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Military projects are infamous for delays and cost overruns. Ditto for just about everything we put into space. Combine the two in the form of military space programs and you would presumably have a recipe for disaster. So it's no surprise to learn that various military satellite programs have been plagued with problems, many of which have been detailed in a report by the Government Accountability Office. For most of us, the programs in question are pretty well abstracted from our day-to-day experience, but one of them has found its way into our lives: the Global Positioning System. Has the Department of Defense's problems put our gadgets at risk? The answer depends on how you define "risk."
The GAO is a nonpartisan office that performs critical analyses of government programs, providing a sanity check on federal spending and management. In a report released on Wednesday, the GAO tackled the items the military puts in orbit and did not hold back on the criticism; the report is titled "DOD Faces Substantial Challenges in Developing New Space Systems," and those substantial challenges are described in substantial detail.
It's a fairly general report, with seven different systems analyzed, only two of which are GPS programs, and its conclusions are rather broad. Two major issues are identified that are shared among the military's programs. The DOD apparently has a tendency to start programs that aren't achievable with the resources it has available to it. It also tends to start more programs than it knows it can build—as a result, there's a lot of pressure to provide unrealistically low cost estimates, since these can help the program avoid the inevitable cuts.
The GPS systems haven't been immune to these sorts of issues, but they also face problems of their own. Right now, the second generation GPS satellites are three years overdue and significantly over budget, and the first one isn't expected to be put in space until late this year—if there are no further problems. To an extent, those delays have informed the development of the generation after that, but the Air Force is promising that it has learned so much that it will be able to put the third generation satellites together three years faster than it did with generation two. The GAO charitably calls this plan "optimistic."
Problems arise because the existing generation of satellites have a regular failure rate, and there need to be enough in orbit to provide signals from four satellites at once in order to achieve the military's positioning requirements. If there are significant delays in future generation satellites, the DOD could face problems. "DOD also faces potential gaps or decreases in positioning, navigation and timing capabilities because of late delivery of the GPS IIF satellites and the late start of the GPS IIIA program," the report concludes.
That conclusion got such widespread coverage—and the public cares so much about GPS, since they actually use it—that the Air Force actually felt compelled to respond. A spokesman pointed out to the AP that the military actually has active satellites in excess of its needs and keeps spares in orbit for cases of unexpected failures. There are also ways to extend the useful lifespan of the existing generation of hardware.
So, is the GPS system at risk? Not immediately. Even if future generations of hardware run into the same sorts of delays, it should be possible to recognize this in time to expand the deployment of current technology. What is likely, however, is that several years down the line, the military will have less of a margin of error for unexpected events, which would fit some definitions of risk.
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CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. undefined The former leader of a street gang unit operating on Long Island has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison.
Federal prosecutors say Gustavo Orellana-Torres, also known as "Diablito," pleaded guilty in September 2012 to racketeering stemming from the murder of a Central Islip man.
Prosecutors say Orellana-Torres admitted participating in the killing. Members of his gang, MS-13, believed they had targeted a member of a rival gang in the May 2009 shooting. They later learned the victim had no gang affiliation.
Orellana-Torres also admitted to being with a group who shot and wounded a rival gang member in Roosevelt in July 2009.
Prosecutors say the gang is mostly comprised of immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
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NEW YORK (AP) Shaun Marcum was excited to sign with the New York Mets because they offered him an opportunity to pitch every five days. As for replacing R.A. Dickey, that will take a team effort.
``I think if all five starters go out there and do their job, stay healthy, get to the goal of 200-plus innings then I think just that will fill R.A's shoes in itself,'' Marcum said during a conference call Wednesday.
Despite the possible pressure of being seen as Dickey's replacement, Marcum felt comfortable coming to New York thanks to a couple of familiar faces.
Mets special assistant J.P. Ricciardi - then the general manager of the Toronto Blue Jays - drafted Marcum in the third round of the 2003 draft out of Missouri State, and the right-hander says his old boss played a key role in this signing.
Marcum's one-year contract became official Wednesday. He will earn $4 million in salary and can earn $2.25 million in performance bonuses and $1.75 million in roster bonuses.
He would get $250,000 for each for 120, 140, 160 and 170 innings pitched, $375,000 apiece for 180 and 190 and $500,000 for 200.
He also can make $375,000 each for 90 and 120 days on the active roster or on the DL for an injury other than to his right arm, and $500,000 apiece for 150 and 170.
The 31-year-old Marcum also knows the Mets new catcher, John Buck, well. They were teammates for what Marcum called his best season in the majors, 2010 in Toronto. Buck came from the Blue Jays to New York in the trade for Dickey, a swap that included four catchers.
``Having him behind the plate, that comfort level, getting to spring training I don't have to try to go over my game plan with three or four different catchers,'' Marcum said. ``John already knows how I pitch.''
Marcum went 13-8 with a 3.64 ERA in 31 starts in 2010, a year after he had elbow-reconstruction surgery. He missed two months last season with Milwaukee because of more elbow trouble but says he is now fully healthy.
``We did MRIs, all that stuff, did another one this winter. The main thing was it wasn't the flexor tendon, the ligament or anything like that. Everybody was happy, I'm happy,'' Marcum said. ``Now it's just about going out and pitching and doing whatever I can to help the Mets.''
Marcum joins a Mets' rotation that includes left-handers Johan Santana and Jonathon Niese, and righties Matt Harvey, a rookie, and Dillon Gee, none of whom reached 200 innings last season. The signing does allow New York to keep right-hander Zack Wheeler - rated the No. 8 prospect by MLB.com - in the minors at least a little longer.
In order to reach his goal of pitching 200 innings for the second time in his seven-year career, Marcum has been throwing more during the offseason than in the past.
``The philosophy I was brought up in was kind of `Save your bullets, don't throw too much,''' he said of his professional career. ``I kind of went back to my old high school, college days when my arm was feeling great. I was throwing as much as I possibly could. Throwing every single day. Throwing more distance. Long-tossing out to 280, 300 feet. And I've just been building up that arm strength. And I've had no problems since I started my program.''
In 21 starts for Milwaukee last year, he was 7-4 with a 3.71 ERA. Overall, he is 57-36 with a 3.76 ERA.
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Maybe It's just me but I am not all that pissed at Weiner. Showing pictures of your dick online doesn't spread disease or impregnate people.
Weiner could of avoided all this if he ignored the reporters questions. Every time he spoke to reporters it became pretty apparent that it was Weiner's weiner.
