text: Photo Gallery Pictures: London Leaps Hurdles in Green Olympic Games Bid Organizers for the London Olympics have made significant strides toward more energy-efficient summer games, but some of their efforts didn't make it to the finish line. PUBLISHED July 26, 2012 0 1 / 9 Velodrome: Chipping Energy Use Curved and cedar-clad, the Velodrome could be the star sustainability attraction of the 2012 London Olympic Games. Not only was the lovely $147 million structure built on schedule and on budget, but it is the most energy-efficient venue in Olympic Park.That's important because while the athletes converging on England's capital this fortnight go for gold, organizers had green in mind when they planned out how to power these games. From the start, when Britain made its successful bid in 2005 to host this year's games, it placed environmental sustainability at the core of its campaign. It even agreed to allow an outside organization, the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 (CSL), to monitor its efforts.Neither the commission nor the games' myriad unofficial judges have given the performance a perfect ten. The CSL is concerned that waste won't be properly segregated for recycling or reuse. And critics have complained about the influence and role of corporate sponsors.But there's no question that organizers have cleared some high hurdles in their effort for a more sustainable Olympic Games.Case in point: A plan for a wind turbine to provide nearly 10 percent of the site's energy had to be scrapped for safety and commercial reasons.Still, the organizers will achieve their goal of reducing carbon emissions—mainly through conservation measures. The Velodrome is a prime example.Because its concave roof resembles a processed potato chip, Londoners have nicknamed the building The Pringle. But there's no fat inside. The fastest cycling track in the world will be 31 percent more energy efficient than required under the 2006 building regulations in place at the time construction was planned.(Related: "Pictures: Seven Supergreen U.S. Government Buildings")Achievements like the Velodrome and London's efforts to stage the first public-transit-centered Olympic Games have earned the organizers positive marks on sustainability."Overall, this has been a great success," the CSL concluded in its final report in June. But the most important measure, the commission said, will be how much London 2012 influences sustainable practices beyond the games.(Related interactive: Global Electricity Mix)—Thomas K. Grose in London Photograph by Edmund Sumner, View/Corbis Cycling Track: Gearing Up for Efficiency Cyclists whiz around the Velodrome's Siberian pine track at speeds in excess of 70 kilometers (43 miles) per hour at a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) test event earlier this year.All of the wood used to build the low-slung building—including the 56 kilometers (35 miles) of pine that went into the 250-meter track—was certified as sustainable by the Forest Stewardship Council.The building's stellar energy-efficiency performance is due to its compact design, which minimizes the volume of conditioned air in the cycling arena. (Related: "Pictures: In Search of Green Air Conditioning" and Quiz: What You Don't Know About Air Conditioning)The design uses natural ventilation for passive cooling, and optimizes natural lighting. Potable water demand was reduced 70 percent through a rainwater harvesting and supply system, efficient plumbing fittings and waterless urinals. The design team also reduced the size and depth of the foundations, and by relying on a lightweight cable system for support, saved an estimated 1,000 tons of steelwork.Throughout Olympic Park, organizers used half the materials that were needed to build the Olympics site in Beijing for the 2008 games. (Related: "Pictures: A Rare Look Inside China's Energy Machine") Photograph courtesy Justin Setterfield, LOCOG ArcelorMittal Orbit: Steeling the Show Spiraling 114.5 meters (376 feet) into the air in London 2012's Olympic Village, the red and silver tubular steel ArcelorMittal Orbit tower is both an abstract sculpture and a viewing platform that affords panoramic views of the host city.Resembling a rather nightmarish roller-coaster, the 35-story tower divided art critics and gave London newspapers a new target for their punning headlines: "Eyeful Tower," anyone?" The Commission for a Sustainable London doesn't think the tower fits the green ethos of the games, though, calling it pointless and chiding its use of energy-intensive steel (although 63 percent of the steel was recycled).The public response? Tickets to tower during the games are sold out.(Related: "Four Ways to Look at Global Carbon Footprints")(Related Video: "I Didn't Know That--Recycling Steel") Photograph by Tim Hales, AP Olympic Torch: New Design, Old Fuel Gold and crafted from aerospace-grade aluminum, the 800-millimeter (31-inch) Olympic torch for the 2012 London Games weighs a mere 800 grams (1.8 pounds), making it the lightest ever. The hope was that the British-designed and engineered torch also would break precedent as the first to be lit with carbon-neutral fuel, but that was not to be.Olympics sponsor EDF Energy vowed back in 2007 that it would develop a green torch fuel made from miscanthus, or elephant grass. But EDF was never able to deliver on the biofuel.(Related Quiz: What You Don't Know About Biofuel)So for the relay across the United Kingdom by 8,000 torchbearers that started 70 days ahead of the games, the Olympic flame was lit by the same fuel that has been in use since the 2000 games, a mix of propane and butane.Shaun McCarthy, chairman of the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012, was not pleased. "The excuse of 'We ran out of time' is not acceptable," he said.The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) released by the relatively clean-burning fuels is minute, he admitted, but if a carbon-neutral fuel had been used, "the power of the message across the globe would have been highly significant."(Related Quiz: "What You Don't Know About Natural Gas")Still, there have been worse torch fuels in Olympics past. For the 1996 Atlanta games, the organizers used propylene, which burned brightly, but released copious carbon and smoke. Perhaps the biggest torch debacle was in the 1956 games in Melbourne, Australia, where a fuel mix of magnesium and aluminum emitted large clumps of burning debris as the torch entered the stadium. Now, that's entertainment!As for EDF Energy, which boasts it is the largest low-carbon electricity provider in the United Kingdom (thanks to a technology that would be an unsuitable torch fuel-nuclear power), it is metering energy use at the games. Viewers can watch the kilowatt-hours in real time online at http://www.edfpowerthegameslive.com/(Measure your own carbon footprint with the Personal Energy Meter) Photograph from Reimschuessel/Splash News/Corbis Energy Centre: Cooling From Heat Brown and squat—it's 18 meters (59 feet) high—the Olympic Park Energy Centre incorporates windows at ground level to allow passersby to see inside the power plant.The center uses combined cooling, heat, and power (CCHP) technology fueled from both natural gas and biomass (wood chips) to cut back on carbon emissions. CCHP plants use the excess heat from generating heat and electricity to also run air conditioning systems. The waste heat is cooled in an absorption chiller to produce chilled water for cooling.(Related: "Tapping into the Electric Power of Heat" and "KPMG Captures Heat for Data Center Cooling")After the games, the plant—owned and operated by GDF Suez—will provide heat, power, and cooling to new buildings and communities planned for the development area. An adjacent Edwardian building will house a visitors center.Although natural gas generates electricity with half the carbon emissions of coal, the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 in its June report noted that it is still a fossil fuel. "With hindsight, the option to award a 40-year energy contract based on a fossil-fuel source could prove to be an ill-advised decision," said the report. Photograph by Julian Finney, Getty Images Olympic Park: Woodland Legacy A serene, green corner of a newly created 250-acre parkland affords a lovely view of the sloping, saddle-shaped Velodrome at the Olympic Park in London's hardscrabble East End. It's the largest urban park to be built in the U.K. in more than 100 years, and combines woodlands, wetlands, and meadows sown with perennials.