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"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years."
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|I rant a lot. I'm sorry in advance.
But I'm the definition of strange.
So yeah. I have a thing for following couples, I dont post my own nudes. And I'll probably never be Tumblr famous. But I love all my followers and people whom I follow anyway.
Feel free to ask me all about my personal life. I'm an open book on here, it makes up for being wound up in secrets from people irl.
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Call him the Smart Meter Millionaire.
Gary Murphy is an American consultant brought in by B.C. Hydro to run the corporation's controversial smart-meter program.
He ended up making more money than Hydro's president and rang up one of the biggest expense accounts in government.
Murphy was paid more than $1.6 million for two and a half years as Hydro's smart-meter project leader, according to documents obtained under the B.C. Freedom of Information Act.
That included $176,930.47 for expenses, mainly for flights between Vancouver and Murphy's home in Philadelphia.
The contract also covered flights for his wife.
"The contract called for 26 round-trip flights a year for himself or his wife, but not for travel together," Hydro vice-president Greg Reimer explained Wednesday.
"One could speculate that if he didn't go home for a weekend, his wife could come and visit him."
NDP leader John Horgan called the contract outrageous.
"The smart-meter program takes another black eye," Horgan fumed.
"A billion-dollar boondoggle with a $1.6-million cherry on top for what may be the most expensive temporary foreign worker in B.C.
"It's outrageous excess as Hydro rates go through the roof."
But the government says Murphy did an excellent job and was worth the money.
"Mr. Murphy is someone who is highly qualified to do work that most people can't do," said Energy Minister Bill Bennett, noting Murphy has 20 years' experience building electrical "smart grids."
Murphy did not return a phone call on Wednesday.
Bennett admitted the contract might seem lucrative, but he said people should consider the skills involved.
"The average person in British Columbia will raise their eyebrows, I'm sure, when they hear how much this man was paid," Bennett said.
"There are certain kinds of specialized knowledge and experience that you do have to pay for because it's in demand and there's not that much of it. That was the case here."
Hydro's smart meters, announced in 2010, report customers' power usage using wireless radio transmissions. Hydro has been replacing manually read analog meters at a cost of $1 billion.
Hydro says smart meters will save millions of dollars in energy conservation and operating efficiencies, but the program has been controversial. Some customers have complained of over-billing — which Hydro denies — while others fear health effects from radio waves.
Murphy was hired at $265 US an hour to provide "overall strategic leadership" of the smart-meter program, according to his contract.
Originally capped at just over $1 million, the maximum amount payable was twice adjusted upward. The contract expired last fall.
Murphy is a physicist who holds a master's degree in science and has worked on smart-meter projects in other jurisdictions.
But critics wondered why B.C. Hydro couldn't find local expertise to operate the program.
"There's no way we had to go to the states," said Norm Ryder of Stop Smart Meters B.C.
"I think they could have easily found a qualified British Columbian for the job instead of constantly flying someone across the continent."
Not so, said Reimer, the Hydro vice-president.
"B.C. Hydro conducted an exhaustive search for an experienced project leader," Reimer said, though he also acknowledged "there was no official public procurement process" for the job.
Smart-meter opponents are furious Hydro is charging customers a $35-a-month surcharge to keep their old analog meters. Customers can also pay $100 to disable their smart meter's radio transmitter and then pay $20 a month for manual readings.
The scale of Murphy's salary and benefits make the fees even tougher to swallow, said Sharon Noble of the Coalition to Stop Smart Meters.
"Those who refuse having a smart meter are being charged the highest opt-out fees in all of North America," she said.
Another group fighting smart meters has launched a class-action suit against B.C. Hydro. A judge is expected to decide this fall if the suit will go ahead.
Reimer credited Murphy for bringing in the smart-meter program $100 million under budget, and the government said his eligible expenses could have maxed out at $340,000 — much less than what he actually billed.
But if the class-action lawsuit goes ahead this fall, the smart-meter wars will be raging once again.


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Things are finally coming to a head for the junior hockey league season, as the champions of each respective Canadian Hockey League will come together for the 2014 Mastercard Memorial Cup beginning this Friday in London, Ontario — and two Buffalo Sabres prospects will be participating.
The tournament also features several prospects for the upcoming NHL draft as well as players who have been drafted in the past few years by other NHL clubs, including (among others) Toronto, Detroit and Montreal.
The Memorial Cup features a round-robin tournament format with four teams: the champions of the WHL, OHL and QMJHL, and a host team. If the host team is one of the champions, the runner-up from that league's championship series becomes the fourth team of the tournament.
This year, the host team is the OHL's London Knights, which feature a roster including a pair of Buffalo Sabres prospects: defensemen Nikita Zadorov and Brady Austin, selected by the Sabres in 2013 and 2011, respectively. This year's tournament marks the third straight Memorial Cup appearance for the Knights, but it's the first of those three that they enter without the title of OHL champion.
The Guelph Storm, Ontario Hockey League champions, will be the other OHL team participating in the tournament. In addition, the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League and the Val-d'Or Foreurs of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League will participate in this year's Memorial Cup.
The 2014 Mastercard Memorial Cup begins May 16 in London, Ontario, and continues until May 25.


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Hump rails against himself when he realizes that he has forgotten to bring matches. He spends a few hours trying to build a tent for Brewster, but he is unsuccessful. She finally spends the night in the beached boat. The next day, Hump starts a fire by using a shotgun shell, and the characters enjoy hot food. They then sail around the tiny island in search of a non-existent outpost. They discover it to be a mostly barren and rocky seal rookery, about twenty-five miles in circumference and containing perhaps a quarter million seals. They return to their original landing site, which is free of seals, and spend a somewhat dejected evening. Hump continues to idealize Brewster and feels empowered by her feminine presence. They determine to refer to the islet as Endeavor Island.
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"The Splash Brothers," as Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry are now called, have live up to their reputations as the best shooting backcourt in the NBA. Curry and Thompson continue to lead the league in three point field goals every season. They made them at the right times and the "rain" seemed to never stop.
Reflecting back to the revolutionary Monta Ellis trade, a question pops up: what's the difference between Klay Thompson and Ellis? Why does this current backcourt work?