I got to ask, why do men like showing their dicks to women online anyway? Don't most men know that it's very threatening so send a woman a close up of their penis?


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Etherington was in agony as he went down in the first half Stoke winger Matthew Etherington faces a race against time to be fit for the FA Cup final on 14 May after a scan revealed he had torn his hamstring.
The 29-year-old suffered the injury 30 minutes into the 3-0 win over Wolves on Tuesday and was then carried off injured.
Stoke play Manchester City in the Wembley final and assistant boss Dave Kemp refused to rule Etherington out.
"The club will do everything they can to get him fit," said Kemp.
Etherington hopes to appear in his second FA Cup final having played for West Ham in their heartbreaking defeat by Liverpool.
The Hammers were on the way to a 3-2 victory before Steven Gerrard's last-minute equaliser took the game into extra time. Liverpool eventually won on penalties.
"It's not good news but it all depends on how he treats it and if he can recover," Kemp told BBC Radio Stoke after Etherington's scan on Wednesday.
"He is disappointed, but as long as there is hope, there is a chance."
Etherington has been a key member of Stoke's FA Cup run, scoring in the semi-final, to help send the Potters into the final.
And Stoke manager Tony Pulis is in no doubt how vital Etherington is to his side.
After Tuesday's game Pulis told BBC Radio 5 live: "Everyone has their fingers crossed. We will do our best to try to get him on the pitch because he is important to us.
"It's a game that we'll desperately want him to play and it's a game that Matt will desperately want to play.
"We will go to every measure we possibly can as a football club to give him the best opportunity."
Meanwhile, forward Ricardo Fuller is also a doubt for the final against Manchester City, having suffered an Achilles problem in Saturday's 1-1 draw at Aston Villa.
"It's a bad blow for us," added Pulis. "If you look at the squad and the size of the club, we need our top players to be fit for us to be at our best.
"We are not Manchester City, we have not got multi-millionaires standing around waiting for their chances.
"This is a bread and butter football club, the players work very hard and we need everyone fit."
Stoke midfielder Rory Delap added: "It didn't look good after the game. We are all devastated if it is what everyone thinks it is.
"You never know with the scan but we are all thinking of him and we know how devastated he is.
"He's been a big part of this club and it will be devastating if Ricardo misses the final."


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Although Naples, Fla., native Paige Miles got eliminated from American Idol last week, she and fellow bootee Lacey Brown hope to get an apartment in L.A. soon to continue pursuing their musical dreams. Until then, the 24-year-old pre-school teacher can't wait to get back home to Houston to see her dogs, and save some, too.
"I love dogs and I'm very involved in animal rescue," Miles "Laila is a Newfoundland mix and a rescue I got two years ago. I have another Shih Tzu mix, or something-mix, we don't really know – that I got a year ago, plus I have tons of dogs in and out so I always have a lot of dogs at home."
While home in Houston, Miles spends weekends working with local Petco and PetSmart stores to hold adopt-a-thons for shelter animals that need to be adopted. "I also foster," Miles says, "which means when we are at a kill space or just need to put a dog some place really quickly, I'll just bring the dogs home and take care of them until we can find them permanent homes." Miles also volunteers to clean shelters. "It's a non-profit so everything we get is from donations and volunteer work," she adds. "I just love dogs so whatever I can do to help, I'll do."


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The Children's Organ Transplant Association is an organization to which we have guided many of our donors over the last several years. Last week, they provided us with a beautiful holiday story about one of the children that donor funds helped. In the spirit of the season, I thought it appropriate to share here.
During a season filled with lists and wishes, the holiday gift one Utah couple hopes for is one often taken for granted: a healthy family. For this family, one wish has already been granted. Now they wait for the ultimate gift … the gift of life.
Last November, Brian and Emily Hoopes received a precious gift in the form of a long-awaited adoption. Their story began on Halloween 2008 when Baby Patrick was born in Michigan. The young Salt Lake City area couple adopted Patrick when he was just one-week-old, bringing him home to Utah a month later. From the outset of the adoption process, Brian and Emily knew Patrick was a very sick infant. They were told the baby only had a few centimeters of small intestine and until he could get an intestinal transplant, Patrick would require constant medical attention.
"Beyond knowing he would need lots of medical care we also knew Patrick's life had been a series of miracles up until that point. We hoped those miracles would continue and we decided to forge ahead with hope, despite an uncertain future," said Emily.
Knowing the road ahead would be rocky given Patrick's diagnosis of short gut syndrome, Brian and Emily joyfully initiated the adoption process and returned to Utah to their large network of family, neighbors and church friends. Their network of acquaintances expanded rapidly to include Patrick's medical team of gastroenterologists, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists, dieticians, developmental specialists and many more medical professionals. This couple's dedication and commitment to a tiny infant remained unwavering even as they discovered the harsh realities that laid ahead for each of them.
The specialists at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, told Emily and Brian they would need to go to Seattle Children's Hospital, an 840-mile trip, to further investigate the possibility of a life-saving small bowel transplant. They made their first trip to Seattle in early 2009. That trip was successful and Patrick was listed for a small bowel transplant. That's when the waiting began.
Just to maintain Patrick's health while he waits for his transplant, the Hoopes' pay co-pays for every doctor and therapist visit, and for every trip to the hospital emergency department in Salt Lake City. Sometimes Patrick is in the doctor's office more than once each week. There are also co-pays for his medications; deductibles, and the costs of living at a hospital for a week or more at a time. According to Emily and Brian, the Hoopes family has had to tighten their belt because Emily's current full-time job is taking care of Patrick.
Intestinal transplants are a fairly new procedure. With Patrick being listed for transplant at Seattle Children's, Emily and Patrick need to travel to Seattle every three months for evaluations. Each visit involves airfare and food and lodging for at least a couple days. They also pay charges associated with seeing doctors outside of their insurance network. When the transplant call does come and they need to get to Seattle quickly, Emily and Brian may need to charter a $10,000 flight to get Patrick to the hospital within the narrow time frame allowed by the surgical team.
It became very apparent, very quickly, that Brian and Emily Hoopes needed help. Even though the Hoopes' have health insurance coverage, they soon realized that regardless of how 'good' their insurance is, they are facing a huge financial burden — in addition to the stress of Patrick's medical care they face on a daily basis. In the midst of these difficult days, Brian and Emily heard about the Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA).
