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Chairman LEVIN. Thank you, Senator Blumenthal.
Senator Blunt.
Senator BLUNT. Thank you, Chairman.
And Senator Hagel, thank you for being here today. Thank you
for your service to the country in so many ways and your willingness
to serve again. To see your wife and your brothers there behind
you is an indication of the family commitment as well as your
personal commitment.
There are several things that I may get to in a second round on
Iran and sanctions. I was very involved in that unilateral sanctions
effort when I was in the House. We drafted some of that legislation
in my office when I was in the House.
Our relationship with Israel is of great concern to me, and it is
a priority to our efforts in the Middle East. And I think that is
largely exhausted in this first round, at least from my point of
view. I may want to come back to some of it later.
I want to talk a little bit about the ongoing structure of the force.
The Wall Street Journal in an editorial today said that the current
American military was the smallest, least modern, and least battle
ready in recent memory.
And I don't think that means we are not maybe more modern
than anybody else in the world or more battle ready than anybody
else in the world. But I think that is a recognition that our investment
and the way we have used those resources has gotten them
in a position where we maybe need to be more focused on rebuilding
than we do building down.
Secretary Panetta has been very forthcoming in his comments
about the sort of across-the-board cutting approach of sequestration.
What do we do to get our worn-out equipment and our wornout
personnel in a better position a year from now than they are
right now? And your brief strategic view of that because I don't
have very much time here.
Senator HAGEL. Yes. Senator, you have just identified one of the
priorities of the next few years at the Department of Defense. Resetting
equipment and essentially reshaping our force structure,
but also renewing our force structure.
I mean, the fact is we have been at war for 12 years. Every Senator
here knows and you have got constituents that we keep sending
these kids back and back and back to two wars. Well, of course,
there is going to be a consequence. Something is going to break
down, not only your equipment, but your manpower. And you can't
keep doing that.
So that is going to be an overall challenge, Senator, that is going
to take as much of my time, if I am confirmed, as anything, as it
will our chiefs. Our chiefs know this better than anyone, as we
structure and rebalance and renew and re-outfit.
We have got, I believe, a force structure that is as capable as
ever. I mean, I don't accept that our force structure is somehow behind
or not modern or not capable. I don't think that is true.
Senator BLUNT. I think the point that the editorial was making
was not that we were behind, but we are not at the quite as far
on the cutting edge as we may have been. And I would hope you
and I would both want to see us get there.
Senator HAGEL. Yes.
Senator BLUNT. Let me ask a question about that. Secretary
Gates said recently that his--one of his big concerns was that we
repeat the mistakes of what I think he referred to as a ""procurement
holiday'' that we took in the 1970s and then, to some extent,
again in the 1990s. And we spent a lot of time in the 10 years after
that trying to get built back up to where we had hoped to be.
How, in these discussions of cutting, do we keep the lines open,
do we keep our effort ongoing? And one of the things that I know
quite a bit about is the F--18 line because it is in St. Louis, Missouri,
where Boeing Military is. And I do know that if you ever
close that line down, we are always talking about, well, what other
country needs some version of this, and how do we keep our capacity
at a time when there is this talk about cutting and not just cutting,
but sort of cutting everything a little bit, which means that
some of the things that get cut a little bit I think disappear because
they can't survive if they are only partly there.
Senator HAGEL. Mm-hmm. Well, Senator, you have just again
identified one of the great challenges that lies ahead, and that is
maintaining our industrial base. You use the F--18.
Senator BLUNT. And there are lots of other lines. That just happens
to be the one I have been on the most times.
Senator HAGEL. No, I understand. And, but that is a good example
of what we are going to have to continue to keep strong.
But the reality is, as you say, because we know what we have
got to deal with, what our budgets are as a result of the Budget
Act of 2011. What we don't know brings us back to the uncertainty
of sequestration. And some of the examples you are using are good
examples of areas that will and can be, could be cut arbitrarily in
order to fulfill budget requirements.
So I think what you have just noted again is going to be a huge
part of keeping our technological superiority, our edge. Senator
Blumenthal mentioned submarines. I mean, that is another component
of this. All the superior technical edge this country has possessed
since World War II has kept us, along with other things and
for other reasons, the strongest military power in the history of
man. That must be maintained.
Threats change. Cyber is a good example. I mean, 10 years ago,
nobody had any idea what we were talking about, cyber. Even 5
years ago. We have got to adjust to that challenge, that reality.
Senator BLUNT. Let me see if I can----
Senator HAGEL. The core base, though, Senator, is exactly right,
and we have got to protect that.
Senator BLUNT. Well, we do. And you know, we have made efforts
with our allies and friends to give them some other version
of equipment we had, maybe not quite as good as we had, but
something that keeps our defense procurement lines in place so
that when we do need them, they are still there. And that is critically
Before you were designated Secretary of Defense, as the potential
nominee for this job, in talking about sequestration, you made a
comment about there is lots of bloat--I am sure you have talked
about this comment quite a bit and are very familiar with it, more
than you were before you made it probably--in the Pentagon. What
do you have in mind there?
What is being done at the Pentagon that could maybe better be
done somewhere else or is being duplicated somewhere else? I
think in some of maybe the follow-up of that, I saw you mentioned
things that should be in the State Department have gotten over to
the Pentagon. Are there examples of that that we can work on and
you will want to lead on?
Senator HAGEL. Two things. First, that comment came in a large,
extended interview about budgets about everything, and it was--
that interview was done in 2011 prior to the Budget Control Act,
just to get the timeframe right on that. I never supported sequestration,
by the way.
Now, to your question about what we could do. Well, obviously,
much of the conversation here in the last few hours has been about
acquisition, about waste, fraud, and abuse, billions of dollars. Why
aren't we auditing these programs? Where is the accountability?
