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"It's like a rerun,'' Suggs said. "Everybody knows how this story ends, with us and the Steelers. It's about time we changed it, and give people something new. Right now, it's kind of like we pride ourselves on being a bully, but they're the ones that keep knocking us out of the playoffs. So they're the bully. One day you just got to say '[screw] it' and punch the bully totally in his mouth. Then they won't bully you any more.''
We are in their heads bigtime! Sucks to be Ozzie!
For more than 30 years now, first as a Hall of Fame Browns tight end, and now as the respected front office boss of the Ravens, Newsome has been watching teams self-destruct against the Steelers.
OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- You wouldn't think you could show up at Baltimore's team complex, notebook in hand, and find a bunch of folks eager to talk about the "P'' word, but I'm happy to report there's no running from the truth going on here at Ravens training camp. Baltimore knows it must confront and conquer its Pittsburgh problem. And soon.
When the NFL's 2011 schedule came out in April, there were the Ravens and Steelers matched up once again in Week 1, an immediate renewal of what many consider the league's fiercest rivalry going. So Baltimore's season will begin the same way last year's ended, facing hated Pittsburgh, the team that it can't seem to beat when it matters most. The Ravens are fully aware that the only thing standing between them and where they want to go is that team in black and gold.
"This is all or nothing this year,'' said Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs after a Tuesday afternoon practice. "When this journey first started, a lot of us were young men. I'm still a young man. I'm only 28. But I'm in my ninth year, so I feel like a window of opportunity is closing. There have been plenty of years that we let championship teams walk up outta here because of that team to the northwest of us. They've been the reason for that. So if we don't get over this hump this year, I don't know what else to say.''
Suggs is rarely, if ever, at a loss for words, so you know he's serious when it comes to the frustration level in the Baltimore locker room. The Ravens in the three-year John Harbaugh coaching era are a sterling 32-16 (.667), and the only team in the NFL to win at least one playoff game in each of the past three seasons. They're both accomplished and respected throughout the league, and they're known as one of the league's most resilient and resourceful franchises, with a quality coaching staff and a superb front office.
But the Ravens haven't figured out how to win their division yet and really go places in the playoffs, because they can't get past Pittsburgh. They're just 2-6 in the Harbaugh era against the Steelers, with two of the past three seasons ending with painful postseason losses at Heinz Field (in the 2008 AFC title game, and in the 2010 AFC divisional round). And they were only in the position of needing to again go the wild card route in the playoffs last season due to a season-turning Week 13 loss at home to Pittsburgh, when the Steelers rallied for a 13-10 win on the strength of Troy Polamalu's strip sack of Joe Flacco in the game's final minutes. Both teams finished 12-4, but Pittsburgh won the division via tiebreaker.
That play by Polamalu not only changed the arc of the Ravens' season, it very likely helped get Baltimore offensive line coach John Matsko fired in January. When Polamalu came clean into the backfield and forced Flacco to fumble, highlighting an obvious missed blocking assignment, Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley scooped up the loose ball and returned it to the Ravens 9, setting up Pittsburgh's winning touchdown. Seemingly that's how consequential every play in the Ravens-Steelers blood feud has become.
"They've won the games that matter, and you have to respect them for it,'' said Ravens running back Ray Rice, entering his fourth NFL season. "They're a great organization. They play hard, and they're everything people say they are. We're toe and toe and there with them, but obviously we've got to win the big games to get acknowledged with them. It's one of those situations where they know how to win. You have to give it to them. They know how to win. I think we know how to win as well, just not against them.''
If anything, the Ravens' 31-24 divisional round loss at Pittsburgh was even more inexplicable, with Baltimore building a commanding 21-7 halftime lead and silencing the hostile Heinz Field crowd, but then disintegrating beneath a steady stream of turnovers and dropped passes as Pittsburgh stormed back. It is plenty noted in the Ravens locker room that both years they've lost to the Steelers in the playoffs, Pittsburgh has gone on to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl (after the 2008 and 2010 seasons).
"All of them hurt,'' said Suggs, of the losses to the Steelers. "They all leave a bitter taste in your mouth. They've done it to us a few times now. And the thing is, in some of those games we've had 'em. We pretty much beat ourselves. If you go back and look at some of those last seven or eight games, at some point in the game you thought, Oh my God, Baltimore's going to win this game.
"It's the way we're losing to them. If we lose and flat out get beat, we get beat. But to give up plays and have them come back on us, it just stings even more. Our season was decided on a couple plays last year. They made the plays and we've hurt ourselves.''
For longtime Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome, the mistakes made by Baltimore in the playoff loss had plenty to do with how Pittsburgh imposes its will on an opponent as a game goes on. For more than 30 years now, first as a Hall of Fame Browns tight end, and now as the respected front office boss of the Ravens, Newsome has been watching teams self-destruct against the Steelers.
"There was something about that 21-7 lead that I wasn't comfortable with,'' Newsome said. "There was something about it. There are times when you get a lead and you think you're one play away from it being a blowout. But I just didn't feel that way that day, because I know how they play and how they feed off one big play.
"We made mistakes and we don't normally do that. But they cause a lot of that to happen. We gave them some things, but they were forcing us to do some of those things. That's how good they are. They have a resolve about themselves, and if you're not willing to play them for four quarters, then you can lose the game. You can't play for just one half.''
In some ways, it has come to this: The annual showdowns with Pittsburgh are the only games on the Ravens' schedule that really matter. Newsome even acknowledged it somewhat when I asked him if he puts his roster together every year with the thought of how to beat the Steelers in the front of his mind. He doesn't do that with AFC North rivals Cincinnati and Cleveland.
"Always Pittsburgh,'' Newsome said. "When I talk to most of the players at the [scouting] combine, I talk to them about 'How are you going to react when we go to Pittsburgh and play at Heinz Field?' I want to get a reaction, and the ones that are timid, I tell them I have a tough time thinking you could go to Heinz Field and help me win a football game. So yeah, it's there.''
It's there all right. The dominance of the Steelers is a topic that's never far from the brains of the Ravens and their fans, and some players know the battles with Pittsburgh have become at least partly mental. To pretend the Steelers aren't in the Ravens' heads at this point, after all the recent history, would be ludicrous.
"I'm sure there is some of that,'' Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco told me. "I don't know if I like admitting that, but sports is so mental. No matter what you say, a lot of it comes down to the mental side of it. These guys have beat us. When it comes down to it, they've figured out a way to win the game. And as much we don't want to admit that, it probably has a lot to do with the mental side of it.
"They've continued to push through. Things have not gone their way, but they've still fought through and gotten it done. We've bounced back, too, but we just haven't done it throughout the full 60 minutes. That's something that wins these games, and while both really are good teams, that mental aspect is the extra edge you get.''
