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Kershaw Leek
I just got mine the other day, and I'm greatly impressed.
Price Paid: $44.95
I just got mine the other day, and I'm greatly impressed. I also bought a Scallion at the same time; I like it better, but that's another story.
I'm new to the world of GOOD folding knives, and the pivot has always been the weak point in the cheapo varieties I've carried before. So, by the second or third time I've flipped the blade out, I grab it (carefully!) with my other hand and start applying pressure, in every direction I can think of, push, pull, bend, twist -- and NOTHING moved AT ALL. That sucker locks up like a bank vault. Very confidence-inspiring. I don't abuse knives, but this one looks like it could take some punishment if it needed to.
The biggest problem I have with mine is the finish. I've got the "stone-washed" stainless-handle model, and I find the handle too slippery. It definitely needs some gripping texture; not much, but it needs some. I'd have liked the jimping to be sharper, also, especially on the flipper. A little more surface area on the lock release.
Minor gripes aside, this is a really great knife. The handle's shape and size give a good grip for control and strength. Blade opens really easily -- and very fast. Quality is top shelf throughout. Blade is extremely sharp, all the way to the tip. Nice safety features.
I've owned and used this knife as an EDC for nearly…
Price Paid: 30.00
I've owned and used this knife as an EDC for nearly 4 years. It's been used camping, backpacking, and everything else I needed a knife for. I even abuse it by cutting cardboard once in a while.
I also have three Benchmade knives, a Gerber fixed blade, and a Boker knife. This Kershaw doesn't hold an edge as well as the Benchmade knives, but its fairly easy to sharpen. The blade appears to be pretty strong. Even though the tip is pretty fine, I've never had a problem with breakage, but I wouldn't try prying with it (and you shouldn't - with any knife).
The mechanisms still work well after probably thousands of actuations (it's a fun knife to just flick open - sort of addictive), and there doesn't appear to be any wear. The blade is still as tight as when I bought it, there's no wobble or indication of looseness. The black coating on my blade is pretty tough. Hardly any scratches, and no evidence that it's wearing off at all.
The size and weight are great. It's even easy to carry in light-weight dress pants. With jeans or heavier material you won't notice it at all. The only criticism I have is that the scales are smooth, and wouldn't give a great grip. The shape helps some, but for heavier use a rougher fininsh would be better. For its intended use, its fine as made. (I use the Benchmade mini-Rukus for heavier cutting or when I need a good grip with wet hands.)
The only issue I've ever had with the Kershaw was that the pocket clip got bent outward and wouldn't hold onto my pocket very well. (It was my fault that the clip got bent. I snagged it somehow.) I couldn't get the littler screws that hold the clip on, so I sent it to Kershaw to get a new clip installed, fully expecting a fee since I caused the problem. I received the knife back within 2 weeks of mailing it out. Kershaw didn't just fix the clip; apparently they disassembled the entire knife and reworked everything!. I know it got a NEW BLADE, and I suspect they also put in a NEW LINER since the lock was much tighter than when I sent it in. I'd guess that the only part of my knife that was returned was the outer scales - everything else appears to be new. The refused to charge for any of the parts or work. There's no way you can beat that kind of customer service.
Overall, a great EDC knife that will satisfy all your needs 90% of the time, but you may want something a little beefier for heavy duty use. Can't beat this knife for the price, handling, and customer service (that's worth the price of the knife by itself!).
It's a fun knife to play with. My only complaint is…
Price Paid: $50
It's a fun knife to play with. My only complaint is the blade shape, it would be easy to break the tip off. But it deploys lightning fast. Great light use knife.
This assisted opening pocket knife is great for EDC.
Source: received it as a personal gift
This assisted opening pocket knife is great for EDC.
- Light
- Thin
- Weak tip
Love this knife. Kershaw has a great customer service and a free sharpening service for life. The tip broke, but I just sanded it down and it still works great. I have had this for many years and that's my only complaint.
I've only had mine a couple weeks so i haven't really…
Price Paid: $50
I've only had mine a couple weeks so i haven't really tested it yet, but so far i love it.
it deploys lightning fast, although it sometimes doesn't deploy all the way but that doesn't happen very often.
another thing that i love about it is it so thin you barely feel it in your pocket, and it has a reversible pocket clip which i really like 'cause when i first got it the clip was attached by the blade and i think it's kind of inconvenient that way because then you have to flip it around to hold it right. if you reverse it it's already the right way when you take it out.
when the blade is open it locks extremely solid, you can't get the blade to wiggle no mater how hard you try.
the knife has a stupid little safety on the bottom to keep it from opening accidentally but the blade won't come out unless you open so i think that it's just a waste. it's probably just to keep Kershaw from getting sued when someone cuts themself.
the only thing that i don't like about it is that its grip sucks, i have a lot if knives and out of all of them it's grip is the worst.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/23/sheep_vacuum_vid/
Reg boffins blow lid on sheepsecs
Lucy Sherriff on Welshmen and the maximum velocity of a sheep in a vacuum
Posted in Science, 23rd November 2012 09:20 GMT
Vid Many, many moons ago, Reg boffin Lucy Sherriff provocatively stated that the "comet-tailed" red giant Mira was thundering across the heavens at "roughly 150,000 times" faster than the speed of the average sheep.
This prompted lively debate about just how fast sheep might in fact travel in the vacuum of space, and Vulture Central got straight down to settling the matter once and for all.
For those of you who may have missed the sensational result, which redefined the theoretical ovine space travel paradigm, here's everything you need to know about sheepsecs:
Lucy can also be seen here making another vital contribution to the advancement of science, as she sensationally exposes jubs and Hiltons. ®

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Colin Kaepernick made his second career start at quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.
The second-year pro made his first start last week against the Chicago Bears, completing 16-of-23 passes for 243 yards and two touchdowns in a 32-7 rout.
Kaepernick is starting in place of Alex Smith, who is recovering from a concussion he sustained in a Nov. 11 tie against the Rams.
Smith, however, has been cleared for contact and the decision to start Kaepernick was not based on health, according to a report on Wednesday.


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Jason Giambi sent a few balls rocketing over the fence at Papago Park Baseball Complex this afternoon, then held court for an 11-minute media session after the A's first full-squad workout. Sporting a short haircut and a beard he admitted is going gray, Giambi reiterated how happy he is to be w/the A's again and that he'd like to bring some fun to the clubhouse.
He also confirmed he's been subpoenaed to testify in Barry Bonds' perjury trial, which is scheduled to begin March 2. He didn't know the date he'd have to testify. Giambi, who issued a public but vague apology about his own use of performance-enhancing drugs back in 2005, said he wasn't anticipating anything one way or another from the experience. "I've already said what I had to say. I think everybody knows about it."
That was the most serious moment of an otherwise light-hearted Q&A. Giambi, the life of the clubhouse when he played with the A's from 1995-2001, said he appreciated the welcome he got from his mostly younger teammates this morning.
"I told them, 'Listen, I don't blow up balloons and do parties and stuff like that, but we're gonna have fun. We're going to go to dinner and do all the stuff we used to do."
As for how many years he wants to keep playing?
"Until they tear this 'uni' off me. What else am I gonna do? Maybe be a bouncer at strip joints. That's about all I'm qualified to do."


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TRENTON -- Police responded to a report of two 13-year-old girls fighting on Parkside and Stuyvesant avenues at about 3:47 p.m. Thursday.
Police said one of the girls pulled out a box cutter and slashed the other girl in the face and arm.
A corrections officer passing by saw the fight and broke it up, police said.
The victim was taken to a local hospital for superficial injuries and the suspect, police said, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and weapons offenses.


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The new CoverGirl LashBlast 24HR Mascara behind Pat McGrath's fierece black smoky eye at the Gucci Spring/Summer 2012 show is finally coming to stores!
The mascara promises to combine a 24hr longwear formula and a volumizing LashBlast brush with a 25 percent bigger core and flexible bristles to hold more mascara for a beautiful, full fan of lashes. Shades include Very Black, Black, Black Brown and Brown.
Stay tuned for my review!
CoverGirl LashBlast 24HR Mascara will be available at all CoverGirl retail outlets nationwide beginning January 2012 for $8.95.


