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WESTMINSTER -- Standing in front of the Sawyer Miller Masciarelli Funeral Home on Main Street, police Officer Jason Tamulen said drivers are routinely breaking a traffic law that poses a serious danger to pedestrians at this location.
Sure enough, a pickup truck barreled through the breakdown lane, passing on the right a sedan that was stopped at the intersection waiting to turn left. The sedan could have concealed a pedestrian on the crosswalk who would not have been visible until directly in the path of the truck.
"This is with me standing right here, and you can't miss the police car," said Tamulen. He was clad in his yellow reflective police traffic jacket, and his marked cruiser was parked just up the street. And the intersection has signs that plainly read: "Travel prohibited in breakdown lane."
And yet, drivers keep on passing in the breakdown lanes.
Tamulen said it's been a problem since Main Street was restructured with breakdown lanes on the edges a few years ago.
There are three intersections in a row where the problem occurs, the points where Main Street intersects with Bacon, Adams and Eaton streets.
Tamulen said no pedestrian has been hit, but the danger is real.
"This is a crossing location for the schoolchildren," said Tamulen.
The Bacon and Main streets intersection he was standing at is just around the corner from Westminster Elementary School and the Meetinghouse Elementary School.
He wants to increase traffic enforcement to make sure a tragedy doesn't happen.
Five state highways run through Westminster, routes 2, 2A, 140, 31 and 12. Although the town has a population just over 7,000, it sits among the cities of Fitchburg, Leominster and Gardner, and Tamulen said the area sees a lot of cross traffic, but the small town doesn't have a dedicated traffic officer.
"South Street is a raceway since they repaved it, forget about it," said Tamulen.
He said drivers continue to cruise through town. When they try putting an officer on traffic duty, they are pulled away constantly to answer other calls.
Tamulen's plan, which has the full backing of the Westminster Police Department, is to deploy police officers already with the department on dedicated traffic duty in high-visibility locations such as Main Street.
The program would bring the town an estimated $40,000 to $60,000 annually in traffic fines from motorists.
To pay for the program, which includes police overtime, training and traffic education programs for the public, a quarter of the money the town takes in from those dedicated traffic officers would be put into a special fund. The program would also make the town eligible for additional state and federal traffic safety grants.
Tamulen says a requirement for some of those grants has caused some misunderstanding. In his proposal, the dedicated traffic officers would be required to pull over a minimum of three cars each hour.
When Tamulen first presented the proposal to the selectmen Oct. 15, Selectman Wayne Walker cautioned Tamulen that the proposal would be hard to sell to voters because it appears to have a quota for traffic tickets.
Tamulen said the requirement is not for three tickets an hour but three traffic stops. Written and verbal warnings also satisfy the requirement.
He added that if that is still a deal breaker, the three stops per hour could be negotiated down or away, but the town would miss out on the grants as a tradeoff.
Tamulen hopes to have a vote needed to create a special fund for the program at the next spring Town Meeting. He is scheduled to speak with both the Board of Selectmen and the Advisory Board before then.
He said the approach for this program follows the guidelines from the Data-Driver Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety model used by multiple federal agencies, including the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
He shared some figures compiled from state police and Westminster Police records divided into three-year segments.
From 2005 to 2007, there were 13 car crashes at Batherick and Depot roads. It was the highest crash frequency intersection in town.
After dedicated enforcement and constant highly visible police cruisers at that intersection, the same intersection failed to crack the top 10 list for the 2008 to 2010 segment. Tamulen said high-profile police presence and enforcement get drivers to change their behavior, and displaces and discourages other types of crime as well.
From 2005 to 2007, Massachusetts saw a 8.6 percent decrease in crashes while Westminster saw a 0.9 percent increase, according to the Massachusetts Traffic Records Analysis Center. From 2008 to 2010, the state saw a 14.4 percent decrease while crashes in Westminster increased 9.1 percent.
"Traffic is not being reduced, only increased," said Tamulen. He said the town needs to do something before the problem gets worse.


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I'm just back from a teeny, tiny tour promoting my new book "Talking with My Mouth Full" and have confirmed what I thought to be true -- food connects everything. Food is the connective tissue for time, space, memory, family and friends. After I read stories from the book, people would respond with stories of their own, recipes from their great-aunt's first cousin, apocryphal tales. One of my favorites was from a woman in Minneapolis who emailed me after reading the book:
I volunteered at a home hospice where we used the kitchen as our greatest tool for counseling and comfort. Every day we would bake and cook family style meals. We basically never stopped cooking. Family and any patient able would wander in and out of the kitchen sharing stories, recipes, tears and lots of laughs. One patient who came in with little time left had only one request. He was unable to eat but wanted liver and onions one more time. We fried a big pan of liver and onions, put it on a plate and put it in front of him to smell and admire. We even cut up a tiny piece for him to savor on his tongue, though he no longer was able to swallow anything. His smile as he closed his eyes and savored the smell and taste is one of my memorable moments there.

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The sun and the wind were talkin, the wind told the sun that it is more stronger than the sun. the wind said look am goin to blew that men's rope, the sun blew, but the men hold his rope as hard as he can, the sun said am goin to be very hot, so the sun started to get very hot and the man stated to feel very hot and desydratated, so thats how the sun proved to the wing that it was stronger..ingrid
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Love is a wonderful gift. It's a present so precious words can barely begin to describe it. Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It's incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time. It is a blessing that should be counted every day. It is nourishment for the soul. It is devotion, constantly letting each person know how supportive it's certainty can be. Love is a heart filled with affection for the most important person in your life. Love is looking at the special someone who makes your world go around and absolutely loving what you see. Love gives meaning to one's world and magic to a million hopes and dreams. It makes the morning shine more brightly and each season seem like it's the nicest one anyone ever had. Love is an invaluable bond that enriches every good thing in life. It gives each hug a tenderness, each heart a happiness, each spirit a steady lift. Love is an invisible connection that is exquisitely felt by those who know the joy, feel the warmth, share the sweetness, and celebrate the gift! "Dorabum
As we walk our path of life, We meet people everyday. Most are simply met by chance. But, some are sent our way. These become special friends Whose bond we can't explain; The ones who understand us And share our joy and pain. Their love contains no boundaries. So, even we are apart. Their presence enhances us With a warmth felt in the heart.Dorabum


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Sandblast Rally is back on March 2nd, 2013 with over 37 cars and another 38 bikes already signed up. Come check out Rally Racing in the woods around Cheraw, SC.
The whole event is on Saturday with night stages and several opportunities to check out the cars and talk to the drivers. Spectating is free and volunteering will get you the best views, a chance to party and hang with the drivers at the awards banquet and more than likely get you some free stuff. You can sign up to volunteer here:: http://NASARallySport.com/nrsdb
Event website with the schedule, entry list and directions is at: www.sandblastrally.com
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Genetic Testing for FAP
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
FAP is very prevalent in our family. My son has had 3 genetic tests done in an effort to locate his mutation so that other family members could get blood tests to see if they have it, but they have not been able to locate the mutation in any of the affected family members. I have heard that it matters where the test is done- that different labs are better at detecting the gene abnormalities. Is this true?
Jill Stopfer, MS, CGC, Certified Genetic Counselor, responds:
It is not the hospital or lab that matters in the detection rate of genetic mutations in the APC gene, it is the technique used by that lab. �So the question to ask is: was the person affected with FAP tested by sequencing, including testing for large genomic deletions and rearrangements? �The genetic counselor �/ genetics professional who arranged the testing should be able to answer this question. �It is absolutely true that depending on which lab was used, different techniques may have been used, which can affect the accuracy or �completeness� of the testing.


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They are acknowledging the fans of Fable: The Lost Chapters and making a remake. They obviously realize the purchasing power of such a fanbase if they are doing a re-release. Do they go further down the path of simplification and difficulty easing they have been going down, or do they return to refine the core RPG elements that made the original the best (in my humble opinion). Feel free to post what you think, but tell us where you think Molyneux is going. God knows that man is unpredictable.
They'll probably do another Meet Milo game just as an advertisement for how 'advanced' Kinect 2 will be, then ditch the game because it was all just staged. That's my opinion. ;) In all honesty I think they should make another Fable game. One that doesn't have a bunch of lies and promises that will actually go into the game.
I just want a great Fable game. I can't bring myself to try the Kinect version but may mix it in a buy 2 get 1 deal. The others were great in their own ways. The biggest problems were the promises that were extremely hit or miss. They're good but keep feeling more watered down versions of what started as an extremely promising series. Still hopeful though.
I think judging by their communities feelings towards the latest games they are going to have to either reimagine where they are going with Fable or go back to their traditional RPG style. Judging by their love for surprises in my humble opinion I believe we are going to be very surprised by their next release whatever it may be.


