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The Lost Tribes of Faribault
Carrie Romo's family first came to Faribault in the summer of 1991 in search of work. Her husband, who heard from a friend that there were jobs to be had in south central Minnesota, had headed north from Texas to explore the opportunities. After he landed a job at the Seneca Foods cannery in Montgomery, his wife and two of their kids followed. The journey took three days on an Amtrak train.
Romo is of Mexican descent, but she grew up in Eagle Pass, Texas, a border town with few (legal) economic opportunities. "Either you drive a truck or you sell drugs or you know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who gets you a job," she says.
That first summer in Minnesota, Romo found work providing daycare to the children of migrant workers. Even with two wage earners, the family's living situation was difficult. Initially they lived in the basement of a family friend's home. Then they secured a trailer at the Cannon River Trailer Park that they shared with relatives. Clothes were communal property too. On weekends they pored through yard sales for bargains. "Everything we could get for free we'd take," Romo notes.
The reception that her family received in Faribault was not friendly. She recalls hunting for an apartment back in 1991 and being informed by the landlord that cockroaches were not welcome at the complex. "That was our first taste of Faribault," she remembers. "You would walk into a store and they would just stare at you."
Despite the chilly reception, Romo and her family migrated between Faribault and the Mexican border for the next seven years, arriving in Minnesota each summer in time for the vegetable harvest. Then, in 1998, after her husband secured a year-round position at Seneca Foods, the family became permanent Minnesota residents.
It's a transition that has been duplicated by thousands of Mexican families in the last decade all over rural Minnesota, in towns like Willmar, Worthington, Albert Lea, and Faribault. "When I came in '91 you would only see the Mexicans, or the Hispanics, in the summer," Romo notes.
Faribault is the seat of Rice County, 60 miles south of the Twin Cities, with a population of roughly 20,000. Ever since the Mdewakanton Sioux Indians were driven out of the area following an uprising in 1862, the overwhelming majority of residents have been white. In the last decade, however, Faribault's racial profile has changed dramatically. Between 1990 and 2000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of Hispanic residents jumped from less than 1 percent to 15 percent. These immigrants have been followed by other economic pilgrims, most notably refugees from Somalia and Sudan. More than a quarter of the students now enrolled in kindergarten at the Faribault public schools speak a language other than English at home.
The main impetus for this influx of foreign-born residents is jobs. The largest employer of immigrant labor in Faribault is the Jennie-O Turkey Store, a subsidiary of Hormel Foods that employs roughly 600 people, predominantly Somalis. Canneries like Faribault Foods and Primera Foods also hire many foreign-born residents. "Immigration is almost exclusively driven by food processing in south central Minnesota," says Katherine Fennelly, a professor at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Public Policy who has been studying immigration issues in Faribault for the last two years.
Driven by a desire to lower labor costs, eliminate unions, and increase profits, many slaughterhouses have moved from cities to rural areas over the last three decades. The accompanying jobs generally pay less than $10 an hour, are extremely dangerous, and offer little in the way of security or benefits. For the most part, immigrants are the only people willing to work under these conditions. "It's very hard work--low prestige work," notes Fennelly. "I think it's quite safe to say that the white U.S.-born residents are not coming to work in these plants."
As in other small towns across Minnesota, the rapid integration of large numbers of immigrants into Faribault has proven turbulent. The various ethnic groups are largely segregated and seldom interact. Many newcomers feel alienated and unwanted. The cops and courts have found themselves struggling to deal with residents who don't speak English and have little understanding of U.S. laws. And in many towns, elderly white residents have organized groups to fight immigration and shine a harsh spotlight on illegal residents.
Whether Faribault's white residents choose to believe it or not, immigrants could be the key to the town's survival. According to the Rural Policy Center, the population of south central Minnesota increased by 7,000 people during the 1990s, but only 470 of these new residents were white non-Hispanics.
"You've got to look at the pluses," argues Dan Burns, a program supervisor at South Central Technical College and a member of Faribault's Diversity Coalition, a group set up to grapple with immigration issues. "We can't have it both ways. You can't say, 'Yes, we need you to work in our plants, but at six o'clock we don't want to see you anymore.'"
Paul Westrum doesn't see any upside to immigration. For the last decade, the 60-year-old retiree and Albert Lea resident has been the primary force behind organized resistance to immigration in Minnesota. Two years ago he helped start the Steele County Coalition for Immigration Reduction. He claims that there are now 26 other like-minded organizations across Minnesota.
On a Tuesday evening in June, Westrum is addressing roughly 50 Steele County Coalition supporters at a senior citizens' center in Owatonna. The assembled throng has a few traits in common: They are old and white, and they believe fervently that immigration is destroying Minnesota. Westrum has brought along some sweatshirts and T-shirts to sell. The word "Freedom" is emblazoned on the front. Across the back is a seemingly contradictory slogan: "Here in America We Speak English." Westrum boasts that more than 500 shirts have been sold so far. "We had a guy that was at the Mall of America and somebody bought the shirt right off of his back," he marvels.
Westrum is followed to the podium by Marlene Nelson, a 59-year-old Owatonna resident. She's a squat, white-haired woman with a bullhorn voice and brash manner. Nelson has twice run unsuccessfully for city council, losing the first time by just eight votes. The topic of her talk tonight is the federal government's H-1B visa program, which allows foreign workers in specialized fields such as engineering or computer programming to work legally in the United States for up to six years. Currently, as many as 195,000 such workers enter the country each year under the program.
Nelson believes that these temporary workers are taking away high-paying jobs from American citizens. She takes pains, however, to couch her argument as pro-American rather than anti-immigrant. "Now, don't blame the people who are here on H-1B," Nelson cautions. "They're being told that America doesn't have the brainpower to do our own work. They're not the villains in this. It's Congress and big business that concocted this idea."
This tone changes near the end of Nelson's speech, when she invokes the specter of California and its ongoing budget crisis. "They've been invaded and they've had too many people coming in," she proclaims. "I think it's a preview of what's going to happen here if we don't do something about it. We really need to get a handle on cutting down the numbers coming in and we need to get Americans back working. They need jobs too."
Anti-immigration advocates like Nelson and Westrum walk a fine line between jingoism and outright racism. Many of the organizations across the country that lobby for curtailing immigration and cracking down on illegal residents receive funding through the Pioneer Fund, a philanthropic organization that was founded by Wycliffe P. Draper, a millionaire businessman who promoted sending blacks back to Africa. The organization also was a primary supporter of research that sought to prove that whites are inherently smarter than blacks.
The Steele County Coalition itself has no financial ties to the Pioneer Fund. The group relies on the volunteer work and donations of its supporters, who are predominently retirees who feel threatened by the vast demographic changes in their part of the state. Their activities are largely confined to writing letters to the editor and collecting petition signatures. No such organization has taken shape in Faribault, but Westrum and Nelson vow to start a group in the near future.
Anti-immigration advocates generally rely on inflammatory statistics to prop up their arguments. They point out, for example, that the foreign-born population in Minnesota increased by 130 percent in the Nineties. While this is accurate, it obscures how small a fraction of the overall population immigrants remain. According to the 2000 census, there are roughly 260,000 foreign-born residents of Minnesota. This amounts to just five percent of the overall population. "They make it sound like batten down the hatches, there's thousands and thousands of immigrants coming to Minnesota. That's just not the case," says Professor Fennelly.
Immigration-reform advocates also consistently portray foreign-born residents as leeches, sucking out tax dollars for social services while contributing nothing in return. However, a 2000 study conducted by economist James Kielkopf for the Center for Rural Policy and Development determined that in south central Minnesota, Hispanic workers contributed $484 million annually to the economy. What's more, he estimated that such residents bolstered the local tax base by $45 million and contributed $76 million to the federal coffers--easily outpacing any government expenditures necessitated by their presence. According to 2002 U.S. Census Bureau statistics, 66 percent of foreign-born residents are employed, compared to 71 percent for native-born Minnesotans.
