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For Garth Snow and the Islanders, their search for a new head coach to replace Ted Nolan has come down to three candidates: Bob Hartley, Paul Maurice, or the AHL's Scott Gordon.
Hartley's NHL coaching career started in 1998 in Colorado, whose strong QMJHL and AHL records had caught the eye of then-GM Pierre Lacroix. He enjoyed 4 very successful years in Denver, including a 52-16-10-4 record and a Stanley Cup win in 2001. He was fired the following season in 2002 after a slow start, and joined the Thrashers a month later. Although he had gone from a perennial contender to a basement dweller, it didn't stop Hartley from winning. In 2007, the Thrashers set a franchise record with 41 wins and their first ever playoff birth. But once again, despite his success the previous season, his Thrashers were off to a cold start and he was fired by Don Waddell after going pointless in six straight games. Despite all this success, depending on who you ask, Hartley isn't exactly an angel. In 2005, against the Lightning, Thrasher Eric Boulton elbowed Paul Ranger in the head, resulting in a concussion and a fractured jaw. Boulton was subsequently suspended for six games, but it didn't stop John Tortorella from lambasting the enforcer, saying that "no one wants to see him on the ice." After the suspension, Boulton pleaded innocence, and claimed that he was only doing what he was told to do, implying that a frustrated Hartley had told him to get out there and headhunt. After all, Boulton is an enforcer and that's what he's employed by NHL teams to do. It was never definite whether or not Hartley asked Boulton to headhunt, but Hartley was under fire for a short while and since then the Thrashers and Lightning have enjoyed quite the rivalry.
To be honest, I never liked Maurice. He did a great job in Carolina, but I thought from the beginning that he was a terrible choice for the Leafs. Despite his successes, it's always been overlooked that he is a poor special teams tactician. Throughout his coaching career, Maurice's teams have traditionally never been good at killing penalties. In 2001, the Hurricanes had the second-best PK% in the league, but it all went downhill from there. When the Hurricanes made the finals in 2002, they were tied with the Devils with the worst PK% for playoff-bound teams in the East, with 83.7%. In his next full years, Carolina would rank 24th on the PK. In his first season with the Leafs, they had a 17.7% PP (17th) and 78.5% PK (27th). This year, their PP was 17.8% (15th) and PK 78.1% (29th). It can be argued that Maurice didn't have the right players to work with (Peter Laviolette hasn't exactly gotten the Canes' PK out of the basement yet either), but I don't think it's a valid excuse for a playoff contender to finish near dead last in the league. He was under a lot of scrutiny in Toronto, and perhaps a move to a less hockey-crazed city would be a good change of scenery and hopefully be able to repeat the successes he had while in Carolina.
Gordon is the least well-known of the three, but is apparently well-respected in hockey circles. The former netminder enjoyed three successful years at Boston College, and started his coaching career in the IHL before moving onto the ECHL then head coach for Providence in the AHL in 2003. The 45-year old was the winner of the Louis Pieri Memorial Award, annually given to the best coach in the AHL. Considering the recent success of promoting AHL coaches (ie. Bruce Boudreau), it could be a good idea to take Gordon over the other two.


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If you are attending Enterprise2.0 conference next week in Boston, here are some of the events that I will be at. I may session-hop because there is just too much to see. Our BlueIQ Social software adoption will be all around the event, and even Gina Poole, our VP will be there.
Monday 14th,
8:30am – 4:15pm, Black Belt Practitioners Workshop
Many 2.0AdoptionCouncil members inc. Jamie Pappas, Megan Murray, Bart Schutte, Luis Suarez, Stan Garfield, Claire Flanagan, and Rawn.
4:30-6pm, Evening in the Cloud
Sean Poulley, VP Online Collaboration Services
Tuesday 15th,
3:30-4:30pm, Lotus Enterprise Collaboration and Productivity
Kevin Cavanaugh, VP Messaging and Collaboration
Wednesday 16th,
12:00-12:45pm (after lunch), Social Networking for Business Book Signing/Giveaway & Nurturing BlueIQ: Enterprise 2.0 Adoption in IBM Whitepaper release – at IBM Booth on expo floor.
1-2pm, Evolution of E2.0 at IBM: The Frustrations and the Glory
Jeanne Murray and Rawn
2:30-3pm, A quick chat/meetup around my book Social Networking for Business, at IBM Booth
3:30-4:30pm, Social Behavior, Usage Patterns and Adoption
David Millen, IBM Research
There are also SweetTweets--Yay! Candy! as my 3yr old would say--at the booth during most of the show.
Other interesting sessions to go see:
- Rachel Happe, You say Social Media I say Community, Does it Matter? Tues 3:30-4:30pm
- Marcia Conner's panel on Social Learning, Thurs 10:45-11:45pm
- Kathleen Culver, Greg Lowe's The Dark Side of E2.0 Wed 8-8:45pm
Unfortunately with conflicts, I'll miss some sessions that seem interesting:
- Rob Howard's Strategic Analytics on Wed 2:15pm-3:15pm
- Mike Gotta's Standards panel also on Wed 2:15pm-3:15pm
- Dion Hinchcliffe's Establishing ROI panel, Wed 3:30-4:30pm
Like everyone, I'll probably be posting on and off about what I see and hear at the conference.

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Just received a Tula Krink kit from R-Guns and I am very happy with their service. Called them Friday morning with a couple of quick questions, ordered the kit online Friday early afternoon and they had it to UPS by Friday evening. Truck delivered it today, Tuesday. R-Guns even shipped it "Signature Required." Glad to see an expensive parts kit wasn't just left on my door step for anyone to walk away with.
Thumbs up for R-Guns.


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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain sat down with Arsenal on Thursday and you can watch the video clip now by clicking on the link to the right.
Alternatively, scroll down this page for a transcript of this exclusive interview.
Alex, was Tuesday night a turning point in your career?
I wouldn't say it's a turning point, I just think it is the start to a new part of my career. Hopefully it is the first of many for me. It is just the start, I have a lot more work to do and a lot more appearances to hopefully make. It was an OK start for me, I was happy with the way the game went and the fact that we won was positive. More than a turning point I think it was a start for me, hopefully for better things to come.
You were written about in the newspapers and you were talked about on television. Have you consumed that or have you blocked it out?
I haven't read anything about it to be fair. People have been saying 'you're on Sky Sports News' but I haven't seen anything and I haven't read anything. One thing I don't let myself do is get carried away. I know I have got a long journey and a lot of things I want to achieve here at Arsenal Football Club. I was happy with the way it went on Tuesday night but I know there is a long way and a lot of hard work left to go.
One person you would have spoken to is your father, what did he say to you?
I can't really remember to be fair, there was a lot of people talking to me when he said something. He said I need to stay in the game as long as I can and he said I need to get fitter so I don't get cramp! I know all these things and that will come with time, with more game time.
You seemed to be very confident on the night for a young player playing at Emirates Stadium
Definitely. When I am on the pitch I do like to have the ball. That's why I try to get on it and make things happen. That is one thing about my game, if I'm not creating a goal or making something happen I'm not happy. So I am always trying to do something with the ball. I am quite a confident person and I am quite confident when I am on the pitch. It felt good on Tuesday night and the fans helped because they were positive towards me and that helped. It does help when you have got the fans and the manager behind you. It does help your confidence.
It was a bit different to your debut when you came on late with Arsenal already losing at Old Trafford. Did that game affect you in any way?
