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aluminum plate fortal bar block 2.106 x 4 7/8 x 48
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It cuts like butter, which means our cutters don't get clogged. It doesn't get gummy like QC-7 and others but actually cuts like soft steel. During every machining process, it's amazing how the scrap flies right off."
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That strange looking king who looks sort of like Barry Gibb is being deposed by Burger King.
The fast food chain plans to ditch the strange character who has starred in television campaigns for several years and will instead focus on selling its food to moms, according to USA Today.
The new ads, which begin airing this weekend, will show only the sights and sounds of fresh ingredients being washed, sliced and diced, the newspaper said.
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The ad campaign is part of the national rollout of the California Whopper, which includes what the paper says is "arguably the gastronomic trend of 2011": guacamole.

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Looking for a place to kick back and relax, or are you a ken and active explorer? Either way, there's plenty to see and do on this wonderful planet of ours.
Tassie walking
The Tasmanian Walking Co reckons it is the only private guided-walking company with permission to stay within the Three Capes national park at night and now offers the "Three Capes Lodge Walk", a 46km fully guided walking experience along the wild and rugged cliffs of the dramatic Tasman Peninsula.
Starting with an eco-cruise near historic Port Arthur, the Southern Ocean is a constant companion as guests traverse soaring sea cliffs, spy wildlife and flora, and absorb 37,000 years of history along the way.
Settle in each night in architecturally designed lodges to refuel with Tasmania's finest food and drink. Guests can even enjoy a massage or spa treatment as they rest up.
The trips depart all year round with a maximum of 14 guests.
Visit www.taswalkingco.com.au.
Murray cruising
Captain Cook Cruises' seven-night "Upper Murraylands" cruise, on board paddlewheeler PS Murray Princess will depart monthly this year.
The cruise explores the northern area of the Murray River from Mannum to Morgan, before returning to Mannum.
The cruise visits the historic towns of Waikerie, Morgan and Swan Reach, where guests can enjoy a guided walk of the townships.
Winelovers can indulge in a lunch and tastings at Banrock Station Wine and Wetland Centre, while at Caudo Winery there is a visit to the cellar door and a tour of the beautiful gardens and orchards.
Learn about Aboriginal history at the amazing Ngaut Ngaut Aboriginal Reserve — one of Australia's most significant archaeological sites — and enjoy a guided boardwalk tour of ancient rock carvings.
Fares start from $1902 per person twin-share and include accommodation, all meals, guided nature walks, eco-excursions, onboard presentations, the Captain's dinner and dance, live entertainment, and use of the ship's facilities including sun deck, bar, two lounges, restaurant and a mini-gymnasium.
Scenic coach transfers from Adelaide or secure car-parking in Mannum are included.
Visit www.murrayprincess.com.au.
Exclusive resort
The Sojourn Retreats group has re-opened the former Paradise Bay Eco Resort on the southern tip of Long Island in the Whitsundays, after purchasing it in March and spending the past year renovating the resort.
The resort was damaged by Cyclone Marcia and then Debbie, rendering it non-operational over the last three years.
The family-owned group plans to operate the new Elysian Resort in line with its Pumpkin Island Retreat, located in the Keppel Islands.
Elysian will take a luxurious approach as an all-inclusive retreat catering to a maximum 20 guests with a private chef, custom organic spa treatments and exclusive aquatic adventures showcasing the reef.
Visit www.sojournretreats.com.au.
Ethical elephants
World Expeditions has joined the Coalition for Ethical Wildlife Tourism to play its part in ending the suffering of wildlife for the entertainment of tourists.
The move is the latest in the company's ongoing drive to deliver ethical wildlife experiences across its product range, following on from the 2014 removal of elephant rides from its program and the 2015 release of its Animal Welfare Code of Conduct.
The Coalition's main objectives are to demonstrate a strong demand and support for venues considering becoming elephant-friendly (observation only) and to drive industry standards and government policies and legislation that better protect the welfare of animals and preservation of wildlife through tourism.
Phone 1300 720 000 or visit www.worldexpeditions.com.
Spectacular trek
Walking the Laugavegur Trail, one of Iceland's most famous hiking trails, is a wonderful way to escape the country's influx of visitors and to see some of the most beautiful parts of Iceland at the same time.
UTracks has added a third walking itinerary to its Laugavegur offering for the 2019 season.
Its new four-day Laugavegur Trail Highlights guided walk begins in the geothermal valley of Landmannalaugar in the southern highlands and heads south past small gorges to the Pórsmörk Valley.
Arriving at the foot of Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which last erupted in 2010 and whose crater is completely covered by an icecap, marks one of the many highlights of the trip.
Prices start at $2290 per person twin-share ex Reykjavik.
Phone 1300 303 368 or visit www.utracks.com.
Ancient wonders
Now is the time to discover the ancient wonders of Egypt.
Step back in time to the cradle of civilization and explore the Land of the Pharaohs, with its colourful hieroglyphics and 4500-year-old pyramids.
Book by February 28 and get free economy flights on any journey of 20 days or longer — a saving of up to $4560 per couple — or save $2145 per couple with a partner-flies-free deal on any journey less than 14 days.
Phone 138 128 or visit www.scenic.com.au.


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Modern homemakers don't just need to know how to clean a toilet. They should educate themselves as to the environmentally friendly way to clean tough toilet stains that won't unnecessarily pollute our water supply or accidentally poison the family pet or even worse, the kids! I'm not the only person whose baby has mistaken the commode for a water park, am I?
Tank cleaners that come in the form of tablets or hanging capsules were all the rage for awhile. The belief was that if you properly cleaned the reservoir tank that those stubborn toilet rings would never show up in the first place. Now we know that this is wrong thinking in that we found out that this was not the magic cure it was held up to be. Plus, if you had a dog or a cat that enjoyed a refreshing drink from the commode from time to time we realized that toilet cleaner did little to enhance this experience. Even if you don't have an animal to worry with, why do we think it is a good thing to pour an unending supply of chemicals in our water? We should be more concerned with REMOVING chemicals from water rather than dumping more in.
The facts are that there is no magic cleaner or tip that I can share with you for how to clean your toilet while never having to go into the bathroom. I CAN tell you how to clean the commode and never get your hands dirty; wear gloves! Ok, I know that was cruel but let's get real.
Cleaning the toilet is an unpleasant task that takes some elbow grease and a cleaner helps. But chemical toilet cleaners are not part of how to clean a toilet in a safe, green and environmentally friendly fashion.
Did you know that plain soap and water do a very good job of killing germs? The only problem here is that pesky ring in the toilet bowl. That is a little harder to get rid of so here are some safe toilet cleaners that might make the job a little easier.
(1. Reduce the water level in the bowl and sprinkle it liberally with baking soda. Dash some (cheap) vinegar in the bowl and scrub with one of those green scrub pads or the toilet brush of your choice.
(2. Take one cup of Borax and add enough lemon juice or vinegar to make a paste. (I prefer lemon juice for its safe bleaching properties) Smear the recipe on that ugly toilet bowl ring and let it sit for two hours then scrub.