These statistics are nowhere to be found during the Steele County Coalition meeting. The immigrants discussed this evening are busy committing crimes, living off welfare, and stealing American jobs. Esther Dabill, another of the evening's speakers, is concerned about the possibility that Muslim residents might be permitted to have their driver's license photos taken while wearing head scarves that obscure their faces. Dabill cites a recent Florida case that she heard about on The O'Reilly Factor in which a woman sought to have her picture taken with just her eyes showing. Although the woman was rebuffed by the courts, Dabill is worried that such accommodations might be made in Minnesota. "I went down to the driver's license office and asked the clerk there, 'What happens if a woman comes in with her face covered and that's the way she wants to have her picture taken?'" Dabill tells the audience. "She said, 'We don't let her do it. She doesn't like it, but we make her remove all of it, except she can leave her hair covered.'" The clerk's response did little to reassure Dabill. "They're trying to repeal that in Minnesota," she insists.
Sue Zollar, the next speaker, is concerned that illegal immigrants might be allowed to attend college. She mentions recently introduced federal legislation, known as "The Dream Act," that would permit undocumented high school graduates who have been in the country for more than five years to qualify for in-state tuition rates. "You, the American taxpayers, should not have to foot the bill for illegal immigrants to attend our colleges and universities," she says. "Yet Congress has proposed to make this outrage the law of the land."
The final speaker of the evening is Amon Hilo, a stoop-shouldered man with a shaky voice and trembling hands. His rambling speech jumps from the perils of diversity to the Holy Trinity, and ends with a sort-of call to arms. "We're never going to influence anything and we're never going to change anything just by possessing facts," Hilo informs the group. "As a Christian, I myself feel the first response to what we've heard tonight must be to pray, because that's the only way to bring the change that's necessary." Hilo then goes on to declare that the country has been "conquered by pagan philosophies and ideas and thoughts." Marlene Nelson finally manages to usher Hilo off the stage with a nervous smile.
After the meeting I speak with Esther Dabill. She became involved with the Steele County Coalition out of frustration over not being eligible for government benefits. After twice battling leukemia, Dabill relates, she wound up unable to work at age 56 and sought financial assistance from Steele County. The government proved to be of no help. "As a native-born Minnesotan, I wasn't eligible for any services whatsoever even though I couldn't work," she claims. "And I'm a single person, so I have to take care of myself."
We're soon joined by Marlene Nelson. She takes umbrage at the suggestion that the Steele County Coalition and other anti-immigration groups are racist. "We deal in facts here," Nelson says. "That's why I get so upset with people saying we're like the KKK, or we're racist or bigoted. That's not true." To illustrate this point, Nelson tells a story about an Owatonna resident originally from Jamaica whom she befriended. She says that they began chatting regularly over coffee and that he agreed with her views on immigration. The man, who went by the nickname Ten Speed, had even promised to accompany Nelson to an upcoming Steele County Coalition meeting. "Well, before I could pick him up he got arrested in Central Park, right in downtown Owatonna, for being an illegal immigrant," Nelson says incredulously. "How silly I would have looked if I had brought him to this meeting."
As people begin to head home for the evening, I'm buttonholed by Amon Hilo. He says that he worked on the assembly line as a deboner at the Turkey Store in Faribault in the mid-'90s and witnessed firsthand how cultural diversity plays out on the factory floor. "I would have always thought that the Hmong and the Vietnamese and the Cambodians, being from the same general part of the world, that they would sort of work together and cooperate," he says. "But they hated one another. Knife fights! They had to call the cops because guys with big boning knives would get in knife fights."
Hilo is at a loss as to what should be done about all the problems that he associates with immigration. Luckily, he has ruled out violence as an option. "Is me putting anthrax in an envelope gonna solve anything?" he asks. "Or me getting my carry license, and getting my pistol, and going over there to the cultural diversity meeting and shooting all those people? What's that gonna do? Violence don't propagate the truth, you see?"
Fatima arrived in Minneapolis in 2001 directly from a Kenyan refugee camp. Four months later--single, unemployed, and unable to speak English--she moved to Faribault to take a job at the Turkey Store. She worked on the plant's assembly line, slicing up one turkey after another as it passed by overhead, earning $9.50 an hour. The repetitive, arduous work eventually caused Fatima to tear her rotator cuff. (Fearing retaliation from the company, Fatima did not want her real name used in this article.)
After having surgery, Fatima returned to work. Initially, per doctor's orders, she was placed in a less physically taxing job. This reprieve didn't last long. According to Fatima, the company insisted that she return to a job on the assembly line, even though she had not been cleared by her doctor. Unable to speak English, she felt powerless to argue with her immediate supervisors. "No matter how much you get injured, you have to be working," Fatima says through a translator.
When she attempted to bring up her medical problems with officials at the Turkey Store, Fatima says she was punished. In one instance she was sent home from work early. Then she was suspended for two weeks without pay. Fatima remained on the job because she didn't know where else she could find work and her family members back in Somalia were depending on her for support. In order to try to protect herself, Fatima got involved with a union drive being conducted at the plant by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW).
Fatima believes this ultimately led to her ouster. In May, the company fired her, supposedly for poor work habits. However, the two instances of troublesome behavior cited in the termination letter occurred in 2001 and 2002. There was no mention of any recent event that might have led to her dismissal.
Donaldson Lawhead, an Austin attorney who is representing Fatima, believes that her case is part of a disturbing pattern. "They're taking people who have injuries and they're putting them in jobs that exceed what the doctor says they should be doing. And when they complain, they say they're guilty of misconduct," argues Lawhead. He is currently representing seven other workers who have been injured on the job.
Because Fatima was fired for purported misconduct, she is ineligible for workers' compensation. Lawhead has filed an appeal with the U.S. Department of Labor arguing that her injuries entitle her to compensation. The UFCW is also considering filing charges of labor-law violations with the National Labor Relations Board.
Andrew Mason, an organizer with the UFCW, contends that firing workers when they get injured or display support for the union is a tactic that the Turkey Store uses to bully its employees. Workers at the slaughterhouse used to be represented by the UFCW, but in the mid-'90s the plant was temporarily shut down. When it reopened, the union had been ousted and wages had been cut. Since that time, the workforce has become increasingly dominated by immigrants, particularly Somalis.
Mason has been attempting to organize Turkey Store employees since February, but without much success. He blames the lack of progress on ignorance among the workers and intimidation by the company. "The immigrant workers are not aware of what their rights are and they're not aware of what to do," Mason says. He alleges that the company is constantly holding meetings to discourage employees from organizing and that workers are forced to stand outside the plant with anti-union placards each time the UFCW hands out leaflets. "Basically the organizing campaign is in neutral due to the effect of the intimidation by the company," Mason says.
It is impossible to discern the Turkey Store's take on these allegations. The plant's human resources director referred inquiries to an office inWillmar. Repeated calls over a two-month period were not returned.
Kymn Anderson, executive director of the Faribault Chamber of Commerce, defends the Turkey Store's employment practices, arguing that the company has gone out of its way to accommodate the needs of employees. For example, the Turkey Store has created a prayer room for its Muslim workers. "We have found them to be a great partner in the community for issues that have come up," Anderson says.
The prayer room will be of little help to Fatima. She is now living with a cousin in Minneapolis and remains unemployed.
On a muggy thursday evening shortly before the Fourth of July, 27-year-old police officer Eric Sammon is providing me with a tour of the Cannon River Trailer Park. It's a relatively slow night on patrol. So far we've delivered a sick cat to the Humane Society and responded to a purported burglary that turned out to be someone breaking into his own home.
Sammon is a Faribault native. The three-year veteran of the police department is roughly 5'6", with a square jaw and baby face. He wears a pair of wraparound silver shades to augment his police blues. "Back in my high school days and my elementary school days, it was pretty much all white," Sammon says of his hometown.
