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September 26, 2012
Contact: Sammy Parks
Phone Number: (713) 693-3329
Laredo Bail Bonds Manager Indicted For Money Laundering
LAREDO, Texas - A federal grand jury has returned an 11-count indictment against Elizabeth Nevarez, 43, of Laredo, alleging wire fraud, falsification of documents and money laundering, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. She is also charged with engaging in a financial transaction of criminally derived property and removal of property in prevention of seizure.
The indictment alleges that from May 6, 2010 to Oct. 21, 2011, Nevarez engaged in a scheme of money laundering, wire fraud and the falsification of warranty deeds relating to the 2010 federal drug case United States v. Juan Ramon Ibarra Sr. It is alleged that after the May 6, 2010 arrest of Ibarra, Nevarez backdated the warranty deeds for three Laredo properties owned by the Ibarra family and put those properties into her own name to prevent the government from seizing these assets. Subsequently, Nevarez sold the three properties for $374,436.04 and conducted illicit wire transfers with the proceeds, some of which she used to purchase a property in San Antonio.
Nevarez faces up to 20 years in prison for each conviction of wire fraud, falsification of documents and money laundering. She also faces up to 10 years for engaging in a financial transaction of criminally derived property in excess of $10,000 and up to five for each count alleging removal of property in prevention of seizure, upon conviction. The United States is seeking forfeiture in the amount of $374,436.04 as well as the San Antonio property.
The case is the result of a two-year investigation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration with the assistance of Homeland Security Investigations. Assistant United States Attorneys James Hepburn and Elizabeth Rabe are prosecuting the case.
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In watching Marc Forster's new action drama "World War Z," it's hard not to be struck by how well Brad Pitt is aging.
Yes, there's the slightest of silver highlighting his long locks, and the added distinction those little lines are etching on his face, and that his body somehow defies the gravitational pull — but they're not the reason for my fascination. It's the ironic way the zombie thriller — a cleverly high-minded horror hoot — shows how carefully the actor is working his way through the treacherous terrain of the middle-aged movie star.
I realize it may qualify as heresy to pull the spotlight off actresses even for a moment. They've had to deal with the aging issue forever. Feminist enlightenment hasn't softened the realities of working in front of the camera, and the world at large has hardly eased its focus on the whole youth-equals-beauty mythology.
Which may be why we have overlooked, or underestimated, the pressures aging puts on male stars. Right now, we have an impressive generation of major male stars just getting into the thick of it — Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Will Smith, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey among the most prominent. All are in their 40s but DiCaprio, who is nearly there, 39 in November. At the moment, the 50s belong to Denzel Washington, George Clooney and (if you can believe it) Johnny Depp.
They can learn from their elders (if not always betters). Some major marquee names have struggled mightily — Tom Cruise is Exhibit One. Cruise turns 51 in July, looks more like 41, yet you can feel the age unsettling, rather than enriching, his work. Director Michael Mann's "Collateral" in 2004 was the actor's last great film. In the years since, there have been some middling "Mission Impossibles." But the romantic action of "Knight and Day" was embarrassing. His cartoony sendup of a Hollywood producer in "Tropic Thunder" and his raging, aging rock star in "Rock of Ages" wobble on that thin line between laughing "with" and "at."
In this year's "Oblivion," the actor was the best thing about a B-movie, not reassuring. And never has the star looked more vulnerable, and not in a good way, than shirtless and posturing in last year's disastrous "Jack Reacher."
DiCaprio in contrast, who like Cruise found success early, seems eager to take on characters that challenge even if, at times, that means an ancillary role. His smarmy, sadistic Southern bigot in "Django Unchained," was about as unlikable as any the actor has every played — and about as well drawn. Even in movies that haven't quite measured up — like "The Great Gatsby" — DiCaprio has, an actor of real solidity.
It is far easier in Hollywood, as elsewhere in life, to make the obvious but wrong choice. I'm sure "Pink Panther 2" looked good to Steve Martin on paper.
So what is to be done as the years tick by?
For the bible on how to do it right, there is no place else to start but with Clint Eastwood, who at 83 is turning out to be the best closer in Hollywood history. He keeps making great movies — directing, starring and collecting awards. A screen version of "Jersey Boys" is rumored, so apparently Eastwood's ambition — and energy — isn't dimming.
Robert Redford is another. He hasn't had Eastwood's consistent success behind the camera since the Oscar for his 1980 directing debut, "Ordinary People." But like his brilliant "Quiz Show" in 1994, the actor-director commits to projects he loves and stories he believes are important to tell. Not a Focker in the bunch. About to turn 77, his acting is getting a serious second wind too in J.C. Chandor's new film, "All Is Lost." The role was a risk, Redford goes solo, alone in a boat with nothing but his intellect and the elements. The camera — notably — in someone else's hands.
Whether by choice or circumstance, Warren Beatty, 76, hasn't starred in a film since the 2001 bomb "Town & Country." It may be nothing more than adopting the Jack Nicholson approach — leave the work behind and spend the days playing elder statesman. After a series of great performances, "About Schmidt" in 2002 when he was 65 and 2006's "The Departed" when he was 69, the 76-year-old Nicholson has drifted into the forgettable.
For Michael Douglas, 68, the right role was on television. His recent glittery turn as Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra" was his best performance in years. It's not so much TV but surprising us. Tom Hanks, most memorable in the last 15 years for giving voice to "Toy Story's" Woody, tried out Broadway this year — "Lucky Guy" got him a Tony nod. Bill Murray completely changed his acting persona at 53 with "Lost in Translation." Suddenly the funny goof was introspective, edgy in a new way.
But that sort of sea change is rare. Douglas is up next in "Last Vegas," an old-boys buddy comedy with Robert De Niro, 69, and Morgan Freeman, 76. Are old guy buddy comedies becoming Hollywood's version of retirement living? Nicholson had a room with a view alongside Freeman in 2007's "The Bucket List." Last year, Al Pacino, 73, Alan Arkin, 79, and Christopher Walken, 70, got together as aging mobsters for "Stand Up Guys."
Sadly, the book on what not to do is being written by De Niro. One of our greatest working actors has lost himself in crummy, mindless comedy. I honestly believe the Oscar nod for "Silver Linings Playbook's" crusty dad was a part of the academy's positive reinforcement program so he wouldn't do another Fockers film. Because if you look closely, the distance between the dads is mostly the pedigree of the movie.
I'm not arguing against De Niro in comedy. He can be terrific as he was in "Midnight Run" and "The King of Comedy." And getting work isn't his problem either — the actor has five films due this year. I guess the good news is that 2013 started with arguably the worst film of De Niro's career, "Big Wedding," so it has to be uphill from here, right?
Not necessarily. Once movie star men hit middle age, nothing is a given.
