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Gulf airlines shake up aviation alliances
From Ayesha Durgahee, CNN • Updated 16th January 2013
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When it comes to airline alliances, there is safety and profitability in numbers -- even more so as the industry tries to stave off the worst effects of the Great Recession and sluggish recovery, where we have seen mergers and code share agreements.
All the major European airlines are part of one of the
three big alliances
. There is Star (the biggest) based around Lufthansa and United Airlines; Skyteam based around Air France/KLM and Delta; and Oneworld based around BA and American Airlines.
Alliances are a key part of the aviation industry. According to Oneworld CEO Bruce Ashby, 86% of the revenue from travel between the world's top 100 cities business is booked with alliances. "Passengers who travel for business are heavily invested in alliances carriers," he says.
Oneworld has marked a milestone in airline alliance history with its newest member
Qatar Airways
being the first Gulf carrier to join an alliance. Competition between the "Big Three" (
and Qatar Airways) is rife and now that Qatar has made this bold step to join Oneworld, the
impact of Gulf carriers on the industry
and the relationships they choose to forge are being followed more closely than ever before, to see how airlines and alliances will respond.
The three big alliances. Click to expand
See also: Gulf hubs become travel hotspots
"As more airlines are aligned and more consolidation occurs, alliances actually end up competing for members in some ways," said Bruce Ashby, CEO of the Oneworld alliance. "Now that more and more airlines belong, the tension between them has grown."
For other Gulf carriers, a cosy codeshare with different alliances is as far as they'll go. Emirates has codeshare agreements with Oneworld carrier Qantas and, most recently, with Star Alliance member TAP Portugal. Skyteam welcomes Air France's partnership with Etihad and Air Berlin, where Etihad owns 29% of the German airline.
"Gulf carriers and their hubs are well-positioned geographically for a number of major traffic flows, both within the Gulf region itself and between other continents" said Michael Wisburn, CEO of Skyteam.
"These Gulf carriers have developed substantial capacity with high transfer capabilities, making these airlines and their hubs relevant players in aviation today, both in terms of industry developments and possible further consolidation," he added.
Although Etihad has not joined an alliance, Skyteam member Air France says it's a case of "if you can't beat'em, join'em."
"When you see geographically the way the world is built, Gulf carriers bring significant improvement to the alliances," said Alexandre de Juniac, president and CEO of Air France in an exclusive interview with CNN -- his first international television appearance since being appointed.
Watch video: Etihad rejects airline alliances
When asked about doing business with Air Berlin -- which is a member of a rival alliance Oneworld -- Juniac candidly said: "In the future if our ties with Etihad and Air Berlin become closer, Air Berlin will have to make a decision about which alliance they want to belong to. The decision is in their hands."
CNN's Richard Quest explores how Qatar, Emirates and Etihad Airways are turning the aviation industry upside down.
CNN's Richard Quest speaks with James Hogan, President & CEO of Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways.
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker says joining the Oneworld alliance will add "huge value". CNN's Richard Quest reports.
Air Berlin, Germany's second largest carrier after Lufthansa, has only been a member of Oneworld since March last year and if it were ever to leave, the alliance wouldn't let it go quietly.
"We would regret it very deeply if Air Berlin left Oneworld," says Ashby. "We like Air Berlin and they add a lot of value to us and we think we add a lot of value to them, by the way.
"It would be easier if we had exclusive clubs and we said 'if you join my club you can't use any other club,' but this is the airline business and it's completely impractical. We would be sad to see them leave. I would definitely put up a fight if I thought it were necessary."
Watch video: 'Gulf Three' shake up global aviation
Star Alliance is monitoring this relationship closely, especially because its chief member, Lufthansa, is the only major European airline that hasn't teamed up with a Gulf carrier. Even so, Star Alliance says it doesn't feel left out or threatened.
"We're the only global alliance that flies to all of the countries in the Middle East and we really have no aspirations to have one of the carriers in the Gulf join our alliance," says Mark Schwab, CEO for Star Alliance, which has 27 members.
He adds: "Fifteen years of Star Alliance, 21,900 flights a day, 192 countries, 1,330 cities we fly to -- we have Turkish Airlines in the vicinity, also EgyptAir, so we're not feeling any kind of commercial pressure."
And for airlines like south-east Asia's Royal Brunei, which are too small for it to be worth their while joining an alliance, the best way to compete is not to compete.
"I think you have to cut your cloth in this industry," says Royal Brunei deputy chairman Dermot Mannion. "The Gulf carriers have put a lot of capacity into the region over the last five-six years and that's had an impact on all the airlines, especially the kangaroo traffic between the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
"We've cut capacity, we closed routes to Brisbane, Perth and Auckland. We are backing off competing against the Gulf carriers and focusing on what we do best -- ASEAN. That way we can happily co-exist with the Gulf carriers."
According to the International Air transport Association, airlines were expected to return a profit of $6.7 billion at the end of 2012, only slightly improving to $8.4 billion in 2013.
Adding capacity and connecting continents, Gulf carriers will continue to play a crucial role in helping airlines and alliances expand their networks, filling their geographical gaps.
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Distributing Laminated Wallet Cards to Anglers Across California
Free "PCH" Cards Help Sportsmen Report Poaching Activities, Increase Effectiveness of Existing CALTIP Program
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At the heart of this program is a laminated, wallet-sized PCH information card designed for sportsmen to keep on their person at all times. Developed by The Sportfishing Conservancy in coordination with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, PCH is designed to augment the existing CALTIP program by spurring reports and, most importantly, make better witnesses of those who do report suspected poaching activities. These cards are being handed out during meetings/presentations at various fishing clubs across the state. In addition, anglers can request cards through

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When Reader Gilda found this image of a chocolate-covered kiwi popsicle on Pinterest (from the ShowFood Chef blog), she knew what simple, healthy sweet treat was in her near future.
What she didn't foresee was a giant pile of "nailed it."
Quick, name three things wrong with this picture.
did you freeze the kiwi….too much water in chocolate….and mine did NOT look like yours…so try again ;)
It does look like the chocolate seized. Or burnt. I haven't tried this, but I imagine having the kiwi patted dry would make for a better stick.
A for effort.
I saw this online too and wanted to make it! Maybe I'll stick with chocolate fondue.
EEEWWWWWW-I agree with Tammy, I'm sticking with chocolate fondue
It looks like the chocolate didn't get tempered right, or maybe just chocolate bars were melted instead of the melty chocolate bits.
Using the Popsicle sticks in the right direction probably would have helped the dipping too.
WOW… lol
Three opposes…
1. Burnt Chocolate
2. the wrong type of sticks… popsicle sticks were suppose to be used to keep the kiwi in place
3. the sticks were placed the wrong way. Don't stab your kiwi… lol!
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Meh. I'd eat them.
You're all wrong! My son has food allergies so I had to use this vegan, soy-free, nut free chocolate that literally had to be heated up for a decade before it melted. That, combined with everything else, is what created this hot mess.
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The Angel of the Bizarre
The Angel of the Odd: Dark Romanticism from Goya to Max Ernst
"Dark Romanticism: From Goya to Max Ernst," a survey first conceived and mounted by the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, has been retitled "The Angel of the Odd" by the curators of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, where it runs until June 9. Ambitious and forceful, the exhibition plunges you in a giddying aesthetic abyss. There are a great many bats in the images on display, and it is perhaps batwise that the whole enterprise is best approached. Winding your way through the cave- system of galleries, with their soot-and-stormcloud decor and their isolated spotlights, you bounce your feelings off the walls and listen for the echoes they return: there's no clean linear diagram to help you locate yourself. To admit that the logic of the exhibition is hard to articulate is in fact to pay it a compliment. Rather than a rationally organized thesis on the art of the irrational between 1780 and 1950, you get something less paradoxical and more primal, a dark ride powered on instinct. It feels as though the curators' eyes and feelings have led the way, with their historical justifications coming along after.