That is certainly an area that we are going to have to take a look
My reference to State Department programs, some of the general
areas--and I mentioned this this morning--where we have pushed
down on the military the last 12 years to do things that usually
are done out of State Department, aid type programs and exchange
programs, helping civilian type programs in areas. That was all
given to the--not all, but a great deal of it was given to the military
at the time we were at war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So the military has taken on a tremendous volume of assignments
and funding that goes with that. That needs to be sorted
through, I think. Those are areas where I think we--
Senator BLUNT. And one of your commitments will be to help us
sort through that?
Senator HAGEL. It has to be, Senator. It has to be.
Senator BLUNT. I am out of time, Senator. I will be here for the
second round.
Senator HAGEL. Thank you.
Chairman LEVIN. Thank you very much, Senator Fischer.
Senator Blunt.
Senator BLUNT. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Again, I join everybody else, Senator Hagel, in thanking you for
staying today and the answers you've given.
One of the things we were frustrate about was the difficulty of
getting information on the groups you've spoken to in the last year,
and of course the hundreds of groups you've spoken to in the course
of your career would be too much to ask. I do have three comments
from groups that I'm going to enter into the record, two comments
you made before groups, one the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee conference in 2002; another Arab-American audience
in 2007; and then in 2006, the one I'll put in the record right
now and just enter the others, the Council on American-Islamic Relations
Forum. ""University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer
praised Hagel for not being pro-Israel. He said 'Potential presidential
candidates for 2008, like Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Joe
Biden, and Newt Gingrich, were falling all over themselves to express
their support for Israel. The only exception to that rule was
Senator Chuck Hagel.''' Unfortunately, I don't have anything to go
with that of what you might have said.
But some of the concerns of being--you know, I used to say when
I was the Whip in the House that you could count on the House
and the Senate to be, among other things, always pro-Israel, and
I think that's been the mainstream of our views. I've seen a number
of times, in fairness to you, where you've said you're pro-Israel,
but that doesn't mean you have to be reflexively for everything that
Israel is for.
These statements are a little--they're what they are. They're the
things that were reported from comments you made that are out
of the context of the other comments. But I'm going to put those
all in the record.
[The information referred to follows:]
Senator BLUNT. Also, earlier today I asked you about the comment
about the bloated Pentagon. I want to get this straight. You
said that that, those comments, were before the sequestration bill
passed, and they were after. Sequestration passed on August 2.
The Financial Times interview was on August 29. And what you
said on August 29 in that Financial Times interview was you said
""I think''--August 29, 2011. The quote out of the article was:
""The Defense Department I think''--this was your quote. ""The
Defense Department I think in many ways has been bloated. Let's
look at the reality here. The Defense Department's gotten everything
it wanted the last 10 years and more. We've taken priorities,
we've taken dollars, we've taken programs, we've taken policies out
of the State Department, out of a number of other Departments,
and put them over in Defense.''
So that ""bloated'' comment was after sequestration. Of course,
this is the Department you now, 18 months later, if this nomination
is approved, would be running. And again, where do we find
that, those bloated things in the Defense Department, and what
are you prioritizing? Another way to ask what Ms. Fischer was
asking maybe is, are we going to let money drive strategy here or
strategy drive the money? And as Secretary of Defense, which of
those positions are you going to take and how are you going to advocate,
here's the money we need for the strategy we must have
until we get to the reality of here's the money you have, now do
the best you can with it? I hope you're an advocate for strategicdriven
spending in the Pentagon, rather than just the caretaker of
the money that winds up there.
Senator HAGEL. Senator, thank you. There are a lot of pieces and
I know we've got time issues, but let me start this way. First, on
the comments I made in the Financial Times interview, again as
I addressed that today, that was an extensive interview about a lot
of things. So I was three weeks off.
Senator BLUNT. Well, you were after the sequestration bill had
passed, though. So you were talking----
Senator HAGEL. Not sequestration; the Budget Control Act.
Senator BLUNT. But that's what included--they were talking
here about what would happen if you took these cuts.
Senator HAGEL. That's what I was talking about. But the Budget
Control Act that was passed was implemented a few months later,
which I agreed with, and obviously the majority of the Congress
did as well, to try to find a trillion dollars overall in our government
in savings and $490 billion is coming out of DOD for the next
10 years.
But to your bigger point, you start there with the reality of what
the Congress has passed, what the Congress has decided to appropriate
for each Federal agency. In this current fiscal year that
we're living in, as you know, it's a $525 billion operating budget
and $88 billion for overseas contingencies. So the Department of
Defense works within the framework of those numbers.
I've said a number of times here that I agree with you that budget
alone should not drive our national security, of course not. What
is the mission, as I've said? What are the priorities, which you just
brought up about different projects that Senator Fischer and others
have asked me about? How are going to fund everything? Should
you fund everything?
Do times change? Are there different threats? Ten years ago, we
put a lot of money in the Defense Department budget; there was
no such thing as a cyber warfare threat. Do we need to do more
Do we need to change our force presence in Asia? Well, we've decided
we're going to do that. That changes things. We're moving
Marines around in the Pacific. That wasn't the case 10 years ago.
So things change. You manage and you direct your efforts and
you lead based on the security interests of your country first. If I
am confirmed, Senator, I will be a strong, have to be a strong advocate
for the Defense Department. That will be part of my job. But
that doesn't mean that I don't have some responsibilities for efficient
use of the taxpayers' dollars and effective use of the taxpayers'
Senator BLUNT. Just the opposite, you do have that responsibility.
Senator HAGEL. I do, that's right.
Senator BLUNT. But I think the point is we want to be sure that
you're advocating for the money you think you need to strategically
accomplish what we can. Then obviously at the end of the day you
have to deal with the will of the process to provide the money you
have. But we ought to let the money as much as possible be defined
by the strategy rather than the other way around, Senator.
Senator HAGEL. I agree with that.
Senator BLUNT. I'm once again out of time.
Senator HAGEL. I agree with that, Senator. Thank you.
