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And our number one title is a book all about building furniture without power tools. Dedicated to the woodworker who has decided to build with traditional hand tools, this title shows how to use the tools, and how to build contemporary furniture with traditional tools.
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Foot Surgery for Athletes, Children, and People With Other Health Problems
Topic Overview
Foot surgery generally is not advised for athletes (anyone participating in sports or fitness activities) who can still comfortably continue their sports. You may want to try non-surgical treatments such as:
- Taking pain relievers.
- Stretching your shoes or wearing shoes that stretch.
- Using pads, splints, or arch supports.
- Using custom orthotics.
- Switching to more comfortable shoes.
- Changing activities.
But if pain begins to limit your activities, you may want to consider surgery.
- You are likely to have some loss of function after surgery. Stiffness may persist in the affected joint after surgery, which may be more limiting than the pain of the original joint deformity. You probably will be able to resume activities, though possibly at a lesser level.
- If you are a competitive athlete whose bunions or hammer toes interfere with your sport, surgical treatment may improve joint function enough to allow you to continue competing. Some athletes can postpone more significant surgery that would align and straighten the joint until after their competitive careers are over.
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Some children begin developing bunions before the age of 10. Surgery may be appropriate for children and teenagers who have pain or limited activity that persists despite non-surgical treatment. It is as important for youths as it is for adults that the surgeon has experience doing various types of bunion surgery on a regular basis and can choose a procedure that will best treat the child's specific type of bunion or toe deformity.
A pediatric specialist is trained to diagnose and treat the child's rapidly changing body, which is very different from the developed adult body. Some podiatrists and orthopedic surgeons specialize in children's foot deformities and surgery.
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If you have health problems such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, neuromuscular disorders (such as muscular dystrophy), or circulatory problems that limit blood flow to your feet, discuss the risks of surgery with your health professional. These and other conditions increase the chance of complications after surgery.
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How and Why Birds Sing
The Nine Most Important Things To Know About Bird Song
1. Songbirds have the chops
Songbirds learn their songs and perform them using a specialized voice box called a syrinxsyrinx:SEE-rinksthe bird voice box, located at the branch point between the trachea and bronchi and containing vibrating tissues called labia, in songbirds capable of making two sounds at once via independent muscle control . Vocally, they're in a league of their own. These adaptations have been remarkably successful—songbirdssongbird:a species from the oscine (ah-SEEN) group of passerine (PASS-er-een) birds, songbirds (including sparrows, thrushes, and warblers) have a specialized voice box called a syrinx that can produce complex sounds, songbirds must learn their songs rather than developing them instinctively make up almost half of the world's 10,000 bird species including warblers, thrushes, and sparrows. The vast majority of non-songbird species make simpler sounds that are instinctual rather than learned.
Yellow Warblers are classic songbirds
2. Birds sing to defend and impress
For a bird, singing can be draining. It is both energetically expensive and alerts predators. So then why do birds sing? Evidence suggests that in part, it is to proclaim and defend their territoriesterritories:in birds, the areas defended by males, pairs, or families as dedicated nesting sites and/or foraging areas. Studies have also shown that songs play a crucial role in attracting and impressing potential mates and may signal the overall health of the singer. As in humans, singing in birds is often a chance to show off.
Eastern Meadowlarks mark territory with song
3. Their repertoires include songs and calls
Why are some bird sounds referred to as songs and others as calls? Typically a song is defined as a relatively structured vocalization produced while attracting a mate or defending a territory. Calls tend to be shorter, less rhythmic sounds used to communicate a nearby threat or an individual's location. Each species and individual has a variety of songs and calls used in different contexts that together make up its repertoirerepertoire:the full range of sounds that an animal makes, each used in context to communicate specific messages. While the distinction between calls and songs is not always clear, it can be quite ear opening to explore the full repertoires of your favorite songbirds.
Common Yellowthroats sing and call
4. Hear a bird singing? It's probably a male
Chances are when you hear a bird singing it's a male. The majority of female songbirds in temperate zones use shorter, simpler callscall:in birds, a short simple vocal sound most often made to keep in touch and alert other birds while the males produce the longer and more complex vocalizations we think of as songsong:in birds, a relatively complex learned vocalization that functions in mate attraction and territory defense. The story is different in the tropics where females commonly sing, and many species engage in duettingduet:in birds, a coordinated set of vocalizations most often made by male-female pairs to maintain and strengthen their pair bond, more common in the tropics.
In Swainson's Warblers, it's the males that sing
5. Songbirds are vocal gymnasts
The songbird syrinxsyrinx:SEE-rinksthe bird voice box, located at the branch point between the trachea and bronchi and containing vibrating tissues called labia, in songbirds capable of making two sounds at once via independent muscle control makes vocal gymnastics possible–for example the Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) is a able to sweep through more notes than are on a piano keyboard in just a tenth of a second. Because each branch of the songbird syrinx is individually controlled, the cardinal can start its sweeping notes with one side of the syrinx and seamlessly switch to the other side without stopping for a breath, making them the envy of human vocalists everywhere.
Northern Cardinals switch sides of their syrinx
6. Some sing two notes at once
Unlike humans, birds produce vocal sounds using a syrinxsyrinx:SEE-rinks the bird voice box, at the branch point between the trachea and bronchi and containing vibrating tissues called labia, in songbirds capable of making two sounds at once via independent muscle control, an organ located where the trachea splits into two bronchial tubes. In songbirds, each side of the syrinx is independently controlled, allowing birds to produce two unrelated pitches at once. Some birds even have the ability to sing rising and falling notes simultaneously, like the Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) in its final trill. We can only imagine what musical heights human vocalists could reach with abilities like that.
Wood Thrush trills are two-voiced
7. Songbirds learn too
While some birds hatch knowing the songs they will sing as adults, the true songbirdssongbird:a species from the oscine (ah-SEEN) group of passerine (PASS-er-een) birds, songbirds (including sparrows, thrushes, and warblers) have a specialized voice box called a syrinx that can produce complex sounds, songbirds must learn their songs rather than developing them instinctively have to learn how to communicate effectively. Songbirds begin learning their songs while still in the nest, a phase known as the critical period critical period:in songbirds, the time as a nestling during which the bird is most sensitive to learning the sounds of nearby birds, when nestlings listen to the adults singing around them. Following fledging, young birds attempt to replicate these songs, practicing until they have matched their tutor's tutor:in songbirds which do not develop their songs instinctively, one of the adults that a young bird listens to as a nestling and models its adult song on song. Some songbirds, such as the catbirds, thrashers, and mockingbirds, learn to mimic other species—frogs, cats, and even car alarms.
White-throated Sparrows learn their songs
8. Songbirds have local dialects
Just as humans have regional accents, some bird species develop distinct, area-specific dialects dialect: a unique set of sounds made by a subpopulation of animals of the same species. Such variation in song often arises when populations of the same species are isolated by geographic features such as mountains, bodies of water, or stretches of unsuitable habitat. These local dialects are then passed on to the next generation of young birds, which hear the songs being performed by their father and other local males. After many generations, the birds from one area can sound quite different from those the next mountain over.
Indigo Buntings form regional dialects
9. They sing at dawn (we're not sure why)
Birds are often up before dawn singing their hearts out and adding their voices to the dawn chorus dawn chorus:the early morning singing event that songbirds from a variety of species participate in near sunrise, thought to help maintain male territories. But why do many species sing more intensely at dawn than they do at any other time of the day? Many of the songs heard at dawn are thought to function as warnings given by male birds in defense of their territory and mate. While the dawn chorus is a common phenomenon wherever birds live, little is known about why birds concentrate their efforts during these early hours.