(3. Drop two denture cleaning tablets in the bowl when you go to bed at night. Scrub the bowl first thing the next morning.
So, that is how to clean a toilet without poisoning the family pet or our planet. If you use any of our green household cleaner recipes, please come back and give us a review as to how they performed.
Return to Home and Baby Parenting and Family Issues to find more tips on how to clean a toilet and green household cleaner recipes.


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Hey Guys,
Got a 4 port telkom 100 WR router. Was working great until I downgraded the firware to the one shipped with it.
Now it drops my lan every 20 secs.
Seems to flicker on the port I am and then when it drops , light up all the other ports and then goes dead - only power and Wifi on.
I am trying to get there via wifi to try get the updated firmware on but failing.
Any got any ideas how to fix this one. I have tried resetting (reset button + power on/off etc).
I have also tried it on multiple machines so cant be the NIC on the PC.


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School "Vladimir Streinu" Teiu is situated in southern Romania at a distance of 30 miles of city Pitesti, tulips'city, in Teiu village. Includes primary school cycle and secondary education cycle with a total of 100 children. Teiu School has a long history and strong bearing the name of a great Romanian poet "Vladimir Streinu".2009 position - 24th
Grimsås school represents Sweden for the 2nd year running. It is a quite small school, with about 90 pupils in the ages from 6 - 13. It is a countryside school in the south part of Sweden, 120 km from Gothenburg.
2009 position - 19th
2010 position - 9th
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Llangewydd Junior School is a large Junior School (7 - 11 year olds), on the West side of Bridgend in South Wales, about half way between Swansea and Cardiff. We are really pleased to be part of Schoolovision for the 3rd year, and we hope to represent our country well.
Canu'r dydd a canu'r nos!
2009 position - 16th
2010 position - 18th
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I love Target! I can spend a ton in there every day of the week. That fringe purse looks really fun. Have a great week! Stacie xoReplyDelete
I was grocery shopping at Target last night and didn't really have time to look around much at anything else. Looks like I need to hit the jewelry department ASAP! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
So obsessed with those wedges!!! Totally love themReplyDelete
I just got the short version of that dress in grey, and I love it. It's flattering and soft!ReplyDelete
Why did you have to go and post all of these wonderful things?? :) I love the bag, dress, wedges (yes, please - in all colors!), scarf, baubles....oh my I am in trouble!! I have actually been trying to keep myself away from Target this week but I think Thursday is going to be a nice day to see what they have on the shelves, don't you think?? Hope you are having a great Tuesday friend!ReplyDelete
I love how springy everything looks! I am a huge Target fan!ReplyDelete
Those wedges are going into my closet! Yay!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous fringe bag :) I like a lotReplyDelete


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So I am by no means a chef or cook of any kind. I can barely make cupcakes, out of the box, none the less frost them. So when I decide to make dinner, it's quite a feat for me. I wanted to share a few of my favorite, "lower calorie" meals that I love to fuel up on.
First is a Broccoli Chicken Mush. There is no other way to describe it, than a mush, I guess you can call it a bake, but it looks like a mushy pile of gooey goodness. Looks aren't everything though, especially down in the tum! It's super easy and quick to make too. After a run I usually throw the ingredients together, throw it in the oven and hop in the shower. When I get out, it's time to take it out! I know, I'm into multi-tasking. So here it is.
(that isn't my picture, but it looks like that!)
Broccoli Chicken Mush
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves (thawed)
1 pound broccoli florets, cooked
1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 can water
1 cup brown rice
First preheat the oven to 350 degrees, put the rice on the bottom of a 3 quart baking dish, put the chicken on top of it and then pour in the soup and water. It looks like a ton of water, but the rice absorbs it, don't worry. Put the broccoli into the pan. You can add some cheese on top of it, but if you want to cut calories, skip the cheese and use the Campbell's 98% fat free Cream of Mushroom soup. It doesn't mess with the taste at all, and there are only 70 calories in it. Then put it in the oven for 25-35 minutes. I usually like my broccoli super well done, so I leave mine in for around 35-40 minutes. It's delicious!
I also made these the other day, and though mine didn't come out right, (mine were like little weird lumpy biscuts) I know if I wouldn't have used the wrong ingredients they would have been just delicious as well. These are my favorite cupcakes in the entire world!
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Red Velvet Cupcakes
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 fluid ounce red food coloring
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 12 cup muffin pans or line with 20 paper baking cups. In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Mix in the eggs, buttermilk, red food coloring and vanilla. Stir in the baking soda and vinegar.
Combine the flour, cocoa powder and salt; stir into the batter just until blended. Spoon the batter into the prepared cups, dividing evenly. Bake in the preheated oven until the tops spring back when lightly pressed, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in the pan set over a wire rack. When cool, arrange the cupcakes on a serving platter and frost with desired frosting.
Pretty basic but oh so delicious! :) Especially if you have never made or had red velvet cupcakes, you are missing out!
Also this is my new FAVORITE website, Fast Food Maven, it's mostly for the Orange County area, but a lot of chains are also talked about on this blog, and it's so helpful. This is where I found out about the Wendy's Halloween Deal! It's not talked about on their website at all, but Wendy's has come up with a great alternative to handing out Halloween candy: a free Jr. Frosty.
Wendy's is selling booklets that contain a coupon good for one free Frosty Jr., which is six ounces and contains 150 calories. You can find it's nutritional info here. Each booklet cost $1 and contains 10 coupons, but some Wendy's are selling 5 coupons for a $1. Either way, what a fun, cheap treat, I think I'll just buy a book for myself :) A little reward during the work day!
And for all you candy fiends like myself, I have been doing some research about Halloween Candy. I have this problem, that if candy is around, I mow through it, but if it's not around, I never eat it. So I've been poking through some resources to find the best candy out there, since I seem to indulge way too much. I found that Twizzlers, individually wrapped – 40 calories aren't too bad, but make sure they are individually wrapped vines because that is the KEY here! They are good too! For suckers, Caramel Apple Pops – 60 calories, and are INCREDIBLE. Dum Dum Pops – 25 calories, are tiny, but do last a while and are pretty tasty. A personal favorite, Blow Pops – 60 calories are good too, and the bubblegum in the middle is a little extra special treat, as long as it's flavor lasts which is about two minutes.
(that isn't my picture, but I love this aisle! I'm like a bug to the light…)
Also chocolate, if you have to keep it around, try to go for the minis. The fun sizes, are not fun once you have to work off all the extra calories. Milky Way Minis – 38 calories, per mini while 2 fun sizes are 154 calories. Musketeers Minis – 24 calories, while 2 fun-sized Musketeers is 120 calories. Tootsie Roll Midgees – 23 calories, which are a personal favorite! Yea, sorry for just ruining all your candy dreams right there. One fun sized package of Skittles is 83 calories alone!
