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Each day we bring you one stunning little glimpse of history in the form of a historical photograph. Enjoy!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Minute Service Station
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Having spent the weekend in London, I have to say I simultaneously agree and disagree with you. It is disturbingly true that retail is very homogeneous, ala Ritzers McDonaldization. However, if you find the right establishment even the most souless of places can be brightened up by interaction with a real employee who takes pride in their work and enjoys interacting with customers.ReplyDelete
Oh yes, and for some reason your picture isn't showing up for me! Woe!
Yes, the photo isn't coming up. Maybe it was too big, or not of an accepted format, or...?ReplyDelete
As for McDonalds, at least here in Italy, they are making an effort to take on local flavor, both in their architecture/interior design and in their menu (even to the point, finally, of buying local beef, thus assisting the local meat farmers). It's true, it's too fatty to eat hamburgers every day, but a couple of times a year--aaahh, that special sauce!-- probably won't hurt anyone's cholesterol, and they provide safe, reliable and low cost meals everywhere. (No, I don't work for McDonalds, I don't know anyone who does, and I get absolutely no kick back for this. I just think that the customer has the freedom to decide, and the owner has the freedom to meet the customers' needs, or not, and that will determine whether a business stays open, or not, as opposed to the sour grapes on the European side of the Atlantic, where I am, now...if they are so against McDonalds, they should create local viable alternatives, instead of breaking windows and blocking access...that's my not so humble opinion...thanks for the opportunity to get this off my chest!)
Your photo does not show up for me either.ReplyDelete
I had the Home Depot experience happened to me at our Menard's store once. I went to the service desk and reported it. Since then they escort customer right to the spot where the item is.
I guess being a Secret Shopper has turned me into a person that won't accept any thing but curtsey from the employees. I now know that the owners want their employees to treat people right, not like cattle. There are to many stores that carry the same thing that they can't afford to lose even one customer. If the employee has a wrong attitude they will lose one customer here, another one there. Then it adds up.
But gone are the days of the service station attendant hurrying out to service your car. A few still will come out and pump your gas, but no more washing windows or checking oil.
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Ahh! Your photo cae through now.ReplyDelete
So for a 1925 photo, it looks like they already had started chains. This one is #8,
I sure looks like a well lighted station. But notice the the light standard on the far left has it's globe missing.
And there is a man putting air into his own front tire.
Yep - coming through loud and clear now. I think what I love most about this photo is the simple bucket labelled "FIRE".ReplyDelete
I got your picturejust fine.ReplyDelete
You described the EXXON station in Virginia owned and run by a man named Mr. Markham. Over the many years we lived there (12) he became more of a friend than a propritor. He, too, provided a wrecker to service his customers. My Mom used him more than anyone because she regularly ran out of gas.
We eventually moved but there was no Mr Markham in Maryland by the time we got there.
I get wonderful help in our Home Depot. So much so that my wife wishes I wouldn't go there so much
- Pope George RingoJanuary 11, 2011 at 7:45 AM
UP until a few years ago there was an old style gas station near my home that had been out of business for years. I recall there being a pole sign that had a bear cub on it. I always wished I could have gotten my hands on that sign. Does anyone know of this trademark and what company it belonged to??ReplyDelete
I'm wondering if you aren't think of Bear alignment center. They were at service stations and had a picture of a bear cub on the sign.ReplyDelete
I remeber them for late 40's and early 50's
In South Saint Paul, Minnesota there is a station that will do very much of these things. Does not have a tow truck or bubble gum. But has a smile, fills up the gas and washes the windows. Every time we wanted to buy a used car it had to pass his inspection. Gas costs more there but service is fantastic and if in South Saint Paul stop at the Phillips station and say hi to Steve.ReplyDelete
We have a choice to go to big names and pay less or go to the small business and get service
Thinking back to a young child well traveling with my aprents and siblings across country in the 60's and 70's I remember so much of rural America as we traveled across country to our next home. So many mom and pop serivice stations as well as other business's. Those wherer the dayud of true charcter and personality. And always a friendly smile and customer service, as you said with some small talk.ReplyDelete
Route 66 comes to mind.
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2011 at 10:43 AM
I hope the bucket labeled "Fire" doesn't have water in it. As adding water to a gas fire only causes the fire to spread.ReplyDelete
Ah, but you should come to Japan for a refill! Attendants stoping the traffic for you, bowing, running to your car, cleaning your windshield frenetically while barking "Welcome, dear customer!" to you (and everybody around), and stopping the traffic again for you to leave, all lined up standing at attention and re-bowing when you pass them!ReplyDelete
And i am not telling you about entering a department store at opening time :-) !
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2011 at 10:06 PM
We have those 'fire' buckets at every gas station here in India. They are filled with sand and have rounded bottoms (to encourage their being kept on the stand and not carried off to use elsewhere). I like my local "Shell" station, whose employees greet me with a 'namaste' hand gesture, wash my windshield, and sometimes remember that I don't like the tank topped off. Best of all, they never, ever try to cheat me by starting the pump before resetting it to zero from the last customer's total (something that I've experienced at many other stations). And for all this customer service as well as slightly better quality fuel, I pay 10% more than the other stations too. That's life in India, I guess.--BangalOregonianReplyDelete
You lament the lack of service at a filling station, but would you go out of your way or be willing to pay extra for the service? How much extra per litre or gallon would you pay to have someone come out and do all those things when you buy gas? The service station owner is not going to get minimum wage teenagers to do it.... he's going to have to pay the employees a little more.ReplyDelete
Here in NS we have regulated gas prices. Gas stations are allowed to charge 3c per litre extra for full serve.... the full serve pumps or stations are almost always deserted. When we are paying $1.17 a litre for gas we can't really afford the extra.
I love the idea of small businesses competing with each other in a free local market, but the reality is, is that the freer a market is, the easier it is for a business to get bigger and bigger until it pushes out all the competition. It does this by undercutting on price. Because service and quality do not matter to most people, only price. The cheapest price wins, the company with the cheapest price wins, they bulk buy and skimp on service to save money until they ruin everybody else, then when they are the only company left they are free to gouge the consumer. KaChing. The rich get richer at everybody else's expense.
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2011 at 7:07 PM
When I was first learning to drive...one night I was in my dad's big blue Buick Electra. I ran it into a deep ditch at the gas station. The owners son new my dad ( and was probalbly scared for me:)) and prompltly stopped his night of fun to get the wrecker out of the gargage and pull me out, Free of charge, of course. Oh the good old days. Talk about "A Night in Shining Armour"!!! At the local stations today... I would be sued and jailed.ReplyDelete

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Building Record for Sioux Falls?
City officials are predicting a record for building permits in Sioux Falls for 2013.
There is a lot more to this story, but here are some of the basics:
Planning and Building Services Director Mike Cooper says the value of building permits issued by the city this year is up to nearly $447 million, well over the $300.5 million issued at this time last year.
The totals include nearly 1,600 new housing units and six projects valued at $10 million or more, with four of them either supported or recruited by the city.
And the biggest-ticket item, the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center, is down for $32.2 million in permits this year, but that's only part of the $447 million total issued for the year so far.
Community Development Director Darrin Smith puts it this way: "We have been very aggressive and forward-thinking these past three years in particular, and we are seeing the fruits of that labor now and will continue to."
And so it grows.


