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"At 12% of average for this time of year, the dismal statewide snowpack underscored the severity of a drought that is threatening community water supplies and leaving farm fields in many parts of California barren.
"As snow survey crews worked, Gov. Jerry Brown met with Southern California water leaders as part of a series of drought meetings he is holding around the state.
"Every day this drought goes on, we're going to have to tighten the screws on what people are doing," Brown said in brief remarks before the private meeting with regional water managers at the downtown Los Angeles headquarters of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California."
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"Northern California is finally getting wet weather after some areas have gone without measurable rain for weeks. But the precipitation won't help much to ease the drought that plagued the region.
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's website predicted just 0.1 inch of rain in San Francisco on Wednesday and Thursday. But more than 2 inches were expected in parts of Sacramento and as much as 2 feet of snow at higher elevations in the northern Sierra, where snow was falling on Thursday morning and drivers were required to have chains on their vehicles.
"The San Francisco Bay Area has had only about 10-20 percent of the precipitation that it usually gets this time of year, said National Weather Service forecaster Diana Henderson."
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Ever had a student who exhibits behavioral issues in morning meeting on some days but not on others? Had a student who on some days has a great day at recess with no problems and on other days, recess is a behavioral nightmare? How about a student who you look at him when he gets off the bus and think to yourself, "I knew I should have called in sick today!"? Frequently I encounter these students and their teachers tell me that there is not reason for their challenging behavior, that there is no pattern, or that there was no antecedent to the behavior. When people tell me that the individual's behavior is variable with good days and bad days or that there is no discernable pattern to the behavior, one of the things Iimmediatelythink about is thepresence of one or more setting events. So, in continuing to talk about data collection in naturalistic settings, I wanted to spend a full post talking about what setting events are (and aren't) and how they work.
Setting events are events that happen BEFORE the antecedent or trigger for the challenging behavior. They essentially are more global types of events (e.g., lack of sleep, illness) that make an antecedent more likely to trigger a challenging behavior than it might be if the setting event didn't exist. They don't cause a challenging behavior, but they make it more likely. I think of them like a cloud that rains on the connection between the immediate antecedent to a challenging behavior and the challenging behavior.
Let's take a couple of examples. This morning my coffee maker was broken and I didn't get to drink my coffee before working on the computer. When I started working on the computer, it started doing weird things like freezing when I was working on a video. On most days, I just reboot the computer and try again and just keep doing this until it gets done. But today, I was really irritated with it, didn't feel like waiting for it to reboot, and kept trying to make it work. There may have been some cursing involved. On most days, I accept that if I want to use that old computer for video, I'm going to have to reboot it, but without having my coffee, it just wasn't going to happen without some challenging behavior.
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If heaven for you is lush purple plum mountains, hills of orange, green, red and yellow peppers, and paths pebbled with ruby radishes, you probably judge your supermarket on the quality of its fruits and veggies.
You're not alone. Good-quality produce, along with a wide variety and low prices, are among the factors that Consumer Reports readers consider most important when choosing a particular grocer, according to our recent survey .
For those reasons, supermarkets give their fresh produce departments particular prominence, placing them near the front, where shoppers enter the store. A well-managed produce section can be very profitable, experts say.
To inspire shoppers, many stores use machines that spray a fine mist and even employ theatrical spotlights to show their bounty at its best.
"Those oranges, rutabagas, and eggplants will look better in the store than they ever will in your kitchen," saysPaco Underhill, chief executive officer of Envirosell, a New York City-based research and consulting firm focused on consumer behavior.
For produce lovers living near a Wegmans supermarket, heaven is a little closer than it is for the rest of us. The East Coast family-owned grocer, with stores from Massachusetts to Virginia, was the only store in our recent supermarket and grocery store ratings (available to subscribers) to score top marks in the categories of produce quality, produce quantity, and quantity of local produce.
"Wegmans produce is the freshest in town, and the selection is huge," says Barbara Goldenberg of Frederick, Md., of her local store.
What makes Wegmans veggies superior? For one, it turns over its produce—that is, sells or moves out the old stuff and brings in the new—about 150 to 200 times per year, explains Burt P. Flickinger III, managing director of the Strategic Resource Group, a consumer industry consulting firm based in New York City. Competing grocers turn over their produce only 35 to 45 times per year, he notes.
The company also has a strong network of local sources, even in colder northern areas. "They're the leaders working with hydroponic, natural, and organic greenhouse produce growers," Flickinger says. "Whether the temperature is 92 degrees or 9 degrees below zero, their produce is typically local."
Only Dierbergs, a Missouri-based supermarket chain, came close to Wegmans. It garnered top marks for the quantity of local produce it sells. The family-owned store shows a photo gallery of local partner farms on its website.
"They know there is interest in locally grown foods," explains James Fisher, a professor of marketing at the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University. "They understand the local market and adapt to expectations."
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Local businesses are the backbone of our local economy. When you buy local, you are actually supporting yourself. Shopping local helps maintain a diverse, healthy community. Studies have shown that when you buy from independent, locally owned businesses – rather than nationally owned businesses – your dollars have three times more impact in the community. Those dollars are used to make purchases from other local businesses. That helps to strengthen the economic base of the community.
Local businesses support local community groups, such as youth sports. Nonprofit organizations receive an average 250 percent more support from small business owners than they do from large businesses.
Shopping local keeps our communities unique. Local businesses define the character of the community. Local businesses are where we shop, where we eat and where we have fun. Our one-of-a-kind businesses are integral to the distinctive character of the community. Local businesses make the community more dynamic and interesting.
When you shop local you reduce the environmental impact. Generally, you travel less when you buy locally. And locally owned businesses can purchase local goods that require less transportation. This helps to reduce pollution, urban sprawl, automobile use and wildlife habitat loss. These days we are concerned about being green and reducing our carbon footprint. A sustainable economy is important. Shop local and you'll help to create and preserve local jobs. Without doubt, small local businesses are this nation's largest employer.
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When you shop local, you invest in your local community. Local businesses are owned by people who live in the community. Those business owners are less likely to leave and are more committed to the community's future. You could say by shopping local, you are investing in your future!
Shop local and put your taxes to good use. Local businesses in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure investment and make more efficient use of public services as compared to nationally owned stores entering the community.

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Without a doubt, Chicago is the biological parent of the spoken word. The city might laud and favor improv and sketch comedy out of all its performance art children, but there's an even younger sibling that's growing up--fast.
Live lit has taken the ageless practice of storytelling to a whole new level of artistry and it's booming in the Windy City. Yes, old-fashioned first-person narrative and essay--the kind you were forced to write through every stage of your academic life to learn how to communicate thought in a formalized and coherent manner--has become a fun way to spend a weeknight.
In truth, this organized but casual twist on storytelling and essay borrows from each of Chicago's other flourishing creative scenes.
"Take stand-up, take improv, take theater, take slam poetry, put them all in a blender and this is what comes out," said Dana Norris, founder, producer and host of Story Club, which began in 2009.
Dozens of these monthly live-lit shows have popped up on the North Side in the last few years in a manner that its curators can only describe as serendipitous.
"We all sort of identified this personal, artistic, expressive need individually and almost simultaneously," said Ian Belknap, creator of Write Club. "It's not that we're copycatting each other, it's that we all struck upon the thing that we as curators needed to have in the world that wasn't fully there in a way that was satisfying to us."
Belknap spent a number of years as an actor and a stand-up comic before starting Write Club in July 2010 and discovering live lit to be the thing that motivated him most. It's a similar story to that of many writers and performers who have gravitated toward the art form.
Keith Ecker, co-founder of Essay Fiesta and a brand-new show called Guts & Glory: Live Lit for the Lionhearted, said he burned out from the comedy world in part because of the competitiveness.
"I remembered how when I was part of the improv community it felt very cutthroat, it didn't feel it was as much 'everyone in this together,' " he said. "In no way am I knocking the improv/stand-up scene, I absolutely love it, but for me it was an issue of getting a little exhausted feeling that I was spinning my wheels in place and not really going anywhere, and my passion was more rooted in the writing element of things."
Ecker and others said they feel the honesty, intimacy and authenticity of live lit is what makes it stand apart from other forms of performance.