"With the amazing assistance that COTA provided, we were able to pull together a group of friends and family who are working together to raise funds for transplant-related expenses, and to raise awareness of the transplant journey our family was facing," said Emily. Almost immediately, Emily became a regular contributor to Patrick's website journal at www.COTAforPatrickH.com. And, just as quickly, bloggers got online and started reading, and responding to, this mother's riveting words of gratitude and hope.
After Patrick's transplant, he and Emily will need to stay near the hospital in Seattle for about six months. This family will split Brian's income across two households in two states. Undoubtedly, their out-of-pocket insurance costs will skyrocket and they will have co-pays for bi-weekly biopsies; for anti-rejection medications, and for IV nutrition, feeding therapy and home nursing.
"When I consider the price of Patrick's transplant journey, it is overwhelming. However, COTA has given us hope, making it seem that one more miracle is possible," said Emily.
Emily continued, "We have witnessed many little miracles since we found COTA. Family, friends and neighbors have come together in amazing ways. Strangers in our community have reached out to us. Every little miracle gives us hope that a bigger miracle — a transplant — is in our future. We've always considered Patrick's life a gift. We feel privileged to be his parents. Some may think we gave our baby a gift by adopting him, but the reality is that he is giving us the ultimate gift by being our son."
The Hoopes family is getting ready for the holidays. They are grateful for the ongoing support their COTA team continues to provide; they are grateful for their COTA website Journal readers and Guestbook visitors, and mostly, they are grateful for the selfless gift an anonymous family will soon give to Patrick … the gift of life.
Truly the best holiday gift that can be given.


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Pretty much the only thing you need to know about this game is this:
This was a 90's flashback game. There was tough defense by both squads, not a lot of offense and a lot of sloppiness. Both teams played even throughout the game, but the Knicks ran out of gas down the stretch. Without Carmelo Anthony for the second straight game, the Knicks struggled against the defensive minded Bulls. New York couldn't find their stroke from downtown, shooting just 8/23 from downtown. Usually great in the turnover category, the Knicks uncharacteristically coughed up the ball over 15 times tonight. Carrying the load of the Knicks shooting by default tonight, Raymond Felton was an abysmal 9/30 shooting from the field. JR Smith's 4/14 performance made me sad and Ronnie Brewer chipped in a solid 0/5 clip. As a team, the Knicks shot just 32% tonight.
Here are my notes from the game:
- Basically the game boiled down to the Knicks not having Carmelo Anthony and the Bulls having Tom Thibodeau. Without Anthony, the Knicks offense never got into a rhythm. They struggled to effectively move the ball and saw very few open looks throughout the night. This was a game where the Knicks needed someone who could create shots in the half court, and Raymond Felton couldn't do it. New York needed a calming influence on offense to slow them down and get them under control. Anthony would've been that influence and the Knicks really missed him tonight. Tom Thibodeau, as he has all season, had the Bulls defending like crazy tonight. They were exceptional in defending the pick and roll, they were sharp in their rotations and they did a good job of forcing turnovers. I was very impressed with the Bulls defense tonight.
- I would've liked to see Flight White get some more run. In twelve minutes tonight, White was 2/3 shooting and was a Knicks high +10 in the +/- category. I thought he brought some good energy on both ends of the court. I don't know if we've seen enough of White to know how good he really is, but it is clear that he can come in and do some positive things. He's not JR. He's not going to come in and throw up a bunch of stupid shots. White plays under control and he really just knows how to play, kind of like Prigioni. White seems like a rock solid player, one that should've gotten more playing time in this game.
- Speaking of Prigioni, he really needs to play with a pick and roll big man. Him playing with Wallace is counterproductive at this point. Having them play together doesn't really optimize each player's strengths. Prigioni needs a guy like Stoudemire to give him a force driving to the hoop in pick and rolls. Without that, Prigioni is basically left on an island. After the pick is set by Wallace, he just floats out at the three point line. Prigioni gets stuck either going to the rim against bigger, more athletic guys with no roll man, or he gets stuck trying to kick the ball out with guys in the passing lanes. Because Prigioni hasn't shown a ton of prowess as a scorer, defenses have been hesitant to really help on him and often leave him one on one. Even when Wallace crashes to the rim, he is not nearly forceful enough to draw two or three defenders and open up open passing lanes to open shooters. The result has been a very average pick and roll, that was well below average tonight against the great Bulls defense.
- The Knicks couldn't stop Marco F%^&$!@G Belinelli. That was incredibly frustrating.
- Sheed hit a bank 3 in the waining seconds of the first quarter, which was hilarious. Although it was slightly less hilarious because Belinelli (F^%$ THAT GUY) hit a bank three as time expired in that quarter. This game had all your bank threes.
- Ray Felton's shot chart tonight OH MY GOD ALL THE BLOOD:
- Tyson Chandler had a really strong game, until the end of the game. He got his fifth foul with about 5 minutes left in the game. From that point on, I thought his defense was incredibly soft. The Bulls went by him two or three times, by my count (Bane voice), which really cost the Knicks down the stretch.
- Why doesn't Woodson hold JR Smith accountable? JR Smith's minutes have been increasing the past couple weeks while his field goal percentage has been plummeting. Obviously he wasn't going to shoot 70% from downtown all season, but he seems to have completely lost his rhythm shooting the ball. The past five games, Smith has shot just 34% from field and just 26% from downtown. Yet for some reason, he has played 33 minutes a game. With the recent strong play of James White and the continued strong play of Ronnie Brewer, except for tonight, Woodson shouldn't feel like he has to play Smith these kind of minutes. As we all know from last season, Woodson has some sort of weird love for Smith. You'd think as a coach, Smith's erratic play would drive him crazy, but that's clearly not the case. I just hope when Shumpert and Stoudemire come back, that Woodson makes the right call allocating Smith's minutes in crunch time. If Smith is having one of these 4/14 games, I hope that Woodson goes to a Shumpert or Stoudemire or Novak.
- The Knicks shot just 9/28 at the rim. I don't think that is very good.
Thats all folks! The Knicks take on Denver tomorrow night at Madison Square Garden. I expect Melo to play against his former team and I expect him to play well. It should be interesting. Have a good night everyone!
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Your Desk Becomes the One Year War?!
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Everyone has toys that they think of as grails. Toys that they have lusted over for years, and would go to any length to obtain. Things that, when acquired, could never be sold (or so one tells themselves).
The opposite of the grail might then be the 'impulse buy'; something acquired on the spur of the moment after a brief initial meeting. Each provides a sense of fulfillment for the buyer, though on different levels.
