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Written by djn
3 years ago
Category: General
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That, at least, is what a blog post I stumbled into today saying.
Let the flame war begin. Is the post:
a) right to the point;
b) dead wrong;
c) N/A?
Written by ansgar
3 years ago
5045 posts since Fri, 07 Apr 06
I'd say good to have both a GUI for conveniance and overview, and the command line for critical debugging. Both have their point of view. Programmers, however, should not put much trust in any GUI. Programmers should develop a feeling for if things shown in a GUI are right or wrong.
So, I vote for b) - the post above is wrong, and one-sided.
Written by kthanid
3 years ago
15 posts since Mon, 30 Jan 12
Personally I don't feel that it has as much to do with "trustworthiness" as it does with the fact that most GUI users probably don't completely understand what the GUI application is doing for them behind the scenes. If you are using a tool that is abstracting certain aspects of the underlying technology without having an understanding what those things are then you may well end up in trouble as a result.
I believe being able to survive on the command line is something any MySQL developer should be capable of doing, but I also see plenty of benefit in using GUI editors when the time calls for it (which is often if you have a good understanding of both the underlying database software itself as well as what "features" the GUI is providing for you and what the implications of those assumptions actually are).
Written by kalvaro
3 years ago
601 posts since Thu, 29 Nov 07
|Apparently, he's a teacher talking about this students. It's pretty obvious that you can't learn SQL if a GUI tool does everything for you, for the same reason that you can't learn Visual Basic by dragging widgets from Visual Studio. What's actually not trustworthy is doing stuff you don't understand.
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I was surprised that both gentlemen seemed to favor more regulation and also favor restrictions of our FirstAmendment rights, said Ravnsborg. While this is understandable from a liberal Democrat, it was surprising fromthe self-proclaimed most conservative elected Republican in the state. These are not the conservative ideals Ihave ever supported and I do not, and will not support these ideals in the future.
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Free software in Polish schools
[ Friday, 28 December 2007, michuk ]
Thousands of Polish high school students now have a chance to learn about GNU/Linux and the benefits of using free software as Polish FLOSS foundation together with school headmasters, supported by local authorities organize a series of lectures on free software in education. PolishLinux.org has a report — summary of the first 3 months of the campaign.
How all of this has started?
All this began at the beginning of 2007 when Wojciech Płoszaj, 15, a junior high student from Małopolska, South Poland, came up with the idea to spread free software in local schools. Alone he organized a few meetings in local primary and secondary schools where he presented the benefits of using Linux as the primary operating system as well as free software as an alternative to proprietary applications.
The idea was great but facing the reality (his young age and not enough resources), it was just a one-time, one-man action. That was true, until the recently-founded Poznań-based Foundation for Free and Open-Source Software (FWIOO) together with Linux vortal Jakilinux.org came to the rescue. The two bodies, organized a wiki page explaining the ideas of planned activities and encouraging young people to volunteer as speakers on similar events nationwide. The interest turned out to be enormous and surprised both Wojciech and the founding bodies. Over 200 volunteers signed up for the program during the first week. The number doubled during the next couple of weeks leaving us all with open mouths.
The need for organization
This was June 2007. Together with Rafał Brzychcy from FWIOO we started to plan the activities more seriously. We had no money to support the case, we had no connections with local or national authorities, neither too many contacts with schools themselves. We had no materials to present, no official website of the project (except for the wiki, kindly hosted on wikidot.com) and no idea how to proceed. So — we started the work…
First thing to do was to clearly draw out the areas of competence. I started to organize the community, Rafał took his mobile and started calling the "big business" and the schools.
Community, community, community, community!!!
I have to say one thing: never underestimate the power of community! Especially when your case is a good one. On the project's wiki, we put all the TODOs — stuff that had to be done before the action officially started. We needed a decent website with original look and a forum, we needed a list of schools willing to participate, a well-prepared presentation for each of the age groups, a logo, a banner and — which is the most important — the publicity. In 3 months, just a week before the action was scheduled, we managed to achieve all that goals. And what surprised us all, much, much more!
The first visible effect of the cooperation with community was the appearance of the logo, prepared by Adam Mrówczyński, a junior designer. The logo was selected in public vote, performed on jakilinux.org website. It turned out to be more popular than many other projects, gaining more than 500 votes.
