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QUERETARO, Mexico --- Bombardier Aerospace today announced it will establish a world-class manufacturing facility in Queretaro, Mexico to complement its existing manufacturing sites. The company will be investing approximately $200 million US in equipment, buildings and start-up costs over the next seven years.
Scheduled to be implemented in phases starting in May 2006, capabilities at Bombardier Aerospace's new Mexican facility will initially include the manufacture and assembly of wire harnesses for Bombardier aircraft. Bombardier Aerospace is in the process of evaluating the impact of the transfer of these activities on its workforce.
Later in 2006, the new facility is scheduled to start manufacturing major structural aircraft components currently being built by Bombardier Aerospace suppliers. Details on the type of components to be manufactured will be finalized in the coming months. By the end of 2006, employment at the Queretaro facility is expected to reach 300 skilled and trained workers and increase to 600 by the end of 2007.
"This facility will allow us to develop a low cost manufacturing capacity that will reduce our reliance on third parties for structural aircraft components and contribute to the reduction of our operating costs and to increased profitability," said Pierre Beaudoin, President and Chief Operating Officer, Bombardier Aerospace.
"Bombardier Aerospace is committed to its long-term relationship with the Mexican Federal government and the government of the State of Queretaro to develop a first-class aerospace industry in Mexico. By establishing its own fully integrated, world-class manufacturing facility in Queretaro, Bombardier Aerospace will serve as a catalyst for the aerospace industry in Mexico through the sharing of knowledge and of leading-edge manufacturing processes," added Mr. Beaudoin.
In keeping with its long-term commitment, Bombardier Aerospace will build its Queretaro facility so that it has the capability, in the future, for final aircraft assembly as new markets emerge. The implementation of this capability will be carried out in parallel to the Mexican Federal Government's establishment of the essential pillars to develop a substantive aerospace industry. These pillars include the harmonization of Mexican aviation regulations with the international community, adequate aerospace education systems and suitable government programs catering to the support of aerospace research and development, among others.
Queretaro, situated North of Mexico City, offers quality industrial and educational infrastructures, a skilled population and dynamic economic development policies. Its modern airport will provide Bombardier Aerospace, its suppliers and other future members of the new Mexican aerospace cluster the best potential for growth and synergies. In parallel to the establishment of its new facility, Bombardier Aerospace also plans to develop a local supplier base in support of its Mexican operations and its other facilities.
A world-leading manufacturer of innovative transportation solutions, from regional aircraft and business jets to rail transportation equipment, Bombardier Inc. is a global corporation headquartered in Canada. Its revenues for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2005, were $15.8 billion US and its shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (BBD).
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'It scares us,' union president says; Company will spend $200 million U.S. over seven years on Queretaro facility
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A new Bombardier Aerospace factory in Mexico is "scary" for Canadian workers, and the company should have to guarantee jobs here in recognition of the heavy government subsidies it receives, says the president of a union local representing 6,000 Bombardier workers in Quebec.
Bombardier confirmed yesterday it will spend $200 million U.S. over the next seven years to build a manufacturing facility in Queretaro, Mexico, a fast-growing industrial centre north of Mexico City...
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WASHINGTON, July 25 (UPI) -- A rare left-right bloc of House members vowed after a narrow loss to redouble efforts to curb a national-security program that amasses Americans' phone records.
"This is only the beginning," Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said after the House voted 216 to 205 to defeat a proposal he sponsored with Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., to restrict the National Security Agency's ability to collect Americans' phone records.
The measure -- an amendment to the military-spending bill that later passed -- would have limited NSA phone surveillance to specific targets of law-enforcement investigations, not broad dragnets.
It would have also required the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's secret opinions to be made available to lawmakers and opinion summaries to be made available to the public.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said lawmakers would keep coming back with legislation to curtail the dragnets for "metadata" records, whether through phone records or Internet surveillance.
At the very least, the USA Patriot Act section the NSA and FBI cite to justify mass phone surveillance will be allowed to expire in 2015, he said.
"It's going to end -- now or later," Nadler said. "The only question is when and on what terms."
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., promised to draft a bill in the fall to add more privacy protections to government surveillance programs.
Their threats and promises came after the House vote, which was far closer than originally expected, despite last-minute lobbying by the Obama administration and House intelligence panel members.
Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who as head of the House rarely casts a ballot, voted against the amendment.
Indeed, Boehner found himself in the rare position of being on the same side as President Barack Obama. He was joined in opposing the amendment by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., a supporter of the Tea Party movement.
Ultimately, 83 Democrats joined 134 Republicans to defeat the measure. Voting for the measure were 94 Republicans and 111 Democrats.
The unusual alliance of the House's right and left wings was dubbed "the wingnut coalition" by Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, who called Amash "the chief wingnut."
He said he jokingly gave it that name because "you have the right wing and the left wing working together and trying to get things done."
"Wingnut" usually refers pejoratively to a person in politics who holds extreme, often irrational, political views, usually with a religious overtone.
The fight will now shift to the Senate, where Mark Udall, D-Colo., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore. -- longtime critics of NSA dragnet collection and storage of personal records -- have promised to take up the cause.
"National security is of paramount importance, yet the NSA's dragnet collection of Americans' phone records violates innocent Americans' privacy rights and should not continue as its exists today," Udall, a member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism and Unconventional Threats, said after the vote.
"I am urging the president and the NSA to join this growing bipartisan coalition and work with Congress to focus the NSA's surveillance efforts on terrorists and spies -- not innocent Americans."
