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MUNISING - Senior Gage Webster scored 22 points, including 11 on 17 free throw attempts, to help Munising get past Superior Central, 52-34, on Thursday to earn a split of the series between the two Alger County teams.
The win also lifted the Mustangs into a virtual three-way tie for first place in the Central Upper Peninsula Conference at 7-2, the same record as Carney-Nadeau with North Central at 6-1. SC fell a half-game back of that trio at 6-2.
Munising (12-4 overall) was sent to the free-throw line 29 times in the fourth quarter after visiting there just seven times in the first three periods combined.
"They tried to extend the game," MHS coach Dan Waterman said. "This was a really tight game most of the way.
"I don't know what it is, but this rivalry seems to bring out the best in both teams defensively - and the worst offensively. It was hard to score for about 2 1/2 quarters."
Munising led 10-4, 19-14 and 29-23 after each of the first three quarters before the parade at the line started. The Mustangs made enough free throws - 22 of 36 - to keep the Cougars' strategy from working.
Senior Michael Mannisto added 14 points and a few other things to the winning effort, according to his coach.
"Michael was really aggressive, then he hit some shots," Waterman said. "And he played well defensively against Trevor Maki."
The SC senior, usually one of his team's top scorers, was limited to five points.
The Cougars (11-5) were led by senior Matt Verbrigghe with 13 points and senior Bryce Richard with 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Munising also won the JV game, 52-51.
Westwood 50,
Norway 34
At Westwood, the Patriots outscored Norway 27-17 in the second half to win for the second time this season.
Justin Luke and Josh Richards tossed in 10 points apiece as the Patriots, who also have two wins in their past three games, improved to 2-13 overall and 2-7 in the Mid-Peninsula Conference.
"We only gave up five points in the third quarter," Westwood head coach Ryan Reichel said. "We tried to limit (Norway's offensive) touches in the first three minutes of the quarter.
"The kids were focused in the second half."
The Knights (3-11, 2-7), who were outscored 13-2 at the free-throw line, got 10 points from Austin Grayvold.
Ishpeming 45,
Escanaba 40
At Ishpeming, the Hematites overcame a 10-2 first quarter deficit to claim a non-conference victory over visiting Escanaba on Thursday night. The Hematites (12-6 overall) outscored the Eskymos (4-12) by a 27-17 count in the second half.
Alesha O'Brien paced Ishpeming with 11 points and six rebounds. Teammate Jessica Spencer also hauled in six boards.
"It was Senior Night and we started off slow," IHS head coach Mark Dellangelo said. "But we weathered the storm and were able to come back.
"I was happy with our effort after that first quarter. We also turned in some good free throw shooting (17 of 24 for 78 percent)."
Michelle LaFave led Escanaba with 18 points and 13 rebounds).
Escanaba won the JV game, 38-29.


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Final Thoughts of Preseason Heading into Week 1
Ah, the preseason of NFL football. Some of the most exciting, yet most dreaded games played all year. It's exciting to see all the new players picked up from the draft play, but it's dreaded because people just want to see some hard hitting, regular season high-stakes football already.
Big Losses
Personally, I was dreaded to hear that the Baltimore Ravens lost, in my opinion, two of their best recievers: Derrick Mason and Todd Heap. I've always been a big fan of Heap, and he will forever have my respect as the Ravens most reliable receiver when it comes down to short and big-gain plays.
I was also very bummed to hear that we lost running back Willis McGahee because he was reliably excellent at short-yardage situations, he would occasionally pick up a large gain and he was also a scoring machine.
What To Look Forward To
The best thing about the Ravens this year will be Anquan Boldin, Ray Rice and Terell Suggs. I've rarely seen Boldin drop a decently thrown pass. And Rice is one of the most elusive fast backs in the leauge. The one thing I've been most eager to see is how much better Terrell Suggs and Haloti Ngata can be this year, compared to last season. I mean, did you see how excellent they both played? Unbelieveable.
I'm also excited to see how Ed Reed does as well, for last season, I did not get my full fix of Reed, due to his injuries. Oh, and Ray Lewis? Don't get me started. I know me and every other linebacker in the world has looked up to him in admiration at least once in their life. I'm very excited to see how the defense will do this year, because last year they looked pretty sloppy in games, such as the the one in Atlanta.
Giving Respect Where It's Due
I may hate the Pittsburgh Steelers with a passion, but you have to respect them— yes, even Ben Roethlisberger— on how tough they've fought the Ravens for the past few years. He beat them with a broken nose and a broken foot, so I'll respect that no matter who the player may be.
But I really think that this year will be the Ravens' year, and even though they're up against a bunch of great teams, I think they could pull through and come out on top. The Baltimore Ravens have been one of the greatest organizations in the NFL for the past few years, but they don't get much respect. So this year, it's time to shut everyone up. I can't wait to see how we do this season. Good luck this year, Ravens, even though I doubt they'll need it.