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Friday, March 23, 2012
Celebrate Everyday!
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I love the bright pink colour palette Lynn - gorgeous card and that flower is wonderful :)ReplyDelete
Hi Lynn,ReplyDelete
This card is so pretty. I just love the way you use color. I hope you have a wonderful weekend with your family.
Love your take on the Runway Challenge, Lynn! The stitching looks great! Have fun with all the boys this weekend!ReplyDelete
oh, love those bold colours and that double banner!! I'm up early to enjoy my last few mornings. We're unpacked and Tony put the 2 Ikea pieces together last night :) My cubby organizer goes up today :) Getting inky this weekend :) Have fun with your nephew and niece!! Hugs!ReplyDelete
beautiful and classy card. Love the color and arrangement of the flower.ReplyDelete
Love the beautiful blossom and the pennants! :)ReplyDelete
What a happy card! This is lovely, Lynn! Love the layering of the flower! Happy weekend, my friend!ReplyDelete
I like the stitching its just perfect in white on such a bold bright card....love how you've been inspired by the photo :0)ReplyDelete
Not sure what we are up to this weekend but the weather looks good so could involve some gardening...have a fun one with your extra little guy :0)
Jenny x
So pretty, Lynn! I love the combination of colours and textures.ReplyDelete
FUN take on this inspiration photo, Lynn!!! LOVE your layered flower and the damask background!!! Have a GREAT time with all of the kiddos this weekend!!ReplyDelete
Pink is such a bright color, brings happiness, I think!ReplyDelete
Great sentiment: celebrate everyday, together with your great boys, Lynn! Blessed to be a mother to four little men!
Enjoy your weekend with your nephew and next week will start right with your niece. Happy crafting together!
We enjoyed my birthday yesterday. Tomorrow I will have some time with two girl-friends. We intend to visit a hobby shop.
Sunday church and family-time. The weather will be fine, I hope. The sun was shining the whole week!
Wishing you a great time with your family! Judith
Working on catching up on some blog header designs and a stamp design, so I think my weekend will be busy! Good thing it is supposed to rain so I don't feel bad about missing the weather. Hope you have a great weekend. Your card is so cool, different from your usual, and still awesome!ReplyDelete
Yes, yes, yes! LOVE what you did with the sentiment!ReplyDelete
Fabulous mix of the colors, love it!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card! Such pretty colors! :)ReplyDelete
Love when you use those Beautiful Blooms! I like the way you did the sentiment too.ReplyDelete
Tomorrow will hopefully include some carding, a swim for the boys and baking some S'mores cookies for a friend!
So pretty! I love the gorgeous flower and the cheery colors. Thanks for playing along with the Runway Inspired Challenge!ReplyDelete
what a pretty take on the RIC. you captured the colors perfectly and love the layered flower.ReplyDelete


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exactly how game console, cellular providers, and drug dealers work
You get a free set of spoons and needles, if you sign up for two years!
Kindle source code files: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200203720&qid=1243644379&sr=1-1
Folks may be familiar with the open source EC2 "clone" (or whatever) Eucalyptus [eucalyptus.com]. The latest version even has Elastic Block Storage support [eucalyptus.com]. Is anyone using it in anger?
Up to now, every "cloud" solution has been completely different, meaning that once you invest in getting one to work, you lose much of that investment if try moving to another. There are *lots* of important dimensions to compete on -- bandwidth cost, CPU cost, RAM cost, OS selection, security, privacy, reliability, reliability, and did I mention reliability? -- but until there is a common platform among vendors, it's all apples and oranges comparison.
Open source would change all that.
Suddenly, I can compare the cost of building it myself to the cost of having Amanzon do it. Due to scale, Amazon should win, but maybe I want to pay for less reliability for my development environment, or I want to pay for more reliability by duplicating that environment among several vendors, or I want to keep the super-sensitive data on my own data haven. Win, win, win.
"Suddenly, I can compare the cost"
And that's something the leader of any market niche never wants. Amazon seems to be the leader of this market niche, so the only reason they would do over the open path is if they really feel that the lessen parties can menace their position by grouping together around the same standard against them.
Up to now, every "cloud" solution has been completely different, meaning that once you invest in getting one to work, you lose much of that investment if try moving to another.
I've actually been hearing about a couple of startups (I don't have their names handy) that are creating integration software for different virtualization and cloud computing platforms. The example they gave me was how we could tie our VMWare infrastructure (ESX and VMWare Server installs) to fut
rohypnol-lover writes "Microsoft has been one of the early movers in the operating system space, with its XP offerings, including SP2 and SP3. Now, there is a lot of chatter around the imminent open sourcing of all its APIs and services and the impact that will have on the other 'operating systems' out there -- public or private. From the article, 'Microsoft faces significant threats from open source operating systems if it pursues a purely proprietary path [...] Microsoft can't ignore the cost advantages a
Their whole business model is based on leasing you the marginal computer power they have at their disposal, not at leasing you code or algorithms.
It's not like you can take the code for S3 and instantly offer a cut-rate S3 service, you need to have the throughput and backend storage they have, and processes they use to manage it efficiently. That's what they sell, and really open-sourcing the systems will only make their services more useful and ubiquitous, because people who want to build a simple hash-da
An open API (whatever that is) is not the same as an open source program. If they were releasing the code that makes EC2 work, that would really be newsworthy. Of course, it'll never happen. Making their API accessible is just a way to get more people using their service.
Please mod parent up.
E.g. Just because you can use Googles Map or Chart Apis, you still don't have the real thing. It is an additional dependence.
In my opinion, the term "open-sourcing an API" should never be used, as it is not correct. It is more like releasing a specification and and maybe a free/open usage of the service.
Then perhaps you need to make yourself learned about Eucalyptus.
I would also learn about a little used language called Erlang and how it works. Something screams ultra-distributed network there. Im sure Haskell or Lisp could do similar, but updating programs while users are on it active, just seems so much more powerful.
I agree, this article as written makes no sense. To "open source an API" is muddy thinking, a non-concept. At least in the US, there is well-established legal precedent [eetimes.com] allowing companies to duplicate APIs at a functional level. E.g., the function of APIs is not copyrightable in the way that source code is. So anybody that wants to can come along and implement their own versions of the EC2, S3, etc. API. They don't need any approval from Amazon.
Now Amazon may decide it's in their best interest if other
GeoCities. No kidding.
If you commoditize your service to that extent, so will everyone else. You're not going to be able to charge any more than your expenses + SFA.
You'll notice IBM are selling software, services and servers to cloud vendors, not particularly trying to get in on the act themselves, despite having a fearsome service division. They're selling the spades and picks in the gold rush.
There is no group of people of any significant size that would pay to use Amazon services only if they were open source.
Indeed they could lose customers to other providers that provide the same software at up to zero cost. This also represents a security issue for Amazon Customers.
The advantage would be to gain free programmers for their services. This is not very useful, as in this case they are leveraging their massive investment in internet services for running their company. The more it is useful for
This also represents a security issue for Amazon Customers.
Security through obscurity, eh? Well, whatever helps you sleep at night.
What the hell is that supposed to mean? The APIs are already available; other people implement them.
You can only "open source" source code.
This process can check if this value is zero, and if it is, it does something child-like. -- Forbes Burkowski, CS 454, University of Washington


