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What Does Gardening Have to Do with the #Occupy Movement?
My colleagues here at TreeHugger have done an amazing job covering the #Occupy movement. Chris has looked into the idea of #Occupy being a building block to a Constitutional Convention. Lloyd has discussed the issue of police brutality, and Sami has looked at the misconceptions people have about the movement.
I'm here, as always, to look at it with a gardener's eye. (Stay with me.)
A few weeks ago, my friend and fellow garden writer Mr. Brown Thumb started the #OccupyGardens hashtag on Twitter, kind of as a joke. But the more I looked at it, the more it made sense. Occupy is about fighting greed, about taking control from the corporations and their government cronies and bringing it back to we the people, the 99%.
What is more basic to all of our needs than food?
In Jenna Woginrich's excellent book, Made from Scratch, she argues that:
"Vegetable gardening has been called 'the peaceful sedition' because at the most basic level, when a person can feed and shelter herself, she doesn't require a government to provide for her. ... It's not about pride or independence, or even connecting with nature. It's about wanting hash browns on a Saturday morning and being able to run out to the backyard in your bathrobe to grab some potatoes from the garden."
I would argue that, even more, it means that she doesn't need a corporation to provide for her. And when we don't need the corporations, they cease to have the ability to exist -- or at least cease to have so much power that the will of the people means nothing. Look at the way we're fighting for something as simple, as self-explanatory, as GMO labeling. 87 percent of Americans want to know if they're eating GMOs or not. The hubris of corporate America, and their Congressional lapdogs, is what is keeping us from that knowledge.
"Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks." -- Ian Hamilton Finlay
This is how I've come to see my garden, bit by bit, over the years. Where others see a peaceful place to while away a summer afternoon, I see a full arsenal in my fight against corporatocracy. The shake of a seed packet is my chant; rows of chard and beds of potatoes are my weapons.
Roger Doiron, of Kitchen Gardeners International, recently gave a TEDx talk about the power of gardening. It is definitely worth a look:
Every bite of food we grow ourselves, every forkful that comes from our own labor instead of from the troughs of corporate food, is a statement that we are taking our power back. We don't need them to feed us. Whether from our garden, our farmer's market, or our local CSA, we can feed ourselves.
#Occupy Wall Street, and L.A., and Detroit. But #Occupy the garden, as well.
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By G. Edward Roberts, Elparazim
The Open Group RTES (Real Time Embedded Systems) Forum has embarked on a project to define a RTES version of TOGAF™. To accomplish this task, the Forum has looked at technologies and techniques that represent the “best-of-breed” practices in the industry. So far, the Forum has studied the Modeling side of development with AADL (Architecture and Analysis and Design Language) standard from the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers), SysML (Systems Modeling Language) and MARTE (Modeling and Analysis of Real-Time and Embedded Systems) from the OMG (Object Management Group). These technologies and their use will definitely be in the guidelines being added into this vertical domain instance of TOGAF™.
On this afternoon’s session of the Forum during The Open Group Conference, San Diego, there will be a continuation of a discussion started in a webinar from September 2010. That webinar outlined certain proposals by some of the members on what they thought could be accomplished by the Forum in the area of the development of Dependability Cases for systems. One interesting proposal was the development of a multi-level taxonomy/ontology of Assurance attributes that would need to be captured by any tools supporting the development of Dependability Cases. These discussions will help shape the roadmap for the Forum’s work in this area.
At this Conference, the RTES Forum will start to examine the technologies and techniques in the industry surrounding the development of Dependability Cases. Many systems lack dependability (aka Assurance) in certain areas, e.g. MILS, security, deadlock avoidance, due to the lack of detailed development resulting in a failure to detect flaws (assumptions, missing data, lack of testing) in ones design of a Real-Time and/or Embedded System. In the past, systems desiring to be at a high level of Assurance in some area had to be formally (i.e. mathematically) proved for correctness (called ‘Formal Methods’). This was an extremely costly endeavor. The industry has recognized this dilemma and showed that a somewhat lesser degree of Assurance could be obtained by making a formal structured argument about the system meeting certain requirements, i.e. a Dependability Case, which would keep track of the details of what one has to provide as evidence to prove the case. This technique has the ability to represent formal methods as well as these lesser Assurance arguments.
On Tuesday during the Conference, there will be a set of presentations on Dependability Cases technologies and the processes needed to develop them. First, I will present an update to the Forum on the work being done current on this project. Included with this report is the work being done in modeling TOGAF™ and its importance to the RTES effort. The second presentation will be a look at the technologies surrounding Dependability Cases: ARM (Argumentation Metamodel) and SAEM (Software Assurance Evidence Metamodel) from the SysA group in the OMG, soon to be combined together into a single standard, SACM (Structured Assurance Case Metamodel), the GSN (Goal Structuring Notation) and a general discussion of the work of Steven Toulmin’s reasoning model with which these technologies have been influenced.
The third lecture, by Rance DeLong of Lynux Works, will deal with some of the theory and practice of building Dependibility Cases using his recent work on MILS Protection Profiles. This lecture will deal with how one does Compositional Certification, that is, given components that have some level of Assurance, how does one combine them to develop systems that are assured. Also included in this lecture will be a discussion on the Common Criteria Authoring Environment and new MILS research directions.
The fourth and final presentation on this topic, will be right after lunch on Tueday at 1:30pm, and will be presented by Dr. Matsuno of the University of Tokyo on D-Case technology. This is a process and soon to be released tool on the eclipse platform to develop Dependability Cases for systems. The forum is excited to have Dr. Matsuno present and hopes that this will open up a process description that will be part of the RTES plugin to TOGAF™.
G. Edward Roberts is owner of Elparazim, a consulting company on Enterprise/Software Architecture and Development. Edward holds degrees in Electrical Engineer and Mathematics, and worked for most of his professional life, as an Advanced Technology Researcher for the US Navy. He is currently working with the Real-Time Embedded Systems Forum, of which he is a member, to develop a domain specific TOGAF™ for that sector and the Architecture Forum (also a member) to model TOGAF 9. Edward is a TOGAF™ 9 Certified Architect and certified Professional Engineer in EE. | <urn:uuid:69a99016-2923-4219-a719-ebc8792913ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.opengroup.org/2011/02/07/togaf%E2%84%A2-to-the-platform-developing-dependability-cases-2011-rtesf-san-diego-meeting/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=0772592eec | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00013-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940418 | 1,025 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Most crosswords in the daily newspaper are written by freelance constructors who submit proposed puzzles to the various editors. One such constructor is Andrew Greene, the author of this post. When not engaged with his cruciverbalism hobby, Andrew is a developer on the Buzzword team. Most recently he brought you spell checking in 19 different languages.
Guest author: Andrew M. Greene
Many people think of constructing and solving crossword puzzles as a solitary activity. While this may be true for some, there are organizations like the National Puzzlers’ League and events like the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (which was featured in the 2006 movie Wordplay) that bring puzzle solvers and constructors together.
Today’s puzzle in the Wall Street Journal was constructed by a team of three hobbyists who know one another from the National Puzzlers’ League. One lives in Denver, one lives in Vancouver, and I live in Boston. We used Buzzword to collaborate on writing the clues for this puzzle. | <urn:uuid:be821f7c-d0df-4a44-95be-bb8e16965492> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.adobe.com/acom/2008/10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956771 | 204 | 1.570313 | 2 |
- THE MAGAZINE
- FOOD MASTER
Rising global demand for espresso coffee has had a dramatic impact on requests from restaurants and bars for high quality coffee products. Industry suppliers such as The Drury Tea & Coffee Co., located in central London (UK), are meeting these demands by leveraging innovative manufacturing solutions. Since replacing its manual coffee bean handling operations with an automated industrial vacuum conveying system, Drury has greatly improved production while reducing overhead costs and preserving the integrity of its flavorful coffee beans.
“We have seen the market for espresso booming, and customers are becoming more discerning-filter coffee is no longer as popular as it once was,” says Phil Millard, production manager at Drury. In order to meet this increasing demand, Drury needed an automated conveying solution that could transport a large quantity of freshly roasted beans into its packaging machine without causing damage in the process.
In the quest to find a less laborious, safer and more efficient transfer system, Drury replaced its existing manual processes with an automated industrial vacuum conveyor (IC33) from PIAB. The processor was impressed with the results demonstrated at the supplier’s conveying test laboratory. “The decision to purchase was easy once we saw how the conveyors could maximize productivity while maintaining product quality,” adds Millard.
The IC33 family of vacuum conveyors can move dry materials at rates from 500 kg. (1102 lbs.) to 2,000 kg. (4409 lbs.) per hour. Depending on the characteristics of the material and the distance to be conveyed, the conveyors can move as much as 1.5 tons per hour at a distance of 5 m (16 ft.) and 0.5 tons per hour at a distance of 30 m (98 ft.). The conveyors work with a feed pressure from 0.4-0.6 MPa (58-87 lbs/sq.-in.).
The compact design of the conveyor allows the user to recover floor space that otherwise would have been occupied if using more space-demanding belt or screw conveyors. Because the material is conveyed in pipes or hoses, moving materials such as coffee beans is gentle, and the system is very flexible in its configuration.
Since the installation of the conveyor, Drury has been able to transfer one full-time employee to a more productive task. Additionally, because the hygienic conveyor is completely enclosed, there is no risk of contamination or dust generation, thus improving the overall health and safety aspects of the process.
The freshly roasted coffee beans are now handled in a way that benefits both the company and its consumers. “PIAB’s conveyors have provided us with a more economical approach to our mission of offering some of the very best coffees,” says Millard.
For more information:
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The Sunday papers today are talking up the housing market.
But suggesting it is more than just an attempt to butter up one of their major sources of advertising, the Patron St of Taxpayers, Bernard Hickey, has joined in the spruiking.
Bernard has tended to predict savage cuts in house prices, but now he says it is time to buy. His view is based as much on the costs of rent v the costs of a mortgage and other costs associated with owning a home.
Nonetheless, the state of the economy and rising unemployment may still cause further price declines, he admits.
However, over at the Sunday Star-Times, because the New Zealand housing market was less speculative than in other countries, there is less potential for a downside.
The SST also notes lower interest rates v the rental costs, plus impact from immigration affecting future prices. Supply is also being hit by a slump in new housing starts.
However, citing rising unemployment, some economists still say hold off.
But with growing talk and practice of mortgage holidays, this just might give more confidence to a depressed market, with homeowners knowing they still have upto a year to find work if the worst happens. Even if such holidays come with a cost of rolled up interest.
In Kerikeri, though, I still see falling prices. But this is perhaps an area that boomed more than most in recent years. Perhaps there will be significant regional variations to this story.
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THE government has had a go—in fact several—at reforming prisons and policing. Now it’s the turn of the courts. David Cameron and his team have been inspired by the way the normally slow-coach criminal-justice system dealt with last August’s riots. Some have taken note of experiments in America, such as the Hope programme in Hawaii, which seem to show that quick and predictable response to crime is more effective in preventing its recurrence than the threat of delayed, draconian punishment. Today Nick Herbert, the minister for policing and criminal justice, launched plans for transforming a criminal-justice set-up which, at some £20 billion ($31 billion) a year, he calls one of the most expensive in the world, "from an unco-ordinated and fragmented system into a seamless and efficient service." Above all, the goal is meting out swift and sure justice.
A lot is already going on in this space, including consultations on probation and community sentencing, Crown Court pilots on fast-tracking guilty pleas, other pilots testing the efficacy of Neighbourhood Justice Panels, increased use of video links in trials and so forth. The main thrust of today’s white paper, aside from a slug of useful stuff on upgrading technology, is putting more zip into lay magistrates. They are encouraged to sit longer hours and on the weekends. Individual magistrates may be permitted to hear cases on their own and in more accessible places, such as community centres. They are also urged to volunteer to serve on neighbourhood panels, with a view to engaging more with their communities. The subtext of some of these changes is surely that the lay magistracy will no longer be confined to people who can afford not to have a day job. One ultimate goal, perhaps, is to replace a swathe of today’s dedicated but grey-haired volunteers with more streetwise types.
There is little to object to in proposals to make the court system function more efficiently and draw closer to their communities, and if it can all be made cheaper in the bargain, so much the better. But there are caveats. Many fear that in the rush to justice defendants’ rights will be overlooked. Mr Herbert insists that they will not, and Mr Herbert is an honourable man. Justice, like revenge, may be a dish that is best served cold, however. Courts sitting night and day after the riots handed out some quite harsh sentences in the heat of the moment, even considering how many of the perpetrators were repeat offenders. That may alleviate the feelings of outraged shop-owners (and, admittedly, many others) but it will do little to increase confidence in the system among the communities most likely to have had their young sentenced. One lesson of the Bradford riots of 2001, for example, is that those in the Asian community who fingered the law-breakers among them at the time are less likely to co-operate with the police now because the sentences handed down were much tougher than expected.
In any event, the biggest force for transformation is still to come. In November new Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) will be elected, one for each police- force area in England and Wales outside London. Almost all the debate about these controversial figures has centred on their role in hauling Dixon of Dock Green over the coals and very little on how they may pull together the many strands of criminal justice. Already pots of money are winging their way PCC-wards, including victim-support funds. Changes that have been quietly revving up are about to become turbocharged. | <urn:uuid:12cc80e4-f5b6-4763-9ab6-ff10f8536a94> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2012/07/reforming-criminal-justice | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971701 | 731 | 1.6875 | 2 |
As the effects of the recession trickle throughout the states, belt tightening starts to happen in business as well as homes. Cutting budgets from different categories is inevitable, but the budgets you touch can make a difference how long you can weather the storm.
The marketing budget seems to be the most obvious budget to cut when things start to dry up. Marketing has been viewed as a “bell & whistle” of the P&L. I wouldn’t be surprised if those who state that philosophy deliberately do so to drive competition out of business. Don’t do it!
Here’s a proverb of why you shouldn’t decrease your marketing when times are slow:
“Assume everyone is cutting back, so move forward.”
I had the fortune of having dinner with a multi-millionaire (Yeah, he picked up the check) and during the course of the dinner he made this statement:
“A business never floats. You either move forward or you move backward. You need to always move forward.”
Sound advice, but implementing it is the trick. How do you move forward? Do you move forward in a bicycle fashion or a rocket? That all depends on other factors that I didn’t get the multi-millionaire to spill.
Traditional media outlets are expensive. The production of a radio, tv or magazine ad are a lot. The publication and broadcasting of those ads are a lot. The sales team of each medium would agree on the same point the multi- millionaire made. “Advertise with us when others aren’t!” and your business should consider where most of your leads come from and the cost per lead.
1. Fill out your Google Place Page completely.
Categories, images, videos, descriptions, coupons – everything that it asks for, fill it out.
2. Fill out your Bing Local listing completely It may only have 10% of the market but people do use it and it won’t take you long to fill it out anyway.
3. Fill out the free yahoo local listing too.
Yahoo’s market share is still viable in local markets. Use your analytics to find where your web traffic is coming from.
Does it work?
The sales and marketing managers of two clients contacted me that they wanted to decrease the budgets to the radio and tv campaigns and increase the online campaigns. The cost per lead proved to be very advantageous for them. That is good news for me and my trade, but overall the marketing campaign needs to still be poignant to each business’ client demographic. The demographic that finds a company online may buy more in quantity, but the demographic that finds a company through traditional methods may buy larger ticket items less frequently. Find the balance you need for your local business, but keep moving forward! | <urn:uuid:76ed10d5-92a1-4ad1-990b-05d6a5afe95f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.seoboy.com/lean-and-mean-local-seo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00016-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952042 | 584 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Students at Willits Elementary Charter School celebrated "Dress as your Favorite Book Character" day. More than 50 of the school's 100 students participated, as well as the staff.
"It's been an exciting few months," Director Kara McClellan said of the charter school's first year.
The kindergarten through fifth-graders celebrated in style, bringing book and comic-book characters to life.
"We had a ball," McClellan said of the costume party. "I was really impressed with the creativity of the students."
Enterprising students are already on to their next project. Each grade is designing and creating a raised garden bed with a theme. Kindergarten students are creating a garden designed to appeal to the five senses, with plants
Willits Elementary Charter School is currently holding Open Enrollment for next year. Space is available in most grades.
"We're looking forward to enrolling students for next year," McClellan said.
Parents who wish to enroll their children for the 2013-2014 school year can stop by the campus at 405 East Commercial Street, or visit the school's website at willitselementarycharter.com.
Open enrollment ends April 30. Maximum class size at WECS is 22 students. Any grades over-enrolled will have seats determined by lottery. Current students and siblings get first priority.
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Police in Glasgow, Scotland arrested six people over anti-Semitic remarks on Facebook that mocked the Jewish community of Giffnock.
Police in Glasgow, Scotland arrested six people over anti-Semitic remarks on Facebook that mocked the Jewish community of Giffnock, the BBC reported Wednesday.
The page, titled “Welcome to Israel, only kidding you’re in Giffnock,” included a number of offensive posts against the Jewish community and received nearly 1,000 “likes” until it was shut down.
Fans of the page posted comments ranging from “Jewish scum” to “F*** the Jewish Zionist” while another person wrote: “Hebrew is not needed in the train station [because] all the Jews are f***ing rich c**** they have gold plated Bentleys,” the Jewish Chronicle reported.
The page’s profile picture was reportedly a photograph of the late Rev Ernest Levy, a Holocaust survivor and a prominent Glasgow communal leader.
The six people arrested were charged with a breach of the peace with religious and racial aggravations. One other man was detained and later released without charge pending further inquiry.
“This was a very complex and protracted inquiry that required assistance from many departments of Strathclyde Police and the support of the procurator fiscal at Paisley,” said Chief Police Inspector Alan Murray. “I hope it clearly demonstrates that Strathclyde Police will not tolerate hate crimes of any kind.”
“It should cause anyone who believes they can get away with this sort of behaviour to think again,” he added.
The Community Security Trust (CST), which helps protect the Jewish community in the UK, issued a statement saying, “CST welcomes the arrests of suspects regarding alleged anti-Semitic statements. Glaswegian Jews should be reassured that local police take anti-Semitism seriously, and that they are working with CST and the rest of the Jewish community in tackling it when it does arise.”
“The spread of all types of hatred on social networking sites and similar media is a growing problem, so, it is hoped that this innovative investigation will provide a helpful precedent for all of society,” the statement added.
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Nestled in the center of the nation, Tulsa is far from the volatile stock markets in New York City, though that doesn't mean we are protected from its eventual dramatic financial reverberations.
Last week, the stock market wobbled violently, with the largest drops since the beginning of the downturn in 2008. International markets are shifting like tectonic plates before a massive earthquake.
Internationally, things are uncertain.
"The European Central Bank cannot bail out everyone, and it's become increasingly obvious that the measures they have taken aren't working anyway," said Gary Casey, General Interstate Insurance Agency vice president.
"Italy, Spain and Portugal are also on the ropes," he said. "Like many European nations, we cannot sustain our debt."
Back home, the United States is struggling with a reduced credit rating and a ballooning debt ceiling while its citizens are already careworn by a deep, years-long recession.
So what does this mean for Tulsa's financial destiny?
Scott Meacham, former Oklahoma Treasurer from June 2005 to Jan. 2011 and current director of Crowe & Dunlevy Law Firm, explained Oklahoma's financial outlook to UTW recently.
"The story in Oklahoma and Tulsa is better than the national landscape," Meacham said.
Citing good sales tax numbers, he said, "People are still buying things and feeling good.
"Our unemployment numbers look better in Tulsa and in Oklahoma than they look from a national perspective," he said.
Meacham said he thinks Tulsa's large oil and gas industry has helped keep our economy afloat. Add to that the city's focus on the aerospace industry and we've got an effective insulator from a sour national economy. At least for now.
"Tulsa's aerospace focus and especially the maintenance side of that works as a kind of counter-cyclical balance for the Tulsa economy," Meacham said.
"When the economy isn't as good, the big airlines put off buying new airliners. So they spend more on maintenance," he said.
Tulsa's focus on the maintenance side of the airline business helps counteract negative factors in the economy.
Plus, we've got a large stable of small, local businesses that aren't directly affected by the stock market rollercoaster.
Make Ends Meet.
Financial drama will slowly seep into our borders through increased food and gas prices though Tulsa's large number of small businesses and relatively small number of publicly-traded companies protects us from large drops on Wall Street.
The Tulsa Business Journal's "2010 Book of Lists" showed there are only 17 large publicly-traded companies in town. The Williams Cos. leads the pack of mostly oil and gas heavy hitters, like Oneok and Arena Resources.
On the other hand, the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce lists 25 large private companies doing business here. St. John Health System comes in number one, employing 3,675 people.
"If you're in a good business, I think that also helps insulate you from the national economy," Meacham said.
"The reason big companies got themselves in trouble was by making big bets on things they don't understand," Meacham said. "Small businesses don't do that."
Clay Clark, who owns several small businesses in Tulsa, echoed Meacham's statements. "Our businesses have not been greatly affected by the morons in Washington," Clark said.
DJ Connection, Clark's first runaway success and popular wedding service that now employs 35 part-time local DJs, saw a 10 percent increase in sales over the last year.
Clark said Tulsa Bridal Association is back up to 2007 numbers, while his business consulting company Make Your Life Epic has seen a 15 percent increase in clients from last year.
On the other hand, the father of five said that the cost of feeding his large family has increased by 37 percent.
"Thankfully, our businesses are primarily located in Oklahoma and Texas, which have conservative financial values and many elected officials that reflect that world view."
Though some small businesses are thriving, it's undeniable that others are feeling the effects of a stressed economy.
Each year, Oklahoma State University economists for the college's Center for Applied Economic Research calculate a financial forecast for the state.
The 2011 outlook, compiled by director of the center and research economist Russell Evans, was cautiously optimistic though numbers across the board aren't back to pre-2008 levels.
Oklahoma's employment rate hasn't fully recovered yet. Neither have wages for the state. "Unemployment rates remain elevated by Oklahoma standards but well below national rates," Evans wrote.
He predicted that oil and gas activity would pick up "modestly" in 2011 and 2012. Evans wrote, "2011 will feel like recovery."
But he may not have been able to predict the wild ride on Wall Street and abroad. Evans also indicated that Oklahoma's mining, construction and manufacturing industries are the hardest hit.
With more people out of work and an economy struggling to regain its footing, First Baptist Church of Tulsa's lead pastor Deron Spoo said more stressed-out couples are coming in for counseling.
"Financial reasons are the number one reason for divorces, far and away," Spoo said. "And when we see a hiccup in the economy like in 2008 and this past week, stress in marriage is going to instantly go up."
In addition to marital problems, financial strain can also cause people to re-think their lives and their place in the world. "When there's a downturn in the economy and people lose their jobs, they have an identity crisis. People start asking, 'What does God have for me next?'"
Spoo gave two pieces of advice for Tulsans struggling in this economy. The first piece, he said, "needs to be heeded a couple of years before the problem. Get out of debt and stay out of debt."
On average, Americans spend $1.26 for every dollar they earn, Spoo said. First Baptist is offering a new Momentum program this fall, which will help its congregants gain a better understanding of debt and how to get out of it.
Spoo also advised that couples have "absolute transparency with each other" about their finances. Discovering hidden debt is a rude awakening after the honeymoon or even years down the road. No matter what, Spoo said, "Remember to face the issue together, and don't face off against each other."
For advice on how to handle creditors and how to find a happier future after financial ruin, read UTW's News Updates interview with Bill Bartmann, Tulsa's Horatio Alger story come to life and owner of debt collection agency CFS II.
Here and across the globe, people are wading through uncertain financial waters. Politicians duke it out in Washington over the value of the dollar while Tulsans anxiously count theirs. But our solid industries and profusion of small businesses will keep Tulsa afloat as the nation paddles toward recovery.
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Juniors and seniors at Jackson High School are turning into financial specialists before they graduate.
The South Florida Educational Federal Credit Union opened its eighth high school branch at the Allapattah school – entirely run by students.
“We want to teach kids about finance and help them learn about managing their money at an early age,” said Soley Gonzalez, community relations specialist for the South Florida Educational Federal Credit Union.
Called the Generals Credit Union after Jackson’s mascot, the bank branch gives eight students the chance to earn honors credits while working as tellers, member service representatives and marketing specialists.
The students are responsible for tasks like opening new accounts and conducting transactions.
“Students get to work closely with our employees,” said Michael DiBennedetto, president and CEO of South Florida Educational Federal Credit Union. “They end up getting real world experience on how to work in a financial institution.”
Since 2010, the “Got Green? Financial Literacy Program” has placed credit unions in high schools around Miami-Dade County, including Northwestern, Sunset and Coral Gables High.
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Relapse Dreams While In Eating Disorder Recovery
Relapse dreams are common during addiction recovery and even years later. Many conversations circle around what they mean. Today we try to answer that question.
Years ago, The Victorian had an eating disorder therapist who would try to analyze our client’s dreams. One time in an all staff meeting this therapist analyzed one of the staff’s dreams. The staff member emphasized how bizarre it was to see a distant cousin in her dream, someone she hadn’t seen in years. The eating disorder therapist explained that sometimes when we see someone from our past it isn’t literally the person we are seeing, but what the person represents (i.e. youth, vulnerability, betrayal, etc..)
Some dream analyst believe that dreams come in the service of health and wholeness helping the person experiencing the dream to reconcile their life. Even the worst recurring nightmares come to help the dreamer move forward more consciously in the direction of their health and wholeness. If a dream is remembered at all, it is a very good indication that there is a crucially important role for the dreamer's waking mind to play in the unfolding of all the issues and possibilities the dream presents, whether or not these multiple layers of meaning and implication are clear to the dreamer or not.
This same principle applies to the dreams of people with addictions, both in and out of recovery. Dreams always have important levels of symbolic meaning and implication even when they appear to “merely” repeat actual experiences of waking life. For instance, take the common dream of relapsing and being back fully in the grips addiction, years into solid recovery. We often hear people in recovery say, “I’m so glad I’m not there anymore.”
Some believe that recovery from an addiction is a spiritual battle and the occurrence of relapse dreams come when recovery is solid and the addiction wants back in. Usually, to the dreamer it indicates that the recovery is so integrated into waking life that they are in danger of forgetting just how bad the addiction actually was. This is why we encourage 12 Step meetings for our clients, so that they are constantly reminded of why they are working so hard to stay out of their disease.
Relapse dreams are a great way to remind an eating disorder addict that the vulnerability to relapse is still with them, even years and decades later, but the primary service to health and wholeness that this type of nightmare provides is to keep the conscious emotional and intellectual awareness vividly alive. There is an unbroken subconscious memory of how bad addiction was and how good recovery is. We encourage our clients to remember that they once were addicts and need to keep aware of just how much effort it took to overcome their disease. It is a crucially important passage of life that one cannot afford to forget.
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Public Filings Point Fingers...
The NTSB last Thursday issued its most recent investigation update as it works toward its final determination (expected this summer) of cause in the vertical-fin-and engines-shedding crash of American
Airlines Flight 587 in Belle Harbor, N.Y., on Nov. 12, 2001. And the high-stakes process of assessing blame for the event -- which killed 260 people on the aircraft and five more on the ground -- has
swung into high gear. The airline, the Allied Pilots Association (APA), whose members were at the controls, and Airbus, which made the
A300-600 that crashed, have reacted to the NTSB's latest release with public filings of their own (AVweb was unable to obtain a copy of Airbus' filing to post here). Each blames the other, to
some degree, for the disaster. According to earlier findings already released by the NTSB, Flight 587 had just taken off from John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York when it hit the
wake turbulence of a Boeing 747. The NTSB suspects that during the pilot's efforts to compensate for the effects of the large wake, the vertical stabilizer of the Airbus broke free from the airframe.
Both engines also tore free prior to impact and the remaining airframe crashed into Belle Harbor, not far from JFK. There were no survivors.
The foundation of American's claims is a phenomenon called aircraft pilot coupling, which is "an unwanted, unexpected and abnormal interaction between the airplane and pilot causing the motion of the
aircraft to be out of sync with the pilot's control inputs." The airline cites a study done for the NTSB by Dr. Ronald Hess, of the University of California, Davis, which showed the A300-600
rudder-control system to be so sensitive that three pilots, including an Airbus test pilot, were unable to adjust their control movements to deliver a half-travel rudder position during a ground test.
According to American, Hess described the rudder-control system on the aircraft as "essentially an 'on-off' system, meaning either full rudder deflection or none." According to The Washington Post,
Airbus blamed the pilots for using too much rudder. An A300-600, relative to other aircraft, requires less pressure to move the controls further as airspeed increases. Airbus claims the pilots
overstressed the airframe and they further blamed American for not providing proper training in the use of the rudder. American has countered that the rudder on the A300-600 is so sensitive (7.32
times as sensitive as on a Boeing 767 flying at the same speed) that there was no way the pilots could have modulated the rudder action appropriately to prevent the apparent whipsaw effect that may be
responsible for loss of the vertical fin and rudder. The APA generally agrees with the airline's assessment but it also agrees with Airbus that better training could have been provided.
American also suggests that Airbus knew before the accident about the rudder peculiarities and failed to let the airline or government agencies know about it. "Unfortunately, this accident never
should have happened and could have been prevented if Airbus had disclosed to American, the FAA, or the [National Transportation] Safety Board what it knew about the propensity of the flight control
inputs that could cause structural damage to the vertical stabilizer," American said in its submission. The airline claims Airbus had known about the potential problems for 12 years but didn't tell
anyone and continues to regard its internal communications on the topic as confidential. "The significance of Airbus's decision not to share safety-of-flight information cannot be overemphasized," the
airline said. The airline and pilots also made recommendations aimed at preventing further accidents of this nature. American wants the FAA to do a detailed review of the A300-600's
design-and-certification evaluations of its handling and flying qualities. It also wants the agency to force all manufacturers to develop FAA-approved upset-recovery procedures for their aircraft. It
further urges the FAA redefine the term "maneuvering speed," since the accepted definition didn't apply in this case because the airframe failure occurred below the speed designated for this
House Passes Key Bill...
U.S. space entrepreneurs have been tackling the technological and physical challenges of private space exploration for years but the fledgling industry may be on the cusp of overcoming its biggest
obstacle. The government is poised to formally recognize its existence. The House, Friday, passed H.R. 3752, a bill to regulate and promote a commercial space industry. It
still must pass the Senate and be signed by the president. "We think H.R. 3752 is very carefully crafted legislation which will help commercial human spaceflight develop in America," said Jeff
Greason, president of Xcor Aerospace, which has already developed and tested rocket-engine prototypes with the eventual goal of providing rides for
space tourists. The legislation puts the regulatory authority for all commercial suborbital flights under the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation. It also creates an experimental permit
that requires less red tape than existing permits required to build and test suborbital spacecraft. Finally, it extends government indemnification of the industry for three years, after which the
protection will be phased out and, as Greason puts it, a "fly-at-your-own-risk" human spaceflight regime is established.
Of course, the legislators are barely a step ahead of the actual creation of commercial human spaceflight. In fact, the X PRIZE Foundation is so
confident that private rockets vying for its $10 million prize will start flying soon, it's signed a deal for the broadcast rights. Dan Rayburn has been retained to produce a series of three-hour
webcasts on any of the more than 20 X PRIZE contestants that get to the manned, live firing stage. Rayburn said he plans to use the latest (what else?) streaming video technology to broadcast each
event and that a huge worldwide audience is likely. Sponsorships, of course, will be available but don't look for beer commercials or cola challenges. The spots will be reserved for technology
companies "who wish to participate in this once-in-a-lifetime event." The FAA is on board with the latest developments. The agency has committed a $11.9 million budget for its commercial human
spaceflight regulatory arm, but the House Science Committee is worried not enough is being done to support the existing commercial space launch industry. The committee, in its assessment of the 2005
federal budget, said it's concerned that "burdensome and costly launch regulations ... will undermine the competitiveness of the existing U.S. expendable launch industry." The committee also wants the
FAA to be more aggressive in helping U.S. commercial space providers to do business with the government.
Southwest Airlines and the Transportation Security Administration are investigating the disappearance of a Federal Flight Deck Officer's (FFDO's) semi-automatic pistol stowed in his luggage aboard a
flight from Las Vegas to Oakland. The pilots blame the TSA's insistence that the weapons be checked in baggage, when they are deadheading, for the disappearance of the guns. Pilots say that instead of
picking up their gun-laden luggage from the cargo area, as the rules state, they often find it on the carousel with the rest of the passengers' bags. TSA spokesman Nico Melendez said the flight deck
officers' jurisdiction ends at the cockpit door but Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) said that's asking for trouble. "When you separate the pilot from his gun, whether you put it in a lockbox or whether
you make him put it in some other area, then you lose that security," Allard said. The Airline Pilots Security Alliance took the opportunity
to claim that an average of one in five airline pilots allowed to carry guns in the cockpit has lost his or her gun in the last two months. "In the last 60 days, we believe 300 weapons have been
misplaced," Dean Roberts, spokesman for the Airline Pilots Security Alliance, told Denver's 9News.com. Specific cases accounting for all 300 of those alleged losses were not listed. The TSA has not
confirmed the number of lost guns but will investigate them. "Obviously, something might be wrong with the program," said the TSA's Melendez. Although the TSA will not confirm it, there are believed
to be about 1,500 FFDOs.
The Global Flyer, Scaled Composites' jet-powered creation intended to circle the globe nonstop, had its first flight Friday and everything seemed to work well. Scaled's Web site says test pilot John Karkow took the long-winged, twin-tailed composite aircraft to 12,000
feet, cycled the gear and flew it from near the stall (54 knots) up to 110 knots. The descent and landing drag chutes were also tested. As AVweb told you in January, billionaire Steve Fossett hopes to be at the controls of the ungainly-looking
creation to be the first to fly around the world nonstop and solo. Fellow billionaire Richard Branson is waiting in the wings as a backup if Fossett can't make the trip. In 1986, Voyager became the
first aircraft to circumnavigate the earth nonstop but it had two pilots aboard.
Boeing is scaling back its bid to revolutionize the world's air traffic control system because the existing setup seems to be working just fine ... for now. The Chicago-based firm announced Thursday
that it was dissolving its Air Traffic Management division, likely because it didn't have any customers for the satellite-based, computer data link-dependent system. The air traffic division was
hatched in the halcyon days of 2000 when airline traffic was growing so fast that the control system seemed on the verge of collapse in some areas. Since 9/11, interest has evaporated in the system as
more conventional technological solutions, and the outright intervention by government to reduce congestion by decree, as happened in Chicago two months ago with the forced reduction of flights to
O'Hare, seem to be favored. Boeing insists the project isn't dead, it's just been moved to the Phantom Works where the research will continue but at a less urgent level. Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher
said aviation regulators will eventually have to face the fact that the existing system won't be able to handle future loads. "When governments are ready to build an advanced air traffic management
system, we will be ready to respond quickly," Stonecipher said in a statement. Other Boeing sidelines, like a plan to beam digital movies to theaters, have also been turfed, but one high-tech spinoff
remains in operation. Connexion, which will offer broadband wireless Internet service on airliners, already has customers lined up for a launch next year.
Talk about your VFR landmarks. How about a 6,000-mile-long stone wall? The Great Wall, as it's come to be known, is just one of the things mapmaker George P. Sempeles had to work with as he helped the
Chinese begin the enormous task of creating VFR charts for the world's third-largest country. Sempeles, of Winchester, Va., works for the FAA's National Aeronautical Charting Office and recently spent
time in China teaching government engineers how to create the charts. China, you see, is entirely IFR (i.e., controlled) airspace. But that's about to change as the country learns to like the things
money can buy and private aircraft ownership is one of the reforms. "Their task now is to actually learn and implement the entire industry of general aviation," he said. Well, there are others willing
to teach those skills and they'll most likely be at the China GA Forum 2004 May 25 to May 28. More than 100 representatives of China's burgeoning GA community will be at the conference. An American
company, Uniworld LLC, is behind the forum and company spokesman Andrew Edlefsen said it's designed to explore the simultaneous creation of the seven fundamental requirements for GA: airports, GA
operators, FBOs, aircraft manufacture and sales, pilot training, infrastructure equipment supply, and finance. Uniworld is inviting aviation-related companies to attend the conference.
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Every kid's dream, every parent's nightmare? The Royal Australian Air Force is said to be looking in malls, skateboard parks and high schools to fill the cockpits of its fighters. The air force is
reportedly planning a recruiting drive aimed at teens as young as 13, according to the Weekend Australian. "The importance of influencing, where possible, 13-to-17-year olds is now recognized as a
more effective strategy for fast-jet pilot recruiting," the paper quoted an air force report as saying. Apparently it's easier than simply retaining the existing pilots by paying them more. The report
says almost two-thirds of Aussie fighter jocks quit after their compulsory 10-year service because of low pay and poor management. Wages range between $46,500 and $72,500 (USD) depending on
experience. When you consider the millions of dollars it takes to train a fighter pilot, there might be something to that accusation about management. However, the air force is denying there's a pilot
shortage and says it has enough to meet its needs.
Last year it was Boeing's surrender to Airbus. Could this be the year that Cirrus overtakes Cessna as the world's leading producer of piston singles? If the early numbers are any indication, it could be shaping up that way. Although it's projecting to build at least 500
aircraft this year (vs. 459 in 2003), Cirrus took orders for 100 planes in January and February, about twice the projected number, and has ramped up production to two planes a day. Cessna expects to
build about 600 piston singles in 2004. "We want to be the number-one manufacturer," Cirrus marketing spokesman John Bingham told The Wichita Eagle. Cessna isn't going to relinquish the top spot
without a fight, however. Of course, Cessna hasn't always held so firm to the title of top piston single producer. For 10 years it didn't make any. It stopped production of all piston models in 1986
and didn't resume until 1996 at a new plant in Independence, Kansas. That was then and this is now. Cessna spokesperson Marilyn Richwine said the company is now doing everything it can to stay at the
top of the heap, including offering glass cockpits in its higher-end models. The flat panels are standard in all Cirrus models. Richwine acknowledged Cirrus is "real competition" for Cessna but she
pointed out that Cessna has delivered more than 185,000 aircraft and that more than 60 percent of the U.S. single-engine fleet is Cessna. "We still believe we have the proven record and the product
stands behind that record," she said.
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Lancair owners are being urged to inspect the fuel pressure transducer on Columbia 300 and 350 aircraft. The
company issued the advisory after a transducer on a Columbia was found to be chafing against its mounting bracket. Lancair has also asked the FAA to issue an Airworthiness Directive...
The radios went silent at some European airports in remembrance of an air traffic controller killed in an apparent act of vengeance last week. Controllers un-keyed their mikes for one minute as
the funeral for Peter Nielsen, who was stabbed to death, began. Nielsen was at the console when a cargo plane and passenger jet collided over Lake Constance in Switzerland in 2002. Vitaly Kaloyev,
whose wife and two children died in the crash, is charged in Nielsen's death...
Investigators are now probing the role of the autopilot in the crash of a Flash Airlines Boeing 737 in Egypt in January. The pilot is heard on the cockpit voice data recorder asking for the
autopilot to be switched on and then ordering it turned off after seeing something wrong. The plane crashed into the Red Sea, killing all 148 aboard...
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has added a jet simulator to its curriculum. Students will now be able to take a Bachelor of Science in aeronautical science featuring training on a
Canadair Regional Jet simulator. The course will be available at the Daytona Beach and Prescott, Ariz., campuses...
Saturday was Tuskegee Airmen Day in Oakland, Calif. Mayor Jerry Brown declared the day in honor of the members of the black-only squadron that earned distinction in the World War II. Several
members of the squadron live in the Bay area...
A Lebanon-born Muslim flight engineer for ATA is suing the airline, claiming discrimination is behind the airline's refusal to promote him to first officer. Ziad Elwazan, 50, has worked for ATA
for 20 years and has flown in the right seat, but his latest promotion bid was rejected. The airline's chief pilot Dave Lindskoog said, in a letter to Elwazan, it's because he wasn't doing well enough
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DOCUMENTARY CAMPUS MASTERSCHOOL: DAY 3
Workshop with Tom Roberts
Today was our final day of group workshops and today it was Tom Roberts we had to impress. In only three days it was clear to see the progression of all of the projects and all of the participants were speaking with energy and confidence.