The website was created, as a common effort of Michał Środek (the design), Niedźwiedź, Hilsim and pawelbial.
Muaarthinos prepared dozens of wonderful banners and one of them was selected (this time arbitrarily, due to limited amount of time left) as the official one. We also received a couple of wallpapers, a leaflet to be displayed at schools before the presentations and some posters!
Business and authorities
Rafał had a tougher task to accomplish. He had to convince the business and the local authorities that the project is worth supporting. It was very hard at the beginning due to very high level of mistrust, especially towards the unknown, non-profit organization, which FWIOO was at that time. The turning-point was the decision of state governor — Tadeusz Dziuba — to support the action. Following this brave decision, the sponsors started to appear one by one. Rafał, together with Łukasz Nowicki, a volunteer, non-paid employee of the foundation and a board member, managed to convince over 20 officials (presidents and governors) all over Poland to officially embrace the action, thus giving schools a green light to host the volunteer free software speakers.
FWIOO's CEO, Rafał Brzychcy, told PolishLinux.org:
Often the schools were very reserved about the project, especially during the first contact with the foundation. However we are extremely happy that most of those schools that we planned to visit, finally agreed to host us. From the surveys filled by the school officials after the presentations it seems that most of them rated both: the events in their schools and the campaign itself very positive. They also — in majority — declared that they are going to use the materials received by the sponsors for educational purposes during the computer science classes. Some of them have already done it! Also, what is very promising, more and more schools contact us first and ask the Foundation to send a volunteer for presentation. We are also receiving messages from the pupils who decided to make use of the Linux CDs given away during the events. Many of them already use two operating systems on their computers: Windows and Ubuntu. We are sure this is a step in the right direction.
You think the authorities are tough? Sure they are. But companies are near to impossible. In spite of constant pressure, we received no donations whatsoever and Rafał had to make a very tough decision to sponsor the whole event with his private money. In the end it was not all that bad since a few companies, namely: Novell, Mandriva (represented by amazis.net), Oracle and UX Systems (local Open Office vendor) offered their products to be distributed for free in the selected schools. Being a great thing it surely didn't help to pay the phone bills.
Also, local Ubuntu community (Ubuntu.pl) and LinuxEduCD — a Polish educational, Debian-based LiveCD project, offered free CDs to be given away in the schools.
Some statistics
The first event took place on October, 28th 2007 in one of Poznań's high schools. After then a couple of presentations took place nearly every week.
Every presentation is special and on every one of them dozens of kids learned about the ideas behind free software. Children were literally fighting for the limited amount of Linux install-CDs and they didn't believe they can legally copy it from each other without further consequences
During the first three months of the campaign the foundation managed to get to schools in five different voivodeships (Polish regions) in the middle-west Poland, namely wielkopolskie, lubuskie, zachodniopomorskie, dolnośląskie and łódzkie. The volunteers made their presentations in 30 schools in 14 cities and towns. Altogether they met with over one thousand pupils.
On average 42 pupils attended one meeting. The most — 120 — where present on a presentation made for three different schools in Poznań. Over 100 pupils attended presentations in Gorzów Wielkopolski (Zespół Szkół Elektrycznych), 90 in Poznań (I LO) and 80 in Zielona Góra (Zespół Szkół Edukacyjnych Nr 1).
The volunteers usually gave presentations in pairs, but sometimes there was only one speaker available so he had to manage it all alone. Often unpredictable situations occurred and they had to cope with them during the events. Hardware failures, unplanned rescheduling or audience being couple of times bigger than first assumed. Fortunately in most of those situations the volunteers did a very good job.
Member of the board of FWIOO, Łukasz Nowicki adds:
Schools were often negative at first, claiming not to be interested in such campaign. They needed to be convinced. In most cases the negative answers were due to the reluctance of school computer science teachers who were unwilling to learn new things and were afraid of losing their authority by giving away their field of interest to the "unknown organization".
Often the problem was that nobody had any idea what we are talking about and what we are offering them. One of the interesting ways of saying "no" was "the school already has such thing".