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Philly Pretzel Factory
Center Square Plaza
1301 Skippack Pike
Center Square
WHITPAIN — While nobody had to twist Ethan Riley's arm to get him into the pretzel twisting business, he admitted that, initially, he didn't see franchise ownership as the realization of a lifelong dream.
But this month his Philly Pretzel Factory in Center Square marks five successful years of turning out the city's signature salty, doughy snack "hot outta the oven" as the company's motto promises.
It all started eight years ago when Riley's then-realtor, Sean Cannon, offered him an investment opportunity in a Philly Pretzel Factory store he was planning to open in Plymouth Meeting.
"He knew I was frustrated and unhappy with my job, and said he was opening a soft pretzel store and asked if I was interested," Riley recalled. "At the time I never heard of Philly Pretzel Factory. I don't think anybody had, really. Soft pretzels were something you bought on the corner, something I would pick up on my way home from Northeast Philly. I thought it was a crazy idea, but he showed me the business prospectus and I started thinking about it."
Philly Pretzel Factory founders Dan DiZio and Len Lehman opened their first location on Frankford Avenue in 1998 and began franchising the concept a few years later, Riley said.
Ultimately, faster than you can say "with or without?" — mustard, that is — Riley told Cannon, "I'm in."
No sooner had the men pre-heated the ovens in the tiny shopping center on Germantown Pike then-anchored by Zeber's Bakery, when folks in that neck of the woods began their love affair with the carb-centric treats.
"We opened our doors in September, 2007, and it really took off from there," said Riley.
"I think it's the oldest shopping center in the area, and that location is prime, because you have Germantown Pike and the Blue Route."
Whether it was for breakfast, lunch or dinner, the shop quickly became a neighborhood haunt for the locals and an essential stop for transients heading to work.
"Demographically, it's a blue collar neighborhood that is very loyal," Riley said.
With that salty gold mine established, the men began sniffing out a second location, which led them to a former salon in Center Square Plaza, home of Super Fresh market and Kohl's department store.
Business has been steady since the store opened in August, 2009, Riley said.
"The demographics are different than Plymouth Meeting. Out here it's more of a party tray crowd. They like to throw parties. In Plymouth, it's more fast-paced, but here it's very laid back."
Two years into the new venture, Cannon pulled out of Center Square to focus on Plymouth, allowed Riley, who still spends much of his time at the Plymouth store and is now the sole owner of Center Square.
From a franchisee's perspective, Riley said one of the most appealing aspects of owning a Philly Pretzel Factory is the simplicity of the operation.
"We have pretzels, mini pretzels, bite-size rivets, sausage pretzels, custom-made pretzels, and the menu has grown but is still small," he said, as the aroma of freshly baked pretzels wafted through the air. "When you have 5 million things on the menu, I don't think people like that. They come in here and they know what we have and they know what they want."
While heart-shaped pretzels are "de rigueur" these days for wedding receptions at nearby Normandy Farm Hotel & Conference Center, a day on the golf course at Blue Bell Country Club is not complete without a daily delivery from Riley's store.
Riley rebounded dramatically earlier this year from a stroke he suffered in 2013.
"This time last year I didn't know if I was going to be able to do this again," he said.
"I'm still not 100 percent, but I'm back. There are guys who just come in to their stores a few times a week, but that's not me. You might call it being a control freak, but I feel like it's my business and I want to be here and make sure that everything is running smoothly."
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Prepare to Get Lost on the Beaten Path...
When Doug Mack picked up a 1963 edition of Europe on Five Dollars a Day, he stumbled on an inspired idea: to boldly go where millions have gone before, relying only on the advice of a travel guide that's nearly a half century out-of-date. Add to the mix his mother's much- documented grand tour through Europe in the late 1960s, and the result is a funny and fascinating journey into a new (old) world, and a disarming look at the ways the classic tourist experience has changed- and has not-in the last generation.
After a whirlwind adventure spanning eight countries-and costing way more than five dollars a day-Mack's endearing account is part time travel, part paean to Arthur Frommer's much-loved guide, and a celebration of the modern traveler's grand (and not-so-grand) tour.
It is comforting to hear another person's supposedly life-changing trip not penning out as expected, his disappointment and delights on the road echoing mine. Davis Skeist's sappy performance worked for Doug Mack's melancholic and often times melodramatic prose.
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What would have made Europe on Five Wrong Turns a Day better?
Fantastic idea for a book. Unfortantely, nothing happens even remotely interesting and you get to hear all of that nothingness with one of the most irritating voices you could imagine. Just get a hammer and beat it over your knuckles and save the $20.
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After listening to Europe on five wrong turns I was confused about what I listened to. It was not what I expected. But I cannot say it didn't enjoy the experience, I just haven't found this books purpose. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's the author taking several wrong turns and finding himself changing the purpose or reason for writing this story and not editing what was already written. I can neither recommend buying Europe on Five Wrong Turns or skipping it. All I ask is, if you listen to it post your thoughts in a review. Maybe it will help me understand the authors message beyond the difference between being a tourist and a traveler. Good luck and happy travels!
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The last time Northwestern (10-2) and Michigan State (10-3) met the Wildcats pulled out a stunning 70-63 victory on the road. Of course the two leading scorers in that dramatic upset were Kevin Coble and Craig Moore, neither of whom will be on the court this afternoon. Instead the Wildcats are led by point guard Michael Thompson – one of the most underrated players in the Big Ten, forward John Shurna and freshman Drew Crawford. #11 Michigan State was supposed to be the class of the Big Ten this season, but the Spartans have struggled a bit early in the season against good competition. They come into the game 10-3 on the season and are led by all-everything point guard Kalin Lucas – who has earned the ire of his coach Tom Izzo – along with two excellent forwards in Raymar Morgan and Draymond Green. #25 Northwestern lost its Big Ten opener in a thrilling game against Illinois, so the Wildcats need to bounce back against a Michigan State team that is making their conference debut. It should be an excellent game, and we hope to see you drop by.


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New Zealand have named their team to play against the Cook Islands in a Rugby League World Cup warm up game.
This gives both coaches a chance to experiment with tactics leading into the World Cup, with New Zealand not having played since April and the Cook Islands having not played since October last year.
Both teams have decided to rest players who participated in the NRL Grand Final, which played out just weeks ago.
This means that Sonny Bill Williams, Sam Moa, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves, Frank-Paul Nu'uausala, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck (all Roosters) and Kieran Foran (Sea Eagles) are all being rested for the Kiwis, while the Cook Islands have the fortune of having all of their squad at their dispense.
The game is set to be an entertaining contest, with new combinations and tactics set to be used in the first encounter between these two nations since New Zealand's 84-10 drubbing of the Cook Islands at the 2000 Rugby League World Cup.
That tie, played at the Madejski Stadium in Reading is the only previous match-up between the two Pacific nations.
This will be the last game for both sides before the World Cup starts, with the Kiwis facing off against South Pacific counterparts Samoa at Halliwell Jones Stadium in Warrington just one week later.
The Cook Islanders, on the other hand, will be favourites against World Cup debutants USA at the Memorial Stadium in Bristol on October 30.
New Zealand's team is as follows:
Josh Hoffman, Jason Nightingale, Krisnan Inu, Dean Whare, Manu Vatuvei, Thomas Leuluai, Shaun Johnson, Jesse Bromwich, Issac Luke, Sam Kasiano, Frank Pritchard, Simon Mannering (captain), Elijah Taylor, Greg Eastwood, Ben Matulino, Alex Glenn, Kevin Locke, Bryson Goodwin.
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DETROIT >> Heather Nabozny just wants to watch the grass grow.
This winter's cold, snowy weather made it challenging for the Detroit Tigers' head groundskeeper and her crew to get the new sod — which was overdue by a couple of seasons — down on the field at Comerica Park in time for Opening Day.
Now that they have, though, there's not a lot for them to do, other than mow, fertilize, touch it up with a bit of paint before Monday's opener, then watch it grow.
"I was looking forward to getting a new field, truthfully," said Nabozny, explaining that big-league fields should be replaced every five years or so, but that Comerica's hadn't been re-sodded since 2007. "It's been a little more challenging, with the weather, than I'd like. It's not ideal trying to replace it in the springtime. But at the same time, the root zone got to settle all winter long, so we weren't taking out a field, putting a new field in in the spring, so it was able to settle."
The process was supposed to happen last winter, after the Winter Classic festivities, but the National Hockey League's lockout pushed those back to this offseason — and delayed the turf replacement by another year.
The weather nearly did, too, forcing the grounds crew to remove snow twice — 11 inches, then four more — before it could be put in, starting last weekend.
Even so, Nabozny was never THAT concerned about the sod itself — a new variety of Kentucky Bluegrass, shipped from Colorado in strips 40 feet long by four feet wide, weighing a ton each, delivered in 35 climate controlled semi trucks — once the process began.
"I wasn't really worried about the sod. I was worried about getting it down, the temperatures. I mean, every week, we'd look, and be like 'Oh, my God! Another week of cold temperatures,'" she said.
"We were able to take out the field in the fall, which helped out a bunch. If we weren't able to do that, then I probably wouldn't have slept all winter."
The crew removed 700 tons of root zone and organic material from the field after the completion of last season, and replaced it with 700 tons of new material, and got it all graded out before the Winter Classic's alumni game at the end of December.
"So we got it close, then in the springtime, all we had to do was come in, touch it up, and lay the sod," Nabozny said. "I went up for the harvest, and just before we started laying it, I got nervous — just out of nerves, you know? I woke up, got to work, started laying the sod, and my cares, my nerves just went away.
"It's really solid. I'm very, very pleased with it."
The installation, with a spike bore slamming the sheets together like flooring every three feet or so, was completed last Monday. The sheets are locked so tight, you cannot see (or feel) seams.
Radiant covers kept heat in, stimulating growth.
Even so, Nabozny was a little surprised to see that it had grown both up and down in the week the sod had been in. They began mowing it on Friday.
Now, it'll require just a touch of paint to be green enough for Opening Day Monday.
"Well, you can see out there: It's not middle-of-summer green, by any means," Nabozny said. "We might color it up a little bit, to make it darker so the sun, when it does come out, greens it up even more."