The margin between the Steelers and Ravens remains razor slight. No game has been decided by more than nine points in the past three years, and six of their past eight meetings have been decided by four or fewer. Baltimore has yet to beat Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in the Flacco/Harbaugh era, winning at home in 2009 when Dennis Dixon started for an injured Big Ben, and winning at Pittsburgh in Week 4 of last season, when Roethlisberger was still suspended and Charlie Batch started for the Steelers.
Despite three strong seasons to begin his NFL career, Flacco will likely never get his due as one of the game's elite quarterbacks until he and his Ravens get over their Pittsburgh problem and start to regularly beat the Steelers. Newsome and others in the organization point out that once upon a time the Pistons owned Michael Jordan and the Bulls, but then the worm finally turned and a string of NBA titles ensued for Chicago.
"That's the hurdle we've got to clear, and that's the history we're going to have to overcome,'' Rice said. "Maybe when we beat them, we won't just beat them. A win is a win. But if we make a statement, and beat them in a way that they know they were really beaten, I think that leaves a taste.''
Week 1 in Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium, the Ravens will once again start pushing that rock back up that hill, trying to get past those same familiar Steelers and back into the AFC playoff field. Hopefully as a higher seed and in a position of strength this time. In Week 9, the two rivals will meet again in Pittsburgh, on NBC's Sunday Night Football. I think I like Baltimore's chances to finally flip the script on the Steelers this year, and Flacco to me is the key for the Ravens putting together a run of their own in this lopsided series.
"I agree, and I think we're building a team around here that's going to be good for a while,'' Flacco said, echoing the conventional wisdom on Baltimore's roster. "When we finally jell and get over that hump, I think we're going to be able to take it to the next level and be a team that's around for a while and win some Super Bowls.''
But it's not that long haul that Suggs and some other Ravens veterans are focused on like a laser. Linebacker Ray Lewis recently told CBSSports.com that "I feel like now we have enough pieces in place to make a good run at the Super Bowl," and that he'll retire if the Ravens do indeed win the big one. He, Suggs and Ed Reed want to beat the Steelers right now, and start rewriting a story line that has grown bitter and impossibly tired in Baltimore: Good Ravens team loses to a better Steelers team, and watches Pittsburgh move on in the playoffs.
"It's like a rerun,'' Suggs said. "Everybody knows how this story ends, with us and the Steelers. It's about time we changed it, and give people something new. Right now, it's kind of like we pride ourselves on being a bully, but they're the ones that keep knocking us out of the playoffs. So they're the bully. One day you just got to say '[screw] it' and punch the bully totally in his mouth. Then they won't bully you any more.''
See. They're not sugar-coating the truth in Baltimore these days. The Ravens have some work to do this season, and once again, it figures to both start and end with the task of getting past Pittsburgh.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...#ixzz1Xe5o5k9H
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."
-Wayne Dyer
Who are the rave ins? Are we gonna see some new inovative but decisive game playing in this one?
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And their fans.
And how long have they been trying to punch the bully in the mouth? This bully punches back, everytime!"It's like a rerun,'' Suggs said. "Everybody knows how this story ends, with us and the Steelers. It's about time we changed it, and give people something new. Right now, it's kind of like we pride ourselves on being a bully, but they're the ones that keep knocking us out of the playoffs. So they're the bully. One day you just got to say '[screw] it' and punch the bully totally in his mouth. Then they won't bully you any more.''
As I sit here this Sun 9-11-11 watching tv and the reading of all the names who died that fateful day. I am humbled about the fact that we live in the greatest country in the world. And not taking away the fact that we get to see the greatest football franchise in the history of football today playing against a team that wished they were.
What ever the outcome of today's game, I hope we keep in mind the families of those lost that day and those who continue to fight for our freedom that our thoughts are with you. peace.
Inactives today
10 Dennis Dixon QB
27 Jonathan Dyer RB
31 Curtis Brown CB
54 Chris Carter LB
71 Chris Scott - OT
73 Ramon Foster - OT
89 Jerricho Cotchery - WR
I couldn't relax today in my yoga class. Every time I closed my eyes, all I could see was rats gettin KTFO.
Here we go Steelers.
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The hunt is on for John McClane Jr. Earlier last month, we reported a shortlist of actors that were presumed to be vying for the role of Bruce Willis's son in A Good Day to Die Hard, the fifth film in the franchise. Well today a new shortlist has popped up, and only one name on this new list was included on the old one: Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul. Hit the jump to find out what other names are being considered for the role, and for a recap on what we know so far about A Good Day to Die Hard.
So now Deadline reports that the search for Willis' son is down to just four actors: Paul, Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games), James Badge Dale (The Pacific), and D.J. Cotrona (G.I. Joe: Retaliation). Hemsworth has become a bit of a staple on these studio shortlists as of late, as he's also reportedly being considered for the Arthur role in Warner Bros.' Arthur & Lancelot, as well as one of the male leads in Andrew Niccol's adaptation of Twilight author Stephanie Meyer's sci-fi novel The Host. He's currently filming The Expendables 2, after which he has a number of projects to consider (including the aforementioned possible franchise-starters, and he's also locked into the next three Hunger Games films).
Hemsworth is actually the youngest actor on the list by a decade, as Paul is 32, Dale is 33, and Cotrona is 31. Paul's a magnificent Emmy-winning actor, but the report cautions that his shooting schedule on the final season of Breaking Bad may conflict with the Die Hard schedule. Dale is a talented guy as well, but of the actors being considered he definitely looks the oldest. Then again, we don't know exactly what the script calls for so he could be the perfect choice. Cotrona's a bit of a newcomer, as he recently starred on the now-cancelled CBS series Detroit 1-8-7 and is poised to appear in the upcoming G.I. Joe sequel.
Though I'm not familiar with Cotrona's work, among the other choices there's really not a bad pick in the bunch. John Moore (Max Payne) is set to direct the next chapter in the Die Hard franchise, which centers on Willis traveling to Russia to save his son, "but nothing is what it seems." Beyond that, we really don't know much else about the story. Moore's involvement has me incredibly indifferent, but if they nab somebody like Paul or Dale, things could get interesting. Filming begins in January. A Good Day to Die Hard opens February 14th, 2013.


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This is a screened in porch that our crew built this summer!!
This is a screened in porch that our crew built this summer!!
This is a bathroom that just had a new shower installed!
This is a deck we recently replaced all the deck boards on!
This is a bathroom that was newly remodeled!
We built this trellis structure! One of our fun spring projects this year!!
Our crew remodeled this kitchen!
Our crews recently completed a beautiful kitchen remodel that completely changed the entire feel of the main level! Just to help you visualize the change, let's start off with a before and after picture!
Now let's dive into the details of the 6 things we thought made this kitchen amazing!
These cabinets came from IKEA and were assembled on site by our crew. The cabinets definitely aid in making this kitchen feel bright and cheerful!