Of the fiftysomethings, Clooney and Washington are doing some of the best work of their careers — Clooney in "The Descendants," Washington in "Flight." Meanwhile, Depp continues to ride the quirk factor like that horse in "The Lone Ranger." The danger of course is becoming a caricature, a bit like Nicholson has with that arched eyebrow and leering smile.
In strategic terms, actors can't discount the power of today's TV to keep them creatively energized and in front of the public. Dustin Hoffman's most compelling role in a while was his ex-con/racetrack mobster on HBO's short-lived "Luck." "30 Rock" famously resurrected Alec Baldwin's career, though it remains to be seen how it will play out in film for the 55-year-old.
(And if you've wondered, I'm not mentioning the British Islanders — they start differently and end differently — fecund character actors all the way. If they become "marquee stars" as well — Daniel Craig, Christian Bale and Clive Owen the gently aging men of the moment — so much the better. Ditto our homegrown greats.)
Meanwhile, the Eastwood heir apparent seems to be Ben Affleck — darkly handsome, strong mainstream appeal, an interest in diverse roles and proven directing chops. The actor has earned that spot the hard way, reversing a career that was flagging in his early 30s by stepping behind the camera for "Gone Baby Gone." It has paid off. Earlier this year he walked away with a best picture Oscar for "Argo," which he directed and starred in. (One of the film's other producers — George Clooney.)
For those not inclined to try the directing route, Brad Pitt is the model. The actor has succeeded on screen in virtually every genre: the snarky action of "Ocean's Eleven," the comic drama of "Inglourious Basterds," the swords and sandals of "Troy," the heartland drama of "A River Runs Through It," the crime thriller of "Se7en," and no one will forget the sizzling romance of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." Since his heartthrob breakout in 1991's "Thelma & Louise," Pitt has starred in at least one film a year, sometimes as many as four.
The range of the roles speak to Pitt's versatility but also to his strategic smarts. Pitt works on blockbusters, indie films, with A-list directors like Ridley Scott as often as auteurs like Terrence Malick. Sometimes he dominates the screen. Other times he shares it. Increasingly he produces it, "World War Z" only the latest and director Steve McQueen's much-anticipated "12 Years a Slave," in which Pitt also stars, due later this year.
The actor turns 50 in December primed to make that legendary turning point what it should be — just another day.


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This is awful, but I expect it happens every day and is only getting worse with the GOP assault on the "parasites":
Cindy Nerger of Warner Robins, Ga., said she and her husband aren't proud when they use their food stamp debit card to buy groceries. "I felt shy when I used them and my husband does, too," Nerger, 28, told The Huffington Post. "I would try to hide the card."
But Nerger said she never expected to be deliberately humiliated. That's what she said happened last week after she argued with a manager over her bill at a Kroger grocery store. The cashier told her she owed $10, which Nerger said could not be possible because she knew food stamps covered the items in her cart. A manager eventually let her go, but not before giving Nerger a piece of his mind. "He finally just said, 'Okay, just give it to her.' I said, 'See, I told you it was covered by food stamps,' and he said, 'Excuse me for working for a living and not relying on food stamps!'"
By that time, Nerger said, several people had been waiting in line behind her, and other customers had started watching the exchange. It was too much. "I turned around and saw everyone beyond me and I just burst into tears," she said.
I've seen some incidents at the store, usually it's over some item that isn't "allowed" which sparks a conversation in the line about why the state allows poor people to buy steak when they should be forced to hamburger or some such creepy judgement. But, as I said, this is only going to get worse.
And, by the way, it's not because the president is being "divisive" by calling some Wall Street billionaire a "fat cat." It's because people like Erick Ericksson and Mitt Romney are going out of their way to demonize the most vulnerable people in our society as lazy "takers."
People like this:
Nerger said she started receiving food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, when she became eligible for Medicare and Social Security Supplemental Income because of kidney failure in 2008. While she waits for a kidney transplant, she cannot work because of daily 12-hour dialysis treatments. Her husband runs a carpentry business. "If he doesn't get a call [for a job] we don't have any extra money for the month," she said.
If they had their way she wouldn't have health care either. But I'm sure we can count on the billionaires to be generous and give more than enough money to hospitals for the poor to adequately care for them. And gruel. I'm sure there would be gruel.


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thirty white horses on a red hill
first they champ,
then they stamp,
then they stand still."
— J.R.R. Tolkien, 'The Hobbit'
A tooth went for about a dime on my street in the 1960s. Though I don't actually have a direct memory of it, I recall the fact that when a tooth came out we would put it under our pillow that night and the Tooth Fairy would somehow retrieve it from under the weight of our head, leaving Eisenhower's bald profile in its place. Given how many baby teeth I had to leave for that benign bone collector, you'd think I'd have clearer memories of making the drop.
What I do remember very vividly is using my tongue to wiggle a loose tooth back and forth while sitting in school, and even more vividly wedging the tip of my tongue under the bottom of the tooth on the inside where it had become detatched so that the tooth would lean forward, still attached along the outside. And finally that warm and alarming taste of blood.
What strangeness are teeth! Like fingernails and toenails they are parts of our skeleton that show on the outside of us, the architecture exposed, a glimpse of the clay from which we are formed. They are like granite outcroppings on a hillside, hinting at what there would be if the breath of life were removed and grass or skin whithered away. And am I right — that teeth are the only parts of our bodies that we are given a preliminary set of? We don't drop our arms or legs during childhood, nor can we in later years evacuate our innards in favor of new stuffing, as beneficial as that would be to many of us. New eardrums anyone? How about the eyes, which fail so many before they wear out the rest of themselves? Why did the Creator deign to accord us a completely disposable set of teeth while of all our other body parts we must take utmost care, unless it is that a mouthful of teeth is so vital to our well-being that we must have them before our mouths can fit them or our gums support them. Or maybe it's because the gums must be broken — with something — before we develop the memory to record such awful pain. I don't know, but to me — to me — it seems to point to not only brilliant but also benevolent design.
It's all about the ivory these days at our house. I've likened our little family before to a herd of elephants, and right about now that seems apropos. Emilia has two teeth now, the bottom fronts, and is working on the rest of her starter package. The thing about photographing them, however, is that when she smiles she also wags her head around so that the camera has trouble focusing on her, with the result that there are not a lot of really clear photographs of her new, white, razor sharp teeth. We've been letting her maul apple slices, which she loves. Bananas, no. Sweet potatoes, no. She will happily mash these others in her fist and then wave her hands and splatter chunky, handmade apple- or yam-sauce around the kitchen, but she doesn't seem interested in putting those in her mouth. But she knows what to do with a Honeycrisp, boy howdy. As she stuffs a wedge of apple into her mouth and works her jaw you can hear those lower incisors tearing cleanly into the flesh of the fruit. She mostly spits out the chunks but she loves the juice.
While Millie has been getting accustomed to her first teeth, Mara and Angela have both been preparing to lose some of the ones they have been making good use of for years.