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CAN A BADLY divided government govern?
That's the bottom line question facing lawmakers returning to Washington for a critical wrap-up session prior to holiday adjournment.
Battle lines were not altered as a result of the election. They were merely redrawn more favorably for the Democrats and may even have hardened. We will have some answers depending on how Congress tackles the looming financial debacle.
President Barack Obama's victory — impressive in the scope of support he received — does not auger well, unfortunately, for resolving the bigger issues that paralyzed Congress much of the past year.
Foremost is the double jolt of tax increases and significant spending cuts which kick in automatically at year's end if a deal is not struck. Some have speculated failure to act could plunge the nation into another recession.
There is growing sentiment to let the economy go over the fiscal cliff extending the Bush-era tax cuts thereby reducing the deficit and leaving spending cuts and tax reform for later. One non-negotiable item appears to be extending these cuts for the rich.
A president must demonstrate leadership. But will he be allowed to do so and if not is he prepared to assert it regardless?
Government USA-style is a nonstop exercise in horse-trading over who gets what and how much. The system was designed this way. A result which leaves neither side completely happy is more often than not a reasonable outcome.
Presidential elections do not settle anything, but in the absence of a better alternative, they generally reflect the public will and leaders must interpret it accordingly. On Nov. 6 voters issued a mandate for action which the president is not merely entitled to, but is obligated to follow.
Problems arise when the losing side believes it is still their prerogative to ignore what a majority have advocated and make demands which are unacceptable in the general population. The increasingly entrenched GOP Tea Party wing believes it can dictate terms even though five of its incumbents lost bids for re-election and a whole slew of candidates were defeated.
If accommodation is going to be reached and gridlock ended, it must begin in the House which Speaker John Boehner has shown little evidence he can control. He too must demonstrate leadership, but will they let him and if not will others try to wrest it from him?
While robust dissent is an indispensable attribute of a free society, extreme positions which stretch the bounds of credulity beyond the point of societal tolerance do not in the long term produce winning candidates or viable solutions.
On election night, Republican strategist Mike Murphy worried out loud, "We created a lot of issues that did not serve our cause. We tested the model and it is a loser."
But did his Party get the message? Tea Party Senate candidates suffered embarrassing defeats in Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Washington, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Democrat Jared Huffman, the winner in the 2nd Congressional District, enters a bitterly divided chamber in January.
However, while they have less power, newcomers arrive unencumbered by voting records and disabling commitments permitting them to bring fresh perspectives and to reach across the aisle. If bipartisanship is to be more than a slogan, they will need to do so.
Richard Rubin of Strawberry writes about political issues and is president of a public affairs management firm. His email is firstname.lastname@example.com


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The meeting comes just a little over a year after the Railroad Commission made major amendments to the Commission's recycling rules in an effort to encourage further conservation, reuse and recycling of produced water by oil and gas operators in the oilfield.
"Today, operator Fasken Oil and Ranch reported that they expect to no longer use freshwater in their operations by the end of June 2014, resulting in a total of approximately 2.3 million gallons of fresh water left in the ground," Commissioner Craddick said.
"Due to the drought our state is currently experiencing, the importance of water conservation and scrutiny over water usage continues to grow, and the industry is doing their part in conserving this precious resource," Craddick said. "We know that industry technology in water recycling is changing the way energy is developed in Texas. We are working to fully understand the scope and potential of current recycling technologies, so that our agency's regulatory oversight can help maximize these efforts. The production of Texas' great mineral wealth can go hand in hand with conserving our precious water resources as has been illustrated by numerous oil and gas operators today," Craddick said.
At the symposium, industry representatives updated Commissioner Craddick and staff on industry best practices in water recycling and conservation and discussed future directions, challenges and opportunities to further conserve water. Highlights of industry accomplishments discussed at the symposium include the following:
Recycling has significantly reduced the use of fresh water in oil and gas production operations.
Companies who gave presentations at today's symposium currently report recycling capacity of up to 1.5 million barrels of water per day; have recycled up to 50 million barrels of water since industry focus to increase recycling began in 2012; and are using recycled produced water to account for up to 100 percent of their water needs in energy production.
The amount of produced water hauled by trucking and disposed underground has decreased, and will continue to decrease exponentially.
Produced water is now a resource and sold as a commodity for re-use in hydraulic fracturing operations.
At the symposium, 26 companies with recycling operations were represented, and the 15 companies below gave presentations on their recycling achievements:
AES Water Solutions
Apache Corporation
Baker Hughes
Fasken Oil and Ranch, LTD
Fountain Quail Water Management, LLC
Laredo Petroleum
Occidental Permian, LTD
Omni Water Solutions
Pioneer Natural Resources
Purestream Services
Rock Water Energy Solutions
Water Lens, LLC
Water Rescue Services Holdings, LLC
Christi Craddick was elected statewide by the people of Texas in November 2012 to serve a six-year term as Texas Railroad Commissioner. A native of Midland, Christi is an attorney specializing in oil and gas, water, tax issues, electric deregulation and environmental policy.


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Lex Luger called into the Wrestle Reaction radio show last week and talked with hosts Frank Manzo and Joe Omega about a variety of topics. Below are the highlights, but be sure to listen to the entire interview by visiting WrestleReaction.net. Wrestle Reaction airs live every Tuesday night from 7-8 EST. Follow them on Twitter @Wrestle_React.
Lex Luger on the PG rating and how it affects the business: "I think [WWE] draws from a broader audience with the PG versus the edgier style...a lot of parents have always told me, especially if they have younger kids, which of course, you have to keep them in mind for your branding, those ten and unders..the parents don't like to have to watch the show with their hand on the channel changer the whole time...so, I like it to be a little more broadbased myself, personally, but I understand why it tends to always go towards the edgier storylines..."
On Kevin Nash's recent comments about Eddie Guerrero/Chris Benoit: "I don't know what context that was in...it's definitely an outrageous quote. I do think size was emphasized more in our era and fans got used to that, but I think there's been a huge transition...I understand Kevin...he likes to stay controversial..he's a very sharp guy, marketing-wise, and I know Kevin will make those statements, but I remember, back when I worked with Kevin, he put Rey Mysterio over in the middle of the ring...to me, the diversity now of high-flyers, big guys, little guys, in-between guys, guys that still have the muscled physiques with height, guys who don't, different body types...getting away from that reputation of WWE being all drug-enhanced...I love what they're doing now."
On never winning the World Heavyweight Championship in WWF during his '93-94 run: "In spite of some of the rumors I've heard through the years, I was never promised a world title from Vince McMahon. Timing's everything..and the company's going through a huge transition from, I think, the economy at that time..there were circumstances going on where wrestling was down, we were in Europe a lot because house shows were down in the US..there's a lot of economic factors going on as far as who would be champion and who wasn't...Bret [Hart] was sort of thinking about retiring...there were a lot of things going on back then, and they gave me an incredible run with that Lex Express, the SummerSlam was a spectacular event..the buyrate from that pay per view was not what they wanted..I think they just decided to head in a different direction..."
On whether or not he actually named "The Kliq": "I don't know if I can take sole credit for that..I would like to maybe give Davey Boy [Smith] the credit for that. Davey Boy and Owen Hart, I used to travel with them and they were much more clever and entertaining than I, so if there were any names put out there, I would really have to give them credit for that, not me. I just went along with it."
On "The Narcissist" gimmick and what he thought about its potential: "I had trouble grasping or getting my arms around what [Vince McMahon] wanted to do...once we did it and he took me out, introduced me at the WrestleMania as these girls at Cesars Palace carry out these huge mirrors, that was a lot of fun and I was definitely gaining some momentum. It was quite the shock when he came to me and said 'I'm gonna dress you in red, white, and blue and have you come off a helicopter and slam Yokozuna and become a good guy, but once again, Vince McMahon does things that a lot of us would doubt. He's very daring and he did it. But yeah..in retrospect, I would have a little more time as The Narcissist because that really was a lot of fun and I did think it was gaining some momentum."
On leaving WWE and going to WCW: "Money was definitely a factor but the contract I was offered at the time by WCW, for my career earnings, was not really a big inducement. Eric Bischoff was not a big fan of Lex Luger personally and really wanted me to prove myself a little bit...Eric took wonderful care of me after that...but at the time, it wasn't really a large contract offer by some of the other standards in the industry. But in WWE at the time, my contract had run out..and this is unprecedented, some people don't grasp this..but I had no contract. Vince and I went on just a handshake, a temporary agreement, for over five months...and I had talked with Sting, a few weeks before the initial Nitro show, and just out of casual conversation with Sting, I mentioned I wasn't under contract with WWE...Sting was blown away by that, so he went to Eric Bischoff..and that's how the whole thing started.."
Lex Luger talks about a lot more of his career, the product of today, his future plans and much more in this 40-minute interview. Check it out at WrestleReaction.net and be sure to tune in live every Tuesday night from 7-8 EST!
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The University of Delaware women's tennis team went 5-1 Friday afternoon in doubles action on the opening day of the Saint Joseph's Invitational.
Senior Dorothy Safron (New York, N.Y.) and sophomore Carmen Lai (Shatin, Hong Kong) advanced to the Flight 1 semifinals after wins over Lafayette and Drexel. The duo defeated Lafayette's Amanda Kusnierz/Rocine Moschella, 8-0, before picking up an 8-3 win against Drexel's Lea Winkler/Erin Bowsher.
Senior Olivia Heim (Gibsonia, Pa.) and junior Kim Milla (Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico) also earned a first round Flight 1 victory by defeating Lafayette's Caroline Nixon/Catherine Senoplous, 8-5. Drexel's Zeynep Mafa/Marcela Rosales stopped the pair from moving on to the semifinals with an 8-6 loss.
In Flight 2 doubles play, juniors Christina Harrington (Millersville, Md.) and Abby Martinez (Winter Haven, Fla.) earned a semifinals berth following an 8-1 win each over Lafayette's Tori Almeida/Lauren Tracy and SJU's Claire Minnoe/Alex Zachem.HEN SCRATCHINGS
- Delaware opens singles play Saturday in the SJU Invitational at 10 a.m.
- Dorothy Safron is 52-32 all-time in doubles play, tying her for 10th in Delaware history with Ingrid Dellatorre (1984-88) and Tracy Guerin (1996-00).
- The duo of Safron and Carmen Lai is 18-13 all-time, good to tie for 12th in UD history with Montse Ripoll/Ivana Petrich (2009-11) and Brittany Barsky/Alexa Dragonette (2004-08)
- September 27-29 – Saint Joseph's Tournament, Philadelphia, Pa.
- October 11-13 – Women's Collegiate Invitational, Flushing Meadow, N.Y.
- October 18-21 – USTA/ITA Northeast Regionals, Charlottesville, Va.
No team scoring
Dorothy Safron/Carmen Lai (UD) def. Amanda Kusnierz/Rocine Moschella (Lafayette), 8-0
Safron/Lai (UD) def. Lea Winkler/Erin Bowsher (Drexel), 8-3
Olivia Heim/Kim Milla (UD) def. Caroline Nixon/Catherine Senoplous (Lafayette), 8-5
Zeynep Mafa/Marcela Rosales (Drexel) def. Heim/Milla, 8-6
Christina Harrington/Abby Martinez (UD) def. Tori Almeida/Lauren Tracy (Lafayette), 8-1
Harrington/Martinez (UD) def. Claire Minnoe/Alex Zachem (SJU), 8-1