It was the first time that we had been in a group with Alba Moraroca whose project, A Child’s Game, is an incredibly important and poignant one. Alba intends to merge stop motion animation, user generated content and camera work imitating a child’s perspective to convey the reality of a child’s life in New Mexico where drugs cartels and the consequent violence are the constant backdrop. This project, even on paper, immediately struck a cord with both Ben and I and we are really excited to see it develop.
For the first time we showed the trailer for Paa Joe: Dead not Buried as part of the pitch and it was wonderful to watch peoples’ reactions to the footage, the beautiful coffins and Paa Joe himself. It was even more wonderful that the reactions were overwhelmingly positive. Tom said it was clear that we have a film that could competently stands it’s own as an “art film” but in order for the film to reach the next level and resonate we, and Paa Joe, need time. And that is fine by us.
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I don't think he had to look taller, he was tall enough. He had normal height anyway. Charlie Hodge was much smaller and J.D. Sumner was taller, but I don't think this was a problem between them.
I have always felt this subject was much ado about nothing-we are talking a quarter to a half inch difference...my gosh if I am tired and slouch without knowing it I lose half an inch, if I stand as straight as I possibly can-I gain half an inch (or more)
Its really not a huge discrepancy.
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Much longer than you and that is a very sillly comment from you.
In the pictures i've seen from Elvis meeting Nixon you either don't see their shoes or you can't get a good look at them.
Elvis may have wore shoes that sometimes increased his height but i wouldn't bet that he was always wearing them.
How long have you been an Elvis fan???
i agree with KPM most of us will have our heights listed down with slight differances it can be because of how stand, if the equipment is used and installed correctly etc. It pretty safe to assume that the same thing occurred during Elvis life time.
I never looked for trouble but I never ran.
And in the timeframe we are talking about (the Nixon photograph) he definitely wore them everywhere he went. We are talking about boots with at least a 1 1/2 inch heel and which probably also contained an extra 1/2 lift inside as well.
Even in his house slippers Elvis reportedly had a 1/2 lift in those too. Elvis was quite vain (not a crime) and always wanted to appear taller- even when relaxing at home. So do you really think he would show up for a meeting with the leader of the free world wearing flat shoes (if he even owned a pair in 1970) and have Nixon be taller than him?
You are wrong in calling them "shoes that sometimes increased his height". They were boots not shoes. And with the high heel, of course they increased his height.
You say Elvis even reportedly had slippers and wore them and that increased his height.
And he wore the boots all the time and that increased his height.
Do you have pictoral evidence of everyday of Elvis' life documented and have you had these pictures blown up and looked at through microscopes.
Have you seen these alledged slippers and can you be sure Elvis wore them all the time and every single day.
I want to believe you but what you are saying seems a little far fetched.
Even with wearing flat shows i don't think Nixon would be taller than Elvis.
Just putting a comment in here,
Meeting Nixon I would guess his boots to be a 2" heel or at the very least a 1,1/2" heel
as you can see here it looks like he is wearing lifts/quite large heels just by how much the flare is off the floor.
Hope this helps somehow!
Not that it matters how tall Elvis was to us fans, always interesting to know more about the man.
Very intense discussion. If you ask me, my dream is Elvis came to me on a cup of coffee, no matter how tall.
I think that most women here, thought the same
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A small island in Kwajalein Atoll of the Marshall Islands which was captured by a U.S. naval task force 1 February 1944.
(CVE 103: displacement 10,400 (full load); length 5123; beam 652; extreme width 1081; draft 226; speed 19 knots; complement 860; armament 1 5, 16 40mm., 20 20mm.; class Casablanca)
Roi (CVE-103), originally MC hull 1140 and later projected as an AVG and an ACV, was laid down as Alava Bay (CVE-130) on 22 March 1944 by Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Vancouver, Wash.; renamed Roi 26 April 1944; launched 2 June 1944; sponsored by Mrs. William Sinton; acquired from the Maritime Commission and commissioned 6 July 1944, Capt. P. H. Lyon in command.
Following shakedown off San Diego, Roi was assigned to the Carrier Transport Squadron which carried planes, equipment, and men to forward bases. On 13 August 1944, she steamed for Espiritu Santo and Manus, loaded with 287 passengers and 71 planes, returning to San Diego 27 September. Underway again for Manus 21 October, she returned to San Diego before departing 2 December on a third voyage which took her to Eniwetok and Guam.
Following overhaul at Alameda, Calif., Roi made two round-trip voyages to bases in the Marshalls and the Marianas before returning to Pearl Harbor to begin carrier refresher operations in preparation for her new duty as a replenishment carrier for the hard-hitting fast carrier task force of the 3d Fleet.
Loading 61 replacement aircraft in a 30-day combat ready state, Roi sailed to Guam, where she reported to Task Group 30.8. Her duties were now to furnish pilots, crewmen, planes, and aviation supplies to the carriers of Task Force 38 on rendezvous days following their attacks on the Japanese home islands. Roi got underway on 4 July with the carriers Admiralty Islands (CVE-99), Hollandia (CVE-97) and Thetis Bay (CVE-90), and met TF 38 at sea on 12 July, 16 July, and 20 July, retiring to Guam on the 21st to reload. She got underway on the 27th with 61 more planes, and joined the fast carriers on the 31st. Returning to Guam, the ship reloaded and met the task force again on 14 August, just prior to the cessation of hostilities, then remained with the 3d Fleet off Japan in preparation for the occupation.
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NFS without rpcbind?
dcasey at debtresolve.com
Tue Apr 24 13:33:20 UTC 2007
That makes more sense. Actually I do not care if it is tcp or udp,
so long as the ports are not dynamically assigned. I'll have to give
what you said a try. Up until now I thought there was now way to do
this without dynamic ports.
Erik Norgaard wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Dan Casey wrote:
>> It was my understanding that NFS worked off of RPC. I accidently
>> stumbled upon some redhat docs that said you use TCP based NFS which
>> will not require rpc? I think this is an NFSv4 feature, but I'm not
>> sure. I would like to achieve this using FreeBSD 6.2. My goal that I'm
>> trying to accomplish is to get nfs to work in an environment where all
>> traffic is denied by default. Using rpcbind doesn't work well with that
>> type of setup.
>> I tried the following
>> nfs_server_flags="-t -n 4 -h 10.a.b.c"
>> This spawned rpcbind which I didn't want. Does anyone know how to do a
>> tcp only nfs implimentation?
> AFAIK nfs v4 is not done yet, the client side is but not the server
> side. But FBSD do have a tcp based nfs. This doesn't however change
> anything with respect to avoiding rpcbind.
> RPC is used to tell the client at which port the daemons bind. These
> may be assigned dynamically (I think mountd is dynamic but nfsd static
> to 2049). Basically the client connects to the rpcbind deamon to
> request which ports the mountd and nfsd are on.
> You can force both to bind to a static port.
> rpcbind_enable="NO" # Run the portmapper service (YES/NO).
> nfs_server_enable="YES" # This host is an NFS server (or NO).
> mountd_enable="YES" # Run mountd (or NO).
> mountd_flags="-r -p 59" # Force mountd to bind on port 59
> will force mountd to bind to port 59. Then it should be possible to
> run the nfs server without rpcbind, but I don't remember how to
> configure the client side.
> Cheers, Erik
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In an NPR interview in 2007, a United States Army general in Iraq observed that we are "an Army at war, not a nation at war." He expressed the painful sentiment that "folks [at home] can do more to support the effort." During a September 2006 visit to Baghdad by members of the Iraq Study Group, one of the most effective generals we met was Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli. In an article in the journal Military Review, he wrote, "The U.S. as a Nation -- and indeed most of the U.S. Government -- has not gone to war since 9/11. Instead, the Departments of Defense and State (as much as their modern capabilities allow) and the Central Intelligence Agency are at war while the American people and most of the other institutions of national power have largely gone about their normal business."OYE Comment: Ambassador (Retired) Djerejian makes some good points above; many are worthy of serious consideration.
This is an important issue that strikes at the heart of American society and the concept of public service and sacrifice. Senior military officers have told me that they prefer the all-volunteer armed forces because of the professionalism they can achieve within the ranks, without having to train new recruits drafted every two or three years. But we should give consideration to registering Americans for the possibility of a draft if we are faced with a major war that would require an all-out national effort. We should also consider creating a system of national service in civilian government operations and institutions, in lieu of military service. When we started the all-volunteer armed forces in 1970 during the Nixon administration, the U.S. military began to lose a vital link to the country and American society. The historic concept of "the citizen soldier" was weakened. When we go to war we should be "a nation at war," with the citizenry engaged in various ways and, to the extent possible, from the broadest levels of society, to defend our national security interests at home and abroad
However, we have already been "registering Americans for the possibility of a draft if we are faced with a major war that would require an all-out national effort" since 1980. American men age 18-25, including new immigrants, are required to register. Failure to do so before turning 26 can lead to ineligibility for various government activities later in life, so compliance is highly encouraged. Just go to the Post Office.
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Forethought: 1. Thoughtful provision beforehand; prudence. 2. Previous consideration; anticipation.
Giving something forethought is a great way to start just about anything–your week’s meals when you’re trying to lose weight; your 401K contributions when you’re planning for retirement; and even your interactions with customers.
There are a few levels of forethought–the first is your basic to-do list, covering what you plan to do in your day or week. The next addresses the goal behind the items on your to-do list. But there’s another level of forethought that I like to think of it as an Olympic level because it’s a long-term, highly-detailed plan for how you’re going to reach your goal.
1Olympic athletes do more than visualize a gold medal finish. They make and follow strict eating and training plans LONG before their events. It’s a physical and mental thing.
So you want to close that next new home sales or make six figures? What do you need to do today, tomorrow, next week, next month? And how are you going to do each of those things?
It’s the same for sales professionals–the more you plan ahead, the better prepared you’ll be, the more confident you’ll feel, and the more likely you are to accomplish your goals. Let’s say you have a follow-up appointment with Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Rather than playing it by ear, play the whole thing through before they even show up.
Maybe you realize that when your prospects came in the first time, you ended up focusing on Mr. Smith because he was the talker. So this time, you think about how to engage Mrs. Smith. You write out a list of the questions you plan to ask her, when you’ll ask them, how you anticipate she’ll respond, and what you’ll do from there. You plan which homes you’ll show the couple and how you’ll handle the obstacles and questions that may come up. You strategize which sites you’ll show them (based on what you learned about them on their first visit) and the questions you’ll ask at each point along the way. It can go on and on, but you get the idea.
Really spend some time with the prospects before they even arrive. That way, when they show up, you’re more than ready.
Comment below on ways you’ve used forethought to your advantage recently.
Contributed by Jason Forrest, new home sales trainer/coach
Jason Forrest (named one of 2012′s Top Young Trainers for Training Magazine–a national, industry-wide publication) is an expert at creating high-performance sales cultures through complete training programs. He incorporates experiential learning (rather than theory) to increase sales, implement cultural accountability, and transform builders into sales organizations that build homes. A sales professional at heart, Forrest is the author of Creating Urgency in a Non-Urgent Housing Market and 40-Day Sales Dare for New Home Sales. As a consultant for many of the leading homebuilders in the United States, Canada, and Australia, Forrest’s competitive distinction is his behavior-modification approach (which focuses on people, process, and presentation) and his focus on culture change. Learn about our new home sales training programs at http://www.forrestperformancegroup.com. | <urn:uuid:dad6fde2-be65-42de-8069-b6a884723ca1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.forrestperformancegroup.com/tag/new-home-sales-process/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950886 | 730 | 1.8125 | 2 |
There have been sufficient numbers of rogue traders to warrant a page on Wikipedia that lists the most infamous scoundrels by name.
It also lists how much they lost for their employer and the jail time they served.
Rogue traders, Wikipedia tells us, are authorised employees making unauthorised trades.
Most famous was Nick Leeson, who incurred a $1.3-billion loss for the venerable Barings Bank. Uniquely, this rascal – who went to prison for six and a half years – bankrupted his bank.
The rogue trader is no stranger to banking. But in recent weeks we have got used to a new phenomenon, the rogue bank. Some of the biggest names in banking have been accused of illegal activities that, until now, were more usually associated with a single employer gone bad. Or mad.
There is Barclays, which has paid a fine of £290-million for its role in manipulating the London interbank offer rate (Libor), the basic interest rate used internationally for financial contracts. As many as 20 banks could be implicated in the scandal.
Bet and lost
Citing research by Morgan Stanley, Bloomberg reported that legal expenses stemming from probes into Libor manipulation could range from $59-million for Lloyds Banking Group to as much as $1.04-billion for Deutsche Bank and $1.06-billion for the Royal Bank of Scotland. No one as yet faces jail time for manipulating Libor, but this scandal goes to the heart of the financial system: If we can't trust Libor, what can we trust?
Then there is JP Morgan, which bet and lost the farm on an obscure exotic trade known as the IG9 10-year when a single trader, Bruno Iksil, reportedly put up to $100-billion of its funds at risk. When the trade went bad, JP Morgan booked losses of $5.8-billion, which could rise to $8-billion, and its share price fell by 25% in May.
Crucially, top management at JP Morgan has not characterised Iksil's activities as those of a rogue trader and he does not face charges – he was taking a massive bet, for a time earning handsome profits, with the full knowledge of his superiors.
Next HSBC admitted to laundering $7-billion in Mexican drug money. HSBC has set aside $2-billion to be able to pay the fines it faces.
This week's scandal has regulators accusing Standard Chartered of laundering $250-billion of Iranian money in contravention of United States sanctions. Standard Chartered, which saw its share price fall by 16% in a single day this week after these accusations had been made by New York state's department of financial services, has rejected the claims. The Financial Times reported that the bank described any transgression as "small clerical errors".
Some commentators are casting the Standard Chartered matter in the wider context of rivalry between the US and the UK for supremacy as the world's financial capital, but for the time being Standard Chartered finds itself mired, with some of the biggest names in banking, in allegations of rogue activity.
It was not long ago that where rogue activity emerged it was the work of an individual, but when you consider the recent cases collectively, it is hard to not conclude that a culture of greed and too-big-too-fail indemnity have led to the biggest names in banking going rogue. | <urn:uuid:fd6dcf90-71af-4f5d-8b2f-93b8ef873461> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mg.co.za/article/2012-08-10-the-institutionalisation-of-rogue-behaviour | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707435344/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123035-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970996 | 700 | 1.609375 | 2 |
XXXIV.—No. 24 QUEEN ANNE'S GATE (Formerly No. 1 Park Street).
The freehold is the property of Christ's Hospital.
The exterior is in plain brickwork, and the front area railings have
an interesting iron lamp-standard on each side of the entrance. The rooms
are large and lofty, but contain no features of any special interest.
Condition of Repair.
The premises have recently been redecorated.
According to the ratebooks, the occupants of this house up to 1840 were as follows:—
|1780–82||Sir. Wm. Wolsley.|
|1783–88||Sir. Geo. Shuckburgh.|
|1822–26||Chas. J. Brandling.|
|1835||Rob. Campbell Scarlett.|
|1836–||Ed. Vaughan Williams.|
Thomas Johnes was born at Ludlow in 1748. He sat in Parliament from 1774 to the
end of his life, representing at first Radnorshire and afterwards Cardiganshire. He was lordlieutenant of the latter county, and auditor for life of the land revenue of Wales. He carried
out large improvements on his Cardiganshire estate, ameliorating the conditions of the tenantry
and planting some millions of trees. In a cottage amongst the hills he set up a private printing
press, from which he issued several of his works, including the translation of Froissart's Chronicles,
the production by which he is best known. He died in 1816. It can hardly be doubted
that he was the Thos. Johnes shown in the ratebooks as living at No. 1 Park Street, in 1783
and 1789–92. It should, however, be noted that according to the Universal British Directory,
his town residence in 1790 was in Princes Street.
George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, eldest son of Richard Shuckburgh, of
Limerick, was born in 1751, and succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his uncle in
1773. In 1780 he was elected M.P. for the county of Warwick, and continued so until his
death. He was a distinguished mathematician, his investigations relating principally to the
determination of the heights of mountains by means of the barometer and the relations
between measures of length, capacity and weight and certain invariable standards. In 1793,
on the death of his father-in-law, James Evelyn, he assumed the additional surname of
Evelyn. He died in 1804. He occupied two houses in Park Street, No. 1 from 1783 to 1788
and No. 4 from 1793 until his death in 1804.
John Trotter, born in 1757, became head of a firm of army contractors, a business which
developed into that of storekeeper-general. This he carried out at first in a private capacity,
and afterwards as a Government official. In 1815 he established the Soho Bazaar, designed
with the idea of assisting widows and daughters of army officers, but eventually proving a
source of wealth. He died in 1833.
Sir Edward Vaughan Williams was born in 1797 at Queen's Square, Bayswater. He
was called to the Bar in 1823, and the publication in the following year of a new edition of his
father's notes on Sanders's Reports brought him into notice. In 1832 he published his Treatise
on the Law of Executors and Administrators which is still a standard authority. In 1846 he
was made a puisne judge of the Court of Common Pleas, where he soon acquired a great
reputation, and in the following year he was knighted. He retired from the Bench in 1865
and was made a Privy Councillor and a member of the Judicial Committee. He died in 1875
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Hey, swimmers, don't limit yourself to lanes, the aquatic version of a hamster wheel.
And landlubbers, give up the notion that strength training and cardio are best done on terra firma.
Aqua aerobics, or aquatic fitness, is no longer the domain of people recovering from injuries, trying to exercise despite limited abilities or struggling with chronic conditions such as arthritis.
We asked three aquatic fitness experts for their favorite pool exercises that can be added to lane swims, or done on their own.
Masters swim coach, Equinox:
1 For a good cardio exercise that gets the blood flowing and also works the leg muscles, begin by resting your arms on a water noodle placed around your back in a C-shape. Bend your body at the hips in a V, so the feet are at the surface. Make sure your core is tight, and legs are straight with toes pointed. Holding tension in the leg muscles, cross the feet back and forth at the ankles, just below the surface of the water. Do it as briskly as you can. Start with 1½ minutes and gradually work up to about 5 minutes.
2 Deck push-ups are great for the shoulders, back and arms. Stand by the side of the pool facing the pool's edge, with hands shoulder-width apart, about chest-high on the deck. Push down through the palms and, with a little jump, come out of the water so that your hips are even with the deck. Hold that position for a couple of seconds, then lower slowly.
Master trainer, 24 Hour Fitness:
1 This exercise uses buoys to work the obliques and back extensors: Stand in chest-high water with legs shoulder-width apart. Holding a buoy in each hand, bend to the left and take the buoy toward the knee. This forces the obliques to contract, and works the back extensors. Do 20 repetitions on each side.
2 Another good move that targets the hip flexors, glutes, quads and inner and outer thigh muscles is called a clam-digger. With a noodle behind your back, lie on it with arms extended, and angle your body to one side. With knees together, one on top of the other, bend the legs. Keeping the feet together, open the top knee, then bring knees together again. Flip over and do the same on the other side. Repeat 20 times on each side.
Water aerobics instructor, YMCA:
1 For a cardio boost, try tuck jumps. Start by having your feet on the bottom of the pool, water about chest-high. Push off the bottom and go into a tuck position, bringing your hands to your shins, like you're doing a cannonball. If you pull your arms down hard, you'll feel it. Then release the arms as the feet shoot down to the bottom. It's better to do this quickly to get your heart rate up. Consider this interval training -- do it for a minute or two minutes, gradually increasing the time.
2 For a faux cycling workout, put the noodle between your legs for buoyancy and move your legs as if you were pedaling. You can move your arms in a breast stroke or a paddling motion, and even cycle backward. Even if you are a cyclist, doing this in the water uses slightly different muscle groups. | <urn:uuid:0dcaa1cb-2ea1-4d66-8ddf-74a95e5017de> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aberdeennews.com/topic/chi-tc-health-swimjul17,0,3043643.story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937967 | 706 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Abstract Expressionist New York
October 3, 2010–April 25, 2011
While the style of "drip" painting has become synonymous with the name Jackson Pollock, here the artist has autographed the work even more directly, with several handprints found at the composition's upper right. Around this time Pollock stopped giving his paintings evocative titles and began instead to number them. His wife, artist Lee Krasner, later explained, "Numbers are neutral. They make people look at a painting for what it is—pure painting." Collectors did not immediately appreciate Pollock's radical new style, and when first exhibited, in 1949 (then titled Number 1, 1948), this painting remained unsold. Later that year the work was shown again in the artist’s second solo exhibition (Pollock added "A" to the title to avoid confusion with more recent work) and shortly thereafter was purchased by MoMA. | <urn:uuid:3fe265f7-315b-4f9c-b630-b4b158a3ef42> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?criteria=O%3AOD%3AE%3A78699&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order=1&background=black | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974124 | 188 | 1.601563 | 2 |
A leader would say, "YES! Give me the ability to make the choices!"
Some say, "but then he could be accused of making errors." People could say "You cut Wabbadue!"
But that would not bother a leader. A leader would say, "Your darn right I cut it! And here's why: It was good for the country because . . . " | <urn:uuid:bf77085b-0a20-407e-a8c6-3ae2bea1d47e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://townhall.com/social/usercommentprint/6492442 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9841 | 81 | 1.75 | 2 |
SOLANA BEACH — Solana Beach is once again taking the lead in environmental sustainability. At the Jan. 14 meeting, City Council authorized staff to begin the process to develop a solar financing program, making it the first city in the county to move forward with a plan to help fund energy efficiency improvements.
The council authorized the release of a request for proposals for service, administrative support and a bond-purchase agreement. It is the first step to implementing a voluntary citywide renewable energy and energy efficient financing district, which is an environmental sustainability objective in the work plan for the current fiscal year.
The program will be designed to allow commercial and residential property owners to install electric and thermal solar systems and make energy efficiency improvements with no upfront costs.
Marty Reed, owner of Solana Beach-based Sequoia Solar, said converting a 2,500-square-foot home to solar would cost about $40,000, although federal and state rebates can reduce that amount. Under the proposed program, the city would provide initial funding through bond proceeds, which property owners would pay for over 20 years with an annual assessment on their property tax bills.
If the property is sold, the new owner would take over the payments. It is not currently known what would happen if the property goes into foreclosure, but that risk will be disclosed to investors.
“The statute doesn’t address that, so most likely it’s going to be cleared in the courts,” City Attorney Johanna Canlas said. “Since it is so new it’s unlikely that it’s going to be resolved anytime soon. It will take somebody challenging it — basically somebody defaulting on their mortgage — and a city trying to (make a) claim.”
The self-funding program will be designed to avoid any ongoing city subsidy or exposure to the general fund. Any city expenses that may be incurred are expected to be recovered through the plan.
“We need to make sure here that under no set of circumstances are we subsidizing this or exposing ourselves to some form of liability,” Councilman Tom Campbell said.
“There is no cost to the city, there are no general funds involved in this, and there’s no liability to the city,” Councilman Dave Roberts said. He and Councilwoman Lesa Heebner make up the environmental sustainability subcommittee.
About 3,900 homes and 1,200 businesses could be eligible for financing. Roberts said he has spoken with quite a few residents who are eager to take advantage of the program.
“It’s just amazing, in this community, the people that want to be able to participate in this,” Roberts said.
Solana Beach’s ability to form the financing district is a result of Assembly Bill 811, which the governor signed into law in July. It allows California cities to form assessment districts to fund the installation of permanent renewable energy sources and improvements. Although the lien will appear as a line item on tax bills, it is not considered a tax.
Palm Desert and Berkeley are the only other cities in the state that have similar programs in place. Locally, Encinitas, Chula Vista and the city and county of San Diego are developing plans, but they have not yet been voted on by the respective city councils.
“If the RFP is successful, the city would be the first in the San Diego region to make such a program available to its residents,” City Manager David Ott said.
“Several cities in the region have publically spoken about their intentions to develop such a program, but none are as far along in the process as Solana Beach,” he said.
“It’s nice to be in the forefront,” Mayor Mike Nichols said.
“I am very pleased that we are going to be the first ones,” Heebner added.
Ott said he could have a proposal ready to present to council as early as spring. | <urn:uuid:6019debd-1ca7-441f-a89b-6187623eba22> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thecoastnews.com/2009/01/solana-beach-brings-first-program-in-county-to-fund-solar-power/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960083 | 832 | 1.742188 | 2 |
by Tom Mach
This unique collection of 16 short stories written by prize-winner Tom Mach includes stories such as "Real Characters," which is about a writer who gets his wish--that his characters come alive.... "Breakfast, Over Easy" makes you wonder about loyalty in the face of temptation.... "When Kansas Women Were Not Free" takes you to a time when women were less free than former males slaves.... "Son" make you think differently about compassion. One novelist describes STORIES TO ENJOY as "memorable and intriguing, with O. Henry twists that are sure to surprise and entertain." (book blurb)
Short stories are one of my favorite types of book, as it gives you a quick glimpse into a world you've never been before. They are remarkably hard to write, as you have a limited amount of space to draw the reader in and make you care about the characters and what happens next, so I've always admired the short story writer for their bravery.
This was an interesting collection, as the stories were all different instead of being the same theme. I enjoyed that difference. Some left me wanting more, and some were just the right length. Rather than give a synopsis of each story, I'll just discuss a couple that stood out for me.
"The Assassin" is about the President's press secretary who finds the President's behavior on Air Force One a bit odd, and has a funny feeling that she won't be returning home. I liked Kerry and wished that she had paid more attention to her hunches instead of being so accepting, but did like the twist at the end!
"Real Characters" is about an author who is told his characters are like stick figures and need to come alive. Enter a helpful genie, and you can guess what happens next! It's a fast, funny story that made me smile.
"Frozen History" wonders what if you could stop all the actions of the world by performing a special incantation while wearing a ring dating back centuries ago? What if there were a nuclear attack and you had that power but didn’t know it? I liked this story because it reminded me of an old TV show I saw once. Wasn't The Twilight Zone, but something similar.
So all in all, I enjoyed this collection. Love short stories as you can pick them up for a quick read without having to worry about remembering what happened previously! Gave a nice, little taste of Tom's work.
Tom will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card to one randomly drawn commenter during the tour! | <urn:uuid:8dd23528-fea7-4711-a532-3be55b5bb9ec> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://alexia561.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-tour-stories-to-enjoy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700264179/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103104-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982544 | 528 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Stare Kiejkuty: photo - scx.hu/whirlybird
The Reprieve NGO is international lawyers claims that Palestinian Abu Zubaydah, who was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and has been granted victim status in Poland's ongoing investigation into the alleged secret CIA probe, was first transported to Thailand.
There he allegedly “became the guinea pig for the CIA's 'enhanced interrogation' programme,” or, as human rights groups argue, torture.
The Reprieve NGO states that after “several months of torture”, Abu Zubaydah and another prisoner, Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri – who has also been granted victim status in Poland's investigation – were transported to a CIA “black site “ near Stare Kiejkuty, northern Poland.
Reprieve claims that a private military contractor, DynCorp Systems and Solutions, “arranged the trip for the US government as a cost of 330,000 dollars,”(1.1 million zloty).
The human rights group identifies Gulfstream jet N63MU, operated by First Flight / Airborne Inc., as the aircraft that flew the round-trip from Washington DC, picking up the prisoners at Bangkok, and then flying “via Dubai to the remote Szymany airfield in Poland, before returning via London Luton.”
Reprieve also alleges that trip-planners Universal Weather and Aviation “arranged logistics for the trip.”
According to the group, the evidence collected shows how the US Government “relied on contractors for 'technically complex, mission-critical challenges' - such as transporting prisoners between secret locations, hidden from the spotlight of law.”
Polish probe continues
A prosecutor's office in the southern Polish city of Krakow is handling the investigation into the existence of an alleged "black site" in Poland.
Leszek Miller was prime minister of Poland at the time of the alleged detentions, at the head of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) government.
He has repeatedly denied the existence of such a site, which is alleged to have been located in a villa near the Stare Kiejkuty military base in north east Poland.
Former president Aleksander Kwasniewski has also made several denials regarding the existence of the site.
However, in May this year, he appeared to suggest that there was more to the allegations than he initially
“Of course everything went on behind my back,” he told Polish paper Gazeta Wyborcza.
Reprieve argues that “ten years on, many of these prisoners [Abu Zubaydah among them] have still not been charged with any crime, and many of these companies are still in business.” (nh) | <urn:uuid:3315c50e-d21d-4d49-8220-f41a69a4b156> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thenews.pl/1/53/Artykul/103477,Corporations-collaborated-in-CIA-black-site-organisation-claims | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960623 | 592 | 1.796875 | 2 |
THE SOCIAL NETWORKIt’s time to say no to people who invade your privacy
“Let Me Be Me.” That’s how a young friend recently tried reasoning with her parents who asked her to either ‘censor’ her Facebook content or deactivate her account. Why? Because they had just launched their dear daughter into the marriage market. The vivacious twenty-four-year-old corporate executive has been a regular face in the party circuit, with loads of pictures shared on her wall and in separate albums. The diktat meant no miniskirts ‘on record’, and worse, the rationing of male friends online! And there’s a supposed reason for the hypocrisy – ‘How can you pose for your prospective in laws in party wear?’ The shocked girl could have merely tinkered with her privacy settings but chose to give up and delete her account.
Coincidentally, the same week, I came across another instance of Stone Age logic. A close relative, who had marriage alliance offers from many a suitable boy, was stunned out of her wits when the families of some of the aspiring grooms looked up her Facebook profile and sniffed out her brother-in-law’s wall posts about a particular religious festival. That her elder sister had married out of the religion was unashamedly cited as grounds for disqualification. To put it bluntly, an inter-religious love marriage was construed as a not-so-favourable character certificate for the family. The girl’s mother has now altered the profile with a caveat to keep bigots at bay.
Notice that these ‘rules’ are not gender neutral. It’s an extension of those chauvinistic advertisements that seek ‘fair, slim, beautiful, educated, talented girls’ for a boy who may well look like the back of a bus, smoke like a chimney, drink till the cows come home, and – how can I forget – who also specialises in hiding behind mama’s apron as his folks ring the auction bell.
From their very inception, social networking sites have been synonymous with social engineering. Privacy has not been a major concern for many youngsters. After all, how many users change their passwords periodically or disable wall posts or control who can see their updates or albums? But when a sizeable chunk of elders insist on matrimonial advertisements carrying links to not just LinkedIn but Facebook as well – that’s if they don’t hire detectives for social-media snooping – it’s time for right-thinking, liberal, independent-minded Facebookers to stop giving in to these regressive antics. There’s a little bit of ‘Taliban cop’ Dhoble in many people. And it must be snuffed out.
A positive new beginning was made on Sunday by a regional political outfit in Tamil Nadu that, ironically, was in the forefront of moral policing in the not-too-distant past. Recognising the power and reach of the social media, the party organised a full-day workshop on the subject for its members, inviting, among others, an academician from a foreign university. The exercise was enough to whet their appetite for more. So in the next few weeks, a full-fledged training programme is being organised for the party by a well-known online messiah. Change seems the only constant.
Talking of politicians hopping on to the social media bandwagon, what about Mamata Banerjee making her debut on Facebook with a sales pitch for Abdul Kalam? Trinamool spokesperson and quiz master Derek O’Brien apparently asked Didi all the right questions and pitched in with answers too. Although Kalam chose to pass the offer, the new entrant seems poised to put her new find to good use. So the next time the mercurial West Bengal Chief Minister walks out of an interview, just check her Facebook wall. Because the game may not be over. | <urn:uuid:aa9cbc17-8308-47ec-bb4f-9ab5c91aa987> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chen-columns/profiling-tools/article3558579.ece | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704713110/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114513-00005-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965116 | 829 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Speaking of Alice & Martin Provensen -- Troy Oxford, a fellow Retro Kiddo, has posted some beautiful illustrations from The Golden Bible New Testament, illustrated by Alice & Martin Provensen, published in 1953. The illustrations are not as stylized and experimental as their later work, but the colors and compositions are just as strong. By the end of the decade it looked like the couple were experimenting more with less line, stronger sense of form and shapes. But even here with the New Testament, you can see that they were already painting characters in their signature flat, stylized medieval-era look. This look transpires successfully here in this book as well as on The First Noel because of the subject matter. It's as if the Provensens updated those illuminated manuscripts from that era and brought them into the 20th century. | <urn:uuid:b8a321d5-37d5-44ac-8842-92c531917253> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wardomatic.blogspot.com/2006/12/more-provensens.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976737 | 168 | 1.6875 | 2 |
More than 290,000 homes and businesses are set to receive high-speed fibre broadband by spring 2014 as part of a £2.5 billion development.
BT announced that 291,000 properties across Scotland will have their internet upgraded, taking the number of premises with access to fibre broadband in Scotland to around 1.45 million.
This includes 25 communities such as Ellon, Forres, Blairgowrie, Lochgelly, Coatbridge and East Kilbride.
Fibre broadband can support greater online activity at one time, such as downloading a film, surfing the internet and playing online games.
The project is part of a £2.5 billion development to roll out fibre broadband to two-thirds of homes and businesses across the UK by the end of spring 2014.
BT's local network business Openreach will carry out the work with a use of technologies known as fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) and fibre to the premises (FTTP).
These provide fast download and upload speeds which allow a music album to be downloaded in less than 30 seconds and a feature-length HD movie in less than 10 minutes, whilst high-resolution photos can be posted online in seconds.
The current UK average speed reported by regulator Ofcom is 9Mbps (megabits per second) while FTTC can download as fast as 80Mbps and upload 20Mbps. Faster still is FTTP with download speeds reaching 330Mbps from Openreach.
Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities, Nicola Sturgeon, said: "I very much welcome this latest announcement from BT. It is essential that households and businesses everywhere in Scotland have access to high-speed connectivity and fibre broadband will play a key role in enhancing our digital offering.
"The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that a world class digital infrastructure is in place across Scotland by 2020 and that a significant increase in coverage has been achieved by 2015. This investment, along with significant investment by the public sector, will ensure that this ambition is achieved." | <urn:uuid:93ce8b84-826b-4ba9-8a02-0f05953902d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kilmarnockstandard.co.uk/ayrshire-news/scottish-news/2013/02/12/fibre-broadband-for-291-000-sites-81430-32791705/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702810651/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111330-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955293 | 407 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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Stripped of 'Country of Origin' Label, US Agrees to Sell Tear Gas to Egypt
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Egypt's Interior Ministry ordered 140,000 teargas canisters from the United States in January, which the US State Department only allowed to be exported without the company's name or any indication they were made in the U.S., the Egypt Independent reports Friday.
From letters between the Interior Ministry and Defense Ministry: "In light of the ongoing incidents and growing need for gas bombs to deal with rioters and preserve the nations safety, Al-Guindy Company for Imports and Exports, a representative of the US Combined System Company in Egypt, has been contracted to import 70,000 gas bombs and 70,000 long-range gas projectiles from the US to Egypt,” the letter stated.
From a memo written on January 28, 2013 by Major General Magdy al-Gohary, head of the Egyptian Department for Police Supply:
“The US government was stringent in issuing export permits for Egypt items that have been contracted since July, due to the unstable situation in Egypt and what was circulated by the media and rights groups about the US company’s effect on protesters while using [the gas canisters] against rioters in Egypt.”
“The permit from the US government was obtained after removing the company’s name and country of origin written on the items. While writing the memorandum on 28 January 2013, procedures were taken to ship the items via sea. They are expected to reach the Egyptian ports during the first half of April.”
The 140,000 gas canisters cost around $2,463,000.
On Thursday, US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told the press, "Whether we’re talking about Egypt or any other country on the planet, frankly, we support the right of peaceful protest as one means for citizens to express themselves to their government. But protest has to be peaceful and the response to protest also has to be restrained and peaceful on the part of the government." | <urn:uuid:6d859676-6f10-4815-8b7a-73dc717a51c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/22-2?quicktabs_1=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00002-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954673 | 441 | 1.835938 | 2 |
I have written before about the tension in the Bible over God’s supremacy over all things, and the responsibility of man to obey the commands of the Lord. Many times we see in the Bible that God commands us to do things that we are unable to do. My view is that this tension should not lead us to dismay or rebel against the Lord, but to depend upon Him more intently. We should say with Paul “from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.”
Currently I am re-reading When I Don’t Desire God, How to Fight for Joy, by John Piper. He pointed me to this truth yet again as it relates to repentance.
2 Timothy 2:24: And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
I understand Paul to be saying:
(1) These are the things the Lord’s servant (a pastor) must do in order to bring about repentance among His people.
- don’t be quarrelsome
- Be kind to everyone
- be able to teach
- endure evil with patience
- correct your opponents with gentleness
(2) Then He says perhaps God will grant them repentance. This throw’s a monkey wrench into the equation. Normally in an equation a + b = c. But Paul is saying a (the pastor’s attitude and ability to faithfully teach) + b (the pastor’s endurance of trials , evil and loving response to those teaching falsely) = NOTHING. You see, repentance comes from the Lord! Only when God grant’s repentance do the people have knowledge of the truth and escape the snares of the devil.
Now, if pastors were to say “Why should I do a and b if God brings about repentance?” The answer gets at the heart of evangelism. “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the words of Christ.”–Rom. 10:17. Where does faith come from? Jesus said “the wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”–John 3:8. Faith comes from God.
We share the Gospel and pray that God would open the hearts of our listeners. The same relationship exists between a hard heart and the command to repent. They are at a standstill until the Spirit of God pierces through and brings about life-giving change. Therefore, we must preach the Gospel and repentance and pray that God would bring it about.
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In terms of all the time you spend on a particular SEO Campaign, 80% of this time should be spent on finding and building links to your website. Google is an off-site search engine, this essentially means that its rankings are based on a whole range of off-site factors including how many sites link to your site, how authoritative the linking sites are, how popular the linking sites are, whether or not the links are no followed, where the links are positioned on the page and what anchor text is used in the link - all of these factors will contribute to how prominently you feature within the rankings around your target keywords in Google. The reasoning behind this is due to Larry Page and Sergey Brin and their correct assertion that websites and pages with the most authoritative links pointing in can generally be regarded as the most authoritative around a particular subject and as such, they should be returned more prominently whenever a user types in a relevant keyword.
The main thing you need to keep in mind when link building is trying to find pages which will transfer some authority or relevance to your site whenever they provide a link to your website. Google's ranking factors are based on the democracy of the web - the more valuable the content is then theoretically, the more likely people are to link to it. The important thing to remember here is that Google ranks pages not websites - the homepage will generally be the most authoritative page on a website but it needn't be that way, it's merely a result of the fact that most people link to the homepage. It's also important to avoid placing too much emphasis on the importance of PageRank - while this is still a ranking factor, a link from a highly authoritative site like the BBC is, needless to say, a lot more valuable than a link from a PageRank 2 directory. Always keep this in mind when it comes to building links to your site, one good link can be more valuable than one-hundred sub-standard links. | <urn:uuid:1a187a81-cd7f-41dd-95ed-1dc5ecb9a7d9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cijocyril.com/blog1-15.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954725 | 394 | 1.71875 | 2 |
|Pre-Negotiation Strategy Check List (Part 2)|
|Part 2 of this article provides additional advice on how to develop a successful negotiation strategy and create a better proposal while negotiating a solid business agreement.|
As illustrated in Part 1 of this article, there are many factors that negotiators have to take into account while considering a negotiating strategy, in how we are going to approach our talks with our negotiating counterparts. The rest of this article considers other factors, that may have to be factored into our strategy, to get the overall picture.
9) Your Place or Mine?
In much the same way as sports teams enjoy a 'home advantage', negotiators playing away from home need to adjust their game plan and strategies. There are 3 possibilities to consider when deciding where the talks will occur. We can either hold the talks in their offices, our offices, or at a neutral domain. We might choose the latter so no one has the psychological and resource advantage, of holding the negotiations on their premises. Sometimes, deciding upon where the negotiations take place, can open up a whole new can of worms, especially in the case of international disputes for example.