The White House has said Obama would veto any proposal to limit NSA surveillance.

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Need advice for a vacation that includes the Blue Ridge parkway. We are planning on leaving July 3rd and getting home on the 12th. Using the truck & trailer 1 day travel each way getting there & back. Needing 1 day of rest when we get there. Yes that is right we are candy asses.
Our situation, My wife and I are not Iron Butt people. We prefer our camper to sleep in over B&B's and Hotels. We usually stay in our area Northern Illinois & Wisconsin, triple towing our 5th wheel & bike in tow behind camper. Then do some day riding in the countryside.
This summer were thinking of setting up camp some where along the BRP around mid section of parkway and then going north for a day staying at north end over night at a hotel then back to camp rest a day or so then do the same for south end. 200 to 250 miles per day is usually enough when we are 2up. We have done 400 mile days but the wife does not like that much saddle time in one day. This should be more of a leisurely trip versus a max miles per day trip.
I have done some rule checking on triple towing and supposedly if I stay on major roads interstates & state hwy's the LEOS will leave us along concerning the triple tow. Please advise if you have any other info on this matter.
The cost of pulling the trailer vs staying at hotels is not a major consideration unless diesel goes back up to $4.50 a gallon.
We do want to see the Biltmore, sight seeing along the way, nature & scenery photography, & do a little shopping. Were not into museums, unless it is a Motorcycle Museum.
We are not dying to do Deals Gap. I would by my self but that is not my wifeÔÇÖs idea of good time. Not that we cannot do some twisties, but that is not the goal here. Doing the Cherola Skyway and any other like road. Less traveled the better. We ride a LT not a GS for what its worth.
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Jenson Button, who partnered Hamilton at McLaren from 2010 to 2012, was sure from his own experience that his fellow-Briton would come back harder than ever from his Monaco Grand Prix weekend.
Mercedes, winners of all six races so far this season, are in a class of their own and the next race in Canada is one of Hamilton's old favourites having won there three times in the last six years.
"I always remember with Lewis that when we had a tussle in a race, or there was an issue between us or with the team, he would have a really bad race and be quite outspoken and quite emotional about it," Button recalled.
"And the next race he would destroy me, he would come there and be stronger than ever."
Monaco exposed more glaringly than ever just how intense the rivalry has become between Hamilton and Rosberg, how much their relationship has cooled since the start of the season and how much suspicion and intrigue is going on behind the scenes.
The two team mates have finished the last five races one-two and would surely have done so also in the Australian opener had Hamilton not suffered a costly retirement through no fault of his own.
Button said Mercedes were so far ahead of the rest that their drivers would have to 'wipe each other out' for anyone else to have a chance of winning.
That fact, with the drivers fighting for every advantage, is turning the championship into a round-by-round bout reminiscent of the duels between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost at McLaren in 1988 and 1989.
Rosberg won the latest battle after he secured a controversial pole position on Saturday, skidding off at a crucial moment in a mistake that forced Hamilton to slow just when he looked like going faster.
Race stewards investigated and found no wrongdoing by the German but Hamilton was clearly suspicious that Rosberg had pulled a fast one, knowing it would be nearly impossible to overtake in the race.
"Whether he (Nico) did it on purpose or not, Lewis is going to think that he did," Button told Reuters. "And that's the way it is when you are team mates and pushing that hard and fighting for a championship.
"This has really helped Nico's championship, breaking Lewis's (run of) wins but is Lewis strong enough to come back? I really do think he is. You will see an even more determined Lewis at the next race.
"The mind games people play on him will not work. Initially, he is quite an emotional character, initially it might hurt but he will come back stronger than ever," said the 2009 world champion.
Button recalled how Hamilton had chafed at the Belgian Grand Prix, which Button won in 2012, over running a different downforce level to his team mate.
"It hurt him that weekend but the next race he came back and he won it," recalled the Briton. "He's very good at turning it around and coming back because he is a superb driver, he is very fast and he can wrestle a car around a circuit.
"He won't have any issues going into the next race with Nico, even if there are any games going on – and I don't think there are."
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Reclusive rock legend David Bowie's first album in 10 years has scored him a string of nominations at this year's Q Awards.
The Ziggy Stardust icon returned to the charts in March with his 24th album, The Next Day. He is now leading the way in the nominations at the magazine's annual prizegiving, with six nods under his belt.
Bowie is up for Best Track, Best Video, Best Solo Artist, Best Act in the World, and new award, Best Event for his sold-out career retrospective in London. He will also fight for the night's top prize, Best Album, against Biffy Clyro (Opposites), Daft Punk (Random Access Memories), Foals (Holy Fire) and Vampire Weekend (Modern Vampires Of The City).
Other acts leading the way are the Arctic Monkeys, Foals and Daft Punk, who all boast three nods.
As for the newcomers, the Best New Act trophy will be fought between Jake Bugg, Disclosure, Jagwar Ma, Valerie June, Laura Mvula, Tom Odell, Palma Violets and TOY.
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We are getting ready for the big night! There are only a few more sleeps! Today we made sure all the reindeer are ready. But, we had a little problem. Would you like to hear about it?
We have one reindeer that needs a little extra care. It is because he guides my sleigh. It is because he has a red nose that glows! Do you know who it is?
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer!
We polish Rudolph's nose with special nose wax. It makes it shine even more! The elves have to wear sunglasses it is so bright!