(Related: "Pictures: Twelve Car-Free City Zones" and "The City Solution")More than 1,500 indigenous trees—including wild cherry, ash, aspen, and English oak—and 300,000 wetlands plants were used to create the park, which is also a new habitat for a variety of fauna, ranging from kingfishers to bats to grass snakes.Until recently, this land had been an industrial wasteland. More than 2 million tons of earth were treated at an on-site "soil hospital" to cleanse it of contaminants—including oil, arsenic, and lead. Organizers say that the games' legacy will be the regeneration of a derelict part of London. Photograph courtesy David Poultney, Olympic Delivery Authority Olympic Stadium: Wrap Controversy A security guard gazes up at the 487 million pound ($753 million), 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium built for the London 2012 Games.To help keep it featherweight, it was constructed with lightweight steel, and its roof is fashioned from PVC. It also has a rainwater collection system that provides water for flushing toilets and irrigation.(Related: Water Footprint Calculator)But the building is not without controversy. The 7 million pound ($10.85 million) wrap cladding the outside of the stadium was made and paid for by Olympics sponsor Dow Chemical. Activists decry Dow for its link to one of the world's worst industrial disasters, the deadly 1984 chemical leak in Bhopal, India. (The factory was owned by a subsidiary of Union Carbide, which was purchased by Dow in 2001. The Indian government has sought additional compensation from Dow, which has refused, saying the claims were settled by the predecessor company.)(Related Photos: Kickoff Time for Green Stadiums)The recounting of the Bhopal tragedy by the critics of Dow's Olympic sponsorship has doubtless undercut some of the value of the $100 million deal. Dow removed its logo from the decorative stadium wrap, which the company had hoped would showcase its environmentally friendly plastic. The phthalate-free wrap is made from 336 individual pieces of fabric, each 25 meters (82 feet) long and 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) wide. Dow says the material was made partly from recycled content and will be repurposed. Photograph by Michael Regan, Getty Images Efficient Cars: But Please Take the Tube The German automaker BMW supplied 4,000 cars, including these parked in the Bloomsbury district, to the London Olympics Games.Environmental activists have criticized use of the luxury vehicles to ferry VIPs—including Olympics officials, organizers, medical officers, and media—to and from the games in dedicated lanes to avoid London's often traffic-clogged streets.(Related Quiz: What You Don't Know About Cars and Fuel)BMW and organizers say that while the cars are powerful, they are also super-efficient. In the U.K. new car emissions on average are 138 grams of CO2 per kilometer, which works out to about 17 kilometers per liter or 40 miles per gallon of gasoline. In contrast, the BMW Olympic fleet's average is a mere 116 g CO2/km, or more than 20 km/l or 47 mpg. The fleet's environmental profile was boosted in part by the inclusion of 240 electric vehicles or hybrids. (Related: "Pictures: Cars That Fired Our Love-Hate Relationship With Fuel")The CSL credited London for devising a transportation plan that will require most visitors to the games to use public transportation—though it says it will keep a "close eye" on things to ensure that the first " 'public transport games' becomes a reality." During the games, ridership on London's extensive underground subway and train system is expected to swell from 12 million to 15 million journeys per day. (Video: "I Didn't Know That—The London Tube")(Related: "Formula One Legend Murray Sets Course for Energy-Efficient Car Design") Photograph from Melpressmen/Demotix/Corbis Next: Photos: Kickoff Time for Green Stadiums Illustration courtesy HH-Vision and Albert Speer & Partner Related Stories The Good, the Bad, the Bewildering: 10 Countries' Climate Pledges National Geographic Honored as a 'Champion of the Earth' Burp by Burp, Fighting Emissions from Cows


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//Pigeons in a bare tree on a cold day in Toronto.
This shot was snapped at Yonge & Eglinton today as I went looking for food and inspiration in between a couple of photo assignments.
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(USA TODAY) - The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing remained hospitalized with serious injuries this morning as the hunt for answers goes full tilt to discover why the alleged terrorists turned against a country they once embraced.
Police captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Friday night, ending a tense, five-day drama that gripped Massachusetts with fear and rekindled the specter of terror across the nation. He and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, killed in an earlier gun battle with police, are Chechens who came to the U.S. and - for a time - seemed to want to succeed in America.
"I'm in complete shock," said Rose Schutzberg, 19, who graduated high school with Dzhokhar and now attends Barnard College in New York. "He was a very studious person. He was really popular. He wrestled. People loved him."
U.S. officials said a special interrogation team for high-value suspects would question him without reading him his Miranda rights, invoking a rare public safety exception triggered by the need to protect police and the public from immediate danger.


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You get bored. Bored with saying, my god, how awful was that? Or: did you see 'X?' what a stinker. Because you didn't see 'X,' didn't have to sit through it, to have to accept or reject it, and with any luck, you never will.
I could tell you, for instance, why Uli Lohmmel's "Absolute Evil" was (and I say this as a statement of fact, not as hyperbole) very possibly the worst ten minutes of any film I've ever seen ... but what would be the point? For one thing, I lack the simple critical vocabulary to describe its simple, shot-for-shot shittiness: it cannot be described - it must be experienced. For another, it's dull to revisit something I've already consigned, in my head, to the dustbin of history. Dull for me, and for you.
Likewise Theo Angelopoulos's "The Dust of Time", with its awful, Google Translation English dialogue and reams of stagey exposition, and the presiding sense of a once-great filmmaker descending into incoherence and empty affectation. But that's just depressing, because I loved and admired so many of his films while I was growing up (and anyone who hasn't seen "The Travelling Players" or "Voyage to Cythera" really, really should - they're astonishing), and this one just made me feel like crying.
I'm happier hymning the handful of good-to-great films Berlin offered up in 2009, however much they were outnumbered by the noteworthy bad. "Blame is safer than praise," said Emerson, and he was undoubtedly correct. But let's try to accentuate the positive, shall we? For a change?
Like 1961's "The Story of the Flaming Years", which screened in the festoval's 70mm "Bigger Than Life" retrospective: a stunning WWII drama from director Julia Solnceva, and scripted by her husband, the great Aleksandr Dovzhenko, whose majesty announced itself from the very first shot: a Soviet infantryman, his face lit by the same expression of fervent certitude he would wear, unblinking, for the following 90 minutes, delivering a monologue to camera about the enduring greatness of International Communism. Meanwhile, the camera pulled back to reveal that he was standing before a semi-destroyed Brandenburg Gate, and the smouldering ruins of Berlin. But it wasn't this devastation that impressed most; nor was it the columns of defeated Nazi soldiers being marched away, hundreds of extras visible at the very edge of the frame. No, it was this fact that, thanks to the sheer immensity of the 70mm projection, it all appeared to be happening in 1:1 scale, right before our eyes.
The film's glories can hardly be overstated: every sequence - indeed almost every individual shot - displayed extraordinary invention and awesome pictorial beauty: from the fever-dream of a wounded soldier (in which he's borne, in absolute silence, through a partly-submerged forest on a barge, like Arthur being ferried to Avalon), to a scene of lovers reunited on the slopes of a tall hill, at night and in long-shot. While, in the far distance, the River Danube glittered like a constellation - an image reminiscent of Michael Powell at his most magical.
After this masterpiece, most everything else was doomed to seem impoverished by comparison. But out of nowhere, a late competition entry, "Katalin Varga", surprised and impressed in more or less equal measure. Of weirdly uncertain provenance (Hungarian actors, Romanian locations, an expatriate British director), its plot was simple: after her husband learns his wife had been raped in the past, the eponymous Katalin takes her son - the child of the union - and leaves her village, seeking revenge against the men who wronged her.