Eastern Towhees join in the dawn chorus
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The opening skit of this week's Saturday Night Live skewered the Carnival Triumph's ill-fated cruise, giving new meaning to "toilet humor" as shipboard entertainers tried to pacify a tough crowd of unhappy, unshowered passengers.
And as the crippled ship remains docked and under investigation in Mobile, Ala., travel agents and investors are bracing for fallout that could rival the bad publicity after last January's Concordia disaster, in which a Carnival-owned ship ran aground and capsized in Italy, killing 32.
"It's still too early to tell" whether would-be cruisers will be turned off by the aftermath of an engine room fire on the Triumph, which had left the ship adrift in the Gulf of Mexico since Sunday, said Steve Loucks, spokesman for Travel Leaders Group, a network of independently owned and operated travel agencies.
Loucks said his company hasn't fielded any cancellations over the past week and says cruise bookings this year are up nearly 10 percent over last year, when the Concordia accident "certainly had an impact."
Since then, "Our agents have been fielding questions about safety procedures," Loucks said. "After the Concordia, new measures were implemented, and we believe something similar will happen after the (National Transportation Safety Board) investigation. But the difference here is there was no loss of life."
Six NTSB investigators were in Mobile to look into the cause of the fire, which happened about 150 miles off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Spokesman Keith Holloway said the agency was working with the U.S. Coast Guard and the Bahamas Maritime Authority, which is taking the lead in the investigation because the Triumph is a Bahamian-flagged vessel and was in international waters at the time of the incident.
As for prices, "When rates in the Caribbean are already under $100 per person per night, it's hard to see prices going much lower," Loucks added.
Michael Driscoll, editor of industry newsletter Cruise Week, said Carnival will be hit harder than other cruise lines, in part because its Carnival brand draws a high percentage of first-time cruisers. Carnival also owns Costa Cruises, the company that operated the Concordia, as well as Princess Cruises, Holland America, Cunard and P&O Cruises. A third Carnival ship, the Splendor, lost power at sea in 2010 and was towed back to port under conditions similar to those on the Triumph.
Matthew Jacob, a cruise industry analyst at ITG Investment Research, noted that Carnival stock "took a fairly sizable hit" after the Concordia disaster, dropping from $34.28 the day before the accident to under $30. The stock bounced back, but declining revenue paid per passenger led to discounts of 10 percent or more the following summer, Jacob added.
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The cruise industry "had to play catch-up, but heading into 2013, demand was healthy and net yields were rebounding," he said.
Carnival shares fell 43 cents Friday to $36.92, or nearly 1.2 percent. For the week, shares were off nearly 5.5 percent. On Thursday, investment bank Goldman Sachs, citing Carnival's guidance about the fallout from Triumph, lowered its 2013 outlook for the company, saying it would be hurt by lost income and bad public relations.
The Triumph accident, like the Concordia, coincides with "wave season," a two- to three-month period when agents push summer cruises with advertising and special promotions and offer last-minute discounts geared to sun-starved Northerners.
"Cruise prices are extremely dynamic, so if bookings slow, they'll respond," said Jacob. "Social media could play a much bigger role this time, but the bottom line is that the protocols Carnival had in place seemed to work. It's a different story than (the Concordia disaster) last year, when the issue was negligence."
The cruise industry has grown exponentially in recent decades. In 1980 there were 1 million passengers worldwide. This year, projections are 20 million. Triumph's troubles raise questions about whether the industry has grown too big and too fast to be truly safe. Cruise industry expert Andrew Coggins Jr. doesn't think so. One reason: Cruise ships are governed by International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations and not by the laws of the country in which they're registered.
"(The industry) is strictly regulated. Ships are foreign-flagged because of labor and cost issues. But the safety certification comes from independent classification societies, and that's what enables ships to get insurance," said Coggins, a professor of management at Pace University's Lubin School of Business in New York.
A number of high-profile ferry disasters brought even stricter regulations in the 1990s, such as the requirement that all ships install sprinkler systems. In 2010, the IMO adopted rules requiring any large cruise ship built after July 1 of that year to have a separate system able to maintain basic services and the ship's propulsion, steering and so forth if one engine is disabled by fire.
The Triumph, built in 1999, isn't covered by the rules, as is the case for most ships among major cruise lines. Experts say the Triumph might have been able to reach port more quickly if it had the newer systems, but retrofitting is costly and time-consuming.
Bigger ships
Other safety issues relate to the ever-growing size of new ships. When the 102,000-ton Carnival Triumph launched, it was among the first ships too large to transit the Panama Canal. Now, some ships are more than twice that size. Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas, which can carry 6,296 passengers, weighs in at 225,282 tons, for instance.
Driscoll said the biggest ships afloat also command the highest prices because of strong consumer demand. But "There's always a question of how much bigger can they get?" said Coggins, and whether colossal size and safety are compatible when it comes to matters of crowd control in the event of a disaster.
Now that Triumph's passengers are home, Carnival can begin working in earnest on damage control. Washington, D.C.-based crisis management expert Ernest DelBuono said the line must evaluate operational systems on all its ships and provide fair passenger compensation. But, he added, "Americans have short memories. Time heals."
Will passengers abandon cruise ships?
The opening skit of this week's Saturday Night Live skewered the Carnival Triumph's ill-fated cruise, giving new meaning to "toilet humor" as shipboard entertainers tried to pacify a tough crowd of unhappy, unshowered passengers.


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Use this guide to replace or upgrade Apple's proprietary blade SSD (NVMe/PCIe x4) in an iMac Intel 21.5" EMC 2889.
This guide is intended for the higher spec iMac Intel 21.5" EMC 2889 models that are equipped with an SSD (Fusion Drive or blade SSD configurations).
All iMacs also come with a traditional hard drive, which you can replace by following this guide instead.
Before beginning any work on your iMac: Unplug the computer and press and hold the power button for ten seconds to discharge the power supply's capacitors.
The wedge is an extremely tight fit for this model. I was worried that the amount of force needed to use it as shown might damage the stand, so I used it with the long side down instead. It worked fine that way and didn't need anywhere near as much force to insert.
Here's a good YouTube vid on upgrading the RAM: Can a Normal Person Upgrade the RAM in the 2017 21.5" iMac?
Starting on the left of the display, near the power button, insert the iMac Opening Tool into the gap between the glass panel and the rear enclosure.
Use the tool like a pizza cutter—roll it along through the gap, and it will cut the foam adhesive through the center.
Run the tool up along the left side of the display.
Continue running the tool up around the top left corner.
Cut the adhesive along the top left of the display.
Continue along the top of the display.
In this step can I cut along the display without make any damage to the front camera?
Hi! Actually - there is no need to cut the tape around the camera area - there is no tape to cut at all! And so, the way go is easy - just pass 10 mm to the left and to the right from camera and start cutting!
P.S. Just did the whole procedure to replace a RAM and to add SSD on PSIe an hour ago! Seems to be different reading the instructions... you know - 2/10 and so on. But it's really not that hard, trust me. I'll give it 5/10.
P.P.S. By the way there is one trick to pass the difficult steps. Any action which requires pulling smth (motherboard, speaker, power supply unit) from the narrow crack (or should i say - slit?) at the bottom of your Imac is really not so easy.
And the trick is to first remove a thin metal stripe with some kind of insulation on it which held by 5 small (very small!!) screws at the bottom of your Imac. After you done it - it's easy to pull everything! Pay attention to the fact that one of this 5 screws at the center are more shortly than others.