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Designer Jamie Wieck gives chocolate-giving an update with this clever idea: printable chocolates. The individual chocolate "pegs" can be arranged in a box to form a word or short message that is printed on the top inside of the box (thanks to chocolates with a low melting point which allows the chocolate to melt even in room temperature). Unfortunately, it's only concept, but hopefully something like this gets mass production.Check out more pics.[via]
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Charles Murray and Sheryl Sandberg are very different people. He's a self-described "ill-tempered old man," and is best known for writing The Bell Curve, one of the most controversial books of the 1990s, with its analysis of race, class, and intelligence. Sandberg is the cheery COO of Facebook, on a mission to get women to "lean in" to their ambition, and for corporate America to be more diverse and welcoming.
Both have new career books for young people out on April 8: Murray's The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead, and Sandberg's Lean In, For Graduates. Figuring they might have different visions of the universe, I read both books on the same day. I came away more surprised at how similar their advice for the young and ambitious turns out to be. Here are five bits of wisdom you'll get from either book:
1. Now is the time to work hard.
At age 25, "without a spouse or children, you have a lot more freedom to throw yourself into your work," writes Murray. "Why anyone would want to lead a balanced life at 25 is beyond me."
Likewise, the whole thesis of Sandberg's book is that "The months and years leading up to having children are not the time to lean back, but the critical time to lean in." That way, you'll be in a great position, professionally, when you want more flexibility at age 40—and you want somebody else to stay late at the office for a change.
2. Want to stand out? Do a shockingly good job.
"Intuitively, people invest in those who stand out for their talent or who can really benefit from help," Sandberg says. She describes several mentees who have anticipated problems and jumped in to solve them.
Murray, likewise, notes that in his 20s, "I saw the people on top as having an unlimited number of good people to hire and promote, among whom I was helplessly anonymous. It was only many years later that I discovered it looks completely different from the top. Good help is hard to find. Really hard to find." People who figure out what their bosses need, and deliver results, will go far.
3. Candor Is Okay.
In the long run, sucking up is a loser's game. "Highly successful people tend to value honesty and courage," Murray writes. Tact is appropriate, and you shouldn't disagree just to disagree, but "don't trim your views if they go against the grain of the discussion. Express yourself forthrightly, and the odds are that you'll get points for it."
Sandberg likewise claims to value feedback from people who work for her—even if it's harsh. "The upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance," she says. She describes a summer barbecue where "an intern told Mark [Zuckerberg] that he should work on his public speaking skills. Mark thanked him in front of everyone and then encouraged us to extend him a full-time offer."
4. It's also okay to wander.
Careers, writes Sandberg, are jungle gyms, not ladders. That's what she told a friend who was considering starting a new career that would require going back in seniority. "My argument was that if she was going to work for the next 30 years, what difference does going 'back' four years really make?"
Murray is typically blunt: "Suppose you intend to retire at 65. If you don't start your career until you're 30, that still gives you 35 years to make it professionally. If you can't make it in 35 years, you weren't going to make it in 40 or 45."
5. You can ask for help when you need it.
A tough boss is one thing. Murray says to suck it up. But a sexist/racist/domineering/belligerent jerk? "You shouldn't assume you have to do battle all by yourself," says Murray. Your best bet in this case might be to go to some crusty old guy who seems fair-minded—because he's probably the one who has the authority to change things. "Most of us see ourselves as gentlemen," he says. "Don't underestimate the decency of the other people in your workplace."
Sandberg once resorted to just such a strategy. When she worked at a consulting company, her client kept saying—in front of his team—that he wanted to fix her up with his son. She asked him to stop, but he laughed it off. So she went to her manager. "He listened to my complaint and then told me that I should think about what I was 'doing to send these signals.' Yup, it was my fault." So she went over her manager's head to the senior partner, who told both men to knock it off. Just because you're young doesn't mean you have to put up with bad behavior—in any career you might pursue.


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It's a date to remember for the best of reasons.
On Saturday, Aug. 21, the pride of Staten Island will be on display in the St. George Theatre at what's billed as "a concert to help build a home for an American hero."
Army Specialist Brendan Marrocco, 24, who grew up in Huguenot, is a grievously wounded warrior. He lost both arms and both legs in a roadside bomb blast in Iraq.
Now Staten Islanders are joining to raise money to construct a custom house for Brendan overlooking the water at Wolfe's Pond Park, not far from his childhood home.
The concert features the Lt. Dan Band, a 12-member group led by actor-musician Gary Sinise. It's named for the character he portrayed in the 1994 film "Forrest Gump." The role of a Vietnam vet double amputee earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Mr. Sinise currently stars as Detective Mac Taylor on CBS-TV's "CSI: NY."
In a joint venture for charity, the concert is being co-sponsored by the Stephen Siller Children's Foundation and Building Homes for Heroes. They hope to raise $500,000 for Brendan's home from a variety of charitable activities.
On Easter Sunday 2009, the young soldier became the first veteran of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan to survive the loss of all four limbs. He was injured while driving an armored vehicle in northern Iraq.
Brendan, who has had 14 operations, has been courageously undergoing painstaking treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to learn to use four prosthetics. He can stand for 15 minutes at a time.
His occasional visits back home to Staten Island obviously have been challenging because of his injuries.
Last week, more than 20 local contractors and trades-people — planning to build a two-story house suitable for the disabled soldier — gathered at the New Dorp office of the Siller Foundation to volunteer their services.
The home is to include an elevator, wheelchair ramps and a voice-activated electrical system. The volunteers hope to complete their work by Christmas.
You can help by attending the benefit concert.
The Lt. Dan Band, widely known for its USO tours, plays everything from classic rock, to contemporary pop, to 1940s Big Band tunes. Excerpts from their performances can be found at the Web site www.youtube.com.
Also on the Aug. 21 bill at the St. George Theatre is Daniel Rodriguez, the patriotic tenor who gained fame after Sept. 11, 2001, as New York City's "Singing Cop" for his stirring renditions of patriotic songs.
The price of tickets ($50, $75 or $250 for prime seating and a Red Carpet reception before the concert) is partly tax- deductible. Showtime is 8 p.m.
Tickets to the Brendan Marrocco benefit can be purchased via Ticketmaster or by calling the St. George Theatre at 718-442-2900 during box office hours.
A capacity crowd of 1,800 is expected.
For such a worthy cause, it's no wonder.