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Greg Sterling reports, but did not get official confirmation from either organization, Nokia tech will power the Bing Maps infrastructure. There have been many rumors regarding NAVTEQ in recent weeks from folks outside the industry, but Greg's on the inside, so I think this is worth sharing.
However my lunch companion argued unequivocally that Nokia Maps would effectively replace almost everything that Microsoft had developed over the past several years in terms of the Bing Maps infrastructure. This was shocking because Microsoft has invested hundreds of millions of dollars (if not billions) in creating a viable competitor to Google Maps. Most recently the company has been promoting its roll out of new hi-resolution aerial imagery on a global basis.
I said I couldn't believe Microsoft would agree to swap in Navteq for the guts of its own system. Yet my lunch guest argued that Microsoft's role would mostly center on the Bing Maps UI — ironically not unlike Yahoo's relationship to Microsoft search results — everything else would be powered by Nokia.
And there was another very interesting remark. He asserted that Google's unwillingness to agree to a co-mingling of Google Maps and Nokia Maps or substitution of Nokia Maps on the back end was one of the sticking points that prevented Nokia and Google from coming to terms.
Search Engine Land via @atanas
The gory details of how Nokia's mapping portfolio would work in the new Microsoft/Nokia deal announced earlier this year was not completely clear (APB coverage).

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Oct. 18, 2002
The University of Tennessee men's swimming and diving team kicked off its season Friday with the 25th annual Orange and White meet. The Orange team took the victory 133.5-105.5, narrowing the head-to-head margin 14-11 in favor of the White team.
"I am happy with some of the swims today," head coach John Trembley said. "We had a great off-season workout and today it showed, they worked hard."
Freshman Jason Thomas had the swim of the meet, while senior Mike Burton lead the team with two wins and was named swimmer of the meet.
"It is exciting being a part of something bigger than I am used to," Thomas said. "This is a great squad of guys and it is not just individuals out there, we are team oriented."
Burton, a transfer from BYU, won both the 50 free and 100 free. "It feels good to be named swimmer of the meet," Burton said. "It helps me get motivated. Winning is what we aim for and winning is living."
On the diving boards, sophomore Phillip Jones proved to be dominant as he captured both the one-meter and three-meter events.
"I was pleased with the performance from all of the guys," head diving coach Dave Parrington said. "They exceeded my expectation with the level of their diving."
The Vols hit the water again Friday, Oct. 25, in the Student Aquatic Center against SEC rival Kentucky.


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The agreement came as part of a plan by South America's two biggest economies to extend defence and energy projects.
It was announced after talks in Buenos Aires between Argentine President Cristina Fernandez and her Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Brazil would export electricity to Argentina in the winter months ahead amid shortage fears, Mr Lula said.
"We're going to launch a satellite jointly and develop a nuclear project," said Mr Lula.
He added that the venture would "serve as an example in this world, ablaze with the temptation to build up arms and with political and ideological intolerance".
Each country currently has two operating nuclear plants, and both have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Bolivian gas dispute
The two leaders see the joint nuclear project as a way to increase energy supply while raising their profile on the international stage, says the BBC's Americas editor Warren Bull.
But while energy issues dominated the first of two days of talks, the two presidents did not refer directly to a dispute over the ratio of Bolivian gas supplied to the two countries.
La Paz currently prioritizes its exports to Brazil, its biggest client, which imports 30 million cubic metres of Bolivian natural gas per day.
Argentina imports a maximum of 7.7 million cubic metres per day from Bolivia, and would like a bigger share.
There are fears it could suffer from acute energy shortages during the southern hemisphere's winter months ahead.
It is hoped the issue will be resolved during a joint meeting with Bolivian President Evo Morales on Saturday.
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SANDOWN – After a majority of the planning board declined to take issue with member Matt Brown's sitting in on a hearing of an applicant with whom he had a financial relationship, the board showed their confidence in him by voting him secretary. A special meeting was called for Monday, May 13, as a result of arguments and decisions occurring at the board's April 16 meeting, when members reviewed an application from developer Bob Villella. Acting chair Matt Russell said he was opposed to approving the plan because conditions were not met, but board members Brown and Ed Mencis pushed for a quick signature of the subdivision plans.
Chair Mark Traeger said that rarely had plans ever been signed on the night of a hearing, as they usually have outstanding conditions to be met, and the tenor of the discussion, for him, raised a red flag. He said all applicants should be treated the same, but in this case special exceptions were made. Later Traeger found out that in December 2012, Brown had purchased a parcel of land from Villella for $50,000 and the mortgage agreement was not held by a third party but by Villella.
As a result of that discovery, the May 13 meeting was called. The town's attorney, Diane Gorrow, weighed in through a letter that indicates Brown's financial relationship should have been disclosed. In part the letter reads, "Mr. Brown has a financial obligation to Mr. Villella. That obligation is a direct, personal or pecuniary interest which differs from the interest of other citizens. In addition, with that financial obligation, Matt Brown does not appear to have been indifferent in acting upon Mr. Villella's plan. Therefore, Matt Brown should not have participated in deciding or acting upon Bob Villella's subdivision plan."
Traeger was accused of undertaking a witch hunt for bringing the information to light. "What possessed you (to go the Registry of Deeds)? I wouldn't even have thought about something like that," said Mencis. Mencis added he had no desire to discuss the potential conflict of interest and was personally slighted Traeger asked him if he had a relationship with Villella. After Traeger pointed out how Brown was at odds with the town's ethics policy, selectman liaison Hans Nicolaisen said, "Could be. But whose ethics?"
Nicolaisen said ethics depends on whether anything wrong was done. He added that he had a big problem with the town ethics policy because a person could run afoul of it doing anything in a small town like Sandown.
"I'm here for all the right reasons. I know I am. Regardless of what anyone here thinks," said Nico laisen in defense of his opinion. Russell said that at the heart of the matter was the fact that the planning board flouted local and state law to quickly approve Villella's plans, for a developer who has repeatedly been in trouble with both the town and state. "We are all sworn to uphold the laws of the State of New Hampshire," said Russell. "What this board did, well, what three members of this board did that night, was break the oath that we took, which was to uphold state law."