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It's so hard for this die-hard squash lover to resist buying up all the squash in sight with rock-bottom prices like .59, .69, and .79 cents a pound! I came home from the market to discover I was in possession of 6 of them! And then a couple of days later…oops! One more makes seven. It was inevitable that a soup would be made.
If ever a soup could sing then this one did. The roasted garlic and Parmesan balanced out the sweetness of the squash. It was a perfect harmony of earthy, sweet, and salty. This is an extremely forgiving soup, as most are, that's just one of the many things I love about them. A little extra squash – vegetable instead of chicken stock – heavy cream instead of milk – Romano instead of Parmesan – nutmeg instead of sage – no problem! Twist it around your little finger and make it your own. Just be sure to make it!
Roasted Garlic and Butternut Parmesan Soup
(by Reeni)(Makes 6-7 bowls)
1 bulb of garlic
Olive oil
1 large Butternut squash(about 6 cups cubed)
1 yellow onion, diced
Sea salt
Fresh Pepper
1 tablespoon Sage, fresh, chopped, or 1 and 1/2 teaspoons dried
2 – 14.5 ounce cans of Vegetable or Chicken Broth
1 cup Whole Milk
1 cup Parmesan or Romano Cheese, grated/shredded
Smoked Sea Salt, Parmesan, and Extra-Virgin Olive oil for serving
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Slice off the top of the garlic and remove some of the outer skin. Place in a very small casserole dish or a piece of aluminum foil. Drizzle with Olive oil and bake for 1 hour. Roast the squash at the same time.
3. Slice the butternut squash lengthwise, clean out the seeds, place face down in a baking pan sprayed with baking spray or lined with foil. Add an inch to two of water. Bake for 45 minutes or until fork tender.
4. Remove the garlic and squash. Allow to cool until it won't burn to handle it. In a small bowl squeeze the garlic from the cloves. Remove the skin from the squash. Rough chop.
5. Saute the onion in a large sauce pan or soup pot in a tablespoon or two of Olive oil over medium-low heat. Season with salt and pepper. When the onion is soft and translucent add the sage and the garlic. Saute for 2-3 minutes. Turn off heat.
6. In a blender or food processor puree the squash with the broth and onion mixture. (Or add it all to the sauce pan and use a good immersion blender). Work in two batches if necessary. Return the mixture to the pan. Bring to a simmer for 10-15 minutes.
7. Add about a cup of soup back to the blender. Puree with milk. Add back to soup, bring to a simmer.
8. Add the Parmesan, stir in well and allow to melt. Turn off heat. Taste and re-season with salt and pepper if needed.
9. Serve with smoked sea salt, Parmesan, and a drizzle of Olive oil if desired. Crusty bread is a necessity!
I have to send a huge thanks to the very generous Scharffen Berger for gifting me with a box full of goodies that included this Apple Smoked Sea Salt sprinkled over the top of my soup – it was absolutely delicious!
I'm sending this to Deb of Kahakai Kitchen for her Souper(Soup, Salad, or Sammie) Sunday
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Java anti-featured as a Pattern Language
Java the language is a great algebraic assembler for the Java virtual machine, but it's not much of a pattern language. It's even anti-featured. Here's an example.
The overarching development model I'm using on PigIron is that the inner stuff knows little about the outer stuff. PigIron is a 1.5-developer open source project. It's not quite massive, but it's large, layered and complex.
This TISKLATOS pattern :) makes it easier to develop in spurts as time permits. It also enhances reliability in that making changes at midnight is safer than it might be otherwise: keep your sleepy fingers out of the inner stuff while working on the outer stuff.
It's a very reasonable sort of design pattern to follow ... I certainly didn't invent it personally.
At the outer fringe of PigIron is the translation of PigIron VSMAPI transactions to-and-from JSON so that they can be used in web applications. Each type of VSMAPI basic parameter extending VSMParm has its own method for translation into JSON. These translation methods are public static in the Argument class which is distantly external to VSMParm.
* Assimilate a VSMParm as an Argument
* @param vsmParm A VSMParm instance to be used as an Argument
* @return An Argument created from the type
* @throws JSONException on JSON err
public static Argument from(VSMParm vsmParm) throws JSONException {
Argument result = null;
if (vsmParm instanceof VSMInt) {
result = from(VSMInt.class.cast(vsmParm));
} else if (vsmParm instanceof VSMString) {
result = from(VSMString.class.cast(vsmParm));
} else if (vsmParm instanceof VSMAsciiZ) {
result = from(VSMAsciiZ.class.cast(vsmParm));
} else if (vsmParm instanceof VSMStruct) {
result = from(VSMStruct.class.cast(vsmParm));
} else if (vsmParm instanceof VSMArray) {
result = from(VSMArray.class.cast(vsmParm));
} else if (vsmParm instanceof VSMAsciiZArray) {
result = from(VSMAsciiZArray.class.cast(vsmParm));
return result;
} {/geshibot}
Now, in a single-inheritance language (which has cost me many keyboard hours in making up for that lack of dual inheritance since I adopted it as my main development language in 1997), why do I have to downcast? Why can't I just pluck from a Vector and toss to Argument.from() with an implicit downcast automatically selecting the approrpriate overload of Argument.from()?
My friend Nathan Lipke, a Sr. Member at Oracle, says my design is wrong "and looks foreign to a Java developer" (making me a Stranger in a Strange Land). He points out correctly that abstract methods in VSMParm would work as well.
That's the very point: that Java the language erodes the chosen design pattern and development model. I don't want tutti-frutti JSON-oriented abstract methods cluttering the very simple core of PigIron's mainframe communication API. It doesn't make good development methodological sense.
But it's either that, or rote downcasting (rote jobs are automation candidates, yes?) in service of the overloads in the outer layers. For that matter, plugging in abstracts in base classes is pretty rote itself!
For these and other reasons, one might conclude that Java the language is a great algebraic assembler for the Java virtual machine, but it's not much of a pattern language.


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BACON FREE LIBRARY is located at 58 Eliot St. (Rte. 16) in South Natick. Our library website is www.baconfreelibrary.net. For additional information, call 508-653-6730. Visit our Facebook page, too.
OUR HOURS ARE: Monday, 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Saturday, closed. (Summer hours went go into effect on May 24 - Tuesday until 7 p.m. and closed on Saturday).
SOUTH NATICK GARDEN TOUR. tickets now on sale! Sunday, June 8, from 2 to 6 p.m. Tour a selection of beautiful local gardens, with a wine and cheese reception to follow at Elm Bank from 4 to 6 p.m. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35, on the day of the event, and can be purchased with cash or check at Bacon Free Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Bacon Free Library, with proceeds to benefit Bacon Free Library.
UPCOMING AUTHOR VISIT Nandini Bajpai, Tuesday, June 3, at 7 p.m. Natick author Nandini Bajpai will sign copies of her novels "Red Turban, White Horse" and "Starcursed," both stories in which fate and the stars (or at least belief in them) play a decisive role. Nandini has lived and worked in India, Australia, and the U.S., before settling in Natick with her husband, kids, and a variety of pets. Although she dabbled in corporate finance, business analysis, and fostering shelter animals, her first love is writing. Copies of her books will be available for purchase, with hospitality provided by the Friends of the Bacon Free Library. This event is free and open to the public � no registration required. Join us for Tuesday Night Book Club on June 17, at 7 p.m., where we will discuss the novel Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. Copies are available at the library. New members always welcome!
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NEW ART EXHIBIT Reflections: Assateague Island Wild Pony Series, a show of oil paintings of ponies and boats by Natick artist Rob Franco went up April 28 and will run through the month of June. For more information on his background and techniques, visit his website at www.robfranco.com.
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BACON FREE LIBRARY is located at 58 Eliot St. (Rte. 16) in South Natick. Our library website is www.baconfreelibrary.net. For additional information, call 508-653-6730. Visit our Facebook page, too.


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Jerbear and I have decided to stage a Brikwars battle shortly after Saturnalia. It will probably be a wasteland scourmage with plenty of coverage. Aside from our standerdized army (Mine RDTF, and his Piltogg clone troopers) I'll be sneaking in a few famous faces along the way to add to the carnage.
Suggestions? I'm thinking of using a five man fire squad, and on support a heavy machinegunner, a sniper, artillary, an APC (in my LDD models) and a medic.


