street, I bet that a lot of them would say that the way to help the poor is to require developing countries to raise labor and environmental standards or else we shouldn't take their products. To me, that's just another excuse for protectionism. I think you would find other people who wouldn't be even that sophisticated and who would say let's not trade abroad at all. On the other hand, you would also find groups like Oxfam, which in a recent report looked at America's trade barriers and came to what I thought was a sensible conclusion — that America is hypocritical. The United States argues for free trade while at the same time it subsidizes agriculture and maintains import barriers for textiles and other goods that are produced in the Third World. This is very sensible, yet Oxfam presumably would be lumped in this group of antiglobalization people, even though it is saying things that would not be supported by a lot of people on the street.
Let's go to the larger outlook for trade liberalization. Here, I am somewhat of a pessimist. I think that there is very little evidence that our Congress is interested in making the kinds of concessions necessary to induce other countries to open their markets. For example, I don't think Congress wants to change our antidumping laws or cut agricultural subsidies. In fact, we see a lot of evidence to the contrary. The administration faces a very tough uphill road in pursuing the multilateral agenda, which is why I think toward the end of the Bush term you are going to see much greater enthusiasm for bilateral trade deals. There are a number of countries that have lined up — Australia, Singapore, Chile — asking for potential deals. Those are much more likely to be enacted than, say, a free trade for the Americas deal.
RF: You've also recently written a book with Alice Rivlin titled Beyond the Dot.Coms: The Economic Promise of the Internet. You argue that it hasn't been all hype — that the Internet will, in fact, have a significant effect on the economy. In what areas do you think the benefits will be most widely felt?
Litan: The economic benefits of the Internet basically don't have much to do with the dot-coms. It's the technology itself that provides the boost to productivity. And this technology is spreading throughout the economy in much the same way that electricity diffused throughout the manufacturing sector many decades ago. Alice and I estimated that the diffusion of this new technology is going to add anywhere between .25 percent and .5 percent to annual productivity growth over the next five years. I have also done another study with Hal Varian in which we ask companies themselves to make estimates of what they think the benefits of using the Internet will be. We tabulated those results from almost 2,000 companies and came up with results that are very similar to what Alice and I got. I still remain optimistic that the Internet will have these productivity payoffs, even if almost all the dot-coms that are left today are dead five years from now.
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Bungie Explains Why They're Removing the "Kekistan"-Looking Gauntlets
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Sega has announced in a blog post that it's bringing the combat-flight game After Burner Climax to iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch soon.
Team Sega AM2 (the department behind Shenmue, OutRun, and Virtua Fighter) developed the "elite aerial dogfight game" for arcades in 2006, and it's since come to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.
More details are on the way. The publisher has released one screenshot so far, which you can see here.
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Trophyhunter 5 years ago
I see that Tim Hudson is scheduled to pitch according to Fleaflicker and ESPN.
My team is in a daily league with no waiver waiting. Why can't I activate Hudson to play today? (3 hours from now)
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Oops my mistake! I was able to move him to a starter today as scheduled.
However with the - sign next to his name it still looks like he is on DL list?
Thanks anyhow. TH.


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Alzheimer's Disease
Breaking Down Periventricular White Matter Disease
I am 64 years old and had an MRI of the brain with and without gadolinium. "The impression: Periventricular white matter disease with a very small cortical defect in the right cerebellar hemisphere, This is unchanged from the previous study. The white matter disease has worsened since the previous study. However, no acute infarct or hemorrahage is seen".
Can you explain in simple words? Do I need to get another MRI to check if it has worsened again? Thanks.
I would suggest that you ask your physician to review your MRI images with you. Some radiologists will comment on even the slightest amount of white matter changes, and if that is the case, it is of little concern. Extensive white matter changes are more often associated with cognitive impairment or sometimes associated with mood issues, but I have seen fairly significant white matter changes in fairly intact individuals.
In a young patient with a history of neurological deficits, multiple sclerosis would be the main worry. In an older patient with a history of neurological deficits, stroke would be the main worry. In someone without a history of neurological deficits, it is less clear. In order to determine which applies to you, one would have to review the images- as the radiologist didn't comment on how extensive the white matter changes are (or were to begin with).
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Benitez doubts Liverpool title credentials
Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez believes that his Premier League leaders can only win the title if Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal fail to mount a decent challenge.
Speaking ahead of his team's clash with Hull City on Saturday the Spaniard also said he considered Liverpool to be a small club compared to the "bigger" clubs of England's established top four.