The fact that she chooses to do so by horse-and-cart, though the film is set in the present day, should give some indication of the timelessness of this particular story, which played out like a cross between Bergman's "The Virgin Spring," and the films of France's Philippe Grandrieux. But it had a blunt sort of force, and steadfastly refused to speak easy truths about human nature. By far the most impressive entry in the competition, it will hopefully receive its due reward from the jury. Hopefully.
Outside, moments after that screening, came reports that Berlinale director Deiter Kosslick had, at a meeting the previous day, declared himself "infuriated" by the general negativity of the press this year - by all accounts, a Variety mid-fest report had especially riled him - and wondered why these pesky critics bothered to come, if only to make the same carping complaints every February?
For the record, we were mostly asking ourselves much the same question (More than one journalist had told me they were frightened to write too negatively on the festival for a second or third time, for fear their editors would decide, next year, that it was a waste of resources, and not send them). The fact is, those criticisms remain the same each year because they're valid each year. The Competition IS too big. It DOES lack a sense of direction or purpose. The solution is not simple, but some steps can certainly be taken: were Kosslick to cut the number of films in contention for the Golden Bear - to, say, sixteen - and make more of the "Berlinale Special" section (or alternatively, devise another, altogether new strand), he'd be doing much to counter the most persistent complaints.
As a result, I have great fondness for the Panorama section of the Berlinale. By far the gay-est section in an already gay-friendly event, its glittery fabulousness stands as a spangly corrective to the po-faced acetisicism of the Forum, the mercenary zeal of the European Film Market. Venturing into Panorama is a little like finding Truman Capote holding court among a convention of bank managers.
As a result, however, one occasionally has a feeling more typical to gay fests - that the sexual orientation of the work too often takes precedence over its actual worth. I remember being astonished, when the section premiered Giuseppe Piccioni's backstage drama "La Vita che Vorrei" a few years ago, that the film charted the lifespan of an exclusively heterosexual relationship. You almost expected longtime section chief Weiland Speck to introduce it apologetically. ("Meine damen und herren... I'm not sure how this one sneaked through. I'm so sorry. But, to make you feel more comfortable, we've spliced some fisting into the third reel...")
This year, however, the straights mostly let us down. Julie Delpy's "The Countess" was stymied by some uncertain acting - not least, Delpy's own - pedestrian plotting, and a Europudding muddle of accents. Sophie Fillieres' "Un Chat un chat" (AKA "Pardon My French") started very well, with Chiara Mastroianni as a kind of female Buster Keaton, a morosely impassive neurotic at odds with the world, but lost momentum as it went on. A pity, because the first half-hour was hysterically funny, in a deadpan sort of way.
And "Claustrophobia", the debut feature from Hong Kong director Ivy Ho, boasted an intriguing premise (albeit one borrowed wholesale from Harold Pinter's drama "Betrayal") as a clandestine office romance between a married executive and a bright young woman is told backwards, from their recriminatory breakup through to their flirtatious beginnings. But in place of torrid passion, we were treated to endless scenes of awkward silence between these two badly mismatched people, who never seemed to generate any onscreen chemistry, much less actually fuck. The film looked ravishing, thanks for the most part to the camerawork of the great Taiwanese cinematographer Pin Bing Lee, Hou Hsiao-hsien's longtime DOP. But rarely has extra-marital sex seemed so perfunctory or unrewarding.
But Panorama's real highlight was the film perhaps truest to its own, outsider nature: Julian Hernandez's "Raging Sun, Raging Sky," a 191-minute, B&W Mexican reverie on homosexual desire that rewarded those with the patience to submit to it. Recalling, at times, such queer landmarks as Genet's "Un Chant d'Amour" and Ron Peck's "Nighthawks" and even Gus Van Sant's "Mala Noche," it demonstrated with almost every scene not only its maker's fluent command of the medium, his unerring compositional eye, but also a remarkable sensuality, a feel for the textures of flesh and fabric and concrete, and for the quiet, hidden places in which desire may be sated. At once urgent (sex is very much the engine of this drama), and weirdly endistanced (courtesy of its capital-A arthouse technique), it offered a kind of meditation on what the American novelist Samuel R. Delany once called "the splendor and misery of bodies and cities" - one that built by slow stages to a devastating final hour. If there was a discovery to made at Berlin this year, this was it.


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Galaxy Nexus Touchscreen Problem Emerges: Affects Multitouch Gaming
It been only out for a week, and most review are very postive, but digging down deeper, alot of gamers are uphappy as the 'touch-screen' does not seem to handle correctly 'multi-touch' games with ICS!
If you an hard-core mobile gamer, you will not be all smiles owning one of these first 'Ice Cream Sandwich' babies from Samsung, as it seems the new 'Galaxy Nexus' is have many problems with 'multi-touch' gaming.
Hopefully the problem can be corrected by future ICS OS update from Google / Samsung for all those stuck with this problem over the last week since it been first released, if not Samsung is going to have alot of uphappy customers on their hands to please somehow!
It all started with a couple of RootzWiki threads users are reporting difficulty maintaining multitouch in certain situations. Then Sean Buckley over on Engadget looked into the problem more deeply and have this to report:
With Multitouch games, like Shadow Gun or Gun Brothers, you can see the bottom right part of the touchscreen start behaving unpredictably after booting up. Engadget then tested this out for themselves trying two different handsets and also found they encountered the same problem. It was found that the problem could be solved by switching the screen on and off but only until you play the next game. Strangely the issue only seems to occur when the Galaxy Nexus is in landscape mode. The most likely cause of this problem is a software bug and of course if that is the case it's a question of waiting for a fix, which would still be preferable to a hardware issue.
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Rivers, lakes, and other bodies of inland water are generally where the water table intersects the surface (there are exceptions, such as desert playas).
Precipitation lands on top of the landscape and percolates downward through any soils. When the soil is saturated, the water moves laterally (get a sponge and pour water on it until it runs off; the same principle is at work here). The location of the saturated area is the water table. When the saturated level rises sufficiently to intersect the surface, it shows as liquid water. If there is a slope, it will flow downhill as a creek, stream, or river (depending on the amount of flowing water). If the water hits a steep drop, it will form rapids; a vertical drop makes for a waterfall. Water in a depression will form a pond or lake.
Areas with thin soils or other soils that can't hold much water (like clay) will tend to have highly seasonal flow patterns that match the rainfall. Areas with thick soils rich in organic material can hold a lot of water and release it more slowly. Evaporation is a critical component of equation, too. The roots of plants tend to hold water in the soil, but the leaves tend to remove it. So to answer you question about rainfall, I recommend that you look at English weather. The Scottish highlands, for example, were pretty much scraped clean in the last Ice Age and there isn't much good soil there except in some of the valleys. Forests tend to congregate in the valleys where there is soil. The south of England has fairly good soils and rainfall, so trees often grow all over the place (except, again, in some of the thin soils over chalky regions).


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Limestone College offers a comprehensive support program, PALS (Program for Alternative Learning Styles), for students with learning and attention challenges. At the core of our program is academic coaching and individualized tutoring services. PALS students meet weekly with PALS staff and their academic coach and have access to an organizational coach and learning specialist. PALS is a fee-based program. In some cases, the Office for Vocational Rehabilitation will assist in funding the student's participation. Please contact your local VR office or speak with your high school counselor to obtain contact information. PALS is only offered during the regular academic year and only at the main campus of Limestone College in Gaffney, SC.