What, then, stayed with me, as I emerged blinking from my long—perhaps a little too long—meander through the gloom? I remember, in succession: a dazzling portal, abutting a stone arch stretched over a chasm; plains of lava beneath titanic palaces and a lightning-struck night sky; devils, incubi, and witches, cackling and lunging. Cannibals hacking at human flesh, and a fair young woman stone-cold on her deathbed. Ghost-riders; mutants; fluttering bats and owls. Owls perched by ruinous casements; clouds across a moonlit sea; dim mists, more ruins; more chasms. Femmes fatales, medusas, sphinxes, vampires. More mutants and monsters, trans- or post-human. Psychic emanations, skulls, skulls, skulls. A cloud that crossed the moon and a razor that sliced an eyeball. A mother thrusting a hank of raw meat at her son and hands rising to snatch it away. Birds with bloody savaged breasts, dropped dead from the sky.
I was left ragged at heart and lowered. And in some sense I was glad to be so. I had come to resent those very rare moments in the show at which there had been cues to remember health and sunlight. I don't know whether I exactly needed it, but I found myself cherishing this sensation that was like running my finger along a keen blade or turning the volume up to max on a screaming guitar solo: except that here, the cumulative effect had been more deeply in-turned. It was more as if my ears had been alerted to the thud of my heart inside my ribcage, the precarious motor on which all else depends. And yet at length, that thudding had begun to turn banal. Desolated had shaded into nullified and then into numb. The…
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 12:00 AM
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Original post made on Oct 18, 2007
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 12:00 AM
Comments (27)
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 18, 2007 at 6:51 am
Corey Levens' letter concerns me.
Have we not had enough spin from 25 Churchill over the last few years? If the Superintendent felt that the task force was not qualified to evaluate what they were recruited to make, he should have stood up and said so and not put out a misleading press release stating that the task force members themselves decided ("slowly, over the summer") that they were not up to the job. I shudder to imagine which of his staff helped him come to this realization.
This, following on the heels of the Board of Education's ignoring the AAAG recommendations about opening new elementary schools, feels very high-handed. Why recruit a community group if you don't value their input? Why waste their time just for the sake of seeming to partner with the community you serve? Let's not have hollow claims of consideration.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 18, 2007 at 9:08 am
I can really sympathise with Corey Levens. This sounds exactly the same way the AAAG was lead (no criticism of Irv Rollins). The agenda and the way the meetings were led almost prevented thoughtful discussion. When the discussion did happen, we were given so little time as to make in depth debate almost impossible. The problem was that we were given so much information, that was useful, but at the same time it was a hindrance because in the end, so much innovative ideas were just never more than mentioned in passing. It would have been great to really discuss some of these ideas we had, but there was never enough time, and in the end we felt we had no alternatives but to leave specifics about the boundaries alone until such time as we had a 13th elementary school, heard back from the HTSF and knew exactly what was happening about MI. From what Corey says, I imagine the same thing is going on there in the HSTF.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 18, 2007 at 10:31 am
That revelation should concern everyone.
Its extremely disturbing that we apparently have (another) arrogant superintendent who seems to think that this district is his own personal sandbox. If this is true, he took it upon himself to derail the community input process, that was agreed to by the board - and he mislead the board on the evolution of that process.
The community needs to write a letter to the Board and ask them to get to the bottom of what really happened with the HSTF -Did Skelly (with the trusted advice of Cook???), make a unilateral decision to disband the HSTF? Were his statements to the board true that the committee disbanded themselves? Did they, or did they not meet over the summer and come to the conclusion that they were not qualified to study the HSTF issue as he claimed?
And maybe they could answer the question - who the hell does he think he is? This is utterly sickening - given where we just came from. The ink hasn't even dried on MFC's severance check. The board better step up to the plate and get this one straight immediately!
a resident of Meadow Park
on Oct 18, 2007 at 10:54 am
hear hear.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 18, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Lo and Behold, the Weekly (Thanks Weekly), DOES have a detailed reporting of the whole story, repleat with admission by Skelly and Laurence that they steam rolled over ALL the community representation on that Board appointed high school ask force, in their INFINITE WISDOM made the Exective Decision to avoid analysis on opening a third high school.
So now, thanks to their arrogance, we don't even get the analysis on what it would take to open the 3rd high school, impact, cost, etc.
We jump DIRECTLY into discussion on which CHOICE PROGRAMS we'll expand (or create new).
Really? Et tu, Brute?
Can we PLEASE get someone in our school district management that just for once says - we'll lay out the options for the public in an open, honest, forthright way.
Yes, Skelly. Its work. Its complicated work. Its THE WORK WE HIRED YOU TO DO. It's maybe a years worth of work, or more, to do the job right. And at the end of that work, we would have some sound analysis for decent decision making! (NOVEL IDEA?) Yes, that's what we want, an earnest effort at what the options are! A high school is a big decision, we want real honest, forthright, analysis behind it.
Weekly, - are we really just to be dismissed as "Hyper-Involved Parents" or do we just want the Truth? Just a simple matter of the Truth? Is it REALLY too much to ask??
The superintendent's behavior on this is just so sickeningly disrespectful, and so soon on the heals of where we just came from.
So much for the new era of trust and respect. All a bunch of hogwash apparently. OK. So are we to take this to mean he's our new adversary? Not here to level with us, to work with us? We have to look over his shoulder and turn over every rock, and every decision, to keep him on the level? We can't trust what he says TO THE BOARD, IN THE BOARD MEETINGS, ON CAMERA???
I guess this means the Honeymoon is officially over. Its a sad day, but at least we know what we're dealing with.
Oh, and I guess the scope of this is just dawning on me - but this was a formal agenda item with Superintendent AND Staff presentation to the board - so they actually would have had to have sync'd up their stories on the task force position prior to this board meeting. Premeditated. This wasn't just a slip of the tongue - mispoken answers to an impromptu question, or some misunderstanding. This was intentionally presented in this way! What did they THINK would happen?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 18, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Of COURSE They syched up their stories. The senior administrators are the same ones responsible for the feasiblity study. One might have hoped that Skelly would have been briefed on the contributions Ms. Cook and Ms. Cohn-Vargas and others made to the trust issues in this district, both with senior management and with the MI brouhaha. Apparently he, like his senior staffers, knows best and is omniscient, while the parentsof Palo Alto are merely stupid and navie and overinvolved.
I would take an unpopular but honestly disclosed decision over the eternal spin any day. Skelly's looking to shape up like Mary Frances Callan, Part Deux.
a resident of College Terrace
on Oct 18, 2007 at 1:37 pm
For all those expressing disappointment, here's an opportunity to express your feelings to Dr. Skelly in person:
Oct. 24: Community-Wide Conversation with New PAUSD Superintendent Dr. Kevin Skelly, Jordan Middle School Auditorium, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
If you are planning to go, what are you planning to say? And if you are organizing the event can you explain how questions will be dealt with -- will they be 'filtered,' by someone, for example?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 18, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I would ask him how much it would cost to open a 3rd high school, start up and recurring. And what locations have been considered? How long would construction take, what construction would be required? I'd ask him what size the school would be, and what size would the other two high schools be? I'd ask him what the boundaries would be of the schools in the three school scenario and if there would be peer streaming (1-1 feed from each middle to each high school. And whether students in mid program at one school would be allowed to finish at their current school or would they be required to switch immediately to new school when it opened. (ie: seniors move to new school). And what is the likely time to opening of a new school? Would a bond be required to fund it?