Well, let's take a look at the real reasons and true expectations of a functional backcourt:
The point guards and shooting guards are the ones who handle the ball most of the time. What if, however, you start two point guards? This is essentially what the Warriors did. Although Monta Ellis truly played as a SG: hitting three pointers, driving to the basket, and finishing over big men, he still had the mindset of PG. In fact, he's listed as a PG this season. Ellis and Curry often fought for possession of the ball. Even though they were both explosive and ranked amongst the best backcourts in the NBA, no proper plays could be ran because Ellis hogged the ball.
With Thompson, he's catch and shoot. No offense to him, but his ball handling skills aren't the greatest. He's a true SG: he will spot up in the corner and make the right decision. Whether it's curling to the basket, off of a screen, or feeding the big man down low, you can trust Thompson to make a good play.
At 6'3, Ellis posed no threat and struggled to guard other SG's such as Kobe Bryant. Although he had a phenomenal post up game, he still found himself getting muscled up. He struggled on the defensive end to guard 6'5 guys and ended up giving up points at will.
With Thompson being 6'7, he has no problem. He's so tall that defenders can hardly post him up. Then, when they attempt to make a drive to the basket, Thompson contains them pretty well. He can stay with guys that are smaller than him, as well as play bigger players. He guards players like Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook, Deron Williams, and Tony Parker.
The Splash Brothers both shoot the three ball at high percentages and often have defenders running all over the place. With Ellis, defenders were more inclined to clog the lane.
This opens opportunities for big men like David Lee and Andrew Bogut to go to work inside. With Ellis, Lee never received that opportunity. He is averaging more since Ellis was traded.
Under Mark Jackson for three seasons, Curry and Thompson established their reputations as the best shooters in the NBA and showed that they could function as a solid backcourt in the NBA.. Now, under legendary 3-point marksmen, Steve Kerr, there's no telling what they will be able to do.
Since Kerr is one of the all-time greats in 3-point shooting, he's going to be able to design a lot more plays for a Curry and Thompson 3-pointer and jump-shot. Not only will these two guys be the primary scorers again, they just might be the best backcourt in the league, and possibly of the last decade and recent memory. If Kerr is determined to get these guys more opened shots, then they are going to have field days.
Even when Thompson is off, he is still going to get some open shots, and he usually doesn't miss those. Knocking on wood, I think Curry and Thompson are going to have solid chances to both average 22 points per game or more, maybe even shooting the Warriors' way to a better record and two all-star positions. I'm speaking very highly of them, yes, but I believe the only roadblock to this attainable goal is consistency.
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Journal Sentinel TV and film critic Duane Dudek looks at life on the small and big screen, and some of the cool stuff on both.
As expected, WYMS-FM (88.9) has picked up the syndicated contemporary and progressive music show "World Cafe," the station announced Friday.
"World Cafe" was dropped this week by WUWM-FM (89.7), where it aired for about a decade. Starting Monday, WYMS will air "World Cafe" from 6 to 8 p.m. weeknights.
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Program designed to help prepare for droughts
Monday - 11/18/2013, 5:56pm EST
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Federal agencies will provide better and more accessible information about matters such as long-term weather prospects and soil moisture levels under a program designed to help communities prepare for future droughts and respond more effectively when they happen, Obama administration officials said Thursday.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will lead the initiative, which grew out of a series of regional forums held in response to the 2012 drought, the most severe and widespread in more than 70 years. It covered more than two-thirds of the continental U.S. and caused more than $30 billion in losses from crop failures, wildfires and other ripple effects.
"We were very aggressive in responding to the drought but all of it was after the fact," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in an interview with The Associated Press. "We made money available for technical assistance after the fact. We provided disaster loan assistance and extended grazing aid after the fact. We purchased surplus product after the fact."
With droughts likely to become more frequent and widespread as the climate warms, "we have to adjust to this new normal and we have to understand what it means to be proactive instead of just reacting," he said.
Vilsack was announcing Friday the creation of the National Drought Resilience Partnership, which also will involve the Department of Interior, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Administration. The goal is to help communities and individual farmers, ranchers and others whose livelihoods are particularly vulnerable during low-water periods to be ready and cope.
"We want to harness the federal government's best tools and science and get that information out there ... so we can say to people earlier, 'Hey, drought is on the way. Let's discuss options where we can help,'" said Jason Weller, chief of the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service.
In 2014, the partnership will focus on developing a one-stop website where people will be able to find information scattered across the vastness of the bureaucracy -- often "bits and pieces in some nook and cranny" of a database that many people don't know exists, said Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA's acting administrator.
The government has a website, www.drought.gov, which provides links to some material on drought conditions, weather outlooks and available resources. The new site will be more extensive -- with information on a wide variety of topics, from best-management practices for farmers to the latest scientific findings on a plant's water cycle, and user-friendly ways of determining what data is needed and how to find it, officials said.
Also next year, each agency in the partnership will designate one official as the go-to person whom state and local officials can contact for information and assistance during droughts.
The partnership also will select one place in the West that has been hit hard by drought for a test case in developing a locally tailored "drought resistance plan" that could serve as a model for other communities, Vilsack said.
Another 2014 project will be upgrading the network that monitors soil moisture content, a crucial drought forecasting tool. The Natural Resources Conservation Service will improve its information collection techniques to better help farmers decide which crops to plant or determine how to graze livestock based on local conditions, Vilsack said.
"If you're a manager of an irrigation district or a municipal water system, you're going to get more timely and accurate forecasts as to what future water availability will be so you can manage your overall water supply," Weller said.
Soil moisture is difficult to measure over wide areas, requiring numerous sensors and measurements, Sullivan said. Experiments are underway with satellite technology that could improve the system.
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In a perfect world, as relates to sports, our emotions should probably be driven by primal reactions -- love, hate, winning, losing. Geography certainly plays a role. My hometown team is playing its arch rival, I should want them to win because they're my team. It should all be very simple and basi ... More >>
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Penn State and the Catholic ChurchBella figura can mean many things, but at its core is presentation...how one looks, how one comports oneself, how one makes the best possible impression in all things. That such a concept is hardwired into the Italian psyche is no surprise: what else could be ... More >>
Speaking truth about Super Bowl XXXVIII.
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One of my social studies teachers had her students create their own countries. She asked if I would display their posters in the library. OF COURSE!!! So, I taped, stickied, and otherwise affixed posters to the one free wall I have and even stuck a few onto the circulation desk. Really makes the library look sharp. Now, if the vinyl recliners would just hurry up and get here ...