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From the fish to the people, there is plenty of reason to monitor the continuing fallout from the 2010 BP oil spill.
From the fish to the people, there is plenty of reason to monitor the continuing fallout from the 2010 BP oil spill.
Since the early days of the spill, there has been sincere and well-considered concern about the long-term effects the ecological catastrophe would have on the Gulf of Mexico.
People across the Gulf Coast and around the world watched for days, then weeks, then months as the horrible river of oil continued to pour out into one of the Earth's most-bountiful fisheries.
There was immediate concern over the long-term effects the oil would have on the plants and animals of the Gulf.
There was particular concern over the fish, contamination of which would pose an environmental and economic disaster to those who depend on the fisheries for their livings.
Most of the testing that has been done on the fish of the Gulf since the spill have shown them to be safe to eat. And although the region has fought an uphill public relations battle to get the word out that the seafood is safe and delicious, the message has been spread to the rest of the nation.
There was similar concern following the deadly blast that set off the oil spill, and the Gulf cleanup had begun over the safety of the cleanup workers and the long-term health effects the work could pose.
A new angle of study, though, puts together the concerns over seafood contamination and the concerns over people's health.
Researchers are signing up groups of people in four different communities across the coast — 400 people in all — to undergo testing to determine what the cumulative effects of eating Gulf seafood could be. In addition, the scientists are hoping to sign up pregnant women each year to help them monitor the possible health effects on infants and fetuses.
It is too early to tell whether the effects of the seafood are harmful to the human body or if the body is generally able to fend off any possibly harmful contamination.
In the best of all alternatives, studies will show that the Gulf has been able to keep the oil from lingering in the ecosystem. We cannot, though, afford to assume that is the case. We also cannot afford to assume that the fish we catch and enjoy pose no danger.
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is conducting the testing, which, we all hope, will turn up green lights for our Gulf and the seafood it produces.
However the study turns out, though, continued vigilance and monitoring is necessary in the face of such a potential threat.
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Femto World Summit is all smiles (mostly)
Deployments doubled since November. Yay
The femtocell industry's third annual event in London is taking place, and the sector's rapid shift from interesting concept to real world commercial market is highlighted by the wide range of vendors and carriers pledging support.
Global femtocell deployments have more than doubled in the past nine months, according to a report from Informa, which counts 16 operator commitments including 13 commercial launches - up from eight commitments last November. Informa expects the femtocell market to hit the 49m unit mark by 2014, supporting 114m mobile users. Femto unit sales would reach 25m in 2014 alone.
The most recent moves have been into new geographies, with Softbank and KDDI going live in Japan; and new markets, notably the enterprise. Both Vodafone - expanding its residential UK service to business users in Spain - and AT&T, are now focusing on the corporate segment, as the technology evolves to support larger number of users and more advanced enterprise functionality.
AT&T's executive director of radio networks, Gordon Mansfield, told the conference that the cellco has completed its nationwide roll-out of residential femtocells and is now looking to the enterprise. "Femtocells are now available to our customers anywhere in the continental US," he said. "Now we're focusing on the enterprise we want to integrate femtocells with IP PBXs." However, he stressed there was no firm timescale for this move.
The operator defended its decision to apply new data caps to its femtocells as well as smartphones and dongles, which seemed to fly in the face of claims about offloading traffic to the tiny base stations. It said the traffic still had to travel via its core, creating congestion issues, because of US regulations insisting that carriers are able to examine all the data on their networks. AT&T sells its MicroCell 3G for $149.99, but customers have the option to take out a dedicated $19.99 monthly plan that provides unlimited femto voice minutes in return for a $100 rebate. Existing AT&T broadband customers can additionally receive an extra $49.99 rebate, which makes the femtocell free.
The next stage is likely to be the use of femtocells to create metrozones outdoors, usurping some of the role traditionally taken by picocells, but bringing femto signature qualities such as advanced self-management. Ubiquisys is one of the specialist vendors building on an initial product range in the home to introduce a metro femto, and according to Informa, Vodafone - which has enthused about the potential of metro deployments for a couple of years - is already using outdoor femto technology in shopping malls in Qatar.
The key interest for consumers may be better reception indoors, though carriers will need to supplement that business case to keep expanding uptake, especially if they are charging upfront for the devices - homezone tariffs, home media hubs and fixed/mobile convergence applications are all options potentially enabled by femtos. For carriers, though, looking to relieve data stress on their 3G networks and lower their cost of data delivery with 4G, the real appeal of femtocells is to offload traffic from the macrocell.
"The mobile data boom - and the increased demand on capacity it has led to - is the biggest challenge currently facing mobile networks," said Simon Saunders, chairman of the Femto Forum. "Femtocells represent the natural solution for offloading this data. They allow mobile operators to significantly improve the mobile broadband experience as well as their other services without incurring the costs that macro upgrades would require."
The Forum - which unlike some industry bodies focuses its research and activities firmly on real world experiences rather than technical and political debates - published its latest research, commissioned from Parks Associates, at the event. This found that awareness in the US market, where three cellcos now have femto services, remains low at only 10% of mobile consumers, but once explained, the technology and services appealed to 56%. Of those that were already aware of femtocells, a huge 89% found them appealing.
Saunders commented: "Once consumers are told what the benefits are they're not just interested, but willing to pay for them" - an important point for carriers, which are unwilling to add yet another subsidy bill to their cost base, but have faced criticism from some quarters for, in effect, charging consumers to address poor 3G network quality. The main consumer interest in femtos emerged, unsurprisingly, as indoor coverage, followed by reduced homezone rates, increased battery life because of low power signals, and faster data rates.
In addition, 72% said they would be interested in signing up for proposed femto services such as virtual home numbers, or family noticeboards, with over half of respondents being willing to pay $5 a month for one such service. This indicates the ability to push the femtocell to users with no coverage issues - vital not just to achieving scale for the industry but addressing cellcos' offload targets, especially in the urban areas where data strain is often highest, but indoor quality highest.
In a new white paper on this critical offload issue, the Forum expanded on its existing business case model, developed with Signals Research Group, to show that a femtocell can lower the cost per Gb of data delivered by four times with current technology and significantly more with future enhancements.
The white paper says the benefits go beyond easing congestion on the RAN and backhaul. Femtos can also reduce the cost of data delivery and improve quality of service, by offloading signalling traffic from 'chatty' smartphones, managed by the radio network controller. This capability is included in 3GPP femto standards and was recently implemented by picoChip for its system-on-chip architecture. Also, in contrast to Wi-Fi offload, revenue generating traffic remains on the operator's network, since the femto is an extension of the RAN, says the Forum; while the devices allow carriers to respond to data spikes in a rapid and targeted way by deploying new capacity almost overnight.
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Vector is warning investors of an Australian company's "unethical" low-ball offer for its shares at almost 30 per cent below today's market value.
Vector said that an Australian company, Washington Securities Pty Ltd, is offering Vector shareholders $2.00 per share, much lower than today's share price of $2.82.
Washington Securities' website says the company "specialises in the purchase of shares, debentures, investments in frozen funds and other investments". It has a listed P.O Box in the state of Victoria but no company address or contact number.
According to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the company was registered on February 19 this year. It has a registered office in Adelaide.
Although last year other Australian companies made a string of low-ball offers to Kiwis, it is believed to be the first time Washington Securities has targeted New Zealand shareholders.
Vector chairman Michael Stiassny said shareholders should seek independent financial advice and check the latest share price on the NZX.
Stiassny said hundreds of Vector shareholders have been caught out in low-ball offers over the past 18 months, many of them "Mum and Dad" investors.
The investors who took the offer have potentially lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in value in total, Vector said.
While Washington Securities' offer was not illegal, Stiassny said it was "unethical".
"We believe our shareholders should be aware of the dangers that exist and the consequences of accepting offers significantly below the market price," he said.
New regulations governing unsolicited offers to investors came into force in December last year.
They put stricter disclosure requirements on those making an offer and forced them to notify issuers of the approach. Under the new rules, shareholders also have up to 10 working days to cancel any sale they have agreed to.
The FMA can order those making an offer to comply with the regulations, with up to a $30,000 fine for breaching the rules.


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Information in Police Reports is obtained from the Downers Grove Police Department. Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.
Marijuana charges
• Matthew J. LaForge, 50, 2230 W. Leland Road, Chicago, was charged at 3:07 p.m. June 11 with unlawful possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the 40 block of Ogden Avenue.
• Thomas J. Scalise, 42, 4309 Bayville Drive, Crystal Lake, was charged at 10:19 a.m. Saturday with unlawful possession of marijuana at the intersection of Foxfire Court and Cumnor Road.
Michael J. White, 23, 2223 Scoville Ave., Berwyn, was charged at 10:14 a.m. Friday with assault in the 700 block of 62nd Street.
Drinking in public
• Henry Papushak Jr., 32, 705 W. Liberty Ave., Wheaton, was charged at 4:23 p.m. Friday with drinking in public in the 1000 block of Burlington Avenue.
• William K. Jackson, 60, 86 Brookdale Lane, Palatine, was charged at 11:25 a.m. June 10 with drinking in public in the 1000 block of Burlington Avenue.
Drug paraphernalia
Shareef E. McIntosh, 30, 4713 Huron St., Chicago, was charged at 10:59 p.m. June 11 with possession of drug paraphernalia and driving with one headlight at the intersection of Belmont Road and Main Street.
Theft and burglary
• A wallet was stolen at 11:15 p.m. June 7 from car in a gas station parking lot in the 1100 block of Butterfield Road. The alleged victim told police he suspects a a white female in a pink top and pink pants seen near his vehicle at the time of the alleged theft.
• Windshield wipers were stolen from a vehicle parked between 5:30 a.m. June 10 and 7:35 p.m. June 10 in the 1000 block of Burlington Avenue.
• A lawnmower valued at $350 was stolen from an unlocked garage between 11 a.m. June 6 and 8 a.m. June 10 in the 200 block of Grant Street.
Property damage
• Security footage showed two unknown men spray painting the bronze mustang statue gold at the west entrance of Downers Grove South High School at 1:02 a.m. June 10. The two men also glued a water bottle in the shape of male genitalia to one of the statue's front legs. School staff was able to clean the mustang back to its original condition.
• John T. Lamantia, 18, 5317 Fairmount Ave., Downers Grove, was charged with criminal damage to property at 6:45 p.m. June 9 t his residence.
• Vandals damaged lamps in the front yards of eight residences in the 4800 and 4900 blocks of Northcott Avenue, 4700 block of Lee avenue, 1200 block of Candlwood Court, 400 block of Otis Avenue and 1200 block of Grant Street between 11 p.m. June 8 and 7 a.m. June 9.
• A toilet, cabinetry and an electrical cable were damaged between May 1 and June 1 in a house for sale in the 5500 block of Lyman Avenue.
Identity theft
Joshua A. Johnson, 26, 4910 Wallbank Ave., Downers Grove, was charged with identity theft at 4:44 p.m. June 13 at his residence.
Public Indecency
Michael A. Abner, 2564 Meadowdale Lane, Woodridge, was charged with public indecency at 2:06 p.m. June 5 in the 3100 block of Finley Road.


