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IMPERIAL, Pa. -Toronto, Ohio resident Rick Sparks figures he's living proof that the oil and gas industry wants to hire local.
Sparks was unhappily employed eight months ago when he stopped at the Jefferson County connections office on Fourth Street in Steubenville to find out how to go about getting a job in the oil and gas industry he'd been hearing and reading so much about.
Within minutes he was getting one-on-one assistance from Connections Director Mike McGlumphy, who steered him to websites geared to filling openings in the oil and gas industry.
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With a commercial driver's license already in his back pocket, Sparks logged onto an industry site that tries to match job seekers with potential employers.
After inputting basic information, Drill Baby Drill delivered some leads - one of them a job in Indiana, Pa., where one of his buddies was working, which he'd seriously considered until the website "said they had another company in Pennsylvania looking for a Class A and Class B driver to haul water," he said.
That company turned out to be Equipment Transport LLC, a Carlisle, Pa., based company providing fluids transportation, heavy and oversized equipment transportation, waste transportation and disposal and equipment rentals.
"They called me in right away for an interview, said everything looked good," said Sparks, who'd worked for a company doing business inside Weirton Steel Corp. for 13 years, then spent another six years working for the mill itself. After that job was eliminated he took CDL classes and worked at an area distribution center for about six years, before being hired as a driver for a Pennsylvania company. Not long after he took that job he got the call from Equipment Transports. "I was really impressed with their friendliness, their professionalism and willingness to work with me."
Until June 1, Sparks worked out of Equipment Transport's Washington, Pa., operations center. Because of the long drive, he had a room in a hotel there, returning to Toronto on his off days.
"It saved me the commute," he said. "It was easier to stay in Washington during the week and go home when I was off."
Equipment Transport, however, recently opened another operations center, this one just off the Clinton-Imperial exit on Interstate 576, not far from Pittsburgh International Airport. The company, which also is opening locations in other communities, including Fairmont, W.Va., and Texas, has expanded its truck fleet as well as its work force - going from seven trucks and about 16 employees at the Washington location when Sparks joined the company six months ago to nearly 40 trucks in Washington and Clinton.
Equipment Transport supervisors Ray North and Jeff Kendall said business conditions forced them to open a second operations center in the two- county area.
"The gas business in this area is supposed to continue, even grow bigger," said North, Equipment Transport's operations manager. "We needed a facility, we needed to split our crews up to get full coverage."
Kendall said the company has "probably 18-20 local guys" among the roughly 33 assigned to the new Clinton-Imperial location, and plans to add 10 more.
"When we come into an area, our big thing is to hire local," Kendall said.
He said the gas boom has been a boon to the local economy.
"Guys are filling the motels, they're eating, the convenience stores are getting business, and we're buying diesel for our trucks," he said. "It's a lot of economic growth."
And Sparks, who'd been stuck on steady nightturn at his old job, said there's a lot to be said for watching the sun come up and hearing the birds in the morning.
"I love it, I just love it," he said. "This company has been very good to me so far. I couldn't be happier."


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.....4 Juber-Thumbs up for Excellent ..I saw the Flick yesterday and the Theatre was packed to the MAX for the early matinee showing. Miss Anne must have told her relatives to come to My theatre and take all the Good middle-row seats.
Now I must admit when I saw the Django trailors I wasnt too impressed but I still plan to see it. Then the last 2 weeks there has been so much controversy about the Plot of the movie, the over the top Derogatory language, the blood splattering and blah, blah, blah So like most movie goers that kind of Publicity had me running to the theatre on premier day instead of waiting for the weekend..
DJango is a very, very good movie and Quentin Tarantino deserved his recent Golden Globe Nods for Best Director/Best Movie/Best Screenplay. The over the top Language, Action scenes & overall Plot is typical of the average Film genres being made today. We all know this is the world Quentin lives in... Artists have to take risks and shocking the Viewer is part of the Entertainment process. I give Quentin a lot of credit for doing double-duty by writing an excellent Screenplay and directing a comical and suspenseful Western centered around Slavery. You know what to expect when you see one of his Flicks but this particular Film shows hes getting better and better with time. The only problem I had with DJango Unchained is the length of the Film. It was 3hrs but it felt like 5hrs. It was waaaay too long and even the people sitting next to me seemed a bit restless.
Christopher Waltz is truly a Masterful Actor and hes part of the Glue that holds DJango together .Chris deserved his Golden Globe Supporting Nod but it will be interesting to see if the Academy Voters snub him.. Leonardo Decaprio also deserved his Golden Globe Supporting Actor nomination not just for his Amazing acting but also for having the Best Southern accent weve heard in a long time. The older he gets the More Beautiful he gets. The close-up shots made his Blue Eyes look like they were scooped up from the Ocean. Samuel L. Jackson SHOULD have gotten a Golden Globe Nod and deserves a supporting Oscar Nod for being one of the Best scene stealers in the industry. Sam delivered the Goods and was on fire with his supporting role Unfortunately for Leo & Sam I think they cancel each other out but the Good Critic reviews the Flick is receiving might make them game players when the Oscar nominations are announced. If Tarantino doesnt get a Best Director Nod I say SHAME on The Academy .
DJango Unchained is definitely worth the Admission price and a trip to the concession counter .
"First and most obviously, this is a grand ol time in the best traditions of the western genre. Its fun, funny, and exciting from the opening scene until the very last shot (hint: dont leave during the credits, stay all the way until the very end). If you dont care about any of the messaging or deeper nuances or cinematic history on display, youll still be thoroughly entertained. However, it is also much more than that."
Had I known there was a Final scene AFTER the credits I would have stayed.....This is a good enough reason to see it again...LOL...
It was AMAZING. That is all I can really say. Im still trying to get my thoughts together.
I should have known that there was a scene after the credits. Oh well, Ill see it one day.
I also just read that Leo Dicaprio really cut his hand in that dining room scene and still kept going. My next thought was 'Did he smear his real blood all over Kerry Washington's face' ?!
I love Leo and I know that he was in the zone, but that is a little too far. Ughhh. Im hoping that after they stitched his hand up, the crew gave him fake blood to smear.
" For all there is to feel, let it be felt"
― Emeli Sande
Is this film a comedy?
The music for the trailer makes it sound like a comedy.
his big throbbing cock was nice to seee sw3inging yum
Saw Django for the 2nd time today and it was even BETTER than the first time....I picked up on so much more this this time around..I even appreciated Jamie's performance even more this time...He was intense, never over-the-top, just flat out determined to get his Woman and that's all he focused on......Django grossed $30-Million over the Christmas weekend making it the #2 Flick in the Country after Hobbit...
...(Spoiler scene Alert BELOW for Miss Anne)
" For all there is to feel, let it be felt"
― Emeli Sande
"Director Quentin Tarantino of the upcoming film Django Unchained originally wrote the script with actor Will Smith in mind for the title actor. Last spring Smith was informally offered the role, but had to decline because of his time commitment to the film Men In Black 3. "I came really close, it was one of the most amazing screenplays I had ever ever seen," Smith said. "I was in the middle of Men In Black 3 and [Tarantino] was ready to go, and I just couldn't sit with him and get through the issues, so I didn't want to hold him up. That thing's going to be ridiculous. It is a genius screenplay."
Considering Quentin intentionally wanted Django to be Intense, driven with Hatred for the Murderous White Slave owners, then the quest to find his wife, I think Will could have pulled off the role...The supporting players had the real Meat to chew on...
Shame, shame, SHAME on the Academy for NOT Nominating Quentin for Best Director..
Shame on the Academy for NOT nominating Leo in the supporting field.
Shame on the Academy for NOT nominating Samuel in the supporting field..
Shame on the Academy for NOT nominating Jamie for Best Actor. Now I don't think he deserved a nomination but most Critics thought so...
Here's what DJango did get nominated for this morning during the Oscar-nods telecast...
Best Picture
Best Original Screenplay (Quentin)
Best Supporting Actor (Waltz)
Best Cinematograpghy
Best Sound Editing
The ONLY category Quentin has a fighting chance is Original Screenplay...But he's gonna have to fight it out with the Guy that wrote Zero Dark Thirty....
I reckon Tarantino cares about his screenplay more than anything else in this movies.
Sam made the movie for me even though I think Christoph deserves his nomination.
All I want, ain't no other, we together, I'll remember, sweet love, all night long - All Night / Beyonce.
Django Unchained - 5 Academy Award nominations
Weinstein Company and Columbia Pictures Production (The Weinstein Company)
Christoph Waltz – Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Best picture
Sound editing
Original screenplay
" For all there is to feel, let it be felt"
― Emeli Sande
I don't know what it is Miss Anne..But Leo's peers only show him a little bit of Love when it comes to the Oscar Nods....It's as if they're jealous that he picks Films to star in that become Blockbusters and they feel he has a ways to go to earn his stripes...
Then you have the GOD of HollyWood Harvey Weinstein intentionally NOT allowing the film to be screened in time for the SAG nominations. His freaking company Produced the flick and they fail to make deadlines for screenings....That's a JOKE in itself.
Last year Harvey and his Monster company produced Iron Lady and they threatned all of Gollywood that if Meryl Streep didnt get her 3rd Oscar he'd remember names...
Politics plays a HUGE role every Oscar season and I think Harvey didnt open the Gates of Heaven for Django because of some dealings behind closed doors....I think he wanted Kevin Costner to have that role instead of Leo. For whatever reason Kevin couldnt do it.
I saw the Gatsby trailer last night while viewing The impossible. The trailer didnt look promising at all but there's good buzz about it...
Well surprisingly DJango did take home 2 Awards @ the Golden Globes last night:
Best Original Screenplay (Quentin)
Best Supporting Actor (Waltz)
Hoopefully they will repeat this @ The Ocars next month...
Saw Django yesterday and was very impressed.
Brilliant performances all round, particularly from Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L Jackson and Leonardo DiCaprio (the sheer malice, sadism and villainy on the part of the Jackson and DiCaprio were astounding).
Ironic too that while the language and the action seemed spectacularly way over the top (but in a good, Tarantino way), the casual viciousness of the treatment of the slaves seemed all too real (that there are still apologists and celebrators of slavery boggles the mind).
It will make you laugh out loud, weep and want to cheer, partuclarly when certain individuals get their well-deserved comeuppance.
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
On Trust Handicap - Quotes
Jockey Quotes
TYLER BAZE, KILLER BEAR, Winner: "They were going fast and that helped him. This is kind of a funny horse. He was crazy last week when I worked him. He wouldn't work, then he was running down the road all through the backstretch. You just have to let him do it when he wants to do it. Right when we hit the turn, he started moving by himself and I just went with him. He's a nice horse. He has talent, he just has to keep it together. It's nice to see what he can do. I can't wait to ride him back."
Trainer Quotes
JEFF MULLINS, KILLER BEAR, Winner: "We've always liked this horse and the owners wanted to take him back (August 4). They all had fun with him opening day (July 18) at Del Mar. They were ahead money wise, so they decided to go back in for him. If you look back on his past performances, seven-eighths of a mile is his best lick. It was definitely a step up, but he drew nice and the race set up for him."
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The New Zealand dollar fell as weaker economic figures in US and Europe weighed on equity markets and eroded investors' appetite for riskier, or higher yielding assets.
The kiwi dollar sank to 81.03 US cents from 81.67 cents at 5pm in Wellington yesterday. The trade-weighted index fell to 72.68 from 73.11.
The kiwi dollar added to its decline yesterday following weak retail sales after the euro zone's industrial production sank the most in more than three years in September and Greece's economy suffered a contraction for the 17th consecutive quarter. Meantime, in the US, Commerce Department data showed that retail sales slid more than expected in October.
"Overnight, the NZD/USD resumed its decline as global risk sentiment stuttered," said Mike Jones, currency strategist at Bank of New Zealand.
"The recent deterioration in the NZ economic backdrop means the NZD/USD is more exposed than usual to any cooling of global optimism."
Weak retail sales and last week's data showing third-quarter unemployment rose to 7.3 per cent has economics pondering whether the economy grew at all in the latest three months. The Performance of Manufacturing Index is due out today and there are expectations manufacturing remains in contraction.
The kiwi slipped to 78.04 Australian cents from 78.13 cents and traded at 64.91 yen from about 64.90 yen yesterday. The New Zealand dollar tumbled to 63.52 euro cents from 64.22 cents and fell to 51.08 British pence from 51.41 pence.