10) Will we be Under the Public Microscope?
Negotiations are often private affairs with little fanfare, until an agreement is signed. There are also agreements that are advertised afterwards, to maximize the mutual benefit both sides obtain. On other occasions, negotiations may be held in strict secrecy.
Then, there are the highly publicized occasions when the press becomes actively involved. It could be that one of the negotiating parties uses the powers of the press, to lever an advantage to sway and manipulate the outcome. We need only scan the daily newspapers, to understand the importance of how public involvement, can influence and add intense pressure to some negotiations. The press can be utilised as a public forum to embarass our apponents into action, or to deflect their strategy. Press releases are another means to use as an effective strategy in the negotiation process.
11) Will We Need a Third Party?
Third parties have many different functions and roles to play in developing a negotiation strategy. They may act as agents, intermediaries, translators, consultants, or other specialists who have an expertise, that one or both parties require. There are occasions when a neutral third party will act as a facilitator or chairperson, to manage the negotiations such as in multiparty negotiations, inter organizational negotiations, or even international negotiations.
Then, there are the other occasions when we hit a roadblock, or impasse in our negotiation. During these times we may use a neutral third party to act as a mediator or an arbitrator, to either facilitate an agreement or to impose an agreement, such as in a labour dispute for example.
12) Who is Going to Blink First?
There are situations when we have to decide how a proposal or offer is to be presented, or in deciding who is going to go first. Will we make an informal proposal before we start the negotiations, or wait until we meet face to face? Will we be prepared to make an offer after listening to their proposal, or do we need more information? Will we respond right away, or refer the matter to our constituencies? Will it be to our advantage to be first in making an offer or proposal, to set an anchor around which the talks revolve? Or will it be better to hold our cards tight to our chest and let the other side go first? Of course, this will all relate to the issues, positions, goals and objectives that will determine our approach. These are very serious questions that we need to intelligently address, before we begin our talks.
13) Who Are the Decision Makers?
Before we enter into the negotiations, we must establish who is going to make the decisions. What is our authority and who do we report to in our organization? Similarly, what are the authority levels of our counterparts? Finally, can we make an agreement in principle, or an unofficial agreement that will likely stand the test of scrutiny?
14) How Far Will We Push It?
Negotiations can be a one shot occurrence where one party comes right out and says 'This is a one time offer - take it or leave it.' There are some instances where haggling is not considered acceptable, and will not be tolerated by the other party. Other situations will drag out into the equivalent of a marathon ping-pong match, as each party bounces offers and counter offers, back and forth between them. We need to know who we are dealing with, before we get too cute and find ourselves cut out of the opportunity altogether. It also depends on the offer and proposal, in relation to the circumstances such as time considerations, need, and many other factors.
15) Are We Strong or Weak?
Two or more parties who are about to engage in a negotiation, seldom operate from an equal power base. If one party has something that we desperately need, for our company's survival and we have no alternatives, then we may find ourselves negotiating at a disadvantage. This all relates to our BATNA and how we stack up against our potential counterpart. Size is not necessarily relevant, as we've all heard the old biblical account of 'David versus Goliath', and how that conflict turned out.
Weakness can be countered by strengthening our BATNA, or even by finding allies to support our position and add to our strength. Also, we should seek ways to diminish the power base of the opposing party where possible, before we begin our negotiations, or even during the negotiation process itself.
Negotiation strategies need to be developed by considering a whole host of factors, that might have a powerful impact on our success. It is also wise to remember that our strategy has to be flexible and will need to be adjusted as the game plays itself out. We cannot know everything before we go into our first meeting, so we need to prepare to adjust our strategy and tactics, as the situations warps and changes shape. Flexibility is vital, but good preparation is essential.
- Harvard Business Essentials 'Negotiation' Harvard Business School Press, (2003).
- Leigh Thompson, 'The Heart and Mind of the Negotiator-2nd Edition', Prentice Hall Business Publishing, (2001).
- J. Lewicki, A. Litterer, W.Minton, M. Sauders, 'Negotiation', 2nd Edition, Irwin,(1994).
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The European research and analysis firm Euroconsult has released a new report projecting $1 billion in annual data sales for earth observation satellites in 2009, "a figure expected to nearly quadruple by 2018." The report, Satellite-Based Earth Obervations, Market Prospects to 2018, also reports that 260 Earth observation and meteorology satellites will be launched in the next 10 years "generating $27.4 billion in manufacturing revenues."
The report is being released in advance of a one-day Symposium on Earth Observation Business to be held on September 10, 2009 in Paris, France. It is part of World Satellite Business Week (Sept. 7-10) to be held at the Westin in Paris.
The official website for the Augustine committee has posted an update saying that a "Summary Report" will be transmitted to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) next Tuesday, September 8. Rumors have been rampant all week that an executive summary of the report would be issued imminently. NASA's legislative affairs website continues to show congressional hearings on the report for September 15 (House Science and Technology Committee) and September 16 (Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee) though the hearings are not listed on those committees' websites yet. The Augustine committee is mandated to provide options for the future of the human spaceflight program. How quickly the Obama White House will make decisions based on those options is unclear, but with the FY2010 budget being debated in Congress and the FY2011 budget request in formulation by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), time is short.
Colin Clark reports in DODBuzz
that some aerospace companies are being forced to sell subsidiaries in order to comply with the recently enacted Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act. Clark quotes sources as saying that Northrop Grumman's pending sale of its TASC unit is a case in point. Some of those sources are highly critical of the strict interpretation of the law by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO
), which designs, builds and operates the nation's reconnaissance satellites. A follow-up story
by Clark includes a link to the NRO memo and a response from a "government official" to the original story.
The original story included this criticism of NRO's interpretation of the law.
"Intelligence community sources say the National Reconnaissance Office, builder and operator of the nation's spy satellites, is interpreting the bill's language very strictly. 'The NRO is nuts!' said one irate expert. They are being more draconian than anyone else and it is hard to understand why. While there are certainly instances where the same company should not be involved in helping with the requirements during a competitive acquisition they are going beyond this. In fact companies with 40 years worth of experience in a particular specialty are being thrown over the side in search of purity. This is not in the government's best interest from either performance or cost perspectives. This is all part of the NRO destroying itself and paying attention to process.'"
The follow-up story included this response from an unnamed government official:
"'I don't care how many firewalls' a company puts up to mitigate OCI, the fact remains TASC provides advice on the cost, schedule & performance of developmental contractors such as Northrop Grumman. It is particularly disconcerting when going through a source selection and we need the advice of a particular subject matter expert but we can't turn to him because the company he works for is owned by one of the potential bidders,' the official said. 'This is a good thing and not a bad thing. The sky is not falling as a result and the other companies mentioned above will absorb contracts and employees as a result. There will be no perception of conflict and I don't have to kick my subject matter experts out of the room during a crucial time in a review.'"
Results from the freshly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope are about to be put on display along with the STS-125 space shuttle crew that made it all possible. NASA will hold two press conferences next week, at 11:00 am and noon EDT on September 9, to show off new images and the crew. See NASA's press release for details.
Politifact.com gives President Obama a "Promise Kept" grade for using the private sector to improve spaceflight. The website -- a project of the St. Petersburg Times -- is tracking 18 promises made about the space program by the President during the campaign. So far they score him as having kept three promises (the other two are adding another shuttle flight and enhancing earth mapping) with two more "in the works" (improve climate change data records, and revise regulations for export of aerospace technologies) and the rest with "no action." Many of the latter decisions are awaiting the Augustine committee report.
One option for human exploration of Mars that gets little attention or discussion is whether these new explorers should plan on a one-way trip. Lawrence Krauss, director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University and author of "The Physics of Star Trek" advocates this approach in an op-ed for the August 31, 2009 New York Times. Here are some of his points:
" While the idea of sending astronauts aloft never to return is jarring upon first hearing, the rationale for one-way trips into space has both historical and practical roots. Colonists and pilgrims seldom set off for the New World with the expectation of a return trip, usually because the places they were leaving were pretty intolerable anyway. Give us a century or two and we may turn the whole planet into a place from which many people might be happy to depart."
"Moreover, if the [cosmic] radiation problems cannot be adequately resolved then the longevity of astronauts signing up for a Mars round trip would be severely compromised in any case. As cruel as it may sound, the astronauts would probably best use their remaining time living and working on Mars rather than dying at home. "
UPDATE: 6:30 PM EDT, Wednesday, September 2
According to the Associated Press, Mt. Wilson isn't out of the woods yet, but the situation is improving. Observatory Director McAlister continues to post updates, but the web address has changed again. Currently they are being posted at http://www.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/MWO/fire.php. The UCLA Towercam is not operating any longer, apparently a victim of severed lines when a backfire was lit yesterday. Dr. McAlister sounds increasingly optimistic about the situation and draws attention to an interesting op-ed by Tim Rutten that appeared in the LATimes this morning.
UPDATE: 8:00 PM EDT, Tuesday, September 1
Firefighters had a comparatively successful day fighting the fire and it is now 22% contained and growing at a slower rate. The LATimes is reporting that Mt. Wilson remains in danger, however. Observatory director McAlister has switched to the alternate server mentioned in his message above. Go to http://joy.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/fire.php for his updates. Earlier today he was expressing guarded optimism based on the reports he was receiving
Original post, September 1 am
A photo from UCLA's Towercam taken this morning (Tuesday, September 1) shows the fire near the Mount Wilson Observatory. Meanwhile, Hal McAlister, Director of the Observatory, has been posting updates on the observatory's website. The most recent is from yesterday, August 31, at 5:30 pm PDT:
"Monday, 31 Aug 09, 5:30 pm PDT - As I mentioned earlier, we have lost the new backup power to the mountain. In anticipation of a possible loss of all power to the Observatory, where the MWO webserver is located, this update site will be relocated to http://joy.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/fire.php. I will continue posting material on the current server, but if and when it goes dark, please make a note now to try the other URL if you are interested in keeping in touch with this situation from our perspective. In this event, the Towercam will also go dark. In the meantime, please keep coming to this site."
The LATimes has an article this morning outlining the observatory's scientific achievements to date.
Space.com is reporting today that the new target date for testing the Ares rocket motor is September 10 at ATK's facilities in Promontory Utah. The first attempt was scrubbed 20 seconds prior to ignition on August 27. Indications were that there was a problem with an Auxiliary Power Unit (APU), but engineers have determined that the problem was not hardware or software on the booster itself, according to the report. They are now looking at ground test hardware as the possible source of the problem.
The fate of the Ares program remains in the hands of the Augustine committee that is looking at options for the future of the human space flight program and the policy makers who will determine the path forward based on those options.
An editorial in today's Washington Post issued a rallying call for NASA to embrace entrepreneurial space companies. Here's an excerpt:
"Now that the station is nearly complete, this might be an optimal time to open space to entrepreneurs. Many companies claim they possess the capacity to transport humans and payloads into space; the [Augustine] review committee found their reports convincing enough to suggest that these space entrepreneurs could take over the transport of astronauts and supplies to the space station after the shuttle program ends.
"It's time to boldly go where no man has gone before. That means opening space to the kind of private-sector competition that revolutionized cyberspace and making sure the next human exploratory efforts are based on real scientific need."
NASA's Orion spacecraft has successfully completed its preliminary design review (PDR), according to the agency.
Orion and its Ares launch vehicle are part of NASA's Constellation program to replace the space shuttle and ferry crews to the International Space Station (ISS) and return humans to the Moon by 2020. Reminiscent of an Apollo capsule, Orion is designed to sit atop its Ares booster, rather than on its side like the space shuttle orbiter.
The Orion design is considered superior from a safety standpoint in at least two ways. First, it would not be affected by foam or other debris that might fall from the Ares. Foam shedding from the space shuttle's external tank caused the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy. Second, the crew could use an emergency abort system to propel the spacecraft away from the Ares if there was a serious launch vehicle malfunction during launch. The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy occurred because of the failure of a component (an O-ring) in one of the shuttle's Solid Rocket Boosters.
The fate of the Orion and Ares programs remains up the air, however, as everyone awaits the report of the Augustine committee and White House and congressional action thereafter. There are rumors that an Executive Summary of the report may be released very soon, but no official word from NASA about that.
Events of Interest
- National Tribute to Sally Ride, May 20, 2013, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
- Intl Space Arts Workshop, May 20-22, 2013, NASA Research Park, Moffett Field, CA
- Lunabotics Mining Competition 2013, May 20-24, 2013, Kennedy Space Center, FL
- Secure World Foundation/Women in Aerospace-Europe Discussion on Cooperation versus Competition in Space Activities, May 21, 2013, Brussels, Belgium
- House SS&T Sbcmte Hrg on Next Steps in Human Exploration, May 21, 2013, 2318 Rayburn House Office Building. 2:00 pm ET
- HASC Strategic Forces Sbcmte Markup FY14 NDAA, May 22, 2013, 2212 Rayburn House Office Building, 10:30 am ET
- NEW NASA News Conf on Upcoming ISS Crew Launch and ISS Science, May 22, 2013, NASA Johnson Space Center, 1:00 pm Central Time (2:00 pm Eastern Time)
- House SS&T Sbcmte Hrg on Restoring US Leadership in Weather Forecasting, May 23, 2013, 2318 Rayburn House Office Building, 9:30 am ET
- Senate Commerce Nomination Hrg for Penny Pritzker to be Sec of Commerce, May 23, 2013, 253 Russell Senate Office Building, 11:00 am ET
- International Space Development Conference (ISDC), May 23-27, 2013, San Diego, CA
- Soyuz TMA-09M Launch and Docking with ISS, May 28, 2013, launch from Kazakhstan at 4:31 pm ET, docking at ISS at 10:17 pm ET (watch on NASA TV)
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Contractor Alliance Helps Dow Chemical Slash Injury Rates at Texas Facility
To highlight the achievement, the agency recently issued a case study -- Contractor Safety Case Study: Texas Operations Contractor Alliance for Safety at Dow Facility in Freeport, Texas. The report describes how Dow and 15 contractor companies formed the Texas Operations Contractor Alliance for Safety. The organization consisted of senior managers from Dow's Texas operations and from its on-site contractors who could authorize implementing safety and health management systems within their own companies.
"Through the alliance program and its other cooperative programs, OSHA has developed a growing collection of success stories and case studies that demonstrate the value of safety and health management systems," said Edwin G. Foulke Jr., assistant secretary of labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. "This case study effectively demonstrates how safety and health management systems can be successful if organizations take proactive steps to implement and encourage their use."
Dow's operations in Freeport is the company's largest integrated site. It comprises three major integrated complexes, with more than 5,000 acres and 75 individual production plants that employ more than 4,500 people. Dow's Texas Operations is the largest employer in the city and its workforce accounts for approximately 9.5 million contractor-worked hours per year.
Contractor safety became a concern. Dow began to reach out to the contractor firms working at its Texas Operations in the early 1990s in an effort to improve their safety performances. According to officials, the discussions between the management team from Texas Operations and the safety managers from the individual contractor firms were not very effective. The contractor safety managers had difficulty convincing their respective organizations to make changes to their safety and health programs largely because it meant more work for the management teams in their organizations.
As a result, OSHA said the efforts to improve contractor safety remained largely Dow-driven. After experiencing repeated hesitation on the part of the contractors, Dow managers concluded that future safety discussions between Dow and the contractors would be productive only when senior, management-level people from the firms were involved.
In 1994, managers at the Dow corporate office announced the goal of reducing the recordable injury rate (for all Dow and contractor employees) by 90 percent at all company work sites. According to officials, the need to have top-level contractor involvement combined with the need to meet Dow's corporate goal led to the formation of a new and unique safety alliance between Texas Operations and its service providers.
Texas Operations implements changes. In 1995, Texas Operations management began implementing changes in its safety and health program for contractors. The first step was to organize twice monthly contractor safety meetings. The Texas Operations Contractor Alliance for Safety was formed with 15 contractor companies.
Officials said the effort produced improvements almost immediately. In 1995, the Texas Operations recordable rate was 3.31 -- the number of injuries per 200,000 worked hours. By 1996, the rate had dropped to 1.85. According to Dow, convening the managers responsible for the financial and human resources of the contractor companies resulted in the start of positive changes.
According to OSHA, TOCAS worked and still works to identify and articulate the safety-related needs of its broad spectrum of contractor companies and partners with Texas Operations to improve contractor safety performance. TOCAS provides all contractor companies doing business with Texas Operations with a forum for sharing the purposes, expectations, strategies, incentives and results of the community of contractors working at the site. The agency said the contractor representatives to TOCAS are the decision-makers that can commit their companies to safety programs, employee involvement and actions. The companies' safety contacts form another group that works to improve safety within the plants.
Through the program, officials said Texas Operations management provides the data on a safety issue to TOCAS and asks its members to find solutions and establish priorities. OSHA said all contractor companies providing labor services to Texas Operations are eligible to be associated with TOCAS. In return, members are asked to provide ongoing commitment to the goals and philosophy of TOCAS. As a result, OSHA said the expectation on the part of Dow is that safety performance within Texas Operations will continue to improve. Officials said the basic elements of TOCAS are similar to the critical elements of an effective safety and health management system -- management commitment and employee involvement; work site analysis; hazard prevention and control; and training for employees, supervisors and managers.
Program making an impact. The number of contractor companies involved in TOCAS has grown from 15 in 1995, to 23 in 1996, to 85 in 2008. Each of the approximately 12,000 contractor employees has a badge, and each badge holder has successfully completed a background check, drug test and training.
From the time that TOCAS began in 1995 to 2007, the OSHA recordable rate for contractors has improved 95 percent overall. The program has been so successful that similar organizations are now in place at Dow facilities in Texas (Seadrift, Texas City and Houston) and Louisiana (Baton Rouge and New Orleans).
In part, OSHA said TOCAS is successful because it gives contractors control over their own programs. Officials said contractors can implement the rules, standards and processes that address their and Dow's largest issues and track their performance to see what is successful. According to the agency, the Texas Operations model demonstrates that contractors can and do learn from one another. Through sharing their policies and experiences, contractors leverage expertise and solutions, officials said.
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History of Springfield, MA
Pages 76 - 110
Meeting abovesd, & actual voted for & agreed on, & it is appointed that they be prsented to the next General Quarter Session of the peace for ye Confirmation. Attests John Holyoke, Clerk for sd Town.
[III - 32.]
Al the aforesd Orders were approved & allowed by the Quarter Sessions, May 20, 1707. Tests: John Pynchon, Clerk.
Transcribed from the original copy allowed of by said Sessions or Quarter Sessions. Per John Holyoke, Clerk for the Town of Springfield.
To the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace siting at Springfield May 18, 1708.
It was voted at the General Town Meeting for the Election of Town Officers March 9th, 1708 that such Persons as shal be chosen by the General Town Meeting to execute the Law respecting swine & shal be convicted of his neglect thereof shal be subject to the Penalty of five shillings upon a conviction, the one halfe to the Informer, and the other halfe to the Town school, & that this order be prsented to the Justices of the Peace at the next General Sessions of ye Peace in Hampshire for their approbation. Extracted from Springfield Record - p. 285 of the said Town booke & vara copia. Per John Holyoke, Clerk for sd Town.
The vote abovesd was approved & alowed of by the Justices of the Peace with in the Quarter Sessions at Springfield May 18, 1708. Test: Jno Pynchon, Clerke.
Transcribed from the original Copy allowed of by sd Quarter Sessions. Per Jno Holyoke, Clerk for the Town of Springfield.
[III - 33, 34, 35, 36 & 37 blank.]
[III - 38.]
Names of Inhabitants of Springfield, 1664.
Here followes a Record or List of ye Names of the Townesmen, or men of this Towne of Springfield, that is to say, of the allowed & admitted Inhabitants who they are this present ffebruary, 1664:
Ensign Thomas Cooper
Sergeant Miles Morgan
Capt. John Pynchon
Lieut. Elizur Holyoke
Mr. Pelatiah Glover
Deacon Samuel Chapin
Sergeant Thomas Stebbins
Widdow M. Bliss
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A continuation of ye names of ye Townsmen or allowed Inhabitants wth ye date of their admittance:
July 28, 1665. Thomas Powell admitted.
John Petty admitted ye same tyme.
Aprill 1666. Edmund Prinrydys admitted. 1667. Symon Lobdell admitted.
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[Unnumbered sheet in the hand of Peletiah Glover Jr. bound between III - 42 and 43.]
To all Christian People to whom this present writing shall concerne Know ye that I Pelatiah Glover of Springfield, the son of the Reverend Mr. Pelatiah Glover, deceased, late minister of the Gospel & teacher of the Church of Springfield, for
incorgment of the sd Mr. Glover, my Honored fathers settlement amongst them in the ministry had given a house & land as by deed or grant of Hampshire Records & Town Records appears, which upon after consideration became doubtfull whether it might be Lawfully done, because the sd land was first stated to the ministry in Springfield: whereupon a meet compensation for the same was treated concerning, that to the sd lands might return to the ministr & its primiture statement there unto, which since my father's decease, I the sd Pelatiah Glover his son & the town of Springfield by the assent have come to an agreement concerning that sd land may revert to the Town of Springfield, wherefore thereupon I the sd Pelatiah Glover doe hereby acknowledge to have rec'd the full sum of a hundred and ten pounds in graine & pork, and nine score pounds in money of the Inhabitants of the town of Springfield as a meet compensation for the same & doe exonerate the sd Town of Springfield and Inhabitants thereof forever from any further demands thereof or any part thereof from me, my heires, executors at any time hereafter for ever & having Rec'd the same upon the a compt of the a Compt of the towns reasuming of the house and land aforementioned, I the Pelatiah Glover for me, my heires, do remit, relinquish, release & quit claime all my former Interest, right or title to the sd land, otherwise then in comon wth the Inhabitants of Springfield to which use the sd land is stated for the ministry in Witness Whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & Seale this 18th day of feby Anno Domini 1698.
Signed Sealed in presence of us:
Jonathan Burt Senyr
Pelatiah Glover above signeing & sealing before us under writ two of his Majesties Justices of Peace for Hampshire, came personally, & before us did owne & acknowledge the above instrument of discharge & release of ye land above mentioned to be his ye sd Pelatiah Glover, his free & voluntary act & deed: This done ye 18th day of February 1698-9: Before us:
Justices of ye Peace.
That on the first day of April 1699 The within Instrument was Received Into the Registers office of the County aforesaid, and was then Registered in the 235th page of the first Book of Records. John Pynchon, Register.
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At the Generall Towne Meeting Day on ye first Tuesday in ffebruary, being the 7th day of ye Month, 1664, the day appoynted by Order for Election of Town Officers.
Capt. John Pynchon was chosen Moderator for this & all other Towne Meetings for ye yeare ensueing.
are chosen Selectmen for Ordering the Prudentiall affaires of this Towne for the yeere en-suinge.
Ensign Cooper & Sam'l Marshfield are chosen a Comittee to examine the accounts of the former Selectmen whose tyme is now expired.
Nathaneell Ely & Thomas Miller are chosen Constables to this Township for the yeere ensueing: (who tooke ye Oath belonging to their Office.)
Elizur Holyoke is chosen Recorder to the Towne for ye Yeere ensuinge.
Thomas Mirick & Nathaneel Pritchard are chosen Surveyors for the high wayes wch belonge to the whole Towne for ye yeare ensuing.
Thomas Mirick & Nathaneel Pritchard are chosen Surveyors for the highwayes wch belong to the whole Towne for ye yeare ensuing:
Rowland Thomas, Nathaneell Ely & Samuell Marshfield are chosen a Comittee to consider of a proposition made by Serj. Stebbin, for change of some of his land in the wett meddow for some of the Town land in ye same wett meddow:
p.80 who are to goe to the places to veiw the same, & to make report to ye Towne what they apprhend in the case.
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At the same Genrll Town meeting ffebruary 7, 1664:
Capt. Pynchon, Nathaniell Ely, George Colton, Benjamin Cooley, & Elizur Holyoke were chosen to be a standing comittee to have the sole power to Order matters concerning ye land at Worronoco, both for admittance of Inhabitants for that place and for grannting of lands there, or any other affaires that concerne that place, & yt may conduce to ye settlinge of it, a Towne of it selfe. This Comittee to hold till the Towne see cause otherwise to Order.
John Williams of Windsor is admitted an Inhabitant for Worronoco of this Township and hath liberty to build on his land there which he bought of Joseph Parsons.
It is voted & concluded that the Selectmen chosen at this Genrll Towne Meetinge shall make Mr. Glovers rate now to be made & his rate next winter: & any other rates that may be raysed on the Inhabitants for Town charges this yeere ensueing they shall also next winter some tyme in January take a list of the estate of the Plantation, whereby Mr. Glovers rate next winter shalbe made as allso all other Towne rates for yt yeere, viz: till ye winter followinge: and soe in a constant course hereafter, all the Towne rates & the Ministers rate shalbe made sometyme in January from tyme to tyme.
It is also voted, concluded & aggreed that there shalbe alwayes two Constables in ye Towne to wch end one Constable shalbe chosen at every halfe yeeres end: that is to say one shalbe chosen on ye Generall Town meeting day in ffebruary yeerely & another in August yeerely viz: ye day when ye Comissioners is chosen for joyning wth ye Selectmen to make ye Countey rate.
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At this Genrll Towne Meeting it is further voted & concluded that there shalbe a highway of eight rod broad by the North side of the comon ffence yt extends from the Great River to Agawam River:
Also at this meeting these p'sons were chosen hay wards for ye Severall ffields, viz: Jonathan Taylor for ye ffields on ye west side of ye River opposite to ye Towne:
Joseph Crowfoot for Chickuppe playne.
John Clark for the homelots & 3 Corner playne.
And Samuell Ely for ye Long Meddow.
At a Legall Town meeting April 11th, 1665 being a full Meeting.
It was voted & determined, all present consenting thereto, to give Mr. Pelatiah Glover all the land wch ye Towne bought of Mr. Moxon, our Teacher shall continue and abide in this Towne duringe his life, or that his removing from this Town be wth and by mutuall consent, or in case that after his death his wife and children shall choose to leave this town and remove to some other place, that then the Town shall have ye refusall of it: Upon these tearmes, Mr. Glover accepting thereof as a competency wth ye ffourescore pounds per annum for his mayntenance, ye town doth give and grant to said land & housing to Mr. Glover to be his own property, and doe hereby appoynt and Order Capt. John Pynchon, George Colton, Sam'l Marshfeild, Benjamin Cooley, Lawrence Bliss, Rowland Thomas & Nathaneel Ely to give him possession thereof & to make it sure to him by Record or otherwise, and to take his accepting thereof on ye Tearmes aforesaid in writing, they to act therein as they shall see best to make things sure.
At ye same meeting, it was voted to chuse a Comitee for giveing out ye land of ye plantation, wch yet lyes undisposed of and tis ordered yt Capt. Pynchon, George Colton, Benjamin Cooley, Saml Marshfield, Rowland Thomas & Lawrence Bliss & Nathaneell Ely: shalbe a Comittee for that end. Which seven men mett together or the major part of them, provided all of them had notice to meete, (though there be but foure of them yet they agreeing) shall have full power to act in granting of lands to any person: and to whomsoever they shall grant any lands, it shalbe fully ye propriety of such Persons as if the whole town had granted it unto them.
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August ye 16th, 1665.
The Constable according to warrant from ye Treasurer called together the Inhabitants of this Towne, Who, being assembled made choyce of Deacon Chapin to be a Comissionr for ye Towne to joyne with ye Selectmen for making & perfecting the Countrey rate for this yeere according to Law:
At ye Same meeting according to Town Order, the Inhabitants pceeded to choyce of a Constable for this Towne: and they chose William Warrener Constable for ye yeere ensueing (who took his oath accordingly) (Nathaneely Ely being dismist of yt Office.)
At this meeting also, the persons deputed by the Towne on ye 11th of Aprill, 1665, as in the former page is mentioned, did declare, that they had been wth Mr. Glover & had acqauinted him wth the Townes gift & grannt & the tearmes thereof, and that Mr. Glover accepted thereof, and that thereupon they had given Mr. Glover possession of the house wherein he dwells & ye land thereunto belonginge upon the tearmes mentioned in ye Townes act before recited: and accordingly the said persons gave Mr. Glover a deed to secure the said house & land to him.
At the Towne meeting aforesaid, viz: on ye 11th of Aprill 1665, This was ordered, (wch should have bin then recorded viz:
Whereas severall p'sons that had lands grannted to them at fresh water brooke this winter past have neglected to get it measured by the end of March last whereby those grannts are voyd. The persons desiring longer tyme to be given them, and their grannt to stand good, the Towne doth renew & continue those grannts to them, provided they take their lands, accordinge as the last Comittee granted them, & get them measured out by ye last of May next: otherwise neglect the measuringe thereof by that tyme are to loose their said lands soe granted unto them. Others also of ye Towne that have had grannts of land elcewhere have liberty till ye last of May next for to get them measured out.
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Att the Generall Towne Meeting Day, being the first Tuesday in ffebruary and the sixth day of the month: Anno Dmi: 1665.
Capt. Pynchon is chosen Moderator for this meeting & for all other Towne meetings this yeare ensueing:
Ensigne Cooper, Robert Ashley, John Dumbleton, Benjamin Parsons & Elizur Holyoke are chosen for ye yeere ensueing to Order all the Prudentiall affaires of the Towne who are impowered to act therein as Selectmen accordinge to what is expressed in page 5 of this booke.
Ensign Cooper & Elizur Holyoke are chose a Comittee to examine the accounts of the Selectmen of ye yeere from hence past: who attended this worke accordingly.
Edward ffoster is chosen Constable for this Towne for ye yeere ensuing (who tooke his Oath belonging to his Office.)
Elizur Holyoke is chosen Recorder to the Towne for ye yeere ensueinge.
The Selectmen for this yeere insueinge, viz:
together wth Rowland Thomas & Thomas Miller are chosen a Comittee for grannting of lands that lye in comon & undisposed of: Whose power is ye same as the Comittee of ye last yeere had, wch were chosen in Aprill the 11th.
Nathaneel Ely is chosen Measurer of lands for ye Towne for ye yeere ensueinge.
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Att this Meeting there were hay wards chosen for the severall fields viz:
John Clark for ye home lotts & 3 corner meddow & ye playne above End brooke.
Obadiah Miller for the ffeild ovr ye river opposite ye Towne & ovr Agawam River.
John Riley for Chickuppe playne.
And John Keepe for ye Long Meddow.
Anthony Dorchester & Serjant Stebbins are chosen Surveyors for ye highwayes for ye ensueing, viz: for the Countrey highwayes.
At this Towne meetinge the Constable calling upon the Inhabitants for paymt of ye Countrey Rate of this yeere: the prizes of corne for paymt thereof beinge discussed, the Towne did vote & declare that they will pay the sd rate at such prizes of corne as was Ordered by the last Genrll Court for paym't of ye Countrey Rate & at noe lower price, yt they will save ye Constable harmless.
ffebruary 26, 1665.
A comittee being chosen on the Generll Town Meeting day, viz: the 6th of this Instant to consider of some thorough course for setting a corn Mill up - this Mill yt is in p'sent being or to prpe for another in some other place: and this day a Town meeting being called to heare wt the said comittee judged requisite in the case: And therefore the said Comittee doe now declare that they judge it bet for the Town yt a new mill be built on ye Old Mill streame, & not to have dependance on the Mill yt is in prsent being: whereupon ye case being long debated, & Capt. Pynchon being urged to sett up a new mill on ye Old streame, he did engage for such worke: and for his encouragemnt diverse p'sons did promise to allow Capt. Pynchon some little assistance towards the worke, viz: about 17 pounds.
At the same Town meeting it was also voted & granted yt Capt. Pynchon shall have fifty acres of upland & thirty acres of meddow where he can find it. Soe much undisposed of, provided he doe wthin three yeeres from this tyme build a Saw Mill eyther on fresh water brooke on ye Old Mill streame & yt it be ready to be sett on worke wthin that tyme: otherwise this grant is to be voyd.
And further the Town did vote, conclude & agree (nemine contradiccente) yt the said Capt. Pynchon shall have the twelvth part of the bushell of all such corne or graine as shall be ground at his corn mill above mentioned to be built.
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Att the Genrll Towne meeting on the first Tuesday in ffebruary and the fifth day of the month: Anno Dmi: 1666:
Capt. Pynchon is chosen Moderator for this Town Meeting
meeting & for all other Town Meetings in this Town in this yeare ensueinge.
George Colton, Nathaneell Ely, Benjamin Cooley, Rowland Thomas & Samuell Marshfield are by the Towne Ordered to ye place of Selectmen for the yeere ensueing, to Order all the Prendentiall affaires of the Towne, who are impowered to act therein as Selectmen according to what the Law directs as the works of their place.
Nathaneell Ely & George Colton are chosen a Comittee to examine the accounts of ye last Selectmen: who attended the worke accordingly.
Rice Bedortha is chosen Constable for this Towne for ye yeere hence ensueing: Who took his oath belonging to his Office.
Elizur Holyoke is chosen Recorder to ye Towne for ye yeere ensueinge.
The Selectmen for ye yeere ensueinge together wth Serj. Stebbin & Thomas Miller are chosen a Comittee for granting of lands yt lye in comon or undisposed of in ye Plantation, for ye yeere ensueing.
Nathaneell Ely is chosen Measurer of lands for ye Towne for ye yeere ensueing.
Miles Morgan & Thomas Miller are chosen to be Surveyors of ye high wayes for ye yeere en-sueinge.
At this Meeting there were hay wards chosen for the severall ffields of the Plantation for ye yeere ensueinge. Viz: John Clarke for ye house lotts & 3 corner meddow & the playne above End Brooke.
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And Lawrence Bliss for the ffeilds on ye West side of the Great River opposite to ye Towne & over Agawam River.
John Bagg for ye ffeild called Chickuppe.
And Samuell Ely for ye Long Meddow.
Consideration being had at this Meeting of the poore estate of some in the Plantation, who it is thought by some, need reliefe, certyne persons were appointed to consider of
their condition & to make report to ye Towne what they judge convenient to be done in the case: The persons chosen were:
It is voted & concluded yt Long Meddow bridge shal be made wth stone work on each side of the Brooke for ye tymber work to lye upon: and ye Selectmen are to sett forward the work & to take care & order for the doing thereof.
ffebruary 11th, 1666.
At a meeting of ye Selectmen: Among other things, there was granted to Serj. Stebbins upon his desire, liberty to build on his lott neere Robert Ashley's house.
ffebruary 3d, 1667.
Att a meeting of ye Selectmen amongst other things acted by them, they testify their approvall of Samuell Marshfields building on yt land he purchased of Peter Swink on ye west side of the great river by the comon fence.
May ye 2d, 1667.
Samuell Marshfield & Miles Morgan being appoynted by the Selectmen to lay out highwayes between the two brookes below Chickuppe playne both for going into ye playne & for the house lotts there: the said two persons have thus determined tht there shalbe a highway between Rice Bedortha's lott & Edm. Prinridayes five rod wide & at the reere of their lotts it turnes a little to ye hill & soe runneth six rod & half wide to the gate: and for a way to Richard Sikes, his lott by the lower brook, it is to be two rod wide & at the reere of their lotts it turnes a little to ye hill & where ye brooke bends neerest those lotts & at the reere of Edmunds lott & ffrancis Peppers, Joseph Crowfoote is to have one rod wide for passage to the highway in liew of wch each of them are to have halfe a rod wide in the flankes of their lotts out of that 6 rod wch was formerly left for the highway.
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Att the Generll Towne Meeting on ye first Tuesday in ffebruary, and the ffourth day of ye Month: 1667.
Capt. Pynchon is chosen Moderator for this Town meeting, & for all other Town Meetings in this Town this yeere ensueing.
And Lieut. Cooper, Miles Morgan, John Dumbleton, Benjamin Parsons & Elizur Holyoke are by the Towne chosen & Ordered to ye place of Selectmen for ye yeere ensueing who are to Order the Prudentiall affaires of ye Towne, who are in their places as the Law directs & according to what is specifyed in page 5th of this booke.
Lieut. Cowper & Elizur Holyoke are chosen a Comittee to examine the accounts of the Select men of the yeere last past who attended the work accordingly.
John Lamb is chosen & ordered to ye place & Office of a Constable for ye yeere ensueing: who tooke ye Oath belonging to his place.
The Selectmen above chosen for this yeere are also ordered & appoynted a Comittee for grannt of lands yt lye in comon & undisposed of according as they see reason & necessity. This their power to continue for the yeere ensueing.
Nathaneell Ely & Samuell Marshfield are chosen for Measurers of lands for ye yeere ensueing eyther of ym to doe ye worke as they are there unto called.
Robert Ashley & Samuell Bliss Senr are chosen for Measurers of lands for ye yeere ensueing: eyther of ym to doe ye worke as they are there unto called.
Robert Ashley & Samuell Bliss Sen'r. are chosen surveyors for ye highwayes for ye yeere ensueing. [III - 52.]
At this Genrll Towne meetinge there were also chosen hay wards for the severall comon ffields of the Plantation for ye yeare ensueinge, viz: John Clarke for ye home lotts & 3 corner meddow and playne above end brooke.
Joseph Crowfoot for ye ffeild over ye great River and over Agawam River.
John Riley for ye playne called Chickuppe.
And John Keepe for ye Long Meddow.
Mr. Glover by Deacon Chapin propoundinge to ye Plantation yt some p'ticular p'sons may be ingaged to see his rate yeerely paid.
The Plantation voted & Ordered yt a day being appoynted by the Deacon for paying of Mr. Glovers rate, one of the Selectmen at least shall attend & assist the Deacon to receive what is brought in, & if what is due be not then paid another day shalbe appoynted for bringing it in, at wch tyme one or more of ye Selectmen shall then also attend with the Deacon to receive wt shall then be due. And for what remaynes yet unpaid after two dayes waiting as abovesaid the Selectmen shall from yeere to yeere deliver ye Rate to Constable under their hands yt he may gather in the remaynder of the rate by distress.
There being found inconvenience in putting off the day soe long as formrly for paymt of Mr. Glovers rate, the Towne voted and Ordered yt when the Rates belonging to ye Town yearely are made & publisht, the Deacon shall then appoynt a day wch shall succeed quickly after for bringing in the rate for Mr. Glovers mayntenance: that soe yt rate (if it have not the prcendency yet) may be as soone paid as any other rate belonging to the Towne.
Benjamin Parsons propounding his desire to ye Towne for liberty to sett his fence in ye Street agt his barne about a foot & halfe or two foote.
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The former Selectmen, viz: Those yt were chosen on ye 5th day of ffebruary 1666, for the yeere from thence ensueing appoynting a Comittee by Order made under their hands for laying out a highway from ye South side of Agawam Rive into ye Comon etc, a coppy of their Order & of ye returne of the Comittee hereafter followeth:
The Selectmen consideringe ye great need that the Proprietors on ye West side of ye great river stand in, ffor want of a highway from ye South side of Agawam River into ye Comon for their passage to Windsor & to their meddow lands & severall other grannts, they doe therefore appoynt Thomas Stebbings, John Dumbleton, Lawrence Bliss & Rowland Thomas to lay out a highway from ye South Side of Agawam River & soe up the hill till they come to the Comon,
and they are to lay out the way in ye most convenient place: And they are to bound the highway & to consider all things about ye sd way what of any mans Land it passeth through & what work is done to ye sd way already, & they are to give their apprehensions about ye land that the way taketh up & soe to lay out the way & make their returne to ye Town Record yt it may be entered in the Towne booke ye Selectmen appoynt to be attended out of hand.
Springfield the 3 of ffebruary, 1667:
By ye Selectmen George Colton, Benjamin Cooley, Rowland Thomas, Nathaneell Ely and Samuell Marshfield.
The Comittees Returne.