There was a few times I was on the bench before that game and I was itching to get on. I was delighted to make my debut on a big occasion like that at Old Trafford. But, obviously, you have got the mixed emotions with the final score that overweighed the happy part of making my debut. It was mixed emotions but when I look back to it I wouldn't change anything.
Are you seeing the Carling Cup as your competition?
Definitely. The manager sticks to his word and gives a lot of the younger boys a good chance to get first-team football. There are a lot of us that have targeted the Carling Cup because this is where we can make an impression. I will be watching the draw and I am confident that we can do well this year.
Do you feel you can play a part in the Premier League, Champions League and the FA Cup?
Yeah, definitely. If you don't aspire to achieve these things then you are not going to go anywhere. Whenever I get the call, I will be delighted with it. You have got to push to become part of the squad more regularly and that only comes with hard work and impressing when you get the chance. It's important that when you get your chance that you impress. You have got to remember that I am here with a lot of top-class players and it's going to be very hard for me to get in. But I'm prepared for the challenge.
How have your first few months at Arsenal been?
Brilliant. I have settled in well I think. I'm getting to know the boys a lot better and I feel like this is my home now. I'm really enjoying playing, training, watching and learning from the boys, the manager and the coaches. I'm really happy with the way it has gone.
The boss has said 'look, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was one of the biggest signings we made this summer'. That is a little bit of pressure but it also shows his confidence in you.
I think I thrive off a bit of pressure. If people are watching, I don't know why, but I take confidence from that. I want to prove myself and that is all I am going to try and do. There is pressure but I don't think about it like that. I think about it more in a positive way. I am young and I have got a lot of learning to do. I am confident that if I keep working as hard as I can that I will prove myself.
You started wide on Tuesday but Arsène Wenger says he can see you as a central midfielder. Has he, or you, started that process of moving?
No, not really. Going back to the question about Theo I think I do naturally drift inside as the game quietens down or I relax more into the game. I do feel comfortable coming inside and almost playing as a central midfielder but I am happy to play where the manager tells me to. If he tells me to go out wide and get at the full-back, I'll do that for the whole game. That's one thing about Arsenal, I think you do get a bit more freedom to roam and link play with the boys. I like that so Tuesday night I did drift inside a bit.
It's been a sticky start to the season but there are two home games coming up. What would two wins do?
Confidence is the main thing. If you start winning games the confidence will grow within the dressing room. I think it is a great bunch of lads - straight away I felt welcomed. All the new boys that have come in on the last day of the window are all top lads and they've settled in really well. I think it has given the team a lift. Maybe the results haven't been going for us but we all know we have to stick together. I really do believe things will start to get better for this Club.


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Gregg Wadley Tennis Pavilion
|OU's newest facility, the Gregg Wadley Indoor Tennis Pavilion was completed in the spring of 2009.
The facility provides a climate-controlled practice and competition facility for Oklahoma tennis. The 55,000 square-foot facility features six air-conditioned courts, competition quality lighting and surface, and 375 chair-back spectator seats.
The facility also features scoreboards on the north and south sides and six video cameras for documenting practice and competition footage.
Oklahoma's indoor facility is one of the premier indoor facilities in the country and the only indoor tennis facility in the Big 12. Located directly east of the Headington Family Tennis Center, entrances are available on both sides of the facility for player and fan convenience.
The facility was made possible with donations from namesake Gregg Wadley and his wife, Dr. Susan E. Brackett, Tim Headington, the Sarkeys Foundation and other donors including former student-athletes.
With the addition of the indoor facility, OU is now a top contender for hosting championship events. Since the facility's opening, Oklahoma has hosted major tournaments including NCAA First & Second Rounds five times (2003, '04, '10, '11, '12), and the 2004 and 2009 Big 12 Championships.
From I-35: Take Highway 9 east to Chautauqua Ave. Turn left on Chautauqua and proceed north to Imhoff Rd. Turn right on Imhoff. The baseball stadium (L. Dale Mitchell Park) will be on your left and the OU Soccer Complex will be on your right. The tennis facility is located just south of the OU Soccer Complex. Parking is available in the Lloyd Noble Center parking lot.


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As we enter our second year of PureSystems, it's a good time to step back and reflect on how the PureSystems family is complementary to our SmartCloud Services offerings, particularly for our partners.
To review briefly: PureSystems represents the family of private cloud offerings from IBM. These industry leading solutions, which include PureFlex, PureData, and PureApplication Systems, combine hardware, software, and services under a single order number. These systems vastly simplify the installation, administration, and management of a private cloud.
SmartCloud Services refer to IBM's family of public cloud offerings. SmartCloud Enterprise is our entry level cloud featuring easy onboarding and simplified options. SmartCloud Enterprise+ is our enterprise-class managed cloud providing a range of SLAs and levels of managed support ideally suited for mission critical applications in large enterprises.
The good news for ISVs is that these two families come together at the application layer, in the form of application patterns. An application pattern is a description of the application, including its architecture, middleware components, tuning parameters, and security settings. ISVs create the patterns once, and then clients deploy the patterns on either PureApplication System or SmartCloud Application Services (SCAS).
Application patterns drastically reduce time to deployment and the overall management of the application. And patterns give developers options for both public and private cloud deployment. ISVs who leverage application patterns do not have to choose between enabling to public or private cloud.
In 2001, IBM published the concept of Autonomics, which was a general description of computing systems that are self-managing. Autonomics sought to address the issue of growing systems complexity by proposing technologies that were self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing, and self-protecting. Although IBM delivered many products that provided aspects of autonomic computing, it was all delivered in the traditional data center. Application patterns deliver the promise of autonomics in the cloud.
IBM is publishing examples of how application patterns are changing the game for both ISVs and our joint clients—and we're eager to hear more success stories. Please let us know how application patterns are working for you across private and public cloud.


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Interesting article on GM and the government.
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com)
Car Wars
General Motors is no longer Government Motors, if it ever was. So why wont the Obama administration sell its GM stock?
Fred Barnes
April 2, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 28
The folks at General Motors are blessed with more foresight than you might have suspected. They were prepared when Vice President Joe Biden wanted to address a United Auto Workers rally at the GM plant in Toledo, Ohio, that manufactures transmissions. Sorry, they informed the vice presidents office, but we have a corporate policy that prohibits campaign events at any GM facility. So on March 15, Biden spoke to union members in Toledo at the main hall of UAW Local 12.
The policy is a product of post-bankruptcy General Motors, the company that wants to build cars and trucks and stay as far away from campaign politics as possible, especially presidential politics. The rule was instituted out of fear that President Obama, Biden, and administration officials would seek to use GM plants as campaign backdrops. And Republicans and conservativespotential car buyers!would see GM showrooms as Obamas turf and stay away. Given the partisan bombast in Bidens speech, one can understand their apprehension.
Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrichthese guys have a fundamentally different economic philosophy than we do, Biden said. Simply stated, were about promoting the private sector. Theyre about protecting the privileged sector. We are for a fair shot and a fair shake. Theyre about no rules, no risks, and no accountability.
Worse, Republicans were ready in 2009 to let the American auto industry collapse, at the cost of 1 million jobs, he said. But the guy I work with every day, the president, he didnt flinch. This is a man with steel in his spine. . . . He made the tough call and the verdict is in. Obama saved GM, Chryslerand even Ford, though it received no money in the government bailout of the auto industry.
Here we see the Obama reelection drive in high gear, only to be outmaneuvered by GM. Obama routinely exploits the auto rescue as a central talking point in his quest for a second term. It dominates his campaign in the industrial Midwest. The Big Three, having averted destruction, are now thriving, and the president is seeking full credit. Its the only domestic policy success the man has had in his first term, an auto analyst says.
