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Beef with the Sequester? At Least One Federal Program Was Able to Beat It.
April 1, 2013
The sequester was supposed to be something new in Washington: a budget cut you couldn't beat. Once it hit, it hit. The money was gone, and nobody could get it back
That turned out to be true — for about three weeks. Then somebody beat it.
Last week, President Obama signed a spending bill that gave the Agriculture Department's food inspectors what everybody else wanted: a get-out-of-the-sequester card. Their program got $55 million in new money, which replaced almost all of what the sequester took.
There's a story there, about how power and lobbying can still make money appear in Washington, even in this age of austerity. It started with sharp political theater.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack insisted that the sequester would force him to shut down all U.S. meat production on at least 11 days.
The inspectors union didn't believe that. Neither did many in the powerful meat lobby. But they were too worried not to help Vilsack anyway. After an extensive campaign, the Senate gave Vilsack the money.
So the sequester can be hacked. Now, other interest groups are waiting: police officers, airport executives, Border Patrol agents. The question is: Can it be hacked again?
"It is those who make the most noise that sometimes succeed," said Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), who failedin his push to exempt small air traffic control towers from the effects of the sequester. "I thought I'd made a lot of noise," Moran said. Until he saw he had lost and the meat lobby and Vilsack had won.
This was not, of course, the way sequestration was supposed to turn out. Back in 2011, it was designed to exempt some areas of government: welfare, food stamps, Social Security, veterans programs. But where it cut, it was supposed to cut like a razor, clean and even:
Defense programs lose 7.3 percent across the board. Non-
defense spending programs lose 5.1 percent.
Nobody could get out. Because then, everybody would want out. And the sequester was meant to force a gridlocked Washington to come up with something else.
"We need a big fix. And once you start making everybody happy, you lose the leverage in a negotiation" for a bigger deal, said a Republican aide in the House, speaking anonymously to explain the GOP leadership's thinking. The even spreading of the pain "was the whole point of sequestration to begin with," the aide said.
Of course, Washington is not a place where people sit back and accept equal treatment. Since sequestration began taking effect on March 1, some programs have lobbied for little victories, taking a bigger piece of their department's smaller pie.
Corrections officers persuaded the Justice Department to shift more money their way, eliminating the threat of furloughs. The Pentagon found $10.4 billion, so furloughs for civilian employees were reduced. But none of them got Congress to give them money to replace what the sequester took. That trick was pulled off, somehow, by the workers who inspect animal carcasses.
The campaign to do it began in early February, when the sequester was still weeks away. Earlier than many other Cabinet secretaries, Vilsack began describing in detail how badly his department would be hit.
"In our food safety area . . . we will have to furlough workers for a period of a couple of weeks," Vilsack said, speaking to an agriculture industry conference in Las Vegas. "The problem is, as soon as you take an inspector off the floor, that plant shuts down."
He had details: There could be $10 billion in lost production and more than $400 million lost worker wages. Diners would be affected, too; beef and poultry would get scarcer. "Food safety could be compromised," he said.
In the world of meat, people took notice. But a lot of them thought Vilsack was stretching the truth.
Even the meat inspectors' union doubted he would make good on the promise of shutting plants down.Federal law requires the Agriculture Department to provide inspectors when a plant is running. A budget cut is not a valid excuse to stop, said Trent Berhow, an official with the inspectors union. "If the federal government truly did put the inspectors out of the plant, the industry would sue the hell out of them," he said.
But Vilsack kept insisting, although he reduced the number of possible furlough days from 15 to 11. In a House hearing, lawmakers tried to get him to admit there were other, less drastic alternatives. Couldn't he cut other costs instead? Couldn't he furlough inspectors one region at a time, instead of nationwide?
No, Vilsack said. The sequester law tied his hands. There was one solution: "Just give us the resources," he said.
"That's not the option, Mr. Secretary, as you well know," said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa).
"Well, see, now, that's a choice you all are making, all right?" Vilsack said.
His strategy worked. The union — although still skeptical — began urging that the furloughs be prevented. The meat industry also began to worry. What if Vilsack really did pull the inspectors and shut the plants?
Living animals would start backing up, unable to be slaughtered on schedule. They would consume extra feed, extra space, extra money.
"We had accused the secretary of using America's cattlemen and women as pawns in his political wrangling of Congress," said Chase Adams of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. "We still stand by that."
But despite that, the cattlemen started to advocate for Vilsack's cause. So he succeeded?
"There, you got us," Adams said. "Because that's it. He got what he wanted."
The effort was joined by the National Chicken Council, the National Turkey Federation and the American Meat Institute, heavyweights of one of Washington's powerful agriculture lobbies. In the Senate, their cause was picked up by two influential senators from strongly agricultural states: Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) andRoy Blunt (R-Mo.).
Those two found a solution: $55 million in new money that had been meant for other Agriculture Department programs. Blunt and Pryor wrote an amendment that would give it, instead, to the meat inspection program. This was sequester-proofing. After the sequester took its cut, the meat-inspection program would be left with almost as much money as it had before.
They built support in the Senate. They checked with the House to make sure that GOP leaders would go along with the idea there. It all worked. "Fortunately, chickens know no political boundaries," said one Democratic aide involved in that process.
Finally, the day came. The victory — like most in the backroom-dealing Senate — appeared utterly undramatic when it happened.
"All those in favor say 'Aye,' " said Sen. William "Mo" Cowan (D-Mass.). There was a chorus of ayes. "The amendment is agreed to." Last week, after Obama signed the bill, the Agriculture Department passed the good news to the inspectors: The furloughs won't happen. There will be meat.
Now, leaders in both houses of Congress insist that no more exceptions will be made. But a number of other interest groups believe they will be the next. "We're going to keep fighting with our friends on the Hill to find a solution," said Spencer Dickerson, executive director of the U.S. Contract Tower Association. "Aviation safety shouldn't be politicized."
His cause is the same as Kansas's Sen. Moran: 149 control towers at small and medium-size airports that the Federal Aviation Administration announced it will shutter. It has lost out, so far — partly because the administration says it wants a long-term solution, not just a short-term stay of execution for these towers.
U.S. Park Police officers, facing 14 days of furloughs, are also hoping to get themselves protected. Their union is seeking $5 million, far less than the meat inspectors.
They don't have a powerful lobby behind them. But now they know it can be done.
"The only thing we can do is try to get our message out to members of Congress to fund us, like they funded the other agencies that got a break," said Ian Glick, the union's chairman.


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This is a question I found in Mechanics for Engineers by Beer & Johnston.
A 600-lb crate is supported by the rope and pulley arrangement as shown below.
Write a computer program which can be used to determine, for a given value of $\beta$, the magnitude and direction of the force $F$ which should be exerted on the free end of the rope. Use this program to calculate $F$ and $\alpha$ for values of $\beta$ from 0 degrees to 30 degrees at 5 degree intervals.
For writing the program, I need to obtain a relation between $F$, $\beta$ and $\alpha$. The only thing which I was able to think of was that the component $Fcos\alpha=600 lb$ I tried to relate the angles $\alpha$ and $\beta$ by using high school geometry but I did not obtain any result which I could use.
Can anyone help me with the physics part of the question?