The only reason I'm opening with this weird bit of toy ontology is because of a recent experience where I realized the existence of a type of toy that fits somewhere between grail and impulse. A toy that you have no prior knowledge of, but upon observation triggers a deep emotional response within you on the same level as a grail. You never thought of this toy before, but you know instantly that you need it, recognizing it as no ordinary impulse.
The toy that I connected with so strongly comes eight to a bag, and can be purchased for about six dollars.
The full name of this product is something along the lines of "Line Up BEST SHOW Mobile Suit Gundam: The Top of the Desk Becomes the One Year War?!", but let's not mince words here: These are Gundam army men.
The plastic in these is tough and solid. Compared to the other army men that I was surprised to find I still had, these figures have a lot less flex. Furthermore, the sculpting and manufacture is excellent, with no flash and nearly invisible seam lines.
The only real negative is the price. Although the pricing is as expected for trading figures and the quality is really good, the most impressive thing about the army men format is usually the quantity they come in. If I just wanted army men, I could get a couple hundred off of Amazon for just a few dollars more than the price of one of these bags.
If you want to build a mobile suit army, it'll be a little more expensive. The product name suggests that instead of large scale warfare these figures are best used to fight small skirmishes in your workplace, but the lack of overwhelming force seems almost counter to the army men spirit. After all, these toys were never about subtlety.
Finally, let's look at my luck with the rare figures. I bought 3 bags of each variety and I got....
I really hope there are future packs to come out in this line. It's a wonderful take on an iconic toy.
Alright, enough words, let's go out and play.
|Posted 2 June, 2014 - 16:20 by SpaceRunaway
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Despite the name of the toy, I did not take any pictures on my desk, which is so covered in garbage that I'm not entirely sure where it is.
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Those look like so much fun! I love your outdoor battles. I love how you used perspective to make the army men hiding behind the rake... fortification... look in scale.
The idea of a Zaku-sized sandbag just boggles the mind. Putting the GMs next to proper 1/144 scale military vehicles (what series are those?) exposes the ludicrous scale of the Gundam universe... because the GMs look natural, but really, they'd have to be HG/RG to "match" those vehicles. And that would look silly. At least to my eyes.
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This review was a lot of fun to do. I had forgotten that I still had a bunch of army men and micro machines from childhood in storage. I hope that they do more support vehicles if they continue this line, they could probably do a Magella Attack tank and get pretty close on the scale.
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Where'd you get these?! I must have them!
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I pre-ordered these from AmiAmi when I saw them go up a few months ago. Right now they seem to be sold out all over, except for Amazon's Japanese site. It could just be a stock issue, and I'd recommend keeping an eye on this page and the other packs that are linked from it. Part of the problem seems to be that this line doesn't really have an English name, so if you can find them on English speaking retailers they're probably coming up with an in house translation. The name of the line in Japanese is "並ベストショー 機動戦士ガンダム 机の上が1年戦争になる?!", if that helps with searching. These just came out at the end of last month, and the manufacturer still has them in stock, so hopefully it's just a matter of taking time to restock at web retailers.
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Finally, I can reenact the moments before the battle of A Baoa Qu! Give me a big Magnifying Lens! SOLAR RAY CANNON!
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Ha! The docked GM is the equivalent of the ubiquitous green army man with the walkie talkie!
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Oh these are so cool!!
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These are actually in stock at amiami currently. I think you need to search Regular Best Show.
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This strikes me as absolutely genius and makes me wonder why they didn't do this kinda thing earlier.
Mobile suit army men!
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...but if you're in Tokyo, there seems to be plenty of bags of these going round at toy shops and hobby retailers such as Kiddyland and LAOX. Thats as of a week ago.
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In just two terms, Loretta earned 21 Prior Learning Assessment credits, and in the process of doing so she discovered that she knew a lot more than she thought she knew. In her final Reflective Essay, Loretta shared this:
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A year ago today, we brought you news that hysterical paranoiac Glenn Beck was selling his $4.2 million walled fortress in New Canaan, Conn. He still hasn't sold it. Let's take another tour! Beck's house in Connecticut—complete with six-foot fence to keep illegals and "angry audiences" out—first went on the market in September of 2009, but the press didn't catch wind until a year ago. Beck bought the six-bedroom, eight-bathroom mansion for $4.2 million in 2005; he first put it on the market at $4.9 million, but slashed the price first to $3.9 million and now to the bargain-basement $3.65 million, a 27% discount. This despite the fact that, according to the New Canaan Market Report, home sales are up 21% over last year [pdf].
Why won't anyone buy this man's house? Probably for the same reason Beck decided to sell it—not enough panic rooms! He also needed more grain storage; 2.8 acres isn't as much space as you'd think. You should see Beck's home office, though. It's got four computer screens, two wall-mounted televisions, a framed American flag, ceremonial knives, and an inkwell filled with the tears of a bald eagle.
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The word "bribe" is ugly, with bad built into its definition. For many, bribes are synonymous with dishonesty, deceit, and corruption. But are all gifts that are meant to curry special favor actually immoral?
If bribes are immoral by definition, then the question is settled. Exodus 23:8 seems unambiguous: "You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of the just" (all from NASB). Deuteronomy 27:25 echoes, "Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person."
But some verses seem to commend bribes. Proverbs 17:8 states, "A bribe is a charm in the sight of its owner; wherever he turns, he prospers." Or consider 21:14, "A gift in secret subdues anger and a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath"—a truism every spouse is familiar with.
How do we resolve the apparent contradiction? The fog clears considerably when we factor in two important pieces of information. First, virtually every Hebrew word translated as bribe can also legitimately be rendered gift, offering, or contribution—and often is. Clearly, Scripture teaches that gifts ("bribes"), properly placed, can create opportunities or pacify anger and alleviate conflict.
But there's also a dark side. Proverbs says: "A wicked man receives a bribe from the bosom to pervert the ways of justice" (17:23); "The king gives stability to the land by justice, but a man who takes bribes overthrows it" (29:4); and "He who profits illicitly troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live" (15:27).
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Hi Shelia,
It's bizzare Sumter Mobley have popped up. Last night I was researching Sumter and listed his census information from the 1870 and 1880 on note card. After revewing and printing Vera's post, I noticed that Priscilla, Shep, and Harriet was listed in the census twice at the same age. They must have been at their grandfather(Sumpter Mobley)house when the census taker enumerated their family and was listed again at their parent house.
So, one of Sumpter's children must be the wife of Will Witherspoon,
I would appreciate if anyone can give the age of John Mobley in the 1880 census, I can not tell if he was 8 or 18. If he's 8 years old I really think this is my gggrandfather.