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Rudolph the reindeer,
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Rudolph said he is feeling better now. But, listen carefully Christmas Eve. If you hear an "Achoo!", look up! If you see a red light, it might just be Rudolph!
Merry Christmas!
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will describe on Monday his second-term plan for "smarter government" by using technology and data to deliver services faster and save taxpayers money, the White House said.
Obama will meet privately with his cabinet on Monday morning about the plan and then make public remarks at 11:50 a.m. (1550 GMT).
The White House said the plan would build on progress made so far in opening up government data to entrepreneurs and in modernizing government services.
In Obama's first term, the effort helped the administration reduce technology costs by more than $2.5 billion, the White House said.
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I am in Bath which is about 45 minutes north of Portland. Maybe if we had smaller groups around New England and had one big meeting once a year or every other year. I am going to try and start something around here and go from there.
We attend the Upper Valley Humanists meetup group. I am not sure where in Maine you are, but if you get on meetup.com and check your area for the phrases atheist, skeptic, humanist, freethinker, etc. you might find some options. If you start one near the northern NH border we would attend.
I just want to get involved in a secular group but not sure how or what group to join. People go to church every week and get there heads filled with nonsense. I want to offer a place too where people can meet once a week or twice a month to discuss and hopefully fill heads with rational information instead. A church of Reason? It most likely would not last long would it?
Looking for other atheist Mainers. I enjoy studying/discussing history, science, secularism, but surrounded by theists who don't seem to care about these things. I am just tired of feeling like I am the only atheist around where I live. It would be great to find others who want to meet up once a month or every other month.
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Hello good to be among a rational community!
Don't be freaked out if a stranger sends you a friend request. I just like to expand my network of rational people. :)
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Bulletin HASKINS & SELLS 75 Inventory REPRESENTATIVES of a certain large "industrial" recently appeared before the Inventory Committee of the Internal Revenue Department, and submitted an argument in favor of being permitted, in stating its accounts for income tax purposes for the year 1918, to use in valuing its inventory prices as of December 31, 1916. The counsel for the company submitted that the present level of prices is abnormally high, and that to use the prices in force December 31, 1918, would have the effect of inflating the profits for the year. Counsel for the company further argued that the company desires to be conservative and does not wish to include in its profits for the year 1918 any amount arising from a valuation of its stock in hand at an inflated price. While the case has not been settled, it is understood that the Inventory Committee looks with some tolerance upon the argument of the company, and it seems quite possible that a decision favorable to the company will be rendered. This case brings to mind a somewhat similar attempt on the part of certain English companies to obtain relief from the burden imposed by the high prices incident to the war. The substance of the request is well stated in the following letter which appears in the London "Accountant," Vol. 52, page 567: " T H E VALUATION OF STOCK." To the Editor of The Accountant: Sir:—At the present time the values of some commodities are much above the normal. Is there any obligation on the part of a trader, or company, to value stock at cost or market price instead of prudently taking a much lower figure and omitting all reference to this reduction in the Balance Sheet? Valuations To illustrate my meaning, a company owning a flour mill took stock on 31st of March last. Calculating the value of wheat and flour on hand in the usual way (cost price or market price, whichever is lower) the amount came to (say) £50,000. Wheat was at that time about 60s. a quarter and is now higher. The managing director proposes to reduce the value of the stock by a round sum of £7,500. on the ground that present prices are excessive, and that at any time changed circumstances may result in a sudden and heavy fall in market values. The mill usually carries about ten week's requirements in wheat and flour, so that at the present time, when the accounts are being made up, about half the stock on hand at 31st March will have been sold at prices well above the market prices on that date. The directors anticipate a very difficult time when the inevitable fall in prices does occur, and they prefer to make such 'secret reserve' as I have indicated to disclosing a larger profit and transferring a similar sum to Reserve Account in the usual way. Yours faithfully, 24th April, 1915. MILLER. (We see no objection to the proposed course.—Ed. Acct.)" A discussion which took place between the Association of Controlled Owners and the Board of Inland Revenue, as set forth in Sanders's "The Law and Practice of Excess Profits Duty," pages 54-62, appears below: "It is necessary with Excess Profits Duty that the same basis of arriving at stock be followed throughout all pre-war and accounting periods, so as to ensure a fair comparison between the pre-war and war periods. It is not permissible to write down stock against a possible future loss on the termination of war producing a fall in prices, but any actual loss on stock held
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Air Conditioning
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Awesome and seamless process
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Took too long
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Mechanical problems and multiple shutdowns have forced the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station off line 72 days this year, raising concerns about the 685-megawatt nuclear plant and the possibility of increased scrutiny by federal regulators.
Mechanical problems and multiple shutdowns have forced the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station off-line 72 days this year, raising concerns about the 685-megawatt nuclear plant and the possibility of increased scrutiny by federal regulators.
A director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week that an unplanned shutdown of Pilgrim recently is likely to trigger new inspections of the plant and push Pilgrim into a small group of just five other nuclear plants in the U.S. deemed under-performers by the NRC.
"There's a scram that occurred three weeks ago that we are looking into," said Darrell Roberts, director of the NRC Region I Division of Reactor Projects in King of Prussia, Pa.. "It could very well trip that (performance) indicator." The scram, which is a rapid shutdown, occurred on Sept. 8 hen the plant's feed water system developed a small steam leak.
Roberts is quick to point out that none of the troubles at Pilgrim have posed safety risks, and Entergy Corp. – the Louisiana company that operates Pilgrim and 10 other nuclear plants in the U.S. – says that 46 days Pilgrim was offline this year were due to a planned refueling of the plant last spring.