text: BNUMBER: B-274849; B-275140 DATE: January 7, 1997 TITLE: REFA International, Inc. ********************************************************************** Matter of:REFA International, Inc. File: B-274849; B-275140 Date:January 7, 1997 Joe Hardin for the protester. John P. Patkus, Esq., Defense Logistics Agency, for the agency. Marie Penny Ahearn, Esq., David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency unreasonably delayed review of protester's application for qualified suppliers list (QSL) is denied where delay was related to agency's concerns (1) that there may be an identity between the protester and a contractor that had been debarred on the basis of lack of business integrity, and (2) whether the protester's products were traceable to a QSL manufacturer or supplier. DECISION REFA International, Inc. (REFA) protests the award of two purchase orders for class 3 threaded fasteners--to L & M Enterprises, Inc. under request for quotations (RFQ) No. SP0500-96-Q-KZ52, and to ASC Industries under RFQ No. SP0500-96-T-HJ08--issued by the Defense Industrial Supply Center (DISC), Defense Logistics Agency. REFA argues that DISC improperly denied the firm an opportunity to compete under the RFQs by failing promptly to consider the firm's request for approval as a qualified source for the screws. We deny the protests. DISC issued the RFQs on June 17 and August 30, 1996, respectively. Both RFQs provided that only manufacturers/suppliers on the qualified suppliers list (QSL) for class 3 threaded fasteners (which are used primarily for aerospace applications) would be eligible for award. DLA rejected REFA's low quotes on both RFQs because the firm was not on the QSL at the time of the awards. The agency made award to L & M under the first RFQ on September 14, and to ASC under the second RFQ on October 10, as the next low quoters on the QSL. BACKGROUND REFA had submitted an initial application for the QSL (including a quality assurance (QA) manual), dated March 20, 1996. After review of the application, DISC determined that the firm was not in compliance with certain QSL criteria (as contained in the QSL Criteria and Provisions for Class 3 Threaded Fasteners, dated February 15, 1996), including requirements for (1) product traceability, i.e., "[a] documented system . . . which unequivocally indicates that the distributor's products have been produced by a customer approved manufacturer"; (2) lot control and marking, i.e., ensuring lot identification, segregation and traceability, and that product lots are not commingled; and (3) periodic review of the quality control manual to ensure procedures are kept current with ongoing operations and regulatory requirements. By letter dated May 2, the agency notified REFA of the specific areas of noncompliance and that its application would be held without action pending corrective action. REFA responded by submitting a revised QA manual with a letter dated May 22. The Defense Contract Management Command (DCMC) subsequently conducted (on June 11) an on-site survey of REFA, and generally concluded (in a report dated June 21) that REFA had "a system for adequately maintaining lot control and traceability." However, DISC determined that the survey report was inadequate because, notwithstanding DISC's specific request, DCMC had not verified that REFA complied with certain QSL criteria, including the requirements to assure product traceability to the manufacturer and lot control and marking with no commingling. DISC thus concluded that additional information was necessary. Identity On July 18, DISC requested that DCMC delay a resurvey of REFA pending a determination as to whether quotes submitted in the name of REFA in fact were being submitted by a debarred contractor, M-F Services, Inc. In this regard, as noted by DCMC in its June survey report and in a prior January 1996 pre-award survey report, in 1995 REFA had purchased the inventory and other assets of M-F Services, which had been debarred for lack of business integrity after its president was convicted of conspiracy in connection with defrauding DISC on government contracts. DCMC noted that REFA's president previously had served as international sales manager for M-F Services, REFA's vice-president of finance had served as secretary-treasurer, and REFA's quality manger had worked in quality assurance at M-F Services. DISC's concern arose from the fact that it had received REFA quotes on M-F Services's letterhead. After being advised of DISC's concern, REFA responded (by letter dated July 25) that while it had purchased the assets and certain liabilities of M-F Services, Inc. and the right to the name "M-F Services," it had not acquired "the name M-F Services, Inc. or its corporate entity." According to REFA, although it "operates with certain commercial and export customers under the name of M-F Services Division of REFA International, Inc.," the quotations on M-F Services's letterhead had been sent "in error." Traceability DISC also was concerned that the origin of the supplies that would be furnished by REFA was not clear; that is, DISC was not confident that REFA's inventory of fasteners had been manufactured or supplied by QSL firms. By letter dated July 22, DISC advised REFA that any offers based on furnishing the M-F Services inventory would be considered technically unacceptable because "M-F Services' criminal conviction for defrauding the government makes its inventory suspect and inherently unreliable." REFA responded, by letter dated August 22, that the M-F Services inventory is "sound and reliable," and requested reversal of the determination that the M-F Services inventory was unacceptable. However, DISC responded (by letter dated September 10) that: "DISC relies heavily on paperwork from its contractors; however, due to M-F Services' conviction, DISC does not believe that it can rely on any of its paperwork. Thus, if REFA wishes to furnish any supplies obtained from M-F Services' inventory, it has two alternatives: "Obtain certifications which reflect traceability of the product to REFA vice M-F Services. "Subject M-F Services's inventory to product verification testing at REFA's expense and provide DISC with the test results." DISC's concern regarding REFA's inventory was increased by the results of a September 11 QSL resurvey performed by DISC, which disclosed that the M-F Services inventory was not kept separate from REFA's inventory and that a large portion of REFA's inventory was not traceable to a QSL manufacturer or supplier. By letter dated September 30, DISC advised REFA that the September 11 resurvey disclosed that the preponderance of REFA's inventory--apparently approximately 90 percent--consisted of "suspect and inherently unreliable material obtained from M-F Services," and that there was a "breakdown of internal communication at REFA," as evidenced by the fact that REFA's quality control manager was unaware of the agency's July 22 letter to REFA concerning the unacceptability of the M-F Services inventory. Noting that the "QSL program is based on the integrity of material supplied by our providers and supported by appropriate traceability documentation as well as compliance with quality program criteria and operational parameters," DISC advised REFA that "it is inappropriate to consider your listing to the QSL until these more basic issues are satisfactorily resolved." The agency informed the protester that "[o]nce you have resolved these significant issues with Legal, in a manner that does not violate QSL criteria, we can pursue processing of your application." REFA filed these protests with our Office on September 30 and October 16. Although DISC subsequently advised REFA by letter dated November 7 that the "outstanding legal impediments regarding REFA have been satisfactorily resolved," apparently referring to the issue with respect to the identity of the legal entity submitting quotes to the government, the agency maintained that certain "corrective actions are still outstanding and need to be addressed prior to further processing of your application." The agency advised REFA that since M-F Services was never approved for the QSL, inventory from that company could not be supplied under the QSL program. In this regard, DISC noted its finding that there was a lack of product traceability for a large portion of the inventory surveyed and that REFA's inventory was not segregated from the M-F Services inventory. The agency instructed REFA that the M-F Services inventory must be physically segregated from the remainder of the firm's inventory, by including separate shelving and storage in the warehouse area and separate inventory line cards and records. DISC noted again that REFA's quality control manager was not aware of the agency's July 22 letter to REFA notifying the firm that it was unacceptable to supply the M-F Services material under government contracts; the agency advised REFA that it "must take steps to ensure that such gross miscommunications within [the firm's] quality control process do not occur in the future." DISC advised REFA that, once it received and accepted the firm's documented corrective action on these matters, it would arrange for a resurvey of the firm's facility as the final step to attaining inclusion on the QSL. DISCUSSION Under 10 U.S.C. sec. 2319 (1994), where an agency restricts contract award to only approved sources and imposes qualification requirements, unapproved sources must be given a reasonable opportunity to qualify. Saturn Indus., B-261954.3, Jan. 5, 1996, 96-1 CPD para. 9. In this regard, an agency imposing a qualification requirement must act reasonably promptly to ensure that an offeror seeking qualification is promptly informed as to whether qualification has been obtained and, if not, promptly furnished specific information as to why qualification was not obtained. Rotair Indus., 69 Comp. Gen. 684 (1990), 90-2 CPD para. 154. An agency's technical determination concerning the qualifications of offerors must be reasonable. Precision Metal Prods., Inc., B-261680, Sept. 8, 1995, 95-2 CPD para. 105. There is no evidence of any unreasonable material delay on the part of the agency in the processing of REFA's application for the QSL. Although REFA submitted its QSL application in March, the record shows that DISC had reasonable concerns--the identity of the offeror and traceability of the inventory--which led to the initial delay, and ultimate rejection (pending corrective action), of REFA's application, and that the agency kept REFA apprised of these concerns during its investigation of these matters. In any case, the real issue here is not delay by DISC, but REFA's disagreement with DISC over whether its concerns regarding the firm's inventory are legitimate. In this regard, even after the issue created by REFA as to the identity of the quoter was resolved, REFA's treatment of the debarred contractor's inventory delayed, and has continued to delay, approval of REFA's QSL application. The agency's concerns are reasonable. It is indisputable that reliable documentation is essential to safeguarding the integrity of the QSL supply process. We think it is equally clear that M-F Services's legal problems--debarment for lack of business integrity in connection with a conspiracy to defraud the government--and lack of QSL status legitimately bring into question whether supplies from that firm's inventory reliably can be accepted as QSL products. As there was no evidence that those products definitely were furnished by QSL suppliers and manufacturers, there simply is no basis to object to DISC's position that M-F Services's inventory could not be supplied for QSL procurements (unless REFA first took the steps noted above), and that segregation of that inventory from the rest of REFA's inventory therefore was a necessary condition to obtaining qualification. When DISC raised this matter with REFA, however, the firm did not agree to comply with DISC's request, or otherwise cooperate with DISC to alleviate its concerns, but, rather, merely claimed that the M-F Services inventory is "sound and reliable," and requested that DISC reverse its position. We conclude that it was reasonable for DISC to decline to approve REFA's QSL application when the firm's predominant source of inventory was from a non-QSL supplier whose documentation was reasonably viewed as unreliable and the firm's remaining inventory had not been reliably demonstrated to be traceable to a QSL manufacturer.[1] The protests are denied. Comptroller General of the United States 1. Although REFA (in its November 5 comments) generally disputes the findings of DISC's September 11 resurvey (reported to REFA by letter dated September 30) that the M-F Services inventory was not segregated from REFA's inventory and that a large amount of REFA's inventory was not traceable to a QSL manufacturer or supplier, there is no indication that REFA advised the agency prior to award of the purchase orders (on September 14 and October 10) of why it believed DISC's findings were in error, or of any corrective action taken to remedy the evaluated deficiencies.


