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CHICAGO – Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ruled that a major trucking industry employer must provide the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) with a list of the names with last known addresses and phone numbers of all African-American employees employed at its Chicago Ridge facility from 2004 until the facility was closed in 2009. The EEOC has alleged that the trucking company, Yellow Transportation/YRC ("Yellow"), engaged in widespread discrimination against its African-American employees by fostering a racially hostile work environment, including the presence of nooses and racist graffiti, and by subjecting African-American employees to discriminatory terms and conditions of employment The EEOC is seeking relief on behalf all affected African-American employees who worked at Yellow's Chicago Ridge terminal from 2004 until the facility was closed in 2009. EEOC moved to compel Yellow to produce contact information for all African-American employees who worked at the Chicago Ridge terminal from 2004 until the facility was closed. Yellow had argued that the EEOC's request for the full list was beyond the scope of discovery. The court rejected Yellow's argument and held that, in the course of the on-going litigation, production of the complete list of all African-American employees who worked at the facility was warranted. The court further found there was no basis to limit the EEOC's request to the specific job categories held by the charging parties, since there is no reason to believe the alleged conduct was limited to those specific job categories and the EEOC's complaint did not limit its class allegations to specific job categories.The court also rejected Yellow's request to restrict the EEOC's communication with potential class members, finding that the company had provided no basis for restricting the EEOC's communications with the prospective class for whom it is seeking relief. EEOC's regional attorney in Chicago, John Hendrickson, said, "It's ironic how some employers are so recalcitrant about identifying those who are most likely to be within the class of individuals who suffered discrimination, and then later try to block relief on the grounds that EEOC delayed identification of the very individuals the employers attempted to conceal. Of course, that's nonsense and stands reality on its head, so we are pleased whenever courts decline to encourage defendant employers to go down that road."EEOC's case is captioned EEOC v. Yellow Transportation Inc. and YRC, Inc., Northern District of Illinois No. 09 C 7693. The decision was entered by the court this Wednesday, July 21, 2010.In addition to Hendrickson, EEOC is represented by Supervisory Trial Attorney Gregory Gochanour and Trial Attorneys Richard Mrizek, Ethan Cohen, and Deborah Hamilton. The EEOC Chicago District Office is responsible for processing charges of discrimination, administrative enforcement, and the conduct of agency litigation in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and North and South Dakota, with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further informationabout the Commission is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.

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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink once told a story about having dinner with the manager of one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds. The fund's objectives, the manager said, were generational. "So how do you measure performance?" Fink asked.
"Quarterly," said the manager.
Why a fund with a time horizon measured in decades, if not centuries, would care about month-to-month performance is an example of what Fink called "a dangerous preoccupation with the short term". Individual investors fall for the same trap, and it skews their perception of risk.
What is risk?
Nearly every textbook and investment theory equates risk with market volatility. If a stock goes up or down more than the rest of the market, it's said to be riskier. If the stock market has a down year, people start talking about the risks of owning stocks.
But this is a weird way to think about risk, especially if you're a long-term investor.
Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK-A, BRK-B) vice-chairman, describes risk like this: "Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is (1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or (2) the risk of inadequate return."
Risk, in other words, isn't when stocks go up and down. That's just something stocks do. Risk is when an investment goes down and can reasonably be expected to stay down forever, or when an investor fails to earn high enough returns to fund a goal like retirement.
It's not what you think
If you're more than a decade from retirement, the biggest risk you face isn't that stocks will wobble around from time to time. It's that your long-term investment returns will be so low you won't be able to retire.
Think back to 1998. The Dow Jones plunged 20 per cent in the middle of the year, after Russia defaulted on its debt and Asia spiralled into a financial crisis. The All Ordinaries fell 13 per cent in a matter of six weeks.
At the time, the plunge was touted as an example of how risky stocks can be. "Investors are buying bonds because there is more perceived risk in the stock market," the Kansas City Star wrote during the fall.
Hindsight uncovers the folly
But 15 years later, how many individual investors still care about the ASX's 13 per cent plunge or the Dow's 20 per cent fall of 1998? None. No one. Few even remember it. The Dow recovered all of its losses within four months, the All Ordinaries within six months, and the world went on.
What was proclaimed to be a clear example of risk was irrelevant and gone in less than half a year – a strange definition for those investing with decade-long time horizons.
This is an important topic today because the sharemarket's recent volatility has caused investors to re-evaluate how risky it is. Millions of investors have decided shares are too risky and since 2008 have ploughed more than $US1 trillion into bonds, which are typically less volatile.
The price of 'safety'
Time will tell how this story plays out, but odds are it will end disastrously. In an attempt to "lower risk", investors are buying bonds at record-high prices, in many cases with yields so low they are begging for negative future returns after inflation. Bonds may be one of the riskiest bets you can make today, and I don't think most investors even realise it because they're so caught up with avoiding short-term volatility.
As the chief investment officer of a major bank recently pointed out: "Many investors do not understand what happens to a bond fund when rates rise." Here's the answer: You'll probably lose money. The last time interest rates were near current levels, in the 1950s, Treasury bonds lost 40 per cent of their inflation-adjusted value over the following three decades. For retirement plans that are already woefully underfunded, a repeat would be devastating.
Foolish takeaway
As you work out the choice between stocks and bonds, ask yourself more than: "How much risk can I take?" Ask: "What is risk?" If you have more than a decade to invest, the extra volatility of stocks probably shouldn't scare you. Losing a permanent fortune on bonds, on the other hand – now that is risk. The same thinking can also be applied to so-called "safe" and "blue-chip" shares.
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It's over. The good news is that it no longer looks like Uncle Sam will stiff the entire U.S. dealer network. The bad news is that, like so many best intentions, it didn't quite have the universally beneficial results foreseen.
Yes, the Obama administration's Car Allowance Rebate System, a.k.a. Cash For Clunkers, is winding up with the news that, as I sit and type, 93% of the dealer applications have been paid in full. This might not sound like much of a big deal, but the United States government was so woefully unprepared for the massive response to the CARS program (the initial US$1-billion funding was supposed to last about three months; it barely made two weeks) that, in its first two weeks in August, just 10% of the claims submitted were approved, igniting fears that the government might stonewall dealers.
In a move to quell those fears, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood accelerated the program, promising that all outstanding claims would be paid by Sept. 30.
The program had its successes. The U.S. Council of Economic Advisors claimed it saved 21,000 jobs and helped boost third-quarter GDP significantly.
Besides, anything that gets 69,887 Ford Explorers — the leading clunker trade-in — off the road has to be a good thing, right?
Nonetheless, one can't help but think the program didn't exactly go as planned. Besides the aforementioned underestimation of demand and slow payment, not all of the trade-ins and purchases were exactly as envisioned.
For instance, for some reason, a number of exotic cars, admittedly gas guzzlers all, were traded in for the program's US$4,500 rebate. This included a 1997 Bentley — a Continental R, no less — an Aston Martin DB7 of the same year and, is there no God, an '87 turbocharged Buick GNX of which only 547 were produced and one of the few certifiably collectible Buicks ever made. Throw in an Aurora Cars Ltd. Shelby Cobra replica and 131 Corvettes and you have a seemingly inexplicable culling of the sports car herd.