text: A ribbon cutting was held recently at BreakAway Cycle & Strength Studio, 439 Main St., in Longmont. BreakAway Cycle & Strength offers indoor cycling and strength classes for every level of fitness. The studio's owners have taken particular emphasis on the environment they offers, including high-quality sound, unique lighting and video, and top-of-the-line spinning bikes. The strength end of the studio features TRX Suspension Training, which is easily adaptable to various fitness levels. BreakAway Cycle & Strength Studio can be reached at 720-491-3185 or online at breakawaylongmont.com. It also has a Facebook page by the same name.


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The fall athletics programs at Central College put in another full weekend. Here's a quick look back at Saturday and Sunday for the Dutch.
For the second time in three games, the Central College women's soccer team delivered some last-minute magic, resulting in a 1-0 Iowa Conference season-opening win over Luther College Saturday. Forward Brittany Hinton took a pass from midfielder Julie Wunder and knocked home the game's only score with just 55 seconds remaining to extend Central's school-record winning streak to six games. It was Hinton's first goal of the season. The thrilling victory lifts the Central women's soccer team to 8-2 overall. The Dutch, who have played 9 games in 17 days, will get a couple days to rest before taking on Grand View University on Tuesday in Des Moines.
Senior forward Ralph Palmeri knocked home the game-winning goal on a corner kick as the Central College men's soccer team opened Iowa Conference play with a 1-0 decision over Luther College Saturday. Palmeri scored in the 59th minute, with the ball rolling off Luther goalkeeper Peter Wright's fingertips into the upper left corner of the net. It's Palmeri's second goal of the year. Defending league champion Luther outshot Central 19-12 and held an 11-7 second-half advantage. The Norse reached the top 16 of the NCAA Div. III championships last year. The victory snaps a three-game losing streak where the Dutch (3-4-1 overall, 1-0 conference) faced two regionally ranked opponents. The Central men's soccer team is now 3-4-1 overall and 1-0 in the Iowa Conference. They'll host NAIA Culver-Stockton College 3 p.m. Tuesday in Pella. It's the first ever meeting between the two teams.
Senior Chelsea Johnson picked up a crucial singles win to fuel the Central College women's tennis team to a 5-4 decision over Morningside College Saturday. With a 9-0 sweep of Grand View University earlier in the day, the Dutch rolled up their fifth consecutive victory. Central won two of the three doubles points before Johnson took control at No. 3 singles with a 6-2, 6-3 win. She's 3-0 this season in singles play. The Dutch are now 8-1 have a tough stretch ahead. Central hosts defending league champion Coe College Wednesday and meet Wartburg College and Luther College next Saturday on the road.
Central College sophomore Josh Forst took runner-up honors in the B flight of the Iowa Conference men's tennis individual tournament Saturday. Forst reached the semifinals Saturday morning with an 8-4 victory over Luther's Sean Brown, but was defeated by Coe's Geoffrey Brochet, 8-2, in the finals. Sophomore Tim Kahl followed with a third-place finish in the B flight. Kahl suffered an 8-1 loss in the quarterfinals and took third by a walkover, or forfeit, against Luther's Brown. In the C flight, David Bouska placed second. He topped Buena Vista's Dillon Nevius 8-1 before falling to champion Coy Weigmann of Wartburg. Singles matches were shortened to eight-point pro sets after rain delays Friday pushed most of the play indoors.
Meanwhile, Forst and Collin Schares finished fourth in the doubles B flight. The tandem bounced back from an 8-6 loss to Coe to outlast a different Coe duo, 9-8 (3-0). The Dutch wrap up their abbreviated fall schedule with dual October 2 against Grand View at 3:30 p.m. in Des Moines.
Central College ended a six-game losing streak with a pair of encouraging volleyball victories Saturday at the Grinnell College Invitational. The Dutch swept Rockford College 25-18, 25-15, 25-18, then outlasted Grinnell in a 23-25, 25-20, 26-28, 25-20, 15-12 victory. Setter Claire Stewart received all-tournament team recognition and the Dutch improved to 3-10. Right-side hitter Sam Retz led the Dutch with nine kills against Rockford. Stewart had 27 assists and libero Tori Zempel dug 15 balls. Central used a balanced attack against Grinnell with four hitters tallying double-digit kills. Pedersen and middle hitter Hannah Welter had 11 apiece and outside hitters Tess Reinig and Jessica Laflin each had 10 kills. Stewart tallied 46 assists and Zempel had 17 digs. Up next for the Central College volleyball team is an Iowa Conference clash with the University of Dubuque.
Central College met William Penn University in a women's golf dual Sunday for a final tune-up before the Iowa Conference tournament. William Penn outshot the Dutch 325 to 343 on the par-72 Pheasant Ridge Golf Course in Cedar Falls, the same course used for the first two rounds of the league tourney. Natalie Booton and Demi Coertze led the individual race with 79. Central's Kelsey Van Tasell, a sophomore from Pella, tied for third with a career-best 80. The Dutch have taken runner-up honors at the league tournament the past four years. The first two rounds of the 72-hole tourney are played Friday and Saturday at Pheasant Ridge. The final two rounds of the tournament will be played Oct. 5-6 at Central's home course, the Bos Landen Golf Club.
The Central College men's golf team shaved 28 strokes off its first-round score to place third at the 18-team University of Dubuque Fall Invitational Sunday. After posting 323 Saturday, the Dutch came back with Sunday's best round at 295 for 618 at the Dubuque Golf and Country Club. Clarke University claimed the team title at 309-298—607, followed by Kirkwood Community College at 308-302—610. Central's second team, the White squad, tied for fourth at 313-312—625. David Watson led the Red team at 80-72—152 and tied for seventh. Central travels Minneapolis, Minnesota, Friday for the 54-hole Twin Cities Classic. Each round is played at a different course.