Dub a nice recording of Canadian pianist Adrienne Shannon to CD, apparently recorded in a studio sometime before June 1975. The documentation is skimpy but it does say it is Dolby Noise Reduction encoded (and it is!).
Hmmm, how did I catalogue multiple source tapes for one broadcast again? I know I'll look up a previous similar record I have entered. Here's an example... but where is the text I added months ago? Argh, stupid database! Thank goodness for paper backup. Now I know why they insist on maintaining the card catalogue.
Look in the vertical files.
Re-enter my previously entered data.
Hmmm. That still doesn't solve my cataloguing problem. Oh there's one.
Now I will print this record out and put it in my cataloguing manual so I don't have to go through this again. Where is the three hole punch? Someone has pilfered it. I am thwarted again. I only want to document my work flow like a good information worker should.
Yes, there were young men pogo sticking in the lobby of the library. These are the same young men playing hide and seek in the basement the day before. Today, if they pull any crap, I call the police. I feel guilty calling the police (they must have better stuff to do), but obviously the kids aren't impressed by us.
So yes, I fully expect to be calling the police today, or more likely, tomorrow. Sigh.
I put more memory in the unfiltered box, only to discover that the computer is dumb and doesn't recognize any more than 32 MBs of memory on that machine. I put a 64 MB stick in. I can't see that it supports that low a number, but I'm going to try to squeak SuSE 8.2 on there, I guess. At any rate, there's so much crap on that hard drive it's probably worth a zorch and reinstall of any operating system.
I need to do more tweaking on my Penguin box. Someone has managed to get the icons back on the tool bar. Not that there's much you can actually do with that, but I'm interested in how they did it. Most of the toolbar functions are disabled, anyway, so it doesn't do them a whole lot of good. Also, my default fonts were reset when I was playing with the ini files,so everything is very small. That's one problem with Linux. The fonts are tiny.
I'm pondering taking the second hard drive out of the unfiltered, too. I mean, why do we need two hard drives in it now? It's an internet terminal.
God, the idealist in me wishes I didn't have to get rid of the unfiltered terminal. It's agonizing, really. But I don't want to clean that crap. I don't have time to clean that crap. When I can devote all my time to IT and cease working reference and info (and therefore cease having the librarian job I wanted) I guess then we could probably have unfiltered terminals again.
It kills me though, because I bet it's three to five people ruining it for many.
Here are some comments I have recently posted on other blogs, just to
give you an idea of my views on a few topics. I'm not posting these
because they are the last words on their subjects, but because I think
they are reasonably well-argued and come from a more or less
conservative point of view.
Now you can see just how wise or retrograde I am (depending on your point of view). You can also set me straight through the comments feature.
Blake Carver has
commented on the difficulty of hearing the voice of the intelligent
right over all the other noise online. I want to post links to a few
blogs I think worth reading.
These blogs don't express only views I agree with (that
would happen only in my blog, if I had one, and then only about half
the time), but I find that they don't rely on emotionalism or
rhetorical bluster. In my view they present consistent,
well-though-out positions.
There are quite a few others (and I didn't even get theological, either). I could go on, but it's late.
By way of a BTW, I don't listen to talk radio (though I suspect I'd like Hugh Hewitt's show), I don't prefer Fox news over CNN or MSNBC (the only real broadcast news for my money is the Newshour with Jim Lehrer), and I may never read a book by Ann Coulter. I don't like cant or rhetorical fluff when there's no substance to back it up (unless it's very, very funny).
UPDATE: nbruce says you should check out Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, (a favorite of mine inadvertantly left off this list) including this sample post.
Wanted to share this great interview with WC in the San Francisco Gate . Quite a guy at age 87; makes Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, Larry King, Peter Jennings even, look about as substantial as flotsam. Check out what he has to say about Janet Jackson, gay marriage, Bush, etc.
This entry could also have been titled either "weird science" or "your tax dollars at work."
The folks at Secrecy News have posted the following article from Los Alamos Science -- a journal published by the National Lab at Los Alamos:
"Understanding Why -- Dissecting Radical Islamist Terrorism with Agent-Based Simulation" by Edward P. MacKerrow, Los Alamos Science, Number 28, 2003 (1.5 MB PDF file):
According to the article:
"The Complex Systems Group at Los Alamos has been examining questions related to the "why" behind terrorist organizations in the Middle East. Borrowing tools from the field of computational economics and sociology, we are developing agent-based models that simulate social networks and the spread of social grievances within those networks."
a little further down it says:
"We can expose our agents to a variety of determinents-- new government policies, different media exposure, economic pressures, and others--and quickly generate hundreds of new scenarios. Thus, we can conduct computational experiments that can be analyzed statistically and objectively to increase our insight, support decision making, and aid policymakers."
I honestly don't believe myself to be a luddite -- I am blogging, after all -- but I find the idea of making real world policy based on a computer simulation of human behavior frightening. It seems like many variables are beyond measuring to be useful.
The Los Alamos author does say that he doesn't intend to PREDICT terrorist activity, only to analyze scenarios. If his product is taking serious by decision makers, I'm not sure they'll keep that distinction.
On a lighter note, we got our snow, about two inches worth. Supposedly will turn to rain later today.
In my efforts to make the internet less fun, I am pondering filtering and putting either a) the OS X Mac on the floor as a card only terminal or b) sticking SuSE 8.2 on the old Win98 box that used to be unfiltered. Here's how old the Win98 box is: it has a serial mouse. The good news: our serial mouse wielding word processor gave up the ghost yesterday, so I can bulk the memory some by stealing from Peter to give to Paul.
If I thought I could rig SuSE 9 on it I would, but I think it might be easier to keep it simple as possible. Besides, my husband has the SuSE 9 disks at his work now. God, I love open source.
I have a screamin' headache, and get to work 1-9 today, so it's a long day for me. Sigh. I do have sick time, but there's the unfortunate bit that someone is taking a personal day today, and that, well, god, I hate using sick time.
I am discovering that being a librarian, in some cases, is about limiting access as much as it is about giving access. The kids I threw out the day before came in yesterday, and I took their ball (again) and I imagine they got thrown out shortly thereafter. Then there's the whole filtering thing.
Yesterday morning I decided that would be the day I would read every single comment left on LISNews. I've been slacking lately, letting a lot of comments slide by, unread, even on quite days. I picked a bad day.