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[Update 12:00 pm] Sony's Patrick Seybold has issued an update, acknowledging the exploit as the reason for the site outages. He says the URL exploit has been fixed internally, and that passwords can still be updated via your PlayStation 3 while you wait for the sites to come back up.
[Original Story] The PlayStation Network password reset page may have suffered a security exploit of its own, leading Sony to pull several sites. The potential issue was pointed out by Nyleveia, and echoed by both Eurogamer and NeoGAF users.
Reportedly, the exploit allowed attackers to change your password using the e-mail account and date-of-birth associated with your PSN account. Since both pieces of information were compromised in the recent PSN hack, whoever had that data could have changed passwords before Sony pulled the websites. On the bright side, if your password had been changed by someone else, you'd at least be notified via e-mail.
A community moderator for the PlayStation Europe forums noted that PlayStation.com, PlayStation forums, PlayStation Blog, Qriocity.com, Music Unlimited via web, and PlayStation game title sites have been taken down. You can still sign on with your PS3 and PSP to access online play, if you've already changed your password.
"Unfortunately, this also means that those who are still trying to change their password via PlayStation.com or Qriocity.com will be unable to do so for the time being," said the moderator. "This is due to essential maintenance and at present it is unclear how long this will take."
Nyleveia, which first noted the exploit, claims that Sony took the system down about 15 minutes after receiving a response from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
We haven't heard any reports of unauthorized password changes, so if the exploit reports are true, it seems likely that Sony caught it early. We've contacted Sony for comment.


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I have a ~1980 Fireplace Manufacturers Inc. Model 42A fireplace insert. Fireplace Manufacturers Inc of Santa Ana sold the company to DESA International in 1998, which filed for bankruptcy in 2008. They maintain a website, desatech.com, but it does not have the model 42A listed. It is a metal insert, with firebrick lining.
The flue is a round cylinder connected with the firebox. The chimney is a wood and stucco frame, covered by a 2x4 metal cap. The house is in Los Angeles.
Above the mantel there is a hole in the drywall for TV cabling. Through that hole I can feel a literal breeze, so the chimney housing must be open to the outside somehow. I did not pull away all the insulation from behind the wall, but it appears that the "chimney" does not have a wall that separates my drywall from the chimney, as my drywall above the mantel apparently forms the fourth wall of the chimney, the other three walls are on the house exterior.
Also, on opposite sides of the firebox, facing towards each other from the side (just inside the metal firebox itself), are what look like vents. I get a lot of cold air in through those as well.
I took a can of foam into the attic and sealed up any openings that I could find between the attic and the stucco chimney, but the chimney is a structure on the outside of the house, so it was not really open into the attic anyway. The sealing had no effect on the breeze through the drywall.
My questions are: (a) whether these drafts can be caused by a flue that is not sealed to the metal cap at the top of the chimney, (b) can I put a tight seal around the flue and metal chimney cap to stop this draft, and (c) will sealing the flue to the top cap have any effect on the draft on the vents inside the fireplace?


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Published: 2012/11/01
Vampire Weekend Debuts a New Song on TV
Vampire Weekend played two songs on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live on Halloween. The program is currently on location in Brooklyn and was scheduled to film five shows in the city (Monday's show was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy). Vampire Weekend used the opportunity to debut the new song "Unbelievers." They also performed "Oxford Comma" from their first album. All the members of the group dressed as skeletons for the performance.
Tonight The Avett Brothers with the Broooklyn Philharmonic will perform on the program. Vampire Weekend are currently working on their next studio album after taking almost all of 2011 off. For a larger video of Vampire Weekend's performance, please visit Relix.com


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15 U.S. Code § 1353 - Selection of designated agency
§ 1353.
Selection of designated agency
The Governor of any State which wishes to receive Federal payments under this chapter in support of its existing or planned technical services program shall designate, under appropriate State laws and regulations, an institution or agency to administer and coordinate that program and to prepare and submit a plan and programs to the Secretary of Commerce for approval under this chapter.
(Pub. L. 89–182, § 3, Sept. 14, 1965, 79 Stat. 680.)
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Trained by Ian Wilkes and ridden by Leandro Goncalves, Neck 'n Neck covered the 1 1/16 miles over a fast main track in 1:43.53.
Neck 'n Neck returned $2.60, $2.10 and $2.10. Big Town, ridden by Calvin Borel, returned $4 and $2.80 with Quiet Man, ridden by Corey Lanerie, finishing a head back in third and returning $3.80 to show.
Thursday's ninth and final race featured a $276,914 Super Hi-5 carryover because no one correctly selected the top five finishers in Saturday's Kentucky Derby. A single-day record $1,051,584 was wagered on Thursday's Super Hi-5 to bring the pool total to $1,328,498. There were 260 tickets with the winning combination of 9-4-1-8-2, and each was worth $4,325.20.
Racing resumes Friday afternoon at 2:45 (all times Eastern) with an 11-race program that will be followed by the first Paddock Concert of the 2012 Spring Meet featuring Alligator Records recording artist Eric Lindell. Gates open at 1:30 p.m. and Lindell is expected to take the stage at approximately 8 p.m.