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University of New Hampshire police are investigating an on-campus sexual assault reported early Saturday morning, a university spokeswoman said. A woman, who is not a student, reported being sexually assaulted at Sawyer Hall, a 146-resident dorm, at 2:30 a.m. Saturday, said spokeswoman Erika Mantz."There is no information to suggest the suspect was a stranger in the residence hall, and we do know that the victim met the suspect at an on-campus evening establishment," Mantz said. Police did not know whether the woman knew her alleged attacker before Friday evening, Mantz said. The woman described the suspect as a white male taller than 5 feet, 7 inches, with short dark hair wearing a white shirt and blue jeans. Anyone with information about the assault can call university police at 603-862-1427.Gal Tziperman Lotan can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Skip to comments.Republicans' war on abortion rights continues: But we can't give up the fight for women's rights
Posted on 10/27/2011 12:23:47 PM PDT by presidio9
On Nov. 8, Mississippi residents will vote on a proposed constitutional amendment that would categorize a fertilized human egg as a legal person. If passed, this measure would prohibit not only abortion, but common birth control methods such as the IUD. While a similar measure was twice defeated in Colorado, in 2008 and 2010, by wide margins, other states - including Florida and Ohio - are considering comparable initiatives.
These attacks are dangerous, but they are nothing new, part of a century-long war on women. While we all know it generally takes two to tango when it comes to sex, women - specifically poor women - have historically paid the disproportionate share of the price when politics and misguided morality triumph over public health necessities.
One hundred years ago this month, my grandmother began her career as an advocate. A recent arrival in New York herself, Margaret Sanger worked as a nurse in the lower East Side, where immigrants lived crowded in fetid tenements and the infant mortality rate was of Third World proportions.
My grandmother was particularly struck by the daily drudgery of mothers. She immediately saw the connection between the dire living conditions and the fact that many births were unwanted, recalling one 72 year-old woman who said "she would gladly have another baby if nature were willing, but her daughters and sons, who had endured poverty and neglect. . .preferred risking imprisonment and death rather than bearing children and have them go through what they lived through."
My grandmother soon learned that women were routinely denied access to contraception and information about how to prevent pregnancies. It was the attitude at the time that women - and women alone - were responsible for the consequences of marital relations. The draconian Comstock Laws made it illegal to distribute contraceptives or provide educational materials about sexual health or reproduction, as this information was then considered "lascivious."
My grandmother soon discovered that Comstock carried implications far more serious than censorship when she tried to save the life of one of her patients following a botched back-alley abortion. She swore "no more" and founded the birth control movement in America, subsequently opening the first of her clinics in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn.
Her clinic was open less than two weeks before being closed by the police as a "public nuisance." She went to jail for 30 days, but kept fighting, eventually founding the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
Today, IPPF has more service points worldwide than McDonald's does franchises, providing millions with contraception and reproductive health care each year. In the U.S., Planned Parenthood partners with city, state and federal health agencies to bring healthcare to those who cannot afford it.
But then again, many modern-day Comstocks are seeking to characterize sex as a public threat, trying to pass legislation that will once more burden the poorest of mothers. The proposed amendment in Mississippi - as well as other anti-woman initiatives brewing in other states - compromises decades of hard- won gains in public health, all for the sake of outdated and dangerous ideology. There is, in fact, nothing ideal about denying women the health services and education they need and want: We know from experience that women will risk their lives to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
My grandmother's cause began a century ago this month in the slums of lower Manhattan; her fight continues today. And like Margaret Sanger, we will not retreat until reproductive rights and health become a reality for all.
Your grandmother was a Nazi, boy. Not to mention being a murderer and a racist. I'd change my last name if I were you.
Sanger? Hmmm. Where have I heard that name before?
Thats interesting, is 'women's rights' about nothing more than abortion? Seems a very narrow view of it. Then again if you thinking about it abortion is nothing more than murder relabeled reaching genocidal proportions. So women's rights is about genocide? I think thats whats its morphed into. Its odd those in favor of abortion call those who oppose it nazis since they could teach Hitler a thing or 2 about wholesale murder and how to sell it to the public.
What a novelty. Imagine that! Almost as crazy as the notion that God exists.
Who is this Alexander Sanger, anyways? Grandson of Margaret?
Anyone supportive of Eugenics needs to be put on the ash heap of history.
My grandmother's cause began a century ago this month in the slums of lower Manhattan; (because that is where the black human weeds lived and reproduced) her fight continues today. As long as there are black babies Sanger knows that her genocide is not complete.
wonder why she didn't abort him.
Like he's saying that he's against abortion but for the right for women to have one.
Your freaking hag of a grandmother was a racist eugenicist who was friends with Lothrop Stoddard and spoke to a KKK meeting.
What a moral midget.
Ah, upon closer inspection it appears so... "My grandmother"
Not only is he not saying that, the article does not even conceed any potential side-effects or negative aspects to an abortion. He celebrates the procedure. Living a life in the shadow of a famous ancestor is always tragic.
Even if you couldn't be bothered to read the article before posting (I am often guilty of this myself), my initial post to this thread should have tipped you off.
BTW, if you click on the link to the story, it includes a video that has to be seen to be believed.
War on women
A right
No mention of killing babies, so I guess that's okay with Mr. Sanger.
*** misguided morality triumph over public health necessities***.
No need to read any more from this reprobate.
Morality is the glue that holds civilization together.
Abortion is not health care - it is murder.
This gub mint forces me to pay for others abortions.
That is f-ing wrong.
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Video Austin Case Modders Take Their Exotic PCs and a Giant LAN Party to SXSW (Video) 40
As a nexus of both computer programmers and other creative builder and maker types, SXSW (and Austin generally) is a great place to witness the overlap. John Zitterkopf and his pal Red, while helping to run the giant (and charitable!) LANFest at this year's event, had on hand for display a few of their own modded computer cases. John and Red are both part of Austin Modders, which helps Austinites swap tools and ideas (in-person, and via forums) for creating the kind of enclosures that computer makers simply can't — they're too time-intensive and too personalized for that. It's especially fun to see the effects that the newly widespread availability of laser cutters makes possible. (C'mon, O'Reilly, isn't it time for another Austin Maker Faire?)


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ORPHANED animals are set to benefit from a group of Bundaberg women who shed more than 60kg and donated the amount of their weight lost in pet food for the RSPCA.
The women have all embarked on their weight-loss journey through the Michelle Bridges 12-Week Body Transformation and, as part of an eight-week mini milestone celebration, they decided to carry the pet food the 20km return trip from Lake Ellen to the RSPCA shelter.
Organiser Kylie Lassig, who has lost 20kg in three rounds of the program, said the group wanted to help out a charity while celebrating their own personal weight loss achievements.
"We wanted to do something that was big and that was going to be a big calorie burn," she said.
Six of the women donated a total of 64kg of food, although only four of them did the challenging walk - with some carrying 20kg alone all the way to the animal shelter in Bundaberg West.
"We were all hurting by then," Mrs Lassig said.
"I had two bags - a backpack on the back and front."
Mrs Lassig said during the walk on July 28, reality set in that she had once been carrying that weight every day.
"The best part was when I took it off and went, 'wow' - I'm never going to let that weight get back on," she said.
Donna Habermann also carted 20kg of dried food despite trying to overcome tennis elbow.
"I had a trolley bag but I lost a tyre so I had to carry the rest," she said with a laugh.
Mrs Habermann said it was hard to imagine she had been carrying the extra weight and just how heavy 20kg actually was.
"My knees started to ache - all those pains you'd get before," she said.
"You never want to put that weight back on."
RSPCA shelter manager Vicki Beer said the donation was most welcomed.
"We need all the donations we can get," she said.
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Terrebonne and Lafourche voters will begin casting ballots today for a new appeals court judge.
Early voting in the Dec. 8 election begins this morning, and the ballot includes the runoff between former state Rep. Mitch Theriot of Raceland and Iberville District Judge William Dupont.
Terrebonne and Lafourche voters will begin casting ballots today for a new appeals court judge.
Early voting in the Dec. 8 election begins this morning, and the ballot includes the runoff between former state Rep. Mitch Theriot of Raceland and Iberville District Judge William Dupont.
They are vying for the local seat on the state 1st Circuit Court of Appeal.
When jury and judge decisions are appealed, appellate judges review statements from court proceedings and decide whether to uphold or overturn decisions.
Voters in all of Ascension, Assumption, Iberville, Lafourche, Pointe Coupee, St. Mary, Terrebonne and West Baton Rouge parishes will decide the race.
The two candidates received the most votes in a four-man primary Nov. 6. Since neither received more than half the votes, a runoff will decide the victor.
Dupont, a Democrat, received the most votes Nov. 6 — 38.51 percent, or 71,767 votes. Theriot, a Republican, came in second with 33.66 percent, or 62,730 votes.
The other candidates, Terrebonne Parish prosecutor Chris Erny and Thibodaux attorney Mark Plaisance are not in the runoff.
The seat is held by Judge Jimmy Gaidry of Houma, who reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 this year.
Theriot and Dupont have each said their experience makes them the best man for the judgeship.
Dupont points to his eight years as a judge in the 18th Judicial District, which covers Iberville, West Baton Rouge and Pointe Coupee parishes, as well how he has been the district's chief judge for the past year. He has also served as Plaquemine's city judge. His experience includes being an assistant district attorney in the 18th District for six years, attorney for the Atchafalaya Basin Levee District for 12 years, city attorney for the town of Fordoche for five years and a city attorney for Plaquemine for eight years. He also has a private practice with his brothers.
"After 22 years on the bench, it seems like the logical progression to serve on the appellate court and make those decisions at the appellate level," Dupont has said.
Dupont said as a city attorney he redrafted and prepared the entire City Code of Plaquemine, which is still in use. He was part of the team that brought the first drug lab into the 18th Judicial District, and he helped Plaquemine officials bring their juvenile cases up to date, saving the city $100,000 in detention costs, he said.
Theriot, in comparison, was state representative for House District 54 in southern and central Lafourche from 1992 to 2000. He is chairman of the state Board of Tax Appeal, which is a three-member board that hears from individuals and businesses disputing what the Internal Revenue Service told them they owe. He also teaches business law at Nicholls State University.
Theriot drafts the opinions of the tax board, and he has drafted about 200 judgments, he said.
"This race is about experience," Theriot has said. "You want someone with a practical background, and you want to look at their civic involvement. Life experiences, education and interpretation are all very important."
Registrar's offices in Terrebonne and Lafourche will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Dec. 1 for early voting but will be closed Sunday.
Lafourche has early voting at its main office at 307 W. Fourth St. in Thibodaux. Residents may also cast an early ballot at the South Lafourche Library at 16241 E. Main St., Suite B23, Galliano.
The Terrebonne Parish Registrar's Office is in the Courthouse Annex, 7856 Main St., Houma.