The February blizzard crippled power transmission lines and caused a 7-day shutdown at Pilgrim. Electrical problems with pumps that supply cooling water to the reactor core were responsible for other unplanned shutdowns.
But the timing of so many shutdowns at Pilgrim also coincides with Entergy's decision in August to close down its Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, citing maintenance costs and low wholesale energy prices. Vermont Yankee, which will be decommissioned next year, and Pilgrim, are both single-unit plants with boiling water reactors of similar design and containment system.
The pairing of events worries Mathew Muratore, the chairman of Plymouth's board of selectmen.
"Anytime they have to shut down, it's somewhat concerning. We've noticed it happening more and more, and I wonder if it's the age of the plant," Muratore said.
Pilgrim was re-licensed last year for another 20 years, but Muratore is skeptical about the nuclear plant's future.
"When the plant does close – and it's not a matter of if, it's when – it's going to have a financial impact on this town. It may not be 20 years. It may be as few as five to ten years the way the economy is with nuclear energy. It's a depressed market … You see Vermont (Yankee) closing, and you see some of the signs. You don't know."
Entergy officials said that the company has invested $500 million in upgrades to Pilgrim and that Pilgrim is slightly larger than Vermont Yankee and located in a power market with greater demand. But Muratore would like to see Entergy communicate better with the town about shutdowns.
"Us common people don't understand a lot of this and a shutdown makes people a little nervous," he said. Dave Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer and the director of nuclear safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said nuclear power plants that repeatedly shut down or operate at reduced power can indicate problems.
"Pilgrim may rack up enough unplanned power reductions to cross the (NRC) Green/White threshold," said Lochbaum.
White is a lower rating category devised by federal regulators. Lochbaum said that only one other nuclear reactor in the U.S. has been given that lower color rating by the NRC – Entergy-owned FitzPatrick Nuclear Station in upstate New York, which has a similar design to Pilgrim and Vermont Yankee. Regional and more local critics of nuclear power have sized up recent events at Pilgrim and Vermont Yankee and argue that Entergy now lacks the financial strength to operate three of its plants, including Pilgrim.
Pilgrim Watch, which is run by Mary Lampert of Duxbury, along with a consortium of other activists, has petitioned the NRC to investigate whether Entergy meets minimum financial requirements to operate Pilgrim.
Sen. Edward Markey, a longtime critic of Pilgrim, said in a statement that the increasing number of unplanned shutdowns "serve as a major warning sign about its long-term prognosis.
"The NRC should be prescribing extra safety measures for Pilgrim in order to protect its operational health and safety," Markey said.
Operators this year have decided to close down permanently five nuclear reactors, the highest-ever in one year.
Bloomberg News reported last month that downsizing of America's nuclear plants from 104 to 99 is also influenced by Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, which triggered stricter regulations and higher maintenance costs.
Entergy's prognosis for Pilgrim?
"Entergy has not made any decisions to shut down any of its other merchant nuclear facilities," officials said in a written response to questions.
Muratore isn't so convinced.
"As a town we can't act as if we've got 18 to 19 years left (with Pilgrim)," he said. "We can't plan that way."
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It's risky to make absolute statements about anything, and it's even more perilous to make them about the possible outcome of a nomination contest that still won't start for another 16 months, but I am fairly confident when I say that Palin has no chance of winning. There, I've told him.
I've gone over the reasons why she has no chance in as many ways as I can. There are structural reasons (the GOP does not reward insurgents and favors establishment-backed candidates) and organizational reasons (her organization remains minimal and insufficient). Her unpopularity with non-Republicans is enough to give even her most enthusiastic admirers pause, and many of her admirers don't think she is qualified for the office. As I was suggesting recently, there is probably a higher bar to nominating a woman for President in the GOP than in the Democratic Party, and there would probably be resistance to using a presidential nomination for the sake of achieving a symbolic "first" by choosing a woman. On this point, I would add one more observation: Republicans have an excessive, some might say absurd, admiration for the office of the Presidency, and they are especially enamored of executive power in wartime, and nominating Palin for that office simply goes against too many of their presidential-cultist and militarist instincts that not even Palin's own militarism will be enough to compensate.
Simon's question about the "most serious human being" unintentionally points to the reason why Palin has no chance. In 2000, Republicans were presented with a Western "reform" governor with few real achievements to his name, minimal relevant experience, and no obvious qualifications for the position or expertise in any major areas of policy. He was publicly exuberant about his religiosity, practiced an "aw shucks" campaign style, littered his speeches and debates with colloquial language, and seemed not to be embarrassed that he knew little or nothing about most of the rest of the world. Like Palin, Bush was far from being stupid, but both of them seem to take delight in their lack of knowledge, as if it confirmed that their down-home facade was who they really are. Ten years ago, we were told by admiring pundits that voters weren't interested in wonks or experts, but wanted someone who was "one of them." Of course, Bush was the farthest thing from being "one of them" as he could be, but in his aggressive pursuit of mediocrity he managed to convince a surprisingly large number of people to entrust him with incredible power. When it became known that Bush liked to make decisions from his "gut," this seemed to enthrall millions of people and put their minds at ease, as if "gut" decisions were more desirable because they were irrational. And, yes, he won election by slimmest of margins, and then he won one of the weakest re-election mandates in modern presidential history, and almost immediately Americans began to regret that outcome.
