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This 208-page book also showcases photos of more than 50 different restored John Deere tractors as well as period ads, brochures, schematic diagrams, paintings by Walter Haskell Hinton, and photos from Deere & Company Archives. Circle 193.
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Ayuda al Niño, one of the oldest organizations among Bolivians in Southern California, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with an International Latin Gala event to be held at the World Famous CONFIDENTIAL Beverly Hills, 424 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90210.
Tery Jackson, president of Ayuda, says that she learned very young to help others when she had to take of her younger brothers and sister after her mother passed away.
Through Ayuda al Niño, an organization she founded 43 years ago, she has sought to help as many children as possible.
On November 17th, Ayuda al Niño is sponsoring an International Gala event to showcase the 25 years of existence of Ayuda al Niño. "The Board of Directors of Ayuda al Niño has the great honor to invite you to our beautiful gala "Fashion 2012," says the invitation which is being sent by Facebook, e-mails, personal contacts and other media to Ayuda' s countless supporters. This Fashion show will open their doors at 6:00pm with a silent auction, where items such as art as well as beautiful gowns will be auctioned with the purpose of collect as much money as possible for this amazing cause. The fashion show will start at 8:00pm until 11:00pm when the club will open its doors to the public.
Oskar River, Mr. Latino and well know actor and producer will be the Master of the Ceremonies.
Ayuda is an institution incorporated years ago as a non-profit Public Charity organization. It has been helping children in many ways. During the last two years, for example, Ayuda has been participating in the distribution of 555 wheelchairs throughout the city of Santa Cruz and its provinces. "With the help of the Rotary Club 4690 and the Wheelchair Foundation, Ayuda has been able to deliver a wheelchair where it is needed. In addition, Tery said that Ayuda has helped in the distribution of Glycol Nutrients to children who were very sick and needed vitamins to survive. The health supplements allowed children to play and act like normal kids.
She indicated that all this has been possible thanks to many people who have volunteered and companies who have donated their products which Ayuda distributed successfully throughout the country. She emphasizes that additional help is needed with donations and volunteer work so they can continue doing their job in helping needy children. Mrs. Jackson asked readers to open their Web Page: www.AYUDA.Org to see some of the projects that Ayuda has been involved with.
"We really need your help, so in December of 2012 we can go back to Bolivia and give children a little more. Each time we do it, we all feel better. "We are so blessed in this country, and we have so much to offer. Latin American children need you, and need your help," she said. "As little as $10 will help a lot. For more details on how to purchase your tickets online or just make a donation, please visit us at www.Ayuda.org"

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Number 334, August 28, 2005
Taxation is the fuel of war
The Listing Ship of State
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I'm a busy woman. That's probably why I'm one of those people who relies so much on lists.
Like many of you likely do, I have a grocery list. I add to it throughout the week whenever I notice I'm out of or running low on something. I have a personal "to do" list that encompasses everything from reminders to buy birthday or wedding gifts to performing a particular housecleaning chore. Of course, I also have a work "to do" list. That's the one that tells me what projects remain to be done, and what priority each of those projects have. And then I have Christmas lists (I shop year 'round, keeping my eyes open for the perfect gift for friends and family) and "wish" lists (for myself). Then, of course, there are temporary lists composed to ensure I don't forget anything when I prepare to take a trip, or that all preparations are completed prior to a party.
When all those lists are combined with an appointment calendar (mine includes everything from work-related meetings to upcoming movie premieres, and from plant watering schedules to bill paying reminders), I feel I have at least some control over my busy life. There have been times, of course, when I should have added to a list somewhere the reminder to actually remember to bring the grocery list with me to the store. I've tried on a few occasions to shop from memory, but I inevitably forget things on my list. Sometimes they're relatively unimportant; other times, my forgetfulness means an "emergency" trip back to the store (don't even ask how many times I've somehow managed to forget to buy toilet paper).
I tell you these things not to show you how organized I am (frankly, if I wanted to be better organized, I'd need more lists), but to show you that I understand the importance of writing various things down or otherwise keeping track of them. Further, by admitting my own broad use of lists as organizational tools, I acknowledge that they have real value in reducingor at least making manageablecomplex duties and schedules. As such, I understand perfectly well why the government wants to do pretty much the same. That doesn't mean, however, that I can condone it or even excuse it. You see, there's are a few big differences between me (or you) and the government.
If I make a list, I'm solely responsible for what's on that list. And if I make a mistakeforgetting to note that I need toilet paper, for exampleI'm the only one who'll suffer for the error. Further, if I pay attention, I'm also able to note such mistakes and correct them in relatively short order. The government, on the other hand, scoops information from many sources, any one of which couldand frequently doeshave mistakes of its own. If there are mistakes, they're compounded on the government's collected lists where they're all but impossible to fix thanks to the behemoth bureaucracy involved. Worse, there are exceedingly serious repercussions for innocents as long as long as those mistakes exist.
Consider, for example, the Transportation Security Administration's infamous "no fly" list. Sure, it'd be great if we could have a list of terrorists that we could forbid from traveling within, or even entering the country. But the last "terrorist" caught via the "no fly" list was the folk singer formerly known as Cat Stevens. What precisely was he going to do to us? Make the world listen to him sing "Morning Has Broken" for the umpteenth time? Now maybe the converted-to-Islam Stevens (who now calls himself Yusef Islam) really does have ties to terrorism in some convoluted way that's not yet been explained. Or maybe, as Time Magazine pointed out, the authorities really hoped to stop someone named Youssouf Islam from entering the country, and it was just a spelling error that prevented the former Mr. Stevens from getting to the Nashville studio where he was slated to record.
Say what you will about Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy (you can rest assured that I do!), but one thing that's almost certain is that the Senator isn't a terrorist, at least not of the kind we're looking for. And yet he, too, fell victim to the "no fly" list. Being a Senator, he is likely one of the very few who managed to get the mistake corrected. Ordinary Americans aren't quite so lucky. John Graham writes, "My name is on a list of real and suspected enemies of the state and I can't find out what I'm accused of or why, let alone defend myself." To date, the Seattle resident still isn't sure why he's on the list. What he does know is that, probably thanks to that same list, the state of Washington made him jump through numerous hoops just to renew a driver's license he's had for years. And he still can't fly. He says he supports the idea of lists as much as I do, but he opposes this one in that it lacks any kind of transparency for review, or accountability from those who create and monitor its records.
Meanwhile, the authorities in Los Angeles have a little list all their own. It's a list of local gun owners. In an upcoming test program, they intend to track guns used in crimes back to their registered owners and then prosecute those who sold or otherwise transferred the firearms illegally. I know it's difficult, but forget for a moment that the mere existence of the list is an infringement of your Second Amendment rights. Constitutionality aside, it's entirely possible that this smaller list is actually largely accurate. But that's immaterial when it comes to what the police are doing with it. After all, given the prevalence of burglary, isn't it more likely that my perfectly legal firearm was stolen? Or perhaps I loaned it to my son who, in turn, suffered the theft. Maybe I did transfer it legally, but the person to whom I sold it turned around and gave it to someone who is a complete stranger to me. Yet under this program, I'd be forced to prove my innocence despite the presumption of same that's supposed to protect me in an American courtroom!