Oh, he wouldn't be able to answer? Why not? Did the dog eat his homework?
a resident of Escondido School
on Oct 18, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Good suggestion, PA Dad. I'm not sure I can make it, but if I did I'd ask him the same question that Claude Ezran fielded so well.
"What is the Superintendent's relationship to the Board of Education?"
And I'd ask the same to all the other BOE candidates. In retrospect, this is one of the underlying causes of the problems we're seeing today. A few board members got their hands slapped last spring for doing too much information gathering on their own. Supposedly that was the job of the district personnel. I believe they conducted their own research in part because they were handed biased data, yet they intended to make well-informed decisions.
I'd like to see a Board that can face the Superintendent and his staff and say, "Go back and get more balanced data. Then we'll talk."
The other thing I might ask the Superintendent about are his plans for documenting the lottery process for each of the 5 lottery programs and making them open to the public.
Finally, I'd ask him if he's aware that the expansion of Spanish Immersion at Escondido is bumping neighborhood children, which is in direct violation of district policy. What are his plans for remedying the situation?
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 18, 2007 at 2:00 pm
If Skelly didn't think the Task Force (presumably put together before he started?) was up to the job, or was looking at the right thing, it was right to disband it. Having task forces running around is a dangerous game and I think we want a super who tries to keep control the process. If he screws up, we can fire him.
As to what the TF decided - I don't know what role Corey Levens played on the TF; presumably he (she?) was one of many, and perhaps not a key player. That the TF "as a group" didn't make the decision doesn't really bother me at all.
Our city needs leadership and Skelly is stepping up. If he succeeds, bully for him; if not, we can boot him. But at least somebody is leading.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 18, 2007 at 2:17 pm
I'd ask him what he THOUGHT would happen when he said
The task force met over the summer and decided....
when the task force really DIDN'T meet over the summer and decide...
Making up stories to defend his position isn't leadership. Its chickenship.
If he's a LEADER he should have gone to the board and community and said, I recommend you postpone or reconfigure the task force for these good reasons. And then given them his list of convincing, good reasons, and convinced them on the merit of his position.
Instead he basically gave the board no choice. He told them we have a group of people who are punting on this objective because they have disqualified themselves.
Terry, did you read the article?
"Skelly said he felt his executive recommendation not to look at a third high school made sense but should have nonetheless consulted others. "It seemed to me not to make sense to use people's time that way, [but] in fact we should've asked them," he said. It was inaccurate to represent the decision as unanimous, he said. "It was my oversight to not inform all the members of that direction and then also imply that that was something the whole task force decided on," he said."
Terry, Are you actually defending this as leadership?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 18, 2007 at 2:21 pm
No Terry, it wasn't his right to disband it. The board voted it in. It was his right to recommend a different course, and to present a convincing argument for the board to reverse course.
There is no harm in changing course when merited.
But lets get very clear - its not his "right" to single handedly over rule the board of education.
a resident of Gunn High School
on Oct 18, 2007 at 2:39 pm
To all the parents who are complaining that a 3rd High School is not being discussed by a District wide task force. Would you be willing to transfer your high school students out of Paly and/or Gunn and have them attend a third as yet unnamed, new High School?
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 18, 2007 at 3:41 pm
LOL - he doesn't me to defend him. I think that he has no problem telling the Board they are off-base, which is good, since they frequently are. The Board needs to be led - ever seen how a private company board really works?
If he made a mistake, he admits it. I like that. But he got the result he wanted. I like that too.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Oct 18, 2007 at 5:49 pm
I like that he admits he screwed up in his presentation, but I think, as the new Super in charge now, he has the obligation to re-direct the Board on what the task force should do, rather than just let it run its course based on what the OLD Super wanted, then ignore everything anyway.
I get the impression he really wants to listen to what this group has to say, and wants the group to research real ideas that the Board and he can actually respond to. I don't know if a 3rd high school is or is not a good idea, but I DO know I like having the impression that this guy can admit a mistake, apologize, explain his thinking, then direct what he wants out of the Task Force..and I have the distinct impression he will actually listen to what the results are and evaluate them.
In other words, this isn't just a pat on the head to interested parents, this is professional.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 18, 2007 at 8:45 pm
So, CEO's lying to their boards to get their way is professional. That's funny, I though leadership was getting people to follow you because you have a good argument and a good vision - not trickery.
Wow, proud of this behavior!? Amazing. His ideas might be good, but his execution on this was wrong. Ends don't justify the means. No way. And by the way - his idea ISN'T good. In fact we DO need to understand the facilities issues and alternatives for capacity with a new high school - no matter what type of program you decide to house there, you need to understand your facilities issues so you understand your options, and have a long term plan in mind (because it will take a long lead time). Facilities issues ARE THE issue here. Not a distracting sidebar.
It certainly is just a pat on the head to interested parents - akin to "Run along now, and don't worry your pretty little heads about what's REALLY going on."
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 18, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Secrecy, unwillingness to have residents gathering information, dishonest PR: ideal breeding grounds for carelessness, incompetence, or worse.
None of these boards or the senior staff members should be given the right to say "Trust me. I know better than you do that I don't need your input. Don't waste my time telling you what I plan to do. "
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 19, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I know some school administrator types (not in PA) socially and I have to say I think there is an us v. them mentality. And I don't think there's a culture of transparency nor an understanding of why transparency matters.
Also, thinking of both Callan and Claire Wilcox--whew! it looks like you can get some real arrogance going among some of them. They get used to giving orders and they quit listening.
It sounds to me like Skelly has many things going for him, but this wasn't handled well. He should have been upfront about this.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 19, 2007 at 9:03 pm
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Well, I got to agree with all your fine minds, but mabye they may be tired of many parents coming to their office and giving their "valuable" opinion. Seriously, would you like many thousands of opinionated people filling up your day on some tangent? Not I.
But, of course, I have an opinion.
1) I would appreciate a third school, preferably a school on some academic extreme (a very high/low achieving school), so that there could be more filtering. Viva 1984 if I can have a mansion.
2) The school should be
a. not a knock-off. The school should be fully equiped for its mission
b. Fully open. Anyone should be able to enter it.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Oct 19, 2007 at 10:08 pm
I'm sure they *do* get sick of listening to parents. However, you're not doing the job when you filter out everything.
I mean Callan's huffy attitude toward the parents at the Ohlone MI meeting (She lectured us on not being polite enough.) told me a lot about why she'd been forced out. Instead of trying to understand why people were so pissed off and finding a more effective way of putting forth her views, she reacted with a lecture--as if she were in position of authority, which she wasn't. It didn't seem to occur to her that to those of us in the audience she was someone who'd failed in her job and was leaving in disgrace.
I don't know, maybe that's the kind of hubris helps one climb upward in the school hierarchy, but it's not a great way to deal with the parents around here.
a resident of Professorville
on Oct 20, 2007 at 11:01 am
To those who truly want to improve our district, lets try supporting our new superintendent instead of second guessing him. I'm assuming we hired Dr. Skelly for his knowledge, experience and abilities. We should value his opinion and let him do his job. Any new "boss" will make changes in an organization and its direction, usually that is why they are hired.