The Cannon River Trailer Park is a cluster of almost 200 mobile homes situated alongside State Road 21. "This is probably our worst trailer park right here, as far as getting calls," Sammon ventures. He drives slowly down the narrow roads, occasionally waving to the Hispanic kids who are clustered everywhere, riding bikes or shooting off firecrackers. Some of the trailers are dilapidated, scarred with broken windows and splintered siding. Others are pristine, with neat gardens squeezed into sandbox-sized yards. "That one burned down about two months ago," Sammon says, pointing to a ramshackle structure rendered uninhabitable by fire. "I can't remember what it was from. I think it was a stove." Cars are squeezed into every conceivable inch of space, as many as five per trailer.
Sammon figures that over the last seven years, Cannon River has morphed from an entirely white enclave to one that is now perhaps 90 percent Hispanic. No matter what ethnic group dominates, however, it has remained a hot spot for the police. "It used to be all our whites that were in trouble that lived here," he notes.
The arrival of significant numbers of foreign-born residents over the last decade has presented Faribault's cops and courts with some predicaments. The chief problem is language. Of the police force's 28 officers, not one is fluent in Spanish or Somali. Police Chief Michael Lewis says that it's extremely difficult to hire bilingual cops, because such officers are highly sought after by larger departments.
Last year the police department spent $6,000 on translation services, a figure that rises annually. On one criminal sexual conduct case alone this year, the department has shelled out $2,500 to pay translators. With the city facing a serious fiscal crunch, Lewis says that the police department might have to make do without such services in the future. "One of the things we may have to look at with budget cuts is relying on the community to help themselves," he says.
The recent arrest of Nooh Mohamud Abdille, a 21-year-old Somali man who was employed at the Turkey Store, offers a window into the difficulties facing law enforcement agencies. On June 28, at 2:30 a.m., police officers were dispatched to an apartment in downtown Faribault to investigate a domestic assault. According to the criminal complaint, after a night of drinking at Denny's Bar, Abdille threatened to kill his uncle and then stabbed him with a kitchen knife. Because neither of the men spoke much English, the police ran into immediate problems conducting the investigation. "They didn't get statements from all the witnesses right away because they didn't have an interpreter," says Rice County Attorney Paul Beaumaster.
Abdille was eventually charged with three felonies, including second degree attempted murder. At his arraignment two days later, however, there was again no interpreter available. The hearing had to be postponed for a week. Abdille is now awaiting trial.
Language is not the only stumbling block for law enforcement officials in dealing with people from other countries. Many immigrants run afoul of the law repeatedly because they don't have a valid driver's license or insurance. The problem stems primarily from ignorance rather than malevolence. "Sometimes they just don't understand the concept of a license," Beaumaster says. "They will share a license between six guys--six guys with one license." In addition, when non-English speakers have their licenses suspended because of violations, they often can't read the notices that come in the mail. "They don't come in Somalian," Beaumaster notes.
In order to prevent people from continuously cycling through the courts for petty violations, the county attorney's office is now trying to set up a diversion program. The details of the plan are still being worked out, but the hope is to offer non-English speakers education services that will help them permanently steer clear of driving infractions. "If you can get somebody off that cycle and back on line for 100 bucks, it's a bargain," argues Beaumaster.
There is some evidence that minority residents aren't getting a fair shake from the Faribault cops. A study of racial profiling released last month found that Hispanics are six times more likely than whites to have their vehicles searched when they're pulled over by the police in Faribault. What's more, Hispanics are three times less likely to be caught with contraband when a search is conducted. Chief Lewis is not willing to concede that racial profiling is a problem, however. He contends that each traffic stop involves unique circumstances that raw numbers don't take into account. "It's not exactly crystal clear, clean cut," he argues. "There are other factors involved."
During my night with the Faribault police, most of the post-twilight hours are indeed spent dealing with traffic stops, along with drunks and fireworks scofflaws. After a mid-shift break at the Truckers Inn, I begin riding with 31-year-old rookie officer Eric Bengtson. He has a goatee and a steel-trap memory that he primarily uses to reproduce movie dialogue and to catalog the crimes of Faribault's citizens. "I see one of our local scumbags back there," Bengtson notes as we drive through downtown around 11:30 p.m. "He did a home invasion on an 87-year-old woman and threw her to the ground." He checks to see if the guy has any outstanding warrants, but the scumbag comes back clean.
Roughly an hour later, a black kid wearing a stocking cap catches Bengtson's attention. "It seems a little odd, when it's this hot out, this muggy out, that he's wearing a stocking cap," he reasons. "So we'll follow him and see what he's doing." After tailing the vehicle for several blocks, Bengtson concludes that the driver's not up to any trouble.
We spend bar-closing time milling outside Spike's Bar & Grill, a local watering hole that's the only jumping joint in town this evening. The (almost entirely white) patrons do a boozy double take as they exit the bar and spy two squad cars. After weighing the odds of getting behind the wheel drunk with the cops looking on, most of them either call a cab or walk home.
As we're leaving Spike's, a call comes over the transom reporting a disturbance at the Cannon River Trailer Park. Four squad cars arrive to find three Hispanic guys--two of them shirtless--sitting on their back porch amidst a pile of beer bottles and a boom box. The men look bleary-eyed and bewildered, communicating with the cops in broken English. Bengtson ventures into the trailer to survey the scene. "It's hotter than shit in that back room," he reports. Finally, after taking down the men's names and warning them to keep it down, the cops depart.
After seven hours on patrol, it's clear that Faribault's citizens all have at least a couple of things in common--a fondness for booze and a tendency to behave poorly under its influence.
Carrie Romo still lives in the Cannon River Trailer Park, but few other details of her life remain the same. In the 12 years since first arriving in Faribault, she's earned a degree from South Central Technical College, taken additional classes at Augsburg College, and now works as the Hispanic liaison for the Faribault public elementary schools.
Romo's job is to help Spanish-speaking families navigate the U.S. education system. Earlier this year, for example, a fifth-grade student who was frequently missing classes was referred to her by a teacher. It turned out that the student was being kept at home by her parents to help care for a younger sibling. Romo paid a visit to the mother and explained that school was not optional. "The next day the child was at school."
Romo believes that Faribault has also come a long way since 1991, as evidenced by the very fact that there is a Hispanic liaison employed by the school district. But there are still problems. When asked what services exist to help Somali school kids adjust to their new homes, Romo simply shakes her head back and forth: "None, none, none." In addition, the Hispanic liaison position was recently cut from full-time to part-time due to budget constraints.
Children of undocumented residents, in particular, face a quandary when it comes to education. While they are permitted to enroll in public schools, many are then unable to attend college because they lack a valid social security number. "The Dream Act," which was introduced in Congress last year, would change that by allowing high school graduates who have been in the country for five years to attend public universities at in-state tuition rates.
Angie Gil, a senior at Faribault High School, has helped organize a group to garner support for the measure locally. Gil's family is originally from Guatemala, but she was born in the United States and grew up in New York City. Her family moved to Faribault eight years ago to escape the city and be near relatives. "They liked it here and we got stuck moving here," Gil laughs. "It's boring. It's a small town. There's a lot of people here who are racist. I don't mind anymore. It's them."
While Gil herself would not be helped by The Dream Act, she has friends and relatives who are here illegally. "They have a dream to go to college and they can't," she notes. "They can't go to college. They can't work. They just end up going back to their own country."
Residents of Faribault have generally come to terms with the fact that most immigrants aren't going anywhere. In recent years, the town has made a genuine effort to embrace their presence. The most concrete reflection of this is the establishment of a "Welcome Center." Located in a city-owned house downtown, the facility serves as a one-stop resource for any difficulties that residents encounter, from an inability to read the phone bill to an empty cupboard.
The facility has provided a lifeline for residents like Mariana Hernandez (not her real name), an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who has lived in Faribault for four years. She and her husband relocated from California on the advice of a relative, believing that jobs would be more plentiful and the cost of living cheaper. When the couple first arrived, they shared a one-bathroom trailer with 18 other people.