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Apple Patents Wireless Charging 253
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Einstein On: Alzheimer's disease, Dr. Richard Lipton (3 of 3): Testing for Alzheimer's diseaseRichard Lipton, M.D., discusses the moral and ethical issues about testing and/or informing patients that they are likely to get Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Lipton is the Edwin S. Lowe Chair at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, vice chair of neurology at Montefiore Medical Center and director of the Einstein Aging Study. This edition of Einstein On, a research and medicine podcast, is hosted by Gordon Earle, associate dean for communications and public affairs at Einstein. (August 15, 2012)
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The Fort Myers Beach Board of Fire Commissioners swore in new employees, set meeting and workshop dates for 2013 and listened to a presentation about the second phase of a Mobile Eyes program at its monthly meeting last Tuesday.
Three new fire fighters/paramedics were added to the district roster. They included Robert Little, Carlos Miranda and Rafael Suarez. Two new fire prevention specialists, William Genevrino and Reagan Bauman, were also sworn in before the fire commissioners.
The fire board also unanimously approved to keep the 2013 days and time schedule of its meetings and workshops the same as this past year. Meetings will be held at Town Hall on the third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m., while workshops will be held at Town Hall on the first Tuesday at 10 a.m. Exceptions include the Feb. 19 meeting, which will be held at Fire Station 31, due to a scheduling conflict with Town Council, and the September workshop will be held Sept. 10, due to Labor Day weekend.
The fire commissioners agreed that having consistency to their meeting/workshop schedule was important. But, saving money by holding meetings during the daytime was discussed.
"There is a cost to the district in holding our meetings in the evening. We have to give salary employees comp(ensation) time," said Fire Board Chairman David Brower.
"I think the reason we are having them at 7 (p.m.) is so that if we did have public input and an audience, they would be able to come after work," said Commissioner Ted Schindler. "That's the idea of having our workshops in the morning. People who could not attend at night could attend then."
Mobile Eyes program
Phase II of the Mobile Eyes program is in effect at the Fort Myers Beach Fire District. The new software is being implemented to give call information to responding fire department resources.
Capt. Ron Martin, the district's fire marshal, made a presentation to the fire board about how the program works for the first responders on the road. It will enable Beach fire fighters to have better mobile data to respond to incidents in the district. The full implementation of this phase is expected to be available April 1.
"The way the program works is that you can enter any address within our database and search by name," he said. "This will also interface with our CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) system. As the guys are getting dispatched out to calls, this data will automatically be pulled by the TAD, and the information will be at our fingertips."
Five tabs of information will be available through Mobile Eyes computer program: directions, structural information, hazardous materials, occupant information and occupant contacts.
"Information in the structure tab will give them basic information in the structure where all the fire protection equipment is. It also automatically populates a fire flow to help our fire fighters determine how much water there will be to fight a fire," said Martin.
He also added the tab will include information if any hazardous materials are stored on site or any fire code violations are outstanding as well as premise, key holder and contact information.
"Probably one of the biggest achievements thus far in the program is the introduction of our pre-plan software drawing program, which will allow us to pre-plan and give our fire fighters knowledge of the building as they arrive," said Martin showing an aerial map as a visual aid.
According to Martin, Mobile eyes will deal with all structures that are inspectable within the district. Inspectable structures include any occupancy that has three units or more.
The Mobile Eyes program will be fully interchangeable across the south six fire districts that are also on the program.
"This is an invaluable tool, and it will just prove to be more valuable to the district as we progress through," said Martin.


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The City's waterways are a maritime crossroads for a varied group of users and uses. These can generally be divided into six categories: organizational, economic and commercial, historic, environmental, communal, recreational.
Organizational -- Though the City's political process is sure-footed on land, offshore, it is chaotic. Overlapping jurisdictions and uncertain responsibilities make waterfront politics murky at best. More than twenty different federal, regional, state and city agencies share responsibility for the harbor. Labor unions, and civic, recreational, environmental organizations and business also enter the mix. No one entity is in charge, because everyone is.
Economic and commercial Commerce was the harbor's raison d'Ætre, and NYC's pre-eminence owes greatly to maritime activity. New Amsterdam was established for its fine harbor and abundant supply of export furs. Industrial innovation included Fulton's steamship, the Erie Canal, the Brooklyn Bridge, and containerization established New York among the world's great port cities.
Since containerization and a move toward integrated water and land shipping, cargo ports have moved to the New Jersey side of the harbor where space and geography facilitate road and rail links. Today, New York's remaining shipping terminals -- Howland Hook in Staten Island and Red Hook and South Brooklyn Marine in Brooklyn -- vie with ferry terminals and tourist attractions for harbor related income.
Congressman Nadler's rail tunnel proposal is rooted in the Empire State's tradition of large industrial innovations. His plan would connect terminals throughout the harbor, and would link East of Hudson rail lines to rail networks nationwide. His vision is a modern variation of a 1927 Port Authority plan.
Historic -- Historic sites are scattered throughout the harbor. They include popular sites like Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty and less well known sites like Castle Clinton at the Battery, Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, Fort Schuyler at Throgs Neck, and New Jersey's Sandy Hook Lighthouse. At Fort Schuyler, hidden within the SUNY Maritime College campus, is a well-preserved example of early nineteenth century military architecture with an extraordinary view. And the 1764 Sandy Hook lighthouse was already old when its much better known cousin, the Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge was built in 1920 on the Hudson River. Few buildings or landmarks in NYC or in the nation have seen as much history drift past.
Environmental -- These days, less bad stuff floats in the waters of New York harbor. The 1972 Clean Water Act eventually forced NYC to process and treat all of its solid waste. Other local area governments also complied. While wastewater treatment does not always happen satisfactorily, particularly after significant storm events, water quality improvements have been widely noted.
Law, in concert with the acts of individuals and advocacy groups, has pushed government agencies to improve area waters and shores. Successes include the restoration of salt marshes, increases in harbor heron and striped bass populations, and safer water at bathing beaches.
The struggle for environmental improvement in this heavily used metropolis continues. A recent decline in the western Long Island Sound lobster population is attributed to water quality. Combined sewer overflows still release untreated sewage during heavy rains. Piers are crumbling due to marine borer infestation, a condition caused by cleaner waters. Each wave of ecological progress unveils the need for further action.
Communal -- Throughout the harbor, communities, individuals and organizations fight for access to the water, seeking improvements to the quality of their shores and esplanades, opening boat clubs, and promoting environmental awareness. In the South Bronx, where half a million people currently have no access to their encircling shoreline; residents protest further municipal encroachment. These Hunts Point residents want a waterfront that includes greenways, and boating - not garbage transfer.
Community efforts lead to conflict as well as to access. A ban on spoils dumping restricts dredging options, which in turn threatens port-related jobs. Using the Bronx coast to move garbage facilitates the City's efforts to shut the sprawling dump at Fresh Kills. What Staten Island gains, Hunts Point loses. The political process uses the waters to transfer political pain along with garbage and sludge.
Recreational -- As recreational uses emerge, human-powered craft are returning to harbor waters. In 1999, Tribeca's Downtown Boathouse sponsored thousands of free Hudson River kayak trips. On the East River, local youth row specially designed Whitehall gigs built in NYC. Intercollegiate crew brings pomp and regalia to the waters of Pelham Bay.
Currently, Mayor Giuliani is seeking to bring minor league baseball to Staten Island's north shore and to Brooklyn's Coney Island, incorporating the waterfront as a key element of design and transport. The Mayor's mostly-dormant proposal to move the Yankees to Manhattan's west side assumed that ferries would be a major means of transport for fans. The proposed $200M sports center on Randalls' Island and the plans for 2012 Olympics in NYC both include water transport as an integral component.
Finally, NYC has dozens of waterside parks where people push strollers, jog, fish, and seek sunsets. Open space at the waterfront is a source of inspiration and freedom in a crowded city. The air is better and there is elbowroom. At water's edge, there are places to relax, explore and escape.
Peter Sounds Off:
Only in NYC could 578 miles of waterfront be both heavily underutilized and insufficient for all users. Despite this skewing of supply and demand, today's harbor has tremendous latent possibility. While the waterfront is not likely to regain its status as the main focus for jobs and economic activity, it could become the nexus for recreation, open space and improved quality of life.
A few points are essential:
1) The environmental improvement of recent years must be nurtured and extended. Investments in water quality must continue in all watersheds that drain to the harbor from the upper Hudson River to the open ocean.
2) Pioneering efforts that increase access should receive bureaucratic and financial support. Zoning should facilitate recreational access in manufacturing zones. Piers should be stabilized and opened to the public. Bulkheads should be made safe or repaired.
3) The City's youth should be educated about the waterfront and taught to swim. The swimming pool on a barge concept should be realized.
4) The waterways are now being shared by more and more users; each user must respect the rights of the others.
5) Ferry service should be expanded for tourism, recreational access and commutation. Ferries and other vessels should be subject to appropriate air pollution and wake guidelines.
Peter B. Fleischer, currently writing a book on the New York City waterfront, was formerly a transportation and environment policy advisor to New York City Mayors David Dinkins and Rudy Giuliani.