Parent of another PA neighborhood, having heard Dr. Skelly speak, facilities are an important issue to him, including a long term plan. Just because he doesn't feel that the plan needs to include a 3rd high school at this time - which would be extremely complicated and expensive if we want to provide a comparable education to that of Paly and Gunn - doesn't mean he is a CEO who is lying or resorting to trickery. That was really out of line.
Carol Mullen - there has been no secrecy or dishonest PR. Just a new superintendent making changes which probably will include mistakes.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 21, 2007 at 8:14 am
Yes, we all have to remember that he was dealing with a task force set in place just before he was hired. In other words, it really is his job to do his best to fine tune the jobs of all these VOLUNTEERS and PAID people so that that they don't waste valuable time and money.
If he had set the original task force, then switched them around, that would be a different story.
But, I think we have to remember that new bosses make changes in direction, and I have no problem with it.
Also, give him a break...he is having to rely on MFC to get his information about various groups and projegts, and it is going to take a while for him to figure out that he can't trust her "interpretations" of what was said, or decided. What employee is going to tell him the truth about her when they all have to work for her and him, and they have no idea if they can trust him, yet, with information about her, no matter how factual?
In fact, I noted that he did NOT blame anyone else, he took the full hit on the chin himself, like a real "buck stops here" kind of boss.
Hear Hear.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 21, 2007 at 8:19 am
In fact, maybe we should help out the employees a bit, and those of us who have served on task forces and had meetings where she is in charge should go tell Skelly FACTUAL information about her job performance in various areas.
Many of us have caught her in flat out, completely wrong statements in Board and Task Force meetings, have watched her steam roll the original intents of task forces into something else, twist what was concluded in a meeting into something completely different to the Board, heard her make claims about the appropriate use of her power that are...well, ..let's say they verge on believing she has many powers that she doesn't.
Maybe we should each talk to Dr. Skelly, stating facts only, for a couple minutes, and he will hear some of the warnings that he should have heard already, but probably hasn't from fearful employees.
a resident of Meadow Park
on Oct 21, 2007 at 8:23 am
Upom reflection, I realize that what you say is true. There is no doubt that he has had to rely largely on the problematic senior staff at 25 Churchill for his information, that he took his report to the Board in good faith, and that he has learned a valuable lesson from this. It shows great character that he knows teh buck stops wih him and that he took full responsibility for the miscommunication. In fact, I would think that after this he will take what his senior staff say with a grain of salt, since he has inherited a whole group of people who have been thriving on cronyism and secrecy and back room deals during the entire MFC tenure. He seems like the kind of upstanding leader who might even have the strength to make some much-needed staff changes. I feel sorry for him for what he has to work through. I look forward to hearing him at more public meetings.
And shame on his staff for thinking they are invulnerable and omnipotent and that they can conduct business as usual after this whole year's fiasco.
a resident of Meadow Park
on Oct 21, 2007 at 8:27 am
But wait a minute -- what are you people saying about his having to rely on MFC? I thought she was gone now! Is she is some horrfying senior consultant position from which she can continue to reign and pull in a double salary between a fee and her retirement? Please tell me that's not the case. Are you perhaps referring to MArilyn Cook? If so, couldn't agree more.
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on Oct 21, 2007 at 5:02 pm
SORRY, Natasha..MC, not MFC!! You are right, it is Marilyn Cook, not the now gone ex-super, to whom I referred.
Thanks for your post, btw.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 21, 2007 at 5:23 pm
According to the quotes in the paper though, its sounded like an intentional decision by Skelly and Laurence to formulate a story around disbanding the HSTF under false pretenses. Was the underlying motivation worthy? perhaps. But does that mean the ends justifies the means?
Isnt' that exactly what we've been struggling with for the past year and a half - underhanded means, that put small interest groups and a small contingent of administrators in total control of defining the ends - on behalf a community that really is just a nuisance, and that permeate the system with distrust?
I still think what happened here is more important, and requires a much bigger consequence than, "isn't our maveric new superintendent just a swell go-getter" (pat pat wink wink)
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| home_town = Edmonton Alberta
| awards = Gold Medal Wrestling in Alberta Canada 1983, Silver Medal Canadian JR Olympics 1983, Who's Who of American Business 2000, Continental Who's Who 2009, Westwood Motorcycle Racing Amateur of the Year 1986, Canadian Motocycle Racing Association Vancouver Grand nationals 1st Place 750 Superbike 1987.
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== Back Ground ==
"'Alex Thorn"' was born in Stuttgart Germany on March 31, 1965. Is a German born Canadian Businessman, he currently is Founder and CEO of Iastra Broadcasting a broadcasting company with the ability to broadcast live events via the internet and server infrastructure to a global audience.
== Early Years ==
At the age of 2 years old in 1967 Alex Thorn's family emigrated to New York City. His Father was a Aircraft Engineer & Pilot and his Mother was a Fashion Designer with her Store (later) located in Vancouver BC Canada for over 35 years.
At the Age of 5 Alex's Father was asked to head up the Hercules Operations for Pacific Western Airlines in Edmonton Alberta to fly oil field supplies to oil camps all over the World with a focus on the Canadian Arctic Oil Industry. Several years after that he went into business for himself after buying 2 McDonnell Douglas DC4s where he then operated his own Cargo Flight Service flying food and supplies to the Canadian Northern Remote cities and villages that where only accessible by air during some or all times of the year, Alex spent much time flying and working with his father from a very young age.
Growing up in Edmonton Alberta Alex was a very gregarious kid, he and his school mates where skateboard fanatics at a time when skateboards first came on the market they would skate all over town doing tricks that today with the same tricks kids are considered professionals.
At the age of 10 years old, from money he earn shoveling walks in the harsh Edmonton Winters and mowing lawns for the people in his community, he bought his first motorcycle, a Yamaha DT 175A from his neighbor Joe Eskiew who let him make payments for it, it was a large purchase for Alex at 10 years old but he faithfully made the payments.
Being the first of his close friends to have a birt-bike He and his friends would share his motorcycle timing each other with a stop watch where each took turns doing laps around a track they fashioned in the farmers field close to the house he grew up in of course for bragging rights, soon his friends too bought motorcycles and they would spend every waking moment racing each other in the Rural areas of North East Edmonton known as Dickensfield which is the community Alex grew up in, Dickensfield was on the outskirts of town less than 3 blocks away from endless farmers fields (at the time) where they could ride their bikes they knew the back country roads like the backs of their hands and would spend from Sun up to Sun down on their bikes Tearing around the rural farms and country roads where everything turned into a jump or a berm or whoops section.
Alex was doing 100 foot long jumps by the time he was 12 years old, unfortunately video cameras where not available back then.
He was very athletic at school and excelled at sports playing for the school and community hockey, football, baseball, soccer and basketball teams which he was considered one of the top Athletes at his school while at the same time his passion for motorcycles grew. At the age of 12 years old he traded his motorcycle up to his first Motocross Race bike and began racing local motocross where he was again considered a very fast competitor and won many of the races he entered into.
In 1986 when Suzuki came out with their GSXR motorcycle line Alex purchased a brand new 1986 Suzuki GSXR 750 and immediately started racing in the 750 Production and 750 Superbike class. He received his Amateur Racing License and began racing Formula One Motorcycles at Westwood Mountain High Racing Club in Port Coquitlam BC where he quickly asserted himself as a tough competitor in the Canadian racing scene he gained sponsorship from Vancouver Motocycles, Vancouver Suzuki, RK Chains, Sinasalo Leathers, Metzeller Tires and a few other less well known companies which paid for his racing expenses. Alex had an exemplary record and finished all of his races he entered in the top 5 and received many trophies for his top finishes, he was considered very fast and in 1988 he won his class at the Canadian Grand Nationals where he was did not do the qualifier due to mechanical issues and was placed in 18th spot on the starting grid then rode all the way to the front of the pack to win the race and made the cover of the sports section in his communities news paper the Richmond Review.