One supposes all these collectibles were worn/trashed/ridden hard and put away junky past their Maaco spray jobs and new brake pads rebuild point of no return. But, how exactly do you trash a 2006, extremely limited-edition Ford F-150 so completely that it is no longer worth more than US$4,500? In 2006, the Roush Performance Stage 3's 450 horsepower of supercharged goodness could have cost you up to US$55,000 (a perusal of eBay suggests the price of a low-mileage example is in the mid-20s). Nonetheless, the Detroit Free Press says that two of the tire-smoking F-150s were traded in as clunkers.
More worrisome is that 16,263 new Ford F-150s were sold under the Cash For Clunkers auspices. Chevy sold even more Silverados — 16,330 — thanks to the program. I'm sure most of you are having a "What gives?" moment, wondering how gas-guzzling pickups (not to mention, unconscionably, a few Hummers, the Associated Press reports) were bought under a government incentive program aimed at increasing fuel economy and limiting all those nasty greenhouse emissions?
As it turns out, the bar for allowable SUV, minivans and pickups was set so low — there had to be a two-miles-per-gallon improvement for the trade-in to be allowable — that it was fairly easy, particularly with older '80s and early '90s trucks, to meet that requirement, sometimes even without sacrificing any power and/or cylinders/displacement.
Indeed, although initial listings of the cars purchased under the Clunkers program had the Ford Escape (in 10th spot) as the only SUV/pickup in the Top 10, it turns out that was a result of the CARS program considering two-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive versions of the same truck as two completely different models. Combine those numbers and the Escape vaults to the fifth most popular purchase, the Honda CR-V to the sixth best-seller and the Chevy Silverado and Ford F-150 rounding off the Top 10 in eight and 10th spots, respectively.
So, yes, the fuel-sipping Toyota Corolla was the best-selling vehicle under the CARS banner with the equally frugal Honda Civic in the runner-up spot.
But the Ford Focus, in fourth position, only accounted for 494 more units than the fifth-spot Escape. And the aforementioned Silverado's 16,330 sales were only about 40% behind the Corolla. Adding insult to injury, both the Silverado and the F-150 outsold Toyota's Prius, the environmental movement's poster child, which ranked 14th on the list.
That has to be disappointing/sobering news for a program specifically engineered to promote the more frugal of car offerings over gas guzzlers.
The media's contention that the U.S. public has adopted a "green" groupthink may be a little premature. A tax that significantly elevated the cost of gasoline might have had a more dramatic effect.


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An undescended testicle (cryptorchidism) is one that remains inside the body and has not moved down into the scrotum. Normally the testicles, which form inside the abdomen of a male fetus, descend into the sac beneath the penis (scrotum) by the time the baby is born.
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Oceans emit small amounts of carbon monoxide (CO) adding to the total CO load in the atmosphere. The hydroxyl radical is the primary sink for CO and other greenhouse gases. Therefore, the amount of CO in the atmosphere indirectly controls the residence time of greenhouse gases. Most CO in marine waters is derived from the photodegredation of dissolved organic matter. However, marine bacteria can utilize CO for energy and the synthesis of cellular components, thereby reducing the CO load to the atmosphere.
The ability to oxidize CO appears to be widespread among aerobic bacteria allowing them to utilize CO as a carbon source when organic sources of carbon are scarce (King, 2003). In fact, many CO-oxidizing bacteria may function preferentially as heterotrophs, metabolizing organic carbon.
We undertook this study to determine the impacts of heterotrophic substrates on CO-oxidation and to characterize members of the marine CO-oxidizing community in the Damariscotta River ( Walpole , ME. ). We examined CO production and consumption in surface water samples amended with organic substrates. We also isolated two novel strains of marine microbes (G15 and P10) from marine macroalgae. Both strains have been identified to genus level via DNA sequencing of 16S rDNA. Additional molecular, biochemical and physiological studies were carried out to learn more about the metabolism and ecological function of these newly isolated strains. Our data expands the diversity of known CO-oxidizers and our knowledge of specific strains which contributes to CO consumption in marine systems.
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After many months of R&D, Black Forest Industries, a company that specializes in Volkswagen/Audi aftermarket parts, developed an Mk3 1.8T Drop-In Conversion Kit ($799). The company's test mule was a clean 1998 Volkswagen GTI 2.0 ABA with 107000 miles on the clock.
Many power-lusting Mk3 owners watched the project unfold on the vwvortex.com forum that chronicled the build, with eager anticipation of the kit's release. Forum member Hurt had this to say about the build, "If this works, I will be buying one." The build was set up in three stages, with a core concentration on the powerplant.
Stage 1 involved the basic drop in kit utilizing the K03 turbo, which included C2 Motorsports' custom software, BFI custom machined and modified distributor, and additional custom hardware items such as: ignition plug wire, charge plumbing, and downpipe. Stage 2 offered a K04 turbo upgrade, with an upgrade to a 02A transmission if necessary. Stage 3 featured a 02A conversion if the 020 had not already been popped.
In the end, the build was successful and the kit, which works with all 96-99 MK3 VW OBDII 2.0 ABA (Golf- Jetta), was released to the public. A few changes were made prior to the release, which included the addition of a 3.5 bar fuel pressure regulator, as well as some tweaking to the original distributor design. The company also put together an installation guide, which can be viewed here.
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Hi Folks
I know this is a "dumb question" but I can't get out of my mental funk in trying to figure
out the following so I can't help myself.
Our WAN/LAN configuration
We have (8) FQDN's externally registered and pointing --> to our (1) one static IP
Address. This Address (currently) is handled by our off the shelf in house router.
The router routes all incomming internet traffic on port 80 to an internal webserver hosting
8 different virtual websites. These are hosted on an OpenBSD box running
apache using Virtual(name hosts)Hosts. This setup is working fine, as is any of
our other machines accessing each other on the LAN or WAN.
So, am i understanding this correctly......
DNS from WAN side is handled (resolved) by our DNS service pointing to our Static IP
at our router and routed to our webserver..for incomming internet traffic on port 80.
DNS on our LAN is being handled (resolved) at this point by entries in /etc/hosts files.
and by entering host names or being resolved via our router when we enter
addresses (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) on the internal network. (using router generated DHCP
Requests to the WAN from our LAN by specific machines are routed back to each
machine by maintaining STATES and using IP proivider DNS entries in our router
What is the PURPOSE of the LAN side ".my.domain" appendage to the hostname
The eight (8) different Public FQDN's have nothing to do with LAN except they are
hosted virtually on our webserver. In this case I understand the reason for .my.domain
in its usage and routing (i.e. example.com) Otherwise someone entering
example.com on the WAN could not connect to our server. These eight
domain names are not used anywhere else on and of course are Chrooted on the
OpenBSD box.
a.) etc/host files are identifying hosts on the LAN
b.) LAN requests to WAN are handled by router setting DNS addresses and
STATE tracking.
c.) Router has route tables enabling routing to different LAN machines by ip
address when address's xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx without names are used.
So......if I create an appendage to a hostname (.my.domain) on my LAN that has no
WAN registration or resolution requirements what is its purpose ????????
OR is .my.domain appendage needed on a LAN with no external resolution
requirements ??
