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Wall Street Journal Tells Black And Hispanic New Yorkers To Be "Thankful" For Unconstitutional Stop-And-Frisk Policy
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A Wall Street Journal editorial scolds communities of color for protesting New York City police "stop-and-frisk" tactics, failing to mention that the police are changing this policy in response to successful challenges to its constitutionality. The WSJ also incorrectly claimed these warrantless street detentions have "a track record of saving lives and making ghettos safer" and falsely equated constitutional gun violence prevention strategies with unconstitutional search and seizure violations.
In the past decade, despite evidence of its inefficacy, the NYPD has dramatically increased stop-and-frisk, which overwhelmingly targets young men of color. Support for this police tactic is not strong, receiving the most significant opposition in the communities of color where it is most prevalent. Recent lawsuits alleging this police practice is not only impermissibly racially discriminatory, but also a systematic violation of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures, are succeeding.
Nevertheless, the WSJ argued that black and Hispanic New Yorkers should be "thankful" that the police are targeting them for pat-downs without reasonable suspicion of illegal activity. From the editorial:
Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly credit "stop and frisk" police tactics with the drop in homicides, and rightly so, but it's worth noting that Gotham has a slew of Democrats running to succeed Mr. Bloomberg next year and promising to repeal "stop and frisk" if they're elected. The left claims to care so deeply about the welfare of minorities and the poor, yet they oppose policies that have a track record of saving lives and making ghettos safer for the mostly law-abiding people who live in them.
By the way, many of these same liberal opponents of "stop and frisk" support stricter gun control laws. But as commentator David Frum recently asked, how can you support gun control and oppose "stop-and-frisk"?
The WSJ does not cite evidence for its claim that the "drop in homicides" is due to the past decade's stop-and-frisk policing. In fact, the evidence does not support this much-repeated right-wing talking point. In addition to the NYPD admission that "nearly nine times out of ten" the individuals detained under the policy are innocent and that police discover "guns in only about one of every 666 stops--or 0.15 percent," claims that stop-and-frisk is responsible for the drop in homicide are spurious. As explained by The New York Times:
[Proponents of stop-and-frisk] applaud[] the mayor for inventing "a new statistic": 5,600 "fewer murders in the past decade" because of stop-and-frisk.
The mayor's math is certainly inventive, as well as deeply ahistoric. He takes the high point for homicides, which hovered around 2,200 in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Then he points to the number of homicides each year since he took office in 2002, which has hovered near 500, and claims 5,600 lives saved.
Where to begin?
The early 1990s represented a high-water mark for urban bloodshed. Boston, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Richmond, Washington: all became caldrons of violence.
The wave of homicides subsided most substantially in New York, but violence slid in most cities. Smart policing helped a lot. So did the waning of the crack epidemic, the decline of drug turf wars, and tens of thousands of citizens who refused to stay locked in their homes.
New York experienced its sharpest drop before 2002, the year Mr. Bloomberg took office. Since then, homicides have fallen about 11 percent, while stop-and-frisks increased sevenfold.
The NYPD has already begun changing its stop-and-frisk policy in recognition of the increasingly successful challenges to its constitutionality. Although brief police detentions of individuals on the street are not automatically unconstitutional, in certifying a class action lawsuit against the NYPD's specific stop-and-frisk practices, a federal court warned the NYPD last summer that its use of the practice appeared to go far beyond what was constitutionally reasonable. Furthermore, on the same day the editorial page of the WSJ published support for stop-and-frisk, a federal court struck down part of it as unconstitutional, a major news story the WSJ covered in its straight news section:
In the first judicial rebuke of the city's stop-and-frisk practice, a federal judge ordered the New York Police Department to end what the ruling described as "unlawful trespass stops" outside some private buildings in the Bronx.
In her harshly worded ruling, the judge wrote that "while it may be difficult to say where, precisely, to draw the line between constitutional and unconstitutional police encounters, such a line exists, and the NYPD has systematically crossed it."
Finally, the WSJ recycled journalist David Frum's question, "How can you support gun control and oppose stop-and-frisk?"
The answer is simple. First, even if stop-and-frisk was an effective gun violence prevention measure, as right-wing media erroneously claim, it does not follow that it is a necessary tool to enforce gun laws. Second, as conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia concluded, "gun control" is constitutional. According to yesterday's federal district court ruling, NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy is not.
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Who owns Jerry Bickel chassis books?
I'm interested in some books about drag chassis fabrication by Jerry Bickel. Either the RT-1010 or RT-1015 package (http://www.jerrybickel.com/books-and-software-1.html). They are very expensive (+ international freight) and I'd like to know if any one here owns some of these books/what do you think?
Other books I have cover suspension geometry, fasteners, diffs etc but not much on the actual frame/chassis/cage. I'm ok with paying for good info, but it sure would be nice to have a flick through first!
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The Racetech books are a little dated. They cover the way Firebirds were built in the late 90's. A lot of things have changed since then.
The good news is that JBRC will be releasing 2 new books on chassis fabrication in February of 2013. Volume 1 covers the tube chassis fabrication from start to finish. It is 144 pages with 350 photos. Volume 2 covers mounting a carbon fiber body and complete interior, including tubs, doors, trunk kit, windows, etc. with over 850 photos. It's the most comprehensive coverage of race car construction ever done.
The books are titled "Jerry Bickel's Complete Guide to Pro Chassis Construction". Volume 1 - Tube Chassis Fabrication and Volume 2 - Body & Interior.
Volume 1 starts with a bare chassis table and builds the floor tube by tube. Then the carbon fiber 2013 Camaro body is set in place over the floor, and he shows how to fit the main hoop, window bars and dash bar. Then the body comes off. The 4-link brackets are installed, and all of the other bars are added in one at a time, until by the end of the book, the tube chassis is complete and ready for the body to be attached.