The federal government, of course, is enamored with lists and databases in general. President Bush told Americans in 2004 that the government will work to establish a national medical records database. Those who favor such things say that it will prevent harmful or fatal medical errors when doctors anywhere can access up-to-date patient information at the push of a button. Those who oppose it suggest it will offer substantial opportunity for invasion of privacy. They're right. But there's something even worse at stake here, and that's the same bugaboo that haunts the "no fly" list: mistakes. And while the "no fly" list errors generate some serious inconvenience, any mistakes on a medical database could conceivably kill you!
Have you ever done data entry work? I have. And when you're keying thousands of strokes per hour, you can rest assured that there are mistakes. It doesn't matter how good you are at data entry. Nobody is perfect, and there will eventually be a missed keystroke here, or a transposed keystroke there. The fewer keystrokes involved, the less likelihood there is of error. And the fewer records there are, the fewer will have anything wrong with them. In a localized setting, there's not only statistically less probability of error on a given record, but fewer records combined with the caregivers' knowledge of you and your case means any mistakes that are made will likely be caught on review. If those same erroneous records are sent to a national database, they'll propagate instead. That's not a comforting notion to consider if your life hinges on accurate medical data!
In an age of high speed electronic communication, what on earth would be wrong with hospitals or other medical caregivers continuing to keep their own information on their own patients and simply granting the requests of other authorized caregivers for that information on an as needed basis? Those who are really that concerned that their medical information be accessible at all times and immediately should get "chipped." (Yes, I'm kidding. Mostly.) The rest of us would rather there were a few minutes' delay than risking a quick but wrong response by a doctor or nurse. That our personal privacy would be far better protected, too, is merely the icing on the cake.
Other government lists with less deadly but still serious repercussions include those kept by the FBI of anti-war protesters. The names and groups on those lists are those of Americans. whose sole ties to terrorism are the fact that they oppose the War in Iraq. There are even some who have suggested that speaking out against the War on Terror at all is comparable to terrorism! You can be sure that those Americans, too, are on lists somewhere...
Criminals, of course, are on lots of lists (if they're sex offenders, they're on even more of them). In theory, and even in practice, I don't have much of an argument against these kinds of lists (again, though, the repercussions of mistakes are severe and thus there must be safeguards for accuracy and corrections as needed). One such list is the national DNA database. The database itself wasn't necessarily a bad idea until the administration suggested that even those merely arrested be added to it. You can bet pretty much anything you like that, once your DNA is in that database, it won't be removed even if no charges are ever filed against you!
So though criminals give up some rights by virtue of their crime, what did you do that warrants the invasion of your privacy and Fourth Amendment rights to be included in the database with real criminals? And what can you do to restore your good name? The answer to both questions is, sadly, "nothing." (Let's not even talk here about DNA "dragnets," something that has little to do with lists per se, but everything to do with an egregious violation of just about every facet of freedom you're supposed to have in this country.)
The government, under the guise of "it's for your own good," has even established such "feel good" lists such as the "no call" list geared to ensure Americans who don't want telemarketing calls don't get them. Unfortunately, there are so many exceptions to the "don't call" rules that the list is almost literally nothing but a collection of names and phone numbers that are widely dispersed. I don't know about you, but I'd rather hang up on a few extra calls (or let my answering machine handle matters) than hand over my name and home phone number to anybody let alone a list like that one!
The nastiest lists of allthose proposed by the Total Information Awareness and MATRIX programsremain unfulfilled, but are not likely to remain so. TIA is effectively dead as is the TSA's initial "no fly" program, and MATRIX fizzled when residents of test states protested the loss of privacy. But MATRIX isn't dead yet and is already making a bit of a comeback; TIA has already been replaced by another Pentagon program with a less threatening name; and the TSA now has its "Secure Flight" program with which to infringe on our liberties (for the record, Secure Flight is already in trouble with the government's own watchdogs at the General Accounting Office for doing things it promised it wouldn't do).
Like I said, I think lists are great. I don't really blame the government for wanting them, too. But how much good they can potentially do isn't the issue, here, but rather how much harm. Lyndon Johnson once said, "You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered." (That he unfortunately didn't take his own advice doesn't undermine the basic truth of what he said.) The same is true of lists.
When lists are well kept, they're invaluable. When they're not, they're less than worthless: they're actually harmful. No matter the government's goals, stated or unstated, altruistic or more sinister, lists as large and as cross-referenced as those the government has and wants can't be well kept. That's actually not a statement on government employee capability or on the motives of any political person or body. It is, instead, a fact. There is an absolute certainty that there will be mistakes on such databases, and that those mistakes will prove harmful. It's also a given that there will be those who are corrupt and power-hungry who will try to take advantage of the information offered on such lists.
As much as I rely on my own little system of lists, I'd throw them away if they were endangering me or harming you. To do less would be both inhumane and anti-freedom, both of which I will never voluntarily be. The question now is whether or not we'll voluntarily let our government continue in its inhumanity as it maintains and works to enlarge its own liberty-limiting lists.
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Does everything that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie do have to look so good?! Well, if you exclude "Mr. & Mrs. Smith."
Landing via private jet in Chicago yesterday, the absolutely most beautifulest family ever, made their way to awaiting SUVs. Where's a hybrid when you need one?
Eye candy daddy Brad held onto Maddox and Zahara while picturesque, pouty-lipped Angelina carried Shiloh. Just another working class family ... in Hollywood.
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Mayor Chris Beutler today announced that the City was recently awarded a $360,000 grant from the Nebraska Environmental Trust (NET) for the Eastern Saline Wetlands Project. The project also is eligible to receive additional funds the next two years of $730,000 and $310,000.
"We appreciate the continued support from the Nebraska Environmental Trust for these important environmental projects the City is unable to fund on its own," said Mayor Beutler. "This grant will help us conserve one of the most imperiled natural communities in Nebraska."
The eastern saline wetland ecosystem is located primarily in the Salt Creek watershed in northern Lancaster County and southern Saunders County. Officials say conserving the eastern saline wetlands also protects the endangered Salt Creek tiger beetle and saltwort plant as well as other flora and fauna which survive in the saline wetlands unique to the area.
The City's project partners include the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the Nature Conservancy.
NET awarded more than $19 million to 107 projects this year with proceeds from the Nebraska Lottery and private donations.
More information is available at parks.lincoln.ne.gov (search for "wetlands") and at environmentaltrust.org.