Brown read a lengthy letter into the record, calling into question Traeger's motives and the opinion of town counsel, and saying he would not recuse himself from matters with Villella unless what faces the board "benefits me or my spouse in a personal or financial manner." Brown said he spoke with two different attorneys from the New Hampshire Local Government Center (LGC) and his own attorney and said all three saw no conflict of interest. He took issue with statutes Gorrow cited, stating they did not apply, and adding that the letter does not tell the whole story. He said Traeger should not have been the one relaying the information about what occurred to Gorrow.
At its heart Brown's legal argument was that his financial obligation to Villella did not affect his decision making because that obligation was determined by the language of his mortgage ,"and cannot be altered or changed based on the outcome of a vote I make." Brown said it is easy in a small town to create the appearance of a conflict of interest, even where none exists. He noted selectman liaison Hans Nicolaisen plows for the town, member Ernie Brown is a developer and Traeger owned property next to conservation land.
Brown went on the offensive and questioned whether Traeger's efforts to conserve land were taken because of his adjacent property values. He was referencing the Minton Property, which abuts Traeger's land. Traeger recused himself from conservation commission votes dealing with its purchase and ultimately that property was purchased by a three-fifths majority at Town Meeting.
Brown added that the process was not about his financial agreement with Villella, but because he disagreed with Traeger. Brown said he had no faith in Gorrow's opinion, while Traeger said Brown had previously stated he had no faith in LGC opinions, which he was now using to defend himself. Russell noted that aside from the conflict of interest, laws were ignored when Villella's subdivision was approved. "I heard that night members say that they didn't care about the wetlands issue. It doesn't make any difference whether you care about it or not. We are here to support and uphold the laws," said Russell.
Nicolaisen ended discussion with a motion to move on to discuss the board's bylaws. That motion was approved by Matt Brown, Nicolaisen, Mencis and Ernie Brown. It was opposed by Traeger, Russell and Steve Meisner. In that second discussion, Mencis nominated Brown to fill the newly created role of secretary. Prior to that vote, former planning board chair Donna Green pointed out from the audience that in some situations the secretary, as the third officer, could act as chair, and thus the conflict of interest discussion should be finalized.
Green's suggestion was not taken up by the board, a majority of members stating that the matter had been laid to rest. All members present but Russell voted to elect Brown as secretary. Russell stated that he was uncomfortable being on a board that did not follow the laws, and instead relied on personal opinion. Russell began to ask each member in turn whether they would uphold the law by not approving subdivision plans with outstanding conditions. Before Mencis ended the discussion by saying that members were not on trial and the question was demeaning, Nicolaisen, Matt Brown and Ernie Brown said they would approve subdivision plans with outstanding conditions on a case by case basis.


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text: Last week, in "The Ingredients of Our Secret Sauce: Part 1," we began to break down some of the key technology ingredients that power the Turn Platform. Although we can't publicly talk about the recipe to our secret sauce, it's helpful to understand what those ingredients are. We talked about the importance of data and machine learning-based optimization, but what other ingredients are needed to drive performance? Massive Scale Today, Turn considers billions of bid requests every day. We are architected (you'll see a theme here) to horizontally scale to any number of billions of bid requests, and do so by using each of our automated algorithmic resources as efficiently as possible. This is important because scale matters. It's one thing to look up all of the data for an impression and calculate the optimal bid response, but it's another to do it at scale for thousands of campaigns and billions of impressions per day. If your servers slow down, even the slightest bit, they won't respond to the RTB auction in time, causing advertisers to miss opportunities to bid on relevant impressions (i.e. loses campaign reach). When it comes to server latency in an RTB-based environment, there is a set time period, generally 75 to 150 milliseconds, to respond to a bid request from each ad exchange. This is the round trip time required from the exchange's servers to Turn's servers and back again. As this round trip involves communicating over the Internet, once the bid request reaches Turn's servers, we have a lot less than the 75 – 150 milliseconds to respond to that call. Yet, despite all of the real-time data retrieval and bid optimization algorithms we utilize for each impression, Turn's bid processing is in the milliseconds, which is an achievement that speaks to efficiency. Scorecard The real proof in the pudding is when we receive results from our exchange partners and media buying clients. Our partners show error and win rates; hence, Turn's scorecard tells us what % of their inventory we bid on. According to Google, in Q4 Turn's successful bid response rate was over 95% for the AdX exchange compared to an industry average of 59%. That's a huge difference, which translates directly into campaign reach and performance. Every time a DSP can't respond in time to an RTB auction results in a lost impression opportunity for the advertiser. The second proof comes from our clients. We are not about cheap 'cookie bombing' inventory tricks; we are about meaningful results in areas like data warehousing, analytics, and audience insights. What's important to take away from this is that it's not about one technology ingredient; success comes from blending them all together. When you combine a highly scalable infrastructure with data management, algorithmic optimization, and machine learning models you have a technology platform unlike any other. Data-driven advertising is at the core of Turn's technology and we are committed to building innovative solutions for our agency and brand customers. If you have any immediate questions, feel free to contact me at email@example.com . Cheers, Dominic VP of Engineering


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I found a designer that wants to work with me to make up some themes. I think he likes to design where as I prefer to code. From what I can see of his work, he is a better designer than I am. Anyway, we want to work together to sell themes. He designes them, I code them. Is it possible to set up an account with the both of us on it and listed so that both will be able to track sales and answer questions on designes?
Can I collaborate with another author to create and sell items?