Hernandez turned to the Welcome Center for help after her husband was laid off from his agricultural job earlier this year and they didn't have enough money to feed their two toddlers. "Es dificil," sighs Hernandez, a statement that needs no translation. She applied for financial assistance from the county, but couldn't read any of the materials that she received in the mail. For months, every time she received a notice from the county--or any other mail she couldn't understand--she would take it to the Welcome Center to have it translated.
Unfortunately, the Welcome Center is facing serious fiscal problems. From last October until the end of July, the facility had a full-time Americorps worker assigned to it, but the funding for that position has since been eliminated. In order to keep the facility staffed, a fundraising campaign was organized this summer with a goal of raising $50,000. It only brought in $6,000. For now, the center has pieced together enough volunteer help to keep the doors open. The Turkey Store has promised to provide interpreters to work at the facility for eight hours each week and a grant from Rice County Family Services Collaborative is providing another 12 hours of staffing. "If you add it together, we'll be able to cover a good portion of the week," reasons Welcome Center coordinator Bob Kell.
Not all immigrants are coming to Faribault out of economic necessity. Abdi Omar, a native of Somalia, relocated from Chicago late last year after determining that there was a business opportunity to be exploited in south central Minnesota. In February, he and a business partner opened Banadir, a restaurant and bodega located on Central Avenue in downtown Faribault.
"There's our community here and there's just a need to serve them," Omar says in stilted English. "And we need to get the money from them too." At this he bursts out in laughter. "We're going to kill two birds with one stone."
Despite its geographically specific name, Banadir does not cater exclusively to the Somali community. The front of the restaurant is painted in red, green, and white, the colors of the Mexican flag--a remnant from the previous tenant. Inside there are other reminders of the prior business: oversized sombreros and colorful Mexican blankets line the walls. At the rear of the store is a modest restaurant. There are eight tables covered with red-checked tablecloths of the type usually associated with pizza parlors. The product selection is equally eclectic. Halal meat, prepared in accordance with Muslim scripture, is available, as are cactus tostadas, imported from Mexico, and bottles of cologne. The television is tuned to MSNBC.
A Hispanic man comes into the store and grabs a drink out of the refrigerator. As the customer approaches the counter, Omar attempts to engage him in conversation. "Que pasa?" he asks.
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Vogtland Coil-Overs ON SALE – $799!!Posted on October 25, 2011 – 9:33 am
Vogtland Coil Overs for the Audi (B5) A4/S4, Audi A3 TDI/2.0T, Volkswagen (Mk5/6) GTI/Jetta/Rabbit, and (B6) Passat/CC are ON SALE at $799!! These ("sister company to KW" branded) coil overs offer a great bang-for-buck performance upgrade and a decent amount of ride height adjustment (similar to the KW V1s). We've put them to the test on our very own ACHTUN!NG VW (Mk5) Jetta track car this season and they've proven themselves time and time again. Click on the image above to be directed to an online order, or give us a call at 425.895.0000 and order these IN STOCK coil overs TODAY!! Offer good while supplies last.
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APR ECU Upgrade for Jesse's Gorgeous CCPosted on November 16, 2010 – 10:46 am
Jesse's CC had an ECU that was begging for APR software. While the 2.0T is a peppy motor for a mid-sized sedan, a slightly higher idle, better fuel economy, and 250 hp accompanied with 294 lbs/ft of torque is really more the appropriate power delivery needed for a car that looks this good!
This CC sits over a set of machined/anthracite, 19×8.5 (+38) Hartmann HRS4-252 Wheels using KONI coil-overs. Not only does it look the part, with the help of an APR ECU upgrade it moves like it should!
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No more wheel gap for ACHTUN!NG's CCPosted on August 18, 2010 – 9:15 am
We threw on the KONI SS Coil-Overs last night. We cranked the suspension down all the way just to see how much ground clearance we'd have left. This is definitely not the ride height for everyone, and certainly does compromise a bit of ride comfort, but damn does it look good!
Time to try on some Hartmann Wheels!!
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Whether you are a visitor, student, or staff member, we encourage you to become familiar with our parking policies during your time with us on campus. Due to the high numbers of cars on our campus at any given time for classes and special events, we have established guidelines for where you can park, when you can park, and how long you can park (in several of our parking areas). Please be respectful of those spaces around campus that are designated for persons with a disability as well as those spaces on campus that are reserved for visitors to our campus. Parking in designated areas can save you time and money.
All employees and students with a vehicle on campus are required to have a parking permit. These permits may be obtained at the Police Services Office, located directly across Orchard Drive from the Multipurpose Activities Center at the main entrance to campus. Parking permits are made available free of charge. Parking permits are valid for an academic year. New student permits must be obtained at the beginning of each fall semester, or when students arrive on campus. Lost or damaged permits may be replaced at any time. Parking regulations booklets are distributed at orientation and may be obtained at the Police Services office at any time.
University Police strive to enforce all parking regulations with fairness and diligence but occasionally mistakes can be made. If you have been issued a parking ticket, and you believe the ticket was issued in error, an appeal process is available. Forms for appeals are available at the Police Services Building. All appeals must be filed within 20 days of the date of the violation notice. Full payment for the violation must be paid at the time of the appeal. University Police cannot accept payments for parking violations, Payments must be made at the Campus Life Office, 207 Conklin Hall. If the appeal is granted, the payment will be refunded. If the appeal is denied, the payment will be retained to cover the fine specified on the violation notice. You must attach a copy of the receipt of payment to the appeal form. If you are a visitor to campus and have received a parking violation notice for not having a permit, please stop by the Police Services building and speak to one of our officers as this situation can easily be remedied.
If you have any questions regarding campus safety or security, please feel free to contact the officer on duty at 717-749-6070.
It's important to be aware that current campus improvement projects will preclude parking in the visitor parking lot this summer.
The map below illustrates the designated parking areas on campus. A larger downloadable map is available here.
When you cross the bridge onto campus, please continue to the right, up the hill, then stay right at the Y.
You'll arrive at a stop sign at the Bookstore, where you'll then continue straight.
The road will curve to the left, and as you begin to drive back down the hill, you'll see parking behind the General Studies building. Look for the blue area behind building 4 on the Campus Map. You're welcome to park in any of the appropriate spots there.
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Good point I agree. How much expensive I bet.
This is a discussion on Night Vision Equipment within the Related Gear & Equipment forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Who uses it? Is this a serious topic for a home defense discussion? It would seem to me to be more effective than a flashlight....
Who uses it? Is this a serious topic for a home defense discussion? It would seem to me to be more effective than a flashlight.
Sig 226, 228. Glock 19, 23. Smith Model 60,and 1911. XD45 Tactical. Mossberg 930 SPX.
How we behave as gun owners is important. Posturing and threatening does not serve us well in the public eye.
Good point I agree. How much expensive I bet.
I love my Smith model 60 , been packing one near 40 years now.
You don't shoot to kill;you shoot to stay alive.
State of the art night vision will cost you too much. Besides....all of the systems have their drawbacks and weak points. Pros and cons. Even if you can afford it....the best night vision optics available today see their best use with our military in flying machines, and helping them discern friend from foe. Night vision optics also include you giving up some of your basic human instincts and senses. Peripheral vision for one. I remember the Starlight scopes and the AN/PVS 4 and how you could be blinded or washed out by someone lighting a match in total darkness, and how you couldn't expose them to daylight use as a scope or destroy them. Technology may have come a long way since then, but I still believe we should depend more upon ourselves than the aids we engineer for what purpose? The more aids we create means the more we are lacking. Of course in the technology age.......everything is cool. Whether it actually helps us or not is up to conjecture.
Night vision for frog giggin? That would be okay.
Personally, I dont have an use for it outside of scouting for deer, elk ... etc. It's too expensive to just sit in my closet.
"Government is not the solution to our problem; government IS the problem". - Ronald Reagan 1981
I think they probably have a fairly limited place in civilian use outside of public safety sector.