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|Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind
|Written by Justin Newman, medical student
Snoring and sleep apnea
In the mouth and the throat there are soft tissues—adenoids, extra lining of the nose, mouth and throat, septum in the nose and the soft tissue of the back of the tongue and throat—and all of these tissues can cause a person to have problems with snoring.
When a person is asleep, there is an extra relaxation in the muscles that hold these tissues open during the day that relax when the person is asleep. Sometimes they may relax to the point that they partially block off the flow of air into the person's lungs. When the air has to squeak around these mostly closed airways, the resonating sound that is heard is that horrible sound that we have too often had to put our pillows over our ears to block out.
Sleep apnea is a lack of appropriate breathing while sleeping. Apnea is the Greek word for "without breath." Sleep apnea is just that—a lack of breath while sleeping.
When snoring is very strong or when the snoring is the result of airways that have become completely blocked off, problems begin to occur for the body. When the air flow is completely blocked off or when not enough air is able to get into the snorer's lungs while sleeping, then the sleeping brain will tell the body it is starving for oxygen. This will cause the person to wake up.
The person may wake only for a brief moment and often times the person is waking up but does not realize that he has woken up. The brain wakes the body up enough to get a deep breath of air into the lungs, and then the person is allowed to go back to sleep. The person will usually have no recollection of being awoken, but the person who is sharing the bed with them may notice that there is a pattern to their sleeping, snoring and becoming restless (when they are partially woken up).
Although sleeping, the person is not able to get the restful night's sleep they need, since they are constantly being awoken before they get into the deep, quality sleep, and even if they are sleeping many hours per night, they are exhausted since they are not able to get good sleep.
There are a few things that can make snoring worse for someone. One is alcohol. When your body is asleep, the mind has to coordinate the rate you breath at, and the muscles in your throat and chest have to contract at just the right time to allow the breaths of air in while the person is asleep.
Alcohol slows many processes in the body down including this one. When the alcohol is on board, the brain often has difficulty coordinating the timing of the breaths with the contraction of the muscles in the throat and mouth, resulting in the breaths being partially blocked when they try to get in. Blocked breaths mean snoring noises and apnea if they are bad enough and the person is not able to get the restful sleep that they need.
Some other drugs and medications may worsen these symptoms in the same way. Also, if a person has a head cold, the soft tissues in the nose and throat may be swollen and inflamed, causing worse snoring.
Snoring is usually corrected mostly for social reasons. Which is a nice way to say the spouse and whoever else tries to sleep within earshot makes the snorer do something about their sawing of ZZZ's.
However, apnea can cause many medical problems. The signs to look for are excessive daytime sleepiness, loud snoring, awaking with a dry mouth, sore throat or a headache, and difficulty staying asleep or insomnia.
When the body cannot achieve a restful sleep, a number of processes are disrupted. Normal growth patterns are thrown off and the healing and immune system responses are unable to function correctly. The lack of oxygen can create changes in the cardiovascular system and sleep apnea can cause high blood pressure. This can lead to heart attacks and strokes. Even relationships can become strained as neither the person with the sleep apnea nor their significant other can achieve restful sleep.
Justin Newman is originally from Holyoke and is attending medical school at the University Of Chicago Pritzker School Of Medicine.
This column is about health related issues with a focus on a rural community. The purpose of this column is to be informative and to comment on interesting medical and health related topics. Any questions or concerns that may arise regarding topics covered by this article should be addressed to your primary care doctor.


text: Snoopers charter will only target 'incompetent criminals' Politics 18 October 12 by Olivia Solon Shutterstock Controversial plans to monitor people's online activity in the UK will only uncover "incompetent criminals" rather than the most serious offenders, the information commissioner has warned MPs.In a committee meeting of MPs and peers convened to discuss the draft legislation released in June, Christopher Graham said that it would be easy for the "really scary people" could simply use overseas, encrypted networks that can't be monitored. It would only catch out "the incompetent criminal and the accidental anarchist", he argued.Under the new draft communications bill -- which has been dubbed the "snoopers charter" by digital rights activists -- ISPs and other service providers would have to store data relating to their customers' internet use for a year, and give intelligence services access to it if necessary. The law has been updated to include messages on social networking sites, webmail services, VoIP calls and chat services and online gaming -- In addition to emails and phone calls. Graham felt that there was a lck of clarity about the term "Communication Service Providers" (CSPs) used in the bill. He said it was likely that the big six -- Orange, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, O2, Sky and BT -- would fall under this description. "What of the other five percent?" he asked. A serious criminal or terrorist would dodge the law by avoiding these services.As it stands, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) gives police the ability to snoop through phone and email records, but it is limited to those service providers that keep such records. The proposed bill would force providers to keep this data and give access to it if the authorities can show that it is "necessary and proportionate".However, Interception of Communications Commissioner Sir Paul Kennedy argued that the enhanced powers were "essential" as police and security services could only get around 75 percent of the information they needed. In September, Twitter submitted written evidence in a report to the UK government outlining how the draft Communications Data Bill could put the company into a "legally untenable position".The micro-blogging company submitted evidence to a 449-page report written for the parliamentary committee which is currently scrutinising the bill, and its proposals to force any business which transmits "communications by any means involving the use of electrical or electro-magnetic energy" to store all traffic data, use data or subscriber data sent over their networks for up to a year. Image: Shutterstock Edited by Nate Lanxon Latest on wired.co.uk


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Each year, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, as part of its goal of providing special attention to any art promotion activity, reinforces its presence at the sector's most important national fairs and festivals. It attends the ARCO and ESTAMPA fairs with its own space and participates actively at PHotoEspaña, the International Photography and Visual Arts Festival.
Likewise, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, through the General Department of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets and Archives and Libraries, facilitates the participation of Spanish galleries in the most prestigious national and international Fairs and Festivals through the Spanish Art and New Trends in the Arts Aid.
Presence at ARCO is through a stand with the works of the National Fine Arts and Photography Awards winners from the previous year, as well as a work representing the Grantees at the College of Spain in Paris.
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Georgian president's office says detained journalists were spies
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|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
July 08, 2011
Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili
A spokeswoman for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says four Georgian news photographers arrested on July 7 were part of a "spying network."
The spokeswoman added that the photographers' arrests had "nothing to do with their journalism."
The detained photojournalists are accused of spying for a foreign country, although Georgian officials have yet to name the country involved.
The detainees are Zurab Kurtsikidze, a photographer for the European Pressphoto Agency; freelancer Giorgi Abdaladze; and Saakashvili's personal photographer, Irakli Gedenidze, together with his wife Natia Gedenidze, also a photographer.
AP photographer Shakh Aivazov was also briefly detained and released without charges.
Lawyers for Kurtsikidze and Abdaladze say their clients deny wrongdoing.
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Cook County Board President announces the County's Set Targets, Achieve Results (S.T.A.R.) Performance Initiative
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle stood with County elected officials today to announce the "Set Targets, Achieve Results" (STAR) initiative, which will inform residents on how their County performs.
Earlier this year, the Cook County Board passed an ordinance outlining new standards for performance management within the County. Through the "Set Targets, Achieve Results" (STAR) initiative, Cook County will begin providing quality, results-oriented data that shows how services are delivered, resources are used and whether outcomes are achieved. The data will be released in the first report to be published the first week of July.
"This is the first opportunity for all of the separate agencies of Cook County to stand together and report system-wide data—in public safety, healthcare, property and tax, and general finance and administration. We have continually emphasized the importance of collaboration and that means working together to meet these challenges together. Reporting system-wide data allows us to have frank conversations about the cost and quality of services we provide residents," Preckwinkle said.