For years it was easy to read every comment, we just didn't get any, so it was not much of a challenge to keep up. That may be changing, or it may just be the top of the bell curve. I'm not sure what the record for comments in a single day is, but I know the average for last month is 26 comments a day, January was only 16. We're only 2.5 days into March, and we've already got 85 comments, 55 of which were left yesterday. Yes, these are numbers that a busy site like Slashdot would laugh at, but they're pretty darn high for little ol' LISNews.
Now it may not seem like much to read 55 comments in a day, but just try, go ahead, see how long it takes. I've got a much different view of the site than most folks do; the super secret back end code lets me keep an eye on things from above. It lets me watch the comments come in, see what's being moderated, and keeps an eye out for abuses, which, luckily, we don't have much of at this point. So even with my super powers it's still no easy task trying to keep up. It's also not easy moderating sometimes.
One of the super powers that comes with an author account is the ability to moderate freely. On most days most people get somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 moderator points. That is I manually update the Db field that gives points to people. Slashcode is designed for Slashdot, and it doesn't really scale down very well. For those people who do participate frequently, the code frequently grants them points, for the vast majority of the people who do not, they'd never get any points. It could be argued they don't deserve the points, but I do my best to encourage participation from everyone, and hopefully that helps. I'd like to think it helps avoid things like this comment from an Anonymous Patron:
"Why am I so completely unsurprised by the moderators rating Conservator's comment as flamebait? Fang-Fang's streak of ad hominen attacks against opposing views remains unbroken, and remains a hit with moderators."
I've seen comments like that on Slashdot for years, and I suppose I shouldn't be surprised to see them here as well, but I am. There is no great moderator conspiracy here @LISNews. There may be one @Slashdot, I just don't know, but I do know there isn't one here. This comment in particular was moderated as flamebait by one person, and that was the only time it had been moderated. As a matter of fact, it's one of the very few comments in the past week that modded down at all. And to be fair, Fang-Fang has gotten more than his fair share of negative mods. In general, the vast majority of moderations are up, this one comment was an exception, rather than a vast left wing conspiracy. The moderation system is not perfect, but for the most part I think it does a good job, and I like it.
So to answer your question, Anonymous Patron, I don't know why you are so completely unsurprised by the moderators rating Conservator's comment as flamebait, take a look at all the other comments, I think you'll be surprised. And, by the way, that was me that moderated your comment as flamebait.
Today the Linux box went live. Except for a slight problem (which I think is memory based) of lines appearing all over the screen when the box goes to "sleep" for more than a minute or so (that's nicely fixed by a ctrl-alt-backspace), it seems to be working okay. I played around with the filter some, and got it to at least block naughty things.
I will be interested to see how this goes. I think it will be spurned like our Macs. Hey, it's not designed to be fun, it's designed to be functional. Which it is.
I also discovered some disturbing things on our unfiltered terminal. I can not take the time to maintain it unfiltered. Besides, a good seventy percent of the cookies on that machine had "XXX" in the URLs or things that were otherwise... well, simply not what one should be viewing @ your library.
If I ever had the crazy idea to put my credit card number into a public access terminal, I sure as hell wouldn't do it after today.
The unfiltered terminal is going away without a squeak. The first person who comes to circulation (and ultimately to me) and says, "I can't view my porn!" is going to probably throw me for a loop, but hey. I just don't want to see us get burned. I could have spent hours working on that machine. And that's silly.
It was actually rather fascinating to watch people react to the "no internet today" concept... I put up signs on all the machines that they were being upgraded. And people bounced from machine to machine like pinballs, looking for one that didn't have the sign on it. Then they started, after I had them down a few hours, asking whether or not it would be up by a given time.
To paraphrase and otherwise modify an earlier journal:
Dear Public,
Don't tick off the systems librarian, for ultimately she decides when you get your internet access back.
--the Library
People were getting demanding: "Can't you make one work for me?" I wasn't about to tell them I could make them all work. Bwahahahahaha! Theoretically, they were all working. That's what "upgrade" means, folks. Read the signs. They work, but not as well as they could. These people complaining we were down would be the first to complain that the computers aren't fast enough, too.
They still aren't blazing fast, but at least they're defragged, updated, virus scanned, and have all sorts of fonts on them. Not silly fonts, international fonts. Fonts that are actually useful. Not wingdings.
No. No library discussion here. Just "sharing" thoughts about an upcoming race.
I ordered this most wonderful book titled Core Collection for Young Adults. It comes with a CDRom that contains all the titles in various formats. Now, what I want to do is compare what is on the CD to what I already have without going through the mess one title at a time. I run Follett and don't see anything on there that will let me do this. sigh. Of course, I can't do this at home because I can't access my collection info from home.
Meanwhile, each student on the newspaper staff created a newsletter for me. Their teacher is being mean and making me pick the best. They are all wonderful so this will be a very hard assignment.
Funny how certain people make the humanity level in a room go way up.
After a very nasty remark about our Black History Month display by one patron, we got hit with some kids that seemed to think it was totally appropriate to play hide and seek in the basement of the library. I got them out quickly. Somehow when this happens, it blurs the lines of what's appropriate in a library for me again.
I mean, of course those two examples were inappropriate. Those were easy. But when you compare them with the high school kids that just sort of sit at the tables and talk, usually fairly quietly... Well... things get a little blurry for me. If they have a book we generally don't bother them. If they don't, I guess technically they're supposed to go.
But this certain group of kids is always polite, always restrained. There's just a lot of them -- doing next to nothing.
Today I take down the internet computers. One of our word processors is down. People are not going to be happy, but they're unhappy when they get on and things are amazingly slow because there are twenty four million cookies on the machines.
I am thinking the first Tuesday of every month might be good for this sort of maintenance.
I ordered memory. Wooo hoooo. A lot of it. Now we can revive a Mac or two and get the circulation computers running comfortably. I was hoping I could find some in some of the older computers to put in some of the newer computers... alas, the memory that one pulls out of a donated 486 isn't even particularly useful as paperweights.
I am always having strange comments directed towards me. Here is a recent one that takes the cake. Just a few days ago I was in the music room. Our elementary music teacher and I collaborate for a 20 minute music/library time. It is great. We sing songs, do puppet shows, read stories, etc.