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#1 Oprah, a senator? Blagojevich considered itSonnabendGuest01-26-2009, 05:46 PM
January 27, 2009 01:49am
ILLINOIS Governor Rod Blagojevich, charged with trying to sell the US Senate seat formerly held by President Barack Obama, considered offering it to talk show star Oprah Winfrey.
\Blagojevich said on ABC's Good Morning America that a friend of his had suggested asking Winfrey to fill Obama's seat.
"She seemed to be someone who had helped Barack Obama in a significant way become president," Blagojevich said. "She was obviously someone with a much broader bully pulpit than other senators."
She did...and like most media, lied and twisted until the election.Credibility: zero
But he said he decided that the talk show queen, one of the richest women in America, was unlikely to accept the offer. "She probably wouldn't take it, and then ... if you offered it to her, how would you do it in a way it didn't look like it was some gimmick and embarrass her?"
She has loads of gimmicks all her own...including the lies she told when she refused to interview Gov. Palin.
Blagojevich is doing the interview circuit and said he will not attend today's impeachment trial in the state Senate which could remove him from office.
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By Reshma Kapadia
Global stimulus has helped a lot of emerging markets, but Roubini Global Economics analysts note that the Middle East and North Africa (or MENA) region may also be riding a wave of global stimulus that supports somestic trends of increased government-supported stimulus. And over the short-term, it should contribute to growth without contributing to an asset bubble.
The region hasn't –luckily or unluckily–been part of the risk-on/risk-off trade that has been moving other emerging markets since the crisis. In part, because the region wasn't as healthy as other parts of the emerging markets —dealing with investors' concerns after the Arab Spring but also contending with a lack of clarity about Dubai debt restructuring and debt-laden regional balance sheets.
But now, there are signs the regional markets are improving, helped by global as well as local stimulus, the analysts write. They note a pick-up in debt issuance, mergers and local market activity across the region. Projects in Dubai are back up and running, rents are rising and new construction is popping up after the property bubble burst.
While there's plenty of concerns about central bankers' liquidity creating new asset bubbles, RGE Analysts say they don't see any signs of an asset bubble or inflation spiral –or even pressure on exchange rates–in this mini-boom in the region. In fact, they see more risk for deflation than inflation.
"Government price controls are stifling price pressure as part of short-term measures, while the oversupply of property that the boom represents is keeping a check on property prices. Reserve accumulation is picking up, which might reflect some pressure on exchange rates in countries that stash fiscal resources in a dedicated fund of funds, but we don't see exchange rate pegs likely to budge," they write.
There are only a handful of ways to play these markets via ETFs and most are small. Market Vectors Gulf Shares ETF (MES) is down 0.39% at $20.48 and up 5% for the year.


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An appeals court says an Ohio woman who served more than 20 years of a life sentence before her conviction was overturned can't sue the toxicologist who lied during his testimony against her.
A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday reversed a judge's decision finding that retired toxicologist James Ferguson was partially liable. The panel ruled that Ferguson deserves absolute immunity, saying all testimony is protected to ensure witnesses will be candid without fearing lawsuit. Ferguson spent 30 days in jail for lying about when he got his college degree during the 1990 Licking County trial of Virginia LeFever. She was convicted of killing her husband. The murder conviction was overturned and she was released from prison after the lie was revealed.


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About tomahawkGOD
You can't vote to do or not to do specific things. In a representative democratic Republic, you as a citizen have, at the behest of the framers, ceded certain rights to the government. Your input is who you vote for. You have, in effect, delegated decision making to them. You, theoretically, vote for those who appear to think most like you.
Now, the downside is when no one else, or a minority, thinks as you do. So then you have to settle for writing your elected representatives. Have you? I know that it carries little weight on it's own, but my little email to my reps along with others, when they bother, may affect the decisions they make. Maybe.
The root cause of why we are where we are at, is that we have, a majority of us, have decided NOT to be actively involved in the political process. It is easier to yell at the TV about those 'damn union members coerced by Obama and the crooked union leaders' up in Wisconsin, but think about this. Who was out there protesting? I didn't see a lot of Conservative Republicans out there. Blame the media? Tired excuse.
WE have abrogated OUR RESPONSIBILITY to be INVOLVED! It's much more fun to yell at the TV, watch 'Idol' and go to church on Sunday and hear how the godless liberals will burn in hell.
Yeah, we are all SO good.
Mucro publicus
One word
Mucro publicus
Wow, that was WELL put. Too bad most won't understand it. I spent 23 years in the USN in a job that meant putting TLAMs down range. Mil DOES change you...not a lot of research about that.
I held high clearances and saw stuff that I wish I hadn't. My opinion of the GOVERNMENT went down the toilet. Same same with some of the Military leadership. There needs to be a wholesale weeding out of the upper chain of command (starting at about E-7) not a wholesale dumping, but EVERYONE in that range needs to be looked closely at.
Now, to address Bradley. Not saying I agree with WHAT he did, but I can understand WHY he did it. Not defending it at all, just stating I can see what drove him to it, assuming that he is HONEST about the 'why'. I saw a lot of stuff that turned me from UBER (Rush Limbaugh) right winger to an UBER Libertarin (a la Robert Heinlein - ALSO a Navy guy).
What they are doing to this guy is a crime - but shit, look at what they (USG) started off doing down at GTMO, Abu Ghraib, and the 'stans. We've gone off the reservation a long time ago. Torturing prisoners? And how is calling them 'Unlawful Combatants' make them something other than prisoners?
This ain't the US I was defending.....funny thing. That Oath I took? Never had an expiration date on it. Neither did anyone else's. How much of what's going on rises to conduct being done by 'Enemies of the Constitution'? THAT was what we swore to do - protect the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC.
Just words to consider.
Mucro publicus.


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Welcome to the boards James Bot 3000. I'm sure you know the answer to whether we want to see more of you or not, but I'll put it on public record with a yes
Happy 2013 for you and of course we would want to see more of you!!!
Yes would like to see a lot more of you, welcome to JUB have fun.
Welcome JB! You're very good looking and yeah, would love to see a lot more of you!
Hey James!
Welcome to JUB!
Wow, you are a very handsome guy!
Who wouldn't want to see more pics of you?
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!
Sure thing! Why wouldn't I want to see more of you!
"Reading should be easy. Only the reader should be hard." -- hard reader (author of the erotic porn novel "I Thought I Knew")
Love to see more James!
great picture !
Well thanks guys xD ill try to get some more for you
Very nice and sexy....
Gregster, Gumby, Muffin Man, Zer00ry, Zero, Tech Superhero ,Gumbicito, King Gumby VII, King Gumby VIII,
King of NoVA, King with a Royal Scepter, Greggo.
looking forward to that :P
I liked your hair the way it was. But it is up to what you like.
Ha-ha! You are a fun guy! Your red hair will certainly attract some attention - just hope it is the right kind
Like the style! A true red head!
You're HOT with brown hair, red hair, blue hair, green hair, or purple hair!!
You're adorable. Please show more.
St. Pattys day is coming.
Very cute guy
Took some pictures last night who wants to see ?
Like you need to ask!
Your shirt says I'm a Pepper, it looks like your a RED pepper now. Very CUTE..
You're not fat !
aww thanks
You don't look fat. You are hot!
Fat my ass...you have a hot body!!
You're not fat James, looking sexy!
You look great.
Thinking of shaving my chest yes or no?
No, you look great with it.
You look great as you are James
Got a new cut and color might show you guys tomorrow ;p
You look great!
Looking good James!
^ That's a good pic of you, very handsome!
You're so handsome James!
I think we need to see if the carpet matches the drapes Mr Bot 3000.
Looking good!
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Wow! I didn't know that so many men shared my interest in big, beefy butts. There is nothing like the slow, sexy roll of a pair of meaty man mounds in a guy's jeans. Droooool!
After viewing all the hot, delicious asses (don't you think the way the British and Australians say it...arse...sound so much ruder and sexier!) I might have to go and write another story about eating out some hot bear-stud's big furry spicehole.
Daniel Blue
OMG... so delicious the big round asses.
Thanks maxibutt, here's some with a decent camera..
Love this thread. A very reliable source.
this guy is hot!
I'd like to contribute, here's a pic of me.
Hey, Sleepy, That is a nice bod! Hope you let me see more of you! Rolando
one of the worst tragedies in life is being forgotten by some one you can never forget!
is that ur butt^^
Now, that looks very, very kissable.
His butt is pretty average, but I'm a sucker for long hair, thick calves, and Tennis gear, so right to my hard drive these pics go...
Here's a nice mix of asses...