But theres another aspect of the Biden episode thats enormously revealing. The Obama administration still owns 26 percent of General Motorss stock. Yet GM officials werent afraid to tell the White House, No, you cant use our facility. And this reflects a larger truth about GM: It is free from control by the Obama administration.
Its not Government Motors anymore. Nor is the green-tech Voltpart electric, part gas poweredbeing produced at the insistence of the administration. The Volt is not an Obamacar or an Obamamobile. Its been in the GM pipeline since 2006. Back then, Obama was a senator and GM needed an answer to a political environment that frowned on SUVs and trucks, the companys gas-guzzling mainstays.
GM board members and management tell the same story about the Obama administration. It has been absolutely true to its word to stay out of the business, says David Bonderman, a Texas financier and board member. They didnt attempt to run the company, says Ed Whitacre, CEO for nine months after the company emerged from bankruptcy in 2009. They didnt attempt to micromanage. The current CEO, Dan Akerson, is more emphatic. I will testify in front of the good Lord that this administration has never had a presence in the boardroom or any input in the operation of the business, he told a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee in January.
Nor has the administration put any government officials on the board of directors. Akerson, by the way, is a Republican. GM keeps Washington abreast of its activity in the car business, since the government is still a large shareholder. And administration officials show up for annual GM shareholder conferences. Thats about it. Theres a tie, but it doesnt bind.
The new GM has crossed the Obama administration repeatedly. Though the president has often expressed his fondness for the Volt, GM has suspended production of the vehicle for five weeks, with 6,000 unsold. This decision clashes with Obamas goal of 1 million plug-in cars on the road in 2015. According to the Department of Energys blueprint issued last year, this would include 505,000 Volts. That goal was always unattainable. Now an Energy spokesman says its no longer up-to-date. Only 7,671 Volts were sold in 2011 and 1,626 in January and February this year. Sales appear to have picked up a bit in March.
In November 2009, the GM board reversed its decision to sell its European car division. That divisions main car, the Opel, is built in Germany, and the sudden change of plans caused a bitter backlash in Germany and embarrassed the White House. German chancellor Angela Merkel, who had approved the sale, was visiting with Obama when the decision to keep GM Europe was announced.
Eight months later, GM acquired AmeriCredit to, as its press release said, meet customer demand for leasing and non-prime financing for GM vehicles. This put GM in direct competition with its former financing arm, GMAC, now known as Ally. The government owns a large chunk of Ally stock.
Despite these displays of independence, GM has been unable to escape Obamas shadow. The problem here is Obama. He treats GM as an adopted child, the Volt as his pet vehicle. Hes visited three GM plants as president. Speaking to a UAW audience in Washington in February, Obama recalled getting inside a brand new Chevy Volt fresh off the line. . . . It was nice. Ill bet it drives real good. He actually drove it 10 feet.
Obama said the Secret Service wouldnt let him take the Volt out for a spin. But, he promised, five years from now when Im not president anymore, Ill buy one and drive it myself. Then last October, he toured the GM plant in Lake Orion, Michigan, 30 miles north of Detroit, and plugged the subcompact Sonic. Youve got to sit in that car, he said. Theres a lot of room in there, even for a pretty tall guy like me.
Thats not all. In his stump speeches, the president applauds himself for making the unpopular decision to help the auto industry retool [and] prevent its collapse, as he put it in Chicago in January. He doesnt mention President George W. Bush, who provided the initial bailout funds. In his memoir, Decision Points, Bush said he told Obama just after hed been elected, I wouldnt let the automakers fail. I wont dump this mess on him.
GM officials wince at Obamas references, fearing hes politicizing their company and keeping alive the Government Motors stigma. I hated that name, Whitacre, now retired, says. I still hate it. It was very harmful to the company.
No doubt Obama thinks hes aiding GM. Hes not. If you talk to these [GM] guys privately, they cant get out from under the government fast enough, says Daniel Howes of the Detroit News. But Obama wont let go. He took another pro-Volt step in his 2013 budget, asking Congress to increase the tax credit for purchase of a green car to $10,000 from $7,500an attention-grabbing provision thats unlikely to pass. Obama also wants buyers to get the credit at the time of purchase, not later.
The administrations 26 percent of GM stock gives it a hook into the company, though it hasnt exploited its shares to interfere with corporate decisions. But when GM had an initial public offering in November 2010, the Obama team declined to sell all its shares, despite Whitacres pleas.
There was so much interest in that IPO because we were making money, Whitacre told me. He said he begged administration officials to sell all their stock and pay back more of the tab for the $50 billion bailout. The government had the final say, Whitacre says. It sought merely to give up its position as the majority (61 percent) stockholder.
Now the stock is underwater. The IPO opened at $33 a share. The price rose to $38 before falling to $20. Last week, it hovered between $25 and $26. At that price, the administration probably wont unload its shares before the election. Selling now would expose how far shortroughly $14 billiontaxpayers are of being paid back in full. The stock price would have to double for taxpayers to achieve full reimbursement.
Until all the stock is sold, GM will continue to fall under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, since TARP funded the $50 billion bailout. This means salaries of top GM executives must be approved by the Treasury Department. Whitacre insists salaries are kept so low, at least by Fortune 500 standards, that GM cant hire corporate talent from outside the company.
Though GM is a free-market company today, out of Obamas grip since emerging from bankruptcy in July 2009, accusations about the bailout have lingered. Government intervention was unnecessary. GM could have been saved through the regular bankruptcy process. A private loan could have come to the rescue.
The businessmen who run GM dont think so, nor do the executives, money people, analysts, and journalists who make up the car community. The GM board members arent left-wing billionaires of the George Soros school or, as best as I can tell, even mild-mannered liberals like Bill Gates. After talking to Bonderman, Whitacre, and Akerson, Id be shocked if they voted for Obama in 2008 or intend to this November. But it would be rude to ask them.
Bonderman is cofounder of the private equity powerhouse TPG and known as a shrewd dealmaker. He says he opposes government intervention in the economy, except in this particular, unique case. Without it, he says, there was not a chance GM would have survived. It was absolutely the right thing to do, says Whitacre.
Theres a political factor. No president is going to let the countrys Big Three automakersor two out of threego out of business on his watch. In an emergency such as GM and Chrysler faced in late 2008, any president would have done what President Bush did and quickly lent billions to keep the companies afloat. Bush isnt shy about defending his decision. Id do it again, he told the National Automobile Dealers Association recently.
But why not a normal bankruptcy? The answer is it would probably have taken several years, not the two months it took Obamas Auto Task Force to hustle GM through the process. Speed mattered. GM didnt have the cash to exist for long in bankruptcy. It might have been forced to liquidate.
That possibility was a major worry at Ford, which wasnt facing bankruptcy. According to a new book, American Icon, by Bryce Hoffman, Ford made secret arrangements with Toyota and Honda to keep a network of suppliers alive if GM and Chrysler collapsed.
Another fear: Customers wouldnt buy cars from a company struggling through a lengthy bankruptcy. Opponents of the bailout dispute this, citing the current bankruptcy of American Airlines. Travelers are still booking American flights, arent they? Yes, but the analogy doesnt work. Buying a car involves a warranty and, on average, keeping the car for eight years. When one buys a plane ticket, theres no long-term relationship with the airline.
A large bridge loan would have kept GM going, but it wasnt available in late 2008 and early 2009. Steve Rattner, who headed Obamas Auto Task Force, has challenged anyone to show him where private capital might have been obtained. No one has.