"We're really kind of stripping everything away," Ecker said. "When you go see a play, there's a distance between performers and the audience in a non-literal sense--we're engaging the audience and being vulnerable, and I think that that really resonates with an audience--to be spoken to directly and so intimately."
While performance storytelling at large can be traced to The Moth, the New York City-based non-profit started in 1997 that hosts nationwide storytelling events and slam competitions, the local live lit scene seems to naturally fit Chicago.
The evidence is even found in Chicago's radio history with legendary oral historian Studs Terkel and Ira Glass' "This American Life" on WBEZ.
"(In Chicago) we have this idea that a regular person can just tell a story and we can be compelled by it," Norris said. "We laud the working man in Chicago. This idea that anyone off the street has this authentic real experience is really important."
Consequently, Norris and others agree that live lit at the moment is extremely inclusive, that anyone who wants to can do it. A number of shows are geared toward helping or allowing time for new performers, and competition between people and shows doesn't exist.
"These other producers that I've met, I'm just in love with them," Norris said. "I don't know if this is just the way it begins in every movement that there isn't this competition or whatever, but what are we winning?"
In this spirit, most shows are free with a suggested donation to keep the show running or going to a philanthropic cause. In Write Club, which has a competitive structure, winners choose a non-profit organization to receive a portion of the night's cover charges.
"It's rooted in the impulse to build community and do good," Belknap said. "I know that sounds really namby-pamby and hippy-dippy, but given my limited, non-marketable set of skills, I want to have what impact I'm able to given what I'm best able to do."
Although there's talk in the scene of ways to make it financially viable, show producers are currently focused on expanding to new neighborhoods and looking for creative partners interested in helping.
Whether or not it becomes a Chicago institution like stand-up or improv, with dozens of shows and counting, expect to find live lit somewhere around the corner every month for a long time to come.
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I just created a short comparison video containing similar scenes from both cameras.
Of course this is no scientific test but I think it represents the real life behavior quite realistic.
Actually it sums up two weeks of experience of filming with the 5D MK II.
Befor I write my conclusions about the strengths and weaknesses of both systems,
I am very interested in your opinions!
Link: http://www.belowthesurface.de then click "Comparison HC7-5D MK II" in the menu.
What do you think?
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For all those who believe The Sun's position on Palestinian statehood has merit, the following is offered for consideration ("Pressure on Israel to negotiate," Nov. 30). The Palestinian statehood that they are seeking now, they could have had in 1948 with an internationalized Jerusalem if not for the Arab world's belligerence in and out of the United Nations to this very day. The territory they lost to the Israelis was a direct result of the many attacks and provocations the Arab world initiated and against which the Israelis defended themselves successfully.
The territory the Arabs claim to be exclusively theirs was administered since biblical times by the Romans, Byzantines, Mamelukes, Arabs, Christians, Ottomans and finally the British, and its residents were Arabs, Jews and Christians. The position of the Palestinians and the entire Arab Block was in 1948 and until this very day is that Israel has no right to exist. So tell me what is there left to negotiate? How, when or where Israel and the Jewish people are to die? That is non-negotiable!
Whereas the Arab world initiated all of the hostilities, let them stop the attacks that force Israel to defend itself successfully and accept Israel's right to exist by acting accordingly in and out of the UN. Then and only then, can we begin meaningful peaceful negotiations on the issues.
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Crowds are hard to draw in these areas:
It's hard to compose a lot of characters together.
It takes more time for more characters.
It's hard to make each character have a different pose.
He draws crowds filled with different characters and with each one having their own faces, body shapes, and body attitudes.
Look how each of these top hatted fellows have a similar angle-but not exactly parallel. They are a group and individuals all at the same time.
This whole group has a single silhouette. They together make a single fun shape. Yet each character is an individual and s on a slightly different angle.
Just like details on a face follow the construction of a cartoon face.
The specific parts obey the general idea.
All these snooty folks have a haughty demeanor, yet none are exactly the same. A variety of individuals that fit a type.
Hierarchy, rather than anarchy!
He has lots of different designs for women too.
Milt Gross is the opposite of today's rubber stamp comic strip artists. The ones that use the same stiff poses and expressions over and over again.
Look at the bustle of life.
The lines of action of all the high society folks here all work together to create an organic group flow.
I can't believe how many funny head shapes Gross concocts.


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James Linden writes "Core is a minimal distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system designed to be the basis for a complete system constructed by the end user. A fresh installation of Core (which will take approximately 15 minutes) will boot into a console and provide the user with the tools needed to download, compile and install other applications. Core contains nothing beyond what is required to perform these tasks. Core is primarily designed for experienced Linux users, though it has found an audience with those looking to learn about the internals and operation of a Linux system.
Four years ago, on April 4, 2003, Josh Devon released Core 1.x. On May 1, 2007, the new Core development team released a fully functional beta of Core 2.0. This beta has been in constant use for development for a number of weeks, and is completely stable in that capacity.
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Gear Guide Part 2.
Chest: This one is pretty hard. There are a lot of good cloth chests and it really depends on what you are looking for. It is nearly impossible to rank them. If you are not willing to where cloth then choice becomes easy.
1. [Windhawk Hauberk] - BoP Crafted - Leatherworking - I realize that not everyone will have access to this chest. However, it you are a leatherworker it is a clear choice. It has great overall stats with a ton of damage and crit. Note that the pure damage and the healing damage on this item stack for a total of 46 damage before sockets.
2. [Robe of Oblivion] - Shadow Labyrinth - Murmur - As I said before this is a really hard choice. I ranked this number two because it has the most potential overall spell damage of the non-crafted items, but there are a lot of other good options if you can't get this one. Check the Honorable Mentions for other options of cloth chests.
3. [Tunic of the Nightwatcher] - Underbog - Swamplord Musel'ek - If you leveled as moonkin you better already have this chest. The heroic chest is only slightly better and much harder to get. It has well rounded stats with nice overall damage. I would also suggest ignoring the socket bonus since 2 mp5 isn't all that much.
Honorable Mentions: [Anchorite's Robes], [Warp Infused Drape], [Auchenai Anchorite's Robe], & [Bloodfyre Robes of Annihilation]
1. [Windhawk Bracers] - BoP Crafted - Leatherworking - Much like the crafted chest these bracers have very good stats and there aren't a lot of other options. The badge bracers are quite a bit better so these probably won't last really long but they are much better then the other options before you raid and do lots of heroics. I do suggest that you ignore the Socket bonus.
2. [Shattrath Wraps] - Dungeon Quest - The Soul Devices - A very nice set of bracers that you are almost guaranteed to have. Doesn't have as much damage as other options, but it does have nice overall stats.
3. [Bracers of Havok] - BoE Crafted - Tailoring - Very high damage and fairly cheap for crafted bracers. I would ignore the socket bonus on these as well.
4. [Mana Infused Wristguards] - Quest - A Fate Worse Than Death - Sadly these are the best Leather Bracers available if you are not willing to wear cloth. They are also a perfect reason as to why Moonkin should where cloth when it has better stats than your leather options.
1. [Gloves of Arcane Acuity] - Magister's Terrace - Kael'thas Sunstrider - Another great new item from patch 2.4. It has a ton of damage and hit with good overall stats as well. This is clearly the best choice.
2. [Starlight Gauntlets] - Underbog - Hungarfen - This is another item that you should already have if you leveled as a moonkin. These are the best leather gloves before you raid and you can use them at level 63. They have decent overall stats with a good amount of spell damage.
3. [Gloves of Oblivion] - The Shattered Halls - Warchief Kargath Bladefist - It seems like every other item I list is a warlock set piece. These gloves are great if you need some spell hit, but the other two options are clearly superior if you don't.
Guild Update:
As I mentioned last post we have been having a little trouble getting enough healers to raid. Thursday was no exception. Hopefully we will have more people back this week and can get back on track. Other than that there is not much to say.
Toon Update:
Graylo - I got about 34 badges over the weekend, bringing my total to 165. I need 45 more to get the 2.4 ring and gloves, and the 2.3 chest. I would need 75 after that to get 2.3 head. If the patch doesn't drop tomorrow I may go ahead and get the 2.3 Helm since it will take a couple of weeks for the 2.4 badge vendors to be available.