The white farm sink is a great addition to this kitchen, both aesthetically and for functionality.
We went to town on the lighting in this kitchen with two custom wood light fixtures (hanging over island and sink), under cabinet lighting, and recessed lighting in the beams over kitchen. The live edge wood light fixtures were made by our crews. Similar fixtures will soon be available for sale online as our crews plan on making more! The live edge pieces came from RRAW Rough Cut Lumber in Spencer.
This island is the center of the kitchen and it doesn't disappoint! There is storage on all four corners, a prep sink, a cook top, and bar seating on the end. What more could you want from an island?
We love the contrast of colors between the white tile back splash and gray counter top!
And last but not least, we really like the touch of flavor these open shelves add to the kitchen! So what are you waiting for? Let's turn your kitchen into a place you can't stay away from!
Check out this deck with black aluminum handrail, treated deck boards, and under water deck drainage system (so you can be under the deck and not get wet)!!
Here is a basement and bathroom that we just finished remodeling. It has a new spacious bedroom and closet. The bathroom has a floating vanity, a walk-in shower, and vinyl flooring. Enjoy!
We recently finished up a kitchen remodel in Bloomington that completely changed the look of the space. This kitchen got new flooring, cabinetry, countertops, lighting, and of course paint! Here are five of our favorite things from this kitchen remodel!
#1 The Copper Apron Sink. We thought this sink added a nice, subtle flare to this kitchen.
#2 The Tile Backsplash. We really liked the way the back splash contrasted and complimented the countertop and cabinetry.
#3 The Flooring. Vinyl plank flooring has come a long way in recent years!
#4 The Lighting. The combination of outside lighting and artificial lighting helps make the space feel bright and warm.
#5 The Cabinet Colors. We liked the way the two cabinet colors came together to make the space unique.
Feel free to let us know what your thoughts are on this project! You can also view a video of this kitchen by following this link: https://youtu.be/qh0UnOdVRY4
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All of the staff of T & H Keith, Inc were very helpful in the process. I always have questions (whether they are good questions or not), they were all answered respectfully and given additional advice. I like the "wow" factor…checking out the finished project. I can't express enough how much I appreciate the way you operate your business. I like happy people! If they are happy than I know they like their work. I mentioned your company every time someone talks about a "home improvement" project! I guess that is the way I show my appreciation.
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The workers were very professional, did a great job. We would recommend them any time. They were the very best workers that we ever had. Left everything extremely clean.
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I recently converted a garage/basement area into a laundry room/bathroom, mudroom, and bedroom. This challenging project was completed ahead of schedule; I was impressed with the attention to details and general workmanship! I love to show the new rooms to my friends and hear their "ohs" and "ahs". I have recommended T&H many times! Thanks for a job well done!
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Nice young man that wanted to please us
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My favorite part of doing business with them was their completing the job very quick and friendly.
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Favorite part of doing business with you: Seeing Eric
Favorite part of doing business with you, aside from the fact that the work was done beautifully, the gentlemen were wonderful to work with. Very eager to please and terribly neat in their work. It was a positive experience in every way.
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You are prompt and on schedule. My phone calls and e-mails were returned in a timely and very courteous manner, and workers arrived when promised. Everyone was very professional, friendly and always ready to address unexpected issues or concerns. This really sets you apart from a great many businesses in my experience – especially my experience trying to find someone to do this particular job!!
We are very pleased with Eric, Nathan and Azariah. They have taken on a multitude of projects in our home and have completed them in a timely manner and have exceeded our expectations with their high quality workmanship. You should be very proud of this crew they are awesome. Thank you for everything you have done for us, not only with this home but in our previous home. We highly recommend your company.
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You all are consummate professionals. I felt like we were able to brainstorm some solutions together, with expert input from your team member!
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Eric replaced a bathroom fan/light. He showed up on time which is unusual these days for people who come and do work in your home. Also, I was impressed that Eric put heavy paper on the floor to protect the vinyl and to capture the dust and debris that fell when he pulled the fan from the ceiling. The work happened while I was out of the house and when I came back, the only evidence that Eric was there was the new fan in the ceiling. Not dust, no box or old fan to throw away, no little bits of wire. I will call these guys again for electrical projects!
You are available when we need you. Thanks.
My favorite part of doing business with you is looking at Eric's artwork.
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We are renovating a fixer-upper house, and relied on T&H Keith to make our house safe and livable. This time we were updating two bedrooms that had lights plugged into switched outlets as the only light sources in the room. The electricians installed two ceiling lights and changed the light switch to those fixtures, and they converted the outlet to a regular plug-in outlet. They also installed switches for closet lights in both rooms that previously had string pulls to turn them on. In one day, they brought those two rooms into the modern age! The electricians are on-time, professional, polite, neat, and most importantly capable experts. We will be giving them a call in the future when we get to our next project.
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I am so pleased with the work that was done and I have expressed my satisfaction with my friends. Thanks again for a very pleasant experience.
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Troparion — Tone 1
Divinely we praise you, O Jude, as a faithful witness, / knowing you to be the brother of Christ. / You trampled on delusion, / and so preserved the faith. / Today as we celebrate your holy memory, / by your intercessions we receive remission of sins.
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You were chosen as a disciple for your firmness of mind: / An unshakable pillar of the Church of Christ, / you proclaimed His word to the Gentiles, / telling them to believe in one Godhead. / You were glorified by Him, receiving the grace of healing, / healing the ills of all who came to you, / O most praised Apostle Jude!


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Michael Geist sez, "Over the past couple of days, there have been multiple reports about the return of file sharing lawsuits to Canada, with fears that thousands of Canadians could be targeted. While it is possible that many will receive demand letters, it is important to note that recent changes to Canadian copyright law limit liability in non-commercial cases to a maximum of $5,000 for all infringement claims. In fact, it is likely that a court would award far less - perhaps as little as $100 - if the case went to court as even the government's FAQ on the recent copyright reform bill provided assurances that Canadians "will not face disproportionate penalties for minor infringements of copyright by distinguishing between commercial and non-commercial infringement.""
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1). Markos C. A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA was actively at Central Intelligence Agency offices in Washington, DC, training to become a CIA agent for two years, between 2001 and 2003, with or without pay. (Listen carefully to MAMZ's speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, on June 2, 2006.) He says that he started training at the CIA to be a "secret agent" in 2001 and finished his training when the Howard Dean campaign took off, which was in 2003. Since secret agents are trained to offer cover stories, false backgrounds and provide false information, therefore, nothing that MAMZ, his supporters and associates say can be accepted at face value.
2). Markos C. A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA was born in Chicago, not in El Salvador. Therefore, he is a US citizen and is NOT and never was an immigrant, in spite of his habitual assertions to the contrary.