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Voices of the SpiritVIEW EVENT DETAILS
Partnerships & Collaborations
Houston is a remarkably diverse city—and in no domain of city life is that more apparent than in its faith communities. Many immigrants to the city have created a sense of home for themselves through membership in churches, mosques, temples, and the like. It is not surprising, then, that most of these communities have fostered rich sacred music traditions.
Each year Houston Arts Alliance's Folklife and Traditional Arts Program celebrates these sacred music traditions with a concert entitled Voices of the Spirit. This year's concert, which features music from Houston's Sufi, Sikh, Nigerian, Vietnamese, and Hindu faith communities, is presented in partnership with Asia Society Texas Center.
A second performance on Saturday, January 19 features the same program.
Join us in celebrating the rich artistic and cultural traditions that reside in Houston's immigrant communities.
About the 2013 Voices of the Spirit Artists
Zubair Al Awadi is an internationally-recognized oud master who fled Iraq in the wake of the war and, after many relocations, resettled as a refugee in Houston in 2009. His repertoire is wide-ranging and includes a broad knowledge of Sufi tradition.
Bhai Bhupinder Singh Paras Ji and Bhai Charanjit Ji are the spiritual leaders and performers of the shabad kirtan for the Gurdwara Sahib of Southwest Houston. Bhai Paras Ji leads the kirtan and plays harmonium and is accompanied on tabla by Bhai Charanjit Ji.
The Saint Martin Vietnamese Catholic Choir performs every Saturday for evening mass at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. The choir has been active there for over 25 years, but many members date their participation in Houston choirs to the mid '70s, when large populations of Vietnamese fled Southeast Asia and resettled in Houston.
Melloh Rhythm is a guitar player and vocalist who performed and toured for years with world music legend Femi Kuti. After settling in the city, he formed his own band which plays high-life, juju, and soukous for the majority of Nigerian weddings and parties throughout Houston. He is the son of a Nigerian gospel musician, and as musical director for his church, he relies on these rhythms to infuse their evangelical praise music.
Kruthi and Keerthana Bhat, sisters and fourth generation musicians, perform Carnatic devotional music associated with southern India. Their mother and teacher, Rajarajeshwary Bhat, is a world renowned master and instructor in this vocal tradition.
About Houston Arts Alliance
Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a nonprofit agency established by the City of Houston to enhance the quality of life and tourism in the Houston region by advancing the arts on its behalf.
Voices of the Spirit is made possible by the generosity of the National Endowment for the Arts, Houston Endowment, Morgan Family Foundation and His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili Council for the Southwestern United States.


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Benedict XVI weighs in on "Redistribution"
Benedict XVI weighs in on "Redistribution"
Author: Vincent Miller
Since "redistribution" is in the news these days, I thought it might be valuable to offer some passages from Benedict XVI's 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate on the theme. He uses the term 8 times. The basic concept of redistribution is accepted as moral obligation to achieve distributive justice that the market alone cannot deliver on both the national and international scale. This doesn't preclude critical awareness of the need for doing it well and preserving the participation and full development of persons in need.
As Tom Reese says so often, in these matters, the Popes are far to the left of any politician in America.
The final passage does not mention redistribution, but so tracks the current stakes in our politics I have found myself returning to it repeatedly since it was written.
32. Lowering the level of protection accorded to the rights of workers, or abandoning mechanisms of wealth redistribution in order to increase the country's international competitiveness, hinder the achievement of lasting development. Moreover, the human consequences of current tendencies towards a short-term economy — sometimes very short-term — need to be carefully evaluated. This requires further and deeper reflection on the meaning of the economy and its goals,as well as a profound and far-sighted revision of the current model of development, so as to correct its dysfunctions and deviations.
36. Economic activity cannot solve all social problems through the simple application of commercial logic. This needs to be directed towards the pursuit of the common good, for which the political community in particular must also take responsibility. Therefore, it must be borne in mind that grave imbalances are produced when economic action, conceived merely as an engine for wealth creation, is detached from political action, conceived as a means for pursuing justice through redistribution.
37. Economic life undoubtedly requires contracts, in order to regulate relations of exchange between goods of equivalent value. But it also needs just laws and forms of redistribution governed by politics, and what is more, it needs works redolent of the spirit of gift. The economy in the global era seems to privilege the former logic, that of contractual exchange, but directly or indirectly it also demonstrates its need for the other two: political logic, and the logic of the unconditional gift.
39. Paul VI in Populorum Progressio called for the creation of a model of market economy capable of including within its range all peoples and not just the better off. He called for efforts to build a more human world for all, a world in which "all will be able to give and receive, without one group making progress at the expense of the other." In this way he was applying on a global scale the insights and aspirations contained in Rerum Novarum, written when, as a result of the Industrial Revolution, the idea was first proposed — somewhat ahead of its time — that the civil order, for its self-regulation, also needed intervention from the State for purposes of redistribution.
42. The processes of globalization, suitably understood and directed, open up the unprecedented possibility of large-scale redistribution of wealth on a world-wide scale; if badly directed, however, they can lead to an increase in poverty and inequality, and could even trigger a global crisis. It is necessary to correct the malfunctions, some of them serious, that cause new divisions between peoples and within peoples, and also to ensure that the redistribution of wealth does not come about through the redistribution or increase of poverty: a real danger if the present situation were to be badly managed. For a long time it was thought that poor peoples should remain at a fixed stage of development, and should be content to receive assistance from the philanthropy of developed peoples. Paul VI strongly opposed this mentality in Populorum Progressio. Today the material resources available for rescuing these peoples from poverty are potentially greater than before, but they have ended up largely in the hands of people from developed countries, who have benefited more from the liberalization that has occurred in the mobility of capital and labour. The world-wide diffusion of forms of prosperity should not therefore be held up by projects that are self-centred, protectionist or at the service of private interests. Indeed the involvement of emerging or developing countries allows us to manage the crisis better today. The transition inherent in the process of globalization presents great difficulties and dangers that can only be overcome if we are able to appropriate the underlying anthropological and ethical spirit that drives globalization towards the humanizing goal of solidarity. Unfortunately this spirit is often overwhelmed or suppressed by ethical and cultural considerations of an individualistic and utilitarian nature.
49. What is also needed, though, is a worldwide redistribution of energy resources, so that countries lacking those resources can have access to them. The fate of those countries cannot be left in the hands of whoever is first to claim the spoils, or whoever is able to prevail over the rest.
25. From the social point of view, systems of protection and welfare, already present in many countries in Paul VI's day, are finding it hard and could find it even harder in the future to pursue their goals of true social justice in today's profoundly changed environment. The global market has stimulated first and foremost, on the part of rich countries, a search for areas in which to outsource production at low cost with a view to reducing the prices of many goods, increasing purchasing power and thus accelerating the rate of development in terms of greater availability of consumer goods for the domestic market. Consequently, the market has prompted new forms of competition between States as they seek to attract foreign businesses to set up production centres, by means of a variety of instruments, including favourable fiscal regimes and deregulation of the labour market. These processes have led to a downsizing of social security systems as the price to be paid for seeking greater competitive advantage in the global market, with consequent grave danger for the rights of workers, for fundamental human rights and for the solidarity associated with the traditional forms of the social State. Systems of social security can lose the capacity to carry out their task, both in emerging countries and in those that were among the earliest to develop, as well as in poor countries. Here budgetary policies, with cuts in social spending often made under pressure from international financial institutions, can leave citizens powerless in the face of old and new risks; such powerlessness is increased by the lack of effective protection on the part of workers' associations. Through the combination of social and economic change, trade union organizations experience greater difficulty in carrying out their task of representing the interests of workers, partly because Governments, for reasons of economic utility, often limit the freedom or the negotiating capacity of labour unions. Hence traditional networks of solidarity have more and more obstacles to overcome. The repeated calls issued within the Church's social doctrine, beginning with Rerum Novarum,60 for the promotion of workers' associations that can defend their rights must therefore be honoured today even more than in the past, as a prompt and far-sighted response to the urgent need for new forms of cooperation at the international level, as well as the local level.


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During the holiday season, Mary Kay Horney takes time off from work and starts the process of making 200 pounds of candy turtles.
She'll spoon some chocolate onto wax paper, and then place toasted pecans onto the wet chocolate discs. She then cuts squares of caramel that she's made, and places them on top of the pecans. Horney then encases all three elements in chocolate by dipping the combination into a fondue pot.
Horney sells the candies to raise money for her mission trips to Haiti. She is a board member of the Catholic Assistance Missions, a McHenry-based charity which helps people in Haiti.
While in the impoverished nation, Horney meets up with a group of nuns and helps with a food distribution, spends time with people who are dying, and helps malnourished babies that were just born.
"Even the poorest people here will get care," Horney said.
"[In Haiti], if you don't have money, you can't get care at a regular hospital."
Horney's trips are usually seven to 10 days long, and she is part of a group of people organized through CAM.
Horney, who is a labor and delivery nurse at Centegra Hospital-McHenry, also uses her time in Haiti to teach good health practices.
One time, her group brought donated toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss and taught proper oral hygiene. Horney even taught a prenatal class and spoke about how myths such as putting insects around an umbilical cord to get it to fall off, or riding motorcycles to induce labor, are wrong.
Last year, she spoke to a group of young girls and mothers about the menstrual cycle and how to avoid rape.
Going to Haiti isn't cheap. Flying to Port-au-Prince costs $800, and there is a $500 fee to cover the costs of a guide, fuel, lodging and food, among other things. So Horney sells candy turtles to raise money for her trips for $20 a box.
"For me going every year, that's really an expense we really can't afford," the mother of five said.
"People are so supportive, and they still wanted to contribute," Horney added. "It's a donation toward our cause, and you get a gift."
Through the candy sales, she's able to raise about $2,000. Last year, she used the extra money she raised to buy uniforms for teachers at a school in Despinasse that CAM sponsors.
Horney, however, doesn't pat herself on the back for the work she does, said CAM President Justin Smith.
Smith said Horney never looks for recognition of her charitable work.
"I think it's part of her faith," Smith said. "There's a lot of what God said, 'Feed my people, take care of the poor, clothe the naked.' He didn't say, 'Go around and brag about it.' I think she has a beautiful giving heart."
She'll also brings school supplies to hand out while teaching kids English in Haiti, Smith said.
Language can be a class barrier in the country, Smith said. People who are well off will speak either English or French, and poor people speak Creole.
"To come down to teach another language helps them get further along in education," Smith said.
The last time she went to Haiti, Horney brought a group of teenagers to help build a house, with a concrete floor.
The concrete floor in Haiti is such a luxury because the people who live in a house with that feature don't have to worry about mud issues.
"This quiet, humble servant does a lot," Smith said.
Horney plans to make her sixth trip to Haiti in June to do more good work.
"They are the warmest people that appreciate ... the little things we do," Horney said. "They appreciate everything."