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European Commission - Press release
Certification of passenger ships: the Commission sends reasoned opinion to Denmark
Brussels, 27 February 2012 – the European Commission has sent a reasoned opinion to Denmark for obstructing the freedom to provide services. This is the last step in the procedure before possibly taking the matter to the Court of Justice. Denmark systematically requires Dutch sailing ships with more than 12 passengers docking in its ports following an international journey to have a certification under the SOLAS Convention. In so doing, it fails to examine for each of these ships whether the safety rules they are already subject to in the Netherlands would be sufficient to ensure an adequate level of safety. If there is no satisfactory reply within two months, the Commission may refer the matter to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
The EU rules
Directive 2009/45/EC lays down rules for the certification of certain passenger ships engaged on domestic voyages. However, there is no European measure laying down harmonised rules for the certification of ships engaged on international voyages. Therefore, the Member States are in principle free to impose the safety rules they see fit on these ships, within the limits of European law.
In this regard, applying national safety standards to ships flying the flag of another Member State may be regarded as a restriction on freedom to provide services, which the owners of the ships enjoy under Article 56 TFEU and Regulation (EEC) No 4055/86.
Such a restriction may be accepted only if it is justified by overriding reasons of public interest and if that interest is not already safeguarded by the rules the service provider is subject to in the State of establishment. National legislation imposed on service providers established in another Member State must also be appropriate and proportionate.
The practical consequences of a restriction on the free movement of ships
Dutch sailing ships carrying more than 12 passengers, although certified under maritime safety rules in the Netherlands, risk being held in Danish ports for lack of SOLAS certification.
The issues addressed to Denmark
The Danish authorities have failed to demonstrate why the Dutch safety rules should systematically be deemed insufficient on the basis of the characteristics of the ships involved and why the SOLAS rules should always be considered appropriate.
In actual fact, the Danish authorities should examine the ships involved on a case-by-case basis to determine whether to apply different standards from those they are already subject to in the Netherlands, be they SOLAS standards or other requirements, particularly relating to the conduct of their operations.
Next steps
The Commission's request takes the form of a reasoned opinion under EU infringement procedures. If Denmark fails to inform the Commission within two months of measures taken to ensure full compliance with EU law, the Commission could refer the case to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
More information on infringement procedures: MEMO/12/134
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In the past, businesses trying to economically provide a well-lighted workplace had a choice between lighting control systems with dimming functions and systems with switching functions. Now that the Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) protocol has entered the market, those same businesses have both functions and greater control at their disposal in one system.
Developed by a group of U.S. and European lamp/ballast/fixture manufacturers, DALI is a nonproprietary protocol standard that provides a means for digital communications between a controller and an individual lighting fixture that contains a linear fluorescent, compact fluorescent, or incandescent/halogen lamp. The system borrows digital control signal technology from some photosensor-ballast systems to address each fixture individually through a 2-conductor digital control circuit. As a result, end-users can create or re-create different lighting scenes without rewiring the system.
Digital control transmission is free of noise or interference on the conductors, assuring the reliability of the control signal. In addition, DALI converters are available for integrating components with a separate 1V to 10V analog control circuit, another feature of some photosensor-ballast systems. The Table above compares the two types of control systems.
DALI is designed primarily to provide a simple, flexible lighting control scheme, making relatively slow data rates adequate and eliminating the need for expensive components. You can also connect the interface to a building management system via a gateway, allowing you to monitor the lighting system from a central control desk in the building.
The cost of a DALI system is somewhere between that of a 1V to 10V analog control system and the more complex bus control used in building automation systems.
Digital control is the wave of the future. Because each fixture, or ballast, has its own unique address, you can establish a variety of control functions with a DALI system. Any fixture can belong to more than one control group in a layout of ceiling fixtures. DALI is a two-way system, so you can "instruct" each ballast to send back a status report. The system also allows you to coordinate dimming ballasts to reach the same dimming point simultaneously — even if they started at different lighting levels.
In addition, each ballast can turn its own lamp on and off without the use of low-voltage relays, eliminating the limit of switching operation.
How the system works. The controller configures, controls, and modifies components of the DALI system. Using the control circuit, it applies the master/slave principle to communicate with all the lighting system components. The controller sends information on lighting group assignments and scene functions to the memory portion of the ballast's microchip, where the information is stored.
The lamps that can be controlled include the T5 and T5 HO, T8, 18W to 42W compact fluorescent lamps, and the 40W and 50W long fluorescent PL (Biax) lamps. You can access the DALI system by a PC or a Palm OS device. The ballast, which accepts either a 120V or 277V supply, uses a soft-start procedure when the lamps are switched on.
Let's refer to a practical example to see how the DALI system can set up various light levels in a multipurpose office. The Figure below shows a 40-ft×60-ft room that holds workstations for eight people and a conference table. Five rows of 2-ft×4-ft recessed luminaires parallel to the four windows provide ambient lighting for the entire office. Each luminaire has three 4-ft T8 fluorescent lamps and an addressable ballast. A photosensor is located in the ceiling at each of the three rows closest to the windows (Group 1, 2, and 3) to detect the daylight level.
Lighting control is provided for three situations:
The luminaires operate continuously. The constantly functioning photosensor unit determines the daylight level in the room and dims the fluorescent lamps in the three rows of ceiling luminaires closest to the windows, saving the office electric energy during the day.
Overhead projector presentations require greatly reduced ambient light levels. Only a minimal lighting level is necessary near the exit door and over the conference table for people to take notes.
A third lighting scene, set up at the end of the presentation, encourages discussion. This lighting scene highlights the conference table and sets a low level of illumination throughout the rest of the office.
This example makes it clear the office's 20 luminaires can be combined into a variety of groups that are completely independent of the branch-circuit wiring of the luminaires. A wall-mounted station uses a central function switch and four scene and group function switches to control the lighting scenes.
In this basic configuration, the system can establish up to eight groups with four scenes, including a constant lighting scene. A more advanced system supports 16 groups and five lighting scenes.
The demand for comfortable working environments in business facilities is on the rise, and new technologies like DALI systems are lighting the way to a better workplace.
Sidebar: Electronic Ballasts Rule the Roost
Established now as the industry's standard fluorescent ballast, the electronic ballast (EB) can be specified with a range of ballast factors, and with operating characteristics for different applications. An EB uses semiconductor components to raise the electrical frequency (20,000 Hz to 60,000 Hz). Delivering alternating current at these higher frequencies is a more efficient way to excite the gas mixture in a fluorescent lamp, often raising the lamp efficacy about 10%.


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I decided to come up with a fun contest that really gives me a GOOD reason to do and design a BOY themed party since I only have little girls! *YAY*
I was originally going to do ONE theme but I got such great ideas when I posted earlier on facebook, that it made me decide to do TWO themed boy parties instead!
I will do a themed design based on a baby boy's 1st birthday and the 2nd themed design will be for boys much older!
So, here's how the contest will work!
YOU tell me what themes you would like me to do for a 1st birthday and as the other fan favorite!