Volume 2 takes the tube chassis from Volume 1 and they build a complete interior for the car including floors, firewall and tunnel. They refit the body, then hang the doors, including fitting the hinges, door handles and lock mechanisms and latches. They complete the windows and the windshield. They fit the front end, then fit the carbon fiber wheel tubs and trunk kit. They plumb the brake lines and fire lines. They install the wing, spill plates and wicker. Finally, they go over how to fit the scoop to the engine and the body.
At the end of Volume 2 the car is ready to go to the body shop for paint.
The books are going to be priced at $150 for the set, which is a bargain price. There are so many tips and tricks that will save you hours and hours and prevent you from ruining your raw materials that the payback is a no brainer.
The way they fit the tubes to the body at the beginning of Volume 1 is the same way you would fit the tubes to any composite body, not just the Camaro. It's just that he used a Camaro for this example. He's building a Pro Mod Mustang right now using the exact same techniques covered in the books.
Check for the ad launch in National Dragster early in 2013, or on Bickel's website, or call them to get notified when they are available. I think Bickel has a distributor in Australia for people in that part of the world.
nice, is it feb, yet..
You might contact the JBRC distributor in Australia and ask him to stock in some of the books when they become available. I know they pack shipping containers at Bickel's in St. Louis regularly to ship to Australia and it might save you on shipping rather than ordering it direct from America. Just an idea.
You may be able to contact your local dist and pre-order so you get the books as soon as available as well..
You may not know that all the SFI chassis plans are available from SFI Foundation for only $35........
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Jerry Bickel Chassis Fabrication
Yes you should buy a copy of the SFI specs if you want to build a chassis.
But, just to clarify, the SFI specs are for the roll cage only, not the entire chassis. And they are not really plans, more like general guidelines. Prospective chassis builders should get a copy of the SFI specs for sure, but they are not by any means a complete set of plans for a chassis, only recommended minimum tubing sizes, wall thicknesses and placements for various tubes that are critical for driver safety. The SFI specs don't address the rest of the chassis tubes that fall outside of those criteria.
In some cases the builder has options for tubing placement and configuration of the roll cage elements and those are covered in the SFI spec. For example, the front crossmember has to be one piece unless you opt for larger frame rails, then it can be 3 separate pieces.
Volume 1 of the new Bickel books references the SFI specs and suggests that the reader get a copy as well. If for no other reason than the specs change over time. I have a copy of the 25.1E spec for a full bodied tube chassis that I got in August, and it is informative but you couldn't build an entire chassis with only the information it contains. I think SFI is on 25.1F now, so it has changed in some way within the last few months (the letter is the revision level)
The bottom line is that the forthcoming Bickel books will walk you through an entire chassis build step by step, tube by tube. They are way more informative on how to build a chassis than just a copy of the SFI specs, but are not a substitute for the SFI specs. Having a copy of the SFI specs in hand while going through the Bickel books would be a good idea for anyone serious about building a chassis.
Jerry Bickel Chassis Fabrication books
Here is a link to the website blurb about the new Bickel books for those who might be interested:
Jimbar99.....I take it that you are Jim Barfield who is the author of these books.....Sorry, but we do not allow commercial advertising on our threads........You can talk about the books etc, but no links.....thanks
No problem. I misunderstood your policy. I saw the link to the SFI spec page earlier in the thread where they sell their specs packages commercially through their for profit corporation (SFI Foundation Inc), so I just assumed that you do allow links to commercial sites that are relevant to the discussion at hand since they are commercial and the link was allowed. My mistake. I apologize. Just trying to provide information that was asked for.
No problem Jim...The above link is OK because it is not posted by someone from that company (as far as we know)....Now, if one of our members not associated with your company was to post your link as a reference, that would be fine.......Silly rules....lol
We had took a hard look at a used roller Pro-stock to buy.With us running 9.90 at the time decided we just didn't have enough motor to make it work right.My point is to melt what Jerry builds with whatever the rule book says for your intended class if you alittle light on the motor side.
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Jul 18, 2013 , 1:13 PM by Lyrella Trainer
"Part history, part sermon", is how former Country Liberal political Grant Tambling has described his speech entitled, '40 years of CLP, Crisis or Challenge,' which he gave at the party's annual Central Council meeting.
Now retired, the former member for Fannie Bay(1974), 1980 member for the House of Rep's and Senator in the late 80's, Grant Tambling is probably one of the most qualified people to discuss the CLP's history along with its strengths and weaknesses, as it counts down to its 40th anniversary next year.
But having been out of active politics for over a decade, can this political statesman really cast a critical eye over the party without opening old wounds, (like his unceremonious axing) or causing the grudges of old from boiling over again?
Margo takes some time to delve into the speech, the history and the politics with Grant Tambling.
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Christmas cantata this Sunday at FUMC
The choir at First United Methodist Church in Vandalia will present its annual Christmas cantata at 10 a.m. this Sunday.
This year's cantata is titled, "And On Earth, Peace."
The church is located at 127 N. Fourth St. For more information, call the church at 283-3684.
Liberty Christian choir program Sunday
The choir at Liberty Christian Church will present a program called "Wonderful Joy" at 10 a.m. this Sunday.
In November, Joy and I went to Buffalo, N.Y., and saw Niagara Falls, among other things.
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On Monday, the Evergreen Outreach meeting was blessed by SoftFire (David and Patricia Pence). They opened the meeting with beautiful, peaceful, soft music from 10 instruments (three saxophones, three trumpets, a French horn, a piccolo, a clarinet and a flugelhorn). Later, they incorporated jingle bells and a tambourine.
First Pentecostal's 95th events
First Pentecostal Church of Vandalia will celebrate the 95th anniversary of its founding next week.
The events begin on Thursday, Nov. 29, with a program at 7:30 p.m., and continue on Friday, Nov. 30, also at 7:30 p.m. The speaker for both nights will be the Rev. Jeff Arnold of Gainesville, Fla.