Alex owned many motorcycles, he was working in the stock market making lots of money at 16 years old and started buying bikes he liked including;
– Yamaha DT 175A
– Honda CR 125
– Suzuki RM 125
– Husquavarna OW430
– Honda CT125 pit bike
– Kawasaki Z1-R 900
– Suzuki 1100 Katana
– Suzuki GSXR many 2 new bikes every year one production and one fully tricked out superbike
Now Alex is 51 years old and has slowed down a bit, but not much he enjoys riding Hard Enduro making new trails and climbing up treacherous mountains, river beads, logging roads and no road places where skills are of most importance.
== Business & Education ==
At the age of 16 Alex met and began working for Murray Pezim one of Canada's best know Investment Bankers. Under Murray Pezims guidance Alex learned the Finance business taking several companies public on the Vancouver Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange mostly involved in the JR Resource (oil, gas, gold, mining) industry.
under Murray we took many now very big companies public including:
1. Aims Bio Tech (the company that developed the first ever reliable Aids Test and owns the patent on it)
2. Envipco Canada (one of the first companies involved in the Recycling movement, they come up with recycling machines that where in front of every supermarket in Canada and the USA)
3. Cominco Mining and Exploration (a huge Gold Company)
4. Pegasus (huge mining company)
5. Ultraglow Cosmetics (the first company to come out with those Sparkles girls put on, they owned the patent on sparkles and made a lot of money sold many tons of sparkles)
6. In House Video (one of the first companies to put video machines in hotels)
7. Geo-Tech Capital Corp (an capital company focused on investing in Technology, got bought by a major)
8. National Petroleum (a TSX company, was a hostile take-over, when we started buying the stock it was .18 cents per share when we finished and had successfully bought control the stock was as $36 per share and we had control.
9. Blackhawk Mines (a Canadian mining company)
10. Fuji Electo-Cell (Fuji was coming out with their Batteries and wanted to do a test market in Canada so we funded the test market with a .50 Cent IPO on the Vancouver Stock Exchange and ran the stock up to over $15, a hugely successful test market followed by a global release of Fuji's new batter division.
After working for Murray for 2 years Alex decided this was the career path that he wanted to pursue.
== College ==
In 1984 he went back to school and enrolled in College with his major being International Business and his minor was Computer Programming at a time before Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak sold Bill Gates Dad their other operating system known as DOS later turned into the Microsoft OS called Windows.
Alex paid his way through college working as a DJ in most of the clubs in Vancouver BC which was at night and didn't interfere with his day time school activities. Upon completion of his College Alex went back to work for Murray Pezim.
in 1991 Alex took a job working at a Los Angeles based securities firm called Osborne Stern and Company where he was a commodities and currencies broker until 1995.
In 1995 Alex started his software company that spawned two companies called ExecTrek and ACsports, ExecTrek developed an online reservation system for the secondary travel market and ACsports developed the server side source code for what today is called massively multiplayer online gaming.
Having been approached by Microsoft who expressed an interest to have a demonstration of the first finished games portal which at the time was still not possible to do on a commercial level as everyone was still using dial up modems and the data transfer rates did not support online games until 1997 when Broadband finally did come out, which at that time Alex had completed the prototype for the online gaming portal called ACpsorts.com which was built using the Links golf Game made by Sierra Software because golf was a easy game to serve and it was the best golf game on the market at the time.
Alex and his associates where invited to Seattle to do a presentation for Microsoft who was very interested in the games market, the meeting in Redmond Washington did happen at the Microsoft Campus and Microsoft executives present where ecstatic about what Alex's company had spent $2 Million dollars to build.
Two weeks after the presentation at the Redmond Campus Microsoft went on a media blitz stating they where getting into the online games business, they would start the Entertainment Division of Microsoft and lead with their new online games portal by launching the VGA.com Mircosoft then dumped $20 Billion dollars into the new Entertainment division and launched the Virtual Golf Association which duplicated Alex's Business Plan and Business Model identically and later the XBOX Platform.
In 1998 Alex's attorney's Robert Rosenstein & Associates contacted Microsoft of their intent to file claim against Microsoft. Microsoft then responded to the claim made by Alex Thorn's attorney stating that Alex had broken the law, he raised his money illegally and everything he did after that was illegal and the DOJ responded to that complaint, froze all of Alex's bank accounts and Alex was later Indicted by a Criminal Grand Jury for money laundering, wire fraud and mail fraud. With the DOJ having frozen all of Alex's bank accounts this immediately put his company ExecTrek into chapter 11 bankruptcy and Alex had to lay off over 140 full time employees he had working in his Century City California Offices and his Westwood California Offices.
Literally Every Single Gamer in the World uses the software Alex's company developed (or a derivative work thereof) to log into game servers via the internet to play against other gamers around the world. His software has Generated billions of dollars.
Which is a claim Alex Thorn has made to the DOJ after he was cleared of the allegations made against him and any wrong doing in court.
== Legal Battle ==
After a 10 year long legal battle Alex emerged victorious in court and all the false allegations against him where completely dismissed and Alex was cleared of any and all wrong doing and it was stated in court by the Judge that Alex was the victim of a much larger organized crime and apologized to Alex in court on the record for having been put though this ordeal which caused the bankruptcy of his companies and destroyed Alex's outstanding reputation and career of excellence and achievement.
Since then the Server Side Software making massively multiplayer online gaming possible developed by Alex's Company has generated Billions of Dollars and is being used by literally every gamer in the world. Microsoft included Alex's server side software and or derivative works thereof in the Microsoft Developer Kits and over night literally every Microsoft developer around the world was building game sites and used the software Alex's company developed.
After Alex was cleared he filed claims against microsoft and Homeland Security for the revenues his software has generated and for damages caused by Homeland Security to his business and reputation. Having written and filed these complaints himself without the benefit of an attorney Alex intends to Amend these complaints with additional allegations of ongoing interference.
* https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr18083.htm Alexander Naujoks aka Alexander P. Thorn; Exectrek, Inc., a California
* https://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/cacdce/2:2010cv00703/463976 Alex P. Thorn VS Microsoft et al
* http://www.law360.com/cases/4d394f234ba4c660aa00004b Alex P. Thorn VS Homeland Security
* http://ca.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.20100621_0002802.CCA.htm/qx United State of America VS Alex P. Thorn
* http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=247590981 Bloomberg Research
* https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1586355/000102143213000310/0001021432-13-000310.txt SEC.gov
* http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=253226374&privcapId=247590981 Bloomberg Capital Markets
* https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1586355/000102143213000310/form8k121613apple.txt SEC Archives
== Military Service ==
At the age of 14 Alex entered the Canadian Military Cadets at Namao Airforce Base in Edmonton Alberta Canada where he was on a path to become a pilot going through boot camp and being trained on the firing range, Glider Training, Flight Simulator as well as other classes offered by the Canadian Military.
== First Job ==
When Alex was 14 years old he was getting more interested in racing motorcycles and wanted a new Race bike so when he talked to his parents of how he could get one they told him to "Get a Job" and buy it himself which he did, he went to the first newly opened McDonalds in North East Edmonton (North Gate Location) and applied for a job saying he was 16 on the application to get the job, he was hired and worked at McDonalds through JR High School and into High School. It could also be noted that of all of his school mates and friends he was the first to get a "Real Job".