Authors may unofficially partner with another author to create new items, but we advise strong caution when doing so. The Envato Marketplaces consider the person who created an account and agreed to the terms and conditions to be the sole copyright holder of the items for sale and the only person eligible to withdraw any funds. You are certainly free to partner with another author to create items for sale, but please keep the following important point in mind. The marketplaces enter into a legal agreement with the person that creates the account. For example, if the name John Doe is signed up, then John Doe is the sole individual the marketplaces have an agreement with, and this is the person who owns any earned funds in the account as far as the marketplaces is concerned. Only one person's name can be used. You are more than welcome to come to a private agreement about the account and it's earnings of your own accord, but we cannot get involved in any dispute or issue. We will only issue payment out to the account holder and their nominated payment details.
If you feel that strongly and you work well together whats stopping you just setting up your own design agency?
I'm actually modifying my envato stats script to accomodate multiple authors under a shared account.
Example: all our php items are assigned to me, all our design items are assigned to hayley. When pay day comes it will show a summary of how much all the php (my) items earnt and a summary of how much all the design (hayleys) items earnt.
Might be useful for some people
Possibly a better route than sharing an account is finding a designer who can design the templates for a set price and sign an agreement that you are the sole copyright holder. Then you code them and sell them yourself. You would keep all the profits because you would take the risk of paying for the designs upfront with no guarantee of approval or future sales.


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In what is now becoming a weekly or even bi-weekly tradition, General Motors (NYSE:GM) has issued forth more recalls covering a couple of million vehicles, bringing it's year-to-date total to over 13 million units — three times the number that Toyota recalled all of last year, which led the industry in volume. The issues covered everything from front safety lap belt cables to an insufficiently heated plastic weld and affect 2.42 million vehicles over four campaigns.
This means that General Motors has recalled more units this year than its sold in the U.S. over the past five years — combined.
The first of this recent quartet of recalls involves 1,339,355 Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, and GMC Acadia full-size crossovers from the 2009-2014 model years, and the Saturn Outlook from the 2009-2010 model years. This is the one due to the front safety lap belt cables, which can "fatigue" and separate over time. "In a crash, a separated cable could increase the risk of injury to front seat passengers," the company explained.
Following up the SUVs comes the recall for 1,075,102 of the previous generation 4-speed automatic transmission Chevrolet Malibus and from the 2004-2008 model years, and the Pontiac G6 from the 2005-2008 model years, because of a shift cable that could wear out over time, the company said. This could result in "mismatches of the gear position" indicated by the shift lever, and although there have been no fatalities from any of the four efforts, GM is aware of 18 crashes and one injury due to this specific campaign.
Although Cadillac has been largely exempt from the more severe recalls this year, it was able to dodge this round unscathed: 1,402 Cadillac Escalades and Escalade ESVs from the 2015 model year are being brought in because of an insufficiently heated plastic weld that connects the passenger side air bag to the instrument panel unit, and could result in "a partial deployment" of the air bag in the event of a crash.


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I know I do. I love the show, I love the trading card game, I love the toys – hell, I've named cars after them. But if I'm being honest, I don't know if I love the Pokemon RPGs. I mean I like them, but there is something about the mainline Pokemon games that just hasn't been able to fully keep my attention in years. Luckily for me though, Nintendo has provided us with many side-games over the years, from great games like Pokemon Snap! and Pokemon Pinball, to less great games like Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. Pokemon Battle Trozei is the newest in that long line, and it may be my favorite so far.
Pokemon Battle Trozei (also known as Pokemon Link Battle) follows the same basic formula that its prolific RPG companion does: travel the world, battle increasingly powerful Pokemon, and inevitably catch them all. Very unlike said companion however, you use puzzles to battle Pokemon instead of complex menu systems; and though it may look like a standard match-3 puzzle game, it's incredibly fast pace is what sets it apart from others of the genre.
Each level in the game tasks you with battling and successfully capturing, or "trozei-ing" a series of Pokemon, ending with a rare 'boss' Pokemon. The Enemy Pokemon appears on the top screen, while the bottom screen is populated with several Pokemon of varying types. By matching pieces and making combos, you create attacks to throw at the opposing creature. Whichever Pokemon you match first determines the element of the attack, and the usual weaknesses and strengths found in other Pokemon games are present here. The game does a pretty poor job of explaining the nuances of Pokemon's elemental roshambo, so players unfamiliar with the system will likely find themselves lost; fire beats grass is obvious, but fairy beats dragon is hardly common sense.
Building combos is the main thrust of the gameplay; the more combos you can string together, the stronger your attack is. As long as you say focused and don't slow down for a second, your combos can keep growing almost indefinitely. Many Pokemon can only be caught by building up a massive combo against its previous baby form and forcing it to evolve, and boss monsters are practically impossible to beat without a good attack, so quick reflexes and a keen eye are vital.
The quest to catch all 700+ Pokemon adds a lot of replayability to the game. There are secret challenges throughout the the world that you have to complete in order to catch the most rare and powerful Pokemon; The legendary Pokemon Latios and Latias, for instance, can only be caught after successfully taking down Rayquaza, another Legendary Pokemon, in a single attack. Another especially arduous catch is the transforming Pokemon, Ditto, who can only be caught after completing a level populated only be several different types of Unknown, a set of Pokemon based on hieroglyphics that are nearly indistinguishable. Others can only be caught in the "Safari Zone", a series of levels with a fresh set of Pokemon to catch every day of the week. The obsession with catching every single Pokemon is part of what has made this series so popular, and Pokemon Battle Trozei captures that feeling better than any of the other side-games thus far.
Filling your bank with Pokemon isn't just for bragging rights: you can keep any two Pokemon with you at all times and utilize their special abilities. There are a handful of powers spread across the ranks, and using them correctly adds a lot of strategy to this already somewhat complicated puzzle game. After a Pokemon stays in your party for a time, it's affection grows and a heart appears over its icon, thus adding several orders of magnitude to the "squee factor". Unfortunately though, finding the right Pokemon to use is extremely cumbersome; the game has no sorting system within the Pokemon selection menu so you are left staring at several hundred somewhat similar looking options, each with a different power level, elemental type and special ability.