3). Markos C. A. Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) has used at least three aliases, including Mark Moulitsas, and Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga and Markos Moulitsas and Markos C. A. Moulitsas. No one seems to know MAMZ's complete name with certainty, but it certainly is not what he has said it is.
4). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA lied when he said "I don't have money. I don't come from a famous or powerful family. I was an immigrant to the United States." CatoUnbound.Org:Markos Moulitsas [ZÚÑIGA] Counter to the rags to riches immigrant story MAMZ has conveniently adopted recently for public consumption, MAMZ has said that he can and does "always close the door" on immigrant identity "in detached selfishness."
5). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA was a Ronald Reagan Republican, taking credit for supporting Ronald Reagan, campaigning for George. H.W. Bush, and for Republican Representative Henry Hyde, the House prosecutor in the Clinton impeachment hearings.
6). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) is not a "liberal" and he is not a "progressive." In an essay submitted to the Northern Illinois University campus newspaper, the Northern Star, MAMZ strenuously opposed ALL service by gays in the US military, a position more extremely Republican and discriminatory than that taken by many other military members and conservatives. Northern Star
7). Like David Duke and the Klu Klux Klan, Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA promotes "states rights," a codeword for opposition to integration and determined acts and policies of segregation. Is DailyKos a White Supremacist Group?
8). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA has told the media, without naming her, that his mother "returned to El Salvador several years ago to run a hotel." San Francisco Gate
9). In fact, Mr. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA's family owns a sumptuous and "exclusive" resort hotel and tourism conglomerate in El Salvador called the "Club Joya del Pacífico" (Club Jewel of the Pacific) a unit of which is the (Jaltepeque Suites Hotel).
10). Demonstrating his connection to these, what MAMZ has called "family business" interests, Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA invited his wife, friends and family to celebrate his honeymoon with him at the this Jaltepeque Suites Hotel after he was married in the year 2000. (For some reason, the original link no longer works. Fortunately, we have two screenshots from his wedding album, including their web addresses, to prove that the album was public before its significance was pointed out. And now it's gone.)
11). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA ZÚÑIGA's "family business" actually received five million dollars in foreign investments between 1997 and 2000, immediately before the period in which MAMZ states that he sought work at the CIA because he was "underemployed, unemployed." Audiotape of 2006 Speech to the Commonwealth Club.
12). Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga, the "family" member listed in government records as "manager" of the Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA's hotel is also president of the "Junta Directiva" of the CÁMARA SALVADOREÑA DE TURISMO (CASATUR), the national tourism board of El Salvador, according to El Salvador's "La Prensa" newspaper. He has aggregated power in El Salvador through participation in a series of interlocking tourism-related directorates and has used this power to facilitate the destruction of the Jaltepeque Estuary by his hotel conglomerate, Club Jewel of the Pacific, even though the Jaltepeque Estuary is universally recognized by international groups as an endangered habitat for imperiled marine life. VII. MACROPOLITICAS, CONVENIOS INTERNACIONALES Y LEGISLACIÓN QUE INCIDE EN LAS ÁREAS DE CONSERVACION (VII. Macropolitics, International Conventions and Legislation Regarding Conservation)
. . . [P]resión urbana y la descontrolada dinámica de ocupación de la zona esta generando un fuerte y rápido deterioro provocando una alteración en dicho ecosistema. Urban pressure and the uncontrolled dynamic of occupation of the zone is generating a strong and rapid deterioration, provoking a deterioration of said ecosystem." Guide to Sustainable Development of the Jaltepeque Estuary in the La Paz Region.See also:
Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA's "Family Business" Pollutes Unique Salvadoran Lagoon and Threatens Wildlife Species.
Why Has Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (M.A.M.Z.) Lied About His Wealthy Salvadoran Oligarchy Family Background?
13). Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga, the man listed in public documents as the "manager" of the Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA's Jaltepeque Suites Hotel, is also president of the "Junta Directiva" of the CÁMARA SALVADOREÑA DE TURISMO (CASATUR), the national tourism board of El Salvador. In addition, he is a member of the member of the "Junta Directiva" of the "Sistema de Integración de Centroamerica" (System for Integration of Central America).
14). The man listed as the manager of the Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA's hotel is also named in Salvadoran Government documents as the "ADMINISTRADOR UNICO PROPIETARIO" (Administrator Sole Proprietor) of PRODUCTOS TURISTICOS Y OTROS, SOCIEDAD ANONIMA DE CAPITAL VARIABLE - PROTURO, S.A. DE C.V. CNR.GOB.SV: Names and Credentials
15).Proturo, S.A. de C.V. is also known as the "Baja Salt Group," which does business as "Baja Salt."
16). Baja Salt distributes table salt and industrial salt in the United States, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, Central and South America, and maintains offices in Odessa, Texas, where President George W. Bush was born. This Odessa, Texas office shares a telephone number, fax number and physical address with a peculiar equipment rental and petroleum industry business, Light Tower Rentals, Ltd, listed along with Halliburton Energy Services Group in the Texas organization records of USA Oilfield. These activities associated with Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga's Baja Salt Group have not been sufficiently explained. See "The Secret "Family Business" of Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga (DailyKos)"
17). Baja Salt is the sole Central American distributor for the salt produced by Mexico's Exportadora de Sal, S.A. (ESSA).
18). Baja Salt/ESSA is a notorious polluter of pristine grey whale and sea turtle spawning grounds and habitat in Baja Mexico.
19). ESSA is represented in its environmental pollution cases by the same Skadden, Arps powerhouse law firm that represents The Carlyle Group.
20). The internationally powerful Carlos Alberto Delgado ZÚÑIGA , the "family" member listed in government records as "manager" of the Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA's hotel (see screenshot) was on the organizational member board of El Salvador's ANEP, the Asociación Nacional de Empresas Privadas (National Association of Private Corporations).
21). ANEP is listed by the US Central Intelligence Agency as a right-wing political pressure group.
22). ANEP is "a lobby of El Salvador's most influential businessmen" that advocates free markets and "wants to privatize El Salvador's water delivery" and its hospitals, which has led to large popular demonstrations in El Salvador against ANEP's pro-corporate policies. CountryData.Com
23). The large national and international corporate members of ANEP were the principal political opponents of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero at the time when he was assassinated. CIA: Political Pressure Groups Mongabay.com
24). ANEP ran a vigorous media campaign against El Salvador's populist Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero in the months that led up to his assassination on March 24 1980.
25). The corporate members of ANEP were the principal political opponents of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero when he was assassinated. CIA: Political Pressure Groups Mongabay.com
26). While Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA was supporting Ronald Reagan and campaigning for other Republicans, the Reagan Administration provided billions of dollars in military and other aid to the Salvadoran Government and to the right-wing pressure groups believed to be responsible for the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero.