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Here's another one for the Well, Duh file. Women need more sleep.
I bring this up not because I like to make Well, Duh-style proclamations. On the contrary; I tend to prefer proclamations of the Wowee! variety. I bring it up because this week, Arianna Huffington and Glamour magazine EIC Cindi Leive have issued a New Year's Call to Arms on the Huffington Post: "Sleep Challenge 2010: Women, It's Time to Sleep Our Way to the Top. Literally."
Sounds great, right? Not so fast. As Feministing's Jessica put it:
But here's the thing – what Huffington and Leive are really talking about is sexism, not sleep.
Let's back up, shall we? From the HuffPo piece:
"Women are significantly more sleep-deprived than men," confirms Michael Breus, Ph.D., author of Beauty Sleep: Look Younger, Lose Weight, and Feel Great Through Better Sleep. "They have so many commitments, and sleep starts to get low on the totem pole. They may know that sleep should be a priority, but then, you know, they've just got to get that last thing done. And that's when it starts to get bad."
…Getting a good night's sleep, of course, is easier said than done. You have to tune out a host of temptations, from Letterman to the PTA to your e-mail inbox — and most of all, to ignore the workaholic wisdom that says you're lazy for not living up to the example set by Madonna, Martha Stewart and other notorious self-professed never-sleepers. Of course, the truth is the opposite: You'll be much more likely to be a professional powerhouse if you're not asleep at the wheel. (Even Bill Clinton, who used to famously get only five hours of sleep, later admitted, "Every important mistake I've made in my life, I've made because I was too tired." Huh! ) The problem is that women often feel that they still don't "belong" in the boys-club atmosphere that still dominates many workplaces. So they often attempt to compensate by working harder and longer than the next guy. Hard work helps women fit in and gain a measure of security. And because it works, they begin to do more and more and more of it until they can't stop. But it's a Pyrrhic victory: The workaholism leads to lack of sleep, which in turn leads to never being able to do your best. In fact, many women do this on purpose, fueled by the mistaken idea that getting enough sleep means you must be lazy or less than passionate about your work and your life.
Maybe. Or maybe, as Dr. Breus pointed out, it's more to do with the fact that many of us are so overloaded with tasks and to-dos, first shifts and second shifts, there simply isn't any time left over for sleep. (And it's worth mentioning that the not getting enough sleep thing is a notoriously vicious cycle: The more we take on, the more stressed we are about all we have to get done–and how and when we're going to get it done. And stress has a rather nasty way of messing with our zzzs. And, in the face of a packed day after a restless night, well, coffee becomes our BFF–until, like a fickle 5 year-old, the clock strikes X and we ditch that BFF for another one–named Malbec. Or whatever. And then we go to bed, worrying about whether or not sleep will come… Rinse, repeat.)
Sleep deprivation, of course, comes with all sorts of nasty side effects, as the HuffPo piece points out. Among them: illness, stress, traffic accidents, weight gain (let no fat card go unplayed). But wait, there's more!
Rob yourself of sleep, ladies, and you'll find you never function at your personal best. Work decisions, relationship challenges, any life situation that requires you to know your own mind–they all require the judgment, problem-solving and creativity that only a rested brain is capable of and are all handled best when you bring to them the creativity and judgment that are enhanced by sleep.
Well yeah. Who could argue with that? We all know we should get more sleep. We know how it feels to slog through a busy day in the fog of exhaustion–how impossible it is to think straight. But what rubs me wrong about the whole thing is this: I can't shake the sense that this is yet another instance in which something that's societal, systemic, is trivialized by framing it as a personal issue. Yes, we should all aim to get a little more sleep. But the fact is, the modern workplace–of which women are on track to become the majority, like, any second now–is still set up as though the workers who fill it were Don Draper clones, men with a full-time Betty at home, able to take care of all of the stuff that keeps a life running smoothly. But the ladies (and gentlemen) of today don't have a Betty. She took off to Vegas, baby. So we do our best Don–and then we make the time to get Betty's job done, too. We work our full day–and then we fold the clothes. And do the grocery shopping. And pick up the dry cleaning. And attempt to cook healthy items (or contend with the parking lot at our favorite take-out joint), to exercise, to socialize, to sleep. To quote Germaine Greer yet again:
When we talk about women having it all, what they really have all of is the work.
Or, as Lisa Belkin put it, over at the NYT Motherlode:
The reason women don't sleep as well as men is not because of our misguided workaholic tendencies, or our short-sighted need to prove ourselves, but because the world, as it is constructed, gives women more to DO. Particularly during the hours when we should be sleeping. Some of this we can't control — a baby who needs to nurse at 1 a.m. and again at 3 a.m., for instance, or the fact that at least one study found women wake more easily to a baby's cry than men. We have those hormonal insomnia issues, too, and, with time, hot flashes and night sweats.
Other reasons are handed to us by society. The expectation is that mom will work a second shift, filling her evening with homework checking and lunch fixing and bedtime storytelling and clutter picking-upping and laundry sorting. Then, after that, so many of us get back to the pile of work we brought home from the office — an office we left early in order to be home for dinner. Yes, men do this more and more in many homes, but the social expectation is that this is still a mother's job, and shaking it requires more than a simple declaration that we will get more sleep.
It's enough to make me cry out for my blankie! So what are we to do, aside from putting ourselves down for a little bonus shut-eye every now and then? A good start might be recognizing the only marginally deeper truths in "personal challenges" likes this for the eye-openers that they are.


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ELMHURST, Ill. — An 82-year-old suburban Chicago man shot and killed his wife and two adult children before turning the gun on himself, DuPage County Coroner Richard Jorgensen said Sunday.
Francis Stack killed wife Joan Stack, 82, and their children Mary Stack, 57, and Francis Stack Jr., 48, Jorgensen told the Chicago Sun-Times (http://bit.ly/1rHPkXt) after autopsies scheduled Sunday. Police officers performing a well-being check found the four family members' bodies in their Elmhurst home Saturday evening.
Elmhurst police said in a statement that officers found the victims "with visible gunshot wounds." Police recovered a weapon at the scene.
Sunday afternoon four white crosses with the victims' names were set outside the home.
Neighbors called the Stacks loving and doting parents.
"They were good people," neighbor Jane Bock, 89, said. "They were so good to those kids. That was their life. It was built around those kids."
Kim Zoeller, president and CEO of the Ray Graham Association for the Handicapped, said Francis Stack Jr. and Mary Stack received services and housing from the organization for decades.
"The family was very involved and continued to be very involved," Zoeller said. "They were a very dedicated family to their children. We are all very shocked and very sad about what has transpired."
Peter Sterchele said he couldn't ask for better neighbors than the Stacks.
"They were very great people," Sterchele said. "They were very humble. They were quiet but not overly quiet. They were nice."
Elmhurst police said their detective section was investigating the deaths.