We have already given one obviously unqualified Western governor a chance to wreck the country in the last decade, and not even the Republican Party that continues to defend and like Bush is so clueless and self-destructive that it would go to the country with a female version of the disaster we just experienced. The other possible contenders Simon mentions are all flawed and unattractive in different ways, but none of them so fully embodies all of the flaws that made Bush such a poor President as Palin. Most of the public already knows this, and given a chance to choose anyone other than Palin the GOP will turn gratefully to one of the others so that they might have at least a fighting chance in two years.


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5 Alarm Fire at Pasco Trailer Park Likely Caused by Old Wiring
A trailer fire in Pasco's Flamingo Village Mobile Home Park around 3 p.m. Tuesday was likely caused by dated electrical wiring, said park manager Angela Watkins.
The fire destroyed the home. No one was home. A 30-year-old woman and her husband — both at work when the fire started — were the occupants. Fire fighters were unsure of the cause.
The home was likely built in the mid-1960s, Watkins said. It was only worth about $500. The park saw two fires in 2012 — both in aged trailers, both caused by electrical problems.
Minerva Torres, another park resident and sister to the owner of the burnt trailer, said her sister was at work when she heard the news. Aside from family photographs and personal items, she was most distressed over a brand-new bedroom set and being homeless.
Although her sister had maintained home insurance for most of the three years she'd been in the park, she had recently allowed it to lapse.
Pasco police shut down the street where 28th Avenue and A Street intersect to give space to the fire hoses just as school buses arrived to drop kids off for the afternoon. Traffic congestion was quickly becoming a problem for the neighborhood.
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The Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution Group (PTD) is electrifying a hundred villages in Gabon in a 20 million euro project ordered by the state energy ministry and scheduled for completion by the end of 2003.
Under this program, Siemens is installing maintenance-free decentralized power supply systems, each consisting of a switchgear cubicle with inverter, battery charge regulator and lead-acid batteries supplied from solar collectors on the roof of the cubicle. These systems have been developed to provide power for medical stations, village schools, homes and street lighting. Typical uses in the country's remote villages, which are scattered hundreds of kilometers apart, include the refrigeration of life-saving vaccines and the operation of interior and exterior lights, fans and even short-wave receivers and satellite phones.
The solar energy systems for village schools are designed for a peak power of 660W, those for medical stations for 550W, while the systems provided for domestic and street lighting applications operate at 110W. Medical stations and schools are supplied with alternating current at 220V. The electricity is distributed via conventional surface-mounted wiring. The solar power systems for domestic use operate at 12V DC using sockets safeguarded against polarity reversal. In this case, the steel cubicle containing the batteries – minus the inverter – is installed inside the hut and the solar cells are mounted on a steel pole outside. The steel cubicles are of a hermetically-sealed, vermin-proof design. An electronic circuit-breaker in the cubicle automatically reconnects the system following any brief short-circuit or overload. Keys are lodged with the village elder in case any of the cubicles have to be opened at some future date, for example to change the batteries after a six to 10-year service life.
Siemens PTD is working with numerous small local companies in its role as system integrator. The decentralized power supply systems are supplied from Germany as turn-key installations. Once in situ, they simply have to be mounted on concrete strip foundations, connected up to the electrical systems and commissioned for operation. The aim of bringing solar electricity to villages in Gabon is not just to raise living standards and improve communications in this country of 270,000 square kilometers. It is also hoped that this scheme will make it possible to store and refrigerate vaccines and medicines in medical stations to help improve healthcare and reduce Gabon's high infant mortality rate of 8.7%.


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oloelterlapa Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) -- also referred to as "civil society" -- frequently work with Intergovernmental organizations like the United Nations. Although many libraries collect NGO publications, there is no clear process or mandate within libraries to do that. So this project's plan is to:
- Create an NGO search engine using the Google Custom Search Engine (ala the IDTF's project, IGO search);
- Create a guide for collecting NGO publications
Interested? Contact James (jrjacobs AT stanford DOT edu).


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David Letterman's hilarious first post-scandal-revelation monologue invoked some of his favorite comic targets: Bill Clinton, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Oprah Winfrey. But in each instance, Letterman was his own punch line.
"I want to remind you, this is only Phase 1 of the scandal," he told his audience Monday night. "Phase 2, I go on Oprah next week and sob."
The monologue marked one of Letterman's most memorable, dangerous and gutsiest performances – and it was damn funny.
But how long can Letterman go on being the butt of his own jokes?
He poked fun at his situation again Tuesday night, introducing a sullen old man as his understudy. "There's a wide variety of reasons I may not be able to continue," Letterman deadpanned.
Still, Letterman went easy on himself compared to the night before, when he bounced from comedy to apology and back – referring to his off-camera troubles in near every segment, except for a Top 10 list about raising monkeys and a Steve Martin banjo interlude.
Self-deprecating humor long has been a potent weapon in Letterman's comic arsenal. But jokes about his bad driving and worse hair aren't quite in the same league as cracks about being at the center of a sex scandal.
While he's never shied away from lampooning himself, Letterman is best known for skewering others – everyone from Clinton to Dick Cheney. We don't watch Letterman for his self-flagellation – the puncturing of the pompous with pointed sarcasm is the main draw.
He displayed some of his old edge Tuesday, ridiculing Rush Limbaugh and verbal sparring partner Sarah Palin – suggesting that drinking one's own bodily waste would be "more fun" than reading the former Alaska governor's upcoming memoir.