The overall outcome has lead me to believe that the smaller, the better. I've also tried to select candy that offers sugar-free options. Another thing I learned was to avoid the candy corn – it stays in molars and causes dental havoc. I'm working on learning to like dark chocolate. It's healthy and has less sugar. Dove and Hershey offer small dark chocolates.
Also if any of you are on linked in, I recently joined the Orange County Running Professionals Group, and I want to encourage you to, if you are in my area, join the Group, or start up your own running professional club by you! :) It's always nice to interact with other runners around the community.
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The salute is made by joining the index and middle fingers of the right hand (holding the other fingers with the thumb) and touching the extended fingers to the cap visor or forehead. The hand is held the same as for the Cub Scout sign, except the two fingers are together.
The Cub Scout salute is used to salute the flag when in uniform and to show respect to den and pack leaders. It can be used when greeting other Cub Scouts.


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Sandra Bullock may have won the Oscar -- but Miley Cyrus' Favorite Movie Actress win could've come with a bucketful of slime.
The "Hannah Montana" star won top honors at Saturday night's Kids Choice Awards, joining the hit vampire flick "Twilight" in the winner's circle at the annual Nickelodeon extravaganza.
"Twilight" teen phenom Taylor Lautner picked up two awards at the Los Angeles ceremony, winning an orange blimp -- the storied Kids' Choice trophy -- for Favorite Male Actor, as well as for his half of the inaugural Cutest Couple win he shared with co-star Kristin Stewart.
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Other big-name winners at the awards, hosted by "King of Queens" and "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" comedian Kevin James, included "Up" for animated movie, Jim Carrey for voice from an animated movie, "American Idol" for reality show, and Selena Gomez for TV actress.
Musicians who took home the blimps included the Black Eyed Peas, who won for best group, Jay-Z for male singer, and Taylor Swift for female singer and song "You Belong With Me."
Misty May Treanor, an Olympic gold medalist volleyball player, won for female athlete, while skateboarder Ryan Sheckler earned favorite male athlete honors.
Michelle Obama was also recognized, winning the "Big Help" award, honoring her "Let's Move" campaign to combat childhood obesity.
Presenters at the program included singer Katy Perry, who got blasted with slime as she presented Cyrus' award in the show's annual green-goo tradition. "Superbad" funnyman Jonah Hill stopped Perry from covering Cyrus in the messy slime as she chased the young actress across the stage, taking the singer down.
"First Date" co-stars Tina Fey and Steve Carell were also slimed onstage, as was host Kevin James.


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The U.S. tax code is a complex and burdensome maze of rates, exemptions, exclusions, credits, deductions, phase-out levels, and exceptions. People may not agree on anything else, but the nature of the tax code is certainly something that anyone of any political persuasion would agree on.
But with the expiration of the so-called Bush tax cuts looming on the horizon, the usual cries for reforming the tax code have been temporarily muted while attention is focused on renewing or extending the tax cuts; that is, keeping taxes from increasing on January 1, 2013.
If the Bush tax cuts are not extended, the current six tax brackets of 10, 15, 25, 28, 33, and 35 percent will decrease to five, with the rates increasing to 15, 28, 31, 36, and 39.6 percent, the child tax credit will decrease from $1,000 to $500, the maximum long-term capital gains rate will increase from 15 to 20 percent, qualified dividend income will be taxed as ordinary income rather than at the lower long-term capital gains rate, the section 179 expense deduction will decrease from a maximum of $250,000 to only $25,000, and the estate tax will increase with a vengeance.
But maintaining the status quo just averts a tax increase; it still leaves us with all the problems of the tax code.
The usual tax-reform idea, and the one that has been around the longest in a variety of incarnations, is the flat tax. Under a flat tax, there are no tax brackets and few or no tax deductions. The late economist Milton Friedman first proposed a flat tax back in 1962 when the highest marginal tax rate was 91 percent. The idea was resurrected in the 1980s by Hoover Institution economists Robert Hall and Alvin Rabushka, pushed by House Majority Leader Dick Armey in the 1990s, and then in the 2000s by former Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes.
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, thinks it has an improvement over traditional flat tax plans. In Saving the American Dream: The Heritage Plan to Fix the Debt, Cut Spending, and Restore Prosperity, it proposes a "unified single tax rate" tax reform plan that "is far more comprehensive than previous well-known tax reform proposals." Under the Heritage plan, the current system would be transformed into "a modern flat tax that taxes individual income only once and replaces all federal income taxes, all payroll taxes, the death tax, and virtually all excises." A new flat-rate tax would be applied to income "after deducting all savings."
What makes this flat-tax plan so unique is that it "folds today's federal payroll taxes financing Social Security and Medicare into the new system." Up until now, this was only suggested by the FairTax proposal for a national sales tax. Americans currently pay Social Security taxes of 10.4 percent (4.2 percent on employees & 6.2 percent on employers) on the first $110,100 of income plus Medicare taxes of 2.9 percent (split between employees and employers) on all income earned. But even though payroll taxes would be eliminated, "the revenues they would have raised are credited appropriately to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds." Income tax withholding would continue as now.
The new Heritage tax system "is designed to raise a permanent revenue stream of up to 18.5 percent of the economy as measured by GDP." To meet this target, Heritage estimates that "the statutory individual and business tax rates will likely be between 25 and about 28 percent under traditional scoring methods."
The Heritage tax plan "ends the existing tax exclusion for employee compensation in the form of employer-sponsored health insurance. This means that the value of employer-paid health insurance premiums is included in the employee's total taxable compensation." The plan also includes as income not only all labor compensation, but "all net borrowings."
Under the Heritage plan, there are only three available deductions or credits: higher education (up to the average annual cost at a four-year public college or university), charitable donations and other gifts, and home mortgage interest. To encourage seniors to stay in the workforce longer (as if that were a proper function of government), "the first $10,000 of a senior's wages and salary is excluded from tax." (There is also a "senior-specific" feature called a "senior's standard exclusion" that would only apply during the transition period in the Saving the American Dream proposal to save and reform Social Security and Medicare.)
The Heritage intention of a tax rate between 25 and 28 percent for everyone is fiction, and not just because the deductions for education expenses, charitable giving, and mortgage interest will only be taken by select taxpayers.
The Heritage flat tax plan is a highly progressive tax plan just like our current Marxist tax code that punishes "the rich." Who said progressivity requires graduated tax rates? And who said it is just Democrats that are obsessed with making "the rich" pay their "fair share"?
According to IRS figures for tax year 2009, the top 1 percent of taxpayers (in terms of adjusted gross income) paid 36.73 percent of all federal income taxes. The top 5 percent of taxpayers paid 58.66 percent. The top 10 percent of taxpayers paid 70.47. The top 25 percent of taxpayers paid 87.3 percent of the taxes, and the top 50 percent paid a whopping 97.75 percent.