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It's been a tricky optical physics problem, carving new ground for precisely bending extreme ultraviolet light. Cymer's lasers blast droplets of tin, which burst into tight wavelengths of light used in the process of etching microscopic circuit patterns on silicon wafers.
Because this new laser technology has taken so long to develop, some doubt has crept into the semiconductor industry over whether extreme ultraviolet lasers — or EUV — would ever be viable in mass-production chip assembly lines.
Analysts say the industry has a lot riding on the success of EUV. ASML, a semiconductor equipment supplier based in The Netherlands, has agreed to buy Cymer for $2.5 billion. Both companies say the deal aims to accelerate EUV development. The sale is awaiting clearance from antitrust regulators. It's expected to be completed in the first half of this year.
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"The race is not about tomorrow," said Sergis Mushell, a microprocessor analyst with industry research firm Gartner. "It's about the generation after that. But the industry has put its weight behind EUV. Intel has put its money down. They obviously want to expedite this."
At a conference last month, Cymer showed off what it has accomplished so far in its development of extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, laser systems. While the technology still isn't ready for prime time, the company thinks the milestones it has reached should convince naysayers that it's on the path to success.
"If you looked over the past year, from where the technology was to where we have gotten to, we have jumped over some hurdles," said Blake Miller, a Cymer spokesman. "This has gotten to the point where there are fewer and fewer people who say, 'Well, this may never happen.' "
EUV is hard-core technology. Cymer's EUV systems fill a room. They cost millions of dollars each. And they are used in one of the very first, critical steps in making chips that power smartphones, tablets, computers and other devices.
That first step is printing the tiny circuitry lines on silicon. The process is akin to darkroom photography. A chemical is placed on a silicon wafer and acts like photo film. A pattern mask of circuits is then exposed to a certain wavelength of light from a laser, which etches the pattern on the wafer.
Over the past four decades, chip circuit patterns have gotten progressively smaller, following Moore's Law — a technology industry axiom named after Intel co-founder
The forward march of Moore's Law means computer memory is inexpensive today and top-end smartphones have more computing power than was available to put a man on the moon.
Taking the next step to make chips even smaller has been a technological challenge. Yet it's vital for the industry that is increasingly going mobile.
"Mobile means battery-operated devices, and we want to make these devices work longer and longer," said Mushell of Gartner. "The only way to do that is to have (chip) geometries that are smaller and smaller."
For years, Cymer has been a market leader in making semiconductor production lasers used by giant chip makers such as Intel and Samsung. The company's current lasers, known as Deep Ultraviolet lithography, produce lines in circuit patterns to carry electrical current down to about 32 nanometers in size.
To get an idea of how small that is, a very fine human hair is about 10,000 nanometers wide.
To go even smaller than that, Cymer is focused on EUV technology.
A key hurdle for EUV lasers has been ratcheting up power levels for mass production. Chip makers want to run their assembly lines as fast as possible. The more power flowing through EUV lasers, the less time a silicon wafer needs to be exposed to the light, which allows semiconductor makers to speed up production.
What is EUV?
Extreme ultraviolet: An advanced lithography used in a semiconductor production line to etch lines on silicon. It has a shorter light wavelength, 13.5 nanometers, than current lithography lasers, which are reaching their limits in terms of shrinking circuit patterns.
The chips produced with EUV: Light sources are projected to be as much as 100 times faster than today's most powerful computer chips, with 1,000 times the memory capacity. Flash memory devices and dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices are expected to be early adopters of EUV technology.
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Chip makers eventually want EUV lasers to blast wafers at 250 watts of power. For much of past year, the best Cymer and others have been able to produce is 10 watts. At that power level, the wafer must sit in front of the light beams for a relatively long time before the circuit pattern takes.
"These (laser) machines are attached to a lot of other machines in that production line," said Mushell. "You probably have $20 million or $30 million (in equipment) patched together. If one slows down, it slows everything down."
In late February, Cymer ran one of its EUV laser systems in a demonstration for six hours at 40 watts of power. It delivered stable doses of light.
It also demonstrated a one-hour run at 55 watts with similar dose stability.
"The jump to 40 watts is a significant boost and the next step in the timeline for EUV power sources," said Dean Freeman, a research vice president at Gartner.
There's a long way to go. But Cymer thinks it will be able to boost the power of EUV lasers to meet chip makers' needs.
"Our goal is to reach 250 watts next year," said Nigel Farrar, vice president of lithography application development at Cymer. "The fact that we've validated that it works up to the 40-watt to 50-watt level, it's very encouraging in terms of future scaling."
Chip makers had hoped to begin using EUV lithography this year or next. But delays in getting the technology in the field at sufficient power levels has led many chip makers to now expect EUV production to ramp up later.
In the meantime, chip makers have been using tricks to extend the life of existing chip production equipment, such as double patterning, to keep reducing chip size.
"EUV is the next big thing and has been for a long time," said Jim Handy, an analyst with market research firm Objective Analysis. "But these people who do (semiconductor production,) who are geniuses, they have figured out ways to forestall having to go to EUV."
While these tricks can be used to make smaller chips, they also require another process in the production system.
"With EUV you can do this in one pass, and as a result the cost is lowered significantly — provided the throughput of the EUV system is high enough," said Freeman of Gartner.
Cymer believes it will get where it needs to be with EUV. In the past year, it went from 10 watts of power to 50 watts, a five times improvement.
"If you go from 50 watts to 250 watts, that's another five times," said Miller, the Cymer spokesman. "I think we have shown that we understand a lot of the parameters that we have to tweak to get to that higher power level. Now it's just a lot of engineering. It's no longer solving difficult physics problems."


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Very interesting - thanks for sharing that information.ReplyDelete
Another slant which might be worth considering and which I have come across particularly within evangelicalism in the north of Scotland is that some folk did not consider themselves worthy to be communicants...almost a false piety. Some of this may have stemmed from the conflict between the moderates and evangelicals which eventually led to the disruption.ReplyDelete
Interesting. Quite a difference between there and in rural England at that time where it was expected that you belong to a church preferably the Church of England attended by your employer. Self-employed and tradespersons were increasingly attending the Non-Conformist churches.ReplyDelete
I suspect that your people were more independent. Incidentally how was poor relief funded at this time?
I think these answers definitely reflect the fact that at this time Paisley was an industrial area with a lot of incomers and a large number of different churches. Under those circumstances it was difficult for the church (or other) authorities to keep tabs on which church people were attending or indeed if they were attending any church. I'm sure you would find very different answers in a rural parish in Scotland.