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Close ballgames demand teams be crisp and clean in every phase of play.
Wednesday night rivals the Newton Senior High Cardinals and the Pella Community High's Little Dutch faced off in a Little Hawkeye Conference doubleheader at Newton's Eversman Field. Both teams had solid pitching and played sterling defense in two seven-inning contests.
The outcomes of the two contests were determined by key hits. Newton got the key hit in the opener to win 3-0. Pella had two triples in the second game that powered it to a 3-0 victory.
Newton goes to 14-14 on the season and 9-7 in conference play with five regular-season games remaining. Pella is 12-16 overall and 8-9 in Little Hawkeye play.
The Cardinals travel to Saydel tonight at 7:30 and play their final home game against Norwalk, which leads the conference, on Monday.
Newton scored a run in the first inning of the opener. Taylor Field, who was the Cardinals' starting pitcher, had a one-out infield single. Tyler Woods' sacrifice bunt had Field on the move.
Field scampered all the way to third and scored when an errant Little Dutch throw went over the third baseman's head. The score remained 1-0 until the sixth inning.
Jeff Stanton drew a leadoff walk for the Cards and it was Chandler Sturtz' job to move him over to second.
"We needed to get Jeff moved and I knew that. I failed on the first two times to get the bunt down. Coach put on the bunt for a third time even with two strikes on me," Sturtz said after the game. "I was able to get it down and beat it out for a hit."
Wood's fielder's choice put runners at first and third with two gone in the inning. Senior shortstop Jacob Hill got the job done.
"I had two strikes on me and I was expecting him (Pella's pitcher Jacob Gleason) to throw a curve ball. I just looked for it in the zone," Hill said. Hill made the connection and smashed a two-run base hit to left field.
Field had pitched five scoreless innings for Newton, limiting the Little Dutch to two hits, walking two and striking out three batters. Derek Wrage came on in relief and closed the game out.
Wrage worked around two singles in the sixth without allowing a run. He worked a 1-2-3 seventh on the mound. A diving catch by NHS center fielder Levi Michener ended the contest.
"It's huge for us. We're on a three-game win streak and it was a conference game," Sturtz said.
"We played a clean defensive game and our pitchers did a good job of throwing lots of strikes," Hill said.
Sturtz, Field, Wood and Hill each had a single in the game.
Pella's Tanner Wood kept the Cardinal bats in check during the second game. Newton had three singles — one each by Evan Shimon, Hill and Wood.
Newton's Michael Barr threw five strong innings, giving up two runs on four hits and two walks. He struck out three. Wood pitched two innings, allowing one run on two hits and struck out two.
"We didn't have an error all night. You can't ask much more of your defense," said Pat Riley, Cardinal co-coach. "We had the key hit in the first game and they had a couple of key hits, especially the triple to lead off the game to set the tone."
Ryan Shull tripled for Pella and scored in the first inning on a sacrifice fly by Daniel Langenfeld. Shull drew a one-out walk in the third and came home on a two-out double by Grant Jenkins.
The Little Dutch added a run in the seventh when Ethan Butler drilled a triple down the right field line. Tanner Wood hit an RBI single.
"All the pitchers, both for us and Pella, threw well tonight. Our guys threw strikes and kept the ball in play," said Darin Tisdale, Cardinal co-coach. "Taylor Field had a quality start for us and Derek came in two work well in relief.
"Michael Barr made a few mistakes and they (the Little Dutch) were able to get a couple of key hits. Their pitcher made mistakes and we got under the ball and didn't get the ball to fall for us. The guys kept competing tonight."
Both Tisdale and Riley said they were pleased with how the Cardinals battled in both games. Riley said the Cardinals need to change their mental approach at the plate to take advantage of opportunities to score.


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Over the next 10 days I will be featuring some hair swatches of Palty Foam Hair Dyes I managed to get hold of! You can use these as a guide as to how the hair colour should turn out although it will also depend on your current hair condition, colour etc.
To read more about my Dariya Palty Hair Dye experiences read here and here.
Palty Creamy Caramel is a medium rich brown hair dye – it is one of the 'safe' choices where the Palty Browns are concerned although it is quite light!
I can't emphasise enough you just can't get this shade of brown without lifting your hair first which of course can be quite damaging.
I have used this colour before and it didn't take my dark brown hair to the light shade at all but it did add some golden highlights to it.
This is definitely a golden brown shade without much red or ashy tones – hence it is somewhere in the middle and quite safe for most hair.
I do LOVE ashy hair tones but it just looks green on me so I am best sticking to these kinds of shades unless a professional is doing the colouring.
Foam dye goes pretty fair I find although as I mentioned in an earlier post you need to be careful how much you use when the foam is in a cup. 1 pack is usually enough for long hair:


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LONDON: Shane Warne has launched another stinging attack on Alastair Cook, whom he believes should either step down as England captain or take a break from cricket.
The champion Australian spinner has been Cook's most outspoken critic in the last 12 months, and has clearly got under the skin of the left-hander, who stated last week that he believes the judgments are becoming personal.
But in the wake of England's first Test series defeat to Sri Lanka on home soil, just a matter of months following their Ashes humiliation, Warne thinks Cook, whose own form has stagnated in the last year, needs to step aside .
Writing in his column for the Telegraph in London, he said: "There are three ways to go with Alastair 'Cooked' Cook. Everyone sticks their head in the sand and just allows things to keep going as is and hope he finds form with the bat and by a miracle discovers some tactical brains from somewhere. Two: he steps down from the captaincy to concentrate on his batting. Three: the most radical of all, he has a complete break away from the game.
"Lots of people, including me, think it is time for him to step down as captain.
"The most disappointing thing for me is that he has not learned or improved after a horrible 5-0 drumming in Australia, in fact he has got worse.
"He is not thinking straight. He is not there. He is confused. He does not know what to do and because he is in a rut with his form it makes life a lot worse. You just cannot captain a team in transition in that frame of mind."
England suffered a 100-run defeat to the Sri Lankans at Headingley on Tuesday to lose the two-Test series after the tourists escaped with a draw in the opening match at Lord's.
Much of the damage in Leeds was done on day four as Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews was allowed to compile a wonderful 160 to build his side's lead to 350 before their bowlers reduced Cook's men to 5-57 before the close.
"On Monday at Headingley I witnessed the worst day of captaincy I have ever seen at international level in almost 25 years in the game. It was horrific, and I am not the only one singing that tune," said Warne, who is the second highest Test wicket-taker of all time with 708 scalps.
"He just does not get it. Everyone watching could see the game needed a change of pace; bowl the spinner or make the seamers try and actually get Angelo Mathews out.
"You just cannot bowl the same stuff over after over like he did - good captains try things and are proactive, not hopeful."
Warne also refuted Cook's suggestions that his negative comments were a personal attack as a means to undermine the 29-year-old's authority.
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SOURCE: Epicor Software Corporation
January 09, 2013 09:06 ET
NRF Show Attendees Invited to Do a 'Beary' Good Deed to Benefit a Very Good Cause
NRF Show Attendees Invited to Do a 'Beary' Good Deed to Benefit a Very Good Cause
DUBLIN, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 9, 2013) - Normally you wouldn't expect to see bears, bunnies and sock monkeys roaming the New York City area, but that will all change in a few days when the retail elite meet at the annual NRF show at the Jacob Javits Center, January 13-15.
Epicor Software Corporation, a global leader in business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organizations, will be giving away build-a-bear smallfrys to benefit the Retail Orphan Initiative (RetailROI). The Build-A-Bear Workshop® stuffed animals will be looking for new loving homes at the Epicor booth (#1805) during the annual NRF show, in exchange for a $10 donation to RetailROI.
RetailROI works to raise awareness and provide real solutions for the more than 400 million vulnerable children worldwide. Funds raised at the Epicor booth will support the organization's many initiatives to supply grants to charities that provide hands-on efforts in areas ranging from orphan and foster care to adoption support and child rescue from human trafficking.
"I recently had the honor of participating in a RetailROI vision trip to Liberia, and saw firsthand the tremendous opportunities and the help that we can offer -- from building classrooms to fixing property walls to ensuring every child has a desk," said Diane Cerulli, director, retail marketing for Epicor. "The impact of RetailROI is life-changing for children and institutions. I'm hopeful the build-a-bear smallfrys will draw enough donations during NRF to hit our fundraising goal of $10,000."
RetailROI is a charitable foundation under the umbrella of the Giving Back Fund, which was established to help the 400 million orphaned and vulnerable children worldwide. It works to fund and bring awareness to the enormous needs of the orphans worldwide, to encourage other companies (retailers, vendors, manufacturers) to create internal programs to support mentoring, adoptions and foster parenting and to create avenues for volunteers to get involved. In addition, RetailROI seeks to provide opportunities to leverage their core strengths and abilities to help other charities in need in their local communities.
"Each of us can make a change in the world, and many times even the smallest gestures can make a big difference," said Greg Buzek, president of IHL Group and donor trustee for the Retail Orphan Initiative. "The NRF Epicor/Build-A-Bear Workshop endeavor is just one small gesture to help make a difference in the lives of these children. The funds will be used to directly provide classrooms and computers for three schools we work with in the country of Liberia -- and donors can track our progress via video postings and blogs at RetailROI.org."
In addition to donating at NRF Epicor Booth 1805, retailers may also contribute donations and take home a Build-A-Bear Workshop furry friend at RetailROI's annual SuperSaturday Analyst Day, which will take place Saturday, January 12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the PwC Auditorium in New York City. For more information, please visit http://retailroi.org/news-events-media/supersaturday.
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Epicor provides advanced solutions for retailers seeking to streamline processes, integrate channels, leverage intelligence and inspire customers, to maximize profitability. The Epicor Retail end-to-end suite is designed to meet the evolving merchandise and service expectations of today's connected, cross-channel shoppers, and the business requirements of the most demanding softgoods, hardgoods and specialty retail environments in a variety of industries including apparel, footwear, discount, general merchandise, automotive aftermarket, lumber and building materials, nursery, and pharmacy. Thousands of leading companies -- from Aeropostale, Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance and Build-A-Bear Workshop, to General Nutrition Centers, True Value Company and Under Armour -- trust Epicor to help them remain current, competitive, and consistently strong.
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Epicor Software Corporation is a global leader delivering inspired business software solutions to the manufacturing, distribution, retail and services industries. With over 40 years of experience serving small, midmarket and larger enterprises, Epicor has more than 20,000 customers in over 150 countries. Epicor enterprise resource planning (ERP), retail management software, supply chain management (SCM), and human capital management (HCM) enable companies to drive increased efficiency and improve profitability. With a history of innovation, industry expertise and passion for excellence, Epicor provides the single point of accountability that local, regional and global businesses demand. The Company's headquarters are located in Dublin, California, with offices and affiliates worldwide. For more information, visit www.epicor.com.
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Web fonts now give us incredible potential to consider a full range of typeface choices for web design. However, they bring with them a new array of issues to be considered by web designers and typographers alike. We will look at a number of factors that should influence not only which fonts will work best for you, but also how you can then use those fonts effectively. We will look at screen rendering, design features that are best suited for online use, setting text, and working with large type families.
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Myself in a sentence: I'm a redhead spitfire.
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Hometown: indiana
The design and themes of my tattoos: American traditional
More specifics about my tattoo: They all have a story and I love to have them as close to me as possible.
My favorite tattoo and the story behind it: My chest piece is by far my favorite. The hear no evil see no evil speak no evil in anatomy heads. It shows that I've had a rough past but I got through it and over came anything that tried and stop me.
My next tattoo: Since I'm a hairstylist it's shears surrounded by roses.