Wee, Thomas Stebbins, John Dumbleton, Rowland Thomas & Lawrence Bliss being appoynted by the Selectmen to lay out a way over Agawam River into ye Comon, thinking this way to be the best, doe appoynt & lay out it to goe along the way as it is already, that is to Say, up the hill to Goodman Coopers & soe along by the North Side of his barne & soe strait through his yard about a rod wide through his yard & soe straight along between his ditch & the brow of ye hill next to the meddow & soe through Samuell Marshfields land according as the road does lye till you come into ye Comon and up the hill on ye right hand of ye way till you come into ye comon - we lay it to be two rod wide.
Recorded ffebruary 7, 1667.
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ffebruary 12th, 1667.
Att a Meeting of ye Proprietors of the ffeilds on the West side of ye Great River: It is voted & concluded yt the gate belonging to ye ffeild through wch stood above by Peter Swinks, shall for ye conveniency of the neighbors there, stand & be sett a little below Thomas Millers for ye present. And this being granted & concluded, for ye Conveniency of ye neighbors there, it occasioneth another gate to be made & sett between Lawrence Bliss & Joseph Crowfootes: for ye maynteyning whereof, the
p'sons yt live over ye River, haveing land in the field stand chargeable, they declaring their consent thereunto, till ye gate below Thomas Millers shall be ordered to be removed above yt highway where the new gate is sett.
And further it is agreed by & between Thomas Miller & the Proprietors of ye ffield there yt he the sd Thomas Miller shall & will make & mayteyne the water worke fence & all the fence from thence corss the street to his owne fence & all the fence fromthence cross the street to his owne fence by the street (excpeting ye gate way) wch fence he is to make soe far into ye river as to secure the ffield & both yt & the land fence to make & meynteyne sufficiently from the tyme yt the ffield is to be closed soe this next Spring till the ffield be ordered to be layed open towards the end of the summer & he is to prevent all damage to the ffield yt might come this way except such damage as shall come by ye gate being left open: he also is to take care of ye gate during that tyme to prvent what damage he may: for wch paynes cost & care of his, he is to be paid the summe of ffive & thirty shillings, every proprietor there being to pay his proportion according to his quantity of land in ye field and Capt. Pynchon & Elizur Holyoke are to pportion every mans share accordingly: & delivering the account to Thomas Miller & a day being sett for each man to carry in his pay who ever is behind at ye day appoynted shall pay the charges of fetching it in wch some of the pprietors shall see done: only those proprietors on this side yt River shall not be ingaged to carry ye pay over ye River to him but only to Capt. Pynchons or Mr. Holyokes for him.
And it is further Ordered & agreed yt whosoever shall leave open & not shut yt gate by Thomas Miller when the ffield is closed he shall pay [III - 55.] to the use & behoofe of the proprietor of land in yt ffield, the sum of two shillings & six pence wch Thomas Miller is to take notice of as well as he can & give account of: Only what the Indians are culpable yt way they are to pay six pence a tyme to ye use of Thomas Miller wch he is to gett of them yet soe as yt he make noe trouble or disturbance in gayning it.
Here followeth a Copy of an Order & an agreement of
the Proprietors of the ffield in the playne comonly called Chicuppe on ye West side of ye Great River.
Aprill ye 20th, 1667.
Att a meeting of the Proprietors of ye ffield over the great River in Chickuppe playne for settling what some belongs to every man for his land there: It is Ordered & agreed yt all the Proprietors there shall & will doe their portion of fence according to ye Number of acres of land wch they have in that ffield.
Only william Brookes his pportion of fence for his land there is determined and agreed to be Thirty rod agt the front of his land & one rod in the flank & no more, excepting for the water work to wch he is to doe only that pportion of water fence wch belongs to his land: And it is further Ordered & aggreed yt every mans fence shalbe at the reere of his own land (according as the first agreement was) viz: such whose land, goes back to the fence in the reere they shall have fence wch is sett agt their own land, their pportion of fence there to range exactly wth the range of every mans lott wch they shall take care of henceforth to repaire and maynteyne the same sufficiently from yeare to yeare & if any more fence belong to their share then is at ye breadth or end of their lotts in the reere they shall doe it in the flanks; & their pportion there being once sett out, each pprietor is to take care of the same, to repaire it sufficiently from tyme to tyme.
And it is pvided that if any mans land lyeth broader in the reere then his whole pportion of fence shall be done by some other whose land doth not come up to the fence there in the reare. And further such persons whose lands doth not come to the fence in ye reere their pportio of fence shall as neere as may be, be laid right agt their own land or elce in the flanks: and it is agreed yt every mans fence in ye flak shall lye in ye same order as every mans land doth lye: and it is agreed & concluded by all, that whosoever by this agreement shall come to have a worse fence from another man, that man who hath the better fence shall make the worse fence as good to him who now comes to take it as his better fence was to him before.
And it is agreed for the water work or fence into the River, yt every man shall have an interest there & each pprietor is to take care of his pportion of the water fence wch shal be done after this manner. The one half of the Proprietors shall see to take care of doe up & repaire the water fence one yeere, & the next yeere ye other halfe of ye Proprietors shall see to, do up, & repaire ye water fence, & soe from yeere in a constant curse: And there being a present sixteene proprietors, tis aggreed that for this yeare:
shall take care of the water fence to see it a sufficient fence, well done at both ends to secure the ffield. And for ye next yeere:
shall take care of it, to doe all ye water fence sufficiently & well for ye ffield from cattell of all sorts. And soe in a constant course from yeere to yeere for continuance, the one half of those Propiretors or their successors each other yeare to take the whole charge of all the water fence. And it is further aggreed that Samuell Marshfield & Serjant Stebbins who are to be paid by Serj. Morgan shalbe procured to lay out each Proprietors proportion of the fence, wth what speed may bee, who are likewise (in case of need) to judge & determine what shalbe allowed by any p'son to him yt hath the worse fence.
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Also Serj. Morgan is ordered & desired to take care of the speedy setling this work, and to gett Samuell Marshfield & Serj. Stebbings about it: and the tyme being sett for it he is to give notice to all ye proprietors to attend to see where their fence shall lye & to stake it out & take charge thereof for further. All these things being fully agreed yt this agreement shall by Serj. Miles Morgan be forthwith caryed to ye Recorder of the Town, & by him it is to be entered into ye Town Booke, there to stand upon Record & remayne as a full settlement of & for the securing of the field aforesaid not only for the present but for the future.
The names of the Proprietors yt were prsent at this agreement are as follows, viz:
John Riley by his deputy
Absent only John Scott.
This agreement was made on ye day above said in ye presence of & before mee, John Pynchon, Assist:
Recorded ffebruary ye 20th 1667. By me, E. Holyoke, Recorder.
Att a Towne Meeting ffebruary 26, 1667. ffor the yeere insueing, viz: 1668.
There were persons chosen & appoynted for Overseers of the severall companyes of Workes at the highwayes yt belong to ye said p'ticular companyes mentioned in page 24, 25, 26, viz:
John Harmon for ye way up the hill over ye Mill River.
George Colton for ye way to ffresh water River.
Thomas Day for ye way to 16 acres.
William Branch for the upper wharfe & ye way vr ye New bridge.
Richard Sikes for ye Lower wharfe.
Serj. Stebbins for ye playne above End brooke.
Samuell Marshfield for ye way from ye great river to Agawam falls and yt down by ye black pond.
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Thomas Miller for ye way into the woods by William Hunters & for ye way over ye Muxy meddow & to see it finished, for wch end, the Inhabitants on yt side of ye River are this yeere to be free from ye Countrey highway, wch tyme they are to spend in making a Causeway over ye wett meddow. John Bagg for ye way by Rice Bedortha & to Chickuppe playne.
And the sd persons are to call their severall companyes together when theire yeere is expired to choose other overseeres in their roomes, or elce in defect or neglect thereof they are to stand another yeere, and till they doe appoynt a Meeting of their sd Companyes to settle others: and if they be defective not attending their work, they are to pay for their neglect as ye Town Order directs: and that noe p'son called by the Overseers to highway may neglect their duty, it is Ordered yt in case of defect they shalbe to all penaltyes as for Countrey highwayes. And the Selectmen are to be acquainted therewith & to deal therein accordingly.
Joseph Crowfoote upon his Petition to ye Towne was released of payment of 6s 6d being the Townes share of a fyne for defective fences wch he was judged to pay by the last Selectmen.
It is voted & Ordered yt there shalbe a way for ye Towne to ye Saw Mill: And Anthony Dorchester & Rowland Thomas are appoynted to view & consider how the said way may be over ye Mill River at ye Old Mill Dam & soe to ye Sawmill to fetch boards or otherwise, & they are to make report to ye Selectmen how they judge it may be easyest effected: And the Selectmen are to Order ye making ye same as they shall judge most meet.
The inhabitants at Skeepmuck by reason of the charge they have been at about their highways are released from from being required or caled to ye Countrey highwayes for this yeere that is now coming on.
Charles Ferry his engagement or condition on his Grant of land at Skeepmuck wch he desired may be taken off, is left to the discretion of ye Selectmen to act therein as they shall see reason for.
[III - 59.]
March ye 4th, 1667-8
Att a Meeting of ye Selectmen they being all prsent, viz:
The said Selectmen apprehending yt there is a necessity of a highway for the Neighbors on ye West side of the great river into ye comons over Agawam River, and considering likewise wt was acted by ye Selectmen of ye yeere 1665, concerning a highway into those comons laid out by them, but neglected to be entered or recorded in the town booke:
The prsent Selectmen doe therefore now order a highway from the flatts or sholes or wading place in Agawam River to neere the lowest end of Goodman Leonards little pasture yt is fenced in, at the head of ye meddow, & there it is to cross ye little Swampe in ye said pasture, to ye poynt of Lieut. Coopers hill & soe to run under the northerly side of ye said hill
Sloping up the hill, till it come to ye top of yr hill, & from thence it is to run along by the brow of ye hill to ye hollow at ye westerly end of his land & soe into ye comons: All wch way is to be two rod broad; and considering yt a highway thus to lye will occasion a necessity of a common gate to be sett up at ye bottome of ye hill where ye way enters the hill, & another at the Westerly end of Lieut. Coopers land where he fenceth it in: The Selectmen doe Order yt such gates shalbe made by the Town or Proprietor's on the West side of ye great River for whose sake the way is laid out: The charges of wch way & gates is to be determined by the Towne.
And whereas this way will take up about an acre & half of Lieut. Coopers land, & be incumbrance thereunto, & about three quarters of an acre of Goodman Leonards land & be incumbrance thereunto, and the law requiring in such case that owners of lands shall have satisfaction (for such lands as are soe taken & improved for ye publike) to be judged by persons on both sides, viz: such owners part & on ye Selectmens part: therefore the said Owners of land, viz: Leiut. Cooper & Goodman Leonard did each of them chuse Anthony Dorchester & Jonathan Burt, and ye Selectmen chose Serg. Stebbins & Thomas Bancroft wch said four p'sons did determine & aggree yt Lieut Cooper shalbe allowed 30 shillings for the land of his soe taken up & incumbrance thereby: The said summes of money to be paid wthin 12 months from this tyme, by them whom the Town shall determine. And to this agreemt the Selectmen & the said 4 p'sons called to judg in this case did sett their hands.
[III - 60.]
Att a Town meeting, March 1667-8.
It being declared that there is not a sufficient pportion of gun powder in ye Towne stock to satisfy the Law, and Capt. Pynchon haveing a barrell of powder by him wch was bought for the Towne, when it was at a dear rate, he propounded to ye Town, that if the Towne would grant him that house lott of ye Townes,
wch is above Robert Asheleyes neere the round hill he would lett them have One halfe of ye said barrell of powder wch the Towne did yeeld unto, and thereuppon granted him the said lott conteyning ffoure acres; wth this provision that if the Town did pay into him the summe of seaven pounds in wheat wthin one yeere for ye said powder then the said lott is to returne into ye Townes hands.
Likewise it is by vote declared that ye highway laid out by the prsent Selectmen on the back side of Lieut. Coopers hill over Agawam River shalbe the way for passing into ye Comon that way, wch the Inhabitants on ye West Side of ye great River are to make according to ye Ordr of ye Selectmen, when ye said Inhabitants shall fynd necessity thereof:
November 26th, 1668.
At a Towne meeting in reference chiefly to satisfying Mr. Glover pleadying the inconveniency of his house, and telling us, that his Stipend will not enable him to build for his conveniency: It was voted & concluded yt ye Town will make an addition to his house, much waht answerable to the new addition yt Nathaneel Ely, hath made to his house: and for carrying on the work Capt. Pynchon, George Colton, Nathaneel Ely & Lieut. Cooper are chosen & Ordered to aggree wth a workman to doe ye said work: and ye said 3 p'sons or any three of them are Ordered to see yt ye work be carryed on to effect: and what aggreement shal be made by them about the work shalbe pformed by the Towne: and the Selectmen are to make a rate for payment for ye work.
Att ye said Town meeting Serjeant Stebbin requesting of the Towne, that he may exchange his foure acres of meddow that lye a little below Robert Ashleyes house, for soe much of the Towns meddow lott wch adjoynes to the Norterly Side of the said ffoure acres out of the Townes meddow for his sd ffoure acres: The Town did vote leave it to ye Selectmen to take a view of the said lands and to make a conclusion of or on wth Sergent Stebbin as they should see cause: The Selectmen viewed those lands the same day, & doe conceive
that the Town will be noe looser by such exchange of lands wth Serjeant Stebbin: and therefore doe determine that his desires therein shalbe grannted. And where as the sd Sergeants meddow is ditched at both ends, he casts that into the bargayne. [III - 61.]
At ye Generll Town Meeting on ye first Tuesday in ffebruary being ye 2nd day of the Month Anno DM 1688.
Capt. Pynchon is chosen Moderator for ye Town Meeting this day.
Nathaneel Ely & Samuell Marshfield are chosen a comittee to examine the account of the Selectmen ye yeere now last past.
Capt. Pynchon, Quartermaster Colton, Nathaneell Ely, Samuell Marshfield, & Lawrence Bliss are chosen for Selectmen for ye yeere ensuing: Who are impowered to act as in page 5th of this Book.
Joseph Taylor is chosen Constable for ye yeere ensueing who had his oath administered to him respecting that Office by ye Worpll Capt. Pynchon.
Elizur Holyoke is chosen to be Clerke or Recorder to the Towne for ye yeere ensuing.
The Selectmen above chosen are likewise for the yeere ensueing Ordered & appoynted a Comittee for granting of lands yt lye in Comon & undisposed of accordinge as they see reason and necessity.
Nathaneel Ely & Samuell Marshfield are chosen for Measurers of lands in this towne for the yeere ensueing: eyther of ym to doe the work as they are thereunto called.
William Warrener & John Keepe are chosen Surveyors for the Country Highwayes of this Towne for the yeere ensueing.
Likewise for hay wards for ye severall comon ffields of this Town there were chosen:
John Clarke for ye house lotts. John Hitchcock for ye playne & 3 corner meddow. Obadiah Miller for ye playne & 3 corner meddow.
River over against ye Towne.
Edmund Prinridayes for ye playne called Chickuppe.
And Samuell Ely for ye Long Meddow.
[III - 62.]
At this Genrll Towne Meeting, the Town granted unto Abell Wright upon his request certayn lands at Worronoco, that is to say ten acres on ye South side of Worronoco River & on ye westerly side of ye little River by the fort, wch ten acres is to lye up ye River above ye fence: Also ten acres on ye North side of ye River beyond ye cellars: and ffourteen acres of Meddowish land up the little river, former grannts being first laid out. Also a house lott of six acres.
And whereas Serj. Stebbin hath had a grannt of lands at Worronoco, on condition yt he goe thither & yet haveing been at much paynes & charge to pmote the good of ye place, he now requests of ye Town yt his said grannt of land there may devolve upon one of his sons: Whereupon ye Town did vote & determine yt one of his sons shall have the said lands (on ye same conditions yt his father had ye grannt) if the people there shall approve of him; and if they shall not approve of him then Serjantt Stebbin shall have liberty to make sale of ye said lands soe grannted pvided it be to one yt the people there shall approve of to come & dwell there.
Also there is grannted unto John Munn ten acres of lande at Worronoco where Abell Wright hath his ten acres on ye North side of ye River & ten acres wth Abell Wrights 14 acres up ye little River & a home lott. This grannt & ye grannt to Abell Wright are on Condition that they goe thither to dwell before the next winter & yt they continue thee five yeeres from yt tyme.
Also there is grannted to Thomas Noble a little peece of land at Worronoco about an acr on ye side of ye hill above the Indian fort there, pvided it be noe hindrance to any highway already laid out or to be laid out & yt it be not intangled by any other grant.
The inhabitants at Worronoco by Mr. James Cornish,
Thomas Dewey & Thomas Noble Propose a Township Six Miles Square.
Thomas Dewey & Thomas Noble makeing severall ppositions to this Plantation at this Towne Meetinge, namely, that we would determine the bounds betwixt us & them, & settle where the line shall run betwixt us, as also that wee would appoint the Comittee or some other to Order their prudentill affaires or allow them to be a Township, that they might order their owne matters. And further yt wee would depty some [III - 63.] persons to lay out ye six miles square grannted them by the Generall Court & by the said Court appoynted to be laid out by this Towne or some p'sons deputed by us.
This Towne did take into consideration ye said p'ticulars, and being willing to p'mote & further them being a Township, did in ye first place vote & determine to allow them most of the land on the other side of Paucatuck brook by Woronoco River on ye Northerly side of ye sd River: and for setling that line betwixt us & them, George Colton, Nathaneell Ely & Rowland Thomas are chosen, appoynted & impowered to view & take notice of the lands there-about & to consider where about on ye Westerly side of Paucatuck brooke they shall conceive it is most meete the lyne betwixt us & them should run, that is to say from Agawam or Worronoco River: & soe Northerly or Norwesterly towards Northampton: And accordingly ye afore said persons have power to determine & to fix the bounds betwixt us & them in that quarter: And at that place where the dividing line comes to ye River it is to cross the River to the South side of the River, and from thence towards Windsor a direct south lyne is to be the bounds between us & them, except it will not take in the ledge of mountaynes for Worronoco, wch if it doe not, then it is hereby Ordered & grannted that this lyne on the South side of Agawam river shall run soe much Easterly from ye South side of Agawam river shall run soe much Easterly from ye South as to give them the Mountaynes & then the ledte of Mountaynes is to be the bounds betwixt us & them: and ye said p'sons thus chosen to run the lyne betweene us & Them are to make returne of their worke to this Towne yt it may be entered in ye Publike Record of ye Towne.
In ye next place as to allowing them to be a Township & releasing them from us, this Towne doth determine, order & appoynt that ye Comittee now in being, formerly chosen for granting lands & ordering matters at Worronoco, Soe as might best conduce to make them a Town of themselves, viz: Capt. John Pynchon, Elizur Holyoke, George Colton, Benjamin Cooley & Nathaneel Ely shall at some convenient tyme after this Town Meeting repaire to Woronoco & settle all matters touching that place referring to grants & orders made by the said Comittee wth ye Inhabitants thee are to make choyce of a meet number of ye fittest persons [III - 64.] there for ordering their Prudentiall affaires, and to choose them a Clerk or Recorder, Surveyors of highwayes, a Constable & other needfull Officers: And the Comittee haveing thus managed matters & furthered their work for a Township, the Comittee are to be discharged of their trust, and ye inhabitants there are to be left to themselves to order theire owne matters, or as the Honored General Court shall further order: and wee hope the Court will see cause to Order them to be a Township & that they through the favor of God may grow up into a comforable Society, & be a happy Neighborhood to us & our ffriends & theirs.
And whereas the Honored General Court in October last uppon a petition presented to ym from ye people dwelling at Woronoco for inlargmt of their accomodations of land, etc., did make an addition of land to them to ye content of Six mile square & left it to this Town of Springfield or whom we should appoynt for ye management of ye matter: This Towne doth now therefore Order & appoynt Mr. James Cornish, John Roote, Thomas Dewey & John Sackett or any three of them to lay out the aforesaid grannt of land adjoyning to what is already allowed them from this towne, or as shalbe most to ye advantage of ye Inhabitants of Worronoco: only they are not to intrench upon ye bounds fixt & sett, or to be sett as aforesaid between them & us.
The brand mark for this Towne appoynted by the Generall Court being after the form sett in ye margent being an S & P conjoyned.
The Towne did at this General meeting appoynt Samuell Marshfield to keep ye said brandmark & to brand therewth ye horses belonging to this Plantaton: for his labor wherein because there are many horses to be branded, he is to have for ye prsent but two pence per horse for those yt he shall brand, but hereafter he is to have three pence per horse for all that he shall brand. [III - 65.]
June 18th, 1669.
Reverend Glover Proposes Leaving Springfield.
A Towne Meeting being called in respect to our Reverend Mr. Glover, lately declaring himself as purposed to leave his work & station as to this place, chiefly for that he apprhends that we are not able comfortably to maynteyne him: The Towne haveing discussed the thing, & examined their owne abilities, did by vote conclude to stand their apprehensions to Our Rev. Teacher Mr. Glover in writing wch was prsently done accordingly: A coppy whereof here follows:
Letter to Rev. Glover from Elizur Holyoke.
"Sir, wee are very much affected wth tis sad providence by this motion of yours for leaving us, & the rather beinge soe sensible of Our generall inability to increase your stipend at prsent, by reason of Gods hand upon us by the flood & blast, & that at such a tyme as we have taken in hand the building of a house for you wch through the help of God, we shall goe on wth, the cost whereof wilbe neere one hundre pounds to us, besides the 80 pounds of your stipend wch by the Lords assistance we shall endeavor punctually to pforme, & make good in ye best manner we can, notwthstanding all the difficulties of the yeere wch doe retard our doing further according as your needs call for it enlarge, & doe to our utmost ability & that according as God shall bless us; that soe you may live honorably & wthout distraction in yur employment. And we intreat your acceptance of these, our sincere intentions, & the manifestations of your love & affections to us, by yor cheerfull going
on in yor Ministeriall work (in this place) wch wee take soe much contention & cannot neyther dare quitt our interest in, but must according to God hold it fast to our utmost all words of parting being like darts forbid the thoughts of change. Elizur Holyoke" Recorded in the Name & by ye appoyntmt of the Towne. Springfield - 4: 18th 1669.
These for the Reverend Mr. Pelatiah Glover, Minister of the Word in Springfield:
The Original hereof was sent to Mr. Glover (by Capt. Pynchon & others) from the Town Meeting who perused it, but then hee much insisted on his desire for a release from us; for he said he knew we were not able to abide to what we doe, wch he said would not mainteyne him but urging for his liberty he said his mind was gone (fixed). Which returne of his was presented to the Towne at ye same Meeting. [III - 66.]
ffebruary 12th, 1669.
Att a meeting of ye Selectmen:
Whereas there is a highway above ye Comon fence on ye West Side of ye great river laid Twenty rod wide by ye comon fence towards Agawam River & ordered it to be continued Soe wide till it came over the wett meddow or further, it was Ordered yt the sd highway shall be continued twenty rod wide all along by ye Said fence to Agawam River. This ptly for highway sake & ptly for comonage for cattle: 20 rod wide is to be alwayes continued comon from ye great River to Agawam River.
April 7th, 1669.
At a meeting of ye Selectmen, Eliakim Hitchcock of New Haven desiring to be admitted into this Township to dwell, hath liberty soe to doe provided he bring certificate from New Haven yt he is an Orderly liver: & that his father there desire it & assist him in his remove & yt he procure 2 sufficient men of this Town to enter into the £30 Bond to secure the Township by yt said Hitchcock or any of his family.
Aprill 23, 1669. Att a Meeting of ye Selectmen:
Among other things they made this Order followinge:
Whereas severall p'sons complayning yt they cannot gett their neighbors where their fences is in p'ticular to make up their fence sufficient, & all because the viewers are not requireable to view p'ticular & partionall fences: And whereas the Town Order sayeth yt p'ticular fence betwixt lott & lott shalbe ordered by ye Selectmen: The Selectmen doe now therefore Order yt where there are complaynts agt neighbors in yt kind in such case when eyther neighbors desire it; the viewers yeerely appoynted shall view such ptitional fences from tyme to tyme and shall have power to allow or disallow of them according as they doe or may the genrll & comon fences of corn ffields: wch fence disallowed or declared defective by any viewers shall forthwith by the Proprietor or owner of it amended & made sufficient to the secure his neighbor from damage according to the judgmt of ye viewers. [III - 67.]
October ye 5th, 1699.
This Town at ye Genrll Town Meeting on ye 2nd day of ffebraury last, upon ye desire of ye Inhabitants of Westfield propounded to this Plantation at ye said meeting, viz: yt this Town would Order & settle the bounds in the lands betwixt this Town and them, did appoynt a Comittee, viz: Quartermaster Colton, Nathaneel Ely & Rowland Thomas for yt work as in ye Order of ffebruary 2nd, 1668, more at large appeareth: And the said Comittee did on this 5th day of October 1669, repaire to ye lands about Paucatuck, & haveing taken good survey of thelands thereabout, did come to a resolution what shalbe accounted the bounds betwixt this Town of Springfield & ye Town of Westfield in respect of ye lands, on ye North side of Woronok River: And therefore in Order to fixing the bounds betwixt us & them in that quarter, the said Comittee concluded & determined yt a due north lyne from a white Oak tree neere the said River wch ye said Comittee marked, shall be & be accounted the bounds betweene our Town of Springfield & the Towne of Westfield: The said white Oak soe marked is between ye two first dingles be-
yond ye low lands at Paucatuck & neere the furthest of ye two dingles: and because from ye said marked tree right cross the River & thence Southerly a direct South lyne will not take in ye Mountayne for ye Town of Westfield therefore the Mountayne is to be the bounds betwixt our Town and Westfield according as our Townes said act of ffebruary last doth determine: And herein the Said Comittee fully aggreeing have hereunto sett their hands.
January 3, 1669.
At a meeting of ye Selectmen: amongst other their acts. A motion being made in writing by Joseph Parsons of Northampton for liberty to purchase a p'cell of land (belonging to this Township) of Thomas Copley, wch land lyes at ye foot of ye higher falls in ye great River his desire therein is granted as also liberty for him to build on ye said land is granted him according to his desire. [III - 68.]
Att ye Generall Towne Meetinge on the 1st Tuesday in ffebruary: being ye 1st day of ye Month Anno Dm 1669.
Capt. Pynchon is chosen Moderator for this Towne Meetinge.
Lieut. Cooper & Deacon Chapin are chosen a Comittee to examine the accounts given in by the Selectmen now going off. And ye sd Committee attended ye worke.
Capt. Holyoke, Lieut. Cooper, Ensign Cooley, Benjamin Parsons, & Henry Chapin are chosen Selectmen for the yeere ensueing who are to order the Prudentiall affaires of the Town as ye Law directs & as is declared in page 5th of this Booke.
Also Capt. Holyoke is chosen Recorder to this Town for ye yeere ensueinge.
Samuell Terry is chosen Constable for ye yeere ensueing who had ye Oath respecting yt Office administered to him by ye Worppll Capt. Pynchon.
Nathaneell Ely & Samuell Marshfield are chosen Land Measurers for ye yeere ensueing.
John Clark & John Bliss are chosen Surveyors for ye Country highwayes for ye yeere ensueinge.
The Selectmen above mentioned as chosen, are for ye
yeere ensueing impowered to grannt lands yt lye in comon according as they shall apprhend reasonable & necessary.
The hay wards for ye severall comon fields chosen for ye yeere ensuing are Thomas Miller for ye ffield over ye River: opposite ye Town. Rice Bedortha for Chickupe ffield. John Clarke for ye home lotts: John Keepe for ye Long Meddow.
It is agreed & determined yt for want of a pound at Chickuppe a good yard shall be allowed & accounted to pass for a pound.
It is ordered that the Selectmen hencefoward from tyme to tyme, when they shall have occasion to meete a day to order ye Town affaires, their necessary expences for ye dinners shalbe allowed & paid by the Towne. [III - 69.]
ffurthermore the Town calling over former accounts & fynding due to ye Towne:
By ye Selectmens accounts in Anno 1667 2£ 10s 7p And by ye Selectmens accounts Anno 1668 2 03 0 4£ 13s 7p
The town voted that the p'sons wch were Selectmen in those yeeres cleare the accounts & pay in those summes making 4£ 13s 7d to the Committee for Mr. Glovers house & doe hereby impower the sd comittee, viz: Capt. Pynchon, George Colton, Lieut. Cooper & Nathaneell Ely or any 3 of them to recover the same.
The Inhabitants over the River are freed from ye Countrey highwayes this next yeere upon condition they finish the highway begun over the West meddow neere Samuell Marshfields and in case they neglect to make yt way a sufficient highway this next summer, for yt neglect they shall next yeere allow to the Country highway over & above their then proportion so much more as they are this yeere freed from it.
The Towne taking notice of much charge about highwayes: & p'ticularly about the Long Meddow bridge wch is observed to be more used by Hadly then by this Towne: And remembring yt in ye settlemt of ye charge about bridges in the County roadewayes it was agreed yt Hadley should allow towards ye charge of that bridge in case it appered their use would be considerable: It is therefore ordered that ye Selectmen take care thereof & write to Hadley that their joyning & carrying on what is needfull & reasonable therein be by them attended: that this Towne haveing done much to yt bridge they may doe what is remayning to be done about it.
fforasmuch as there hath been hitherto some neglect in p'viding for ye Deputy wch this Towne sends yeerly to ye Generall Court, pay not [III - 70.] being seasonably had in for him by meanes whereof many tymes his diet at Boston is too long unsatisfyed for, besides other discouragmts for want of wherewth to defray his necessary expences, all wch to p'vent for future: It is Ordered yt henceforth there shalbe a sett allowance to ye Deputy wch this Towne shall send to ye Gen'll Court, Viz: ffoure pounds for his tyme, horse & all his expenses at One Session of the Court or by reason of his attendance thereatt wch ffoure shall always be paid to ye Deputy before hand & that in good pay at least three pounds of it in wheat: but in case ye yeeres proove anything tollerable for wheat the whole pay to be in yt grayn besides wheate unless he desie it. And for ye yeere now next coming by reason of the Townes want of pay in hand: Capt Pynchon pffers to give 20 shillings towards it, & the Town orders yt ye other three pounds shalbe raysed on the Inhabitants forthwth & all to be speedily gathered in & delivered to him that shalbe chosen Deputy for the first Session of the next General Court that soe he may have it to turne into money for his best advantage: and for future ye Selectmen from tyme to tyme are yearly before thier going out of their places to adde into other Towne
charges this foure pounds every yeare to be raysed on the Inhabitants of this Towne for their Deputy. And out of what the Selectmen have & are hereby inabled to have in hand of the Townes, they are hereby injoyned always in ye first place to pvide & take care that the Deputy to serve may have the summe aforesaid delivered unto him at least three pounds of it in wheate as aforesaid or in pay equivalent to wheat or money that soe all just discouragemts on our Deputyes may henceforth be avoyded by such seasonable allowance to him for his tyme & expenses.
[III - 71.]
Att a Town Meeting March 23d, 1669-70.
This Towne haveing formerly appoynted Mr. James Cornish, John Roote, John Sackett & Thomas Dewey or any three of them to lay out the quantity of six mile square grannted to Westfield by the Honored General Court, and finding that ye aformentioned p'sons have hitherto soe neglected the said work that unless some speedy course be taken or others appoynted there unto that shall more readily attend it, wee shalbe altogether unable to render an account to ye next General Court. Therefore considering the act of the General Court leaving yt worke to our Town, & that there may be noe further needless neglect on our part: this Town doth now order & appoynt Capt. Holoke, Quartermaster Colton, Rowland Thomas & Samuell Marshfield to ye said work hereby calling in & making voyd the power we conferred upon Mr. Cornish & the rest above said, forasmuch as they have not done their work in their yeere.
And the said Capt. Holyoke, Quartermaster Colton, Samuell Marshfield & Rowland Thomas or any three of them are hereby appoynted a Comittee whom this Towne doth now order & impower to lay out the content of Six Mile Square grannted to Westfield & Ordered by the General Court to be laid out by some that Springfield should appoynt thereunto: All wch worke is to be done by the said Capt. Holyoke, Quartermaster Colton, Samuell Marshfield & Rowland Thomas or any three of them are hereby appoynted a Comittee whom this Towne doth now order & impower tyo lay out the content
of Six Mile Square grannted to Westfield & Ordered by the General Court to be laid out by some that Springfield should apoynt thereunto: All wch work is to be done by the said Capt. Holyoke, Quartermaster Colton, Samuell Marshfield & Rowland Thomas or any three of them before the 15th day of Aprill next: wherefore they are forthwth to acquaint the Inhabitants of Westfield herewth & inform them of & appoynt the tyme when they shall attend ye work,' that soe Westfield may have opportunity to depute & send some p'sons to goe along wth them to consider & advise about the convenient laying out of the aforesaid tract of land & to observe & take notice where their bounds shalbe laid: And all being done & effected by our now impowered Comittee they are to give an account thereof to this Towne that returne thereof may be made to the Honored General Court.
[III - 72.]
Here followeth ye Returne of the Comittee (mentioned in ye foregoing page) appoynted by this Towne to lay out the Six mile Square grannted to Westfield (for their Township) by ye General Court which returne was prsented to this Towne and a coppy thereof to the General Court:
Springfield, Aprill ye 14th, 1670.
"We whose Names are here subscribed being a Comittee appoynted by the Town of Springfield for ye laying out the quantity of Six mile Square granted to Westfield by the Honorred Generall Court, have attended the said Work; and therefore doe hereby declare how their said quantity of land shall lye, that is to say, the said quantity of land is laid out to them five Mile broad at ye Northerly end thereof, extending from a Pine tree marked at the East mountayne to a White oak marked at the West mountayne andit runneth Southerly nine mile, that is to saye from the Said Pine tree, holding the course of the South South West poynt upon the Meridian compass. And at the Southerly end of their Nine Mile their limits are ffoure mile broad westward: and the ledge of Mountaynes is to be the bounds between Springfield & Westfield: Within this tract of land there is conteyned the
quantity of about three Square miles grannted before by Springfield to Westfield and about the quantity of two square miles in reference to the farmes of the Worthy Major Atherton & Capt. Clapp.
At a Town Meeting Aprill ye 17th, 1670. The Inhabitants of Westfield intreating for some more accommodations of land towards Springfield then was formerly grannted to them by Springfield, that is to say some inlargement on this Side of the Mountayne wch is on ye South Side of their River: This Town doth grannt unto them all the land between yt bridge called Logg Bridge & the Mountayne that is to Say, all ye land that lyeth between the Mountayne & a direct lyne drawn from the said bridge to a white oak marked about 30 rod from ye Northerly end of the pond that lyes by ye East Side of ye Mountayne & wch is about a mile from ye Said bridge: And from the Said marked tree the dividing lyne is drawn to ye Mountayne: and then they are to keepe to ye Mountayne as the bounds between them & us, and from the said bridge down to Woronoke River that little brook or gutter is to be the bounds between us & them.
[III - 73.]
October ye 12th, 1670.
Att a meeting of the Selectmen they being all present.
It is Ordered that there shalbe a highway of 5 or 6 rod broad from ye way that leades to ye Mill up to ye cart bridge that is over the Mill River & soe from that bridge up into the Pyne playne on ye South side of ye Mill River, to be laid in place most convenient by Benjamin Parsons, Jonathan Burt & Nathaneel Pritchard.
It is Ordered that there shallbe a highway by the fence on the back side of the Long Meddow (viz: within the fence) two rod broad from Nathaneel Bruts upper lott down to ye bridge (over Long Meddow brook) in ye way by the River along through Nathaneel Burts upper lott, to the backer fence by the pond: This being for passage into ye Woods yt way: This highway Capt. Pynchon protesteth against: viz: that by his mill mentioned above: Ffebruary 7, 1670.
Att ye General Town Meeting ffebruary 7, 1670.
The Worppll Capt. Pynchon is chosen Moderator for this Town Meeting.
Samuell Marshfield & George Colton are chosen a Comittee to examine ye accounts of ye Selectmen yt are now going off.
Capt. Pynchon, George Colton, Samuell Marshfield, Rowland Thomas & John Dumbleton are chosen for Selectmen for ye yeere ensueing, to order ye Prudentiall affaires of this Towne: Who also have power to grannt lands yt lye in comon & undiposed of in this Township as they see necessary & convenient.
Capt. Holyoke chosen Recorder to ye Town for ye yeere who is to have 20 shillings allowed him for his work this yeere in keeping ye Town Records & entering such things as concerned the Town in general.
[III - 74.]
Jonathan Ashley constable for ye yeere ensueing had his Oath administered by ye Worthy Capt. Pynchon.
Samuell Marshfield & Nathaneel Ely chosen Measurers of lands for ye yeere ensueing.
Anthony Dorchester & Timothy Cooper are chosen Surveyors of ye County wayes for ye yeere ensueing.
Nathaneel Burt is freed of work to ye County highwayes this yeere in regard of charges of wayes for his own use wch others also have benefit.
Capt. Pynchon, Elizur Holyoke, George Colton, Samuell Marshfield, Nathaneell Ely & Serj. Stebbins are chosen a Comittee to consider of highwayes and to determine both where they shall lye & who shalbe called to make & maynteyne ye same.
Hay wards chosen for ye generall or comon fields are John Clarke for ye home lotts. Edward ffoster for ye ffields on ye West side of ye great river opposite to ye Towne: John Bagg for ye ffield called Chickuppe, Isaack Colton for ye Long Meddow.
ffurthermore at this Towne Meeting it is ordered that if any lands be grannted hereafter to any person, the wood & tymber upon such lands shall be free for any p'sons to take as they shall need til such lands shall be fenced.
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[This is a repost from my blog doolwind.com and#altdevblogaday]
We've just wrapped up our first game that employs full Test Driven Development (TDD) practices. I'll share my experiences, good and bad, now that we're completely finished the first version of the project. I've spoken previously about Test Driven Game Development (TDGD) but a lot of that was theoretical so today I'd like to give some more concrete thoughts on how TDGD helped with the creation of Battle Group.
Test Driven Game Development?
The idea behind Test Driven Game Development is writing automated Unit Tests to confirm the correctness of your production code. Unit tests can be written to test all areas of a game from gameplay to rendering engines and anything in between. As I stated previously, there are three main goals from TDGD:
- Find out when code breaks. If you make a code change that breaks something that was previously working (and is tested) you will know about it immediately.
- Forces modular code. For code to be "unit testable" it must be modular with clear boundaries and "separation of concerns" between various systems.
- Allows you to “find the fun”. Once you’re guaranteed that certain requirements are met, you’re free to experiment with gameplay to make it more enjoyable without breaking the game. This also extends to giving designers more freedom when scripting. Encouraging experimentation by designers without programmer intervention is invaluable.
How We Did It
In general the development of new gameplay features followed these steps:
- Design the unit test for the new feature, testing the outward interface seen by the rest of the system
- Implement the feature as quickly as possible, cutting corners as needed so the feature is playable in the quickest time possible
- The team tests the feature, makes sure it's working and fun and we make iterative improvements to it
- Once happy with the feature I then refactor the code to clean up any shortcuts and make it the optimal solution
This system worked extremely well and lead to a high development velocity both for the creation of new features and maintenance/update of existing features.
All of the unit tests created for Battle Group were testing gameplay code as this is the most complex area of our game. Unity does the heavy lifting for most of the technology based systems (eg rendering, input) freeing us to have ~90% of the code in the project related directly to gameplay. The main motivation for this testing was to allow us to rapidly develop features and experiment with existing code without breaking existing systems. For the most part, this motivation was met throughout the lifetime of the project. While the gameplay stayed fairly constant throughout the 4 month development cycle, there were a couple of major changes we made and the unit tests were invaluable during these changes.
Battle Group started out (as most games do) as a game design document. We then prototyped the game, tweaked the design document and began working on the alpha build. This design document was translated into unit tests. While I (the programmer) was responsible for this, I plan in the future for our game designer to begin to take over the role of writing gameplay specific unit tests. As the project progresses, the artifacts of its design move from a static design document/wiki to an active, maintained set of unit tests. As design changes requests came in from the team I would focus my time on updating the unit tests to match the new design.