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In 1984 a comprehensive health care system, Medicare, was introduced. Medicare facilitates access by all eligible Australian residents to free or low-cost medical, optometric and public hospital care, while leaving them free to choose private health services.
Individuals financial contributions to the public health care system are based on their income and are made through a taxation levy known as the Medicare levy.
Australias public hospital system is jointly funded by the Australian Government and state and territory governments and is administered by state and territory health departments.
People admitted to public hospitals as public (Medicare) patients receive treatment by doctors and specialists nominated by the hospital. They are not charged for care and treatment or after-care by the treating doctor.
Private patients in public or private hospitals can choose the doctor who treats them. Medicare pays 75 per cent of the Medicare schedule fee for services and procedures provided by the treating doctor. For patients who have private health insurance, some or all of the outstanding balance may be covered. Private patients are charged for hospital accommodation and items such as theatre fees and medicine. These costs may also be covered by private health insurance but are not covered by Medicare.
Medicare Australia is the agency within the Department of Human Services responsible for processing and paying Medicare benefits for approved services. Medicare Australia also pays pharmaceutical benefits under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which subsidises an agreed list of prescription drugs.
For both medical and pharmaceutical services, safety net arrangements exist to make sure patients who need a high level of treatment or medication during a financial year do not incur significant out-of-pocket expenses. Out-of-pocket costs are the difference between the Medicare benefit and what the patient is actually charged.
The Australian Government also provides medical, pharmaceutical and hospital services for veterans, war widows and their eligible dependants under legislation administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Australian Government provides about two-thirds (67 per cent) of public sector expenditure on health, and state, territory and local governments provide the rest.
Note: I have what they call a "Gold Card" Pat. They are issued automatically to war veterans over 70 years of age, and to those like myself who have a war caused disability. The card is given to us regardless of assets. Joe Blow living on the street, or as rich as Rupert Murdoch.....meeting the age and disability criteria automatically gets you issued one. The benefit of the Gold Card ??? Everything is free. Doctors, Specialists, Hospitals, Treatment, Medicines, Dental, Physiotherapy, Optometrical....every single thing related to our health is free.


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So I would say, why pray? Everything already happens according to god's will, no? So why would we ask him to change it just a smidgeon to allow life to flourish... I really hate answering religion with other religious statements, because it never makes any fucking sense..
Throughout my discussion above, I have avoided the question of prayer. The troublesome practical implications of God's interference in physical reality are the same whether prayer is involved or not, but I find that prayer amplifies these problems, and introduces some of its own. I recall this idea literally hitting me like a bolt out of the blue one Sabbath as I sat in church. A church leader was at the microphone, making a request for members of the congregation to join the group of believers--already a hundred strong--who were praying earnestly for God's intervention on behalf of the young child of a church member who was being treated for a typically fatal cancer. I just remember thinking: "Wait... there are one hundred people asking God for a miracle to no avail, and this woman is trying to recruit more prayers?"I had been hearing this kind of request for years, but now, as if I was hearing it for the first time, the implication stunned me! Was the likelihood of God's intercession a function of the number of people praying for it? I found myself envisioning God as being coerced into acting, doling out His intervention only when some arbitrary quota of prayers has finally been met. Is it possible that God would cure the child for 157 prayers, but not 156?...I define a miracle as a fortuitous occurrence that defies the laws of physics. A miracle must be impossible. Finding your car keys two minutes after praying for God's help in locating them is not a miracle, even if you looked for an hour before praying. While I was asking God for my miracle, I started to make a small survey of my acquaintances at work, asking them if they had ever experienced a miracle. Most said that they had, and would go on to relate some fortunate event or other in which they discerned God's hand at work. Not one of these events was by any means impossible, and most were not even of particularly low probability. One woman literally stood there and told me: "My aunt was in a terrible accident; she was in the intensive care unit on life support, but she recovered." I wanted to say: "You're kidding me, right?" Instead, I just smiled and nodded.


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CORAL GABLES, Fla.—The Barry University baseball team dropped a 6-0 loss to Miami on Friday night when the Bucs headed south to visit the DI-Hurricanes
The Canes (35-11) struck first in the third inning when a Nathan Melendres double scored Michael Broad. Moments later, Melendres and Zeke DeVoss scored off a Frankie Ratcliff homer to right center to take the 4-0 lead.
Melendres made it a 5-0 ballgame with a solo shot to centerfield in the fifth. Later in the inning, the Canes scored one more run as the result of a single by Stephen Perez. Perez stole second, advanced to third on a Chris Leon throwing error, and scored on a Frankie Ratcliff single.
Barry (32-18) was unable to get its offense going against the explosive pitching of Chris Hernandez and E.J. Encinosa who combined for 17 strikeouts. Hernandez took the win for Miami, moving to 7-2 on the season. The Bucs only combined for four hits all night.
For the Buccaneers, Brian Santana took his first loss of the season. He is 3-1 on the year now.
The Bucs return to action tomorrow night to play their last game of the season when they wrap up the series with the Canes in Coral Gables at 7:00 pm
(05/07/10 at Coral Gables, Fla.)
Miami 6, Barry 0
Barry............... 000 000 000 - 0 4 2 (32-18)
Miami............... 004 020 00X - 6 7 0 (35-11)
Pitchers: Barry - Brian Santana; Corey Witkowski(5); Tyler King(8) and Chris Leon. Miami -
Chris Hernandez; E.J. Encinosa(7); Sam Robinson(9); Eric Whaley(9) and Yasmani Grandal;
David Villasuso.
Win-Chris Hernandez(7-2) Loss-Brian Santana(3-1) T-2:30 A-1231
HR UM - Frankie Ratcliff (6); Nathan Melendres (4).
Weather: Hot & Humid
Game: BB0507