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There will be a meeting concerning Fayetteville/Lincoln County Farmers Market on Tuesday, Aug. 20, at 6:30 pm. The meeting will be held at the Fayetteville Recreation Center, located on Winchester Highway. This meeting is open to the public, and organizers would like for all vendors to attend. There will be discussion on the requirements and regulations to sell products at the Farmers Market starting in the spring of 2014. There will also be discussion on forming a board for Farmers Market. If you have any questions, call the Fayetteville Recreation Center at 931-433-6059.
The long, rich history of St. Paul's AME Church will be presented at the Fayetteville-Lincoln County Public Library on Tuesday, Aug. 20, from 6 until 7 p.m. in the Genealogy Room. Rhonda Harris, historian, will present the talk, which is free and open to the public. A donation box will be placed outside the Genealogy Room door for attendees to contribute to St. Paul's Legacy project.
Summer Salads Luncheon to benefit the Southern Alliance spay/neuter clinic will be Friday, Aug. 23, from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church in Fayetteville. This is a silver bowl event with contributions welcome. For information, contact Bea Kunz at firstname.lastname@example.com or Rhonda Copple at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Lincoln County Democratic Party will meet Saturday, Aug. 24, at 10 a.m. at the Fayetteville Municipal Building auditorium located on the east side of the public square. Anyone who is interested in attending or joining the Lincoln County Democratic Party is encouraged to attend. If you have questions or are interested in joining the Lincoln County Democratic Party, call Pat M. Fraley, chairman at 433-6138.
The annual meeting of the Mimosa Community Club Trustees will be held on Monday, Aug. 26, at 7 p.m. at the community center.
Music in the Park series will feature Five O on Thursday, Aug. 29, at 7 p.m. at Stone Bridge Park in Fayetteville. The concert is free, and folks are invited to bring their lawn chairs and enjoy music under the stars.
The Annual McBurg BBQ Day is set for Saturday, Aug. 31, beginning at 11 a.m. BBQ by the sandwich, pound or plate will be sold from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. Hamburgers and hot dogs will also be available. Activities include a beauty pageant, baby crawling contest, corn hole tournament, cakewalk and music, as well as a big water slide and train ride for kids and face painting. For more information, call Tammy Carpenter at 931-732-4451 or Keisha Bradford at 931-625-3631.
Howlin' for the Dogs, a benefit for the animals of Lincoln County, will be held Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Howell Community Center on Old Schoolhouse Road, five miles north of Fayetteville on the Lewisburg Highway. A live auction will begin at 5 p.m., and among the items being auction is a week's vacation in a Panama City Beach condo. Serving will begin at 4 p.m., with meals provided by Howell Country Cookers. The cost is $8 for a pulled pork sandwich, baked beans, chips, drink and dessert, or $6 for a hot dog, baked beans, chips, drink and dessert.
Howell Community Center is sponsoring a sale of whole Boston Butts on Saturday, Aug. 31, from 7 a.m. to 12 noon. The cost is $35, and the proceeds will be used toward the Howell Community Center's building fund. For tickets or information, call (931) 224-9108. The community center is located off Lewisburg Highway in Howell.
Gates open for the 109th Lincoln County Fair, on Saturday, Sept. 7, at 1 p.m. All you can ride for $20, including fair admission, concert, and armband. The 13th Annual Barbecue Cook-off is at 11 a.m. Kohlwater performs at 7 p.m., Craig Campbell at 8 p.m., and Gretchen Wilson at 9 p.m.
Quarter Horse, Pony and Mule Races get start at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 8, at the Lincoln County Fair. Gate admission is $7, with all-you-can-ride armbands for $20 from 1-5:30 p.m.
Challenge of the Super Bulls Bull Riding at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 9, at the Lincoln County Fair. Gate admission is $7.
Harness races at the Lincoln County Fair get underway at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10. Evening harness races will begin at 7 p.m. Gate admission $7, and it is also Senior Citizens Day.
Demolition Derby will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at the Lincoln County Fair. Harness races will also be held at 2 p.m. Gate admission is $7.
Harness Races at 2 and 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12, at the Lincoln County Fair. Gate admission is $7. It is also LCF Sponsors Coupon Night, and it's all you can ride, $15 with a coupon or $20 without a coupon.
Sanctioned Truck and Tractor Pull begins at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 13, at the Lincoln County Fair. Harness races will also be held, beginning at 2 p.m. Gate admission is $10.
Fifth Annual Run for Ella, a 10K and 5K Trail Run and 1 Mile Walk, will be held Saturday, Sept. 14, at Cotton Mill Preserve, 240 Shelbyville Highway. For more information, visit runforella.com.
Final day of the 109th Annual Lincoln County Fair is Saturday, Sept. 14. Gate admission $10 and $20 for an all-you-can ride armband. Harness races at 1 p.m. with antique tractors between races, 4 Miles Gone at 7 p.m., Payton Taylor at 8 p.m. and Colt Ford at 9 p.m.
The 15th Annual McBurg Trail Ride will be held Sunday, Sept. 15, with pullout at 1:30 p.m. Cost is $10 per person, which includes a meal and ride. A chicken supper will be served from 6 until 7 p.m., and there will be drawings for prizes. A negative Coggins is required for horses. For more information, contact Jamie Jones at 931-625-5077. A rainout date is scheduled for Sept. 22.
The Class of 1993 will hold its 20th reunion Friday and Saturday, Sept. 20-21. On Friday a family picnic will be held at King Park at 6 p.m. Everyone should bring their own food and drinks for the evening. On Saturday the reunion will be held at the Fairgrounds beginning at 7 p.m. (BYOB). Cost is $30 per person or $60 per couple, if paid in advance. Make checks payable to Class of 1993 and include an email address on the memo line. The cost will be higher at the door. Mail checks by Aug. 21 to Kim Bills Taylor, 150 W. Thompson Lane, Apt. 0301, Murfreesboro, TN 37129.
Fourth Annual Imagination Library 5K Run and One-Mile Walk will be held Saturday, Sept. 21, at Stone Bridge Park on the Thornton Taylor Parkway in Fayetteville. Late registration begins at 6:30 a.m. with the 5K starting at 7 a.m. and One-Mile Walk at 8 a.m. Awards at 8:30 a.m. Pre-registration is $25 for the 5K, or $30 the day of the race; and $10 for the walk; T-shirts are $15. For registration forms, visit www.active.com or go by Patrick Rehab Wellness, US Bank, or Fayetteville High School. To become a sponsor, call Helen Fussell at (931) 580-3081.
Petersburg's Cool Autumn Night Cruise In will be held Saturday, Sept. 21. The cruise-in parade will begin at 4 p.m.; parade line-up is at 3 p.m. at Morgan Park. The event will feature vendors, door prizes and more. Playing live will be Tom Dixon. For information, call (931) 659-9826 or Bridgette Smith at (931) 625-0590.
31st Annual Polly Crockett Festival will be held Sept. 20-22 in Cowan, with arts, crafts, food, music and fun. There will be a Civil War camp, skillet toss competition, petty zoon, Boy Scout regatta and more. For information, call (931) 967-6788 or visit franklincountychamber.com.
Regular events
Family Caregiver Support Group meetings for Alzheimer's and other dementias are weld the first Wednesday of each month from 10-11 a.m. at 101 West Lincoln Street, Tullahoma. RSVP to Home Instead Senior Care at (931) 454-2202.
Weekly Saturday night dances are held at the American Legion Post 42, 2007 Wilson Parkway, from 7-10 p.m. The dance is open to the public, and the facility is a nonsmoking building, though a smoking area is provided outside. Country Roads Band plays a mix of country, country rock and classic rock and roll music. The cover charge is $5 per person. The kitchen grill is open for the sale of sandwiches, fries and soft drinks. The American Legion is a nonprofit organization, and proceeds from the dances helps in the funding for the aide to the veterans of Lincoln County.
Lincoln County Senior Citizens Center's Senior Dance is held each Tuesday from 1 until 4 p.m. Cover charge is $3 per person. A live band is on hand to provide music. Bring a dish to pass or just come and relax, listen to music, dance, eat and enjoy. The Senior Citizens Center is located at 908 West Washington Street, Fayetteville.
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are held each Monday and Thursday at 7 p.m. at St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church, located at 106 East Washington Street in Fayetteville. For more information, call (931) 227-7908.
Senior citizens' exercise classes are currently being held every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8:15 to 9:15 a.m. at the Fayetteville/Lincoln County Senior Citizens Center. Denise Kendrick is the exercise instructor. For more information, call (931) 433-7271 or stop by the center at 908 West Washington Street.


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A dose of optimism
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A mild dose of optimism for the economy and new directions for the print-newspaper business emerged this week. Leaders in the newspaper game from across the South were in Sarasota for the annual meeting of the Southern Newspaper Publishers.
Old friends from Texas, Arkansas, Virginia, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee were at the Ritz-Carlton, with the exception of a few who elected for less-pricey rooms at a motel down the street and walked over for the meeting. For me it was an easy drive from home.


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THORP, Wis. (WEAU) -- A young man in Thorp was taken into custody on a mental health hold Wednesday night after the police chief said calls came in for a person threatening himself and others with a gun.
The chief said several officers went to the home on School Street in Thorp and discovered the 19-year-old man was reportedly suicidal, but was not threatening others and didn't have a gun.
The chief said no one was ever in any danger and no charges will be filed.


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UH Manoa Offers 5-Week Program for Gifted Middle and High School Students
Students encouraged to apply for Summer 2005 programUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Department of Mathematics
HONOLULU — Talent Development Hawaiʻi, a five-week summer curriculum designed to give exceptional education opportunities to gifted middle and high school students in Hawaiʻi, will begin its third year this June. Acceptance in the program is selective. Interested students should sign up by December 20 to take the January 22 SAT. Scores from equivalent nation aptitude or achievement tests will also be considered.
"This program is an outreach effort of UH Mānoa, the foremost academic institution in our state, to our most gifted and talented students," said UH Mānoa Department of Mathematics Associate Chair Karl Heinz Dovermann. "These students represent the future of our state and it is imperative that we support them in reaching their potential."
Talent Development Hawaiʻi will begin June 20 and run through July 22, 2005. Students will attend classes everyday from 8:30 a.m. to noon on the UH Mānoa campus. Students will be able to choose three classes from a variety of course selections including Explorations in Mathematics, Science in Space and Computer Graphics. In addition, Calculus I will be offered to qualified students for college credit. All classes were designed and developed by UH Mānoa faculty specifically for gifted children. The deadline to apply to Talent Development Hawaiʻi is March 1.
Last year's Talent Development Hawaiʻi pilot program was made possible by private support from George P and Ida Tenney Castle Trust.
For more information see www.math.hawaii.edu/talent.