Angela's wisdom teeth came in beautifully when she was younger, came in with none of the thuggish crowding behavior so common in teeth of that ilk, which in my own teenaged and too-small jaw were impacted and had to be gone in after as soon as they started pushing on the molars above. Angela's wisdom teeth might have gone the distance, but one of them developed a crack and some subsequent decay — I blame sucking on ice cubes, though she derides this diagnosis as quackery — so they are all coming out in two weeks, just to reduce the chance of further trouble.
Neither Angela nor I is looking forward to her operation, she because it will probably hurt and will certainly inconvenience her, I because I will temporarily lose my tag-team partner in the daily struggle against chaos (or should I say KAOS; some of Mara's behaviors lately suggest she might currently be an agent for the original Axis of Evil). But both of us are excited that Mara, our family's first baby elephant — after much jealous pining to experience the thrill and danger described by older (and lisping) friends, and much pulling and pushing and testifying that she was sure one of her teeth was starting to become loose — actually coughed one up about a week ago. One of her bottom teeth gave way in preparation for the arrival of her first real tusk.
After much careful examination, the little tooth was placed in a mesh pouch and set to rest next to her pillow when she went to bed. In the morning, the tooth was gone and in its place there was a new $1 Jefferson "gold" coin.


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IS Benetton necessary?
I have been trying to shape a Boule for many times, but it come out quite flat. I have tried to left it on the counter, in mixing bowl, in dining bowl and so forth, but neither of them will have to maintain its shape.
I did the second proof without rice flour, replaced it with a bowl lined with greased parchment paper. When I remove the dough it started to spread out. It gives me a far a bit of oven spring but still it not like a soccer ball shape.
Photos will be uploaded later tonight, as its still cooling down.


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This exhibition is the first major retrospective of the work of John Kirby, an important contemporary artist who was born and grew up in Liverpool. His paintings and sculpture explores the themes of gender, religion, sexuality and race and Kirby's complex relationship with each of them.
Comprising over 50 paintings and 10 sculptures the exhibition brings together a group of work spanning over three decades, from early paintings made at the Royal College of Art in the 1980s to more recent works.
Solitary figures in strange worlds dominate Kirby's work; this has led many people to compare his work to that of Rene Magritte. However Kirby cites the Polish-French Modern artist Balthus and American realist painter Edward Hopper as his major influences.
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[February 15, 2014]
This weekend, friends and family
plan to celebrate the lives of four teens killed six years ago.
There will be a memorial service Sunday afternoon. The memorial has
been held each year since the tragic crash to remember their loved
ones and serve as a reminder to drive safely.
The event has been primarily organized through a Facebook page, "Muddin'
for Buds," at
Organizers are encouraging attendance at the Lincoln FFA
breakfast, beginning at 9 o'clock at Lincoln Community High School.
The teens in the accident had numerous ties to agriculture, and the
group wants to recognize this.
Those interested in taking part in the procession should meet at
the Big R parking lot, 1250 Woodlawn Road, by 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The
caravan will leave at 3 p.m. for the memorial service at the crash
site at approximately 3:30 p.m.
For additional information, call 217-671-7959 or message the
Facebook page.
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In July 2010, Gov. Quinn signed
Public Act 96-1002, legislation intended to curb excessive
speeding. The law was named "Chris and Katie's Law" after McGlasson,
Carpentier and McCarty.
In an effort to bring healing and leave a lasting impact,
donations for the memorial fund will be taken at the event. The fund
provided the large cross at the site and is providing for a unique
memorial bench to be publicly placed in the community.
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The Directory Manager is the privileged server administrator, comparable to the root user on UNIX systems. Access control does not apply to the Directory Manager.
For most administration tasks, you are not required to use the Directory Manager. Instead, you can use the user cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config, or any other user that you create beneath cn=Administrators,cn=config. The only tasks that require the Directory Manager are changing the root ACI, and replication troubleshooting tasks, such as repairing replication and searching tombstones.
You can change the Directory Manager DN and password, as well as create a file from which the password can be automatically read.
You cannot use DSCC to perform this task. Use the command line, as described in this procedure.
Find the existing Directory Manager DN.
$ dsconf get-server-prop -h host -p port root-dn root-dn:cn=Directory Manager
Modify the Directory Manager settings as required.
To modify the Directory Manager DN, type:
$ dsconf set-server-prop -h host -p port root-dn:new-root-dn
Use quotes if there are spaces in the Directory Manager DN. For example:
$ dsconf set-server-prop -h host1 -p 1389 root-dn:"cn=New Directory Manager"
To change the Directory Manager password, type:
Create a temporary file for setting the password. This file is read once, and the password is stored for future use.
$ echo password > /tmp/pwd.txt
Set the server root password file property.
$ dsconf set-server-prop -h host -p port root-pwd-file:/tmp/pwd.txt
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Northern Ireland lost the opening game of their end-of-season tour in Connecticut as they went down 2-0 in searing heat to fellow tourists Turkey.
Playing in early afternoon heat of 93 Celsius at Veterans Memorial Stadium, Nigel Worthington 's team, featuring five debutants in the starting line-up, kept a lively Turkish side at bay for the first 45 minutes without launching an attack themselves.
However, under the guidance of new boss Guus Hiddink, Turkey went in front shortly after the break through Sercan Yildirim before Semih Senturk doubled their lead 18 minutes from time.
After a frustrating opening period Hiddink changed his personnel at half-time and the switch produced a goal three minutes after the break as substitute Sercan slid the ball beyond Linfield goalkeeper Alan Blayney.
Blayney had been one of four Irish League players handed a first cap, along with club-mates Robert Garrett and Jamie Mulgrew and Portadown's Kevin Braniff. The fifth new cap went to teenage winger Johnny Gorman of Wolves, aged 17 years 212 days, who had been given permission by Repton School to delay his A level Physical Education exam from this Friday to January.
Northern Ireland spent long periods without the ball and their first attempt on goal came in the 54th minute when full-back Andrew Little hooked a shot onto the roof of the Turkey net.
Turkish dominance continued, however, with another sub, Semih, finding the net in 72nd minute, slotting home from just inside the area as Worthington's defence was unable to clear its lines.
Worthington introduced more new blood with the Josh Magennis, Michael Bryan, James Lawrie, Rory McArdle and Colin Coates all sent on in the last 20 minutes and the new-look side stood firm in the face of a series of further Turkey attacks.
Northern Ireland were set to leave Connecticut immediately after the game for a 5,000-mile flight to Chile, whose World Cup-bound side they will face in Chillan on Sunday night.


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15 November 2008
Jeff Belanger will be a guest on Ghostology Radio at 8 PM (Eastern Time). We'll be discussing Jeff's new children's book, Who Is Haunting the White House?