I have struggled with this concept for a long time and am now Re-Reading
documenttation covering DNS so obviously I am an idiot!
Some key works from you may help joggle a brain cell.
Last edited by frcc; 19th July 2013 at 01:12 AM.
You're not an idiot; these are not idiotic questions.
"my.domain" is just an easy way to pick a local domain name that would never be a valid Internet domain name. I've had systems where I used "local" instead. It's entirely up to you what you pick. The reason to pick something invalid is to speed up any responses to DNS resolution requests. A domain that is an invalid Top Level Domain (.com, .edu, .uk, .org, .tv) gets a real quick negative response from servers, including the Internet root servers.
You don't need a local domain name. You can name your computers without them. Since they're not directly addressable from the Internet, using a local domain name is a convenience for you and your network. You might have multiple local domains, as well.
Take a look at the resolv.conf(5) man page. You'll see two options that can help with local domain name use: domain and search.
As the number of devices on your network grows, you may find it easier to have a local Domain Name Server rather than keeping /etc/hosts files in sync on all your platforms. These not only provide local name resolution, they can also act as caches for "real" Internet facing Domain Name Servers such as the servers provided by your ISP.
A local Domain Name Server can be used whether or not you have .my.domain or .local or .frcc or just computers with names like "John" and "Marsha".
purpose of LAN .my.domain
Thankyou !
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Some bodybuilders reach for steroids and try a Dianabol and Deca Durabolin stack cycle.
If you break gym-goers into two groups — hardcore lifters and fitness enthusiasts — it's easy to understand why.
The drive to crank out that extra reps or get ripped enough to sport 6-pack abs leads many to look for an edge.
A Dianabol and Deca Durabolin stack is common in the bodybuilding and powerlifting subculture.
The two drugs do somewhat opposite things and combining them can have some interesting results.
There's not much doubt that illegal steroids enhance athletic ability. With hard work and a good diet, muscular gains are likely to follow.
But taking the step into the world of underground drugs is a compromise between a side effect free lifestyle and prioritizing potential gains over personal health.
By understanding how Dianabol and Deca Durabolin work, interact and the potential health hazards, workout warriors can make an informed decision whether to work with Black Market drugs or utilize anabolic steroid alternatives.Kupi D-Bal-line ovdje.
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The idea of a Dianabol and Deca Durabolin stack may sound appealing on the surface.
D-Bol is a popular strength-enhancing drug that is a derivative of testosterone and binds well to the androgen receptor.
It is considered a bulking steroid, used to put on significant size and muscle mass gains in a short period of time.
Deca Durabolin (Nandrolon Decanoate) s druge strane, is considered a lean tissue-builder that can boost protein synthesis and strength, but will not cause big gains in muscle tissue.
While they appear to be going in opposite directions, that's exactly the nature of stacking.
Stacking these two anabolic-androgenic steroids together makes sense as an off-season cycle when the goal is to rapidly increase mass and boost strength.
Bodybuilders readying for show want to avoid water retention and powerlifters find Deca a waste of time for a competition.
But the off-season benefits are that the D-Bol will ramp up the athlete's strength and the Deca will help retain more of the peak gains after the body flushes out the D-Bol water.
A Dianabol and Deca Durabolin stack would generally run 12-weeks.
The base would be 10mg of D-Bol daily and 100mg of Deca once weekly to start.
By Week-4, the Deca could increase to two 100-mg shots weekly and 15mg of D-Bol.
Another increase at Week-8 would be expected to 20-25mg of D-Bol daily.
This cycle can produce size gains of about 20 pounds and the Deca may help with retention.
Off-season cycles either taper down the last two weeks or run through into a post steroid therapy program. This combination of drugs is likely to completely shut the body's natural production down and users will need a program to restart hormone production.
The bad news is that this stack has a built-in side effect problem.
We will get into how these steroids are bad for your health in greater detail, Ali prvi, we take each steroid in turn.
D-Bol has a very unique history. It is one of the few old school steroids designed specifically for size and strength purposes.
Dianabol (Methandrostenolone) is an anabolic-androgenic steroid that was created to help athletes get stronger and was used by the U.S. Olympic Weightlifting Team to outpace the Russians in the late 1950s and 1960s.
This was before such substances were banned and widespread dispute existed about steroids enhancing athletic performance.
Danas, Dianabol has been banned from many sports but still ranks among the most popular drugs used by powerlifters and bodybuilders.
Dianabol is a fast-acting anabolic and androgenic steroid and many users report remarkable size and strength gains.
It works primarily by stimulating the androgen receptor, resulting in a cascase of anabolic effects. Some of the purported benefits of this drug include increasing nitrogen retention and glycogenolysis.
According to some bodybuilding user reviews, a 12-week D-Bol cycle can result in a 20-pound weight gain and increases in every weight lifting movement.
This anabolic agent generally comes in a 10mg oral tablet, but there are injectable D-Bol products sold in the steroid underground and tablets upwards of 25mg.
The downside to Dbol is that it causes more water retention than just about every other steroid.
It tends to swell muscles with fluid and bloat under the skin. Once you stop taking D-Bol, that water drains out of the body and many of the gains go with it.
Deca Durabolin (Nandrolon Decanoate) is an injectable steroid that is used widely by bodybuilders and strength athletes.
It is even used by runners, sprinters and competitive track and field athletes due to its performance enhancement properties.
The injectable has a high anabolic and low androgenic rating. That makes it a prominent lean muscle tissue-builder that causes little bloating and has a lower risk of side effects.
It generally comes in 5-10ml vials at a 100mg strength and tends to be on the short side of potency. That leads many users to split the weekly dosage into two shots.
Beyond delivering synthetic hormones that will overwhelm the body's natural production, Deca helps increase nitrogen retention in deep muscle tissue with even modest dosages.
It carries legitimate medical value and has been used to treat muscle wasting in elderly patients as well as conditions such as anemia.
Many bodybuilders use Deca during cutting cycles because it generates little water retention and promotes lean tissue growth.
There is a belief that it can directly result in fat loss, but this is not true. While it may promote body fat reduction and recomposition, it does not directly increase fat metabolism.
Unlike D-Bol pills, this anabolic steroid provides only modest weight gain and strength increases.
Deca is primarily used to improve athletic performance, get ripped, boost strength and develop your physique.
Although Deca trends to the low side of dangerous side effects, there can still be a number of serious harmful reactions.
Considering that even this "blag" steroid can cause health problems, many fitness enthusiasts and athletes are switching to ;egal steroid alternatives that provide similar benefits without the risks.
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In the big scheme of things, Deca Durabolin is considered a fairly "čišćenje" drug with regards to side effects. Dianabol, s druge strane, would not be considered one of the riskiest anabolic-androgenic steroid available.
D-Bol tops most steroids in terms of water retention, akne, visoki krvni tlak, cholesterol irregularities, glavobolje, male pattern baldness and a laundry list of others.
But the unseemly issue is the side effect it has in common with Deca, ginekomastija.
Često se naziva "Sise," the two drugs are well-known for causing this problem and combining the pair will dramatically increase the chances of suffering Man Boobs.
Correcting the problem may require surgery.
The profound side effects that steroids bring to the table has led many competitive bodybuilders and powerlifters to go the route of risk-free steroid alternatives.