Nothing in the Heritage plan will change this disparity because it includes "protections for low-income working households." Even though, as mentioned previously, "the value of employer-paid health insurance premiums is included in the employee's total taxable compensation" (which primarily hurts middle and upper income taxpayers), taxable income "excludes all other cash and noncash benefits provided by the federal government through its anti-poverty programs, such as food stamps" (which primarily helps lower income taxpayers). The Heritage tax plan includes the Earned Income Credit (EIC) "as part of the overall system of financial support for low-income Americans." There is no mention of what the amount of the EIC will be under the Heritage plan. Currently, for tax year 2012, the maximum amount is $5,891 (for three or more children) and the maximum income level is $45,060 ($50,270 for married filing jointly).
And then there is the new health insurance tax credit. Under the Heritage plan, there would be a credit of $2,000 for individuals and $3,500 for families used to "offset the cost of coverage offered through the workplace or to buy insurance outside the workplace." However, "for upper-income households, the new credit is typically less and is reduced as income rises." The phase-out range is from $50,000 to $90,000 for an individual and from $100,000 to $170,000 for a family. But what if a household has no tax liability? Never fear, "Financial assistance for purchasing insurance, equivalent to the tax credit, is made available to households with no tax liability and prorated to those households with a tax liability less than the value of the available credit."
And is gets even worse for "the rich" who are on Social Security or Medicare. Under the Saving the American Dream proposal to save and reform Social Security, benefits are means tested. Those making between $55,000 and $110,000 ($110,000 and $165,000 for married couples) will receive a reduced benefit amount. Those making more than the income ceiling "will receive no Social Security payments." The figures are the same for Medicare. Yet, because the Heritage plan "folds today's federal payroll taxes financing Social Security and Medicare into the new system," those who receive no Social Security or Medicare benefits will still pay the same 25 to 28 percent tax rate as those who don't.
The government forcing "the rich" to pay more because of their ability and subsidizing "the poor" because of their need is simply putting into the practice the Marxist dictum: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
If you want an example of a real flat tax, look no further than the 2.9 percent Medicare tax. Everyone pays 2.9 percent (split between employer and employee), on every dollar earned, no matter one's marital status, number of dependents, or income level. Any flat tax not structured like this is still a progressive tax.
The progressive U.S. income tax system is a vast income redistribution and social engineering scheme. In his powerful pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine remarked: "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Although the federal government in the early years of the American republic may not have been government at its best state, the federal government as it exists today is certainly an intolerable one. It is intolerable because it embodies the role of government as described by Voltaire: "The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
But of course, if government spending were strictly limited to only what is constitutionally authorized, there would be no need for an income tax in the first place, progressive or otherwise.


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Now it's Hurricane Isaac. The storm turned into a full-blown Category 1 hurricane Tuesday as it rolled over the Gulf of Mexico toward Louisiana, where residents in four states left boarded-up homes and New Orleans waited behind flood-defense levees strengthened after the devastating Katrina struck exactly seven years ago.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm, with 75 mph (120 kph) winds, had gained strength as it moved over the warm, open waters of the gulf. It was expected to reach the swampy coast of southeast Louisiana by early Wednesday.
The focus has been on New Orleans as the massive, slow-moving storm takes aim at the city, but the impact will be felt well beyond the city limits, especially in expected storm surges of up to 12 feet (3.6 meters) in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The storm's winds could be felt more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from the storm's center.
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The hurricane has churned into the middle of the tight U.S. presidential election, with Republicans this week meeting nearby in Florida to nominate Mitt Romney to challenge President Barack Obama.
Obama, mindful of how his administration's response to the storm could be judged, spoke on Isaac from the White House on Tuesday morning before departing on a three-state campaign trip. The storm already had delayed the planned Monday start of the Republican National Convention.
"Now is not the time to tempt fate," Obama said. "You need to take this seriously."
The storm system was centered about 80 miles (128 kilometers) south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) and was moving northwest at 10 mph (16 kph), according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. It was 165 miles (265 kilometers) southeast of New Orleans. Yesterday, Isaac was moving at 14 m.p.h.
Although Isaac's approach on the eve of the Katrina anniversary invited obvious comparisons, the storm is nowhere near as powerful as Katrina was when it struck on Aug. 29, 2005. Katrina at one point reached Category 5 status, with winds of more than 157 mph (252 kph), and made landfall as a Category 3 storm.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu did not activate a mandatory evacuation for Isaac. Instead, officials urged residents to hunker down and make do with the supplies they had.
Federal officials said the updated levees around New Orleans are equipped to handle storms stronger than Isaac. The Army Corps of Engineers was given about $14 billion to improve flood defenses, and most of the work has been completed. The levees are designed to withstand storm surges as high as 26 feet (7.9 meters) in some places.
But anxiety was high, especially in the city's Lower 9th Ward, wiped out by Katrina after floodwalls burst and let the waters rush in.
"I don't really trust the levees," said Robert Washington, who planned to evacuate along with his wife and five children. "I don't want to take that chance. I saw how it looked after Katrina back here."
His neighborhood, just a few blocks from where the floodwall protecting the Lower 9th Ward broke open, remains largely empty.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center warned that Isaac, especially if it strikes at high tide, could cause storm surges of up to 12 feet (3.6 meters) along the coasts of southeast Louisiana and Mississippi and up to 6 feet (1.8 meters) as far away as the Florida Panhandle.
States of emergency were in effect in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. No flights were scheduled Tuesday, the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport said.
The Coast Guard was searching the Gulf of Mexico near the Florida-Alabama state line Tuesday for a man who failed to return home Monday from a water-scooter trip as Isaac was approaching the coast.
The U.S. government said 78 percent of the oil production in the Gulf of Mexico has been halted in preparation for the storm as companies have evacuated 346 offshore oil and gas production platforms. That's 17 percent of daily U.S. oil production.
One question haunting locals was how much oil left over from the massive Gulf oil spill in 2010 might wind up on the beaches because of the storm. Experts believe large tar mats lie submerged just off the coast, but no one knows where they are or how many there might be.
Isaac left 24 dead in Haiti and the Dominican Republic but left little damage in the Florida Keys as it blew past.
The new hurricane was already deeply woven into political concerns beyond the Republican convention. The slow response to Katrina, which killed 1,800 and left New Orleans in chaos, led to severe criticism of then-President George W. Bush's Republican administration. This time, both Obama and Romney are cautious about the impressions made.
Obama on Monday asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster relief efforts with state and local officials along the Gulf Coast. But Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, shot back late Monday in a letter to the Obama administration that the declaration fell short of the help he was requesting.
The White House did not respond immediately to requests for comment on Jindal's letter.
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Burdeau reported from New Orleans.
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The images of Olivia Engel, 6, will live far beyond her short lifetime. There she is, visiting with Santa Claus, or feasting on a slice of birthday cake. There's the one of her swinging a pink baseball bat, and another posing on a boat. In some, she models a pretty white dress, in others she makes a silly face.
Dan Merton, a longtime friend of the girl's family, says he could never forget the child, and he has much to say when he thinks of her.
"She loved attention," he said. "She had perfect manners, perfect table manners. She was the teacher's pet, the line leader."