Graypal - I didn't do anything with him.
Grayfel - Got him up to level 35. I really like playing him but some of the warlock quarks are starting to annoy me. Soul Shards should Stack!. The freaken pet quests have me running all over the place. I am level 35 and still don't have a fel hunter. My mining as also annoying me because I am a little behind leveling it. I can mine most of the nodes I see but there are a few that I can't because I am to low level. He is out of rested XP again, and I will be having company next week end so who knows when I will pick him up again.


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Open data is viewed as a vital resource that can assist businesses in creating new, innovative products and services. Researchers, policymakers and technical experts have celebrated the potential of open data innovation for businesses: they can access data at virtually no cost, obtain novel datasets that were previously unavailable, and create disruptive products and services. It is also argued that SMEs are particularly well-placed to benefit from open data innovation.
Compared to their larger corporate counterparts, SMEs and startups are smaller and more agile, enabling them to respond quickly to new ideas and market demands. They are also able to freely experiment with open data to explore the potential of new products and services. However, as our recent study shows, SMEs and startups can often struggle to fully exploit open data in innovation. Fortunately, the study also identifies key skills and capabilities that businesses should look to build and harness in order to maximise their innovation success.
Inbound open innovation, i.e. using the knowledge and assets of an external organisation to create your products and services, can help SMEs considerably. It speeds up the innovation process dramatically and keeps development costs low. In the context of open data, external sources collected and collated by others can be used with virtually no cost. Using inbound open data in innovation can replace sources of expensive proprietary data, or enable businesses to access new data sources that were previously unavailable, enabling novel innovation. Combining open data with closed proprietary data sources, either internal or shared by partners, can also create new data products and services. SMEs and startups can also grow and scale up using open data through coupled open innovation. An SME may open up their product catalogue data, enabling third parties to partner and advertise or sell the products to new markets in exchange for a small fee. This enables SMEs and startups to grow quickly with limited resources. These low cost innovative advantages are incredibly useful to SMEs and startups.
Despite the overwhelming potential for open data innovation in SMEs and startups, there exists many barriers. The limited size of SMEs can be a double-edged sword – while flexibility is beneficial, limited resources can derail the innovation process. SMEs and startups face a series of inhibitors: barriers, costs, and future uncertainty and risks. Due to their smaller size, they can struggle to identify and assess the usefulness of open data, particularly in a world of expanding open data sources. This may be due to time and multitasking limitations, or a limited understanding of open data use. Opportunities to integrate open data into an existing product or service may be overlooked due to time pressures, competing priorities and limited open data knowledge.
These issues can be compounded for data-centric businesses who need skilled data scientists (in short supply) who can not only process open data, but understand how it can be used to solve business problems. Concerns about the future availability of open data as a critical business asset can also deter some SMEs, while a lack of knowledge about managing the legal and reputational risks of open data can also undermine or limit the full application of open data in new innovations. A particular concern is product or service imitation by competitors, which is easier when using open data. Not knowing how to limit that risk can also reduce the full potential of using open data.
One of the key issues that SMEs and startups face due to their smaller size is reduced time to explore and seize possibilities. However, a narrower breadth of skills and competencies within the venture team can also hold back innovation. Emerging skill gaps can reduce a business's innovative potential for using open data.
Skills that are particularly important (and unique) are being able to develop and understand the full range of business cases for open data. Understanding the legal aspects of open data are also central to knowing what it can and cannot be used for in innovation. Perhaps less unique, but still critical, is the need to bridge the gaps between the technical side of data science and 'softer' management skills, to use open data to create new products and to develop market intelligence which identifies customer needs. At the heart of this are relationship management skills, to work with external open data publishers and consumers to assist in co-innovation.
Wider organisational capabilities are important to any business, but for users of open data some specific expertise is also needed. Unsurprisingly, an open culture is required to facilitate relationships and the sharing of knowledge with external partners to make your innovations work. Beyond the individual skills of relationship management, the business needs to be connected to open data publishers and consumers across all levels of the SME, to learn and share knowledge as well as open data.
To defend against imitators, SMEs need to be able to innovate continually and stay ahead of competitors – in other words, 'new' needs to be business as usual. Finally, the SME needs to be able to retain and hire a mix of interdisciplinary talent. Technical skills, to capture the value of open data, but also 'softer' management expertise to understand the demand for new innovations and products. While this sounds obvious, a failure to balance different sets of expertise and to facilitate clear dialogue and understanding between, say, data scientists and marketers, will undermine the ability to innovate.
SMEs and startups should undertake gap analyses to identify where key open data skills and competencies are missing or underdeveloped. Where possible, businesses may need to seek new hires to capture these specific capabilities, or undertake external training to help gain the skills and competencies to accelerate open data innovation. Open data use is virtually free, but this doesn't guarantee innovations will be successful. SMEs need to invest in developing their skills and competencies, because innovative SMEs and startups are only as good as their team, and successful teams need to excel in catching and adopting open data.
The Open Data Institute (ODI) invites organisations in Transport and Mobility to the UK / France Transport Data workshop hosted at our London headquarters on Thursday, 15 February (09:00–17:30).
The workshop brings together stakeholders from transport authorities, startups and governments across both countries to discuss common challenges and the most promising areas for cross-country collaboration using transport data.
The workshop is part of the ODI's data innovation programme and aims to enable the UK and France to share knowledge and pioneer new approaches to data innovation. The workshop will allow us to address key questions such as:
15–20 organisations will be represented. Organisations already confirmed include Transport for London (TfL), Department for Transport, Transfermuga, and OpenDataSoft.
For French participants, the ODI will cover the cost of transport and accommodation in Central London for the night before the workshop. For British participants, we will cover the cost of transport.
As well as addressing the challenges above, the workshop will provide a great opportunity to network in a relaxed setting with stakeholders in two world-leading markets for data innovation in Transport.
Places are limited and we recommend that you register your interest ASAP. We will confirm final participants on 26 January. [French version / Version française]
L'Open Data Institute (ODI) invite les entreprises et organisations actives dans le secteur des transports et de la mobilité à participer à notre 'UK / France Transport Data Workshop' organisé à Londres le jeudi 15 février (de 9h00 à 17h30). Le workshop rassemblera des organisations du secteur afin de discuter des défis communs et des domaines les plus prometteurs pour une collaboration transnationale avec les données de transport.
Le workshop fait partie du programme data innovation de l'ODI et a pour objectif de permettre au Royaume-Uni et à la France de partager leurs connaissances, et d'adopter de nouvelles approches en matière d'open data et d'open innovation. Le workshop abordera des questions clés telles que:
15 à 20 organisations seront représentées. Les organisations déjà confirmées incluent Transport for London (TfL), Department for Transport, Transfermuga et OpenDataSoft.
Pour les participants venant de France, l'ODI remboursera les frais de transport et d'hébergement dans le centre de Londres. Les places sont limitées et nous vous recommandons d'enregistrer votre intérêt dès que possible. Nous confirmerons les participants finaux le 26 janvier.
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I'm incredibly stressed and desperate for some advise/answers. I have PCOS and have heard that I may not be able to keep my milk supply up due to hormone imbalances. I want to do everything I can to BF my LO. My
My LO was born via c-section due to low amniotic fluids 3 weeks early on 5/18
Birth weight 5lbs 12 oz.
She was extremely sleepy the first week of life and had a hard time latching and waking up for feeds (regardless of diaper changes, undressing, wet cloth on feet, etc.). She lost a lot of weight by her first Dr's appt. and before my milk came in.
1st appt. 4lbs 8 oz.
I was frantic. Luckily my milk came in that night and I started BF. It was still excruciatingly difficult to wake her for feeds, but she was getting enough milk and over the course of a week gained weight. Things gradually got better as we finally learned to latch properly.
2nd appt. 6lbs.
No Jaundice
Things were great for a few days until I became engorged (able to pump 4 oz). Now I had an oversupply of foremilk and my LO was miserable! I read multiple columns and pumped only until I achieved relief, and fed from one side during feeds. Less than 24 hours later it seemed like I had completely lost my supply (only able to pump 1.5oz). My breasts were soft and no longer leaked.