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At the end of September, health officials reported Idaho's first death attributed to the novel H1N1 "Swine" flu virus. Schools face growing numbers of students out sick, and doctor visits are increasing. What can you do to protect yourself and your family?
This week on Dialogue, host Joan Cartan-Hansen will talk with Idaho's State Epidemiologist Dr. Christine Hahn about the H1N1 virus in Idaho, about flu shots, and about how individuals, government and businesses should handle this flu season.


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Local photographer wins at Pittsburgh print competition
JOHNSONBURG – Stephanie Carnessali, owner of Carnessali Photography in Johnsonburg, recently submitted a photograph that won a red ribbon in the Pittsburgh print competition of the Triangle Photographers Association of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. The photograph was taken spontaneously, and Carnessali explains how she instantly knew it would be good for the competition. "I always have the print competition in the back of my mind," Carnessali said. "I was on the other side of the bridge and I saw how cute the couple was being and shot it because it was so sweet. I took it not thinking of the competition, but afterwards I knew I just had to enter it."The making of a good print includes many elements. "The judges don't actually see the image," Carnessali said. "The image has to have an impact. The shot was just perfect with all the trees pointing down to the bride and groom and it all just kind of flowed. I gave it a title of sweet nothings because you can tell that's what they're doing."Carnessali has been working towards the print competition since she began her photography business six years ago. "I didn't go to college for photography," Carnessali said. "But I do a lot of classes through the Triangle Institute of Professional Photography. I am always working to continue my education because if you don't educate yourself regularly then you just fall off."Pick up a copy of the Saturday, March 10, 2012 edition of The Ridgway Record for more.