True, Rattner is an interested party. Howes, the conservative business columnist of the Detroit News, isnt. Ive challenged a number of people whove made that charge and asked them to give me an example of who could have provided the capital, Howes says. They just stand there. And these are my conservative friends.
A loan guaranteed by the government could have been obtained, Rattner says. But it wouldnt have changed anything. The government would have placed the same amount of money at risk as it did in the bailout. That was $50 billion in GMs case. And it would have set the conditions for GMs acceptance of the moneythus, government intervention.
The Auto Task Force, Rattner argues, had every reason to get private money. The government bailout was unpopular. We would have been delighted had there been private capital, he says. There was no private capital available for anything, much less for auto companies on the verge of going belly-up.
When asked after a speech to the Detroit Economic Club last December if hed do anything differently, Rattner said the UAW might have been asked to give up more. Wages, pension accruals, and health care benefits of current union workers were left untouched by the task force, leading to charges of favoritism for the Obama-supporting UAW.
Rattner says very unpleasant choices had to be made. Bondholders suffered, many of them middle-class individuals who had invested in relatively inexpensive bonds. I felt sorry for them, he told me. We could have thrown more money at them. Others were large investment funds. The decision was heartrending. More important, the UAW was crucial to GMs future. The bondholders werent.
The Volt is the single most politicized automobile since the Corvair, says car industry analyst Edward Niedermeyer of the website The Truth About Cars. The Corvair was attacked by Ralph Nader in 1965 in his book Unsafe at Any Speed. The car was later dropped by GM, Nader became a national figure, and the industry began to adopt more safety measures in autos.
Conservatives have latched onto the heavily subsidized Volt as a symbol of Obamas meddling in the economy and misguided zeal for killing off gasoline-powered cars. Bill OReilly and Lou Dobbs of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have led a chorus of Volt critics. An article in Forbes was headlined How the Chevy Volt Is Like Obamacare. Another in Townhall said the Volt is the perfect car for the Occupy Wall Street crowd.
The Volt has few public defenders. One is Media Matters, which is highly partisan, left-wing, pro-Obama, and Soros-funded. Its defense, to the extent anyone is aware of it, is likely to make the Volt even less popular. Jay Leno is more appealing as a Volt admirer. He got a Volt in December 2010. After driving 11,000 miles, hes never had to put gas in it yet, he told the New York Times last year. The car switches automatically to gas once the battery power is used up, usually after 30 to 40 miles.
GM has contributed to the Volts troubled image. The company fueled totally unrealistic expectations for Volt, equating it with a symbol of its rebirth even before collapsing into bailout, says Niedermeyer. In truth, the car was never going to be GMs savior and certainly isnt today. It was introduced at the Detroit Auto Show in 2007 as a futuristic concept car. But it came to market in 2010 as a four-seat car that looks like the Chevy Cruze, a hot-selling compact.
This was unfortunate. The Volt sells for $41,000, more than twice the sticker price of the Cruze, which gets up to 40 miles a gallon and thus makes sense as a cheaper, fuel-efficient alternative to the Volt. Obamas task force concluded in a 2009 report that the Volt would likely be too expensive to be commercially successful in the short term. GM had already decided to eliminate the Pontiac, Saturn, Hummer, and Saab from its lineup. The Volt was spared.
Theres more. Production of the Volt has been halted three times. Then came the crash tests of three Volts last November by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The battery of the third Volt emitted smoke and sparks, and a week later a fire broke out in the battery of the second. The test didnt follow GM instructions, and investigation found no safety problem. There was no recall.
The most significant fallout from the test was an eruption of criticism, much of it from conservatives, and much of it exaggerated. This, in turn, prompted a full-throated pushback from Bob Lutz, the former GM vice president, champion of the Volt, and a conservative himself. No Volt has ever caught fire in normal use or in accidents, he wrote in Forbes. He added, immodestly, the Volt was conceived by me and my team well before any federal bailout of GM.
Then he unloaded this barrage:
What on earth is wrong with the conservative media movement that it feels its OK to spread false information, OK to damage the reputation of perhaps the finest piece of mechanical technology our country has produced since the space shuttle, OK to hurt an iconic American company that is roaring back to global pre-eminence, OK to hurt American employment in Hamtramck, Mich., as long as it damages the Obama administrations reputation?
Akerson bemoans the Volts having become a political punching bag, but GM wont give up on the car. It needs hybrids like the Volt and all-electric cars like the Spark, due to be introduced next year. The fuel efficiency standards imposed by Obama54.5 miles per gallon in 2025are so onerous that it needs them to hold down its fleet average. Obama boasts the new standard will save drivers on gas. He neglects to say it will drive up the price of cars.
One more thing. A study by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy said the first 6,000 Volts sold received government subsidies ranging from $50,000 to $250,000 per car. True, but the cost of subsidies per Volt will go down as more Volts are purchased.
Akerson, 63, is not a car guy. In his eight years at the Carlyle Group, the private equity firm, his only brush with the automobile industry was his role in Carlyles acquisition of Hertz. His primary residence is in McLean, Virginia. He commutes weekly to Detroit. A graduate of the Naval Academy, Akerson is a decisive, blunt man who tends to rely on those who know more about cars than he does. He believes a commander is only as good as his generals. He says his father always bought GM cars, but he drove a Mercedes before joining the GM board in 2009 and taking over as CEO in September 2010. Now he has two Cadillacs in Virginia, one in Detroit.
When Carlyle Group cofounder David Rubenstein learned Akerson was considering the CEO job at GM, he asked, Do you know how much money youre leaving behind [at Carlyle]? . . . Does your wife know? . . . Do your children know? In 2011, he earned $9 million at GM, with no cash bonus. His pay had to be approved by the administrations TARP paymaster. Both Alan Mulally of Ford and Sergio Marchionne of Fiat, which owns Chrysler, earned considerably more.
Two pictures in Akersons 39th-floor office in the Renaissance Center in Detroits grim downtown reflect his vision of GMs past and future. A framed cover of a 1986 copy of Fortune sits on a table near the door. Its a picture of cars from five GM brands. They all look alike. Over his desk, theres a picture of the Cadillac ELR concept car. Its an electric hybrid like the Volt and would be built with a Volt powertrain. Akerson has hinted its set to go into production.
The ELR and Volt will have a lot of competition, and not just from Nissans all-electric Leaf. Green vehicles are soon to flood the auto market: the Ford C-Max plug-in, Ford Fusion plug-in, Chevy Spark EV, Toyota Prius plug-in, Volvo C30 EV, and Toyota RAV4 EV. But selling high technology cars is the least of his worries.
His biggest test is turning money-losing GM Europe into a profit center. His three predecessors at GMRick Wagoner, Fritz Henderson, John Smithfailed at this task. He also needs to improve sales in Latin America and keep pension benefits under control. But auto analyst Itay Michaeli of Citigroup says Akerson has begun to change GMs corporate culture. Hes cut out the bureaucratic logjam of 30 committees and continued closing GM facilities in the United States, from 47 in 2008 to 33 this year. GMs net income in 2011 was $7.6 billion.
At Carlyle, Akerson avoided the press. In Detroit, auto company bosses are rock stars, and a posse of reporters follows them and plays up their every word. He appears to dislike the media clamor. Some of his comments have been indiscreet. He said a $1-a-gallon increase in the gasoline tax would help the auto industry. During the flap over the battery fire, he offered to buy back the Volts of unhappy owners. More than 100less than 1 percentcame forward.