With pro bono support from the Civic Consulting Alliance and its partners, the President's Office has been working with all County agencies to establish goals and metrics.
"All of here today have pledged to work collaboratively with each other to increase efficiency, improve services and make government more accountable to its residents. I want to thank them for the considerable commitment and effort they have put into this process," said Preckwinkle.
As part of the STAR Initiative, managers representing all County agencies attended training sessions presented by the Civic Consulting Alliance and its partners. Over 200 managers from every elected office attended the training sessions. Individual working sessions with County departments and separately elected agencies were held to help refine goals and identify measures.
"This initiative touches all four of this administration's goals: fiscal responsibility, innovative leadership, transparency & accountability and improved services. It will be a cornerstone of my administration and will help inform the County budget process in the short-term and set the County up for long-term financial success," said Preckwinkle.
The STAR initiative will play a considerable role in the upcoming budget process.
"The work we do now is laying the foundation for more fiscally responsible operations. During the budget process, we were shocked to find that only one office under the President's office kept regular, data-based metrics on performance."
The County has already seen results stem from the STAR initiative. One example: through the implementation of proper tracking and accountability measures, POET (prior to being Cook County Works) worked to decrease absences due to sick days by over half (from 8.2 hours per employee per month to 3.4 hours per employee per month). In a department of roughly 50 employees, this is the equivalent of having six additional workers for one additional week.
"The broader goal here is that, with regular performance metrics being reported, we will be able to identify the underlying issues affecting County operations and, in turn, better allocate resources in the budget process," said Preckwinkle. "We can analyze what your tax dollars are being used for throughout the County"
Information from the STAR report will also be published online in an open data format as part of the Open Cook County Plan.
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The S&P BSE benchmark Sensex snapped 5-week losing streak by surging 100 points on fresh buying mainly in the last three days in view of recovery in the Indian rupee, amid Prime Minister's assurance on currency and growth of the economy.
Receding fears of an imminent attack on Syria after British lawmakers voted against military action in the House of Commons, which had kept global oil prices under pressure, also boosted market sentiment.
Frantic short-coverings ahead of the expiry of derivative contracts on August 29 too helped to the rise.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told Parliament that the country will face "short-term shocks" but exuded confidence that growth in the current fiscal will rise to 5.5 per cent, up from a decade's low of 5 per cent in 2012-13. He acknowledged that growth in the first quarter will be relatively flat.
On the rupee, Singh said, "The sudden decline in exchange rate is certainly a shock, but we will address this through other measures, not through capital controls or by reversing reforms."
The Sensex resumed higher at 18,602.56 and dropped below 18,000 level to 17,448.71 due to heavy selling pressure following sharp depreciation of rupee to an all-time intra-day low of 68.85 against the dollar on August 28 on concerns over rising subsidy burden after the passage of the Food Security Bill and possibility of military action against the Syria.
However, it recovered later due to appreciation of rupee value against the dollar on steps taken by the Central bank amid heavy buying by Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), the country's biggest institutional investor to 18,728.19 before finishing at 18,619.72, disclosing a gain of 100.28 points or 0.54 per cent. It had dropped by 1,630.41 pts or 8.09 per cent in the previous five weeks.
The RBI late Wednesday allowed the three state-owned oil companies to buy dollars from the Central bank. The PSU oil companies are the biggest buyers of dollars, requiring $8-8.5 billion every month for the import of an average 7.5 million tonnes of crude oil.
The NSE 50-share Nifty also ended marginally higher to 5,471.80 from 5,471.75 last weekend's level.
Shares of IT, Teck and pharma sectors firmed up sharply on good demand from operators while PSU, Banking, Realty, Consumer Durable and Capital Goods fell on heavy selling.
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text: It's by the History Channel, so of course there's an over-reliance on dramatic re-enactments of Franklin's life. That's hardly academic. The interviews are not as great as they could be. It's good for those just beginning an investigation into Franklin's life and historical importance. There are, however, better DVDs in the AADL collection.


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Using computers is a major cause of stress for two out of five couples in the United States. Online retailers Crucial.com examined how computers affect relationships and found that people with computer issues suffer in other parts of their life.
According to the study, one out of every five people said computer problems are more stressful than having an argument with a loved one.
Research suggests that spending time fixing computer problems causes stress that pours over into other aspects of a user's life.
The study examined the responses of 2,691 adults who were polled by Harris Interactive. Twenty-three percent of respondents said time spent working on their computers performance led to stress.
John Gray, the relationship counselor who wrote the 1992 best-seller Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, tells Mashable:
"A computer's performance can increase or lower stress in a relationship. We're living in a world where most people spend more time with a computer on a daily basis than they do with their spouse or significant other."
With so much time invested in using our computers, it only makes sense that poor computer performance can lead to stress, which pours over into our relationships.
The study finds that women are more likely to be disappointed by their computer's performance standards.
While computer stress can lead to issues in a relationship, the study notes that 75 percent of couples fight over finances and 59 percent fight over work-related issues. Those numbers don't bode well for people who work all day with computers.
People and computers have become intertwined thanks to advances in mobile technology and the rise of social networks. With further studies finding stress caused by overuse of Facebook, Twitter, and other online platforms, it looks as if we need to be more careful than ever when taking most of our interactions online.
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A trade group wants state officials to reinforce their authority over natural-gas drilling operations, force some reluctant landowners to sell their gas and tax new wells at a low rate during years when they're at their costliest but also producing the most gas.
Those are some of the legislative and regulatory priorities that the Cecil-based Marcellus Shale Coalition outlines in an internal policy document obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and other media.
The coalition acknowledged the document, marked "draft confidential," but said many of the proposals had been on its website -- www.marcelluscoalition.org -- since spring.
The document says drilling should be a use by right in all zoning districts, even as Pittsburgh and other municipalities have proposed bans or zoning restrictions. It also says the state should encourage natural gas consumption and oppose anti-drilling arguments that "are not logically or scientifically based."
Kathryn Klaber, coalition president and executive director, said such steps would promote the orderly, efficient harvesting of the gas and protect landowners who want to lease their mineral rights.
But Pittsburgh City Councilman Patrick Dowd, who has introduced a bill to place certain restrictions on drilling operations in the city, says the document inflames the debate over natural gas drilling.
"I think it's completely one-sided ... a failure to be evenhanded," Mr. Dowd said.
Ken Weir, a Lincoln Place resident and spokesman for the opposition group Marcellusprotest.org, said the industry's priorities signal "corporate greed."
Titled "A Holistic Solution to Modernizing Pennsylvania Policies Impacting Marcellus Shale Development," the document calls for the Legislature to bolster the Oil and Gas Act to give the state Department of Environmental Protection clearer, broader authority over enforcement of the industry.
Many municipalities lack the expertise to enforce environmental regulations, Ms. Klaber said. "We as a nation have put state governments in charge of that critical function," she said.
On its website, the group raises the specter of two or three officials in a municipality passing an ordinance to prevent gas exploration and says a pair of conflicting state Supreme Court decisions left the door open for municipalities to usurp state control. Pittsburgh City Councilman Doug Shields added to the coalition's concern this week with a proposal to ban drilling citywide for environmental reasons.
The coalition's website says state law should be clarified to specify that drilling is a permitted use in all zoning districts and in every municipality, while allowing municipalities to retain authority on issues such as "lot size, coverage, access and landscaping and safety features."
The document also calls for the state to adopt a "fair pooling" program to promote efficient development of gas fields. Critics refer to the concept as "forced pooling."