At times the contact was very hard due to a long chain of responsibility. Our invitation was often analyzed by people totally not prepared to make such decisions (e.g. by account managers). The reaction time wasn't always as instant as we would expect. A total winner in this category was a school from Legnica. After 3 weeks of intensive every-day talks we received a "no" without any explanation. Especially "inspiring" was the fact that the computer science teacher read our invitation on the last day.
Fortunately, only about 7 percent of the invited schools finally turned us down. The vast majority was very hospitable and kind to the foundation and our volunteers and in spite of minor problems the campaign is going according to the plans.
Some schools decided to take advantage of the presentation in order to prepare a Free Software Day. Thanks to this in a few places the foundation could even better promote free and open source software by preparing quizzes, installation parties, more speeches and other interesting events during the day. Some of the schools already promised to host the volunteers and prepare a similar event next year!
What is very promising, the campaign is slowly gaining interest in the media. Lately it received patronage from Linux Magazine, a world-wide Linux paper. It was also covered in many local newspapers and radio stations, like Głos Wielkopolski or Radio Lublin.
Here are some of the pictures taken during the campaign. More pictures can be found in the gallery: FLOSS in Polish schools — gallery.
Of course, as Rafał is not a millionaire, but rather a humble entrepreneur, funding will be needed to keep the campaign alive for the next couple of years. FWIOO is still struggling with the lack of money. Although there is some hope for funds from the European Union next year, donations are highly anticipated!
If you want to send a donation, you can do it by sending a direct money transfer to:
Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania
39 1940 1076 3026 6960 0000 0000
Alternative ways of payment can be consulted with FWIOO after direct contact via email@example.com.
Plans for the future
The "FLOSS for schools" action has been so far very successful and there are plans to repeat it next year, followed by special courses for computer teachers so that they can take advantage of the free software in regular classes. There are also plans to extend the action to other countries. Hungarian local authorities already asked for help in preparing a similar set of events in schools all over the Hungary.
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Wonderful story
Admirable example, worthy to be followed up by other young ones.
"FWIOO is still struggling with the lack of money. Although there is some hope for funds from the European Union next year, donations are highly anticipated!"
Oh, yes. The money will be ongoing a problem in this case. Until this foundation will not start seriously talking to the Polish IT business, the marketing campaign (and presentations) will be first and last action. You may call, so many times like you want, yourselves "CEO", "Member of the board" etc. but it means really nothing in this case.
Local government in Poland want talk to the business because they want to make business as well, even for schools.
Sorry for that but usually nobody teach about this "business rules" in Polish schools.
Actually things are getting better since FWIOO just received funding from the government. Not enough to cover all the campaigns but still enough to employ a few more people and start getting more serious with the actions.
The business in Poland unfortunately is not keen on sponsoring any campaign or organization. Even big companies like IBM or Google. Sad but true.
Totally excellent story! Hopefully (and I bet probably) this can be replicated all over the globe!
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This is a great story that has been raised by my Australian IT colleagues on some national discussion lists and I have just posted a note about it in my blog.
I laughed when I read the part that the most interesting way of saying "no" was "the school already has such thing".
Wow I`m @ the photo xD – I`m the volunteer
Great story – great idea.
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Rising British pop star Conor Maynard -- best known for his single "Vegas Girl" -- was on top of the world on Monday...well, on top of Manhattan, anyway.
After making his U.S. television debut Tuesday on NBC's Today show, Conor traveled to the Empire State Building with a busload of fanatical fans, who call themselves "Mayniacs." Then, he took the elevator up to the very top floor where he met the press.
Looking out over the city below him, Conor told ABC News Radio the view was "insane," adding, "I think the view is very inspiring. I feel like writing a song about the tops of buildings now...it's crazy. It's really cool to be up here."
Conor, who hails from the Brighton area of England, already had a huge following on YouTube with his covers of popular songs, when Ne-Yo noticed him and brought him to the attention of the music industry. He'll release his debut album Contrast in early January, and has been working hard on it with collaborators like Pharrell Williams , Stargate , Kevin Rudolf and, of course, Ne-Yo, who appears on Conor's new single, "Turn Around." But all that hard work hasn't left Conor much time to be a tourist in the U.S.
"I never actually thought I'd be able to get a chance to come up here," he told ABC News Radio at the Empire State Building. "'Cause every time I come to New York it's for work and it's always busy. So, the fact that I've been able to come up here is amazing."