For example, night vision optics can be of limited use in night time search and rescue operations extending periods people can work. Most routine search operations are suspended at night because of the hazards. However, if say you had a river, swift water or flood rescue operation going on where there was immediate threat to loss of life, they may again have some limited use.
When I worked a major flood in Missouri once, we got to play around with some which belonged to the National Guard. They were cool and fun to use, but I didn't exactly see where they were indispensable.
For regular people, I think they are more of a play toy of the rich or those who don't have a better use of their money.
Semper Fi
"The gun is the great equalizer... For it is the gun, that allows the meek to repel the monsters; Whom are bigger, stronger and without conscience, prey on those who without one, would surely perish."
If you have the money to blow, then go for it.
If you are certain that you're going to be in deep *doo*doo at night, then a monocular 1x magnification would be very useful.
I considered the night vision options from Tactical Night Vision, but I'll let my inner kung-fu do the work until I win the Lotto.
Somebody hits you with a light and it will shut off for a few seconds long enough to be shot before you can react
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,"
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC .
I use it on a suppressed rifle to hunt coyotes.
Works great. No one knows what happened but me and the coyote.
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Now that would be a good use for Night Vision.
Semper Fi
"The gun is the great equalizer... For it is the gun, that allows the meek to repel the monsters; Whom are bigger, stronger and without conscience, prey on those who without one, would surely perish."
Coyote. It's what's for dinner!
I would love to have both a suppressor and NV gear for just that reason, though I can't imagine it would suppress my 30.06 much.
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Patrick HenryOriginally Posted by UnklFungus
I bet the coyote didn't know what happened either.I use it on a suppressed rifle to hunt coyotes.
Works great. No one knows what happened but me and the coyote
Not trying to make light of your topic - but toy section of my local WalMart carries the "EyeClops" night vision thingie. About $50. Doesn't mag light but does use infrared light with it's monoviewer. Might help in dark house to see without being seen.
Click on the nightvision icon at top slightly right of screen.
For God, Family and Country!
If you're looking for the good stuff check out the Gen 3 nvg's.
You will also need your big account check book too.
Don't believe what you hear and only half of what you see!
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That the Scriptures Might Be Fulfilled
The glory of Jesus Christ shines more clearly when we see Him in His proper relation to the Old Testament. He has a magnificent relation to all that was written. It is not surprising that this is the case, because …Read More
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"It need not further be denied," argued James Orr, "that between this view of the world involved in Christianity, and what is sometimes called 'the modern view of the world' there exists a deep and radical antagonism." James …Read More
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Restraining Sin: The Civil Use of the Law
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Dog Drawing 2 by JamiePickeringWatch
©2012-2016 JamiePickering
Graphite drawing of a Dog - Commissioned piece
29.7cm x 21cm
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29.7cm x 21cm
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This is amazing Jamie. Your very talented for sure!
amazing! what pencils do you use if you don't mind me asking? how do you get your black so "black" ?? You are so talented. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Derwent, its uk based tho so you might not see them in store, unless u order online.. Faber is a good make too.
Oh my God! He looks exactly like my dog. Wow, this is perfect. <3
this is great! how long did it took you to finish it?
A very handsome dog, such a lovely drawing
I luv the fur texture! :'D
Wonderful dog portrait, very aesthetic!
Wonderful pet portrait. I really like the softness and the smooth contrasts of the drawing. Lovely work!
what kind of pencil did you use?
ohmigosh. . . this is absolutely AMAZING. much better then anything that i could ever do. thrust me, when I draw dogs, it's just sad
Absolutely beautiful!
I love the dog's expression!
I love the dog's expression!
Jamie, this is outstanding work, I salute you, now I am in love with that doggie.
Gorgeous drawing and dog.
It's hard to draw animals
Great work
Great work
Lovely work! Beautiful, soft shading on this.
gorgeous work!
Great work!
I like how you captured the gloss in his fur
I like how you captured the gloss in his fur
Very nice job!
AMAZING Work! Congrats..
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Philippe Gilbert is a worthy world champion. Ask around the peloton and the team cars and everyone will tell you the same thing. Not just for the way he won this race, impressive though that was, but for the way he has built an entire career towards this moment.
No one was more surprised than me that I did actually manage to undertake some sporting activities last week, but I've yet to report back on my holiday activities in full, and as an historian (if you count a 2.2 in Contemporary History from the University of Sussex as qualification of this) I have huge respect for chronology.
There's a bigger legacy on the horizon, one which was not a part of the initial plans but has long been a frustrated dream that is now on the brink of being realised: tilting London's centre of gravity a few degrees to the east...
In the weeks leading up to the Paralympics the air was filled with a familiar, silent contradiction. The predominant line focused on how inspiring it was going to be, seeing athletes perform and overcome, despite their disabilities. At the same time, a ComRes poll found that sixty-six percent agreed that "people with disabilities are often regarded as second-rate citizens".
Last week, I went on a bit of a holiday. But there's no rest for the wicked, nor for those attempting to have a crack at every single Olympic sport, so I return with more tales of my sporty exploits, for which I know you will be grateful now that the actual real Olympics are over and we have to go back to talking about the economy, winter and all other things depressing.
As the last of the bunting is swept up and empty bottles gathered for recycling, thoughts inevitably turn towards The Legacy. Legacy was a cornerstone of our bid, and up until that opening scene of the opening ceremony had only really ever been contemplated in terms of the sporting legacy. "Good sport make good people do good sport..."
Yet, as the lights came down on the final day of the 'greatest show on earth', I was left asking the uncomfortable question - what next for this great nation?
The Olympic and Paralympic Games have been a huge success and demonstrated what can be achieved by the public and private sectors working together to ...
The Paralympic closing ceremony has finished. London 2012 is over and the Olympic flame is undoubtedly already covered in glitter, doused in caipirinha and in between a dancers butt cheeks as it makes it's merry way to Rio.
I loved this summer, even though we didn't go away and the sun wasn't always shining. I loved it as a sports fan and a Londoner. And I'm so glad that now everyone knows how great both those things can be.
The Olympics, apparently, has had the fortunate side effect of making us more human. But we didn't need fixing. We weren't devoid of compassion or community spirit; we were just looking for a way to show it.
What do we learn from the Olympics? The badminton players got booed for poor sportsmanship but were also expelled from the Games. One lesson simply is that regulations can work.
IC1s may look like naughty little boys... and well, yes they kind of are. They're the embodiment of good old fashioned rock n' roll, but we know their hearts are always in the right place.
Making the Emerging Icons corner of the Olympic Park into a blissful oasis of calm amid the madness was solo songstress Mary Leay. This lady doesn't half make this whole performing lark look easy. Not only can she relax a large crowd quicker than a triple disc edition of 'Calming Sounds of the Ocean', she can also make every individual feel like they're getting a personal performance.
The last night of sport at the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games coincided with the BBC's Last Night of the Proms on 8th September and it was a night full of Olympic tributes.
Today was a particularly special day for the us at the Olympic Park, because we had silver medal-winning gymnast Louis Smith down to pay the Emerging Icons stage a visit.


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Spike, John T.
Fra Angelico.
New York : Abbeville Press, ©1996
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|Angelico, fra; Angelico, fra; Angelico, fra; Fra Angelico
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John T Spike; Angelico, fra
|0789203227 9780789203229
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|280 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm
|Life and works --
Plates --
The San Domenico Altarpiece --
The San Pietro Martire Altarpiece --
The Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi --
Madonna della stella --
Last Judgment --
Santa Trinita Altarpiece --
Linaiuoli Tabernacle --
Coronation of the Virgin Altarpiece from San Domenico, Fiesole --
The San Marco Altarpiece --
Frescoes for the Convent of San Marco, Florence: Crucifixion with attendant saints; Annunciation; Madonna and child enthroned with eight saints (Madonna delle ombre); The Priests' cells; The Prior's double cell; Cosimo de' Medici's Double cell --
The Perugia Altarpiece --
Frescoes in the Chapel of San Brizio, Orvieto; Sixteen prophets; Christ seated in judgment --
Chapel of Nicholas --
Silver tresaury of Santissima Annunziata.
