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Experience SSD low-latency performance with spinning media HDD capacity in one storage solution with the Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS6110XS 10GbE Internet SCSI (iSCSI) array.
Environmental Operating Conditions
- Temperature range: 5° to 40°C (41° to 104°F)
Storage temperature: –40° to 65°C (–40° to 149°F)
Altitude: For altitudes above 2950 feet, the maximum operating temperature is derated 1ºF/550 ft.
Operating Relative humidity: 20% to 80% (noncondensing) with a maximum humidity gradation
of 10% per hour
Operational shock: Half-sine shock 31G +/- 5% with a pulse duration of 2.6ms +/- 10% in operational orientations only
Operating Vibration: 0.26 Grms (5 to 350 Hz) for 5 minutes in operational orientations
Acoustics Category 4: <=7.2 bels at 23C +/- 2C
Air Quality: Airborne contaminant level of G1 or lower as defined by ISA-S71.04-1985
- AC voltage: 100-240 VAC ±10% single phase, 700 W (max, total), +5V up to 155W; +12V up to 624W; +5Vsb up to 10W
Frequency: 50/60 Hz
Power factor: 0.98 (minimum)
Power supplies: Dual 700 W
- SAN Headquarters multi-group performance and event monitoring tool
Serial console
Ability to configure a separate management network
SNMP, telnet, SSH, HTTP, Web (SSL), host scripting
Multi-administrator support
- Height: 2U / 8.68 cm (3.41 inches)
Width: 44.63 cm (17.57 inches)
Depth: 54.1 cm (21.3 inches)
Weight: 25.4 kg (56 lbs)
Packaged physical: Length: 851 cm (33.50 inches) Width: 629 cm (24.75 inches) Depth: 395 cm (15.56 inches)
Packaged weight: 37.1973 Kg (82 lb)
Rack Support
ReadyRails™ II static rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes or tooled mounting in 4-post threaded-hole racks
- Redundant hot-swappable controllers with vertical port sharing
Hot-swappable disks and power supplies
Notification Methods
- SNMP traps, e-mail, syslog
Technical Highlights
- Volumes
Up to 1,024
512 per volume / up to 10,000 total per group
Volume Connections
Up to 1,024
Host Protocol
Any standards-compliant iSCSI initiator
Operating Systems Supported
Microsoft® Windows Server® including Hyper-V®
VMware® ESX Server™
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL)
SUSE® Enterprise Linux® (SLES)
Oracle® Linux
Oracle® Solaris™
Mac OS® X
Citrix® XenServer®
Novell® NetWare®
For a complete list of supported OS versions including software initiators, NICs/CNAs, and HBAs, see the EqualLogic Compatibility Matrix on //en.community.dell.com/techcenter/storage/w/wiki/2661.equallogic-compatibility-matrix-07262013.aspx.
RAID Support
RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10, and RAID 50*
10GbE Network Interfaces
Management network: One 100BASE-TX per controller
Interface ports: One 10GBASE-T with RJ45 and one 10GbE SFP+ for fibre or twin-ax copper cabling
TCP Network Support
IPv4, IPv6 core support
Expansion Option
Can be combined with other EqualLogic PS Series arrays in the same SAN group, online. Up to 16 total members per group
Product Configurations
- Storage Controllers
Dual controllers with 4GB non-volatile memory per controller
Hard Disk Drives
Seven (7) hot-pluggable Solid State Disk (SSD) drives and Seventeen (17) hot-pluggable SAS hard disk drives
Drive Capacities
Combines 2.5" 400GB and 800GB SSDs and 2.5" 600GB and 1.2TB 10K SAS drives.
System Capacities
Up to 26TB
Enclosure Monitoring System
- Automatic spare configuration and utilization
Automatic bad block replacement
Auto-Stat Disk Monitoring System (ADMS) to monitor health of data on disk drive
- Product Safety, EMC and Environmental Datasheets
Dell Regulatory Compliance
Dell and the Environment
The Dell PS6110 series arrays have earned the ENERGY STAR Data Center Storage designation. Click Here to learn more about the ENERGY STAR Storage 1.0 designation.
Enterprise power with everyday simplicity
Designed to scale with your businessImplement both high-speed, low-latency solid-state disk (SSD) technology and high-capacity HDDs from a single chassis. The PS6110XS 10GbE iSCSI array is a Dell Storage solution with a virtualized scale-out architecture that delivers enhanced storage performance and reliability that is easy to manage and scale for future needs.
- Leverage your existing infrastructure with 10GbE SFP+ or build out your network with new, cost-effective 10GBASE-T (both supported).
- Help eliminate downtime and performance penalties with smooth, incremental SAN expansion.
- Grow your virtual storage alongside your virtual server growth.
- Change hardware without disruption.
- Add or remove arrays at will, according to policy, age, application or business needs
- Easily mix new disk or network technologies in the SAN.
- Move volumes (databases/VMs) online between any pool or disk resources.
- Avoid forklift upgrades or data-in-place migrations that cost time and money.
- Automatically balance loads across disks and multiple arrays in a pool.
- Help eliminate manual redistribution of capacity or application workloads (downtime and services costs).
A powerful combinationAdd extensive versatility to your enterprise storage needs using PS6110XS arrays. Combining SSDs with HDDs into a single solution gives you both solid-state speed and hard-disk capacity in one case, and, as part of the overall feature-rich PS6110XS architecture, helps you optimize your data center for your specific needs.
- Dual 10GbE controllers and dual power supplies designed for built-in redundancy
- Dedicated 10/100 management port per controller
- 6G SAS backplane
- 7x 400GB SSDs + 17x 600GB 10K HDDs; up to 13TB total capacity
- Cache-to-flash memory de-staging
- Peer-scaling architecture that scales performance linearly
- Vertical Port Sharing, designed to enable you to maintain full bandwidth if a networking port fails
- Group Manager, which integrates all management into one console for both file- and block-storage protocols
- EqualLogic Host Software that extends the functionality of the array-based software to enable cooperation with the host
- Host Integration Tools for Microsoft®, VMware® and Linux® products as well as EqualLogic SAN Headquarters (SANHQ) management software
EqualLogic Array Software
Each EqualLogic array ships with a powerful set of software features that help you manage, protect and optimize your data. The EqualLogic Group Manager helps streamline storage and data management across both PS Series SAN arrays and FS Series NAS appliances. EqualLogic PS Series Firmware is the foundation of the EqualLogic software family. Integrated across the entire family of EqualLogic PS arrays, the EqualLogic PS Series Firmware is a SAN operating system based on a unique peer storage architecture that:
Also included in the firmware is the EqualLogic Manual Transfer Utility that provides a non-network replication capability to minimize the time required to transfer large amounts of data between replication partners.
EqualLogic's latest firmware (release 7.0) includes enhanced functions for PS Series arrays such as:
|EqualLogic Host Integration Tools
This family of host-based software provides tight integration between the EqualLogic array and the host. Dell provides host integration tools for Microsoft®, VMware® and Linux® environments, providing customers with the following benefits:
|EqualLogic SAN Headquarters
Dell EqualLogic SAN Headquarters (SAN HQ) is a centralized monitoring and reporting tool that gathers and provides in-depth information on performance, capacity and alerts across multiple groups of EqualLogic PS arrays, helping improve performance and effective allocation of group resources.
With Dell SupportAssist functionality, SAN HQ 3.0 can automatically create support cases based on system faults, and it allows you to view your open Dell Support cases for EqualLogic arrays monitored by SupportAssist.
|Learn more about EqualLogic software
Find out how Dell EqualLogic software can help you design, manage and optimize your storage solution.
|Support Services
Dell ServicesDell believes that a well-planned and maintained storage infrastructure can support growing data requirements without the corresponding increase in cost and complexity. Intelligent data management allows organizations to optimize the value of their storage investment with a better use of resources. Dell Data Management Services can help customers design, implement, manage and maintain storage infrastructures that satisfy data availability, retention and recovery requirements.
Dell™ ProSupport™ —True enterprise-class support for complex environment with complex. More than 80 percent of IT budgets go to infrastructure maintenance costs, leaving little room for innovation. With the right support solution from Dell, you can focus on your core business.
ProSupport Enterprise Suite
|Dell ProSupport Plus
Designed for customers who want premium hardware and software support.
• Single point of contact with access to highly trained experts
• Available 24x7x365
• 3rd party collaborative assistance
• Support in 165+ countries and 55 languages
Designed for critical systems in a customer's environment.