Jeff Belanger on Ghostology Radio, 15 Nov
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Who owns the land? Only the land knows. We mortals are passersby, and our lives are but a brief moment in the great span of time and space. We are born, we live out our lives, and most of us do the best we can with it, but the wind is forever, and the rivers flow forever to the sea, and all the seasons of the weathers will come and go after we are gone. But the Earth endures, the Earth is eternal" - Earl Hamner
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The question posed above has been much debated and discussed by researchers, policymakers and the general public. The conventional wisdom on this subject is that with a few exceptions, the impact of cities on the environment is malign. In fact, most people seem to think that cities are hot spots for ecological damage, that they are severely polluted and polluting, and that they are particularly at risk from natural hazards.
Although these beliefs make up a significant part of what we might call the "anti-urban credo," do they withstand careful scrutiny? As new research by the geographer William Meyer and others shows, the perspective that holds urbanization's effects are necessarily bad is problematic if not altogether false. Why might this be the case? Let us investigate.
This new research clearly suggests that increasing urbanization does not necessarily lead to greater ecological damage. To comprehend this point, note that if we keep the human population of a certain size fixed, then an urban, high-density way of life is more conservationist in terms of residential land use than a suburban or rural way of life. In other words, by concentrating human impact in a relatively small area, cities contain it.
This kind of positive environmental effect has been found in less-developed nations as well. In particular, recent empirical research has used the metric of deforestation to show that rural population growth-not urban population growth-is positively associated with deforestation.
Many readers are likely to believe that relative to rural areas, urban areas are more polluted and polluting. However, recent research shows that given the same living standards, the city pollutes far less on a per-capita basis than does the countryside. To further buttress this point, consider the consumption of fossil fuels. Once again, research shows that at least in the developed world, there is a distinct urban advantage in the consumption of fossil fuels and hence an urban advantage in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
What this means is that to the extent that urbanization lessens energy consumption and deurbanization increases it, the former will diminish and the latter will worsen energy-related emissions that give rise to many kinds of pollution. The policy implication is that when contemplating whether urban areas are necessarily more polluted and polluting than rural areas, the disadvantages from concentrating harmful activities spatially must be weighed against the advantage of diminishing their range and perhaps their total magnitude.
What about natural hazards? The prevalent view is that city growth magnifies the dangers from natural hazards. However, until very recently, too little attention has been paid to the ways in which the defining attributes of cities can lead to greater safety and not greater danger for city residents. For instance, urban residents are frequently less vulnerable to natural hazards as compared to rural populations. In addition, it is important to understand that it is unhelpful to suppose that urbanization intensifies the net impact of natural hazards by putting large numbers of people in harm's way. What is more likely is that urbanization diminishes the impact of natural hazards by putting people-much more effectively than a dispersed settlement pattern would-in help's way.
The central point made by this new body of research is easy to grasp. First, larger urban areas tend to have larger problems in absolute terms. To make meaningful comparisons, therefore, one must correct for population size to accurately assess how much impact a person will have or how much safety a person will enjoy in an urban or a rural setting.
This favorable report on the environmental effects of cities does not mean there are no problems associated with urbanization. Secondary urbanization-the spatial dispersion of populations and the political fragmentation of metropolitan areas-and its environmental impacts are things to worry about for city authorities and urban planners.
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal is the Arthur J. Gosnell professor of economics at Rochester Institute of Technology, but these views are his own.
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Now that most of the dust has settled, let's take a good hard look at the great morass of numbers flying around your screen at all times.
Given the large amount of different stats you need to juggle once you hit 85, it's not all that unheard of for a new tank to be a little confused as to which stats are more important than others. This isn't something that you should really be muddled about though, not if you want to be an effective tank.
Tanking is more than just executing the mechanics of holding threat and surviving. Like all the other classes, picking and choosing between your various upgrades for the greatest benefit to what you need at the time is also important and for that, you will need a solid understanding of which stats to shoot for and which you can afford to let slide.
We'll take our first look at the host of survivability stats and rank them in order of effectiveness. First and foremost is stamina. Stamina is king and despite that it's on every piece of gear, you should be doing what you can to tack on more of it through the use of gems and enchantments. Remember that if you're ever in doubt about what sort of gem or enchantment to go for, you can never really go too wrong with stamina. At later gear levels, another stat like mastery might take to the front but for a general purpose answer, stamina is king. You need to have enough of it to live through the periods of unavoidable burst damage that will come through that cannot be mitigated by your other defensive stats.
Following stamina, mastery is what you should go for next as it will provide a direct increase to how much less damage you'll take from physical sources and seeing as how there's yet to be a boss that's built entirely on magical damage, you're pretty safe to pile on the mastery once you've reached a comfortable health pool.
Following quite a ways behind stamina and mastery are parry and dodge. Between the two of them, you're going to want to make sure that your parry rating stays ahead of your dodge due to it's synergy with the Hold the Line talent. Remember that while you should rate parry over dodge, you shouldn't let parry get too far ahead due to diminishing returns. So try to keep them roughly even and keep parry a few percent above dodge to maximize your survivability.
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While these are important, keep in mind that in 90% of the cases, your ability to hold threat is secondary to your survival so gear for these stats accordingly.
The cap on these stats are fairly easy to follow. You can only get up to 26 expertise skill before it becomes near useless and your hit rating will cap at 8% (961 rating).
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The offense does seem pretty bad. I really hope we add another running back. I have ZERO confidence in McKnight. I like the kid Hill though along with Holmes, Keller and Kerley. Tebow will help some.
On the eve of the opening of camp, its very sad to see what the Jets have become. Our offense has been totally ignored--with our number one receiver being a disgruntled prima dona who is not even top ten in the league. Our second receiver is Kerley? Our third receiver is a rookie? Our tight end is totally over-rated. But Rex and BeanCounter know better--we will become a ground and pound team with that scintillating super star, Shonn Greene, carrying the ball, backed up by McKnight! And who is going to open up the holes for these super stars. Mangold can't play all the positions. And what did Bean and Mouth do to improve this mediocre unit? They hired a new coach and gave him nothing to work with but Tim Tebow!
Yes the defense will be top 5-10, but trust me, this will not get them to the playoffs. The only positive thing I can see happening this season is that people will finally understand that Rex is at best, a defensive coordinator and that Bean Counter is at best is an accountant.
I'm prepared for the hate of the fanboys. Just keeping it real.
The offense does seem pretty bad. I really hope we add another running back. I have ZERO confidence in McKnight. I like the kid Hill though along with Holmes, Keller and Kerley. Tebow will help some.
4 or 5 wins - 4th Place in the AFC East
Ganaway (RB) is supposed to be impressing so far.
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That sounds about right--I think at this point New England and Buffalo are better and Miami is not far behind. I figure at best 8-8, more likely 6-10.
Do you think when the Bengals opened camp last year that their fans thought they were working with a playoff team?
All it takes is one or two guys to make a difference. Nothing says Coples can't pull an Aldon Smith this year. Nothing says Hill can't go for 50/700/10. Nothing says the Sanchez/Sparano marriage isn't a much much better fit for the QB.