Information from: Chicago Sun-Times, http://www.suntimes.com/index


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Sea Secrets
language arts, social studies, literature, music
1. Read the selection from Gulliver's Travels aloud to students. Ask for student impressions of this almost-foreign language. Help them along by explaining some basic terminology. The main frame of a boat is its hull. The bow is the forward part of the boat from where the planks begin to curve inward. The stern is the wider rear end of the boat. If something is located aft it is toward the stern; if it is fore it is toward the bow. The deck is the planked floor that runs the length of the boat. A hatch is a rectangular opening in the deck. You can go below into the lower part of the boat, which includes the hold, where cargo is stored. The gangway is the main entrance to a boat from the side. The masts are the tall timbers that carry the sail. The mast closest to the bow is the foremast, followed by the main mast. If there are three masts, the third is the mizzenmast. (Traditionally, a sailing boat with a bowsprit-a large, tapered pole extending from the front of the vessel-and three masts was known as a ship. Later, a ship was defined as a boat powered by sail or steam.) Mounted across the masts are large timbers called yards that support the sails, or sheets. The outer part of a yard is called the yardarm. The supporting timber of the foresail or the jib is the boom. The sails are held in place by lines called rigging. The keel is the structure that runs the length of the boat, supporting and uniting the boat. Most of the keel is below the waterline.
As the wind fills the sails, the part of the boat facing the wind is the windward side and the part sheltered from the wind is the leeward side. As you look forward on the boat, the lefthand side of the boat is the port side and the righthand side is the starboard side. Some other common terms include the following:
fast-secure or fixed
foul-become entangled
list-tilt of a boat
trim-arrangement of sails to get the most wind
limey-During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British seamen were called limeys because of the limes issued to sailors to prevent scurvy.
tack-a boat's direction with respect to the wind
2. Work with your school librarian or music teacher to get a CD or cassette for students to listen to while doing this activity. You might play classical music such as Wagner's Flying Dutchman or Debussy's La Mer. You might find recordings of traditional sea chanteys-songs sung by sailors in rhythm with their work. The music and lyrics to "Blow the Man Down" and "Sailing, Sailing" can be found in An Illustrated Treasury of Songs. You might also find contemporary music that will appeal to students.
3. Hand out the student page. As students work on section A independently, circulate among them to offer help with the meaning of unfamiliar expressions. The Pequod's hull was stained by the typhoons of the Pacific and the calms of the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic oceans. "[D]arkened like a French grenadier" refers to soldiers in Napoleon's eighteenth-century campaigns in Egypt and Siberia who threw grenades in battle and became darkened with soot. The bow-the front of the boat-may have appeared bearded because of seaweed or a protective covering. The masts are the tall timbers that carry the sails, and the reference is probably to the spires of the cathedral in Cologne, Germany, the most famous example of Romanesque architecture. The wooden decks were probably wrinkled from exposure to seawater.
In section B, students may have answers similar to these:
1. I like the cut of his jib. I like the way he looks-his clothes, his walk. The jib is the triangular sail fore of the foresail.
2. It's time to swab the deck. It's time to clean up. This was the order to clean the boat's deck with a rope mop that sometimes had a wooden handle.
3. Please stand by. This is an expression derived from the command for sailors to be ready.
4. All hands on deck. This expression derived from the captain's command to summon the entire crew.
5. I was really taken aback by what he said. This means to momentarily stop short or literally move back. When the wind suddenly shifts and comes into the sails from the front, the boat is said to be taken aback.
6. It was touch and go there for a while. This expression means you were unsure what the outcome would be. It is used to describe a boat that runs aground and then immediately recovers and floats again.
7. Now everything is on an even keel. Everything is going along smoothly. A boat is on an even keel when the keel is horizontal in the water.
8. Thar she blows. There it is. This was the cry of the spotter aboard a whaling boat upon seeing a whale.
9. In class today, Ms. Smith really lowered the boom. She gave some bad news or got angry. The boom is the timber that holds the jib sail near the bow of a boat. A sudden wind shift can quickly blow it around to knock down anyone standing in the way.
10. It's like flogging a dead horse. This commonly means belaboring a point that has already been made clear. A dead horse is what seamen called a month's work on board, for which they were paid in advance. On the last evening of the month the crew would flog a straw-stuffed horse and throw it overboard. In section C, encourage students to be creative in writing a scene. For further reading, they might try some of the sea stories from the online Ocean Planet exhibit. They might try reading Moby Dick by Herman Melville or Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Dana. The latter contains a helpful glossary of nautical terms. Some students might enjoy a nonfiction adventure by an oceanographer/innovator such as Jacques Cousteau or Bob Ballard or an adventurer like Thor Heyerdahl.
4. Tell students that sailors can communicate between boats by semaphore, a system of visual signaling with flags. Have the students do library research to find out the flag symbols for the letters of the alphabet. Each student can draw and color a page-sized flag to represent a different letter of the alphabet. Place the flags around the classroom for a week or so with the letters labeled. Students can become familiar with their meaning. Then take the flags down and ask students to write out their own names in flag letters. They might create their own flag words and challenge one another to decode them.
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Aussie travellers are increasingly choosing homestays
Recent research from Booking.com has revealed that the average Australian traveller's preferred accommodation type is self-catering stays, with over 87 per cent of respondents choosing home stays or B&B-styles of accommodation.
In addition, the research showed 39 per cent of respondents prefer to do their own cooking and cleaning when on holiday.
But the research also showed that a third of Australians are not talking their full annual leave each year, and 86 percent of respondents revealed they have experienced physical or mental burn out from not taking a break.
If it's time for a holiday, here are seven incredible homestays for you to choose from.
Rumrunner Resort – QLD
Offering an outdoor pool, a steam room and a hot tub, Rumrunner Resort is situated in Mermaid Waters, on the Gold Coast. This five bedroom home also boasts free WiFi, a tennis court and an outdoor kitchen with a BBQ and bar. Set alongside Rumrunner Lake, this resort is 3 minutes' drive from Mermaid Beach and 5 minutes' drive from Broadbeach. The Wet 'n' Wild, Dreamworld and Warner Bros. Movie World theme parks are within 35 minutes' drive.
Burnside Windsor House – South Australia
Featuring an outdoor pool and a sunny deck, Burnside Windsor House is a detached holiday house located in Adelaide. Located just east of the CBD, the property is just what the doctor ordered for a quiet weekend away, with the sites of Adelaide on your doorstep.
Noraville On The Beach – New South Wales
If you're after a peaceful weekend getaway but still want the creature comforts of home, Noraville On The Beach is ideal. Situated in Norah Head, 11km from The Entrance and only minutes from Hargraves Beach, the air-conditioned holiday home offers a fully equipped kitchen, indoor and outdoor living areas and scenic 180 degree ocean views.
Piermont Retreat - Tasmania
Overlooking Great Oyster Bay, Piermont Retreat boasts an outdoor pool, a tennis court and an award-winning restaurant. Just 4 minutes' drive from the historic Morris' General Store, it offers luxurious rooms with full or partial bay views.
All rooms have a flat-screen TV, DVD player and a Nespresso coffee machine. Each room has a bathroom with a hairdryer and free toiletries. Most rooms also have a fireplace or a spa bath.
Piermont Retreat Swansea is 5 minutes' drive from Swansea Golf Course and 45 minutes' drive from Freycinet National Park. Launceston Airport and Hobart Airport are each 90 minutes' drive away.
You can enjoy a meal in the BBQ area, or relax on the beach. The property also has a tennis court and offers free kayak, bicycle or mountain bike rental.