• Dedicated Technical Account Manager
• Direct access to elite ProSupport Plus engineers
• Remote monitoring and automated support with SupportAssist
• Monthly reporting and performance recommendations
|Dell Enterprise Deployment
ProDeploy Enterprise Suite* offers a full range of deployment services and professional certifications to help you get more out of your technology starting on day one. Choose ProDeploy Plus for the most complete deployment offer available in the market, ProDeploy for expert configuration and installations, or Basic Deployment for worry-free hardware installations.
Decrease downtime, improve utilization and ensure business continuity with storage training from Dell Education Services. Choose from courses designed to introduce Dell EqualLogic storage and prepare you for more advanced topics to courses that dive into the advanced features included in the storage solution and how to apply best practices.
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Social Services and Benefits Solutions
- Grants management organizations
- Health and human services departments
- Ensure safety of citizen records
- Automate health-related processes
- Improve accuracy of benefits processes
Improved Customer Communication
Intelligent Data Capture
Solution Description
Health and human services agencies face tremendous pressure to deliver more effective services for their clients. Demand for public benefits is rising because of continuing economic pressure on vulnerable families and individuals and changes to eligibility rules for some safety net programs.
The increased demand combined with tightening government budgets has triggered a movement toward service integration—the idea that the client should have a "single door" to formerly stand-alone benefit programs and those programs' services should be linked to improve usability. Government departments need to explore options for expediting and streamlining access to benefits.
Technology Solution
EMC Social Services and Benefits Solutions enable health and human services agencies to streamline the delivery of benefits to its citizens powered by the industry's most comprehensive and configurable information infrastructure.
The EMC Documentum xCelerated composition platform (xCP) forms the core of EMC's approach to transforming human service delivery, making transformation possible and cost effective. Documentum xCP provides a rich solutions infrastructure, optimized to delivery dynamic, case-based applications that address specific requirements of human services delivery—through configuration, not customization.
- Speed delivery of vital services while improving efficiency and enabling client choice of eligible programs
- Create a virtual "front door" for citizens that supports enrollment in multiple programs and eliminates the need for redundant demographic data and applications
- Provide a unified view of citizens across service agencies
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About The Samsung Galaxy A7 2017
The Samsung Galaxy A7 (2017) is an Android smartphone produced by Samsung Electronics. It was announced on January 2, 2017, along with Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) and Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017). This move marks Samsung's first product launch since the discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7 back on October 2016.
Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 Repairs
At Quick Mobile Fix we repair hundreds of Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 every month and have seen all kinds of faults and damages during our time. The most common repair for this model is the Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 front screen repair, however, we do offer many other Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 related repairs and services as well such as the Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 liquid damage repair service and Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 loudspeaker repair.
Click here to see the full list of Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 repairs we offer.
The majority of Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 repairs come with a 1-year warranty, to find out more information click here or check out our terms and conditions.
How To Book Your Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 Repair
Booking in your Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 repair is easy with Quick Mobile Fix, you can either book it in online here. UK Customers can use our free insured postage label service whereas international customers will be required to pay a small postage cost, alternatively, you can use your own courier service and cover the costs.
You can also book in your Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 repair over the phone by calling 0208 5000 308 between 9 am and 4 pm during weekdays and 9 am to 1 pm on Saturdays, the same postage options apply.
If you live in the Greater London / Essex region and would like to bring your Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 in personally for repair you can with our walk in repair service. If you're in a hurry you can book in an express Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 repair which is done within 1 hour and costs an additional £19.99. Please be aware, you are required to make an appointment before arrival which can be done by either calling 0208 5000 308 (Mon - Fri 9 am to 4 pm or Sat 9 am to 1 pm) or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com
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I came across this topic while wondering which UCC Section applied to the following set of facts:Merchant A (Seller) sends a quote to Merchant B (Buyer) for widgets at .50 each.Merchant B sends Merchant A a purchase order for widgets at .55 each.Merchant A ships the widgets, these are received and accepted by Merchant B.Merchant A sends an invoice to Merchant B, charging Merchant B the rate of .55 per widget.Merchant B then asserts that Merchant A should have invoiced Merchant B at the rate of .50 per widgets, given that .50 per widget was what Merchant A quoted Merchant B.Which term is correct .50 or .55? and which UCC section applies, if at all? or should I be looking else where instead of the UCC?
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Android malware definitely exists, but for the most part it's not going to spread. As an operating system, Android is very safe. Unless you're a fan of visiting shady sites. On the rare occasion that users encounter Android malware, it's usually an issue of user error.
But now, a new security hole was discovered in all Android versions ranging from 1.6 to 4.2. This security hole is interesting, because it doesn't directly infect your device. It does, however, allow apps to be modified without changing their cryptographic signature. This means that a legitimate app install could be updated with malware.
Sounds dangerous, right? Well, I can guarantee your safety if you follow a few simple rules. First of all, the malware cannot be spread through the Google Play Store, so you have nothing to worry about there. Google had recently updated Google Play security to avoid malicious updates taking advantage of this security hole. They have also made it against policy for Play Store apps to update outside of the Play Store. The vulnerability can still be exploited by apps outside of the Play Store though, so be extremely careful with third-party app stores and sideloading apps in general.
Generally, sideloading apps from untrusted sources is a really bad idea. You don't know what code someone put into a pirated version of an app, so why install it? Stick with the Play Store and other highly trusted sources, and you'll be just fine.
Most of these security threats aren't automatic; they require user approval. This means a user has to install an app for the malware to infect the device. As long as people are careful about where they install apps from, they'll be safe. If you get a surprise install prompt, never press yes! It's not that hard to stay safe.
Interestingly, it seems that Google isn't doing much about the situation in terms of Android code. They don't seem to be fixing this security hole but are instead leaving it to manufacturers to fix. This means that the Nexus 4 is vulnerable. However, Samsung has patched the security hole in their Galaxy S4, according to some. Either way, be careful and don't install fishy (or phishy) apps! It won't end well.


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Years later, they moved to the homestead were Pieter's brother and sister-in-law, Jim and Sherri, live now. Pieter's parents divorced when he was around five years old.
Piet grew up around farm animals and remembered hoeing beans. He remembered his dad taking he and Jim on many trips, including to California, Yellowstone, and many Sunday fishing trips. His father was always there for the boys as they grew up.
When Pieter was 14 and Jim was 18, their Father died. Jim was all set to go into the military. Pieter moved to Washington to live with his aunt and uncle.
While in Washington, Pieter was active in playing football and wrestling. During his senior year, he moved to Cortez, CO to live with his Mother. His step-father was a diesel mechanic and taught him many things. Pieter studied gas and diesel mechanics and welding at the Vo-Tech.
While living in Cortez, he would often come to Monticello to visit family and friends. He often stayed with Lacy Steele; one of many families that adopted him over the years.
While visiting Monticello, he met Terry Lynn Rogers. They only dated three weeks before becoming engaged to be married. Eight months later, they married.
They moved to Farmington, NM and lived there less than a year. Pieter was then able to get a job in Monticello and move back home.
A daughter, Lacy Castetter Haller, was born, followed nine years later by another daughter, Kimberly Lynn Haller, and ten years later by Sarah Elizabeth Haller.
Pieter was always joking. Sometimes his jokes were so bad that Terry banned jokes when he was at home. That was all right though, he had many friends and co-workers to play jokes on.
He always had so many stories to tell. If you were fortunate enough to be one of his friends, you were always very entertained.
It didn't matter who you were, he was a friend to everyone he met. People could always count on him to help them fix their tractors.
He loved to farm. His number one goal was to move back to Monticello and farm. He did it for many years. It was a difficult decision to quit farming. He knew that he would have to get deeper in debt to make it work.
Pieter decided to leave farming to spend more time with his family. Since then he worked at many jobs. He worked at AmeriGas in Blanding for several years.
One winter, the driver would start up his truck and turn on the heater so it would be toasty warm when he got in. Pieter turned off the heater, turned on the air conditioner and shoveled the cab full of snow. He was always so fun at AmeriGas Christmas parties, that after he no longer worked there, he was still invited.
In 1997, Pieter started working for the San Juan County Road Department. He felt like that was the job for him. He loved the work and loved the people. He also loved to play jokes on everyone there.
He got along with everyone. Piet not only loved to farm and driving trucks; but he also loved his wife and daughters very much.
He is preceded in death by his father, Benjamin Franklin Haller, step father J.T. (Sonny) Bennett, and father-in-law Howard M. Rogers, Jr.