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Last week, I attended the New Jersey Turnpike public information meeting regarding the 14A interchange improvement project. After viewing the latest version and speaking with the representatives, I have come to the conclusion that the Turnpike is turning a blind eye to the concerns and objections of the citizenry of Bayonne.
This newest plan shows a complete disregard for the uptown residents and businesses by forcing drivers into new traffic patterns that will severely impact the residential side streets, especially uptown, in an effort to gain access to the Turnpike.
No longer will 53rd Street access the Turnpike, forcing most residents to use Avenue E, which is already overcrowded. Businesses on 53rd Street will be shut out completely. The increase in pollution will affect quality of life. Safety issues will arise due to the increase in traffic, especially on the side streets, as drivers head east to Avenue E to gain access to the Turnpike.
Speaking with the representatives regarding my concerns, I was told, "Some people will be inconvenienced." When I questioned the project manager as to why the empty IMTT tank farm on the east side of the railroad tracks (which was an earlier plan) wouldn't be better suited to handle the large increase in commercial traffic that the present and future container ports will bring to the area, I was told there were issues impeding that plan. When I pressed for what these issues were he declined to answer, saying he would get me the information.
The facts are this: Jersey City raised their voices on the last proposal, which would have diverted much of the truck traffic to Exit 14B -- an industrial and nonresidential area -- and as a result the Turnpike is trying to "shoe horn" the project into the present area, which "they" deemed unacceptable in the meeting last December.
I am asking Mayor Smith and the City Council to get involved. Here is a golden opportunity to redevelop an eyesore property to the benefit of all, easing traffic conditions for Bayonne residents and moving commercial traffic to a commercial area without the use of connectors, ramps, flyovers, and smoke and mirrors.
I am urging all Bayonne residents to make your voices heard before it's too late.