Anywho – Music teacher says to me, "Are you lactose intolerant?��Why, yes,� I say, "Why do you ask?��Oh, you just look like you would be,� he answers.
My question to you, reader, is what is the look of lactose intolerance? I am not puny, but not huge. As Goldie Locks might say, "Not too big, not too small, but just right.� I am about 5'4� and 130 pounds. Pretty normal looking gal – I think.
Maybe it is my features. I have blonde hair and blue eyes. I have had many people tell me that I look like Reese Witherspoon. Reese has a cute chin. My jaw is mannishly square. I look more like a Tracy Flick than an Elle Woods.
So what is it about me that oozes an inability to digest ice cream? I don't broadcast my affliction to the staff. At our last carry in, I did not forgo dairy all together. I just hope that I am not leaking horrible gas while I am telling stories. No wonder the kids are quiet. They are intoxicated by nauseous fumes!
This has been a "blog-of-interest" among some people I 'know' over the past few days (all bloggers):
I guess this kid had a class assignment to try to reach a certain number of hits, and he went about it by writing a lot of incendiary stuff, posing as a redneck frat boy. He came out today to say it was all for an assignment but he certainly had me fooled.
I am an active blog reader (not so much with the writing), and I guess this serves as a reminder that you don't really know 'who' you're reading, or who's reading you...
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The following remark came to me via a third party (of course) -- I quote: "Nobody goes into a library after they graduate." Now, this comes from a man who teaches mathematics at my high school. I don't know about anyone else, i.e. non-librarians, but I have had zero reason to step into a math classroom after graduation, and libraries are my second and third homes.
It just so happens that Oregon ranks 5th in the nation for library visits and reference transactions, and 2nd for circulation, According to the National Center for Education Statistics.
What do you say to a guy like this?
For the past several days here in Southeast Alaska we have had unexpected sunshine with daytime temps around 40. For us, that is a lovely spring day and some people are already breaking out shorts. I myself don't switch to shorts until we hit the 60s -- high 50s if I'm hiking.
Hope other people (especially slashgirl) are getting some nice weather coming their way!
If the weather folks are right, we'll have rain and snow in a day or two, but even so, it will have been a good run of good weather!
This one will be sans my spiffy little charts and graphs due to lack of Photoshop here at work.
So last month...
~126,700 sessions, that's an average of about 4,400 a day. We served ~371,000 pages, which is about 12,800 a day. All that added up to a daily average of about 61,000 hits, a total of around 1.7 million for the month. All of those numbers are a bit ahead of the previous month. We posted an amazing 443 stories from 33 different authors this month, which is the most impressive number, for me at least. That's almost double the numbers from January. Is more always better?
The journals got hit a lot last month. Shoe & nbruce being the most popular, both had well over 20 reads a day. I was a distant third, followed by birdie, Rochelle, Daniel, AshtabulaGuy, tomeboy, djfiander, Bibliofuture, Samantha, and Aaron. If you write, it gets read. It looks like for most people, having the new entry show up on the LISNews index page leads to most of the readers. The more popular writers also have a significant number of people scraping their rss feed as well.
Referrals continue to be all about google. Though only about 25% of LISNews readers even use a referral, those that do came in from one of googles sites more often than most by a large margin. Yahoo, MSN, and Aol were all in the top 10, but msn and AOL were both beaten by Radio rss users. The most popular search terms tell me most folks are not finding what they had hoped for @LISNews. I often think of just adding a meta tag to exclude the entire site from search engines all together just to see what happens. An experiment in web stealth.
Last month we also saw a record number of comments, and moderations. We now have well over 2700 members, and a rather vocal minority are commenting frequently, with a decent number of people jumping in from time to time as well. 763 comments last month, compared to 495 the month before, and 291 back in December. Those comments came from 88 different people [this is an undercount I just relized. It counts AP's as just one, when it could've been hundreds, I'll work on that for next month]. 55 people moderated 456 of those comments. Just 17 people metamoderated last month, which is up one from the previous month, but still rather anemic, which leads me to believe maybe I should just shut that off.
I keep hoping to get some development work done to the site, maybe that will happen this month. I'd like to add [not ass] an Atom feed, as well as a feed that shows all the journals at once. There's also a few other bugs floating around out there as well.
I posted on Opera's forums asking how to alter the ini file so that I could go through my proxy server (and hence get filtering software). I was told (by mods, no less), a method which I knew would work to enable the proxy server, but didn't tell me exactly how to do it from the ini file. Being a wannabe Linux geek, I like to see how things work under the hood. Of course, it dawned on me, like the mods said, that I could re-enable the GUI and use that. But I wanted to try it the hard way first. It must be a New England thing.
The hard way is not working, alas. I typed in various strings of code, hoping that they'd work, to no avail. So tomorrow night, if I get the chance, I re-enable the GUI and test it that way. Of course, if the GUI enables it correctly, this will also require a quick view of the ini file to see what exactly the code is. Now I have to know.
I think if this doesn't work, I may call Boston just to verify the IP address hasn't... um, moved. That scares me just a little. I fear we are often out of the loop. Although I think that I saw a site get blocked the other day on someone's computer. I'd like to just take the internet down completely if I had an afternoon free. It might be a morning free thing, though. Usually afternoons are spent doing crowd control.
Where are all these kids coming from? Many are well behaved, but exuberant. Some (and this number, though fewer than the well-behaved kids, is still substantial) are less than desirable. They went downstairs and whipped a bunch of books off the shelves the other day. Then they decided the library was boring, so it was better to go the Y.
Of course, they came back the next day. And the next.
I do need like three solid hours to do computer maintenance at the internet terminals. Coming into it on Monday isn't good, and Wednesdays are out. This leaves me Tuesday being my best bet, methinks. And I do so want to take it down in the afternoon. This sounds horrible, but there are certain people I'd like to get off the computers if only for the afternoon. I'd like to open their eyes that there are books, other people and other things in the library besides the damn internet terminals.
The internet terminals are part of my job. I keep them going, and I like people to use them. I like kids to come in and do homework with the internet's help, I like people to come in, get books on health conditions, and then do some research on the internet as well. I don't mind people checking email. Or filling out forms for job applications. It bugs me when the glassy eyed woman goes from computer to computer, literally taking seats out from people as they're sitting down, swearing at the librarian who gently reminds her she's signed up for a total of eight half hour turns that day (and it's only two o'clock). There is flagrant abuse of the system, and that bothers me.