Luxury Penthouse with Spectacular Seaview – Victoria
Luxury Penthouse with Spectacular Seaview in Melbourne offers accommodation with free WiFi, 800 m from Etihad Stadium and 1.1 km from Melbourne City Conference Centre. The property has sea views, plus is 1.5 km from Regent Theatre.
The apartment includes 3 bedrooms and a kitchen with a dishwasher and a kettle. A TV is offered.
At the apartment guests are welcome to take advantage of a fitness room. Guests can enjoy the indoor pool at Luxury Penthouse.
St Paul's Cathedral is a 19-minute walk from the accommodation, while Southbank Promenade is a 19-minute walk from the property. The nearest airport is Melbourne Airport, 18 km from Luxury Penthouse with Spectacular Seaview.
West Melbourne is a great choice for travellers interested in markets, sightseeing and convenient public transport.
Busselton Beach House – Western Australia
Located 70 metres from the water, Busselton Beach House offers a serene retreat with direct access to the beach, as well as a terrace and a garden with a barbecue. With room for up to 8 people, Busselton Beach House is perfect for a family getaway or a relaxed weekend by the ocean with friends.
Wagait Beach Bush Retreat – Northern Territory
Situated 14.5km from Darwin International Airport, Wagait Beach Bush Retreat offers a secluded escape for up to four people. Immersed in the bush and just a 9-minute walk from the beach, this a real nature retreat for the weekend.


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A family affair at the Besh Cup
Several local families road-tripped to Homer over the weekend to pick up some valuable Besh Cup Nordic ski race series points.
Alaska Nordic Racing's Lammers siblings — Isaac and Sarissa — solidified their No. 2 rankings in their respective age groups. Isaac finished sixth among J1/OJ/senior racers in both Besh Cup No. 3 (classic sprint) on Jan. 21 and the Besh Cup No. 4 (interval freestyle) on Jan. 22 at Lookout Mountain. The finishes helped Lammers remain in second place among J1 racers in the series.
Sarissa Lammers was third in the classic sprint race among J2 girls and 15th in the freestyle among all competitors. Through four races, she's ranked No. 2 in the J2 girls category.
Besh Cup standings are used to select Alaska's Junior Olympic and Arctic Winter Games teams.
A pair of 2011 Chugiak High grads also had a good weekend in Homer, as APU's Kinsey Loan was sixth in the classic race and ninth in freestyle while Krysti McPhetres (ANR/UAF) was eighth in both races. Loan is currently ranked second among OJ girls and McPhetres is fifth.
Kinsey's younger brother, Alex, was 19th in the classic among J1 and older men and ninth in the freestyle to move into fourth place among J1 male skiers in the series. David McPhetres, who was 35th in the classic and 15th in the free, is currently No. 8 in the J1 male standings.
Other locals to have a strong weekend were Eagle River's mother/daughter duo of Hannah and Sheryl Stevens. Skiing for ANR, Hannah was 22nd in the classic race and 16th in the free to move into 11th place overall among J1 girls. Her mom, Sheryl, finished first in her age group in the classic race and second in the freestyle to hang onto the No. 1 spot among M3/M4 women.
Former Chugiak High skiers Kenny and Peter Brewer (ANR) each earned top-10 finishes in individual races. Peter was eighth overall in the classic sprint and Kenny followed with an eighth-place finish in the freestyle race.
Among younger skiers, Chugiak eighth-grader Roan Hall (ANR) finished third among J3 boys in the classic race and 7th in the freestyle to move into third in the J3 boys standings.


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This province takes its name from the yacht, Granma, which landed near its southwestern tip bearing Castro, Che, and their supporters.
The majestic mountains of the Sierra Maestra, main mountain range in Cuba, the intense blue Caribbean Sea and the fertile plains bathed by the Cauto River make of Granma a fan of contrasts. This along with its more than 40 archeological sites, its more than 60 km of explorable caves can caverns and many other aspects of this region made UNESCO declared the Desembarco del Granma National Park a World Cultural Site.
Granma province is known as the cradle of nationality, it holds a rich historical and patrimonial value, evident through traditions as the rides in stage coaches, mainly in Bayamo, the provincial capital.
Among its customs are celebrating the day of the National Culture on October 20, as a way of paying tribute to the first time the hymn was sang in Bayamo.
As to hotels we recommend in Granma Marea del Portillo, as to beaches, you will see the dark colors of its sands. You will discover the enchantments of Cayo Blanco, place with awesome sea bottoms, get into the impressive system of sea terraces or see the natural reserve of El Guafe. The excursions to its mountain ranges are one of the most appealing options.
Granma limits to the north with Las Tunas and Holguín; to the west with Guacanayabo Gulf, to the south with the Caribbean Sea and to the east with Santiago de Cuba.
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This is where to make your base camp for an attempt on the summit of Turquino Mountain
It is the capital of Granma Province. This area was important in the Cuban struggle for freedom and has a wealth of historic places of interest, including the site where Jose Marti was shot, and one of Cuba's greatest national parks, Gran Parque Nacional Sierra Maestra, to the south of Bayamo township.
Bayamo has a pleasant and relaxed atmosphere and makes concessions to tourism. The town is centred around Parque Cespedes which is a delightful, shady park containing long marble benches and statues of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes (called nothing less than the Father of the Nation) and Perucho Figueredo. On the north side of the park is the Ayuntamiento, it was in front of this in 1868 that Cespedes proclaimed independence for Cuba.
On weekend evenings, the square hosts something resembling a large party, with hundred of Bayamese dressed to the nines, socializing and eating rosquitas, the local sweet made of yuca.
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It is an important industrial port for the exportation of sugar. On most nights you will find some form of live musical entertainment taking place. The city is quiet. The most notable architectural features being Moorish in origin in the main square: a riotous gazebo, wedding-cake fountains and sphinx statues, and a casa de la cultura with a tiled courtyard depicting Columbus' landing.
Here is a monument for Cespedes, one of the leaders of the war against the Spanish colonialists at the end of the 19th century.
It's a perfect place for nature-lovers, for it offers plenty of outdoor activities. Explore the surrounding trails, go spelunking, explore the seabed, visit the Desembarco del Granma (Landing of the Granma) National Park and learn about aboriginal customs.
Playa Marea del Portillo
Marea del Portillo is the most important tourist resort in the Granma province.
Located on the Southeast coast of Cuba, the famous Marea del Portillo Beach is at the foothills of the Sierra Maestra Mountains. This provides a dramatic backdrop to the exotic black sand beach that stretches over 2 km. Not far from Marea on the road to Santiago de Cuba you will come across an amazing view of the highest mountain in Cuba, 2005m Pico Turquino.
Also close to Marea del Portillo lies the Desembarco del Granma (Granma Landing) National Park, which was declared a World's Natural Heritage by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The beautiful El Salto Waterfalls is about two hours from Marea del Portillo.
In addition, just 500 meters away from the beach is Cayo Blanco, a small islet considered an ideal place for romantic people and boasting exceptional sea bottoms.
You can dive to an old Galleon with 36 canyons and their characteristic round balls, as well as other of the ships belonging to the squad of Cervera, the "Christopher Columbus" which still shows a high degree of preservation.