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ECUEILLE, France (Reuters) - Shirt manufacturer Marc Roudeillac was delighted when 48 of the 49 staff in his factory in central France voted to adapt their strict 35-hour week contracts to meet the up-and-down demand of the fashion trade.
Then the labor inspector stepped in and ruled the contracts must not be changed. So Roudeillac began an overtime system with 25 percent hourly bonuses. Again, the seamstresses were happy - until the government this year scrapped tax breaks on overtime.
"Now, no one wants to do overtime anymore - they say it's just not worth their while," Roudeillac said at his Confection du Boischaut Nord (CBN) company in the region of Indre, a two-hour drive south of Paris.
CBN is a small miracle of manufacturing: it is one of the few firms in Indre's once-buoyant local textiles sector to have withstood the onslaught of foreign competition, first from southern Europe, then North Africa and now Asia.
Yet the overtime episode is a telling insight into a France struggling with itself: the France whose appetite for work sits uneasily with the France whose priority is to sustain one of highest standards of living in the world.
In just over 30 years after World War Two, France lifted itself from the ignominy of Nazi occupation into a sleek and modern Group of Seven economy with world-beating industrial champions in sectors such as energy and aerospace.
Its welfare system is among the most generous in the world. A road and rail transport network means its companies are within hours of tens of millions of potential customers. It is a leader in luxury goods and is the world's top tourist destination.
But somehow that Gallic vigour is being lost.
Unemployment is at 14-year highs as plant closures mount, France's share of export markets is declining, and the fact that no government in three decades has managed a budget surplus has created a public debt pile almost as big as national output.
Louis Gallois, the industrialist charged by President Francois Hollande to address France's waning competitiveness, even warned in a November report: "French industry has hit a critical threshold below which it risks breaking apart."
The euro zone's debt crisis too has shone a harsh spotlight on France. The International Monetary Fund believes France could get left behind as Italy and Spain are pushed by the crisis into profound economic reform. Ratings agencies Moody's and Standard and Poor's have stripped French debt of its AAA rating.
Diagnosing France's ills has created a whole new literary genre - the work of the self-appointed "declinologues" whose tomes compete on bookshelves to explain and fix the problem.
But the simplest test of France's health is whether a business like CBN can keep selling the world its shirts.
One hundred years ago, local entrepreneur Marcel Boussac put Indre on the world textiles map when he ended what was known as the "black look" in France by introducing color into the clothes manufacturing process.
Boussac founded a conglomerate that acted as its own bank and insurance broker and in 1946 bankrolled the first Paris fashion house of an up-and-coming designer called Christian Dior. He had a stable of racehorses, a country chateau and was at one point reputed to be Europe's richest man.
Boussac, like millions of French, was the beneficiary of France's "Glorious 30" - 30 years of uninterrupted boom in which post-World War Two U.S. aid and heavy state planning wrenched its transport, energy, housing, financial and farming sectors into the second half of the 20th century.
It was a period of high wages, high consumption, full employment and very little foreign competition. And it all came to a juddering halt when the 1973 oil crisis sent energy costs soaring and capped the Western world's growth rates for good.
There are no racehorses or country estates for Roudeillac and business partner Richard Boireau, who arrive for work in modest family saloon cars and share a desk in a cramped six-meter-square office.
If their company survives, it is largely thanks to a 20-year alliance serving a major Japanese fashion brand - whose name they asked should not be published - and a manufacturing model pared right down to the bone.
A trained engineer, Roudeillac, 45, says 80 percent of CBN's costs are labor - the local mushroom-picker, beautician or school-leaver whom he and Boireau meticulously train to contribute to the CBN production line.
Because CBN gets the client to purchase the raw materials, and all other overheads are low, CBN's slender gross margin of around six percent depends on optimizing what Roudeillac calls the "productive minute" of the seamstresses.
"What we do is sell French labor - by the minute," he says of their daily output of 200 shirts and 90 jackets.
Now CBN wants to strike out and revive an 86-year-old French brand of shirt called "Lordson" which fell prey to the textile sector's decline but which CBN believes has potential in the high-end quality segment of the market.
The "Lordson" will feature a rich cotton that feels smoother on the back after three years of washes, sleek three-millimeter seams about half the size of normal stitching, and buttons stuck on with a special machine of which only three exist in France.
There is one snag.
"Given our costs, it is impossible to retail a "Made in France" quality shirt for less than 140 euros," said Boireau, who entered the trade sweeping factory floors.
"At 120 euros a shirt it works. But at 140 - not sure."
If veteran textile entrepreneurs like Boireau fear they cannot hit the price point on their signature shirt, it is a direct result of choices made by France after the oil crisis.
By 1980, French economic growth had shrunk to two percent compared to its pre-oil crisis rate of above six percent - a rate which France and most rich states have not seen since.
In the years that followed, governments around the world reacted in their fashion: Britain's Margaret Thatcher faced down Britain's unions in a drive to free up labor markets, while Scandinavian leaders sought to free their economies of debt.
In France, governments of left and right chose entrenchment: strong rises in public spending which helped ease the social and employment shocks but which sent national debt soaring from 20 percent of output in 1980 to its current record of 91 percent.
The next three decades are sometimes called the "Pitiful 30"
Unwilling to switch from a pre-oil crisis policy of boosting consumption with low sales taxes, French politicians used labor to fund the bulk of the welfare spend. The result, 30 years later, is that French labor charges are among the highest in the European Union with those in Sweden and Belgium.
The high productivity of its workers might have compensated for their rising cost. But decisions such as the 1997 cut in the working week from 39 to 35 hours meant many French were also starting to work less.
A 2008 paper on "the Liberation of French growth" by Jacques Attali, ex-adviser to Socialist President Francois Mitterand, calculated that while the French lived 20 years longer than they did in 1936, they worked 15 years less over their lifespan - a shortfall he labeled "35 years of extra inactivity".
"Even given that each French worker produces five percent more per hour than an American, he produces 35 percent less over his working life," he found in the 245-page report.
Even that would not be disastrous if employers simply hired more people - the whole point of the 35-hour week after all was to reduce unemployment by requiring more workers to be taken on to do the same job.
But small companies like CBN insist it was plain unrealistic to assume they can simply hire more people for the same cost and without disruption to existing work patterns.
"When they brought in the 35-hour week, I wrote a letter to our clients saying, "Sorry, but as of tomorrow, prices are going up 11 percent," recalls Boireau.
French laws which make it difficult to lay off workers have created the perverse incentive for employers to stop offering permanent contracts that in many cases equate to a job for life.
Instead they turn to temporary contracts when they need extra labor, creating for millions of French the very labor insecurity which the law was supposed to prevent.
While today the majority of French workers still benefit from a permanent contract, three out of four new jobs are on fixed-term contracts, often for no more than a month.
The split personality of the labor market is, experts agree, a major drag on its economy. At one end there is expensive but inflexible labor and at the other cheap but ill-trained and often demoralized fill-in workers.