Side effects may include liver toxicity, supresije testosterona, zadržavanje viška vode ili torzije, Visoki krvni tlak, Ginekomastija, povećanje lošeg LDL kolesterola, smanjila dobar HDL kolesterol, gubitak kose, muška ćelavost, akne i Virilization kod žena.
With a clearer understanding about the risk-reward potential of a Dianabol and Deca Durabolin stack, many are choosing supplements that are better aligned with the health and fitness lifestyle.Anadrol Deca Durabolin stogAnavar Deca DurabolinDeca Durabolin klenbuterolDeca Durabolin ciklusDeca Durabolin HGH stogDeca Durabolin hrpeDeca Durabolin SustanonDeca Durabolin TrenboloneDeca testosteron stogDeca WinstrolDianbol Deca Durabolin stog


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Most people usually associate costs with doing something. Replacing tooling, cleaning molds, fixing things, etc. But actually, the highest costs come from doing nothing.
How can that be? Well, doing nothing means that repair work comes in the form of unscheduled events, which experts claim cost four to five times as much as scheduled work. In a reactive-maintenance strategy, molds only get worked on when they squeak, leak, break, or make bad parts.
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In a typical mold-maintenance environment, the daily work load comes from several directions:
•Mold breakdowns: Emergency repairs.
•Cavitation drop-off: Fix a mold that is running 40 of 48 cavities.
•Product/part quality or function issues: Customer complaints.
•Tooling needs: rework, alterations, new tooling, based on mold function requirements.
Other mold performance issues come from unstandardized practices in areas such as
•Bench work: How does it come apart?
•Documentation: Don't just write down "needs repair" and "done."
•Mold rebuild or fabrication work: Is everything to print?
As shown by all these potential issues, shop managers don't need to look for work—it will come to them. And the less that's done proactively, the more that must be done reactively. In other words, we have no idea when or what mold-maintenance needs will arise because we are not in control—the "maintenance Gods" are.
A reactive style of maintenance management has tool rooms simply waiting for the next problem to land on someone's bench—and it will, of this we can be sure. If you run it, it will break. And the work order will simply state: "Just fix it, please."
This is the real cost of doing nothing. Problems keep coming with no means of forecasting when or the severity of the issues. We wait and then react. The "do-nothing" culture feeds on many seemingly logical reasons, or excuses: "We have no time, tooling, or people to be proactive." Doing nothing is so endemic in some companies that "hero cookies" are awarded when breakdowns get fixed and the molds are put back into production. Never mind that the breakdown should never have occurred in the first place. It doesn't matter now—the mold's running, so we're OK.
Don't get me wrong, the do-nothing culture was not born of laziness; down deep, everybody wants to do a good job. It's more the result of not fully realizing the benefits of being—nor understanding how to be—truly be proactive. It's like everything else in this world, buying into something new is about being able to recognize the value proposition. Maintenance improvements can be a difficult sell, especially since maintenance is a "process" where one cannot physically hold the value in one's own hands and feel the weight or the heft of it. If we could, a reactive culture would feel flimsy and cheap and would be quickly dismissed as a waste of time.
So who's at fault? A major part of the blame sits squarely on the shoulders of the type of work-order systems we use where maintenance "stories" are entered instead of usable data. It's difficult to measure or quantify the words in a "story." So this means we can't count, compare, target, or forecast ongoing issues from a mold's maintenance history. Documentation is a tool and should be a major part of daily maintenance planning. There is no substitute. Imagine taking film study away from a football team—what would be the outcome? Basically, a coach would say, "Go out there and score some points, boys!" He couldn't tell them how or what might prevent them from doing so.
In a maintenance culture that rewards hindsight and reactive decision making, where does the motivation come from to move into a proactive form of management? It comes from a higher power, called profit. The fact is that there is a ton of money (profit) that separates the perfect maintenance scenario from the reality of the typical repair shop. But it gets doled out in small, undetected amounts.
To recognize how much we need to move into a proactive, defect-targeting mold-maintenance culture, we need tools that will shine a light on the money that doing nothing costs us. The table to the right breaks down those costs. (A similar table on the Tooling Docs website allows you to insert your own cost values.) The table to the right shows how much money a typical shop could save by improving its processes enough to gain an extra 30 min each day per technician by reducing unscheduled downtime.
The objective in a perfect maintenance scenario would be to:
•Never have unscheduled downtime. All work is planned.
•Replace or rework all tooling and mold components before bad production, excessive wear, or lock-up.
•Accomplish all work accurately, safely, and as planned—no wasted time through unstandardized and non-value-added methods or practices.
If we could accomplish all this, it would mean the related costs concerning the above three points are included in the piece price instead of being the "cost of doing business," as is all too typical today.
Continuing to focus only on getting broken molds back into the press is a never-ending spiral that will keep companies bogged down in mediocrity yet feeling good about the effort applied. Learn to look beyond the next breakdown and start gathering data on high-frequency/high-cost issues to see where opportunity lies to reduce or eliminate the problems altogether. Doing something means striving to avoid issues—not just reacting to them.
About the Author
Steven Johnson is the operations manager for ToolingDocs LLC, part of the PCIC Group of Companies. Steve also has is own business, MoldTrax in Ashland, Ohio. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (419) 289-0281
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Choosing a major can be like deciding what to wear for the day — sometimes it takes trying on a couple of things to get it right. For Ames-born Todd Snyder, Iowa State was where he formed the foundation of his career as a fashion designer. But first it took trying on finance as a major for him to decide what it was he really wanted to do with his life. And as it turned out, it wasn't finance. It was fashion.
By changing from finance to textiles and clothing, Todd was able to follow his dreams while learning about fashion design, product development, consumer behavior and more from leading scholars in the fashion field. After making the switch, he never looked back — and it didn't take long for him to become a sought-after designer, lending his talents to major fashion brands like J.Crew and the Gap.
But in the back of his mind still lingered the dream he had even while he was a finance major at Iowa State — designing his very own menswear line. And in 2011, he made that dream come true, launching his Todd Snyder label of casual American classics to rave reviews.
At Iowa State, Todd learned skills that would help him become a leading menswear designer. But it's also where he learned a bigger lesson — to take a chance and follow his dreams. Students at Iowa State have the opportunity to sample a variety of majors taught by renowned professors. And with 100 majors available to choose from, you're sure to find one that's just your perfect fit.
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HD 6950's reference clocks are 800MHz for the GPU and 11250MHz for the memory. Our today's PowerColor card's clocks are 850MHz for the GPU and 1300MHz for the memory.
AMD Overdrive wouldn't allow clocks higher than 900MHz for the GPU or 1350MHz for the memory, but the same limitations apply in MSI Afterburner as well. In order to solve this, try some kind of driver uninstalling software like cleansweep, because you need to clear all driver settings before a fresh install.
You're aware that HD 6950 cards can activate additional shader processors within the GPU. Using Techpowerup's how-to, Winflash and PowerColor HD 6970's BIOS (clocked at 940MHz for the GPU and 1425MHz for the memory), we managed to turn our PCS+ HD 6950 Vortex II into a PCS+ HD 6970 Vortex II.