If that's how you feel that's how you feel. But man, I can't imagine being this pessimistic before the team even suits up. I don't necessarily see a playoff team myself, but there's too many unknowns to draw such a negative conclusion already, at least for me.
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I think you're being a little too dramatic.
Although I will fully admit that I'd feel a lot better about our offense if we had a legit RB in the backfield. Greene is a one dimensional inside runner and an average at best starter. The rest of our backfield is one giant question mark.
This defense is too talented for us to finish less than 7-9.
What it all comes down to is Sanchez.
Either he steps up and proves that he's capable of being the player we drafted him to be, or he keeps turning the ball over at an alarming rate and we'll tread water in a sea of mediocrity until we can find a respectable QB.
If the strip was a presidential campaign, this post would be the opening speech at the SOJF party's Woe is Me convention......
A negative post by mr dinosaur.. somehow I can't say I'm surprised.
There are a lot of legitimate concerns on the offensive side of the ball, but honestly, what did you expect the Jets would had been able to do given their cap situation? They weren't in a position to sign tight tier FAs. They couldn't dramatically overhaul the offense.
As for their WRs- If (a big If) Holmes is happy, he can be a decent #1 WR. Top 10? No.. but productive enough to win. I think the #2 WR will either be Hill, if he shows enough, or Schillins, if he can stay healthy. Schillins was another low price/high reward guy this off season who might really pay off if he can put together an injury free season. As 90210 will tell you, the guy has talent. Add in Kerley in the slot, and Keller at TE, and our WRs are better than 2010's version.
RB - Greene's success will depend on the OL. That we know. What is more concerning is LT's departure. Up to this point, the coaching staff hasn't trusted McKnight to block on 3rd downs, so throwing him in there now doesn't seem like the best idea. Powell and Ganaway don't excite me. I wouldn't be shocked if the Jets sign a veteran RB once camp begins.
OL - Let's be realistic instead of full panic mode. D'Brick, until last year, was a top 5 LT in football. Why can't he bounce back? Slauson is a solid player who battle injuries all season, and had off season surgery. Mangold and Moore were also hurt for part of the season. I expect all four to bounce back. As for Hunter? The guy blows. Maybe Otah pans out.. maybe one of the vets the Jets signed earlier this off season do. One thing is for certain - Sparano will not leave Hunter isolated 1 on 1 with top DEs like Schotty routinely did.
Besides all of this, you have two big additions that will make this offense drastically different than in years past. Yes, Tim Tebow.. but more imporantly Sparano himself. I'm in the camp that Schotty's play calling and game planning played a good part in the offense's ineffectiveness. Sparano is no guru, but should do a better job than Schotty game planning his offense behind Sanchez and the team's strengths.
Finally - Mark Sanchez You don't even need to discuss any of the above if Mark doesn't improve in seeing the field and eliminating the turnovers. Can he? Well it's make or break in year 4 for him...
Sparanos right tackle last year lead the league in sacks
I agree with you buts its guys like this and JETS fans who are so neg is why we wont be Sh**t because no one has any faith...We had a bad year one game less than the Super bowl Winning team and its about when you get hot and who makes a play and who doesnt...
Who knows im very optimistic and I think that the Running game will be fine and our D will bail us out and we will be pleasantly surprised...
But if people feel like this thread is about "the beginning of the end" than stop being a fan and root for Big Blue you troll.
better yet root for NE or Miami or Buffalo who absoulutely did the same thing we didnt...Made their D better and nothing with their O...So cool out guy.
Another pessimistic post by rextilleon.
Our offense lacks playmakers. Its a good thing we have tebow to make plays. Tebow will take over as starting qb sometime in October. Just in time to save our season.
He did it last year in Denver. He will do it for us this year.
And next year, tim will get the full camp as the starter and sparano will have the qb taylor made for his offense.


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The restaurant's founders are Parnell and Jennifer Delcham of United Culinary Artists. The chef is Conrad Gallagher, who has worked at several fine-dining institutions in New York. Various blogs and media publications, including the reputable Eater food blog, have chronicled Gallagher's failed ventures and apparent dodgy financial tactics in Las Vegas, Ireland, New York and South Africa. Earlier this year, Gallagher's Las Vegas burger joint PoshBurger Bistro closed after being open a few months.
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Old Towne Orange has seen an uptick in hipster food concepts but this location is odd. The restaurant sits at the corner of Chapman and Shaffer near a Lutheran church, historic homes, commercial property and Orange City Hall. It is a few blocks from the city's prime downtown – far enough that it can be easily missed by nearby foot traffic.
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North Orange County is also home to a new Burrissimo Fresh Italian restaurant. The fast-casual Italian chain opened its second Orange County restaurant Sept. 17 in downtown Brea near Starbucks and Corner Bakery. Unlike the Costa Mesa restaurant, this location has added pizzas. Address: 103 W. Imperial Highway at Brea Boulevard. Burrissimo's owner John Parlet founded John's Incredible Pizza Company.
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The next one, according to his reps, will be in Irvine. No deal has been signed.
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JREED wrote:migya wrote:Falling Skies is over for another season, the third one. I'm into this series and it is getting interesting with the saviour aliens now entering the story. Could be a very interesting fourth season next year.
Also seen the first two episodes of revolution and it so far is slow, but similar to Falling Skies in that regard.
I'm a fan of Falling Skies. The 1st season was kind of lame and slow, the 2nd was much better, but the 3rd was really good. I'm looking forward to next season, but only 10 episodes kind of sucks.
Revolution is ok, but I'm just generally not a fan of any series from the "big" networks. They feel like they almost have lower budgets and less production quality. Maybe it's because NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX aren't willing to take big risks, but the writing and premises seems uninspired and lacking originality. If they air one more cop related show, I will lose my god damn mind!
Another sci-fi show, Defiance, I had a lot of hopes for, but it sucks. I was really hoping that the Sci-Fi channel would be able to rekindle a fraction of the greatness of Battlestar, but Defiance is just a cookie-cutter, episodic piece of trash, cut from the same cloth as a Law and Order or any of the Star Treks.
Side note - If you haven't seen Battlestar Gallactica, then you need to stop what you are doing and watch it right now. Do not be fooled by the corny name or the fact that it was a Sci-Fi channel original.PAWNO wrote:OMG How good was Breaking Bad???Spoiler!Hanks paranoia attack as he drives away from Walts House, was just brilliant
& then the end scene where Hank closed the garage door was a great way to end the show!
This is the 2nd skip forward into the future to start the season, Last half season was at the Diner, The 2nd Walt at his derolict house. the Skateboarders was another awesome idea.
Lot of memorable scenes has happened in Walter Whites pool.
BB just continues to be one of the best shows in the history of television. The writing, direction, and cinematography are just in a different league. It really is the most artistic show with those awesome scenes that tell you so much without a line of dialog.