Towards Cabo Cruz, in the Southeast edge of the eastern region, fabulous sceneries open up around the coral reef located here with moose horns corals, sea fan and all sort of fish that you can admire due to the existence of Marea del Portillo diving center.
If you accommodate in any of the hotels of Marea del Portillo, you will be able to discover the charms of Cayo Blanco and its underwater beauties as well as to access to the facilities and services that its marinas offer.
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Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography
With his prodigious range, versatility and output, Edward Steichen casts a long shadow in 20th-century photography, and this lushly produced book assesses his legacy. Wending through Steichen's 70-year career, the book presents his early, impressionistic black-and-white nudes and portraits of luminaries such as Rodin as well as atmospheric still lives and editorial fashion shots for Vogue and Vanity Fair . Steichen experimented and excelled in every genre of photography and even his most commercial work shows more aesthetic consideration than product placement. The images are accompanied by insightful essays from a number of expert critics and curators, all of whom place Steichen in his proper context as one of the most influential and controversial artists of his time, alternately reviled as a parvenu and lauded as the Leonardo of photography. This book nimbly navigates divergent critical responses and brilliantly encapsulates the innovations and transformations of this pioneer of modern photography. (Apr.)
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Both areas are located at the Jim Baugh Government Center (City Hall), 211 E. Pleasant Run Road, DeSoto.
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I'd agree, provided the wall on the extreme left disappears.
Too many cooks always manage to spoil the broth.What started as a descriptive tableau with a girl waiting for a bus has been reduced to a portrait of a tree with extraneous walking protein.Well, that's how I see it at least.
Sheesh! It was a grabbed shot!


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The coronavirus situation
Information and advice about the coronavirus situation from Norwegian authorities.
What's new
Norway elected to the UN Security Council
Today, Norway was elected as a member of the UN Security Council for the period 2021–2022. 'We would like to thank the UN member states for the confidence they have shown in us. The world needs more international cooperation to promote peace and security. We will make use of our seat on the Security Council to strengthen this work,' said Prime Minister Erna Solberg.
New guidance on holiday and leisure travel
Norwegian health authorities issued updated guidance today on holiday and leisure travel in Norway. The new guidance will help to make travelling in Norway this summer a safe experience. Also today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs extended its own travel advice, continuing to caution against non-essential travel to all countries. As it stands, this advice will remain in effect until 20 August. By 15 June, however, consideration will be given to amending the travel advice as it pertains to the Nordic countries. By 20 July, consideration will be given to amending it for certain other nearby European countries.
Revised National Budget
A budget to help us safely reclaim ordinary life
The Norwegian economy has suffered its most severe setback ever in peacetime. However, the Government is laying the groundwork for Norway's emergence from the crisis.
Coronavirus measures to continue
The Government is continuing all the measures implemented to combat the coronavirus outbreak in Norway until over the Easter holiday, through 13 April.
The coronavirus situation
Information about the Coronavirus situation in Norway.
Solberg's Government
Erna Solberg (Conservative Party)
Prime Minister
The Prime Minister is the most senior member of the Government, responsible for coordinating and leading the work of the Government.
Iselin Nybø (Liberal Party)
Minister of Trade and Industry
The Ministry of Trade and Industry is responsible for designating industrial policy with an eye to the future. This includes involvement in any policy area that affects value creation.
Kjell Ingolf Ropstad (Christian Democratic Party)
Minister of Children and Families
Jan Tore Sanner (Conservative Party)
Minister of Finance
The Minister of Finance has a main responsibility for national economic policy and co-ordinates the preparation of the national budget.
Monica Mæland (Conservative Party)
Minister of Justice and Public Security
The Minister of Justice and Public Security is responsible for the judicial system, the correctional services, the police and prosecuting authorities, asylum and immigration, civil protection, preparedness and the Polar areas.
Bent Høie (Conservative Party)
Minister of Health and Care services
The Minister of Health is responsible for government policy related to hospitals, municipal health care services, preventive measures, psychiatric health and drug addiction.
Ine Eriksen Søreide (Conservative Party)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
The Minister of Foreign Affairs is responsible for Norwegian foreign policy, the promotion of Norway's interests internationally and the foreign service, which includes more than 100 embassies, permanent missions and delegations, and consulates general.
Linda Hofstad Helleland (Conservative Party)
Minister of Regional Development and Digitalisation
The Minister of Regional Development and Digitalisation is responsible for steering regional and district development policy, IT policy, electronic communications, privacy protection, and policies towards Sami and national minorities in the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation.
Frank Bakke-Jensen (Conservative Party)
Minister of Defence
The Minister of Defence is responsible for the formation and implementation of Norwegian security and defence policy.
Nikolai Astrup (Conservative Party)
Minister of Local Government and Modernisation
The Minister of Local Government is responsible for steering administrative policy, local government finances, local administration and the conduct of elections, planning, housing and building policy, coordinating the government's work on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, national mapping and geodata policy, government employer policy, central government building and property management, administrative responsibility for county governors, contact with the Royal House of Norway, and administrative responsibility for the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation.
Knut Arild Hareide (Christian Democratic Party)
Minister of Transport
The Minister of Transport is responsible for policies relating to the transport of people and goods, telecommunication ands postal services.
Olaug Vervik Bollestad (Christian Democratic Party)
Minister of Agriculture and Food
The Minister of Agriculture and Food is responsible for implementing the Government's policy concerning agriculture and food.
Dag Inge Ulstein (Christian Democratic Party)
Minister of International Development
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Henrik Asheim (Conservative Party)
Minister of Research and Higher Education
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Henrik Asheim (Conservative Party))
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
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Abid Q. Raja (Liberal Party)
Minister of Culture and Equality
The Minister of Culture and Equality is responsible for cultural policy, equality- and discrimination policy, media policy, sports policy, gaming and lottery regulation, and the coordination of government policy relating to the voluntary sector.
Tina Bru (Conservative Party)
Minister of Petroleum and Energy
The Minister of Petroleum and Energy's responsibility is to ensure high value creation through efficient and environment-friendly management of Norway's energy resources.
Sveinung Rotevatn (Liberal Party)
Minister of Climate and Environment
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Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen (Conservative Party))
Minister of Fisheries and Seafood
Guri Melby (Liberal Party)
Minister of Education and Integration
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Andy McCarthy spoke yesterday at the National Press Club about the Obama administration's increasing coziness with the Muslim Brotherhood. One of the concerns he addressed is the relationship between Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Clinton, and the Brotherhood.
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post attended the event. In his column today, he attacks McCarthy's views on the matter of Ms. Abedin. Predictably, the Post's Clown Prince accuses Andy of "McCarthyism."
Readers may recall that my view on this issue differs somewhat from those of Rep. Michele Bachmann, who originally helped raise it, and Andy. In fact, I found Bachmann's letter to the Department of State regarding Abedin to be problematic.
However, Milbank's attack on McCarthy doesn't hold up.
McCarthy demonstrates why in this post and two follow-ups. Among other things, he shows that Milbank's attempt to pass Abedin off as inconsequential – Hillary Clinton's scheduler and baggage handler – lacks merit.