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"Absolutely, this is definitely going to be our biggest day as horse owners," Centofanti, whose son Raffaele and wife Kathleen own Saturday stakes participants Rose to Gold, Musical Flair, and Fine Silver, said from the Calder racing office Friday afternoon. "There is almost a part of me that wishes I could just go to sleep right now and wake up Sunday and read about what happened."
"After her race, I will tell you that there was a very good offer made for her that I was seriously considering," Centofanti said of a six-figure sale price that was tossed about following her victory in the Lindsay Frolic Stakes. "But if I sold her, my family would have kicked me out of the house. My wife was very upset that I was even thinking about it, and my son said 'don't touch my horse.'
"So I passed on the offer, and now I say that every race she runs in, I am making a big gamble without going to the betting window. Overnight, my family has made me a gambler."
One might suggest that Centofanti was already a gambler when he and trainer Sal Santoro decided to enter the first time starter Rose to Gold in the Lindsay Frolic, a move that is not without precedent, but one that always appears a bit ambitious.
"I knew some people might have thought we were a little crazy doing that," Centofanti said. "But the decision to start her in a stake was actually pretty easy. Sal kept telling me that she was training like a star, and the way I saw it, if she really was that good, and she was that far along in her training, it would almost be a punishment not to run her in the stake."
Growing up in Venezuela, Centofanti came from a family that was involved in the horse business, and after coming to the U.S. as a ninth-grader, and then subsequently finding success in the coffee business, Centofanti soon found his way back to the thoroughbreds.
"My father had horses back in Venezuela and my uncle worked with Manny (Azpurua) for almost 50 years," Centofanti said. "But I never had any intentions of getting into the business as an owner or to run horses at the races. When I first got involved, I was just pinhooking horses; I would buy them and then sell them. That was all."
But that plan changed course a few years ago when Santoro, at that time a representative of Harley Davidson, delivered a motorcycle to the bike-loving Centofanti.
"Sal dropped off the bike and asked me about my uncle, and whether he could help him get going as a trainer," Centofanti said. "At that time, there was little my uncle could do for him.
"But I would continue to see Sal and one day when he was delivering another bike he asked me again. So I told him to go pick out a couple of horses that my family would own, and we would let him train them."
Santoro purchased two horses for the new owner, one of which was a filly by the name of Southside Lady, who would provide the team with its first victory when winning a maiden race at Calder on December 30, 2010.
"Back then, no one wanted to ride for us, even if we paid them up font," Centofanti joked. "I remember we had Ramon Parish on the horse that day. We owe Ramon a lot for that win, but I don't even know where he is these days."
Following that victory, Centofanti made the commitment to get involved in the game as an owner at an even deeper level, further entrusting Santoro with this new venture and with his new investments.
"We saw how hands-on Sal was with the horses and we really trusted him," Centofanti said. "That was the most important thing. For me, my wife, my whole family, the horses come first, and Sal is the same way. We could see that right away, and every day we could see that a little more; that he was always at the track with them and he never pushed them to do what they could not do.
"So at that time, Sal was working with the horses in the morning and then still going to work at Harley Davidson later in the day. One day I asked him to take a few days off so we could go to the OBS sale (in March 2011). I wanted to look for some horses to buy, and it was at that sale that we got Musical Flair."
A son of Songandaprayer, purchased for $47,000, Musical Flair broke his maiden at odds of 16-1in his second career start on August 12, 2011. Just 15 days later, Musical Flair was entered in the $75,000 Fasig-Tipton Turf Dash where he was again ignored by the public and sent from the gate at odds of 11-1. The colt again proved his detractors wrong when prevailing by 2 ¾ lengths.
"That was one of the best moments in my life," Centofanti said of watching Musical Flair become a stakes winner, which also gave Santoro and team Centofanti its first stake win. "And then when he came back to win the Needles Stakes (at Gulfstream) with John Velazquez riding, I felt so good, especially for Sal. He deserved it. "
On Saturday, Centofanti will try to recreate that feeling three-fold, starting Musical Flair in the Calder version of the Needles, Rose to Gold in the Brave Raj, and Fine Silver in the Judy's Red Shoes.
"Is it Sunday yet?" Centofanti joked when asked again how he feels one day in advance of Saturday's races. "Honestly, I think I'll be OK no matter what happens, but my wife is the tough one. If the horses don't run well, she's going to let us hear about it."


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I think the XI should be as follows:
Cook (C)
Bairstow/Compton (Both play if 6 batsmen/4 bowlers)
Prior (+)
Any two (Assuming 5 bowlers) of Broad/Patel/Finn/Onions/Panesar depending on conditions
Root and Cook are the only two proper openers in the squad, so I'd expect both of them to play. Trott isn't in great form, but keep him at 3. Move everyone up one spot in place of KP, which means Prior at 6 and Bresnan at 7. No reason why Bresnan can't bat at 7 in tests IMO.
Could pick either Bairstow or Compton at 5, think England will stick with Bairstow though after his 95 @ Lord's. If Ian Bell misses any tests then I guess both will play that match anyway.
I'd give Bresnan all 4 tests v India, his batting will be needed, conditions should suit him more than the other seamers, and he averages 33 in the subcontinent with the ball (He's only played 3 tests in Asia though, 2 against Bangladesh). We'll also need Anderson with the new ball, so if we have to drop any bowlers to bring in Patel, it should be Broad IMO, especially if he's bowling the 80mph crap that he was bowling in the final test against SA. Unfortunately, the selectors are incapable of dropping Broad :dry: So I fully expect to see the enforcer bowling military medium and picking up 0/120 in every test this winter.
Swann plays all 4 tests if his elbow is okay, Monty is the 2nd spinner if needed, which he probably will be. Patel comes in if there's a pitch which is really turning square. Root can bowl offspin as well. I would've had Tredwell in the squad as well but meh, I guess he'll get called up if any of the spinners are injured.


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Oh don't look at me like that. You're sat there with your almond crossant thinking, WHAT? REALLY? REALLY!? A Vajazzle?! The crystal you stick on your lady bits?! Yes guys, that Vajazzle…
But let's think about this logically. It's sparkly. It's….dazzling. It's a bit of fun. Please note I won't be held responsible for any missing crystals if it makes you a bit frisky.
With that in mind let's do the Wednesday Giveaway!
So that the love can be spread around, there will be EIGHT winners who will get one design worth £7.99 (at random) each.
Want to win?
Just leave a comment* answering this question.
'If you could have a vajazzle made into any slogan or design what would it be?'
Me: Dunno, Tom Hardy's face maybe.
*You can use a pseudonym if you wish. I won't tell.
I will pick the winners next week. Please, for the love of God check your emails.
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KLRU will air the last of the final six episodes of Lark Rise To Candleford on May 14th. We're looking for your input on which episodes KLRU should air next.
Should we repeat the final six new episodes now to give you a chance to see them again? Or should we repeat episodes from earlier in the series that haven't been seen in awhile?