Also amazing to Conor is the fact that he actually has quite a few fans in the U.S. already. "I think every time I come here, there's new fans I get to meet," he says. "It's amazing to see the progress each time I come back and I think, for me, you know, as long as people in all different countries enjoy my music, then I'm happy. So, yeah, it's really cool to see that."
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Gilles Delaloy has joined lebua Hotels and Resorts as Executive Pastry Chef. He plays an integral role as part of the culinary leadership team at The Dome, overseeing pastry and bakery operations for all restaurants.
A love affair with pastry-making at a young age has sent Chef Delaloy across the globe. At the tender age of 15, Delaloy started a formal course of pastry-making and graduated first in his class in Paris, France. He apprenticed in a Michelin-starred restaurant and, thereafter, left France for Los Angeles, United States. Continuing his work at New York's historic Waldorf Astoria led Delaloy to CENA, one of the city's most acclaimed restaurants.
"Growing up in Paris, my parents owned a bakery. And it was when I spent some time with my Italian grandmother in the South of France that my love for making cakes surfaced," Delaloy passionately expressed. "My philosophy is to put the ingredients first and then create architectural textures and play with each element to tantalize both the eye and the palette."
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We are pleased to announce the opening of the new Wassataquoik Lake Leanto! This brand new 4-person leanto on a very nice site is in the heart of the Park wilderness. The leanto is located on the small point on the right side of Wassataquoik Lake in the photo below. The leanto is 3.8 miles from Russell Pond, 5.9 miles from the Center Pond leanto and 10.5 miles from the Park Tote Road at Nesowadnehunk Field. In addition to the new leanto, the former leanto site at Little Wassataquoik Lake has been converted to a tentsite, for those who prefer to carry their house.
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Picture a sun-drenched island in the Pacific. A place of such natural beauty, even business seems like a breezy day in paradise. Welcome to Turtle Bay Resort on Hawaii's North Shore.
Brave but not brazen; honest but not brutal; familiar but not outdated, Zarni is an upcoming artist originally from South Africa that immigrated to the small town of Johnson City New York at age ten.
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: Fitted coat with nipped in waist and flared skirt, and wedge-shaped breast pockets with floral detail. Includes back view.Note 2.) Printed on image: "Designed by Pearl Levy Alexander" "Advanced spring and Palm Beach" "André 570 Seventh Avenue New York City LA 4-4627" Note 3.) Printed on image: "Note pockets in the shape of flower pots with flowers"
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I am primarily a professional artist/illustrator, but I also work in photography also to help create opportunities to work with models, and because I also love the medium. While art is my first love, the right concept or look is welcome for photography. When I started here, there was no "artist" category, and I continue to keep this profile as it serves best to be found by models for ALL of my work.
I am de-emphasizing my photography in this profile until I would have time to properly devote to photocentric projects again.
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Tis the season for back-to-school shopping, but a new survey shows that some parents are feeling some financial jitters and could be spending less on supplies and clothes this year.
Questions over whether kids really need new jeans or if they could re-use folders from the year before show that many parents still are concerned about the economy, and many are looking for ways to cut costs or stick to sales.
Julia Olson is a third-grade student trying to enjoy what's left of her summer vacation, but her parents insist they need to get a head start on her back-to-school shopping.
"I think when you've lived through what we all have in the last few years, it's not the Great Depression, but everyone should be careful and conservative," Angie Olson said.
The Olsons aren't the only ones who are bring a cost-conscious attitude to the store this year. According to the consulting firm Deloitte, which surveyed parents of children grades K-12, families will spend about $428 on back-to-school shopping this year. That's down $170 from 2012.
Some of the reasons that came out of the survey include:
- Lingering concerns about the economy
- Rising food costs
- Gas prices
Luckily, University of St. Thomas marketing professor Lorman Lundsten said there aren't any must-have gadgets this year.
"I don't see a big introduction from Apple that this is a wonderful device you have to have or else you'll be so embarrassed you'll never go to class," Lundsten said.
Even so, $428 is a dollar amount that can do a lot of damage to a tight budget. Kelly Kussard estimates she'll probably have to spend more because her daughter's school requires a uniform as well as a lot of supplies.