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There isn't a shortage of labor, there's a shortage of cheap labor.
Industry just wants to keep making massive amounts of money, but pay their staff less than the salaries the market created.
This article fails to even mention that H-1B visas are dual intent - green card applications are common for H-1B visa holders, and many large tech companies encourage green card application as an employee retention mechanism.
That this isn't common knowledge, corporations are trying to return us to 1800's regulation, it isn't just the H1B's, it's every facet of the larger corporations.
what is the average H1-B wage?
I don't think H1-b workers are cheap, plus the Visa+lawyer fees
The law says prevailing wage... but it is never enforced.
They might also start companies and create jobs. True, wages may fall in the short-term, but having a larger educated and working population will help us in the long run.
Not really. Under the visa, they can only stay a few years.
In the long term, you're training foreign nationals to do your jobs, and then take that knowledge with them.
Competing with India for wages in the long term is a losing proposition
I'm willing to bet of the 500,000 or so tech workers with H1B visas, there's almost as many of your own citizens in the same field who are out of work. This is just a cheap labor pool for corporations, and short term benefits.
Visas allow the workers to work here where they also contribute more to the US economy as well as US society. They might also start companies and create jobs.
I agree with General Secretary.
Anecdotal evidence:
I'm a Honduran who won a college scholarship to study in the US, but forced to return to Latin America immediately after graduation (1998). I now live in Mexico, and work as a consultant. Often I'm hired to do work for US firms, and am paid less than half of what I would be in the US. But since this is Latin America, these wages let me live comfortably in the middle class.
I've since got my master's degree, and dream about starting a company someday. But I hesitate to return to the US. If I did, because of my ethnicity and birth country, many would think I stole their job. But isn't the US a meritocracy? What about the American dream?
I'm a Canadian, and I guess, a reasonably talented EE. One avenue not mentioned is the TN-class visa; same general idea, but yearly renewable. (Canada/Mexico)
The process to actually _immigrate_ to the US is a real pain and very lengthy. So much that the logical extension is that they don't want skilled immigration on a permanent basis - at least from Canada. However, exporting work from the US is made very easy.
What's the problem with opening it up? Why not just find a way to document, all the undocumented? Am I missing something?
For the software industry leaders, H1-Bs are used for bringing in MSc's, Ph.Ds, and other top talent from other countries. Ordinary IT jobs aren't at stake because that type of job is beneath them.
I have worked in the software industry since 1984. Not once did I meet an H1-B who was MS, PhD, or other top talent. Every single one of them has been ordinary software engineering jobs. I have witnessed how companies make fake jobs ads that cater to the specific person, and HR admitting they automatically pay H1Bs $10k less because they can...
For the software industry leaders, H1-Bs are used for bringing in MSc's, Ph.Ds, and other top talent from other countries. Ordinary IT jobs aren't at stake because that type of job is beneath them.
Incorrect. I got into the US on a H1B for web development work and I only have a bachelors. And while my starting wage was nothing special (I was 26 at the time), it grew soon enough to the point where I'm now earning above the market rate for the work I do and I'm a green card holder, eventually I'll be a citizen. My employer and I spent a fortune on lawyer's fees and it was an enormous hassle for him and for me.
This is not about "slavery". This is about finding the right talent for the job. And no, ther
The problem is that if you don't grant H1-Bs the companies will pretty much move operations offshore if they are large enough to support that sort of operation.
With H1-Bs you at least keep the tax revenues in the US.
The *really* bad aspect of this is that it weakens US educational institutions. With these people coming into the US it discourages US citizens from going after these sorts of technical degrees in the US. That's got all sorts of negative effects.
Perhaps one sort of H1-B visa that would be less damaging overall is the type that is granted to foreign students holding a degree from a US university.
(disclaimer: I am working in the us on a J1 visa.)
There might be a vicious cycle with visas. But I am really under the impression that most visa are issues because one could not find a local ( == US) worker to fill the position in. As far as I can tell, it is because the education system in the US sucks so much that so visa are issued.
Now I can see your point : if there were less H1B, there would be more incentive to fix the mess. But exactly how many "opportunities" would the US miss if it was not hiring s
But I am really under the impression that most visa are issues because one could not find a local ( == US) worker to fill the position in.
That's the official line. In fact, for many temporary visas, that's the only reason the visa will be granted.
But in actuality, it's not the case. The truth is that by increasing supply of qualified workers, companies can keep the price for those workers low. Basic microeconomics at play.
In my experience, the way it generally works is that the largest H1B-using companies actually provide the training necessary to meet their requirements via either related parties (offshore affiliates) or outsourcing firms. Then, because they haven't trained anyone locally in the skillset they need, they get those employees to come here under H1B.
Basically, instead of investing in the training in specific skills in local employees, they do so overseas. Then we watch those skills go back to the employees' home country with them.
I believe we need to increase the standard of living across the globe wherever we can. But I do not believe that companies allowed to operate in a certain country should be allowed to get away with not investing in the workforce of that specific country when they need skills there.
The problem is that if you don't grant H1-Bs the companies will pretty much move operations offshore if they are large enough to support that sort of operation.
Except the part about being large enough. A company doesn't have to be large to off-shore. It is routine now for startups with fewer than 20 employees to have half of them off shore. Many VC's impose an off-shoring strategy as a pre-requisite for getting funding.
Frankly, complaining about H1B's is fighting the last war. If a company uses H1B's they will hire fewer Americans but they will hire some and even the H1B's contribute to the local economy. If they off-shore, no Americans will be hired an
H1B's are not only artificially driving down wages and generally screwing over American programmers, engineers, etc., but they are also a blight on the job market for another reason: fake jobs.
There are a LOT of fake job ads are out there right now that employers are only posting so they can run crying to Congress and the Labor Dept. later, claiming that they can't get enough "qualified applicants" (and to beg for more H1B visas). You know, that ad that asks for a programmer with 20+ years of Java programming experience, or with qualifications so specific that it HAS to be tailored to a specific H1B candidate, or that asks for an experienced programmer with a salary range of $30,000-$35,000, or that never seems to get filled no matter how many qualified people apply? These are the jobs that colleges cite when they try to sucker in new programming and CS students, that applicants waste valuable time and effort on, and that create an artificially rosy appearance of the technical job market. They make it look like there are way more jobs than workers out there (that's what they're designed to do), when in reality the REAL job market is a lot more dismal, especially for newbies. They're a blight for honest job seekers, and a tool for the dishonest to use to con Congress, the Labor Dept., and desperate potential students.
It's is a real uphill battle for congresscritters, especially the long time reps, to understand this.
Post WWII until maybe mid-80s I think it might have been a valid belief that doing whatever helps the biggest corporations will automagicly help the economy. I think high speed communications invalidates this idea completely.
In other words, it used to be that if a company grew that it would force them to help the individuals that needs jobs. If that ever was the case it isn't so now. So pouring money and tax breaks into a big company does nothing but enrich the few people at the top of that chain because they can just as easily hire someone offshore.
I don't think people in Congress understand this. And it extends to H1Bs, because if they get the "smart" immigrants then it means more domestic jobs under similar logic. I think many reps in Congress probably want to help their local constituents but haven't been able to break out of this logic. Look at how dumb our legislation with tech is... it falls in the same category of ignorance.
Again, I think there are some that just don't care if they are helping normal joes or not. Personally I thin Romney falls into that camp.
What about higher COSTS for business which get passed on to ALL consumers? And don't cry me a river about corporate profits as I suggest you go look to see what is in your 401k or other retirement plan - public or private. The sad reality is that the US can no longer command the wages it once could, whether thats in tech or in digging ditches.
Boo fucking hoo about costs. You and I know that they do not reduce prices when costs go down, unless they absolutely have to.
I know this is an unpopular topic, but I see that throughout history that diversity -- of any form: religious, ethnic, cultural, racial -- has failed wherever it has been tried because it offers people a choice between having no culture or being ostracized for maintaining a cultural identity.
Immigration seems to be popular with the construction industry, cheap labor employers, and serf-masters like the big Silicon Valley companies. Cheap lawn mowing and cheap software production are high on their agendas. However, it's not really working in that this country continues to have clashes between value systems, including those rooted in culture, and increasingly, between our lack of values and anyone who does have cultural values.
Can anyone name a time and place in which diversity has thrived? It seems like all of our accounts come from a couple centuries later when the experiment has failed, and left behind a culturally-confused third world nation.
Perhaps instead of just walking lock-step with the rest of the herd, we should think independently about this issue, and unlike the rest of our society, question whether it's a good thing at all.
I see that throughout history that diversity -- of any form: religious, ethnic, cultural, racial -- has failed wherever it has been tried
When, and where throughout history? I can site at least 1 case where the lack of diversity was the cause the the collapse of a nations economy. France under Lois XIV under their "everyone must be Catholic" logic ended up convincing a large portion of the educated to leave the country. That lack of diversity caused a brain drain that helped to cause the financial collapse of the entire country.
The very nature of Diversity means that it will not last for long unless you keep importing it. Best example of that is China. You can go ahead and conquer it, but in a few generations your decedents will be Chinese.
Uniformity has advantages in getting everyone on board and headed the same direction, but it also has weaknesses and doesn't adapt to new things quickly. Diversity is a very good environment for creativity, but also has the drawback of generating strife between different groups. Nether solution is ideal, but that's life.
I believe there a shortage of developers
You only believe there's a shortage of developers because you aren't willing to pay enough to attract them to your company.
Before the global infrastructure built up, before so much of investments were made by big companies in India, before many mid level execs have hitched their wagon to the out sourcing horse (which was stolen from the barn mentioned earlier), it might have been possible to reduce H1B and kept the job in USA.
But right now, if you reduce H1B, it is going to move the whole damned job to India. At least they (or us, because I am an ex H1B) work in USA, pay taxes in USA and spend most of their money in USA and save and invest in USA. The outsourced job lives, spends, invests and pays taxes in India.
I ran the rat race in India, and won it. And the prize was US Citizenship. I don't want my daughter fighting for jobs with the next generation of me who wins the rat race in India. But that makes me sound like the guy who dynamites the bridge after crossing it himself. This is quite complicated.