In addition to the single-player campaign there is also a multiplayer mode, but it's easily the most disappointing aspect of the game. You and up to three of your friends can tag-team a particularly difficult level, but there is no head-to-head competitive mode. Versus modes in puzzle games like Tetris and Doctor Mario are part of what makes them so great, so it seems like a real missed opportunity to not include one in this game.
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Drywall over 1-1.5" rigid foam?
We have a typical cape with a stairwell added on the back for access to the second floor. It is not heeated, so I'm putting up rigid foam - Dow's blueboard - over new batts in 2x4 walls. When I say "over," I mean that the foam extends full across the interior and not in between the studs or rafters.
I'd like to put the drywall right over the foam...will that work?
I concerned that, since the foam is less dense than wooden studs, the drywall will crater as screws grab the wood and pull the drywall snug to the foam. I've seen and heard of strapping being put over the foam, but I really want to avoid another step if it's possible.
Thanks very much!
Foamboard shouldn't be installed on the interior side of the studs. Your concerns about attachment of the rock are justified. Foamboard is installed on the exterior side beneath the siding.
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I'm getting completely different opinions on this...
so I took some extra 1.5" foam and 3/8 drywall and did a test run, and it seem to be fine. Assuming we take care in securing the drywall, I think it will work out. Any reason to think otherwise??
I attached a photo of the test.
Interesting project. I would have originally said do something else, but it's cool that you tried it and it appears to have worked okay.
My concern now would be the joints. I think if you make sure that the seams of the foam DO NOT align near the seams of the drywall you might just be fine.
So what do you figure you have, somewhere around R20 when combined with the batts? It also sealed all your joints... added bonus!
My boss, a former builder and energy auditor, suggested this method...Ininkus, what would you have suggested? Always looking for other ideas.
Seems will be offset...foam seams sealed with spray foam and tape.
Yes, on the R-20, plus air barrier.
If you continue installing sheetrock over rigid foam board, I guarantee that the screws will pop, and the seams will crack.
The other option is to build the walls out using strapping or studs,(as you stated). You can do this horizontally or vertically, and install the rigid foam between.
To expand on what Atlantic said, you could add 2x2 furring strips to each stud and secure the rock to that. The insulation would of course have to be cut into strips to fit between the studs.
Sorry, but you shouldn't trust your former boss on this one.
The space isn't heated?
how are you going to do your outlets?
rigid foam board over interior studs
I am in the process of doing exactly what Michael76 described.
I don't understand why the screws could pop or the taped seems might separate.
The foam board will first be fastened to the 2x4 studs with nails that have a large plastic washer.
3" drywall screws will be used to fasten the 1/2" drywall boards through the 1 1/2" foam board into the studs on 16" centers (which will be marked on the floor).
Going right across the studs, rather than going in between, prevents thermal bridging by the studs and should be better than going in between.
I already have pink insulation between the studs right now.
I am removing the original vapor barrier covering the fiberglass insulation
before I will put the foam board on.
The electrical boxes are a bit of a problem, but there are a few options here, too.
An electrician told me I can just use longer #6-32 screws and mount the actual outlets (or switches) right against the drywall, leaving the box where it is. If the wire in the box has not been left long enough, pigtails can just get maretted onto them.
I don't like this too much, since I think over time the outlets and switches might wiggle loose rubbing on the drywall.
Since I work in a machine shop, I cut a small steel plate, the hight of the electrical box and about 4 1/2" long and riveted it to the side of an electrical box.
Now I can fasten this plate to the stud, bringing my box out to 1/2" proud of the foam board.
I thought another option could be by just fastening a 1 1/2" strip of wood on top of the stud where the box is mounted right now and just bringing the box forward to the proper depth.
Of course the foam board will have to be cleared for that.
Has anyone done something similar to this or see problems with it?
Michael 76, how did your job turn out?
I've done exactly what you are thinking about----never had a call back,or a crack---
I wouldn't go with just putting longer 6/32's in, to me that's just a little too sloppy. I would use wood to attach the electric box to & i'd extend it out to where the box should be sitting if things were normal. Like 1/8 back from the face of where your drywall will sit. I'm thinking maybe take a 2 X 6 & nail the plastic box to it at the proper distance for the drywall & then sink 3 or 4 --- 3 inch screws on the back of the 2 X 6 to the 2 X 4. That should be nice & sturdy & solve your problem with only a little extra work.
Sometimes its hard to explain things with a keyboard, i hope what i just tried to explain makes sense :)
finished project feedback
It's almost 2 years from my original post, and the spaces (2nd floor and stairway) have been completed for almost that much time.
I ended putting up 1/2" drywall directly over foam (blue XPS) in 2 ways:
1. On most of the 2nd floor ceiling, I put the drywall directly over the foam.
Result:In these sections (about 500 sf), there's maybe 8 screws popping.
2. For the stairway walls and ceiling, I ripped 3/8" ply into 2" strips and went over 1" and 1.5" foam. I kept the strips right over the studs/rafters because -- strips were flimsy (they needed support and wouldn't alone hold drywall); and, to keep my head clear on where romex traveled behind the foam. To secure the drywall, I went thru the strips and foam with screws long enough to give me at least 1/2" grab in studs/rafters.
Result: Over about 650 sf, no screws popping - yet.
This project was my first time doing ANY kind of remodel work, so I think part of the screws popping is my poor job on improving existing framing, hanging drywall, and taping/mudding.
That said, from my experience and the results so far I would follow advice of other posters - and general online GC advice - and put up some decent furring. I didn't do so because I was trying to lower ceilings no more than I had to.
photopeter -- On the electrical boxes, I found boxes that can be mounted to the stud and adjusted by a machine screw to whatever depth you want. They were able to reach flush thru 1.5" foam and drywall. Just don't make my mistake and get the cheap elec. boxes made of plastic. Use the metal or fiberglass (?) ones, or whatever other recommend.