As soon as we restarted the computer, GPUZ confirmed we're running 1536 shader processors and at overclocked HD 6970 clocks.
Bear in mind that not all HD 6950 will allow for unlocking. In fact, our readers have confirmed that only certain PCS+ HD 6950 Vortex II cards will support this. It is possible that PowerColor handpicked most Cypress Pro cores that can do this and is selling them as AX6950 2GBD5-P22DH ++, which comes with 1536-shader enabled BIOS pre-installed on the card and accessible via the switch.
We fired up AMD Overdrive and saw that Catalyst Control Center recognizes the PCS+ HD 6950 Vortex II as a new graphics card. As you can see, the earlier limitation is gone after strapping the card with new BIOS, which suggests that the problem was in PowerColor's BIOS.
The results we got after unlocking shaders are included in the tables below. You can find Aliens vs. Predator testing results here whereas the rest is in the 'Test Results' section.
It's important to note that HD 6970 cards require one 8-pin and one 6-pin connector, while the PCS+ HD 6950 Vortex II comes with two 6-pin ones. In order for the new GPU (now with 1536 shader processors) to run at its max, you'll have to do some PowerTune tuning. In the AMD Overdrive section of the Catalyst driver, you'll have to set the Power Control settings slider all the way to the right (+20%). This will make sure that the overclocked GPU gets more power during gaming.
The next table shows results we got when Power Control slider was in default position, as well as after allowing the GPU to draw more power. We measured about 20W higher consumption in AvP after setting the slider all the way to the right.
Power Consumption
We measured almost 70W higher consumption after unlocking (with the GPU at 940MHZ) and additional 20W higher in AvP after setting the power slider inside Overdrive all the way to the right.
Thermals and Noise
PowerColor PCS+ HD 6950 Vortex II's cooling has proven it's a quality solution that will keep the card well cooled, regardless of whether it's in idle mode or under workload. GPU temperatures didn't exceed 78°C during our gaming tests. The cooler was almost inaudible in idle operation (37°C). The cooler wasn't loud, not even in intensive GPU operation.
After unlocking additional shaders, the Vortex II cooler was audible enough to be called loud, but bear in mind that we are talking about an overclocked card (940MHz for GPU and 1425MHz for memory). Still the PCS+ HD 6950 Vortex II (unlocked) cooler is never as loud as the reference HD 6970's cooling.


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Humankind will be nearly extinct by the end of the century and there is little we can do but prepare for the worst, says James Lovelock, the scientist famed for his Gaia hypothesis of earth science.
"Before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable," warns Lovelock in today's Independent newspaper.
"Each community and nation must find the best use of the resources they have to sustain civilization for as long as they can," he says.
His warning reads like the plot outline of a classic science fiction tale like Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, in which the rise and fall of not mere civilisations, but species of man is charted over millions of years.
It is in fact the plot outline of Lovelock's own book, The Revenge of Gaia, in which he proposes that many of the earth's species will become extinct as global warming gathers its own runaway momentum.
But the idea is the same: desperate conditions eradicate humankind and those few people who survive have to start all over again, as though they've thrown an unlucky dice in a game of evolutionary snakes and ladders.
He's a sweet old man, Lovelock. At 86, he is still hopeful that the last ten thousand years of civilisation's sustained flowering have not been in vain. As well as "powering down" western civilisation and learning to live on more meagre rations than those to which we have grown accustomed, we should do what we can to preserve our knowledge for future generations, he says.
To do this, all the world's accumulated scientific knowledge should be stored away on special, long-lasting print and paper.
It is an idea that evokes another classic science fiction tale, George R Stewart's Earth Abides, in which humankind is indeed reduced to a few motley pockets of blinking survivors. The hero - a former geologist, as it happens - tries in vain to preserve the civil traditions and sustain some semblance of scientific progress.
The proto-civilisation he helps spawn from the dregs of the last is savage, ignorant and certainly cannot read, even if it did have any interest in reading about the scientific advances of a past civilisation.
In other words, unless you have a pass to an underground bunker in the Nevada desert, you have only two courses of action: enjoy it while it lasts or help "power down" our guzzling civilisation so it won't have all been in vain.®


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Now, his popular new HBO television show, Real Time with Bill Maher, has put him more front and center than ever. In particular, one of the show's segments entitled "New Rules" has struck a chord with viewers. It's within his rules that Maher takes serious aim, bringing all his incisiveness, wit, and his signature exasperation to bear on topics ranging from cell phones ("I don't need my cell phone to take pictures or access the Internet. I just need to make a phone call. From everywhere! Not just the places it likes!") to fast food ("New Rule: No more McDonald's in hospitals. I'm not kidding!") to the conservative agenda ("Stop claiming it's an agenda. It's not an agenda. It's a random collection of laws that your corporate donors paid you to pass."), Maher brings these brilliantly conceived riffs to audio for the first time, along with some singularly Maher-ian "editorials", editorials nothing like the standard fare found on the pages of the local newspaper!
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- Scott
- 31-08-2005
Funny and true but also Annoying
Most segments start off with Maher saying "New Rule" and then launching into a socio-political diatribe with a humourous edge. Some of this book is funny and imaginative but it often falls flat as over-obvious and contrived. The "New Rule" shtick got old for me but I do like Maher and his "rock the world" attitude. I think he could do better.
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- firstlady591
- 07-05-2008
I am a big Bill Maher fan and I'm glad that I read this book. Yet - when someone is just doing their stand up act on paper - it that a book? While I love watching him on Real Time, he doesn't pack the same punch in this format. He's still funny and smart, but his comments somehow seem out of context without hte back drop of hte show. PS. don't his writers create "New Rules" anyway? Why doens't his writing staff get a credit here?
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- Ron Green
- 13-07-2005
Cynical, mean, vicious and... hilarious! Humorless, rightwing, gun-toting, narrow-minded Bible-thumpers will not enjoy. Everyone else - buy this audiobook and laugh - it's all we have left.
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- Eric
- 11-07-2005
If you like Maher...
... Then get the book, you're assured to like it. If you don't like Maher, then don't. None of Bill's flare is lost in this book, it's full of the crisp thoughts and pop culture references he's become known for. If you're looking to sprinkle your conversations with a few good one liners then I highly reccomend getting this.
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- chris
- 22-11-2005
A hilarious book for fans only
I have been a fan of Maher since Politically Incorrect, which by its very name was enough to draw me in. All his wit and sarcasm is here. Some segments had me laughing for minutes afterward, although I didn't like the format. Saying "new rule" before every segment got a little annoying, especially since some were only a sentence or two long.
As usual with our polarized society, anyone who doesn't agree with him won't take the time to listen, so mark this one for fans only. Right wing nuts will stick with Coulter, where facts are rare because they interfere with her rhetoric. Maher takes real news and puts his own spin on it, and ends up bashing everyone about equally -- except for Dubya. If you are a Dubya lover you definitely won't like this book.
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- Barry J. Marshall
- 23-09-2005
Original and Reasonable Hialrious Sarcasm
I never watched Bill's TV show much but I really enjoyed this book. He is a bit more radical than me, but puts a good case for various libertarian and left wing views. Actually I am a George Bush supporter but I still thought Bill's book was good value. Classic chapters were press coverage of the olympics, safe sex in US teenagers and various jibes at all the religions. Devilishly funny!