Total United States aid to El Salvador rose from US$264.2 million in fiscal year (FY) 1982 to an estimated US$557.8 million in FY 1987. On average over this period, economic aid exceeded military aid by more than a two-to-one ratio.27). In 1983, another source provided the U.S. embassy with a chilling account of how death-squad operations were planned, financed and executed. According to the source, these right-wing death squads, which were all connected to D'Aubuisson's group,
Economic aid was provided in the form of Economic Support Funds (ESF), food aid under Public Law 480 (P.L. 480), and development aid administered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). ESF was intended to provide balance of payments support to finance essential non food imports. Assistance with food imports as well as the direct donation of foodstuffs was accomplished through the P.L. 480 program. Development aid covered a broad spectrum of projects in such fields as agriculture, population planning, health, education, and training. For FY 1987, regular non supplemental ESF appropriations totaled US$181.7 million, and combined food and development aid amounted to US$122.7 million. The regular FY 1987 appropriation for military aid was US$116.5 million. Mongabay.Com: Country Studies/El Salvador
"get their orders from paymasters in the Sol family ... younger members of the de Sola family and some members of the National Association of Businessmen (ANEP) ... The chain of command then proceeds to death-masters like [deleted] [who] have contacts with retired officers who go around to the different security forces as "black bag" men, paying off and recruiting likely foot-soldiers. The latter are recruited at the lower and even middle levels (captains and majors) of the different security forces. Death squad hit-men thus recruited are on the receiving end of a vertical hierarchy leading up to the paymasters (whom the foot-soldiers do not know...)."Center for International Policy28). In spite of the leadership role of Carlos Alberto Delgado ZÚÑIGA in ANEP, and ANEP's role in the events leading to the assassination of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero, Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA has told the public and his supporters -- cynically and as part of a continuing history of misinformation and deception -- that Archbishop Oscar Romero was one of his "heroes."
29). DailyKos practices blog apartheid, banning Black voices and restricting overall minority membership to less than 4% of membership. Is DailyKos a White Supremacist Group?
30). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA could not be unaware of these facts, and yet, through dozens or hundreds of media interviews, he has persistently hid his knowledge of these facts, and of his family's role, from his supporters and from the American public.
31). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA has lied to the public about whom he really is, and he is not the person who he pretends to be, but is an impostor who makes a mockery of progressive people and progressive values.


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Suns fans wore "Los Suns" jerseys and T-shirts and a group of four even entered the arena with sombreros for their team's playoff game against the San Antonio Spurs.
There was a lone protester holding up a homemade sign outside the arena who was against the idea of the "Los Suns" jerseys Phoenix wore Wednesday night for Game 2 of its second-round series.
Otherwise, it was a typical game night around US Airways Center.
The Suns made headlines the day before with their decision to wear "Los Suns" jerseys on the Cinco de Mayo holiday. A new Arizona immigration law has drawn widespread criticism from Latino organizations and civil rights groups that say it could lead to racial profiling of Hispanics. President Barack Obama has called the law "misguided."
The protester, who identified herself only as Karen from Glendale, held a sign which read The Phoenix Suns support drug runners; armed coyotes; drop houses; extradition; forced labor; forced prostitution of illegals; murder of Arizona citizens on their own property; assault on law enforcement officers.
"I was disappointed that the ownership for the Suns organization decided to not support our state's efforts to do something about the problem we have on our borders," said the woman, who added she came to the arena only to protest.
"How they feel personally on their own time is one thing, but as an organization that has so much influence over public opinion — it's like the outsiders that come in. Their views on the bill are distorted, too."
Pedro Flores of Phoenix came to the game wearing an Amare Stoudemire "Los Suns" jersey and said he's proud his team is taking a stand on the controversy.
"It's good and on Cinco de Mayo day," he said. "I think it's great."


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Mayor Bates Weighs In on Landmarks Law By RICHARD BRENNEMAN
The dividing lines in the political struggle over the future of Berkeley's Landmarks Preservation Ordinance (LPO) grew clearer at Tuesday night's City Council meeting when Mayor Tom Bates offered a 10-page "Draft for Discussion" of his own. It is not a draft of ordinance language, but simply a conceptual proposal. -more-


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Posted: Mon 27 Jun 2005, 17:03
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Automounting cdroms in puppy?
I wonder if this program would be of any use to help auto-mount cdrom drives in puppy? I just spotted it on freshmeat
I've also compiled it, stripped and UPX'd it (and attached here) to make it smaller (though it was only about 16K to start off, but now it's ~4K - the same amount of memory as 4 ZX81s
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Posted: Mon 27 Jun 2005, 23:29
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Since you remember z81s, do you also remember the vic20. I owned both and they met the same fate. Both were placed on the floor and jumped up and down on until they were dead. Then more jumping until they really, really were dead!
I must have wasted hundreds of hours on those two machines.
Then I got a c64 -
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Posted: Wed 29 Jun 2005, 09:10
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I tried this little proggie on my laptop, and it did automount CDroms. Pretty cool. What was uncool, though, is that it would not unmount then when I pushed the drive's eject button. So, I had to manually unmount the CD and then eject the disc. I don't know if my lappy uses some nonstandard "eject" protocol, or if it was actually a problem with the program. And I haven't had a chance to test it out on my other computer...
But, it looks like it would be good. I know a lot of people have been asking about automounting drives...
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Posted: Wed 29 Jun 2005, 15:59
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That's the thing about mounting a CD: you can't eject it until it is unmounted. Presumably there is some housekeeping that the OS must do to properly unmount a filesystem, which ejecting a mounted CD would screw up...
If anyone finds a better explanation, I'd be happy to see it.
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Posted: Wed 29 Jun 2005, 17:11
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It would be like ejjecting a floppy part way through a file transfer, same result.
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Posted: Wed 29 Jun 2005, 23:14
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but the point of this little program is that it's supposed to notice you hit the "eject" button, unmount the CD and then spit it out. From the website:
Auto-eject-cdrom is a very small C application that handles CD-ROM events in Linux. If new media is inserted in a CD-ROM drive, it is automatically mounted based on a matching entry in /etc/fstab. If a CD-ROM is mounted and the eject button is pressed, the filesystem is umounted and ejected. This allows for the same basic functionality Windows allows with the CD-ROM eject button.
So...yes, I realize that a CD is supposed to be unmounted before it can be ejected, but with this program it's supposed to happen automagically. And at least in the case of my laptop, it doesn't.
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Posted: Thu 30 Jun 2005, 00:14
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you can mount and unmount the cd drive by holding the shift key and clicking the cdrom folder (in rox)
this is not mounting automatically, of course
the first distro i got to work with my hardware was Mandrake ... i quickly learned to hate automounting and always disabled it
i also remember how searching for files in Konqueror would fill up my ram and swap, slowing down the computer so much that i had to hit the reset button on the tower to be able to reboot ... locate or find worked with no problems
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GuestToo wrote:
you can mount and unmount the cd drive by holding the shift key and clicking the cdrom folder (in rox)
I am astonished at how much you know and remember.