Gas companies employ or contract with landmen who negotiate drilling or extraction leases with property owners, but not all owners are interested.
The coalition wants the state to allow gas companies to extract gas from property owners who decline to sign leases if the holdouts hinder development of the resource on neighboring properties. According to the policy document, the pooling program would ensure "all property owners -- leased and nonleased -- are fairly compensated for gas extracted under their properties."
Ms. Klaber said it was unfair that some landowners could prevent neighbors from developing their mineral rights. Mr. Dowd and Mr. Weir said forced pooling wasn't the answer.
"One thing I know about Pennsylvania is that property rights are very, very important," Mr. Dowd said.
On its website, the coalition balks at a severance tax, noting that the industry pays a variety of other taxes and warning that harsh taxation will stymie capital investment. The internal policy document takes a different approach, suggesting a 1.5 percent severance tax on the market value of gas obtained from Marcellus Shale wells during their first five years of operation and a 5 percent tax after that.
Ms. Klaber said producers needed to recover capital costs during the initial years of a well's operation, but critics said that's also when wells produce the most gas.
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Arrived February 9th after a 74 hour passage from Jamaica. Will be here for another week or so before heading for the canal. More info when we find wi-fi.
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02/02/2008, Jamaica
We were going to sail directly from Georgetown to Great Inagua (the southern island of the Bahamas) then to Panama but we actually did not stop at Great Inagua, the wind was just too good, in the right direction for once, so we continued to ride this beautiful north-east wind. We had a thrilling night sail across the Windward Passage, reefed at the lowest point, without the jib, still going at 7 knots and surfing at 9 knots! We could not let more sail out because some huge north swells came from behind the boat and made us surf at 14-15 knots, it is a lot of fun during the day but a little too much for us at night. We were happy of our progress and decided to stop in Jamaica. The closest port of entry coming from this direction is Port Antonio. I was of course a little apprehensive thinking of the bad reputation Jamaica has but everything seems to have proved the contrary. Indeed, our interaction with the officials (immigration, quarantine, customs was quick and although there is a lot of paperwork to fill out - get 4 copies of the crew list-) was a very nice experience, everyone was extremely courteous and nice! We did check in the Errol Flynn marina which is a little jewel in itself! The manager, Dale Westin and the dock master, George Munro made us feel so comfortable and were extremely helpful. The marina has beautiful grounds, tropical plants and flowers, huge trees (Jamaican apple trees, breadfruit trees, and ackee trees), a delicious restaurant, clean and big showers and laundry facilities, and free Wi-Fi!!! The marina is gated and the small town of Port Antonio does have a very low crime rate. I went to the open market and wandered in town, I never felt unsafe. People are nice and eager to speak about their country, I learned how to cook "Cake and salt fish" the national Jamaican dish, just by asking a question about a strange looking fruit-vegetable I had never seen before. We tried it the next night for dinner (actually this dish is mostly eaten for breakfast, but we cannot eat fish for breakfast yet!), it was delicious! David got into the local scene and bargained a good price on a beautiful wood carved mask representing a women with her eyes closed, quiet original, and Alban, the artist carved his name on the back...
We are just having a wonderful time in Port Antonio, it was just going to be a quick stop, but it will be now a destination for us, we will be back!!!!
01/30/2008, Port Antonio (Jamaica)
We just reached a landfall in Jamaica after 3 days/2 night's passage and it feels good! It was actually a pretty nice passage all in all and we ended up in this cute little town called Port Antonio. It is a dream anchorage: dead calm water surrounded by little hills and just a few sailboats, we arrived yesterday at 2:45pm and had a good night of sleep. We can't wait to explore Jamaica and first of all Port Antonio. More later...
Arrive en Jamaique!!!!
Nous venons juste de poser l'ancre aprčs un passage de 3 jours et 2 nuits et nous sommes tres heureux ! Quel joli petit port (Port Antonio). Jamaique nous a acueillie hier avec ses hautes montagnes brumeuses et une legere pluie. Cette petite ville semble idyllique, les gens sont adorables, le cadre splendide , juste quelques voiliers et une marina absolument incroyable. Meme les formalites se sont tres bien passees donc nous sommes bien contents de ne pas avoir ecoutes tous ces guides qui donnent une mauvaise reputation a la Jamaique (insecurite, formalite tres difficiles avec des gens desagreables, tout cela est faux , tout du moins a Port Antonio!). Nous allons explorer la ville aujourd'hui aprčs l'ecole .A tres bientot...
Michelle Sciarrone sent me your blog and it is so wonderful. Would you mind putting me on your email list so I can partake of your adventure. The organization and logistics of your trip are incredible. What fun!! We took a 5 month RV trip out west this summer and that was awesome. Keep in touch. Carol Luse
We sure miss you! We walk by your house everyday but you're still not home yet! Sorry Emma but I got my hair cut. Write us soon so we know where you are.
Love and lots of hugs, Reece
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1. Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment : Chairperson
2. Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment : Vice Chairperson
Official Members
3. Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice &Empowerment
4. Additional Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice &Empowerment
5. Joint Secretary (SD), Ministry of Social Justice &Empowerment
6. Secretary, National Human Rights Commission
7. Secretary, National Commission for Women
8. Joint Secretary, Department of Pensions
9. Joint Secretary, Ministry of Defence
10. Joint Secretary, Ministry of Railways
11. Joint Secretary, Ministry of Consumer Affairs
12. Representatives of the following State Governments:
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- Andhra Pradesh
- Jammu & Kashmir
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- Dadra & Nagar Haveli
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17. Shri Rishang Keishing, Member of Parliament(Rajya Sabha), Mantri Pukhri,Imphal, Manipur
18. Shri Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy, Oldest Member of Lok Sabha, Janapriya, 6-31109/2, Raj Bhavan Road, Somjiguda, Hyderabad- 500482, A.P.
19. Shri B.K. Poddar, 10, Dover Park, Kolkatta - 700 019, West Bengal
20. Shri Atmaram Sonthalia, 23/24, 3rd Floor, Radha Bazar St.Kolkata-700001, West Bengal
21. Shri K.R. Gangadharan, Chairman, Heritage Foundation, 6-3-907/2, Somajiguda, Hyderabad-500082, Andhra Pradesh
22. Shri Mulk Raj Thind, 77-78, Heera Nagar-A, Near Shalimar Bagh, Ajmer Road, Jaipur,
23. Shri M. Kuppuswamy, 33, Veeraswamy Pillai Street, Chennai- 600001, Tamil Nadu
24. Shri Siva Somanathan, No. 38.B, Main Road, Perumalpuram, Tirunelveli-7, Tamil Nadu
25. Dr. V.S. Natarajan, 18-A, Flowers Road, Kilpauk, Chennai,
26. Capt. M. Singaraja (Retd.), Secretary General, Senior Citizen's Bureau,90(93), Rama Naicken Street, Chennai
27. Shri. Ajit Kumar Shukla, Resident of "Shivam", New Pataliputra Colony, Patna-13, Bihar
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Forex debt raising soars, touches $5.6b so far this year
Apr 13 2014 , Mumbai
Last year, India Inc raked in as much as $16 billion, up 60 per cent from 2012, through international debt market to meet their working capital needs as well as to retire high cost rupee debts.
Leading the chart this year is State Bank of India, which last Friday sold bonds worth $1.25 billion in a dual tranche issue to international investors. This record sale was preceded by a $1-billion issue by the state-run Oil India, in its debut foreign bond sale last Tuesday.
