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Like those people with metal detectors in the park, I am so worried that this would be a hobby that would border on obsession for me. But it sounds like so much fun!
Lately many Californians have been heading to the rivers and streams to prospect for gold. The increase in people taking up this activity has some newspapers writing about "the new gold rush". Although very few people can make a living off of finding gold, it is a decent money making hobby since gold is worth around $900 an ounce currently. Here is how you can get in on the action.
First of all, you need to find out where you can legally prospect for gold. National parks are off limits, but there are still lots of public land where you can look for minerals. You should research mining records and public land records at your local Bureau of Land Management if you are serious about finding gold. You can also stake a mineral claim on Federal lands in 19 states to prevent others from digging in your spot. Usually other prospectors will not tell you where they hunt for gold so it is up to you to find your own sweet spot. An easy way to get started is to join a prospecting club that already has mineral claims on lots of land.
Next, you would need some tools. A simple gold pan is enough for sifting gold from streams. You also need a plastic container to hold the gold you find. A magnifying glass and a pair of tweezers would also help with extracting the tiniest pieces of gold. A shovel also helps in digging up sediment. More serious gold hunters also use metal detectors and dredges to suck up gravel. However, if you are just starting out you probably would not want to invest heavily in machinery, yet.
As a final step you would head out to the site to pan for gold as the weather allows. This activity is actually pretty labor intensive and requires a lot of patience. You should not expect to find a lot on the first outing, but it is good exercise and you will most likely be somewhere with fresh air. Your gold yield may get better as you learn more about prospecting, but as long as you enjoy the adventure the monetary rewards will probably come second. Many weekend prospectors have met good friends through the hobby, and those friendships are more valuable than the little shiny specks they find.
Have you ever gone out to hunt for gold and other treasures? What is the most rewarding part of your hobby?
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Like those people with metal detectors in the park, I am so worried that this would be a hobby that would border on obsession for me. But it sounds like so much fun!
Hey Andrea you're in Washington, right? They just legalized panning in streams and rivers! http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/stories/NW_040309LFB-gold-panni...
I was watching Full Circle with Michael Palin the other day. On day five of his ten month trip filmed in 1995, he met three gold panning prospectors on the golden sands of Nome, Alaska.
My in-laws took us to a state park near Sacramento where panning was allowed. We got instructions from a ranger, borrowed pans, and headed out to the river to do some panning. I even found a few flecks of gold.
The ranger who provided the instructions said that she'd actually made her living this way for years before becoming a state park ranger. She made only a few thousand dollars a year, but she lived frugally and got by. (She seemed happy to be working a regular job, though.)
According to her, the way to make a success of it is to find places where the natural ground formations form what amounts to a gold pan. Every storm washes gold out of the mountains, most of which will eventually end up in the stream bottoms. But, on its way there, it will pause wherever there's some structure that catches it--holes and ripples in the rock, etc. If you find a route that includes many such structures, and then walk that route after each storm, you'll find a lot more gold than if you just sift through the river sand.
Two of our adult children live in Alaska. Gold panning is a hobby for them and for us when we visit. So far we haven't found much but we have some friends in the Fairbanks area who make a good living at it.
I live in Faibanks, AK and have gone panning for gold a few times. It's not easy and is very hard work. You have shovel massive piles of dirt for just a few flakes of gold. First you sift the dirt into a bucket to get out the rocks. Then you run it through a sluice box, then a smaller sluice box, and finally you pan it. You are talking about an entire days worth of labor (for 2 or more people) before you really pan - maybe for 10 flakes. Guys who do it every weekend may end up with a small vial at the end of a season. Plus there is the cost of gas. There's a good spot about 80 miles north of town, but you need a truck to get back to the area. So with gas at 3$/gallon up here and we'll figure my truck gets 15 mpg; then 35$ in gas round trip (80 mi is on highway, some is dirt so less fuel efficiency plus the two tracks and tundra after you leave the highway will probably easily eat 1 gal of gas). So unless you can get at least 40$ in gold each trip you won't even cover the fuel. However, if you can find a nugget, those go for about twice the price of gold because they are rare (so 1800$/troy ounce if gold is 900$/troy ounce).
Excellent reading thanks : )
I was taking a break from work and started dreaming and stumbled onto this article.. I dig for gold (pennies worth!) working from home doing internet tasks for low pay and I thought gee i wonder if i can pan gold? does that actually work? Does anyone survive off panning for gold? Id be real curious what monthly rents would be for somewhat decent lodging in areas that offer panning..
I would like to add to this because this is a rather brief introduction to the question of gold mining for profit, leaving out some essential ideas.
First of all, panning and prospecting is a lot of hard work. Even for hobby prospecting, most will grow tired of just panning, unless they're in a premium location like the Yukon or British Columbia. Most of us who do it for fun have more than just "some tools." Much of the productivity in the less gold rich places like the Midwest is achieved through dredging and sluicing; several at a time in fact. There's a lot of walking, lifting, sifting, and sitting in uncomfortable conditions. Tough guys and gals are required.
Second, luck will play such an important role in this making any money at all. Finding a gold vein and doing the proper search might not be luck involved, but the prospect of being able to even mine the researched land may fall to luck. Once there and everything is approved, the land could be dangerous in a number of ways from other miners to animals to weather. Every situation is different.
Finally, it can be incredibly expensive to make this hobby a money making venture. Consider the most successful miners and the least successful on the popular reality tv shows. There is a direct correlation to the amount of money spent to the amount of money earned. Yes, you can enjoy the hobby for a few hundred bucks up front and some decent maintenance costs each year. That assumes though you'll work hard, have some luck and have a claim to mine on.
I refer you to these two articles that detail this endeavor accurately: http://www.bedrockdreams.com/2008/08/can-i-make-living-gold-mining.html and http://prospectinglife.com/2016/02/08/can-you-make-a-living-panning-gold...
I would be happy to entertain any questions since when this article was composed in 2009, gold has seen a wonderful rise in price and is all the more alluring.


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How do terrestrial Antarctic organisms survive in their harsh environment?
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Anhydrobiosis, or extreme desiccation tolerance, is one of the strategies that allows terrestrial Antarctic organisms to survive in a harsh environment. A new study in BMC Genomics analyses gene expression in an Antarctic nematode during desiccation, and sheds new light on this phenomenon.
Antarctic terrestrial organisms live permanently on the continent (unlike penguins and seals that only breed there) and survive in one of the harshest environments on Earth. Sites that support life are largely limited to regions that are ice free, for at least part of the year, and which receive meltwater in spring and summer. Living at the limits of life, these organisms may be particularly sensitive indicators of climate change and are good models for studying how life survives in extreme environments. Antarctic species show high levels of endemicity and recent molecular studies suggest that many terrestrial Antarctic organisms have ancient origins, dating from before the break up of Gondwana [1]. Although controversial, there is increasing interest in bioprospecting amongst Antarctic organisms for molecules with practical uses.
Life without water
Although the most obvious stress faced by organisms in Antarctica is cold and the risk of freezing, there are a variety of other stressors that are significant [2]. The most important factor determining their distribution is the presence of liquid water, to which organisms must have at least occasional access in order to grow and reproduce. When liquid water is absent organisms survive in a dormant state known as anhydrobiosis – life without water – in which their metabolism comes reversibly to a standstill. Anhydrobiosis is a feature of many organisms in habitats where they are exposed to desiccation. Among animals, it is found in rotifers, tardigrades, nematodes and some arthropod larvae. Many species of nematodes are capable of anhydrobiosis and nematodes have proved to be good models for the study of this phenomenon. Anhydrobiotic nematodes are important components of the Antarctic terrestrial fauna [3].