Akerson visited Solidarity House, the UAWs headquarters, a few weeks before he became CEO, the first GM leader to do so. He meets more often with UAW chief Bob King than his predecessors did with their union counterparts. It wasnt Akersons doing, but many in the automobile community are still amazed the UAW allowed 40 percent of the workers at the Sonic plant to be paid at half the normal level$14 an hour rather than $28. The goal is to show a small car can be produced profitably in the United States, not just in foreign countries with lower wages.
Now if GM can just get President Obama out of its hair . . .
Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard.
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FARMINGTON — Firefighters are looking into what caused a two-alarm fire that destroyed a Hawthorne Hill Road home Monday night.
Police, firefighters and emergency personnel responded to 59 Hawthorne Hill Road at 10:13 p.m. By the time firefighters arrived, heavy fire had enveloped the 2½-story home, according to Fire Chief Richard Fowler.
Fowler said firefighters sounded a second alarm to bring in additional fire trucks to transport water to the scene.
"We're not in a hydrant district," Fowler said, adding the fire was about four to five miles from the nearest water supply — a hydrant to the south in Rochester.
Fowler praised the residents for allowing the town to purchase a new fire engine, which responded to its first fire Monday, at Town Meeting earlier this year. He added the telescoping lights on the new vehicle were a crucial asset at the fire.
"It lit up the fire grounds like a football field," Fowler said, adding the light enabled firefighters to safely move around and avoid debris or potentially dangerous areas.
"We appreciate all we get from the town. They've been very supportive of the fire department," Fowler said.
Fowler said firefighters were able to prevent the fire from damaging a 1968 Ford and spreading to the nearby garage, which sustained some melted siding due to the heat from the home.
"The car and the garage were steaming, but the wind was going our way," Fowler said. "If it wasn't, we probably would have lost it."
Fowler said the home, which was reduced to charred rubble, was insured.
Firefighters continue to investigate the cause of the fire, which is undetermined.
Fowler said crews were assisted at the scene by firefighters from Alton, Barnstead, Middleton, Milton, New Durham, Rochester, Strafford and Wolfeboro. He added Somersworth firefighters provided station coverage.
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By Kyle and Stacey Van Buren
When you think about romantic vacation destinations London certainly comes to mind. After all, what husband wouldn't earn unlimited brownie points for whisking his wife off to London for a relaxing getaway? Full of history, full of wonder, full of Arsenal…
Not surprisingly the idea of what London has to offer often means different things to different people and I can say that was also true in the Van Buren household. For me London meant Arsenal; for my wife, Stacey (someone who had never been to London,) it meant something quite different.
|The most romatic place on Earth... Emirates Stadium
If there is anything I (Kyle) have learned about being married while trying to follow a team on a five-hour time difference, it is that give and take is always a good thing. This trip was no different. In fact, if I didn't "give" generously for the amount of "take" I was receiving in the form of Arsenal Football club… well I think you get the idea.
The agenda was definitely leaning in my favor. We would arrive on a Saturday, FA Cup vs. Huddersfield Town on Sunday, Arsenal Legends Tour with Perry Groves and Arsenal Museum on Monday, Premier League game vs. Everton on Tuesday. How could anyone not love this itinerary?
To give Stacey credit, she wasn't opposed to being subjected to Arsenal on this trip. In fact she rather looked forward to seeing them play. But one could understand her trepidation at the prospect of not being able to see the rest of London.
Now, I (Stacey) knew of Kyle's admiration for Arsenal and even knew some of the players names, having heard him speak of them often – especially while recording his Arsenal Review USA podcast. However, my main interest in our trip to London was for the sightseeing and travel, not so much to see an Arsenal game. In fact, I sort of cringed that I would have to attend two games AND a tour. I was convinced there were much better things to do with our time.
But this all changed after attending my first game, and after the second I was totally hooked. I have attended numerous professional sporting events in the US, but none of them compare to what I experienced in London. The excitement and flow of the game was so tangible. I felt both the emotional lows of a bad call and the highs of an incredible play. The crowd was also electric, and it was clear their knowledge of the sport and players ran deep – something not always found on this side of the pond.
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Especially after the Legends Tour of the Emirates Stadium, I gained a deeper respect for both the talent and dedication of the players and the club itself.
The fans in London also carry this same intense dedication. It was obvious they don't just have a 'favorite' player or team like fans in the US do, that can change with how well the team or player is performing. Rather, it's often very much a part of them, a history of support that runs back through family generations and is part of everyday life.
These Arsenal experiences have confirmed my enthusiasm and honest opinion that attending an Arsenal game was the best sporting event I've ever been to.
And there you have it. It would appear that I (Kyle) have successfully converted my wife into a true Arsenal fan and I think she would agree. I can say with confidence that my strategy for spousal soccer allegiances was greatly aided by the non-footballing enticements in and throughout London. But that doesn't mean I can't take any credit for introducing my better half to the beauty of Arsenal Football.
So guys, get to it. I'm way ahead of you.
Kyle Van Buren and his wife Stacey live outside Indianapolis, Ind. Kyle is the co-host of the Arsenal Review USA podcast and Stacey puts up with him. You can follow the podcast on Twitter @ArsenalReviewUS and text your thoughts and comments on all things Arsenal to 77-55-REVIEW


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Great looking pair ya got there.
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Top Super Blackhawk .44 Magnum. Below is .357 converted to .44 Special. Work by Dave Clements, grips by CaryC.
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Great Guns.
These are my two Ruger revolvers (45 Colt and 44 Magnum). The 44 is the only one of my 44 Mags I do not mind shooting a lot, it soaks up recoil like a sponge. Regards, Richard :-D
bob wright , nice brace of flatop rugers.beautiful casecolor frame.man very nice indeed! :P
Great looking rugers there. Cary sure can make some pretty grips.
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The colorful side dish shared by Mary Tallman of Arbor Vitae, Wisconsin features sweet pineapple, crunchy vegetables and refreshing cilantro in a tangy dressing with pasta. It requires just 15 minutes of prep time, so it's perfect for a quick lunch or on-the-go dinner.
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"My favorite cocktail for summer is simple. Since I'll be getting married, I plan for the bubbly to be flowing! A splash of St-Germain and a spritz of club soda adds some refreshing sweetness to champagne that I love, and it's the perfect way to kick off summer. I can't wait to be sipping one with my guests."
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The Israel government is undertaking construction of about 304 new apartments in East Jerusalem as its prime minister prepares for meetings with Palestinians to discuss peace. President Mahmoud Abbas made it clear there would be serious difficulties in conducting peace if settlement construction continues in East Jerusalem. A Fatah spokesperson, Abu Rdeneh bluntly stated: "there is need to freeze the settlement activities in order to create the appropriate atmosphere to bring progress in the peace process." President Mubarak joined in the Arab cry for an end to settlement construction and focusing on the only thing that emerged from the famous Annapolis conference– peace talks. Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni sharply criticized the Egyptian effort to prevent arms smuggling into Gaza and in response, Egypt's Intelligence Minister Omar Suleiman promised his country would take renewed steps to halt smuggling.
There is a time and place for everything, and right now constructing 304 apartments is the wrong move. Some Israelis, undoubtedly, will argue the point of a principle that Israel has a right to build. The only important principle right now is working for a comprehensive peace, not worrying about a few apartments. In the end, Israel must recognize that East Jerusalem should become the capital of the new nation of Palestine. Israelis have every right to express concerns given the past history when Jordan controlled East Jerusalem and desecrated Jewish cemeteries and synagogues. Hopefully, that era is over and when peace arrives all religious institutions will be accorded respect. Right now, Israel must focus on peace, not apartments.