And yes he did save up enough to buy his new Motocross bike.
== Athletic Achievements ==
==== North Edmonton Sharks Swim Club at O'leary Pool ====
Alex swam competitively for the North Edmonton Sharks Swim Club at Olearly Pool starting in grade 6, the requirement to be on the Swim team was that every school day the team would have to be at the pool at 6 am and swim a mile (60 lengths of the pool) before school started every day. Needles to say Alex can swim like a fish.
==== Westwood Mountain High Racing Club ====
Alex Raced Formula One Motorcycles all over North America, Westwood was his home track.
==== Gold Medal in Province of Alberta – Wrestling ====
During JR high school Alex participated in all the school sports and teams he was particularly good at Wrestling, probably due to his upper body strength from swimming a mile a day he competed in all the Wrestling Events and inter school tournaments where he won a Gold Medal in wrestling for the entire province of Alberta.
==== Silver Medal JR Olympics – Wrestling ====
Alex then won a Silver Medal in the 1983 Canadian JR Olympics for all the Schools in Canada.
After winning the Silver Medal in wrestling for all schools in Canada Alex was invited to Train with the Canadian National Wrestling Team for the upcoming Olympics and Commonwealth Games. This meant he would have had to move to Toronto Canada and that was not financially possible for his parents at the time.
==== Evansdale Elementary School===
Alex participated in all School sports and was a good student at this age Alex and his friends where Skateboarding fanatics where they would skate all over town doing tricks that today kids are classified as professionals wit the same or lesser tricks.
His family had a a ski boat and would go Camping every weekend in the summers where Alex started water skiing and in no time was doing slalom courses where he could drag his elbow in cuts through the course.
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Hernandez has 13 RBI since returning from the All-Star break. All thre runs-batted-in Thursday night came with two-out in the inning.
Dale Thayer closed out the game with his team leading 10th save of the 2011 season. Thayer worked for the save getting seven outs for the herd to secure the win.
Game Notes: With the win the Bisons avoided the sweep and moved to 3-7 vs. the Chiefs…Pat Misch got his fifth win of the season moving his record to .500…Valentino Pascucci and Luis Hernandez drove in all four of the Bisons runs Thursday adding to their RBI total, Pascucci leads the team with 65 and Hernandez is in second with 49…Hernandez drove in all three runs with two outs…Ruben Tejada returned to the Bisons Thursday.


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In tennis, you're allowed two faults before losing the point. In the pump world, faults – and certainly not double faults – are not an option. So when the builders of the Olympic tennis venue in Athens needed a trustworthy and qualified partner for their project, Grundfos was selected as their doubles partner.
The Situation
The 2004 Olympic tennis events will be staged at the Olympic Tennis Centre in the Athens Olympic Sports Complex. Before this, however, a new central tennis court with seating for up to 8,000 spectators needed to be planned and built. The construction of support facilities under the seating tiers of the central court including locker rooms, a medical centre, administration offices, a VIP lounge and so on. In addition, the outlying courts and training grounds needed to be reconstructed.
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Over 200 Grundfos pumps cover a wide range of applications including water supply, heating and air-conditioning, wastewater and fire fighting. Leading the way are almost 160 UPS circulator pumps, with a couple dozen AP-and KP wastewater pumps also on the team among others.
The Outcome
From the initial score of love-love until game, set and match has been called in the gold-medal match, Grundfos pumps and pumping systems support the Olympic Tennis Venue in the best possible way. The hard-hitting and innovative player from Denmark has served another ace!
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I was born and raised in Eritrea, where I was fortunate to be well educated. I studied business administration in college, and after graduation I taught high school math. At that time, I began helping opponents of the Eritrean regime flee the country. My life was at risk, and it became too dangerous for me to stay in Eritrea after I learned that the authorities were aware of my activities.
On January 10, 2012, I fled my homeland to escape persecution. Little did I know the torture and abuse that lay ahead on my path.
With help, I reached Eritrea's border with Sudan. Smugglers offered to take me to a refugee camp, but instead they transported me to someplace in the Sudanese desert and held me and others as slaves. We worked in our captors' houses and fields all day, without a break. I tried to escape, but they caught me; as punishment, they isolated me and held me, blindfolded, in solitary confinement for a month.
Our slave masters ultimately sold us to other smugglers in the Sudanese desert, near Egypt. Our new captors told us that unless we paid them $3,000 each, they would take us to Sinai. We were threatened with death if we did not pay, but none of us had any money.
When we reached Sinai, our traffickers raised the bounty, demanding that our families pay $30,000 each. They hung us upside down and beat our backs with sticks and whips. They subjected us to electric shocks and burned us by dripping scalding-hot melted plastic on us. Each time we were tortured, our abusers would call our families and let them hear our cries.
We suffered greatly. We saw our friends die. They showed us fingers cut off corpses, and one time the severed foot of a dead man, to frighten us. I didn't think I would survive.
Eventually my family found a way to raise $25,000, which was enough to secure my release. On July 7, 2012, my captors took me, and others, to the Israeli border. Israeli soldiers spotted us but refused us entry. We turned back, and eventually we found a different route to cross into Israel. Security forces immediately picked us up and transferred us to the Saharonim prison.
At the prison, we were told that under a new law, Eritreans would be held in detention for three years. I was so happy to be freed from Sinai, and now the Israeli authorities were putting me in jail? We were not criminals and had not done anything to anyone.
I spent 16 months in the Saharonim prison. Conditions were harsh, and guards treated us cruelly. A few other Eritreans and I went on hunger strikes to draw attention to our demands for our release. I suffered from depression, and my torture in Sinai left me with permanent scars and physical injuries.
The guards kept trying to pressure us into signing a "voluntary repatriation" form. It was clear to me that if I returned to Eritrea, I would end up either dead or in prison.
In March 2013 I filled out an asylum request form. To this day, I have not received a response.
I regained hope of being freed this past fall, when the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants told me by phone that the Supreme Court of Israel nullified the law that kept me detained for more than a year. The hotline informed me that according to the court ruling, I and the other detained asylum seekers would be released within 90 days.
Government authorities conducted short interviews with each detainee. In my interview, they asked me about myself and told me the conditions of my release. They informed me that formerly incarcerated asylum seekers would not be permitted to live or work in Tel Aviv or Eilat.
A week later I was released. I was given a bus ticket to Beersheva. From there I went to Tel Aviv, where I had friends. But since I was told I could not be in Tel Aviv, I found someone with whom I could stay, in a nearby city. Through him I was able to find a job.
I now work in a big house and do whatever is asked of me: clean, trim the trees and so on. There are other Eritreans there, and I work 10 hours a day, six days a week, earning $71 per day. So far, though, they haven't paid me; they say they will at the end of the month, and I have to trust them.
I have been out of jail for a few weeks now. I can't tell you how much I appreciate my freedom after what I have been through. I take nothing for granted.
What is most important to me now is paying off my debt. My family borrowed money from so many people to secure my freedom from the torture camp in Sinai, money that needs to be repaid.
For me, returning to Eritrea would be returning to hell. Someday, if the government changes and there is peace, I would be happy to go back to my family.
Israel's new "Anti-Infiltration" Law frightens me. Last December the government used the law to establish an internment camp for asylum seekers. The possibility of facing captivity again? I honestly don't think I could survive that.
My only wish is to remain free. Please, just leave me my freedom and let me live my life in peace.
The author shared his story with assistance from the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants and from T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.
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- "In these days of moral hypocrisy, certain valuable commodities can be hard to import. On its approach to the airport tonight, a light aircraft will pass over the bay. It will drop several packages into the water. Make sure you pick them up before anyone else does."