If you're changing cracked EMC 2638 display to new assembly, there's two more steps:
Step 24: Use the tip of a spudger to flip up the metal retaining bracket on the display data cable.
Carefully pull the display data cable from its socket on the display assembly.
Step 25: Use the tip of a spudger to unplug bracket of the thermal sensor small cable near display data cable.
Carefully remove scotch tape covering thermal sensor. Using iSesamo or flat tip of the spudger carefully peel the thermal sensor away.
omg - forgot to switch the termal sensor from the old display...
now fan runs like crazy...
Push the tool around the top right corner of the display.
Wheel the tool down along the right side of the display.
Finish pushing the opening tool to the bottom of the right side of the display.
Starting from the top right corner of the iMac, wedge a plastic card between the display and frame.
this step is extremely important NOT to stick in the cards too far….. doing so, you risk a 600 euro replacement as I experienced………
Gently twist the plastic card sideways to create a gap between the display and frame.
Move slowly and be careful not to stress the display glass too much—you only need to make a gap of about 1/4".
This part must be done very carefully or you can damage the flat cable from display, despite it was under a iron cover.
Slide the card toward the center of the display to cut any of the remaining adhesive along the top right corner of the iMac.
Wedge the plastic card into the top right corner once again, and leave it there to prevent the adhesive from resticking.
Insert a second plastic card into the gap between the display and frame near the top left corner of the iMac.
Gently twist the card upward, slightly increasing the space between the display and frame.
Slide the plastic card toward the center, again stopping just before the iSight camera.
Wedge the plastic card back into the top left corner.
With both plastic cards inserted as shown near the corners, gently twist the cards sideways to increase the gap between display and case.
Begin to lift the top of the display up from the frame.
Hold the display with one hand while using your other hand to unplug the display power cable.
Continuing to support the display with one hand, flip up the metal retaining bracket on the display data cable.
Carefully pull the display data cable from its socket on the logic board.
Lift the display up to a near-vertical position.
The adhesive strip along the bottom is designed with a pull tab on each outer end. Rather than lever and pull the screen simply carefully pull the tab which removes that half of the lower adhesive strip and frees up the screen.
Lift the display up from the frame and remove it from the iMac.
It may be necessary to slowly lift from one side to peel against the remaining adhesive.
The adhesive strip along the bottom is designed with a pull tab on each outer end. Rather than lever and pull the screen simply carefully pull the tab which removes that half of the lower adhesive strip and frees up the screen.
Remove the following five Phillips screws holding the lower support bracket in place:
Four 3.2 mm screws
One 1.7 mm screw
Remove the lower support bracket from the iMac enclosure.
Gently pull the right speaker cable connector straight down and out of its socket on the logic board.
Remove the two 10 mm T10 Torx screws securing the right speaker to the rear enclosure.
Insert the tip of a spudger between the right speaker and the antenna cable, running it down the right side of the speaker to de-route the cable from its channel.
Tip the right speaker forward out of the rear enclosure, about 1 cm.
Pull the speaker straight up and remove it from the iMac.
Remove the following T10 Torx screws securing the hard drive brackets to the iMac:
Two 21 mm screws
One 9 mm screw
One 27 mm screw
At step 26, when reassembling, it's super easy to over-tighten the 9mm screw and strip the brass ferrule out of its hole in the plastic bracket (%#*@).
Remove the left and right hard drive brackets from the iMac.
Use the tip of a spudger to push each side of the power button cable connector and gently walk it out of its socket.
I would advise that before removing the PSU unit and all other components from the bottom of the case that you remove the 5 screws at the bottom of the display which hold an insulation strip in place.
The guide shows this piece removed, but does not tell you how to remove it.
There will be 5, small J1000 screws. The middle one, which goes over Apple Logo is the shorter one of the 5, all others are the same length. Once this piece is gone removing the components is much easier, and chance of damage lessened.
Added to the guide. Thanks for the tip!
No need to remove power board and logic board and all other components, just remove the fan and it is quite "easily" accessable to change the RAM. Just need to use the tools to remove the old RAM and carefully install the new RAM.
I just did it without removing the logic or power board
could you elaborate a little more, I would love to skip the rest of these steps. How did you accomplish this?
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Use the tip of a spudger to push each side of the power supply control cable connector and gently walk it out of its socket.
Remove the two 7.2 mm T10 Torx screws securing the power supply to the rear enclosure.
Tilt the power supply forward.
When replacing the PSU (on the re-build) take care not to trap the power button cable behind it - I did...
Pull the power supply slightly up and out from the rear enclosure.
Rotate the power supply counterclockwise, lifting the right side up about an inch higher than the left.
Slide the power supply to the right to clear the screw posts on the rear enclosure.
Rock the power supply forward and remove it from its recess in the rear enclosure.
Squeeze the tab on the back side of the DC power cable connector and pull it straight out of its socket on the back of the logic board.
when pulled the cable, even slightly, the actual female piece that connects to the logic board came off. am i screwed?
Use the flat end of a spudger to press the clip on the side of the AC inlet cable connector inward.
While pressing on the release clip with the spudger, grasp the AC inlet cable, and pull the connector straight out of its socket.
I didn't disconnect the input cable to the power supply. Because I had the machine lying on its back throughout, I placed it on to the metal bit at the bottom of the machine instead (with a cloth to stop the metal getting scratched). The AC inlet cable was pretty tricky to get un-locked, and the PSU sat on the case fine. It didn't hinder anything else throughout the guide.
I thought from Dave's comment that I could leave the power supply completely in place, but I was mistaken. In order to remove the hard drive assembly after you remove the center screw in it, you'll need to at least unscrew it and the HD assembly will slip out. Like Dave said, you don't need to unplug the AC or PSU, which I left hanging.
Getting power supply to the logic board unplugged is also tricky without unscrewing the two bottom screws. They didn't make this part easy.
Remove the power supply from the iMac.
Gently pull the fan cable connector straight out of its socket on the logic board.
Remove the three 10 mm T10 Torx screws securing the fan to the rear enclosure.
Remove the fan from the iMac.
Lift the hard drive from the edge nearest the logic board and pull it slightly out of its recess.
Use a spudger to disconnect the single SATA power and data combo cable by gently prying its large plastic connector away from the hard drive.
Remove the hard drive assembly from the iMac.
When reassembling, I found it easier to loosen the HD tray screw from Step 48 and pull the tray outwards from the left side in order to plug the SATA cable in more easily.
Thanks! I, too, had a hard time reconnecting the SATA cable.
I did loosen the speaker so I could get a tool behind the SATA cable to push it on to the SSD drive. Otherwise hard to align cable.
Remove the 7.3 mm T8 Torx screw securing the hard drive tray to the rear enclosure.
Remove the hard drive tray.
Gently pull the left speaker cable straight out of its socket on the logic board.
De-route the left speaker cable by pulling it straight up out of the retaining clip in the back of the rear enclosure.
Similarly to the previous step, de-route the SATA and power cables by pulling the braid straight up out of the retaining clip.
Peel up the piece of tape connecting the left speaker connector to the SATA power and data cables.
Flip up the metal retaining bracket on the FaceTime camera cable connector.
Pull the FaceTime camera cable straight out of its socket on the logic board.
Remove the two 4.0 mm T5 Torx screws securing the four antenna connectors to the AirPort/Bluetooth card.
Disconnect all four antenna connectors by prying them straight up from their sockets on the AirPort/Bluetooth card.
Use the flat edge of a spudger to pry the headphone jack cable connector from its socket on the logic board.
Peel off the tape covering the exhaust duct.