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Masters Thesis: "Continuous IED Supply Chain Model"
Tony Liu, 2nd Lt. USAF
Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) continue to be the main weapon used by terrorists against coalition forces overseas. Throughout the research led by the Joint IED Defeat Organization, the DoD defined 3 main strategies to fight IEDs: attack the network, defeat the device and equip military forces with counter-IED techniques. Our research intends to give U.S. forces a better perspective on how to attack the network. We begin by first developing a continuous model of the supply chain terrorists use to develop, emplace and detonate IEDs. Our model contains four states in which IEDs can exist: construction (C), emplaced (E), detonated (D) and found (F). Resources flow into the construction phase (at rate a0), while IEDs can flow from construction to emplaced (a1), emplaced to detonated (a2), construction to found (ß1) and emplaced to found (ß2). With this model, we have a total of nine parameters, four account for the number of IEDs in each state at our initial time and the other five account for the rates at which IEDs and resources flow from one state to the other.
Given this supply chain, we use a system of ordinary differential equations in order to derive equations for C, E, D and F as functions of time and our flow rate parameters. Over a given period of time, U.S. forces can collect data on the number of IEDs that they find (F) as well as the number of IEDs that detonate (D). From here, we apply a least squares method to attain the nine parameters that best fit the collected data for D and F. Minimizing our least squares equation allows us to estimate where the IEDs are located as well as how fast they are moving throughout the supply chain. Using this, we can better judge the impact of our past efforts in stopping IEDs and possibly determine how to best move forward. In our research we consider two different models. In the first model, we assume that our flow rates, ai and ßi, are constant. In the second model, we develop a more complicated insurgent strategy in which the rates IEDs flow from one state to another change as a result of how effective U.S forces are at finding IEDs.
Kevin Pond, Capt, USAF, PhD (advisor)
Benjamin F. Akers, PhD
William Baker, PhD


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FedEx has once again left a package that needed a signature with some random neighbor of mine, without indicating which one. Last time it was an iPad, which appeared overnight after I spend the evening running around asking if anyone had it. I have no idea who had it - I assume it was someone not at home when I was asking. This time it's a $75 bottle of Mezcal, signed for by a "JBrown." I have no idea who this person is, and of course they didn't bother to let me know the street number they left it at. I'm assuming it'll show up the way the iPad did, so I'm not annoying my poor neighbors by running around asking if they have it. If not, I'll take it up with the sender, who can ask FedEx about it.P.S. Just to be clear, I totally trust all of my neighbors - I'm irritated with FedEx for not making it clear where they left the package, so that I don't have to annoy people who aren't involved.
Today has not been a good day in the EDS stakes. On one side, I have a subluxed shoulder. On the other, a subluxed toe. Both are driving me up the wall, mostly because I haven't *done* anything to make them do it. If I'd just got in from a night of partying wearing six inch heels and dancing on the table, that would have been *much* better.It also means I'm lurching around the flat like Quasimodo - limping on one side, hunched on the other. It's a great look: form an orderly queue, fellas.On the plus side, it's a darned good excuse to curl up in bed with the cat, so it's not all bad
When a piece of electronic equipment refuses to function when I push the 'on' button -- frustrating enough in and of itself, right?But the thing that really frosts my drawers is what DH invariably says. "What did you do to it?" Oh, nothing much, dear. I just jumped up and down on it while peeing copiously. I PUNCHED THE BUTTON, THAT'S WHAT!
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Swapping Parts - 95 Legacies
Posted 14 January 2013 - 11:39 AM
Two swapping questions. The blower fan only operates on either 1 or 4 - i.e. putting it on 2 or 3 stays at 1 speed, then it goes to full blast on 4. Where iIs this likely something I can swap from my wagon? Would it be at the switch, or somewhere buried behind the dash? I've replaced stereos in it before, so I'm comfortable getting in there a little bit.
Second, the "new" one doesn't have cruise control. Can that be swapped over. Or I guess I should ask, how hard would that be to do?
Posted 14 January 2013 - 01:13 PM
Fan is most likely the resistor pack down in the ducting behind the glove box.
Cruise can be swapped you will need the switches, unit and plumbing and the computer and also the Switch in the dash and steering column. If it you can get it all out of your old car then you can get it into your new car.
Posted 14 January 2013 - 01:21 PM
if your original car was an automatic then you'll need to source a cruise control computer for a manual trans for the new legacy as they are specific to manual or auto's.
Posted 14 January 2013 - 01:38 PM
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Posted 21 January 2013 - 10:54 AM
I think I'm going to hold off a bit on trying to swap the cruise control - that looks pretty involved. They're both manuals, but it's a lot for someone at my skill level.
Thanks for the advice.
the resistors are always right down around the blower fans, easy. can probably google it and find an image...
Posted 21 January 2013 - 11:16 AM
Well, I don't know if I'd call it easy, but I was able to do it and it works. That was a pretty tight area to be working in, especially upside down on my back! If there was an easier way to get to it, please don't tell me.
I think I'm going to hold off a bit on trying to swap the cruise control - that looks pretty involved. They're both manuals, but it's a lot for someone at my skill level.
Thanks for the advice.
I have replaced the blower motor before on a 91 Leggie. Yes, it is pretty much an upside down on your back kind of job. No easier way to do it. I hope you moved back the passenger seat as far back as possible to give you some extra room at the firewall.
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DAVE CAMPBELL, AP Pro Football Writer
Detroit Lions, division champions?
That's far from a far-fetched scenario. Forget that the Lions finished last in the NFC North in 2012, six games behind the next-closest teams. Matthew Stafford is on pace for a career high in yards passing while taking sacks and throwing interceptions at significantly lower rates than in the past, and Calvin Johnson still the game's most dangerous wide receiver.
Quarterbacks are the obvious key to success in this sport, so a midseason dissection of this division has naturally centered on each team's status at the critical position, a situation that took sharp turn for Green Bay on Monday night when Aaron Rodgers broke his collarbone.
Seneca Wallace, the only backup on the roster, was overwhelmed in relief. If Rodgers misses even a couple of games, the Packers are in for a daunting November, with wide receiver Randall Cobb and tight end Jermichael Finley already out with injuries. This offense revolves around Rodgers as much as any NFL team.
"I don't think it's realistic to put anyone in there and think they're going to pick up and run it the way he has run it," coach Mike McCarthy said.
The balance of power in this division just shifted. The question to be answered during the second half is by how much.
Chicago, missing Jay Cutler due to a torn groin, took advantage of the injury to Rodgers and beat the Packers to pull into a first-place tie with them and the idle Lions. The Bears, for one night at least, proved more prepared than the Packers to handle the loss of their rocket-armed starter. Veteran Josh McCown stepped in with a solid, turnover-free performance to help the Bears improve to just 3-7 in games when Cutler doesn't start since he arrived in 2009.
Then there are the Vikings, who have turned 2013 into essentially an open quarterback tryout. Christian Ponder has the job back for now, after Josh Freeman wasn't ready for it, but Ponder has played more like the rookie he was two years ago. Adrian Peterson's storybook MVP season has given way to a 1-7 mess.
"It's a terrible feeling. But we've got eight more. That's something to look forward to," Peterson said.
So, the Packers are hoping for quick healing, the Bears and Lions are salivating at the opportunity to pull ahead of the two-time defending division champion, and Vikings fans are poring over top-of-the-draft quarterback prospects for 2014.
What a year!
Here are five things to know about the NFC North at the halfway point:
ON THE LINE: Stafford's connection with Johnson is the best asset the Lions have, and the addition of Reggie Bush has provided more balance, but this is a more productive offense because of the blockers up front. New starters Riley Reiff and Larry Warford have helped strengthen a line that's allowed a league-low 10 sacks.
IMPROVEMENT NEEDED: Rookie Eddie Lacy has established himself as a powerful alternative to the pass for the Packers, but their primary responsibility with Rodgers out is to play more consistent defense. The return of star linebacker Clay Matthews will help the pass rush, but this group has forced a total of two turnovers over the last five games.
RUSH RESTORATION: The Bears have 14 sacks, more than only four other teams in the league, and five came Monday in victory over the Packers. Shea McClellin had three, including the fateful takedown of Rodgers in the first quarter. Contributions from recently signed defensive tackle Jay Ratliff are welcome on this injury-affected front four.
PETERSON'S PACE: Peterson leads the NFL with 88.9 yards rushing per game, and he's only 64 yards shy of last year's midpoint total, but he'd need another stellar finish to sniff Eric Dickerson's record again. Ponder, and perhaps Freeman, will have more chances to persuade the Vikings not to take a quarterback with their first-round draft pick.
FIGHT TO THE FINISH: As unreliable as it can be to forecast outcomes of NFL games based on current records, the schedule should serve the Packers well for remaining in the race without Rodgers. The problem for them is that the same goes for the Bears and, especially, the Lions, who are seeking their first division title in 20 years.
PREDICTED WINNER: Lions.
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It may not be surprising, but it is still disappointing. The Wii U will indeed be region-locked, as have generations of Nintendo hardware before it, so you won't be able to play games imported from other regions on your shiny new gamebox.
Nintendo confirmed the unfortunate news to CVG, after mentions of a region lock were translated from the latest issue of Japanese games mag Famitsu.
If a strange and wonderful Japanese game catches your eye, you'd better hope some publisher decides to officially release it elsewhere, or the only way you'd be able to play it is buying a Japanese Wii U. Which is daft, of course. You won't be able to bypass publishers who take yonks to localise games and release them in the west, either. So it's all a big shame.
Microsoft and Sony's consoles are far more lenient, allowing publishers to lock particular games if they fancy but not forcing it on everyone.