He is survived by wife Terry Lynn, daughters Lacy (Geoff) Harcourt, Kimberly Lynn, and Sarah Elizabeth, granddaughters Mikayla and Ciara, and one more on the way, brother James D. (Sherie) Haller, mother Ann Bennett, and many more in-laws, out- laws, and cousins too!
The family would like you to send them stories, thoughts, or practical jokes that Piet had played on you to:
Terry Haller
PO Box 1163
Monticello, Utah 84535
Card of thanks
It is impossible to express our gratitude to all of you. We especially thank R.L. Wilcox, the EMT's, staff at San Juan Hospital, Third Ward Relief Society for the wonderful meal and Days Inn.
There were so many who brought in well wishes, food, flowers, and other services. We are truly blessed to live in this wonderful community.
Terry, Kim, & Sarah Haller
Geoff & Lacy Harcourt
James & Sherie Haller
Ann Bennett
Alice Rogers
Howard M. Rogers III
Richard & Martha
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About The Instructor(s)
For additional course information, First Class requirements, syllabus, etc., check the About The Instructor(s) section for a link to a Faculty Website.
Section will be taught totally online with no scheduled class meetings. Students must arrange for daily access to a computer and the Internet prior to the start of classes. Robert Morris labs are to be used only as a backup in special situations and may not be relied upon for extended periods of time. In addition to the Internet link, online classes have a large emphasis on email. All messages from the instructor and other information regarding online classes, including user ids, passwords, and login instructions will be sent to your Robert Morris University email account.
Visit http://rmu.blackboard.com/ for more information.
Session, Dates: 4 (10/20/2018 - 12/14/2018)
Days: ONLINE
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Location: Internet/Online
Seats Available: 11 Seats
Credits: 3
This course deals with cost estimation techniques applicable in an engineering environment. Initial and detailed cost estimation methods for the conceptual design, detailed design, production, and phase out segments of the life cycle will be discussed. Cost centers, distribution of overhead/burden rates, heuristic estimation methods, and data collection for cost estimation, as well as cost/benefit analyses, and the effect of financing on project costs are major topics for this course.
Priyadarshan A. Manohar, Ph.D.
Director, SEMS ROC - Grants and Research
SEMS - ROC, Grants and Research
Coordinator, Assessment
Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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IBM offers annual support for free DB2
Contracts buy you clustering and replication too
IBM is offering "low cost" 24x7 support contracts to users of the free version of DB2, called DB2 Express-C. As well as tech support, coughing up the readies allows users to hook up a second server for high-availability clustering or remote database replication.
The support contracts are available online at $2995 (around £1500) for 12 months. They also include upgrades, maintenance and quarterly service packs, called FixPaks.
Microsoft, Oracle and IBM all now offer free versions of their databases, as they attempt to stave off competition from open source offerings such as MySQL, which also offers optional support contracts (which IBM resells).
But all three come with usage limitations, as the vendors attempt to avoid cannibalising the sales of their full-fat products - for example, DB2 Express-C supports up to 4GB of main memory and two dual-core processors.
Once users and applications grow beyond those limitations, IBM hopes to move them onto DB2 9 Viper, its mainstream commercial data server which it touts as a seamless upgrade from the free version.
However, IBM does not limit the amount of data DB2 Express-C can store, and it claims that its freeware is more generous than either of its commercial rivals. "DB2 Express-C allows customers to take advantage of twice the processing power and four times the memory capacity allowed by Oracle and Microsoft for their no-charge offerings," the company said.
DB2 Express-C runs on both Windows and Linux, and on 32 and 64-bit systems, and in effect replaces IBM's open source Cloudscape database.
The company added that DB2 Express-C is now part of many Linux distributions, including Novell SUSE Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and claimed that over 300 software partners have begun integrating it into their open source-based solutions. ®


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Chris Kern wrote such an awesome review on his website and store Forgotten Grapes that we had to share it with you here: "How do we know this wine is, to quote Moe Szyslak, "awesomely outrageous?" When the first six words on the back label read, and we quote, "Sounds like Cluck, pairs with duck". Honestly, we should just drop the mic right there (this wine certainly does). 69% Mourvedre, 19% Syrah, and 12% Grenache - and honestly, you never see MSG blends anywhere; hell, you don't even see MSG in Chinese food joints anymore. It's a full-frontal and in-your-face assault of spices and pepper and blueberry and cherry that will leave you breathless and panting and wanting more...like a Sam Kinison concert or a night with Amy Schumer [rimshot] Hey yo! We'll be here all week. You've been a fantastic audience. Don't forget to tip your waitress and enjoy the veal!"
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Sounds like Cluck, pairs with Duck - what more can we say without gettin' keelhauled and sent to walk the plank? We can say that this Rhône-style blend of Mourvedre, Syrah, and Grenache is a veritable broadside of aromas and flavors. Just the thing to "splice the mainbrace", if you know what we mean.
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Indigenous offenders need rehabilitation, not jail: report
The National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee (NIDAC) is calling for investment into drug and alcohol rehabilitation services for non-violent offenders in an effort to combat high Indigenous incarceration levels.
Accounting firm Deloitte Access Economics was commissioned to investigate the costs and benefits of addressing problematic alcohol and drug use with treatment rather than prison sentences.
NIDAC chairman Professor Ted Wilkes says imprisoning offenders is not working and a move towards rehabilitation needs to be considered.
"We would certainly promote residential rehabilitation and treatment services as an alternative to incarceration and that is what this report is really about," he said.
"There aren't too many of our mob that haven't got a record.
"They don't qualify to be diverted... so we need to seriously look at how we do it for Aboriginal Australians."
Aboriginal people make up just 2.5 per cent of Australia's population but account for one third of all female and a quarter of all male prisoners.
On average, 1,000 teenagers are locked up in juvenile detention centres every night.
We would certainly promote residential rehabilitation and treatment services as an alternative to incarceration and that is what this report is really about.Professor Ted Wilkes, NIDAC chairman
Aboriginal boys make up over half of that figure - the majority for crimes committed while they were intoxicated.
Professor Wilkes says he is furious so little has changed over decades.
"[Using] prisons as a last resort was promised to us in 1991 with the royal commission into deaths in custody," he said.
"It hasn't happened ... the imprisonment rate of Aboriginal women since 1991 has increased 341 to 343 per cent.
"There is a need for prisons - we are talking about a particular end of the incarceration sphere that we need to have a better look at."
Two weeks ago inmates destroyed a juvenile detention centre in Perth. The teenage detainees are now locked up in an adult prison while the centre is being repaired.
"The people who induced that should be reprimanded in an appropriate way," Professor Wilkes said.
"If you are talking about 74 kids, I know that not all of those kids would have wanted to do what happened.
"Some of them [were] caught up on the coat tails of others."
Breaking the cycle
About $3 billion is spent annually on Australian prisons. At the same time, a number of drug and alcohol services that assist Indigenous people have been wound back or cut around the country.
Lynne Pizzullo from Deloitte Access Economics says diverting offenders to rehabilitation could save governments millions of dollars.
"You could save about $111,000 per prisoner in a year for each offender who is diverted.
"That comes from a variety of different savings, in particular the differences of costs... but also because of other positive outcomes such as reduced reoffending rates that are associated with the rehab facility and better health outcomes," she said.
Actor Dean Daley-Jones regularly visits Casuarina Prison in Perth.
"The first Christmas I remember with my mum, and one of my sisters and I just saw lots of Aboriginal men, everyone I knew," he said.
"We were always visiting someone in jail ... it wasn't until my mid-20s that I thought: 'What is going on here?'"
For Aboriginal people, there's not a lot of assistance there - there's not a lot you can do.
[People] should be given every opportunity. I had to re-educate, went back to an adult school, just to improve on my reading and writing.Byron Wright, Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council South Australia
Mr Daley-Jones says he had his own run-ins with the law when he was younger.
"My mother wrote a letter to me once when I was locked up for the weekend at Fremantle watch house," he said.
"I read this letter and she had some key points. [She said] 'I didn't bring you into this world to see you end up like this' and a few other things.
"She [talked] about proud Indigenous men who have overcome the same traumatic stuff I was going through and this anger."
'Better deal'
Byron Wright from the Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council in South Australia say offenders are not being given enough assistance.
"In South Australia, the only rehabilitation centre that allocated for the whole family closed down," he said.
"For Aboriginal people, there's not a lot of assistance there - there's not a lot you can do.
"[People] should be given every opportunity. I had to re-educate, went back to an adult school, just to improve on my reading and writing."
Mr Wright works in remote communities in South Australia, helping tackle drug and alcohol abuse.
He overcame a drug addiction of his own that led to stints in jail when he was a teenager.