An explanation for this is provided in the 2nd (or New) Statistical Account for Paisley written in 1837 (a few years before these records):
"About forty years ago, our people were reckoned among the most intelligent, moral and religious inhabitants of Scotland: and still a great many may be so considered. But various circumstances having concurred in causing a deterioration in these respects... and our population having greatly outstripped the means of moral and religious education, many have been left to grow up in ignorance of the first principles of Christianity; and too many, alas! have had their minds sadly imbued with prejudices against its sacred truths and institutions."
Prior to the 1845 Scottish Poor Law Act, poor relief was primarily the responsibility of by the church, funded by church collections and fees as well by the heritors (local landowners). However, due to the size of the town (and probably the size of the poor problem) Paisley seems to have had a more organised civil system and the out-door poor who were not in communion with the Established Church were the responsibility of the Town's Hospital and its managers. Again, a lot of detailed information on the management of poor relief is given in Paisley's 2nd Statistical Account which can be accessed from http://edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/
Interesting. I have only ever come across marriages and burials in OPR records for my folk. Baptism is something they seem to have missed out.ReplyDelete
A very interesting article - thank you. I am about to try and locate Poor Relief records for Perth (Scone) and will be very interested to see what they turn up. At this time as well is a huge period of change for Scotland with industrialisation and the loss of common land; the Irish Famine and "Clearances" - you could only imagine some of the odd bedfellows that would be thrown together. For me, 1745 - 1900 is one of the most fascinating periods of Scottish History. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete


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I am very happy overall. My hitters, without taking my bench slots into account, are almost completely dead on with my target totals in each category (to finish 3rd in each category). Most lacking in batting average. Pitching sets up to be 1st in Ks, 4th in wins, trouble in saves, and who knows on ratios. had my pick sniped a couple times and didn't make the best picks when I was thrown off.
columbia wrote:Nor do I.
I can't think of a rational reason to have them.
columbia wrote:Thoughts on the number of DL slots?
I have Weaver, Cueto and Jeter on the DL right now.
Sure, I knew there was a risk with Jeter, but he'll be a great addition for one of the generic IF spots this summer.
But...we only have two allowed DL slots in our league. I've complained to the commish (who has been running this league since 2001) and he wasn't interested in changing things.
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Nobel Laureate Professor Kostya Novoselov The proposal, which will involve researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Cambridge and Lancaster, has been awarded 13.4 million Euros (around £11m) to form a Synergy Group by the European Research Council (ERC).
It will aim to utilise two-dimensional substances, such as wonder material graphene, to engineer new types of materials which are just a few atoms thick, but nevertheless have the power to revolutionise the future development of devices such as solar cells, and flexible and transparent electronics.
Starting with one atom-thick substances which possess remarkable properties, the group will focus on ways in which they can be layered up to form heterostructures. These heterostructures will still be just a few atoms thick, but will combine the properties of the different two-dimensional materials which comprise them, effectively enabling developers to embed the functions of a device into its very fabric.
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|The award to launch the project was announced by the ERC as part of its first competition for Synergy Grants, which were introduced last year on a pilot basis. It will bring together the talents of the Nobel Prize-winner, Professor Kostya Novoselov at Manchester, Professor Andrea Ferrari at Cambridge, and Professor Vladimir Falko at Lancaster.
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|Widely regarded as a wonder material on account of its numerous capabilities, graphene is a two-dimensional structure consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb or chicken wire structure. It was first isolated by Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov at The University of Manchester in 2004.
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|Professor Novoselov said: The award of the Synergy Grant is an exciting development. We bet on the high-risk idea that by combining the properties of several, one-atom thick materials into a single, three-dimensional heterostructure, we would create a new class of materials with predetermined properties and multiple functionalities.
|You might think that building materials layer by layer is science fiction. But if we succeed, this new combination of known materials, the two-dimensional atomic crystals, built layer by layer, will offer an amazing range of applications and devices.
|Professor Ferrari said: The impact of the proposed research can be imagined considering that graphene is just one of a potentially endless range of embodiments of the general concept we aim to explore in this project. This new field of research will open new horizons and opportunities for science, technology and scholarship.
|The combined expertise in physics, engineering and theoretical modelling coming from the synergy of our three groups and institutions will be key to achieving our objectives.
|Professor Falko said: Our project is challenging, both at the technical and conceptual level. We aim to extend science and technology of atomically thin films into materials far beyond graphene, where properties of atomically thin crystals are not known, yet.
|This project offers excellent opportunities for the early career researchers, who, thanks to the ERC, will be able to join our team theorists, experimentalist and engineers - to enjoy surprises and make discoveries.
|In total, 11 projects from more than 700 original applications were selected to receive ERC funding.
|The President of the ERC, Professor Helga Nowotny, said: The ERC Synergy Grant provides a unique opportunity for outstanding scientists to explore jointly-formulated research questions, which take them beyond normal even if otherwise excellent science.
|It aims to bring together the right kind of people at the right time, in the right configuration, to work on the right kind of problem. This grant scheme gives researchers a lot of freedom to work together in new ways.
|Source: University of Manchester
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An A to Z of London, brand new screen print by Laura Seaby.
Jeonghwa Seo and Hanna Chung created this stunning ripple effect tea table as a project for the IM Masters Design Academy Eindhoven,
Red Dot awarded German designer Gesa Hansen 'remix'ed the classic Davenport desk, in color.
Kanner Architects' Oakland House makes great use of floor to ceiling glass to take advantage of the stunning views over San Francisco bay.
ATYPYK's Psycho Diagnostik Coasters with great Rorschach Prints...
This pavilion is part of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. Stunning video from architectural filmmakers Spirit of Space.
Duffy London love to play with seemingly impossible configurations. I love this runner table that will be launched at London Design Week 2010.
Danish architecture firm EFFEKT are constructing this gorgeous Nature Centre in Harskoven, Copenhagen.
Stunning packaging for Understory Chocolatiers from Mark Johnson.
LimoLand, a line of clothing for rich old men, will open its flagship store in NYC's meatpacking district.
I love the fun interior of The Salad Shop in Singapore!
Arno Piroud (StarnoCity) does some pretty incredible stuff. This tennis court was created on on a rooftop in Lyon with Anthony Musso.
Office Building Audenasa, Navarra - Spain, Vaíllo & Irigaray + Eguinoa
I Love Type explores the origins of our alphabet. I love this illustration from Able Parris.