Milbank makes much of McCarthy's "concession" that Abedin is not a "policy maker." But that's a far cry from saying she doesn't influence policy and/or have access to classified information. McCarthy points out that the Washington Post has reported that Abedin "advises on politics and policy, especially the Middle East." That's not just carrying handbags. Maybe, as McCarthy says, Milbank should read his own paper.
McCarthy also shows that Milbank's moans about "guilt by association" are specious in this context:
When people are being evaluated for their suitability for appointment to high public office and access to national-security information, the whole process is about associations – that's why, for example, the form all candidates for security clearances have to fill out exactingly probes a person's background, relations and associations.
There's much more to McCarthy's takedown of Milbank, and I urge you to read it. You can also watch the proceedings here.
I'll add one more point. Whatever one makes of Abedin's associations, the concerns of McCarthy and Bachmann are, at a minimum, intelligible. Compare that with the connection Milbank purports to find between the attack on Sikhs in Wisconsin, Mitt Romney's criticism of the Obama administration's new position on "workfare," Newt Gingrich's reference to President Obama as "the food-stamp president," and Andy McCarthy's appearance at the Press Club.
But being the Washington Post's Clown Prince means never having to make an intelligible argument.


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In the old days, a middle school soccer party used to mean cheap pizza, off-brand local supermarket soda, and having to leave when your mom picked you up on the way back from the mall.
In the 21st-century dystopia that is North Florida, a middle school soccer party means boozing, sensual dancing, and a potentially ruined career.
According to documents obtained by the Florida Times-Union, Kernan Middle School teacher and assistant soccer coach Courtney Perry was suspended this week after being accused of getting down a team party in May. One student interviewed told investigators the team was dancing and twerking before Perry told kids to put away their phones and "showed [them] a few moves."
The student, according to the investigative report, claimed the coach was drinking alcohol and twerking on players. The district investigation made note of twerking as a form of dirty dancing.
At one point, Perry allegedly received a lap dance that was "approximately 3-4 minutes long." The district viewed video of the lap dance on a cell phone video.
One student thought Perry was drinking a Bud Light during the festivities, and drove home with a student in the car. Another student interviewed said Perry brought a bottle of vodka to the party as a gift.


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Lucy Skaer-CANCELLED
- April 8, 2014 7:00 PM
This lecture has been cancelled.
April 8 – Lucy Skaer is a Scottish artist known for the investigative and diverse character of her practice, utilizing a range of media and disciplines including drawing, sculpture, and filmmaking to create multilayered work that oscillates between the symbolic and the documentary. In addition to her own work, Skaer cofounded the group Henry VIII's Wives in 1997 and has collaborated with artist Rosalind Nashashibi since 2005. Skaer's individual work in the recent solo exhibition Exit, Voice and Loyalty at Tramway in Glasgow is described as alluding "to a time outside of our direct frame of reference, incorporating archaic processes and ancient objects. . . . Skaer abstracts such real objects [as rare hardwoods, precious metals, and the worn steps from the house where she grew up] into sculptural forms and symbols, removing them from their original context, and scrambling and unpicking their narrative associations. In doing so she reveals their intrinsic material nature and the ways in which language, meaning and value migrate over time." Appropriately recognized for her thoughtful and rigorous approach to art, Skaer was shortlisted for the 2003 Beck's Futures art prize, was a finalist for the 2009 Turner Prize, and represented Scotland in the 50th as well as the 52nd Venice Biennale. For this Tuesday Evenings presentation, Lucy Skaer focuses on her exhibitions from the past three years, concentrating specifically on her tactic of transforming and evolving individual works over time and exhibiting them in different forms.
Lucy Skaer, Courtesy of Yale Union. Installation image: MONDAY 8.4.13, TUESDAY 9.4.13, WEDNESDAY 10.4.13, THURSDAY 11.4.13, FRIDAY 12.4.13, SATURDAY 13.4.13, SUNDAY 14.4.13, MONDAY 15.4.13, TUESDAY 16.4.13, WEDNESDAY 17.4.13, THURSDAY 18.4.13, FRIDAY 19.4.13, SATURDAY 20.4.13, SUNDAY 21.4.13, MONDAY 22.4.13. July 19–September 12, 2013
Tuesday Evenings at the Modern
This popular series of lectures and presentations by artists, architects, historians, and critics is free and open to the public each Tuesday from February 4 through April 8. Lectures begin at 7 pm in the Museum's auditorium. Seating begins at 6:30 pm and is limited to 250; a live broadcast of the presentations is shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. Free admission tickets (limit two) are available at the Modern's information desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. The Museum galleries remain open until 7 pm on Tuesday evenings during the series.
Café Modern serves cocktails, salads, and appetizers on Tuesday nights during the lecture series.
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The following are the key hardware components that I used for the integration:
- HAI OmniPro II
- 2 – Yale deadbolt locks with z-wave module
- HAI relay module
Item #3 – is the new Leviton rs232 z-wave interface which supports locks. The VRCOP RF+ 3 is connected to serial port #2 and controls z-wave network "B" which includes the 2 Yale deadbolt locks. Serial port #2 is defined as Pro-Link.
Item #5 – outputs 1 and 2 of the HAI relay module are wired to zones 24 and 23 respectively. When the relay outputs are off the corresponding zones are secure. Conversely, relay outputs are on the corresponding zones are unsecure.
The attached file has the details including the code that I wrote to support: Locking, unlocking, integrating with HAI security zones (kludge -but seems to be working) and low battery warning.
If there is any questions or interest I can improve the attached information with more details.
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In the Time of the Butterflies: 2/14/08
|In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The group was split on this one. Some were engrossed by vivid writing, strong characters and the tragic setting. They were inspired by the story of sisters from a "good family," transformed into political radicals, and the tragedy of the one who survived.
Others were disappointed to find such rich material – location, subject matter, plot – falling so flat for them. A few mentioned the Hussein's "The Kite Runner," saying they found his writing much more compelling. CD and BT both called Alvarez' book boring.
JW and HF disagreed, feeling that Alvarez succeeded in writing a book that is "not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart."
|The Legendary Butterflies: The Mirabal Sisters' Legacy of Resistance by Margaret Michniewicz
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Artist impression of Rheinmetall's MILVEHCOE
Architect: GHD
Managing contractor: Watpac
Status: Construction in progress
Location: Redbank, Ipswich
Rheinmetall Defence Australia was announced as the successful tenderer for the Australian Government's LAND 400 Phase 2 contract to deliver the Australian Army's next generation of combat reconnaissance vehicles (CRVs). As a result, Rheinmetall is now establishing its Australia-New Zealand Headquarters and Military Vehicle Centre of Excellence (MILVEHCOE) in Redbank, Ipswich.
Rheinmetall's MILVEHCOE will not only manage the delivery and sustainment of the 211 Boxer CRVs under the LAND 400 Phase 2 contract, it will be a regional hub with an expected program of continuous design, build and support for up to 5000 military vehicles in Australia and the Asia Pacific. The secure, state-of-the-art defence facility will include:
- Manufacturing, electronics and administration buildings
- a corporate training centre
- an outdoor vehicle test track
- an electromagnetic compatibility chamber
- a fully-enclosed weapons test firing tunnel
- car parking for employees and visitors, vehicle storage, refuelling and wash-down bays, water storage tanks, waste and recycling facilities.