The disaccharide trehalose has long been thought to be important for anhydrobiosis; especially by acting as a replacement for water, preserving the function of membranes and proteins. More recently, other mechanisms have been recognized. In particular, a group of proteins called late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins, first identified from plant seeds, are associated with anhydrobiosis in a number of animals. They may play a role in preventing protein aggregation during desiccation [4]. However, focusing on specific adaptations, such as trehalose and LEA proteins, may result in important mechanisms being overlooked. The construction and screening of cDNA libraries and cDNA arrays have proved successful in identifying freezing-responsive gene expression in a freezing-tolerant frog, Rana sylvatica [5]. Similar approaches have been used to study the responses of plants to a variety of stressors, including desiccation, and have been applied to desiccation survival and anhydrobiosis in nematodes [6]. An Arctic springtail (Collembola), Onychiurus arcticus, overwinters by desiccating at low temperatures (cryoprotective dehydration). An expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis has indicated that a number of biochemical pathways are associated with desiccation and recovery [7].
A recent paper in BMC Genomics describes the first EST and differential expression analysis of the response of a terrestrial Antarctic animal to environmental stress [8]. In this work, Adhikari et al. describe changes in gene expression in response to desiccation in the free-living nematode Plectus murrayi (Figure 1). This nematode is found in the Dry Valleys and coastal sites in the McMurdo Sound region (Figure 2), and from several other areas of continental East Antarctica, where it is the most widely distributed and abundant free-living terrestrial nematode. Despite this abundance, little is known about its survival strategies.
Desiccation-induced gene expression in P. murrayi
In the study by Adhikari et al. [8] a total of 2,486 ESTs were generated comprising 1,387 unique transcripts. The Caenorhabditis elegans genome comprises about 20,000 genes and the P. murrayi genome is probably of a similar size. The transcripts reported in this paper are therefore likely to represent only a small proportion of those expressed overall.
The unique transcripts from P. murrayi were compared with known sequences. Of these, 38% were considered to have homologs in C. elegans, 7% showed matches with other nematode databases (typically C. briggsae), and a further 11% of transcripts were similar to sequences from other organisms. The remaining 44% did not match any known sequence.
The breakdown of functions was assessed by Gene Ontology (GO database) and by assignment to metabolic pathways using the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database. These analyses showed a wide range of functions associated with the EST transcripts, representing most of the functions that might be expected of an eukaryotic organism. Analysis of abundant transcripts suggested that metabolic genes and those associated with the processing of environmental information were highly expressed. The authors note that ribosomal protein transcripts were abundant; findings consistent with protein expression. In particular, the most abundant transcript detected in the desiccation cDNA library was S28, a ribosomal small subunit component. This is perhaps not too surprising, as any increase in protein synthesis associated with environmental stress is likely to be associated with an increase in ribosome number, and therefore the synthesis of ribosomal proteins (and RNA). KEGG analysis also indicated that protein degradation was active. In particular, a cathepsin-L-like protease was identified that is implicated in protein turnover during development and differentiation in C. elegans, especially in molting.
In addition to sequencing a library of transcripts present in desiccated nematodes, a library of differentially expressed transcripts was also made. Two rounds of subtractive hybridization using cDNAs from desiccated and hydrated P. murrayi produced 80 sequences specific to the desiccated sample (in subtractive hybridization, two samples are hybridized to remove cDNAs present in equal amounts in both samples). About a quarter (22) of these were considered to be associated with metabolism, 15 were involved in environmental information processing (including a homolog of type II antifreeze protein from fish (GenBank accession number FK670242)), 23 with genetic information processing, 17 were considered to encode novel proteins, and three matched hypothetical proteins of unknown function.
Fourteen of the genes identified by subtractive hybridization were further examined by real-time PCR. Many of these showed a significant increase in mRNA abundance after desiccation. Among this group were LEA, trehalose-6-phosphate synthase (TPS), aldehyde dehydrogenase and glycerol kinase. Both glycogen synthase and the clone identified as an antifreeze protein homolog showed a decrease in expression (along with an unidentified protein). The heat-shock proteins Hsp70 and Hsp90 did not alter expression during desiccation.
Water stress increases the formation of reactive oxygen species so the production of antioxidants may be a part of an anhydrobiotic response. Genes associated with antioxidant production and that are stimulated during desiccation in P. murrayi include superoxide dismutase, Ras-related protein and glutathione S-transferase. An aquaporin (proteins that regulate the flow of water across cell membranes) is one of the most abundant transcripts in the cDNA library, which is consistent with the need to control water flow as osmotic strength changes during desiccation in P. murrrayi.
The use of subtractive hybridization imposes an inherent limitation on the data. Only those genes that are differentially expressed in desiccation are likely to be detected. It is possible that some genes are constitutively expressed, rather than induced by stress, but are nonetheless important in desiccation (and perhaps freezing). For example, in notothenioid fish, which are highly represented in the Antarctic, Hsp70 is not induced by environmental challenge but instead is constitutively expressed at a high level [9]. The finding of Adhikari et al. [8] that Hsp70 and Hsp90 expression is not increased by desiccation suggests that this might be the case in P. murrayi.
Further thoughts and future directions
The distribution of genes expressed during desiccation raises a number of issues. Those genes that had homologs in other animals suggest the usual range of metabolic activities that might be expected of a nematode. Does this mean that desiccation tolerance reflects subtle modifications to the normal suite of metabolic processes? Alternatively, does the as-yet unidentified 44% of the total EST library encode components of new pathways that confer resistance to desiccation in P. murrayi? It is not unusual for organisms newly sequenced to reveal unique reading frames and transcripts, and it is not always clear whether these new transcripts are expressed and play a role. However, it is likely that at least some of these unique sequences play some interesting role in the metabolism of the organism that is their host.
About a quarter of the transcripts identified by subtractive hybridization belong in the category of new sequences, and these may provide a fruitful set of candidates to answer this question. Identifying the roles of these genes will prove challenging. We will need some integrated molecular, physiological and biochemical studies to see if some of the potential mechanisms identified by EST and similar approaches do in fact play an important role in anhydrobiosis.
The desiccation survival abilities of P. murrayi are ill defined. Adhikari et al. [8] exposed the nematodes to a relatively mild desiccation stress of 87% relative humidity at 23°C for 2 days. Are they capable of anhydrobiosis, which we may practically define as surviving exposure to 0% relative humidity? Are further mechanisms invoked when nematodes are exposed to more severe desiccation? Are different pathways involved during repair and recovery upon rehydration? What effect does lowered temperature have and is the response to freezing similar to that to desiccation?
As perhaps might be expected, enzymes involved in trehalose synthesis (such as TPS) and LEA proteins are upregulated during desiccation of P. murrayi. However, a note of caution may be that C. elegans has several tps and lea genes and yet is not particularly desiccation tolerant. It has only been shown to survive exposure to 97% relative humidity, which can hardly be considered anhydrobiotic. Nematode species vary widely in their ability to survive desiccation [10]. To identify the mechanisms that are important in anhydrobiosis, rather than looking at changes in gene expression in response to desiccation in a particular species, it may be more instructive to compare the responses to desiccation between species that are not capable of anhydrobiosis, those that will survive anhydrobiotically if they are dried slowly, and those that will survive immediate exposure to severe desiccation. Nevertheless, this study is an important first step in understanding the survival mechanisms of terrestrial Antarctic organisms.