Few comedians, save for the great Rodney Dangerfield, could make a career out of making fun of themselves. Letterman's challenge is to firmly re-establish his comic persona as an irreverent outsider who roasts the characters in the news – not exactly an easy task when he's dominating the headlines.
So far, the wit that's made Letterman a late-night legend has served him well as he slogs his way through this personal and professional morass. His ratings, not surprisingly, are up since he revealed the affairs and alleged extortion plot last week, and he showed encouraging signs of returning to business as usual Tuesday night.
But the story is still unfolding, and it's unclear if or how Letterman will react publicly to potential developments. He would be wise to remember that in the long term, viewers looking for few laughs before bed could run out of patience if his life becomes a running joke.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Chicago newspaperman Edward H. Eulenberg is credited with telling young reporters, "If your mother says she loves you, check it out."*
Good advice, not only for skeptical journalists but also for anyone who is getting information through social networking platforms such as Twitter. Case in point: April's AP tweet, following a hack, announcing explosions at the White House that caused momentary free fall in the stock markets.
In the end it was no big deal; the news was refuted, stocks rebounded, tragedy averted. But the incident underscores the risks of relying on social media for uses they are not designed and maintained for, especially in the face of growing threats targeting almost anything and everything that is online.
"People shouldn't be surprised that social media is being attacked," analyst and former government security official Mischel Kwon said recently. "But they are surprised."
We are surprised not so much because these platforms are being attacked, but because we have become so sensitive to them. Over the past five years they have moved from casual amusements to being essential tools for businesses and even government. A Google search of the phrase "follow us on Facebook" (admittedly not a scientific method) returned about 3.6 million responses in the .gov domain. The Marines have published a guide for "Building Your Presence with Facebook Pages."
There is nothing necessarily wrong with this, but it would be wise for agencies — and everyone else — to remember that these platforms were not developed as mission applications and probably are not being maintained with the security that the Marines, for instance, would expect in their own systems or would require of a contractor hosting an official site. The AP Twitter hack appears to have been a simple user-name-and-password breach, and the results of using Twitter as a news feed were at the very least embarrassing for both the AP and those who believed the tweet. (Interestingly, the first item on the AP Twitter feed when I checked the morning I wrote this "Syria's pro-Assad hackers hack and hijack Financial Times blogs, Twitter feeds.")
As a marketing and public relations tool, social networks can easily backfire. As a means for disseminating official information, they could be disastrous if not adequately secured.
So use social networks with a healthy dose of skepticism. If your mother tweets that she loves you, check it out.
*In the interest of skepticism, it should be pointed out that Mr. Eulenberg claimed that this was a misquote. In his 1988 obit in the Chicago Sun-Times, he is quoted as having said, "I never said that. What I said was, `If your mother tells you she loves you, kick her smartly in the shins and make her prove it.'" Sometimes it seems as if you can't trust anyone.
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BC: Our journey begins...
1: THE WEDDING OF | Andrew Warren Mann | Mikal Lee~Lynn Guthrie | & | January 29th, 2011 | . . . . . . . . . . . .
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4: I love you with everything I am, and more than anyone ever thought possible...
5: Our Love is Everlasting
6: My favorite place to be is inside of your hugs where it's warm and loving. I Love You!
8: For hearing my thoughts, understanding my dreams and being my best friend, for filling my life with joy and loving me without end, I do.
9: I would not swap the feeling of being in love with anything, the warmth and comfort you bring to my life, the way you look into my eyes, yes, I will be your wife!
10: Love is looking into someone's eyes and seeing yourself perfect for the first time in your life.
11: Two hearts that have been merged is marriage; two souls that have been merged is fate.
13: "Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be okay."
14: "I've fallen in love many times.. always with you."
17: Love is patient, love is kind, love never ends.
18: An eternity is forever, and forever with you would be a dream come true.
19: You are my soul mate, my sweetheart, you are my dream come true, from now until the end of time I give my heart and soul to you.
22: "Love is looking into someone's eyes and seeing yourself perfect for the first time in your life."
25: Today and always, beyond tomorrow, I need you beside me, always as my best friend, lover and forever soul mate.


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Postmedia Network and Kijiji Join Forces to Provide Expanded Automotive Listings
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January 23, 2013 (TORONTO) – Postmedia Network, Canada's largest publisher of paid English language daily newspapers and Kijiji, Canada's most popular free, local, online classifieds website, today announced that the used car listings for all 10 Postmedia daily newspaper websites* and driving.ca are now powered by Kijiji. The new automotive classifieds sites offer a mobile friendly experience.
"By working with Kijiji we have turbo-charged our listings offerings while continuing to deliver Postmedia's great content to our audiences," said Wendy Desmarteaux, Senior Vice President, Postmedia. "The new used car classifieds sites give audiences more than double the used car listings and enrich their shopping experience."
In addition to a greater selection of listings, Postmedia's audience will benefit from Kijiji's detailed and user friendly search functionality that helps users find their next car easily based on preferences, including vehicle make, model, year, price range, body type, transmission, drive train, and even fuel type. From Vancouver to Toronto and Ottawa, Canadians everywhere will enjoy the convenience of a local search experience when shopping for their next used car.
"Leveraging Postmedia's vast audience and award-winning content with our massive inventory of over 150,000 vehicle listings, this deal offers a fantastic resource for busy Canadians looking to research and buy their next car online", said Scott Neil, Head of Vertical Business, Kijiji. "The new used car classifieds sites will make it even easier for Canadians to find the car they want by streamlining the search process and giving them access to Kijiji auto postings on the trusted news sites they visit every day."