For some reasons, one of which is speed, I like working in the command line, and running applications that run from the command line such as: Midnight Commander and Minimum Profit.
I unmount the cdrom device by typing
if i want it to eject.
If I just want it to unmount I just type
(an alias)
alias ucdrom='umount /mnt/cdrom'
Naturally, I mount them the same
alias mcdrom='mount -t iso9660 dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom'
Actually, the alias I really use is not the generic one above, because it doesn't work on my computer, but it would probably work on most computers.
alias mcdrom='mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom;cd /mnt/cdrom'
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Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 05:05
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GuestToo wrote:
the first distro i got to work with my hardware was Mandrake ... i quickly learned to hate automounting and always disabled it
tee hee
Still not clear of any merits of mounting. This is what I now believe - please correct if I am wrong.
If a file/drive is to be available at all times then it has to seen and take up clock cycles. In the Olde days of computing such clock cycles were precious so you only mounted or made the OS aware of a device when required.
We have move on. I have heard no sensible reason (people have tried) for mounting.
I am so happy with MUT from Jesse (built into Pup 1.0.4 and in tcl) - it at least makes mounting tolerable
As we of a penguin disposition say, "something is fishy"
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I agree. MUT is a great improvement. It at least gives the impression of intimate control of the computer, which is something I have always wanted but haven't felt with any other OS. The difference between a computer with Windows or Mandriva, and a computer with 1.0.4 Puppy with MUT, is like the difference between riding in a bus or driving a sports car.
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Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 16:10
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Hopefully I'll even get to try it tonight
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Still not clear of any merits of mounting. This is what I now believe - please correct if I am wrong.
It is not a case of being wrong. Considerations have more to do with the layout of one's system, where you have disk space, the kind of work one is doing on, what you need and such factors.
A case in point. I just ripped a CD-ROM, this took about 700 MB disk space. (I don't have big hard drives either.)
I had about 2GB free space on hda7 and not enough space on other partitions to rip a CD.
Okay, so I must rip to hda7
I decode the .wav to .mp3s in RAM, it is faster and saves head movment on the drive.
I store the mp3s on hdc5, so I copied the mp3s from RAM to the appropriate directory on hdc5.
I use hdc5 for non programs, downloading .iso file and other files.
Hdc5 is in a sense a storage drive and the computer can run fine if I pull it out.
It is also a working drive for building packages and compiling and etc.
Anytime I download a file it goes on hdc5, so I want it always mounted and accessible.
Puppy is installed on hda6 along with Suse and there is not much room on that partition for much of anything very large.
FYI the hard disks are each 8GB - not large by today's standards. hda needs separate partitions as it hosts 4 operating systems.
Also, I share major applications between all the Linux installations and the applications may be on another partition depending on the Linux I'm running and of course that device must mounted in order to use it.
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Its a new year (2013), a new job, a new Laptop and a new openSUSE 12.2! I'll stop right there before I go off on a tangent, seeing & proclaiming trends where none existed previously.
- openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 (64-bit) - KDE desktop (default)
- Toshiba Tecra R840 (Intel i5, 4Gb RAM, 320Gb Hdd, Intel HD integrated graphics)
- Dual-boot with Windows 7 (/dev/sda1) and openSUSE (/dev/sda2)
Smooth as silk is all I can say and something that has come to be expected.
Given the dual-boot setup, I created my own disk partitioning scheme. So this step deviated from the otherwise straight-forward install (ie click next till the end).
Disk partition scheme:
- /dev/sda1 - 100Gb - original factory installed Windows 7 (size shrunk to 100Gb)
- /dev/sda2 - 100Gb - root partition of openSUSE 12.2 ('/') formatted to ext4
- /dev/sda3 - 98Gb - extended partition
- /dev/sda5 - 6Gb - SWAP partition
- /dev/sda6 - 92Gb - common data partition formatted to NTFS (read/write for both Win7 & openSUSE 12.2)
Reboot into openSUSE 12.2 and use YaST Partitioner to set a mount point. I usually mount this under /mnt/common. Now, openSUSE 12.2 will automatically mount the common data partition in /mnt/common on boot.
The only outstanding part is that /mnt/common is accessible by root (super-user) but normal users access is troublesome. To make /mnt/common read-writeable by normal user, I edit the mount options of /mnt/common in the /etc/fstab file. Example, changed the options in bold from original (first line below) to the second:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-xxxxxx-part6 /mnt/common ntfs-3g
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-xxxxxx-part6 /mnt/common ntfs-3g uid=han,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
where han in uid=han is my normal user account on openSUSE 12.2.
There might be a more user-friendly way to do this but I did not explore since I'm comfortable editing the /etc/fstab. Readers who knows how this can be done, please feel free to leave a comment. Thanks.
Grub vs Grub2:
I chose to stick with Grub instead of the newer Grub2 boot loader. The reason is simple, I could easily edit the boot options via /boot/grub/menu.lst because its a text file. In Grub2, this is non-trivial and until they have an easier editing interface, I'll stick with Grub.
Additional Software
Oracle Java:
Due to licensing of Java now that Oracle is in-charge, openSUSE ships the open source Iced Tea implementation of Java. However, for software compatibility reasons, I need Oracle Java to be installed on my system including the need to update web browser plugins.
Based on what I read online, its better to leave the Iced Tea Java as-is and not remove it (mainly for LibreOffice and other open sourced software). We just need to download Oracle Java, install it and use the update-alternatives command to link Oracle Java as the preferred Java.
Will not go into the details here since its already well documented online at http://www.freetechie.com/blog/installing-oracle-sun-java-jrejdk-1-7-update-7-on-opensuse-12-2-x86_64/
I need a video player that can play most codecs and VLC is one of the best. Installing VLC is a simple two-step process. First, we add the VLC online software repository into openSUSE 12.2. The next step is to install VLC.
1) To add VLC online repository, execute this command:
zypper ar -f -n vlc http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/12.2 vlc
There is a user-friendlier way to do this via YaST Software Repositories where all you need is to enter the VLC repository URL, http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/12.2, click Next and you're done.
2) To install vlc, execute this command:
zypper in vlc
There is a user-friendlier way to do this via YaST Software Management where all you need is to search for vlc and click to install.
Packman is another online software repository full of goodies... so full that its sub-divided into the these categories: Essentials, Multimedia, Extra and Games.
For me, I just add the all-in-one repository for convenience:
zypper ar -f -n packman http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_12.2 packman
For finer granularity, please refer to http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories#Packman for details.