He learnt to read and write when he was 38, going on to complete tertiary education.
"I think, personally, a rehabilitation centre would have been a lot better going to jail," he said.
"If you are in jail, you can't fix the issues you have. You are locked up, you are incarcerated, there's no way of fixing the issues you had before you got into trouble.
"One would argue [it's] a lot better to deal with the issues that's confronting somebody rather than incarcerating them."
Professor Wilkes says addressing the issue has become a lifetime commitment for him.
"This is not fair. If it is about me saying there is an indifference here that borders on bigotry, racism, and a difference of extreme, I'm prepared to stand up in front of other mob, and say: 'Hey, we deserve a better deal'."
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The EEOC, the Philadelphia Bar Association and the Philadelphia Federal Executive Board are sponsoring this event, which is open to the public. Admission to this event is free of charge but reservations must be made by calling 215-440-2671 or e-mail email@example.com.
The theme of the 45 th Anniversary Program, "EEOC at 45: Charting a Path toward Equal Employment," focuses on the agency's progress in promoting equal employment opportunities. Distinguished guests include:
EEOC Chair Jacqueline A. Berrien, and former EEOC Chair William H. Brown, III, will participate in a discussion: "Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of the EEOC." Scott F. Cooper will moderate a panel discussion: "Charting a Path toward Equal Employment", featuring attorneys and stakeholders: Mark Dichter, Sidney Gold, Juan Laureda, Rosalyn O'Neale, Matt Rubin, and Patricia Folino.
The EEOC will also honor the following as Champions of Equal Employment Opportunity:
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the Commission is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Devon, a french restaurant in Monrovia, CA.
Very classy but expect to fork over between $50-$80 per person.
Extremely authentic and well prepared meals.
The atmosphere is reserved and quiet, but they don't mind the occasional restless child.
I usually go to another french restaurant across the street, simply because it doesn't cost me an arm and a leg, but when I want to treat myself, I go there.
They have an extensive wine selection, only top shelf wines.
Their menu contains few of the same old stuff you find everywhere else.
For example:
Black Bear Ravioli
Pheasant Salad
Anywhere that serves crab legs! (There's a few) MMMMMMmmm. . . .
a cat person
Smia vertshus at Vålerenga, Oslo, Norway. An old smithy turned restaurant some 50 meters from my place. Horribly expensive tho.
Loads of sushi places too, but I haven't started liking sushi just yet.
Foodrecords, CV, 3rd ave.
Burgers are bomb.
my fav. visit one in your country and experience it! damn! i sound like a sales rep. LOL
i feel good,...do do do do do...
Red Lobster :3 it's pretty popular around America but it's soo amazing especially their crabs
My favorite restaurant is this small, family-owned restaurant called "Momoya."
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My favorite restaurant is this small, family-owned restaurant called "Momoya."
What make's this restaurant your favorite...the food, atmosphere?..etc.
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I'm not really into restaurant's despite living in a city as filled with them as Las Vegas. If I had to pick though i'd have to go with Blueberry Hill (best Chicken n' Waffles ever) and CiCi's Pizza (all you can eat specialty pizza + pasta for under $10!). I'm classy like that.
If I had a type it'd be you, fortunately I don't have a type so please stop.
25 minute drive west from where I live is a winery that supports a decent avant garde fare restaurant where the food is fresh, excellent and the prices are moderate. It's commercial name is Les Bourgeois Vineyards and Bistro located near Rocheport, MO up on a hill overlooking the floodplain and Missouri River. I suppose if midwest flora and fauna isn't your forte there's always I-70 off to your left at a distance. One can bring binoculars, ignore the damn birds overhead or hikers below (Katy Trail) , and focus razor sharp counting the trucks that ply across 1 of our nation's byways bringing commerce to your door or a store near you. Yippee!
PS: I find the regal description too hard to correctly pronounce, much less spell for this tome. I affectionately call it Cafe Berf. (tip o' the hat to Garrison Keillor and his Prairie Home Companion spoofery on public radio)
MYTH: the universal language. Always question AUTHORITY.
Nippon Japanese (I know redundant, same thing) Restaurant near the museum district downtown Houston. Best place to get a REAL bowl of Ramen within 200 miles. A small mom and pop restaurant everyone that works there is Japanese and they have 2 menus one in english one in Japanese. The Japanese menu has more exotic stuff on it than the english one alot of Japanese business men go there. Theres an old lady that works there thats kinda rude but the foods good. Has a nice look to it to "feels" like your really in Japan.
"You don't want the Voodoo mon"
Seattle has tons of awesome eateries...
Red Mill Burgers is amazing
Lunchbox Laboratory also has a phenomenal burger and good drink specials
Beth's Cafe (Featured on Man vs Food) has the best breakfast in town
Then there's plentiful locations in the International District and lots of good cheap eats in the UW District.
Got a couple,
I live in Rochester NY but end up in Buffalo NY quite frequently
In Buffalo, there is this cute little restaurant called "59 cafe", it's small, lots of colors, very cute and cozy, friendly staff, vegan friendly (I eat meat but for those who don't..) and delicious food. It's very "hole in the wall" that isn't huge. I give it a 9/10 ^.^ I actually feel HAPPY when eating there. It's also INCREDIBLY affordable.
Soups, sandwiches, melts, burgers & vegetarian meals.
In Rochester :
Johns Tex Mex
in the South Wedge
First heard about this place during Pride 2 years ago when it became a sponsor, so some friends and myself decided to check it out. I've been a regular there ever since.
The food is incredibly affordable, about 7 dollars for a HUUUUUGE burrito.
Now, some people say huge, and it's just big. No, these things are enormous. I make 3 meals out of one.
Now I generally get a burrito, and it's a choice of 4 mains (Beef, Chicken, Un-beef, or Tofu)
And then 4 fillers (Everything you can imagine to pick from, right up to corn, mixed veggies, or the regulars)
The beef is real beef, not the typical taco stuff, and it's stringed. It has a very unique flavor you can't get anywhere else in the city.
Also in Rochester :
located in across from STP, in the same plaza as the anime shop, China Buffet & Mighty Taco.
Another mexican food joint.
Bit more expensive than Johns, and for less food. However the quality is still superb and it's pretty delicious.
Not quite the amazing atmosphere as Johns either, but the AMAZING strawberry margaritas make up for that. ;D
Also they have really good deals some days, such as 2 burritos for 7.50 (Keep in mind, much smaller than the Johns ones)
7/10 ^.^
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My favorite restaurant is this small, family-owned restaurant called "Momoya."
What make's this restaurant your favorite...the food, atmosphere?..etc.
Well, the most important part is that they cook and prepare delicious food. Their udon, teriyaki, sushi, etc. are all top-notch and the ingredients are fresh and high-quality.
They are also very gracious and kind in their service, and since it's a small family-owned business, I see the same people every time I'm there. I become a regular and really get to know them and establish a relationship.
The restaurant isn't fancy or extraordinarily beautiful, but it's small, cute and cozy.
Their beef teriyaki is to die for, they marinade an actual New York steak so the quality is very good. Their chirashi is excellent, with a great variety of fresh seafood. Their udon is heavenly comforting on a cold rainy day.
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Restaurants are expensive; I only go to fast food places, mall food courts, and Mongolian grill.
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November 30, 2009
Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita announces 2009 Indiana Election Administrators Conference; topics include redistricting and online voter registration
(Indianapolis) – Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita announced that the 2009 Indiana Election Administrators Conference will be held this week at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Indianapolis (a detailed agenda is attached). In his role as Indiana's chief elections officer, Secretary Rokita and the Indiana Election Division organized the conference to bring together election administrators from across the state to discuss best practices in election administration and preparation for the 2010 elections.
"We have worked hard in Indiana to move our elections out of the 20th Century with reforms such as Vote Centers, the Statewide Voter Registration System and passage of the photo ID law," said Secretary Rokita. "In order for Hoosiers to vote how we live in the 21st Century, we need to continue working alongside the state's election administrators to prepare for the next wave of innovations such as online poll worker training and certification and online voter registration."
The conference, which starts tomorrow, Tuesday, December 1st, and continues Wednesday, will also include information for election administrators on military and overseas voters, poll worker training and certification, polling place accessibility grants, and the Voting System Technical Oversight Program, all in preparation for 2010 elections.
Tuesday's session will feature addresses by national election experts such as Scott Wiedmann, Deputy Director of the Federal Voting Assistance Program for the United States Department of Defense and Keith Cunningham, an expert on poll worker training and certification from Allen County Ohio. Dr. Ray Scheele from Ball State University will speak about Indiana's Voting System Technical Oversight Program (VSTOP).