The anniversary celebration will continue on Sunday, Dec. 2, at 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., when the speaker will be evangelist John C. Carroll of Ft. Worth, Texas.
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Fusion 3D youth event is this weekend
Family Worship Center in Vandalia will hold a youth conference called Fusion 3D this Friday and Saturday at the church.
The event – which includes music, dramas, food and prizes – will be held at 7 p.m. Friday night and from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. For information, call 977-8485.
Master Plan sings Saturday at Columbus
The singing group Master Plan will perform at Columbus Baptist Church in Keyesport at 6 p.m. this Saturday.
By Mary Woolsey
Evergreen Outreach was held amid the pelting rain on Monday. Volunteers ran into Wesley Hall as the guests were unloaded from their buses under the shelter of the church's awning.
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Safely running untrusted Haskell code
From HaskellWiki
Obviously, don't run code in the IO monad, just show pure results (or possibly make your own monad that is a restricted subset of IO). But it's a lot more complicated than that...
1 Verifying safety : lambdabot's approach
Since 2004, lambdabot has executed arbitrary strings of Haskell provided by user's of various [IRC_channel|IRC channels], in particular,
- haskell. In order to do this, a particular security policy is required.
The policy, and its implementation, is described here.
1.1 The policy
Only allow execution of pure Haskell expressions.
1.2 The implementationThe evaluator is essentially a function,
compiles it, and evaluates the result, returning a String representing the result, back over the network.
This function is implemented as two separate processes:
The driver reads a String from the network, and then subjects it to a simple test:
- parse the expression to check it is a Haskell 98 expression
If the string parses as a Haskell 98 expression, the 'runplugs' process is then forked to evaluate the string, and the following checks are put in place:
- Only a trusted module set is imported, avoiding unsafePerformIO and stToIO and such like.
- Module imports are disallowed
- Time and space limitations on the runplugs process are set by the OS
- The expression is bound to a random top level identifier (harmless to guess)
- The expression is wrapped in 'show', and must be an instance of Show
- An instance of Show IO is defined, which prints "<IO>", rendering IO impossible.
- The expression is type checked, with the show constraint, enforcing purity
- If it type checks, and the type checker doesn't time out, it is compiled to native code with -fasm
- Only -fextended-default-rules are allowed, as language extensions over H98.
- The resulting .o file is dynamically linked into the throw-away runplugs instance
- The value is evaluated inside an exception handler.
- If an exception is thrown, only the first 1024 bytes of the exception string are returned.
- If all went well, the first 2048 bytes of the shown string are returned to the caller.
2 Exploits
A variety of interesting exploits have been found over the years. Those we remember are listed below:
- using newtype recursion to have the typechecker not terminate
- using pathological type inference cases to have the type checker not terminate
- code injection of code fragments that arne't haskell expressions
- Template Haskell used to run IO actions during type checking
- stToIO to convert a safe ST action, into an IO action that is run
- large strings returned in exceptions
3 See also
- See a long discussion in Haskell Cafe.
- The GHC ticket for -fsafe


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Re: Race rating (TMF, TCF) for Farr IMS 40.7
I quite agree with your views.
Re: Race rating (TMF, TCF) for Farr IMS 40.7
Thanks for the listing.
Re: Race rating (TMF, TCF) for Farr IMS 40.7
Please note that the list of Hi, Low, Avg numbers posted by US Sailing is only a very rough guideline. This is published from the submitted base handicap numbers by PHRF regions across North america. Not all submit every year and in some areas there is little experience with a boat compared to others where there is a large fleet. The "Average" is the Average of the area handicaps. It is not a weighted average and does not take into account that Area A has 40 of the boats and Area B only has one. "Minimum" is the submitted handicap that is the lowest number from all the areas and HIGH is the highest.
US Sailing published a reference guide that lists by boat model all the handicaps from the reported areas as well as the number of boats in that area, the year reported and the experience level with that boat.
Most of what has been stated by previous posters is accurate.
Sorry for the long post. This reminds me that I am overdue submitting numbers to US Sailing
Re: Race rating (TMF, TCF) for Farr IMS 40.7
PHRF ratings vary because the local committees who issue the handicaps adjust them (theoretically) based on local results, which are affected by local conditions. A really heavy boat with small sails will probably not do well in an area with light wind, such as Chesapeake Bay or Long Island Sound: a light boat with big sails will tend to beat it. The local PHRF handicapping committee takes this into account when they issue a rating. In the North Sea, where 20 knots is a lull, the heavier boat will be much more competitive, as the lighter boat has to reef down, and is stopped when it hits the big waves that the heavier boat simply pushes aside. IRC ignores this obvious fact of sailboat racing by assigning a single rating to any boat, anywhere. It then pretends to be scientific and precise by extending the ratings to four decimal places, despite not actually being capable of being that accurate. (If you multiply what LOOKS like a substantial rating difference of .129 between two boats out by the time or distance involved, it comes out to be a tiiny fraction of seconds over the course of the whole race. The decimal places are meaningless in the actual determination of results. They just look REALLY cool.) Then a secret committee changes the secret IRC rule, and the owners who just spent thousands (or tens of thousands) to optimize their boat find out they can't buy trophies by tweaking the rule - they need to buy a new boat. PHRF tends to be consistently popular over a wider range of racers worldwide because it seems to work reasonably well without enabling those with the deepest pockets to buy trophies at the expense of those who sail well.
Re: Race rating (TMF, TCF) for Farr IMS 40.7
You last post is not the high, low ave. That figure is for "Time on Time" phrf figuring vs "Time on Distance" figuring.
The High, low, ave I refered to, as does the paper from US Sailing, is literally that, the highest/fastest base rating for a given boat, lowest/slowest base rating, and the ave of the 3 or more boats that need to be rated over the last 5 yrs with in the multiple area's that USS has jurisdiction in the US and Canada IIRC. This shows the variance among the different areas and how they might use the ability to have local conditions.