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In 1988 I moved to London to work at Smash Hits magazine, and one of the first things I had to do was create a map of Manchester for the magazine's news pages. Dutifully, I put an X for where the Haçienda was, another for Dry Bar, also Eastern Bloc, the record shop co-owned by 808 State's Martin Price. Arrows pointing down towards Moss Side, for A Guy Called Gerald, up to Salford for the Happy Mondays… I even marked the Midland, in Didsbury, a pub where a hot and messy house night called MVITA (Manchester Vibes in the Area) took place in one pitch-black room, while the other featured fringed lampshades and elderly couples sipping light ale.
And as Smash Hits' resident Mancunian (though I'm actually from Cheshire), I was sent to interview the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays. Both bands were great to talk to: friendly, funny, cheeky, like most people in Manchester. People in London, though, seemed scared of the place, talked about it as though it was really rough, like an English New York ghetto. When I told them that they would love the Haçienda, that it was brilliant, a fantastic club with amazing music and enough space for anyone and everyone to express themselves, they looked at me as though I were mad.
Of course, no one in Manchester cared what London thought. They never have, really. And in the late 80s, when ecstasy and acid house combined to pull in a crowd that finally filled the Haçienda's vast warehouse space, got the place rocking so hard the sweat dripped off the underside of the balcony and made the walls wet and your head steam when you tipped out into the cool night air, Mancunians were having too much of a good time to notice that everyone else was staring.
Was that scene Madchester? Or was it the bands, the Roses, the Mondays and the rest, alternative rock bands with a loose groove, bass and drums melding in a funk that bridged the gap between white boy indie and the squelchy sounds of acid? What about other local artists, such as 808 State and A Guy Called Gerald, who actually made dance music, off-the-hook tracks such as "Cubik" and "Voodoo Ray" that drove the dancefloor crazy? Were they Madchester artists? Or just artists?
This summer sees the fully reformed Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses play again, the Roses gigs in particular threatening to give chunky men of a certain age a Proustian rush so strong you could mistake it for a heart murmur. This, despite the fact that both bands, even in their prime, were hit-and-miss live. Their inconsistency was part of their brilliance: you never knew quite what you'd get. Still, their albums, listened to in sober retrospect, are fantastic. The Roses' eponymous 1989 debut is especially amazing, almost perfect: combining groove and guitar, tune and attitude, west coast dreaminess with north-west wit. But the underestimated Happy Mondays, whose outlaw personalities and anecdotes were always given preference over their music, also made some revolutionary sounds, referencing the swaggering madness, the suck-it-and-see of Sly and the Family Stone.
It was a Mondays release, 1989's Madchester Rave On EP, that gave the scene a label, a hook for the world's media. As usual, Factory records' mouth-on-wheels Tony Wilson did his fantastic propaganda thing, going over to a US music conference to inform America that it was behind the times, that Manchester was where it was at, that it had swiped America's best music from right under its nose, sold it back to them and it hadn't even noticed. New York noticed Wilson, however, as well as Manchester's bustling band scene, and Time magazine gave Madchester a front cover.
But, as is often the way, once a scene has a label, it fundamentally changes. The label limits what's happening, deems some people in and some out, alerts the money-minded to the idea that there's cash to be made, tells the mainstream that something's happening that it should know about. And, just like that, the scene is invaded, changes, moves on, eventually dies.
And a scene as downright loopy as the Manchester acid house scene really defied a label. House music caused a sensation elsewhere in the country, of course, but in Manchester it had a focus. Down south, kids were forced to dance in fields; Manchester had a perfect, cool-as, ready-made venue in the Haçienda, owned by a band, New Order, who made one of the era's best albums, Technique.
It also had a music scene small and healthy enough to foster band ambition, disused industrial warehouse spaces for any after-hours raves (the clubs shut at 2am) and a generation of adventurous kids. Kids who'd travelled around Europe, following football teams, or just because; whose taste in music was already open enough to take in the 13th Floor Elevators; who had their own sense of style, with its own, very particular rules; who ran around setting up parties, labels, bands, merchandising as well as having a laugh. All that, plus natural PR machines such as Tony Wilson, Shaun Ryder and Ian Brown, whose every utterance had journalists cheering.
And journalists were interested, of course, because something was definitely happening. On Fridays and Saturdays, then Wednesdays, when Hot started, there were queues of kids in painters' jeans and sweatshirts, snaking round the corner from Whitworth Street back towards G-Mex, waiting to be let into the biggest, maddest youth club in the world. Just a few years before, in the mid-to-late 80s, the Haçienda was a different place, so cold you could never take your coat off, so empty you had the whole dancefloor to yourself. It staged gigs by Felt, local fashion shows hosted by Frank Sidebottom. Though we didn't know it then, the club was waiting, biding its time until the right youth revolution, the right sounds could fill it. Acid house was that music; Madchester was the scene.
'It was just a load of mad people, heads, faces, in the corner under the balcony. We didn't really talk, we just didn't stop dancing all night. The music was amazing."
I'm talking to actress Jo Hartley of This Is England (and, soon, Ill Manors, Plan B's new film) fame. She was 17 in 1989 and says that going to the Haçienda genuinely changed her life. "I'd been to nightclubs before, like Scandals, but you had to put on posh clothes and loads of hair lacquer, get yourself up like Anita Dobson, just to sit in a velvet booth and listen to Kylie Minogue."
Hartley, from Chadderton, near Oldham, was taken to the Haçienda by her then boyfriend, and she couldn't believe what it was like. Clothes were important, but in a different way ("I remember everyone wearing Levi's with the red stripe inside"), the music was like nothing she'd ever heard and the madness, the chaos, the bedlam on the dancefloor felt like freedom.
"You could really let go, you connected with a lot of people," she says. "It was a community that didn't exist in other clubs. You'd come out and you'd feel amazing. And there were a lot of talented people involved; they just didn't realise who they were at the time. Some of them are heroin addicts now, some of them are in prison, some are successful. But they were all cool. It changed my life, opened my head to people and possibilities."
Gary Aspden, now a successful brand consultant working with labels such as Adidas and JD Sports, also credits the Haçienda with changing the way he was headed. Originally from Blackburn, he and some friends hosted parties there on a Saturday night after the Haçienda shut. "Parties for the people by the people," he says now. They started small and got bigger, ended up in warehouses, but they were never about profit.
He remembers that with one of the first, there was money left over from the door. "So we sent a cheque to pay for 20 kids from Blackamoor special school in Blackburn to get riding lessons. It was in response to criticism from the local newspaper about people profiteering from acid house parties," he says. "The headmaster of the school tore the cheque up and went in the local press saying, 'We don't want their money.' I guess it was predictable. But still disappointing."
That community attitude behind the Manchester acid house scene isn't often remembered. Instead, the cartoon strip goes something like this: a bunch of scallies dressed in their fat uncle's cast-offs took lots of drugs and danced themselves silly. Then gangsters moved in, Madchester became "Gunchester" and the "one love" vibe died. But, at least initially, there was more to the scene than that. As both Hartley and Aspden remember, it felt like a revolution, like the right people were winning, that everyone was taking their nights out – and so their lives – into their own hands. Both know several people who were into fighting at football who just gave it up; Aspden thinks that the Tories took credit for stopping 1980s hooliganism when in fact it was ecstasy and acid house. "Madchester got them dancing," he says. "It might even have got some of them hugging, too. But we don't dwell on that."