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Before the publication of Leon Battista Alberti's famous treatise). Another of Angelico's inventions was the Renaissance altar-piece known as the sacra conversazione (sacred conversation), in which the Virgin and Child and saints, formerly each rigidly enclosed in separate panels, now gesture and relate to each other within a clearly unified space. In this volume Spike presents a major discovery: the secret program of the forty frescoes in the cells of the Dominican.
Monastery of San Marco in Florence. All previous studies of this artist had concluded that the subjects and arrangement of these frescoes, the artist's masterworks, were chosen at random, or by the friars themselves. Instead, as the author now shows, Fra Angelico drew upon the mystical writings of the early church fathers to construct a spiritual exercise organized into three ascending levels of enlightenment. The San Marco frescoes can finally be seen as not only the.
Most extensive cycle of works by any single painter of this century, but indeed the most complete pictorial expression of Renaissance theology. This essential volume contains an extensive essay on the artist's life and work, followed by large color plates with detailed discussions of individual works. Finally, a catalog presents the artist's oeuvre, as revised by the author's new attributions. With lavish details of Angelico's works and an up-to-date bibliography, this.
Volume is not only a feast for the eyes but an indispensable resource for anyone interested in this critical period of the Renaissance.
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Nothing can be more painful than the cry of the word which gave us the inspiration to dream of love.
Sorin Cerin
Source: Wisdom Collection
Contributed by: lorasmith
No one can be alone when he befriends with the forgotten stranger inside him.
Being brave in front of faith does not mean to be humble before death.
Saints are those who managed to love more than we did.
We can never succeed in knowing our own self without holidays and anniversaries.
The soul is a prolonged anniversary of our lives in this world.
How much soul can include the self-salvation of sin?
Where else is the gate of life if not in the eyes of your soul?
We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live.
I adore you, my greatest love, as only through you I can find my moment's eternity.
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HOUSTON (April 7, 2014) One woman was hospitalized Monday in serious condition with wounds suffered when two armed men opened fire on a girl's 15th birthday party in a drive-by shooting, Houston police said.
The incident happened Saturday night at a banquet hall in northwestern Houston where a quinceanera was underway.
Police say two groups of men began arguing inside when one group was asked to leave.
The men left, but later returned with firearms in a truck, from which they opened fire on the banquet hall.
One bullet penetrated a glass door and wounded the woman in the side of her stomach.
Police said the wounded woman was believed to have been a bystander and not a target.
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Well, this seasons time for elephants in the wild and in fences to have their "slurps" and "burps!" after eating the yummy nutritious wood apples.... Piles of wood apples Weill be out in the market today for tomorrow and maybe a few more days.
Wood apple are the favourite food of elephants and thus finds a sacred place as offering to Lord Ganesha or Vinayagar. Falling in line with this, I remind you once again of the logo competition conducted globally for a local cause: please check on the post:
"My W(orld) E(nvironment) D(ay)ding Plan for 2015!!! LOGO COMPETITION!!!"
Wood apple is also known as Bel Fruits, Elephant Apples, Monkey Fruits and is botanically known as: Limonia acidissima. The characteristics oif this fruit are:
* Tough brown shells that resembles wood,
* Tasty, pulpy brown pulp with white seeds.
How to eat?
1. Scoop out and eat raw like any other fruit;
2. Scoop out, freeze and eat like ice cream;
3. Wood apple jams;
4. Wood apple milkshakes;
5. Wood apple chutney, and
6. Wood apple leaves are used to make chutney.
Nutritional Value:
They are rich source of vitamins (in specific Vitamin C), tannins, calcium, phosphorous, finer, protein and iron.
As I plan to relish a few wood apple this year, I request you to join my quest to raise funds for these wood apple lovers - temple elephants!


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A very special father: Marty Haws has done everything he can to help his children succeed
Said one of the sons: "My dad only rebounds for me. He hasn't dared to play me one-on-one since I was 13."
Another son's quote: "My dad doesn't have to say anything at my games. I can hear his voice in my head and know what he's thinking."
That is a gift, says Holt, a Haws watcher for a decade and a half.
"What Marty understands is that the better job he does at developing his boys as young men, the better they are at playing basketball," said Holt. "He's used basketball as the vehicle to develop his boys into tremendous young men.
"Time, commitment, work and focus — all the things coaches love about basketball — Marty's just seized on that. Those boys have worked hard for everything they've got. Their church gym has been worked over by Marty and those kids for hours, hours and hours and that has carried over to them gaining character and becoming outstanding young men. That character makes champions and balance is the key to sport."
Holt has traveled extensively with his AAU team and Marty and his sons. Three years ago when TJ and many of his AAU teammates were making it big on the national scene as 10th-graders, Holt was hip deep in working as Orem High's basketball coach. He was getting some pushback from parents because he was demanding a lot of their time: "Well, I have Scout camp," they'd tell him. "I have a vacation planned. I can be here this time but not that time." Holt was thinking, "Hey, we've got to be all in if we want to be champions."
He decided to call Marty because he trusted his judgment as a barometer and catalyst of what to demand. "Do you think, in basketball, we do too much?" he asked. "Do we ask too much?"
Holt thought he'd get in a long philosophical discussion from Marty.
Instead, Marty fired back, "No, there's never too much. Golden, all I know is if we aren't in the gym working that morning our competitor is, and he's getting better, so there's never too much."
"This is why," said Holt, "Tyler is reaching every bit of the talent God has given him and TJ is nipping at his heels."
Continuing my intrusion into the Haws family, I fired off some questions to Tiffanie about Marty's father modus operandi.
Deseret News: How did Marty get a boy to get out of bed so early to go work out?
Tiffanie Haws: Marty was always very honest with our boys' strengths and weaknesses. He never sugarcoated anything to them. I think he told them from a very early age that if they didn't get up and work out that they simply would not be able to attain what they wanted to attain. Having said that, Marty would have been fine if they would have wanted to only play rec ball, but both of our boys came with a dream to do more.
DN: What made your kids so competitive, to really care so deeply about winning and succeeding?
TH: I know a lot of that just comes with you, but Ty and TJ grew up in (an extended) family that lives and dies for sports. Every year since the time Ty was 3 years old his Grandpa Ralph (Haws) has held an annual kids basketball camp. Cousins and uncles get pretty intense and competitive out on the court. When you grow up in that type of environment, you can't help but want to be good. Ty always wanted to succeed like his dad. TJ always believed he was better than both of them. We have had many one-on-one games on our court that have ended in tears and sometimes a little blood.
DN: Has Marty taught that winning is important as a goal but isn't everything? How did he do it?
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Neatx: Google Releases Its Own NX Server
Internet giant Google is now entering the terminal server market. With Neatx, its own Python adaptation of the FreeNX sources, a GPL server has recently become available.
According to a blog-cum-press-release, the search engine wizards have long had an eye on NX. The technological advancement and the licensing under GPL by its maker NoMachine was the impetus.
Google itself calls the Neatx software proof-of-concept. It uses open source from another Google project, Ganeti, a cluster manager tool for virtualization systems such as Xen and KVM. In the medium term Neatx should fluidly remedy virtualized systems and terminal server connections with high latencies, most often the case in mobile wireless setups.
The NX technology was originally developed by Italian company NoMachine, the base libraries having been under GPL since 2003 and also being developed by FreeNX since 2004. A number of terminal server projects such as X2go and OpenNX build on NX.
NX's strength lies in its compression and intelligent proxying, where almost every X event on the terminal server interface has a corresponding compression or caching algorithm available to it. Thus fluid sessions of 5 to 10 Kbits per second are common. The NX client can connect Mac, Linux or Windows with Linux, Windows or VNC servers and brings along a good number of management functions in its commercial version from NoMachine.