S Cal for example, uses three different base ratings for boats, one if doing buoy's, another if doing what will be longer races of 3-4 hrs or more by less than 24, another of doing ocean races. This allows them to hopefully handicap boats that have say running ability's at a faster time on the ocean of a race like the transpac is run, where as if that boat does not point or reach as well, allow for the slowness of those points, vs a boat that is somewhat rounded in ALL points of sail but slower in the run part.
In your case, You boat the fastest rated boat is a 9, slowest a 15, ave for all boats is 12. My boat for an example is 159, 191 and 171. Puget sound here in Wa it is 189, BC where shock is, the boat is 192, so I am a bit surprised the slowest rated is 191, unless I forgot that the BC boat is rated at 191. We also for boats rated slower than about 70 or so, artificially lower the base that is supposed to be used by 10%. This is shown to be a better way of comparing the fastest boats to the slower ones when doing overall scoring due to our weather and race conditions. Most races a windward/leeward in winds under 10 knots. So the ToT scoring is recommended the first formula, along with factors have been posted at the PHRF-NW site as such for ToT scoring.
Re: Race rating (TMF, TCF) for Farr IMS 40.7
I find out the difference of PHRF low high & ave. ^^
Corrected Time = Elapsed Time * TCF
TCF = 650 / (600 + PHRF) for Low Range (Wind less 5m/s)
= 650 / (550 + PHRF) for Medium Range (Wind 5~8m/s)
= 650 / (480 + PHRF) for High Range (Wind over 8m/s)
Re: Race rating (TMF, TCF) for Farr IMS 40.7
Hi Marty !
Thank you for the PHRF listing !
I'm trying to compare that with the PHRF rating in Korean.
(there are some difference about from zero point to 2 digit number)
However what's the difference between High Low and Ave PHRF?
Is it range from slow to fast one?
Which one should I adapt to?
Is it entitle to the Race commitee?
Sorry I am now learning about rating so not much know about.. ^^
Sun KIM
Re: Race rating (TMF, TCF) for Farr IMS 40.7
I'd agree, that trying to compare one system to another does not always work. Heck, Even doing PHRF ToT vs ToD can get goofy, as ToT has three wind factor ratings. Final time splits between boats stays the same, but the Zero boat for lack of better term changes, from around 140, to 80 to 20 tween the light 0-7 vs med 8-15 vs heavy 15+. Zero boat meaning those slower get time taken off, vs faster adding time.
Re: Race rating (TMF, TCF) for Farr IMS 40.7
ORC is very different from PHRF, and there doesn't seem to be a direct conversion between the two, but I can't explain how ORC works. When the conversation changes to handicap systems, my eyes glaze over and I go looking for another rum!
Re: Race rating (TMF, TCF) for Farr IMS 40.7
I would agree, that SA is probably better. But being as PHRF is most widely used in the states vs irc. So not sure how to change out from PHR ratings to IRC...so
your boat hi, lo ave phrf is 9, 15, 12
GS44r, no 42r listed, 12, 12, 12
syd 41 18, 18, 18
Swan 45 -18, -6, -12
Trip 41, 43od 6,9,6
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- Google Chrome OS is a radically different approach to how we understand the basics of a desktop OS. For example, boot up and shut down times are closer to a TV or a DVD player than to a PC. Similarly, resuming wireless connection from suspend mode is almost instantaneous.
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For these and other reasons, I see Google Chrome OS as a very attractive alternative for corporations first, and soon after, for the standard home user. In other words, I see the debate changing, no so much about whether Linux is ready to take over the desktop realm anymore, but about what Google Chrome OS represents and if it will benefit Linux as a whole.
Along those same lines, Richard Stallman recently stated his concerns about Google Chrome OS (more on this HERE). Stallman shared his thoughts about how the new approach to home computing Google is proposing represents a risk of losing control over one´s data. He said: "In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant." Richard Stallman believes Google is pushing careless computing into users, encouraging them to lose control over their data.
On a different note, the fact that Chrome OS is built on top of Linux was welcome news for Stallman, but not so much that Google is discouraging the use of current Linux applications and local data storage.
Will Google Chrome OS help Linux? I certainly see great opportunities for Linux to benefit from a potential success of this new operating system, specially as it can draw attention from hardware manufacturers and encourage them to share drivers or even open their source. The fact that the Chrome browser is the epicenter of this project is also good news, for Chromium should also benefit from a growth in applications in the Chrome store. Looking forward, I can also see opportunities if Chrome/Chromium increases its market share, for it encourages the use of open source technologies (as opposed to Microsoft Internet Explorer or Apple Safari).
Having said so, will Google Chrome OS help Linux become more popular, more widely accepted? I am not sure, to be honest. Google intentionally removed any referrals to Linux early on, making sure all branding was exclusively linked to Chrome, never to whatever sits behind the curtain. As a result, Google Chrome OS users will probably never know they are using a Linux machine.
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I see all these warnings about Lead ruining barrels and have to wonder how my ancesters survived out west before copper clads became available. I have shot a lot of lead thru various pistols over the years and have yet to hurt one. I believe if you maintain the barrel in a reasonable manner it ought not matter. If you never clean, it just might give you some trouble.