At first I thought my breasts had regulated themselves to her needs, but now she seems insatiable and doesn't seem content after a feed. Her gas has gotten better and her stool is no longer green, however she seems to fall asleep often and quickly at the breast. Neither of us are getting much, if any sleep, since she wants to feed every hour, but doesn't sleep more than 15 minutes afterward. My husband has given her a bottle of BM, and she she slept soundly for 2 hours.
I know a growth spurt is normal for 3 weeks, but what about 2 weeks? I am worried that I am losing my supply and that she is no longer getting enough. I don't want her to lose any weight! I have been drinking Mother's Milk Tea, taking supplements, and eating oatmeal every morning, but I haven't really noticed a difference.
I am at my wits end. Has anyone else struggled with PCOS and milk supply, or had similar experiences with a 2 wkr?


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Supreme Court reverses decision in former Raymond man's sex assault caseBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
February 10. 2013 10:16PM
BRENTWOOD - A former Raymond man who was freed by a judge and given a new trial in a 1998 sexual assault case is headed back to state prison, and set to go on trial in April on new charges that surfaced months after his release.
County prosecutors were preparing to re-try Patrick Eschenbrenner, 51, on the 1998 case involving a young girl then begin a second trial on more recent charges accusing him of sexually assaulting a girl in Raymond between 2002 and 2007.
But the state Supreme Court on Friday reversed Judge Tina Nadeau's decision to grant Eschenbrenner a new trial, sending him back to state prison to serve 20 to 40 years behind bars.
A Rockingham County jury convicted Eschenbrenner in the first case in May 2008.
"I'm very happy to see that the Supreme Court viewed this case the same way this office did, and that this victim doesn't have to go through another trial," Assistant County Attorney Jerome Blanchard said.
Rockingham County prosecutors have been awaiting the high court's decision before trying the most recent set of charges filed in December 2011.
Eschenbrenner faces six counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault and a single count of witness tampering when he goes on trial April 8 for his alleged abuse of a girl that started in 2002.
He has been held at the Rockingham County jail since his December 2011 arrest in Glenburne, Maine.
Nadeau decided in July 2011 that Eschenbrenner's conviction on three counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault had to be upended because of testimony given by two Raymond police officers.
She concluded that the officers improperly conveyed to the jury that they believed the victim's allegations of sexual abuse.
Because the jury heard those opinions from the officers, Nadeau decided there was, "a reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would have been different."
Eschenbrenner claimed that his former attorney, Adam Bernstein, should have objected to the officer's testimony during the 2008 trial.
Police Officer Lori Stowell investigated the case in late 1998, submitted a report about the incident in February 1999, and took no further action - something she later said was a "mistake" on the witness stand.
In 2006, Raymond Detective Richard Labell re-opened the investigation that led to Eschenbrenner's arrest.
While fighting Eschenbrenner's call for a trial, Blanchard argued that prosecutors sought the testimony of the two officers to explain a seven-year gap in the investigation.
Bernstein testified during the 2011 hearing that he did not object to the testimony because the defense's theory was that the victim's testimony was not credible, and no official action against his client was taken for seven years.
"The trial court did not take due consideration to my testimony," Bernstein said on Friday. "It was a sound trial strategy based on the facts and circumstances of the case. The court, in their opinion, concluded that my trial strategy was sound."
After Nadeau's decision, Blanchard convinced the state Attorney General's Office to appeal her ruling.
Eschenbrenner faces up to 10 to 20 years in prison on each of the new sex assault charges.


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The Police Log is a digest of reports filed by the Warwick Police.
Officer Nicholas DiNardo reported a call to the Ocean State Job Lot at 3030 West Shore Rd. on Feb. 1 for a faked return. The manager said the customer in question came to the service desk and said she wished to return an airbed that cost $40.66. The employee said the woman told her she had not opened the box or used the airbed and she was given a credit for the above amount. She said the woman then became upset and said she wanted cash back, but she was given the store credit instead and she left. The manager said he then opened the returned box and it did not contain a new airbed. He said he held a used and torn mattress of a type and brand the store did not sell. They did have the license number on the receipt the woman signed and traced it to Suzana M. Pona, 37, of 752 Quaker Ln. in Warwick. DiNardo said they had a photo of Pona from past contacts (over 30 arrests in Rhode Island since 1997) and made it part of a photopak to show the employee at Ocean State Job Lot. She said she was 100 percent positive Pona was the woman who returned the used airbed. On Feb. 4, Di Nardo and a detective went to the Westgate Condominiums and Pona answered the door and surrendered without incident. She was held for arraignment for obtaining money by false pretenses.
Officer Michelle Caron reported a missing boat and trailer on Feb 2. A man came into headquarters and said he kept his boat in a parking lot behind the Sandy Lane Meat Market and when he went to check on them that day, he noticed that they were missing. He said he last saw the items on Jan. 26 and said the 12-foot Sylvan and the Tidewater trailer were worth a total of $1,250. No suspects or witnesses.
A Verndale Street resident told police he found that someone had gone through the two vehicles he kept in his driveway sometime over the weekend of Feb. 1 and stolen a cell phone charger, a GPS unit and a DVD player worth a total of $365. No suspects or witnesses.
A Stoddard Place resident reported a Toshiba laptop worth $1,550 went missing from his car on Feb. 3. He said the computer was in the back seat of his car while it was parked overnight in front of his house. No suspects or witnesses.
An iPhone and the case for it were missing from a car parked at Supply New England on Jefferson Boulevard on Jan. 31. The woman said two men had been in the store around 11:30 a.m. before they hurried out when asked if they needed help, saying they would be back later with their wives. She suspected they took the phone. No witnesses.
Two Providence women were charged with stealing $1,126.77 worth of goods from the Wal-Mart on Post Road on Jan. 27. Officer John Curley reported he and another officer were dispatched to the store for a shoplifting in progress who were walking out of the store with a 41" television and a Playstation 3 that they didn't pay for. Loss prevention at the store told Curley they saw the women remove the security devices from the goods and head out the door after they cut the devices off with scissors. Destiny M. Brown, 33, of 10 Knowles St. was charged with shoplifting and tampering with security devices. Genesis Gomez, 18, of the same address was charged with shoplifting and vandalism for destroying security devices. Curley said they learned that Gomez was a bail violator and held her for the next session of District Court.
Ernesto Nunez, 19, of 48 Whittier St. in Providence was charged with shoplifting and possession of implements of concealment at TJ Maxx on Bald Hill Road on Jan. 30. Officer Gilda Fortier reported that loss prevention told her they saw Nunez concealing items in a GameStop shopping bag and was stopped outside when he walked out of the store into the presence of a loss prevention agent and Fortier. Fortier said they learned the bag he was carrying had been rigged with duct tape and foil to defeat the security tags on the merchandise. He was held for the bail commissioner and later released on $2,500 personal recognizance.
Officer Hovsep Sarkisian reported an accident between a car and house on Heath Avenue around 5:40 p.m. on Jan. 27. He said he found the front end to the car mounted on the front stairs of the house and witnesses pointed out a man standing in the driveway, smoking a cigarette who they identified as the driver. He said the man admitted he was driving the car but said that model car was subject to a recall for a problem with the accelerator, which he believed caused him to lose control of the car and accelerate into the stairs at a high rate of speed. He said the man told him he had already taken the car back and assumed it had been fixed but now it was behaving erratically again. Sarkisian said the man smelled strongly of alcohol and appeared to be intoxicated and he suspected he was intoxicated. He said he gave the guy a field sobriety test that he failed. He said he arrested Edward M. Maynard Jr. of 315 Harrington Ave. in Warwick and took him to headquarters where he refused a breath test. Maynard was charged with DUI and refusal and later released to a sober adult. He said he also had the car towed and put a "hold" on it, pending an inspection of the accelerator.