If I chose your IDEA, I will bring your party to life, by creating it, staging it and shooting it, and sharing everything here! The BEST part of this whole contest IS: I will then send you EVERYTHING that was used for this theme such as { party decor, all the ideas and tell you where I found everything {IF items found where TOO BIG, BORROWED or TOO HEAVY to ship} and even send you the menu} it's a PARTY in a BOX comeplete with all the details that you would need to put the party together! I will take the headache of planning, coming up with ideas, looking for decor and props, and let you enjoy the party when it's your turn to host it! How awesome is that?! it's a PARTY in a BOX comeplete with all the details that you would need to put the party together!
If any one of you is having a 1st birthday or your little one is having a birthday around the corner, give your ideas and hopefully you will WIN this fun contest!
I am excited, are you?! :)
Thank you again for all the wonderful ideas received and I look forward getting some more ideas! Also, please share with everyone and anyone!
*Please comment {HERE} by telling me what {theme} you would like me to do and leave me your {NAME, and EMAIL address}
* Please let me know on my facebook page that you entered the contest as well!
*WINNER{S} will be Notified via {EMAIL} 1st and then I will announce who WON here!
Thank you again so much and I GREATLY appreciate you participating in this contest and for supporting and giving me even more reasons to be creative!
{REMEMBER} it's for TWO THEMES FOR BOYS ONLY!
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MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - Broadway at the Beach had scheduled their annual Christmas tree lighting for Saturday, Nov. 23, but the event has been postponed.
The tree lighting is now scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. The delay was due to weather.
The Christmas tree at Broadway is located near the Beach Guest Services Center in Broadway Common.
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Attached is a HD channel comparison between the two satellite providers, DirecTV and DISH Network. Presented in PDF form, channels available on either DirecTV or DISH are listed along with the usual package needed to see that channel and channel number.
Note - for the most part only channels that are carried in HD on DirecTV or DISH are included. Channels that are not carried in HD by either satellite carrier are generally not included.
The file attached to this initial post will be updated as the channel lineups change. A post will be made in the thread at the time of the change to let people know what changed.
As with previous threads, this is NOT a thread to attack either provider or other members. This is NOT a thread for comparing DirecTV and DISH Network in other ways than their HD lineup. A reminder - There are threads in each of the provider forums here at DBSTalk for channels one might desire or anticipate their carrier adding.
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When the Alioramus monograph was published back in February this year, it arrived to what appeared to me to be universal praise and acclaim. For 24 hours it received an extremely positive press and you would have thought that there would have been a plethora of discussions and comments at all the usual blogs and websites. But, for whatever reason, this never actually materialised and the monograph very quickly disappeared from the palaeoworld front page. In fact the original press release for Alioramus altai in October 2009 provoked more response and a much greater coverage.
Indeed, I have not seen a single review of this work anywhere and I'm pretty sure I would have found one by now (but if you have reviewed this paper, please feel free to send me the detail or link – I would love to read it). And yet this monograph deserves a much greater press and appreciation than it has received and I am glad to discuss it further here.
To really understand a dinosaur, or any other extinct animal for that matter, and provided that the fossil remains are extensive and well preserved, then you need to read a monograph. This is the only way to get "under the skin" of an extinct taxon and get a real feel for the very essence of the beast. Unexpectedly perhaps, modern monographs of tyrannosaurids are conspicuous by their absence. Indeed, only Brochu's superb treatment of Tyrannosaurus rex back in 2003 has broken a very long run of absence.
I first became aware of Alioramus altai during SVP at Bristol - I remember it very well. It was the Saturday morning session and we were treated to a string of superb theropod presentations which featured (amongst many) Dal Sasso's and Maganuco's magnificent work on Scipionyx and Roger Benson's very cool work on tetanuran theropods. However, Alioramus altai was soon introduced by Norell et al and I remembered being surprised at the completeness of the specimen which was soon reinforced by the following presentation by the same team describing the braincase of the animal. Just two presentations later, Phil Currie presented his and Myashita's new phylogeny of Tyrannosauroidea which was only new in as much that it more or less consolidated previous phylogenetic work.
Phil Currie's passionate discourse when discussing the more traditional phylogenetic aspects of deep skulled tyrannosaurids was excellent and I must admit to getting carried away with the occasion and rather arrogantly dismissed Alioramus as a tyrannosaurid of very little consequence. But, as I have mentioned in the past, I now know how wrong of me that was and regret what was said – and even now I still feel the need to apologise to those concerned.
However, things quickly moved on and Alioramus altai was officially introduced to world in October the same year. Steve Brusatte, lead author from the American Museum of Natural History, described Alioramus as when "Compared to Tyrannosaurus, this new animal is like a ballerina" because of its skeletal pneumatisation and its obvious gracility. The ballerina quote stuck and featured in nearly news article about the animal and there was a flood of interest throughout the palaeoworld and in the public eye generally.
Just over two years later and the monograph of Alioramus altai was published and it is truly an exceptional document. As I sat down with it to start reading it I was struck by how much of it there was. At 197 pages in length it was obvious to me straight away that there had been an extraordinary amount of time and effort in producing this awesome publication and I was determined to give it a lot of time and attention – I felt I owed Alioramus and the authors at least that much. Part 2 soon.
Benson, R.B.J. 2009 Middle Jurassic theropods and the early evolution of Tetanurans (Dinosauria, Theropoda). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstracts Book, 2009, Pg.62A.
Bever, G.S., Brusatte, S.L., Carr, T.D. and Norell, M.A. 2009. The braincase of a new tyrannosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstracts Book, 2009, Pg.63A.
Christopher A. Brochu (2003): Osteology of Tyrannosaurus Rex: Insights from a nearly complete Skeleton and High-Resolution Computed Tomographic Analysis of the Skull, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22:sup4, 1-138.
Stephen L. Brusatte, Thomas D. Carr, Gregory M. Erickson, Gabe S. Bever, Mark A. Norell (2009) "A long-snouted, multihorned tyrannosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(41): 17261–17266.
Brusatte, S.L.; Carr, T.D.; Norell, M.A. 2012: The osteology of Alioramus, a gracile and long-snouted tyrannosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (366) doi: 10.1206/770.1
Dal Sasso, C. and Maganuco, S. 2009. Osteology, ontogenetic assignment, phylogeny, paleobiology, and soft-tissue anatomy of Scipionyx samniticus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstracts Book, 2009, 84A.
Miyashita, T. and Currie, P.J. 2009. A new phylogeny of the Tyrannosauroidea (Dinosauria, Theropoda). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstracts Book, 2009, Pg.149A.
Norell, M.A., Brusatte, S.L., Carr, T.D., Bever, G.S., and Erickson, G. 2009. A remarkable long-snouted, multihorned tyrannosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstracts Book, 2009, Pg.155A.


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Abstract Mixer API in alsa-lib
The basic idea is to provide the "expected" abstract mapping from the user and application view to the control elements which are directly mapped to the hardware.