Dave Haslam, Mancunian DJ and writer, sees the influence of Madchester in Manchester today. "Madchester was a chaotic, accidental, spontaneous burst of madness," he says. "An adventure, that's what I remember it as. No one controlled it, which meant that gangsters and corporate cowboys saw an opportunity. And once it was labelled, it kind of became about white boy indie bands, which made it more boring than it actually was. But you could say that the labelling had a value, in that it sent out a message that Manchester was being remade and that was a very important thing to say. Because in London, let alone New York and Paris, the view before then was that Manchester was post-industrial, everyone was unemployed, warehouses were lying empty, it was grim…"
The reputation that Madchester gave Manchester – that of a joyful, creative, sociable place of opportunity – has never left the city. Manchester is now all about going out. When I was young, footballers and their wannabeyourgirlfriends wouldn't dream of going into town: too scruffy and glum. Now, the city centre is packed at weekends, students move there because of the nightlife and just along from where the Haçienda used to be is a line of bars that, as Shaun Ryder once said to me, "have the look of the Haçienda but the attitude of Rotters".
The city has always boasted a forward-thinking, arts-oriented Labour council. That council, after the Haçienda had to be shut due to gangs muscling in and, especially, after an IRA bomb destroyed much of Manchester city centre in 1996, used the idea of Manchester as a social destination to reinvent the city. Now it has a world-beating arts festival, Manchester international festival, it has the BBC in Salford, it even managed to attract investment into Manchester City Football Club.
Perhaps it's stretching an argument to say that without Madchester, there would be no Balotelli. Still, the silly, moody, ridiculously talented Italian (loved to pieces by everyone who works at City) wouldn't fit in another British city. He'd be swallowed by London, squashed by everywhere else. In Manchester, they believe in craziness; they know that great things can come of it. Manchester's contemporary spirit and excitement emerged from many things. One of which was the gathering together, in the late 80s, of thousands of mad heads, in a parallel universe, a musical playground, a dream of Adidas-shod utopia.
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We're no strangers to charging stations, having reviewed a couple before, but these Gomadic charging stations seem to be a little different. Instead of hiding a power strip inside the station, as we saw in the Kangaroom units, Gomadic has only one AC connection to the wall.
How do they do it?
Well, the charging station combines a cable organizer/hider with exchangeable tips. This way you can swap in and out tips depending on what stuff you're charging (no points for finding obscure ones they don't support) so you can keep your original chargers at work or elsewhere.
Gomadic's claim is that keeping a power strip and AC adapters hidden is a bad idea because it may lead to the universe imploding. Or fires. We didn't read very carefully. In any case, this charger seems like a neat idea if you have gadgets that are supported by Gomadic's tips.
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Safe Routes to School Leader Deb Hubsmith Has Died
I sadly just learned of the passing of safe streets pioneer, Deb Hubsmith, who was responsible for saving countless lives and reminds us of the various forms that environmental leadership can take. I did not know Deb personally but had corresponded with her when writing Green Illusions. I covered her important work in articles and in Green Illusions, excerpted below. I wish her family and colleagues the best during this time.
…Many of the nation's schools stand behind a barricade of rushed drivers–hardly a safe environment for students to bike or walk to class. A student environmental group at Bridgewater-Raritan High School raised money for a bike rack only to have their principal reject it, citing safety risks. Similarly, a principal at Island Park Elementary School in Mercer Island, Washington, an avid bicycler herself, vetoed a proposed bike route, pointing out that a fifth-grader had recently been killed while walking his bike through a street crossing.
Stories such as these are all too familiar to Deb Hubsmith, director of the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) National Partnership, which institutes programs across the country to make walking and biking to school safer and more practical for students and educators. Testifying to Congress about an SRTS pilot program, Hubsmith stated, "In only two years, we documented a 64 percent increase in the number of children walking, a 114 percent increase in the number of students biking, a 91 percent increase in the number of students carpooling, and a 39 percent decrease in the number of children arriving by private car carrying only one student." Nevertheless, even though children represent over 12 percent of pedestrian fatalities, and bicycle-related injuries send over a quarter million children to hospitals annually, the SRTS won just 0.2 percent of the U.S. Department of Transportation's safety budget. And even though safe routes are a far more effective challenge to fossil-fuel consumption than solar cells, legislators overwhelmingly direct more money into the solar pot. In California, for every dollar spent on safe routes, well over ten dollars has flowed to solar cells during every budget year from 2007 thru today.
Given the clear and far-ranging benefits of walking and biking to school, the fact that communities hold bake sales to finance bike racks and safe thruways for students while the fetishized solar-cell industry bathes itself in billions of public funds is an inglorious national embarrassment. There is no secret to designing safe and convenient bikeable and walkable communities. The strategies are flexible to a wide array of neighborhood layouts, simple to institute, and return rapid paybacks in terms of public safety, quality of life, energy footprints, and long-term infrastructure maintenance costs. Ultimately, the success of bikeable neighborhoods hinges on a community's ability to establish a bicycling culture, where bicycling and walking stand as legitimate and esteemed modes of transportation…


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The scale of Sunday's deadly storms became clearer today: Six people dead in Illinois, hundreds of homes flattened and splintered, more than 80 tornadoes reported through the Midwest, 358 reports of damaging winds, 40 reports of large hail.
Since 1986, there have been 194 tornado warnings issued in the month of November in Illinois: More than half of them, 101, were issued Sunday, according to the Chicago Weather Center.
As crews fanned out from the National Weather Service to assess the storm's impact, WGN-TV meteorologist Tom Skilling said it may go down as one of the most powerful to hit the region in decades.
"It appears the storm may have produced the most powerful Illinois November tornado on record outside of St. Louis (and possibly elsewhere) and may be one of the four most intense Great Lakes storms of the past five decades," he said.
Hardest hit was Washington, a town of 15,000 people east of Peoria hit by an EF-4 tornado packing winds of 170 to 190 mph. Whole blocks were leveled, prompting the Illinois National Guard to send a 10-person firefighting and search and rescue team. Officials were still trying to determine the extent of injuries Sunday evening, but at least one death was reported and nearly 80 people injured.
"The devastation is just unbelievable," said Mayor Gary Manier, estimating as many as 500 homes may have been damaged in his town. "I can't imagine people walked away from these places."
The one person who died was identified by the Tazewell County coroner as Steve Neubauer, 51, of Washington, who was found near his home on School Street in Washington. He was remembered by a neighbor as a person you could call up if you needed a repair to your lawnmower or tractor.
A mechanic and heavy equipment operator by trade, Neubauer was home when the tornado struck his house and did not make it to his home's basement, though his wife did, said neighbor Lori Anne Hagey.
"He would do anything for everybody," Hagey said. "He was here to help you."
Hagey said she was stunned her nearby house is still standing since neighbors' homes were blown away. She said a 12-stall horse barn in her yard was destroyed, but two horses on her property survived.
"It's been an ordeal," she said.
Farther south, an EF-4 tornado with winds of 166-200 mph ravaged Washington County, obliterating farms and livestock and killing Joseph Hoy, 80, and his sister Frances Hoy, 78, according to Coroner Mark Styninger.
Joseph Hoy's body was found in a field about 100 yards east of his farmhouse. His sister's body was found inside the home beneath debris, he said. "(Joseph Hoy's) house was blown away by a tornado," said Styninger, who knew the siblings personally. "They were just very nice people."
Joseph Hoy's frend, Estelle Wernle, said she had known Hoy for more than 40 years because of their shared interest in birds. She said Hoy had been the hard-working and dedicated president of the Midwest Bird and Animal Breeders Association since 1990.
"He cared for all the animals, small and large," said Wernle.
Wernle said officials told friends that Joseph died on his property in the countryside from a head injury after the storm. His sister, who is handicapped and who he cared for, was found "under a heap of rubble," Wernle said.
Wernle said Hoy kept animals on his property, mostly birds of all sizes like quail, pigeons and sometimes ostriches. But the barns and the farmhouse in which they all lived vanished after the storm, Wernle said. "It's like barren land," she said.