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whats the pull consistency and setting of bobas trigger ie hairline or rough
whats the pull consistency and setting of bobas trigger ie hairline or rough
Boba Fett's gun. -as you know- is not real, therefore the trigger would be disconected from the firing pin spring from the webley flare gun. There is no caliber to revolver and hit the firing pin, its a dead trigger. I would stop with all these worthless threads to.
im making a fanfilm which involves a couple of closeups of the trigger being pulled and would rather get it right.
just because you dont understand the questions and cant answer them doesnt mean its a worthless question
phat, i do believe the question was understood and was answered. You seem to be posting a lot of useless threads and then provoking people with your replies. To answer your question again, the Fett gun, as Cal pointed out, is fake, although based on a Webley flaregun, it is still fake. You should see some of the high res closeup shots of the MOM or AOSW exhibits.
Therefore, there is no trigger to pull as it is not an active trigger, i.e.; it doesn't move.
Now, on my blaster, I used a prop Colt Peacemaker. The prop I used acted like a real handgun, except it did not have a firing pin and the barrel was not completely bored out. Once I painted it and attached the chamber guard, the hammer became non functioning.
My trigger does move, because I was too lazy to cut it out (which I am thinking of doing) but it moves only slightly and it is rather loose.
So, I hope this answers your question. Please be more respectful.
i have not been disrespectful to anyone, i asked the question and people started calling me names.
im making a film and a freind whom is trained as a sniper many years ago said that the trigger should be more harline but if hes using his everyday cqb weapon then the hairline triggers are not a good idea therefore when filming to make it look more realistic i wanted boba to use his webley as apposed to bringing in a new gun but also wanted him to look the pro not an amature.
i was told i could get help from this forum but all that seems to be happening is namecalling and assuming otherwise.
but i have shown no disrespect to anyone.
I never called you any names, You need to get your threads strait -theres enough of them- I gave advice to the best of my ability, I believe this thread to have no merit, that is not an insult, but my opinion and you are free to disagree.
Now I'm REALLY looking forward to seeing this fan-film.
It's going to be really groundbreaking, and will hopefully win you many awards, if you plan to include shots so close-up and detailed that you can visually distinguish between the amounts of pressure needed to pull a hair-trigger and one with a rougher pull.
If your friend the sniper is playing Fett, then you might even be able to save some money by having him simply act like the trigger is pulling more roughly than it really is.
Or if not, you could bring him onboard as a creative consultant and have him coach the actors in how to fake different levels of twitch.
( OBviously, if you opt for the latter scenario, you would have to credit him as such - So make sure that whoever's in charge of your on-screen text is aware of the possible changes to your crew roster! )
the friend who is the sniper isnt playing fett. its the distance the triger travels that im worried about not the pressure. clearly your just winding me up. think its nearly time to contact the moderators if you persue my threads.
This is to the point where it is beyond Hilarity!
Whats next? I mean really, I've heard the fan film blah blah before and never saw it come to any sort of fruition.
I've had people go as far to rent costumes and well ...have yet to see a film from it.
So yeah it is a bit hard to swallow and if the validity of the questions is true then fine. If not then why is any one being comdemened for asking where all this is coming from really?
I'm fairly new to this forum myself, and I really see this as a bit much as well.
It is rather random and out of the woodwork.
Just my 2 cents.
LOL!! RS ....Please stop...My Stomach is hurting...Reverend Scapegoat said:
This is some funny stuff.....
I would say that no one will notice the difference in the trigger pull in that this is going to be a 1 second shot at longest. Just make it look cool. I'm sure no one will complaine/notice the difference in the trigger's pull anyways. I don't think anyone knows the trigger pull unless you wanted ot use the one for the webley gun. That would be your best bet I suppose. Goodluck with this FanFilm! FanFilms take a LOAD of work, and I hope you know what your getting into.
Hmmmm .... wonder if in ANY of the SW trilogy they ever show a closeup of Fett firing his rifle, squeezing the trigger, etc. I dont think so, but I could be wrong. You know, maybe Lucas will re-edit it to get the continuity of trigger pressure down, so this question will finally be answered.
What's funny?
I run an Airsoft site over here in the UK, and know a few ex-SAS members, as well as a load of currently-active military personell.
I've mentioned this to a few of them, and they're eager to see the results of this - Some of them are trained as snipers as well, and they say that they've been waiting for YEARS to see a movie correctly and accurately portray the distance one's finger needs to move to fire a real-life gun.
They say that even though Fett's blaster is a fictional energy weapon and trigger pull wouldn't be such an issue in the Star Wars universe, this film will still be a step up from the reprehensible Tom Berenger vehicle "Sniper" - In which the issue of trigger-pull distance was barely even MENTIONED!
Such a travesty...
Wait, look closely at this!
See his finger move? Classic!
BobaN00b said:
I think you've hit upon something here, actually!
The whole "Greedo shot first" thing - Maybe the props that were originally built for that scene were the cause of the "Mistake" in the first place!
Maybe Greedo was always MEANT to shoot first, but the silly, silly propmaker who built his gun failed to set the trigger correctly!
The actor pulled the trigger on his cue - But being used to a lighter pull, his shot actually came that split-second too late and he ended up being "Shot" by Harrison Ford instead,
My god, this is a revelation!
You, sir, are a genius!
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im not having a go at you but i just didnt realise i had to tell everybody everthing and just becuase im new doesnt mean im green or soft.
read some of scapegoats posts ....from the start hes just trying to wind me up....maybe jelous that im trying to take my hobby further and to honest ive had enough of him.maybe the moderators should act on this.
you also say its only a hobby...some people take their hobbys seriously though and enjoy it.
go to theforce.net to see some very good fanfilms which clearly have had a lot of work , thought and money put into them. i was told everyone on this forum was helpful and was good for information but im seriously having my doughts. it just seems to be a " pick on the new guy " forum.
pathetic really.....i do hope the other members can understand where im coming from.
Hey, I resent that!
I'm SO not picking on you! I've been nothing but polite, and helpful and I've been met with nothing but accusations and abuse.
I think that what you're doing is very cool, and you did promise us photos - I just can't wait to see them is all.
I meant it when I said it would be a tragedy if you decided not to show us any because you think I'm having a go, or because your camera failed!
Show us the piccies!
Alright that is it.
Knock it off fellas.
Phat-Fetts, please refrain from baiting and trolling. I have been giving you the benefit of the doubt all day. You have been warned.
RS and everybody else, if you feel as if youre being baited - please ignore the behavior and bring it to our attention.
I actually geniunely DO want to see this guy's photos!
I'll be as gutted as the rest if it turns out that he IS lying.
I'll leave off posting for now, though. Give him a chance to read through my posts and answer my questions.
* Goes out to see Nine Inch Nails *
..............for your attention................obi sean kenobi said:
i ask a few questions as i was told your site is pleasent and helping and im steered towards leaving it allready as you say im baiting and trolling.
i have had nothing but sarcasm thrown at me. i post one funny thread about picking your nose with the helmet on and im judged from that.
thats fine you warn me all you want but i hope the warning goes to that paticular person that has done nothing but use sarcasm toward me as well.
i made a mistake and used a swear word that was starred out and appologised, i seem to be apologising a lot on my first day on here.
i personally think it would be unfair to single just me out and hope you will deal with this matter, thanks.
regarding the other person/child in question i will now totaly ignore any more comments i recieve from him/her and hopefully get some answeres from the proper people on here..... thanks again
I just want to say that i have read a few threads from Phatt-Fetts and i think this guy is just passionate about what he's trying to do. It does seem that some of you are trying to wind him up. Give the guy a break and help him
I too have read his numerous threads and disagree...Jedi-John said:
He seems to be spamming this well respected forum and acting like a disrespectful newbie to the long term members and is trying most peoples patience.