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It has been quite a while since we have examined the current state of the cinema in this column. This is partially because contemporary cinema frequently chooses not to venture across the nebulous line which divides entertainment from art, and partially because the editors have choices of a large number of pieces written about films, so it seems more productive to spend our one page per week on areas of the performing arts which are apt to be neglected.
But this week, I've seen a film which deserves our attention, so this week, the Critical Eye goes to the movies!
We have the space to examine an additional offering, and we're still working to share our backlog of Winks, but I want to focus on ''Sarah's Key.''
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Kristin Scott Thomas plays a contemporary journalist who finds her own family was profoundly affected by the Holocaust, in the film "Sarah's Key."
Few single events have changed the world as much as World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust, which was contained within the history of the war. As a result, factual books, novels, films and other examinations of elements of the war are so numerous, they have almost become cliches.
On the other hand, of course, this is a series of events which took place during the lives of people who are alive today, and within our own culture. The entire world has compelling reasons for making sure they never happen again.
The challenge, therefore, for artistic works about that period is to help readers or - in this case - viewers, to grasp these events in personal terms. We read a newspaper story which tells us more than 4,000 people were killed in a recent tsunami, and our minds automatically think, ''That's too bad.'' But we don't feel the loss unless someone we care about experienced the tragedy and teaches us how it feels to be involved in such an event.
''Sarah's Key'' is such a film, although it operates with one large strike against it. Made in France, by director Gilles Paquet-Brenner, much of it takes place in French, meaning that we have to read the English subtitles at the bottom of the screen, unless we are fluent in French. Some of us just haven't taught ourselves to deal with that. Others don't want to be part of a work of art. We wish to be mildly amused, and to drop in and out as the whim strikes us.
The film takes place in two realities, which it spends its duration trying to demonstrate are the same reality, only with different circumstances.
The Sarah of the title is a young girl - perhaps 10 years old. She lived in Paris, in 1942, two years after the Nazis had overrun half of France.
When that happened, the half of the country which was not occupied, formed a government which was officially independent, yet its survival depended upon their willingness to dance to the tune which was called from Berlin. The result was that the French had some degree of self-control, while Hitler could use the troops which would have been occupying half of France, to extend his empire, elsewhere.
In 1942, the French puppet government gave in to pressure from Hitler to round up a significant number of Jews and other targets of the Nazi persecution, and to send them to death camps in Germany and elsewhere to be murdered.
One such ''rounding up'' involved gathering more than 13,000 victims into a bicycle racing track, in a suburb to the east of Paris. The track was called the ''Vel' d'Hiv,'' pronounced ''Vel-DEEV.'' Until that time, only men and boys had been arrested.
Sarah and her mother had rehearsed what they would do, if the police arrived. They would insist that Sarah's father was out of town on business, and they would hide her younger brother. When the knock at the door eventually happened, they carried out their plan, thinking that the women in the family wouldn't be taken away, or at worst, not for long. That seemed like the safest thing to do.
Instead, they were taken to the Vel' D'Hiv, for transport on to permanent absence. Sarah held the key to the cupboard in which her brother was locked, without food or water, in her hand.
Much of the first half of the film deals with Sarah trying to escape so she could let her brother out.
The contemporary half of the film concerns an American journalist, portrayed by British actor Kristin Scott Thomas. Ms. Thomas's character is assigned by a magazine to write a history of the Vel' d'Hiv. The more she investigates what happened nearly 60 years ago, the more she understands that her husband's family played an important part in it, which makes the story of Sarah and her family exactly the window through the numbers and the facts, which could make contemporary people feel and understand.
Her father-in-law and his parents had moved into the apartment which was vacated when Sarah's family was arrested. It was in their home that the cupboard was finally unlocked.
She gets a strong sense of how her in-laws and the French in general, want so very much to lay the blame for the terrible things which happened at the Germans' door, but to refuse to accept how their own failure to resist it and to defend against it, played such an important role in its ever having happened.
Her relatives hadn't arrested Sarah. They hadn't denied her food, or water, or informed the authorities where she lived. All they did was stand by and do nothing, while enormous injustice was taking place. It wasn't the Germans or the Gestapo who were arresting those people. It was a French policeman who stepped on an apple, craved by a starving child.
And of course, that exact same feeling was being brought to pressure the journalist to abandon her research of the situation.
''Why do we want to dig up all that old business?'' she is asked.
''My grandmother is in a nursing home and doesn't have long to live. Can't we preserve her peace of mind, for the few weeks she might have left?''
But the truth has been proven, a thousand times over, all throughout history. However altruistic the official reasons, when a government, or a business, or a church wants to treat some people as not being worth the same rights as others - Oh, just a few rights, and not important ones, and that's the way it has always been, and we all know what people like that are really like - the situation, like a tumor, is either corrected, or it gradually grows, until you have a Vel' D'Hiv, and an Auschwitz, and all the rest.
The performances in the film are excellent. The photography, by Pascal Ridao, is beautiful, yet it strongly re-inforces the reality in the plot. The forced closeness with strangers, during the arrest, for example. The coldness and isolation as the reporter visits Holocaust museums and national libraries, while it seems everyone is against her.
In the film, the reporter manages to find the surviving members of Sarah's family, and to insert herself back into their story, and to make it her own, as well. The film received a 75-percent positive rating from critics in the ''Rotten Tomatoes'' website, and an 85-percent positive rating from the public in general.
Those who disliked it perceived that the modern woman's family problems were being treated as equal and parallel stories to the Holocaust story, while they felt the reporter's struggle is vastly less intense or significant than Sarah's. Those who liked the film felt that the reporter's story demonstrated both the negative results of people refusing to deal with the earlier conflict, and the positive possibilities from accepting and dealing with the struggle.
It is a wonderful education for anyone who would genuinely play a positive role in the world.
''Sarah's Key'' is taken from a novel by the same title, written by French novelist Tatiana de Rosnay. The book's title in its original French publication was ''Her Name Was Sarah.'' I have read that it was originally published in English with that title, then was changed, to connect it with the successful film.
The film is still in theaters around the country, and was just released on DVD a few days ago. There are several copies of the book available for borrowing from the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System, and at least one copy of the DVD.
Since we seem to be dealing with social justice, our next film for discussion comes to the same end from a very different direction.
In 2003, a group of small-time crooks in Erie, Pa., kidnapped a pizza delivery man named Brian Douglas Wells. They attached a small bomb around his neck, and told him that he must rob a bank on Peach Street, not far from the Millcreek Mall, or they would explode the bomb and kill him.
The man attempted to perform the robbery, but the bomb did explode, killing him. The case continues to be debated to the present day, with some people claiming that Wells participated in planning the robbery, and others insisting that the police waited too long to call the bomb squad to try to disable the device. One of the crooks was eventually sentenced to 45 years in prison for his role in the event, and in March of this year, a woman was sentenced to 30 years for her participation.
The incident has inspired a number of television series episodes, the creators of most of which insist that they hadn't heard of the case and just thought up the story of a pizza deliverer with a bomb collar entirely on their own.
Earlier this year, Columbia Pictures released a feature film which stars Jesse Eisenberg - best known for his leading role in ''The Social Network'' - and Danny McBride, which uses almost exactly the same circumstance. Eisenberg plays a delivery driver who works for one of those restaurants which guarantee that pizzas will be delivered in 30 minutes or less, or the pizza is free. In general, the film is one of those beer-drinking, intestinal gas-leaking comedies which have become so very popular in recent years.
Needless to say, the family of Wells finds the film offensive, rather than funny.
The film doesn't need analysis from me. You like that sort of thing, or your don't. But it deals with an event which happened very close to our area, so I wanted to point it out to you.
It's still in some theaters, and the DVD is due to be released before the end of November.
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Although the newspaper has chosen - very wisely, in my opinion - to announce and celebrate occasions when people younger than college age make excursions into the arts, but not to review them, I recently did have an experience with young performers which I wanted to celebrate in these pages:
Last week, I was invited to a performance at the Lucille Ball Little Theatre of Jamestown, by the organization called the Junior Guilders.
The group is directed by Helen Merrill, choreographed by Tiffany Wakely Heintzman, and accompanied and given music direction by Lucille Miller.
The performance was called ''Honk,'' which was also the name of the 90-minute musical play which was presented before the intermission. It was based on the story of ''The Ugly Duckling.''
It had just an enormous cast of young singers and dancers, and nearly every one of them took part in almost every single number. Following intermission, there was an additional 60-minute production in which Santa's elves convinced the jolly saint that even though they were incredibly rude to him, they still needed him to have a happy holiday. This one also had a full, full stage and most performers were in every number. And, they performed it all three separate times.
The amount of work which must go into such an overflowing presentation is staggering, and praise is deserved for the performers, the adult presenters, and the parents who made all that work possible. And, it's all done for the love of the art. Nobody is being paid.
Congratulations to everyone involved.


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In March of 2002, I was ordained by Emmanuel Baptist Church as a Gospel minister. In February of 2004, I was sent out of Emmanuel to start Lighthouse Baptist Church in the Concord area of NH.
In the second year of that church plant the Lord moved in miraculous ways to merge Lighthouse and Landmark Baptist Church into the New Landmark Baptist Church of Loudon, NH. Within the following year the Lord Jesus worked and souls were saved and baptized. A new church building was completed by the end of the first year of the merger. Following that completion God showed me that my work at Landmark was done and it was time to return to Emmanuel.
In July of 2008 the Lord moved the church to vote me in as the pastor-elect of the church with over 95% of the vote. I say this to demonstrate the wonder of God and the unity of our church. In June of 2009 I assumed the pastorate of this great church. Together we are looking forward to what God has in store for this ministry.
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J. M. Attridge (MIT Haystack Observatory), A. Greve (IRAM), T. P. Krichbaum (MPIfR)
VLBI polarization observations provide information about the structure, orientation, and evolution of the magnetic field in synchrotron emitting sources such as AGN. VLBI observations at centimeter wavelengths have shown that polarized relativistic shocks in radio jets appear as superluminal knots. In addition, magnetic field structures in the jets of BL Lacertae objects and quasars are quite different (e.g. Wardle et al. 1994, Ap.J., 437, 122; Cawthorne et al. 1993, Ap.J., 416, 519).
Millimeter VLBI observations have the advantage of being relatively unaffected by Faraday rotation and opacity (Wardle et al. 1996, in the proceedings from the Millimeter-VLBI Science Workshop held at MIT). The high angular resolution provided by millimeter VLBI observations will allow new outbursts which feed the radio jets to be observed near to their point of origin.
CMVA data of the quasars 3C273 and 3C279 taken in April 1997 by Krichbaum, et al. are being used to develop and test a data calibration path for dual-polarization data which mimics the one presented for centimeter wavelengths in NRAO's AIPS software package. Here we present the current status of the calibration efforts, as well as preliminary results on 3C273 and/or 3C279.
CMVA research at Haystack is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.