Wernle said Hoy was a kind friend, remembering the names of all 200 members of their bird club. "I couldn't believe it. I was devastated," she said about his death.
Three other deaths were reported in Massac County at the southern tip of the state, where an EF-3 tornado struck with of 145 mph. The tornado tore a path 225 yards wide across the county.
The small town of Brookport was hit hard, with hundreds of homes damaged, officials said. Buildings were smashed into piles of rubble. Power lines were strewn through the town. A curfew has been issued from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.
"We opened the door and started looking around. My friend had come over and a tree had landed on top of his car, broke out a couple windows. The house next to us, a tree fell through their roof," one man said.
Killed were Scholitta Burrus, 63, Kathy George, 58 and Robert Harmon, 56, according to Massac County sheriff's officials. Harmon and George lived in rural Brookport while Burrus lived in the town of Brookport, according to a spokeswoman. All three were found in separate locations.
Closer to Chicago, in Grundy County, an EF-2 tornado touched down in the Coal City area near Joliet with wind speeds of 111 to 135 mph, the National Weather Service said. Hundreds of homes were damaged, and a subdivision in the community of Diamond was ordered evacuated.
Matt McCullough watched the funnel cloud take shape over the fields behind his house in Diamond Estates before herding his 4-year-old son and 96-year-old grandmother into the basement.
"The air just got, I don't know, lighter. Then it got quiet," he said. "Then you could just hear everything getting torn apart."
When they came up from the basement a few minutes later, the roof and an exterior wall had been torn away by the storm.
"I don't know where to start or what to do," he said as he stood this afternoon in his bedroom, a bright blue sky over head. "I'm not sleeping; I'm just on pure adrenaline now."
Much of the damage was confined to Diamond, a town of 2,500 residents, Dorfler said. Four people were injured in the storm, including three people who were trapped inside a damaged house on the corner of Berta Road and Spring Road and had to be rescued by firefighters, Dorfler said. The three were taken to a hospital in Morris and information on their conditions was not immediately available, Dorfler said.
The Red Cross set up a shelter in the Coal City High School gym and at a local church Sunday night, but had no visitors overnight, Dorfler said.
"Hopefully that means everyone was able to find someplace to go," he said.
Power outages were still widespread in the area, and fire department was operating on generator power, Dorfler said.
"The tornado actually came right across the back of our firehouse," he said. "Fortunately, it didn't do any damage."
A state trooper checkpoint greeted anyone who tried to enter Diamond Monday. Behind the trooper's squad car along Johnson Road lay telltale signs of the tornado that touched down around noon the day before: power lines drooping from telephone poles set askew or snapped off by the storm and roadways clogged with work crews.
In the Diamond Estate subdivision, where Gov. Pat Quinn made his first stop on a tour of storm damage, the sounds of tarps fluttering in the wind and the popping of roofers' hammers hung in the chilly air. The rooftops of every home in the subdivision looked chewed up, with large patches of missing shingles.
Large trees were split and broken. Smaller ones were festooned with bits of pink insulation pulled from the roofs of demolished homes. In the farm fields surrounding the small grouping of two-story and split-level homes, huge chunks of debris and tree limbs lay among stubble in the cornfields.
Gov. Patrick Quinn has declared seven counties disaster areas: Champaign, Grundy, LaSalle, Massac, Tazewell, Washington and Woodford counties.
Quinn plans to visit the communities of Washington, Diamond, Gifford, Brookport and New Minden, according to a statement from his office.
The Illinois Emergency Management Agency is coordinating efforts with other state agencies to help affected areas, according to Quinn's office.
About 10,600 customers still lacked electricity following the storm at abourt 4:30 p.m. Monday, according to ComEd. Only 600 of those customers are in Chicago. The rest are mostly in the utility's southern region – 6,300 – with about 350 down in the north region and 3,400 in the west region.
Andy Grimm contributed.
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Imagine that you work in human resources, and that you've recently been dealing with a lot of people problems.
It's been another long day. You're now meeting with your last "client" before you go home. As you listen to this person's story, you start to get tense. You find yourself avoiding making direct eye contact with her, and you feel yourself shutting down emotionally. You don't want to listen to her complaints at all; instead, you just want to finish.
Rather than taking your frustrations out on this person, however, you apologize and ask for a five-minute break. You go for a quick walk outside, breathe deeply, and then stop for some water. When you go back into your office, you're smiling, refreshed, and ready to help.
Most people experience some degree of stress in their jobs. But if you understand the most common types of stress and know how to spot them, you can manage your stress much better. This, in turn, helps you to work productively, build better relationships, and live a healthier life.
In this article, we'll examine four common types of stress, and we'll discuss how you can manage each of them more effectively.
The Four Common Types of Stress
Dr Karl Albrecht, a management consultant and conference speaker based in California, is a pioneer in the development of stress-reduction training for businesspeople. He defined four common types of stress in his 1979 book, "Stress and the Manager."
Albrecht's four common types of stress are:
- Time stress.
- Anticipatory stress.
- Situational stress.
- Encounter stress.
Let's look at each of these types of stress in detail, and discuss how you can identify and deal with each one.
1. Time Stress
You experience time stress when you worry about time, or the lack thereof. You worry about the number of things that you have to do, and you fear that you'll fail to achieve something important. You might feel trapped, unhappy, or even hopeless.
Common examples of time stress include worrying about deadlines or rushing to avoid being late for a meeting.
Managing Time Stress
Time stress is one of the most common types of stress that we experience today. It is essential to learn how to manage this type of stress if you're going to work productively in a busy organization.
First, learn good time management skills. This can include using To-Do Lists or, if you have to manage many simultaneous projects, Action Programs.
Next, make sure that you're devoting enough time to your important priorities. Unfortunately, it's easy to get caught up in seemingly urgent tasks which actually have little impact on your overall objectives. This can leave you feeling exhausted, or feeling that you worked a full day yet accomplished nothing meaningful.
Your important tasks are usually the ones that will help you reach your goals, and working on these projects is a better use of your time. Our article on Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle explains how to balance urgent and important tasks, and our article on prioritization helps you separate tasks that you need to focus on from those you can safely put off.
If you often feel that you don't have enough time to complete all of your tasks, learn how to create more time in your day. This might mean coming in early or working late, so that you have quiet time to focus. You should also use your peak working time to concentrate on your most important tasks – because you're working more efficiently, this helps you do more with the time you have.
For instance, if you're a morning person, schedule the tasks that need the greatest concentration during this time. Our article "Is This a Morning Task" helps you learn how to prioritize your tasks and schedule them during your most productive times of day. You can leave less important tasks, like checking email, for times when your energy levels drop.
Also, make sure that you're polite but assertive about saying "no" to tasks that you don't have the capacity to do.
2. Anticipatory Stress
Anticipatory stress describes stress that you experience concerning the future. Sometimes this stress can be focused on a specific event, such as an upcoming presentation that you're going to give. However, anticipatory stress can also be vague and undefined, such as an overall sense of dread about the future, or a worry that "something will go wrong."
Managing Anticipatory Stress
Because anticipatory stress is future based, start by recognizing that the event you're dreading doesn't have to play out as you imagine. Use positive visualization techniques to imagine the situation going right.
Research shows that your mind often can't tell the difference, on a basic neurological level, between a situation that you've visualized going well repeatedly and one that's actually happened.
Other techniques – like meditation – will help you develop focus and the ability to concentrate on what's happening right now, rather than on an imagined future. Consider setting aside time daily – even if it's only five minutes – to meditate.
Anticipatory stress can result from a lack of confidence. For example, you might be stressing over a presentation that you're giving next week, because you're afraid that your presentation won't be interesting. Often, addressing these personal fears directly will lower your stress. In this example, if you put in extra time to practice and prepare for tough questions, you'll likely feel more prepared for the event.