MILVEHCOE location
The MILVEHCOE is situated on an 11-hectare site on the corner of Robert Smith Street and Monash Road, Redbank within the Redbank Motorway Estate. The location is an existing Regional Business and Industry Zone within Ipswich.
Rheinmetall's location positions it in the heart of Australia's largest heavy vehicle manufacturing and sustainment precinct, providing proximity to suppliers and complementary industries, and is well-serviced by transport networks.
About Rheinmetall
Rheinmetall Defence Australia is a subsidiary of the Rheinmetall Group, an international defence and automotive technology organisation headquartered in Germany. Rheinmetall Defence Australia has been a trusted partner of the Australian and New Zealand defence forces for more than 40 years. The company is the largest supplier of military vehicles to the Australian Defence Force. In addition to the LAND 400 Phase 2 contract, Rheinmetall is also delivering more than 3500 logistics trucks to the Australian Army under the LAND 121 Phase 3B/5B program.
Queensland Government's involvement
The Australian Government, through the Department of Defence, is managing the LAND 400 project for the acquisition and support for the next generation of armoured fighting vehicles for the Australian Army. It includes the delivery of 611 vehicles over 15 years. LAND 400 is the largest capability acquisition project in the history of the Australian Army.
Due to the substantial economic and industry development benefits to the state, the Queensland Government worked on attracting the LAND 400 project to the state for several years.
The Queensland Government is using its extensive experience in the delivery of large capital works projects to oversee the construction of the MILVEHCOE on Rheinmetall's behalf.


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WASHINGTON -- President Obama said on Thursday that he intends to nominate John Koskinen to serve as Internal Revenue Service commissioner.
If confirmed by the Senate, Koskinen would replace Daniel Werfel, a longtime budget adviser, who has led the troubled agency on an acting basis since May. Werfel replaced Steven Miller, who was ousted by Obama in the aftermath of revelations that the agency targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny.
"John is an expert at turning around institutions in need of reform," Obama said in a statement. "With decades of experience, in both the private and public sectors, John knows how to lead in difficult times, whether that means ensuring new management or implementing new checks and balances."
Koskinen worked at the government-controlled mortgage funding group Freddie Mac as a non-executive chairman after the organization came under fire in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. He was appointed to that position by former President George W. Bush.
He also served in the Clinton administration, heading the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, and as deputy director for management of the Office of Management and Budget from 1994 to 1997, a period that included several government shutdowns.
Koskinen also worked in the District of Columbia government, where he served as deputy mayor from 2000 to 2003.
He's been a generous donor to Democratic politicians in the past and has given $7,300 to Obama's two presidential campaigns, according to Federal Election Commission records.
"He will be an exceptional leader who will strengthen the institution and restore confidence in the IRS," Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said.
Obama moved relatively quickly to oust Miller after the revelations of wrongdoing were made public in an IRS inspector general report. But in recent days, the president has publicly lashed out against Republicans for chasing "phony scandals" instead of focusing its attention on improving a lackluster economy.
Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has held a series of hearings to probe the IRS actions since the revelations, said that Koskinen should answer whether he agrees with the president.
"The first question Mr. Koskinen must answer is whether or not he agrees with President Obama that the IRS targeting Americans for their political beliefs is a 'phony scandal,'" said Issa, R-Calif. "Anyone who does not share the American people's outrage about IRS wrongdoing is not qualified to lead this agency that has abused its power."
Werfel confirmed in testimony before the Oversight committee two weeks ago that liberal and progressive groups were also targeted by IRS officials for extra scrutiny. At a forum Wednesday sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said suggestions by Republicans that the White House was directing the IRS to target Tea Party groups have proven false.
"That was the allegation," Pfeiffer said. "And that has turned out to be completely false. There is no evidence to suggest that. And now it has turned out that the IRS was not just targeting conservative groups but also looking at a large number of progressive groups as well. So that changes the dynamic of what it was."
Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee that will consider Koskinen's nomination, charged that the IRS hasn't been forthcoming enough in responding to document requests from Congress. He added that his committee has only received "a minuscule fraction of the documents" members have requested, leading him "to believe that the administration isn't interested in getting to the truth and would rather this matter go away."
Hatch also said he was "mystified" that the White House hadn't consulted with him ahead of announcing the nomination.


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New York – Santorini is known for its natural beauty, deep blue seas, progressive food & wine scene and now beer. Beer? Each year tourists make the ascent from the port up to the main town of Fira on the back of a donkey. As a result, the donkey has become the beloved & ubiquitous symbol of the island. In 2011, Santorini Brewing CO opened its doors on the road from the airport to the quaint beachside town of Kamari and created the Donkey beers. The brewery has an annual production capacity of 75,000 liters.
Santorini Brewing Co is a made up of four partners — Yiannis Paraskevopoulos, winemaker for GAIA Wines, Majda Anderson, an ex-pat Californian now living on Santorini year-round, Steven Daniels of the UK and formerly a wine buyer of Odd Bins, and lastly, Boban Krunic, the Serbian born brewer. There are three styles of beer currently in production — Yellow, Red & Crazy Donkey. Only Crazy Donkey IPA is available for export.
In late October 2013, Santorini Brewing Co has exported its first batch of Crazy Donkey IPA into the US through NY- based Athenee Importers, the country's oldest family owned importer of premium alcoholic beverages from Greece into the US.
Crazy Donkey is Greece's first IPA and is produced with five kinds of hops, including Motueka from New Zealand and Carcade from Oregon. The beer has 6.5% ABV and an IBU of 50. Crazy Donkey is sold in 750ml glass bottles and retails for approximately $35-$40 a bottle. Crazy Donkey will be available in the United States in small quantities (less than 100 cases per shipment) throughout the winter months. Due to high local demand, the brewery will not export beer during the tourist season.
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Another title and another benchmark where the two heavy hitters are trading body shots without managing to put the other down.
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BTW: On page three of the Review, I think the boilerplate for test rig needs to be changed to your current test rig.
Thanks again for another great review
I bought myself the EVGA GTX 1080 Founders Edition because I installed a EK-waterblock and EK backplate on it. While the waterblock is working fantastically, with load temperatures of 41°C max and idle under 30°C, I find it impossible to get with my card and my system (4930k @ 4.5 GHz, DDR3-2333 MHz) anywhere near to the results you had in Unigine of either the Asus Strix or this MSI Gaming. Unfortunately I lack some of the other software to compare more results.
I'm a bit surprised, because I focused on the overclocking and got my card to 2125 MHz stable, and 1338 MHz on the memory.
While the 2125 MHz is the max stable clock, my card is still over the 2000 MHz mark as most games confirm. Unfortunately it seems to be a bit under the 2000 MHz mark in Unigine Valley 1.0 most of the time. However, this is still beyond the frequencies of the Strix and the MSI Gaming.
I managed to get on 4k 62.1 FPS (no AA) and 32.9 FPS (x8 MSAA) average, which is substantially slower than the 71 FPS that the Strix and MSI Gaming produced. This puts the Strix and the MSI Gaming ahead of my setup by 13 and 6% respectively. I find it hard to imagine that the CPU or something else is causing this, especially at 4k.