I'm pretty sure I know how the series will end and I'm going to throw it in a spoiler tag below just so I can toss out the "I told you so" if it is realized...Spoiler!So I don't know if this is actually going to happen, this is just my prediction (slightly borrowed from a reddit post). Stop reading now if you don't want this thought in the back of your mind for the remaining episodes...
So I read a reddit post that details how Walt takes on traits of all the people he has killed after he has killed them (the 1st drug dealer/cutting his crust, Mike/ordering whiskey on the rocks, etc...). In the first episode of the 5th season, you see him in a Denny's and he has taken his wife's maiden name... So I agree with the reddit post that he kills Skyler. My part of the prediction is that he actually does get away from the cops, but he is forced to live without his family - the reason why he started making meth in the first place. He realizes that the only thing he ever wanted was to provide for his family and be in their lives and now he'll never be able to see them again - a fate worse than dead or imprisonment. Additionally, he is shamed and really becomes the monster that he thinks he is.
I'm probably not really going out on much of a limb with all of this. We know this series doesn't end well for Walt, but like so many shows that have come before BB in which we follow a "bad guy" main character (The Shield, The Sopranos), how do you end it? Killing Walt feels so anti-climatic and unoriginal for a show that certainly doesn't paint by the numbers. One thing this show has done a good job of (where others have failed) is making the audience lose respect and love for Walt, and they really drive it home that he has become a bad person - I felt like him killing Mike was the final straw.
I'm kind of curious how you Aussies are watching the show. I know that American TV is broadcast all over the world, but I know that you guys suffer from a lot of censorship when it comes to drugs in media. Is the show aired there? Or do you have to watch it online or pirate it?
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I use to download all the shows immedialtey when they became available but my cable tv has SHOWTIME (makers of Dexter etc) and they show all the AMC, HBO shows fresh off the sataliette on Monday evening (which in essence is 8 hours after Sunday night TV in america)


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Sometimes, banks are scrambling to meet their required reserve amount on Wednesday. Traditionally, if banks are having problems meeting reserve requirements, the federal funds rate market will feel the brunt of it since the federal funds rate is the rate which banks charge each other for the use of overnight funds. Usually, small regional banks have more than ample funds, while large money center banks are the ones in need of the funds because they loan their funds more extensively. Most of the time, small regional banks will lend overnight funds to large money center banks. When there is little liquidity in the banking system, the federal funds rate can shoot up sharply on a reserve settlement Wednesday because the money center banks are willing to pay whatever it takes in order that their reserves are meeting the Fed's requirements. Since the Fed engaged in quantitative easing, there has been less volatility in the fed funds rate.
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According to the daily Diário do Nordeste, which is based in Fortaleza, the capital of Ceará State, a sound operator who witnessed the murder said the gunmen came into the studio, shot Nicanor several times at close range, and fled on a motorcycle. Nicanor was taken to Limoeiro do Norte's public hospital and pronounced dead on arrival.
The Fortaleza daily O Povo reported that "Encontro Político," broadcast on weekdays from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., was one of the most popular radio shows in the region. According to O Povo, Nicanor was considered a controversial journalist whose hard-hitting commentaries had angered many local politicians and public officials.
Ceará State parliamentary deputy Paulo Duarte was quoted in Diário do Nordeste as saying that he had heard about a plot to kill Nicanor, and that the journalist had received threats. According to Duarte, Nicanor had scheduled a July 1 meeting with him and another state government official to discuss his safety.
Several members of Nicanor's family who gave testimony to the police believe that he was killed for his journalism, O Povo reported. Prior to his death, the journalist had actively supported a mayoral campaign on his show and fiercely criticized rival candidate Maria Arivan de Holanda Lucena on a daily basis.
In October 2003, prosecutors accused Arivan and her husband, federal judge José María de Oliveira Lucena, of hiring the two hit men who gunned down Linhares. In May 2004, at the request of federal prosecutors, a judge from the Brasília-based Superior Tribunal of Justice, the nation's second highest court, indicted the couple. Lucena was formally charged on March 20, 2008, by the Superior Tribunal of Justice, which has the power to try judges, according to local news reports. Arivan asked to be tried with her husband, but in December 2008, the tribunal ruled that she should be tried before a trial court, said local news reports. No trial dates were immediately set.
In December 2008, gunmen Lindenor de Jesus Moura Júnior and Francisco José de Oliveira Maia were sentenced to 26 and eight years in prison respectively for their roles in the killing, according to local press reports. In May 2009, accomplice Cássio Santana de Sousa was sentenced to 23 years in prison.


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Notice to Members 97-19
NASD Regulation and New York Stock Exchange Memorandum Discusses Sweep Report and Provides Guidance on Heightened Supervision Recommendations
The Joint Regulatory Sales Practice Sweep Report recommended that firms should, among other things: adopt stringent procedures for hiring registered representatives; initiate heightened supervisory procedures for registered representatives with a history of customer complaints, disciplinary actions, or arbitrations; and ensure compliance with cold-calling requirements. This Notice to Members contains a memorandum developed and jointly issued by NASD Regulation, Inc. (NASD RegulationSM) and the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (NYSE) which describes the findings and recommendations of the Joint Regulatory Sales Practice Sweep (Sweep) that would alert firms of their responsibilities under NYSE and NASD rules to provide particularly close supervision to certain registered representatives. The memorandum also describes actions that could constitute heightened supervisory procedures.
Questions concerning this Notice may be directed to Mary Revell, Assistant General
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Its curved blade helps you maintain contact with the branch, resulting in a smoother cut. The teeth are impulse hardened for durability, and a hard chrome plating helps protect the saw from corrosion. It has a 1/2" shank that fits most reciprocating saws.
An excellent addition to any arborist's arsenal.


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November 2010
An American legend in landscape design, John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920), helped plan Rock Creek Park in the heart of Washington, DC along the Potomac River to provide the public with trails for hiking and areas for other public activities. Photo: Oksana Hlodan.
Approaching landscape design in a sustainable way has implications for everyone, but especially for the landscape designer—a term used here to include engineers, landscape architects, urban and rural planners, horticulturalists, and garden designers. While these disciplines are rarely what pop to mind when discussing the front lines of the environmental sciences, they are, broadly speaking, applied sciences, and they represent a vital link in the ability of science to impact our surroundings.
Landscape designers at all scales may need to evolve their craft and thinking to address:
- Time. Time is an explicit design element, whereby landscapes change naturally. Designers are catalysts of a landscape's ecological path—not sculptors or painters of a stagnant medium.
- Culture. Human behaviors and cultural habits must be a factor in the equation. There is no more "away" something can go to; there is no more room to live beside nature but not in it.
Sustainability in landscape design has everything to do with complexity—with the interrelationship of the parts to the whole over time. Increased complexity gives landscapes resilience by
- embedding redundancy of function;
- inhibiting the transfer of problematic pests and diseases; and
- supporting a rich trophic network that allows an intricate balance of growth and decay.