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When I first heard the news about Hostess Brands, I thought of country singer Ronnie Milsap's song, "Lost in the Fifties Tonight." I wasn't surprised.
If you visit hostessbrands.com, you're greeted with this curt message: "We are sorry to announce that Hostess Brands, Inc. has been forced by a Bakers Union strike to shut down all operations and sell all company assets. For more information, go to hostessbrands.info. Thank you for all of your loyalty and support over the years."
Just like that.
What a fascinating study in self-deception. In a very matter of fact way, management lays the blame wholly at the feet of the union.
If you read the press release that follows, you'll encounter this statement:
"Hostess Brands worked tirelessly to complete a reorganization of its business as a going concern, including spending the better part of 18 months negotiating with its key constituents to obtain a consensual agreement to lower costs to a sustainable level. The company had obtained the support of its largest union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and its lenders. However, the BCTGM (Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco and Grain Millers Union) leadership chose not to negotiate a new labor contract and instead, when presented with a final offer, launched a campaign to cripple the company's operations and force it to liquidate."
Is the postmortem really that simple? I don't think so. The seeds of demise were sown years ago.
In business, we like to cry in our beer and tell each other that it's a jungle out there. Certainly it is. There's never been a more competitive time. It's fast-paced, turbulent and unforgiving.
But what we underestimate is the challenge within. The biggest obstacles to change often come in extricating ourselves from the status quo. The status quo bias, as it's called, is an irrational maintenance of the status quo. It's like a bear trap. It has iron jaws and a crushing grip to keep things the way they are, even in the face of danger.
Hostess Brands gave up the ghost last week and 18,500 people will lose their jobs. Why? Yes, there is intense competition, but Hostess failed more due to its own self-defeating behavior. The company drew its last breaths as it stumbled over itself. It wasn't just the union.
Hostess first went into bankruptcy in 2004 and emerged reorganized in 2009. Labor costs have been too high for a long time, and silly and suffocating work rules written into the labor agreement have stifled productivity. No question.
But where's the leadership? With the backing of private equity investors, management piled the company's balance sheet with far too much debt. There hasn't been enough access to capital to invest in new technology or serious R&D.
More broadly, who has been in charge of strategy? This is an 82-year-old junk-food (excuse my language) company. So I have a few questions for management:
Do you know what year it is? (It's not the '50).
Do you see what is happening to consumer tastes?
What have you done to innovate, adapt and adjust to changing conditions?
Did you not detect your fading glory a few years ago?
The status quo represents the sum total of all the decisions made to allocate resources. To gain competitive advantage, Hostess invested in some things and did not invest in everything else. That's the essence of strategy. The status quo bias pulls the organization to continue investing in the same things so as not to waste the original investment. But you can't rely on Twinkies and Ding Dongs for the eternities. There is denial here and deeply entrenched pain avoidance and loss aversion.
This is the folly of enlisting marginal cost analysis to guide the next resource-allocating decision instead of full cost analysis. As Clayton Christensen points out, we intentionally bias ourselves to justify the next investment. To change, then, is to fight against the edifice of investment we built with our own hands. When you fight against it, you become a heretic. No wonder most innovations must come from skunk works far from the mother ship.
Both management and the union resisted change because it represented the specter of personal loss. Now both will go down together.
Timothy R. Clark is the CEO and founder of TRClark LLC, a management consulting and leadership development organization. His newest book, "The Employee Engagement Mindset," has just been released from McGraw-Hill. Email: [email protected]


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From Marc's blog. Cody Ross had been DL'd and Chris Denorfia is coming back.
The Reds today placed Cody Ross on the disabled list with a bruised left pinky. His spot on the roster will be filled by...Chris Denorfia.
I thought the Ross thing might be coming as a way to get Junior back on, even though Ross really isn't hurt that badly. But this, I don't really get. At all. We'll see how they spin it.
Also, as expected, FSN Ohio has announced it will televise an additional 14 games in May and June, beginning with Saturday's tilt at Arizona.


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Great Spaces: EVK Residential Dining, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
A bright open space and stations in separate areas make the EVK work.
The most practical element of design, according to Klinger, was the decision to separate the kitchen. "At one end of the facility is the main serving area with the Mongolian grill and the wood-fired pizza oven, and the other side is the deli and salad bar."