Investment bankers attribute the rise in forex borrowing to the elevated debt servicing cost in the domestic market and skimpy margins due to the lingering economic slowdown, which has entered the third year now. And going by the large dollar mop-up this year so far, merchant bankers are of the view that 2104 may better the 2013 record.
As per investment bankers, close to $6 billion bond sales are in the pipeline before July from a clutch of big corporates like Bharti Airtel which is planning to raise $2 billion before July, OVL, IFCL etc.
Other issuers include Power Finance Corporation which is planning up to $700 million issue, Rural Electrification Corporation which is tapping a $1-billion issue, and IFCL which is eyeing close to $1.5 billion in forex bond sale.
ONGC Videsh is also planning a benchmark issue shortly to raise $500-700 million to fund its Mozambique oil and gas block acquisition. According to the company, the proceeds will be used to pre-pay a bridge loan of $2.2 billion it had raised earlier this year for the Mozambique oil blocks.


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Ball, 59, a lifelong resident of Goliad County, filed as a Republican. Ball said he wants to assure "accountability of all our tax dollars" and "help promote a business friendly environment to entice businesses to come to Goliad County and stay and provide numerous and good-paying jobs and keep the ones we have" in a letter sent to the Advance-Guard.
Ball, who teaches science at Beeville Jones High School, also said he wants to "create a more cooperative climate within the commissioners court and also with other taxing entities in Goliad County."
Ball graduated from Goliad High School, Bee County College and Texas A&M with a Bachelor of Science degree.
Ball resides in the Berclair area where he operates his ranch.


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Flashtraffic: Interview with Larry Kudlow
Larry Kudlow's stock is skyrocketing. His CNBC political/financial show with Jim Kramer attracts some of the biggest names in Washington and on Wall Street. He signed a book deal with Harper Collins to write about supply-side economics. And he's got the ear of the president, whom he advised on the new tax-cut law. Excerpts from a WORLD interview:
On President Bush's political skills-
George W. Bush is by far the most dominant politician in the country-and I mean dominant-and the most underrated. He's very clever at getting things done. The Beltway media don't get him. He's a very well organized, disciplined CEO. He follows a strict schedule that's highly sensitive to the economy and domestic politics. And he's got a tremendous energy level.
In February, seven or eight business and financial journalists were called in for a round table, on-the-record interview with the president. I was one of them. We're in the Roosevelt Room. The president comes in with his top aides. And I'll tell you, Bush looked great-tan, relaxed-while his staff all looked like they needed a six-month vacation. He talked without notes, answered questions-mostly hostile-without turning to aides.
You know, I worked in the Reagan White House [as deputy director of Office of Management and Budget]. I never bought into the myth that Ronald Reagan didn't know what he was doing and relied on his aides for everything, because I was in meetings with him. I saw how sharp he was, and how politically powerful and influential he was. And I see the same thing in Bush.
On how the tax-cut deal was done-
I've spent a lot of time in the West Wing over the last 18 months-part of an unofficial kitchen cabinet for the president-and I'd been one of the main people pushing this dividend tax-cut package on the inside for at least a year before it surfaced. When he unveiled the thing, it was widely viewed as impossible to get passed. Democrats, of course, would oppose him. But most Beltway media types thought six to 10 Republican senators would oppose him also.
Then the House and Senate had a big blowup on the tax cut bill. They were at war over the $350 billion Senate ceiling, which House Speaker Dennis Hastert didn't know about. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist didn't keep up to speed. But one night, they all caucused-Hastert, Frist, a few others-in their formal dinner outfits for some big White House dinner. Bush took them aside and he said, "I want a bill. I want it by the end of this week. And I want it out of both houses." He looks them in the eye. He was tough. He insisted they get it done, and you know what? He got it.
After he left the room, these guys made several decisions on the spot. They decided that House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas was going to write this thing, not Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley. And they decided the newly drafted House version would prevail. This was Bush's political power in action. His war popularity has spilled over. He's moving forward, and I think more is coming.
On the president's next move-
Bush and his team have a great strategy: take what they can get, and come back for more. This is the third significant tax-cut bill in three years, and I expect a fourth, maybe this autumn. They may do tax-free savings accounts, which I've been pushing for some time. Look at the effect this one is having already. The markets are up strong. They reacted almost immediately. The long dormant deal-making business is coming back. The new change of incentives means the cost of capital is much cheaper, the return on capital is much higher, and the markets are responding.
On the 2004 presidential field-
I think Bush is going to win between 45 and 50 states. It's going to be an '84-style landslide. Even if the economy is soft, he's going to win big. Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) or Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) will be strong. Gephardt is tying himself too closely to the left-wing, liberal union base. But he's a man of strong character and good on defense. He was once a flat-tax reformer, but he won't run that way.
Graham is a canny politician. Comes from a key swing state. Going to be pesky on homeland security. He's basically running for vice president. I'm actually looking at a Gephardt-Graham ticket.


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I'm getting ready to buy a new car. I'd like to find an American brand car or wagon that I can put my bicycle (minus the front tire) inside. I don't want an SUV, MiniVan or foreign brand.
Does anyone regularly put thier bike inside of their car?
I want to be able to take my bike on business trips with me and it needs to be locked inside the car to be safe.


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Jan 9 2009, 12:18 AM
Team Xbox
have released a solitary new screenshot of the Lost and Damned downloadable content. Not really anything special or interesting, but here you go.
Jan 9 2009, 01:27 AM
The Lost are based in Alderney apparently, but where exactly? Has anyone found their clubhouse on GTA IV?
I know the Angels of Death have at least two hangouts around town.
Jan 9 2009, 01:36 AM
My 360 is busted, so I can't check, but based on this pic:
It kind of looks like the houses on the other side of that building might be near Gracie Ancelotti's house. That area randomly shifts from houses to the grittier type of area the clubhouse is in.
If not, you can see a satellite dish in the upper right corner, I would just look for the row of green houses near a graffitied building with a satellite dish. Not much to go on, I know, but like I said, I can't check myself.
Jan 9 2009, 01:59 AM
I've not really looked, but it seemed to me that it was based near the prison at the south of Alderney... I'll explore once I unlock that island on the PC version. Oh wait, just realized I do have it unlocked. I'll have a look now.
Jan 9 2009, 03:58 AM
FFS why did this one have to be xbox DLC. Why couldn't they have just make it the expected ethnic based gangs. Then I wouldn't have cared as much.
Jan 9 2009, 02:05 PM
Biker gangs are lame anyway, also I hope they fix the bikes seeing as it's going to be so bike focused. The wheels lock up far too easily when braking and you end up going nowhere and barely slowing down, and then seem to have a worse turning radius than a big rig. What's up with that
Well I'm basing all this on my experiences with the sport bikes, forgot what it's like with the "chopper" style bikes but I'm sure it's worse.
Basically they need to redo the bikes entirely. Fix the braking, the traction when accelerating (too much wheelspin) and the cornering. I mean does Rockstar honestly expect us to apply the right amount of pressure on the triggers when braking and accelerating and shit like that, I mean I know they're going for realism but even most of the cars aren't as unforgiving as that. Bikes in general just sucked in the game
Why did I just type all this shit anyway, I have a PS3
Jan 9 2009, 06:29 PM
blah, a biker gang seems cool but really, isn't R* working on a 60's biker gang game anyways?
i wish they'd mention something about the PS3... i am sure they're working on something for us too... maybe not new missions but, there's gotta be something to talk about on the PS3 front... come on R*!!