Landscape complexity is largely the intersection of biodiversity and scale. Measuring biodiversity is more than counting the variety of bird species in a given area. It actually speaks to diversity occurring on many levels: from the molecular, cellular DNA-scale to the vast landscape mosaic, and the matrix of interior and edge, patch, and corridor. Though some landscape designers have already begun to address the need for complexity in the context of natural systems and at the mosaic scale, the transformation to sustainability will not be complete if we do not address diversity at the DNA scale.
Over the past 100 years, landscapes were often split into component parts because we valued predictability and simplicity, which came at the expense of sustainable functionality and variability. As a result, residential zones are severed from agricultural districts, and wilderness is separated from infrastructure, all with the idea that we have enough space for each of these to be independent.1
With infrastructure, for example, 20th century centralization gathered power generating stations into large inter-urban clumps, which created vast webs of power lines that shed electric power during the long transit between generator and end user. This system forced the generation of excess power to meet demands hundreds of miles away. In a sustainable landscape, power generation would be reintegrated into the urbanized landscape. It would require the fracturing of generation sources into hundreds or thousands of microgenerative moments, such as microturbines and rooftop solar power collection. This more eco-mimicking web of interdependent elements would replace the hub and spoke model.
An innovative program of the Nichols Arboretum, Michigan, initiated by Professor Robert Grese of the university at Ann Arbor, interweaves the design of the arboretum with research into the impact of fire management. Photo: University of Michigan.
Sustainability must also happen at the species and DNA scales, and tree biodiversity illustrates this model.2 Already, researchers and others—who understand that tree monoculture [in which there is only one species of tree] leads to a breakdown of resilience—are planting a wide variety of tree species throughout an area. The horticultural industry, however, has the habit of favoring plant cloning over seed germination. Though cloning is economically popular in part because it produces results faster, it is largely popular because these results are predictable. Cloning ensures that these trees will all have the same basic form and appearance—characteristics that the designers value highly and that too many consumers demand. For example, the landscape architecture firm that specifies 800 blue oak [Quercus douglasii] trees to reforest a subdivision site may be only vaguely aware that the horticultural supplier will likely deliver 800 copies of the exact same genetic code. Should Sudden Oak Death [a recently recognized disease caused by a fungus-like organism (Phytophthora ramorum) that is killing oaks and other plant species in the western U.S.3] infect this landscape, there are only two likely results: all 800 trees die, or all 800 trees are able to resist and survive.
Those 800 trees are just the beginning. Landscape architecture is called perpetually to design a static site, yet stasis no more exists in nature than in Hollywood—despite massive efforts to encourage eternal youth. Not only do designers request that the trees arrive nearly full grown—a practice that vastly increases the carbon footprint of a project by magnifying the size of machinery required to move the tree between any two points—they simultaneously design a site for the tree that absolutely limits the ultimate trunk girth and canopy volume achievable. Then they expect the tree to live as long as possible within these confines. Until landscape architect, researcher, and author, James Urban, began convincing others of the terminal reality of the small soil volume allotted to city trees, this issue had largely been ignored.4
The reality is that time passes, and a sustainable landscape must be able to sustain itself. Balance must be achieved between the maturing of the individual inhabitants, and the generation of new inhabitants. A grove of trees all the same age should worry any visitor, for death will come. Here, complexity of age speaks directly to the capacity of the grove to operate as a grove continuously.
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Julie Bargmann considered all aspects of landscape design, including cleanup and maintenance, when faced with the challenge of a dilapidated shipyard. The Philadelphia Navy Yard district is now a significant mixed-use office, research, and industrial park. Photo: NavyYard.org
Dynamic stasis represents one form of regeneration—a key component of how landscapes operate. A biome survives interruption when the pattern of interruption is in harmony with the pattern of regeneration. The term regeneration is also used by clean-up artists (for example, Julie Bargmann5; see Figure 1 above), who are revolutionary in landscape design for their process-centric emphases on actual clean up, versus tossing a "lid" over the site and pretending the site is not toxic anymore. While comparatively few designers are involved with toxic sites, all must reclaim a "maintenance regime," and they must make it a universal design component of every site—from schoolyards to parkways, and from backyards to playgrounds.
Maintenance is a huge challenge for landscape designers. Even when the cost calculation's timespan is expanded to include enough years of operation to offset the money required for many sustainable features, when our own behavior is asked to change, we balk. Changing our habits causes hesitation because it asks us to shift from passive to participant—to move from the sidelines to stewardship. Looking at this more broadly, clients (including the public) are resistant because to date there has not been a habit of collaboration established between
- the community of research scientists developing new materials and methodologies;
- the design and engineering communities designing and building with these findings;
- the social scientists who study effective and efficient social change.
Understanding humankind as one of several forces impacting an ecosystem requires an objective view, and we must ask if our interactions are creating a sustainable balance, or are our interactions pushing the surrounding ecosystem out of balance?
Ecological functions, such as fire or the flow of wind and water, accumulate change over time and scale, as do our own behaviors (including neglect). Landscapes are not only inhabited by field mice and other animals, they are inhabited by humans locked into economic and social systems. Part of how and why landscapes function as they do is because their inhabitants—e.g., beavers, ants, elephants, or humans—interfere with them, creating a landscape built of the combined cumulative impact of natural forces and millions of discrete individual behaviors. Pollution and environmental degradation are mostly errors that build up over years. Rarely does a single wrong instance decimate a landscape; more commonly, decimation occurs from the accumulation of hundreds of small bad habits.
A park in Vintondale, Pennsylvania, includes treatment of water polluted by acid mine drainage. It is an example of learning-by-doing, in which a design innovation is being tested in the field, this one by Kristen Ford of North Carolina State University. Photo: AMD&Art.
Take, for example, the rain. In many buildings today, the rain that falls on the roof drains into the gutter, down the drainpipe, and into a conduit, which connects that drainpipe either to a local sewer line, or to a culvert or ditch at the edge of the property. Viewed in ecological terms, rain on the roof (sheet flow) is converted into rain in the gutter (channel flow) and dumped offsite without soaking into the soil. Channel flow has higher erosive ability than sheet flow and less of a chance to infiltrate. Instead, the rainwater carves ditches and streams deeper, and increases the carrying capacity for streams and rivers, which means that larger and larger debris can move to the next town downstream, eroding its channels and dykes, and damaging their bridge pilings. In the stream beds themselves, erosion moves the rocks and soil faster than aquatic life can grow, and the resulting turbidity buries stream bottoms with fine sediment and greatly reduces how far into the water sunlight can travel; this diminishes the help gained from plant roots in holding the stream banks stable. Without aquatic plants, most fish have little to eat, and the stream slowly dies, even though it is full of water.6
More subtly, the same conversion of sheet flow into channel flow that reduces the volume of water infiltrating the soil also reduces the subsurface flow. Subsurface water moves much more slowly than surface water, giving the biotic life in soil time to filter impurities from the water. While surface flow will reach the stream within hours, subsurface flow may take days or months, allowing the volume of water flowing in the stream to remain more constant, and at a cooler temperature, despite gaps between rains. Subsurface flow also has the ability to infiltrate even further, joining ground water supplies in aquifers.