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USGS released a new EROS Science Processing Architecture (ESPA) GLS Visualization Interface. The new interface allows users to immediately download Global Land Survey (GLS) 2010 and GLS 2005 Surface Reflectance Products. GLS 2000 surface reflectance products will be available soon as well.
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Was 565-459-9342 on the list?
You can't fool us Mockylock.
That's your
Maybe the comment you made in response to his first post in the future was so harsh, so biting, so damaging to his very core, that he went back in time to prevent you from crushing his soul beneath your heel, like a child steps on an ant?
Huh? Why didn't you think of THAT!?
Officials at the Agriculture Department said Social Security numbers were included in the public database because doing so was the common practice years ago when the database was first created, before...
And people wonder why I love Ruby. Two alternatives, the latter one is more "fun" but slightly less readable for Ruby novices. The latter one reads, "999,999,999 times, run the method puts".
999_99_9999.times {|i| puts i }
999_99_9999.times &method(:puts)
Seriously, which language would you rather use on a daily basis?
Incidentally, how would you distinguish between the twins I mentioned earlier?
Here a permanent fix: render SSNs worthless for financial transactions by making it illegal for any entity besides the IRS, SSA, you employer and your bank to ask for a SSN or keep a record of a SSN for any purpose other than tax collection and Social Security. The employer and bank would only be allowed use it for tax reporting purposes. The credit reporting companies, banks, and data brokers might howl, but too bad. They can use other data identifiers, or even better, learn to personally know their custom
The way they're phasing out social security benefits, one might wonder as to what exactly the original purpose of the system actually was. "Sure it's ok to get rid of Social Security, but dammit don't lose those numbers!"
Just make the bank responsible for positively identifying people and liable for all looses -- including court costs, loss of time, mental energy -- and they'll start taking identity seriously.
One of them was Kevin Bacon's.So how does exposing 30,000 SSNs affect 100,000 to 150,000 people?
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So 30,000 SS#'s were exposed, and 150k people might be in trouble?
The person who noticed the SSNs were available identified approximately 30,000 records with SSNs (not sure if that corresponds to 30,000 SSNs, or more -- because each record might have more than one -- or less, because there might be dupes.)
The subsequent review by the Agriculture Department suggested 100,000 to 150,000 people may have been affected, which I would assume reflects the range of social security numbers that may have been exposed
What should have been happening is that SSNs should not simply be included in various databases.
No, that's not true. What should be happening is that SSNs should not be useful for identity theft, since (whether or not they are in public databases), SSNs—because they are also tax identifiers for individuals and thus mandatory in a wide number of applications—are not secrets suitable for identification purposes in the first place.
OTOH, a public identifier like the SSN that serves the role of a ta
I first read the headline as "OMG Website Exposes Thousands of SSNs"
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You might not like my post, but it's not "Offtopic". Especially when the summary includes this Bush "administration" official running away from responsibility for this breach by saying:
Officials at the Agriculture Department said Social Security numbers were included in the public database because doing so was the common practice years ago when the database was first created, before online identity theft was as well-known a threat as it is today.'
In other
The entire social security program is absurd. Ignoring the economics of the retirement portion of the program, using SSN's for identification is a terrible idea. The program was never initially designed for the numbers to be used as ID's, but the need for one was so overwhelming that people started accepting them.
Scrap the entire Social Security program. If you think the government ought to force people to prepare for their retirement, withdraw money from their paychecks and put it in a personal account for them. Hell, even a bank account with 1% interest would give you a better return than social security, and it guarantees ownership of your money, instead of allowing the government to waste it building bridges to nowhere when you die.
Once that's done, let's design a proper identification system, so it doesn't matter if someone gets your ID number.
Not if you get disabled at 25 and you draw social security benefits for the rest of your life.
Social Security is an insurance program.
Please explain why I'm responsible for your insurance bill.
If people choose to not save and can't make it tough.
Without SOME sort of government program to insure such, it is impossible to guarantee a retirement fund. Read the history [wikipedia.org] which inspired the program and understand how a solution is necessary. When the economy is okay it's easy to postulate that everybody should just take care of themselves, but the economy does not always STAY okay. It is times like that when a civilized society does not throw it's old people out to rot on the street, which is the out
The entire social security program is absurd. Ignoring the economics of the retirement portion of the program
I'm not sure what set of facts you're working from, but the economics of the social security program are fine.
The problem has been decades of Democratic and Republican Congresses skimnming surplus money off the SS trust fund to cover their budgetary problems.
Remember how part of Al Gore's 2000 Presidential campaign was to put Social Security funds into a "lock box"? Even then it was too late to 'save
Every American citizen is issued a "social security number." Social Security is a "retirement" program instituted by the American government to provide for its citizens when they retire. The numbers are now used largely to identify citizens by banks, schools, hospitals, and many other organizations. If you have someone else's social security number and driver's license, you can most likely apply for a line of credit in their name.
It's basically a combination user-id and password which is transmitted i
The New York Times is reporting that an Office of Management and Budget website accidentally exposed at least 30,000 social security numbers publicly online.
No, actually, the New York Times is reporting that a publicly-released database from the Census Department related to Agriculture Department contained social security numbers. The connections with the OMB are:
1) Questions about the release were directed to the OMB because the OMB, among other things, coordinates information policies for executive branc
"It is most unfortunate that at least one agency has been inserting personally identifiable information into this database for a number of years," [Gary Bass, executive director of OMB Watch] said. "I'm amazed that, all these years, no one at the Department of Agriculture noticed that they were putting Social Security numbers into a public database."
Uhhh, dude, if your organization is called "OMB Watch" and hosting a mirror of the database, shouldn't you have noticed that the database contained SSNs??? Not
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Wednesday night offers Vineyarders a lunar eclipse perfectly timed for observing. The full moon rises in the eastern sky just as the sun sets at about 5:04 p.m. and the best part of the show is five hours later.
One can only hope that the weather cooperates as the next time the Vineyard will have so convenient a show will be in December 2010.
This February full moon is called the Snow Moon, which is located in the zodiacal constellation Leo and in close proximity to the bright ringed-planet Saturn.
The evening starts out with a brilliant moon rising over the Atlantic Ocean.
Shortly after 8 p.m., the moon enters the Earth's shadow, known as the penumbra.
Don't expect to see anything significant until 8:43 p.m. when the moon enters the darkest part of the Earth's shadow, known as the umbra.
From then on, a curtain appears to move across the moon's face.
Total eclipse begins at 10 p.m. when the moon is fully covered by the Earth's umbra. Mid-eclipse is at 10:26 p.m.
Though the moon will be fully covered by the Earth's shadow from 10 p.m. to 10:52 p.m., notice that the southern part of the moon appears slightly brighter than the rest of the moon, as the moon drifts close to the southern edge of the umbra.
The moon starts to come out of the umbra at 10:52, and comes completely out after midnight, at 12:09 a.m.
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Enters his fourth season as a bullpen catcher with the Tigers.
• Duties include catching the Tigers pitching staff during warm-ups as well as relievers during the game...additionally, he assists by throwing batting practice.
• Prior to joining the Tigers as a bullpen catcher in 2012, he played six seasons (2006-11) at the minor league level with the organization.
• He was selected by the Tigers in the 37th round of the June 2005 draft...signed with Detroit on June 5, 2006.
• Played collegiately at the University of Michigan...earned All-Big Ten Conference honors as a senior at the University of Michigan in 2006 after hitting .335 (77x230) with 38 runs scored, 15 doubles and 28 rBI.
• Actively participates in Play Baseball Detroit and attended Keeping Kids in the game.
• resides in Oak Forest, IL during the offseason


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Reds weighing rotation move for Chapman
Decisions on Broxton, Madson and free-agent market part of process
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CINCINNATI -- The specific makeup of the Reds' 2013 rotation and back end of the bullpen will have one rather large question mark next to it -- at least for the time being.
Much of the uncertainty will exist until the Reds figure out what to do with Aroldis Chapman.
"We haven't made a decision on Chapman as a starter or as a reliever," Reds general manager Walt Jocketty said. "We're talking about it."
Part of what determines if Chapman starts involves how well the Reds navigate their way around the free-agent market for closers.
"It depends on if we re-sign [Jonathan] Broxton and [Ryan] Madson," Jocketty said. "Or if we get another closer."
Chapman, who will turn 25 in February, had one of the most successful seasons as a closer in Reds history during 2012. It was all the more remarkable considering the left-hander didn't move into the role until May 20.
In 68 appearances, Chapman went 5-5 with a 1.51 ERA and tied for third in the National League with 38 saves in 43 attempts. That included a franchise single-season record 27 consecutive saves from June 26-Sept. 4. He walked 23 compared to 122 strikeouts.
Over his 71 2/3 innings, Chapman had a walks-hits per inning pitched (WHIP) of .809 and an average of 15.32 strikeouts per nine innings. On nine occasions, he struck out the side. His velocity was often at or exceeded 100 mph.
One thing the numbers can't quantify entirely was the electricity and intimidation Chapman brought to the ninth inning for Cincinnati. Everyone in Great American Ball Park knew the Reds finally had a dominant closer -- not just the screaming fans on their feet in the stands, but the opposition in the batter's box.
Now the Reds must decide whether they want Chapman at their disposal once every fifth day or nearly every day. Can Chapman be as effective, or better, pitching 170-200 innings a season as a starter vs. 70-80 innings as a closer?
When the Reds stunned the baseball world by plucking a then-mysterious Cuban defector with a six-year, $30.25 million contract in January 2010, the objective was to have him start eventually. That seemed poised to come to fruition before the 2012 season when the club told Chapman to prepare his arm and body to start.
During Spring Training, when he had a 2.12 ERA in five games (four starts), Chapman easily had the best starting performances in camp. But disaster struck the bullpen in March when expected closer Madson blew out his elbow and missed the season. Setup man Nick Masset experienced a shoulder injury later in the month and would also miss the year. Lefty setup man Bill Bray sustained a groin injury and would be limited to a mere handful of innings all season.
Necessity forced the Reds to put Chapman back in the bullpen. He was used in a setup role initially with Sean Marshall closing. When Marshall lacked consistency as a closer, the switch was made to Chapman.
On one side of the coin, the Reds know what they have in Chapman as a closer. They also know they have to watch his arm closely. He missed 10 days in September with a fatigued left shoulder.
Chapman as a starter is more of an unknown. He likely wouldn't be able to sustain plus-100 mph velocity very often but it could be something in his back pocket when he needs it. Although he has a slider, he does not have the full arsenal of strong secondary pitches that a top-of-the-line starter has.
On the other hand, since closers have generally been replaceable entities over the years, it could benefit the Reds well to see if Chapman can start. If he isn't successful, he can always return to being a closer. While the Reds had a strong rotation last season, ace Johnny Cueto's oblique injury in the playoffs showed depth can always be improved.
Broxton, acquired in a July 31 trade with the Royals, saved four games in four chances when Chapman was out in September. He showed he could still be tough, posting a 2.48 ERA in 60 games for Cincinnati and Kansas City while allowing only two home runs.
Madson spent all of 2012 rehabilitating from Tommy John surgery but would like to be a closer again. He saved 32 of 34 opportunities for the Phillies in 2011.
Jocketty has been in touch with the representatives for the free agents, Broxton and Madson. There is mutual interest from both sides in having them return. Neither is expected to land giant contracts.
Other closers on the open market that could be reasonably priced include Jose Valverde, Joakim Soria, Brett Myers and Matt Capps. There are also potential in-house options the Reds could look at, like Sam LeCure, Logan Ondrusek or J.J. Hoover.
All are probably capable of producing the save totals Chapman had, but none would likely approach his level of shutdown dominance.
The Reds, namely Jocketty, have a lot to consider on this issue. It makes for being one of the intriguing mysteries of the club's offseason.