What About Prototyping?
We did not create these unit tests during the prototyping stage (about a week's work) as this was a throwaway prototype and unit tests would have slowed us down without much real value. One of the negatives related to TDGD is the reduction in velocity while making fairly major changes to the codebase. This is often the case while prototyping and therefore I strongly urge against TDGD during the prototyping phase of your development, particularly throw away prototypes.
The prototyping phase is a great opportunity to start fleshing out the design of your testing suite however. As you work on the core features of the game you can see where the bulk of the coding effort is likely to go and also which areas are most susceptible to change throughout the life of the project. A good example of this was the blast radius and velocity of the weapons used in Battle Group. Small changes to this had a major impact on the feel, flow and accessibility of the game. For this reason I made sure that this was both easy to change and robust in the changes I made. As velocities increased the distance traveled per frame became quite large. Coupled with this was the low physics frame rate on older mobile devices and it was crucial that we had repeatable behavior at varying frame rates and data values. As I had already planned to implement TDGD post-prototype I was mindful of these areas of code and made a mental note to test these areas first and thoroughly.
Whenever I discuss TDD with someone in or outside the game development industry, there's often a heated discussion about code coverage. Code coverage is the percentage of production code that is "covered" by unit tests. There are purists that claim you're not really doing true TDD without 100% code coverage and there are others who say some arbitrary percentage is enough. My stance is that the game/code itself should determine the code coverage you should aim for. Sometimes certain tests are causing more trouble than good (eg changing a few lines of code requires 10 times more lines of unit testing code to be updated). Either the tests need a rethink in the way they are implemented or it's best just to remove them.
I didn't "watch the clock" when it came to code coverage on Battle Group. My main focus was to get the best value from my limited resources (as the sole programmer on the team). During prototyping and throughout development I noted which areas of code were critical or breaking often and made sure to get the highest code coverage possible on them. There is certainly a point of diminishing returns when it comes to code coverage which differs between projects and between systems within a project.
Test First Development
I opted for a "Test First" development style where I would create my unit test and then implement the feature being tested. This allowed me to design exactly how I thought the code should be used rather than writing the solution to the problem. I found this was invaluable to keeping a clear separation of concerns and made sure everything was as modular as possible. By thinking about the outward interface of the functionality first, it helped me get in a mindset of creating exactly what I wanted. When solving an interesting and complex problem it's easy to lose site of the original reason for the code's existence. Test first development focuses your efforts where they are needed most, on defining and then implementing the functionality of a piece of code as seen by the rest of the system.
One tool that was released during the development of Battle Group was NCrunch. This tool will completely change the way you unit test. I won't go into too much detail as it's a little off topic, but I strongly recommend you grab it and experiment with how it works. The whole system can be summed up in two points:
- Unit test code has real-time inline green/red lights to indicate whether it is currently passing. Tests are continually running in the background to keep this constantly up to date
- Production code has a similar green/red light system showing how many unit tests covering this code pass and fail (or if there are no tests at all)
Overall I was really happy with the way our TDGD turned out on Battle Group and I definitely plan on adopting it again for future projects. My development velocity increased overall while being slightly slower at the point of implementation of a new feature.
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A fascinating two-story luxury residence is the subject of today’s post. Designed by Tokyo-based Edward Suzuki Architecture studio, the house named F Residence thrones in the city of Kamakura, in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture. Built in a region where residential and commercial spaces meet, this dream home displays a closed architecture, that relies on an inner courtyard to draw most of the natural light that caresses the interiors. Based on a concept that maximizes the utilization of the plot – seeing that neighboring houses are so close – the F Residence was designed to look inwards, rather than outwards.
The concept of a museum-like home came from the client’s brief – he needed modern spaces to display the beloved art collection gathered along the years. This was the main concept that, alongside the need for a bright set of interiors, needed to have one more defining feature – that of an indoor/outdoor connection. Architect decided to give the rectangular facade a rounded patio in the middle, 15 meter in diameter. This way, the 776 square meter property had most of the rooms open up and gather views of the central patio, creating a strong connection to the outdoors. | <urn:uuid:a25cc535-82dc-40c8-8417-e1c5be2c1577> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pursuitist.com/daily-dream-home-f-residence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383156/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00017-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944238 | 248 | 1.726563 | 2 |
It's a role reversal in education. In Ganjam district of Orissa, teachers will now wear uniform, like their students.
At the government schools in the district, it will be white shirts and black trousers for men and olive green sarees with maroon borders for women. The colour of the uniform was decided at a conference of headmasters in August.
Of the 501 state-run schools in the district, as many as 50 have already introduced the new dress code for teachers.
The rest of the schools will have to implement it by Durga Puja in October. "It's necessary to maintain discipline in schools and ensure a character," says Balmiki Pradhan, circle inspector of schools, Ganjam.
State school and mass education commissioner-cum-secretary Suresh Chandra Patnaik says Ganjam has been picked up as the model district for the dress code for teachers. "Other districts will follow suit if the Ganjam experiment is a success," he said. | <urn:uuid:5b2259bf-40af-4970-8737-73b3c4c8e788> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-09-08/india/27971220_1_role-reversal-uniforms-dress-code | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368702448584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516110728-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974289 | 203 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The BMW X3 is a compact luxury crossover SUV (though BMW advertises it as an SAV, or Sport Activity Vehicle) produced by the German automaker BMW. It is based on the BMW 3-Series automobile platform. The X3 3.0i won the Canadian Car of the Year Best New Sport Utility Vehicle award for 2005.
History and Development
Along the heels of a very successful and ongoing production run of the BMW X5, BMW decided in the early millennium that it wanted to compete with the likes of the Land Rover Freelander and other small luxury SUVs just as the X5 had previously done so well in its respective classes. Thus the X3 (internally known as E83), was born.
What thus emerged was a concept unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show in 2003. Dubbed the xActivity, BMW previewed to the public for the first time what a smaller SAV based on a 3 Series platform would look like. The concept had no windows, for the most part no roof, and a sleek futuristic interior. Only the basic shape of the car would emerge as the BMW X3.
Just as BMW used many parts from the E39 5 Series parts bin in the making of the X5, the same occurred in the X3's development, whereby BMW engineers reused 3 Series parts. In fact, complete sets of parts came straight out of the E46 330xi unchanged in the X3 (e.g. rear suspension).
Austrian automotive contractor Magna Steyr of Graz, Austria performed additional development work and has been contracted to manufacture all first-generation X3s.
When the BMW X3 premiered in late 2003, BMW announced that it would be using a new 4 wheel drive system to power it and its bigger brother - The (refreshed) X5. The two key things about xDrive are, first, it being one one of the first technologies used to intervene before the driver was ever aware that the car could be unstable, and second, it being transparent (i.e. unknown) to the driver.
Right from the start, the BMW X3 was been criticized for its harsh ride, an austere interior that relied heavily on plastic components, and impracticality for off-road usage. Many critics also felt the car was overpriced; a basic 2.5i, which lacked cruise control or automatic headlights and had vinyl upholstery, exceeded $30,000. BMW sought to rectify these complaints in 2005, with various upgrades (see below). The X3 also disappointed some BMW purists by not being assembled at a BMW factory; instead, the car's production was outsourced to MAGNA STEYR, based in Graz, Austria. However, MAGNA STEYR has won numerous awards for quality and is the highest rated car assembly factory in Europe.
The automotive press however for the most part had mixed views of the X3 ranging all over the spectrum. Jeremy Clarkson even said that the X3 was for people who are clinically insane after his road test of it. He also criticized it for its harsh ride, and showed the poor off-road ability in reality when he took one into a "not very tough" off-road trail. He got stuck multiple times, although he has admitted that he is not a very good off-road driver, but the trail didn't provide options for going from somewhere else, as it was basically a road with off-road trail obstacles in it.
SIRIUS on the E83
BMW offers SIRIUS satellite radio on the E83 as a dealer installed option, however, dealers have been known to charge upwards of $800 to install this option. X3 owners can order the BMW SIRIUS tuner and install it themselves (there are a lot of DIY install guides the in the E83 forum). The tuner with wiring kit is $550 from places like Circle BMW (http://www.circlebmw.com/parts/sirius/sirius.htm). The tuner installs in a discrete location and owners control everything through the standard radio interface. If you want a fully integrated SIRIUS, this is the only solution. If you don't want to install it yourself, you can get the dealer to roll their price into your monthly payment.
The BMW SIRIUS solution requires that 2004-2006 E83s are equipped with the option SA-693 "Satellite pre-wire." 2007+ X3s have satellite pre-wiring standard. | <urn:uuid:8aabd07e-3d56-4572-81e6-b5dd358614f4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bimmerfest.com/wiki/index.php?title=BMW_E83&oldid=1875 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968423 | 929 | 1.570313 | 2 |
My wife recently introduced me to the practice of "tricking" (essentially, a form of martial arts demo that focuses on jumps and acrobatic maneuvers - in some ways, the martial arts version of parkour) - video here for reference. The art clearly has its roots in traditional martial arts with the core techniques seem borrowed from multiple disciplines. Is there any documented origin of tricking and how it developed?
This yahoo article may help you. It details the origin and evolution of tricking since the early 1960s. It draws from movie stunts, capoeria, and parkour as source for the creation of tricking.
However, I have no idea as to how either authentic and authoritative it is. Feel free to add to this answer. | <urn:uuid:31441c75-28f2-4e16-b1c0-b2dfb9541243> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://martialarts.stackexchange.com/questions/1446/what-are-the-origins-of-tricking?answertab=oldest | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959813 | 155 | 1.75 | 2 |
Thiem to present recital On Saturday, Oct. 4, The University of South Dakota will hold two events highlighting the cello. Cellist Barbara Thiem will present a clinic/masterclass on the physiology of cello playing at 1:30 p.m. in Colton Recital Hall, Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts.
Thiem acquired her expertise in this field as teaching assistant to Janos Starker at Indiana University, and translator for Gerhard Mantel's seminal book on cello technique. Both Starker and Mantel are noted for this aspect of cello pedagogy. At 8 p.m., Thiem will be joined by pianist Theresa Bogard for a cello recital, also in Colton Recital Hall. Both events are free and the public is encouraged to attend.
Thiem is an internationally acclaimed cellist who combines teaching cello and coaching chamber music with her active schedule of performances in Europe and the United States, playing recitals, solos with orchestra, and chamber music. She is a member of the Mendelssohn Trio and each summer serves as associate director at the International Summer Academy of Schloss Ort, Austria.
She holds degrees from Cologne, Germany where she studied with avant-garde cellist Siegfried Palm, and from Indiana University where she was assistant to Janos Starker and was awarded the coveted
Performer's Certificate. In addition to concertizing, she has recorded from many radio stations and has produced several CDs. She has also published in the fields of cello technique and medical research. | <urn:uuid:103e76b3-e7e6-4918-9a7b-9a7fde587399> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://plaintalk.net/2002/10/thiem-to-present-recital/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970048 | 325 | 1.546875 | 2 |
It's been said that the four most dreaded words in the English language are, "Mike Wallace is here."
American journalism lost one of its defining and most memorable figures a week ago today. Wallace, one of the original reporters on "60 Minutes," was the heart and soul of America's most popular news program. He created a new style of journalism and was loved — and hated — for it.
The Brookline native, who was 93, officially retired five years ago, but his health had been in decline for years.
His style of interviewing — grating, cajoling and revealing — was unlike anything else that was on the air when he became a CBS News regular in 1968. He was well-known for facing down powerful figures, but it was his dogged devotion to exposing wrongs that made his a household name.
"Wallace took to heart the old reporter's pledge to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable," recalled his "60 Minutes" colleague, Morley Safer. "He lectured Yassir Arafat on violence. He asked the Ayatollah Khoumeini if he were crazy."
Said the late Harry Reasoner of Wallace: "There is one thing that Mike can do better than anybody else: With an angelic smile, he can ask a question that would get anyone else smashed in the face."
Wallace asked the questions that needed to be asked and wasn't afraid to confront the powerful on their own turf.
On the other hand, he came to question the value of a journalistic technique he made famous — the "ambush interview" in which the fleeing subject is chased by reporter and camera crew. Wallace noted that while it made for good drama, it provided little useful information and eventually removed that particular approach from his playbook.
Wallace's style has been mimicked, but never matched. | <urn:uuid:96961997-67c8-49f8-a872-99552ecd3b1b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.salemnews.com/opinion/x611953283/Our-View-Bay-State-native-an-icon-of-TV-journalism | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00004-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986534 | 378 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Hip hop trips from the margins to the mainstream
Kyle Abraham’s distinctive hip-hop choreography is a merger of influences that mines dancers’ sensibilities
Ask Kyle Abraham how hip hop has influenced his choreography and a wry smile appears. That question again. “I wouldn’t regard myself as a hip-hop dancer, but I am am certainly connected to its culture,” he says.
The 35-year-old Pittsburgh man is in Dublin to create a new work, Outsider, for John Scott’s Irish Modern Dance Theatre (IMDT). Their association was cemented through a professional friendship after the pair met in New York four years ago.
Abraham is now hot property in the US, having recently received a generously funded New York Live Arts residency and a commission from the prestigious Alvin Ailey Company. As his artistic stock rises, the phrase “hip-hop choreographer” is increasingly found beside his name, but the label and consequent stereotype don’t fit. He has an almost preppy appearance and a gentle, respectful relationship with the dancers, but began dancing at raves and listening to rap long ago.
He acknowledges, however, that the aesthetic has seen its culture of community replaced by commercialisation. “I think hip hop and rap began to change when gangsta rap became such a huge thing,” he says. “Hip hop, even though it has bravado, is still inviting. Gangsta rap is clearly not.”
Although he studied classical music and contemporary dance, Abraham has an aesthetic that is firmly rooted in his carefree social dancing. For him, hip hop dance is a way of feeling rather than learning a set of moves.
“Hip-hop class for me is just a stylised exercise class, as it is like putting someone in a box. Even if you’re changing the dynamics or timing, you’re not being self-expressive.” He also recognises pluses and minuses to break-dancing, “but I like both the pluses and the minuses.
“The one thing that used to drive me crazy was, when people started break-dancing, they would take over loads of space from people who just wanted to dance and interact with each other. On the other hand, there is a lot of support through cyphers,” he says, referring to the circles of people around break-dancers.
Break-dancing, gangsta rap and graffiti might be well-known reference points, but the influence of hip hop can be found in theatre, literature, poetry, photography and journalism. It has also been accepted, albeit cautiously, by the mainstream: middle- of-the-road audiences can watch the rapper Mos Def in Topdog/Underdog because the play has the safety seal of a Pulitzer.
And, although it mightn’t have retained its cultural potency, it clearly outlasted the rapper Nas’s 2006 album, provocatively titled Hip Hop Is Dead. Naturally interdisciplinary, its practitioners mix influences and break everything down into bits and bytes to rebuild something new. Even if hip hop isn’t part of our vocabulary, it is still part of our sensibility. | <urn:uuid:3204f62b-5f83-47d2-8ba7-55488ac511fa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/dance/hip-hop-trips-from-the-margins-to-the-mainstream-1.372 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00018-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969012 | 679 | 1.617188 | 2 |
|Getting infected from the barber
Jul 16, 2001
Hi. Im really confused about whether I could be infected by HIV from my barber. Whenever I get my haircut from him, he always cuts me accidently with his razor which he does regularly change after using on 3-4 people. Im scared that he could have cut someone with HIV and then cut me, hence infecting me with the disease. The cuts are very small, basically small dot cuts on my neck.
Response from Dr. Feinberg
Your barber should use a new razor on each customer. HIV isn't the only disease you can get from exposure to someone else's blood (in fact, other diseases, such as hepatitis B, are far more contagious this way). And don't have sex with your barber, either, unless it's protected.
Could it be PCP
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Whether it is a cold, raw rain.. or strong gusts of wind, or the season's first snow...Wilma is the main weather maker for the entire eastern third of the U.S. today. Thankfully she will not make a third landfall in North America, however the side effects are still a raw deal for millions. It is interesting to consider that a departing hurricane would be responsible for the first snow of the season along the PA/WV border and in parts of central Pennsylvania. If there is any moisture leftover tonight, I expect that cold air draining south from Canada in the wake of this storm will changeover any rain to snow in many areas of upstate PA and NY. I believe Wilma and her preceding unnamed tropical monsoon makers are giving us a first glance at what the winter storm track may bring. For powderhounds it may be a delight, for educators hoping for another early end to the school year, it may be a drag.
BUT WAIT..THERE'S MORE
After the drenching downpours experienced by the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast this weekend, most are crying uncle and praying for the sun to return. The unfortunate news is that the sunny, dry pattern has finally been broken, and replaced with a tropical rain train that may very well deliver another super-soaker in the middle of the week. This pattern would be akin to September 1999, when Tropical Storm Dennis deluged North Carolina and Virginia, only to be followed within less than 10 days by Floyd. "Subtropical" Depression #22 looks to be the next rainmaker culprit, as the surface and upper-level lows are conspiring to deliver another round of unwelcome wetness to areas that now LEAST need it. The best news of the day is that despite all the tropical trouble, there is no "long-tracked" system moving in from the eastern Atlantic, but we will have to contend with home brew threats for the remainder of the month. With the letter "V" now taken, we've only got "W" to go and then the hurricane season will really start to talk Greek. Yes there are all kinds of other interesting weather events taking place...including a snowstorm in Denver, shrinking sea ice in the Arctic and dams breaking in New Hampshire. For now we will just continue to focus on the tropics. Winter storm season is not far behind.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 UPDATE:
FRIDAY 9-23 EVENING UPDATE: THE GOOD, BAD AND UGLY
It has been a horrible day for all of us looking to nail something good about this storm. Maybe the best thing to say right now is that there are no tropical systems of landfall concern elsewhere in the Atlantic basin. So here is the good, the bad, and the ugly…all mixed up and throw together just like the incomprehensible nature of this unfolding drama of humans vs. nature.
1. Levees breached anew. Seems as though we are on the losing side of this battle, at least for now. It’s anyone’s guess as to what will really happen to the levees, how much rain will fall over the God-forsaken Crescent City, how much inland flooding potential there is, how much water will make it back into Lake Ponchartrain, how long it will take to re-pump, how long before citizens can return, the list just goes on and on.
2. Weakening won’t look so weak when we see what 125 mph winds and a 15-20 foot surge will do. While everyone focuses on the weakening winds in the eyewall, remember the hurricane force wind field of 74 mph or greater is over 160 miles in diameter, and will likely expand further as the weakening continues. I have my doubts about the possibility of the eyewall “tightening up” as it reaches land, causing a sudden increase in winds. I believe enough dry air has mixed into the inner core of the system that the eyewall will be too disrupted to accomplish any more tightening at this point. However….even 100 mph winds can blow out windows and then lift off roofs. Also worth noting is that the higher elevation a structure has in face of the storm, the stronger those winds will be. Even it this drops to a 2 at landfall with 105 mph winds like Isabel, buildings 50 feet or higher will easily experience Cat 3 winds. Tall buildings 100 or more feet in height will sustain serious to near-catastrophic damage, much like what we saw with high-rise apartments along the Florida coast when Ivan and Dennis roared ashore.
3. Killed trying to reach safety. What can I say? Just horrifically tragic. An unfortunate and freak event, but in light of the deadly nursing home debacle, ironically named, “St. Rita’s” in the lower 9th Ward of East New Orleans, it makes you feel like we can’t win for losing. Keep the elderly there, they drown in a rising flood. Take them out of harm’s way days before hand, they die in a highway bus fire. I am not at all criticizing the care facility’s decision to evacuate those people. Leaving them in a part of Texas under the gun for a near-certain Category 4 Hurricane would have been just as bad as the St. Rita’s disaster. This terribly heart-wrenching bad news should not detract from the fact that many hundreds of elderly and critically ill patients were lifted to safety and are doing fine, albeit confused and out of sorts.
4. Inland flooding will be the bigger story. As is now being widely reported, the light steering winds responsible for guiding Rita into the Texas/Louisiana border will either collapse, allowing the storm to stall or drift aimlessly for several days. This region of "Terkarkana" may see 10 to 20 inches of rain or more, and much of that water will flow back down rivers previously flooded by storm surge. People who evacuated to hotels farther north may find themselves trapped by the very water they were trying to escape.
5. Gotta love that dry air. Though many thousands suffered in unimaginably long traffic delays of 10-15 hours in stifling heat, it is possible to say that the parching heat and it’s accompanying dry air aloft is the very thing that may have saved Texans from a Houston-Galveston $100 billion catastrophe? We began to see dry air being entrained in the western flank of the storm, as is observed often in slower moving systems. This begins to disrupt the perfect symmerty of the inner core circulation, and allows the central pressure to rise. The storm also began a more northerly wobble, which appears to have spared Houston and Galveston the worst, for now.
6. Mr. Mayfield goes to Washington. As Matt Drudge reported on Friday, Max Mayfield, Director of the National Hurricane Center, testified to a Congressional panel that the recent upswing in hurricanes could be a cyclical trend in the Atlantic that occurs every 25 to 40 years. The Atlantic and Gulf coasts have been on the lucky side of history the past 30 years, while supporting a massive building boom in hurricane-prone areas. It is a very positive step toward getting members of Congress to gain a better understanding of what is to come if our government is going to improve disaster planning and relief.
7. Far from the maddening crowd. Tornadoes, the smaller but no less wicked cousin that accompanies landfalling hurricanes, will no doubt unleash random destruction and take lives far from where the actual storm is located. The southeast to northwest spiral bands rolling over Louisiana have most likely spawned twisters in Katrina-ravaged areas. My concern is for evacuees still trapped on the highway unable to find safe ground, then feel the winds slowly pick up, the skies darken to their south, and look down a lone ling of cars thinking…”What am I going to do?” While we are not talking F-3 level tornadoes, F-1’s are certainly possible and could just as easily slice across a packed highway as smack a distant crop field.
1. I'm having some formatting problems with the posts. Usually I create seperate posts for each topic or day. But recently, when I did that, it would disrupt the following posts and throw my links to the bottom of the page. Until I can find a solution, I have continued to update and add on to the main Rita post started last Saturday. If you have a suggestion on how to fix this, either email me (email@example.com) or post a comment.
2. If all goes as planned, I will be calling in to an AM radio program called weathertalkradio on AM 680 WCBM in Baltimore, MD on Sunday 9/24 at 3:00 PM. This was at the request of Justin Berk, a meteorologist with ABC2 News in Baltimore, and his colleague, Tony Pann, who conduct this program weekly. So if you want to talk weather, Rita and hurricanes, call in if you can. The showtime number is 410-922-9280. I will actually be out of the area and calling in by cell phone, if one of our trusty Baltimore area readers would be willing to somehow tape record the program, I would be very appreciative. I'd like to have this tape to let grandparents and other family members not in the listening area be able to hear the program later. Thanks for your support of Foot's Forecast.
Note in the graphic below that the subsurface ocean heat potential is higher on the east side of the Gulf, where cooler SST's are, in contrast to western gulf, which has higher SST's but a lower heat potential. This may be why we have see Rita reach her maximum intensity earlier than anticipated, but we can only hope that it does not interact with the warmer patch of water farther west in the Gulf.
UPDATE POSTED SUNDAY, 9-19
1. THE HOUSTON NIGHTMARE
image below is compiled from an interactive article posted at the Houston Chronicle. Click on the "storm surge" selection and follow the animation through to see the computer modeling impacts of a Category 4 surge of 19 feet in Galveston Bay and surrounding areas.
This rapidly developing storm defies all predictions… and becomes a Category 3 sweeping near the Keys, causing extensive damage, emerges in the Gulf as a strong 3, and churns toward Texas over 29 – 30 deg C waters. By Thursday the cloud field has grown to encompass most of the Gulf of Mexico, and tropical storm force winds extend out over 200 miles. Taking seemingly direct aim on Houston, nothing seems to be able to stop the maelstrom from growing into a Category 5 catastrophe producing monster, interacting with very warm water left mostly undisturbed for the summer. This sudden and overnight intensification spurns officials in the Houston and surrounding areas to "recommend" evacuations for most of the region south of Route I-10/90A… nearly 1 million people. Some residents flee knowing the fate of those who remained in New Orleans, but evacuation routes quickly get clogged. As with Katrina, the 5 day forecast error was off by less than 50 miles, and overnight Friday into Saturday morning, Rita roars ashore as the worst nightmare of Texas.. a 140 mph Category 4, sending a wall of water 20 feet high around the Galveston seawall at it’s northern inlet. High rise buildings in downtown Houston suffer incredible damage as 120 mph winds with gusts to 150 mph blow out thousands of windows, parts of Harris County are flooded by storm surge and throughout the metropolitan area, over 100,000 homes are severely damaged or destroyed. Several of the nation’s largest gasoline refineries are shut down and experience damage, disrupting pipelines to critical markets in the eastern and central U.S. Hundred of oil rigs are damaged and destroyed, as are major facilities in the port of Houston. Energy traders sensing new disruptions in the gasoline supply send wholesale prices soaring past $3 once again, and consumers begin to see overnight price spikes back towards $4 once again. The most horrible part of this scenario is a probable repeat of how the elderly and infirm will be left behind as they were in New Orleans, as Galveston and Houston city planners estimate up to 25,000 people have no transporation or ability to leave the area in an evacuation. First the Superdome, now the Astrodome? (actually the Astrodome is not built to withstand a strong storm, so it is being cleared out and closed as a shelter.)
While crossing the Florida straits, Rita undergoes rapid intensification to Category 3 due to influence of nearly 90 F water temperatures and favorable upper-air environment with low shear. The Keys are hit hard and a million people are without power in southern Florida. However, with the storm intensifying so rapidly, it begins one of several “eyewall replacement cycles” which produces fluctuations in strength as it moves west. While the timing and length of these cycles causes Rita to briefly touch Category 4, the final cycle begins 24 hours before landfall. As it does, the storm begins to “ingest” dry continental air from the southern Plains, producing a slow weakening trend with brings the tempest down from it’s destructive 4 status to a still dangerous but more manageable Category 2 as it makes landfall. The Galveston sea wall deflects most of the surge, and it does not travel around the end side. Winds in downtown Houston reach hurricane force, but buildings constructed to new codes after 1983’s Alicia are able to withstand the wind, and experience minor damages. While electricity is out for many thousands of people, it is a temporary disruption as transportation routes are open, including bridges. Pre-positioned stockpiles of food and supplies are delivered rapidly to residents. Damage to oil rigs and refineries are slight, and within a week most facilities are operating again. There is moderate urban flooding from the 6 inches of rain that fell during the storm, but utilities are able to restore services quickly. The state and federal government proclaim within a day that, “this time, we can say with certainty that we really did dodge the bullet.”
3. ALL THAT HYPE FOR NOTHING
While Rita strengthens into a hurricane overnight into Tuesday, it also makes an unexpected turn south toward Cuba. Frictional effects of the southern eyewall interacting with the mountainous terrain of this part of Cuba weaken the storm, and cause it to pull even farther south, making landfall near Havana as a 60 mph tropical storm. Getting “hung up” over Cuba, the storm parallels the coast for 12 hours, sparing the Keys from a direct hit, and then reemerges in the southern Gulf as TS/weak 1. The projected path and strength are considerably revised, and the storm takes 48 hours or more to reorganize, eventually reaching Category 2. With it’s northwestern route disrupted, Rita travels more westerly along the southern Gulf, grazing the Yucatan, and making landfall south of Brownsville, where Bret and Emily did earlier this season, dumping unneeded heavy rains on areas already strained by flooding.
4. NO NOT NEW ORLEANS AGAIN
(I highly doubt this scenario at all, but the press seems to want to create uncertainty when it is clear to most forecasters and enthusiasts following this storm that New Orleans is not going to be hit by Rita)
The computer model which accurately predicted a southeastern Louisiana landfall, the GFDL, once again takes the prize and shows Rita aiming for the central La. Coast as a major hurricane. Crossing the Florida straits as the expected Category 2, the storm begins a slow west-northwest, then northwest turn under a decaying high pressure ridge blanketing the region. Surprisingly, as the week progresses, computers begin an even farther turn to the east, bringing the storm in on a southwest to northeast angle, passing New Orleans to the west instead of the east. This westward path warrants the concerns about damage to the weakened New Orleans levee system, and even though the storm is a weakening Category 2, the combination of 6-10 inches of rain with a 10 foot surge is once again, destructive. Several different levees that did not breach in Katrina but were unknowingly weakened end up breaking. Water from Lake Ponchartrain floods parts of the city anew. The Army Corps of Engineers states that this new damage may require a “total reevaluation on the future feasibility of the New Orleans levee system.” | <urn:uuid:d3811812-bc3b-4055-a727-46d2fb07cce3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.footsforecast.org/2005_10_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950935 | 3,418 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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The largest mandatory fuel economy increase in history is causing a major uproar among many, including those tasked with actually selling new cars to the public. According to a report by Reuters, car dealers are not going down without a fight, as a recent meeting with the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) reveals how members plan on lobbying against the new standards.
The new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards call for automakers to raise the average fuel economy of their future products to 54.5 mpg by 2025, which is significantly higher than the 35.5 mpg that is currently enforced under the mandate that President Obama reset for the 2012-2016 time frame.
Essentially left out the talks among the White House and car executives (who were also reportedly reluctant about the 2025 deal), car dealers are fighting the standards on their own by supporting a Republican measure that would essentially nix the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of California from establishing any national mileage standards. So far, a similar legislation has not been introduced in the Democrat-controlled Senate, but Reuters reports that if the legislation is not taken up in Congress, “Dealers are also weighing a lawsuit.”
Their main concern? Dealers are afraid sticker prices will skyrocket and hurt sales, but also because hybrid and electric cars account for less than 3 percent, and 0.12 percent of overall U.S. sales, respectively. On the other side of the spectrum, 9.4 million cars and trucks were sold overall through September of this year.
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Novels are stately creatures. Stay awhile, they say. Learn about these characters. Learn to love them. Be with them; watch them change. But the short-story collection makes no such invitation. It's an inherently transgressive art form, the predecessor to Rear Window and Chatroulette. We peer into lit rooms, spy on characters in the throes of crises. We burgle and blunder our way in, only to find the body cold; the marriage shattered — and suddenly — we're onto the next story, the next unraveling.
Nathan Englander made his name with his prize-winning 1999 collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. He returns to the form with What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, eight stories on Jewishness — and not Jewishness as a metaphor — but the local, lived experiences of Jews in America and Israel. Englander is interested in how faith is understood, rejected and defended, and in the tension between the needs of the individual and the demands of the community.
If the themes are familiar — this is terrain well-mined by Malamud, Bellow and Roth — Englander refreshes them with narrative experimentation and a cast of appealingly crazy characters. Every time the curtain rises, we're thrust into another odd consciousness: the manager of a Jewish summer camp for retirees, a settler on the eve of the Yom Kippur War, a hapless husband at a peep show featuring an all-rabbi lineup.
These consciousnesses are almost exclusively male; Englander's interest is in male subjectivity. Female characters are caricatures of moms, strippers, nagging wives and girlfriends. It's a flaw that doesn't quite develop into a failing because Englander's men are so irresistible. They're good, guilty men fumbling for perfection. Lazy pilgrims.
Nathan Englander grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family. He now splits his time between New York and Madison, Wis.
Where Englander's previous novel, The Ministry of Special Cases, was explicitly political, here, he treads lightly. (Whether he's being subtle or mincing depends on your tastes.) This restraint isn't always welcome, and even neuters some stories. Take "How We Avenged the Blums," about a group of Jewish kids facing down their bully: It's a beautifully written, entirely predictable piece that would have been left on the cutting room floor of Goodbye, Columbus.
But at his best, Englander tells us something fresh about Jewish identity today — and in the case of the title story, he does so while riffing on the art of storytelling itself.
A homage to the Raymond Carver classic What We Talk About When We Talk about Love, Englander's story begins (in fine Carver fashion) with two couples sitting together at a table, getting drunk and mean. But in the case of Englander's story, the couples happen to be a Hasidic Israeli pair and their hosts, assimilated Florida Jews. Things get very weird, very quickly.
The Israelis can't understand why the Americans are so hung up on the Holocaust. "Our concern," the Hasidic husband says, "is not the past Holocaust ... our concern is intermarriage. It is the Holocaust that's happening now." The couples later play a grim game called Righteous Gentile, in which they try to decide, in the case of another Holocaust, which of their non-Jewish friends would hide them.
It's one of the strongest, strangest American stories in years. The other pieces in the collection don't rise to its level (some, like the affected "The Reader," flail), but this book, for its inconsistencies, deserves to be read and reread for its heart and technical proficiency.
Even if it revisits terrain exhaustively explored by other American Jewish writers, Englander unwittingly makes us wonder: If a writer takes Jewishness as his subject, is he obligated to tell us something new about Jewishness? Or is he only obligated to describe Jewish characters in the most precise language he can, putting them in the most psychologically revealing situations he can imagine? Such questions — irresolvable, hairsplitting, Talmudic — prove more satisfying than the answers posed by a more perfect book. | <urn:uuid:3d068b0b-9263-455d-a2de-474ca38354d9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.npr.org/2012/02/13/146694354/anne-frank-short-stories-fumbling-for-perfection?ft=1&f=1032 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706890813/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122130-00011-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956238 | 884 | 1.5 | 2 |
Darrell Laurant, the Lynchburg News & Advance columnist, writer, and author, suffered a stroke on June 8. This is his story, written especially for Our Health.
In its most common usage, the word "stroke" conjures images that are smooth and gentle -- the stroke of a canoe paddle; a child stroking her doll's face. A caress.
But what hit me on a recent afternoon wasn't anything like a caress. It was more like being punched squarely in the face by a heavyweight boxer.
We've known about strokes, aka "cerebrocardiovascular accidents," since the time of the ancient Greeks. They called the condition "apoplexy," which meant "struck down with violence." Strokes are currently the leading cause of disability in the United States and Europe, number two worldwide.
A stroke usually follows one of two basic scenarios. Either a blood clot enters the brain and stops it, like a piece of metal thrust into the cogs of a machine, or blood leaks away from the brain and starves it.
Risk factors for stroke include high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and cigarette smoking. I had none of them.
What I do have is a weak heartbeat in one ventricle that sometimes leaves the heart vulnerable to fluid buildup. In extreme cases, the resisting pressure of this fluid can cause blood to pool in the heart -- and when blood isn't moving, it is subject to clotting. This is what the doctors later told me.
Like so much else that happens within the human body, however, these behind-the-scenes dramas are usually played out without the knowledge of the body's owner. Certainly, I wasn't thinking about the state of my internal organs as I stood drying my hair in my bathroom on my day off, getting ready to join my wife Gail (briefly out on an errand) for lunch.
It happened just past the stroke of two, no pun intended. Looking back, it seemed that I received a message from my brain a millisecond before the stroke hit, something akin to "Uh, oh!" Then my vision went black. I must have set down the hair dryer, and then I could no longer feel my body. Any of it.
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As an iPhone user, the news that AT&T is expanding and upgrading its wireless network in Mississippi is more than great, it is ….
Oh, sorry, I had a dropped call.
You get the point.
Even AT&T Mississippi CEO Mayo Flynt admitted to the Mississippi Business Journal a few months back that even he has a hard time with reception from time to time. He says his home is at the bottom of a hill, which leads to reception issues.
The company said in a statement last week that it plans to add 50 cell sites in the state in 2011. More than 100 existing cell sites will be upgraded and capacity will be enhanced at sites across the state.
In 2010, AT&T says it added 50 new cell sites in Mississippi and upgraded some 90 existing sites to mobile broadband.
AT&T says the improvements are part of a $19-billion companywide capital investment this year.
Who needs a home phone?
With the news that AT&T is adding towers, which would presumably lead to better reception across the state, why in the world would you want to have a home phone? Well, apparently that is a good question.
In a story from last week, it was reported that a growing number of Americans are getting rid of their old land line telephones and using only cell phones, a trend led not by the high-tech elite but by people in poorer states trying to save money.
And guess who is leading the way?
You’ve got it.
Government estimates show at least 30 percent of adults in 10 states rely entirely on cell phones, with the highest percentage in Arkansas and Mississippi, where many cannot afford to pay for two separate lines.
Wealthier households have been slower to use wireless technology as their sole means of making calls.
“The answer’s obvious: No one has money here,” John N. Daigle, a professor of electrical engineering at Ole Miss with broad experience in the telecommunications industry, told the Associated Press. “If they can do without a land line, they will do it to save money.”
Sure, I would do it to save money, too. In fact, we have had that conversation at our house. My wife and I both have cell phones. Everyone who needs to contact us, knows how to.
However, we keep our land line for security system and emergency needs, as well as the convenient daily telemarketer calls at just about the time we are putting a kids to bed.
Clay Chandler, here in our newsroom, recently thought about the same thing in his new home. We talked at length about it. Not because we are poverty stricken — although we do live on journalists salaries — but because it doesn’t make a lot of sense to pay for more phones that you really need.
According to the AP story about 35 percent of adults in Mississippi have only cell phones, according to figures from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In New Jersey and Rhode Island, the states where the smallest proportion of people depend solely on wireless phones, that figure is only 13 percent.
Mississippi has the highest poverty rate in the nation — 21.9 percent in 2009, according to the Census Bureau. The Arkansas figure was 18.8 percent. The nationwide rate is 14.3 percent.
In 2009, the U.S. Census Bureau defined poverty as a single person making less than $11,000 a year or a family of four making less than $22,000 a year.
“I think people decide, ‘I can afford one but not the other,’” said Ellen Reddy, who works for a nonprofit community center that helps low-income residents in Holmes County. She said poor people in her area often have cell phones with a limited number of minutes.
Again, however, it comes down to a business decision. You don’t have to be poverty stricken to make a decision to have one phone instead of two.
Sounds like folks in Mississippi, poor or not, have made the right decision.
Now, if we can get those new AT&T towers up quickly, so my wife doesn’t think I have hung up on her while I am driving past Highland Village in Jackson.
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sharing in governance of extractive industries
Below is International Mining's summary of Behre Dolbear Group's ranking of countries for mining investment. The IM summary is available at http://bit.ly/eRiq5P and the full report is attached here.
Worldwide, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and Chile will likely remain the best jurisdictions in which to invest in and develop mining projects. Each of these nations will likely continue to see economic growth and mining investment.” This comment comes from a report, 2011 Ranking of Countries for Mining Investment Where ‘Not to Invest’. Most of us will agree with the company’s statement “the mining industry is vital to the creation of wealth and prosperity in any country. Countries that stifle it with detrimental political, economic, financial, and regulatory policies should be challenged to make changes that are more accommodative to its success.”
Behre Dolbear Group has compiled this political risk assessment of countries “we deem of importance to the mining industry,” since 1999. Other conclusions from the report are provided below.
Central and South America
Russia will continue to chart its own course. It remains a high-risk investment environment, it is plagued with corruption, and its bureaucracy is an enigma to most; the exception being those within its inner circle, i.e., Putin’s orbit. It is expected to continue to use and leverage its natural resource wealth to exert pressure on its neighbors, Western Europe, and elsewhere.
Australia’s government has introduced a lot of uncertainty this past year given its proposed change in tax policy and political leadership. The rebuilding of its coal mining infrastructure, following the extensive flooding, will take at least six months. The effect of the new taxes on investment remains to be seen.
NGOs will likely continue their anti-mining actions, using proxies and almost any method to stop mining and other development. These actions include influencing regulatory and law-making processes in developed democratic countries and co-opting labor and religious leaders in developing countries.
The reports final section notes: ”Summarily, in 2011, prices and resurging demand, with producers cautiously expanding capacity, are set within a backdrop of a global economy stimulated by the injections of trillions of dollars and other currencies, all of which is potentially sowing the seeds of large-scale inflation. In such an environment, gold and other precious metal prices are likely to remain high or go higher with sporadic interruptions due to speculative trading activities. Industrial metals and minerals will also be in greater demand and will result in companies taking greater risks by investing in projects and countries that under other circumstances would be deemed too risky for investment.