In 3DMark FireStrike Ultra, my water cooled card is performing like it should and is slightly ahead of the Strix and the MSI Gaming, but I can't figure out why in Unigine Valley it underperforms this much...
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LETTER- Neighbors were flexible
As the mediator who was brought in to help negotiations between Region Ten, their developer (CSHI), and the Little High Area Neighborhood Association for the Mews at Little High Street project, I do not agree with Councilman Caravati's characterization that "Haskins [and
therefore the Association] didn't budge" [Little High Noon: Neighbors, Region Ten square off," April 13].
My direct experience was that the Association and its president, Mark Haskins, presented a compromise position, but no response was forthcoming. This occurred at a crucial mid-December meeting that I mediated.
At that meeting, CSHI announced that the project was not going forward and that there was consequently nothing to talk about. Two days later, I learned that the project was still moving forward in spite of the earlier assertion that the project was "dead in the water." I was not involved in any further negotiations– if there were any.
I do agree with Caravati, however, that Charlottesville city government should assume a greater share of responsibility for the current situation and actively and vigorously participate in resolving the issues surrounding The Mews project.
The outcome should be determined by local processes. Resolution should not rest on the erroneous observation that LHANA was not willing to "move to the middle."
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Allen's premise is simple: our ability to be productive is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve stress-free productivity and unleash our creative potential. He teaches us how to:
From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done has the potential to transform the way you work - and the way you experience work. At any level of implementation, David Allen's entertaining and thought-provoking advice shows you how to pick up the pace without wearing yourself down.
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- Rick
- 2003-02-28
Getting Things Done
This is a fantastic book and the ideas are helpful, but the abridged version leaves out too many details. I also have the book, and have found that I must refer to it in order to get essential information that will allow me to implement the author's suggestions.
253 people found this helpful
- Liz
- 2009-06-12
GTD abridged vs unabridged
The abridged version of GTD is missing chapters 7-11 of the book, if you do buy this version do also invest in the book, Getting Things Done. The unabridged version was just recorded in Oct of 08, it is the full version of the book and makes much more sense to the listener. Granted you cannot implement while you are listening in a car but very important information to have. I work for David Allen and wanted folks to have the correct information regarding differences in the two audiobooks.
73 people found this helpful
- Myron
- 2003-12-16
I like the material, but the author repeatedly refers the listener to important material in the "booklet that accompanies this tape." Audible really needs to make the booklet available for download in order to make this worthwhile.
74 people found this helpful
- Herve Bronnimann
- 2004-06-25
Very useful, not the most suitable on audiobook
I was looking for some help on my organization. I think I found it with this book. The advice is useful, but most of all it all boils down to common sense. I found each and every item the most obvious thing to do. The value of the book is to organize the system so that there aren't any cracks. I yet have to move on to complete the weekly review every week, but even without that it's helped me organize quite a lot.
This being said, I've read a few self-help books and I can't say that they shine best in audio format. You want to see the diagrams, the organization and the table of contents, you want to return to a section just to connect it it with another one. These are very easy to do with a book, but not so with audio. It is useful to listen to the book to "get the idea" first, but if you want to put the system in practice and need to refer to the book, it's best to have it in paper. I finally bought my copy. On the other hand, I don't think I would have gotten such an agreement with the system while reading on paper. Listening to it is more persuasive somehow, and I'm still glad I have the audiobook in my library.
30 people found this helpful
- Brian
- 2007-09-26
Get the Book
I enjoyed this audio book but if you are really interested in implementing GTD you NEED to get the book. There are whole chapters left out of the audio version which tell you the details of how to actually put the system in place.
The audio book is a nice addition to the book but not a substitute.
20 people found this helpful
- Brett
- 2005-05-18
Good, if you have no system. OK if you do.
If you have no organizing system (franklin, palm, etc.)this book is great. It will help you to be more productive. If you already have a system such as a Franklin Planner then it's ok. This guy has taken A LOT from the Franklin-Covey system and tried to spin it. Personally, I like the Franklin System better becuase I am on the road 5 days a week and the Franklin system is mobile. Getting Things Done can help if you work in an office.
I did take away several ideas from this book and combined them with my system. One of the most important was to write everything down that needs to be done. No matter how trivial it may seem. This includes items you need at the grcoery store, websites you want to visit, or researching a vacation. Allen explains that once it is on paper, it moves out of your brain and frees up space so you don't have recurring thoughts all day about the "stuff" that needs to be done or the stuff that you want to do.
If you are hopelessly unorganized, this book will be a godsend for you. But if you really want to get organized, spend the extra cash and get the Franklin system.
18 people found this helpful
- Mark
- 2003-04-25
Practical, straightforward, and effective
I have read a few other books on personal organization habits and best practices and have found this to be the most useful and practical so far. As a busy product manager is a small startup company, I found myself feeling frequently feeling out of control and unable to focus my concentration with so many different projects, needs, requests, e-mails, voice mails going on at once. I have begun applying the system suggested by the author and have immediately noticed a tremendous reduction in "things slipping through the cracks," an improved ability to relax and concentrate on one thing at a time (since I'm no longer worrying about 100 things at a time), and feel I am making much better use of my time.
The system the author suggests is so simple, it might be easy for some to dismiss it out of hand. But try it - you'll be amazed at the difference it makes for harried knowledge worker types. You might not actually get that much more done than you used to, but you'll feel much more confident, relaxed, focused, and likely to be working on what's most important.
I also strongly suggest that people that are serious about changing their organizational habits invest in a personal digital assistant such as a Palm or PocketPC that can synchronize with Microsoft Outlook. This lets you enter things in either your organizer or your desktop PC (including dragging/dropping or cutting/pasting sections of e-mails into your reference files, project lists, task items, or calendar) and take them with you wherever you go. I've found this to be an important cornerstone of my new organization habits.
18 people found this helpful
- Joanna
- 2004-07-14
I am a company commander in the U.S. Army. I have information and issues coming at me from all directions all day long. I could not stay on top of all that had to be done. This book helped me finally get organized. Its the first book I've read that gave practical advice about organization and productivity rather than mere theoretical mumbo jumbo. I feel just as the book said I would--relaxed and in control. This book is worth its weight in gold.
10 people found this helpful
- Bradley
- 2005-06-28
Practical organization seminar
I found this audiblebook to be extremely helpful if you are struggling with organizing the clutter in your work and life. If you are looking for a practical way to change things and get a real grip on the things that have been hounding you in the back of your mind. Although the methods tend to be somewhat simplistic that you may think how do I make this work...I actually tried to implemeent many of his suggestions and my productivity went up while stress came down. It's definitely a great roadmap to customize to your individual needs. I highly recommend it.
8 people found this helpful
- Grace
- 2003-07-26
This book is amazing. It not only provides excellent, practicle tips but it's well written and extremely engaging. I thought that his discussion on why we feel bad when we don't get things done is especially illuminating because it helped me to understand how to achieve the "stress-free" aspect of productivity. As a young working woman who is about to have a baby, understanding how to get more done in less time with less stress is important to me, and this book has definitely helped me to achieve this goal.
7 people found this helpful
- Yanek
- 2006-02-15
Real good advices, to be listen several times to get it all done !
Facile à suivre même pour les francophones ouverts à l'anglais.
4 people found this helpful