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We've lost track of how many times people have declared print dead. Pundits and pontificators have said the internet, bloggers, Facebook, Twitter, etc., would bury newspapers, the same way television killed radio and the movies ... er, never mind.Anyway, the Kindle would replace the physical, hard-copy book, driving a stake through its dense layers of paper and print.
Who needs to cradle a hardcover or paperback and exhaust oneself turning pages when the Kindle provides everything for your digital reading pleasure?
Purchase a Kindle and you'll be linked electronically to the world's library. No need to decide which novel to bring on vacation. Bring the Kindle and have hundreds of books at your fingertips.
Heavy textbooks? Students who grew up in the age of texting would embrace the Kindle for lightening the load in their backpacks.
Or maybe not. The Associated Press reported this week that many students using Kindle miss the convenience of pages they can instantly flag with sticky notes and adorn with comments in the margins.
It's possible to highlight text on a Kindle, and even type notes on a tiny keyboard. But one student complained that her Kindle notes were garbled. And there are no numbered pages on Kindle, so teachers have to give students search words to find the location of the homework assignment.
These are kinks that will be worked out, say champions of the e-book. Perhaps. We're sticking with the hard copy


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Former United States Secretary of Labor (and current University of California professor) Robert Reich has named our current financial crisis the "The Great Recession." Last week, during a standing-room-only lecture on the Berkeley campus, he explained why.
For working and middle-class Americans, our short-term future is gloomy. "The unemployment rate is going to reach 10 percent. The under-employment rate is going to reach about 15 percent." Under-employment, rarely mentioned by government officials or the mainstream American press, is becoming more and more common. "I'm talking about people who are too discouraged to look for work or who are working part time who would rather be working full time."
What is happening to our beloved American Dream?
For Reich, the answer can be found by looking at family income numbers. Adjusting for inflation, wages began to flatten out for many families in the early eighties. Initially, the shortfall of family income was made up by the entry of greater numbers of women into the workplace. Beginning in the late-seventies, the percentage of two-income families grew significantly. For a while, this allowed middleclass families to continue to expand their income.
Yet hourly wages continued to drift downward, in part due to globalization and technological advancements. To make up the income difference, Americans began to work more. By 2000, American workers were working more than 350 hours per year more than their European counterparts. By working more hours, American families closed some of the growing gap between their wages and expectations.
But even with two breadwinners working more and more hours per year, the American Dream was increasingly hard for families to sustain.
Families turned to credit. Under Alan Greenspan, money was cheap. Banks, businesses, and American families borrowed heavily. The stock market soared and housing values skyrocketed. Feeling flush, Americans borrowed against their homes in order to keep buying consumer goods.
Meanwhile, the rich Americans were getting increasingly wealthier. By 2009, the wealthiest Americans---the top 1% --- controlled 22% of American income, up from a mere 8% at the beginning of the first Reagan administration. The spread between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of us has not been this extreme since---not so surprisingly--1929, the start of the Great Depression.
The rising stock market, the huge increases in home values: it was all too familiar to economists like Reich who have studied the the Great Depression. In October, the American financial world crashed and burned.
Reich believes that "since the bursting of the housing bubble, consumers have not had the money they need to continue to purchase all of the goods and services that can be produced in this country."
The result? "We've got ourselves into a vicious cycle. And that vicious cycle is that because consumers don't have the money, then businesses are not going to produce. And if businesses don't produce, they're going to lay people off. And if they lay people off people have even less money."
Despite passionate arguments to the contrary, tax cuts for the wealthy and businesses don't stimulate demand. Consumer demand is driven by that part of the population---the working and middle-class--who spend a greater proportion of their income on goods and services.
So, what to do now? Reich has a few ideas.
"The economy needs a stimulus that puts money in the pockets of businesses and individuals; that's why infrastructure projects are a good investment." And the rise in national debt? Not a problem--yet. Reich points out that the U.S. dollar is currently a safe haven for investors worldwide and that is unlikely to change in the near term.
How will America pay down this enormous debt? One way will be to grow our economy. When the investments we are going to make in improved infrastructure, education and energy efficiency begin to pay off, our debt will shrink relative to the size of an expanding national GDP.
Today the stock market is trading at levels not seen since 1997. Housing values are rapidly slipping. Reich expects the Obama administration will need a second stimulus package and maybe even a third. He fervently believes that despite the tremendous expense of all these stimulus and bailout packages, the cost of doing nothing would be catastrophic on not only our financial system, but on the lives of every American.
Near the end of his presentation, Reich pointed out that one of the few upsides of the current economic downturn is that it allows Americans' to reflect upon their choices of consumption. Do we need big houses and big cars? Can we live more efficiently? He reminded his audience that in Berkeley, many have enthusiastically embraced the energy efficient Toyota Prius (or what he teasingly calls the Toyota Pious).
Oh, and the good news? Reich thinks that with a bit of luck, our economy will begin to revive sometime in 2010. Until then, whether you live in Berkeley or Harrisburg, the Great Recession will be a daily part of your life.