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text: Commentary: Attacks on workers' rights continue to escalate Opponents of organized labor who are waging war against public education, government spending and working families can't rely on the truth, so they have developed an agenda filled with deception. They'd like everyone to believe — along with the latest positive headlines about Tea Party followers and union-busting governors and legislators — that the national assault on working families springs from widespread popular opposition to organized labor. They hope educators and others will assume there is a grassroots movement behind measures to pass right-to-work legislation, end collective bargaining for public employees and choke off access to union dues. And they don't want anyone to see that little has really changed since a few well-funded labor critics launched a 1998 California "paycheck deception" initiative — a money grab that targeted deductions for union dues and political spending. The initiative was overwhelmingly rejected when it became clear that just a few millionaires and billionaires — most of them from out of state — were bankrolling the assault, spurred on by anti-tax organizer Grover Norquist in Washington, D.C. Since then, labor critics have engaged in regular assaults in courtrooms, in statehouses and at ballot boxes to target union finances and organizing strength. Woven through these obvious assaults are more subtle ones: the "alternative professional" group that pitches itself as a counter to the NEA and the AFT and the so-called think tanks that promote biased research and are increasingly housing their own "news agencies" to push out their materials. Tactics may have changed some — social media and the Internet deliver messages faster — but the players and the endgame are still the same. A small cast of characters is orchestrating these assaults, drawn from among the richest of the 1 percent. This movement, a mile wide and an inch deep, is taking on everyone else while manipulating policymakers to strengthen its political and financial advantages. Unions remain the most effective defender to deflect the movement's ultimate goals of smaller government — a goal that promotes privatized schools, fewer regulations and reduced private and public employee benefits and pensions. That means the small-government crowd will make labor a high-profile target in the run-up to this year's congressional, presidential and legislative elections. Here are some rules of engagement to consider today and as this campaign season unfolds: A few billionaires can go a long way. The Koch brothers — David and Charles — needed only to pump their wealth into a few groups such as Americans for Prosperity to finance the framework that created the Tea Party. Joined by a handful of big corporate interests and funders clamoring for less government and oversight, the Kochs and their brethren support the Tea Party structure, think tanks, advocacy groups, legal organizations and political action committees to promote a political landscape hostile to unions. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker needed that support to undermine collective bargaining in his state; he could not have sustained momentum for the effort without the puppeteer-like hand of the Kochs. By providing money for organizing, lobbying and campaigns, the Kochs and their handful of donor friends are creating a one-stop shop to take on labor. Look for the same tactics and money this year for anti-collective-bargaining bills and right-to-work legislation in up to a dozen states. Donors can further hide their identities if they "invest" in anti-labor, anti-education groups. 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Thank you everyone!
Vet visit today when as to be expected. No Torn ACL, but he does have Pano.
Poor pup. Now starts the restricted activity. We hope through training to keep him mentally stimulated enough so the physical restrictions don't both him as much.
Thanks again everyone
Could be pano. Torn ACL in a pup seems a little extreme.
I would want diagnostics performed on my non weight bearing dog before monday. If for anything else just to give him pain meds and relief. I cant imagine a person on here thay would go 4 days without pain meds if their leg hurt so bad they couldnt walk on it. So I would call other day vets in your area and see if they can get you in. Or maybe call your vet and see if they can squeeze him in if you just drop him off for the day. That way they could check him out real fast between their appointments.
Xrays should be done though, IMHO, just to rule out any other bone/joint/soft tissue injury. A torn ACL won't show up on xrays but by manipulating the stifle (knee) a competent vet can easily rule out torn ACL or not.
Panosteitis usually causes a fever in dogs as well so that could be a good indicator. Doesn't always show up on xrays though.
If it is pano, then an NSAID like Carprofen (Rimadyl) and potentially something like tramadol for pain is really your only option. I've never had a dog so sensitive while teething so sounds like your poor pup may just be really reactive about pain, amplifying his symptoms in his leg.
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Could be pano
He is eating fine, just not gaining much weight.
Is there anything to be done for Pano, pain management wise? It doesn't seem like its in any other limb, but it did just start happening.
any possibility that this could be panosteitis ?
age, gender , and "wicked" growth spurt are usually involved. If so this is self limiting , will go away with time.
IF it is pano , in a few days he may appear alright , then days later feel pain on another limb , a front leg , and then keep rotating on the limbs.
General malaise , lack of energy , normal appetite gone are part of this .
6 month old male GSD limping and lethargic. Please Help.
Tuesday evening our 6 month old pup Circa started favoring his back left leg. By yesterday evening he wouldn't put any weight on it.
There is someone home with Circa almost always. He might be alone for an hour, tops, a day. Even then, he is in a crate. He is never alone outside, as we don't have a properly fenced in yard.
I say this because we have noticed absolutely no trauma happen to him, but he is limping and in pain.
I think it is worth note that he has just had his first real teething round this past week. With that he has been lethargic, super drooly and you can not touch near his mouth without him wincing or yelping. I think that all this is normal, but covering all information here.
He also just had a very wicked growth spurt, and were finding it hard to help him gain weight. He is fed large puppy wellness( vet recommended 4 cups a day) and a half a can of wet food each day. He is very tall, but skinny. At the emergency vet yesterday we weighed just 41lb.
We did take him to the emergency vet last night because he was whimpering when he walked. She jumped right away to a torn ACL before even looking at his leg. Told us we need x-rays of both back legs, full blood work up and possibly more specialized blood tests.
I think she was just trying to take us to the cleaners. We told her we would like to see our regular vet for another opinion. She gave Circa a pain shot and sent us home with pain killers for him.
I called the regular vet this morning, but they cant get him in until Monday morning. As of this morning he wasn't whimpering when moving, but is still limping.
Please, if anyone has experience with this and can give me advise, or a little peace of mind id be very grateful. We are taking him to our family vet on Monday, but im so worried for our pup.