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Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
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U.S. Seeks to Speed Satellite Air-Traffic Control
The U.S. is seeking to speed installation of a satellite-based system to control airplanes in flight and may offer airlines incentives to add the technology ahead of a 2020 deadline, regulators said.
The upgrade of the air-traffic network to boost safety, cut delays and save fuel will cost $2.1 billion to $4.1 billion, shared by the government and carriers, Federal Aviation Administrator Randy Babbitt said today on a conference call with reporters. The system, dubbed NextGen by the FAA, uses satellites to direct aircraft rather than ground-based radar.
The Obama administration has considered offering incentives to airlines as a way to install the satellite navigation equipment sooner, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said on the call, without offering details.
"We have the White House's attention on this, significant enough people where there could be some opportunities for us to be helpful to them along the way," LaHood said. "If we want the airlines to be a part of it, we have to move things along."
NextGen will reduce total flight delays by about 21 percent by 2018, according to the Federal Aviation Administration's website.
The installation of new equipment in airplanes, required by an FAA rule announced in 2007, is one step in the 20-year upgrading of the network that controls the nation's airspace.
Contracts Awarded
Yesterday, the agency awarded Boeing Co., based in Chicago, along with Falls Church, Virginia-based General Dynamics Corp. and White Plains, New York-based ITT Corp. contracts to help integrate new procedures and technologies into the air-traffic system, the FAA said in an e-mailed statement. The contracts are worth as much as $4.4 billion in the next 10 years, it said.
Babbitt said he doesn't expect resistance from airlines to the performance standards for the equipment announced today.
"They clearly see the benefit," he said. "The business case for NextGen becomes clearer daily."
The Air Transport Association, the largest trade group for U.S. airlines, is "carefully reviewing" the rule given its cost, Chief Executive Officer James C. May said today in an e-mailed statement.
"Any rule requiring this type of equipage and expense must be based on a solid business case in which the true benefits and real costs are fully understood and justified," May said.
The Washington-based association's members include Delta Air Lines Inc., the biggest U.S. passenger carrier, and United Parcel Service Inc., which flies cargo and voluntarily installed satellite-based technology in its planes.
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The new system allows pilots and controllers to see the same air-traffic configurations at the same time, including the locations and directions of other planes.
The system duplicates what exists with radio transponders and will be expensive for small plane owners, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the largest group representing general aviation, said in a statement.
"Since the 1990s, AOPA has worked with the FAA on the development of space-based navigation," said Melissa Rudinger, the Frederick, Maryland-based group's senior vice president of government affairs. "The industry has always maintained that the migration to the new system must be benefits-driven."


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The best-selling vehicle in Nissan Canada's product lineup, the Rogue was completely redesigned for the 2014 model year and is available in three well-equipped trim levels: S, SV and SL (the latter two available with either front-wheel drive or AWD).
The Rogue offers optional three-row/seven-passenger seating, along with passenger and cargo flexibility thanks to its EZ Flex seating system and Divide-N-Hide cargo system.
All Rogues are powered by equipped with a 170-horsepower 2.5-litre four-cylinder matched with an advanced Xtronic continuously variable transmission that has Eco and Sport modes. Forward collision warning and emergency braking are available with the SL Premium Package and auto on/off headlights with the SV and SL trims.
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Some Texas Legislators Criticize Use Of Emergency LeaveSome Texas legislators have criticized giving ex-state workers weeks or months of emergency leave in place of not-allowed severance pay or as settlements.
Federal Attorneys' Conduct Criticized In Immigration CaseA federal judge in Texas who initially blocked President Barack Obama's immigration executive action has ordered that Justice Department attorneys attend an ethics course for misleading him about whether the administration had begun implementing one of the proposed measures.
Ethics Fray Puts Texas AG Paxton's Office Against Big DonorAn ethics investigation into an influential conservative group is putting Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against one of his biggest donors.
Audit: Lack Of 'Ethics' Enabled $110M No-Bid State Contract A state contracting scandal that has cost top Texas health officials their jobs and dealt new Republican Gov. Greg Abbott an early test was enabled by a lack of ethics and accountability, a state audit concluded Thursday.
Gov. Abbott Says Tighter Ethics Rules A Priority, Coalition Of Texas Activists Roll Out PlanBuoyed by Gov. Greg Abbott fast-tracking tougher ethics rules proposals through the Legislature, a coalition of political and civil groups has unveiled a package of changes they're championing.
DISD Fires 6 Teachers For Helping Students CheatThe Dallas Independent School has fired six teachers after they gave students answers to questions on a state required test.
Probe Could Complicate Perry's ProspectsTexas Gov. Rick Perry has spent a record 14 years in office vanquishing nearly all who dared confront him: political rivals, moms against mandatory vaccines for sixth graders, a coyote in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Texas Grand Jury To Be Seated In Perry Ethics Case A Texas judge is expected to seat a grand jury in an investigation into whether Republican Gov. Rick Perry abused his power by vetoing funding for public corruption prosecutors.
A Rare Medium Well Done: 10.16.12Noted essayist Samuel Butler wrote, "the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way". And that begs the question: why do we accept lies from people of great importance?
Dallas Mayor Cleared Of Ethics ViolationsDallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has been cleared of any ethics violations after supporting a school board candidate.
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Hong Kong Down 4.9% as Asia Slumps
Asian shares ended sharply lower Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve's gloomy view on the economic outlook and China data disappointed investors.
"It seems the markets have thrown in the towel and nobody wants to re-enter the water," said Ben Taylor, sales trader at CMC Markets in Sydney.
In a widely expected move Wednesday, the Fed said it will increase its share of longer-term Treasurys by $400 billion by June 2012 by selling shorter-dated holdings, a program dubbed "Operation Twist," aimed at lowering long-term borrowing costs and boosting an ailing economy. Investors, however, were rattled by the Fed saying there are "significant downside risks to the economic outlook."
"The overwhelming tone is likely to remain negative, especially as Operation Twist is unlikely to change the dynamic of a weak growth trajectory for the U.S. and developed economies over the coming months," said Mitul Kotecha, a strategist at Credit Agricole.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average ended down 2.1%, South Korea's Kospi dropped 2.9% and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index shed 2.6%.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index dropped 4.9%, while the Shanghai Composite Index fell 2.8%. In afternoon trade, India's Sensex was down 4.1%.
Indonesian shares racked up the worst losses, with the main index plunging 8.9% to its lowest levels since February, as offshore funds sold on worries a drop in the rupiah would spur inflation and hurt growth.
Adding to the bearish mood, a preliminary gauge of China's manufacturing activity contracted in September, reigniting fears the world's second largest economy may face a sharp slowdown, and further sap global consumption demand.
The preliminary HSBC China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index fell to 49.4 in September from a final reading of 49.9 in August; a reading below 50 indicates contraction.
"Nobody is talking about valuation (support) anymore" as investors are losing confidence in analysts' forecasts, assuming they will inevitably be revised down due to a deteriorating economic outlook, said Ben Kwong, chief executive at KGI Asia in Hong Kong.
Growth-sensitive stocks such as commodities plays took a beating. Commodities were hit by as the U.S. dollar climbed broadly after the Federal Reserve's policy measures.
Crude oil for November delivery was down $2.90 at $83.02, while spot gold fell $16.20 to $1,764.30 an ounce.
Among resources plays, Aluminum Corp. of China dropped 9.4% in Hong Kong, while its Shanghai-listed shares shed 3.4%. BHP Billiton was off 4.0% in Sydney, Kobe Steel dropped 4.3% in Tokyo and S-Oil tumbled 7.4% in Seoul.
The financial sector also posted sharp losses, with Hana Financial down 5.1% in Seoul, HSBC off 3.6% in Hong Kong and Mizuho Financial falling 1.8% in Tokyo. In Sydney, National Australia Bank lost 3%.