Thats what it looks like to me and it personally makes me uke
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I'm waiting for the thread where he asks weather or not the wookie scalps have split ends.
Man! What is it with some people?
Phat-Fetts is/was acting like Monk from the USA series - always wanting the most intimate details spelled out when there really is no clear explaination.
I am a filmmaker myself and there are a few things I like to get as accurate as possible. But the thing is that when one makes a fan film, everyone and their brother's uncle's aunt's cousin's nephew's former roommate knows that it isn't going to be screen accurate.
I agree with obi sean kenobi. Don't let people like this bait you into meaningless debates where he turns the tide and says you are insulting him. Clearly he wants an "out" for the pressure of making a fan film. Unfortunately, he chose the wrong place.
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(Boulder County Colo.) Countless tons of waste was created by last month's flood. If an affected building was not wiped out completely, the flood damage still turned valuable building materials and furnishings and treasured possessions into hazardous waste overnight. Warm weather and wet conditions made every pile of trash a moldy health risk that had to be taken care of as quickly as possible. Since the normal waste stream was instantly overwhelmed, the city and county government stepped in to provide extra resources to help clean up the area.
This aid to residents was provided in three different ways:
Roll-Off Containers
Roll-off containers were placed in two dozen locations around the city and suburban parts of the county for residents to place flood debris in. It was a good start, but despite containers being hauled off and replaced a couple times a day, the sheer volume of debris being dumped quickly overwhelmed the drop off sites. If a container was full, or if it was too much work to throw sodden materials up and over the side, residents resorted to just dumping their debris on the ground nearby. Pretty soon containers were surrounded by mountains of trash and difficult to get close to.
Despite the strategic difficulties, many of these roll-offs were kept in place for weeks and were removed from sites once the dumping traffic slowed. A handful of these containers have since been reassigned to specifically hard hit neighborhoods in further-out parts of the county.
Free Waste Drop Off
The local commercial waste transfer station is offring free waste drop off to certain affected residents. The city and county of Boulder have no municipal waste system so the large private disposal company located here is being subsidized with local government funds to allow citizens to dump refuse. The deadline for city residents to dump free of charge ended when the city approved a curbside pickup plan but county residents are still eligible for this service. Of course any materials dumped with the tipping fees waived are limited to storm/flood damage and could only come from a property within the city of Boulder or unincorporated parts of the county. Residents of other municipalities within Boulder County are supposed to use their own localized resources.
For the first few weeks after the storm, the lines to the facility's single scale house were long, but a local hauler I spoke to said the weigh-in process usually went pretty quickly.
Free Curbside Pickup
Within the city of Boulder, free curbside pickup was also instituted after it became clear that many residents had no plans to dispose of the thousands of refuse piles that sat in driveways, yards, and alleys for weeks after the flooding. This inaction was exacerbated by the high number of rental units in a college town like Boulder. The landlords didn't want to pay for private hauling of the tenants' trash, and the college kids had no motivation to dip into their own pockets for this expense, especially after losing possessions and being displaced from their residences (at least temporarily).
The subsidized pickups went on for about a month which allowed roving grapple trucks to service each house at least twice. The first pickup focused on clearing out the festering garbage while the second one also picked up appliances and piles of flood sediment that residents shoveled out onto the street.
This service was officially limited to residential waste so commercial buildings and multi-family apartments and condos with centralized trash pickup were excluded. And to get your waste picked up for sure, you were supposed to call and register your address with the city by a certain date. If you didn't, you risked being left out as the trucks finished their work past the funding deadline. Some residents I talked to didn't call in but received the service anyway. Altogether this program picked up about 5,000 tons of trash, dirt, rocks, and sand from the city's streets.
Prohibited Items
None of the disposal options provided could take landfill-prohibited items such as electronics, household and yard chemicals, automotive fluids, or outdoor equipment containing fuel or oil. And only the curbside pickup was supposed to involve appliances containing Freon or other gaseous refrigerants since they were being properly diverted by the city after pickup.
Services for Outlying Areas
Now that the more densely populated areas of the county have been taken care of, the unincorporated areas of Boulder County are starting to receive cleanup aid. Starting the first week of November, curbside pickup of debris will take place throughout mountain communities in the county. The county is doing things a little bit differently. To save costs and promote recycling and reuse efforts, residents are being asked to separate things into four different piles. General household debris, electronics and appliances, woody debris (vegetation), and mud, silt, sand and rock will all be picked up separately.
After the mountain side of the county is picked up, the plains side may get similar servicing, but that has yet to be decided. For now residents are allowed to haul both flood trash and compostable vegetation debris to the commercial disposal company's transfer station and drop it free of charge. Currently, a bigger priority for county waste resources is to remove the piles of debris from waterways and under bridges that could present a hazard the next time the water rises.
Disposal of Hazardous and Other Specific Materials
The Boulder area is very forward-thinking about reducing waste so we have waste diversion requirements and recommendations that may not be in effect in other parts of the country.
- Compostable organic materials such as yard waste, food waste, and tree branches are collected separately from trash and recyclables and commercially composted and sold for profit.
- Our local waste disposal and recycling facilities have roll-off containers on site for putting recyclable metal items in free of charge. Appliances that contain refrigerants cannot be dumped here, but other appliances and objects made mostly of metal can be.
- Paints, automotive fluids, and other chemicals have to be taken to the local household hazardous waste disposal facility instead of being mixed with trash that ends up in the landfill. There is no charge for individuals dropping off items, but businesses have to pay fees.
- Electronics (e-waste) and appliances containing refrigerants also have to be taken to a designated drop-off facility as per state law. This facility also takes other recyclable materials that aren't profitable such as plastic films, durable plastics, and even rigid foams. There is usually a charge for dropping off these difficult-to-recycle materials but it is being waived for flood-damaged items thanks to a subsidy from the county.
Asbestos and Lead Paint Debris
Handling asbestos as part of flood debris is a confusing subject that I will cover in a later blog after more definitive research. What I have found to date seems contradictory and possibly unsafe. A county website says that if asbestos is not known to be present in a building, you can handle the material it like it is non-asbestos flood debris (even though it may be asbestos.) While a state website outlines more stringent guidelines.
No guidelines or warnings are posted for handling and hauling lead paint debris in a disaster area so it is not immediately clear if RRP rules must followed under these circumstances. More on this later.
After an event like this, metal scrappers come out of the woodwork looking for anything metal for its scrap recycling value. They aren't supposed to remove things from trash containers or refuse piles without permission, but they will ask for and gladly take furnaces, water heaters, appliances, ductwork, pipes, conduit, wiring, and any metal junk that you may be removing from a damaged property. Having scrappers carry off these heavy and bulky items may save you a lot of effort, and the fact the materials are being recycled is also a plus. However, for copper, brass, lead, stainless steel, and aluminum, taking them into a commercial recycling company yourself may net you some easy bonus cash. Every time I used to take in a bucket of old faucet parts and copper tubing and wiring scraps saved from remodeling jobs, I would walk out with an extra $30 in my pocket.