[JaroslavKysela] I have had an idea to use a light version of an lisp interpreter (or compiler) to describe the expressions between the abstract and direct (hardware) controls. It seems that the main problem is how the lisp should be integrated into alsa-lib. The API for applications should be definitely in plain C. As Takashi noted, it might be that C -> lisp -> C path might be inefficient. In case, when we will have someday a lisp compiler which translate the lisp code to C, then the efficiency will be much better. Of course, there must be always a way to replace the lisp code with C code for the best optimization.
[JaroslavKysela] Note that lisp might replace the configuration files as well, because the current configuration language have serious gaps (is static) and the runtime extensions (function) are really ugly hack.
[JaroslavKysela] Unfortunately, to take full power of the lisp as configuration / mapping description language, we must map all C functions / definitions which alsa-lib provides into the lisp space. I am preparing a small tool which parses C header files and translates functions to lisp interpreter automagically.
[JamesCourtierDutton] I think we should first try to simplify the mixer api so that the mixer application is much simplier. How about a simple find first, find next API. The mixer app would request
Input values: handle = handle returned when one did open_mixer(); mode is one of PLAYBACK,CAPTURE,GLOBAL or 1,2,3; Return value: control_id is the return value. Function: find_first_control(handle, mode, *control_id)
Input values: handle = handle returned when one did open_mixer(); mode is one of PLAYBACK,CAPTURE,GLOBAL,VISIBILITY; (bit mask) control_id is last returned control_id Return value: control_id. Function: find_next_control(handle, mode, *control_id)
The mixer app could then iterate over all the controls and build up a list of control_ids. This API could then be used to return e.g. only Visible playback controls. The mixer app would then make function calls to retrieve details about each control. Each control would have Presence/Absence: Mute, Gain control, On/Off Switch, ENUM. The max amount of channels per control would be 2 for stereo.
We could then add plugins in alsa-lib that could add or remove controls from the list, with the plugins having commonly used features. E.g. Implement a "Master" playback control if the hardware does not have it. One could also dynamically add or remove controls.
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We all do things out of comfort, familiarity, or both. Once you find something you like, it's easy to stick with it; after all, once you've already been down the road, you'll know the way a little better next time, right? Not always. Chris Meier has fond memories of the '55 F-100 he used to own, and he recently thought he might like to have another. It just so happened his friend Julie Glinski had had a '55 in her backyard some time ago, and as fate would have it the two bumped into each other in April 2002 and Chris asked what ever happened to it. She said it was just rusting away at her place, so the deal was made and the ball began to roll.
Chris' uncle Jack Meier was pretty enthusiastic about the new project, and the two got serious about it-much more than Chris had planned on. Within a week the Ford was totally disassembled and in a million pieces at Jack's house in Elsinore, California. Chris was there every weekend sanding away, while Jack handled the major tin work as well as any welding and reconstruction duties. Jack had a couple of tricks up his sleeve. One was to widen the stock rear fenders 3 inches in lieu of tubbing into the bed, and the other was to mount custom dual gas tanks complete with handmade gas doors so the truck would be capable of some serious cruising. Amongst the cutting and welding Jack frenched a pair of custom dual taillights into the heavily massaged fenders.
After a year and a half of working on the '55 at Jack's house they decided to move the project to Hot Rods & Custom Stuff in nearby Escondido, California, so they could execute the rest of the build the way the two had envisioned. From here it began to turn into a real show truck. Shop owner Randy Clark suggested using a Total Cost Involved chassis complete with a Mustang II front crossmember and a rear four-link with coilovers and GM 11-inch discs at each corner. Between the new 'rails they installed a complete drivetrain built by Total Performance in Santee, California. The running gear is comprised of a '93 302 Ford with Edelbrock RPM heads and intake along with a Crane cam, Holley 620-cfm carb, fire from MSD, and a March serpentine system to keep everything running together. Total Performance also built the Ford 8.8 rearend with a 3.73:1 Posi and a Ford AOD trans. Surrounding all of this are pipes from Bassani, headers from BBK, and Mac Performance Products Mufflers.
Over Jack's bodywork, Hot Rods & Custom Stuff laid down the subtle yet striking Honda Accord Havasu Blue from PPG and rubbed it out to perfection. The Intro Matrix 17- and 18-inchers leave little to be desired, with much needed traction coming from Nitto's NT Z-rated tires. Sharp eyes might notice the '56 grille hiding in the nosed front end. Once the Adjure halogen headlights, Eclipse stereo, and Jatuba bed wood were in it was off to Redlands, California, to Lupe Sandoval's shop for some stitchwork. The Dodge Intrepid six-way power seats were covered in bone-color leather with amber boar print inserts, which carry through the rest of the interior. The stunning upholstery dictated the use of Palomino wool carpet so as not to leave Chris' feet unloved. The billet dash panel holds Ford Motorsport gauges that add just enough sparkle along with the ididit column and Vintage Air controls.
With everything dialed in, Chris and his family were set to cruise in a truck that far surpassed any of their original intentions or plans, but what the hey. We caught up with them at the Goodguys show in Del Mar, California, which was the truck's first major event, and they'll be at Pleasanton and everywhere in between as long as they can drive their Effie there-no trailer rides for the Meiers.
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Strange how mankind seems to be hard wired to myth and superstion let alone when this is organised for him into theism by some form of central authority usually cultural/political. It is more than just cognitive dissonance or lack of education/child brainwashing. So since Asian part of mankind how come escaped?
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The orient DIDN'T escape. The native Japanese religion is Shinto, which worships the sun goddess, Amaterasu Omikami, as well as a host of other gods. I don't know as much about other parts of Asia, except that some sects DO worship Buddha as a god. And you can bet that there were native animist religions everywhere before Buddhism, and other religions do exist alongside it. The fact that the most basic form of Buddhism does not have a god may be exactly why places like Korea and Viet-nam and China were such ripe picking grounds for Christian missionaries (although Communism wiped out much of Christianity in China). And there are plenty of Muslims in China, too.
And if you include places like India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Pakistan in Asia, then there is ample evidence of theism, including Hinduism and Islam.
So, no, Asia did not escape at all.
Also, a lot of Oriental cultures developed into ruler worship. Up until recently, the Japanese emperors were considered living gods and worshiped as such.
Natalie, that sounds right. Did you have opportunity to live there or know someone? I'd love to learn your story.
Yup, I lived in Japan for 2 1/2 years, and had plenty of opportunities to observe Buddhism and Shinto. And in my previous post, I didn't remember to include the fact that before WWII, emperors were considered gods. One of the requirements of the US govt. in writing the peace treaty with Japan was that Emperor Hirohito publicly renounce his god status. Which he did, and I think that was a wise act on his part. What many people don't know is that the emperor in Japan was cloistered for centuries (still fairly cloistered, but not as much as previously), and the govt. was actually in the hands of a military junta at the time of WWII. Hirohito really didn't have much to do with the decisions made before and during WWII, but he took a lot of the blame. What is interesting is that the Japanese people mostly accepted Hirohito's change in status, although at the time I was there (68-72, with a break in between) the elderly people refused to stop worshipping him, but they did it privately, so as not to create friction in their families or in public.