Roudeillac acknowledges that CBN is one of the employers who turn to temporary labor to help with peak production periods - but he would prefer not to. "We could take on six or seven more people. But in France, hiring people is a risk," he said.
For think tanks such as the OECD, the solution is simple: the first group needs to hand over some of their job security to the second group by accepting more flexible contracts. Surely such a burden-sharing should be easy for a country built on the ideals of "Liberty, equality and fraternity"?
Not a bit of it. In the past 30 years, France became not one country but two: the France of the "insiders" and the France of the "outsiders". And the reason it is so hard to reform is that the insiders are determined to keep the rest out.
Those "in" the system include workers on long-term contracts, labor groups protecting their interests, and the mostly large companies who have found an accommodation with the system. Those left "out" are the growing army of temporary contract workers, small firms such as CBN who do not have the economies of scale to allay the high cost of labor, and of course France's three million-plus unemployed.
"Neither the employers nor the trade unions want real reform - they are both in the insiders' camp," explains Eric Chaney, chief economist for insurer Axa Group. "The employers are scared of strikes and unions don't want to change anything in the system because the people they are protecting are insiders too."
Hollande has begun his plan to restore France's competitive position with corporate tax credits linked to labor hires. He has also launched a public investment bank aimed to make up for France's lack of venture capital. At his behest, French trade unions and employers have a year-end deadline to negotiate rules offering more flexibility and greater job security.
Yet it is unclear whether any accord will crack the mould. A dramatic cut in labor charges is not on the table and the 2013 budget stays clear of spending cuts sought by the reform lobby.
As CBN's managers gear up to bring the world the Lordson shirt next year, they will need Hollande to go a few steps further in helping them sell the product of French labor.
"We need something better adapted to the world now," said Boireau. "It needn't take very much."
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Freak Vehicles for Air, Land, and Water (Sep, 1933)
Freak Vehicles for Air, Land, and Water
Birds, Dogs and Other Animals Used to Propel the Odd Boats, Wagons, and Airships Inventors Have Devised in Their Efforts to Bring About Faster, Safer,
and More Certain Ways to Travel
RIDING to the North Pole pulled by a kite! Crossing the Sahara in a juggernaut with fifty-foot wheels! Galloping along the ground on a mechanical horse with steel-pipe legs! Rolling over trees and houses in a 115-foot canvas ball blown by the wind like a tumbleweed!
Such are the curious, fantastic forms of conveyance inventors have proposed in the long search for swifter travel. Digging into the files of old newspapers and patents, you find a fascinating record of the inventive mind grappling with the problems of increasing human comfort and speed. It is a chronicle of queer ideas, of freak vehicles, of oddities of transportation.
Only a few weeks ago, a California inventor added to this list by obtaining a patent upon a water craft designed to roll across the surface of the sea.
His ship (see this month's cover) is a gigantic ball of metal with a streamlined passenger cabin trailing high behind on a Y-shaped arm of steel. Heavy Deisel-electric engines inside the ball roll it forward through the water by running up the side on an endless track like a squirrel in a cage. Fins, jutting around the tread of the ball, grip the water and aerial propellers at either end of the axle steer the craft to left or right. Passageways, running through the hollow supporting arm and axle, connect the cabin and the interior of the ball, while a gyroscope holds the craft erect upon the water. The inventor expects his vessel to be used for amusement-park purposes and in addition be valuable for transport work.
Ships designed to roll like wheels across the surface of the water have been proposed by many men. A quarter of a century ago, one, nicknamed the "Steel Log Steamer", was built and given a 200-mile test in Canada. The invention of a Toronto lawyer, it was a 110-foot hollow steel cylinder with rudders at each end and a wide row of fins encircling the middle. Inside the cylinder, two small locomotives, one near either end, puffed away on endless tracks, running up the side to roll the freak craft broadside through the water.
It was completed in 1906. In a final test, it rolled from Toronto down Lake Ontario to the St. Lawrence River and down the river to Prescott, Canada, opposite Ogdensburg. With the engines going full tilt, the curious vessel attained a speed of six miles an hour. At the time, the inventor planned to construct a trans-Atlantic liner built on the same principle. It was to be 800 feet long and 200 feet in diameter. Sitting down with a pad and pencil, he calculated that if he could obtain only twenty-five revolutions a minute from this huge rolling log, he could attain trans-oceanic speeds of 200 miles an hour with his strange rolling craft.
While its speed was nothing to brag about, another application of squirrel cage power caused considerable comment in America fifty years ago.
A French engineer designed an apparatus called a Cynosphere. It was a tricycle with a small steering wheel in front and two large and curious wheels behind. Each of the rear wheels was shaped like a circular cage and contained a large dog. These "power-plants" rolled the carriage ahead by running squirrel-fashion on narrow tracks.
The operator sat in a sulky seat between the wheels and could throw the motors into "high" by exhibiting food or even a cat on special occasions. Whenever the dogs became tired, the engineer pointed out, the operator could change engines by replacing them with other animals. Patents on the idea were taken out both in France and the United States. The French Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was consulted and was said to have given its sanction to the plan.
In the United States, advertisements appeared in various publications setting forth in glowing terms the virtues of the Cynosphere. "It is of light and graceful mechanism," they read, "so it can be used by ladies and children as well as by gentlemen. For pleasure purposes, it is unsurpassed and its moderate expense brings it within easy reach of all. When it is fully introduced to the American public, it is destined to attain greater popularity than that now held by the velocipede!"
An even queerer attempt to utilize living motors is contained in a balloon patent issued in the United States in 1881. By fitting birds with corsets, the inventor planned to steer his dirigible through the sky.
Eagles and vultures, wearing these harnesses, which left them free to flap their wings, were to be mounted on rollers so they could be moved about to lift at the right place and guide the nose of the aircraft up or down, to left or right.
A wooden snake and a bumblebee suggested two other strange vehicles of the air to early experimenters. In the West, a mechanic worked for seven years upon a dirigible with a bag made up of segments like the sections of a toy snake. The idea was that the leading section would steer the ship, the others following like a train rounding a curve.
The bumblebee craft was the product of a Belgian inventor. It was a flying machine with an immense air-sack at the rear, looking like the segmented abdomen of an insect. In landing, the machine was supposed to drop backward to the ground, striking on this air-bag, the segments of which would telescope together to break the fall!
In the early days of railroading, a mule was the inspiration of a queer idea in connection with transportation. Trainmen in the Southwest had to make frequent stops to drive mules and cattle off the track. This was the cue for a Kansas inventor to step forward with his patented mule-remover.
It was a stop-cock arrangement to be installed on the front of the locomotive and operated from the engineer's cabin. When a mule appeared on the track ahead, the engineer would pull a lever and out would squirt a hundred-yard stream of hot water that would clear the track. To take care of animals on the turns, the gadget was arranged so it could be shifted from side to side to shoot around curves as well as in a straight line!