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"The issues that were uncovered at the time confirm my initial assessment of Metro-North's culture and priority," he stated. "Their professionals actually had more time than I had, so it was invaluable to me and necessary for me.
"And part of my 100-day plan was that I needed to hear from the professionals that were involved and that report has affirmed what we already felt were the issues going forward.
"Safety was not the top priority. It must be. And it will be. I have a clear message for our customers and our employees: Safety must come first at Metro-North. I will not allow any Metro-North trains to run unless I'm confident that they will run safely. We at Metro-North are heartbroken at the loss of life that has occurred on this railroad – most recently one of our employees in the past week."
He said Metro-North is committed to working with the FRA and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to ensure that the railroad heightens the safety awareness of every employee and that it will incorporate the findings from the MTA's Blue Ribbon Panel and the TTCI experts who have done analysis on its corridors, as well.
"Again, there is a problem with the culture. As I've learned in the past month, it's not just a problem with one or two departments. Culture develops over years. And it will take time to change culture, as well," he explained. "We will improve how we train our employees and how we monitor their performance. We are reorganizing our Safety Department. We have agreed to and are creating a confidential close-call reporting system so that employees can report safety issues without fear of reprisal."
He said Metro-North is improving how it inspects tracks and equipment, and how it performs maintenance, which includes buying new equipment. Additionally, the railroad is hiring more staff, changing the management structure and reaching out to partners in labor.
"We are asking our board for permission to move forward on installing cameras in all our trains, as the NTSB has recommended. And we will install Positive Train Control as quickly as possible," he noted. "We have a lot of work ahead of us, but every problem I've seen here can be fixed, and will be fixed."


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/24/nuclear_safety_interim_report/
Ofnuke: UK is not Japan
Nuke inspectors rebuff Chicken Littles
Posted in Science, 24th May 2011 11:49 GMT
So that's that, then. The UK's nuclear safety watchdog last week published a list of recommendations following the Fukushima accident. It received rather less press than the hysterical reports from Japan.
There are plenty of recommendations, but overall the inspectors conclude that Britain has very different kinds of reactors, which present a lower risk, and doesn't experience Force 9 earthquakes. Any other conclusion would be irrational – or pandering to special interests. The report was requested by beleagured energy secretary Chris Huhne in March, and a full report is expected in a month.
"It was clear that this was a serious nuclear accident", writes Mike Weightman, HM Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations, in his introduction. "The UK has no BWRs. With the exception of Sizewell B (a PWR) they all use gas-cooled technology," he notes.
"The UK's gas-cooled reactors have lower power densities and larger thermal capacities than water-cooled reactors, which with natural cooling capabilities give longer timescales for remedial action. Additionally, they have a lesser need for venting on loss of cooling and do not produce concentrations of hydrogen from fuel cladding overheating."
So our reactors are different: the power density of the reactor core is lower and its thermal capacity significantly larger, giving operators more time to respond to coolant loss in a crisis. "Under fault conditions, significant quantities of hydrogen are not generated, as water is not the coolant," they add – meaning a lower risk of explosions.
And we don't have a risk of the same problems.
"The direct causes of the nuclear accident, a magnitude 9 earthquake and 14m-high tusanami, are far beyond the most extreme natural events that the UK would be expected to experience," the inspectors point out.
In Fukushima, hydrogen caused explosions in the three of the six active reactors. The operators struggled to cool the reactors and fuel ponds "by previously untried and unplanned means".
But the stricken reactors coped well. "Design provisions at the Fukushima-1 site appear to only have been made to protect against a 5.7 metre high surge in sea level, and there is a history of large tsunamis hitting this coast of Japan. It is reported that over the 150 years Japan has experienced along its east coast several tsunamis of height greater than six metres, some greater than 20 metres," we learn.
Reactors planned for the UK are also much more resilient than the old boiler in Japan.
"The new reactor designs currently under consideration for the UK, (Generation 3+), are significantly more robust than the designs at Fukushima. These are aimed at minimising the likelihood of a major accident and, in the unlikely event of such an accident, to prevent significant quantities of radioactive material being released. The modern containment structures of such designs take into account extreme external events including aircraft impact," the inspectors point out.
Nevertheless, there are many recommendations that the UK review safety procedures, backup infrastructure, and onsite and off-site supplies.
The health consequences of Fukushima provide a startling contrast between the reports at the time – and the reality. But then reality rarely seems to matter when nuclear energy is the subject.
"It is understood that around 30 workers at the Fukushima plant have been exposed to radiation exposures of between 100 and 250mSv. These doses, although significant, would not be expected to cause any immediate physical harm, although there may be a small percentage increase in their risk of eventually contracting a life threatening cancer. Three workers are reported to have suffered acute radiation burns (non-stochastic effects) on their feet/legs from inadvertent exposure to heavily contaminated water in a turbine basement. After hospital treatment they were released after four days with reported no long-term likelihood of significant harm. It is also reported that two workers on site are confirmed as dead (from other than radiation exposure) and several injured. A further worker was reported on 14 May 2011 to have died from exhaustion."
On 1 April the HSE agency responsible for nuclear safety became the Office for Nuclear Regulation (OfNuke, presumably). You can read the full interim findings here. ®


text: UMW News BureauThe University of Montana Western Bulldogs volleyball team won their first conference match of the season on Thursday, Sept. 29 against the Montana Tech Orediggers at the HPER Center in Butte, Mont. in four sets, 25-17, 25-18, 10-25, 25-20. By Lowell Peterson The University of Montana Western Bulldogs volleyball team won their first conference match of the season on Thursday, Sept. 29 against the Montana Tech Orediggers at the HPER Center in Butte, Mont. in four sets, 25-17, 25-18, 10-25, 25-20. Montana Western broke a 4-4 tie in the first set with a six-to-one run to go up by five points on two kills by Kayla Schmid and four hitting errors by the Orediggers. Tech fought back to get within two points at 17-15, but the Bulldogs finished strong to win the set. Set two was a back-and-forth battle before Montana Western, ahead 12-11, went on a nine-to-three run to take control and win the set by seven points. Schmid and Emily Erickson had kills to start the run and Erickson also had an early service ace. Erickson's kill was the final point of set two. The Bulldogs came out in set three and took a quick 3-1 lead, but would score only seven more points the rest of the set. The Orediggers scored ten straight points to take command at 11-3 and never let up. Excellent receptions and digs led to numerous kills and victory as game momentum clearly swung to Tech. As quickly as the Orediggers had gained momentum in the third set, it switched back to the Bulldogs in set number four. Montana Western jumped out quickly and were ahead 9-2 before Tech fought back to cut the score to 13-10. Three straight blocks by Bailey Branson and Charelle Minor started an eight-to-four run by the Bulldogs as they took control of the set. Kills by Susanne Rehse and Branson gave the Bulldogs their last two points and victory for the first time in a conference match. Schmid and Branson each had 10 kills for the Bulldogs and Minor was right behind them with nine. Paige Latimer topped the team in assists with 31 and Shelby Mack and Latimer had 14 digs each. Minor was involved in a team high five blocks. Shersteen Cline led the Orediggers in kills with 11 and Michelle Hardy (17) and Kiara Ross (13) were the assist leaders. Hardy and Ross were also the digs leaders with 15 and 11, respectively. Korey Krumm led the way in blocks with four. The conference victory was the first for the Bulldogs since a Nov. 7, 2008 win in Dillon against the University of Great Falls. Montana Western had lost 30 straight conference matches since then and the Bulldogs were elated after ending the conference losing streak. "Obviously, it's great to come out and get our first conference win against a rival on Homecoming week," head coach Lisa Griffiths said. "A lot of people performed well. Shelby Mack passed phenomenally and played great defense. Paige Latimer ran our offense and had 14 digs, which is great for a setter in a four-game match." Montana Western improved to 1-6 in conference play and 6-12 overall. Montana Tech fell to 0-7 and 7-12 on the season. The Bulldogs are off for two weeks before their next conference matches, at home against Montana State-Northern and the University of Great Falls on Fri., Oct. 14 at 6 p.m. and Sat., Oct. 15 at 5 p.m.