Secretary Rokita will open Wednesday's session of the conference and speak about the success of the Vote Centers pilot program in three Indiana counties and the latest on Indiana's efforts to develop an online poll worker training and certification program. Also on Wednesday, participants will hear the latest on Indiana's new online voter registration system, which was established by the General Assembly earlier this year. It will allow Hoosiers who already have a current photo ID issued by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to register to vote online. Online voter registration is projected to be available by the summer of 2010.
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Star Formation Across Time
By combining the observing powers of ESA's Herschel space observatory and the ground-based Keck telescopes, astronomers have characterized hundreds of previously unseen starburst galaxies, revealing extraordinary high star-formation rates across the history of the universe.
Starburst galaxies give birth to hundreds of solar masses' worth of stars each year in short-lived but intense events.
By comparison, our own Milky Way Galaxy on average produces the equivalent of only one Sun-like star per year.
Starburst galaxies generate so much starlight that they should outshine our galaxy hundreds to thousands of times over, but the enormous quantities of gas fuelling them also contain vast amounts of dust as a result of the frantic star formation.
The dust absorbs much of the visible light, meaning that many of them look quite insignificant in that part of the spectrum.
However, the dust is warmed by the surrounding hot stars and re-emits the energy at far-infrared wavelengths.
Using ESA's infrared Herschel space observatory, astronomers measured the temperature and brightness of thousands of dusty galaxies. From these, their star-formation rate could be then calculated.
"Starburst galaxies are the brightest galaxies in the universe and contribute significantly to cosmic star formation, so it's important to study them in detail and understand their properties," says Dr. Caitlin Casey of the University of Hawai'i, lead author of the papers discussing the results in the Astrophysical Journal.
"Some of the galaxies found in this new survey have star-formation rates equivalent to the birth of several thousand solar-mass stars per year, constituting some of the brightest infrared galaxies yet discovered."
To provide context to the observations and understand how star formation has changed over the universe's 13.7 billion year history, the distances to the galaxies were also needed.
With Herschel signposting the way, Dr. Casey's team used spectrometers on the twin 10-meter W. M. Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, and obtained the redshifts of 767 of the starburst galaxies.
Redshifts provide astronomers with a measure of how long the light from each galaxy has travelled across the universe, which, in turn, indicates when in cosmic history the light from each galaxy was emitted.
For most of the galaxies it was found that the light has been travelling towards us for 10 billion years or less.
About 5% of the galaxies are at even greater redshifts: their light was emitted when the universe was only 1-3 billion years old.
"The Herschel data tell us how fiercely and prolifically these galaxies are producing stars," says Seb Oliver from University of Sussex, UK, and Principal Investigator for the HerMES Key Program, within which the data have been collected.
"Combining this information with the distances provided by the Keck data, we can uncover the contribution of the starburst galaxies to the total amount of stars produced across the history of the universe."
How such large numbers of starburst galaxies formed during the first few billions of years of the universe's existence poses a vital problem for galaxy formation and evolution studies.
One leading theory proposes that a collision between two young galaxies could have sparked an intense short-lived phase of star formation.
Another theory speculates that, when the universe was young, individual galaxies had much more gas available to them to feed from, enabling higher rates of star formation without the need of collisions.
"It's a hotly debated topic that requires details on the shape and rotation of the galaxies before it can be resolved," adds Dr. Casey.
"Before Herschel, the largest similar survey of distant starbursts involved only 73 galaxies -- we've improved on that by over a factor of ten in this combined survey with Keck to determine the characteristics of this important galaxy population," adds Goeran Pilbratt, ESA's Herschel project scientist.
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"A redshift survey of Herschel far-infrared selected starbursts and implications for obscured star formation" and "A population of z > 2 far-infrared Herschel-SPIRE selected starbursts," by C. Casey et al., are published in the Astrophysical Journal [http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4928, http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4932].
The Herschel survey was part of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES), in which a 4 x 4 degree field mapped at 250, 350 and 500 microns by Herschel's SPIRE instrument in 16 hours revealed 7000 sources.
The redshifts of 767 of these galaxies were obtained by the W. M Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, using the Keck I Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS) and the Keck II DEep Imaging Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS).
Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA. SPIRE measures the intensity of the radiation emitted by an astronomical object, in three bands centered on 250, 350 and 500 microns. It was designed and built by a nationally-funded consortium led by Cardiff University; the consortium includes France, Canada, China, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the US.
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Gastrological Forecast
Have you seen this new thing where they're selling packets of Crystal Light drink powder next to bottled water at convenience stores? What an interesting idea. I suppose they're marketing the single-serving tubes of Peach Tea and Raspberry Ice to thirsty women dieters who are already familiar with the Crystal Light non-carbonated, low-calorie beverage concept, trying to get them to drink Raspberry Ice water instead of plain old Aquafina. I see only two problems: First, they already sell Crystal Light beverages in plastic bottles, right next to Aquafina. Second, you'd have to drink Raspberry Ice-flavored Crystal Light. Why choose artificially-flavored water over water-flavored water? If I want my water to be exciting, I'll have a half-dressed 22-year-old weight-lifter spank me while I drink it. You'd think these marketing geniuses could use their time more wisely. Why can't they make beer crystals and sell the powdered brew in baby formula-sized cans? Oh yeah, because it would probably taste like ass, and you'd still have to pick a million red party cups out of the backyard bushes. That's why they make kegs: so you don't have to buy so many cans. Oh, and kegs always have a way of attracting a fresh crop of 22 year-old weight lifters.
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All the News That's Fit to Eat
Scalo has a new owner. Steve Paternoster was general manager and a part owner of the Nob Hill restaurant from 1993 until leaving and selling his stake in 1999. Since then Paternoster has had his hand in several different ventures, including Sun Country Chile and Honey, whose sopapilla syrup is under fire in this section this week.
Dining Out
Sopapilla Syrup
The honey substitute you didn't know you've been eating
I came into work the other day to find a single-serving packet of Sopapilla Syrup sitting on my keyboard. Hmm, Sopapilla Syrup. What is this stuff? The ingredients are printed right on the packet: High fructose corn syrup, sugar, honey, corn syrup, natural flavor, caramel color. Good God. Fake honey.
Food for Thought
Volunteers Whip Up Homestyle Meals at the Ronald McDonald House
If cooking for yourself doesn't give you that warm, fuzzy feeling, sign up to make dinner for families of sick children at the Ronald McDonald House. Call 925-2220 to volunteer.
Chowtown Restaurant Guide
Whether you're more familiar with the French Riviera or the French Quarter, there are plenty of places in Albuquerque to get a taste of authentic French cuisine. Read Hosho McCreesh's review of Le Quiche Parisienne in this issue, and check out these other restaurants in the city that will cater to your wanderlust and make you feel, if only for the evening, that you're dining in the City of Lights. Bon appetit, mes amis.


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Zdenek Zeman says he will have to be shot before he considers retiring after being sacked by Roma on Saturday.
The 65-year-old coach was dismissed by the club's board of directors after a run of five games without a win, which saw the club drop to eighth in Serie A.
The final straw came as Roma lost 4-2 at home to Cagliari on Saturday, with Zeman sacked after the game and temporarily replaced by his assistant Aurelio Andreazzoli.
However, Zeman is not prepared to call it a day just yet, and made his feelings on the subject clear when a group of Roma fans asked him if he would be retiring.
"They'd have to shoot me first," he stated.
When the fans said that they were disappointed with how his reign at the club had ended, Zeman gave his thoughts on his departure.
"I'm even more so. You had nothing to do with it. They told me I'd been fired on Saturday."


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Car Review
2014 Nissan Quest: New Car Review
The 2014 Nissan Quest attempts to breathe new life into a vehicle most commonly associated with soccer moms and rowdy children. The minivan may never be as cool as the old-school vans from the '60s and '70s, but this one comes pretty close. With innovative styling, an upscale and uniquely arranged interior and lots of clever features, the Quest may be the best minivan choice for those who dread the idea of owning a minivan.
The first thing you'll notice about the Quest is its mammoth size. All in, the Quest is a mere two inches shy of the Cadillac Escalade in every exterior dimension. Once you look past the size and start looking at the styling, you get the sense that the Quest's designers really wanted the Quest to stand out from the competition. Where its rivals are sticking with the familiar shapes and forms of a minivan, the Quest offers bold styling that makes it just different enough without looking too youthful.
What's New for 2014?