Last, learn how to overcome a fear of failure: by making contingency plans and analyzing all of the possible outcomes, you'll get a clearer idea of what could happen in the future. This can help diminish your fear of failure and give you a greater sense of control over events.
3. Situational Stress
You experience situational stress when you're in a scary situation that you have no control over. This could be an emergency. More commonly, however, it's a situation that involves conflict, or a loss of status or acceptance in the eyes of your group. For instance, getting laid off or making a major mistake in front of your team are examples of events that can cause situational stress.
Managing Situational Stress
Situational stress often appears suddenly, for example, you might get caught in a situation that you completely failed to anticipate. To manage situational stress better, learn to be more self-aware. This means recognizing the "automatic" physical and emotional signals that your body sends out when you're under pressure.
For example, imagine that the meeting you're in suddenly dissolves into a shouting match between team members. Your automatic response is to feel a surge of anxiety. Your stomach knots and feels bloated. You withdraw into yourself and, if someone asks for your input, you have a difficult time knowing what to say.
Conflict is a major source of situational stress. Learn effective conflict resolution skills, so that you're well-prepared to handle the stress of conflict when it arises. It's also important to learn how to manage conflict in meetings, since resolving group conflict can be different from resolving individual issues.
Everyone reacts to situational stress differently, and it's essential that you understand both the physical and emotional symptoms of this stress, so that you can manage them appropriately. For instance, if your natural tendency is to withdraw emotionally, then learn how to think on your feet and communicate better during these situations. If your natural response is to get angry and shout, then learn how to manage your emotion.
4. Encounter Stress
Encounter stress revolves around people. You experience encounter stress when you worry about interacting with a certain person or group of people – you may not like them, or you might think that they're unpredictable.
Encounter stress can also occur if your role involves a lot of personal interactions with customers or clients, especially if those groups are in distress. For instance, physicians and social workers have high rates of encounter stress, because the people they work with routinely don't feel well, or are deeply upset.
This type of stress also occurs from "contact overload": when you feel overwhelmed or drained from interacting with too many people.
Managing Encounter Stress
Because encounter stress is focused entirely on people, you'll manage this type of stress better by working on your people skills. To find out how good your people skills are, take our quiz, and discover the areas that you need to develop.
A good place to start is to develop greater emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize the emotions, wants, and needs of yourself and of others. This is an important skill in interacting with others and in building good relationships.
It's also important to know when you're about to reach your limit for interactions in the day. Everyone has different symptoms for encounter stress, but a common one is withdrawing psychologically from others and working mechanically. Another common symptom is getting cranky, cold, or impersonal with others in your interactions. When you start to experience these symptoms, do whatever you can to take a break. Go for a walk, drink water, and practice deep breathing exercises.
Empathy is a valuable skill for coping with this type of stress, because it allows you to see the situation from the other person's perspective. This gives you greater understanding and helps you to structure your communications so that you address the other person's feelings, wants, and needs.
Note 1:Crankiness and remoteness can also be symptoms of burnout. If you're an enthusiastic, hard-working, committed person, make sure that you monitor yourself for this, and that you take action to avoid it.
Note 2:The techniques that we mention in this article are intended to help you manage and overcome stress. However, stress can cause severe health problems and should be taken seriously. You should visit a qualified healthcare professional if you're concerned that your stress levels are affecting your health.
Key Points
Dr Karl Albrecht published his model of the four common types of stress in his 1979 book, "Stress and the Manager." These are:
- Time stress.
- Anticipatory stress.
- Situational stress.
- Encounter stress.
While everyone experiences different physical and emotional symptoms of stress, it's important to understand how you respond to each one. When you can recognize the type of stress you're experiencing, you can take steps to manage it more effectively.


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In Pastores Dabo Vobis, Pope John Paul II strongly emphasized that the basis of all priestly formation is a sound human formation. "The priest", wrote the Holy Father, "should seek to reflect in himself, as far as possible, the human perfection which shines forth in the Incarnate Son of God." (PDV, n. 43). This is called for not only by the dignity of the priestly vocation but also by the demands of priestly ministry itself which needs a humanity that will be a bridge, not an obstacle, between men and women and Christ. Therefore, the seminarian should cultivate those human qualities and virtues which are needed to be a balanced person, "strong and free, capable of bearing the weight of pastoral responsibilities." (PDV, n. 43). The level of human maturity, behavior, attitude, outlook on life, etc., all influence, either positively or negatively, other people. The seminarian's way of presenting himself and his views, his capacity for dialogue, his sincerity and honesty, his prudence and discretion, his willingness to sacrifice for the common good: these are keys which open or close doors to trust, to listening, to healthy relationships, and to collaborative efforts for ministry in the Church.
The elements of a sound human formation are many and the demands may vary for different individuals. Pope John Paul II enumerated the most important: the balanced development of the human faculties (intelligence, will, passions, feelings); the capacity for human relationships; affective maturity; the development of a moral conscience.
A seminarian can expect to develop these necessary human qualities through the normal day-to-day interactions with his peers and others on an informal basis. Faculty guidance, feedback from peers and self-reflection assist the seminarian to gain personal insight into growth and the areas of his personality which need further development.
The key to a happy and wholesome life is found in living a balanced life and respecting basic human needs in all areas: intellect, will, emotions, body, etc. Taking care of physical and emotional health as well as spiritual and intellectual life constitute an authentic expression of Christian self-love. For a seminarian proper self-care exhibits itself in the simplest ways: eating properly, getting enough sleep, exercising consistently, relaxing with peers, taking time off, seeing a doctor regularly, observing moderation in the use of alcohol, learning to manage time, taking time for the arts. Research indicates that celibate living is fulfilling when one's spiritual motivation is complemented by a balanced approach in all aspects of human development.
A decisive element of human maturity is the ability to relate appropriately with men and women of all ages and backgrounds. A candidate for the priesthood is expected to develop a real capacity for communion and sharing with others. In the seminary the relationship with peers and faculty on a daily basis provide a constant opportunity for authentic growth in this area. Pope John Paul II clearly emphasized this need:
Of special importance is the capacity to relate to others. This is truly fundamental for a person who is called to be responsible for a community and to be "a man of communion. This demands that the priest not be arrogant, nor quarrelsome, but affable, hospitable, sincere in his words and heart, prudent and discreet, generous and ready to serve, capable of opening himself to clear and brotherly relationships and of encouraging the same in others, and quick to understand, forgive, and console." (PDV, n.43)
The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1975 spoke clearly about the central role of sexuality in the life of every person: "The human person is so profoundly affected by sexuality that it must be considered as one of the factors which give to each individual's life the principal traits that distinguish it." (Declaration on Sexual Ethics, n.1) The mystery of human sexuality permeates every moment of human existence. To understand and accept oneself as a sexual person and to learn to relate comfortably with others are ongoing developmental tasks which will always be present in a person's life. A seminarian is encouraged to discuss this area of his growth honestly with his formation director and spiritual director Pope John Paul II did not underestimate the difficulty in achieving affective maturity in our contemporary society. He proposed a concrete and realistic strategy:
"Since the charism of celibacy, even when it is genuine and has proved itself, leaves man's affectations and his instinctive impulses intact, candidates to the priesthood need an affective maturity which is prudent, able to renounce anything that is a threat to it, vigilant over body and spirit, and capable of esteem and respect in interpersonal relationships between men and women. A precious help can be given by a suitable education to true friendship, following the image of the bonds of fraternal affection which Christ himself lived on earth." (PDV, n. 44).