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This is a 7:25 p.m. update of a story posted at 12:22 this afternoon.
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HARTFORD - A Springfield, Mass., man accused of robbing a bank, shooting at police and taking an elderly Connecticut woman hostage was on probation for federal weapons charges.
A federal prosecutor last year cautioned a judge of releasing Brendan McGarrett, of Springfield, from prison because of his lengthy criminal record, which includes dozens of charges in Massachusetts and South Dakota.
"Releasing Mr. McGarrett to the street now, or any time soon, is a recipe for disaster," Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Newhouse told Judge Michael A. Ponsor on May 7, 2008. The judge was resentencing McGarrett after his 115-month sentence on federal weapons charges was found to violate federal sentencing guidelines.
The judge gave McGarrett reduced his sentence to 87 months, which enabled him to leave prison three months later and begin three years of federal probation.
Police say the 44-year-old McGarrett and 34-year-old Richard Gordon of Winthrop, Mass., robbed a Webster Bank branch in Bristol on Tuesday, prompting a police chase that led into nearby Farmington.
Court records show that McGarrett fired repeatedly at officers during a police chase that reached up to 85 mph. Police said McGarrett and Gordon later split up, forcing several Farmington schools to lock down during the manhunt.
Police say McGarrett took 70-year-old Marieanne Schadler hostage and forced her into her home, but was arrested moments later when police rushed inside. Assistant State's Attorney Carl Ajello said McGarrett shouted to police he was unarmed, but Schadler warned them that he had a gun.
McGarrett was arraigned Wednesday on two counts of attempted capital felony, first-degree kidnapping with a firearm, first-degree robbery, larceny and firearms charges. Bond was set at $3 million.
"He denies any involvement in this incident," said Mary-Elizabeth Ahern, his public defender.
Judge Carl E. Taylor ordered McGarrett to be held under psychiatric watch because he has a history of psychiatric illness and has been taking anti-anxiety medication.
Prosecutors said McGarrett had 44 charges filed against him in Massachusetts, including a 2007 conviction for conspiracy to commit armed robbery and arrests in 2005 for assault and robbery.
Gordon was arrested about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday when Farmington police spotted him jogging along Route 6. Gordon was wearing jeans but no shirt.
He was arraigned on a charge of interfering with an officer. His bond was set at $250,000.
Bank robbery charges for both men are pending.


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McKee (3rd), Weibel (15th) and Elissa Barry (15th) had birdies and McKee (11th) and Paula Boulay (17th) had chip-ins.


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"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)" may not hit a theater near you until November 19, but all of your favorite Hogwarts students are gathering in New York City on Monday (November 15) to celebrate the film's American premiere. And you know who else will be there? MTV, of course! We'll be LIVESTREAMING at the Lincoln Center red carpet starting at 6 p.m. (ET), and you won't want to miss it. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, No. 1 hottie Tom Felton and Ralph Fiennes will all be on hand for what is sure to be a magical night.
MTV's Hollywood Crush will will breakdown the stars' fashions, the red carpet run-ins and chat all things Potter. Tweet your questions for the "Harry Potter" cast using the hash tag #askPotter.
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» All Harry Potter books & movies listed in order. [Amazon.com]


text: Early September skirmishes turned this week into full-scale "currency wars", to use Brazil's terminology. Dramatic language, but not unwarranted. The markets have taken Fed signals of preparation for further money printing as an effective attempt at a dollar devaluation, allowing the country export its deflationary pressures overseas via capital outflows to higher-yielding developing countries.


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A convicted sex offender may have been watching children near a daycare, but he wasn't close enough to have broken the law.
That was the decision made at St. John's provincial judge Friday in the case of John Ernest Jacobs.
John Ernest Jacobs speaks with his lawyer Tammy Drover before the verdict in his case was delivered Thursday at provincial court in St. John's.
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Judge Jim Walsh found Jacobs not guilty of loitering around the daycare and breaching court orders to stay away from areas where children younger than 14 may frequent. A charge of vagrancy was withdrawn by the Crown.
The 44-year-old had been on strict court orders after he was convicted and sentenced to six months in jail last year for breaching those same orders in December 2012. At the time, he was seen several times peering into the windows of a house where a five-year-old girl lived. He was also seen watching children toboggan at a hill on Empire Avenue in St. John's, near the Elks Club.
When Jacobs was released from jail after serving his term on those charges, police had surveillance on him.
Rumours point to wrong man: police
In June last year, officers saw him walking back and forth in front of a daycare and school in Torbay. Officers had testified in Jacobs' trial last month that Jacobs' eyes were focused on the children in the playground and he was seen rubbing his genital area a few times as he watched them.
Walsh said while Jacobs' actions were disturbing, because Jacobs was across the street and not on the daycare or school property, it doesn't constitute the charge of "attending at" a daycare or playground.
"You were 50 feet from being found guilty," Walsh said to Jacobs.
The judge also pointed out that there had been no complaints from anyone at the daycare and that no one had reported seeing him except officers.
However, Jacobs was convicted of making harassing phone calls.
In April last year, he randomly called a number from the phone book and reached a residence in Conception Bay South. A young boy answered and Jacobs asked to speak with his five-year-old sister. Jacobs had heard a male voice calling the girl's name in the background and then asked the boy who she was.
Walsh sentenced Jacobs to six months in jail. But it's considered time served, since Jacobs has been in jail for almost seven months.
He will now serve two years' probation, with conditions that he have no contact with the family he called.
Jacobs has an extensive criminal record. It includes a conviction for invitation to sexual touching involving a child in March 2009. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail for that offence, along with breaching court orders.
His record also includes convictions for such crimes as assault, performing indecent acts, 15 counts of making harassing phone calls and 21 convictions for breaching court orders.
He had just been released from Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick in March 2011.
Police said that when Jacobs was arrested and moved back to this province, officers notified daycare administrators, who issued letters to parents.
Police said it caused concern among parents of children in the community.
Walsh told Jacobs that even though he acquitted him of the first charge, "you clearly have issues that need to be addressed."
Jacobs agreed to seek treatment and to work with his probation officer to participate in counselling programs.