Benitez told The Sun: "For us to win the league we need Chelsea, Man United and Arsenal to mess up their season. It is very rare that three teams all mess up."
Liverpool are one point clear of second-placed Chelsea and six ahead of Manchester United, who have a game in hand, with Arsenal in fourth, eight points off the pace.
Prior to joining Liverpool in 2004, Benitez won the La Liga title with Valencia and the Spaniard can see parallels with the Reds' challenge this season.
"For me, Valencia and Liverpool are similar - for them to win, the bigger clubs have to do badly," Benitez said. "When I won La Liga with Valencia that's what happened, Real Madrid and Barcelona were in transition, so it was easier."
But Benitez has charged his team with building a lead at the top of the Premier League now that the Champions League is on a winter break.
With the group stage finishing this week - Liverpool comfortably qualified for the last 16 - there is now a lull in European competition until the knockout stage begins in February. And Benitez has urged his side to knuckle down for those 10 league games.
"We now have almost three months to concentrate on the Premier League, and the FA Cup. We would want to go back into Europe next year still top of the table.
"We have qualified for the next stage in Europe, we are top of the Premier League, and now we can concentrate on domestic considerations. We do not want to give up top spot. If we are still there when we start up again in Europe, the chances of a really good season will be obvious."
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Wahoo! Got my shipment from Davids Tea yesterday…the same day the fall collection was announced (poopy). But, I'm so excited to try some new teas: Prairie Berry, Fantasy Island, Salted Caramel and Nepal black tea. And since I had my tea shipped to my work, I got to show it all to my coworkers and started a great discussion about tea. Too bad there isn't a Davids Tea in Red Deer :(
I digress. I started with Prairie Berry, you know with being from Saskatchewan and all. There sure are a lot more cranberries than Saskatoon berries in there. The smell was everything I expected from this tea. I did, however, forget about it in my steeper while I was working so it sat for more than 15 minutes. I tried to redeem it with a bit of maple sugar after the first few sips that were so not so yummy. The sugar helped a little, but I really think I messed up the whole thing. Yet, I did like the berry flavour once I got over the bitterness.
I'm not going to rate this yet, not until I make it properly and give it a good chance.


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Think of the Children! BBC Threatens to Axe Kids' Shows if Britons Aren't Jailed for Dodging TV Tax
The reputation of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), the UK's state broadcaster, for liberal bias is such that U.S. conservatives are as familiar with its anti-Republican, anti-Israel, pro-big government, multicultralist agenda, and its tendency to subject Christianity to skepticism and ridicule while giving Islam the benefit of the doubt, as they are with Monty Python, The Benny Hill Show and its other successful transatlantic exports.
And while American conservatives rightly complain about the liberal bias in their own country's media, at least they're not forced to pay for it (aside from their share of the relatively meagre federal subsidy for PBS and NPR). Their British counterparts are not so fortunate.
The BBC is funded by the TV licence fee, a £145.50 ($240) compulsory tax on households that own a television – so even if you've never watched a BBC program in your life, if you have a TV set you have to pay. And if you don't like the relentless stream of pro-immigration, pro-European Union propaganda on its news programs, or the non-stop jokes at the expense of (Republican) U.S. politicians on its comedy shows, or the thrillers in which the bad guys turn out to be Mossad agents or anti-abortion fanatics, you have to pay (if you think I'm exaggerating about the bias in entertainment shows, an upcoming Doctor Who episode will feature an "intergalactic banker" as a villain).
Non-payment of the licence fee is currently a criminal offence. Offenders can be hauled into court, and ultimately jailed. Such compulsion sits uneasily with the BBC's image, carefully cultivated by its supporters in the wider liberal establishment, as the country's "favorite broadcaster" and a "much loved" national institution (similarly emotive language is used to attack critics of the beleaguered National Health Service).
As a more practical matter, it's also putting a strain on Britain's courts; around one in ten criminal cases are prosecutions for licence fee evasion. In 2012, 190,000 people were prosecuted for non-payment, and 165,000 were convicted and given a criminal record – two-thirds of them women, and many of them low-income single parents and the elderly (you don't qualify for a free licence until you're 75). Fifty-one were jailed.
The current licence fee agreement is up for renewal in 2017, and ahead of negotiations the government has floated a proposal, which has attracted cross-party support, to decriminalise licence fee evasion; non-payment would instead be treated as civil offence, and offenders would no longer face the threat of imprisonment.