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|Route Climbed: SE Chutes Date Climbed: Aug 01 2004
|Warmup for Russell. Mostly Class 2 talus & bush with some fun class 3 near the top of the chutes, but once the chutes top out, you've still got 600 vertical feet left to go. A good summer alternative to the packed trail.
|Posted Aug 2, 2004 1:06 pm
|Route Climbed: Hiking Date Climbed: June 2004
|Good breaking in the boots trail...
|Posted Jul 6, 2004 6:59 pm
|Route Climbed: Glen Alpine Trail and Cathedral Lake Trail Date Climbed: June 22, 2004
|I hiked up Cathedral Lake Trail and tagged the top of Tallac on the way to Dick's Peak and Jack's Peak. Of note, the mosquitoes were totally insane. Fucking crazy. I had never seen any there, so I neglected to take repellent. If you go in June or July, take some mosquito repellent or become an unhappy blood donor.
Also of note, I had to deviate from the usual trail a couple of times to go around snowfields. Not that big of a deal.
I went down the Glen Alpine Trail on they way to Dick's Pass and came back up it on the way back to my car. I managed to get off trail a couple of times on the way up the Glen Alpine Trail. Seems I was in the mood to follow those red herrings that look like trails but peter out and leave you wondering where the hell the trail went.
|Posted Jun 27, 2004 10:47 pm
|Route Climbed: Mt Tallac Trail Date Climbed: August 1 1991
|Have done this trail about six times, love the views from Tallac, several times I have gone down to Gilmore Lake to spend the night and fish. Skeets at Gilmore will eat you alive bet. june and Aug.
|Posted Jun 3, 2004 10:58 pm
|Ol Walsher
|Route Climbed: Tallac Trailhead Date Climbed: July 12, 2003
|A nice two hour stroll to the top. A little warm above the tree line. Excellent views of the Tahoe Basin, Desolation Wilderness, and Fallen Leaf Lake.
|Posted May 17, 2004 8:05 pm
|Matthew Holliman
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: Apr 10, 2004
|Traversed from Dicks Peak, returning via the beautiful valley just west of Tallac (Tallac Lake, Snow Lake, etc). The hike along that ridge is kind of loose and sloggy in a couple of places, but the views at the top are great.
|Posted Apr 29, 2004 9:15 pm
|Route Climbed: Cathedral Lake Trail Date Climbed: September 10, 2003
|One of the better views in CA.
|Posted Apr 5, 2004 12:01 am
|Route Climbed: North East Ridge Date Climbed: 2/29/04
|Great snowshoe hike! I really wish that I had brought my skis!
|Posted Mar 1, 2004 1:32 am
|Route Climbed: Ridgeline from Dicks Pass Date Climbed: August 2003
|More fantastic route finding with D across the ridge from Dick's Pass. Although we did see plenty of people in Desolation Wilderness over the weekend, there was only one other person at the top (and we had Dick's Pass to ourselves for a lunch break). A wonderful peak to get a true feel for the immensity of Lake Tahoe.
|Posted Jan 27, 2004 7:11 pm
|Route Climbed: NE Ridge route with The Central chute option Date Climbed: Jan 18th, 2004
|Climbed with rgreen. Final summit ascent was up the east ridge of the summit bowl. Decended down the west ridge of summit bowl to saddle point and down through the NE gully. Time from summit to trail head was 1.5 hours. Outstanding views along the entire approach.
|Posted Jan 21, 2004 6:57 pm
|Route Climbed: Northeast Ridge (Direct East variant) Date Climbed: 18 January 2004
|Started out on the Northeast Ridge route; made it to the bowl traversal that leads to the north of the summit; we saw we were directly east and there were some chutes leading up. Much suffering ensued, about 4 hours later finally made it out of the chute, and 6:54 total time saw the summit. The chute was high angle snow, which gave way to zero footing as we approached the rocks, technical climbing over the rock section (probably about 30 feet), with uncompacted snow over everything. Above the technical section, we were able to kick-step in the (less) steep snow up to the top of the ridge. Relatively easy walk up the bowl face from the east to the summit after that...
|Posted Jan 19, 2004 11:46 am
|Route Climbed: Date Climbed: 2003 Oct. 12
|Started from Stanford Sierra club trail head. Joined Tallac trail near cathedral lake. Camped by Gilmore.
|Posted Jan 8, 2004 12:20 am
|Route Climbed: Trail from Spring Creek, by the Ham's cabin. Date Climbed: August 1995
|Trail the whole way. Chipmunks crawling on people's bodies mooching treats on summit. Views are spectacular, as was to be expected. Decended, and went home to South Shore. Ate steaks, drank beer.
|Posted Nov 21, 2003 7:15 pm
|Route Climbed: South Slope Date Climbed: October 11, 2003
|Climbed this route for the third time with Jan. Some great patriot had put an american flag on top, which made for some great summit photos.
|Posted Oct 13, 2003 9:29 pm
|Route Climbed: Cathedral Lake Trail up, Glen Alpine down Date Climbed: 05-Sep-2003
|Beautiful clear day, very crowded on the trails and summit.
Pics here, Trip report forthcoming
|Posted Oct 7, 2003 11:27 am
|Route Climbed: Cathedral Lake Date Climbed: Aug. 10, 2003
|Beautiful views of Desolation Wilderness.
|Posted Sep 5, 2003 2:07 pm
|Route Climbed: Ridgeline from Dicks Pass Date Climbed: 30 August, 2003
|Climbed with LJ, from Dicks Pass. Looking over from the pass, it looked long, but doable, and even fun. It was all of these! All X-country (at least until encountering the trail from Lake Gilmore), it was enjoyable, with some great views! Mostly class 2, with some fun 3rd class, & (the way we went at least- possibly avoidable) even a few moves of 4th class, staying exactly on the ridge. A ranger tried to dissuade us from doing the peak (said she'd prefer Dicks), that one just saw a bunch of subdevelopments. For those in the Lake Tahoe area for the 1st time, though, I'd imagine that it has to be one of the better places to view Lake Tahoe- breathtaking! Glad we didn't encounter any inclement weather- the next day there were storms, & it was apparent that the ridge would be a bad place place to be in that situation (way up high & loooong!). If you do this ridge & want to hook up with the Gilmore Lake trail, it is NOT as marked on the map (converging to the ridge directly)- it instead is a few hundred ft inwards until the final ~200'.