No Contractors Allowed
It is important to note that none of the disposal services provided could be used by contractors to help save their clients money. Even though the services were paid for by taxpayer money, a resident could not hire a hauler to drive their debris to the nearest public container site without risk to the company. In fact, the Boulder County District Attorney publicly advised residents to be on the lookout for contractors illegally dumping at community waste sites and to report their license plate numbers and vehicle descriptions so they could be prosecuted. I believe these "offenders" were supposed to ticketed and fined but I'm not sure how often this happened. In flooded neighborhoods I visited, cleanup crews freely dumped uprooted trees and large amounts of debris into the roll-off containers with front-end loaders without hesitation, just like that's what the containers were there for.
For those without machinery (or at least a tall truck), using these sites isn't really worth the trouble anyway. When I hauled wet drywall and tiled wall sections out to one of the roll-offs, it proved to be quite a chore to lift everything up and over its seven-foot tall sides. And if the debris I was hauling was dripping with contaminated muck, I wouldn't have wanted to lift it over my head even I could.
Similarly, any flood sediment scooped out to the street by a contractor was specifically not allowed to be picked up by the city-funded curbside pickup. A release from the city said "Per Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) regulations, only dirt, mud and silt removed from properties by residents will be considered for curbside pickup. Residents who are working with contractors to remove mud and silt from their properties must have their contractors haul these materials away."
I'm not sure how this helped residents because if they hired help to move the sediment, they now had to pay to have it driven and dumped somewhere instead of just getting it out onto the street for free pickup like everyone else.
For hauling flood debris waste to the local waste transfer station, contractors and haulers have to pay full commercial tipping fees. When I called to check on the reason for this with the Boulder County Resource Conservation Division, they explained that contractors would charge their clients a tipping fee either way so this rule was designed to protect the homeowners, even though it meant they now had to pay fees to dispose of their flood waste that were legally waived under local and federal disaster subsidies.
Despite the subsidies, I was told I was told "If someone even looks like they're a contractor, they will be charged." Showing a building permit proving that the waste came from a home within the disaster area would not serve to waive the fees. Only having the homeowner with you in the truck at the time of drop-off would serve as proof enough that what you were hauling was from a legitimate site according to the county.
The lesson here for contractors is to make sure to charge your clients full price for hauling and disposal—don't expect to take advantage of any disaster services or programs intended to help clean up the damaged properties in an affected area. And the lesson here for homeowners is that as soon as you hire a professional to help you, you lose any publicly-subsidized services and benefits you deserve as both a local taxpayer and as a citizen in an area affected by a disaster.
Keep checking back for more coverage. More information on dealing with the unexpected waste left by flooding is next followed by links to guidelines and standards for clean up and restoration work. Still to come is a compilation of modified building standards during a declared state of disaster.
This is the sixth in a series of reports intended to help inform both the victims of natural disasters as well as the contractors they look to in these times of crisis.


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With scores of practical recipes you can use in your projects right away, this cookbook helps you gain hands-on experience with HTML5's versatile collection of elements. You get clear solutions for handling issues with everything from markup semantics, web forms, and audio and video elements to related technologies such as geolocation and rich JavaScript APIs.
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As A programmer I always need tools like this to help make my apps look nicer, and its pretty easy with a resources like this to make things look nice with only a little effort. And its handy to have a quick resource to all of the new HTML5 features.
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Unless you can control which browser your site visitors use to view your site, too many of the examples presented in this book can't be utilized -- yet. Some browser "ingredients" aren't commonly available for the recipes in this cookbook.
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HTML5 Cookbook, by Christopher Schmitt and Kyle Simpson, provides an overview of HTML5 along with problem/solution scenarios which will allow developers to hit the ground running using HTML5. It also includes chapters on how to implement the new features available in HTML5, including native audio, native video, geolocation, the canvas element, local storage, drag-and-drop, and more.This book is perfect for intermediate to senior level developers who are looking to get up to speed on the new semantics and features available in HTML5 quickly. However, that isn't to say that junior developers should shy away from this book. I do feel that developers at any level would benefit from this book, both from the content provided in the book, along with the wealth of external resource links that are scattered throughout each chapter. I found that I spent more time veering away from the book to enhance my learning in a particular area by scouring the information on the HTML5 sites that were recommended in this book. This alone makes the value of the book worthwhile. Furthermore, I found it extremely helpful that browser support for some of the new HTML5 features were discussed, along with workarounds to handle scenarios where browser support is not yet in place for those features.In my opinion, this book is a must-have for anyone looking to get to up to speed on HTML5.
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HTML5 Cookbook provides an overview and examples of new HTML 5 features and related JavaScript APIs. The cookbook series aims to provide short, targeted chapters that solve real world problems, and for simple use-cases, this book provides that.Most of the material in the book could be found in online tutorials, but it provides a good overview of the available technologies in a single place. I wouldn't recommend this for developers who are already using/familiar with HTML 5, but it could be a great foundation for newbies who want to absorb a lot quickly. Personally, I felt that I had a solid foundation to start working with HTML 5 technologies after reading through the examples.In a Nutshell:* Good compilation of intro material for HTML 5 and friends.* Filled with useful internet references.* Recipes are rather basic, but complete and well-written.* Great coverage of accessibility issues.* Probably less useful once the basics are understood.[This review was written as part of the O'Reilly Blogger Review Program.]
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First off I want to make sure everyone not familiar with the Cookbook series understands that this is NOT an instructional how-to for HTML5, if that's what you're looking for may I suggest the HTML5 24-hour Trainer by Joseph Lowery & Mark Fletcher. What this book does is provide practical solutions to common problems that web designers and developers may face as they transition from HTML4 and XHTML1.5 (or XHTML5 if you prefer the newer naming convention) to the new possibilities opening up for us in HTML5 and CSS3. What I like so much about the cookbook formats is their non-linear nature. It's possible to get a great deal from this book without reading it cover to cover. Having said that the recipes do build on each other, so knowledge gleaned from early recipes may enhance your understanding of follow-up recipes. As I stated before, this book will not teach you the entire HTML5 spec. what it will do is improve your understanding of the changes and updates that shape the new standards by placing them in the context of real-world problems. Chapter 1 should be required reading for every developer, even if you read nothing else in the book this chapter provides a solid grounding in the syntactic and semantic changes to HTML markup in context. Not every developer will use Geolocation or Micro-data, but every developer will (or at the very least should) use the new structural elements of the HTML5 spec. to give their content improved semantic meaning. Two thumbs-up.
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Hey all, back in 2007, forum member ZamIAm made a neoprene run and found some great purple fabric. She even matched it to color samples from Zam in the "Dressing the Galaxy" book. I was lucky enough to be able to order some from her, and had high hopes of making a Zam costume so I could join my roomie on his 501st adventures. He dropped out shortly after, however, and as I stared at the giant roll of fabric and reassessed my sewing skills, I decided better of it. Since then, it's been living inside of its box, still wrapped, in my house. Long and short of it is, it's high time I sold it to someone who can use it, as my Zamming days are spent.
It's 5 yards of tricot neoprene, at a 60" width, which should be enough for a costume and then some. One side is purple, while the interior is royal blue. Here are some pictures:http://i1169.photobucket.com/albums/...edTale/066.jpghttp://i1169.photobucket.com/albums/...edTale/067.jpghttp://i1169.photobucket.com/albums/...edTale/068.jpg]I also ordered some plaster greeblies from Zam that shipped with the neoprene as well. They are rolled up inside of the fabric. Here's one of them:
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