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Casa Finger Joint by LAND Arquitectos (Cristóbal Valenzuela Haeussler and Ángela Delorenzo) is a stunning house in Nogales, Chile.
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Solid Shell by VW+BS consists of a chair with a solid concrete base and seats made from metal rods that coated with powder. It will be exhibited by the Lollipop Shoppe for the London Design Festival from the 18th – 28th September 2010.
Cory Barkman creates lamps entirely from scrap and gives them an old-world look. A blend of the old and the new, each lamp is unique with functional valves, gauges and clocks.
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All those kids who once upon a time chanted "Yes, we cannabis!" must be sorely disappointed. Earlier this fall, the White House launched its "We the People" initiative to invite more input from the American people. The project allows anyone to submit a petition for government action — and promises an answer to those whose petition obtains a certain number of signatures. (The threshold changes, though. Right now, it stands at 25,000 signatures within 30 days.)
If my experience on a college campus is any indication, advocates for the legalization of marijuana have always been expert at organizing petitions. (They kinda have to be, given that the issue is mostly a fringe issue. How often have you heard it come up in the GOP debates, for example?) So, not surprisingly, it didn't take them long to line up the necessary signatures to guarantee a response from the White House. WSJ's Washington Wire reports:
A petition calling for legalization and regulation of marijuana "in a matter similar to alcohol" quickly vaulted into the top position, receiving nearly 75,000 signatures. Four others making similar requests were in the top 10. A total of eight marijuana-related petitions each received more than 5,000 signatures.
Unfortunately for these enthusiastic petitioners, the White House reiterated its ongoing opposition to the drug's legalization. Wrote Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy:
According to scientists at the National Institutes of Health– the world's largest source of drug abuse research – marijuana use is associated with addiction, respiratory disease, and cognitive impairment. We know from an array of treatment admission information and Federal data that marijuana use is a significant source for voluntary drug treatment admissions and visits to emergency rooms. Studies also reveal that marijuana potency has almost tripled over the past 20 years, raising serious concerns about what this means for public health – especially among young people who use the drug because research shows their brains continue to develop well into their 20's. Simply put, it is not a benign drug.
Like many, we are interested in the potential marijuana may have in providing relief to individuals diagnosed with certain serious illnesses. That is why we ardently support ongoing research into determining what components of the marijuana plant can be used as medicine. To date, however, neither the FDA nor the Institute of Medicine have found smoked marijuana to meet the modern standard for safe or effective medicine for any condition.
Kerlikowske then touted the administration's "comprehensive" drug control policy, which emphasizes "prevention and treatment."
That bureaucratically formal answer will do little to increase Obama's popularity with pragmatic millennial voters, who are among the most liberal on this issue.
Incidentally, as of Oct. 18, more people thought marijuana should be legal than approved of the job the president is doing. As Kerlikowske put it, marijuana is far from benign and increasingly potent. Seems safe to say the American people are similarly disenchanted by the deleterious effect of this administration on the number of jobs in this country.


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The average American's debt on credit cards, auto loans, and other fixed payments in 2008: $16,600 [1]
Amount of gross federal, state, and local debt per capita in the United States for the 2009 Fiscal Year: $51,548.30 [2]
Amount owed by Corey Taylor of Chicago in 2007, when he faked his own death to avoid paying his Verizon phone bill: $175 [3]
Internal temperature, in degrees Celsius, a popcorn kernel must reach before it pops: 180 [4]
Estimated number of reported U.S. home structure fires involving clothes dryers or washing machines in 2006: 17,700
Amount of direct property damage that ensued from those fires: $194 million [5]
Percentage of Australian and New Zealand population that air-dries its laundry: 90 [6]
Total minutes spent on Facebook in the U.S. in April 2008: 1.7 billion
In April 2009: 13.9 billion [7]
Estimated number of TVs sent to U.S. recyclers following the June 2009 conversion to digital broadcasting: 27,790,564
Estimated tons of lead from those TVs that will be dumped in developing countries by purported U.S. "recyclers": 56,000 [8]
Percentage of regional GDP spent on transportation in car-based cities: 12–15
Percentage of regional GDP spent on transportation in mass transit-based cities: 5–8 [9]
Federal government transportation expenditures on highways in fiscal year 2006: $2.3 billion
Federal government transportation expenditures on mass transit in fiscal year 2006 : $0.1 billion [10]
As of 2008, number of Emmy Awards won by Sesame Street: 122 [11]
Number of individuals who self-identified as living with a committed same-sex partner in the 2000 U.S. Census: 594,391
Percentage of same-sex couples between the ages of 22 and 55 raising children in the U.S.: 39 [12]
Number of significant differences identified in peer-group relationships, sexual identity, or relationships with fathers or other males in a study comparing the children of lesbian mothers to those of straight mothers: 0 [13]
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"Time Series Chart of U.S Government Spending," Chantrill, Christopher, October 2009.
"Cellphone Contracts: Hard to Get off the Hook," Kim Hart, The Washington Post, August 18, 2007.
Clothes Dryer and Washing Machine Fact Sheet, National Fire Protection Association, Hall Jr., John R., March 2009.
"Time Spent on Facebook up 700 Percent, but MySpace.com Still Tops for Video, According to Nielsen," Nielsen Online, June 2, 2009.
Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence, P. Newman and J. Kenworthy, Washington, D.C., Island Press, 1999.
Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation Statistics Annual Report, United States Department of Transportation, 2008.
"Same-sex Couples and Same-sex Couples Raising Children in the United States," The Williams Project on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, UCLA School of Law, September 2005.


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Jets cut Slauson's salary this year and took away snaps to give to Ducasse. Jets don't want him and even if they did I can't see Slauson wanting to come back.
The reality is that Moore is a goner. He's rapidly regressing and doesn't really do anything well any more. Also, his hip doesnt help either. Additionally folks better get used to slausen and ducasse as our starting guards. We don't have big money to spend on the position(especially if we bring back Landry) and its not of value to draft a guard in the first four rounds. Slausen will be cheap and continuity is important on the line.
LT = brick
RT = slausen
C = mangold
RG = ducasse (the only reason he got burn this year was to get him ready for next)
RT = somebody drafted in first three rounds.
I'm not saying I like it. It's just the reality.
Jets cut Slauson's salary this year and took away snaps to give to Ducasse. Jets don't want him and even if they did I can't see Slauson wanting to come back.
I just can't justify spending an early-round pick on a RT in this day and age, especially given that we have a 1st Round Center and a 1st Round LT.