Remove the following T8 Torx screws securing the exhaust duct to the rear enclosure:
Two 6.2 mm screws
Two 4.7 mm screws
Remove the four 7.3 mm T8 Torx screws securing the logic board to the rear enclosure.
Tilt the top of the logic board away from the rear enclosure.
Lift the logic board straight up and out of the iMac.
Remove the T8 Torx screw securing the SSD to the logic board.
Slightly lift the rightmost side of the SSD and firmly slide it straight out of its socket on the logic board.
At this "Remove logic board" guide iMac Intel 21.5" EMC 2805 Logic Board Replacement step 65, I'm not seeing any PCIe socket. Does this mean if you bought an iMac with HDD you cannot add PCIe-based storage module to it later? I see in this guide, there can be a HDD with the PCIe-based model.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse and use our Adhesive Strips Guide to reattach the display glass.
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By Liam Twomey
A year ago, what would prove to be one of the most exciting seasons in Premier League history had just reached its halfway point, still swooning under the spell of a sublime little Spaniard.
Having sparkled intermittently in his first season England before enjoying a rare summer rest, David Silva embarked upon his second healthy, physically and mentally refreshed, and prepared to show exactly what had persuaded Manchester City to pay Valencia around £26 million to procure his services in June 2010.
He wasted no time, scoring in each of his first two Premier League games against Swansea and Bolton, before providing the inspiration for City's astonishing 5-1 destruction of Tottenham at White Hart Lane at the end of August.
The virtuoso performances continued. Silva was named Premier League Player of the Month for September, and in October he gave a masterclass in playmaking – as well as scoring himself – as City humiliated bitter rivals Manchester United 6-1 at Old Trafford and sent shockwaves around Europe.
His combinations with the likes of Sergio Aguero, Samir Nasri and Edin Dzeko were dazzling, and his technique and decision-making appeared flawless. By the time he scored one of the goals of the season in City's 3-2 win over QPR at Loftus Road in November, journalists were ready to cast their votes for Player of the Year.
But then something happened: 2012 came and Silva faded. The touch, skill and awareness were still there, but he ceased to dominate matches. Others instead shouldered the burden of being the key figures in the final stages of City's title charge: Joe Hart, Vincent Kompany, Yaya Toure and Aguero.
It was a mark of how sensational his early season form was that Silva still finished the season with more goal assists than any other Premier League player, but the magic grew rare after Christmas.
The reason, most believe, was fatigue. That Silva's decline immediately followed a relentlessly demanding run of festive fixtures appears more than a coincidence. There is also the argument that other aspects of our footballing culture may have played a significant role.
In September 2011, as Silva was running riot, Chelsea boss Rafa Benitez published a statistical study on his website which concluded that Premier League players run on average 100m more per game than their La Liga counterparts, sprint more and for longer, and engage in more draining tussles for possession in the air and on the floor.
It would be no surprise, then, if City's constant reliance on Silva to create chances, in a league more physically demanding than anything he had experienced before, eventually took its toll. But if true, Benitez would do well to let history – and his numbers – inform the future.
A year on from Silva's exploits, the Premier League is once again in the thrall of an Iberian wizard. Juan Mata is himself the conjurer-in-chief in a Chelsea side which has, despite being undermined by the club's apparent craving for controversy and chaos off the pitch, produced some of the best football seen this season on it.
|Juan Mata is 7/1 with Paddy Power to score the first goal against Stoke
Were it not for the remarkable feats of Robin van Persie, Luis Suarez and self-fulfilling 'Signing of the Season' Michu, Mata would boast perhaps the strongest claim of all to be clubhouse leader for Player of the Year as we embark on 2013. If his form continues, he may still find himself in the debate.
But it is this 'if' which should be worrying Benitez. For Chelsea's reliance on Mata for inspiration is almost total. In the four Premier League matches he has not started, the Blues have faced QPR home and away, West Brom at the Hawthorns and Fulham at Stamford Bridge, without winning once.
Given the wealth of creative talent Roman Abramovich has bestowed upon Benitez and, formerly, Roberto Di Matteo, this seems counter-intuitive. Hazard is a player capable of splitting open any defence, and Oscar is a 21-year-old blessed with genius. But without Mata linking the play and pulling the strings, Chelsea's lavishly expensive ship appears rudderless.
Wary of burning his star man out after a packed summer which involved Euro 2012 and Olympic commitments, Di Matteo wisely gave Mata a break of over a fortnight at the beginning of September. The Spaniard, suitably rejuvenated, produced his best performances in a Blue shirt on his return, but there are tantalising signs he may be starting to labour again.
In Wednesday's shock home defeat to Swansea in the Capital One Cup, Mata was unable to unlock a massed and motivated visiting defence in his customary manner, and his influence waned rather than grew as the game wore on and moved away from Chelsea.
Of course, one bad performance does represent a decline. But with Benitez under intense pressure and the fixture list as unyielding as ever, the Blues must learn how to win without their talisman, or run the risk that someday soon they will find it impossible to win with him.
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November 13, 2012
Dan Maffei celebrates on Election Night after learning he is ahead in the polls.
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The comeback kids: What brought Maffei, Stirpe back to office?
On Election Day, voters in Central New York resoundingly rejected national Republican candidates, re-electing President Barack Obama by a vote of 59 percent to Republican challenger Mitt Romney's 38 percent, choosing Democrat Dan Maffei over conservative opponent Ann Marie Buerkle for Congress and, at a more local level, selecting more liberal Al Stirpe instead of Don Miller. While the presidential vote isn't a big surprise — Obama took Onondaga County by a similar margin in the 2008 election — both Maffei and Stirpe lost those seats in the 2010 elections to Buerkle and Miller, respectively. So what made voters change their minds? What made these two candidates, as one politician at the Democrats' Election Night celebration put it, "Central New York's Comeback Kids"?
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Anita Louise Schultz, 64, of Lawrence Road, Hudson, Mich., died Jan. 14, 2006 at her home.
She was born Feb. 27, 1941 in Adrian, Mich., to Robert and Jeanette (Reynolds) Luce. On Sept. 15, 1963 she married Richard Schultz, Sr., in Adrian, Mich., and he preceded her in death Feb. 4, 2003.
Anita was a homemaker who lived in the Hudson area since 1968. She was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Hudson.
Anita is survived by three daughters, Connie Cox of Adrian, Linda Marie Bellamy of Virginia Beach, Va., and Lorinda and (William) Stites of Fayette, Ohio; two sons, Clifford Schultz and Daniel (and Kim) Schultz, both of Hudson; one brother, Robert Luce of Jackson; 18 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; one sister, Ruth Ann Tester; two brothers, Gary and James Luce, and one son, Richard Paul Schultz, Jr.
Mass of Christian burial is scheduled at 11 a.m. Thursday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Hudson with Fr. Richard Eberle as celebrant. Interment will follow at North Dover Cemetery in Dover Township, Mich. Visitation is scheduled today (Wednesday) from 4 to 8:30 p.m., with a vigil prayer service at 8 p.m., at Eagle Funeral Home in Fayette, Ohio.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Lenawee County or Fr. H. Paul Ruddy Educational Endowment Fund.


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A strong inside-out game and stingy defense staked the Fort Lewis College womens basketball team to a 10-point lead.
Losing sight of how they got a lead that big cost the Skyhawks a win.
Minnesota-Crookston battled back to even at halftime, then shot 48 percent from the field after intermission to outlast the Fort Lewis College women 69-61 on Friday at the Grand Canyon University Thanksgiving Classic in Phoenix.