The whole idea was insulation, and that's been a big improvement. The spaces are warmer, holding the heat better, and far fewer air leaks than before.
good idea
It makes perfect sense and sounds like a good and sturdy solution.
foam on rafters
i was going to do this for my 1 storey and half in canada. i bought this house and found out no insulation in the attic (well the guy put the insulation fibreglass directly on the roof, wich was pretty bad for moisture and the insulation wasnt doing what it was supposed to do).
i currently was able to push some foam trough the rafters from the storage side to the begining of the attic where its not accessible but now i find that i still need to put more than the 2 inch foam board. so im wondering
1. how i can attach another 2 inch foam board, reflectix and dry wall to the current drywall or
2. if i have to get rid of the current drywall and what type of fasteners i should be using, i dont mind the extra steps if necessary but its a bedroom right now and it needs to be done soon because we're freezing!
any other options would be appreciated thanks
Sounds like you did a good job. the foam covering the studs has eliminated thermal bridging. It is also psi rated so screwing the drywall on top should not compress the foam
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Good Advice to Live by: 'Be Open,' 'Let Life Happen'
"Be open," that's what my friend Tsafi used to say. "Just let life happen."
But I was not one to do such a silly thing. Let life happen? As in, don't try to control all of it, all the time??
Tsafi would laugh now if she heard me.
My friend always gave me great advice: she told me which book to read to become better at dating; she helped me shove the couch and bookshelves around to give my living room better flow; she cut my hair and told me how to best style it; she taught me how to make quinoa salad as well as turkey meatballs.
But it's because of her mantra--just let life happen--that I ended up married to the love of my life. You see, I was (and am) the type of person who flips to the last pages of a book to decide if it's worth the investment. That's how I was about relationships. Why bother with any of it if I knew how it would end? I had reached my heartbreak quota. And with that in mind, just after my now-husband and I met, I flipped to the back of our book: He lived in Tennessee while I lived in North Carolina--four hours apart, and only if you didn't take a break on the drive. Too much distance, I thought, and what if he wants things out of life that I don't?
Tsafi, older and wiser than I by a decade, said, "Are you going to end this relationship before it's even begun?"
Why yes, I thought, why not?
"C'mon, Shuly," she said. "Just be. Let life happen."
After I married and moved to Johnson City from Chapel Hill five years ago, I left so many things behind. But I did not leave Tsafi. Sure, she still lived in North Carolina, but our words sped weekly through the taut telephone wires strung between us.
We talked about the men she dated, about her work as a hair stylist, then her career change to a computer networker. But it was my turn to give advice when she asked how to prepare for job interviews, how to negotiate salary, and how to decide if a job was right for her. And later, when she got cancer for a second time and decided against treatment, it was still my turn when she asked me, "How do I tell my daughter?"
I saw her last in October, when I went to see her. She lay flat on her couch most of the afternoon and evening, and I lay on the floor next to the couch, and we chatted the hours away. We talked about her home country of Israel, and about news from her other friends; about TV shows, plants, and poetry; and later, about her death. Back then, we both knew it was a matter of weeks, but not how many, not that there were eight.
The day of my visit, we said our goodbye the only way she and I knew how to: without saying it. We bought into the idea long ago that love and friendship do not end. She held out the camera in front of us and snapped our faces close together. I got up on the couch and held her hand.
When I left, it was dark outside her apartment, and I sat in my car with the motor still off. I could have seen stars had I looked up through the windshield, but instead I closed my eyes.
I still think of Tsafi when I walk alone. I still play her old voicemails, which always start out, "Hey, Shul. It's me." I still imagine her chiding me when I let my hair get unkempt, and I badly need a cut.
Just let life happen, she always said. So I try not to hold onto the idea that she should still be here. And in this way, and only this way, I let her go.
Published February 10, 2014 in the Johnson City Press.


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Many factors contribute to why art theaters resemble evacuation zones. Among them: a seasonal releasing pattern, an oversupply of movies, and what Tom Bernard, co-president of Sony Pictures Classics, calls "a periodic market adjustment."
Studios are killing off their specialty-film divisions, as Warner has with New Line ("Sex and the City," "The Lord of the Rings"), Picturehouse ("La Vie en Rose," "Pan's Labyrinth"), and Warner Independent Pictures ("Good Night, and Good Luck," "In the Valley of Elah"). And indie movies are premiering on On Demand the same day as in theaters.
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The landscape for both mainstream and offbeat films is being reconfigured so dramatically that Ira Deutchman, chief executive officer of Emerging Pictures, a New York-based digital production company, describes distribution as being in the "post-studio, pre-Internet era."
Summer is high season for Hollywood entertainment "tent-pole pictures" such as "Indiana Jones" that draw crowds to the multiplex. Winter is high season for Indiewood "forehead films," as insiders call art-house fare such as Juno that make viewers think.
The seasonal moviegoing paradigm accounts, in part, for why multiplexes are jumping and art houses are relatively quiet.
But when a worthy art title such as "[email protected]," the crowd-pleaser about a senior citizen choir that sings punk-rock songs, fails to find an audience, it's worrying. Even more so is that this year, there have been very few art-house hits - "Under the Same Moon" and "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" didn't hit $13 million, and the even-smaller grosses for "In Bruges," "The Visitor" and "The Counterfeiters" suggest that about 1 million Americans have seen each. (About 20 million saw "Juno.")
The perception among Philadelphians is that if an art movie fails to connect on its first weekend, Landmark, the nation's premier art-house chain - operator of 57 theaters from Berkeley to Boston - immediately replaces it with another title.
Rather than support films for a few weeks and enable audiences to find them, arthouse bookers throw movies at the screen like spaghetti, hoping one will stick.
"You've got to let audiences discover a movie, you have to nurture a title so that you have your biggest gross in the fourth week rather than the first," Bernard says. "But most art houses are booking movies like commercial theaters: Move 'em in, move 'em out."
"The pushback that we're hearing from the public that we're churning films isn't true," says Ted Mundorff, Landmark's chief executive officer. "We're trying to bring smaller films to the marketplace."