Human maturity, especially in the affective dimension, is manifested and deepened through a responsible use of freedom. Respect for self and others as sacred in the eyes of God must guide decisions and conduct as private individuals and also public figures in ministry. The goal of the entire seminary formation – human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral – should be the development of a moral conscience which values the dignity of each human person and is evidenced by the moral leadership and witness the seminarian manifests to others.
The Holy Father underscores this important need for candidates of the priesthood:
"The human maturity of the priest should include especially the formation of his conscience. In order that the candidate may faithfully meet his obligations with regard to God and the Church and wisely guide the consciences of the faithful, he should become accustomed to listening to the voice of God, who speaks to him in his heart, and to adhere with love and constancy to his will." (PDV, n. 44)
In a commentary on Pastores Dabo Vobis Cardinal Pio Laghi has stated:
"In the normal run of things, grace does not supplant nature; priestly ordination does not put in place a new humanity. In a personality which has not been molded, in a character which has not had its rough edges smoothed off, in an individual who is incapable of calm and appropriate human relationships, the grace of ordination is discredited. In a mature personality, on the other hand, it shines out in all its fullness." .


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Cal Thomas: A political bridge too far, too left
A multiple choice question: Select the scandal(s) that affects the most people and has long-term implications for the country in a time of war, a country with a struggling economy that last month produced the weakest job growth in decades. (According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), nearly 92 million Americans are no longer in the labor force).
A) The closing of traffic lanes in Fort Lee, N.J., allegedly in retaliation for the refusal of a Democratic mayor to endorse New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie for a second term.
B) The role of the president and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked on September 11, 2012, killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans and the lies and possible cover-up about al-Qaida's involvement.
C) The IRS' refusal to grant nonprofit status to numerous conservative groups during the 2012 election campaign for, allegedly, political reasons.
D) President Obama's repeated statements assuring Americans that if they like their insurance plans and doctors they may keep them under the new ACA.
If you are honest you would have to select B, C and D, but who among the media are honest enough to do that?
Gov. Christie held a 107-minute news conference last Thursday, during which he repeatedly denied knowing anything about the lane closures on the George Washington Bridge. He fired Bridget Anne Kelly, his deputy chief of staff, and blocked the appointment of another close associate to a state GOP chairmanship.
Left-leaning Democrats and the establishment media see an opening to keep Christie from winning the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 and are salivating because they think the Fort Lee controversy might harm his chances against Hillary Clinton.
One wishes the media would grill President Barack Obama over far more important matters with the same zeal they have applied to Governor Christie.
In light of A, B, C and D above, closing two lanes leading to a bridge is nothing. It does, however, again expose the media's agenda and their intention to bring down anyone who is a potential threat to a Hillary Clinton presidency.
On Monday, CNN reported that Christie is now the subject of a federal investigation into whether he misused $25 million in Superstorm Sandy relief money to fund a marketing campaign to promote tourism at the Jersey Shore. Convenient timing? If wasted federal money is an indictable offense, most of Congress should be behind bars.
Colin Reed, a Christie spokesman, stated, "The Stronger than the Storm campaign was just one part of the first action plan approved by the Obama administration and developed with the goal of effectively communicating that the Jersey Shore was open for business during the first summer after Sandy. Federal agency reviews are routine and standard operating procedure with all federally allocated resources to ensure that funds are distributed fairly. We're confident that any review will show that the ads were a key part in helping New Jersey get back on its feet after being struck by the worst storm in state history." End of controversy? Hardly.
There may be more important reasons why Christie should not (or should) be the GOP presidential nominee in 2016, but the bridge lane fiasco ought not to be a factor.
Should Gov. Christie be exposed as a liar about lane closures, would that be more serious than the lies the president has told about far more serious matters?
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POPLARVILLE The nationally-ranked Pearl River Lady Wildcats handed the rival Jones County Lady Bobcats sole possession of second place in the MACJC South Division softball race after dropping a doubleheader 1-0 and 6-1 here Thursday. PRCC, the reigning MACJC state champion and ranked 19th in the latest NJCAA Division II poll, fell to 15-11 overall and 7-5 in division play after the sweep, while JCJC improved to 25-5 and 9-3. Mississippi Gulf Coast, which split with The River last Saturday in Poplarville for its only division loss of the year, is in first place at 10-1 with East Central in third at 7-4. MGCCC dropped ECCC 5-2 March 8 in Perkinston before rain postponed the nightcap of the twin bill to a later date. In Thursday first game, the two teams battled through five scoreless innings until the Lady Bobcats scored the winning run in the top of the sixth off a Lady Wildcat error. In the top of the second inning, JCJC Jessmar Walters reached second base on an outfield error, but was left stranded at third. Jones also threatened an inning later when Mallory Cowart crushed a one-out triple to center field, but was nailed at home plate when Haley Brooke Smith reached on a fielder choice. Both teams left runners at second base in the fifth. In the top of the sixth, Shannon Mosley cracked a one-out single, then Walters singled to left a strikeout later. Heidi Garcich followed with a base on balls to load the bases before an errant pick off throw to third saw Mosley speed home for the game-winning run. PRCC starter Heather Hester of Hancock County High then walked K.T. Perkins to reload the bases before striking out Kayla McDaniel for the final out. The Lady Bobcats also left runners at second and third in the seventh. Starter Ginger Lonergan (12-1) got the win in going the distance, giving up three hits and striking out four; while Hester (6-6) got the loss. She also went the distance, giving up four hits, striking out five, and walking six. Mosley led JCJC with two singles, while Cowart tripled and Walters singled. Hester had two base hits for the Lady Wildcats, while Brittney Gary of Slidell (La.) High singled. Jones played error free, while Pearl River had one defensive miscue. In the nightcap game, JCJC went up 4-0 in the top of the second when Mosley led off with a walk, moved to second on a passed ball, then on to third on Stacia Whitaker ground out. She scored off Walters single to left field. An out later, Walters scored off an outfield error that put Perkins on first. Kayla McDaniel was then belted by a pitch before she and Perkins moved to second and third off a passed ball, setting the stage for Cowart two-run single to center. Smith lined to second for the final out. Hester managed a lead off single in the bottom of the frame, but Alyssa Graeter of Poplarville High followed with a strike out before Gary hit into a double play to end the inning. Jones County scored its fifth run in the top of the third. Lead off Alex Faciane singled to left, but a throwing error from the outfield saw her end up at third base. Mosely followed with a walk and Faciane scored on a double steal to make it 5-0. Walters then grounded out and Garcich popped to second for the final out. Paris Redd of Greene County High led off the bottom of the frame with a single before Janessa Dedeaux of Poplarville High reached on a fielder choice and Samantha Spence followed with a base hit. Then Brandy Rester of Poplarville High reached on an error with Dedeaux heading home, but she was nailed at the plate. ETrareo Warren of Meridian High then struck out to end the inning. After a scoreless fourth, Pearl River scored its only run in the bottom of the fifth. Gary and Redd led off with singles with Dedeaux followed with an RBI double to left field. Gary courtesy runner Lacey Freeman of Forrest County AHS was thrown out at third, then Spence popped out. After Dedeaux moved to third on a passed ball, Rester singled, but the duo were left stranded when Warren grounded out to second to end the inning. JCJC left runners at second and third in the top of the sixth, before scoring the game final run in the top of the seventh. Stacia Whitaker drew a one-out walk, stole second an out later, and scored on Garcich single to right center field. Perkins flew to center for the final out. PRCC loaded the bases in the bottom of the inning. Gary led off with a single, then Redd reached on an error. An out later, Spence outran an infield grounder to load the corners, which prompted the mound exit of Lady Bobcat starter Lauren Candies for Lonergan. Rester reached on a fielder choice when Gary courtesy runner Freeman was forced out at home, then Warren ensuing strike out ended the game. Candies (13-4) got the win in her six-and-one-thirds innings on the mound, giving up 10 hits and striking out three; while Lonergan faced two batters. Sheila Hall (8-5) of Dutchtown (La.) High got the loss in going the distance, giving up eight hits, striking out one, walking four, and hitting one batter. Cowart paced JCJC eight-hit effort with three singles (one RBI), while Faciane doubled and singled and Garcich (one RBI), Smith, and Walters (one RBI) all had base hits. Perkins also had an RBI. Gary, Redd, Rester, and Spence led PRCC 10-hit attack with two singles a piece; while Dedeaux doubled (one RBI), and Hester singled. Each team committed two errors in the game. Both teams wrap up their regular seasons in Ellisville with a rematch Friday, April 22. 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KUALA LUMPUR/DUBAI: A decision by Malaysia's central bank to stop issuing Islamic bonds has slashed the global supply of sukuk but opens the door wider for other borrowers, and may begin to shift the focus of sukuk issuance westwards towards the Gulf.