I think the desire for a god to take care of us is a universal need in people who don't have the mental ability or the emotional strength to accept otherwise.
And the other thing I want to note is that religion in Japan is much like religion among the Jews: it's just a part of the way people live, and belief or non-belief is not the central issue. There is no pressure to confess or profess; you just do the rituals, and nobody questions you. In Israel and in Japan, there are large groups who, if you asked them why they do it, would have no answer, even though there are others who are very observant and know exactly what their holy books say and can discuss it with you in detail.
And to answer a post above, there is NO big THREE, because Judaism is in no way big -- the major players in the religion game are Christianity and Islam, because both of them are proselytizing religions, and really do feel that everyone in the world should follow their beliefs. Judaism does not fit that description; it's neither big in numbers, nor does it practice proselytization in ANY way -- proselytization is expressly forbidden. Which is why I, as a cultural and ethnic Jew, really resent the grouping of Judaism with Christianity or Islam.
I agree whole-heartedly. I grew up in Miami Beach back when, and my friends and family are Ashkenazim. Most American Jews are secular (it's an ethnicity). Fewer than 10% are Orthodox, though they wield a bit more power than their numbers - in the US and in Israel.
Christians love the phrase "Judeo-Christian tradition." It implies that their bigotry and anti-intellectualism is broad-based if not universal. Don't let them get away with it!
Thank you, Phil! As a minority, we were forced to learn quite a bit about Christianity and Christian philosophy, but I find that Christians and the Christian-raised know next to nothing about Judaism and Jews, except for what they infer from THEIR translations of the Tanakh. And they make assumptions based on their ignorance, not even knowing that they are ignorant. My brother and I may not believe in a god, but both of us are definitely Jewish -- our morals and ethics are definitely influenced by the way we were raised, even though we don't attribute them to god.
Hi Natalie,
Regarding this:
"I think the desire for a god to take care of us is a universal need in people who don't have the mental ability or the emotional strength to accept otherwise."
In my opinion, it may not be a question of mental ability or emotional strength. I was at one point caught up in a cultish religion and later left it. Many people, even clergy, end up leaving a faith after a time. Was it that they did not have mental abilities or emotional strength while they were members of the religion? Then they suddenly or gradually grew this mental strength later? I think it's more a matter of being exposed to different, non-theist points of view, of broadening one's point of reference through questioning things, of maturing, of being lucky. I am the same person I was when I was in the cultish group, when I was believing in their beliefs. My mental abilities are the same. It's my frame of reference that has changed. We are all believers by nature. We have to make a conscious effort, using those same mental abilities, to extricate ourselves from the natural tendency. Anyway, that's my two cents worth :)
Michele, great question! I hope someone comes up with an explanation.
This is a common misconception. The Orient is, in fact, very spiritual.
The reason they are seen as having little, if any, religiosity is because "religion" is a Western concept. They only know what it is because they are connected to the West now and because of (mainly) Christian Proselytizers. However, they themselves have no concept of religion, at least not as we understand it. So if you ask an Asian if they're religious, most of them will say no. But if you ask them if they believe in a higher power and spirituality and the like, the vast majority will say yes.
I do not know how you got the idea that the eastern people have no idea of religion. The Vedic religion (Hinduism) is the oldest religion in India and was closely followed by Jainism, the atheist religion. In 600BCE, another atheist religion, the Buddhism alo emerged in India. So they definitely have the idea of religion. Buddism has very little preseence in India now and Jainism also has a small presence. Zoarastrianism came to India almost immediately after emergence Islam. Hindus are very religius people and great god believers. If anybody in India would say that he is not religious, it would be only because most city dwellers have stopped practicing many religious rituals, but otherwise, their faith is still very strong.
Easy. Polls taken in the orient asking if they are religious show a very low level of religiosity, yet different polls show an extremely high level of spirituality.
"Religion" is a Western concept. When I said they have no concept of it, I didn't mean that they don't know what it is. I meant that they do not consider religion something inherent to their cultures. A traditional Buddhist, for example, would not consider Buddhism a religion. Sam goes for a traditional Jain. Zoroastrianism and Islam are, like Christianity and Judaism, Western religions that made their way to the Orient. More often than not, especially for those who take Christianity, they incorporate the Western traditions into their Eastern philosophical traditions.
As such, most of those in the Orient do not consider themselves religious. They do, however, consider themselves very spiritual and very traditional
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The duality of subject-object distinctions in whatever state are indeed unreal.Aemilius wrote:Why should only hells or hell guardians be unreal? Why not also the heaven-state, asura-state, human-state etc? There are prison guards in the prison system of humans, so where is the difficulty?
Prison guards have similar experiences, happiness and suffering, to every other human being, and are real sentient beings. Yet any subject-object distinctions they make similar to other human beings in this state are likewise unreal.
Hell guardians on the other hand do not suffer the torture of the hell states at all, as they are completely imagined in the consciousness of suffering beings in hell, and are not real sentient beings.
So you think a Buddha suffers?I think the reality of the six realms is equal, they are equally just mind. And I think that an all-knowing person does partake in the suffering of beings in the six realms. Wisdom and compassion are inseparable.
That contradicts the entire Buddhist teaching from the beginning. Compassion is not suffering, since Compassion is the function of Wisdom. Suffering is caused by fundamental Ignorance.


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SAULT STE. MARIE — Michigan's oldest city dates back to the 1660s. Its most famous feature, locks that get freighters around treacherous rapids between Lake Superior and the Lake Michigan-Huron system, date back to the 1850s.
But stay tuned. Sault Ste. Marie, the Rapids of St. Mary, might just be famous for something else pretty soon, something at the farthest reaches of technology.
At least, that's the hope of Kristen Claus, executive director of the Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corp., and host of other Soo locals I met with Friday, Day Two of the Great Lakes Innovation and Technology Report 2012 Spring Tech Tour.
We started the day at Claus' modest office in Michigan's oldest business incubator — built by Lake Superior State University, the local college, in 1971, and taken over by the city a few years later.
Claus has been on the job since January 2011 after working two years for the city planning department. Her undergraduate degree, from Western Michigan University, was in aviation management, and she originally wanted to be an air traffic controller. But the federal feud over air traffic controllers squashed that idea, so she went back to school at Eastern Michigan in urban and regional planning. Then she moved to Sault Ste. Marie and got the city job.
The Sault EDC has the usual mission — support existing businesses, attract new ones, help with work force skill development, and grow the wealth of the community through job creation. It's funded by city tax dollars, and that's not as much of a problem in Sault Ste. Marie as it is elsewhere because its property values haven't crashed to the extent they have in other places (perhaps because they never rose unsustainably before the crash).