Other than some new colors, there are no major changes to the 2014 Nissan Quest.
What We Like
Comfortable interior; exceptional turning radius; bold styling; decent acceleration, available dual power glass sunroofs.
What We Don't
Massive size makes it a suburb-only affair; limited third-row space; no second-row bench seat offered; fuel economy on the lower end of the minivan spectrum.
How Much?
Fuel Economy
The Quest offers only one powertrain: a 3.5-liter V6 engine paired to a continuously variable transmission, which controls all the gear ratios without actually shifting gears. The combination is good for 260 horsepower and 240 lb-ft of torque, which does a decent job of moving the nearly 4,400-lb van from a standstill.
The Environmental Protection Agency lists fuel economy at 19 miles per gallon city/24 mpg hwy. Throughout the week, we saw closer to 15 mpg, but that was on purely city driving with a quick jaunt out to the suburbs to test highway performance.
Standard Features & Options
The 2014 Nissan Quest is offered in four trims: S, SV, SL and LE.
The base S ($26,850) features power windows in the sliding doors, Intelligent Key with push-button start, 16-inch wheels with full covers, fold-flat second and third-row seats, AM/FM/CD stereo with four speakers and auxiliary input jack, 6-way manual driver's seat, cloth seating, tilt/telescopic steering wheel, cruise control, power mirrors and door locks, two 12-volt outlets, sun visors with vanity mirrors and extensions, sliding and reclining second-row captain's chair seating with removable center console and flush folding second- and third-row seating.
The SV ($30,600) adds 1-touch power sliding side doors, 16-in alloy wheels, tri-zone automatic climate control, a 6-speaker stereo with USB port and iPod control, Sirius satellite radio (requires subscription), fog lights, front conversation mirror, 4.3-in color audio display, Bluetooth, a rearview monitor, rear privacy glass and a leather-wrapped steering wheel.
The SL ($34,380) brings leather seating surfaces, 18-in alloy wheels, a power rear lift gate, 8-way power driver's seat with power lumbar support, heated front seats, HomeLink, auto-dimming rearview mirrors with compass, roof rails, heated outside mirrors, auto on/off headlights and leather-wrapped shift knob.
The top-of-the-line LE ($43,500) adds the 360-degree Around View monitor, navigation, 13-speaker Bose audio, memory for driver's seat and mirrors, auto-tilt-in-reverse side mirrors, manual side window blinds, 4-way power front passenger seat, power return third-row seat, dash-mounted 8-in VGA color display, DVD rear-seat entertainment system with 11-in 16:9 view screen, advanced climate control and air filter system, blind spot warning system and HID headlights.
The SV trim can be equipped with leather seating and the rear-seat DVD entertainment system, while the SL can be equipped with the DVD entertainment system and Bose audio. Dual power sunroofs are available on the SL and LE.
Standard safety equipment on every 2014 Nissan Quest minivan includes front, front side and full-length side curtain airbags, electronic traction and stability control and a tire pressure monitor.
The 2014 Nissan Quest earned the highest possible ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in all areas but roof strength, where it received an Acceptable rating. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has yet to crash-test the Quest.
Behind the Wheel
While the Quest should have no problem in rural and suburban settings, driving it on busy city streets requires a lot of attention. Its width means little room for error on narrow streets and a tight fit in some parking lots. The good turning radius helps, but Quest drivers will likely feel more comfortable on roads that are busy and less confined.
On the highway, the Quest is stable and shows little strain. But on a windy day, its slab-sided styling does make it susceptible to strong gusts despite its weight.
Where the weight does come in handy is ride comfort, where nothing but the largest road seams or potholes seem to unsettle the big van. The Quest's ride is plush compared to other minivans, adding to the luxurious feel of the LE model.
Other Cars to Consider
Chrysler Town & Country-- The heavy hitter of the minivan game does come with rear-seat entertainment as an option but doesn't do it as well as the Quest. It doesn't have nearly the interior refinement of the Nissan, either.
Honda Odyssey-- The Odyssey has gone through similar transformations as the Quest, and is arguably the closest competitor to the Nissan. The Quest's styling is a bit more striking. If you outfit the Honda with a near-identical spec sheet, it will cost $1,000 more.
Toyota Sienna -- Toyota's entry also went through a major overhaul recently and offers more storage space. The Toyota's interior isn't as well-appointed or executed, but the Sienna is not as expensive as the Quest and offers the option of all-wheel drive.
AutoTrader's Advice
While we really liked the Quest LE, it does get expensive at north of $42,500. If you can live without navigation, we suggest the one-step-down SL, which will save you about $9,000. The rear-seat entertainment system is still available as an option -- and while you don't get the Around View monitor, a backup camera is still included. The dual-panel sunroof is available on the SL, too.


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Hurricane Isaac had blasted ashore a few hours earlier in Terrebonne Parish, and I was in The Courier's newsroom staring at something I had never seen.
Hurricane Isaac had blasted ashore a few hours earlier in Terrebonne Parish, and I was in The Courier's newsroom staring at something I had never seen.
A National Hurricane Center advisory on my computer screen said the storm's eye was zero miles north of Houma.
You probably recall how lucky most of us were during that storm. About 30 or 40 miles northeast, St. John Parish and surrounding communities suffered devastating flooding and property damage.
But here, where Isaac made landfall and the eye spent several hours over Houma, damage was significant but much more isolated, mostly caused by fallen trees rather than storm surge or floodwaters.
As the six-month hurricane season begins again Saturday, officials are once again advising residents not to depend on luck. Instead, put together a disaster plan for you and your family. Know in advance where you will go and how you will get there if officials again order you to evacuate. And when parish officials order you to leave for your own safety — just do it.
I and other Courier staff members are putting the finishing touches on this year's 36-page hurricane guide, a free bonus section in Friday's Courier and Daily Comet. It's the most comprehensive manual anywhere in the Houma-Thibodaux area, which is why Terrebonne and Lafourche government officials have declared it the parishes' official guide.
Reading and following the expert instructions it contains could save you and your family's lives and help protect your home and business. It could make evacuating — if it comes to that — a whole lot easier for you and others. And it could save you precious time and money if a storm heads our way.
You'll also find the guide online at houmatoday.com/stormtracker and dailycomet.com/stormtracker. This section of our websites is accessible to anyone anytime — free of charge.
As we promised before launching our online subscriptions last month, our websites will offer free access to everyone during hurricanes and other major emergencies. Houmatoday.com and dailycomet.com have provided the most credible, timely and comprehensive coverage of Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes before, during and after every hurricane since the websites went live in the late 1990s. The Courier and Daily Comet, as print newspapers, have served the same role for generations and are especially important to deliver news to residents who lack power or access to information via cellphone, tablet or computer.
As we proved during Isaac, our social-media presence — specifically via Twitter and Facebook — offers an instant and easy way for residents to learn what's going on from our journalists in the field and to communicate with us and each other about what's happening. If you aren't among the more than 18,000 people who have "liked" our Facebook pages already, do it now before hurricane season begins.
One of the consistent refrains I hear during storms is that national TV stations offer little to no coverage of Terrebonne and Lafourche. For the most part, that has been and will continue to be true. Network news stations have a much broader world view and a lot of other things to occupy their time, focus and resources.
In contrast, our energies are focused squarely on what matters most to you: you, your home, your family, your community.
Our websites have provided 24-hour coverage of every storm I can remember for nearly two decades. Courier and Daily Comet journalists have remained in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes — sometimes putting themselves in harm's way — to keep our community informed during a crisis.
If you want to stay informed, if you want timely, accurate and credible news about your community before, during and after a storm, stay tuned to The Courier and Daily Comet and their websites. We'll be here for you when it matters most.
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430. Verbs of placing, though implying motion, take the construction of the place where:
Such are pono, loco, colloco, statuo, constituo, etc.:
- qui in sede ac domo collocavit (Par. 25), who put [one] into his place and home.NOTE.--Compounds of pono take various constructions (see the Lexicon under each word).
- statuitur eques Romanus in Aproni convivio (Verr. iii. 62), a Roman knight is brought into a banquet of Apronius.
- insula Delos in Aegaeo mari posita (Manil. 55), the island of Delos, situated in the Aegean Sea.
- si in uno Pompeio omnia poneretis (id. 59), if you made everything depend on Pompey alone.
1. Gen.: To put, place, set, or lay on, or upon: aliquem in rogum [to lay someone upon the (funeral pyre)]
pmda wrote:How strange. I suppose either way is allowable.