Jan 10 2009, 03:05 AM
Bones, do you mean Ride to Hell? That's being developed by Deep Silver. They used to be Rockstar Vienna, but Rockstar games dropped them a while back.
Jan 10 2009, 07:12 AM
I found their hangout in Acter. It's on the south side of Berners Rd in between Vitullo and Aspdin.
I don't have a camera, so I couldn't take a photo for comparison, but the newer building in the screenshots has a different facade from Niko's LC. The curb has also been rewoked to accommodate the bikes that are parked out front.
Very minor changes to the landscape, but changes nonetheless. Maybe other parts of the map have been rewoked as well?
Jan 10 2009, 12:20 PM
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I found their hangout in Acter. It's on the south side of Berners Rd in between Vitullo and Aspdin.
I don't have a camera, so I couldn't take a photo for comparison, but the newer building in the screenshots has a different facade from Niko's LC. The curb has also been rewoked to accommodate the bikes that are parked out front.
Very minor changes to the landscape, but changes nonetheless. Maybe other parts of the map have been rewoked as well?
Well spotted. I'll check it out and see if I can get some screenshots.
Big Mitch Baker
Jan 19 2009, 07:37 PM
Mekstizzle is lame, this is why:
1. Bikers are the baddest of bad ass criminals
...They don't pussy foot around and hide in the shadows like the
, they wear their colors on their back for all to see. And they ain't retarded like the "
" of today, who shoot each other before their enemies and would likely blow themselves up trying to figure out how to rig a car bomb or cook meth. 1%ers are the last Barbarian horde, show some respect.
2. The bikes in GTA, although unrealistic, are AMAZING if you know how to use them properly...You should just try putting more time into riding them and you'll get the hang of it. I can drive circles around people in multiplayer, they get pissed off when they can't knock a guy off his bike with their pimped out car.
Anyway, I think we would have to expect some minor changes to the scenery for the DLC.
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Fiksu: iOS downloads hit new record in January, marketing costs plummet
Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store generated a record number of application downloads in January 2012, even as app marketing costs fell to their lowest point since July 2011, according to mobile user acquisition platform Fiksu.
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The Fiksu App Store Competitive Index, which measures the average aggregate daily download volume of the top 200 free U.S. iPhone apps, reports that App Store downloads peaked at 6.79 million daily downloads last month, up 12 percent from the previous high of 6.04 million, recorded in December 2011. Fiksu credits the proliferation of new iOS devices gifted during the holidays for driving increased app discovery and usage into the new year.
Fiksu's Cost per Loyal User Index, which measures the cost of acquiring a loyal user for brands who proactively market their apps, opened 2012 at $1.14, down 59 percent from December's record $1.81. "We've observed many app brands invest heavily in the fourth quarter, seeking extreme growth during the holiday season, then reduce spending in January as they evaluate their marketing programs for the New Year and focus on version upgrades for their apps," Fiksu CEO Micah Adler said in a statement. "However, the latest Indexes show that January is an excellent time for both growth and value--and budget-savvy marketers should take full advantage of this time, instead of slowing down."
Data for the Fiksu Indexes is sourced from more than 13.9 billion mobile app actions like app launches, registrations and in-app purchases and more than 217.4 million downloads recorded by apps marketed via the Fiksu for Mobile Apps user acquisition platform.
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A barn with ammunition inside caught on fire in Fairfield County at Kauffman and Brandt Roads.
The fire started shortly before 3:00 a.m.
A fire chief told 10TV the ammunition exploded when the fire started and there were only tools and equipment inside the barn.
The firefighters were forced to truck water to the barn to put out the fire.
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The Pinedale Field in Wyoming is generally unknown to most investors, yet it remains one of the most prolific and economic natural gas plays in North America. Several operators continue to develop this field despite the general industry bias towards oil and liquid development.
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Pinedale Field
The Pinedale Field is located in Wyoming and is approximately 90-square miles in size. The field produces from the Upper Cretaceous Lance formation at depths ranging from 12,000 to 14,000 feet.
The Pinedale Field is currently producing approximately 1.2 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas from thousands of wells. The field is estimated to have original gas in place of 58.7 Tcf, with about 65% of this recoverable.
The field is one of the most economic plays in North America, and according to data from Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), the average well drilled at the Pinedale Field will earn a 10% pretax rate of return with prices as low as $2.22 per MMBtu.
The Players
Ultra Petroleum (NYSE:UPL) can arguably be called the king of the Pinedale Field, and first got involved in the field in 1997. The company estimates that it has 10.7 Tcfe of resources at this field and these resources can be developed at a low cost of $1.26 per Mcfe. This estimate is based on 2,900 future wells developed at a cost of $13.5 billion.
Ultra Petroleum's original 2011 capital budget of $1.1 billion called for the drilling of 229 gross wells in the Pinedale. The company just increased its capital budget by $250 million and is directing some of this capital towards more drilling at the Pinedale Field.
QEP Resources (NYSE:QEP) is also involved with the Pinedale Field and reported 1.35 Tcfe of proved reserves here at the end of 2010.
QEP Resources reported average net production of approximately 196 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalents per day in the second quarter of 2011 and is on track to complete between 95 and 100 wells in 2011. The company is operating four rigs and will add another two rigs in early 2012.
Other companies prefer to put capital into other plays in the onshore area. Rosetta Resources (NASDAQ:ROSE) acquired a small position in the Pinedale Field in late 2008, only to divest the properties at the end of 2010.
Other Wyoming Plays
Anyone that thinks Wyoming doesn't have any new natural gas plays to discover should take a look at the Moneta Divide project being developed by EnCana (NYSE:ECA), Noble Energy (NYSE:NBL) and Conoco Phillips (NYSE:COP). The development plan, which has not yet been approved, calls for 4,200 natural gas wells over a 15-year period. The field has produced historically from shallow zones, but these new wells will be targeting tight gas formations at a greater depth.
The Bottom Line
Ultra Petroleum, QEP Resource and other exploration and production companies are continuing to develop the substantial natural gas resources in the Pinedale Field, despite the industry frenzy towards oil and liquids. This attention to returns, regardless of the commodity involved, is characteristic of a solid operator and is the proper long-term strategy. (For additional reading, take a look at What Determines Oil Prices?)
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Bankruptcy Law Questions? Ask a Bankruptcy Lawyer Now.
Hi, thanks for your question. You should hire a lawyer for specific legal advice. No attorney client relationship is created here.
If the debt was a dischargeable debt, like a credit card etc. (and not a student loan or other non-dischargeable debt) then you should send the attorney a bankruptcy notice along with a copy of your schedule listing the debt from the bankruptcy case.
You should then call them to make sure they withdraw the case.
You can then go to the hearing and bring copies for the judge and the attorney again.
The judge will dismiss the case.
You should then ask the judge to make the other side pay your court costs.
You can file a counter claim against the creditor for violating the discharge too
Or you can file a discharge violation action in the bankruptcy case too
did you file for the business or the LLC?
They can collect against the business if this was a business debt. You should send them the dissolution documents then too.
They shouldn't have a back door. Forward them the info, and they should withdraw the suit completely
Any other questions ?
It seems you have stepped away, let me know if you have any other questions
I filed bankrupcy personally. I dont remember disolving the llc. Can they still come after me? Do I just disolve the LLC and that covers it?
They can come after the LLC. Your personal liability is discharged if you listed them in the case. Dissolution is the proper way, and that should end it. Show the court a copy of the bankruptcy and the dissolution
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