- ―Donald Love
A Drop in the Ocean is a mission in Grand Theft Auto III given to protagonist Claude by media tycoon and businessman Donald Love from the Love Media building in the Bedford Point district of Staunton Island, Liberty City.
Claude goes to Donald Love's place looking for more work. A DeadDodo plane is dropping a few packages on the sea and Love wants him to pick them up before anyone else does. After being informed about the plane, Claude gets a car and drives to a boat. He follows the plane, and later on, the plane starts to drop packages. Claude collects all six, and then makes his way back to Love Media Building, all while avoiding the gained attention from the police, to give the packages to Donald.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Get a boat and follow the plane.
- Pick up each of the 6 packages dropped by the plane.
- Take the packages to Donald Love.
- Picking up each of the first five packages will earn the player one star on the wanted level. The player must drive to the Pay 'n' Spray to eliminate the wanted level before delivering the packages. It is not really necessary, but going to Donald Love with the wanted level is very risky, as FBI Cars may ram the player constantly, causing the car to catch fire. Then, getting out is also dangerous as they have very powerful weapons.
- Park the boat on the pier right below Asuka's condo apartment. There are always two Yakuza Stingers and a Banshee there. Most importantly, police do not spawn here so getting into one of the fast cars is easy. Only one street leads here and on the right, there is an alley that leads directly into Staunton's Pay n' Spray, making the getaway easy.
The reward for this mission is $10,000. Shoreside Vale is also unlocked. The missions Grand Theft Aero, Marked Man and Uzi Money are unlocked.
- If the player does not pickup the packages in time, then the police will get in their Predator boats (the only police use of Predator's in the entire game) and seize the packages, causing the mission to fail.
- This is the only mission in the game which features the FBI Car, since the player earns a 5-star wanted level.
- Although Donald says the plane will come at nighttime, the player can do this mission any time.
- If the plane is destroyed, the packages will not disappear until you collect.[1]
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Houston police say suicidal mom placed toddler in road, walked away
A Houston woman who allegedly left her toddler in the middle of a road has been jailed on a charge of endangering a child.
Selina Monshea Lee, 23, was arguing with "a few other people" about 9:05 a.m. July 3 in the 9200 block of Mesa Drive in northeast Houston, according to a police report.
"Apparently she was standing in the middle of the road with her 2-year-old daughter," HPD spokeswoman Jodi Silva said. "During the argument, she puts the daughter down and walks away."
At that point, people who were watching the scene immediately ran forward and picked up the child, pulling her to safety, Silva said.
Witnesses flagged down a passing patrol officer, who placed Lee in custody.
Lee was apparently having some suicidal thoughts, Silva said. The case was also referred to Child Protective Services, she said.
According to online law enforcement records, Lee is scheduled to appear in court July 8 in the 176th State District Court. She was being held Friday on $5,000 bond.


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It's a summer holiday weekend in Paris and Antoine and Hélène are on their way to pick up their children at summer camp, thus joining thousands of other vacationers on the highways to the south of France. At first in high spirits, the couple starts sniping at each other during the drive as tensions in their relationship bubble to the surface. Frustrated by the freeway, Antoine takes a byway detour, much to Helene's displeasure, and then leaves her in the car as he stops for a drink. Once they're back on the road, their bickering escalates, with Antoine blaming Hélène for his drinking. Antoine then stops again to continue drinking at another tavern, although this time, Helene warns that she won't be there when he gets back. Still he defies her and goes into the bar, taking the car keys with him. He panics when he leaves the bar and discovers she has left. Believing that she has taken the train, he drives like a madman to the next station, but upon his arrival, the last train is mid-pulling out of the station. Driving away in a state of dread, he picks up a strange hitchhiker--not knowing he might have already crossed the path of his soon-to-be-missing wife.
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I work for a small development company, 20 people total in the entire company, 3 in actual development, and we've adopted CD for our commits to trunk, and it works great, from a code management and up-time side. However - we're getting flak from our support staff and marketing department that they don't feel that they're getting enough lead time on new features and notifications on bug fixes that could change behavior. Part of why we love the CD system is for us in development, it's fast, we fix the bug, add the quick feature, close the Bugz and move on with our day to the next item.
All members of our company are now on HipChat at all times, and when a deployment occurs, a message is sent to a room that all company members are in, letting them know what was just deployed (it just shows the commit messages from tip back to the last recorded deployment). We in development are also attempting to make sure that when we're making a change that modifies the UI or a public facing behavior, we post a screenshot to the All Company room and explain what the behavior change is, seeking pushback or concerns. Often, the response is silence. Sometimes, it's a few minor questions, but nothing that need stop the deployment from happening.
What I'm wondering is how do other users of the CD method deal with notifications of new features and changes to areas of the company that are not development - and eventually on to customers in the world?


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State of Grace
Photography: Spencer Higgins
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Grace Coddington has one of those careers that people getting into fashion now can only dream about. It spans over 50 years and is packed with as many tales as accrued air miles, as one would expect from someone who traverses the globe drawing inspiration from every corner for a living. She got her start by entering Vogue's Young Model competition at age 17, and was soon posing for the likes of Helmut Newton, David Bailey, Norman Parkinson, and others. After a car accident, Coddington refocused her talents, eventually becoming the photo editor at British Vogue before hopping the pond to Calvin Klein and then the magazine's American counterpart, where she has been a preeminent member of the Vogue tribe for the past 24 years. As anyone who has seen The September Issue can attest, there is a real warmth to Coddington's sensibility, both personally and aesthetically. She cares about her projects no matter how big or small. A photo-driven coffee-table book of the same name was published in 2002, while Grace ($35, Random House), the memoir, provides the insight behind the iconic imagery. Early reviews are tantalizing, especially for anyone who appreciates the art démodé.
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What is cancer?
Cancer is a disease of the body's cells. Our bodies are made up of millions of cells which normally grow, divide and are renewed in a controlled way, and we remain healthy. However sometimes this control is lost (due to an abnormality in the cells, such as a genetic mutation) and the cells duplicate themselves instead of renewing. A solid group of these cells is called a tumour or growth.
Tumours can be either benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous). Benign tumour cells stay in one place in the body and are not usually dangerous.
Malignant tumour cells may travel through the lymphatic system (the body's drainage system) to lymph nodes or through blood to other parts of the body.
This spread of a cancer from one organ to another organ or part of the body not directly connected with it is called metastatis or metastatic cancer. Cancer actually refers to about 100 different diseases as cancerous cells can arise from almost any type of tissue cell.
Cancer is not contagious and cannot spread from person to person, however factors can lead to an increased risk of developing cancer such as smoking, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, alcohol consumption, or some environmental or genetic risk factors.
Cancer, unlike many other diseases, can develop at any stage in life and in any body organ. Each person's cancer has a different cause, diagnosis method, prognosis, treatment and care need.
New Zealand has an increasing number of people diagnosed with cancer mainly because of population growth and people living longer. Most cancers occur in older people, but because of screening programmes, improved detection and treatments fewer people now die of cancer in New Zealand. For more information about cancer statistics check out Understanding Health Statistics.


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The guys over at G-Form go to extreme lengths to show off the impressive capabilities of their gadget cases, like dropping a 12lb. bowling ball on the iPad, and throwing a perfectly good MacBook Pro off of a balcony.
The iPad becomes their victim again in this latest stunt, which is intended to show off the incredible strength of the company's Extreme Edge and Extreme Portfolio cases, as they're dropped from 1,300 feet.