Claus said Sault Ste. Marie has about 14,000 people, with 38,500 total in Chippewa County, of which it's a part. About 600 jobs in the region are in manufacturing, a number that's growing.
"We're not an auto town, we're not a life sciences town, we're not driven by any one industry," she said. "We have auto, we have life sciences, we have tech, we have an aviation company. We're very diversified and that's the way I'd like to keep it."
Claus said many of the Soo's high-tech and manufacturing companies are founded by people who vacationed here as children, like Precision Edge, in surgical tools, and AMI, an auto tubing firm.
And things are getting better soon. The industrial park around the Soo's municipal airport has just been designated one of only 15 Michigan tax-free SmartZones, and a 15,000-square-foot, $2.6 million incubator is rising there. It's called SMART Center, for the Sault Ste. Marie Advanced Resources Technology Center, and it's informally known as the "business breeder." The current incubator is about 30,000 square feet.
My first visit shares the original incubator with the Sault EDC. Innovative Composites International is a branch plant of a Toronto-based firm that makes advanced composite materials.
They're used in everything from automotive tonneau covers to building materials to the Soo Locks. They're also developing a lightweight composite Fiberglas material that's highly bullet- and shapnel-resistant for vehicles, general manager Chris Olson said. Some of the material is made from recycled plastics, including shredded former pop bottles.
ICI currently has 33 employees and expects to grow to 50 in the next couple of months, Olson said, and to 70 by the middle of next year.
ICI also uses Lake Superior State's engineering talent to design its housing produccts, which are made at another plant in South Carolina.
From there, it was a short stroll on an absurdly beautiful spring day to Hoover Precision Products, a location of a company founded in Chelsea in 1913. Leander J. Hoover founded Hoover Steel Ball Co., and the company rocketed to success during World War I, when imports of German ball bearings obviously stopped.
Johnson Controls bought what was by then Hoover Universal in 1984, and spun it back out in 1990, when it was bought by a Japanese firm, Tsubaki Nakashima. The Sault Ste. Marie plant has been around since 1978. Originally 18,000 square feet in size, it's now 45,000, and is browing to 67,000 in a project scheduled to start later this month. The company has 50 employees now and will be hiring soon, said sales engineer Tom Patton.
Hoover Precision makes balls — in a bunch of sizes, from barely visible to the eye to six inches in diameter — out of a variety of materials — from exotic metal alloys to ceramics to composites to plastics.
The balls are used in everything from medical measurement devices to automotive seating to automotive shifting and steering assemblies to pumps and valves used in mining and oil exploration to ink jet printer cartridges.
The balls are formed by either machine grinding or being squeezed between two plates with abrasive compounds.
Hoover Precision also makes plastic tubing and Petri dishes, which is largely what the expansion is about. Medical applications have to be made in a clean room, and the Hoover clean room is about to grow from 2,000 to 8,000 square feet, and from four to 16 super-clean injection molding machines.
The company ships about 60 million pieces a month. And on the last day of December last year, it shipped no less than 22 million balls.
From Hoover, it was off to the Lockview Restaurant for what I was told was the best whitefish on the planet. Well, being allergic to finny fish, I did content myself with some terrific shrimp, although I'm betting they came from considerably farther south than Whitefish Bay.
But I did lunch with Jeff Hagan, executive director fo the Soo area's regional planning agency, the Eastern Upper Peninsula Regional Planning and Development Commission, and Jeff Holt, economic development director of the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians, which has a 600-acre reservation within the Soo city limits and hundreds of acres scattered around the rest of the eatern U.P.
Holt, a Lake Superior State grad, said the tribe has an annual payroll of $55 million and $10 million a year of local purchases. At 2,000 employees, it's the largest employer in the region by far.
Hagan also attended Lake Superior State in land use planning and regional development and opted to stay rather than return to the land below the bridge.
We talked about some of the region's economic development challenges and opportunities, like the tribe's social opposition to growing trees only to cut them down and turn them into ethanol and the region's ongoing study of wind power.
From there it was off to Lake Superior State University. Yes, I know, I'm only supposed to visit universities on the Spring Tech Tour. But it's been half a decade since I've been to the Soo, and the university here is involved in not just tech transfer and spinoffs but local basic economic development up to its armpits, so excuse me.
In face, the new dean of the college of engineering at Lake State has a really interesting title. David R. Finley is dean of the new College of Business, Engineering and Economic Development. A chemical engineer by training with a doctorate from Wayne State University, Finley was most recently an administrator at Trine University in Angola, Ind. At Lake State, they've now "combined the schools of business and enginering and added economic development to its charter in order to horizontally integrate that process. For me, the position her was a perfect fit in a beautiful place."
Lake Superior State isn't just trying to spin out faculty research ideas into companies, it's actively involved in both the current incubator and the new one, and recent successful effort to be named a SmartZone.
In fact, according to Finley, Lake Superior State will be involved at every stage of company formation. The university's Product Development Center, managed by Eric R. Becks, can design, prototype and test parts, and make one or two components as prototypes. The SMART Center, or business breeder, will be in charge of getting that to tens, hundreds of thousands of prototype parts. From there, the traditional business incubator and area technology parks will take over to the commercial market stage, Finley and Becks said.
Finley and Becks also showed me around poster presentation of Lake State's senior engineering projects for the just-concluded school year in everything from power steering controls to solar energy reflectors to robotics. Let's just say that once again, I felt like the emissary from the Land of the Tiny-Brained Folk, and Lake Superior State, like virtually every other Michigan college I visit, has brilliant students who will some day rule the world, just get used to the idea.
My last visit of the day can be summed up as one man's remarkable entrepreneurial journey into making products designed to chop off your knees.
Well, it's not quite that gruesome. But some of the stuff made by Precision Edge, founded in a U.P. garage in 1989 by Saginaw-area native Greg May, is designed to grind your bones — in a good way.
May took up the tool and die trade out of high school at a company called S&E Machine, making auto and aerospace parts. But it also shifted into surgical products for Kalamazoo-based Stryker Corp.
Like a lot of entrepreneurs, May thought he coulddo it better and set up his own company. He then moved to the Sault area, where his family had vacationed during his childhood. Starting in a garage in the tiny town of Barbeau, May said, "I started hiring local kids and training them. Most of them didn't even know what a micrometer was."
May said the strong U.P. work ethic made his company a quick success. That, and how he treated his employees: "I had learned all about that as an employee, about how I wanted to be treated. So that part was pretty easy."
May said the company grew like crazy — so much so that he received, and accepted, an offer from Chicago's Pritzker family to buy the company in the mid-1990s. May must like the arrangement; he's still here, hard at work. And now, the company he founded has grown to 190 employees in Sault Ste. Marie, and has established a second factory in Boyne City in northern Lower Michigan that will get about equally big when it's fully staffed out.
"Today we can't hire people quick enough and get 'em trained quick enough to meet the demands of growth," May said. "Meanwhile, the FDA is tightening the screws on regulation."