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He possesses a mobile, quiet game so well-rounded and reliable he could make Team Canada's Olympic defence. If you think that sounds like Dan Hamhuis, you're correct. But in this case, we're talking about San Jose Sharks' defenceman Marc-Edouard Vlasic, whose game sometimes seems like a whisper that only hockey people can hear. "I guess it's better to be under-rated than over-rated," Vlasic smiled Thursday morning, before tackling the Vancouver Canucks and his task, as it is most nights, of shutting down the opposition's top line. "But myself and Hamhuis, we were recognized by Team Canada coaching staff and got invited to the orientation camp (last summer). We play a similar game – quiet and simple and when the opportunity is there we join the rush. My name is out there." A few more people have been noticing Vlasic this season, as his points are up the fall before the Winter Games in Russia. But he has been a National Hockey League regular since he was 19, since he was a key part of the Patrick Roy-coached Quebec Remparts junior team that won the 2006 Memorial Cup against, among others, the Vancouver Giants. At 26, Vlasic has already logged 535 NHL games. Picked 35th by the Sharks in the 2005 entry draft headlined by Sidney Crosby, only Los Angeles King Anze Kopitar has played more NHL games from that draft class. He is a candidate for Team Canada because, like the Canucks' Hamhuis, he plays the left side and has a safe but versatile game that seems well-suited to Olympic ice and a short tournament. "Every time I'm in Canada I hear about it, but here in the States a lot less," Vlasic said. "Obviously, I want to make that team. I'm doing everything I can here to help this team win, but that team, obviously, it only comes around once every four years. I'll do everything I can to be part of that team.
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BELVIDERE — A Belvidere North High School faculty member and one former student were honored during the All-State Journalism Team Luncheon held June 7 in Springfield.
BNHS graduate Kelly Reilley was named to the Illinois Journalism Education Association's All-State Team for her work as the editor-in-chief of the 2014 Equus yearbook. Reilley is the seventh BNHS journalism student to be named to the team.
BNHS Principal Marc Eckmann was named the Illinois Journalism Education Association's Administrator of the Year for helping to navigate the school newspaper.
Mike Doyle, adviser the school newspaper and yearbook, received the James A. Tidwell Scholastic Journalism Teacher of Year award.
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Welcome to the Clarence E. Larson Collection, a collection of video oral histories with noted Physicists.
Clarence E. Larson (1909-1999) was an important pioneer in the field of atomic energy. After serving on the Manhattan Project during World War II, Larson became director at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he served from 1950 to 1955. He was an executive at Union Carbide. from 1955-1969 where he headed up the Nuclear Energy Division. From 1969-1974 Dr. Larson was Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. He was the recipient of many awards and honors.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, after his retirement, Dr. Larson conducted video interviews with some four dozen of his fellow pioneers in atomic energy and tangential fields, which were taped by his wife Jane Larson. The Larsons made the acquaintance of István Hargittai, University Professor of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, when he interviewed Clarence Larson for one of his own oral history projects. Professor Hargittai published several of the Larson interviews in a local journal. Subsequently Clarence Larson passed away, and Jane Larson donated the video tapes to Hargittai and encouraged their continued publication (copies of the tapes are also known to have been donated to George Mason University and the University of Maryland, and were perhaps donated to other universities as well). Extracts of nine of the interviews were published in a book by Hargittai and his son Balazs, also a scientist (Candid Science V: Conversations with Famous Scientists, Imperial College Press, London, 2005) that also included Hargittai's interview of Clarence Larson.
The collection had not been further utilized, although Hargittai has felt that it would be important to do so. Clarence Larson's son Robert is a past president of IEEE, and brought to the attention of the IEEE Foundation the existence of the Clarence E. Larson Collection and the need to disseminate it. Since atomic energy is a field of interest to at least two of IEEE's technical divisions—the Power Engineering Society and the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society—IEEE has an interest in seeing the contents of these tapes more broadly disseminated (moreover, some of the non-atomic energy interviews are of interest to other IEEE technical divisions, including the IEEE Computer Society). Therefore, the IEEE History Center is partnering with Prof. Hargittai and the Larson family to make the videos available on-line. Subsequently there are plans for another book, and for an IEEE.tv documentary based on this important historical material.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/05/idc_virtual_desktop_study/
IDC sees virtual desktops in corporate future
Cost reduction cosh
Posted in The Channel, 5th December 2008 06:16 GMT
Corporates under the cost-reduction cosh and facing ever-rising PC costs will increasing turn to desktop virtualization says IDC, which has a report on the subject to sell.
By shipping virtual desktops to PCs, notebooks, thin clients, and other possible end-point devices corporates can drastically reduce the costs of provisioning, maintaining, and supporting their end-user PC/notebook estate.
VMware is the obvious market leader in virtual desktops with its VDI [now View] product set. Citrix has its Xen Desktop, and IBM has just announced its VERDE Linux and Lotus virtual desktop which removes all Microsoft-associated costs from the equation.
IDC says its study, Virtualizing the Desktop Part 2: Client-Hosted Virtualization Leadership Grid, "compares the solutions of the top vendors providing desktop virtualization solutions, executed directly on the client. Solutions are ranked in an IDC Leadership Grid, and extensive information is provided on solution capabilities and vendor market positioning."
Terrific, but just four vendors' products are evaluated and they are VMware, RingCube, MokaFive, and Sentillion. So it has limited value for total cost of ownership (TCO) comparisons.
Don't bother looking for Xen Desktop in the study. It isn't there. Nor is the IBM virtual desktop. Just in case you think that VMware is it and you can forget the other three vendors in the study, IDC says: "from a technological perspective RingCube offered some of the best features currently available, while VMware held the strongest marketing position and ecosystem. MokaFive delivered a strong product with excellent management features and Sentillion provided a solution with a high degree of security."
Matthew McCormack, a client computing consultant in IDC's European Systems Group, said: "2009 will be a developmental year for desktop virtualization technology with lots of pilot activity. From 2010 we'll see the technology begin to enter the mainstream."
To find out more, you have to shell out $4,480, but you still won't know any more about Xen Desktop or the IBM VERDE thing. ®


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Wilfried Zaha has admitted he would take the opportunity to move to the Premier League in January.
The winger has been linked with a host of top clubs, namely Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United, after impressing for Ian Holloway's promotion-chasing side.
The 20-year-old, who made his England debut as a second-half substitute against Sweden in November, has scored five goals in 24 appearances this season. But he has admitted he is ready to leave Selhurst Park in the upcoming January transfer window.
He told the Mail on Sunday: "I've played more than 100 first-team games and this year is crucial to develop my football career. I want to establish myself in the Premier League and in international football.
"I've played a lot in the Championship so having that new challenge in the Premier League, where everyone wants to be, would be great."
Arsenal and Spurs are interested in signing Zaha, but are likely to bid £7million to begin with, according to the Mail on Sunday. Sir Alex Ferguson is also fan but already has plenty of talented wide players at Old Trafford, so his January activity may depend on the future of Nani.
"I've done a lot of learning in the Championship. Now I'm ready for the Premier League."
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Dhanbad [1] is a city in Jharkhand.
The coalfields around Dhanbad[2] are known as Jharia coalfields. It covers an area of around 448 sq km, the total reserve of coal is estimated at 5,000 million tonnes. Jharia coalfields are the only source of coking or metallurgical coal in the country. There are 112 coal mines in the district. Jharia town adjacent to Dhanbad is considered a separate town administratively. Munidih Colliery is the Largest Colliery in India. ONGC is using CBM(Coal Beded Methane) for Producing Electricity at many places of Dhanbad. TATA POWER along with DVC is setting up 1050 MW Thermal power plant in Dhanbad. It has chemical plants, other industries, and produces Mica and many different minerals.
Get in
By air
The nearest commercial airport is at Ranchi, 170 km from Dhanbad kolkata 250 km. Patna is 325 km away. Dhanbad has an airstrip for small planes.MDLR airlines and Air india is also planning to launch domestic services.
By train
Kolkata is 259 km from Dhanbad. Some of the convenient trains connecting Kolkata and Dhanbad are:
Some of the long distance trains passing through Dhanbad are:
For timings etc. check with Indian Railways.
By road
Dhanbad is just off Grand Trunk Road (NH 2). One can drive into Dhanbad from Govindpur or Rajganj. It is connected via Chas and Bokaro Steel City to Ramgarh and via Chas and Muri to Ranchi. Most of the important cities and towns of Jharkhand Bengal and Bihar have bus links with Dhanbad. It has a large bus station about 2 km from the railway station.Luxory volvo buses plays between Dhanbad-kolkata,Dhanbad-Ranchi.auto rikshaw are popular transport links with neighbouring towns and in the coalfields, but these are generally overcrowded. Autos are now used for transportation as compared to trekkers and they are quite economical
Get around
Hired cars and taxis are available at the railway station 24x7. Auto rickshaws are also available till late night it is also a cheap mode of transport because rickshaw wala's demand more.
Languages spoken in the area are Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi and Santhali. Dhanbad is a cosmopolitan city with people from all over the country. English is understood in most of the areas of visitor/business interest.
Carnivals are arranged by Lions Club, Rotary Club and other clubs, mostly in winter and these are open to visitors also.
Dhanbad is surrounded by beautiful picnic spots. People are very helpful and friendly and love visitors.
The shops are well stocked and are are laden with huge collection of jeans, leather bags and casual wears. You can visit city center which has all major brands Spyker,Reebok,Adidas,United colours of Benetton,Bata etc. Dhanbad already have an two outlet of Vishal Mega Mart and BIG BAZAR at Saraidhela having space of 20000 to 40000 sq feet. You will see Reliance fresh almost every part of the city.
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Internship in Jewish Studies (1‐6 cr.)
Sarah Imhoff
S/F grading. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credits.
Internship Forms and Information
This course helps students connect their coursework with the professional world. Through internships related to Jewish Studies, students make practical use of their skills, learn new skills, and start to build professional contacts in the field of their interest. Students need to have a Jewish Studies faculty sponsor. Before registering, students need to submit an internship application that specifies, in consultation with the faculty sponsor, what criteria will be employed for evaluating the successful completion of the internship. Primary deadline is February 6, 2015 but applications will also be considered later than this date in the case of shorter/later fall internships.
Internships then have to be authorized by the Associate Director of the Jewish Studies Program, Professor Shaul Magid, before students can register. There are no prerequisites and students do not have to be Jewish Studies majors or certificate students in Jewish Studies. Number of credit hours is determined as follows: 1 credit hour - 50-99 internship hours; 2 credit hours - 100-149 internship hours; 3 credit hours - 150-199 hours, and so on.
Students are responsible for finding and securing their own internships. The internship must occur during the spring 2012 semester. Students cannot sign up for this course after they have begun or finished an internship. Internship hours cannot be counted until you are approved for JSTU-H 498 and enrolled in the course. Internships are graded S/F and thus do not count in the Jewish Studies major or certificate. All SPEA majors should enroll in an internship through SPEA.