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Mullins Wins Rad Dad Enduro
Westpoint, TN, – Charlie Mullins continues to dominate the Rekluse AMA National Enduro Series, claiming his fourth win of the series this weekend at a soggy and slick Rad Dad National Enduro – round five of the series in Westpoint, Tennessee.
With the win, the FMF/KTM rider now holds a 20-point lead in the series standings over factory Husaberg's Russell Bobbitt, while AirGroup Racing's Nick Fahringer maintains a solid third another two points back.
Two straight days of rain left the Westpoint riding area extremely saturated, leaving the tight and twisty trail soft and extremely slippery. Having won under similar conditions two weeks before in Louisiana, Mullins twisted back the throttle on his 350 XC-F and took control of the race from the get-go, winning the opening test of the day by 19 seconds over FAR Husqvarna's Andrew DeLong.
After getting off to a slow start in test one, Fahringer flexed his muscles in test two, claiming the first of his two test wins on the day, however Mullins still maintained the overall lead and would do so for the remainder of the race.
Charlie Mullins (center) won again on Sunday.
Fahringer won again in the third test, which kept him within striking distance of Mullins for the time being. Meanwhile, Bobbitt was the only other rider besides Mullins and Fahringer to win a test, and did so in the fourth test, beating out Mullins by 12 seconds.
Mullins was five seconds faster than Fahringer in test five and then dashed any hopes the Husaberg rider had of winning the race by posting a blistering time in the final test, turning a time that was 37 seconds faster than Fahringer.
In the end, Mullins took the overall victory by a minute and 23 seconds over Fahringer, with Bobbitt rounding out the podium another 42 seconds back.
"It was good to get another win," said Mullins. "It was slick out there, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be after all the rain we got."
A tough time in test four cost DeLong valuable time and the Pennsylvania rider finished out the day in fourth, while eight-time national champ Mike Lafferty rounded out the top five on his factory Husaberg.
South Carolina KTM rider Grant Baylor beat out AmPro Yamaha's Jesse Groemm for sixth. Meanwhile, Obermeyer Yamaha/Raines Riding University/Offroadvikings.com's Brad Bakken was a solid eighth ahead of Colorado's Ian Blythe and Am Pro Yamaha's Jordan Ashburn.
The Rekluse AMA National Enduro Series takes a six-week break before returning to action on June 9 in Marquette, Michigan for the Loose Moose National Enduro. For more information on the series go to www.nationalenduro.com.
1. Charlie Mullins (KTM)
2. Nick Fahringer (Hsb)
3. Russell Bobbitt (Hsb)
4. Andrew DeLong (Hsq)
5. Mike Lafferty (Hsb)
6. Grant Baylor (KTM)
7. Jesse Groemm (Yam)
8. Brad Bakken (Yam)
9. Ian Blythe (KTM)
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Almost every UK newspaper has featured Nick Griffin on their front pages this morning with widespread editorial coverage reporting what was said, reactions and the ongoing debate about the BBC and freedom of speech. The interesting thing for me though is not the press response this morning, but the immediate response last night.
The Question Time show was pre-recorded yesterday afternoon / early evening. We started seeing Twitter posts from members of the show audience, but, as the time of transmission approached, Twitter was alive with commentary about Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time - with 'Nick Griffin', 'BBC' and '#bbcqt' all top trending topics on Twitter as people debated the show and made comment.
TwitScoop shows how 'Nick Griffin' tweets grew last night:
8 million people tuned into Question Time last night (against a previous highest audience of 3.7 million) and many of them turned to Twitter to post real time comments on what they were seeing and hearing - instant reaction that mainstream media could use to gauge public reaction.
Last nights Question Time therefore gives another example of 'social TV' viewing (dual channel consumption - TV coverage, internet comment), but also demonstrates how wide reaching Twitter now is in the UK - and how effective Twitter can be in mobilising people to express political opinion.
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Telecom regulations, that is. And they're beating the US at its own game.
One of the knottiest problems in infotech has nothing to do with technology. Engineers can tease data out of ordinary copper wire at a rate of megabits per second, but no one has figured out how to reboot the ailing telecom business for the 21st century. Until, perhaps, now. On July 25, the European Union is set to introduce a single set of rules for all forms of electronic communications – wireline, wireless, cable, and satellite. With digital technology erasing any distinction between voice, data, and video, the EU is changing its laws to follow suit.
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Decades of commands and countermands will be replaced by just five laws. Monopolists will still be regulated, but new entrants will be free to do as they please. And in a few years, when competition has taken root, the overseers are supposed to go away for good. "You can't regulate against the logic of development," declares European Commissioner Erkki Liikanen, a chief architect of the plan. "You must facilitate technological innovation."
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Michael Powell hoped to do this after he was named FCC chief in 2001, but last spring he couldn't even get his fellow commissioners to ensure competition in DSL. US telecom providers are still governed by the clumsy Telecommunications Act of 1996, much ballyhooed as the first major policy overhaul since the New Deal but in fact written for the pre-Internet era. It generated wildly unrealistic expectations, along with so many lawsuits the industry remains in limbo today. While federal judges try to hash out the issues piecemeal, the effects of the act's failure are everywhere: doomed startups, faltering long-distance giants, steep prices for broadband Internet access, and the triumph of the monopolists – the Bells and the cable companies.
Washington loves to talk about free-market this and pro-competition that, so you don't expect to see it lagging behind Brussels. But there are big differences between the two, and they explain why the US has yet to get anywhere on the issue. The FCC was set up to implement laws passed by Congress, an institution that's perennially on the take (just ask John McCain). In Europe, the rules are set by the 20-member European Commission, which, as an appointed body, is shielded from the avalanche of campaign contributions that warp telecom policy in America. Obviously, no one can be sure the EU plan will work as intended. But at least when the Commission started looking at the challenge of convergence, it was able to frame the obvious solution: Converge the rules. With any luck, the result will be less confusion, less uncertainty, and less opportunity for manipulation by special interests.
What if Washington, too, managed to hit the reset button? For anyone who makes phone calls, watches TV, or uses the Internet, it could only be good news. Taking down the regulatory barriers between cable and phone companies would encourage them to move on each other. Cable companies would be quicker to offer phone service. Phone companies might contract with entertainment outfits to offer video – a task DSL can easily handle in urban areas. Both players would likely begin offering more bandwidth for less money. If the big guys didn't come up with the right combination of price, performance, and service options, someone else would, thanks to an element of the plan that guarantees wholesale access to local networks.
And with the cost of broadband going down and the amount of bandwidth going up, entrepreneurs and users alike would soon find cool new things to do with it.
From there, the benefits would ripple out into the economy as a whole. Equipment suppliers and backbone providers would finally see their businesses start to rebound. With a firm set of ground rules for the industry, investors might once again warm to promising startups. Employment would grow, as it did when telecom mushroomed in the '90s. Entertainment companies, from AOL Time Warner to Electronic Arts, would see new revenue coming in as consumers began to tap the digital spigots. Long-distance giants AT&T, MCI, and Sprint might succeed in reinventing themselves as retailers of a wide range of digital services, as opposed to retailers of something everybody's about to get for free. Even the monopolists would gain: Once competition took hold, the Bells and the cable companies would at last be freed from government supervision. The only losers would be the people who always benefit from confusion – lawyers.
OK, so maybe Washington will never act. Even with the current policy muddle, convergence is fitfully proceeding. The questions are, how long will the transition to a digital society take, and how painful (or exciting) will it be? Because this is one case where the future is in the conference room, not the lab.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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