Your books AND CDs are organized by subject or type then author/composer. Actually, my books aren't organized anymore. We purchased four eight foot tall bookshelves and to maximize space put all the paperbacks together, all the big books together, etc. So, the books aren't in order by subject anymore. But, then my husband and I have gobs and gobs of books. That's what I get for marrying a historian. ; )


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The Best Man 1999/I
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Harper's autobiographical novel is almost out, his girlfriend Robin desires commitment, and he's best man at the wedding of Lance, a pro athlete. He goes to New York early (Robin will come for the wedding) to hang out with Lance and other friends, including Jordan, his former almost-lover, now in media and privy to an advance copy of the book. The men discuss women, never facing their own double standard; Jordan wants to try again with Harper, at least for one night; and Harper fears that Lance will read his book and learn that the bride-to-be slept with him once to avenge Lance's many affairs. Can Harper mature before Lance kills him, Jordan seduces him, and he loses Robin?
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Dear All
Construction workers ARE NOT covered UNDER ESIC. This was promulgated vide ESIC circular No. P-12(11)-11/27/99 Ins.IV dated 14-6-1999.
Despite having tried my level best I am not able to get a copy of the circular. Will any one of help me on this front as the same is v.v. urgent?
Thanks in advance
Dear Friend,
As fas as my understanding is concern it is that when the construction workers are engaged for the first time, than that workers are not covered because by that time most of the companies are not having the ESI Code, but Once the company has been alloted the ESI Code number and the company engaged construction labour after that than that work force is very much covered under the preview of the ESI Act.
meanwhile I am not having the said notification, but try to find it out the same.
Amith R Murthy - Member Since: Sep 2007
Dear Agrawal, Even i dont have the said notification, but will certainly try to get it. In case you get the same do share with us. Regards Amith R.
Dear all
as you are all aware there is an act called The building and other construction workers act 1006 which compels the contractors and employers in construction field for registration of its labor force.
this covers the facilities provided by ESIC, as a result they are not covered under ESIC act
Keshava Prasad S
ag_agrawal77 - Member Since: Apr 2008
Dear All Thanks for ur replies. I am looking forward for a copy of the Circular. I, on my end, also on with the search. If I get the same I shall post it for reference. Thanks and regards
Dear all sorry.the act building and other construction workers act is of 1996 and not1006 sorry for the wrong year mentioned regards keshava
prashant_patil - Member Since: Feb 2007
Hi to all,
I think workers engaged in construction work in the premises of the company should be liable for esic deudction. It is responsibility of the principal employer. I am giving official referance of esicoimbatore.org
Please click on following link
ESIC :: ESI Scheme of Coimbatore India .. Social security to workers
Best Regards
Prashant Patil
Madhu.T.K - Member Since: Sep 2007
It is clarified that Construction Companies who engage workers at sites not being on a regular basis are not covered under the ESI. At the same time, where the comapny has 20 regular employees (drawing not more than Rs 10000) in its Office like Draughtsman, Foreman, Supervisor etc they will be covered. If the office staff number 10 and they employ 10 for the site who do not sign the daily attendance register and wages register, then the company is not covered. However, if the construction company employs 20 or more workers on regular basis that these workers will be deputed at the company's various sites, such company will be covered by ESI. The test of regualarity is the signing of muster roll.
It is also clarified that workers engaged in the construction of buildings etc in a company which is covered by ESI will be covered like any other temporary workers of such company.
Tirlok Dhir - Member Since: Aug 2008
Please find the copy of Notification issued by ESIC for the same. Tirlok
Dear Trilok, Thanks a lot for the same. But can you please tell the date of issue, as the date of issue is not clear on the Notification.
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HOBART | A 27-year-old Hobart man burglarized a Hobart home then stole the resident's truck to use for his getaway, police said.
Jeremy Zamarron was charged with burglary and auto theft through Lake Criminal court.
Police were called to the 2600 block of West Old Ridge Road on June 20 by a resident who reported a home burglary and the theft of his truck, court documents state.
The resident told police someone had broken into his house and stolen a jar of coins, numerous tools, jewelry and other miscellaneous items.
The resident on June 25 said he was on his way to the police department when he spotted his 2004 Ford truck parked in the 200 block of Center Street.
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The Cleveland Cavaliers will likely have the ninth pick in this upcoming draft. In the next few weeks here at Right Down Euclid, we will be profiling players the Cavaliers might draft in the first round on June 26th. Today, we profile Michigan guard Nik Stauskas. Click here for more draft profiles.
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Name: Nik Stauskas
Position: Guard
Class: Sophomore
College: Michigan
Age: 20
Height: 6'6"
Weight: 205 lbs.
Wingspan: 6'7"
Honors: 2014 Big Ten Player of the Year, 2014 Big Ten All-1st Team, AP All-America 2nd Team
2013-2014 Per Game Stats: 17.5 PPG, 2.9 RPG, 3.3 APG, 0.6 SPG, 0.3 BPG, 47.0 FG%, 44.2 3PT%, 82.4 FT%
Nik Stauskas is one of the best pure shooters in this draft class. Emerging from the shadow of Trey Burke to take over the Michigan backcourt this season, Stauskas transformed from strictly a shooter to a well-rounded offensive weapon for the Wolverines. He has the potential to be a top-10 pick, and while there are major concerns over his defense and finishing ability, Stauskas could be a quality starter for years to come.
Physical Tools
Stauskas isn't a great athlete, but he's not a poor athlete either. Stauskas can play above the rim a bit on offense, which is key to him being a multi-dimensional talent there. He also has decent straight-line quickness, and can beat guys off the dribble. However, he's very underwhelming in two key physical traits at the NBA level: Agility and strength. Stauskas is not laterally quick, which is one of the many reasons he isn't a good defensive prospect. He relies far more on his ability to accelerate to the rim than shiftiness on offense as well. He also isn't strong enough to deter drives to the rim or finish in traffic consistently. Stauskas overall just has poor body control as well. He lacks the strength to finish in traffic and can't contort his body to avoid contact, and that's going to get him murdered on drives to the rim in the pros if it doesn't improve.