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- Michele
- 14-08-2005
Maher does it right
Maher says out loud what we all think in our private thoughts ... and wish we had enough guts to stand by publically.
Nothing is sacred - not the liberals, not the conservatives. All political and religous groups are hammered. No sacred cow unturned. A "fast listen" - over much too soon. I want more Bill Maher...
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- L. W. Mitchell
- 03-08-2005
Bill, New Rule...
New Rule ? You can?t print the transcripts of you old TV shows and call them a book. But, the material was catchy, funny and I enjoyed the nostalgia of remembering what I was doing when I first heard each of his new rules. If you missed seeing Bill?s New Rules on his HBO program, get the book. If you have seen them before, you may be disappointed.
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- steve
- 20-02-2010
Funny as Heck
Maher is hysterical and this book is no different. I got a great laught out of it and it's educational at the same time!!
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- James
- 03-10-2009
This book was funny from start to finish! It had me laughing, crying yet thinking throughout the whole time. Bill Maher Rocks!
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By Laura Secorun Palet
We expect our phones to be "Made in China," our inexpensive lamps in Sweden and our flowers in Kenya. Hang on … Kenya?
Millions have been led down the garden path in believing that flowers we buy locally — at our neighborhood florist or corner grocery — come from the region. But chances are the flowers you give or receive this Valentine's Day have accumulated more air miles than diplomats.
Percentage of cut flowers sold in the U.S. that are imported
The international trade of cut flowers is a blooming industry, with an average annual growth of 6 percent and an estimated global trade volume of more than $100 billion a year . In the U.S. alone, more than $13 billion worth of cut flowers are sold annually, and the majority — a whopping 82 percent — are imported.
In the same way that fruit and vegetables are flown in to give you more than three weeks of strawberries and rhubarb each year, the flower industry has transitioned from a traditional model based on local production to an international one that leverages warmer climates and significantly lower labor costs in southern countries.
Even the industry's queen, the Netherlands, has largely shifted its focus from production to trade. Instead of growing all those tulips themselves, the Dutch now host the global hub for 60 percent of the world's dealings in cut flowers.
The Netherlands is also one of the biggest flower consumers, alongside the U.S., Germany, France, the U.K., Switzerland and Japan (the first five buy around three-quarters of the world's cut flowers).
So where do your flowers grow? The U.S. imports mainly from Colombia, a nation that sells around 500 million tons of flowers for Valentine's Day. Americans get 78 percent of their imported flowers from Colombia, followed by Ecuador and Mexico at 15 percent and 2 percent respectively. Europe, on the other hand, imports most of its flowers from Africa, with Kenya in the lead, followed by Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.
Bothered by the quantity of air miles these blooms rack up? Turns out the picture isn't as alarming as you'd think. Flower-producing countries enjoy humidity, temperature and soil fertility levels that are optimal for growth. Importing flowers actually saves huge amounts of energy by not having to light and heat greenhouses, especially in January and February, when global demand peaks just as northern temperatures plummet. So Ethiopian airfreight flowers might actually be greener than those grown in local glass houses.
The U.K. went so far as to declare that it was environmentally sound to buy imported flowers, answering concerns from consumers who buy about 10,000 tons of roses each Valentine's Day.
Sadly, the flower trade does have a thornier underbelly when it comes to working conditions. The chemicals used for fertilization are often so toxic that a 2005 study found that half of the flower farm workers in Colombia and Ecuador suffered from health problems caused by overexposure to these substances.
Ethiopian airfreight flowers might still be greener than those grown in local glasshouses.
The same report also found that 55 percent of women employed in Ecuadorian flower production had been victims of sexual harassment and that child labor was still commonplace.
In the years since these revelations, the flower industry has encouraged hundreds of farms to become Fair Trade certified. This, in turn, has prompted many farms to clean up their practices, resulting in millions of fairly produced flowers being sold worldwide.
Kenya's Oserian flower farm moves an average of a million roses a day and was one of the first to receive the seal of approval for providing free health care and education for all its workers and their families.
Such moves give farm workers hope for a brighter future. "My dream is to see all my children go to university, and I am so am grateful for the support that I have received. I urge people to continue buying more Fair Trade flowers so that we can continue improving our lives," says Hellen Anyango, who works at Oserian Farm.
Which could bring us closer to guilt-free flower giving. At least in regards to where they come from. Now why you're buying them and what you may be atoning for? Well, that's still on you.
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The 4 Best Foods for Woodpeckers
Attract more woodpeckers to your backyard with a winning menu.
Snow, sleet and bitterly cold temperatures are no match for woodpeckers. Their can't-miss black and white markings, with an occasional sprinkling of red, stand out as they acrobatically forage around bare tree trunks and brave the winter months. Attract more of these sought-after birds this season with this simple yet satisfying menu.
1. Suet
Woodpeckers aren't picky. Suet straight from the butcher will do; there's no need to render it. Place the suet in a large cage feeder. Store-bought cakes get the job done, too. A basic suet cage feeder is inexpensive, and premade cakes slide right in for a perfect fit. Learn how to make your own suet!
2. Peanuts
Shelled or unshelled, this delicious snack is one that woodpeckers gobble up. You can find feeders made specifically for peanuts. Companies that sell nuts have jumped on the birding bandwagon and sell peanut feed that doesn't make the cut for human consumption. Remember: Unsalted peanuts are best. Attract more backyard birds by feeding peanuts.
3. Black Oil Sunflower Seeds
Downy and hairy woodpeckers are particularly fond of this all-around favorite. Because woodpeckers are a bit bigger than the average songbird, you should serve sunflower seeds in a hopper or platform feeder to give them easy access. Learn the three types of seeds and feeders birds love best.
4. Peanut Butter
Here's an easy, no-fuss way to feed winter woodpeckers: Simply smear peanut butter directly on the tree trunks. Or buy a log feeder and fill the predrilled holes with the gooey, high-fat snack.
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Field Editor Boni Trombetta feeds woodpeckers all year. "Adults bring the babies to the feeders so they know where to find an easy meal," she says.
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- Downy
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- Red-Bellied
- Red-Headed
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The House of Orange Route, which runs 2500 km from Amsterdam through North and Central Germany before returning to Amsterdam, takes you on a journey dedicated to the House of Orange both past and present. The history of this Dutch dynasty, whose most famous member was William of Orange, begins in Nassau Castle in the Lahn Valley (Lahntal)
The House of Orange-Nassau is one of Europe's oldest dynasties, but not many people know that the Dutch Royal House originated in the heart of Germany. William of Orange ("the Silent"), the founder of the House of Orange, was born in Nassau-Dillenburg in Hessen in 1533.
Hidden treasures from the world of art
This tour of cultural and historical discovery, whose compass points are Amsterdam in the west, Oranienburg and Potsdam in the east, Schwerin in the north and Nassau in the south, embraces towns and regions that have been associated with the House of Orange-Nassau for centuries. On the strength of its cultural highlights alone, this is a majestic route indeed. There are numerous castles and palaces to be discovered, awe-inspiring churches and abbeys to see and beautifully laid-out parks and gardens with idyllic pavilions – a real feast for the eyes!