"Whereas when I grew up, a lot of that supply was at the school," she recalled. "It was basically, 'Bring a backpack and loose paper.'"
For parents of college-aged students heading back to school, Deloitte estimates they expect to spend about $900 this year. Analysts expect that figure will increase each year with the rising costs of higher education.
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To help you get started on your new career path, we've highlighted six exciting careers that you could potentially be prepared to pursue in two years or less.
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Do you want to transition to the legal field? If so, we've got some stellar news: A paralegal career could be pursued with just a few months to a couple of years of education.
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If you're the kind of person who brushes their teeth after every meal, or carries floss with them at all times, a career as a dental assistant could be your calling.
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DES PLAINES, IL (January 11, 2006) — What should your workplace do to prepare for a possible flu pandemic? Keep informed, develop a plan and implement public health programs are some of the tips offered to businesses and members by the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Healthcare Practice Specialty group in a newsletter article titled 'Avian Flu: Infection Control Guidelines'.
The article is a response to questions on avian flu from several of ASSE's 30,000 occupational safety, health and environmental practitioners, who are on the front lines of protecting workers. The Healthcare Practice Specialty notes that a pandemic is a global disease outbreak and an influenza pandemic occurs when a new influenza A virus emerges for which there is little or no immunity in the human population and spreads easily from person-to-person worldwide.
"In the past, flu pandemics have led to thousands of deaths in the U.S.," ASSE President Jack H. Dobson, Jr., CSP, said. "This information could help in controlling the spread of a possible flu outbreak."
Recently, a virulent strain of the bird/avian flu, also known as H5N1, spread from Asia to Europe. The virus can infect humans as well as birds and can cause serious disease and death.
The article also notes that there are three strains of flu commonly discussed. The first form is seasonal flu, which happens every year in the U.S., killing about 36,000 people annually. The second strain is bird flu or avian influenza, H5N1, which occurs among birds. However, in 1997, a lethal strain of H5N1 appeared among humans in Hong Kong hospitalizing 18 people and killing six people, according to officials. The victims had had close contact with poultry. As of December 2005, the H5N1 bird flu strain had only been transmitted from birds to humans, according to officials, who also note that there have been no reported cases of H5N1 passing from one person to another. The third form is pandemic flu. The H5N1 bird flu strain in Asia is causing concern about the possibility of a pandemic. If and when the H5N1 bird flu strain mutates to an H5N1 human pandemic strain, it could spread rapidly around the world within several weeks to months, according to officials.
From a workplace standpoint, avian flu may be more threatening to employees of poultry farms, other farm workers and animal handlers. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) 'Guidance for Protecting Workers Against Avian Flu' document it is these workers who are most likely to recognize an infected bird or animal.
The avian flu can be transmitted in many ways. The World Health Organization (WHO) notes "In an agricultural setting, animal manure containing influenza virus can contaminate dust and soil, causing infection when the contaminated dust is inhaled. Contaminated farm equipment, feed, cages, or shoes can carry the virus from farm to farm. The virus can also be carried on the bodies and feet of animals, such as rodents. The virus can survive, at cool temperatures, in contaminated manure for at least three months.
Dobson notes there are ways the infection can be controlled on farms including the quarantining of infected farms and destruction of infected or potentially exposed flocks. However, avian influenza viruses are readily transmitted from farm to farm by mechanical means, such as by contaminated equipment, vehicles, feed, cages, shoes, and clothing.
There currently is no commercially available vaccine, the article notes, to protect people against the H5N1 virus that is being seen in Asia and Europe. However, research studies to test a vaccine to protect people against the H5N1 virus began in April 2005, and a series of clinical trials is under way. While there is no one-size-fits-all solution, the Healthbeat article suggests that communities, workplaces and individuals should:
- develop and implement preparedness plans as one would for other public health emergencies;
- participate and promote state and community public health efforts and implement prevention and control actions recommended by public health officials and providers who can supply information about the signs and symptoms of a specific disease outbreak and to communicate this information with employees;
- participate in influenza vaccination programs annually, especially if at a high risk to acquire influenza infections;
- participate in annual health promotion programs to prevent airborne, blood borne, waterborne, food borne and contact types of diseases and infections if you are a healthcare worker, school teacher, work in protecting public safety, prison population and an emergency responder;
- adopt business and school practices that encourage sick employees/students to stay home;
- anticipate how to function with a significant portion of the workforce/school population absent due to illness or caring for ill family members;
- practice good health habits, including eating a balanced diet, exercising daily, and getting sufficient rest and take common-sense steps to stop the spread of germs — wash hands frequently with soap and hot water; wash hands before eating, drinking and before applying cosmetics and lip balm to prevent accidental ingestion of pathogens, eat only cooked meats and poultry, and, cover coughs and sneezes with tissues and try to stay away from others if you are sick;
- stay informed about pandemic influenza and be prepared to respond;
- use national and local pandemic hotlines that will be established in the event of a global influenza outbreak; and consult www.pandemicflu.gov, the White House web site, for updates on national and international information and strategies.