Virgili Aeneis, liber primus, versus centum septuaginta tres, wrote:et sale tabentis (=tabentes) artus in litore ponunt.
and upon the beach they lay their limbs worn out by the brine
Virgili Aeneis, liber primus, versus quadraginta novem, wrote:...aut supplex aris imponet honorem?
...or a suppliant set a token of respect on her altars?


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Skip to comments.Critics say its time NY ends 1885 Scaffold Law
Posted on 08/31/2013 12:43:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Years before skyscrapers, when New York Citys tallest building was still the 281-foot spire of Wall Streets historic Trinity Church, state lawmakers passed the Scaffold Law, which made property owners and contractors liable for most gravity-related injuries to workers on construction sites.
Some New York government agencies and contractors say the cost of the insurance, which can often be double that of other states, is hitting a crisis point that could soon suspend work on bridges, schools and the recovery from Superstorm Sandy.
It increases the cost of doing business and decreases what we are capable of doing in New York state, said Carley Hill, of Union Concrete and Construction Corp. in West Seneca. You are losing potential millions of dollars in jobs that could go to people.
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Oh, that kind of scaffold. Never mind. :)
Of course NYC is/was the center of the insurance industry when the law was passed ... I wonder how much bribe money in 1885 was needed to secure a 130 year windfall.
So who does the writer believe should be liable for falling accidents.
...state lawmakers passed the Scaffold Law, which made property owners and contractors liable for most "gravity-related" injuries to workers on construction sites... the cost of the insurance, which can often be double that of other states, is hitting a crisis point that could soon suspend work on bridges, schools and the recovery from Superstorm Sandy.
I'm sometimes surprised at the Occutard mentality that's tolerated on FR.
Recently, New York's Court of Appeals its highest court clarified that the scaffold law imposes liability whenever there is a "failure to provide workers with adequate protection from reasonably preventable, gravity-related accidents. This decision came as part of a case in which a pipe secured to a wall at about the height of the injured worker's head came loose and struck a demolition worker.
Under earlier interpretations of the law, workers injured by a toppling object with its base at the injured worker's level could not benefit from the scaffold law because the worker and the object were at the same level. Now, any worker struck by a falling or toppling object can seek the protection of the scaffold law, even if the base of the object is at the same height as the worker.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Buffalo out of the frustration of years of failed lobbying efforts in Albany to get the state Legislature to rescind or modify the scaffold law, said Frank DeCarlo, president of Paragon Restoration in Depew.
In a letter to the Buffalo Law Journal, DeCarlo said he formed the coalition with Jeff Valone of Try-Lock Roofing Co. of Buffalo.
DeCarlo said Democrats in the Assembly, many of whom have close ties to liability lawyers and unions, have made it clear they will not ease the scaffold law on their own. He singled out Speaker Sheldon Silver and the chairwoman of the Assembly's labor committee, Susan John, as being particularly obstinate on the issue.
The Scaffold Law was first enacted in 1885, long before the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Workers' Compensation. Under the Scaffold Law, contractors, employers and property owners are held absolutely liable for elevation related injuries. This means that in a lawsuit, the contractor, employer, or property owner is automatically fully at fault, even if the worker was grossly negligent. Contrary to the most basic principles of justice, defendants have virtually no opportunity to defend themselves in court. New York is the only state in the nation where a contractor or property owner cannot defend themselves in court against a negligent worker. Illinois was the last state besides New York to remove this law from their books in 1995.
The so-called "Scaffold Law" was passed in 1885 andin the event of workplace injury and subsequent lawsuitessentially places the burden of responsibility on the contractor to prove that the job site was safe for workers. Since the original legislation does not address worker liability, State Senator Patrick Gallivan (R-Erie) and Assemblyman Joe Morrelle (D-Rochester) hope to pass an amendment that would, according to The Daily News, "add language that requires juries to consider the actions of workers in weighing injury lawsuits" for the first time.
The first scaffold law, an ancestor of Labor Law 240 (1), was enacted 118 years ago (i.e. - in 1885), in response to the Legislature's concern over unsafe conditions for employees who worked at heights. In promulgating the statute, lawmakers reacted to widespread accounts of deaths and injuries in the construction trades. Newspapers carried articles attesting to the frequency of injuries caused by rickety and defective scaffolds. In 1885, there were several articles detailing both the extent of these accidents and the legislation directed at the problem.
EXCLUSIVE: Sheldon Silver kills proposed changes to citys Scaffold Law
By Greg B. Smith / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 2:30 AM
Updated: Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 2:30 AM
The 1885 law makes property owners and contractors liable for gravity-related injuries at construction sites. The proposed changes would have made juries consider whether their actions could have had any effect. But a spokesman for the assembly speaker said Changes to the Scaffold Law are not being considered. We dont think its the right policy to further burden injured workers.
The benefits of reforming the Scaffold Law would be felt statewide. Not only would our public projects benefit, but New York businesses would spend far less on insurance, freeing up those dollars for new jobs and investment. Further, our municipalities would see significant savings to local construction and repair projects, at a time when they need it most. Please consider working with Governor Cuomo, state and local leaders, and members of the business community to reform this antiquated law. New York cannot afford to be the only state in the nation with this Scaffold Law on the books. A balanced reform would ensure worker safety and reduce taxpayer costs.
Scaffold Law reform does not take away workers rights; rather it would improve safety, create middle-class jobs, and provide equity for all. Scaffold Law reform simply adds a comparative negligence standard, which is available in all other cases of civil liability in New York State. Scaffold Law reform would only apply to a criminal act, use of drugs or alcohol, failure of the employee to use safety devices furnished at the job site, failure to comply with employer instructions regarding the use of safety devices at the job site, or failure of the employee to comply with safe work practices.
Silly politicians, they could have just outlawed gravity.
Liability doesn't enter into it; it is such an old fashioned concept, dreamed up and implemented by old, dead, mostly Christian, white men. There's plenty more "work at their own risk"
wetbacks illegal aliens crimaliens illegal immigrants undocumented immigrants informal guest workers to take the places of the ones that splatter themselves.
I believe there's a hidden clause buried somewhere in the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill that addresses this issue, right near the clause that also exempts them from the Obamacare mandates.
Anything that hurts high density construction helps the conservative cause. As it becomes too expensive to build tall buildings in the city, people and businesses will move faster to the suburbs and beyond where the population density is less, and so is the need for big government, taxes, laws, and high construction costs. Anything that encourages people to live an American lifestyle rather than a communist one is good.
Conservatives are for free markets, remember? The only reason there's high density construction is real estate costs, not some kind of commie conspiracy. Commies don't build, they're opportunistic parasites.
Long, long overdue.
Conservatives need to get more sophisticated about supporting the conditions that promote freedom. High density communal living always creates more communists. Look at any election results map. While some communists move to NYC, most of them develop their communism from living there. People living 70,000 per square mile is not the natural state of man. If businesses throw in the towel on $2,000 per square foot high rise construction costs and move to more free areas, their employees and families can learn to live like Americans. Traditional America's biggest enemy right now is the high rise city. While conservatives don't support this NY scaffolding law, we should pick a completely different battle.
Large cities have attracted immigrant groups who (ahem) have found it hard to adapt and support themselves, and none of them have been from much of a tradition other than monarchies and other forms of despotism; since the 19th c political machines have had success in building a permanent hold on all the other anti-democratic forces, such as 'labor' unions and the Mob (and sometimes that's redundant).
Truman came from Missouri, which was largely rural in his day, and yet owed his own political rise and career to the Pendergast machine. It's been written that Truman helped bring him down, but that's a bit of a story. Truman also was a teaching example for the three kinds of memory — Long Term, Short Term, and Convenient Memory. And he was a rabid single party state Demwit.
The Scaffold law effects workers compensation insurance. In the other 49 states if a worker gets hurt from a fall he is covered by workers comp., but the building owner and contractor are protected from lawsuits if the worker is covered by workers comp. In NY state, the worker can still sue everybody in sight, thus no private insurance company will write a policy for any construction work in NY since 2003. All comp and liability insurance in NY can only be purchased from the state government, with minimum premium of $80,000 (2003). Thus competition is limited in that out of state contractors do not work in NY if they do not do a large amount of their work in NY to justify the insurance payments. My company works in the NYC area, but just in NJ and CT, fortunately auto insurance is not affected, so you can drive between the two. If the Scaffold law is dropped, this would be a big deal for me.
Truman couldn't succeed as a farmer or businessman so by middle life decided life as government clock puncher was for him. It's remarkable how unaccomplished most of the Democrat machine cogs really are. Barky and Harry have a lot in common, except Harry wasn't an urban media project.