In Tokyo, Softbank tumbled 12.3% on a Nikkei report its exclusive grip on iPhone products in Japan has been broken, with KDDI snagging the right to sell Apple's upcoming iPhone5 in Japan. KDDI gave up early gains to end down 0.8%.
Bucking the market trend in Sydney, shares of Foster's surged 7.6% to A$5.26 (US$5.27) after the Australian brewer dropped its resistance to a takeover by SABMiller Wednesday and agreed to a sweetened deal valued at A$9.9 billion, or A$5.10 a share.
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Fraudulent! Ex-Reagan budget director charged with conspiracy and fraud.
Accidental: Anna Nicole's death, which resulted from a lethal mix of a powerful sedative plus nine other prescription drugs.
Back in Baath: Iraq eases laws against Saddam's party.
Sleazy: Alberto "protect the kids" Gonzales accused in child sex abuse coverup.
Taking the Fifth: Gonzales aide refuses to testify. Nothing to see here.
Involved, but not responsible?: Gonzales passes the buck.
Rudy who?: Giuliani's GOP support drops 13 points.
In no shape for war: Army deploys injured soldiers.
Classy: Katie Couric cites anonymous "some people" who interpret Edwards' choice to stay in the campaign as callousness or "insatiable ambition." Says Ehrenreich: "Is Couric forgetting that she was working as a $7 million a year NBC anchor while her own husband was dying of colon cancer?"


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I love the Hollow series, so as always, this was a great book. Harrison weaves an interesting world with fascinating characters. There's a few new ones in here - I really dug Winona, she seemed genuine and appealing. Wayde was fun, especially the coffee shop scene and the awkward chemistry play. Trent lovers will be happy because we get him almost constantly. I am a bit bugged by the way the series regulars were handled, though - we get two very minor Al scenes (sniff, sniff). When they happened they were awesome. Also Ivy and Jenks seem....just, different, I don't know. It seems like they are more in the background. Was surprised on the Glenn twist and would have liked the book to be a few pages longer to wrap this shock up better.
Plot wise it was nice to see her regret the stupid bracelet, I just wish it was gone sooner. The scene where she and Trent confronted Al rocked. The scene where Trent "rescues" her with that funny line and falling from the trees to misdirect magic will always be remembered to me as hilarious. I enjoyed seeing in to Rachels mind during the jail scenes, great stuff.
The issues really are that, despite her wanting her bracelet off so bad and her thinking of all the mighty magic she could have used if she wasn't magically neutered, when the bracelet fell off she resorted to not using magic besides a few circles, but instead wanting her old splat fun, kicks, and punches. I mean, what the hell? Where was this magical revenge? Why was suddenly Trent the powerful one who kept having to rescue her? She was hurt left and right and never able to best anyone. It was a far cry from the demoness of Pale Demon fluxing her powers in fights! And of course, I wanted much more Al!
I can not wait until Ever After comes out. I feel like every time I read one of her books I end it on a high note and spend the rest of the year waiting for her next book to be published.
If you haven't fallen in love with Rachel Morgan yet, you have to pick up one of these books! Every single character in this book is a hoot. Harrison makes you want to be a part of this world. Each and every time.
Rachel is bound by silver not to touch ley lines or do demon curses, denying herself everything. There's a group out there, HAPA, trying to turn Rosewood witches into demons, so they can destroy them. IS and FIB think that Rachel might be involved until they pull her in to help them solve who is doing the work. Rachel and Trent get closer and come to a sort of understanding. In the end Rachel accepts her demon-ness and Al. Getting closer to the end of the series and wondering how its going to end.
Ok, Rachel needs to stop whining about people "moving on without her" and/or "leaving her behind." What is she even talking about?!
Good story, but clearly felt like a bridge book between major storylines.
I missed Al.
Also: I usually complain about authors rehashing too much of their previous books in the series. However, in this case there wasnt enough regash! I spent half the book thinking, "did I miss a book? Did she publish a short story in some crappy anthology that I missed?" But, I don't think I did. It's just that her books are so jammed packed that I forgot a lot, apparently, about what happened last time.
I still love Rachel Morgan. But I'm hoping for a bit more meat and a bit less whining next go round.
Book # 10 in the series and the plot and characters are still fresh and exciting. Kim Harrison brings us another edge of the seat thriller. I was enthralled by every page unable to stop thinking about it.
Rachel our little Demon Witch has found herself in a new pickle. She is being hunted. A radical group of haters out to rid the world of non-humans, is torturing and mutilating special types. Junks,Ivy,Trent and several others try to keep her out of danger. They try really hard, unfortunately, That is not an easy task.
Trent really steps forward in this story. He is busy raising his two daughters and building a safe home for them while running his company. He is there for Rachel, leaving her doubts floundering. They develop a new understanding, talking things through. Perhaps there is a future without hate between them ?
This was a transitional book, relationships are changed. Environments are altered and a level of understanding is finally found. The next book looks like a new horizon for Rachel and her friends. I am looking forward to reading their new paths.
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There's lots of activity, er, popping up from Michael Pirolo's eponymous Panino pop-up inside Macchialina these days. Say that ten times fast and then reward yourself with The Broccoli Cheesesteak, a $12 'guest chef sandwich' created by Eating House owner/chef Giorgio Rapicavoli from Thursday, August 1 through Saturday, August 31. The "hearty hoagie" features charred broccoli, fontina fondue and burnt pickled onions on an artisan sourdough baguette. Between that and the Banh Mi(lano), among other popular panini, we wondered if the place would actually pop down at the end of August or become, perhaps, a more permanent fixture on the food scene. "It's supposed to, yes," said publicist Ali Jeffries. Some of us were also supposed to be taller than five feet, but, alas . . .
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If I need to describe 'Fallingwater' in two words I would say 'Pure Poetry'. it stands out as one of the greatest works in Modern Architecture. Blending with the gorgeous surroundings, its cantilevers floating over the landscape. Frank Lloyd Wright composes with his palette of building material mixing natural stone, concrete and glass to produce this perfect house. The interior design of the house is a natural complement of the exterior reinforcing its concepts. No wonder that ever since it was built, it has been an inspiration to countless Architects.
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Luggage and bags: Bring Luggage according to convenience & stay duration. Bring 2 suits/dresses at minimum. If you are not alone then you can divide luggage into two or more bags. Put more frequently used items at one place & rest at other.
Clothing/Shoes/Weather Gear: Clothing : In summer (April- Sep) take cotton clothes with full sleeve. You may need sweater/Jersey too.
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Shoes :Water proof Shoes with strong grip are recommended. Streets become slippery due to snow.
Toiletries and Medical Supplies: Toiletries :Bring Toilet Paper/Tissues.
Medical Supplies :Bring Petroleum Jelly or any other skin softner. Pain Killers are available on stores. But if you are taking any specific medicine then bring it byself.
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The release last month of a 2014 video showing a Chicago police officer fatally shooting another teenager, Laquan McDonald, has upended this city. The police superintendent, Garry F. McCarthy, was forced out despite a reduction in crime citywide. So was the leader of an authority charged with disciplining officers. The Justice Department has opened an investigation into possible civil rights abuses by the Police Department. Demonstrators call nearly every day for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign.
But the Chicago Police Department's record of brutality began long before Mr. McDonald, 17, lay crumpled on Pulaski Road. For decades — back to violent clashes at the Democratic National Convention in 1968 and the confessions coerced by a "midnight crew" of detectivesaccused of using suffocation, electric shock and Russian roulette on black men in the 1970s and 1980s — the Chicago police have wrestled with allegations of torture, racism, weak oversight and a code of silence….
In Chicago, the nation's third-largest city, officers shot and killed 70 people, most of them black, in a five-year span ending in 2014. That was the most among the nation's 10 largest cities during the same period, according to the Better Government Association, a nonprofit watchdog organization.The Chicago Police Department has also been known for issuing little or no punishment to its own, even after a 2007 overhaul of its discipline system that was portrayed as creating a tough, autonomous authority.