The article also provides tips for those workers directly exposed to poultry.
OSHA notes that highly pathogenic avian influenza is a select agent and must be worked with under Biosafety Level (BSL) 3+ laboratory conditions. Furthermore, all employers processing biologic specimens suspected of being infected with H5N1 must ensure that their employees comply with all provisions of 29 CFR 1910.1030 for employee protection against blood borne pathogens.
Contact the following for additional information: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has established avian flu public hotlines: Public 888-246-2675; Spanish 888-246-2857; and for Clinicians 877-246-4625 or go to http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/index.htm; the World Health Organization, http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/; Physicians, employers and employees should contact their state or local health department (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/international/relres.html) to notify them of any symptomatic employees or suspected exposure incidents; the White House's web site, www.pandemicflu.gov, is the repository of all federal information and public guidelines; and OSHA's 'Guidance for Protecting Workers Against Avian Flu' at www.osha.gov.
Founded in 1911, the Des Plaines, IL-based ASSE is the largest and oldest professional safety organization with more than 30,000 occupational safety, health and environmental practitioner members committed to protecting people, property and the environment. For a copy of the article please contact firstname.lastname@example.com. More information can be found at www.asse.org.


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Tomm Roland, holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from California State University, Sacramento and a Doctor of Musical Arts from SUNY Stony Brook. His principal teachers have been Ronald Holloway, Daniel Kennedy, and Raymond DesRoches. In addition he also studied South Indian drumming under the auspices of the Fulbright Scholar program with T.H. Subahchandran and N. Ganesh Kumar. Tomm has performed in a variety of musical settings throughout the United States, Europe, India, and Japan. Some of his recordings include Take Flight with the Omaha Symphony, Rave On: Live at the Drew, Billy McGuigan's Billy as Billy, Moses Prey A Paper Moon, the soundtrack to the film Lovely, Still and ambient composer Kevin Keller's latest release in abstentia. He is the Marguerite Scribante Professor of Music at the University of Nebraska, Omaha where he coordinates the percussion program, directs the UNO Percussion Ensemble, and teaches courses on world music and rock 'n' roll. Tomm endorses Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks and mallets, and Mountain Rhythm percussion instruments.


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An equitable path to a sustainable wastewater system
SPUR Memorandum
December 4, 2012
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's (SFPUC) current water and sewer rate structure covering fiscal years 2010 to 2014 is drawing to a close, and a new multi-year rate study is in progress. To create a more equitable system in which ratepayers become responsible for the impact their properties have on sewer infrastructure and the environment, SPUR has two recommendations:
- The SFPUC should reallocate wastewater rates to include a stormwater fee beginning in the 2014 rate cycle. The fee may be based upon factors such as parcel size, impervious surface, and land use — options illustrated by case studies in this report.
- The SFPUC should create an incentive program to support the installation of sustainable on-site stormwater management practices, to help customers reduce stormwater management fees and to create environmental benefits.


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MILWAUKEE (WRN) - It seems to be getting more likely that Harley-Davidson will not move its York Pennsylvania motorcycle plant to Kentucky.
Under a tentative contract agreement, the Milwaukee firm promises to stop its effort to relocate its main assembly facility. The union there is scheduled to vote on the contract December 2nd. Union negotiator Tom Santone tells the York Dispatch the new pact should contain enough cost savings to keep the plant from moving.
Thursday Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear said the likelihood of getting the Harley plant was, "significantly diminished." Harley officials in Milwaukee have not commented on the latest developments.


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