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Postmedia Network Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (TSX:PNC.A, PNC.B), is the largest publisher by circulation of paid Englishlanguage daily newspapers in Canada, representing some of the country's oldest and best known media brands. Reaching millions of Canadians every week, Postmedia Network engages readers and offers advertisers and marketers integrated solutions to effectively reach target audiences through a variety of print, online, digital, and mobile platforms.


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What is this page?
This is a collection guide. It is a description of archival material held in the Special Collections Division,
J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. The materials described here are physically available in our
reading room. To see what's been digitized in this collection, click on the thumbnail at the top right of this page
or look for hyperlinks in the container list and/or the preliminary inventory.
The papers consist of materials relating to the William Moore Family of Greene and Pitt Counties in North Carolina, as well as other families that are related to the Moores by marriage. Included in this collection are financial and legal documents (1782-1902, undated) associated with the Moore Family. These include bills of sale, receipts, land plats, promissory notes, indentures, deeds, surveys, and estate inventories. Of interest are Smith family deeds (1818) that exemplify the sale of land by a guardian of infant heirs, sale of multiple tracts, and sale of dower lands in the estate of a deceased husband. Also included is a record of a sale by a minor (1824). Much of the remainder is concerned with the settlement of the estate of William Moore (1830-1835), including an inventory, which lists twenty-six slaves by name. A marriage license (1832) for James Nelson and Annice Moore also has genealogical notes on the Llewellyn family on the back. Records of sales of slaves (1797-1818), promissory notes and notes receivable (1818-1823), and legal papers concerning amounts of money owed William Moore and his estate are also included.
The papers also include financial documents relating to the J. & M. Moore Store (1859-1890). These receipts, transactions, and correspondence show the names of many Greenville citizens, as well as what people ordered, how much it cost, and where merchants purchased their merchandise.
The bulk of the papers consist of genealogical research material relating to the William Moore family and the James Brooks family. These materials include notes and correspondence between the donor and her contacts, newspaper clippings, photocopies of research documents and published material, photographic prints, and photocopies of photographic prints. In the folder of genealogical materials relating to William and Annis Lewellyn Moore (#596.1.a) is a handwritten document (undated) entitled "A few lines to the drunkard hopeing (sic) he will see his Error and turn from his bad habbit (sic) and be wise. Simptoms (sic) etc. of drunkard". Also included in the Moore family genealogical materials is a bound, typescript copy (2003) of "Some Moore Kin: Descendants of William and Annis Llewellyn Moore of Pitt and Greene Counties North Carolina," composed and compiled by Rachel Brooks Hord, the donor of the collection. The document contains Mrs. Hord's interpretations of the genealogical research material that she compiled about the Moore family.
The genealogical research material related to the Brooks family contains several items written by, to, or about the individual whose folder they are placed in. In the Francis Brooks Family folder (#596.3.e) are two letters (June 30, 1907, July 28, 1907) written by Francis ("Frank") Brooks. Included in the Edwin Brooks Family folder (#596.3.f) is a bill of sale (1859) in which Edwin Brooks paid Frances Brooks, $4,000 for five family slaves named John, Viney, Nancy, Joseph, and Mahly. In this same folder are three letters (1896, undated) written by Edwin's daughter, Melissa, to Elder P. D. Gold, one of which is an obituary for her mother, Martha Moore Brooks. The John Wilkes Brooks Family folder (#596.3.g) contains three Pitt County deeds (1885, 1891, 1963), a letter (1886) from M. Fields to his sister, Elizabeth Fields Brooks (wife of John Wilkes Brooks), a County of Pitt-North Carolina Taxpayer's Notice for 1934 Taxes, a copy (1977) of "Zion's Landmark: Published Monthly by Primitive or Old School Baptist," and several other letters written to Mr. or Mrs. John Wilkes Brooks or family members.
Also included in the genealogical research materials of this collection are the Culpepper, Lewellyn, Mooring, Mayo, Grimes, Hardee and Moye families.
The oversized material in this collection consists of deeds and indentures acquired by the Moore family (1784-1879). There is also a Confederate States of America $100 bond (1863).
William Moore (circa 1754-July 19, 1828) was living in Pitt County by 1797 when he was granted 200 acres on Grindall Creek. He married Annis Llewellyn (d. October 12, 1837), daughter of John Llewellyn of Martin County, before 1790. William and Annis had ten children named Rickey, John, Mary, Whitmill (April 5, 1798-circa 1832), Marina, Susannah, Lucinda and Alfred (November 29, 1809-circa 1838), William and Annis. Rickey Moore (December 11, 1790-circa 1834) married Mary Grimes on March 5, 1829. Mary Moore (b. June 7, 1796) married Henry Forrest around 1814. Marina Moore (October 19, 1800- July 20, 1858) married Allen Hardee around 1821. Susannah Moore (b. December 15, 1803) married Alexander Brinkley around 1823. Lucinda Moore (December 18, 1806-November 5, 1874) married Joseph W. Godley around 1833. William Moore (November 11, 1811-July 17, 1886) married Arcena Powell on January 6, 1833. Annis Moore (December 23, 1813-October 25, 1834) married James Nelson on December 17, 1832. John Moore (March 29, 1794-March 4, 1859) married Penelope Hardee on December 2, 1819. Prior to the Civil War, John and his cousin, Marcellus Moore, owned a store in Greenville, NC called the J. & M. Moore Store. John later owned a store on 5th and Cotanche Streets. John and Penelope had 16 children, one of whom was named Martha. Martha married Edwin Brooks, the great-grandson of James Brooks.