Sometimes, one of these laughed-at innovators was actually skirting the borders of a great invention. Such was the case with Peter Nissen, the Chicago accountant, and his "Fool-killer III," undoubtedly one of the weirdest vehicles ever conceived.
In the early years of the present century, Nissen was seeking a way to reach the North Pole. One of his schemes for traversing the rough Arctic ice was to use an automobile equipped with huge, low-pressure tires. Thus, thirty years before this time, Nissen dreamed of the modern balloon tire. Unfortunately for him, he didn't stop there. The idea of the balloon tire kept growing in his mind. It got bigger and bigger and eventually the automobile disappeared from his plans and only the tire remained!
This was his fantastic scheme: He would construct a canvas bag, 115 feet long and seventy-five feet in diameter, fill it with hydrogen gas and sail as far north as possible. Then he would let out the gas, detach the car and, carrying it inside through a trap-door in the canvas, attach it to a central axle held in place by ropes radiating out to the envelope.
Climbing into the car, he would start a suction pump and fill the huge bag, higher than a six-story building, with air. Then he would let the wind roll him across the ice toward the Pole!
By sliding the car along the axle from one side to the other, he planned to alter the course of the rolling bag. If the wind shifted, blowing from the wrong direction, he would deflate the envelope and anchor it until the breeze again favored him. Then reinflating the immense football, he would roll on toward his goal. With the pump keeping the internal pressure of the bag at about one-half ounce per square inch, Nissen figured he could roll over masses of ice as big as a small house without a jar and could run smoothly across snow and open water even in the grip of a seventy-five mile an hour blizzard.
To test his idea, Nissen built three experimental bags. The last, dubbed "Foolkiller III," was thirty-two feet long and twenty-two feet in diameter. It was made of heavy canvas, varnished several times. In this airtight ball, he rolled over the surface of Lake Michigan for distances up to two miles, during the summer and fall of 1905. Then, on the afternoon of November 29, he started his ill-fated attempt to cross the lake during a terrific gale.
Steamers were hugging their ports at four o'clock in the afternoon when he crawled into the canvas ball and sealed the opening. At the muffled word from within, helpers released the envelope and the huge ball rolled down the shore and into the water, growing smaller and smaller until it disappeared over the eastern horizon. During the night, the wind reached fifty miles an hour and it grew bitter cold. Two days passed without a word from the canvas ball. Then, hunters on the eastern shore of the lake, nearly a hundred miles away, found Nissen's frozen body and remains of the strange vehicle that had carried him to death.
In one of his pockets was a card bearing the scribbled words: "Air hose has broken. N." The "Foolkiller III" had survived the storm and had crossed the lake. But the defective hose had allowed it to become partially deflated so it had failed to roll up on the sand out of the pounding surf. Nissen had cut his way out of the envelope. Then, weakened by the bitter cold and exhausted by his struggle with the surf, he had perished on the shore. Imagine a trip to the North Pole pulled by a kite! That was the journey visioned thirty years ago by an English experimenter, S. F. Cody, who later made some of the pioneer airplane flights in the British Isles. Shortly before, the Norwegian explorer, Fridtjof Nan-sen, had returned with the report that he had been stopped before reaching the North Pole by a wall of ice 125 feet high. Cody suggested that kites could be used to lift sleds and supplies over such a barrier as well as to pull them along the level ice. As proof of his contention, he constructed a curious kite-driven boat and crossed the English Channel in thirteen hours, pulled through the water by his aerial power-plant.
That was in 1903. In the same year, one of the strangest of these curiosities of transportation appeared, also in England. It was a walking steam-engine. Its inventor called it the Pedrail. Instead of ordinary wheels, this footed locomotive had a series of heavy, circular metal blocks, suggesting elephant hoofs, facing outward around the rim. As they neared the ground, the mechanism within the wheel brought them into position so they were planted firmly and the engine advanced on an endless procession of steel feet. In tests, the Pedrail climbed over stones and timbers put in its way.
Even the wildest plan in this realm of constant flux cannot be dismissed without consideration. Nothing in all this recital of mechanical oddities appeared more absurd or outlandish than did the autogiro when it first appeared on the horizon of invention. Yet, today, the flying windmill is an accepted feature of the airways.
During the last century—a hundred years of amazing advance in comfort and speed— the inventors of strange, surprising, often fantastic vehicles have played a little-appreciated part. For without realizing it, the world is frequently indebted to their dreams for stimulating other workers and to their pioneering for opening new paths of research.


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ISP Offers Young People an Up Close Look at Law Enforcement
Most television viewers have seen at least part of a CSI or Law and Order episode. These shows seem to have spurred a new interest in law enforcement and forensics. For over 40 years the Indiana State Police have been giving young people an up close look at law enforcement through its youth camps program.
The three-day Respect for Law Camp is an exciting look at law enforcement for students entering 5th and 6th grades. Troopers and other police officers staff the co-ed camps and programs include spectacular demonstrations by Emergency Response Teams, Bomb Squads, Underwater Search and Rescue Teams and police dogs. Campers participate in recreational activities, make new friends and go home with a new respect for themselves and others.
Respect for Law Camp costs $125 and will be held at: University of Southern Indiana (June 13th-15th ), Hanover College (June 20th-22nd) Vincennes University (June 6th-8th), Anderson University (July 11th-13th), and Notre Dame University (June 27th-29th ).
Lions Law Camp gives students entering the 7th and 8th grades a behind the scenes look at the criminal justice system. The four-day co-ed camp offers a more advanced look at law enforcement through field trips, exciting demonstrations and motivating programs. Campers meet peers from around the state, participate in recreational activities and leave with a greater understanding of the police field. Law Camp costs $140 and will be held at: Vincennes University (June 12th -15th ) and Anderson University (July 10th-13th ).
Similar to the Indiana State Police Academy, Career Camp gives high school students an in-depth look at law enforcement. Campers conduct their own crime scene investigations, hear from defense attorneys, judges, and other experts in the criminal justice field, and watch exciting police demonstrations during the weeklong camps.
Career Camp, which is co-ed, allows students to make friends from around the state, participate in recreational activities and experience what the police academy is like. The camp will be held at: Vincennes University (July 7th -12th) and Trine University in Angola (July 14th-19th). The camps costs $225.
Scholarships are available to all camps. The camps are made possible through the support of the Indiana District Optimists, Indiana Troopers Youth Services, Jaycees, Lions Clubs of Indiana and many generous sponsors around the state.
For more information about Indiana State Police Youth Services Camps, please call 888.477.9688 or visit www.in.gov/isp/2329.htm or the Indiana Troopers Youth Services website at www.trooper.org.
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So you are looking for an opportunity to work in Ireland? How does a job in customer service sound? A job in Cork for an amazing employer based in the second biggest county in Ireland. You could work for an employer who truly values their employees and sees them as their biggest asset and where there is the very real possibility for growth in a short period of time as you will be joining a brand new team. You can expect to earn €22,000 gross per year with a €1000 euro language bonus - be put up for 2 weeks by our client to help you settle in (relocation package )and live the action packed city that is Cork.