Majestic strolls through parks and gardens
Breathtaking treasures from the world of art can be admired in museums, and many towns host special exhibitions to illustrate their bonds with the House of Orange and commemorate the dynasty's political, cultural and social influence. Would you like to find out more about the history of the Dutch Royal House? If so, this is the route for you. Embark on a journey as exciting, captivating and incredibly varied as the history of the House of Orange itself.
A Dutch dynasty with German roots
There is truly something for everyone on this journey of discovery through the history of the House of Orange. There is art, culture and history in abundance, and even hiking and cycling routes for sports lovers. With approximately 3,000 lakes, Brandenburg is the German state with the highest number of inland waterways so water sports lovers will naturally be in their element. Whether you decide to travel the route by car or by train, this is a tourist experience full of highpoints and surprises to be enjoyed at your leisure. In the tranquil towns and villages of the House of Orange Route, you are sure to receive a welcome fit for a king!
Length: approximately 2400 km
Theme: the House of Orange, arts, culture, history
Bad Pyrmont: spa resort linked to the House of Orange
Dessau: UNESCO World Heritage site
Fulda: cathedral
Hitzacker/Elbe: the birthplace of Prince Claus of the Netherlands
Nassau: ancestral castle (Stammburg)
Oranienbaum: palace
Potsdam: Dutch Quarter (Holländisches Viertel), palaces, parks
Schwerin: castle
Siegen: castle, the Nassau dynasty
Stolberg: birthplace of Juliana of Stolberg, the matriarch of the Dutch royal house
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Back in 1995 we gamers were still thrilled with the relatively-fresh concept that their video game characters could be voiced by big-name talent. Gex, Crystal Dynamics gecko with an attitude, quickly helped us get over it.
In the 90s video game characters had to have attitude. Gex's attitude manifested itself as an endless stream of one-liners from then-popular comedian Dana Gould. Written by Gould himself along with his frequent writing partner Rob Cohen, the dialogue was littered with pop culture references, commercial spoofs, and endless references to Gex's prehensile tongue, his weapon of choice. At the time, much of it was pretty hilarious.
The problem was it was too much of a good thing. A few one-liners here and there would have been perfect. As you can see in the video above, there are at least twelve minutes' worth of Gould clips in the game. By the time I finished playing Gex I never wanted to hear another word out of Dana Gould's mouth again.
Fortunately the rest of the game was rather excellent, spawning a pair of sequels, both filled with Dana Gould quips. I never played them.
Perhaps I need to go back and finish the trilogy I hear the UK version of Gex 3; Deep Cover Gecko features the voice of Red Dwarf star Danny John-Jules. I could listen to him for hours.


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"Beauty, Belt and Beyond" kaftan in Plain and Simple pattern
Note From Designer: When I started the design, I thought unlike my other V-neckline kaftans I would make a rectangular one. Further, when I came to sleeves I gave unusual variations there as well.. they have a flowing feel to it without being too long. Even then my adventurous spirit was not sated and I made bold, broad belt at the waist to finally complete this exquisite design.. I used Plain and Simple fabric in Lilac to go with the dashing spirit of the kaftan.
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Life, on the Line (Hardcover)
A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat
Gotham, 9781592406012, 400pp.
Publication Date: March 3, 2011
Other Editions of This Title:
Digital Audiobook (3/24/2011)
Paperback (3/6/2012)
Compact Disc (3/25/2011)
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In 2007, chef Grant Achatz seemingly had it made. He had been named one of the best new chefs in America by "Food & Wine" in 2002, received the James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef of the Year Award in 2003, and in 2005 he and Nick Kokonas opened the conceptually radical restaurant Alinea, which was named Best Restaurant in America by "Gourmet" magazine. Then, positioned firmly in the world's culinary spotlight, Achatz was diagnosed with stage IV squamous cell carcinoma-tongue cancer.
The prognosis was grim, and doctors agreed the only course of action was to remove the cancerous tissue, which included his entire tongue. Desperate to preserve his quality of life, Grant undertook an alternative treatment of aggressive chemotherapy and radiation. But the choice came at a cost. Skin peeled from the inside of Grant's mouth and throat, he rapidly lost weight, and most alarmingly, he lost his sense of taste. Tapping into the discipline, passion, and focus of being a chef, Grant rarely missed a day of work. He trained his chefs to mimic his palate and learned how to cook with his other senses. As Kokonas was able to attest: The food was never better. Five months later, Grant was declared cancer-free, and just a few months following, he received the James Beard Foundation Outstanding Chef in America Award.
"Life, on the Line" tells the story of a culinary trailblazer's love affair with cooking, but it is also a book about survival, about nurturing creativity, and about profound friendship. Already much- anticipated by followers of progressive cuisine, Grant and Nick's gripping narrative is filled with stories from the world's most renowned kitchens-The French Laundry, Charlie Trotter's, el Bulli- and sure to expand the audience that made "Alinea" the number-one selling restaurant cookbook in America last year.
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Nick Kokonas partnered with Grant Achatz to develop Alinea, Next and The Aviary. He lives with his wife and two sons in Chicago.
Praise For Life, on the Line: A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat…
"This must-read for the culinary crowd is the literary equivalent of caviar and Krug. Foodies will marvel at Achatz's thought process on his molecular creations, while Kokonas provides a detailed glimpse of the artistic vision and creation of modern fine dining."
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Praise for Grant Achatz and Alinea:
"Grant Achatz is aggressively pushing inventive cuisine forward, forcing the rest of the country's toque-heads to keep pace."
"Mr. Achatz is like a ringmaster running a highly sophisticated and technically accomplished cirque de cuisine."
-Wall Street Journal
"Grant Achatz is redefining the American restaurant once again for an entirely new generation."
"Grant Achatz at Alinea comes up with creations that aren't just cutting-edge---they're also absolutely delicious."
-Food & Wine
"Is chef Grant Achatz a mad scientist or a culinary maestro? A few hours spent in his posh dining room in Lincoln Park suggests he is both."
-Washington Post
"Grant Achatz is one of America's great chefs."
"Alinea is a thrill ride of a dining experience, one that leaves you exhilarated, spent and eager for more."
-Chicago Tribune
"Grant Achatz's brilliance and maturing sensibility are on display in this elegant two-story haven--and the experience is every bit as dramatic as at the theatre neighbors."
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The Washington Capitals didn't play a bad game, but they didn't win it either. The New York Islanders finally find a way to beat the Caps in overtime 4-3. The home team was able to put together a better effort and got some offensive infusion from Tomas Fleischmann who scored his first two goals of the season and had chances for even more as the game wore on.
Alex Ovechkin continues to be on pace for another spectacular season as he started the scoring after the Islanders' Kyle Okposo was called for a double minor high-sticking infraction. The Capitals' power play, which has looked inept and stationary of late, was more animated in this game. Knowing the Islanders were going to block a ton of shots, the Caps moved the puck well. They even showed some creativity that led to some pretty good chances, but just came short of scoring.
Fleischmann, who was playing in only his second game of the season as he was recovering from a blood clot in his leg at the end of last season, played one of his best games as a Capital. Both goals he scored were tight affairs where he was at the Dwayne Roloson's welcome mat.