“Asian countries will continue their global grab for resource projects, many of questionable merit. Sovereign investment funds and private equity groups, unfamiliar with the resource industry, will climb aboard the mineral ownership train.
“The old dog of a project called Fido re-emerges under a new company with a new name - Phydeaux - still a dog, but a higher class dog, due to higher commodity prices. When prices return to long-term levels, these projects will fail, with billions of dollars wasted.”
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The tourists have gone and the hush of fall has descended upon Chincoteague. If you love the outdoors and enjoy birding, this is a glorious time to come to see some of your favorite shorebirds and waterfowl at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.
Species you will see in abundance through November at the refuge include the Common Loon, Pied-billed Grebe, Horned Grebe, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Tricolored Heron, Cattle Egret and Glossy Ibis.
Some of the popular sites to observe birds are at Swan Cove Pool along Beach Road, and Herons and Egrets can be spotted in the borrow ditches around the refuge.
Stay the weekend with us at Island Manor House bed and breakfast, and we’ll pack you a picnic, loan you some binoculars, and, when you’ve added more birds to your checklist of those spotted, head back to the Inn for a hot cup of cocoa in front of the fire.
Many shops and restaurants are open through the fall and winter, so you will have no shortage of things to do when you’re not out birding. Plan to come out for “Assateague Island Waterfowl Weekend,” November 25-28, at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge Open House with special events and programs. | <urn:uuid:ff49ef40-1212-43a1-bea9-8c708af78328> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://islandmanor.com/2010/10/22/abundant-birding-on-chincoteague-through-november/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368710006682/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516131326-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934989 | 297 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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Foreclosures draw closer scrutiny as they continue to climb
LANSING — Foreclosure numbers are often used to show how poor an economy is, but stopping foreclosures, even temporarily, could undo the Michigan housing market’s progress, some experts say.
Other experts, however, are calling for a halt in foreclosure practices while they are under scrutiny.
The state Mortgage Lenders Association and the Association of Realtors say that blocking or slowing foreclosures would make the housing situation worse for residents. It would exacerbate problems that Michigan is already experiencing with falling home values and empty homes because lenders could no longer afford to make loans, said Murray Brown, legislative consultant for the Mortgage Lenders, based in Shelby Township.
“The supply of mortgage credit would dry up” if foreclosures were officially suspended, Brown said.
“Unless you are a portfolio lender, you wouldn’t have the available supply of funds from the markets to make the loans,” Brown said, and lenders would be unwilling to give mortgages during a moratorium.
“We would not support any kind of foreclosure moratorium,” said Brad Ward, director of public policy and legal affairs for the Association of Realtors.
“I think it would definitely halt the recovery that we are just starting to see in Michigan,” he said.
Unit sales are up and prices are just starting to stabilize, Ward said. Those developments influence a lender’s willingness to loan money.
Attorney Gen. Mike Cox, and other state attorneys general are currently investigating mortgage foreclosure processes, said Joy Yearout of his communications office.
As a result of that inquiry, Gov. Jennifer Granholm has called for lenders “to temporarily suspend foreclosures until the fraudulent activity has been investigated,” said Katie Carey of the governor’s communication office.
Brown said, “The improprieties that have been highlighted nationally have not been highlighted in Michigan because Michigan has a different system of foreclosure.”
Michigan has a six-month redemption period, which most other states don’t have, Brown said. That gives homeowners time to sell their house or get financial assistance to keep their property.
“We did pass legislation that imposed a pause in the process of 90 days to allow people to meet with their lender to work out a modification of the loan,” Brown said.
The goal of the legislation was to keep people in their homes, Brown said. It had some success, but not as much as lenders would have liked.
“Many people did not opt to request mediation with their lender,” he said. “When they did opt to meet with their lender, they did not supply the proper documentation to make it possible for the lender to modify the loan.”
Carey said new legislation has been proposed that would stop foreclosures unless the lender participates in the Michigan State Housing Development Authority’s Help for Hardest Hit program.
The state program can distribute up to about $500 million in federal funds to help homeowners and is projected to benefit more than 49,000 households with payment assistance and principle reductions, MSHDA said. Eligible homeowners must be receiving unemployment compensation or unable to afford their payments because of reduced income.
However, the Legislature won’t act on the proposal this year, said Callie Collins, chief of staff for Sen. Tupac Hunter, D-Detroit, one of the lead sponsors.
The Mortgage Lenders’ Brown said many states have a process where lenders and borrowers try to work something out to avoid foreclosure. In many cases the lender doesn’t want the home in foreclosure because that means bigger losses, he added.
That approach would be more effective than the legislation because borrowers would better understand their options and the lender’s position, Brown said.
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|Annotation: ||This memorial was created by a man in Portland, Oregon who wanted to do something to help after the September 11th tragedy. The site includes memorials to all of the victims, some include newspaper stories, and many include personal tributes submitted by viewers. There are also general tributes, which are not dedicated to any one individual. There are also links to other memorial sites.
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The head waters of the Rangitata River are home to a number of famous sheep and beef stations, including Erewhon and Mesopotamia. The views are many and splendid from up here and include the Two Thumb mountain range and often the Main Divide of the Southern Alps.
Best rafted in the morning over a two to three hour period, the river in this area is Grade 1, flat and braided: the perfect way to experience the seldom seen high country from a rarely seen perspective.
In the summer months, fishing for trout and salmon is popular. Like the lower Rangitata, the Upper Rangitata is near proximity to our base at Peel Forest, so stopping here and making a day trip of it is an ideal way to safely explore and appreciate this magnificent country, while being guided by experts.
Like the Rakaia trip, this journey is about having a paddling outing on a local, Canterbury river, and a great way for children to gain water confidence.
There are several points along the river where it’s suitable to start or finish, so we can put personalise a trip that best suits your needs and time schedule.
The river travels over an open riverbed with a few boulder garden rapids, and lots of waves. Two rafts on the river at the same time seems to promote the water fight action that is so hard to resist, so getting a group together for a few hours of river fun is a good start.
Wherever you choose to start and finish your trip, you’re only a short drive away from the Peel Forest camp ground, store and café. This means that you can spend the night here beforehand, or travel on the day, knowing that good coffee and food are at hand.
Suitable for anyone
We can arrange all your transport and accommodation requirements.
Adult = $200
Children = $180
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1. Paying full price for add-ons. Don’t undermine your savings by buying accessories like cables and batteries at list price, says Dan de Grandpre, CEO of DealNews.com. Stores display these items prominently and conveniently for a reason. Especially with electronics, the accessories you need to get are strictly commodities; one store’s isn’t going to be measurably different from another’s in quality. Yes, it’s a little more effort, but these are the kinds of items online shopping was invented for.
2. Not bothering to comparison shop. “One mistake is assuming that something in a store, simply because it’s on sale on Black Friday, is a good deal,” says Jim Wang, founder of the blog Bargaineering.com. “It might be a decent deal, but you could do better going online.” In fact, it’s gotten easier to do the Black Friday sale experience without having to leave your house — or even wait until Friday. Many online retailers, along with some brick-and-mortar chains, are rolling out their holiday specials throughout this week. If you do hit the mall on Friday, though, most of our experts strongly suggest taking a tablet or smart phone with a price-comparison app or two so you can make sure you’re getting the real-deal best deal.
3. Buying toys too early — or too late. No matter what the ads say, you’re not going to get the best deals on toys on Black Friday, says de Grandpre. “Toys in general are almost always cheaper in the first two weeks of December,” he says. At mass-market stores that aren’t stocked with a huge supply of toys year round, “Those toys have an expiration date. Those toys are not going to move after Christmas,” he says. But on the other hand, waiting until the last possible second isn’t the best tactic, either. “If you wait too long, five to seven days before Christmas, prices climb again because they’re getting the procrastinators,” he says.
4. Getting the wrong features on a TV. TVs are a hugely popular Black Friday door-buster, and Gary Merson, editor of TV blog HDGuru.com, says a lot of people make the mistake of trying to score the cheapest set they can without considering whether it meets their needs. On LCD or LED TVs, one feature is the refresh rate. Your choices are generally 60 hz or 120 hz, which refers to the number of times per second the picture changes. “120 hz gives better motion resolution than 60 hz, so that’s something people who watch sports or action movies should consider,” he says. Also, while manufacturers have been talking up 3-D and smart TVs, the catch with 3-D is that there’s very limited content available, Merson says. “Unless you’re into movies and have a 3-D Blu-ray player, then it’s probably not that big of a deal.” Smart TVs let you stream content from the Internet, but you can get the same result with a “dumb” TV and an external streaming device like Roku or Apple TV that costs a hundred bucks or less.
(MORE: JCPenney’s Not-So-Black Friday)
5. Getting the timing wrong. Many of our experts pointed out that Black Friday actually starts at midnight or even earlier this year. Stores like Sears and Walmart are rolling out door-busters starting on Thanksgiving night, and many big chains are staggering the hours of their openings and their sales. If you’re bound and determined to get that dirt-cheap TV, make sure you’re not going to get there hours after they’ve sold out.
6. Settling for something more expensive. This brings up another point about door-busters. There are usually only a few of them, sometimes as few as two items per store. Walmart instituted a guaranteed availability of some sale items this year, but that’s the exception rather than the rule. In other words, if you’re not reading this on a mobile device while shivering in a sleeping bag on the sidewalk outside the store by now, you’ve probably missed your chance. Stores don’t mind practically giving away a few things because they know most of the other people in line will want to get something for their time and numb toes, so they’ll sell lots of other stuff that isn’t the deal those shoppers were coming for. Don’t be one of those people.
7. Opening a bunch of store credit cards. Yes, you’ll probably get 10% or 15% off. You may even get to cut a monstrous checkout line. But signing up for store cards left and right can leave you with a credit hangover that lasts well into the new year, says John Ulzheimer, president of consumer education at SmartCredit.com. The potential damage starts before you’ve even taken your bags out of the store. “Retail-store inquiries are among the most damaging type for your credit scores, and they can impact your scores for 12 months,” he says. The damage is cumulative and increases with each additional card you apply for. What’s more, store cards tend to have a combination of high APRs and low credit limits, which can catch you if you don’t pay off the whole balance by the due date or if you max it out. “Low limits are problematic for your scores because the cards can be heavily leveraged even with modest spending,” he says.
8. Not reading the fine print on price-matching offers. “A popular move for top retailers such as Best Buy and Target in 2012 is their claimed price-matching programs,” says Brad Wilson, founder of BlackFriday2012.com and BradsDeals.com. Even though some of these deals claim they’ll match prices of online retailers like Amazon, “the catch is that many of these items, electronics especially, now have a unique model number assigned to each retailer. For example, the exact same Toshiba 42-in. LCD TV would have a unique model number, hence excluding it from any price-match guarantee.” | <urn:uuid:e9b167ed-5aa2-422d-9772-6637b267d32c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kdkb.com/hippie-dom/blog/5-black-friday-mistakes-you-can%e2%80%99t-afford-to-make?rate=tk4uKMtluW_b-H6isSs_CUF6ePI9vBgRh609Al6rFk4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705195219/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115315-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947256 | 1,346 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Quality control in ammunition is
usually measured at the target. Notwithstanding the obviousness of such an approach, it is
complicated by combining the variables of shooter, gun, weather and ammunition. Ideally we
could test the quality of our ammunition separately, and in some manner other than a
return-to-battery benchrest gun fired in a wind-free tunnel, but we cant.
Still, the idea persists that we
should be able to ensure some level of quality control before venturing out to the range.
Weve improved our reloading dies and powder measures, added primer and flash hole
uniformers, developed means to measure seating depth and the distance from the lands to
the bullet at rest and, in general, raised the quality of bullets to an almost
unbelievable level. There is, however, one, almost intuitive, thing that far too few of us
do, and thats to measure the concentricity of our ammunition. We can do it at home,
without regard to gun or weather, and it can really make a difference on the target.
There are a number of tools on the
market for measuring concentricity, or the lack of it, and Sinclair International (2330
Wayne Haven St., Fort Wayne IN 46803) has recently brought out a new one.
Called the Sinclair Concentricity
Gauge, the tool utilizes a dial indicator as the measuring device and is offered with or
without the indicator, for those who already have one. The tool begins with an anodized
base plate measuring 3x6 1/2 inches and 1/2 inch thick. A permanently mounted post holds
an adapter that, in turn, holds the dial indicator. There is a longitudinal slot cut in
the base that accommodates the blocks used in positioning the cartridge case for
measurement. Each block is made of anodized aluminum and contains a pair of stainless
steel ball bearings that serve to position the case. Two blocks are used in concert and
one, the right one, has a vertical post that serves as a stop in positioning the case
longitudinally. In use the blocks are positioned in such a manner as to place the case
neck or bullet under the dial indicator probe and locked in place via handles that are
attached to threaded bolts. The case is then rotated by hand while resting on the ball
bearings and held against the stop.
Case neck concentricity measurements
should be taken at approximately the midpoint of the neck or equidistant from the case
mouth to where any neck turning, if done, stopped. Bullet concentricity measurements
should be taken on the parallel sides of the bullet, not on the ogive. Imperfections in
the case head can cause lateral
movement of the case that would cause the probe to move up and down on the ogive giving a
false reading. Any lack of concentricity, or run-out, can easily be read on the dial
An accessory came with my tool for
measuring variations in case neck wall thickness, although Sinclairs latest catalog
makes no mention of it. The company does, however, offer a separate hand-held tool for
such work called the Sinclair Case Neck Thickness/Variance Gage (why the company uses
gage in some instances and gauge in others is beyond me) that
operates in the same manner. The accessory for the concentricity gauge is a block that
mounts to the base in the same manner as the others, but only after the others are
removed. It contains a horizontal rod and is used in conjunction with RCBS Flash Hole Case
Pilot Stops. A pilot of the proper caliber is slid onto the rod and an unprimed, sized
case follows with the mouth of the case slid over the pilot and the end of the rod
entering the flash hole. The accessory is positioned so the case neck is under the
indicator probe and the case, thus supported, rotated while held against the pilot
shoulder or stop. Variances are noted on the dial, and a reading can be first taken
against the pilot to determine actual neck thickness. According to Sinclair, the tool is
capable of handling cartridges from the .22 Hornet to the .460 Weatherby. Additionally, it
appears that measurements can be made almost anywhere along the case body, if desired. The
entire tool is very well made and operates exactly as claimed.
The principle behind all this is
that maximum accuracy can best be attained if the centerline of the bullet of a chambered
round is precisely aligned with the centerline of the bore, and that case expansion when
the round is fired occurs in such a manner as to not disturb this alignment.
If anyone is wondering just how much
lack of concentricity is bad or what we can do about it, lets back up a minute.
First off, were generally talking about bottleneck cartridges fired in rifles or,
perhaps, single-shot pistols. Its not that any limitations of the tool preclude
testing concentricity on straight-walled cartridges, its just that the environment
in which these cartridges operate, including the guns, dies, bullets and case shape,
generally preclude the kind of tack-driving accuracy we can achieve in the bottleneck
cartridge environment. Why is a story for another time.
Some years ago the NRA, I believe,
published a study on concentricity in which bullet run-out was measured in front of the
case mouth of loaded ammunition. The study concluded that any run-out of less than .004
inch was undetectable on target. That was a long time ago and great strides have been made
in bullets, guns and dies, and today its no trick to achieve run-out of .001 to
.0015 inch and no reason to settle for less.
All such efforts begin with good
brass. Proper sizing die alignment, including a properly centered expander button, is
crucial as is bullet seating alignment. All this is measured with a concentricity gauge.
If I may make a few closing
observations: It seems to me the Sinclair Concentricity Gauge could be enhanced by the
addition of a series of holes along the back top of the base to hold the RCBS Pilot Stops.
Also that repeatability of block placement is desirable and that a witness mark on each
block and a series of such marks along the top front of the base would be a simple means
to accomplish this. Finally, since concentricity gauges need only be used with a new gun,
new dies or new or altered cases or after dies have been disassembled for cleaning, a
cover to protect the tool and its accessories would be well received. Fortunately, since
all the blocks can be secured to the base and still remain within the footprint of the
base, such a cover could be simple to make.
Concentricity gauges are among the tools that,
while used infrequently, can greatly enhance our knowledge of our guns, our dies and our
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Guntrucks were a vital component in providing convoy security in Vietnam. They were built by the units that used them and they all had personalities of thier own. Unfortunately, only one of them was returned to the United States (Eve of Destruction, now housed at the Army Transportation Musuem at Fort Eustis, VA) and not many people seemed to pay much attention to them or thier crews. I stumbled accross the photos of OttoII and Wild Honey when surfing the internet and have been learning more about them and thier bigger brothers ever since.
|1||This photo of OttoII was taken from the Army Transportation Museum at Fort
Eustis, Virginia. The guntruck concept was born in Vietnam in an effort to provide
protection to convoys. Most of the guntrucks where built out of 2.5 or 5 ton 6x6
tucks, but OttoII obviously was a M37.
The actual caption from the Museum's Portraits of Guntrucks in Vietnam on their webpage is:
"Otto II," named for the Beetle Bailey comic strip, is
I'm sure the Museum, as well as I, would love to have more information on this.
|2||This photo is reportedly of Wild Honey. and was pulled off the internet
one day but was not captioned on that site.
I didn't have any information about this guntruck, or the guys whom I think are the actual subject of the photo, when I first posted the photo. I recieved the following on December 27, 2003, via the BigElectric M37 forum as part of a thread discussing guntrucks. Many thanks to Larry for posting this.
"TO C GARBEE-----THE M-37 THATS ON YOUR WEB SITE THAT IS UNIDENTIFIED IS WILD HONEY, THIS PHOTO WAS TAKIN DURING OPERATION LAM SON AND I THINK AT THEIR CAMP IN VANDERGRIFT, THE NAME HAS BEEN TAKIN OFF BUT AS YOU CAN SEE THE MALTES CROSS IS A GIVE AWAY, MIKE HALL WHEN BUILDING THIS TRUCK CUT MALTES CROSSES OUT OF THE ARMOR IN THE DOOR FOR THE HOLE TO SEE THE MIRROR AND THEN WELDED THEM TO THE REAR ARMOR, THE TRUCK WAS LATER INVOLVED IN A BAD AMBUSH AND I'VE BEEN TOLD WAS FINISHED, I HAVE SEEN PHOTOS OF IT SHOT UP AND IT DON'T LOOK TO BAD AND NO ONE WAS HURT ON IT, BUT THEY MAY HAVE DROVE IT INTO THE GROUND GETTING AWAY----DRIVER523RD--(LARRY)--OH YEAH---I DON'T KNOW WHO THE GUYS ARE--(YET)"
|3||Mr. Nice, Dan LaCombe photo|
|4||Satin's Lil Angel, Dan LaCombe photo|
|5||Snoopy, Dan LaCombe photo|
|6||Raz on the quad. Raz Reed was the quad gunner on Great Eve of Destruction and also was the quad gunner on Good Luck Charm. Raz Reed photo.|
|7||The quad 50 mounted on Great Eve of Destruction. Raz Reed photo.|
|8||Raz on the quad. Raz Reed photo.|
|9||Great Eve of Destruction Dan La Combe via Ranger White, Dan LaCombe photo|
|10||Good Luck Charm being airlifted by chopper Raz Reed photo.|
|11||Good luck Charm, dismounted with crew Raz Reed photo.|
|12||Black Widow, Dan LaCombe photo|
|13||Black Widow, note the M37 in the background to the right of Black Widow with armor plate around the cab but nothing in the bed. Wonder what is stenciled on the cargo bed side of the plate around the cab??, Dan LaCombe photo|
Photos 3-13 where sent to me by Hal from the www.g741.org website forum (the replacement for the old BigElectric which folded in the summer of 2004). He reported that he had recieved all of them from Ranger Randy White who served as a LRRP with L Co./75th Inf. Ranger, 101st Airborne Div (70-71)... Randy then provided me with some updates to the captions including the sources of the photos. Randy is currently web master/historian 101st LRRP/ Rangers. www.lcompanyranger.com
Mark H. on the www.g741.org website posted the following note and links when he saw the above photos inJanuary 2005: "Here is the 815th Engineers Site with lots of Gun Truck pictures. I road in one on my way back to leave Vietnam on QL19 switch backs. We had several that protected our heavey equipment and convoys. The Quad 50s were bad along with the ones that had Mini Guns mounted on them. You should have seen them rip up the landscape and tracer shows at night!! I was with the 20th Engineers and 815th Engineers when I was over there. I also was at Fire Base Blackhawk a Heavy Arty and Cav Compound in the middle of no where. Great Fire Power shows with Dusters, 8in, 175mm, 155mm and lots of Tanks and APCs."
815th Engineers Site with lots of Gun Truck pictures:
Mark also sent me this link to a site with lots of other good pics and links to other sites with albums:
As always, if you have any more information about these trucks, the crews, folks who worked with them, on them, or where around them, I'd love to have it as would the transportation museum up at Fort Eustis. I also welcome any further additions that anyone has in the way of photos...
Other Vietnam vehicles
While Hal was busy sending me guntruck photos, he also ran across some other ones that he had collected that he sent along...
|A-C||Pics of vehicles from L/75. All were provided by various members of the 101st LRRP/Rangers. Note the red triangle logo on several of the vehicles which is the outline of the 101 RECONDO school logo.|
Randy confirmed the logo question posed in photos A-C by sending a copy of the RECONDO School logo shown on the right to Hal. Hal sent along a pic of a patch worn on pocket of jungle jacket and on caps from my collection of Airborne, Special Forces and Ranger insignia which is place on the left of the combined image.
|E-F||Pics of M37's belonging to L Co./75 Inf Ranger, 101st Abn Div. Both pics are from Ned Schmitt via Randy White.|
|G||This is an NVA Russian built truck captured by the 101st in '68. Note the broken windshield and bullet holes behind the cab in the wood. Photo by Darol "Top" Walker. He was 1st SGT of F-58 when it went over in '68.|
|H||The guys walking are F-58 LRPs, 101st abn. Div.)..note the CAR-15 rifles and headgear...no helmets. That's a 106 recoilless rifle in the lower right. When the 101st moved north just after Tet, the 82nd was stationed just outside of Hue at a place Randy While believe's the 82nd called LZ El Paso. It would later be called Camp Eagle when the entire Division consolidated in I Corps, using Eagle as HQ for the 101st. The 82nd moved south shortly after the 101st had a couple brigades operational. Photo by Darol "Top" Walker. He was 1st SGT of F-58 when it went over in '68.| | <urn:uuid:9720f0a7-215e-47b5-b1ac-c1f4f26925b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.garbee.net/~cabell/photosguntrucks.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705559639/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115919-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943554 | 1,653 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Leaving a high-priced bike locked up in the city can often be a frightening task if you don't know how to do it properly. Thankfully, Bike Habitat's Hal Ruzal has a guide to not just locking up your bike, but blocking people from taking parts too.
While the bulk of the video talks about simple tricks like locking a U-lock through the frame and wheel and checking to make sure the pole you're locking to isn't movable, he has a few extra tips up his sleeve. One of the most handy is using extra bike chain to create a small lock system for you saddle and seat post (you can make this yourself by following this Instructable). He also recommends using pentagon sized bolts for your wheels, and stuffing epoxy into the handlebar assembly so thieves can't easily loosen them. | <urn:uuid:2ef3fa5d-a44c-4521-b0b4-4b0fb99aad9c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lifehacker.com/5847276/properly-lock-your-bicycle-by-knowing-which-parts-are-easy-to-remove | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965871 | 169 | 1.679688 | 2 |
|October 24, 2002|
October 20, 2002
RE: Draft Guidelines on Accessible Public Rights-of-Way
Dear Mr. Windley:
The City of Lincoln has reviewed the Draft Guidelines for Accessible Public Rights-of-Way. We realize that Title II of the ADA requires governments to not discriminate against people with disabilities and we support the efforts to improve existing conditions. However, the guidelines as proposed would have serious consequences that would impose significant costs on local governments. It is also our feeling that these would be overly restrictive and would not allow sufficient latitude to design on a case by case basis.
Our comments and concerns are as follow:
Curb Ramps and Blended Transitions (1102.6, 1104)
- Also, drivers may not be as alert to persons crossing at the apex of a corner.
It would seem drivers would be much more alert at this point in the roadway than after driving around a corner and encountering a pedestrian when their vehicle has attained a higher speed than at the apex of the corner.
Other Requirements for Curb Ramps and Blended Transitions (1104.3.3 - 1104.3.7)
- prohibit the placement of... utility and sewer access covers, and similar fixtures on ramps, landings, transitions and portions of the gutter within the pedestrian access route;
If these items meet the criteria set forth for changes in level, why would they not be allowed?
- prohibit grade breaks on ramp runs, blended transitions, landings, and gutter areas within the pedestrian access route;
How will the gutter work if it must be at the same grade as the ramp? That will either force all the water out into the street or funnel it all back onto the sidewalk.
- prohibit any vertical changes in level on curb ramps, landings and gutter areas within the pedestrian access route;
Again, if the vertical change is within the requirements for changes in level, it should be allowed. To keep nuisance water from ponding within a ramp area, a minimal lip is often maintained to keep the water off the ramp and moving around the corner.
- require clear space at least 48 by 48 inches, located beyond the curb line and wholly within crosswalks and out of the parallel traffic travel lane.
This is confusing as to intent.
- The cross slope is limited to 1:48, except at mid-block crossings. The cross slope of the crosswalk is the running grade of the roadway. It is not uncommon for streets to be constructed with constant profile grades up to 9 or 10 percent. This spec would require reduction of these profile grades to 2 percent at intersection crosswalks, thus forming “tabled areas” at intersections so that the 1:48 slope is achieved at crosswalks. The specified running slope for crosswalks is 1:20.
This may be fine for new areas, but it is often not realistic in built environments. Changing slopes of streets to accommodate this ruling may not be feasible.
Pedestrian Signal Phase Timing (1105.3)
- The draft guidelines would require pedestrian signal phase timing to be calculated according to a walking speed of 3.0 feet per second. The Board believes that a rate of 3.0 feet per second will accommodate a broader range of pedestrians and offer greater access.
This would have a major negative impact on traffic. Requiring this change would more than offset the gains our jurisdiction has made through expenditures of hundreds of thousands of dollars to improve the traffic carrying capabilities of our streets, which has been a mantra of the FHWA for years. To make this change system-wide would increase energy consumption, pollution and vehicular costs to motorists to accommodate a small percentage of the population who might use a signal. It would seem that if the route is used by handicapped individuals who cannot cross in the 3.5 ft/sec time, then the change to a 3.0 ft/sec crossing time COULD be used as needed.
Pedestrian Overpasses and Underpasses (1105.5)
- The draft guidelines address access to pedestrian overpasses and underpasses, which would be required to provide a pedestrian access route. A ramp would be required where the running slope exceeds 1:20. ... The advisory committee recommended that an elevation change of 60 inches be the cut-off. Consistent with this recommendation, the draft guidelines would require elevator access where the rise of a ramped approach exceeds 60 inches.
Implementation of this rule would practically kill off the installation of underpasses and overpasses for pedestrian crossings. Since it is quite rare where the grade change of such a structure would be less than five feet, nearly every one constructed would require an elevator. The major reason stated for not installing these structures is cost. When you add the cost of providing elevators at each end to the already high price, you have just made these infeasible except in the most extreme cases. By doing so, this would increase the hazard to all pedestrians, handicapped and able-bodied alike, forcing them to cross using at-grade crossings.
- To provide safer crossing at roundabouts, the draft guidelines would require pedestrian activated crossing signals at each roundabout crosswalk, including those at splitter islands.
This requirement sounds as if it was written by a group of people scared of new ideas and who have absolutely no clue what they are talking about. We have just completed a roundabout to replace a signal at one of the highest accident locations in the City. A lot of people opposed to this installation stated it would be dangerous for pedestrians to cross. Quite the opposite is true. Pedestrians only have to cross one lane at a time, they are crossing at a point where traffic is moving slowly entering or leaving the roundabout and the driver is alert because of the increased requirements placed on them. To now have to signalize these would completely waste the advantages they naturally provide pedestrians. In certain areas where high volumes of pedestrians and vehicles exist, crossing lights may be of use, but a requirement for all or even most locations can only benefit signal suppliers.
Since vehicles would be moving at higher speeds and pedestrians would have longer crossing distances, by using the same logic, we should put in crossing signals at every unsignalized intersection also.
- Barriers or similarly distinct elements are needed to prevent blind persons from inadvertently crossing a roundabout roadway in unsafe locations. The draft guidelines would require a continuous barrier along the street side of the sidewalk where pedestrian crossing is prohibited. If a railing is used, it must have a bottom rail no higher than 15 inches.
Since vehicles would be moving at higher speeds and peds would have longer crossing distances, by using the same logic, we should put in barriers at every unsignalized intersection also. Again, this just doesn’t make sense. By following the sidewalk, pedestrians are directed to the safest crossing locations.
Turn Lanes at Intersections (1105.7)
- The draft guidelines also include a requirement for a pedestrian activated signal at each segment of a crosswalk that crosses right or left turn slip lanes.
This will likely increase vehicular crashes. In order to place the signals where turning vehicles can see them an adequate distance in advance of the crossing, they will also be visible to through vehicles who may become confused by several conflicting indications. Rear end and side-swipe crashes will likely result.
This should not be mandatory at all locations, but rather should be considered on a case by case basis. If signals are not needed for non-handicapped persons, there is a question as to whether or not they would be needed for handicapped individuals.
Accessible Pedestrian Signal Systems (1102.8, 1106)
1106.2 Pedestrian Signal Devices. Each crosswalk with pedestrian signal indication shall have a signal device which includes audible and vibrotactile indications of the WALK interval. Where a pedestrian pushbutton is provided, it shall be integrated into the signal device and shall comply with 1106.3.
Obviously these add cost to signal installation/maintenance. Where will the funding for this come from in these tight economic times?
1106.2.1 Location. Pedestrian signal devices shall be located 60 inches (1525 mm) maximum from the crosswalk line extended, 120 inches (3050 mm) maximum and 30 inches (760 mm) minimum from the curb line, and 120 inches (3050 mm) minimum from other pedestrian signal devices at a crossing. The control face of the signal device shall be installed to face the intersection and be parallel to the direction of the crosswalk it serves.
This will require major reconstruction of many traffic signals. In many locations, it is not possible to comply with this due to existing obstructions in the way of the signal, including underground utilities.
1106.3.2 Locator Tone. Pedestrian pushbuttons shall incorporate a locator tone at the pushbutton. Locator tone volume measured at 36 inches (915 mm) from the pushbutton shall be 2 dB minimum and 5 dB maximum above ambient noise level and shall be responsive to ambient noise level changes. The duration of the locator tone shall be 0.15 seconds maximum and shall repeat at intervals of one second. The locator tone shall operate during the DON’T WALK and flashing DON’T WALK intervals only and shall be deactivated when the pedestrian signal system is not operative.
This is another cost concern. It is also sometimes a concern with nearby residents/businesses as to the addition of noise pollution.
1106.4.2 Street Name. Signs shall include street name information aligned parallel to the crosswalk direction and complying with 703.2.
Another cost concern.
On-Street Parking (1102.14, 1109)
- The draft guidelines would require access to at least one parking space on each blockface.
In an area with 150 foot long blocks and parallel parking, you can only provide 4 or 5 spaces per block. This creates a rate of handicap parking in the 20-25% range, which is ridiculously high unless you are in Florida or Arizona. If the same block has angle parking, you are looking at approximately 8 spaces, dropping the rate for handicapped spaces to 12.5%, still considerably higher than what is required for parking lots. Merchants in particular will have great problems with creating many unusable parking spaces, which will lead to misuse of these spaces.
This also does not specify if this would be required city-wide or only in commercial areas. Providing the required handicapped parking space with signing, pavement markings and ramps on every block in the city would create an astronomical cost.
- Requirements address adjoining access aisles at spaces, accessible connecting routes, signs, and parking meters. An accessible parallel space and access aisle, which must be flush with the street, can be achieved by indenting the curb line, similar to a loading zone.
This will create problems during snow events. Plows will come along and push snow into the indented area, making them useless. These will also create discontinuities in the sidewalks in downtown areas where sidewalks normally run from the face of buildings to the edge of the curb. In high ped areas, this will have a major negative impact. I think the cost of lawsuits related to trips and falls in these inset areas each year will greatly outweigh any benefits derived from their installation.
Passenger Loading Zones (1102.15)
- ADAAG requirements for passenger loading zones would be applied to loading zones in the public right-of-way. Where a long loading zone is provided, at least one area in every 100 continuous feet must comply with requirements in ADAAG section 302 and 503 which address the surfacing, the size of vehicle pull-up spaces (8 by 20 feet minimum), the marking and size of access aisles (at least 60 inches wide and as long as the pull-up space), and vertical clearance (114 inches minimum).
These will not work well at schools where it is important to provide curbs to create barriers to vehicles running onto sidewalks and hitting pedestrians.
- 1111.3 Location. The alternate circulation path shall parallel the disrupted pedestrian access route, on the same side of the street.
This is a costly unfunded mandate. Providing parallel ped access on the same side of the Street as the existing path is often not practicable. Based on costs and usage, it is often impossible to justify not moving pedestrians, both able bodied and disabled, to an adjacent route.
- 1102.5.2 Post-Mounted Objects. Free-standing objects mounted on posts or pylons shall overhang circulation paths 4 inches (100 mm) maximum when located 27 inches (685 mm) minimum and 80 inches (2030 mm) maximum above the finish floor or ground.
The MUTCD allows secondary signs to have a minimum height of 72”, vs. 80” required here. This would require major work to change signs throughout the city.
Again, we support reasonable access for disabled pedestrians and continually review our standards and processes to assure that what we are doing is reasonable and safe. We are concerned that these draft guidelines, if adopted, would create major consequences for communities of all sizes. We would ask that these consequences be considered more carefully before enacting any changes to the existing requirements.
Randy Hoskins, P.E.
City Traffic Engineer
City of Lincoln, Nebraska
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by Jon Rappoport
February 14, 2012
Consider any action you would call paranormal.
In this average/normal/conventional/consensus-bound/lowest-common-denominator civilization, the idea that you can actually project energy across space without the use of machines or technology is viewed as impossible, fanciful, and meaningless.
Which is why we live in a society that is, increasingly, ruled by technology.
It’s also why we’re moving closer to the time when people will submit themselves wholly to technology.
People tend to assume the following: they can think about energy; they can study energy equations; they can help design or build machines that produce energy; they can rely on the automatic energy systems of the body—–but actually taking energy and PROJECTING it across space? Out of the question.
Well, it isn’t out of the question.
If you project energy across space (a so-called paranormal action), you’re exercising a capability you were built to exhibit. AND IN DOING SO, YOUR MIND TAKES ON A NEW ASPECT THAT WAS HIDING IN THE SHADOWS.
Your mind becomes healthier. It begins to shake off debris. It gains new strength. It is no longer constrained think solely in terms of what it can accomplish within the rules and setting of the continuum.
To put this another way, the adaptation of your mind to the constraints of the continuum is AN ARTIFICAL SITUATION.
When the mind becomes healthier, the body tends to follow. The cells of the body are waiting to be enlisted in functions and processes and actions that exceed the conventional boundaries of space, time, and energy, and when that happens, new types of energy circulate in the body, increasing its health.
Fifteen years ago, I interviewed people who had taken part in paranormal lab experiments, people who had scored exceptionally well and demonstrated abilities that aren’t supposed to exist.
One test involved the distribution of balls sent out of a funnel at the top of a large case. The balls would fall and settle into holes in a board. Drawing a vertical line down the center of the case, statistical probability dictates that about half the balls will fall into holes to the left of that line, and half to the right. The volunteer, positioned in front of the case, tries to influence probability with his mind and send more balls to the right or left.
One star volunteer I interviewed had obviously exceeded the expected 50-50 split. I asked him how he did it.
He said, “In the past, I tried meditating quietly on a chosen outcome. Then I tried visualizing the end result I wanted. Those [strategies] didn’t work for me. So I started sending energy directly at the case, to push the balls to one side as they came out of the funnel. It worked.”
One of the (false) assumptions of matrix reality is that this is impossible. Humans can’t project energy across space and alter the flow of events. Humans don’t have that power.
But they do.
It’s interesting to talk to psychologists about this. Several of them told me that, if such a thing were possible, it would raise all sorts of moral questions. Suppose, for example, a person used his power to control others? It would be dangerous.
Well, this precisely mirrors the kind of matrix-thinking that people engage in to stop themselves from exceeding the rules of the continuum. Better to be weak, better for everyone to be weak.
Think about various institutions humans and human elites have invented to run their societies, and how those institutions encourage dependence (weakness).
“Power? Let us take care of that for you. We know how to use it judiciously. If you had it, you might do something harmful. We’re the experts. We can exercise restraint. We can keep everybody functioning at more or less the same level. We can define the limits of freedom. We promote ideas [myths] that benefit everyone…”
Really? How well has that been working out? In the course of human history, how many thousands of wars have people suffered through under the control of their leaders?
Fifty years ago, when I started painting in New York, I experienced a great deal of paranormal activity, and without thinking about it much, I began, in various ways, to project energy. A few decades later, I developed energy-projection exercises (see my audio seminars, Mind Control, Mind Freedom, and The Transformations, as well as The Matrix Revealed). Many people have used the exercises with benefit.
One side effect: you begin to realize, through first-hand experience, that you actually invent energy. You aren’t simply borrowing it or redirecting it from a place where it already exists.
If you care to think about that, you’ll see far-reaching implications. For instance, we aren’t really living in a world or universe where all the energy there is a given. That’s not the way it works. The assumption that energy can’t be gained or lost is false. In physics, when you operate at a simplistic level, the conservation of energy is a useful principle, but once you exit that level, the basic premise no longer applies. It shatters. | <urn:uuid:79994663-0c7e-4702-a856-f861bf3daeb6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/paranormal-normal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699273641/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101433-00009-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954062 | 1,122 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The main duties of the Council Representative are to work in conjunction with the Executive Director to prepare the Young Botanists of the Year nominations. The call for nominations states that the top 25 nominees will be selected based primarily on their accomplishments, described in recommendation letters and any supporting materials. These 25 will receive a Certificate of Special Achievement from the Society and have their names published in the Plant Science Bulletin. It further states that all other nominees with strong records of achievement (at least a 'B' average, and meritorious activity in plant biology) may receive a "Certificate of Recognition," complimentary student membership for the rest of the calendar year, and have their names published in the Plant Science Bulletin.
I reviewed 27 applications for this award. On March 20, 2008. I suggested that all 27 nominees were deserving of the Certificate of Special Achievement" from the Society and to have their names published in the Plant Science Bulletin. These 27 Young Botanists will all receive the Young Botanists Award at the Botany 2008 meeting in Vancouver.
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Could An App Make Wireless Braille Displays Obsolete?
I just stumbled upon a CNET news article about researchers working on an app that could potentially remove the need for a wireless Braille display.
The app would allow people to use Braille directly on a tablet's touch-screen.
According to the article, the app would have eight keys (similar to a standard Braille keyboard) which would not have a predefined position, but rather work with the location of the fingers. A user simply presses eight fingers anywhere on the screen, and the keys are automatically oriented to that location. If there's a problem, users simply lift their fingers and put them down again.
I am not a Braille user, so don't know if this is something with real potential, or whether it has too many limitations to make it usable (for example the article observes that there is no mention of haptic feedback). However, the financial implications of having a software alternative to expensive hardware certainly makes this a project to watch. | <urn:uuid:ccec3d08-7f3f-41e7-807e-abc387881c87> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.applevis.com/blog/braille/could-app-make-wireless-braille-displays-obsolete | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949704 | 207 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The state Legislature does not have power over immigration, but Assemblyman Curt Hagman, R-Chino Hills, wants to find a way within the state's powers to attack the issue.