We got up 10 in the first half, and then we just didnt play well defensively, Fort Lewis head coach Jason Flores said.
We kind of were sticking to everything that we do, and we got away from that, tried to play a little more one-on-one, and thats not our team.
The Skyhawks (1-2) built the lead on the back of a strong inside game from Christie Groh, who led all scorers with 24 points to go with eight rebounds. Her prowess opened up opportunities on the perimiter for players such as Ashley Kuchar, who poured in 18.
Katerina Garcia set a school record with nine steals to help the defensive effort. But she and Kuchar combined for 14 of FLCs 22 turnovers against just 17 assists, and Flores said the Skyhawks tried to force the action offensively too much after halftime, shooting just 31 percent, which adversely affected their defensive effort.
In the second half, unfortunately, we missed some shots were normally going to make, but we let that affect our defense, Flores said. It has to be the opposite. Defense has to lead to offensive momentum.
We were pressing offensively, and we got out of what we do.
Ashley Martell and Brittani Wiese led the way for Minnesota-Crookston (2-1) with 13 points each, while Laurie Tyson pulled in 13 rebounds.
The Skyhawks finish the weekend tournament today against host and No. 13-ranked Grand Canyon at 2:30 p.m.


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As expected, third baseman Placido Polanco returned from the disabled list in time for Saturday's game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.
His reinstatement cost utility infielder Juan Castro his job.
"Basically what happened ... is that other guys stepped up and were playing better baseball -- (Wilson) Valdez in particular," general manager Ruben Amaro said.
When the season started, Valdez was at triple-A Lehigh Valley and Castro, who signed a one-year $750,000 contract in the offseason, was considered the primary infield bench player. Valdez, however, got a chance to join the Phillies early in the season because of an injury to Jimmy Rollins and, despite briefly being outrighted back to Lehigh Valley in late May, consistently played better than Castro, who batted just .198 with 13 RBIs in 54 games.
The Phillies also decided to keep infielder Cody Ransom instead of Castro. Ransom, promoted from Lehigh Valley earlier this month, contributed a game-tying home run against the Cincinnati Reds.
"Ransom is a threat off the bench as a power guy and he has some versatility, too," Amaro said.
The Phillies are hopeful that Polanco's return will kickstart their struggling offense, but manager Charlie Manuel also tinkered with the lineup for Saturday's game.
Shane Victorino moved into the leadoff spot and Jimmy Rollins moved down to third with Polanco hitting in between the two.


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Kashmir team congratulated for entering Ranji quarter finals
Jammu, Jan 3 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir's Youth Services and Sports Minister Taj Mohiuddin Friday congratulated the state cricket team for reaching quarter finals of Ranji Trophy this year.
In a message to the team and its players, the minister hoped that the coming times would bring more and more success for the team. He hoped that brighter and sharp players would come out of the state who would bring laurels to not only the state but the country as well.
He said legendary cricketer and coach Polly Umrigar is on record having said if India needs pace bowlers, they would come from Jammu and Kashmir.
The Jammu and Kashmir cricket team created history by reaching the Ranji trophy quarterfinals for the first time after their group C encounter against Tripura ended in a draw on Thursday.
Prior to this, the farthest the state team had progressed in the tournament was the pre-quarter-finals against Odisha in 2000-01.
The team will now square off against Punjab at Baroda from Jan 8.
It was a remarkable achievement for the team considering that many formidable sides such as seven-time champions Delhi, two-time winners Rajasthan, last year's finalists Saurashtra and Gujarat failed to make it to the knockout stage.
The hosts (Tripura) had began the day at a solid 103 for two but were all out for 272 as J&K skipper and ace spinner Parvez Rasool claimed seven wickets at the expense of 87 runs.


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Two men facing drug charges after motor vehicle stops in Manchester
January 08. 2013 12:35PM
MANCHESTER - A 19-year-old man was arrested on drug charges, the result of a car being pulled over because of a defective brake light.
Ayodeji Olorunfemi, of 99 Fourth St., was arrested about 6 p.m. Monday at Silver and Lincoln streets. Police said he was a passenger in the car.
When Officer Tom Whelan approached the car, he immediately detected the odor of marijuana, according to authorities. He allegedly found a digital scale and about an ounce of marijuana in the front passenger seat area where Olorunfemi was seated.
As a result, Olorunfemi was charged with possession of a controlled drug with the intent to distribute.
A second man is also facing felony drug charges after an officer saw a woman jump out of his car early Monday morning and then saw her get back into it.
The officer stopped the car about 1:30 a.m. Monday at Bridge and Union streets. The woman, identified by police as Gabrielle Laroche, 19, of 89 Ridge Road, Deerfield, was charged with illegal possession of alcohol after the officer determined she was under the influence, police said.
The driver, identified as Carl Lind, 39, of 78 Ashland St., allegedly showed the officer a suspended driver's license. He was charged with prohibition and operating after suspension.
When he was searched, police said they recovered three oxycodone and four Adderal pills. As a result, he was charged with possession of a controlled drug and possession of a narcotic drug.


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Lego 70202 CHIMA CHI Gorzan
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Swing or smash into a jungle battle with CHI Gorzan! This powered-up warrior defends the Gorilla tribe with a heavy-duty mace, big fists, spiked shoulder armor and a golden CHI orb chest plate. Take on CHI Razar and the rest of the bird-brained Raven tribe with CHI Gorzan's brute strength.
• Features a CHI mace, big heavy fists, spiked shoulder armor and golden CHI orb chest plate• Smash into battle with the spiked mace• Move his super-flexible limbs for action-packed battle poses!• Grip with his giant fists to swing into battle• Battle with 70205 CHI Razar• Combine with 70205 CHI Razar using building instructions available at LEGO.com\Chima\BI to create an even bigger CHI Gorzan figure• Stands over 6" (16cm) tall


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Proposed Canon
Move is a Unit statistic. For each point of Move, the Unit may enter an additional hex per Turn. For more details on how Units move, see Movement.
A Unit assigned to the Garrison of a City is called a Garrison unit. These Units have a Move value of 0, but can freely move about the City without expending Move while both on-Turn and off-Turn..
Known Moves & Comparisons
- 56+ - 19 of 46 DwagonsErf-b1-p046a
- <56 - 27 of 46 Dwagons
- 52 - Jillian Zamussels' slower Gwiffon, of the twoErf-b1.5-p012
- 44 - Orlies
- <40 - Slowest of Caesar Borgata, Vinny Doombats, Dewy Tulips, and Leather Valese
- 24 - Charlie's Archons, some Gwiffons (minimum value, could be much greater)
- 22 - Vinny's Doombats
- 8 - Jack Snipe
- 0 - Garrison Units have a Move of 0 and cannot leave their City's zones. They can freely move throughout the city on and off Turn without expending Move.
Siege engines and other slow units would take "five or more" turns to reach Gobwin KnobErf-b1-p021a as of Gobwin Knob's Turn 3. If the distance to Gobwin Knob from the Coalition's starting point was in the realm of 25 hexes, that would put their movement in the 4-6 range, which seems about right when compared to Jack Snipe's move.
According to the RCC's map, the column stretched at least 18 hexes, possibly more. That would mean, for a speed 6 engine, 3 whole turns to catch up to the front of the column. This helps explain why, after Parson destroyed 40% of the seige, mostly from the front, that Ansom indicated waiting a day would increase the usable siege by ~ 600% - if, say, 5% of the original number were available during the first day of the siege, and another 30% were within range of Gobwin Knob for the next turn, that would explain the numbers and leave an additional 25% siege another day's travel behind.