|Posted Sep 3, 2003 4:37 pm
|Route Climbed: SE Chute Date Climbed: June 1, 2003
|Climbed with Shannon. The route wasn't too steep and I didn't even use crampons, even though they would be helpful at the last 100 - 150 feet of steeper incline. We descended via the "X" (straight down from the summit) which was steep and exciting descend on snow and rock. The last section before joining the main trail involved quite a bit of bushwacking.
|Posted Aug 16, 2003 9:01 pm
|Route Climbed: Cathedral Lake Date Climbed: 15 July 2001
|Nice day hike to bring kids or significant other. Carried a 3 year old in a 'kid-carrier' backpack. Great views of Lake Tahoe.
|Posted Aug 9, 2003 7:09 pm
|Route Climbed: SE Chute Date Climbed: June 1, 2003
|Climbed via the SE chute and descended via the "X". The alternate descent made the day much more interesting. It got fairly sloppy on the way in and worse on the way out. Climbed with Kris. There were only 3 others on the summit when we were there that we enjoyed talking with. Not bad for a Sunday.
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Recess Is Important for Kids
Add recess to reading, writing and arithmetic says a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP.) The pediatricians believe that recess can be as important to a child's overall development as standard classes and should never be denied, especially as a punishment.
"We consider it essentially the child's personal time and don't feel it should be taken away for academic or punitive reasons," said Dr. Robert Murray, who co-authored the new policy statement for the AAP.
According to the authors, recess is a crucial and necessary component of a child's development.
Other reasons given for the importance of recess are that it helps students develop better communication skills, counteracts the time sitting in classrooms, and may foster skills such as cooperation and sharing - all good things.
The authors noted that previous research has found that children are able to pay closer attention and perform tasks better after a recess break. A year ago, 14 studies were reviewed and researchers found that kids who get more exercise do better in school. Recess and sports related activities offer children the opportunity to exercise and burn off excess energy. They also get a chance to recharge their brains and bodies.
Other organizations have recommended that children need recess as well. The American Heart Association and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CPSC) both call for schools to offer recess to kids. You might think that recess in schools is a given, but in a 2011 survey of 1,800 elementary schools, researchers discovered that a third of the schools did not offer recess to their third-graders. However, most schools do offer recess of between 15 and 30 minutes once or twice a day.
Is there a particular time of day that helps kids most? Before lunch seems to be the consensus from government agencies, CPSC and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Previous studies have found that children waste less food and behave better for the rest of the day when their recess is before their scheduled lunch, the pediatricians' statement notes.
They also agree that PE should not be substituted for recess. "Those are completely different things and they offer completely different outcomes," said Murray. "(Physical education teachers are) trying to teach motor skills and the ability of those children to use those skills in a bunch of different scenarios. Recess is a child's free time."
Free time means no structured activities by adults such as games. "I think it becomes structured to the point where you lose some of those developmental and social emotion benefits of free play," said Murray.
"This is a very important and overlooked time of day for the child and we should not lose sight of the fact that it has very important benefits," he added.
I remember recess fondly. A group of friends would gather and run from one end of the schoolyard to the other at full gallop. The first one back would win the honor of becoming the lead horse. Yes, in our recess fantasy we were a heard of horses whinnying and throwing our heads around (showing off our glorious manes.)
It was fun and exhilarating as we trotted around strutting our stuff.
Recess isn't only important because it breaks up the monotony of sitting, studying and listening, it can also spark the imagination!
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By Rob Kelly
Per Mertesacker admits he found the lack of a winter break tough to handle - but insists he is loving his new life in England.
The German centre back spent his entire career in the Bundesliga before moving to Arsenal last summer, and had always enjoyed an extended break over the festive period.
While he did not have that luxury this season, Mertesacker has learnt adapt to his new situation.
"[Having no winter break] was very hard. We had a great time with the family here in London but you have to deal with the situation," he told a webchat with Chinese fans.
"It was my choice to go to the English league and have no winter break, no breather at the end of the year. Normally in Germany you have a chance to calm down at the end of the year, maybe go on holiday.
"It's a very different feeling around Christmas and New Year [in England]. It is harder, but I really like it here. This is my new life: you get used to everything."
It is not only the lack of a winter break that is different to Germany, as Mertesacker has found in his six months in London.
"It is a big step for a German player. It's not only the league, which is much more physical [than the Bundesliga]," he said.
"To move here is about more than playing football. I want to improve my personal life as well. When you move to London it is very special. There are so many people living here, but I feel good.
"London is very international. You can go to English restaurants, or have French food, Italian, German, everything is possible: that is a very good thing."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Looking to buy a light for my tank.
Hello! So its tax time, and I am looking to upgrade my lights in my 55 gal tank to a more medium light setup. currently, due to budget restraints I had to use a 40 fiture. Now im looking for something to help my aquarium thrive. I plan in some glass canopies and some good lights, here are some that I will be able to afford and seem to be decent on reveiws and specs. If you know a great light, please do not keep it to yourself.
Aqueon LED Light
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Marineland Double Bright LED Light - 36 in. to 48 in
48" 260w Pl Aquarium Light Reef Marine Fish Tank Hood Light
This light looks like an amazeing deal for the money, but the reviews say the brackets are flimsy and prevent canopies from fitting correctly. hanging from the ceiling is not an option, and the canopies are required due to my fish being species known for jumping and I have a cat. So i think this one may not work well.
Odyssea 48" T5 HO Quad Aquarium Light Fluorescent Hood Fixture w/4 LED - Plant 4x54W
Those are the Amazon ones I found. I also live close to www.thatpetplace.com and have been looking into there inventory as well.
So sujestions anyone? Lighting seems to be much harder then initially expected, but I am looking for decent med lights that will work well for lower tech (non c02 injected yet.) plants.