What will you do in this job?
As the latest addition to this exciting new project in Cork, it will be your job to answer customer queries mainly through Email and occasionally through phone and chat. In terms of resolving customer's issues you will be tasked with investigating and researching these issues so that you can identify their problem and then escalate it when needed in order to ensure a timely and efficient customer experience. Our client is looking for someone with an eye for detail so for you to actively keep an eye out for possible ways to improve their overall service to customers would be a big plus in our client's eyes. You will support your fellow team mates, sharing words of wisdom especially when it comes to increasing productivity.
Who will you be working for?
Our client is an Irish owned outsourcing company that provides customer service and IT support solutions to a number of companies worldwide. They are constantly growing, and thanks to that we can offer you a job in Customer Service once you speak Dutch of course.
The project that they are looking for you to be a part of is for an international online and billing and payment service provider.
Who are we looking for?
For this Customer Service job we are looking for a near native Dutch speaker who has a good level of English and that you have exceptional written and verbal communicational skills in both Dutch and English. You are a great problem solver who is also a quick learner as you could be using systems that you are not familiar with in the beginning. An empathetic person who can connect with customers is important as customer relationships is important to our client. You like working with computers and have a strong team spirit as you would be working in a brand new team that will be small at first, but the opportunity for growth is very real and could happen rather quickly. Lastly previous customer service experience is crucial for this Dutch speaking job so make sure that is clear in your CV, when you register with us.
Where would you be working?
This particular Dutch customer service job is based in the beauty that is Cork, a county that is proud in supporting the GAA (Football, Hurling, Rugby) the list goes on, but the games all come action packed and full of excitement, you will find yourself loving them too. Cork is already home to a number of multilingual people, so imagine the diverse and multicultural environment that awaits you, all those amazing people that are waiting to meet you, that can go with you in exploring the beauty that is Cork.
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After you have clicked apply what's going to happen is, a quick phone screening, and then language test (Dutch). Lastly there will be an in-depth interview through Skype and in your final stage there will be a reference check.
This is a customer service job where you would be expected to work in shifts from Monday-Sunday between 7am -7pm 5 days a week (40 hours a week).
If you are successful you will be looking at a salary of €22,000 (gross per annum) along with a €1000 language bonus, there is also a relocation package on offer - our client will put you up for 2 weeks in a hotel if you are successful in getting the job, so that's one worry off your back.
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Tutorial: OpenOffice.Org Mail Mergelast updated in Categories fedora linux, Gnome, GNU/Open source, Howto, Linux, Linux desktop, OS X, Tips, Ubuntu Linux, UNIX, Windows
Mail merge is a software function describing the production of multiple documents from a single template form and a structured data source. This helps to create personalized letters and pre-addressed envelopes or mailing labels for mass mailings from a word processing document which contains fixed text, which will be the same in each output document, and variables, which act as placeholders that are replaced by text from the data source. The data source is typically a spreadsheet or a database which has a field or column matching each variable in the template. When the mail merge is run, the word processing system creates an output document for each row in the database, using the fixed text exactly as it appears in the template, but substituting the data variables in the template with the values from the matching columns.
This technique of merging data to create mailshots gave rise to the term mail merge. OpenOffice.Org has a in built software mail merge feature.
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While "V"'s Morena Baccarin was in town for New York Comic Con this past weekend to talk up the show's return to ABC in November, she set the record straight to Access Hollywood regarding the chances of re-teaming with director/producer Joss Whedon for a part in his big screen adaptation of Marvel Studios "The Avengers."
"I wish I had more information for you," she said (with a notable big beaming smile), when asked about any talks with Joss, specifically about playing The Wasp in the film.
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Morena is no stranger to the fan boy community. She was part of the ensemble cast of Joss Whedon's short-lived FOX series "Firefly," and its big screen follow-up "Serenity." Morena now stars in ABC's reboot of the 80's sci-fi classic "V" as Anna, the alien lizard Queen of the Visitors.
When genre king Joss Whedon was announced to direct Marvel Studios' big budget super team-up movie, every past and present name from the Whedon-verse was suddenly thrust into the rumor mill as a candidate for any possible superhero roles still left uncast.
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"All I will say is I will never turn down an opportunity to work with him," she responded when pressed further on the possibility. "He's one of my favorite people in the world."
The Wasp (who was part of the comic book storyline as a founding member of The Avengers alongside Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk, and Ant Man), may not end up appearing in the final shooting script currently being retooled by Whedon. Though in past Marvel films, surprise cameos have become almost expected.
With both Baccarin's connection to Whedon and more than a passing resemblance to the character with the short pixie cut which she currently sports for "V," Morena would certainly appear to be a perfect fit for the role.
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Electron and Ion Microscopies as Characterization Tools for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
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Electron and ion microscopy techniques allow one to obtain high spatial resolution images and spectroscopic information of both the surface and internal structure of nanostructured materials. In this tutorial, I will present a broad overview of the basic physical principles that underly the techniques of scanning electron microscopy, focused ion beam microscope and transmission electron microscopy, and present copious examples from both my own work and the literature regarding how these techniques can applied to understand processing / structure / property relationships in nanostructured materials. The intent of the presentation is to convey a sense of the power of the techniques and how they can impact your research. Special emphasis will be placed on the capabilities (existing and planned) in the microscopy labs of the Birck Nanotechnology Center.
Professor Eric Stach received a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Engineering from Duke University in 1992. In 1994, he received his M.S. from the University of Washington and in 1998 he received his PhD from the University of Virginia, both in Materials Science and Engineering. He joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA where he was a Materials Staff Scientist at the National Center for Electron Microscopy, and in 2003 became a Program Leader in the Metals Program, Materials Science Division. He began his career at Purdue in the School of Materials Engineering in January 2005. His research interests include high-resolution in-situ electron microscopy techniques to understand how nanometer lengths scales affect the fundamental mechanical, thermomechanical and electromechanical behavior of materials.
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Inverted Totalitarianism and the Corporate State
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February 27, 2012
Stricken with a terminal disease, the decline of traditional society is unavoidable. For decades, the political institutions that fostered a Republic based upon individual liberty and responsibility fade into fond memory.
Defenders of all that made America a shining example of human freedom are attacked and ridiculed for holding onto a moral and ethical system that is based upon the dignity of every individual.
Most will blame the failure of this decay on the politicians that willfully pander to the masses with the next generation of social welfare programs.
While defining a politician as a scoundrel, deserving damnation, seems obvious; the underlying source of the decay that eats away the culture comes from various directions.
The trends toward despotism are visible for all to see. Most prefer their blinded vision because accepting the lethal condition might require some proactive response.
The idea that a single dictator will seize power and rule as a tyranny seems foreign to many plebeians.
Yet, the daily news that flows from the corporate mass media build upon the absence of real reporting and fundamental truth that ignores, denies and substitutes meaningless stories for earth shattering events.
Therefore, the significance of the concept, inverted totalitarianism, as defined by Sheldon S. Wolin deserves examination.
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