Some software I install from the Packman repository are:
- Audacity
- Avidemux2
- smplayer (QT frontend for mplayer)
Chrome web browser:
This one is easy, just point your Firefox (default) web browser to http://www.google.com/chrome. Once there, Google will detect you are using Linux and will list a number of binaries for you to choose. For my setup, I choose the 64 bit .rpm (For Fedora/openSUSE) and click Download.
Once downloaded, I use the zypper command (as root) to install it.
zypper in google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
Naturally, there is a user-friendlier way to install this RPM file. Simply click on the rpm file from the Dolphin file browser and keep clicking (Yes, Next, Finish) till its installed. :)
What's Next?
Stay tuned for my next couple of entries on my continuing adventures using openSUSE 12.2... up next, my experience installing and using IBM Notes Social Edition 9.0beta.


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FLOATING-POINT UNIT DESIGN USING TAYLOR-SERIES EXPANSION ALGORITHMS by Taek-Jun Kwon ______________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Taek-Jun Kwon
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|Due to the constant advances in VLSI technology and the prevalence of many applications that require floating-point operations, hardware support for floating-point arithmetic is an essential feature in high-performance computer systems, embedded systems as well as mobile applications. Over the past years, while addition and multiplication implementations have become increasingly efficient, support for division and other elementary functions such as square root has remained uneven. Although division and square root are relatively infrequent operations in traditional general-purpose applications, they are indispensable and becoming increasingly important, particularly in many modern applications. Furthermore, as the latency gap between addition/multiplication and division/square root grows, the latter operations increasingly become performance bottlenecks. Therefore, poor implementations of floating-point division and square root can result in severe performance degradation.; This dissertation presents various techniques for designing an area-efficient yet high-performance floating-point arithmetic unit using a high-order Taylor-series expansion algorithm with truncated powering units. First, we propose a floating-point divider unit based on a 3rd-order Taylor-series expansion algorithm with truncated powering units. This algorithm achieves fast computation by using truncated powering units, which compute the higher-order terms in the Taylor-series polynomial significantly faster than traditional multipliers with a relatively small hardware overhead. Through careful pipeline design, all multiply operations required by the division algorithm and floating-point multiply operations are executed by one multiplier to maximize area efficiency while achieving high performance. Second, we expand the algorithm and present a generalized floating-point divider design procedure using high-order Taylor-series expansion algorithms by exploring the trade-off space of design constraints for a given precision, which is necessary for an efficient implementation of a divider. Third, we extend the proposed floating-point divider to incorporate square root. Since Taylor's theorem enables us to compute approximations for many well-known functions, we can extend the proposed divider unit to incorporate a square root function. And due to the similarity between the Taylor-series approximations of these functions extending the existing divider to incorporate square root can be achieved with little area and latency overhead. Finally, this dissertation provides insight into trade-offs involving overall FPU organization alternatives using the proposed floating-point divider. Several design considerations and trade-off factors in floating-point unit implementation are evaluated for two types of FPU architectures optimized under different design goals.; The proposed arithmetic unit exhibits area efficiency as well as high performance required by many modern floating-point intensive applications such as scientific computing, CAD tools and 3D graphics rendering, which have a high percentage of division and square root operations.
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It took a crusading music journalist with a well-documented love for the blues and a brand-new record label based in Mississippi with a decidedly fresh outlook to give guitarist Junior Kimbrough his belated encounter with fame. Kimbrough's hypnotic, primitive drone may not have displayed much commercial promise when he was a young man, but it entranced 1990s blues fans when they finally had a chance to hear it on record. Until then, you had to journey down to North Mississippi hill country to absorb Junior's singular brand of blues (he held weekly Sunday night house parties at his home-turned-juke-joint for many years).
David 'Junior' Kimbrough was born July 28, 1930 in Hudsonville, Mississippi, close to the Tennessee border. While the rest of his family toiled in the fields, little Junior would sneak up and grab his dad's guitar off the shelf. Those early forays taught him enough to allow him to give guitar lessons to future rockabilly singer Charlie Feathers when both were lads (Feathers was so thrilled with Kimbrough's blues that he called them "the beginning and end of all music"). Heavy as his sound came to be during the '50s, Kimbrough found it difficult to make his mark.
He didn't record until 1966, Memphis producer Quinton Claunch shelving his sides. Tiny Philwood Records took a chance on Junior the next year, issuing his debut single as by Junior Kimbell. Juke joints were Kimbrough's primary stomping grounds until 1992, when he broke through thanks to author Robert Palmer, who captured Junior's singular sound in his home environs. His first album for fledgling label Fat Possum, 'All Night Long,' was done live with his rhythm section—bassist Garry Burnside (local rival R.L. Burnside's son) and Junior's own son, Kenny Malone, on drums. Regimented chord changes were no concern; Kimbrough's modal conception, slashing electric guitar, and a vocal delivery not far removed from a field holler were throwbacks to an earlier tradition yet laced with contemporary sensibility
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Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak has vowed to kill the province's feed-in-tariff program on the grounds that, in his view, it is leading to unacceptably high electricity costs for consumers. But when all is considered the problem, as he describes it, isn't really with the FIT at all: it's about FIT rates for solar PV. Take solar out of the equation and the FIT rates are quite reasonable, at least when compared to nuclear power, which is Hudak's own half-baked solution to Ontario's future electricity needs.
Beyond the propoganda of the nuclear industry, I haven't seen a single credible study that calculates the cost of (new) nuclear to ratepayers below 13 cents per kilowatt-hour. Indeed, there are many reports that suggest nuke power is above 20 cents per kilowatt-hour, particularly when you choose to not hide the hidden costs and subsidies. This makes wind power, landfill gas systems, waterpower and even some large biogas systems competitive with nuclear on a kilowatt-hour basis. And, of course, under the FIT we're not held hostage to delays or cost overruns like we have been in the past with nuclear. You pay for what you get under the FIT. No risk, no large single points of failure, no risk of meltdown, no worries about handling future radioactive waste, and very high price transparency.
Now, Hudak would have Ontario voters believe that the rate we pay today is what we should expect to pay for future generation. I don't believe this is a naive belief on Hudak's part; I believe it's to intentionally mislead. Fact is, there isn't a single form of clean (or dirty) generation that can be built new today that isn't more expensive than the 6 or 7 cents per kilowatt-hour that Hudak (and most media, for that matter) recklessly bandies about. Now, could we get wind generation cheaper through a competitive process? Yeah, we could maybe carve a couple of cents off the FIT rate. But the FIT was intentionally designed to lower barriers to market access — to open up the market beyond the big, deep-pocketed corporate giants who can afford the upfront millions required to respond to a request for proposals (RFP) and, after participating in such a process, can afford to walk away empty handed. The province created the FIT to encourage community participation, and to stimulate the kind of growth that would attract manufacturing and jobs — and it has, despite a few spineless moments and missteps from the Liberal government.