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You turn your head, and your toddler is gleefully shredding the work papers you brought home. Or you put the laundry basket on the floor, and next thing you know the baby's tipped it over and is covered with underwear.
Mostly, we're lucky; our momentary lapses are harmless. But some close calls are scarier -- what mom hasn't seen her child take a fall and felt her own heart plummet? -- and leave us swearing, I'll never do that again!
These moms, who tell stories of little blunders that almost caused big tragedies, were lucky too. But we can't depend on good fortune to protect our children.
Here, how these mishaps might have been prevented:
A Risky Ride
"Shortly after Madeline was born, I took her to work to show her off. I was nervous about riding the commuter train with her, so my parents came with me. At the station, we rode an escalator with Madeline in her stroller, and as I reached the top, I raised the wheels and then put them down, missed, and hit the edge of the metal lip. To my horror, the stroller started to go up and over the front wheels as I was being pushed toward it by my mother -- and the twenty or so people behind her! Luckily, my father was there to grab it in the nick of time. Madeline was okay, but I still cringe when I think about that incident."
--Lisa, Barrie, Ontario
How to stay safe:
Take the time to look for an elevator, even if it's a hassle. Most public places like train stations and shopping centers are handicap-accessible, so they should have one. Escalator steps are too narrow to accommodate both the front and the back wheels of strollers, which makes them more likely to flip, says Robert Tanz, M.D., former chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics's Section on Injury and Poison Prevention. And pushing a stroller onto the escalator prevents you from holding the handrail, so it's easier for you to lose balance.
If there's no alternative, fold your stroller and have someone else carry it. (If you're alone, ask an attendant or a passerby to hold it for you.) Then carry your child onto the escalator; this also keeps shoelaces, drawstrings, and fingers from getting caught.
"On my first outing with my four-month-old, I went shopping for clothes at a local store. I placed her in her carrier on top of the bench in the dressing room so I could try on some outfits. As soon as I turned my head, she toppled over onto the floor and the carrier fell on top of her. I was horrified and probably screamed louder than she did. Luckily, she was okay. Now, no matter where we are, I always put the carrier on the floor!"
--Gina, Goodyear, AZ
How to stay safe:
Always put your baby's carrier down on the lowest surface you can find that's within arm's reach. That doesn't include car hoods! Watch out for couches too, since soft, plush surfaces can be unstable. Unless it's on the ground, the carrier isn't really stable. "An active baby, even at four months, can move or tip it by squirming around in the seat or pushing off on nearby objects with her feet," says Angela Mickalide, Ph.D., program director for the National Safe Kids Campaign. Most of the time, toppling over is harmless, but in some cases, a fall from as low as two feet can cause brain damage. When you're shopping for a carrier, look for one with a wide, sturdy base and a safety belt.
A Wide Reach
"I thought my two-year-old son, Thomas, was napping in his room while I was upstairs. Then I heard him make some noise, so I went to check and found him covered in baby powder. He'd reached over his crib rails to the changing table, grabbed the powder and wipes, and dumped nearly the entire container of white stuff all over himself. He was using half a dozen wipes to 'clean up.' Thankfully, the only damage was the mess he made, but it could've been much worse: He could've put everything in his mouth."
--Sharyn, Athens, GA
How to stay safe:
Childproof your home. Toddlers are naturally curious, and this makes it easy for them to put their hands on things they shouldn't. Every year, more than 1 million unintentional poisonings among kids under 6 are reported to U.S. poison control centers. In Thomas's case, though baby powder isn't toxic, it can damage the lungs if it's inhaled. To prevent such accidents, you'll want to survey each room from a kid's point of view:
• Get down on your hands and knees and look carefully for any potential dangers between the floor and about three and a half feet above the ground.
• Remove items that are within reach from his crib and high chair.
• Check the carpet for buried items (such as pins, coins, and buttons) that your child could put in his mouth.
• Keep locked away -- or at least out of reach -- household products that may be harmful: cosmetics, art supplies, medicines, vitamins, and alcohol.
• Leave the toll-free number for the poison control center (800-222-1222) by your phone, and call right away if your child swallows something you think may be toxic.
Hazardous Waste
"After cleaning the shower, without thinking I tossed a disposable razor into the wastebasket in the bathroom. My twelve-month-old had just started to walk, and a short time later I found him there on the floor, with the razor in his mouth. Fortunately, he didn't cut himself, but I don't even want to think about what could've happened."
--Jamie, Merced, CA
How to stay safe:
Before you throw anything away, consider whether it would be dangerous if your child got his hands on it. When you have a tot who's just started to walk, everything becomes a risk, even if you assume it's safely discarded. And at 12 months and even up to 4 years, your child doesn't yet understand potential dangers. To him, a razor blade seems like a new toy. So if the item could possibly be harmful -- like a plastic bag (a suffocation risk) or a small object (a choking hazard) -- throw it away in an inaccessible trash can, one that's in a locked cabinet or in a room blocked off by a baby gate.
Watch The Steps
"I ran upstairs to grab a load of laundry, and as I turned to head back down, nine-month-old Maggie, who was crawling at the time, was on the third step. I sat at the top and calmly urged her to come to me. She began to crawl up the steps toward me with a big smile. But when she was on the sixth step, she turned away and fell all the way to the bottom. I was powerless to help. I ran down and immediately checked her out. She had a huge bump on her forehead. I put on an ice pack and called the pediatrician, who told me to bring her in. She was monitored for a head injury. She was fine, but I still have nightmares about the helpless feeling of watching her fall and not being able to save her."
--Sabrina, Dittmer, MO
How to stay safe:
Put a gate at the top and bottom of your staircase. (The one at the top should be secured to the wall or railing.) Babies can crawl a lot faster than you think, and they often learn to crawl up steps before they develop the motor skills to crawl down. To let your child practice climbing, pad the floor below the stairs with a few cushions so she won't get hurt if she falls, and keep a close watch.
Car Trouble
"Ethan, who's one, was asleep in his car seat when I pulled up in front of the house. I let him sleep while I quickly ran inside to make a brief phone call. It was hot out, so I left the car running to keep the air conditioner on. My husband was standing in the doorway to watch Ethan, in case he woke up and got scared. My husband turned to me to say something, and when he looked back at the car, he saw someone inside -- a man was stealing it, with our baby inside! Our worst nightmare had taken place right in front of our own house, in our quiet neighborhood. Thankfully, our little boy was found nearby half an hour later, still asleep in the car. The police told us the carjacker probably got scared when he realized there was a child inside. Now, no matter how much of a nuisance it is, I take Ethan when I get out of the car, even if it's just for a second."
--Amy, Virginia Beach
How to stay safe:
Never leave your child alone in a car. Although rare, carjacking is just one risk. The fumes might make your child sick, he might play with the power controls and hurt himself by opening and closing the windows, or he might climb out of his seat and set the car in motion. Even if the engine isn't running, it's never a good idea to leave him in the car by himself -- in warm weather, the temperature inside can quickly rise to a dangerous level. "Even when the weather seems pleasant, a child can succumb to heatstroke in minutes," says David Jaffe, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine, in St. Louis. At home, always lock the car and keep the keys out of your child's reach.
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Sibelius joins Digidesign
Today, Sibelius has become a part of Digidesign, which is the audio division of Avid Technology Inc.
Digidesign develops Pro Tools, the industry-standard system for music and audio production. Both Digidesign and Avid are forward-thinking organizations that take great pride in producing innovative, high quality products.
As Ben & Jonathan, our founders, explain below, joining Digidesign is great news for everyone involved with Sibelius, especially our users.
A message from Ben & Jonathan Finn, the founders of Sibelius Software…
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When we first started Sibelius back in 1993, we never imagined it would grow to the size it is now, with 80 employees, offices on three continents, and hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide.
It's thanks to you that Sibelius has become such a success - and is now well established as the software of choice for all kinds of musicians, music teachers and students.
Over the past year, we've been exploring ways to grow the company even further. In our conversations with Digidesign, we soon realised that they share our passion for music and education, our technological expertise, and our commitment to quality.
So we're delighted that we've managed to make the deal happen - and it's a great fit.
Digidesign is renowned across the world for Pro Tools, and its sister company M-Audio provides a whole range of great music hardware, from audio interfaces, to keyboards, mics and speakers. So, as you can imagine, there are exciting opportunities to combine our products in new and interesting ways.
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So, we'd like to thank you all for your support for Sibelius up to now, and look forward to even better and brighter things in future!
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