I'm amazed no one is answering your question. I'm shopping LED lights too and I've done a ton of reading so I'll see if I can get things started. I'll assume your tank is 21" tall.
1. The Aqueon Modular LED is intriguing but an almost complete unknown. Mixing their daylight with colormax bulbs is certainly appealing too. But, we don't know the PAR values nor even the wattage of each of the strips. That makes it hard to know how well it will perform. I think I saw that the 24" uses 3w strips and the 30" uses 4w. Given all of the searching I have done, I'm sure the Aqueon will support low light plants but I simply don't know about medium. It may be perfect or it may not be enough.
2. I've read repeatedly that the Marineland DoubleBrights are not enough for medium plants. I've inquired directly with Marineland and they same the same. Some people have done alright and the 48" light on a shallower tank may work out for you but the general consensus is no for medium light plants.
3. The Marine light is just that, a marine light. It uses 12k white and actinic. fine for coral but not really for plants. Plants need the 65k-7k light. Algae reportedly loves actinic.
4. The current mainstream T5HO should work quite well. Your comparing apples to oranges but 4T5HO lights burning 216w should do well. Just remember that many, many people report that you need to replace your bulbs every 10-12 months. That and the likelihood that something like the Aqueon LED will use 93% less energy and should last years on the same bulbs makes LED a popular direction.
I'll give the obligatory nod to Finnex who makes some potent lights at a reasonable price. I'd likely take this route myself if they were out of stock for the next month on 36" lights. The dual 7k lights seem to be on the high end of right for plants. Since you have a shallower tank, the Fugeray may be right for you. Give them a call, they are helpful just don't try to contact them through their website, the address is wrong.
Personally, I'd love to see someone try to use the Aqueons with medium plants. The ability to mix and replace lights is very appealing. The color mix seems perfect and not having to throw out the whole system if bulbs burn out or fail sounds great. They are also fairly cheap compared. As I said, they are just an unknown right now.
Hopefully some folks with some first hand experience will feel free to jump on the band waggon now and give us some more insight.
Good luck.
From What i Know, 4x54watt on a 55 gallon is too much light for that tank
I'll say look at these two lighting systems
1. Finnex Ray 2 LED light (48in model) $150 i think
2. Catalina Aquarium ( They have a 3x54watt system for $148.99), but i think you should only run 2 bulbs (all 3 will cause algae)
you will need a CO2 system for medium to high light system
I just purchased a 30 inch Aqueon LED fixture and 2 extra colormax for my 37
I just purchased a 30 inch Aqueon LED fixture and 2 extra colormax for my 37 gallon. It has mostly low light plants. I'm looking to see how well this setup will penetrate the tall tank.
I currently have a single T8 plant spectrum and most plants look ok, but it's been only half a week. I'm hoping it will work, as I am planning on testing it for a few months to see how well. I will move this 24 inch T8 over to my 46 gal to give it some extra lighting for the low light plants in there.
I figure I'll be able to compare the 36 + 24 plant spec T8 46 gal versus the 1 white + 2 colormax Aqueon setup and see if I want to go that route with the 46 or get something stronger.
Ideally I only want them both to be heavily planted low light plants tank. I currently use LeafZone and Flourish, but am considering Flourish Excel as well. I do not want to go to high light/CO2.
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Spring into winter
Thursday, March 24, 2011 | | Daffodils, Spring, weather, what's blooming, what's fragrant, winter
Spring took two steps back last night. We didn't get as much accumulation as predicted but it sure felt like winter. Even the birds, who have been so LOUD lately, observed the snow's silence this morning. But like all truly spring things, the snow was ephemeral: as pretty as a picture (or several pictures) and gone by noon.
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- General Ledger
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- Accounts Receivable
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- Budgeting
- Project Accounting
- Spend Management.
It enables organisations to streamline and automate their finance processes, embed best-practice and improve business visibility, compliance and corporate governance.
It also gives you complete freedom of choice and ongoing business agility, by integrating easily and flexibly with your other key business systems – without affecting them, or being affected, when individual applications need to be changed or replaced.
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Unit4 Financials is the world's original unified-ledger, global accounting system. Unlike modular systems, the financial data for your various ledgers is held within one combined database, updated in real time, without needing reconciliation. That can deliver cost savings of over 50% and ensures you always have the true picture of your organisation's financial position.
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Unit4 Financials has an innovative and unique architecture that provides unrivalled integration and interoperability. So you can combine our great accounting solution with all the specific operational applications you need, to deliver the best functional coverage and to work seamlessly together – even when changes are needed.
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The solution that we deliver has the same functional depth, no matter how you choose to deploy it.
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Posted by Benjamin Ensor on August 9, 2010
I am intrigued by last week's announcement from UK payment processor VocaLink and Australian financial software vendor eWise that they are collaborating to build an online banking transfer payment system for the UK. Online banking transfer systems make it (fairly) easy for online shoppers to authorize payments through online banking by integrating the payment details into their bank's secure online banking site. The customer is routed directly from the merchant's site to the bank to authorize the payment and back again.
In the Netherlands, the iDEAL online banking transfer system has been highly successful. It's now used by some 10 million Dutch online shoppers for about 5 million transactions a month. But the UK's online shopping market is different to the Dutch one in a couple of important ways. Firstly, debit cards can be used to pay online in the UK. Since almost all adults have a debit card, paying online is not a big problem in the UK, unlike many other European markets. Secondly, UK Net users have always been relatively complacent about online security compared with other Europeans. That means that one of the primary attributes of an online banking transfer system -- more robust security -- may not cut that much ice with British online shoppers.
Forrester has long argued that any new payment system needs to overcome three hurdles to succeed: providing a clear improvement over the existing alternatives, driving consumer and merchant adoption, and developing a viable business model for all parties.