Officer Jason Cooke reported he was on patrol around 10:50 p.m. on Jan. 25 when another officer called in a suspected drunk driver heading north from Oakland Beach Avenue. Cooke said the officer was conducting a traffic stop when a car crossed over the double yellow lanes and almost crashed into him. Cooke said he spotted the suspect car near Sandy Lane and pulled it over on Sevilla Avenue. He said the driver appeared to be intoxicated and smelled of alcohol. He said he asked the driver to get out of the car; he stepped out and fell immediately to the ground and did even worse after that and Cooke stopped the test and arrested David Lund, 54, of 65 Florin St. in Warwick and took him to headquarters where he refused to take a breath test. He was charged with DUI, refusal and laned roadway violations and later released with a summons.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — In an election-year challenge to President Barack Obama, the Republican-led House on Friday overwhelmingly approved a $570 billion defense bill that halts any Guantanamo transfers for a year amid the furor over the American-for-Taliban swap and pulls back on government spying.
The vote was 340-73 for the measure that provides money for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, personnel, ships and aircraft. An unusual coalition of libertarian Republicans and liberal Democrats pushed through new limits on National Security Agency surveillance as the year-old revelations of bulk collection of millions of Americans' phone records still roil the debate of security versus privacy.
Weeks after the prisoner exchange, Republicans railed against Obama's decision to trade five Taliban leaders who had been held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for more than a decade for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a captive for five years in Afghanistan. The Taliban were transferred to Qatar, where they must remain for a year.
Republicans said Obama broke the law by failing to notify Congress at least 30 days before the swap and increased the terrorism risk to the United States with the exchange.
Obama has defended the deal to spare Bergdahl, with officials saying the government needed to move expeditiously due to his failing health. The administration has tried to reduce the population at Guantanamo, where 149 are being held.
The House added a provision to the bill that would bar funds for transfers, imposing a one-year moratorium on moving Guantanamo detainees to a foreign country. It also voted to bar funds for transferring Guantanamo detainees to Yemen.
"President Obama's recent exchange of five high-level terrorists without notifying Congress illustrates his blatant disregard for its role as a co-equal branch of government," Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who called the five "cold-blooded terrorists," said in a statement.
Cotton, an Army veteran who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, sponsored the amendment. The first-term lawmaker is challenging Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor in the midterm elections.
The bill already bars 85 percent of the funds in the account for overseas conflicts until Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel reassures lawmakers that congressional notification on Guantanamo transfers will be respected.
Earlier this year, the House overwhelmingly passed the USA Freedom Act that would codify a proposal made in January by Obama, who said he wanted to end the National Security Agency's practice of collecting and storing the "to and from" records of nearly every American land line telephone call under a program that searched the data for connections to terrorist plots abroad.
Several Republicans and Democrats said the legislation fell short in curbing NSA surveillance. They joined forces and scored a decisive victory late Thursday in their effort to impose new limits on the agency over the objections of leaders of the Judiciary and Intelligence committees.
The bill would prohibit the agency from searching for the communications of specific American accounts within the vast trove of Internet data it has collected while targeting foreigners. Critics say that tactic amounts to improper "back-door" searches because it is conducted without warrants.
Government officials argue that since the information was acquired legally, there should be no reason they can't use it for intelligence purposes or even in criminal investigations.
The NSA obtains the Internet data both through court orders on tech companies such as Google and Facebook and also by secretly tapping fiber optic cables abroad. Though the collection targets foreigners, U.S. officials acknowledge it sweeps in the communications of significant numbers of Americans.
The bill also would bar the NSA from mandating or requesting that tech companies build secret flaws — so-called trap doors — in hardware, software or devices that would facilitate government surveillance.
"The American people are sick of being spied on," said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
Despite the clamor to cut the deficit and Pentagon pleas for cost-saving reductions, lawmakers voted to spare military bases, the A-10 Warthog close air support plane and an aircraft carrier.
That drew a warning from Democratic Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer, who backed the bill but warned of a price to pay very soon.
"We have to stop pretending that national security ... can somehow be magically created without having a fiscally sustainable policy," the Maryland lawmaker said.
The White House has objected to the legislation, which must be reconciled with a still-to-be written version from the Democratic-led Senate.
The bill would provide $490 billion for core defense spending and $79 billion for overseas operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and other conflicts. The $79 billion is a placeholder as Congress awaits a more detailed proposal from the administration.
Wary of U.S. re-engagement in Iraq three years after combat troops left, two Democrats — Reps. John Garamendi of California and Colleen Hanabusa of Hawaii — won voice vote approval for an amendment requiring the president to seek congressional approval for sustained military action in Iraq.
"This miscalculation is not worth repeating," Hanabusa said of Iraq during the debate.
Associated Press writer Ken Dilanian contributed to this report.


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i don't know what to do with someone that is so blind and refuses to accept anything else...
Misconceptions exist on both sides. I didn't really read the OP but, while being a Christian myself, I understand that many Christians do indeed reject certain aspects of science because they believe they contradict the Bible.However, the reason for this isn't really their own ignorance as much as it is the vagueness of the science revolving around evolution. Many people (on both sides) believe in many different kinds of science that conflict with ID that actually don't.The only aspect of evolution that conflicts with the Bible is the macro-evolution aspect of it; the 'speciation' that apparently happens. Virtually all other aspects of it are scientifically sound and don't contradict creationism. But it is the misinterpretations and misrepresentation of information that causes confusion on both sides.
[snip]... look at how perfect we are! our blood, heart, limb, etc... everything fits together so perfectly...[snip]
irreligion is going as religion and nonsense is going as science.


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'Exclusive' — A word not in God's vocabulary
God knows everything, and I know that truth, but when I say there is a word not in His vocabulary, I basically mean that He doesn't choose to use it with His children. Do you have any idea what that word might be? I read three articles, all of which came to my desk in one afternoon with the same general thought in mind. I puzzled through the writing and wondered if God were speaking to me about the matter. Now, God doesn't take some super duper bullhorn and call my name when He wants my attention. I am not suggesting that. But I do believe He speaks quietly through thoughts that He puts in my mind and heart. And when three things catch my hurried attention, I find it wise to stop and listen or, in this case, think about the subject.
The word is "exclusive," or the act of being excluded. God doesn't want anyone to be excluded from His love and grace. It is we humans who tend to add that word not only in our speech, but in our actions as well. Some people enjoy leaving others out of groups, parties, planning, fellowship, and activities. Others do it because they are in too much of a hurry and simply don't plan ahead and think of the possibilities. There are times when two or three get together and plan an event, purposely inviting only those that suit their cause or those who can benefit them in some way. We all have our own friends. That is a normal fact of life, but it hurts to be left out — Just ask anyone who is.Remember in elementary school when a strong, smart athlete was choosing the ball team at recess? Everyone wanted to be chosen and no one desired to be last on the list. When the boss is looking for someone to head up a project, it is difficult to be overlooked and not selected time after time. Even in families, this horrible thing happens all too often.
I'm not naïve.
I realize that there are people that others simply do not want to be around for whatever reason. Perhaps they have proved that they cannot handle alcohol and would cause issues at a gathering. Maybe they have little home training and are often rude to others. Some simply have to be No. 1, and if they are not, it is miserable for everyone concerned. Some cannot financially keep up with even the smallest expense. I am not writing about these exceptions, which we all have in our lives. I am particularly writing about being careful to include everyone with whom it is in our power to fellowship and spend time with here on this earth.
For Heaven's sake, be careful of excluding others when it comes to church responsibility. I can remember two stories that I think I'll never forget about people being excluded in church relationships. One was given the flimsy excuse by an overbearing and evil pastor's wife that the person could not lead a group because she was divorced. God help us all. If that were true, our churches would be leaderless. Another was told that "you have to prove yourself" before you can serve. Pray tell, who are they to prove themselves to? Surely not some mere human? I would think God already knows the heart of that dear person, and He can make that call.
The Bible teaches that God is not a respecter of persons. In other words, He has no favorites and He does not pit one child against another. Surely we want to be like Him in this manner.
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Press Complaints Commission chairman Lord Hunt has promised to meet with campaign groups to achieve a "broad consensus" on the future regulation of the press.
In recent weeks lobbying has grown increasingly feverish around the future of press regulation as many have speculated that Lord Justice Leveson will call for the creation of a new statutory regulator when he issues his report at the end of this month.
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Delivering the Society of Editors lecture in Belfast last night Hunt said: "If, as I hope it will, the report strikes a realistic note and it does seem possible to build a broad consensus, going forward, then within a week or two of the report being published, perhaps there should be a conference, bringing together representatives of the press, the campaigning groups and those of us involved in regulatory reform, in the hope of establishing that broad consensus.