James Brooks' (1720-1806) son William Brooks (ca.1751-1816) married Sarah Hardee. They both lived in Pitt County, NC. William and Sarah had sons named Southey, Francis, and twins Wilkes and Joseph. Southey Brooks (ca. 1779-pre-1860) married Livinia Moye. He moved to Shelby County, TN and later to Arkansas. Francis Brooks (1786-1874) married Elizabeth Hardee. He later married Mary Mills. (See related Francis Brooks Papers #370.1-370.2.) Francis and Elizabeth had a son named Edwin (1820-1863) who married Martha Moore, daughter of John and Penelope Hardee Moore. Edwin and Martha's son, John Wilkes Brooks (1856-1921) married Susan Elizabeth Fields in 1884. They had six sons and four daughters. One of their sons, Francis Edwin (b. 1885) married Bessie Wootton in 1911. They had children named Francis Edwin Brooks, Glenn Wootton Brooks (donor of papers), William Gray Brooks, Paul Brooks, Blanche Brooks and Rachel Brooks (donor of papers).
Regarding Willam and Sarah's twins (b.1785), Wilkes moved to Memphis, TN and died in 1849. Joseph married Jemima Cannon and moved to Shelby County, TN. He died in 1835. Joseph and Jemima had sons named William, Belvidere, and Joseph Wilkes Brooks. Belvidere Brooks (1825-1862) moved from Pitt County, NC to Shelby County, TN and then to Wheelock, TX. Joseph Wilkes Brooks (1829-1916) married Josephine Smith (1835-1885). Born in Pitt County, NC, he moved to Shelby, TN, and then to Waco, TX. William Brooks (1818-1868) married Matilda Hughes. He moved from Pitt County, NC to Shelby County, TN and then to Jefferson, TX. William and Matilda had three children named Martha, Robert J. and William.
June 23, 1990, 52 items; Papers (1782-1856) of the William Moore family of Pitt County, N.C., including grants, deeds, promissory notes, plats, slave records, estate inventory, receipts, and miscellany. Donor: Mr. Glenn Brooks, Montgomery, Alabama, and Mrs. Rachel Hord, Crescent City, Florida.
August 13, 2002, (addition 1), 33 items, 0.013 cubic feet; Papers (1795-2002) relating to the William Moore family of Greene County and Pitt County, NC, and their business dealings, lands, and estates. Donor: Mrs. Rachel B. Hord.
October 27, 2003, (addition 2), 51 items, 0.02 cubic feet; Papers (1818-1902, undated) relating to the William Moore family of Greene County and Pitt County, NC, and their business dealings, lands, and estates. Donor: Mrs. Rachel Brooks Hord.
March 22, 2007, (addition 3), 260 items, 0.50 cubic feet; Collection (1983-2004, undated) of genealogical research materials, including transcripts, reproductions and photocopies of documents, with research notes by the donor, etc. relating to the William Moore family of Greene County and Pitt County, NC, and the related Brooks, Culpepper, Grimes, Hardee, Llewellyn, Mayo, and Mooring families. Donor: Mrs. Rachel Brooks Hord.
April 6, 2009, (addition 4), 499 items, 1.00 cubic feet; Papers (1773-2001, undated) pertaining to the family of William Moore and related Brooks, Cannon, Hardee, Moore, and Moye families of Greenville and Pitt County, NC; Memphis and Shelby County, TN; and Waco, Jefferson, and Wheelock, TX, including correspondence, financial records, legal papers, and genealogical files. Donor: Mrs. Rachel B. Hord.
March 23, 2012, (unprocessed addition 5), 0.05 cubic feet; Most of the material (1838-1919, 1989, undated) relates to the Moore family including a Nov. 1865 document dealing with debts owed by the J & M Moore, merchants in Greenville, N.C., and 3 accounts owed to them for 1860 and 1861, receipts and promissory notes (1869-1919), photocopy of notes made about the 1918 sale of John Moore's land, family photographs, birth and death records, a document (undated) stating that John Moore (17th Reg. N.C. Militia) is an owner of over 20 slaves and is discharged from military service, 1871 insurance policy, information on Civil War service, and photocopies of Bank of Washington (N.C.) money dated 1858 and post WWII Japanese occupation money. Material related to the Brooks family includes an 1869 indenture, typescript of an 1838 letter from H. Brooks of Big Creek (Tennessee) recounting his recent 2 month trip to Arkansas and Texas, information (from 1820s through 1840s) on the Brooks and Hardee families found in the Red Banks Primitive Baptist Church (Pitt Co., N.C.) minutes, promissory notes (1902-1919), death records for Brooks and Tucker families and genealogical notes. Donor: Mrs. Rachel Brooks Hord.
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison (pictured) was slow to warm to this whole cloud computing thing. So when Oracle rolled out its cloud infrastructure-as-a-service in January, people were understandably skeptical. And as it turned out, they had good reason to feel this way, because Oracle's IaaS comes with all kinds of caveats.
First, customers have to sign a three-year contract to access Oracle IaaS. They also have to pay for software licenses outside the monthly fee Oracle charges for accessing the service. Ellison once called out Saleforce.com for not having a true cloud model on par with that of Amazon Web Services. Well, calling Oracle IaaS a cloud is certainly a case of elastic interpretation.