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Ferriday 61, Sterlington 55
Point guard Sha'Kerria Kelly went off for 32 points as Ferriday tarnish Sterlington's District 2-2A opener with a 61-55 upset victory on Tuesday night.
Sterlington, which trailed most of the game, managed to take a 30-29 lead late in the first half. Ferriday answered on its final possession to carry a 31-30 advantage into intermission.
The third quarter was close throughout, before the homestanding Lady Trojans (4-9) began to open up some separation in the final frame.
"We're young and it's hard for a young team to realize that you have to go into every game prepared," Sterlington coach Darlene Eubanks said. "Offensively, we played well enough. It was on the defensive side of the ball that we really let up. Defensively, we just didn't do a lot of things correctly."
Kelly took full advantage of the Lady Panthers' defensive lapse.
"Kelly's really good," Eubanks said. "Ferriday was ready to play ball. It wasn't supposed to happen, but games don't always go like they're supposed to on paper."
Alayah Mitchell was Sterlington's offensive stalwart with 18 points. LaTasha English added eight and Meshana English contributed six points off the bench.
Sterlington (11-7) sets out to even its conference record at home Friday night against Lakeside, before entertaining Jonesboro-Hodge on Tuesday.
"I think we're going to be OK," Eubanks said. "Jonesboro-Hodge and Homer were the top two teams in district last year and they're the top-ranked teams again this year. We were fortunate enough to beat both of them last year, so I'm not going to underestimate us. We just need to get everybody on the same page on the same night."


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I just installed firefox from the activities page. How nice to have more of the browsing features I am accustomed to. My thanks to all those who worked on this!
Anyway, I noticed two things. They may be related, they may not.
1) When I try to bookmark a website/page, even though firefox goes through the motions, my bookmarks are never really saved. The next time I fire-up the XO or start firefox again, the bookmarks aren't in the list. This may be due to an improper shutdown of firefox? (see the next item)
2) I start firefox from the Home View. I see the firefox activity icon in the circle, then firefox presents itself. If I go back to the Home View now I see the firefox icon (in perpetual "starting..." mode) and a new icon that has an unconnected network shape (simple gray circle). Back in firefox I do what WEB access I need, then Close or Quit the application. Back to the Home View, the gray circle is gone but the perpetually starting firefox icon is still there. At this point I can not stop the "starting" firefox, I can not start firefox again from the Activities list, my only recourse is to shutown and restart the XO (if I want to restart firefox).
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These venison-stuffed cabbage rolls from Stacy Harris, author of Happy Healthy Family, sound outstanding for a new dish to try!
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Venison Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
- 12 cabbage leaves
- Olive oil, for sautéing and drizzling
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, smashed
- 1 1/2 pound ground venison
- 1 Tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 cup cooked rice
- 2 eggs
- 2 Tablespoons Kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon basil
- 1/4 teaspoon oregano
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 1/2 quarts crushed tomatoes
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 Tablespoons sugar
- 2 Tablespoons lemon juice
- 3 Tablespoons flour mixed with 1/4 cup water
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. For the sauce, heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a saucepan. Sauté garlic for about 1 minute. Add tomatoes, sugar, lemon juice and flour mixture to the pan and mix well. Heat until the mixture thickens and turn off the heat.
3. For the filling, place a skillet over medium heat and coat with 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Add the onions and garlic and sauté for about 5 minutes or until the onions are translucent. Add the tomato paste and mix well.
4. In a large bowl, place ground venison, tomato mixture, rice, eggs, salt, pepper, basil, oregano and milk. Mix well.
5. Choose the largest cabbage leaves from your cabbage head. In a large stockpot bring water to a boil. Drop cabbage leaves into the water and cook for about 3-5 minutes or until pliable. Remove leaves from the pot and drain well. Place a about 1/4 cup of sauce on the bottom of a baking dish. Place about 1/2 cup venison mixture into the center of the cabbage roll and roll the cabbage leaf from what was the stem over the mixture and enclose the mixture. Place the cabbage roll seam side down in the baking dish repeating with the other cabbage leaves. Place the cabbage rolls side by side in the dish. Drizzle 2 to 3 tablespoons over the rolls.
5. Pour the sauce over the cabbage rolls. Place the cabbage rolls in the oven for about 1 hour or until meat is cooked through.
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After scores of private meetings with Big Oil giants such as ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is aggressively undermining the authority of state and local governments to reject dozens of proposed liquefied natural gas facilities all across the country.
The energy companies' influence with FERC and its chairman, Pat Wood III, is evident in schedules, letters, e-mails and handwritten notes obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the Center for Public Integrity. The documents indicate an extremely close relationship between the commission and the industry it regulates.
Over the past three years, FERC's current four commissioners have met privately at least 83 times with executives and lobbyists representing oil and gas companies active in the LNG trade. In comparison, FERC has met privately only a handful of times with opponents of specific LNG projects.
Industry access seems to be paying off. For example, despite state and local opposition, FERC recently asserted its authority to unilaterally permit the construction and operation of LNG facilities. (California is currently in the process of challenging that decision in court. ) Top FERC officials have also supported more LNG imports in speeches and presentations. The agency has even announced a "new regulatory approach" that "remove[d] economic and regulatory barriers to the development of onshore LNG import terminals."
Further, a bill expected to be introduced early in the next session of Congress would cement in law the regulatory agency's role as the sole authority over LNG terminals.
Some high-ranking members of Congress have already weighed in on the issue, however. Last month in a giant congressional appropriations bill, three paragraphs granting FERC authority over state powers to site LNG facilities were slipped in without debate by Republican leaders. Senate Energy Committee Chairman Pete V. Domenici, R-N.M, slipped the LNG provision into the massive spending bill, an aide to the senator told the Los Angeles Times this weekend.
Several officials who have opposed LNG projects, such as Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., were unaware of the change. Although the language would not carry the weight of law, it puts the leaders on record in favor of FERC's position on the matter.
The agency's power grab comes at a propitious time for the industry. With natural gas demand expected to rise dramatically during the next 20 years according to the Energy Information Administration, FERC officials justify their role by saying that an uptake in the LNG trade can increase supplies, especially in big consumer regions like New England.
"I think it helps customers a lot to give them cheap gas," said Wood. "It is a supply and demand response. The demand has gone up because of the positive environmental attributes, so the supply has to go up."
More than 40 LNG projects are currently slated for all of North America, dotting the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines of the United States.
LNG is the liquefied form of natural gas. Cooled to below minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, LNG takes up 1/600th of the volume of natural gas in its vapor form. Pumped into enormous tankers—some large enough to fuel ten million homes for a day in one shipment—LNG is imported from countries as near as Trinidad and Tobago, America's biggest LNG supplier, or as distant as Algeria, Nigeria, and Qatar.
Proponents argue that LNG is a clean fuel and that better shipping technology and the high prices for domestic natural gas make it an attractive option for Americans.
Critics worry about the safety risks— including potential terrorist attacks—associated with LNG facilities. If a spill from an LNG tanker ignites, it could endanger surrounding communities, according to several experts interviewed by the Center.
Although natural gas can only burn in a certain concentration in the air, most experts agree that a "pool fire"—an LNG tanker spill onto water that evaporates and ignites in the air—is the industry's most serious hazard.
"It will be like a gasoline pool fire," said Jerry Havens, a professor at the University of Arkansas. "LNG will evaporate much faster and it will burn much hotter."