The BBC has responded by warning that if the proposals are implemented non-payment will increase, and the cost of the licence fee for those who do pay will rise. Furthermore, one of its directors (a former Labour government minister, in case you were still in any doubt about the left-wing bias) has warned that the BBC would be forced to axe some channels – and first for the chop would be those dedicated to children's programming.
Think of the children! If the BBC's threat has a familiar ring to it, it's because liberals employed very similar scare tactics during the 2012 presidential election campaign, claiming that Republicans wanted to kill off Big Bird and Sesame Street after Mitt Romney said he'd end the federal subsidy for PBS.
But let that sink in for a moment: Britain's state broadcaster is threatening to take children's shows off the air if members of the public are no longer jailed for refusing to fund it. And this from an organization that, back in the days when it actually did command the respect and affection of a majority of the British public, was nicknamed "Auntie" in recognition of the benevolent role it was felt to play in the life of the nation – these days it's more of a wicked stepmother.


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NAGOYA – Kakuryu went tumbling out to a second defeat in a weak display at the hands of sekiwake Goeido while Hakuho made mincemeat out of another would-be challenger in the form of Takekaze to improve to a perfect 10-0 at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Tuesday.
Hakuho widened his lead against his closest rivals with just five days remaining in the fourth major tournament of the year.
Kotoshogiku is one behind the sole leader along with No. 11 maegashira Takayasu at 9-1. Kakuryu, in his second meet at sumo's top rung, is one further back with Goeido at 8-2.
One of the biggest rumbles of the day came during an all-ozeki encounter between Kotoshogiku and Kisenosato, with the former running roughshod over the latter.
But it was the popular No. 5 maegashira Endo who once again drew the loudest cheers when he saw off Brazilian-born Kaisei in a near-flawless performance of speed and balance.
In May, Goeido was disqualified in his bout against Kakuryu for grabbing the yokozuna's topknot.
This time, Kakuryu's bad habit resurfaced as he attempted to outflank his opponent by circling to his right and was immediately crushed over the edge into the ringside seats when the sekiwake got his right hand firmly planted inside.
Hakuho gave Takekaze a beating in the day's finale, extinguishing any aspirations the No. 4 maegashira might have had of a sequel to his giant-killing antics against Harumafuji the previous day as he showed his man the exit by "yorikiri."
Sumo's premier yokozuna faces Goeido on Wednesday.
Kotoshogiku went on the rampage right out of the gate, beating Kisenosato (7-3) at the charge to get his right arm under his opponent's armpit, then barreling his rival over the edge.
Yokozuna Harumafuji, who has suffered three defeats to the lower echelon at this meet, rebounded from his loss the previous day, tossing out Tamawashi (2-8) with a pulling-arm technique.
Earlier, Endo (5-5) was able to get his right hand on the mawashi for an underhanded grip and swiftly wiggled his pinned left hand free and around Kaisei's (2-8) back before marching his opponent over the straw bales.
Terunofuji (6-4) was the picture of composure despite taking a deluge of slaps from Egyptian-born Osunaarashi, starting with a vicious "kachiage" forearm to the throat.
After riding out the tsunami, Terunofuji, who hails from Mongolia, got both arms around the No. 3 maegashira before catapulting him off the raised ring with an overarm throw.
Osunaarashi (4-6), sumo's first wrestler to come from Africa, beat Kakuryu and Harumafuji on the fifth and sixth day, respectively, but has lost his last four matches, including falling to Hakuho on the eighth day and Endo on Monday.
No. 1 maegashira Takayasu, the only rank-and-filer one off the pace, steamrolled Chiyotairyu (7-3), bending his knees deep and grappling the mawashi as he ushered his opponent over the edge.


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Football: Guthrie, Bearcats shut down rival Aubrey
PILOT POINT - One of Mason Guthrie's main jobs on Friday nights is to punish opposing defenses with his running game.
On Friday, the Pilot Point senior didn't hurt Aubrey with quantity, but he made an impact despite limited offensive touches in a 17-7 win over Aubrey at Massey Stadium.
Guthrie's 10-yard touchdown reception from J.P. Price with 25 seconds left in the first half gave the Bearcats a 14-7 lead going into halftime.
But he might have won the game on defense.
From his middle linebacker position, Guthrie picked off two James Wurster passes, one in the Pilot Point end zone with Aubrey driving to tie the game and another with under four minutes to play. Both interceptions came after Pilot Point penalties extended Aubrey drives.