"The biggest problem in Indiewood isn't churn, but the production glut," says Anne Thompson, columnist for the film-industry publication Variety. In 1986 the total number of Hollywood and Indiewood films playing Philadelphia numbered 172. In 2007 it was 510, a threefold jump.
The glut was precipitated by easy money, she says. Now that credit is tighter, Thompson predicts there will be fewer movies and potentially less churn at the art house.
But tight money means fewer resources to trumpet arthouse product: Publicity and advertising budgets are being cut to the quick. A film such as "[email protected]," with a five-figure marketing budget, gets swamped in the tsunami of "Iron Man's" $40 million.
That's why filmmakers and forecasters are experimenting with alternative ways of bringing art films to market, including bypassing theaters altogether.
Landmark has premiered films such as "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" and "Flawless" on pay cable the same day it premiered them in theaters. While Mundorff says there is no hard data proving movies are helped or hurt by making big-screen movies available on the small screen, "in the case of 'Flawless,' it helped the box office."
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Despite the current doldrums, the market for arthouse cinema seen in the art house remains vibrant. "It's a cyclical business," Mundorff says.
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On August 5th, 1968, Dr. Berndt L. Kohler, then provost at Raymond College, University of the Pacific, gave a talk at The Commonwealth Club that predicted a major paradigm shift in our society's perspectives and ideologies. In his speech "Has Tradition a Future?" Dr. Kohler focused his discussion on the counter-culture wave of the late 1960s as dramatic and lasting "changes in our traditional value system."
During this period, much of the country experienced some major political and social changes. Large numbers of peole found their focus shifted away from the nuclear family toward fighting "The Establishment." At the time, some critics considered it the result of the fall of morality. Dr. Kohler, on the other hand, noted that, "The young people … simply see a different world from that seen by their elders, who are far less conditioned to technocracy and seek to get by with older values."
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Senators 3, Canadiens 2 (OT): Cory Conacher tied the game with 22.6 seconds remaining in the third period and Kyle Turris scored at 2:32 of overtime as host Ottawa edged second-seeded Montreal to take a 3-1 lead in their Eastern Conference first-round series.
After Conacher forged a 2-2 tie by burying a loose puck at the top of the crease, Turris put the seventh-seeded Senators within one victory of advancing when his rising shot from the top of the left faceoff circle deflected off Canadiens defenseman Raphael Diaz and past Peter Budaj. It was just the second shot faced by Budaj, who started the overtime session after Carey Price (30 saves) suffered an undisclosed injury at the end of the third period.
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This is a discussion on Any Central VA people want to meet? within the Mid-Atlantic States forums, part of the Regional Discussion category; alright well. how is next weekend? Originally Posted by ohsixwgnz saturday would be my last day till end of march/early ...
no idea. im not familiar with the area so you guys will have to give me a place and adress.
Depends on when/where... I'm interested.
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Lets say this saturday officially? Around 6, we can meet up, get something to eat, and drive around for a bit yeah?
Pick a place. preferably around 2.5 hrs from 21146. if its further than that, i don't know how we can drive. I cant help pick the place because i have no idea whats in central VA.
I will PM my number as well as boardinshortys. send me a pm and we will exchange numbers.
He basically said it all for me but hopefully we can get enough people to go. Can't wait!
Wow, thats a hike. Maybe we should try to coordinate a meet closer to NoVa instead?
So whats the deal, I know that one guy has been shipped out.
don't know still waiting for a date and location. is anybody going to the rally x at summit point on march 24? here is more info...
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yep im still waiting for a date and location as well. let me check out that event and get back to you
edit: Summit point is 2 hours from where i am. i can probably go to those.
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Like any cosmetic surgery, lip augmentation has to compliment not create problems. After taking a patient's history, history of herpes labialis (cold sores), concentrating on what has been done before, what worked, what didn't, get an idea of the patient's dissatisfaction, emphasize their favorable attributes, we jointly formulate a plan. Younger patients, usually have good anatomy (cupid's bow peak, defined philtral colums (ridges which originate below the nose and end in the central upper lip), relative symmetry and youthful teeth. Older patients have "distractions", such as radial (lipstick bleed) lip lines, marionette's lines (shadows extending obliquely from the outside corners of the mouth), labiomental grooves (dents adjacent to the chin fat pad), which need to be "corrected" so that lip augmentation doesn't get eclipsed. HA injections (Restylane, Juvederm) are a great place to start because asymmetries can better be addressed than with a solid implant (Alloderm, Permasil). Starting slowly and establishing that lip volume and shape can be "built up" by staged injections allows the patient to treat and evaluate, without the risk of being ridiculed as having "trout pout" or duck lips. Alloderm lip implants were popular about 15 years ago. The procedure was conducted under regional nerve blocks (local). 3mm incisions were made in the corner of the mouth, a tunnel was made under the dry vermillion, which enabled passage of the implant from right to left. Depending on the requirements, multiple strands could be added for both fullness and anterior projection. Post-procedure restrictions included limited ranging of the mouth (i.e. no yawning) for 2 weeks, use of a pediatric toothbrush and local wound care (antibiotic ointment). Frankly, the longevity of the result with Alloderm was disappointing. After the resolution of the post-op edema (swelling), although the implants were palpable, the volume seemed to resolve. Cost was comparable because Alloderm is pricey. Permasil (shaped solid silicone) implants are more cost effective but generally more applicable for older patients who have literally "lost" their lips, as the fibrofatty tissue "melts" away. Since initiating my HA (hyaluronic acid) filler practice in 2000, patients have shown me that there retention is possible. After treating every 3-4months in the first year, patients generally keep the volume and request retreatment, less frequently. The dermatology literature suggests that HA injection may stimulate collagen formation. This mirrors my experience injecting individuals whose lips have been augmented with HAs. They feel firmer, not gritty and the volume remains. Hope this helps.


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