The Caps played a pretty solid game, but it was very mistake ridden. Often they seemed to lose focus or just unfortunate luck did them in. Mike Green was a victim of some Halloween trickery. His mis-play of the puck led directly to a goal.
The Islanders just found a way to hang around and in the overtime period, they took advantage of a Caps team that was being just overly nonchalant with the puck in their net. Jose Theodore played an inconsistent game, but an overall good game. He came up with some whopper saves in the second and third periods. It was the first and third goals that seemed to give the Caps' goaltender fits. Both goals squeaked under Theo and he just didn't look ready to make saves on either shots.
New York kept in the game with some really good goaltending in Roloson. He stopped 37 shots and didn't face a single shot in overtime before his teammates scored the winning goal. The Islanders benefited from some hard work and some fortunate take-aways. But the Caps couldn't get their scoring going with any consistency. Their power play, which was 2 for 6 tonight, couldn't seem to get that next goal they needed.
Caps Notes:
- The top line for the Caps of Nick Backstrom, Alex Semin and Ovechkin continues to struggle 5 on 5. The trio combined for one goal, one assist and a collective -2. Part of the problem is their willingness to give up a puck to their teammates instead of taking the shot. It was frustrating to watch the line get a great scoring chance and give it up for an extra pass. Bruce Boudreau is thinking about splitting the line up for Sunday's game.
- The Caps have cut down on their penalties, only sitting in the sin bin three times this game. The new discipline is great as the Caps kept the Islanders from getting much on their power plays. Theo also played outstanding during the penatly kill.
- When the Caps play on Sunday against Columbus, they will have a player very familiar with the Blue Jackets in Brendan Morrison. B. Mo has played in 30 games against the Ohio team and has 28 points in those games. The Caps have never had the best of luck when it comes to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Having B. Mo around should help.


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A professor, an economist and a judge sat in a room, crunched the numbers and reached this conclusion: More often than not, judges (in this case federal judges) vote along party lines.
So say Lee Epstein, a professor at the University of Southern California, William M. Landes, an economist at the University of Chicago, and Richard A. Posner, a federal appeals court judge in Chicago, in their new book, The Behavior of Federal Judges, previewed in today's New York Times by Adam Liptak.
"Justices appointed by Republican presidents vote more conservatively on average than justices appointed by Democratic ones, with the difference being most pronounced in civil rights cases," they write in the book.
A recent decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting Michigan's constitutional ban of affirmative action policies bears out that party allegiance, Liptak notes. "Every one of the eight judges in the majority was nominated by a Democratic president," he said. "Every one of the seven judges in dissent was nominated by a Republican president."
As Liptak adds:
Many judges hate it when news reports note this sort of thing, saying it undermines public trust in the courts by painting them as political actors rather than how they like to see themselves — as disinterested guardians of neutral legal principles.
But there is a lot of evidence that the party of the president who appointed a judge is a significant guide to how that judge will vote on politically charged issues like affirmative action.
True, federal judges are appointed, and perhaps that's the news peg here, as they've long been perceived as above the fray of electoral posturing and politicking.
Is it any different in places where judges are elected? Nobody's run the numbers yet, but one thing's likely. Judges who campaign are well-versed in the partisan give-and-take.


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Last August, toward the end of the erratic first season of "The Newsroom," Entertainment Weekly added the HBO drama to TV's "hate-watching" pantheon – shows whose entertainment value rest largely in their ability to annoy audiences.
The Aaron Sorkin-led program, no doubt, generated far too many eye-roll-inducing incidents, beginning with the contrivance of a very personal email that accidentally got sent newsroom-wide. But the show also produced a modest share of compelling moments – most notably its realistic handling of some news organizations' mishandling of the 2011 shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords.
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Rather than hate-watch, as the show returns for Season 2 Sunday, we're rooting for "The Newsroom": As cable TV news searches for its soul and newsrooms of all kinds struggle amid major change, the profession deserves a "West Wing"-quality depiction and examination.
In its inaugural run, "The Newsroom," as we've noted, quickly emerged as the most frustrating show on television. The premise – Jeff Daniels as a conservative news talk show host who channels his Howard Beale-like mad-as-hell frustration into a search for the truth – brimmed with promise. But high hopes the well-cast Sorkin production raised got buried in an excess of sanctimonious (and shrill) speeches, comic misfires (enough with the Sasquatch, already) and tortured office romances.
Sorkin, who has publicly wrung his hands about the show's weaknesses, reportedly spent the off-season seeking advice from folks in journalism, government and the military, as detailed in a recent Hollywood Reporter cover story touting his efforts to create a "New Newsroom."
In its first season, the show both gained and lost by playing out months-old news stories, like the Giffords shooting, in near-real time. Pulling insight from hindsight is no easy task. Judging from previews, "The Newsroom" will tackle the presidential campaign this season, as well as a fictional story about an erroneous report that turns into a nightmare legal battle for Daniels' Will McAvoy and his colleagues at the ACN news network. Marcia Gay Harden plays a First Amendment lawyer, joining a strong lineup that already includes Emily Mortimer, Sam Waterston and Jane Fonda.
We'll see whether Sorkin, who first rose to fame with "A Few Good Men," can resist the crutch of setting too much of "The Newsroom" in a courtroom. Still, his track record of creating well-wrought characters and giving them plenty (sometimes too much) to say, dangles the potential of delivering a TV comeback story that will force the hate-watchers to tune in elsewhere. Check out a Season 2 preview below:
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.
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Dysphagia is a condition in which your child has problems swallowing food or liquids. It often affects children who are just learning to eat solid foods. Dysphagia can make it hard for your child to get enough nutrients for good growth.
Food enters the mouth and is chewed. The tongue moves the chewed food to the pharynx (back of the throat). The food is then swallowed. It passes into the esophagus (the muscular tube leading to the stomach). The esophagus tightens and relaxes in wavelike motions to move swallowed food into the stomach.
Common symptoms of dysphagia include:
Choking, coughing, or sputtering while eating or drinking
Inability to coordinate chewing and swallowing
Upper respiratory problems, such as pneumonia, from food or drink being aspirated (inhaled into the lungs)
Occasional vomiting or regurgitation (flow of stomach contents and digestive acids back into the throat)
Dysphagia can be caused by any of the following:
Nerve or brain problems that affect control of muscles in the mouth, tongue, throat, or stomach
Problems with the shape of your child's mouth, tongue, or throat
Stricture (thickening or narrowing of the esophagus)
To find out if your child has dysphagia, the health care provider may order some tests. One such test might be a swallow study. This test can help the health care provider learn more about your child's swallowing problem.
Your child's treatment will depend on where the problem is located and what is causing the problem. Treatment may include:
Therapy to help your child learn how to move food properly in the mouth
Insertion of a feeding tube (if the problem is severe and your child needs help getting nutrition)
Changes in diet (such as thickened foods that help your child chew more easily)
A procedure to widen the esophagus (if the esophagus is too narrow)
Call the health care provider right away if you notice any of these problems:
Food seems to get stuck in child's mouth or throat during feeding.
Child has difficulty breathing, or breathing stops during feeding.
Child's skin or lips turn blue when feeding.
Vidant Health can connect you to health care professionals to help you understand your condition and guide you through the treatment process. Let's chat.