Now, on to solar. Hudak and his legion of backers, including National Post columnist Parker Gallant (who has somehow managed to turn his column into an official soap box for the Ontario PCs — hell, he even hands over fresh quotes for Hudak's press releases now), always point to solar prices when talking about the FIT. After all, it's easier to anger voters by saying generally that we're paying 80.2 cents per kilowatt-hour under the FIT and that this is 10 times more than the wholesale market rate for electricity. Wow — 10 times more! Crazy. But the comparison shouldn't be to the wholesale market rate, and the rate itself is far from representative of the FIT program pricing. That scary 80.2 cents, which will soon be lowered, is for less than 1 per cent of FIT contracts when measured on a megawatt-hour contribution basis. Also, that money doesn't go to big corporate conglomerates intent on vacuuming money out of Ontario. It goes to farmers and homeowners who are taking risks to become participants in the electricity system. The thousands of people taking part are literally changing the energy landscape in Ontario and they're creating local jobs. You can see it just driving around this province. Put into perspective, the premium being paid to them is more than worth what the province is getting back. Hudak, however, would prefer to demonize them to score votes.
Now, let's talk about the elephant in the room — big solar. Big, multimegawatt solar projects are getting 44.3 cents per kilowatt-hour. But unlike the small solar rooftop systems, these larger systems will collectively have an impact on electricty rates over the coming years. At the same time, we have to acknowledge that it is because of these large systems that a lot of manufacturing has shifted to Ontario. Still, it's a lot of solar and a lot to pay, and this is in my view the Achilles heal of Ontario's FIT program. If there are going to be changes to the program, the most dramatic changes have to come here, but it has to be done in a way that balances the need to nurture an emerging industry and the interests of ratepayers. The answer, in my view, is to embrace a competitive bidding process for these large-scale projects and set caps (targets?) on the amount of big solar we want in Ontario by 2015, 2020 and 2025.
But Hudak isn't thinking or talking that way. He wants to throw the baby out with the bath water, and in doing so kill investor confidence in the Ontario market, kill green jobs and build new nuclear plants that we'll have to start paying for 10 years before the first kilowatt-hour is generated. His approach is reckless at a time when Ontario needs surgical, not blunt force, solutions. He's being destructive at a time when Ontarians want our politicians to be constructive.
On a final note, let's keep in mind that we don't have to choose nuclear over renewables or vice versa. While building new nuclear plants may be an unwise decision economically, there is plenty of job creation to come from reburishing or extending the life of Ontario's existing nuclear fleet — even if we retire a couple of plants, such as Pickering. Indeed, OPG and Bruce Power have expressed concerns about doing these refurbishments and building new because of the limited labour pool and the logistical nightmare of taking so much on in such a tight window. So, the message here is you can continue to aggressively build green energy and capture the associated jobs while keeping folks in our nuclear industry gainfully employed for the next 10 years, simply following through on an existing refurbishment schedule. Talk of building new nukes is a distraction — there will be opportunities in both sectors, and plenty of jobs to go around. We don't have to choose one over the other.


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MONTVILLE, Conn. (AP) -- When Troop E dispatchers move to Tolland later this month as part of the state's plan to consolidate emergency services, one long-time dispatcher won't be making the move.
Judi Gouin, who has been answering emergency calls the same way for 19 years -- "State police in Montville, Dispatcher Gouin" -- says bluntly that she's not interested in the long commute, and "honestly, I'm burnt out."
Gouin said she got into dispatching because she likes to help people.
There is never a dull moment, she says. From the moment her shift starts, she deals with people in the lobby turning themselves in and calls reporting break-ins, disabled vehicles, car accidents or erratic drivers. Dispatchers also must keep track of the troopers on patrol.
"I like getting jerks off the road," said Gouin, who is from Putnam. "We get numerous calls about erratic operation and when we put the 'bolo' (Be On the Lookout) out, believe it or not 98, 99 percent of the time we'll stop them. It turns out they're driving under suspension, no insurance, drug related or they're wanted. It's a good feeling to know that we got someone off the road who shouldn't be there in the first place."
Certainly, there have been difficult calls, too, such as the one she handled from Voluntown in 1998. A frantic woman was on the line telling Gouin that her husband had brutally assaulted her. The woman had fled to her neighbor's house just as her husband had set their house on fire.
Gouin said she had to keep the woman calm, but at the same time gather important information to relay to responding troopers.
"I had to make sure she was ... not in harm's way," Gouin said. "I had to find out if there were guns in the house. I had to find out where the husband was at. We are trained to deal with these high-stress situations. It was a good feeling to know that she was kept safe and we got him in custody."
She also helped a man start CPR on his father-in-law after the older man collapsed while riding in a van. Gouin's instructions helped the man survive.
Gouin said dispatchers also are mediators and counselors. She gets calls from elderly people who really just want to vent about their neighbors but don't require police attention.
"They just want someone to listen to them," she said.
Dispatchers also must deal with unusual calls. She has lost track of how many calls the troop gets from people who want to report that a skunk - even one that is not acting strangely - is in their yard.
"They want us to come and kill it," she said. "You got to wonder if they understand the difference between an emergency and nonemergency."
She said the call volume at the troop increased dramatically once the two casinos opened.
Dispatchers at Troop E are scheduled to move Nov. 18 to Troop C in Tolland, where they will join dispatchers from troops D and K. Gouin instead will retire one year short her 60th birthday and one year short of 20 years on the job. Her last day is Nov. 15, but she won't officially be retired until Dec. 1.
"I'm not sure how it's going to work," she said. "I know there won't be that one-on-one contact with the troopers that we have now. We do a lot of work with the troopers, and I like that. I like the closeness we have with them."
Troop E is not closing. It will remain fully staffed, but 911 calls will be rerouted automatically to Tolland. If someone goes to the barracks and finds no one there, a blue box outside will connect visitors to the dispatch center.
Master Sgt. James Gilman said the troop is adding extra patrols and an administrative trooper to handle some of the tasks previously performed by the dispatchers.
"It's one of those unknowns," he said. "We are preparing, but we haven't done it yet. We're going to make it work."
At least once a month during the colder months, Gouin would make a home-cooked meal for her colleagues.
"Because of the fast pace at Troop E, it's nice to sit down and break some bread together and just catch up," Gilman said. "I know those meals mean a lot to them."
Gilman said Gouin works hard and knows the area and the operations of the troop extremely well.
"I came in as a rookie," Gilman said. "We worked holidays together, traumatic experiences together. We have built a bond. We go through things that most people don't experience."
Gouin said she is looking at other opportunities to fill her time, including spending more time with her two daughters and grandchildren.
She may get a part-time dispatching job or may volunteer at the Day Kimball Hospital in her hometown.
"I'm not going to regret it," Gouin said of retiring. "It's been a good 19 years. I've enjoyed it a lot."