As Obama said in the third debate, "Some jobs are not coming back. They are low wage low skill jobs. I want high wage high skill jobs here", it would be great if we could make sure the jobs that were lost are all low wage low skill jobs and keep the high wage jobs here. Even if that means my daughter has to fight with the next generation rat-race winner from India.
Increase the amount of Payroll taxes charged to non-citizens (and include the Employer Portion with this) of course you will need to ramp up the numbers over say 5 years but your EndGame is
15% of workforce Non-Citizens= 130% of Base Values
17% = 140%
19% =150%
21% = 175%
22+= 180% + 2% for every percent above 22
this will have 2 benefits
1 this will raise Massive Amounts of Money
2 Companies will get very creative in employing LOCAL folks
...wages are artificially high in the United States and only maintainable at that level when the government limits foreign competition.
The H-1B program should be abolished---and along with it, the government's power to prevent anyone, citizen or foreigner alike, from working here if they choose.
As a long time H1B holder I am a bit offended by the article and there are quite a lot of inaccuracies.
* The people that I know who have H1B visas both at my company and others are definitely not scraping the bottom of the barrel wage wise.
* To get an H1B visa you generally have to find a company in the US that is willing to go through the hassle of getting you a visa (And the time this takes before you can actually come over and start working).
* H1B is a "dual intent" visa, meaning you are legally allowed to aspire for permanent residence while you are here. It takes forever though and during this time you have to stay at your company (It usually takes at least 8 years). While you are applying for a green card you can extend your H1B indefinitely (I'm just about to extend my own for 3 years and I have already been here for 9).
* O might not be attainable even if you have a exceptional talent. To get one for working in IT you are pretty much required to have a masters degree. I would contend that exceptional talent in the IT field have fairly little to do with official schooling.
* Some of the H1B visas that are "fraudulent" are also people who have gotten promoted while here and the company didn't refile the proper paperwork indicate their new job titles. This usually means that they have a more qualified job and are paid a higher salary. I am not saying actual fraud doesn't happen, just that I doubt it is as prevalent as the statistics might show.
And finally, on a macro economical note, why would you not take as many people as you could that are skilled earn a good wage, can't be unemployed and generally use social resources (If I loose my job I have 30 days to get out).
I used to work as an H1-B worker. I 100% agree that the work visa program lowers wages and steals jobs from Americans.
From my personal experience I know, that if I was not dependent on my employer I would have asked for higher than the market pay rate, rather than take lower than the market rate. However, since US government "helped", none of the companies I worked for had to offer proper wages to job applicants. I have seen many tailored job postings that were not really looking for applicants, but were posted only to fulfill requirements set forth by the government. Prevailing wage analysis and numbers that come out from that are mostly irrelevant and do not have to be lower than the wage being paid to the H1-B worker. My approved green card application had much higher wage than I was/am getting.
The program does not protect American workers at all. I used to hate H1-B due to somewhat slave labor legal conditions associated with it, but now that I am almost a citizen, I hate it because in its current state it does not benefit Americans and actually harms them.
Another things worth mentioning, although many people apply for green card after being on H1-B, the work visa is not considered to be a proper path to citizenship by US government. Partially due to this, none of the experience gained while working on H1-B can be used in green card application to prove that person is an asset to the company or to the country.
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KANKANEE, Ill. — The Central Michigan Stars 16-under team rolled to a 19-0 victory over Midlothian (Illi.) Friday afternoon to advance to the North Zone Tournament semifinals.
"We mashed today. The kids played very well," Stars coach Brad Antcliff said afterward.
Chase Rollin threw two innings to earn the win, walking two. He also went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs at the plate.
Tucker Gross paced the offense as he was 3-for-4 with a double, a home run, and six RBIs. Hunter Conley contributed a 2-for-2 day with an RBI.
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Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 is now available for fellow iDevice owners. All 56 characters are intact, sans in-app-purchasing -- so you don't have to worry about the "it's on the app!" discussion months down the line. In addition to the standard game, you'll also be able to fight other players via Bluetooth, and utilize a new touch "flick system" for special moves.You can grab the game for $2.99 now, but after May 6th, it'll be $4.99.
The reviews on iTunes are decent, so if you haven't experienced Marvel 2 yet, you might want to try it, as the core game with actual buttons is pretty incredible. Likewise, you could always download the game on the Xbox Live Arcade and PSN (or dig up the old Dreamcast, Xbox, or PS2 disc!). I expect to see a lot of "EZ Cable iOS combo" videos, as well as "No Android, no buy!" comments.
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NAIDOC Week: Our Generation - land, culture, freedom
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Lunch-time films
Since invasion, Aboriginal people have fought for respect for their culture and rights to their lands. In these lunch-time film sessions learn more about Aboriginal connection to Country, past successes and the continued fight for the protection of culture and Country.
Location: Centre for Learning and Discovery, Level 2 Link Foyer
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I'm converting a website for mobile browser, and i'm using my Lumia 520 for test it. The technical specs of the smartphone says that it have a width of 480px but if i set this value for the body width of the website, i see that it goes out of the screen!
So i tryied to set body to width:100% and throught jquery see what is the automatic value that is set, the result is 320px..
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A cool mix of polish and tough, this bebe jacket features luxe lasercut leather and waist-accentuating peplum flair. Try yours over a summer dress to give it a new-season update.
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I say "Because OMFG, gross!!!"
I say "Because OMFG, gross!!!"
If you live in the United States, you likely already engage in accidental entomophagy. Allow me to introduce you to the USDA's guide to what are the acceptable levels of insects in your food [fda.gov]. Go head and CTRL+F on that page for 'insects.'
Having particularly good eyesight, I don't think I've ever eaten a blackberry that didn't have thrips or aphids on it. Guess what? They're delicious on blackberries!
Of course, getting my Wilderness Survival merit badge on my way to Eagle Scout gave me the opportunity to forage for edible insects and I would actually recommend the fly larvae that attach to grassland stalks and form 'bulbs' around them. Taste like walnuts! Too bad it takes forever to harvest them or I'd make a product out of that for the granola-brains community.
Funny enough, staunch vegetarians also unknowingly consume insects.
Agreed about it all being in people's heads though. I'd be all for some delicious grasshopper crunchies, or even a Bacon, Lettuce, and Termite sandwich.
Agreed about it all being in people's heads though.
I can't eat anything that has more than 4 legs.
Every so often, I order fish someplace and they bring it with a bonus prawn or two on top. Which means I get to send it right back for a new one, as even a bit of cross-contamination can cause an unpleasant reaction. ("This time, please do not merely remove the crustaceans that have dripped their juice on the fish and bring the very same fish back out to me as you've just tried to do. My family are really very nice people who don't like filing lawsuits. Thanks.")
People actually express sympathy when I explain to them, sure I can broil some crabs for them if they'd like, I'll just have to fix myself something else... Which is weird, when you think about it--how can I miss something I can't eat anyway? (Even weirder--how can I be so good at cooking things that I daren't eat myself?)
I did try a fried grasshopper once. While it didn't knock me flat on my back for the next day or so, the way eating a bite of lobster would, I still got a fair case of indigestion--something I normally almost never suffer from.
It's a little deeper than you think in there... in the nature vs nurture debate our predisposition to insects falls into the nature part probably under instincts, so have fun overriding that one.
It's a little deeper than you think in there... in the nature vs nurture debate our predisposition to insects falls into the nature part probably under instincts, so have fun overriding that one.
Obviously, you've never been in China.
Allow me to introduce you to the USDA's guide to what are the acceptable levels of insects in your food [fda.gov].
And if that doesn't gross you out, go ahead and google around for the acceptable upper limit of faeces. There is one, and it's not zero.
I never eat anything with a faece.
World hunger is not a production or availability problem. It is a distribution problem. America alone can already grow enough grain to feed the entire planet a couple times over. Doing so, however, would make the bottom drop out of the grain market and have disastrous economic consequences. That is exactly why the American government pays farmers to not grow food.
More info here. [worldhunger.org]
"It's a distribution problem", which is to say "It's a capitalism problem".
Every westerner I see trying them on TV is like, "Wow! That's good!!"
I say "Because OMFG, gross!!!"
We already eat other arthropods, like shrimp, crab, crawfish and lobster.
And, paradoxically, the arthropods we do eat are foul feeders. It is common knowledge that crabs and lobsters and their ilk eat sea-bottom carrion. Many insects (also arthropods of course) are vegetarians (take crickets). There are tribes in South America that think eating shrimp is disgusting (and with some justification), but who will scarf down a cricket with relish. There was a good upbeat article in the New Yorker some time ago on bug eating... Hmmm. Found the New Yorker citation, anyway. Paywalled so
Pretty much this.
I'll eat pretty much anything. I've had Japanese colleagues play "take the gaijin to the izakaya and gross him out with weird foods", and I won (not that shirako is exactly pleasant...).
But even I find the idea of eating insects a bit revolting. I mean, I'd give it a go, but I'd grimace a bit the first few times.
In order to make any kind of impact, insect-eating would have to become really mainstream. We live in a society where lots of people won't even eat tripe, trotters, tongue or black pudding. Good luck getting these people to eat insects.
Who says you cannot mix them with other meats or even heat dry and grind them as a powder additive to other foods? The nutrition is what we are looking for here - not necessarily the "grossing out" of folks.
Unless you're going to covertly introduce ground insects to food, people will know. And if they know, they'll be grossed out.
Personal experience suggests to me that at least a third of people in the UK are grossed out by black pudding -- part of our culinary heritage! There's nothing outwardly unappealing about a slice of black pudding. But people have been told that it's made of blood, and that's enough to put them off.
Unless you're going to covertly introduce ground insects to food, people will know. And if they know, they'll be grossed out.
Red food dye. Cochineal. Made from ground up cochineals. Insects. Plenty know, plenty don't know. Pretty much nobody cares, because they were brought up with it.
Same goes for black pudding, tripe and haggis. People that were brought up on it don't care. So the trick is to get people when they are young.
But even I find the idea of eating insects a bit revolting. I mean, I'd give it a go
You have probably already "given it a go". Have you ever had cherry yogurt? Read the ingredients. It usually contains the red dye carmine [wikipedia.org] which is made from beetles.
I have eaten lots of bugs. Once you get past the squeamishness, they are good. Honey ants are delicious. Fried grasshoppers have a wonderful crunch. When I was in Panama, I had sauteed banana spiders that tasted like shrimp.
> But even I find the idea of eating insects a bit revolting. I mean, I'd give it a go, but I'd grimace a bit
> the first few times
Its not so bad, hell in some forms, you wont even notice, take it from me.... I have done it.