Malaysia has long accounted for the vast majority of the world's new sukuk sales. But Gulf governments, multilateral institutions and even corporate issuers could now find more room in the market to issue.
"There may be a recovery in sukuk volumes on an overall basis, though it could take some time for other issuers to fill the gap given the unfavourable market conditions," said Fakrizzaki Ghazali, credit strategist at Malaysia's RHB Bank.
Low oil prices have slowed the oil-exporting economies of Malaysia and the Gulf. The Malaysian central bank issued about US45 billion worth of sukuk last year, most of it ringgit-denominated, accounting for more than a third of total global issuance of US116.4 billion, Standard & Poor's estimated.
This year, the central bank has halted issuance entirely, almost singlehandedly causing global volumes to shrink 42.5 percent from a year ago to US38.6 billion in the first half. S&P projects that if it stays out of the market, global issuance will total just US50-60 billion this year.
In a statement to Reuters, the Malaysian central bank said "evolving global and domestic liquidity conditions" had caused it to move away from sukuk, which are relatively long-term, and use more shorter-dated instruments to manage liquidity: qard, a type of Islamic loan, and commodity murabaha placements It said there were still plenty of Islamic assets and instruments, including investment sukuk issued by the government, to meet Islamic banks' demand.
S&P said the central bank may also have changed the way it managed liquidity because it felt its sukuk were being snapped up by too broad an array of investors, preventing them from reaching their intended users among banks.
As a result, it shifted to offering instruments restricted to banks, S&P said. OTHER ISSUERS Excluding the central bank effect, global issuance dropped only 10.7 percent in the first half, S&P calculated. Several classes of issuer may partly fill the gap left by Malaysia's central bank - probably not enough to restore global sales to last year's levels any time soon, but enough for a gradual recovery.
They include two major multilateral bodies, the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank and the Malaysia-based International Islamic Liquidity Management Corp. The IDB last month raised the ceiling of its sukuk programme to US25 billion from US10 billion, as it increased lending across member countries.
Meanwhile, the range of potential sovereign sukuk issuers around the world is expanding as governments seek to tap pools of Islamic funds and develop their Islamic banking industries. Both Jordan and Tunisia are working on debut issues.
The biggest potential new issuers are Gulf governments, which need to cover budget deficits created by cheap oil. So far they have been doing this by running down fiscal reserves, but Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have said they may begin selling debt; Oman's government plans its first sukuk issue this year.
The International Monetary Fund estimates that at current oil prices, Saudi Arabia will run a budget deficit of roughly US150 billion this year. Even covering a fraction of that with sukuk would mean major new issuance. The Gulf governments are likely to issue in their own currencies to tap ample liquidity in their banking systems.
But they may also choose to issue some international sukuk, to establish a presence in the global debt markets. Meanwhile, high-rated Malaysian corporates will have plenty of room to issue in the absence of central bank supply. National utility Tenaga Nasional plans to raise as much as 10 billion ringgit (US2.7 billion) via sukuk in what would be the world's largest issue this year.
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Some highlights from another online discussion of sortition:
Sortition or selection by lot was used in ancient Greece and is currently used to form juries. My question is whether this should be extended to choose our local councillors and state politicians.
Absolutely! The best possible government is one that has to live with its own decisions, rather than handing decisions down for others to carry out, pay for and suffer the consequences, while the rules themselves are exempt. If all citizens may, at any time, be called upon to administer the state, it becomes a duty of all citizens, rather than the privilege of a few.
I love the idea of sortition but there are some issues, one of which is an impassable roadblock to sortition.
1) Many people do not have the capacity to understand the issues. There would need to be some filtering, lest chance bring us a leadership gang of profoundly unintelligent people. That leads us to the question of who does the filtering, and how capacity to understand policy issues can be ascertained. It's a corruptible process.
2) How would people feel about being hauled from their comfortable lives to engage in the intensely demanding work of politics, not to mention the intrusiveness of what would be necessary security measures?
3) Here is the dealbreaker – the Anglosphere's media is dominated by Rupert Murdoch's partisan news outlets. While this situation remains true democracy is not possible in those affected countries, evidenced by our rapid slide towards an ever more powerful powerful oligarchy. Sortition would require approval of Rupert Murdoch and his helpers, and that would require him to surrender some of the immense power he has worked tirelessly to build up over many decades. It won't happen.
The whole concept of democracy rests on the same premises that are used as objections to the real practice of democracy. 1. That adult citizens are capable of decisions regarding their own lives and social structures., 2. That a constitution and laws can be upheld by a reasonable polity, reasonably administered. and 3. That no special talent or training are required to conduct the legislative processes (After all, we do let shopkeepers run for office and farmers vote for them.) We already assume that we can manage both to select and to instruct a jury that has the power of life and death over one individual. We already trust our fellow citizens with our health, our children, our safety, every minute of the day.
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Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has finished production on a four-part miniseries called Titanic, which will premiere on ABC this April.
Let heaven and angels sing Hallelujah.
Along with virtually every other thing that is happening in April, the series' debut is set to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
This review of the show in the Guardian comes as close to saying the program is straight up exactly like Downton Abbey as one can come without actually saying that. In other words: look for it to be alternately frustrating and amazing and expecting you to fawn all over it when it shows up to tea wearing ugly hammer pants.
Oh, there is one twist:
In an innovative, but not entirely successful move, viewers will watch the boat begin to sink at the end of each episode, as Fellowes retells the story from different characters' viewpoints. Who survives the tragedy, however, is not revealed until the final episode.
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The economy added only 113,000 new jobs in January, the government said Friday, a number that fell short of expectations even as the unemployment rate dipped to its lowest level in five years.
The slow pace of growth underscored the continuing fragility of the economic recovery more than five years after the financial crisis. The 113,000 new jobs on nonfarm payrolls were considerably less than the 180,000 analysts had expected. The unemployment rate still fell to 6.6 percent in January from 6.7 percent in December, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its monthly jobs report.
December's disappointing report of just 74,000 jobs added was revised upward only slightly, to 75,000. Even as millions of jobs have been added since the worst of the recession in late 2008 and early 2009, the pace of the recovery has slowed in recent months. Average job gains the last three months have averaged just 154,000 each month, down from 201,000 in the previous three months, the Associated Press reports. Winter weather took a toll on construction and other industries. But there 232,000 fewer long-term jobless in January than in December, giving hope that some Americans who have long been out of work are clawing their way back.
Markets were mostly flat on the news, with futures on U.S. stock exchanges up slightly before trading opened.
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