"It is highly unlikely that anyone could cause a spillage of all those tanks at one time," said Havens. "But if you could cause damage to one tank, and it caught fire, there is a potential for a very large fire that could endanger the rest of the ship."
Wood said he takes such worries seriously.
"Some of these proposals are being proposed in my own hometown [Port Arthur, Texas], so I have a very strong personal interest in the security and the safety of these facilities," said Wood.
While there has not been a serious tanker spill, there have been 13 serious LNG terminal accidents worldwide, including a 1944 fire at an LNG plant near Cleveland, Ohio, that killed 128 people, according to the Congressional Research Service. The most recent accident was an explosion at Algeria's Skikda LNG terminal, killing 27 people, in January 2004.
Communities around the country cite those risks in opposing planned LNG facilities in their neighborhoods.
Meeting Behind Closed Doors
From June 2001 to May 2004, FERC's current four commissioners had at least 83 private meetings, including meals, with executives and lobbyists representing oil and gas companies that are active in the LNG trade. The Center did not receive schedules for past commissioners during that period.
Wood accounted for at least 33 of those meetings with LNG interests, either by himself or with other commissioners. Among those Wood scheduled meetings with were lawyers and lobbyists representing some of the more controversial LNG projects in Massachusetts and California.
"I want to know what is going on before I read it in the paper," Wood told the Center for Public Integrity. "If we regulate you, we want to know what is going on. We want to hear it from you first."
Besides the private meetings with FERC's top brass, energy executives have pushed hard for new policy regarding LNG facilities at public sessions held by the agency. For example, FERC held a day-long public meeting with the National Petroleum Council, a federal advisory committee packed with oil and gas officials, to discuss speeding up the permitting process for LNG terminals.
Before the public meeting, Wood also had a private meeting that included his former boss, Jerry Langdon, a former FERC commissioner and now an oil executive, who was representing the NPC to discuss the report.
Langdon helped secure Wood's first job with Pres. Bush, writing in 1994 to the then Texas governor about his past legal advisor at FERC. Langdon and Martin Allday, another former FERC Commissioner, wrote to Bush, "Because we both have seen first-hand (in spades) the ability, integrity, energy and dedication to service that Pat Wood exemplifies, we recommend that you consider appointing him to the [Texas Public Utility Commission]. You simply could not do much better from our way of thinking."
Wood later recalled to the Dallas Morning News that the "letter was sitting on Bush's desk when I went in to see the governor after the inauguration."
"I have been in the energy industry since 1989," Wood told the Center. "You are going to know people. But the burden of mine is to make decisions based on what is good for the public."
The roughly 40 LNG facilities on the table nationwide include plans by such oil and gas titans as BP and El Paso Corp. As a group, 18 of the companies behind the proposals have made more than $31 million in campaign contributions and reported spending more than $198 million
Oil and gas companies not only lobbied on the LNG trade, but also for more focus on unconventional exploration technology, a proposed Alaskan natural gas pipeline, and many other provisions in a massive energy bill that is now stalled in Congress.
They've also donated heavily to like-minded legislators. Rep. Lee Terry, R-Neb., and the other nine lawmakers who co-sponsored a previous version of the bill increasing FERC's power, have received more than $794,000 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry since 1998.
President Bush, who has received more than $1.7 million from the oil and gas industry from 1998 through mid-year 2004, is also a proponent of LNG. His campaign Web site promoted LNG terminals to meet U.S. demands for natural gas.
Small Communities Targeted
At the moment, the continental United States has only four LNG terminals—with another located in Puerto Rico—that can receive LNG and transform it back into gas for consumption.
Many of the new LNG facilities would be located near small communities like Fall River, Massachusetts, and Galveston, Texas—a tactic, critics say, designed to minimize opposition to the controversial facilities.
"I think it is no accident that the industry has chosen places like Fall River, which tend to be lower-income, working class communities where they don't expect educated opposition," said Mayor Ed Lambert. The New England mill town has tried to prevent a proposed LNG terminal from being built inside its city limits.
Fall River has enlisted several top political allies in its opposition to the LNG project, such as Gov. Mitt Romney, former presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
FERC says it holds hearings in local areas as part of the pre-filing process for LNG terminals sited nearby. "Many people are invited from the local area in the process and many do participate," Wood told the Center.
As part of the application process in some communities, FERC has held "technical conferences" with companies proposing LNG terminals as well. People can attend, but only if they sign non-disclosure agreements. In addition, records that could include potential hazards and safety risks to the area are sealed under a clause called "critical energy infrastructure information." Entire pages of LNG project documents have been exempted from public view.
Some of the private meetings were also part of the pre-filing process. "There are rules that limit informal meetings once an application has been triggered," Prof. Richard Pierce of George Washington University told the Center. Pierce, an expert on government regulation, explained that pre-filing has existed for more than 30 years at FERC and other government agencies as a means of expediting the approval process. Licensees are expected to communicate potential projects to the relevant regulatory agency, in this case FERC, through communications and meetings.
After an evaluation period, FERC typically seeks public comment. Bryan Lee, acting director of external affairs for FERC, suggested that public participation was not necessarily limited, since FERC holds public meetings and posts notices as part of the approval process. Becoming an official participant in the approval process requires a responsibility to contact and inform all involved parties; many members of the public, Lee suggested, may not be prepared to assume the mandated requirements. "You can't just zip out an email," Lee said.
Lee also pointed out that many of the companies had other business before the commission. "Just because the meetings had companies involved in LNG doesn't mean the meetings were about LNG." However, Lee was unable to specify which of the roughly 80 meetings the Center identified involved LNG or at what point in the process they took place. FERC did not provide an estimate of the number of meetings commissioners held with opponents of LNG projects.
The process, says Fall River Mayor Lambert, doesn't seem conducive to getting feedback.
"My sense has been that FERC's intent is to site these facilities and make them happen. They are not in the business of preventing them," he said.
Coast to Coast
If the LNG companies expected cooperation from the targeted towns, they miscalculated. Local communities are marshalling opposition to the industry's liquefied natural gas plans.
- In Harpswell, Maine, residents voted against an LNG facility being sited in their community, which has encouraged many developers to look north in Canada for new LNG terminals.
- In St. Andrews, Canada, the town council has asked the local Passamaquoddy Tribe, which partnered with an energy company, to void its LNG proposal sited on nearby land.
- In Mobile Bay, Ala., ExxonMobil shelved its plans for an LNG terminal after opposition from the state's governor, Bob Riley, as well as community residents.
- Texans in Galveston voiced anger during a recent public hearing at BP officials who negotiated confidentially for community land to site a LNG facility nearby.
- Organized by Greenpeace, a flotilla of California politicians and environmentalists protested ChevronTexaco's proposal for an LNG facility near the Coronado Islands, off Mexico's Pacific coast.
- In Coos Bay, Ore., a citizen group, Coos County Citizens for Representative Government, has brought in independent experts to speak to residents about the potential dangers of a nearby LNG project.
- Environmentalists and fishermen have expressed skepticism over a possible floating LNG facility in Long Island Sound, N.Y., a joint venture between Shell and TransCanada Corp.
But the industry is flexing some muscle. In Fall River, Gordon Shearer, the C.E.O. of the Weaver's Cove LNG project, a joint venture between energy consultants Poten & Partners and oil giant Amerada Hess, continues to push for his firm's facility. The Weaver's Cove project has hired Baker Botts, FERC Chairman Wood's one-time employer, to help make its case. The joint venture's attorney at the firm, Bruce Kiely, met privately with Wood twice during 2003—once for lunch in August and the second time to pre-file the project's application in December. Both Shearer and FERC Commissioner Suedeen Kelly were present at the December meeting.