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And in Notre Dame news that is not related to Manti Te'o and, as far as we can tell, very much real, two key Irish defenders are likely to miss spring because of offseason surgeries.
Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said on a Tuesday morning teleconference that cornerback Bennett Jackson (pictured) and linebacker Dan Fox both underwent shoulder surgeries. The result of those procedures, however, will likely mean the two will sit out this spring.
#NotreDame Brian Kelly said CB Bennett Jackson, LB Dan Fox both had shoulder surgeries, both likely out for spring practice.
— Tony Krausz (@JGIrishInsights) January 29, 2013
Jackson and Fox finished third and fourth on the team in total tackles with 65 and 63, respectively. Additionally, Jackson had four picks and a fumble recovery while Fox had one sack for a loss of two yards. The pair is expected to once again play an important role on an Irish defense that was among the best in college football in 2012. Until Alabama rolled into Miami, that is.


text: @Oscar360: Either you're watching the wrong game or you're a Chelsea fan. Anyway, Liverpool was in a pinch when both Şahin and Allen were playing deep. They look much better now that Gerrard and Şahin are playing vertical and no one's eating off the holder's space. It's funny that when Enrique has the ball, he doesn't pass it before he tries to dribble.


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Johanna Snyder (pictured) is a senior co-captain on the
Harvard women's squash team.
Photo courtesy of Gil Talbot.
The Harvard women's squash team eyes a return trip to the national and Ivy League championship matches this year. Last season's second place finish at the CSA Team Championship should be fuel for the fire that drives the Crimson to success this season. Harvard begins the year ranked second in the CSA preseason national poll.
Harvard has all nine starting players returning for the season. Leading way is the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year, Nirasha Guruge. Guruge earned first-team All-American and All-Ivy honors in 2008-09. Juniors Alisha Mashruwala, June Tiong and Bethan Williams and freshman Emily Park will all look to repeat as All-Americans after earning second-team honors last year.
Senior captains Katherine O'Donnell and Johanna Snyder and fellow seniors Cece Cortes, Sandra Mumanachit and Alexandra Zindman also return for the Crimson. Snyder brings experience to the squad, as she has been in the starting lineup since her rookie campaign. Last season, Snyder posted an 11-3 record was the recipient of the team's Coaches Award. O'Donnell, the team's Most Valuable Player in 2008-09, was third on the Crimson with 12 wins last season, including a perfect 9-0 at the No. 5 slot and 2-0 at No. 4.
Harvard looks to begin this season in similar style to the 2008-09 season. Last winter, the Crimson won its first seven matches, including three straight sweeps. Harvard finished last year's campaign with a 10-2 overall record and 5-1 in the Ivy League. The only two losses came against Princeton, one in the regular season and the other in the national championship match. Both matches were decided by the score of 5-4.
Harvard adds five rookies to the roster for the 2009-10 campaign, Eliza Callahan, Laura Gemmell, Natasha Kingshott, Sarah Mumanachit and Vidya Rajan.
In the preseason individual rankings, Laura Gemmel is the top Crimson player, ranked at No. 4. Nirasha Guruge is ranked No. 8 while Alisha Mashruwala and June Tiong are No. 15 and 17, respectively.
The 2009-10 season kicks off Nov. 20 at Brown, a conference match. Along with the Bears, Harvard plays five matches on the road, including the first three matches of the season. The Crimson opens up play at home at the Barnaby Courts Dec. 5 against Ivy League foe Cornell. After a 55-day hiatus from competition, Harvard takes on Trinity Jan. 30. The following day, the Crimson welcomes Stanford for a non-league match. In a highly charged weekend, Harvard will host Penn, Feb. 6, and Princeton, Feb. 7, in a rematch of the 2009 national title match. The Crimson closes out the regular-season at Yale, Feb. 13.
The postseason begins where the regular-season leaves off, at Yale with the CSA Team Championships Feb. 26-28. The CSA Individual Championships will be hosted by Trinity in Hartford, Conn. Mar. 5-7.
The Crimson has plans to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity this year and continue to volunteer with Kids Squash Program, a free community squash program for local players.
Season Preview: Womens Squash Eyes Return to Championship Caliber
Johanna Snyder (pictured) is a senior co-captain on the
Harvard women's squash team.


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By ROCKY STANLEY - The Independent
ASHLAND — Chad Jackson and Dakotah Euton showed Tuesday night why they are two of the best high school sophomores anywhere.
Rose Hill Christian's pair of prolific 10th-graders combined for all 28 of their team's points in the second half to hold off Morgan County 63-60 in Charles Stewart Gymnasium.
Jackson, a 6-foot-4 guard, attacked the basket and made his last eight shots from the field. The 6-8 Euton sank four consecutive free throws in the final 34 seconds as the Royals fought off a strong challenge in their home opener.
In short, the two young stars carried Rose Hill to the finish line.
"Anytime we needed two points, Chad went and got it,'' said Royals coach Tim Fraley. "He was a special player tonight, even after tweaking his ankle a little bit in the third quarter.''
Jackson finished with 27 points and Euton 25. They also combined for 10 rebounds and Euton had a couple of big blocked shots down the stretch.
"We just had to get the `W' tonight,'' Jackson said. "We needed a good win after the loss at Marshall County (60-44) on Saturday. That's what me and Dakotah have to do, make the big plays.''
Rose Hill successfully threw over top of Morgan County's defense to Jackson and Euton in the third quarter. Jackson had two tip-ins, scored off a nice alley-oop pass from freshman Robbie Barber and made a dazzling drive through traffic for a layup late in the period.
Morgan County remained unfazed, however, and pulled even at 53 with a 6-0 run to start the fourth quarter.
Rose Hill pushed the lead back out to six points on three Jackson baskets, but coach Matthew Perry's Cougars refused to wilt. Brandon Ferguson's free throw and Logan May's 3-pointer sliced the lead to four with 1:56 left and Morgan County missed a shot from the lane that could have tied it.
Rose Hill appeared to have the game wrapped up with 12 seconds to go after Euton's two free throws made it 63-57.
Morgan County had other ideas as Ferguson nailed a 3-pointer with five seconds remaining. The Cougars got the ball back on a missed Rose Hill free throw with four seconds left and had a good look on a 3-pointer, but Ferguson's shot bounced off the rim.
Fraley wasn't surprised about Morgan County's gritty effort.
"All of coach Perry's teams are like that,'' Fraley said. "They are fundamentally sound and they are going to guard you. It's no secret they were the winningest program in the region in the '90s. They are going to compete.''
Perry pointed to the opening minutes as the key to the game. Morgan County turned the ball over on six of its first seven possessions, fell behind 9-0 and spent the rest of the night playing catch up.
"The first quarter was the difference,'' Perry said. "We continue to allow people to jump out to a lead and put ourselves in a position of having to dig out of a hole. If you take away the first six or seven possessions, we played right with Rose Hill.''
Morgan County is 1-3 after a rugged early schedule. The other losses came against Elliott County and Montgomery County.
"Nobody out there in the region has had a more brutal schedule,'' Perry said. "We have played three Top 25 teams.''
Cameron Dunn, a 6-3 junior, led the Cougars with 19 points including 4-for-6 shooting from 3-point territory. Ferguson, who averaged 24.3 points in the first three games, finished with 17 while going up against Jackson most of the night.
Rose Hill (2-1) travels to Boyd County on Friday. Morgan County plays host to East Carter on Saturday.