Offensively, Stauskas is most notable for his shooting ability. He has a quick and fluid release on his jumper, and hit 44 percent from 3-point range this season, and didn't shy away from taking NBA-range threes either. Stauskas is an established spot-up shooter, but is also great coming off of dribble hand-offs and in the pick-and-roll, where he's great at taking advantage of switches and creating space for himself to launch threes. Stauskas's immediate impact on offense will certainly be as a shooter. When attacking the basket, Stauskas can be inconsistent, especially if he's forced to finish over length. He's at his best filling lanes out of the pick-and-roll or on off-ball cuts, finding space in the defense and attacking in a straight line. Stauskas is an underrated passer, someone who who makes smart passes out of the pick-and-roll and can hit off-ball cutters and outlet guys when attacking the basket. For this reason, there's potential that Stauskas could play a little bit of point guard, which makes him more intriguing. Stauskas does have good potential as an offensive weapon, but it's likely that he only ever is an accessory scorer, meaning he is likely to become a fourth or fifth option as a 3-point specialist.
Defensively, Stauskas really doesn't have much of a chance to be a plus player at the NBA level. Stauskas doesn't have the physical tools to cope with NBA perimeter offense, and gets killed off the dribble because of this. He often looks like he doesn't know what to do with his hands when guarding opponents in isolation, and instead of making himself as wide as possible, he often swats at the ball or flails his arms at an opponent like he's swatting invisible mosquitos. Off the ball, he's also bad, which is very concerning. A guy like Doug McDermott might make it in the NBA because he at least understands positioning and tries off the ball. Stauskas gets lost very easily off the ball, and often will kill his defense by ball-watching, which results in him getting torched by off-ball cutters or spot-up shooters rotating around the perimeter for open looks. He's also a bad rebounder because he's not strong enough to properly box out. I'm not going to say there's not hope for Stauskas on the defensive end, but I'm more confident in McDermott becoming a good defender than Stauskas, and that's a problem.
Stauskas is a decent decision-maker on offense, knowing when to attack and when to feed teammates based on situation and matchup. His court vision is good, and he can run a fast break efficiently. However, it seems like Stauskas is a step slow at times in reading what's occurring on the court. This is most apparent on defense, where he's slow to react off the ball, and on the ball gets burned because he doesn't react quickly to drives. It also affects him on offense, where he waits a little too long to make decisions out of the pick-and-roll. In college, this was okay, particularly against zones, where waiting allowed him to find holes to hit teammates. In the NBA, however, this slow reaction time is usually correlated with high amounts of turnovers. I'm concerned that this will make him even less effective offensively.
Player Comparison
I think Kevin Martin is your best comp for Stauskas. While Stauskas's shooting release is much, much better than Martin's, they are both effective at similar things. Martin's always been a solid three-point shooter and creator off the dribble, and his role on the Rockets and Timberwolves is what I envision Stauskas being able to do. Martin's also always been a poor defensive player, and his decision-making has historically always been quite questionable. Martin is probably the ceiling for Stauskas.
How Does He Fit on the Cavaliers?
I don't see Stauskas being a worthy pick for Cleveland. His shooting would help space the floor for the offense, but he's turnover prone and is going to be a horrible defender right off the bat, and I'm not sure this team can afford that. Stauskas also wouldn't be as valuable as other similarly rated wings in this draft to the Cavs, because he probably can't slide down to the small forward position like say, James Young could. I'm not high on Stauskas as a prospect, but I'm especially not high on him as a fit for the Cavs.


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It used to be that people would question whether a player could handle the big stage in cities like New York and Boston. Now, though, there appears to be plenty of pressure off Broadway as well.
This season, Dontrelle Willis of Detroit and Khalil Greene of St. Louis have been on the disabled list with social anxiety disorder. Cincinnati's Joey Votto went on the D.L. last week for a "stress-related issue." And of course, Zack Greinke of Kansas City, currently having a breakthrough season, battled social anxiety disorder and depression early in his career.
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When most people think of Brown-Forman, they think of bourbon and other libations. But they have also been green for many years.
"One of the basic principles is that you are building soil," Brown-Forman Corporate Executive Chef Mark Williams said. "Actually growing soil. And that's the key to healthy food. We save our vegetable scraps, our coffee grounds, and make our own compose here. We add earthworms. We add organic fertilizer as needed and it's all natural."
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Aerion Corp. (Booth 3634) is redesigning its proposed supersonic business jet (SSBJ) with a larger cabin and more range, reflecting feedback from a recent operators survey. The new aircraft–dubbed AS2, for Aerion supersonic second design–has three engines versus two on its now-scrubbed predecessor. It still retains a supersonic natural laminar-flow wing, which it calls "the key enabling technology behind practical and efficient supersonic and high-subsonic flight."
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Aerion has started its next round of high-speed test flights, in conjunction with NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, to validate the laminar-flow wing for its supersonic business jet. These tests, using a test article mounted under the centerline of NASA's F-15B research aircraft and flown at speeds up to Mach 2.0, are intended to measure the real-world robustness of supersonic natural laminar flow. Information from these tests will help define manufacturing standards for surface quality and assembly tolerances of the proposed SSBJ's laminar-flow wing.
HyperMach Aerospace's planned 20-seat supersonic business jet (SSBJ), dubbed the SonicStar, will be able to fly at Mach 4.0, the company said Friday in Dubai. This is faster than the Mach 3.6 top speed announced when the proposed V-tailed aircraft was first revealed in June at the Paris Air Show. At Mach 4, the SonicStar would be able to fly from New York to Dubai in just 2 hours 20 minutes.
HyperMach Aerospace Industries unveiled plans for its SonicStar V-tailed supersonic business jet (SSBJ) at the Paris Air Show. The company is making big claims for an aircraft that it says will take no more than one hour 45 minutes to fly from Paris to New York, but left many questions unanswered as to how it will take the concept to market.
Aerion, based in Reno, Nev., is at Booth No. 6202 in NBAA exhibit Hall C to describe preliminary results from the latest round of flight tests of a NASA F-15B on the road to what it envisions as the worlds' first supersonic business jet (SBJ).
Reno, Nev.-based Aerion today said it is evaluating preliminary results of a new global market survey indicating strong demand for its supersonic business jet. "It was time to take a fresh look at the potential for the Aerion supersonic jet, taking into account the globalization of the business jet market," said Aerion vice chairman Brian Barents.