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Bernhard Langer comes into this week's tournament with a substantial lead in the Charles Schwab Cup. He comes into this week's tournament looking to increase that lead.
"My game is good right now," Langer said Thursday. "It's been good all year, and I really had a very good summer."
That summer included two major championship wins in back-to-back weeks at The U.S. Senior Open and the Senior British Open. The German-born professional has won five events this season, and he has a 672-point lead over second-place Fred Couples in the Charles Schwab Cup. Langer is also the only player on tour so far this season with more than $2 million in winnings, but he still has only one objective when he tees off at 10:52 a.m. Friday.
"My goal is to win the tournament and play the best I can," Langer said. "The lead looks substantial, but majors count double. And we have a major coming next week."
The Champions Tour travels to TPC Potomac in Maryland for the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship, and the Charles Schwab Cup Championship is three weeks later. Langer plays Friday with Ted Schulz and R.W. Eaks, the winner of The Ensure Classic in 2007 and 2008.
The tournament this week features the strongest field in the event's eight-year history. This year's edition features 11 players with a major championship on their resume and includes 15 former members of Ryder Cup teams. Langer played in 10 Ryder Cups for Europe and was the winning captain in 2004 with a 9-point victory.
It also includes arguably the hottest player on the tour right now – Russ Cochran
Cochran, from Paducah, Ky., jumped to sixth place in the Charles Schwab Cup after winning two tournaments in the past two weeks. He captured the Posco E&C Songdo Championship and went wire to wire last week at the SAS Championship.
The win two weeks ago ended a 19-year drought for Cochran, and he is only one of four players this season to win multiple events on the Champions Tour.
"I felt like I was playing well all year, but I was not finishing the tournaments very well," he said.
Cochran attributed his son, and former caddy, Reed for his recent solid play. The younger Cochran, who left his father's bag to attend law school and was replaced by his older brother Ryan, told his dad he pressed too much at the end of tournaments to finish well.
"He calls it dummying up," Russ Cochran said.
That's when the change came.
"I started noticing I was getting a little streakier and throwing longer stretches of good holes together," said Cochran, who finished last year's tournament is a tie for second place and went on to finish the season 17th on the 2009 money list. "It's the weirdest thing when you see guys like Bernhard Langer, Nick Price and Fred Couples. They are fantastic, but they never get ahead of themselves."
Cochran tees off at 10:41 a.m. Friday on the first hole and is paired with Fred Funk, third place in the Charles Schwab Cup, and Eduardo Romero.
The weather this week has been up and down for the players during the pre-tournament events. There was heavy rain Monday, sunshine Tuesday, overcast and rain Wednesday, and sunshine again Thursday. The National Weather Service predicts sunshine in the area Friday and Saturday and overcast skies Sunday with a 30-percent chance of rain.
Langer said that has not affected players' preparations at all because most players on the Champions Tour have at least 30 years of experience playing golf in all weather conditions.


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http://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/stor...ristmas-returnAmar'e Stoudemire plans to return to the New York Knicks lineup on or around Christmas, a source close to the power forward told ESPNNewYork.com.
On Dec. 25, the Knicks have a highly-anticipated showdown on the road against the Los Angeles Lakers. Stoudemire targeting Christmas was reported earlier by the New York Post.
Stoudemire had left knee debridement during the offseason and hasn't played since then. He was initially expected to miss 6-8 weeks.
During Friday morning's shootaround at the Knicks' training facility, Stoudemire did some running and shooting drills and did lateral drills with resistance bands to build strength in his legs. It was the first time the media had seen him working out since his surgical procedure.
"We're going to accept Amar'e back when he's ready to go, and when that is, I don't know. I really don't," Knicks coach Mike Woodson said after shootaround. "That's a great sign he's out running and he's shooting a little bit. We're just going to gauge it as he goes along, and doctors and Amar'e will tell us when he's ready."
The Knicks are 10-4 in Stoudemire's absence. To fit in with the team he is open to coming off the bench when he returns, two sources toldESPNNewYork.com this week.
The Knicks are missing another piece in guard Jason Kidd, who has been dealing with a back injury. He will miss the Washington game Friday and is now looking to return next week.


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Images of Ohio University's beautiful campuses are available in the photo archive for purchase.
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Building-specific photos are also available in the photo archive.
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New this year, UCM is offering e-cards for Commencement, as well as in a number of other styles.
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The images make a great graduation or end-of-the-year gift for anyone part of the Bobcat Nation. The Photoshelter website can be accessed at www.photos.ohio.edu.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Republican Governors Association says New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will be in Pittsburgh to campaign with fellow Republic Gov. Tom Corbett.
The association's press secretary, Jon Thompson, says the group will release more information on the campaign trip later Thursday.
Christie is scheduled to be in Pittsburgh Friday, including at a closed-press fundraiser. It was not immediately clear when or where Christie and Corbett will make any public appearances together.


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Randolph's school superintendent, facing difficult challenges in the district as well as ongoing friction with the School Committee, won't be looking to renew his contract when it expires in June.
In a letter to the school board, Oscar Santos wrote, "It is clear that my priorities are not aligned with the priorities of the majority of the Randolph School Committee."
"I love the work; that's not the issue," he said in an interview Monday. "The issue is we're not working well together, so I'll be moving on."
Santos, who lives in town and has two children enrolled in the local school system, took over as superintendent in August 2010. The then 38-year-old had no administrative background beyond that of a high school headmaster.
School Committee chairman Andrew Azer, describing himself as a strong supporter of the young superintendent, said Santos's lack of experience has proved to be a problem.
"We hired Dr. Santos knowing he didn't have any experience at the administrative level," Azer said. "Obviously, there's a learning curve going from principal to superintendent. I don't think we provided him with the support and follow-up he needed."
Randolph's schools have challenges different from most suburban systems. According to the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, English is not the first language for 38 percent of Randolph's students, compared with 16 percent statewide. The racial mix of the students is 52.5 percent African-American, 16.7 percent Asian, 8.9 percent Hispanic, and 18.3 percent white. About 54 percent are classified as from low-income families.
The district teetered on the brink of state receivership in 2008, due to poor test scores and lack of community support. Voters then approved a $5.5 million tax increase for the schools, and the turnaround began.
"We have made tremendous progress with Dr. Santos," Azer said.
Santos, who listed his accomplishments in his Nov. 7 letter to the School Committee, noted he and his administration have initiated teacher-training programs, extended the elementary school day and time on learning at all levels, and initiated an alternative learning program in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment has been on the rise and test scores continue to improve.
"We're moving in the right direction," Santos said Monday.
But committee members have not agreed with his leadership style. "The majority of the committee wanted decision-making to be more inclusive of his administrative team," Azer said. "And sometimes when they had questions, they felt it would take prodding more than once to get answers."
The school system came under fire during the last school year for a spate of violent incidents. A female teacher at the high school was taken to the hospital for injuries she received trying to stop a fight.
Students, parents, and staff brought concerns over safety at both the high school and middle school to the attention of the School Committee during a contentious meeting last March, and school administrators beefed up police presence and hired a security director.
"Obviously, schools always have challenges," said Santos in the interview. But Azer said the violence issue probably played into a lackluster evaluation given to the superintendent in late summer.
"It was a significant event last year and one he was evaluated on," Azer said. "Some School Committee members claimed they knew about incidents that had not been addressed beforehand."
In Santos's performance review, the committee categorized him as "needs improvement" in three of five categories, with low scores in his relationship with the panel, budget and general management, and personnel management.
Committee vice chairman Keith Wortzman described the superintendent as a "very energetic, vibrant young leader," but was unwilling to make specific comments regarding Santos's performance other than saying, "the one voice of the School Committee noted together there were areas that do need improvement."
"But I certainly respect his energy level," Wortzman said. "He put a lot of enthusiasm into his work in Randolph."
Resident Robert Gass, a former member of the committee, said Santos is well liked in the community. "People liked Oscar a lot and they still like Oscar a lot," he said. "The guy has worked extremely hard and has helped us make some significant gains."
Gass said Santos's troubled relationship with the school board is no secret.
"There has been some question about his ongoing relationship with the School Committee, and in some areas he has struggled as a beginning superintendent," he said. "The community will move on and thank him for his contribution. Maybe someone with a little more experience is the next step, but that shouldn't detract from the work he's done."
The committee plans to immediately begin its search for Santos's replacement, hoping to have a new superintendent in place by June. Azer said the job description and salary range will be reviewed and tweaked where necessary.
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