Hagman wants to create new punishments for anyone who breaks state or local law while running maternity hotels, which are semi-underground facilities for women who travel to the United States specifically to obtain American citizenship for their newborns.
"There are certain provisions under California law that for certain criminal acts - primarily for larger drug operations use - that allow law enforcement to seize real property," Hagman said.
"I don't know if we can do this ... and I don't like government taking property, but that's the extreme measure."
The concept of "maternity tourism" refers to the idea of pregnant women traveling to the United States to give birth and allow their children to obtain American citizenship before returning to their homelands.
Although those who hold conservative views on immigration oppose maternity tourism, the practice is not illegal in and of itself.
In other places where local governments have confronted maternity tourism, such as San Gabriel and Arcadia, officials have used zoning and code
That's the same path Chino Hills officials are likely to take as City Hall considers filing a criminal complaint against the owner of a home accused of illegally running a house as a hotel and making apparently unpermitted changes to the building.
The concept of "birth tourism" could be considered as part of the broader argument over birthright citizenship - whether it makes sense for the government to grant citizenship to children born inside the United States even if their parents are citizens of other countries.
Birthright citizenship is the kind of issue that often animates immigration conservatives who see the current policy as a gaping loophole in immigration laws.
On the other hand, immigrant rights advocates view birthright citizenship as a vital part of U.S. law, and a benefit that is most often used by immigrants who want to spend their lives in the United States.
"Many of the communities who benefit from this, they have no intention of going anywhere else," said Karin Wang, vice president of programs and communications for the Asian Pacific American Legal Center.
There are no exact figures on how many mothers travel to the United States specifically to obtain citizenship for their newborn children.
The number of children born to non-resident mothers in 2010 - 7,719 - is only a small proportion of the nearly 4 million births that occurred in this country that year.
From another perspective, however, the number of births to non-residents increased at a rapid pace - 54 percent - from 2000 to 2010.
Rep. Gary Miller, R-Brea, says birth tourism is a growing overseas industry in countries such as China, South Korea and Saudi Arabia where companies who facilitate mothers' trips to the United States exploit American immigration law.
"It's a loophole and it's a problem," Miller said.
The roots of modern birthright citizenship policies extend all the way back to the 1868 ratification of the 14th Amendment, which declared "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Hesperia, is a former Minuteman Project leader who has made his support for tight immigration policies a key plank in his platform. He said he considers maternity tourism to be "deeply unsettling" and considers birthright citizenship to be a serious enough problem to warrant the repeal of the 14th Amendment.
"There is one reform that is long overdue. The 14th Amendment was intended to protect slaves and the children of slaves from being disenfranchised after the Civil War," he said. "This policy (birthright citizenship) has become a disaster. It effectively takes all control from immigration from the host nation."
Miller and other opponents of birthright citizenship in Congress have not gone as far as to call for what would be only the second repeal of a Constitutional amendment in American history.
They have, however, proposed bills that would end birthright citizenship as it is currently practiced. Miller has repeatedly offered the LEAVE Bill as an anti-illegal immigration proposal that would also change birthright citizenship laws.
The bill's provisions have included the requirement that for any child born on United States soil to receive citizenship, the child must have at least one parent who is a citizen, a legal resident alien or a noncitizen who is serving in the military.
Other conservative representatives such as Steve King of Iowa and the now-retired Tom Tancredo of Colorado have also proposed restrictions on birthright citizenship, but none have made much progress through Congress.
The United States and Canada have laws providing for birthright citizenship, but other countries have ceased to do so. Since the 1980s, Australia, India, Ireland, New Zealand and the Dominican Republic are among the countries that have cancelled birthright citizenship.
For those who would like to see the United States end birthright citizenship, doing so is viewed as a way to discourage illegal immigration.
On the other hand, others say the United States needs to welcome immigrants in order to have a large enough population to maintain social programs.
"It's actually an asset for our country to have a more open citizenship policy, because if you compare the U.S. and Canada, that has more restrictive citizenship rules, we have a more robust population group, which is necessary to maintain our Social Security system and Medicare system," UC Riverside political scientist Karthick Ramakrishnan said.
It's open to question whether Congress has enough power to limit birthright citizenship without amending the Constitution. The Supreme Court affirmed the 14th Amendment's granting of birthright citizenship in the 1897 case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark.
The court then ruled that Wong Kim Ark, born in San Francisco to Chinese nationals, was a citizen by right of birth.
Nonetheless, some immigration conservatives contend the amendment's language is not strong enough to confer citizenship to children who are born to tourists visiting the United States.
Ira Mehlman, spokesman for Federation for American Immigration Reform, said that even though a tourist would have to obey American law while visiting the country, she would not necessarily be "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States.
An American citizen visiting another country would not lose the rights or duties of citizenship while visiting another country, he said.
"This is certainly not what the framers of the 14th Amendment had in mind," Mehlman said. "Citizenship is not the accident of where you happened to breathe your first breath. Citizenship means a connection to this country."
By contrast, Wang said it is birthright citizenship itself that has allowed the children of immigrants, especially those from Asia, to connect with American society.
"The community was able to grow and flourish," she said.
Congress is widely expected to address wide-ranging immigration proposals next year, but lawmakers are more likely to take on proposals that will make it easier for immigrants, including those in the United States illegally, to become citizens.
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Media Savvy: Parody Maker's Copyright Fight With Media Giants Takes Fair Turn
The Executive Director of the Fair Use Project Anthony Falzone is quoted in a Sacramento Bee story discussing the differences between fair use and non-fair use of copyrighted material:
"Viacom has proven to be fairly reasonable," says Anthony Falzone, director of the Fair Use Project. "So I wouldn't point to Viacom as the poster child of fair-use abuse -- anymore. But there are a lot of other cases out there."
Yet, even Falzone says that the Copyright Act of 1976, which put fair use on the books, can be nebulous.
"As a general matter, if you're using small snippets of copyrighted material to say something about them -- critiquing, commenting, making a parody -- then you're off to a good start. We lawyers call that 'transformative' uses -- making something new out of others' material."
Falzone says there are some cases that come to the Fair Use Project that it won't represent because the case is weak. Example: Internet users who post videos from programs in full, without commentary.
"We realize fair use has its limits," Falzone says. "It's not a license to take copyrighted material and do whatever the heck you want with it."
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Nestled high in the mountains, with Mont Blanc in the horizon, is this cabin restored entirely in wood, which was spotted on Nuevo Estilo, situated in the French Alps, near the town of Megève. It is not a mere cottage, it is a construction in idyllic balance with the environment and equipped with a unique interior design. With roof carports, chimneys smoking and in the middle of a snowy landscape, this house evokes a story of Christmas.
The house is an important architectural rehabilitation project in which sustainability and ecology were of utmost importance. Belgian decorator Lionel Jadot was commissioned to transform this old home from 1870 under the clients wishes to respect the past. It took two years to renovate and winterize the dilapidated structure and reinvent the building, including a new roof, installation of floors and walls of larch – wood used in origin, as in the houses of the area and distribution of the spaces according to the needs of the owners.
The villa has two levels, with the bedrooms located on the lower floor and the upper floor is an immense loft-like space, with high ceilings that opens to the mountain by large windows that continue on to a terraced roof. In terms of decoration, the home is full of furnishings and pieces from different cultures and eras from travels to Africa, Asia and Europe. These are decorative findings throughout, picked up from antique shops and vintage stores. The end result is a very warm and cheerful atmosphere, halfway between the bucolic mountain house and a sophisticated New York loft, which tries to reconcile technology and ecology. | <urn:uuid:71fd5169-9559-469f-b715-13634819650b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.onekindesign.com/2012/12/05/alpine-dream-cabin-in-the-french-mountains/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00012-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964275 | 328 | 1.75 | 2 |
Rattled recent arrivals at a 92,000-person makeshift camp here at Mauritania’s remote eastern edge describe an influx of jihadists — some homegrown and others possibly from afar — intent on imposing an Islam of lash and gun on Malian Muslims who have long coexisted with Western tourists in the fabled town of Timbuktu.
The conditions here in Mbera are grim, with many of the Malians sick, hungry and bewildered. But that is better, refugees said in interviews Tuesday, than the grueling life turned upside-down that an unexpected Islamist military triumph inflicted on their lives in a vast region in the heart of West Africa.
Refugees from such places as Timbuktu, Goundam, Gao and Kidal described witnessing repeated whippings, beatings and other punishments in the streets, ostensibly for having violated strict Islamic law, and some of those who fled said they had been subjected to this harsh justice themselves.
“They said: ‘You are thieves. Why are you out walking at this hour?’ ” Mohamed ag el-Hadj, a 27-year-old former soldier in the Malian Army recalled. He and a friend out for a stroll at 7 in the evening found themselves surrounded by two carloads of well-armed men. The men tied the friends’ arms behind their backs, bound them to a tree and forced them to kneel, bending forward, for the evening. In the morning, “everything was swollen.”
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kjv@1Kings:22:29@ So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.
kjv@1Kings:22:30@ And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
kjv@1Kings:22:31@ But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
kjv@1Kings:22:32@ And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
kjv@1Kings:22:33@ And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
kjv@1Kings:22:34@ And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
kjv@1Kings:22:35@ And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.
kjv@1Kings:22:36@ And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.
kjv@1Kings:22:37@ So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
kjv@1Kings:22:38@ And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
kjv@1Kings:22:39@ Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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Sun, Stars, Moon, Rivers
You are learning to be spontaneous. You are learning not to plan so much. In other words, you are learning to live in this moment and not another, not past, not future, but this one moment right now. Yet you do not think: "I am in this moment", for when you are in it, you are in it. You are neutral, not attached, observant, but you are smack in the flow of My Will.
Spontaneous is life without words, without thought, without prediction, comparison, or substantiation.
Spontaneous is: You see an apple on a tree and you pick it and start eating it. Or, spontaneous is: You see an apple on a tree and you pass it by. Or, spontaneous is: You see an apple on a tree and you pick it and give it to someone else… Spontaneous is many possibilities, but only one at the time.
You did not ask yourself: "Do I really want to eat this apple? Should I eat it? How many calories does it have? What will someone think if they see me eating this apple? Should I save it for later or give it to someone else? What is the right thing to do?…"
The desire and the fulfillment are one motion, not a sequence of thoughts. The motion is not labored. It is not unconscious either. The impulse was conscious, not subterranean.
Desire and fulfillment are one.
There is not hesitation.
You are not weighing things.
You are not rehearsing for your life and planning your moves.
You are living life from a deeper level which is the same as to say a higher one. Not from a hidden level such as the subconscious, but from a deep high level of truth.
Spontaneous is being ready for life and not waiting for it.
Spontaneous acknowledges: "This is my life right now. This is how I am living it. And I can live my life as it comes with alacrity."
You are aware that your life is given to you to perform greatness, not smallness. Just have that awareness, and when you pick an apple from a tree or don't pick the apple, you are connecting to all of nature and Heaven on earth.
Nature reminds you of Heaven. The senses remind you of Heaven. As you enjoy (not to be confused with distraction from suffering), you are enjoying Heaven.
We can even say that there is one act in life. Only one. And that is knowing your value. And that is knowing your value to Me. When you know your value to Me and therefore yourself and all others, all is easy. You come from a higher plane. You come from a vantage of Heaven.
So long as you do not recognize your worth to Me, you grasp at everything or nothing, and you are a fluttermill. I did not give you breath to become a fluttermill.
You are one who gives and lives My Will.
The Sun is your chariot.
The Stars are your eyes.
The Moon is your benefactor.
The rivers are the flow of your life.
The earth is yours to serve, and those other Human beings on earth are your companions in service to Me and the great mission you share.
You are born of greatness, not smallness. You are born of purpose, not purposelessness. You are born of wisdom, not ignorance. You are born from and of love, not abstention from it.
My love made you. I made you from My love. My love is what you are made of. Nothing less. Accept your heritage.
Remember My love today as you walk through rooms.
Remember My love today as you chatter with this one or that.
Remember My love today as you buy and sell.
Remember My love today as you laugh and as you cry.
Remember My love today, and it will spontaneously be given.
Remember Truth, and your desires and fulfillment will be One.
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Section of Robert Moses Parkway above Niagara Falls which Sen. Schumer seeks to put on fast track for removal
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - Removal of the portion of the Robert Moses Parkway that has separated the City of Niagara Falls from the Niagara River and its scenic gorge for nearly 50 years will be undertaken by the State of New York, said Congressman Brian Higgins in a statement issued by his office Wednesday afternoon.
Plans call for replacement of the four-lane highway with a slower, more scenic parkway. Portions of the roadway would be removed and traffic would move on to a rebuilt Whirlpool Street.
The full text of Higgins' statement:
"This is a huge step forward in the desperately needed effort to reconnect the City of Niagara Falls with its waterfront. Niagara Falls is an icon recognized worldwide, matched only by natural treasures along the likes of the Grand Canyon. Yet, the home community for the Falls is struggling, to say the least. This city deserves to reap the economic benefits of all the grandness the Falls provides.
"Niagara Falls deserves a waterfront it can be proud of and the New York Power Authority has the means and the responsibility to swiftly move this from a review to results. NYPA planned it, they built it and they still own this property today. This is a good start but NYPA must be a willing partner working to get this done."
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I've been having some issues with my left knee, which sometimes makes it difficult to walk. Now, I've been a walker for 30 years, so this is not a happy thing for me. But I put a brace on and perservere as best I can.
My favorite walking routine begins with a hill. My knee doesn't like hills or stairs much. And, probably if this hill were further along my route, it wouldn't be such a big deal. But the hill is at the start of my journey and the knee is still stiff and resistant. So the hill looms large.
The other day as I walked up it, I had an epiphany: I don't have to do the damn hill at my usual long, fast stride. I can do it slowly. I can take baby steps.
And guess what? Slowing down and taking smaller steps is all that is necessary to get up the hill without bothering my knee.
The same thing is true in writing. Take writing a book, for example. The thought of it is daunting to many people. All those pages! All those sentences! All those words! How do you go from idea in your head to finished manuscript?
You do it with baby steps, that's how.
Books get written one word at a time. I know, duh. But we forget this.
So, how can you create some baby steps for your book? What follows are some suggestions for a loose path to follow. (My creative muse demands that everything be somewhat loose. He doesn't like being boxed in by routine or rigidity).
1. Brainstorm Topics. Make a list of potential topics. If you're writing fiction, make a list of potential scenes, characters, and settings. This list doesn't have to be organized or in order. It's just a starting point.
2. Freewrite. Now that you've got a list, you can start writing from it. Don't overthink it, don't have an emotional reaction to the topics on your list, just write to them. Set a timer and write for 20 minutes without stopping. By the way, this process will likely create more topics. Add them to your list.
3. Stay Organized. You can be organized without being rigid. Keep your writing in a folder or binder or file on your computer, categorized in a way that makes sense to you.
4. Start to Shape. Now that you've developed some material, you might want to start shaping the flow of the book. You can make piles of finished free writes on the floor, or write topics on index cards and shuffle them about. Again, this process will generate more ideas because you'll see where the holes are.
5. Put it All Together. When you've exhausted your list of topics, and filled in all the missing pieces that #4 revealed, see if you can't make yourself an outline of how you think it goes together.
6. Rewrite. Now its time to make it pretty. Or have it make sense--remember that first drafts can be crazy, wild and free. In this step you think more of the reader and how best to present it to her. Bear in mind that this step is often multiple steps, because most books get revised several times before heading into the world.
7. Submit. Now it's time to send your baby out! Which means you have to quit clutching it to your chest and let go of it. Yes, you really do. Research agents and editors, write yourself a kick-ass query letter and start sending it out.
I know, I know. I make it all sound so simple. Obviously, writing a book is a bit more complex than this. But, in truth, this process I've outlined is the bottom line of how a book gets written using baby steps.
So what are you waiting for? Go write!
How do you take baby steps to write?
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Infiniti debuts fully electric steering system
In principle, it's not much different than playing 'Gran Turismo' with a wheel and pedals.
It also allows drivers to choose between light and heavy steering efforts, as on certain Audi and Volvo models, as a matter of software control. But whether electric or hydraulic, there has always been a direct mechanical connection to the front wheels.
Until now. Nissan has developed the first production "steering-by-wire" system, a fully electronic steering system that uses a combination of sensors and motors, which will debut on the 2014 Infiniti Q50.
Car and Driver breaks all the technical specs down in full detail, but the gist is this: There's no mechanical linkage, the steering can act independently of the steering wheel -- a possible advance for stability-control systems -- and the steering ratio can be varied infinitely. As such, there is no feedback whatsoever from the road to the driver's palms, since the car's steering wheel is essentially a video-game controller that kids mount on coffee tables.
A fail-safe system with a mechanical link supposedly will trigger if the electronics black out. It'd be frightening if hybrids didn't already use electronic brake pedals. Electronic throttles are even more common, and despite the 2009 Toyota scare over "ghosts in the machine," they've proved to be safe and reliable.
Let's just hope Infiniti offers enough Force Feedback.
[Source: Car and Driver]
"As such, there is no feedback whatsoever from the road to the driver's palms, since the car's steering wheel is essentially a video-game controller that kids mount on coffee tables."
The final nail in the coffin for "driver" involvement!
This sounds incredibly bad. I can't say I would consider buying any car equiped this way.
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PIERRE, S.D. - First Lady Jean Rounds will host the First Lady's Prairie Art Showcase from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Ramkota RiverCentre in Pierre.
Thirty-six artists have been invited to display their works at this year's event. Their work includes acrylic, watercolor and oil paintings, hand-dyed silks, pottery, sculptured metal, turned wood, jewelry, photography, bronzes and more. Art subjects include wildlife, nature, landscapes, contemporary and traditional Native American, animals, florals, cityscapes and people.
"The art showcase gives South Dakota artists the opportunity to share their extraordinary talents with the public,” said First Lady Jean Rounds. "It is my honor to bring together such a gifted group."
Each artist will donate a piece of artwork, which will be available for drawings. The public can register at the art showcase.
In conjunction with the art showcase, a pumpkin decorating workshop for 50 children and adults will be held in the Courtyard from 12:30-2 p.m. Reptile Gardens will give demonstrations at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. in Amphitheatre II. Scrappin’ Ladies will host two classes of 15 each, ages 10 and older, at
1:00 and 2:30 p.m. for a terra cotta project. There is no fee to participate in any of these activities.
Visitors may also test their aim with the LaserShot shooting simulator offered by the Department of Game, Fish and Parks. All activities are free and open to the public.
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There will probably be less than 50 clients sending heartbeats between 1 and 5 minutes apart. It has to run on Windows as well as *nix so I thought to do it all in Perl. I have just hammered it with a multithreaded client and it takes a few secs to clear 100 beats. I have some retry now in the client. If it gets too much perhaps we will specify the server must be on *nix and use the inet way, should not be too onerous a requirement.
The heartbeat monitor itself will send its own heartbeat using IBM Tivoli events to a Tivoli Enterprise Console (T/EC) so its failure should be detected there. It will also send detected client heartbeat failures as T/EC events, records to a data warehouse and localy log them too.
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UH Hilo Performing Arts Center
The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Performing Arts Center is the major performing arts educational and cultural center on the Big Island, serving as a joint special use facility for the University and Big Island Communities. The Performing Arts Center is primarily an instructional facility providing for the regular educational functions of the University of Hawaii at Hilo, whose purpose is to offer significant educational and diverse cultural opportunities -- where dialogue, the exchange of cultural and artistic ideas and co-curricular activities are encouraged.
The Performing Arts Center produces, presents and/or co-sponsors an extensive and culturally diverse year-round Season of local, regional, national, and international performing arts events performed by some of the world's greatest artists. The quality of events presented in the 600-seat Theatre is equal to any offered by major mainland universities. A typical year includes over 150 performances of dance, drama, music, mime, children's shows, lectures and special events.
The UH Hilo Performing Arts Center in cooperation with the UH Hilo Performing Arts Department also produces two to six plays, concerts, musicals and dance performances each season. Interested faculty, staff, students and community members are encouraged to participate in the activities of the Performing Arts Center.
For a full calendar of events, see our Monthly Calendar.
- The Wizard of Oz, Island Dance Academy, Friday & Saturday, May 24 & 25 @ 7pm
- The World at Our Feet, Centerstage Dance Studio, Monday, May 27 @ 3pm
- 2013 Big Island Taiko Festival, Saturday, June 8 @ 7:30pm & Sunday, June 9 at 2pm
The Box Office will be open May 28- June 7 Monday - Friday, 10am-2pm.
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In a rare fit of prior planning, my husband and I are weighing options for adding one more animal species to our budding suburban homestead next year. This year we added a tiny backyard flock of laying hens, and it's been a great success. We have almost wholly positive feelings and experiences from the girls. The eggs have been absolutely fantastic, and have helped us trim our food budget significantly. There are four candidate species for next year, each with pros and cons to consider. I would love to get some feedback from readers who have experiences either positive or negative with any of these animals.
Here's an exploration of the issues as I currently understand them. Since we do not have real experience with any of these species, please don't take what I have to say here as a reliable guide to your own decision making.
Work load: none daily, occasionally significant
Positives: Pollinators! A good food source without killing anything. Husband can make mead. Potential for some honey sales. Probably won't be considered a violation of local ordinance limiting us to four "outdoor pets." Maintenance will not be a daily activity. We know people nearby with expertise in beekeeping. Support for a species having trouble lately. Honey has a long shelf life. No noise/smell issues.
Negatives: Financial outlay for equipment may be significant. We don't eat all that much honey, so I'm concerned about using up the product. Potential for stings and freaked out neighbors. Maintenance and harvest will need to be done in a timely manner which may fall at particularly busy times of year.
Work load: minimal daily to semi-weekly
Positives: Easy to prepare for and care for. Equipment will cost very little. Incredible soil amendment value. Probably won't become an issue with the four "outdoor pets" ordinance. Potential for sale as fishing bait. Potential for use as feed supplement to chickens. No noise/smell issues.
Negatives: Boring. So boring I might slip into neglecting them, which I hope would be benign neglect. Would have to split compost and kitchen scraps between hens and worms. Don't know anyone who practices vermiculture. Doesn't produce anything we can eat directly.
Dwarf dairy goats
Work load: significant daily
Positives: Interesting, intelligent species. Will provide a steady supply of a food that is difficult for us to source locally. We know a local dairy goat farmer to turn to for advice. No need to kill the milk goat for several years. Male offspring may be sold or eaten. Potential for cheesemaking, yogurt, etc. Grazing will help keep our lawn maintained.
Negatives: Significant effort will be required to arrange/build housing, especially for the winter months. Housing and feed costs may be significant. Will add a significant daily chore that cannot be skipped under any circumstance. A minimum of two animals will be needed for the social well being of this species. Would definitely violate the outdoor pet ordinance limitations, unless we reduced our laying flock to two hens. Arranging for breeding may be a hassle. Arranging for their care if we go away will be a major hassle if the doe is lactating. Manure issues are unknown to us. Noise issues unknown.
Meat rabbits or hares
Work load: moderate daily, occasionally significant
Positives: Housing will be cheap to build from materials we have on hand. Steady supply of meat. Feed may be very cheap if they can partly or wholly subsist on our untreated lawn and damaged produce from our own garden/trees. Can be integrated into our rotational grazing system for the hens. Rabbit manure is an excellent soil amendment that requires no aging/composting. Daily labor will be minimal and can be done at the same time as for the hens. Possible secondary product of the pelt or fur? No noise/smell issues if properly maintained. Their grazing will slightly reduce our need to cut the lawn.
Negatives: Would definitely violate the outdoor pet ordinance limitations, unless we reduced our laying flock to two hens. We have to slaughter the animals to derive the primary benefit from them. We don't know anyone who raises rabbits for meat. I'm not accustomed to cooking with rabbit. Slaughtering and butchery will add to the work load and may need to happen on a fairly strict timetable. May have to go to some trouble to source the breed we want. Animals will be vulnerable to same predators as hens.
- So there are the arguments for and against each candidate species, so far as we understand them at this point. It's a lot to consider, no?
I became interested in the dwarf dairy goat idea after reading about two tiny, urban farms in California that include Nigerian dwarf dairy goats. Our lot is small, but bigger than either of these properties. We've already had a tour of the local dairy goat farm, which has a herd of normal sized dairy goats. It was enlightening and encouraging.
I'm pretty willing to flout the local ordinance limiting us to four outdoor "pets," because I don't think anyone would report us. We're considerate neighbors, and there are only two occupied properties close enough to ours from which someone might see enough to realize that we're over the limit of the ordinance, if they actually knew about the limit. No one has complained about the hens. I'm not wild about reducing our flock size below four hens. Even if we were reported, I'm pretty certain we could find good homes for the goats if need be. The rabbits could be slaughtered.
I am concerned about the increased work load that another species would add. I think the biggest daily increase in labor would be with the dairy goats. Vermiculture would offer the lowest return but also the lowest investment in labor and money. My husband will be away from home much less in the next year, so he may be able to help with the new additions to the homestead. But that's something we'll need to work out so that we understand the responsibilities we'll each be signing up for.
So what say you? If you've had any experience keeping any of these animals, I would love to hear your comments.
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Tokyo - Toyota Motor Corp will recall about 2.77 million vehicles worldwide, including the Prius hybrid car, due to problems with the steering mechanism and the hybrid system water pump.
Toyota will recall 13 models sold in Japan between August 2000 and January 2012, it said in a filing with Japan's transport ministry. Some 1.5 million of the recalls are of cars sold in Japan.
The announcement comes a month after Toyota recalled more than 7.4 million vehicles worldwide for faulty power window switches that are a potential fire hazard, the biggest single recall since Ford pulled 8 million vehicles off the road in 1996.
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No flags for Kelowna after pro-life controversy
The City of Kelowna has voted to abolish courtesy flags after receiving hundreds of complaints about this flag. (Kelowna Right to Life Society)
Published Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:32AM PDT
Last Updated Tuesday, August 21, 2012 12:28PM PDT
The City of Kelowna has decided not to fly courtesy flags at city hall after a bid to raise a pro-life flag during Protect Human Life Week caused a public outcry last week.
City spokesman Tom Wilson said they received hundreds of complaints about the pro-life flag.
“Eighty-to-ninety per cent [of people] urged us not to fly the flag and a small amount of people were in support of it,” Wilson said.
The outcry came days after the Kelowna Right to Life Society, a non-profit group that strongly opposes abortion, euthanasia and stem-cell research, announced inaccurately the city had agreed to fly their flag.
The city confirmed they were only considering a bid from the group and had already rejected the group’s first flag because it contained the phrase “Celebrating life from conception until natural death.”
The group submitted another flag that said “PRO-LIFE,” with a graphic of a toddler, an adult and an elderly person.
Although Wilson said flying the flag wouldn’t mean the city endorsed the group, opposition was so strong city council voted Monday to abolish the service altogether.
The only flags allowed to fly at city hall will be the Canadian, B.C. and city flags. Wilson said the intention of the courtesy flag wasn’t to cause controversy and the issue was detracting from more serious city business.
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If you travel alone with your laptop, a 4G modem like the Clear 4G+ Mobile or the LG VL600 LTE will more than take care of your Internet needs. But if you're in a group, or carry along with your laptop other Internet-enabled devices, such as mobile phones or tablets, you'll find those modems painfully lacking as they have no Internet-sharing capability.
What you need in this case is something that can offer Internet connections to multiple devices simultaneously. And this is when mobile cellular routers, like Sprint's MiFi 4082 3G/4G Hotspot, come into play.
The MiFi 4082 is very similar to Sprint's 3G mobile router, the MiFi 2200, but can work with the company's 4G network. The device supports up to five Wi-Fi clients a time and can also work with 3G networks in areas where 4G coverage is not yet available.
Though tiny, the MiFi 4082 offers an amazing set of features, including network storage in which it can host a microSD card that connected users can share data from. The router can also works as a modem in tethering mode when connected to a laptop via a USB cable. What's interesting is that it can work in both Wi-Fi and tethering modes at the same time.
In our trials around the San Francisco Bay Area, the MiFi 4082's Internet connection, though much faster than that of a 3G device, wasn't as fast as the 4G modems mentioned above, averaging about 2.5Mbps for downloading and .9Mbps for uploading. However, 2.5Mbps is actually very fast for an Internet connection and can stream HD content, such as Netflix movies, with ease. Note that these speeds vary depending on where you are, so you might end up having much faster or slower connections along your path of travel.
What will stay constant in the router, however, is its Wi-Fi speed, which is very good for a device of its tiny size. And its network storage feature works amazingly well, too.
Other than that, the MiFi 4082 also offers GPS-related features via its Web interface, such as weather information and other localized services. The router has a little more than 4 hours of battery life, which is long compared with other mobile routers we've reviewed. The device sometimes gets inexplicably hot, however, and runs out of battery charge very quickly.
Sprint offers the MiFi 4082 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot with a single data plan that costs just $50 per month for unlimited 4G, and includes a backup 3G potion that's capped at 5GB. The router itself costs $80 with a two-year contract.
To see if it's the right device for you, check out the full review.
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In architect Zaha Hadid’s universe, a constant flow of ideas shapes her fluid approach to design – as seen in her London apartment
As Zaha Hadid, the world’s most acclaimed woman architect, sits down at a table under the four-pane skylight of her East London apartment, a shaft of sunlight splits the grey, rain-heavy sky and illuminates the white space around her. The resultant natural spotlight is something with which this notable designer is clearly both comfortable and familiar.
Hadid, 57, is renowned for the “impossible” shapes of her buildings, for the sweeping organic forms and trapezoidal lines that make them appear truly futuristic. The list of her projects, awards and accolades is almost too long to digest, but a heavily edited version | <urn:uuid:99804055-1847-421f-8f13-491d5bc5a0bb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/visualarts/architecture/article1775259.ece | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708142388/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124222-00001-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945308 | 166 | 1.554688 | 2 |
One of the roles an owner has, is to deal with error messages that might result from messages sent to a group and which are not handled by the LISTSERV© Auto-Delete mechanism (see below).
Typically, these errors result from subscribers whose email addresses no longer exist, but who have forgotten to remove themselves from the group. These are called 'delivery errors' or 'bounces'. The remote mail server will normally return the original email along with a message to say why it could not be delivered.
When you receive an error message of any sort you need to identify what it is. Most delivery errors, will contain phrases like 'No such user' or 'Recipient address not recognised' and quote the email address that failed. In this case, you can remove the subscriber from your group. However, if the error says something like 'Mailbox full', it is not a permanent problem and can be ignored.
LISTSERV provides a mechanism to automatically delete subscribers whose email addresses are no longer valid, or where there are lasting problems with their mail system.
It does this is by processing delivery errors; providing such errors are correctly sent by the remote mail system and are in one of the many formats LISTSERV recognises, the auto-delete mechanism will deal with them. If not, they will be sent to the owner and should be handled as described above.
The auto-delete mechanism can be controlled by adjusting the List Configuration. By default, the retry period is 4 days or 100 delivery attempts - this is to allow for temporary problems that a subscriber's mail system may be experiencing. If the delivery fails after the retry period, LISTSERV will delete the subscriber. However, a listowner may opt to have a different retry period, or no Auto-Delete option at all.
Subscribers being monitored by the auto-delete mechanism, will appear on a 'Daily Error Monitoring Report' sent to owners of groups.
Note: It is possible for an address to appear on the monitoring report that isn't subscribed to the group. This is usually caused by a subscriber having their mail forwarded to another account which is reported on the delivery error.
If you receive any errors that you cannot decipher, the Helpline can assist. | <urn:uuid:e9cafdd4-5b51-40b3-b796-4a5220fb7b38> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/owners/errormessages.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697380733/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094300-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945436 | 470 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Issue Date: December 7, 2009
Branded Drug Firms Expand Into Generics
Through 2013, pharmaceutical companies are expected to launch innovative products for treating osteoporosis, respiratory ailments, thrombosis, multiple sclerosis, and cancer. Yet as valuable as these pharmaceuticals will be, they are not expected to generate the same amount of sales as will be lost by drugs set to lose patent protection over the same period, according to Michael Kleinrock, director of thought leadership at the market research firm IMS Health.
That’s a big problem for branded pharmaceutical firms. The imbalance between new product introductions and patent losses is “the primary factor limiting global pharmaceutical market growth to the mid-single digits through 2013,” Kleinrock says. Recognizing that their losses are generics firms’ gains, some pharmaceutical companies are diversifying into their competitors’ realm.
The growth rates for generics are enticing. In the 12 months ending in June of this year, global generics sales rose 8.2% to $80 billion compared with growth of only 3.9% for the overall drug market during the same period. In 2009, drugs with U.S. sales of $22 billion will lose patent protection, including Takeda Pharmaceuticals’ Prevacid for treating heartburn and acid reflux disease, GlaxoSmithKline’s Valtrex for genital herpes, Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ Topamax for migraines, and Boehringer Ingelheim’s Flomax for male urinary problems.
In addition, products that today generate an unprecedented $137 billion in sales worldwide will face generic competition from 2009 through 2013, according to IMS Health. They include blockbusters such as Pfizer’s Lipitor for high cholesterol and heart disease, Bristol-Myers Squibb’s blood thinner Plavix, and GSK’s Seretide for asthma.
Big pharma firms that pursue generics will be joining Novartis, which has long been a generics supplier through its Sandoz arm. “We have seen several major pharmaceutical companies build on their generics businesses” this year, particularly in the world’s emerging markets, says Jeff George, chief executive officer of Sandoz.
For example, Sanofi-Aventis agreed to acquire the Czech firm Zentiva, which markets generic pharmaceuticals in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and Turkey and is expanding into other Central and Eastern European countries. It also agreed to buy Medley, the number one generics company in Brazil, and Kendrick, a leading Mexican generics company.
In another move, GSK extended its strategic alliance with South Africa-based Aspen this month by acquiring a 19% stake in the firm. Pfizer is also taking a keen interest in generics for emerging markets. This year, it entered into major licensing agreements with two Indian-based pharmaceutical companies, Claris Lifesciences and Aurobindo Pharma.
Sandoz, too, has been “taking steps to further strengthen our differentiated portfolio,” George says. In September, the company completed the $1.3 billion acquisition of the generic anticancer injectables business of Austria’s EBEWE Pharma.
Sandoz has also been trying to expand its business in biosimilars—generic versions of brand-name biologic drugs that are similar, but not identical, to the original biologics. Market potential for these products is limited by the fact that the Food & Drug Administration has no framework to approve them. But generic drug producers are hoping that one will be developed as part of U.S. health care reform efforts.
Even without such legislation, Sandoz was able to launch Zarzio, a recombinant granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor, in Europe this year. Sandoz also launched somatropin as the first biosimilar in both Japan and Canada. Owing in part to these efforts, Sandoz’ biosimilars business grew 68% in the first nine months of 2009, according to George.
Merck & Co. is also eager to tap into growth in biosimilars. Late last year, it created Merck BioVentures to develop biosimilar products that will capitalize on expiring patents for currently marketed biologic therapies.
However, as companies expand into generics, competition is heating up. “We have seen price erosion of 9 to 10% annually over the last few years,” George says, “which means that we must re-create over half of our profits every year to continue to show profit growth.”
Despite competitive pressures, “we remain confident in the outlook for 2010,” George says. “Growth will continue to be driven by demand in both emerging markets and in key mature markets, as well as by expansion into differentiated product segments such as biosimilars.”
- Chemical & Engineering News
- ISSN 0009-2347
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One measure shows Wisconsin's employment picture improving since Gov. Scott Walker took office in January 2011, but the most recent jobs numbers tell a different story.
On the same day it cheered data showing Wisconsin has gained some 62,000 private-sector jobs over the past two years, the Department of Workforce Development on Thursday quietly released the latest federal figures showing the state losing 22,000 jobs in April. The monthly jobs loss — indicated in preliminary, seasonally adjusted Current Employment Statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, was the biggest monthly decline since April 2009, near the end of the Great Recession.
The state lost 22,600 private-sector jobs between March and April and another 1,500 public jobs according to the Current Employment Statistics, which samples around 3.5 percent of Wisconsin employers monthly.
But state officials were quick to direct attention away from the April numbers toward figures from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, which showed that Wisconsin gained more than 62,000 private-sector jobs in 2011 and 2012. | <urn:uuid:8918196e-f48e-4baf-9459-eec5964a1b16> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://biztimes.com/section/morning_headlines | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382584/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957848 | 210 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Healthy, thriving organizations are constantly evolving, changing, looking at ways to challenge itself in order to provide greater value and relevancy.
Sometimes this constant change feels like turmoil, and people can lose their focus and energy. Though essential, the bigger goals, higher standards, and changing processes can feel exhausting. “Just why are we working so hard and not feeling like we’re making big enough progress?”
All organizations benefit from stepping back once every few years to assess aspirations, goals, guiding principles and purpose. It’s becoming a vital way to renew an organization’s focus and energy around what matters most.
Our “organizational soul” workshops have been praised for how they help organizations find renewed clarity, reset strategic priorities, and recharged team members.
Our approach opens truly creative thinking, poses provocative, fascinating questions, and is above all, a fun way to do hard, strategic work. (Why can’t work be fun?) Foghound outcomes:
- A narrative and organizational purpose that paints the picture of what the organization wants to achieve and why it matters. This “Why” not only inspires team members and attracts talent, it allows people to create ways to achieve the vision. They don’t have to keep checking in with leadership.
- Shared beliefs and operating principles that serve as a benchmark against which to make strategic decisions. These also identify HOW people in your organization work at their best. Those qualities that feed the energized, moving-ahead feeling
- Insights on how to better leverage the organization’s “hidden” talents and competencies.
- Points of view that can make internal and external communications more interesting, engaging, and motivating.
- Shared understanding on how to influence and communicate change throughout your organization. Not just at the executive level, but throughout.
Lois Kelly’s collaborative workshop approach helped us to get to the heart of what Trinity Repertory Company is all about. As a means of refining our mission and what we mean to our stakeholders, her efforts were both inspirational and entertaining. I encourage everyone in for-profit companies or nonprofits to invest in this process – it will reap greater rewards than you ever expected.” Michael Gennaro, Executive Director, Trinity Rep Theater
- Another soul-less vision statement: speed vs. collaboration
- Putting words into why your company exists
- A leader’s three talking points
- Steve Jobs on corporate soul
- Purpose = profits: a financial analysis
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Monday, February 15, 2010
This was a cool case. An older lady with occult GI blood loss was sent to her GI doctor for work-up. EGD and colonoscopy were both negative. So they scheduled her for a newer procedure called "capsule endoscopy" which allows direct visualization of the heretofore unaccessible small bowel. Basically you swallow a glorified pill-cam which records a series of pictures as it passes through your intestinal tract. The quality of the images generally isn't great (compared with standard endoscopy) but areas of active bleeding or mucosal ulcerations in the small bowel can often be identified.
This lady swallowed her pill-cam on a Thursday. Five days later, she still hadn't evacuated it in her stool. She ended up in the ER complaining of severe crampy abdominal pain and nausea. The CT above demonstrates the capsule in the RLQ, stuck somewhere in her terminal ileum.
At laparoscopic exploration I found classic manifestations of acute Crohn's disease in her terminal ileum (fat creeping, thickened mesentery, transmural inflammation of bowel wall, etc). So I did the lap ileocecectomy, opened the specimen on the back table and popped out the capsule lodged in the middle of an 8-10 cm stricture.
The capsule found the pathology all right; just not the way it was designed.... | <urn:uuid:19841808-f073-4d44-b0a3-1c76879d081f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ohiosurgery.blogspot.com/2010/02/crohns-strictures.html?showComment=1266281143678 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700958435/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516104238-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945519 | 292 | 1.734375 | 2 |
(This is a full list of films produced in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The country came into existence in April 1992. For an A-Z list see Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina films)
Because Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of Yugoslavia prior to its independence in 1992, all movies in that region were credited as being produced in Yugoslavia, and not in their respective countries, regardless of the producers or director. Wikipedia thus has a full list of movies from 1992.