"I personally would be delighted to arrange such an event."
His comments suggest that Pressbof, the press owners' body which funds the PCC, may be prepared to alter its blueprint for a new press regulator to stave off the threat of new statutory controls.
But Hunt appeared dismissive of the central criticism from the National Union of Journalists – that broader industry voices beyond editors and owners need to be heard in the new look PCC.
He said: "…to those who say journalists should have a stronger voice in the system, let me remind them that editors are journalists too – very successful ones at that."
Responding to those who suggest a new independent press regulator should be established in statute, Hunt said: "There is very good reason why we have shied away from statutory regulation of the press, ever since the Licensing Act was repealed in 1695.
"There are philosophical arguments, given the integral role a free press necessarily plays in the delicate balance of rights, responsibilities and accountability in a nation which has no written constitution.
"It would also take time to legislate – certainly many months, probably years.
"In contrast, the system I have proposed is more or less ready to go."
Defending the new proposed regulator, which would see publisher's tied into it via ten-year-contracts, Hunt said:
"Ultimately, the really important contract in the system I propose, is not the one between each publisher and the regulator. It is the contract between the industry and the people of the United Kingdom.
"A solemn undertaking to eradicate the unsavoury, unethical and, often, illegal practices that have defiled and diminished journalism.To disown those over-aggressive paparazzi who have no regard for the law, human dignity or even physical safety, and blight the lives of innocent people. But an undertaking, too, to recognise and embrace once again the solemn, timeless, constitutionally vital role the press uniquely has, of leaving no stone unturned in its determination to uncover shady business practices; dodgy deals; hypocrisy and double standards in public life; and corruption of every kind.
"That is what public interest journalism has always been about."


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PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman convicted of bludgeoning her husband to death with a hammer made a tearful plea for mercy Thursday, telling the jury deciding her fate that she is sorry for her actions and wishes she could go back and undo the pain she caused.
Marissa Devault, 36, broke down in tears and repeatedly lost her composure as she spoke to the jury in the penalty phase of her trial. The same jury that convicted her of first-degree murder is deciding whether she should get the death penalty or a life sentence.
"I don't know if I can be useful to anybody in this world or in any way ... but I would like the opportunity to try," she said.
Devault was found guilty last week in the killing of Dale Harrell, who suffered multiple skull fractures in the January 2009 attack in the couple's home in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert. The penalty phase began this week and featured emotional testimony from Devault's daughters a day earlier.
Devault clasped a tissue, removed her glasses, took deep breaths and fought back tears for more than 10 minutes. She expressed regret for inflicting pain on her daughters, saying "this goes into generations that don't even exist yet."
"I can't do anything more than say I'm sorry. I can't push the back button. I can't bring him back. I can't fix everything that was wrong," she said.
She also looked ahead to prison and hoped that she could "talk to someone" and help them make a better choice.
Prosecutors say she killed her husband in a failed bid to collect on a life insurance policy to repay more than $300,000 in loans from her boyfriend, a man 20 years her senior she met on a sugar-daddy website.
Devault said she killed Harrell in self-defense and told investigators he had physically and sexually abused her in the past. She would become the third woman on Arizona's death row if the jury opts for the death penalty.
The case had similar circumstances as the Jodi Arias trial that played out in Phoenix one year ago, including a brutal killing of a lover, claims of self-defense and salacious elements such as Devault's one-time job as a stripper.
But the judge in this case made extensive efforts to keep the trial from becoming the spectacle that enveloped the Arias case.


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An increase in fuel ethanol inventories is pushing the price of corn down to a five-month low.
Corn for March delivery fell 17 cents to finish at $7.03 a bushel Wednesday. That's the lowest since July 6.
The Energy Department said fuel ethanol supplies rose 20.8 million barrels last week, 18 percent more than a year ago.
Analysts said the increase in stockpiles could indicate slower demand in the months ahead.
Other commodities ended mixed as U.S. budget negotiations appeared to hit a wall less than two weeks before tax hikes and government spending cuts are set to take effect.
In other trading, prices for oil, wholesale gasoline and orange juice rose. Gold, industrial metals, wheat and soybeans fell.


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The city of Stockton's three-year fracas with its public employee unions officially ended Tuesday with the council's approval of a contract with the city's recalcitrant police.
The city of Stockton's three-year fracas with its public employee unions officially ended Tuesday with the council's approval of a contract with the city's recalcitrant police.
"It's a good day all around," said Mayor Ann Johnston.
The benefits of the peace treaty go beyond ending an epic head-butting contest that saw costly lawsuits, blood-spattered billboards and the highly publicized union purchase of the house next to the city manager's.
With the agreement, the city not only ends all those shenanigans, it achieves a measure of solidarity with labor that will be important in bankruptcy court.
What a cage match.
The battle started in 2009 when the Great Recession made deep budget cuts necessary - ultimately upwards of $100 million worth. Labor was not on board, to put it mildly.
On the contrary. Many city employees reeled directly into stage one of Elisabeth K�bler-Ross's Five Stages of Death: denial.
After that came lawsuits - by Fire, police and the Stockton City Employees Association, challenging the city's declaration of fiscal emergency.
There followed layoffs; Fire's campaign against Measure W's reforms; the firing of the fire chief; a countersuit from the city alleging "housegate" was an unfair labor practice; a lawsuit from the retiree's association; and other drama.
Throughout, the Stockton Police Officer's Association remained the hardliners. Well after other unions reached deals, it continued pressing its suit to force the city to restore $13 million in pay cuts. Even after the city filed for bankruptcy. All that is over. For the time being.
Police got a two-year contract that swallows cuts but preserves a couple prized perks such as longevity pay. The two-year term gives them respite from tiring contract fights. The city threw in some days off for dropping the lawsuit.
"I've heard it referenced as a consolation prize." Katheryn Nance, head of the police union, said dryly.
Still, Nance said, morale has improved somewhat; "The Exodus" - the flight of disgruntled officers out of the SPD to other city departments - is slowing, she said.
"We're just ready to move forward," Nance said.
She praised her fellow officers. "They're amazing individuals. They're very, very conscientious about looking out for what's best for our department as a whole. They (also) want to improve their relationship with the public."
The SPOA's decision was also pragmatic. Powerful Wall Street creditors are going after city employee pensions. It is in police's interests to stand with the city and oppose them.
As for bankruptcy, the resolution of the police labor dispute strengthens the city's hand. The city needs classes of creditors such as labor to approve its Plan of Adjustment, its proposal for paying creditors less than owed.
When enough parties agree, the federal judge will impose a cram-down on the holdouts. The city can then get on with a fresh start.
Vice Mayor Kathy Miller was pleased. "The fact that the SPOA as an organization and all of our employees are on board with unprecedented cuts and a complete restructuring of how they are going to be compensated, that makes us and our plan stronger. It gives us more credibility with our creditors and with the bankruptcy judge."
Stockton's public employee unions deserve credit. Their sacrifices, though reluctant, are big.
That said, it would not do to harbor too many illusions about a new, less grasping culture of public service. Probably when the economy recovers, the unions will go right back to pounding the bargaining table.
But, for now, the fighting is over.
"Hopefully this will give us a break," Miller said. "At least for a while. 'God bless us every one,' as the holiday season saying goes. Get Tiny Tim and his crutch. Circle the Christmas goose."
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The market for corporate borrowing through commercial paper contracted for a fifth week as financial institutions reduced issuance of short-term IOUs, instead borrowing cheaply from central banks and issuing corporate bonds at record-low interest rates.
The seasonally adjusted amount of U.S. commercial paper dropped $15 billion to $975.1 billion outstanding in the week ended yesterday, the Federal Reserve said today on its website. It's the longest stretch of declines since the period ended Jan. 4 and the lowest level since the market touched $972.6 billion July 4, according to Fed data compiled by Bloomberg.
Financial borrowers have relied increasingly on central banks for funding as demand has declined for short-term obligations on concern that Europe's sovereign-debt crisis may infect balance sheets globally. The Fed said on Sept. 13 it will expand its holdings of long-term securities with purchases of $40 billion of mortgage debt a month in an additional round of so-called quantitative easing.