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La festa di San Fermin a Pamplona, tra tori in fuga e polemiche
Titolo: Fiesta De San Fermin Running Of The Bulls - Day 4
Descrizione: PAMPLONA, SPAIN - JULY 09: Revelers run through Estafeta street on the third day of the San Fermin running-of-the-bulls on July 9, 2012 in Pamplona, Spain. Pamplona's famous Fiesta de San Fermin, which involves the running of the bulls through the historic heart of Pamplona for eight days starting July 7th, was made famous by the 1926 novel of U.S. writer Ernest Hemmingway called 'The Sun Also Rises.' (Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)
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|2010-01-27, 00:03
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|2010-01-27, 00:10
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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^Additionally, Obama, in just his first year, is one of the most polarizing Presidents in (current) history. So, of course his polls will always be screwed up one way or another.
|2010-01-27, 00:13
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Senior Member
Right now Obama is upsetting both political parties for various reasons. Not to mention he's been pushing that Healthcare Bill through that the majority of people DO NOT WANT.
Hasn't Obama played more rounds of Golf in his first year, than Bush did in 8 years?
The left is still waiting for Gitmo to close, troops out of Iraq, troops out of Afghanistan, Universal Healthcare, Cap & Trade, increased taxes on the rich, yada yada.
And whatever happened to no earmarks, no special interests, no lobbyists controlling the Government, transparency in everything, no taxing the middle class, etc, etc?
|2010-01-27, 00:20
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cho~ kakkoii
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: 3rd Planet
One thing that really irked me was how he was perceived during his candidacy and immediately after his presidency. He is the miracle man who is going to quick-fix everyone's lives. He is the one who will bring the need for change. The fact is most of us don't receive change very well, so we are pretty much getting in the way of our own ambition for change. The self interest groups (i.e. insurance companies for one such example) only helping us to verify that very fact.
Memories are fleeting. Obama is certainly way over his head if he thought people are ready for change just because that might be what they want or need.
|2010-01-27, 00:21
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Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
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Other then the TARP bill which was so full of pork i was surprise it didn't go oink. all the while financial reform and the economy was on the back burner.
|2010-01-27, 02:08
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 29
troops out of iraq... thats deny lobbyist power special interest as in the INDUSTRIAL MILITARY COMPLEX
troops out of Afghanistan... Dido
Universal Healthcare (PST... It's not universal health care... it only insures an additional 30 million americans) Taking away lobbying power from the IMC's means you gotta give the insurance lobby some more power
Cap n Trade Dido, because special interests and lobbyists own washington whether it's a dem or a republican in the presidency/house/senate Bush batted for big oil and haliburton, obama bats for vapor greentech.
|2010-01-27, 02:20
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Senior Member
As someone who is opposed to those positions, I'm glad they haven't happened. But that's besides the point. He's long on promises, short on keeping them. And up until last week, he had a bigger majority in both Houses of Congress, than the Republicans have had since 1923. He was suppose to be against Special Interests, yet he caters to them every bit as his predecessor did if not more so.
God I wish there was a way to kick all of them to the curb. From local, state, and federal. Just start over from scratch.
|2010-01-27, 02:32
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|2010-01-27, 03:09
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|2010-01-27, 03:10
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I voted for Bush because he was the best of the worst. He was far superior to Al Gore, and far superior to John Kerry. Did I vote for him in the 2000 and 2004 primaries? Hell no. But when the chips were down and it was either him or AG/JK, I had to make the least painful choice for the country. Did I vote for McCain in the Primary in 2008? Nope. He was the LAST person I would have picked on the list. But again, he was better than Obama. However slight. It was a hold my nose and vote every election. I haven't been excited about a Presidential Candidate ever.
Obama lies in every single speech he gives. Just youtube "Obama lies" and see how many times he contradicts himself. Look at the people he surrounds himself with. Bill Ayers. His Church Pastor Jeremiah Wright. Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.. Secretary Janet A. Napolitano(ask Arizonians what they think about her). White House Chief of Staff Rahm I. Emanuel. Robert Gibbs(the guy makes Baghdad Bob look intelligent).
I read somewhere that Obama had the lowest % of Staff and Cabinet Members of ANY President in History, who had experience in the Private sector. Something like 8% when the average president had 50-60%.
Umm hello. If you want the economy to recover, hire people who know WTF is going on. Do you know why Government Unemployment is only around 4%, when the private sector is well over 10%? Or why the average Federal Government employee makes over 70k a year, yet Private Sector averages just over 40k a year? This whole thing stinks and the American Government needs an enema.
|2010-01-27, 03:16
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Private sector... 40k.... k that's just asinine. Because I bet you the industries lobbying washington have a much higher entry level pay, plus cite your sources, where does that 70k come from how is it calculated?
The point is, k obama lied... so did bush... Government is way too influenced by the private sector as it is, but then again the private sector is what we need to get us back into the boom bust cycle we have been in. If it wasn't for the rampant greed and the lack of humanity that most ceos possessed I wouldn't mind deregulation but the fact that we DON'T have a free market, but instead an economy controlled by oligopolies and heavily vested corporate interests in politics, I find my trust in the private sector and the government severly lacking. It's fine to make money, no doubt about it, but to gut an entire company, and run it into the ground and then to get bailed out and then for those that recieved bail out money to give record bonuses for losing billions of dollars is just asinine. Only in a corrupt corporate world are these actions "just".
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|2010-01-27, 03:31
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
"I will finally end the abuse of no-bid contracts once and for all..."
Obama pledged to end the abuse of no bid contracts, not put an end to them.
Bush abused them, Obama is simply using them appropriately.
(You guys need to retake "Politico Speak 101")
|2010-01-27, 03:40
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Asuki-tan Kairin ↓
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Fürth (GER)
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From what I have read so far it is next to impossible to fight a religion-like bias that is based more on belief/prejudice than anything else with factual sound logic.
There are people who are prone to fall for polemics for a lack of (self-)critical thinking. Self-critical... because you will always have to ask yourself, am I just biased now... do I really have all the news input (e.g. read left AND right media sources) to form my own sound oppinion.
If you want to fight against the ever lobbying presence of the guys in the corvette forum or FOX (and so on) this will be a fulltime job, since you will never get the underlying bias away.
Besides, most of the people on this planet are biased towards something anyway, and one bias can counterbalance another bias, that gives room for those people who want to belong to neither side.
|2010-01-27, 03:47
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Senior Member
If you can't even believe what you see with your own eyes, well then what can I say?
|2010-01-27, 03:51
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Well anyway I think we need a new news story now so how about this one about the apparent unpreparedness of the United States against a potential biochemical attack.
|2010-01-27, 04:05
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Mystery of the Missing Millionare: spotted, but not found.
Shopowners 'spot missing millionare Herman Rockefeller'
1) They found his Prius somewhere. For those who read my sig, I hate this car, but that doesn't make a difference.
2) He was spotted buying a pie, shortly before the media released information that he was missing.
For those that don't know, this guy touched down in Melbourne yesterday, and was last seen driving his Prius out of Long Term parking. He hasn't contacted his family since landing at Melbourne Airport (tempted to call it Melbourne International).
|2010-01-27, 05:34
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Aria Company
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Further the problem in Iraq and Afghanistan isn't restrictive rules of engagement. Unless you think "No bombing civilians if it can be avoided." is too restrictive. It's that we haven't done a very good job at restoring the infrastructure in both. We did better in Iraq, though Iraq had more to start with and got far more resources, so that's not saying that much.
Let's be honest here, the private sector created the current problems. By putting short term gain ahead of long term stability, we get the current financial mess. After all, who cares if there's a possibility if your questionable home loans might be defaulted on leaving your bank critically short on cash to pay your own debt. It means you're getting 5.32% growth this quarter instead of steady 2.56% growth, and you'll be long gone with a 9 figure bonus by the time that happens, so it'll be your successor's problem.
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Dave Kelly (University of Canterbury) recently talked to the Wellington Botanical Society about mast seeding.
Mast seeding is where individuals of a plant species synchronously produce unusually large seed crops every few years. There is often no regular cycle.
New Zealand is a world centre for mast seeding (and research on mast seeding). Some New Zealand plants are amongst the most variable mast seeders, with several orders of magnitude difference in seed production between years when they flower heavily and years when they barely bother.
The "mast" of mast seeding comes from a German word for "fatten", with farmed pigs being fattened in oak forests producing a bumper crop of acorns.
In New Zealand, mast seeding causes conservation issues. When beech (Nothofagus) trees mast, their abundant seeds fuel an explosion in mice numbers. This in turn leads to an increase in stoats, which in turn exact heavier predation on native birds.
Dave offered several reasons why mast seeding occurs.
In Nothofagus beech trees, which are (probably) not self-fertile, it may be to increase the proportion of viable seed.
In Chionochloa grasses, it may be to satiate insect seed predators. Seed predators will not be able to eat all of the seeds in irregular years of super seed production if the populations of the predators have been kept low by years of low/no seed production.
How the plants achieve such synchronicity remains largely a mystery, but it appears to be based on temperature cues (with heavy flowering often following a warm summer).
Dave Kelly's mast seeding web-pages.
Chionochloa and Nothofagus on Te Papa's Collections Online.


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Submission + - Low cost way to maximize SQL Server uptime? 2
jdray writes: "My wife and I own a mid-sized restaurant with a couple of Point of Sale (POS) terminals. The software, which runs on Windows and
.NET, uses SQL Server on the back end. With an upgrade to the next major release of the software imminent, I'm considering upgrading the infrastructure it runs on to better ensure uptime (we're open seven days a week). We can't afford several thousand dollars' worth of server infrastructure (two cluster nodes and some shared storage, or somesuch), so I thought I'd ask Slashdot for some suggestions on enabling maximum uptime. I considered a single server node running VMWare with a limp-mode failover to a VMWare instance on a desktop, but I'm not sure how to set up a monitoring infrastructure to automate that, and manual failover isn't much of an option with non-tech staff. What suggestions do you have?"


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Pictured: Zack Wolfenzon fired two shots in Saturday's
Photo courtesy: David Silverman Photography
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The ninth-ranked Harvard men's soccer team fell in double-overtime to Princeton Saturday afternoon by the score of 2-1. Antoine Hoppenot notched his fifth goal of the season for the Tigers in the 102nd minute of play when he headed in a cross from Tim Sedwitz.
Through the first 45 minutes of action, neither squad found the back of the net. Andre Akpan opened the scoring in the 66th minute when he was tripped in the box and converted the ensuing penalty kick. Hoppenot got the Tigers on the scoreboard just 20 seconds later, sliding the ball past Crimson keeper Austin Harms from off of a through ball from Josh Walburn, for his first goal of the contest.
Akpan's score gives him 10 for the season and puts him just three tallies behind Chris Ohiri '64 for the top-spot in the Harvard record books for career goals. Harms made seven saves on the day while his counterpart, Sean Lynch, made three stops. Princeton held the advantage in shots, 20-14, and corner kicks, 3-2.
Harvard remains at home to face Dartmouth in a crucial Ivy League contest Saturday, Oct. 31 at 1:30 p.m.