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Reporters from newspapers, television, and radio regularly ask us our views on current economic developments and issues in the Puget
Sound region. Here are a few examples from local newspapers:
For sanity and clarity in what seems an impossible housing market, I turn again to economic forecasters Dick Conway and
Doug Pedersen, whose regional outlook is used by lots of smart people. Conway and Pedersen have been almost alone in examining
the true cost of housing based, not on sticker shock, but real income
Their premise, shown in the data, is that increases in home
prices have been more than offset by increases in incomes and a relative decline interest rates compared to, say, 20 years ago.
As a result, they write, homes are more affordable todayand by a wide marginthan they were in 1990
—More proof: Area's homes are not all that expensive The Seattle Times, June 14, 1999
Job loss estimates for 2001 nearly doubled, from 35,000 to 65,000, in large part because of the limited nature of the initial
estimate, economists say
When you have a downturn, a lot of the job losses occur in small firms because small firms tend to be
more vulnerable, said Dick Conway, co-author of The Puget Sound Economic Forecaster
Conway also theorized that the demise
of small dot-com enterprises around the Puget Sound may have skewed the jobs data
And King County businesses are losing
many of those jobs, since the (Puget Sound) region is home to 60 percent of the states economic activity, Conway says.
—"No quick recovery for state economy" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 9, 2002
A good indicator of future economic conditions in the Puget Sound area turned sharply negative in the first quarter
The Puget
Sound Index of Leading Economic Indicators, compiled by regional economists Dick Conway and Doug Pedersen, dropped 1.6 percent
in the first quarter (1999). The index has a strong track record of predicting changes in the economy.
—"The Newsletter" The Seattle Times, June 10, 1999
Taking the state's temperature
Puget Sound Business Journal, December 30, 2005
Jobs multiply as pace of growth quickens
Puget Sound Business Journal, December 30, 2005
Retail sales suggest state economy is waking up
Puget Sound Business Journal, May 7, 2004
Economists upbeat on Seattle
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 9, 2004
Stock options lose luster, but likely to survive
Puget Sound Business Journal, July 26, 2002
The wealth-effect
in reverse
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 22, 2001
Area firms feel the heat amid soaring energy costs
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The tower comes up to his waist.
It's only a model.
What is this, a center for ants?!
How can we be expected to teach children when they can't even fit inside the building?!
Tower of babel is interesting. Have they ever actually figured out how big it actually was etc? Because the carvings aren't very detailed or convincing.
How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building!
What is this, a Tower of Babel for ants? It needs to be at least
And 20% cooler.
He used " when he meant '.
Size doesn't matter. You should see how small the Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too is
What is this, a tower for ANTS? How can we expect Babylonians to read if they can't even fit in the building?</zoolander>
In case this is still puzzling anyone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbd3E6tK2U [youtube.com]
The tower comes up to his waist.
Less languages than a nomad, Lame.
That tablet has a glossy black surface and rounded corners
That tablet has a glossy black surface and rounded corners
No, that's what I would call very prior art.
Prior art doesn't matter anymore. The US is now a first-to-file country. And since Apple was the first to file a patent on glossy black surfaces with rounded corners, ancient Mesopotamians are now banned from importing or selling their stela in the US. Also, it helps that Apple can hire better lawyers than extinct civilizations can.
"Babylon was a cultural leader in astronomy, mathematics, literature and medicine. It's also interesting to note the somewhat recent Slashdot article linking the common ancestry of languages to this area."
From the other article:
The relationship that emerges suggests the actual point of origin is in central or southern Africa, and that all modern languages do, indeed, have a common root."
Dear Slashdot editors: Do you know where Babylon and Central/Southern Africa are?
I'd also bet money that the timeline is also completely wrong. Babylon existed a few thousand years ago. The origin of language is much, much older.
This article is pretty blood suspicious. First of all, it isn't the Tower of Babel, it's the ziggurat of Babylon. The Babel story may indeed reference the ziggurat of Babylon, or not, but no serious scholar goes around calling it the Tower of Babel.
The origin of language nonsense reveals that this is clearly the creation of some Biblical literalist. The breaking of the tongues story from Genesis is myth. No linguist has seriously believed it in well over two hundred years, and pretty much everyone accepts that humans developed full language in Africa. The language Nebuchadnezzar spoke; Akkadian, was an Afro-Asiatic language, and those languages likely developed either in the Arabian Peninsula or in East Africa, most certainly not in Mesopotamia.
Come on Slashdot editors. What's next, an article about humans and dinosaurs living together, or Biblical Flood confirmation stories? Is this the low that the post-Taco era is going to sink to?
What's next, an article about humans and dinosaurs living together
Nah, Slashdot's always late. They won't post that story until dinosaurs actually do go extinct. (Birds: Class Aves, Branch:Avialae. Order: Saurischia Superorder:Dinosauria Yes, "Dinosauria" means exactly what you should think it does. Source [wikipedia.org] BTW)
They won't post that story until dinosaurs actually do go extinct.
Not to worry, we're working on it [about.com].
Well, look at who wrote the summary, his nick is smitty777. 777 is, for a lot of Christians, a meaningful number as in the opposite of 666, it's the number closest to their God.
Coincidence? Maybe, but in combination with the false summary I'd say chances are pretty big smitty777 has his own agenda when posting this Christian propaganda.
1) 666 is the number of man, short of perfection, which would be 777.
2) I completely missed the Christian propoganda. Could you explain it to me pleeze? I b confuzed.
The reference to the Tower of Babel and the whole origin of language line gives it away. Can you think of anyone besides of Christian Biblical literalist (except maybe a Muslim literalist or, if they exist in any quantity, a Jewish literalist) who would call an image of a ziggurat on a steal the "tower of Babel" or who would suggest that this is where languages came from immediately afterwards.
Wouldn't that be 668, the neighbor of the beast? Or 667, the guy who lives across the street from the beast, or perhaps even 666B, the guy who lives in the apartment loft above the beast (no doubt against local zoning law)? Seems that all of those would fit the condition of "closer".
I don't know if it is "Christian propaganda" or not, but how the hell is it "News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters"? I mean, is it made of Legos, does it run Linux, or at the very least, is SCO or the RIAA suing them?
You got me dude...you've uncovered a vast conspiracy between me and that hotbed of right wing propaganda - The Discovery Channel! BTW, if you had managed to read the article, they also allude to this reference as well. Because it's relevant.
I think you're making a logical leap that is unfounded. It could be that either the king is taking credit for something that was already built, or that the scholars are wrong about it being the original tower. I do agree with you about the timing of the original tower, though.
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If that's the case, then you're completely wrong.....the Tower of Babel depicted in the Bible is at 1500BCE at the absolute latest. The one in this Slashdot article was built ~600BCE.
No, the ziggurat in TFS is the rebuilt Tower. The original was destroyed by the Assyrian king Sennacherib in 689 BCE, and rebuilt by Nabopolassar and his successor Nebuchadnezzar II after Esarhaddon became king of Assyria.Three hundred or so years later, Alexander III had the much-neglected Etemenanki (the Babylonian name for the Tower) demolished in preparation for rebuilding it - a project that fell through after his unexpected death in June, 323 BCE.
IF this is the Tower of Babel mentioned in the bible, it basically proves that the bible is wrong.
It does nothing of the sort. Otoh, i
Biblical literalist? Hardly. Nebuchadnezzar had nothing to do with the Tower of Babel, and it's clear the author has only passing knowledge of either bible story. The article manages to completely mangle both philology and biblical theology. It's stupid enough for everyone to hate.
But that common language existed between 75K and 100K years ago, at that time there were probably 2500 human beings in the world, and the place was eastern Africa. The language had lots of click sounds, and its closest extant remnants are the Andamanese spoken i
Nobody actually knows any of that for sure. It is not generally accepted, it is conjecture, and as no linguistic link has been made between the "click" languages of southern Africa and any other language outside of the region, this is what most linguists would call a flight of fancy. We're talking about a discipline that largely rejects Nostratic due to insufficient evidence, so I don't think you'll find many linguists who would accept your account, and any linguist who did would be at the very margins of t
I'd like to add that nobody is quite sure if there was a mother tongue. The neural hardware for language may have existed for a considerable length of time prior to the first fully-formed languages, so you could have had different H. sapiens populations moving from proto-language to full language independently. If there was a single mother tongue, nobody knows what it sounded like.
Of all the different languages spoken by man around the world, I would say there are at least two words that come the closets to sounding universal. Mamma and Daddy. It should come to no surprise that these are among the first two words a baby learns when growing up. The most important no doubt.
Ya, I was kinda blown away by that little discovery myself.
My understanding is that linguists consider these examples of false cognates. They do not represent surviving words from the progenitor language, but rather are due to the fact that they tend to be the simplest sounds a young child can produce. Largely because it seems highly unlikely that just two cognates survive from the mother tongue, and not more.
Wow, a posting in which every single claim is false. (I am a linguist.) There's no evidence that there was ever a single common language which is the source of all present day languages. Scientific hypotheses do not get "scientifically proven" (there's only falsification, kids, not "proof"). The dating (75K-100K years ago) is just pulled out of someone's ass, the population numbers for that period don't match anything I've ever seen and would appear to also be made up. Since we don't know that there was this "original language", it's properties can hardly be known (phonemic make-up, whether it had 'clicks' or not). The claims about Khoisan and Andamenese are laughable on their face (if the languages existed 75K years ago, and all modern languages are "daughters" of this original language, aren't they all equally "close" "extant remnants"? like 75K years close?, of course you could claim that some languages have changed more than others, but that would entail that language change is not a constant --- probably true, by the way --- but would, unfortunately for the author, likewise entail that you can't date how long ago the languages were spoken; only the assumption of a constant rate of change could let you do that). If the "clicks sounds were the first ones to be lost as languages evolved" why are they still there in some languages? There is no such concept as "more evolved" and "less evolved" languages. Sanskrit has fewer phonemes than Tamil. The languages of Micronesia have large phoneme inventories, not small ones as asserted here.
Jeesh. Read a fucking book or something.
Jeesh. Read a fucking book or something.
I speak Tamil and I know enough of Sanskrit. Your statement that Sanskrit has smaller number of phonemes is clearly wrong. In vowels, Tamil counts 12 but it has really 10 (ai and aw are not really vowels). Sanskrit counts 14 including kru and one more, but it too has basically 10 distinct vowel sounds. In consonants, tamil has 18, Sanskrit has 4 versions of ka (ka, kha, ga, gha), 4 versions of cha (sa,sha, cha, ja), 4 versions of da (ta, tha, dha, da) and 4 versions of pa (pa, fa, ba, bha). Tamil has just o
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It's funny how much the Tower of Babel looks like every other ziggurat (tell) ever dug up in the Middle East. Oh wait....
When the fuck will people grow up and realize that not every city unearthed with breached walls is Jericho, not every cross dug up is the True Cross, not every Roman spear is the Dolourous Lance, not every Babylonian leader is King Nebuchadnezzar, and not every old cup is the Holy Grail? It's awesome enough that there is an old Babylonian cuneiform tablet without it also fitting into Biblical narrative.
The submitter is an idiot. The whole "origin of language" bit demonstrates that well enough. WTF is wrong with Slashdot editors?
Ah well, I remember a time when every conman selling a perpetual motion machine could get a submission here, so maybe things haven't changed that much. Maybe next week we'll have an article on Noah's Ark being found, that would be about right if this is the standard.
Slashdot had plenty of articles on Atlantis being found too. Slightly different, since the records of its existence is are a little more recent and a little more reliable, but just as hyperbolic and inflaming.
I thought about adding something to that effect, but I like the way you wrote it better than I was able to frame the statement.
This is a good example of the infotainment Discovery and all of its subsidiaries have used to replace what was once great, informative programming. Remember the long, droll documentaries you used to watch on the History Channel that were fascinating, somewhat layered, and informative? That all changed the day David M. Zaslav (former head of NBC, http://corporate.discovery.com/leadership/david-zaslav/ [discovery.com]) took the helm in 2007. Since then the organization has worked tooth and nail to dissolve its reputation as a place to learn something by replacing any programming focused on science, history, or biology with Big Log Muckers, UFO specials, End-of-the-World simulations, When Animals Attack and anything that can go out on a limb to find scientific proof for Biblical anecdotes. It follows the logic that those who are watching television are uneducated and then offers the lowest common demoninator in order to lull larger audiences. What a blight that man's leadership is.
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The Secretary may enter into cooperation agreements with non-Federal interests with respect to navigation projects, or other appropriate non-Federal entities, for the development of long-term management strategies for controlling sediments at such projects.
In developing strategies under subsection (a), the Secretary shall consult with interested Federal agencies, States, and Indian tribes and provide an opportunity for public comment.
The Secretary shall conduct a study to determine the feasibility of constructing and operating an underwater confined dredged material disposal site in the Port of New York-New Jersey that could accommodate as much as 250,000 cubic yards of dredged material for the purpose of demonstrating the feasibility of an underwater confined disposal pit as an environmentally suitable method of containing certain sediments.
In consultation and coordination with the Great Lakes States, the Secretary shall develop a tributary sediment transport model for each major river system or set of major river systems depositing sediment into a Great Lakes federally authorized commercial harbor, channel maintenance project site, or Area of Concern identified under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978. Such model may be developed as a part of a strategy developed under subsection (a).
In developing a tributary sediment transport model under this subsection, the Secretary shall build on data and monitoring information generated in earlier studies and programs of the Great Lakes and their tributaries.
In this section, the term "Great Lakes States" means the States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1998 through 2001.
Section was enacted as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996, and not as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 which comprises this chapter.
2007—Subsec. (g)(2). Pub. L. 110–114 substituted "through 2012" for "through 2006".
2000—Subsec. (e)(3). Pub. L. 106–541, § 505(1), added par. (3).
Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 106–541, § 505(2), designated existing provisions as par. (1), inserted heading, realigned margins, and added par. (2).
Pub. L. 106–53, title V, § 540, Aug. 17, 1999, 113 Stat. 350, provided that:
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In 1947, the same year President Harry S. Truman established Everglades National Park, work began on a complex system of drainage canals that would change south Florida - and the swamp - forever. However, this threat to the cypress-studded marshland on the western edge of the Everglades inspired a groundswell of grassroots conservation efforts and propelled Collier County to the forefront of an environmental battle that would stretch all the way to the Supreme Court. Narrated by Peter Thomas (Nova), PROTECTING PARADISE: THE WESTERN EVERGLADES tells this story through historic photographs, vintage footage and interviews with leaders of the early conservation movement and biologists and environmentalists.
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