"The decline in domestic financial CP outstanding is a function of the high but declining level of excess reserves in the banking system," Howard Simons, strategist at Bianco Research LLC in Chicago, wrote in an e-mail.
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Commercial paper issued by U.S.-based banks plunged $18.1 billion to $257.5 billion outstanding, the lowest level since January 2011, according to the Fed. The amount sold by non-U.S. financial institutions rose for a second week, increasing $2.7 billion to $234.7 billion outstanding, the highest level in three weeks.
IOUs issued by non-financial companies increased $200 million to $189.2 billion, compared with this year's average of $188 billion, Fed data compiled by Bloomberg show.
"Based on tepid growth, corporations don't see a lot of need for expansion right now," Sean Simko, a money manager at SEI Investments Co. in Oaks, Pennsylvania, whose team manages about $3 billion of commercial paper, said in a telephone interview.
"The general trend in commercial paper continues to be downward, due to the uncertainty of funding needs based on the economy as well as the low interest rates," which have encouraged many industrial and financial companies to push out maturities by issuing corporate bonds, Simko said.
Companies have sold $3 trillion of bonds worldwide this year, a pace that's second only to the record issuance in 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Yields on global investment-grade company bonds fell to an all-time low 2.74 percent yesterday, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data.
Corporations sell commercial paper, typically maturing in 270 days or less, to fund everyday activities such as rent and salaries.
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A highly-decorated coach who has spent his entire career in Southeastern Massachusetts Steve Gardiner has served as the head track and field coach at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth since the 2008-09 season. In the 2011-12 season, his Men's Team captured its first Little East/Alliance Team Championship in school history. The indoor squad finished the season ranked sixteenth in the nation by the USTFCCCA computer rankings. The outdoor team followed up by capturing the 2012 outdoor Little East/Alliance Championship. The Women's Team achieved Academic All America Team recognition for the 2011-12 academic year and two athletes (Krista Chauvin and Jill VanNess) earned individual Academic All America honors.
A 1974 UMass Dartmouth graduate when the university was known as Southeastern Massachusetts University, Gardiner served as head boys' cross country and track and field coach and as both an assistant and the head girls' coach at New Bedford High School since joining the Whalers in 1975. A member of the Massachusetts Track Coaches Association Hall of Fame (2000) and the UMass Dartmouth Athletic Hall of Fame (2003), Gardiner was named Massachusetts Coach of the Year by the Boston Globe in 1980, 1989 and 1993, was named to the Runner's World Coaching All-Star Team in 1984, and was the District 1 (New York, New Jersey and New England) Coach of the Year and a finalist for national honors in 1996. He has led his teams to seven All-State outdoor track and field championships, six Class A team championships, a New England team championship and an Eastern Massachusetts Division I cross country title. Six of his relay teams have claimed Division I team titles, and he has coached three high school All-Americans, nine New England champions, and numerous individual state and division champions. His teams also earned more awards for academic excellence than any other NBHS team.
A distance runner and cross country participant while an undergraduate, Gardiner began his coaching career as an assistant at New Bedford HS for one season before taking the reins at Apponequet High School for the next two years. He was named as New Bedford High School's Head Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Head Coach in 1978. A member of the Massachusetts State Track Coaches' Association and USA Track and Field, Gardiner earned his Level II Certification at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO in 1990. He has earned from the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Jumps Event Specialist Certification in 2011 and Endurance Certification in 2012.
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MASON CITY, IOWA-- Mitt Romney's campaign schedule for the final four days of his Iowa campaign turns an old axiom on its head.
While veterans of recent bus tours by Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry likely won't be impressed, with 10 stops in three-and-a-half days, and some 770 miles of driving between them, the final stretch amounts to both a both a marathon and a sprint for the Romney campaign.
Touching down Saturday afternoon after a roughly 24-hour New Hampshire detour, Romney will criss-cross Iowa one last time -- putting roughly enough miles on his bus to get from Boston to Columbus, Ohio -- and hitting towns and counties which largely supported him four years ago.
On Saturday, Romney will make two stops in Northwest Iowa -- in Le Mars and Sioux City -- both of which are in counties Romney carried in 2008. Sunday morning, Romney visits Atlantic Iowa, in a county he lost to Mike Huckabee by 6 percentage points. Council Bluffs, where Romney will hold an afternoon rally, is Iowa's second-largest county, and Romney carried it by 11 points in 2008.
Overnight Sunday and into Monday, Romney will travel across the state to campaign in Dubuque and Davenport, on the state's Eastern border -- more friendly territory for Romney. Romney won Davenport's Scott County by 11 points, and Dubuque county by a whopping 23 points.
Monday afternoon the campaign works it's way to Cedar Rapids, where Romney pulled off a 5-point win four years ago, then terminates in Des Moines for events Monday night and Tuesday. It is there, in Polk County, which Romney lost by 13 points last cycle, where Romney will host his final rally and caucus-night event.
In what some see as a sign of the campaign -- and the candidate's -- confidence of a win or a very close second-place finish in Iowa, Romney will overnight in Des Moines, and conduct morning-show interviews there Wednesday -- rather than go straight to New Hampshire.
The campaign's explanation for staying the night? Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney senior adviser, told NBC's Andrea Mitchell today simply, "We want a well-rested candidate."
Ferhnstrom added Romney will leave for New Hampshire Wednesday -- at a "more sensible hour."


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The Grand Jury of Laurens County met in the courthouse on July 29, 1919 to hear evidence to determine if there was sufficient cause to bind Hubert Cummings over to a trial jury on the charge of murder. Twenty-three men were chosen. They chose W.T. Dupree as their foreman. After listening to the testimony of Buster and Winnie Wells, along with Cleveland Currington and Sheriff Watson, the jury quickly found that on the 15th day of June, Hubert Cummings did unlawfully, feloniously and wilfully and of his malice aforethought, did kill and murder by shooting the thirty-one-year-old Raymond Cannon with a shotgun which he held in his hand and caused a mortal wound of which the said Raymond Cannon died, contrary to the laws of the State, the good order, peace and dignity thereof.
With Cummings still at large, Solicitor-General E.L .Stephens presented his witnesses to the grand jury seeking to charge someone in the murder. Buster Wells was the natural choice. Although never implicated by Currington, Stephens was able to obtain an indictment for murder from the sympathetic jury.
In one of the speediest trials in Laurens County's history, Buster Wells stood before a jury of all white males in racially charged times. All white juries rarely acquitted black defendants when charged with a felony against whites. Realizing that his mortal fate was imminent, Buster began to uncontrollably sob as the jury returned in just a few minutes and the jury foreman stated, "We find the defendant, Buster Wells, not guilty."
Sheriff Watson quietly kept an eye out for Hubert Cummings. He obtained information that Cummings was continuing to correspond with his family while in hiding. He intercepted several of the letters, tracing them to Welsh, West Virginia. He contacted Sheriff S.A. Daniel, who picked up Cummings, a.k.a. Will Roach, and held him until Watson arrived.
Watson found Cummings in the jail when he arrived. When he got to the depot, he observed nearly five hundred black workers standing outside the depot building until the train arrived.
While in West Virginia, it was reported that Cummings confessed to his crime by admitting he shot a man in Georgia with a shotgun, a fact that was never released to the public. Although Cummings told the sheriff little about the details of the alleged murder, he did start trying to exculpate himself to a reporter for the Macon Telegraph by blaming the whole unfortunate event upon the acquitted Buster Wells.
"I wrote home to some friends a couple of weeks ago. That letter caused my arrest," Cummings stated. Steadfastly proclaiming his innocence, he told the newsman that he begged Sheriff Watson to try him immediately. Watson still feared that lynchers were tying their knots, but more importantly to him, he feared that Cummings would attempt and be successful in escaping his grasp one more time.
Charlie Stinson, M.B. Singleton and Lee Fordham traveled on a car of the M.D. & S. Railroad to see for themselves the accused killer of their friend. Singleton stated that Cummings talked freely of the case and was anxious to come back to Dublin for a trial. To make things a lot simpler for everyone involved, Hubert Cummings was kept in the safe company of the Bibb County jail in Macon until his trial, which was set for early November in the Laurens County Courthouse, a venue which the defense attorney strenuously objected to as being prejudicial to the rights of Cummings to a fair trial.