"Those were both really huge," Guthrie said. "They had taken the momentum from us both times. It was big. The whole team needed those. That first pick [in the end zone] was really huge."
Guthrie finished with the game with 12 carries for 82 yards, but he had just three carries for 15 yards when the fourth quarter began. That's when Guthrie started grinding the clock - and Aubrey's defense.
The senior appeared to put the game on ice with a minute remaining on third-and-7 from the Pilot Point 49 when he took a run to the end zone, but it was negated by a block in the back penalty far behind the ball.
"He's such a warrior," Pilot Point head coach Blake Feldt said of his two-way star. "He's been like that this whole year, and really his whole career at Pilot Point."
Feldt praised his entire defense, which has struggled at times this season and entered the game allowing 36.4 points per game.
On Friday, the Chaparrals (3-5, 0-3 District 9-3A) managed just 257 total yards while watching their playoff chances in their first season in Class 3A severely dwindle.
"I'm just really proud of the entire defense," Feldt said. "They kept fighting and fighting. I can't tell you how proud I am of them. They got after it tonight."
The Bearcats (3-5, 1-2) still had work to do after Guthrie's long run, which officially went for 41 yards, but the penalty was almost crucial.
Pilot Point coaches figured during the week that they needed to beat Aubrey by nine points or more to break a point differential tiebreaker with Aubrey, should the Chaparrals beat Gainesville.
If that happens, Pilot Point would need to win one of its two remaining games against Argyle and Whitesboro to make the playoffs. If Gainesville beats Aubrey, Pilot Point would need to win out to get the third and final playoff spot in District 9-3A.
So after the penalty gave Pilot Point the ball at the Aubrey 20-yard line with 52 seconds left, junior kicker Ruben Martinez played the role he's played a few times in the playoffs - hero, at least temporarily.
Martinez lined up for a 36-yard field goal with 3 seconds remaining on the clock and sent a high-arching kick through the uprights as time expired to give Pilot Point the 10-point victory.
"That's all we needed to do," Feldt said after the game.
Pilot Point had a crucial conversion at the end of the first half when the Bearcats faced fourth-and-1 from the Aubrey 10-yard line with 30 seconds remaining.
Quarterback J.P. Price threw a strike to Guthrie in the middle of the end zone to give the Bearcats a 14-7 lead going into the break.
Price finished the night with 71 rushing yards, including a 22-yard touchdown run in the first quarter to get the Bearcats on the scoreboard first. He also threw for 130 yards on an efficient 14-of-22 passing with no interceptions and the one touchdown toss to Guthrie.
Pilot Point kept its playoff hopes alive with the win, picking up its first district win after winning the Class 2A Division I state championship a year ago.
Aubrey is still searching for its first win as a Class 3A program, in legendary head coach G.A. Moore's second year with the program.
ADAM BOEDEKER can be reached at 940-566-6872. His e-mail address is email@example.com.
Pilot Point 17, Aubrey 7
Pilot Point 7 7 0 3 - 17
Aubrey 0 7 0 0 - 7
Scoring summary
First Quarter
PP - J.P. Price 22 run (Ruben Martinez kick), 3:45
Second Quarter
A - Collin Scribner 25 pass from James Wurster (Irving Saucedo), 9:08
PP - Mason Guthrie 10 pass from Price (Martinez kick), 0:25
Fourth Quarter
PP - Ruben Martinez 36 field goal, 0:00
Team Statistics
First downs 13 14
Rushing 37-184 29-160
Passing yards 73 130
Total yards 257 290
Passing 8-15-2 14-22-0
Fumbles-lost 1-1 0-0
Punts-avg. 3-35.7 4-44.0
Penalties-yards 6-35 7-69
Individual Statistics
Rushing: A - Albert Silva 18-89, Skyler Craig 3-7, Dexter Loza 1-2, Charlie Radford 8-65, Kristian Wiseman 2-4, James Wurster 4-16, Skyler Starling 1-1. PP - J.P. Price 15-71, Mason Guthrie 12-82, Austin Trinklein 1-(-2), Corbin Sitzes 1-9.
Passing: A - James Wurster 8-15-2-73. PP - J.P. Price 14-22-0-130.
Receiving: A - Collin Scribner 3-36, James Reeves 1-2, Skyler Craig 1-5, Kristian Wiseman 2-14, Albert Silva 1-16. PP - Austin Balderas 7-73, Mason Guthrie 1-10, Willie Davis 1-5, Jacob Lock 2-14, Ricky Campbell 1-6, Conner Camacho 2-22.


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