We had some grubs infest a bag of rice in our pantry area. Funny thing about grubs, they don't look so different from rice. The whole family was sitting down to eat, we were about halfway through the meal when i thought one of the grains looked "burnt", then I noticed it also seemed to be made up of a number of ring segments, which is odd for rice.
It took a few moments before I figured it out and let everyone know that there were grubs in the rice, and not just a few, quite a lot actually.
Of course, everyone looked disgusted, stopped eating the rice, and tossed the rest of the bag.... but up until that point, nobody had noticed. In fact, we had probably been eating steamed grubs with our rice a couple of times a week for a while.
Coincidentally, that's exactly the same thing Hindus say about eating beef. Or half of the world about eating pork. Or 95% about oysters. Or anyone besides the french about "escargots"...
I find the idea gross, too. But there is a differenc between something that is gross and something you've been raised to find gross.
Somehow I doubt they really feel a visceral disgust on the same level as people do with insects. I mean, Jews/Muslims shun pork, but eat other things like chicken/lamb/beef that are very similar in experience; Hindus shun beef, but eat chicken/pork/lamb that are very similar in experience. Oysters I can understand, since not every country has access to the sea. It would seem to me that disgust for a particular item WITHIN a category of food would not be quite as strong as disgust for an ENTIRE category of f
Somehow I doubt they really feel a visceral disgust on the same level as people do with insects. I mean, Jews/Muslims shun pork, but eat other things like chicken/lamb/beef that are very similar in experience
That seems to be a perfect analog to people shunning insects but eating other things like crayfish/crabs/lobsters/shrimp.
I started carefully reconsidering my emotional response on insects as food when I really considered the use of the term "mud bugs" for delicious little crawfish. It's totally apt: those little things (and most of the shellfish I eat) aren't really all that un-bug-like. Now I'm quite looking forward to trying some if the opportunity arises.
See the whole part about them eating human waste and slurry and that stuff you just said? Thats why we dont eat bugs.
What do you think plants feast on? Then we eat the plants or the animals that eat those plants. It might not be human waste we tend to use as fertilizer, but it's got roughly the same "ick" factor.
But most of the fish we eat do the same thing.
I don't see why we can't make protein powder from insects. Then you just need some celebs to endorse it and make it cool.
You actually can buy flower wit ground up meal-worms currently.
From that very article: "As of 2005, the market price of cochineal was between 50 and 80 USD per kilogram, while synthetic raw food dyes are available at prices as low as 10–20 USD per kilogram."
So most red things probably aren't coloured with cochineal.
Grashoppers are best deep fried with a slug of tequilla on the side. Any parasite surviving that means we're in real trouble.
Those are wild bugs. Wild animals tend to have lots of parasites and diseases too. However, if we farmed bugs they would be mostly parasite and disease free. Given that bugs need relatively little room compared to an equivalently sized cow or pig, it would be cheaper and easier to raise them indoors... maybe even right in cities where food is needed the most.
I think that's the biggest problem by far. For most meats like beef and so forth we have rigorous food safety standards and testing facilities. Adapting those to both the very different biology, very different scale (in terms of physical size, and number of creatures we'd need to test), and very different diseases related to insects is going to be where the problems are.
If they don't taste good, or if you can't gin up appealing recipes for them, nobody'll eat'em. Aside from countries that are already eating these insects, convincing other countries to cast aside cultural taboos on insect consumption will be difficult. Even if you price them cheaply, there is still a price floor from costs of transportation to bring them to market.
I wonder how you'd market this product? What kind of pitch do you make? Talk up how it's all-natural, earth-friendly, or high in nutrition? One way or another, somewhere on the product you'll have to cop to the fact that you're selling bugs as food, which is a massive hurdle in western countries. The easiest way would probably be to just blend them up, and batterfry them or cover'em in chocolate to get people to ease into the idea of eating them.
I can get over the visuals of eating bugs if you can make it taste good. Escargot doesn't look all that different from some bugs. Ate fried mealworm too (and it was TERRIBLE, like eating pure flour).
Obviously, in affluent countries you will have to make them expensive, not cheap.
Insects aren't so different from shrimps, and apparently grasshoppers have a similar taste. Here is an article on the taste of insects: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniella-martin/what-do-bugs-taste-like-a_b_901775.html [huffingtonpost.com]
If they don't taste good, or if you can't gin up appealing recipes for them, nobody'll eat'em
I accidentally ate chocolate coated ants once. My wife had left half a mars bar neatly wrapped in the console, I spotted it while driving and with one deft movement popped the whole thing into my mouth without taking my eyes off the road. At first I thought I had hair on my face but it soon became apparent some ants were also feasting on the chocolate. I wound down the window and spat the ball of half chewed insects and toffee out the window. For the next half hour if felt like I had hair stuck at the back of my throat.
I once served hot chocolate with a boiled fly to my wife. I had prep'd a couple mugs with the hot chocolate powder and then went to do some chore while the water boiled. I came back in a few minutes and filled the mugs up without inspecting their insides. My wife was soon wondering why something with a little chew was in her sip. Apparently a fly had decided to taste test the hot chocolate and got a boiling bath. No, I still haven't lived that one down.
Even if you price them cheaply, there is still a price floor from costs of transportation to bring them to market.
I wonder how you'd market this product?
Wrong sales tactic. You need to set the price as high as possible to sell otherwise unsellable stuff. Caviar, escargots, oysters....
My understanding is: if you are going to safely eat insects, they have to be specially grown. Wild insects are loaded with insecticides.
Wild insects are loaded with insecticides.
This word "insecticide". I don't think it means what you think it means.
We already eat lobsters, crab and shrimp. And you don't have to directly eat the insects, you can process them through a hog to get yummy bacon.
Bugs aren't that bad - anyone in the area when its happening should check out the Purdue University bug bowl event that happens each year on the West Lafayette, IN campus - they have some tasty samples!
I have just had enough of all this!!!
Look, if we preserve the way we do things as civilization, there is never going to be enough. Of anything. Ever.
At this moment there is enough food to feed well the whole humanity. Period.
At this moment if we stop our Ponzi scheme of a civilization and continue to develop technology while the need for ever increasing number of people and consumption per person is gone we will have ever more per person. Do you hear me? Finite demand in infinite Universe - is that so hard to understand?
Why is everyone hailing the "green revolution"? What did it do to us? Allowed us what, 2 decades of "phew, we fed the world" warm feeling? While replacing food with tasteless accelerated growth watery fodder! You know, people pay premium prices for "biological food", but in fact this is food. Not biological , just food. The other stuff is different - processed food. This should be the division - food and process food, rather than food and biological food.
Without going into discussion why and what , here is a statement for you - the green revolution did not "save people from starvation" Those people where already there. Understand! Noone started developing the revolution in anticipation of an increasing population. The increased population was already there. It existed, therefore it had food to eat. Instead the green revolution increased the yield so we can throw the food in the sea to keep the price "right". The revolution helped very little (if at all) the actual people that were lived with malnutrition.
So now we will eat the bugs. Then the fungi and the rest of the microorganisms. And then what? "Low environmental impact"? Are you kidding me? So 1 billion people eating beef or 3 billion eating insects - what is the difference. As I said it many years ago here - there is no "low environmental impact" as long as the Ponzi scheme works. More efficient engines - cars get cheaper - people buy more cars. Better plane engines - cheaper prices - people fly more. And so on...ad infinitum.
We are trying to cheat reality! It won't work!! It never does!!! Why nobody hears?! The whole issue is as usual heavily distorted by political and business interests. Why am I surprised...
It doesn't matter how ingenious, how wonderful, or how awesome a product is. If people don't want it, they won't buy it.
The US suffers from the "ew, bugs are gross" factor. Until this changes, the US won't adopt eating bugs en mass. This will be a fringe thing until we're basically forced to because meat becomes prohibitively expensive.
I'm sure nobody here's interested, but here goes.
In Islam, insects are prohibited as food. Locusts are an exception (the only one AFAIK), so they may be eaten.
What about the other major religions?
animals that are basically insects from the sea are permitted in some sects of Islam (such as lobsters)
What about the other major religions?
There are some pretty explicit food laws in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Chapter 14 of Deuteronomy [biblegateway.com] gives a good list. 14:19 says, "And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten." This is presumably referring to insects, so they're out. Also out are pigs, camels, rabbits, anything from the water that doesn't have scales and fins (God hates shrimp! [godhatesshrimp.com]), any animal that "dies of itself" (i.e., carrion), and a smattering of other animals -- no eating bats, people.
Anyone who is actually keeping kosher will follow these laws, which means most Orthodox Jews and many other Jews. Not many Christians follow these dietary laws, but some do.
I'll go for this when the dining rooms at the United Nations [events-un.com] serve insects instead of Foie Gras Terrine with Brandied Cherry, on pretzel bread or Lamb Tartare on Japanese cracker with Tsar Sturgeon Caviar. And not insects as an option, either. I'm talking all the other stuff is off the menu.
Oh, it won't be happening? You mean we proles get to eat insects while the UN gets Seared Beef Filet with Onion Soup Boule, Asparagus, and Bearnaise Sauce or Roasted Veal Medallions with N.Y. Pretzel Crumbs, Bockwurst, and Mustard Sauce? Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought. Fuck you, UN.
Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat cake!"
UN: "Let them eat bugs!"
Here on the East Coast we're about be inundated with the 17-year cicadas (Brood II). Everybody eats cicadas, even squirrels and your pets. Looking forward to seeing some good cicada recipes when the things get plentiful.
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ONE lucky koala got a second chance, thanks to two police officers and the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital.
Quick-thinking highway patrol officers Gary Bates and Justin Cordell saved the then nine-month-old koala in September.
Senior Constable Gary Bates looked on yesterday as the healthy 2.5kg juvenile koala had her first solo adventure high up a tree.
Port Macquarie Koala Hospital pre-released the koala, named Lake Batesy, into a yard at the Lord Street facility in preparation for release into the wild.
Snr Const Bates and Snr Const Justin Cordell found the joey late at night on September 19 near the centre of Lake Road, not far from her mother, which had been killed by a car.
"We were so grateful we chose to go down that road at that time," Snr Const Bates said. "We put the flashing blue and red lights on. I collected the joey in the police fluoro raincoat."
Snr Const Bates said the koala rescue was the highlight of their week. They took her to the police station while calling the koala hospital. Snr Const Bates is now called the "koala man" at the police station.
Home carer Yon Veenstra looked after Lake Batesy for the past three months as she grew from a 965g joey into a 2.5kg juvenile that now has a healthy future.
Lake Batesy soon climbed a tree after pre-release into her temporary home.
She will be released at Dooragan National Park in the Camden Haven in the new year.
Port Macquarie Koala Hospital supervisor Cheyne Flanagan said Lake Batesy's future looked pretty good.
"It [Dooragan National Park] is the most perfect habitat you would ever find anywhere," she said.
"It's location, location, and they even have water views."


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