If these problems occur after the construction of a single house, it may not be noticeable, but cumulatively, these issues at the scale of an entire subdivision or office park can change the creeks nearby rapidly.
Implications for designers
This means that the science of environmentally sustainable design is largely about understanding process and function over time. The functionality of landscapes must become a design element, with fresh attention paid to duration, accumulation, and erosion. If all landscape designers were required to represent the projects over the first two decades of the projects' life visually, clients would better understand the nature of the nature they are inheriting.
This representational shift occurring broadly across the disciplines is vital: how designers convey their ideas is how they are thinking about them, and the environment is not awaiting a single savior. A sea change within the design fields will produce, in aggregate, change far larger and more powerful than any one firm can produce alone. Landscape designers are on the front lines [and thus, leaders] in the efforts of environmental scientists to lean on cultural habits; and this capacity of the aggregate ought to be leveraged through policy shifts that would induce a few pivot points to leverage vast changes in design and construction. For example, when contractors put out projects for bid, the majority of buyers seek the lowest bid; yet, few consumers require that these bids represent anything more than the anticipated costs from sitting down at the drawing board to the grand opening. If instead the designers were required to expand their proposal to include the first 7-10 years of maintenance, functionality, and worker safety (a.k.a., life-cycle service costs,), then the implications of many sustainable choices would skew into favor with great haste.
Concerted effort is required to target a goal; to make the options and benefits familiar to the decision-making public; and to make the sustainable choices accessible—both physically and economically. Known to social marketers as the four P's (product, promotion, price, and place), coordinating these ideas is complex enough that the temptation is to organize them for a vast audience, yet this would return our thinking to the "one massive solution" habit that birthed many of today's dilemmas. It is important to target particular regions and to seek specific, definable progress goals. These are huge implications for designers, purported purveyors of idealized perfection, asking clients to change their cultural understandings of their role in the environment, or even their economic understanding of what constitutes trash.
What we can all do
Sustainable landscape design starts at home, and there are simple ways you can begin to achieve an eco-friendly space.
Plant a variety of trees to ensure survival of species at the DNA level. Photo: Microsoft Images.
- Compost your organic waste from plants to create natural fertilizer.
- Use a rain barrel to collect and store rainwater or use a drip irrigation system to water your plants.
- Emphasize species that are native to your region because they adapt well to their environment and better resist diseases and pests.
- Replace sections of grass, which consume water and fertilizer, with wildflowers or other plants.
- Volunteer to help your local beautification organization, such as a tree planting group.
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Administration moves toward new rule on contraceptives
The Obama administration on Friday moved to enact new rules that help ensure contraception coverage for employees of certain companies that have religious objections to birth control.
The new rule would seek to isolate the employers from the coverage they found morally objectionable. They'd be able to notify the government of their objections, which in turn would notify the insurance companies and order them to provide the coverage at no cost.
Without the change, the religious-minded employers have to contact the insurance companies directly.
It was unclear if the new approach would avert legal challenges.
"Today's announcement reinforces our commitment to providing women with access to coverage for contraception, while respecting religious considerations raised by non-profit organizations and closely held for-profit companies," Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said in a statement.
Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, supported the HHS moves.
"At this time when opponents of women's health are taking extreme steps to deny women coverage for birth control, we applaud the Obama administration for taking steps to protect this essential coverage," Ness said.
But Dr. Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life, an anti-abortion public interest law firm, criticized the HHS moves as a violation of the "conscience rights of Americans."
The Obama administration wants Congress to enact legislation ensuring birth control coverage for women affected by the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision, said Eric Schultz, White House deputy press secretary.
"We believe that Congress can and should act to ensure that any women affected by recent Supreme Court actions get the same overage, options that everyone else is offered," he said. "Legislative action is the quickest and best way to ensure that women get access to the services they need, and we call on Congress to act quickly."
The Affordable Care Act requires job-based health insurance to provide women with free coverage for all FDA-approved contraceptive services prescribed by a health professional.
Certain non-profit religious employers that object to birth control on religious grounds don't have to provide that coverage, however, under a special government accommodation. In these instances, the federal government steps in to provide coverage for employees.
Other employers eligible for the coverage waiver include those organized and operating as non-profits and those that define themselves as religious organizations and self-certify that they meet the necessary criteria for that designation.
Under the new interim rule, these organizations can notify HHS in writing of their objection to contraceptive coverage. HHS and the Department of Labor will then inform insurers that enrollees in these plans can receive separate contraceptive coverage from the federal government through third-party providers.
The move comes in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's groundbreaking 5-4 decision in the Hobby Lobby case, which maintained that certain businesses can reject on religious grounds the Affordable Care Act's mandate to provide employees with birth control coverage.
The high court's decision in June concluded that closely held corporations may claim religious rights similar to those enjoyed by individuals. Hobby Lobby, an arts and crafts retailer, maintained that the birth control coverage mandate violated its rights of religious freedom under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
In addition, HHS also issued a proposed rule on Friday seeking comment on how to allow closely held for-profit companies like Hobby Lobby to seek similar waivers of the birth control coverage mandate. Closely held companies typically are family owned or have a small number of investors.


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If you've been keeping score along with me, you know I haven't been faring too well lately. In the latest of the ongoing saga, I've been hit by two viruses — or rather I've been hit by one, my computer has been hit by the other.
I did recover fully and without incident from the freakish and scary pleurisy episode, but I apparently picked up some kind of cold virus while I was in the ER, because 36 hours later it hit me (and is still hitting me even as we speak). It's a bit concerning since I'm on Enbrel and you have to be cautious about those sorts of things. Hopefully I'll be over it in a couple of days, but if not, I see my rheumatologist the morning I'm supposed to take my next Enbrel injection and she can advise me whether I should take it or not.
The other virus hit my poor little laptop. It's my 3-lb. travel laptop whose sole function is to go places with me, check emails and be used for Magic Jack phone calls back to the U.S. Since we leave for Jamaica next week, I had started the ritual of powering up his batteries and downloading all the latest updates from Windows, Office, and his anti-virus software. At one point when I went to reboot him, he didn't come back up. And apparently there is no easy fix for the malware that infected him. The computer did come with a "start from zero" routine that reset everything back to the factory fresh status, so that's what I did. Unfortunately, the computer is a few years old and at last count, I had installed about 70 Windows updates. So while I laid around feeling miserable with my cold virus, I worked on helping my baby laptop get over his.
We're still working on both of them. Based on where we are, I figure I have another 40 or so updates to go on the computer and probably 3-4 days of misery with the cold. With everything that's going on with my health issues, I wish there were a way to reset me to my factory settings as well.
Here's hoping you score a great day. Thanks for checking in.