As expected, the recession has taken a toll on aircraft manufacturers and would-be manufacturers. But while the list of canceled and delayed projects includes the inevitable marginal programs, the crop of active manufacturers is–with few exceptions–forging ahead with new aircraft.
Aerion, the U.S. company that is developing a supersonic business jet (SSBJ), has welcomed an FAA policy shift which it believes "seems to crack open the door for supersonic cruise speeds" if, in the words of FAA policy guidance released last month, "the noise impacts of supersonic flight are shown to be acceptable."
Hopeful manufacturers of supersonic business jets–Aerion, Gulfstream and Supersonic Aerospace International–are encouraged by an updated FAA policy statement issued last week to align noise limits for future civil supersonic aircraft with current Stage 4 noise regulations.
At best, a total of 300 to 400 supersonic business jets (SSBJs) could be sold over the next 30 years, according to Andrei Ilyin, general director at Sukhoi Civil Aircraft. "The market is too small for competition," he said.
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March 15th, 2011 | Unions | Posted by Stephen Losey
UPDATE BELOW: Citing alleged "union busting" activities at a Nebraska Air Force base, the American Federation of Government Employees said Tuesday it is pulling out of Defense Department talks to design a new performance appraisal system.
AFGE objects to Offutt Air Force Base's refusal to allow registered nurse Julie Sheehan to attend the design team meetings in Washington. AFGE said the base's refusal is retaliation for her successful organizing and collective bargaining efforts. Sheehan is vice president of AFGE Local 1486 at Offutt.
AFGE said Sheehan attended an initial labor-management meeting in Los Angeles last September, and attended the first round of meetings in Washington last month. But AFGE said Offutt is refusing to let Sheehan attend further meetings. AFGE said the base's supervisors have accused Sheehan of poor performance and placed her on a performance improvement plan — which they called "trumped-up charges" — though they said she has consistently received top performance ratings.
"They are targeting this employee to discourage union membership," said Don Hale, president of AFGE's Defense Conference. "This is nothing less than union busting, and we won't stand for it. We are pulling out of the design team, and the Air Force Command and DoD's senior leaders can explain it to Congress."
Hale said AFGE will return to the personnel system discussions — which also aim to design new hiring flexibilities and work-force incentives such as bonuses — if Offutt allows Sheehan to participate and drops its claims of poor performance.
Offutt spokespeople were unavailable for comment.
UPDATE: The Pentagon issued this statement Wednesday morning regarding AFGE's pullout:
The Department of Defense recognizes and respects the right of the union leadership to select the bargaining unit representatives they believe are best suited to serve on the design teams for the National Defense Authorization Act 2010 personnel initiatives. Unfortunately, a significant workload requirement precluded management from releasing one of the selected individuals. We have provided the union leadership the opportunity to select an alternate for this very important initiative. This option is strongly encouraged in view of the workload considerations of the previously selected individual.
The NDAA 2010 personnel initiatives present the Department with both a tremendous challenge and opportunity. In crafting the new authorities, our goal has always been to assure broad based participation. AFGE is one of several unions participating in the design and development process. As we proceed, we will continue efforts to assure the union perspective is fully considered.
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March 18th, 2011 at 4:46 pm
I applaud the AFGE for pulling out of these discussion and supporting a fellow Union Official. Thank you for your continued support of all bargaining unit employees throughout the Government. This is, as you stated, nothing more than retaliation and disparaging treatment against a bargaining unit member. In a recent 67 page EEOC report it was noted that within my occupation, the Federal Bureau of Prisons that the Bureau has bred a agaency that allows retaliation and harassment of its employees. I see that we are not the only agancy that is retailiated against for doing the right thing.
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March 18th, 2011 at 11:41 pm
The press release this article is based on is chock-full of lies by AFGE. [...]
As for the "failed" NSPS system, AFGE has never been able to explain just what was so bad about it – the worst their lawyers could come up with was that it wasn't hurting employees now, but they were somehow sure it would in the future. The REAL reason is that it had an appraisal system with checks-and-balances built in to be as impartial and fair as possible, necessary because bonuses were based on performance. So, a fair appraisal with bonuses based on performance – no wonder AFGE had hysterics. And no wonder they're trying to sabotage development of a similarly performance-based successor.


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i don't know what people of this fandom expect..honestly.
most of the shit that's happening here on a daily basis is people calling each other names and sending anoymous hate to people. i've been the butt of that so many times i've actually lost count.
so if you take all this hate and send it to people and send it to people and send it to people, eventually, you're gonna send it to a person who is not very smart about his word choices and who's gonna spill all that hate back to you and over someone who maybe doesn't deserve it.
and now all you self-righteous little brats feel validated and go on your hate tirades and crusades when the sad thing is that most of you have sent anon hate to people or said offensive things, told people to kill themselves or tweeted hate to so many people and the only difference between you and dean geyer is that he's famous and acting like an idiot and you're not famous and acting like an idiot. plus you get to hide behind your anon faces.
or how we say over here: wer hass sät wird hass ernten.
translation: if you sow hate you will reap hate. and everybody has a breaking point. wanna play a game? let's see how many angry girls you can take, sending you death threats and personal insults for simply doing your fucking job and being employed before you blow up and say something stupid that you might regret for the rest of your life. try imagine this fucked up, hateful fandom was your fandom, i'd love to see how you would cope.
of course, not everyone in this fandom is an asshole and not everyone upset right now is a hypocrit but very many are, very many who are very loudly calling for dean's head (yeah disclaimer in advance, this is a figure of speech) and that's what's pissing me of. this fandom is so full of entitled little two faced cry babies who throw punches but can't take them, who preach tolerance and love and no-bullying and do nothing else with their time, who accept all opinions as long as it's theirs, who feel so desperately righteous they feel like it's their fucking right to call people names as they please because they're lesser than them for not fucking shipping the same thing - like can you even believe that? - and then have the gall to complain about someone else bullying.
to quote the bible which i rarely do but here it fits…
let who is without sin be the first to throw a FUCKING stone.
that "fucking" was my interpretation. that's not in the bible. but seriously people. take a look at yourself, take a look at this fandom and then rethink being surprised of what's happening in it and due to it. it's okay to not like a ship, or a character, go to the lol tag, post read mores, find people that agree but for crying out loud, stop sending hate to each other and to actors and if you fucking must then fucking hold your peace when it all blows up in your faces because you're part of the problem.