Cinema in Bosnia as part of Yugoslavia dates back to the 1920s when it started producing silent films. Bosnia and Herzegovina now is home to the largest film festivals in the Balkans and one of the largest in Southeastern Europe; the Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF), established in 1995 during the siege of Sarajevo by Mirsad Purivatra, who still presides as the president of the festival. It has hosted guests such as Steve Buscemi, Katrin Cartlidge, Bono, Nick Nolte, Michael Moore, Alexander Payne and many more. Another undoubtedly notable festival is the annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) established in 2003, held in the TriBeCa area of New York City. The festival's aim is to promote movies from various young promising directors in Bosnia and showcase them to the American public in hopes of getting recognition.
Arguably the two most famous and celebrated modern-day Bosnian directors are Danis Tanović and Jasmila Žbanić, who directed No Man's Land and Grbavica, respectively. No Man's Land won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, among 42 other awards, while Grbavica won the Golden Bear at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, and countless other awards. The country has many more respected and internationally-renowned filmmakers, including Stefan Arsenejević whose 2003 short film Atorzija was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2003, and Pjer Žalica whose 2004 film Fuse won a substantial amount of European and international awards. Today, Bosnia has a large concentration of internationally acclaimed and multiple international award winning screenwriters, filmmakers and cinematographers; only some of which include: Hajrudin Krvavac-Šiba, Mirza Idrizović, Aleksandar Jevđević, Ivica Matić, Ademir Kenović, the late Benjamin Filipović, Jasmin Dizdar, Dino Mustafić, Srđan Vuletić, Aida Begić and many more.
See also
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The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL) will organize the third edition of its sixteen-week long joint post-graduate course on "Technology and Sustainable Development - Innovative and integrated approaches in emerging countries" at the IIT Madras, India from 2nd January through 22nd April 2008. The course is open to graduate students and professionals, with a university degree, in various occupations who are not necessarily specialists in the field.
The course is designed to provide an appreciation of the role of technology and how it may contribute most effectively to sustainable development in the context of developing and emerging countries.
The purpose of this course is to expose students to the field of academic service learning which combines organized community service with course content and civic engagement. The course provides students with the unique opportunity to apply their studies in the classroom to their volunteer work at nonprofit organizations in the community and relate to these experiences through reflection activities. This fusion of scholarly research and civic engagement is at the heart of academic service learning which a mutually beneficial relationship is. Service, combined with learning, adds value to each and transforms both. | <urn:uuid:3f22b146-11be-4ec7-9980-22f6618da6cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.servicebook.org/index.php/resources | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704132298/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113532-00003-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94279 | 253 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Luanda — The secretary general of the Trade Unions Confederation (UNTA-CS), Augusto Manuel Viagem, said Friday in Luanda that the intervention of unions has contributed to improve the social and working conditions of workers.
Manuel Viage was speaking to ANGOP about "The contribution of trade unions in improving of socio-labour conditions."
The Trade Union official said that the claims filed by the workers are often answered by employers, and whenever that happens there is a relative or significant improvement to these conditions, either in the field of remuneration or in the creation of working conditions.
According to the source, the trade union encourages the employers to provide their personnel with professional and continued training.
On the other hand, the secretary general underlined that the issue of the minimum salary continues being analysed by specialised bodies, having expressed optimism about an adjustment in the national minimum wage this year. | <urn:uuid:a4ec5462-73fd-499f-ab59-5a316472964f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://allafrica.com/stories/201205060031.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00015-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963014 | 185 | 1.578125 | 2 |
On Dec. 12, 2009, the sponsors (SAWS, San Antonio Police Department, City of San Antonio) hosted the initial MedDropSA as a pilot event. The drop-off was held in conjunction with the City’s mobile household hazardous waste collection event.
Approximately 171 pounds of medications were collected from about 70 vehicles throughout the five hour event.
SAWS, San Antonio Police Department and the City of San Antonio hosted two MedDropSA collection events in 2010. On June 5, 2010, a total of 1,336 pounds of medications were collected from more than 100 cars for disposal.
During the September 11, 2010, collection event, approximately 1,270 pounds of medications were collected.
In 2011, the partners have held three MedDropSA collection events, with another planned for November 2011. More than 400 pounds of medications were collected at the March 5 event as well as at the event held June 4. On Sept. 10, nearly 1,000 pounds of pills and liquids were collected.
Since the program's inception in 2009, a total of 11,143 pounds have been collected! | <urn:uuid:04c8ce6e-415c-4874-a69a-1794d0b83401> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.saws.org/meddropsa/2009Collection.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705953421/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120553-00010-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975693 | 226 | 1.679688 | 2 |
"Sleeping Dragon of Longzhong"
Member No.: 41
Joined: 8-July 05
Written By Ryan Roguska
Style:Kongming or Kong-ming
Titles:Great Commander–in–Chief, Prime Minister, Lord of Wu Xiang, Loyal and Martial Lord
Bio: (Quick Family tree)
Father: Zhuge Gui
Uncle: Zhuge Xuan
Brothers:Zhuge Jin, Zhuge Jun
Wife:Huang Yue Ying
Adopted Son:Zhuge Qiao
Grandsons:Zhuge Pan, Zhuge Shang, Zhuge Jing
Nephews: Zhuge Ke, Zhuge Rong
Grand Nephews:Zhuge Zhuo, Zhuge Song, Zhuge Jian
(Family Tree found from www.google.com)
(All Information comes from Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong Brewitt Taylor ver, and Moss Roberts Ver, Chen Shou's writings, and Kongming.net <-- Where I got his family tree and titles. NOTE: None of this is copy and pasted)
Zhuge Liang was born on the year 181, shortly before the Yellow Turban rebellion. He was the middle child of Zhuge Gui, his older brother was Zhuge Jin (who later joined Wu) and his little brother was Zhuge Jun (joined Shu shortly after Zhuge Liang). After Zhuge Gui died, Jin, Liang, and Jun lived with there Uncle Zhuge Xuan. They moved to the Central Plains where he was a student of Sima Hui, with the classmates of Xu Shu and Pang Tong. He was given the Taoist Name "Sleeping Dragon" And it was said that whomsoever has the Sleeping Dragon or the Fledgling Phoenix (Pang Tong) would unite the land. When Zhuge Xuan died, Kongming moved to Longzhong, Jing.
Kongming lived with Zhuge Jun till Xu Shu; Liu Bei's strategist was forced to leave do to Cao Cao holding his mother hostage. Xu Shu recommended seeing the great mind Zhuge Liang at Longzhong, near Sleeping Dragon Valley. Bei went with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the first visit Liang was away and the servant girl said he will be back soon. A few days later they returned, this time Zhuge Jun was home. Jun said his brother wasn’t here. So, Bei asked for a piece of paper and he wrote his desires for the land. Liang saw this and was touched. Bei came later and Liang was there, sleeping on his couch. After waiting for a few hours Liang awoke and was embarrass that he had slept while someone had waited for him. After a talk Liang joined Liu Bei and left his handmaid in charge of his home.
With Zhuge Kongming, Liu Bei repelled Cao Cao's southern advance several times. Liang advice taking Jing from Liu Biao, but Bei said he would never take the land of a relative and stormed out, this made Liang even more loyal to Liu Bei.
After Biao died, his wife made Liu Zong, the second son of Biao the heir instead of Liu Qi, the rightful Heir. Zong surrendered to Cao and Bei had to retreat. Bei took all the people who didn't want to go by Cao's rule with him, making the travel harder. Thanks to the efforts of Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Wei Yan (he held of Zongs forces and then withdrew to Chang Sha) they managed to get to Jiang Xia safely. Zhuge Liang went to Wu and beat 10 advisors in a battle of words before seeing Sun Quan. Liang convinced him that he should team up with Bei to help repel Cao. So, Quan appointed Zhou Yu as Grand General for the battle.
Liang and Zhou Yu came up with the same decision to use fire against Cao. The strategies went as thus. Pang Tong came out of hiding and joined Cao. He told Cao to chain his ships together to prevent sea sickness, do to most of his army where northerners, not used to sea travel. So Cao did and then Tong went to escape when he ran into a man with a wooden comp on his long hair. Tong was saddened that he had been caught but then the man said that he was Xu Shu, and though he knew or his plan he would not tell, so he let Tong escape, unscathed. Liang set up an alter and prayed for wind. Soon a southeast wind blew. Zhou Yu then beat Huang Gai and then Huang faked surrender. Gai loaded his ships with straw and rammed into Cao's fleet, setting it ablaze, the chains making it spread, Wind making it not go to the allied forces ships and making it stronger.
Zhou Yu became jealous of Liang, and scorned him with tasks like the 200 arrows. Liang had to get 200 arrows in three days with no supplies so make them. Yu that this would be the perfect task so when Liang failed he could execute him. Liang waited till the third day when he got 12 (or 20) boats and road into the fog and near Caos shores. Cao launched arrows into the thick wooded boats and they stuck to them. Liang sailed off and then Cao realized he had been doped. Liang got back and had precisely 200 arrows. This made Yu Angry. Yu was later shot with an arrow and a doctor told him to not stress himself out or the wound would reopen. Liang tricked Yu three times, one of which was the marriage of Sun Shang Xiang and Liu Bei. Sun Quan and Yu plotted to kill Liu Bei and Quan told his mother Lady Wu about the plot. Lady Wu yelled at Quan and said "You would sacrifice your sister for this man! You would dishonor her and no man would ever come near her!" Quan was distraught but then Zhou Yu talked to Lady Wu and then she said "If he is unworthy you may kill him, if he is, you must not hurt him". So then Bei was invited to a banquet, Yu and Quan had placed soldiers with axes in the room well hidden from sight. But lady Wu saw great virtue and grew To like Bei very quickly. Zhou Yu didn’t give up and attempted to kill Bei anyway, but Liang saw though this ahead of time and Bei and Shang Xiang laughed as there boat sped away from Zhou Yus fleet. Then after the third time, He wound was grievous and he named Lu Su his heir and he died. Liang went into Wu territory and mourned for the death of Zhou Yu, gaining Wus respect.
After the battle, When Bei conquered the four districts and Jiang Ling, Liu Bei got a call to Shu, it seemed that Zhang Lu of Han Zhong intended on attacking Liu Zhang. So, Bei went and was given charge of Zi Tong to help protect his kinsmen Zhang. But, soon Zhang though that Bei was after his own land and started a war against him. So, Bei began to invade Yi and with Wei Yan and Huang Zhong he conquered most of it, along with one of his new strategists Pang Tong. Liang predicted the death of Pang Tong and sent a letter to him. Tong, thought this as an act of jealousy and went though with his plan. He got to an area and felt a bad vibe and asked a soldier who had betrayed Liu Zhang and joined Bei, what this place was called. The soldier said it was Fallen Phoenix Valley and Tong grew fearful and cause his Taoist name was Fledgling Phoenix, he started to retreat when Zhang Ren though he was Liu bee and shot him full of arrows, Tong died at 34(or 28). Liang ran out of his tent and yelled that the Tong had died. The officers in the camp didn’t take this seriously so they ignored him. A few days later a letter came telling them of Tongs death. The soldiers were amazed that Liang’s prediction had come true, making Liang even more famous.
Later, after the events at Fan Castle, Bei lead a campaign against Wu in revenge for Guan Yu's and Zhang Fei's death's, Liang and Zhao Yun opposed and didn’t go with them, and Bei lost at Yi Ling, Soon after Bei had a dream with Yi'de (Zhang Fei) and Yunchang (Guan Yu) that they were calling him. Bei fell ill and on Liu Beis death bed, He told Liang to help his son Shan to rule over Shu. Then he whispered to Liang that if Shan proved incompetent he could rule. Liang said he would never take over the rule of the Kingdom of which his lord Liu had ruled. So Liang was made the Prime Minister and was in charge of all Shu government and Campaigns, after he became Prime Minister, the Imperial Uncle Liu Bei died.
Shortly after, the southern Nanman tribes rebelled against Shu, Liang went to the aid of the Prefect Lu Kai and his sabordinate Wang Fang, and began his southern campaign. Liang tricked the Nanman King Meng Huo several times, and killing his officers like King Dhuosi, King Wu Tugu with Juggernauts, King Mulu, and others, when he was caught the seventh time with his Wife Zhu Rong, His cousin Daiali Dongzhu and his Brother Meng You, Huo was released his seventh time, he cried and said, "Though I am a barbarian, am not without Honor!" So he crawled on all fours to Liang’s tent and asked for surrender, Liang cried and said "I am glad you have came to reason, Illustris King!", so Meng Huo then surrendered to Shu. Liang gave all the lands of the Nanman back to them with no foreign government, earning there trust completely.
At Tian Shui, Liang made the prodigy Jiang Wei surrender to Shu and Wei was made his apprentice along with Liang’s other apprentice Ma Su. Liang warned Ma Su to not set up camp on the mountain. But, Su did and it lead to the lose of Tian Shui, and the northern Campaign. Zhuge Liang mourned for Ma Su at his execution, and when Ma Su's head came in he wailed loudly and the officers said "Why do you mourn for a man you killed?" Liang answered "I mourn for Shu has lost a valuable ally! If only he had chosen to listen to his officer!" The Head of Ma Su was shown around camp and then sowed back on and he was given a proper burial. Wang Ping was promoted, and Liang took in Ma Su's family.
His second Campaign was a failure do to the long time it took for Li Yans supplies to reach them. For this Li Yan was striped of rank and his son, Li Feng, took his place.
The Third Campaign was similar along with the Fourth; however Shu won an important victory during the fourth campaign against Wei. One of the Five Wei Generals, Zhang He, was fooled by Zhuge Liang into a trap, where he was hailed with arrows and body was described as ‘A Hedgehog with to many quills’. With the death of Zhang He, Wei’s main defense against Shu was slowly crumbling, with only Sima Yi as the main threat. In the Fifth Liang was ill, it seemed that going to battle so much had shortened his like so he set up a candle formation and said "If all the candle's go out by the end of the fifth day, then I am to die." Four days later all the candles were still burning and Liang was happy. Whilst talking to Jiang Wei in his tent Wei Yan ran in saying that Sima Yi was advancing and he tripped over the candle formation and they went out a little more then a few minutes of the Fifth day. Jiang said to execute Yan but Liang sighed and said "My fate is my fate, There is no escaping It." and he pardoned Yan. He died at Wu Zhang Yuan (or Wu Zhang Plains), leaving his 24 manuals of strategy to Jiang Wei. He died at the age of 54, almost exactly 30 years later, Shu would fall to Wei.
When he died people wailed, Li Yan sobbed, he had hoped that Liang would give take him back into the army and his position. And an exiled Liao Li who was banished by Liang do to thinking he was Liang’s second and neglected the duties and slandered Liang. When word reached him of his death he said "Then, after all, I am but a barbarian."
The poet Yuan Wei-chih, wrote of his death along with Tu Fu and Po Chu-i. Tu Fu wrote,
A Bight star last night falling from the sky
this message gave, "the Master is no more."
No more in camps shall bold men tramp at his command,
At court no statesmen e'er will fill the place he held
At home, his clients miss there patron kind
Calm was his bosom, full of strategy,
But lastly fared we to the wood's green shade
To hail him victor; hushed that song for him
And Po-Chu-i wrote
Within the forest, dim the master lived obscure,
Till, Thrice returning, there the king his mentor met.
As when a fish the ocean gains, desire was filled
Wholly; the dragon freed could soar aloft at will.
As kings on's guardian none more zealous was;
As minister, most loyally he wrought the court.
His war memorials still to us are left
And reading them, the tears of unconscious fall.
And lastly, Yuan Wei-chih wrote
He fought disorder, helped a failing king;
Most zealously he kept his masters son.
In state-craft he o'erpassed both Guan and Yo,
In war-craft he excelled both Sun and Wu.
With awe the court his was memorial heard,
With majesty his "Eight Arrays" were planned.
Good reader, and there's a virtue in your heart
You'll sigh to think that has has no peer.
Also, Du Fu, and Bai Juyi wrote of his death.
Du Fu wrote,
' The Star that dropped last night upon his camp
Announced to all: "The master fell this day."
No longer from his tent will orders flow;
The Hall of Fame will honor his success.
Three thousand followers left master less,
The hosts in his mind's eye denied their day.
Nor, in the green woods clear and sunlit,
Will Kongming's fine-voiced chants be heard again.
And Finally, Bai Juyi wrote,
Encased in the hills, the master hid his tracks;
By twist of fate a sage king sued three times.
Only in Nanyang could "fish" and "water" meet:
"The dragon flies to Heavenly Han - a wholesome rain."
To Liu Bei's heir Kongming gave zealous care;
Serving the state, he poured forth his loyal heart.
And still today his calls to war live on;
How many readers can restrain there tears?
Zhuge Liang was also a highly prestigious inventor. Some of his inventions include the repeating Crossbow, Zhuge Nu in Chinese. He also created Mantou, or landmine. Another of his popular invention was the Wood Ox and Floating Horse; a strange type of wheel barrel that from a distance looked like animal’s and tricked enemy forces. An early type of Air balloon named after him as well was invented called the ‘Kongming Lantern.’ He also wrote books in his spare time, two of which are still used today in modern warfare and tactics. These books are Kongmings 24-War Manuals and Mastering the Art of War which is usually read alongside of the Art of War, written by Famous strategist and Warlord, Sun Tzu. Zhuge Liang’s likeness and figure has been adapted into video games. Games like Romance of the Three Kingdoms have Zhuge Liang with the highest intelligence stat, and he has even been added to Dynasty Warriors, a Hack-And-Slash game that followed the Three Kingdoms timeline.[COLOR=green][COLOR=green]
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Qualcomm has licensed 3D graphics core technology from AMD, for integration with Qualcomm's wireless chipsets for mobile gaming devices.
The licensing agreement will bring AMD's graphics technology, called Unified Shader Architecture, first introduced in the Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming system, to Qualcomm's Mobile Station Modem chipsets for 3G wireless markets, AMD said.
With the acquisition last year of ATI, AMD became a leading supplier of discrete media processors to the handheld market. The company's Imageon media processors support a variety of multimedia functions, including mobile TV, video, photography, video telephony, music and 3D graphics processing.
AMD announced in February a dedicated business to license handheld graphics technology to semiconductor manufacturers. It is also helping drive new graphics standards, such as OpenGL ES (OpenGL for Embedded Systems) 2.0 to accelerate the adoption of graphics in handheld devices. OpenGL ES is an embedded version of the OpenGL cross-platform computer graphics API (application programming interface).
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW)- Local schools are increasing security in light of recent national events.
USD-437 has three officers who all have access to weapons. USD-501 has 20 officers that work daily in the district. Discussion has come up about having armed officers in the schools, but officials say it would be costly and hard to sustain.
"I think the cost of putting an armed officer in every school in Topeka would cost a great deal of money, but we understand that it's the Board of Education that has those very difficult decisions to make. And if they were to come to me and say they thought that was a reasonable expenditure, then we would carry out their mandates of course," said Director of Topeka Public School Safety for Topeka, Ronald Brown.
USD-437 is re-instituting buzzer systems at the elementary schools.
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Without a doubt, one of the most sought-after, aftermarket upgrades for the Mustang is the supercharger. Itís considered by many as the Holy Grail of performance additions, commanding a much higher price tag than an item such as a cold-air intake. The power gains are some of the largest and most rewarding that youíll ever encounter. This amount of power is what places superchargers at the top of the wish lists of many enthusiasts.
While the types and designs of superchargers have varied over the years, there are really two basic types of superchargers for the Ford Mustang. These are the centrifugal and positive displacement options.
The centrifugal supercharger became a very popular option for the Fox-Body Mustang, although its first use on the Mustang date back several decades ago. Carroll Shelby starting using Paxton superchargers on certain Shelby Mustangs back in the sixties. These particular Shelbys command a very high price tag among car collectors today.
The centrifugal supercharger is best suited for producing higher RPM horsepower, as it generally starts providing noticeable boost around 3,000 RPM. This made the centrifugal supercharger ideal for the 5.0 Mustang, as that pushrod V8 engine was known for producing plenty of low-end torque on its own.
The centrifugal supercharger is placed beside or in front of the engine, with air entering the front of the supercharger. A pulley is mounted directly opposite to the air inlet, and is driven by the engineís accessory belt system. This pulley spins the impeller, which is found inside the supercharger. The impeller looks like a series of blades, and can be seen through the air inlet. As the impeller is spun increasingly faster, the motor's RPM increases as well, and the impeller produces enough force to overcome the vacuum that normally pulls air into the motor. The supercharger then forces air into the motor. Itís this force that is commonly referred to as boost. Boost is represented in psi (pounds per square inch). Typical boost is in the 5-10 psi range, although highly modified engines can see boost much higher than this typical range.
A centrifugal supercharger spins at very high speeds, thus, creating heat. To combat this, oil is required to lubricate it. Some centrifugal superchargers tap into the vehicleís engine oil supply, while other centrifugal superchargers use oil that is self-contained in the supercharger. At specified intervals, the superchargers using self-contained oil must have their oil changed, just as you would also change your engineís oil.
The two most commonly used centrifugal superchargers are Paxton and Vortech, although there are still many other manufacturers to choose from. It should also be noted that a centrifugal supercharger and a turbo share the same basic operational concept. The chief difference is that the centrifugal supercharger is driven by the engineís accessory belt system, and a turbocharger is driven by the engineís exhaust.
Positive Displacement Superchargers
Positive displacement superchargers are easily recognized, as they sit directly on the motor itself. Normally this is directly on the top of the engine, as it does with the Mustang. There are some exotic cars, however, that use a positive displacement supercharger mounted more along the side of the engine. The first positive displacement supercharger on record was the Roots-type supercharger, which has origins dating back to the mid-1800ís.
The Roots-style supercharger is beginning to lose favor compared to the twin-screw (Lysholm) superchargers. This is primarily due to efficiency benefits with the twin-screw design. The twin-screw rotors use very tight tolerances to pull the air into the heart of the supercharger and compress it. Twin-screw designs also compress the air better than the rounded lobes of the Roots-style supercharger, which provides a better air charge when compared to power needed to turn the rotors. The Roots-style supercharger uses a more rounded-style lobe with tolerances that arenít as tight as the twin-screwís rotors.
A positive displacement supercharger still uses the basic supercharger concept of compressing air and overcoming the engineís vacuum, but achieves this is a slightly different way than the centrifugal supercharger does. With a positive displacement supercharger, air enters it, and ends up at the rotors. From there, the rotors (whether twin-screw or the rounded Roots-style) compress the air as they spin inside the supercharger. The rotors are powered by a pulley at the front of the supercharger that is driven by the engineís accessory belt system.
Depending upon the exact type of positive displacement supercharger, there may be more than two rotors used. With the modern positive displacement superchargers used on Mustangs, twin rotors are normally employed. Just as with the centrifugal supercharger, the rotors spin at high speeds and lubrication is required inside the supercharger. Positive displacement nearly always use a self-contained oil system, which will requires oil changes on a regular basis.
When the air reaches the rotors, they compress it, forcing it out the underside of the superchargerís body. From there, it enters directly into the intake of the engine. As with the centrifugal supercharger, youíll see a minimum of 5-10 psi of boost with modified and strengthened motors, often sporting much more boost.
As a result of the benefits of twin-screw rotor use, the positive displacement industry as a whole has been moving towards twin screw designs in recent years. Regardless of the design approach used, the positive displacement supercharger has one distinct advantage over the centrifugal superchargers. That advantage involves the production low-end torque. Since a positive displacement supercharger delivers an almost constant flow of air once itís called upon, the power gained from the supercharger is nearly instantaneous, unlike the centrifugal type, which tends to apply the power more gradually as the RPM increases and reaches a certain range.
A blow-off valve is used to relieve boost pressure. Boost is created as throttle input is increased, and the engineís RPM begins to increase. If throttle input is decreased, the boost pressure must be relieved. A blow-off valve allows this pressure to be vented to the atmosphere, and not enter the engineís intake when itís not needed. Sometimes with smaller boost installations of 5 psi, a blow-off valve may not be used. As boost pressure increases, however, the ability to relieve the boost pressure becomes increasingly important, as engine damage could result.
The blow-off valve is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the bypass valve, however, there is a difference between the two. To increase the efficiency of positive displacement superchargers, some manufacturers will allow some air to bypass the superchargerís rotors at lower engine RPM speeds. This equalizes the pressure on both side of the rotors and increases the efficiently of the supercharger when boost is not required. This comes into play at cruising speeds or slow acceleration; basically, times when very little throttle is being used.
One of the side effects of the way superchargers work is that, when itís compressing the incoming air, it also heats that same air being compressed. That lessens the density of the air some, and can potentially increase the heat in the engine. To combat this, an intercooler is often used. The intercooler is typically placed after the supercharger, and the compressed air is forced through it. Intercoolers are fed by engine coolant most of the time, although some race setups have the ability to facilitate the use of ice. While the fact that the air passing through the intercooler will cause some minor loss of boost pressure, the benefits of cooling the incoming air far outweigh the disadvantages of an intercooler.
A centrifugal supercharger uses an intercooler that is placed into the piping that connects the supercharger to the intake. In the case of a positive displacement supercharger, the intercooler is placed between the supercharger and the motor. The air exits the underside of the positive displacement supercharger, and is moved through the intercooler and then into the intake. Sometimes the intercooler is also referred to as a heat exchanger.
As a side note, a typical intercooler in use today would be more appropriately referred to as an ďaftercoolerĒ, since it cools the air after it has been compressed. Early intercoolers were placed before the supercharger/turbocharger, and used normal airflow to cool the incoming air charge. The name "intercooler" has stuck through the years, and persists to this day.
The chief disadvantage to a supercharger is that the incoming air is heated as itís compressed. Nitrous, as a power adder, doesnít have this disadvantage, as cooling is a side effect of the change nitrous undergoes when it switches from a liquid to a gas. Superchargers are always driven by the engine as well, adding a small amount of load on the engine, even if they arenít producing boost. While the use of a bypass valve has helped with this aspect, there is still a small impact to fuel economy.
A supercharger has several advantages in its favor, however. The first of these is the fact that, unlike with nitrous, bottle refills are not necessary. The power provided by a supercharger is also always ready, requiring nothing more that the throttle to be opened up. Because of this, and the fact that the use of nitrous on the street may be illegal on some areas, supercharging is one of the most popular options for street-driven Mustangs. The supercharger may seem expensive at first, but when it comes to weighing the horsepower gained by dollar spent, itís quickly seen as a much more viable option than replacing engine components. Itís also a much quicker install than diving into and changing parts of the motor as well, as most supercharger installations arenít too difficult, although tuning after the fact may be required.
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Toshiba computers are known for their solid build, but like any other gadget, they give in to wear and tear over time. It can be a challenge for laptop owners when this happens, especially when a part needs to be replaced. Toshiba computer repair parts are not sold directly to end users; rather, most manufacturers work with distributors, who then sell them to service companies.
If you need a part replaced, it’s best to have it looked at by a professional repair service, especially if you do not know your way that well around computers. Sometimes the part does not even need replacing; it may just need to be tweaked to get it back in order. If you do need a replacement, a professional can help you make sure you get the right one—and with new makes and models coming out every year, ensuring compatibility can be quite complicated.
Another thing to consider is whether your computer is still under warranty, and what this warranty covers. Sometimes the cost of part itself may be covered, but you have to pay for the labor, or vice versa. This depends largely on where you got your computer. Toshiba’s standard warranties last from three months to five years, and the parts covered may differ from one customer to another. The nature of the repair may also be taken into account. Before shelling out money for repairs and replacement, dig up your warranty documents and see what you can get back. Toshiba keeps all of its warranty documents on its website, including older versions.
If you’re comfortable enough to find replacement parts on your own, the internet is a good place to start. Several companies sell computer parts online for a wide range of brands, and it’s by far the best way to get a good selection. Toshiba parts are normally assigned part numbers, so it’s helpful to know this when you do your search. Modem and ethernet cables, circuit boards, and drives are usually quite easy to find. Batteries, chargers, and adapters may be in separate categories. Click here to view some of the most commonly purchased parts for Toshiba computers.
It’s always a good idea to shop around and make sure you’re getting a good deal. Prices can very widely from one seller to another, and the same goes for quality. You may have to pay more for an authorized reseller, but you can be sure you’re getting your money’s worth. Comparing at least three different sources can give you a good idea of what prices to expect, as well as leverage for negotiating with certain sellers.
March 18th, 2013 in
Laptop repair has become much easier since more efficient computers and easy-to-find parts have entered the market. But motherboard problems remain one of the most difficult issues. Because most of a computer’s vital functions are carried out on the motherboard, when it fails, the laptop loses much of its capacity.
Years ago, a failed laptop motherboard more or less meant that you had to get a new computer. But that’s no longer the case today. It’s much easier to find a motherboard for a laptop repair regardless of make or model, and installation is much less complex and risky. And because there’s a greater variety of laptops and hardware systems, compatibility is not an issue either. The same goes for any other internal component. Click here to view some of the most commonly replaced laptop parts and learn how you can find the right pieces.
If you’re not too tech-savvy, you will want to do some homework before buying a new motherboard. There are several types, brands, models, and feature sets to choose from, and it all depends on what computer you have and what kind of user you are. The first thing you want to look at is compatibility: what kind of processor you have (usually Intel or AMD), the type of memory you use, and the form factor (i.e. it has to fit your laptop).
Next, you’ll want to look at the features. This is where the personalization takes place. For example, you can opt for onboard video or get a separate video card. The latter is usually chosen by gamers and people in the visual arts (such as film and photography), as it gives them the freedom to choose a more powerful card and upgrade as they see fit. Gamers often put multiple video cards together to maximize quality, but this requires a different, often more expensive type of motherboard.
You can also choose between onboard or separate network cards. With an onboard network card (also called an NIC), you free up room for other expansion cards such as video and sound, or simply for better airflow to avoid overheating.
USB ports are another consideration. All motherboards have an onboard USB feature, but they differ in the number of ports. Here, it’s a matter of how many USB devices you want to plug in at the same time. Always plan for more ports than you need in case you get more external devices later on.
It may sound complicated, but it’s a lot simpler than the terms let on. If you’re not sure, you may want to get a professional opinion from the shop, or a more knowledgeable friend, to make sure you don’t end up with useless hardware.
March 8th, 2013 in
Dell laptops offer a good mix of aesthetics and performance, but as with any other laptop, the fun stops when they start to give in. Laptop repairs can be complicated and expensive, more so than for desktop computers. For some, the cost may even justify buying a new laptop instead. But this doesn’t have to be the case. A bit of research can help you find the best Dell laptop repair services for the best price.
One of the first decisions you’ll have to make is whether to go for the big names or a small local shop. There are pros and cons with each, and at the end of the day, it all boils down to where you feel most confident. The best way to do this is to get personal referrals. If many people have had good service in one place, chances are you’ll get the same quality. At the very least, it’ll help narrow down your options and weed out the ones you need to avoid.
Of course, every laptop owner has different needs, and this is where you need to go more in depth. Start by finding out how common your problem is among Dell laptop owners—you might find that many other people are in the same boat and even get advice on temporary fixes. Click here to view some of the most common issues with Dell laptops and what you can do about them.
If your problem is as simple as a malfunctioning keyboard or a few dead pixels, it probably won’t involve that much work. In this case, there’s no point paying a premium for someone to tinker with your hardware. However, if it’s software-related—for example, a virus or a corrupted drive—it may be worth paying for more experienced labor. That’s why it’s important to know what your problem is, or at least have a general idea of where it lies.
You may also want to see how familiar a shop is with the kind of problem you have. A well-established company may still be better at some kinds of repairs than others. One way to do this is to spend some time at the shop, browse around, and try to listen to customers coming in with problems. Often, this will tell you more than the ads do about the services they offer.
The bottom line is that Dell laptop repairs involve a bit of homework, at least if you want good service. It may take up some of your time, but it’s well worth the money you might save and the extra life it can give your computer. Think of it as protecting your investment—you spent a good deal on that machine, so it only makes sense to invest in keeping it running.
February 23rd, 2013 in
Laptop users are familiar with two scenarios: the excitement over opening a shiny new computer, and the sinking realization, after a few years, that the machine has run its course and it’s time to get a new one. But many users forget that the way they use their laptops can greatly determine how long it lasts—and we’re talking a difference of at least two years. If you want your laptop to last as long as possible, read on for some practical tips.
Keep it dry. This means not drinking while using the laptop, if you can avoid it. There’s the obvious danger of spilling hot coffee all over your machine, but little drops here and there can also add up. The damage can be as simple as a stuck key, or a short-circuit that renders some interior parts permanently unusable. At the very least, invest in a drink holder that will prevent cups and glasses from tipping over.
Work on a flat surface. Despite their name, laptops are really best used on tables. Resting them on beds, pillows, and yes, your lap, blocks the heating vents on the sides and bottom. This makes the computer heat up faster and the inside parts work harder. If you work on your bed or couch a lot, invest in a computer mat and a cooling pad.
Be gentle with the DC adapter. A lot of people tend to ram the DC jack into the laptop, and yank it out with as much force. The jack is connected to the motherboard with delicate solder joints, and if you’re not careful these can crack and damage your power supply. This is often the reason a laptop starts charging more slowly or isn’t able to hold as much power after a couple of years.
Clean regularly. It goes without saying that laptops, just like desktop computers, benefit from regular cleaning. Use a compressed air bottle to remove dust from your keyboard and the heating vents—this helps it cool down more efficiently. You may have to open up the laptop to access these parts; if you can’t figure it out, bring it to the shop or have a computer-savvy friend help you out. Do a cleaning once a month, or more if you transport your laptop regularly.
Protect the system. An antivirus is essential. Most computers now come with one, but it’s always good to look around if there’s something better. The best ones are seldom free, but it’s a good investment. Set it to do regular checks, and make sure it updates the database frequently.
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The laptop market is crowded with hundreds of different brands, models and types of computers which makes it a challenge for the average person to be able to compare and select the right laptop for them. Many people are confused about the different features and add ons that are available for laptops and this often leads to people buying computers based on what a sales person tells them they need which is not often the best source of information. To make shopping for a new laptop computer somewhat easier there are a few standard things that you can use to compare laptop computers without having to know all the complicated details.
The first thing that you need to consider is the speed of the computer or how fast the laptop processes data. This is important especially for people who are going to be using the laptop for downloading material or watching movies and also browsing the internet. Having a fast processor will mean that you won’t have to wait for files or folders to load and open. When it comes to processing speed, faster speeds such as 2.5 GHz and above will suit most laptop users.
The next thing to consider is the amount of RAM that the computer has. Laptops come with a huge variation of the amount of RAM memory from 1GB up to 5 or 6GB and in some cases even larger. When considering how much RAM you require for your laptop many will offer 1GB up to 4GB which is suitable for most computer users. Some models of laptops will offer upgrades to the RAM content however be careful as you may be spending money on something that you don’t really need especially if the laptop has suitable RAM for your purposes.
When shopping for a new laptop the amount of disk space available on the laptop should also be a consideration. This part of computer technology has become very small and inexpensive so current laptops are being produced with more and more disk space. This is good for computer users who have large digital library’s of music and movies however it should be noted that if you require more digital storage then it may be a cheaper option to buy a laptop with a modest amount of disk space and invest in an external hard drive for your music and other digital information.
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Accessibility: Opening Up The City [Part II]
Accessibility means different things depending on where you are: what one borough may have plenty of, another may lack completely. Here are a few trends that we noticed in how residents of three different boroughs thought about access.
- QUEENS: It gets leafier as you get further out, but Queens residents still want more access to green space. Malba Gardener wants to see Francis Lewis Park, located under the towering Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, renovated, while Christinia in Maspeth thinks that the former site of St. Saviour’s Church would make a great new park. Brendan from Astoria wishes that Flushing Meadows-Corona Park were better integrated into the surrounding neighborhoods, and Mike from Douglaston wants to see a better connection between the LIRR and the so-close-yet-so-far-away Alley Pond Park. Back in Astoria, Sarah wants Astoria Boulevard to become a greener and more inclusive corridor.
- MANHATTAN: Residents of the most densely-populated borough want to use the few underused spaces left on the island to create a bit more breathing room. We saw several requests for increased access to rooftops around the city; whether for gardening or socialization, people see all of that flat, off-limits space as a big waste. Meanwhile, sidewalk congestion has created a desire for whole new levels of pedestrian activity: William from Sugar Hill suggested underground thruway corridors to speed the revitalization of Harlem, while Maureen thought it would be great if a second-story pedestrian walkway could connect busy retail thoroughfares in Midtown. Back on street level, Lydia wants more artists to be given access to use vacant storefronts, and Ryan wants the area around Penn Station to be less jam-packed. Up in Washington Heights, someone suggested turning the fenced-in terrace at Bennett Park into a more social public space—a sentiment echoed by Steven, who found fenced-in public spaces on the Upper East Side off-putting.
- BROOKLYN: Residents of Brooklyn want more access to…the rest of Brooklyn. Requests for better intra-borough transportation were frequent: Ned from Sheepshead Bay thinks a train along Kings Highway and Linden Boulevard would be a welcome addition, while another Brooklynite is hoping for an express train, painted like a clown, to speed people to Coney Island in the summer. Bikes were popular, with a request for a bike-share pilot in Red Hook, another for an increase in the number of bike racks at subway stations, and an interesting proposal for the implementation of a system of “rugged, versatile electronic bikes/e-carts.” Alexandra of Cobble Hill, meanwhile, had a more simple request: light installations to make walking under expressways more inviting.
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Spain's Budget Minister Cristóbal Montoro. (Efe)
Spain’s local and regional governments will not only have to cut salaries for public employees, it will also have to reduce the workforce considerably, as the public sector needs to be scaled down "forcefully," according to Elvira Rodríguez, president of the parliamentary commission on economy and deputy for the governing centre-right Popular party.
The local governments in Spain’s 17 autonomous regions and over 8,000 municipalities bear much responsibility for the imbalances in the public accounts and they must undertake major budget cuts in order to reduce Spain’s high budget deficit – 8.9 percent in 2011 – and to get the country’s economy in order.
According to the national census, the public sector employs over 3.1 million people, out of which 2.1 million are so-called funcionarios, civil servants in local, regional and central governments who have entered their positions only after having passed competitive exams. They are guaranteed life-time employments, which means they will not be affected by the dismissals.
The remaining 30 percent of the public employees, a total of about 1 million people, risk being dismissed at any time. The government spends €123bn every year on these positions.
Worst for employees in municipalities
The situation is most difficult for those who are employed by the municipalities. According to government statistics, one in five among public employees work for the 8,116 local administrations in Spain’s cities and villages, a total of almost 647,000 people.
Among them, about 60 percent don’t have a contract that protects them from so-called ‘ERE’s, a collective termination of employment for a group of employees, allowed when the employer is under economic restrains.
Budget Minister Cristóbal Montoro has mentioned the possibility of layoffs in the public sector for months.
“The public administrations are not employment offices,” he said. “The public employees must earn their position, just like any other Spaniard.”
'Safer' in central government and regions
Among those working for the central government, 80 percent can remain calm. Out of about 593,000 employees, only about 124,000 have temporary contracts that can be terminated.
The number of ‘safe’ employments are even higher in the autonomous regions, where only 150,000 out of 913,000 public employees are on temporary contracts that can be terminated.
The jobs in the public sector that should disappear are those that are not for ‘career civil servants,’ or funcionarios, according to Antonio Beteta, State Secretary at the Ministry for the Treasury.
“[These are] public jobs that are normally peripheric” he said referring to a large number of public positions that were established during the economic boom. “Their employees are not funcionarios but they are still public employees, but there is nothing else that can be done.”
Six hundred new companies in three years
Until now, when PP deputy Rodríguez said a public sector that has grown by 440,000 employees during the last 10 years is unsustainable, the recession seems to have been ignored by the public employer.
In fact, between 2007 and 2010, the autonomous regions created 600 new companies run by the region, generating “important growth” for the public sector and adding up to a total of 2,292 entities dependant on the regional governments by mid-year in 2011, whose employees are paid from the public accounts.
The government’s plan to reduce spending in the public sector is still being elaborated and the details are not known yet. The plan is expected to be approved by the end of July.
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