On November 4, 1919 in the second week of the October term of Laurens County Superior Court, the case of the State of Georgia vs. Hubert Cummings (Case # 2265) was called for trial by Judge John Luther Kent, of Wrightsville. Solicitor-general E.L. Stephens announced ready for the state. John R. Cooper, representing Cummings, reluctantly announced ready.
The courtroom was packed for one of the greatest spectacles the twenty-three-year-old building had ever seen. The weather was fair, cool and foggy as spectators arrived early Tuesday morning at the doors waiting for a prime seat, not taken by members of Cannon's family, other members of the bar and privileged guests.
Forty-four jurors appeared before the court for voir dire. Ben F. Currie was the first to be selected. N.G. Bartlett, I.H. Payne, and J.N. Dixon were excused due to their kinship to the parties or witnesses in the case. C.H. Johnson, W.F. Towson, J.T. Blackshear, H.M. Livingston and A.S. Pritchett filled out the first row of the jury box. J.D. Chambers joined B.O. Rogers, W.L. Herndon, J.E. Johnson and W.D. Dixon on the back row. F.D. Stokes, the jury's foreman, took the last seat.
Cummings nudged Cooper's arm as juror W.F. Towson came up for examination. Towson testified that he had met Cummings on a prior occasion some five years earlier. Although he didn't remember the details, he did recall that the meeting had something to do with some chickens he sold to a Negro named Holliman. Towson, who lived not too far from Thomas Crossroads, denied under intense questioning from defense attorney Cooper that he had ever had a conversation with the defendant, recalling that he did know his brother Virgil, but Hubert would have been a little boy at the time. The solicitor's objection to Cooper's line of questioning was designed to show Towson's bias against his client was sustained.
Cooper put Cummings on the stand for the limited purpose of controverting Towson's testimony. As a witness in own defense Cummings testified, "He come over there and questioned me about some chickens Ira Holliman had and if he ever caught me on his premises again he would send me to the chain gang. I knew him personally at the time. He stayed just above Midville Church."
Towson was recalled to the stand. He couldn't remember having such a conversation with Cummings, but even if he did, he stated, "I would not hold it against him at all. My mind is perfectly impartial between the State and the accused." Judge Kent ruled that Towson was competent to hear the case by overruling the defense's objection that by seating Towson, the defendant would have been deprived of his right to life and liberty contrary to the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. (Editor's note: W.F. Towson was the father of William Malcom Towson, a future judge of Laurens County Superior Court.)
The examination of potential jurors went on long after the sun set at 5:40. After a short supper break, the trial began at seven o'clock and continued until late in the foggy night. Cleveland Currington took the stand and told his eyewitness version of the events of June 15th. He stuck to his story that Cummings initiated the conflict after the matter of damages had been settled between Cannon and Buster Wells. Despite Cooper's attempts to controvert his damning testimony, Currington told the jury that he saw Cummings kill his friend Cannon with a single blast of his shot gun.
Sheriff Lester Watson took the stand next, mainly to testify about his attempt to capture the fleeing suspect in Laurens County and throughout the Southeast and some nine hundred to a thousand miles away in West Virginia. The State, presenting only the sole testimony of the friend and employer of the deceased Raymond Cannon, then rested its case.


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In the first half, both teams played evenly up through the first media timeout as the game was tied at eight with 15:18 on the clock. Wiles helped guide the Lady Bucs, scoring six of their first eight points. However, from there the Lady Buccaneers went cold and Davidson used a 14-2 run to break the game open, 22-10. During the run, the Wildcat defense held ETSU scoreless for almost five minutes, until Brittany Daniels' (
ETSU scored a season-low 21 points in the first 20 minutes, and hit only 25-percent of its shots (7-28). On the other side, Davidson finished 11-of-24 (45.8 percent) from the field, but connected on four three-pointers where as the Lady Bucs finished 0-for-4. Both teams had trouble holding onto the ball, as they combined for 30 turnovers in the first stanza with ETSU forcing 18 of them.
The Lady Bucs started the second half lowering the Wildcats' lead to six, 32-26, but back-to-back threes by Davidson pushed its advantage back to 12 with 15:56 to play. ETSU answered with a run of its own, posting a 12-4 spurt to cut the lead to four, 42-38, with 11:17 remaining in the contest. Wiles sparked the Lady Bucs during the run, scoring eight of the 12 points for ETSU. Unfortunately, the Lady Buc run took too much life out of them, as Davidson regained advantage of the game with a 17-5 blitz and ETSU could never recover. ETSU cut the lead to 10 two separate times, but Davidson nailed its free throws to claim victory.
For the contest, ETSU was held to a season-low in points and field goal percentage (29.0); while Davidson hit 46-percent of shots (23-50). The Lady Bucs were out-rebounded, 40-39, ending their five-game stretch of winning the battle of the boards. ETSU did tie its season-high by forcing 27 turnovers, but the Lady Buccaneers allowed nine three-point field goals and only connected on one.
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Once a lead investigator arrives at the scene to relieve the first responders, he or she should evaluate the scene, identify witnesses and survey what must be done. The lead investigator must:
Note: This section of the guide is intended for the individual responsible for the investigation of a fire incident. At the time
the scene is determined to involve an arson or other crime, the investigator must address legal requirements for scene access,
search and evidence seizure.
Contact first responders and establish presence. The investigator should meet with the incident commander and first responders to assess previous events and the current status
of the fire scene, make introductions, identify essential personnel, and determine scene safety and integrity issues.
The investigator should:
Define the scene's boundaries. The investigator should perform a preliminary scene assessment, determine the area in which the site examination will be
conducted and establish the scene perimeter.
Identify and interview witness(es) at the scene. The investigator should determine the identities of witnesses and conduct interviews.
Assess scene security at the time of the fire. The investigator should determine whether the building or vehicle was intact and secure and if intrusion alarms or fire detection
and suppression systems were operational at the time of the fire.
Identify the resources required to process the scene. The investigator should determine what personnel may be required to process the scene according to National Fire Protection
Association (NFPA) 921 and other recognized national guidelines.
Note:Except in the most obvious cases, the determination of a fire's origin and cause may be a complex and difficult undertaking
that requires specialized training and experience as well as knowledge of generally accepted scientific methods of fire investigation.[1] The investigator must either have appropriate expertise or call upon the assistance of someone with that knowledge.
Note: If the scene involves arson or other crimes, the investigator must address legal requirements for scene access, search and
evidence seizure.
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[note 1] As stated in NFPA 921, the scientific method consists of defining the problem, collecting data, analyzing the data, developing hypothesis (e.g.,
what could have caused the fire), testing the hypothesis and considering alternative hypothesis.
[note 2] Damage or loss of evidence that would compromise a legal case.
[note 3] Recovering damages by a finding of fault; finding that the cause of the fire was failure of some product or system.
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Baker`s cyst
I have had a baker's cyst 18 months. I went to have it aspirated and the surgeon wouldn't do it, instead he did arthroscopic surgery for two tears and a "pot hole" in Aug. 2008.
I went for physical therapy for 8 weeks and I continue to do the physical therapy exercises and also recumbent bike for 10 minutes as they advised me to do.
Sometimes the exercise seems to help and sometimes it makes it hurt worse. I could walk better before the surgery. The surgeon says there's not anything else they can do for the cyst. Sometimes it throbs and sometimes I can hardly walk. I'm 67 years old--please help.
Baker cysts are painful and do not respond to therapy. They can be aspirated but tend to grow back quickly. The good news is that they do not damage your knee so you can do any activity you want and just push through the pain.
It also sounds like you had some damage to the meniscus of your knee. This is also painful, but can respond well with surgical intervention and physical therapy. You should not push through this type of pain. You could get a second opinion from a surgeon on the conditions in your knee and you could also try more physical therapy. Find a physical therapist who is an orthopedic specialist. If you need help finding one, go to:
Tammy S Wadsworth, PT MS OCS
Sports Medicine Team Member
Clinical Instructor at The School of Allied Medical Professions
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The Ohio State University