Precision Edge makes drill bits that are used only once — because they drill into your bones when you break them, helping doctors insert pins, screws and wires to help broken bones knit back together. The company also makes saw blades used to saw bones in knee replacement opearations, and burring devices used to create holes in bone, from hips to skulls. (It's kind of gross to think where this stuff is going to wind up, but hey, thank God for anesthesia, you wake up and you're better, and what pain remains can be knocked down by derivatives of another thing we need to thank God for, the opium poppy.)
May provided a simply delightful 45-minute tour of his plant. And he freely admits the tour could have lasted for hours. But eventually, I had to get off my own arthritic knees that will some day need replacement.
And so Saturday I'm leaving the U.P. for northern Lower Michigan as the tour continues. And my hat's off to the passionate people I met in the Soo, doing all they can to make this region a more prosperous place to live. Like most places in the U.P., the Soo is an insanely gorgeous place, with an amazing quality of life for anyone who likes the outdoors, but it also has the added bonus of a college to bring in arts, sports, culture, and intellectual gravitas.
See you soon, Soo, I hope.
Be sure to listen afternoons on WWJ Newsradio 950 for special reports on the GLITR 2012 Spring Tech Tour. And check out photos from the Tech Tour road at https://detroit.cbslocal.com/photo-galleries/2012/05/11/glitr-spring-tech-tour-2012/#photo-323016.


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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
2009 Media Releases
Sunderman and Cornelius reappointed
Mayor Chris Beutler today appointed Jeanelle Lust, the managing partner of a local law firm, to the Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission. She will replace Gene Carroll, who was elected to the City Council in May. The Mayor also reappointed Lynn Sunderman, the current chair, and Michael Cornelius, the current vice chair, to the Commission. Planning Commissioners serve six-year terms, and appointments must be approved by the City Council and County Board.
"Jeanelle brings a strong legal skills and experience to the Planning Commission, a body that makes major decisions for the future of our City and County," Beutler said. "This background is especially important at this time when I have asked the Planning Department to review large numbers of regulations with an eye toward simplifying procedures and making the overall environment more customer friendly."
Lust has been with the law firm of Knudsen, Berkheimer, Richardson and Endacott since 1994. As a trial lawyer, she focuses on commercial litigation and handles all aspects of nursing home litigation. She graduated from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and from the Creighton University School of Law. She is active in the Nebraska Bar Association and is a charter Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America. The Lancaster County Board appointed her to serve on the Indigent Defense Council, and she also has served in leadership roles with the Capital Humane Society and the Lincoln Children's Zoo.
The nine-member Planning Commission is responsible for helping to develop a comprehensive land use plan for Lancaster County and for making policy recommendations to the City Council and County Board. State statute requires counties to form planning commissions if a primary class city (population 100,000 to 300,000) is located in the county.


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Care in Fiji by Adele Perry
I read about Projects Abroad in the Westworld Magazine. After reading about the projects and experiences that they offered, I decided to add it to my bucket list of things to do one day. I could not believe the vast amount of projects they offered all over the world, and the fact that Projects Abroad was one of the most respected organisations in its industry made it easy to make my decision to travel with them.
Fast forward to two years and the time was finally right for me to embark on a journey I so eagerly wanted to experience. After doing some research, I decided to sign up on a Care project in Fiji - I knew I wanted to work with children. This was my first trip alone, so yes, I was overwhelmed and very nervous, but also very excited! It was an amazing opportunity and I wanted to be a part of it.
My host family
Arriving in Fiji was surreal – what a beautiful place! It was 7:30am when I arrived, but I was shortly taken to my host family where I would live for the duration of my stay. My host family, Pastor Jack, Aseneca and their family were really nice. Their house was quite busy when I arrived, as their three daughters and one son was busy getting ready for school - backpacks, lunches, hugs, kisses and out the door they were… It felt like I was at home!
Aseneca and I were kindred spirits right away. She made a joke about how I was sent "just for her." She has hosted more than twenty volunteers at her home thus far, all between the ages of 17 and 25 years old. On this occasion she was glad to have someone to connect with as a friend and mother and it felt as if I had four children of my own. We had many wonderful discussions about life and culture. I was lucky to have lived with such a lovely family; I felt very comfortable and at home.
My Project in Fiji
I was placed at Namaka Methodist Kindergarten. I was paired up with a terrific, outgoing young lady named, Chiara from Italy. Chiara spoke English very well and it was such a pleasure to get to know such a beautiful girl on the inside and outside.
The kindergarten classroom was very spacious, with many tables and a carpet area for singing/devotions, story time and play time. The teacher Ms. Donu was friendly, kind and welcoming. She has been a teacher at Methodist Kindergarten for 27 years. She knows all the children and their family.
Ms. Donu is such an amazing ambassador for the Namaka community. The children were very curious and open to learning. I have very blonde curly hair and green eyes, so they found that very different and interesting. They asked me questions like "do all the people in your country look like you?" With my face in their little hands, you can't help but smile and hug them. They were so sweet, gentle and filled with wonder.
I was surprised at how many "bible songs" and nursery rhymes we had in common. They would sing in English and repeat it in Fijian, which I loved! My three weeks at the school, with all the amazing children and terrific teachers was an absolute pleasure and outstanding experience.
My final day at Namaka Methodist Kindergarten was very special. They had a wonderful surprise for me! I was given a lei of flowers to wear around my neck from the parent council; it meant "a new Fijian to return one day." I was very humbled and appreciative of their kindness. I will remember all the special moments we had and I have taken lots of pictures to make sure that I will remember my experience for a very long time; they are engraved onto my heart.
My overall experience
The Projects Abroad volunteers are so incredible, welcoming and genuine – the most amazing group of people one could ever meet. The average age of the volunteers was between 17 to 25 years old.
Me being the oldest volunteer, in my mid-fifties, I never felt uncomfortable as they made me feel part of the group and treated me well. They will forever remain special to me and I hope that one day we will get to meet again. The thing I found most amazing was the fact that all the volunteers travelled alone to volunteer their time in Fiji. They all wanted to do something good and meaningful.
Projects Abroad staff would ensure that we had weekly gatherings as many volunteers came and went and this was the perfect opportunity to meet other people from different countries and backgrounds. We also had some time to gather once a week. I met so many positive, cool fun-loving people from around the world!
Projects Abroad staff
Projects Abroad's office is situated in Martinar. The office was a great place to meet other volunteers too. It was great that we were allowed to use the internet to communicate with our families abroad and let them know of the activities we took part in.
The staff were awesome- very caring, organised and helpful. I would definitely recommend Fiji as a destination choice for anyone, to have an amazing volunteer experience. Projects Abroad is a good organisation that is trust worthy and benefits the local community.
Lastly, I would like to send a big hug and a hardy bula to Karishma, Meme, Aimee and Sarah.
Adele Perry
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