Freedom of Information Act requests by the Center for Public Integrity for materials exchanged between FERC and Weaver's Cove representatives at Baker Botts have been held up by the agency. Upon the law firm's request, the records were labeled as "critical energy infrastructure information" and sealed from the public. FERC has yet to decide whether it will release the materials to the Center. On Monday, December 6, 2004, the Center filed suit against FERC to obtain the material.
FERC has since pressed for an LNG terminal in Fall River. Its application is one of the first to cross the agency's desk since the new LNG "open access" policy was announced in late 2002.
According to Mayor Lambert, FERC has minimized the danger by saying the risk of terrorism is small and manageable. "Says who? I think that is an outrageous statement to make in this post-9/11 world," said Lambert.
Practically speaking, Lambert also considers the project an impossibility. "Tankers cannot get past the old bridge," he told the Center. "The Massachusetts Highway Department has notified FERC that the new bridge will not be finished until 2010, which makes this application process an absolute farce. . . . Even if the bridge was not an issue, it would take six years of dredging to make this project feasible."
Weaver's Cove's representatives at Baker Botts dispute Lambert's safety charges and emphasize New England's need for natural gas.
Another high-profile battle is taking place in Long Beach, California. The California Public Utilities Commission has butted heads with FERC and Sound Energy Solutions, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, which wants to build an LNG terminal in the city.
"We think there are a lot of safety concerns with this project because it is located in a densely populated area," Harvey Morris, CPUC's principal counsel, told the Center. "This particular facility is being sited on 'landfill,' which is the most unstable in regard to earthquakes. It is near twenty-seven different active earthquake faults, according to the project sponsor itself."
CPUC argue that it's the state—not the federal government—that is responsible for natural gas facilities, according to state law.
"We are basically being told that we do not even have the right to decide for the safety of our citizens, even though this does not involve interstate commerce," Morris said. "Where states have historically regulated intrastate gas facilities, FERC has no basis to regulate this and no basis to oust our authority."
FERC argues that regulatory authority "rests exclusively with the federal government."
In a March 2004 press release, the agency noted that it had "clarified its authority in an order responding to the California Public Utilities Commission's claim that California has jurisdiction over LNG facilities within its borders." CPUC has since demanded a rehearing of the decision.
The FERC chairman had a private meeting with lawyers representing SES to discuss "Mitsubishi LNG project jurisdictional issues" just over two months before the agency made the announcement.
"It was no different than the pre-filing meetings we have had all along," said John Burnes, one of the lawyers Wood met with.
SES's advocates also had another meeting with Wood in June 2003 to discuss the LNG terminal.
Burnes soon after co-authored an article in the trade publication, Public Utilities Fortnightly, praising FERC's decision as "a strong and decisive order" while taking apart CPUC's argument in June 2004.
One for the Future
In 2002, LNG imports only constituted one percent of the United States' consumption of natural gas. But by 2020, LNG imports could climb to 20 percent of America's supply, according to energy analysts.
LNG delivers only a small percentage of natural gas in the U.S., but it is a staple in other nations around the world. For example, LNG provides nearly all of Japan's gas needs.
Though heavily favored by Washington, several LNG projects so far have been scrapped due to local opposition across America. Industry representatives complain of "NIMBY" syndrome, or "Not In My Backyard," from residents who live near proposed LNG sites.
"It is fair to say that a project of this order and magnitude will always come across this kind of opposition," said Gordon Shearer of Weaver's Cove. "We don't like coal, we don't like nuclear power plants, we don't like wind, and we don't like LNG, so what is the energy strategy for the New England region then?"
FERC still has its work cut out for it. Right now, 12 applications for LNG projects slotted across the country have been filed with the agency and more than a dozen are planned.
LNG's opponents are not letting up either. "I have said before we will bleed the project with a thousand paper cuts if necessary," Lambert told the Center. "Our confidence is growing."
Alexander Cohen contributed to this report.
Note to readers: This story has been reposted. Since the report was originally released, the Center for Public Integrity has changed the way it calculates lobbying expenditures to reflect a more stringent methodology for determining the total amounts. The change was made to correct the potential overstatement of totals. Figures or relevant text that have been changed are indicated with asterisks. (3/16/2006)


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Roots wrote:Steu wrote:I really think adding a shake or a flash to the enemies in BattleMode (making it like old style FF games) would add alot to battle mode, and using map sprites for the characters would remove a lot of strain for art for battle mode.
In other words, you are my ally.
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Former state Rep. John P. Fresolo, who resigned from the House Wednesday after an Ethics Committee investigation that reportedly focused on his alleged abuse of travel reimbursements, is entitled to receive a state pension and health insurance benefits for life.
With 15 years of state employment as a legislator, the Worcester Democrat, 48, is vested at age 55 to receive an annual pension payment of about 22 percent of his $61,132 salary, and medical coverage at the standard contribution rate for his group of 20 percent, according to the state retirement commission.
That means Mr. Fresolo would receive about $13,472 a year, tax free because Massachusetts state employees do not receive Social Security benefits.
If he collected the pension for 36 years after age 55, he would receive $309,856 by age 78, the average life expectancy for a U.S. male now 48 years old.
"Before a single tax dollar is given to this latest disgraced Democrat, the speaker should publicize the findings of his ethics committee to ensure transparency and fair use of public funds," said Tim Buckley, spokesman for the state Republican Party. "It would be an insult to Massachusetts citizens for the top Democrat in the House to close the books on Fresolo and then hand him taxpayer cash when there is serious suspicion of illicit behavior on his behalf."
While Mr. Fresolo resigned under a cloud of suspicion, he was not publicly accused of any crime or violation.
House rules dictate that the panel's deliberations are secret, unless they get to the point at which a matter is referred to the full House. If that occurs, rules provide for public reports on the committee's findings and hearings before the full House, with possible penalties and sanctions.
But because Mr. Fresolo resigned, the matter apparently has been closed without findings.
Seth Gitell, a spokesman for House Speaker Robert A. DiLeo, declined comment on whether it is appropriate for Mr. Fresolo to receive retirement benefits.
Mr. Fresolo did not return a call seeking comment.
It is rare for legislators to lose their pensions, even in cases of legal misconduct. In recent years, however, the state retirement board has voted to strip pensions from two former House speakers who were convicted of felonies: Salvatore F. DiMasi and Thomas M. Finneran.
The retirement board approved a pension for former Arlington state Sen. James Marzilli, who served three months in jail for misdemeanor charges stemming from his accosting four women in Lowell.
The state retirement board ruled in 2008 that former Milford state Rep. Marie Parente could not add per diem travel expenses to her salary for the purpose of pension calculations.
Per diems, sources have told the Telegram & Gazette, were at the center of the Ethics Committee investigation.
Mr. Fresolo was eighth on the list of legislators with the most per diem compensation in 2011, with 218 days claimed for $7,848.
The Ethics inquest began in March after a legislative aide made a series of complaints about what Mr. DeLeo called "serious violations" of House standards.
Mr. Fresolo, who in March was adamant about not resigning, on Wednesday acknowledged the Ethics investigation and maintained he had been in negotiations with the committee; he also alleged he had been pressured to resign.
The speaker, through a spokesman, denied that Mr. Fresolo's resignation was the product of pressure or negotiations.
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How Many of Your Facebook Friends Do You Actually Know?
You log into Facebook and you have a birthday reminder for one of your "friends." The name doesn't ring a bell and the profile picture isn't helpful. Someone you knew in high school who got married, maybe? You have no idea.


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