A somewhat competent scout should be able to acquire an replacement level RT in later rounds, via Free Agency or from the UDFA pool.
Slauson's done a nice job. And Howard certainly has. You have to cheap out at some positions and Howard is perfect.
Moore is not rapidly regressing considering his performance this year...
Howard did a fine job at RT. Re-sign him to a reasonable contract.
The Jets obviously don't care about Slauson or they wouldn't have jerked him around with his pay and playing time. In fact I can't see Slauson even wanting to come back. Which is a loss since he was an OK lineman on a low $$ contract. A team needs guys like that. Not everybody can be a high dollar All Pro.
I definitely think Howard needs to be upgraded. I'm not understanding why everyone thinks he was good, except that he came after Wayne Hunter, and no one could be worse than him. Good teams are built along their offensive lines, and we need a good RT.
Anybody think Howard can play RG? He has been better than Hunter but that isn't saying much. I think we need to make an investment at RT and I do not think Howard is a long term answer.
Slauson is a goner. Vlad will be forced into starting LG especially if Tanny/Rex survive. Vlad is the new Hunter in that regard. I hope we draft or sign someone to compete.
I would try to trade Mangold. 2 yrs down is a pattern. The difference between the great centers and the average ones is not that much. I think we can save some $$$ at this position.
Brick will remain.
Slauson is gone. No way he comes back. Moore is a lot more likely to return. Moore is going to be like Pauho was last year. Really the 1st or 2nd best OL in FA but because he is older will not get a lot of offers. I just dont see a team wanting to give him more then 2 years at mid ranged money. He will not be hard to resign if the FO wants him.


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There's a good chance that you have a modern Oriental carpet in your home but, if you're like me, you don't know too much about how it was made. I recently received an education on the weaving of classical Persian carpets from our Curator and Department Head of Art of the Middle East, Linda Komaroff.
One of the first things she taught me about Persian pile carpets, such as LACMA's renowned Ardabil carpet (on view now), is not to refer to them as rugs. (It's not a rule, per se, simply a more formal salutation. Linda noted that using the word rug would be similar to calling a painting a picture.) Next I learned about the three components of a hand-woven Persian pile carpet: warp, weft, and pile.
The warps form the first part of the carpet's foundation. Wool, silk, or cotton yarns are tightly stretched parallel to each other on the loom. Next there is the weft, composed of similar threads which pass under and over the warps from one side to the other. To form the pile, dyed silk or wool yarns are tied around consecutive sets of adjacent warps to create the elaborate designs in the carpet. As successive rows are tied to the foundation, these knots become the pile.
If it sounds like a long and painstaking process, it is. As I tweeted a couple of weeks ago, an outstanding classical Persian carpet such as the Ardabil took about four years to make and, at 23 ft. 7 in. by 13 ft 1 ½ in, is comprised of approximately 15.5 million knots.


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The Upper Delaware Council, Inc. (UDC) approved a letter to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on Dec. 6 withdrawing its public hearing request on a permit to expand a quarry business in Lackawaxen Township.
While the UDC originally objected to the proposed 40-acre expansion of the Holbert Brothers Bluestone Quarry located within the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River designated boundary due to its non-conformance with the Land and Water Use Guidelines in the River Management Plan, the PA DEP has committed to uphold the Plan's intent to allow minor surface mining operations as an appropriate land use in the river corridor.
Both the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Lackawaxen Township are members of the UDC non-profit organization.
Superintendent Sean McGuinness from the UDC's federal partner, the National Park Service Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, and Delaware Riverkeeper Network Director Maya K. van Rossum also sent public hearing request withdrawal letters to PA DEP District Mining Manager Michael Menghini based on the conditions that the agency has pledged to impose and enforce in providing the quarry permit.
Wayne D. Holbert of Lackawaxen filed an application with the PA DEP on Oct. 4, 2011 for a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Industrial Mineral Mine permit affecting 40 acres in the vicinity of Masthope Plank Road, following Conditional Use approval for the project granted by the Lackawaxen Township Board of Supervisors on July 23, 2011.
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The proposal was to expand two existing five-acre permits for the blasting, crushing, and screening of rock into one 40-acre major mining permit.
The Land and Water Use Guidelines prohibit major surface mining operations in the river corridor, as defined by "any new land use operation which extracts minerals from the earth from active operations exceeding two acres in size…" and defines minor surface mining operations as "not exceeding two acres of active face at one time plus an area equal in size to the active face necessary for accessory use."
PA DEP Pottsville Mining Office staff met with UDC and NPS representatives on Nov. 20 to outline that their proposed permit conditions for the Holbert Quarry will allow two concurrent operations consisting of two-acre parcels for the mining of bluestone and for the mining of aggregate, with an adjacent two-acre support parcel in each case dedicated to processing and stockpiling of the material.
In addition, as work on each two-acre parcel is completed, it will be reclaimed with available topsoil and re-seeded before moving on to the next two-acre parcel.
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"Under the terms proposed by the PA DEP," stated UDC Chairperson Nadia Rajsz in the Dec. 6 letter following up on the Council's Jan. 5, 2012 formal request for a public hearing, "we feel that the NPDES permit does protect the outstandingly remarkable values of the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River through regulation of surface discharge and appropriate erosion and sediment controls. Likewise, we are satisfied that due to the location of the quarry and its relation to the river and the public road system, the scenic qualities of the river will not be jeopardized."
The letter continues, "The NPDES permit is viewed as an adequate compromise to accommodate the interests and goals of all parties. We will rely on the PA DEP to uphold its regulations throughout the duration of this mining operation and are gratified to learn that there is a more rigorous, quarterly inspection schedule associated with this permit."
It concludes by thanking DEP District Mining Manager Menghini "for your diligence in assuring that mining operations in the designated river corridor meet the intent of the River Management Plan that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has committed to uphold."
Other business:
• The Nominating Committee presented its slate for 2013 officers.
Their slate is: Chairperson Jeff Dexter, Damascus Twp.; Vice-chair Andrew Boyar, Town of Highland; and Secretary-Treasurer John B. Niflot, Town of Fremont. The vote will take place at the Jan. 3 meeting and the swearing-in ceremony will be on Feb. 6, to accommodate any UDC representative appointment changes at town and township reorganizational meetings.
• The 2012 UDC Annual Report is available online.
For more information on the Upper Delaware Council and its activities, visit www.upperdelawarecouncil.org, stop by the office at 211 Bridge St. in Narrowsburg, NY, or call (845) 252-3022.


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