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We seem to have come full circle on the issue of torture. The latest revelations show that the United States used a variety of "enhanced interrogation techniques" during the questioning of suspected terrorists: waterboarding, slamming suspects against walls, hanging them by the arms so that their feet barely touched the ground, and sleep deprivation of up to 11 days.
Waterboarding has gotten the most attention, it seems, and now it is being defended anew. That is not because it is not considered torture, but because it is claimed to have worked.
It is likely that some reliable information has come from the use of torture, but we as a nation like to think we are better than that.
Many techniques may work if our military or law enforcement agencies are allowed to subvert the law. Legal systems in civilized countries avoid torture for obvious reasons. People who are tortured are likely to say anything that will make the agony cease. The information obtained may be worthwhile, or it may be useless; it is difficult to know which.
Physical coercion cannot be used in obtaining confessions because these statements would be unreliable and inadmissible in court. The Bush administration repeatedly said "We do not torture." They also admitted to engaging in waterboarding. The two statements are deeply in conflict. The United States has prosecuted both American and Japanese soldiers for the use of waterboarding because that practice was considered torture.
America can decide to do whatever might work in combating terrorism, or we can remain a nation that operates with some principles that cannot be compromised. When the bad guys turn us into people who are no better than they are, the terrorists have won.
Shriners Hospital gets community boost
Sometimes, it takes a crisis to change things. Sometimes, such a crisis can bring people together to raise the spirits of all. Sometimes, this can have a lasting effect beyond the immediate crisis.
Last Sunday, a spirit was felt as several hundred supporters showed up on a beautiful spring day to show support, share stories, listen to leaders, and hear hopeful songs, but most importantly hear children and young adults tell their own stories. The stories of overcoming challenges, of being like every other child, about what they plan on doing with their life or what they have achieved. Children and young adults just like any other with one exception - their lives have been touched in some small way by the Shriners Hospital for Children.
Having been associated with the hospital for over 15 years, it is humbling to hear these life stories. It also instills a strong sense of pride in being part of something that helps people participate, enjoy, and excel at the opportunities that life presents.
The decision to consider closing several Shrine hospitals throughout the country (Springfield included) is a most difficult one for the national governing body of the organization. I am hopeful that alternatives can be given consideration prior to the final decision in early July. My hopes were strengthened ten-fold on Sunday as the spirit of touching children's lives was evidenced and felt by all.
My thanks go to the many individuals who made this special event possible. Shriners Hospital's current saying is "Helping kids defy the odds" - it's a great tag line that was evidenced Sunday. As an organization, I am optimistic that we can defy the odds to serve the children of the children and young adults I listened to this past weekend.
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Global warming not open-and-shut case
A letter to the editor in The Republican on April 3 compared (so-called) global warming deniers to Holocaust deniers. I won't pretend to speak for others who have their doubts, but I think it is fair to say that the majority of people who are skeptical about the political issue that is global warming don't deny global warming is happening so much as they feel that if it is happening, it is not likely the result of human activity.
What is more, given the aforementioned, it follows (for the many who feel this way) that no human activity can likely stop global warming, and that those who seek to perpetuate the belief that we are its cause and that we can stop it merely desire to empower themselves to limit the freedoms and liberties of the rest of us in its name, and in most cases for reasons that have little to do with our climate.
How can presumably informed and intelligent people reject the notion of human-caused global warming in the face of all of the evidence and proclamations supplied by the legions of scientists, experts, activists, alarmists, talk-show hosts, recording artists, movie stars, and news anchors?
Simply by considering that (according to the same science) the earth is somewhere around 4.5 billion years old and that the first human-like creature appeared on it somewhere around 3.6 million years ago. The use of fossil fuels began about 130 years ago. The same science has taught us that during the 4.5 billion years the earth has been speeding around the sun, the climate upon it has changed from one extreme to another from time to time, all of the time.
There have been volcanic eruptions, crashing meteors, gamma ray showers, world floods, droughts, ice ages, and continental shifts; all of which occurred millions of years before man arrived. Yet we are asked to believe that regardless, in the space of 130 years, a nearly immeasurable period of time when compared to the length of time the earth has existed, mankind has altered the climate.
There are people alive who survived the Holocaust, who liberated the camps, and who wear the tattoos of their captures. We have photographs, movies, and written accounts of the death camps and the ovens used to burn people alive remain standing to this day as a memorial and a reminder. There can be no denial of the Holocaust for thinking people. The writer might do well to consider what kinds of widely held, baseless beliefs and unchecked governmental powers were sufficient to allow for the killing of over 6 million innocent people.
Servicemen, women need citizens' help
Regarding our returned and retired soldiers, FBI and CIA agents, police officers, and firefighters:
It's heartrending to read and see even one of the above public servants who, after serving our country by putting their lives at great risk day and night to keep us safe and free, end up on our streets with nowhere to go or to call their home.
Massachusetts has been first in our nation with several inventions and events, so let us be the first to go the extra mile for our valiant men and women.
My suggestion is that every responsible and law-abiding citizen of this state start a fund, by donating whatever we can each month to be used by our elected officials to build homes and get other necessities, especially for those who have been seriously injured.
All donations would be sent to our local government office by the givers, and that office, in turn, would send all the money collected to the governor' office to be placed into an account that would only be used to build homes for our homeless and help those who've lost a limb while serving our country. The governor's office would select a committee of responsible and cost-conscious individuals to supervise the use of every cent they receive so that every deserving man and woman will get the help they need so that they can live in dignity in a home, and not on our streets, in parks and shelters, for I am certain we all thank them for a job well done.
I would pledge $25 a month from my pension and Social Security for the rest of my life to help make this suggestion a reality, and if even one million or more pledge even $10 a month, this would help our brothers and sisters who gave so much to protect us day and night. There are a lot of kind-hearted individuals in this blessed state who, I am sure, would give a lot more to help those who served us so well and now need our help, once they are sure that the money they give will be used for our valiant men and women.
We can't leave everything to our elected state officials when we all can give a helping hand to lessen the suffering, pain, and hopelessness of our injured service personnel. We all know that they deserve our help now and always for the job they did and are doing so well, so let's show them that we care.
Valley people make a 'green' statement
As we celebrated Earth Day last week, many people in the Pioneer Valley are probably thinking about a different kind of green - the kind we need to stimulate our economy.
As municipalities struggle with budget cuts and reduced resources, we're proud to be working with the communities that made a green choice years ago - the choice to convert municipal waste into clean, renewable energy.
Each year, 15 local communities send their post-recycling waste to Covanta's energy-from-waste facility located in Agawam - thus helping to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and foreign oil by producing enough power for about 6,500 homes and offsetting 130,000 tons of greenhouse gasses from being emitted into the atmosphere. Annually, the facility also recycles 4000 tons of metals, which would otherwise be buried in landfills.
Besides these environmental benefits, the facility provides local jobs with steady employment and related tax benefits. By reducing landfilling, Covanta Springfield works every day, not just on Earth Day, to bring both economic and environmental benefits to its partners in Agawam, Springfield, West Springfield, Southwick, Longmeadow, East Longmeadow, Wilbraham, Ludlow, Belchertown, Colrain, Heath, Montague, Greenfield, Shutesbury, and Holyoke.
--Facility Manager, Covanta
Connecticut casinos aren't helping state
The casinos in Connecticut are not only laying off workers, they certainly have not financially aided the state. Connecticut is still in debt.
We do not need these failed casinos in our state of Massachusetts.


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"So far this year the District has seen 20 traffic fatalities, 11 of them involving pedestrians. According to D.C. police assistant chief Pat Burke, who spoke at the press conference, those are some of the lowest figures the city has seen in decades. "
And let's be honest, the corruption at OCTO started under Vivek Kundra.
I'm an ardent fan of the late Monderman's work, but even he said that it's not applicable everywhere; a blanket ban certainly isn't in that spirit. It's nice to spot that the People Powered Arlington post seems to share such sentiment.
MPDC lists collisions involving pedestrians deaths over the past 10 years as:
2000 - 19
2001 - 14
2002 - 9
2003 - 21
2004 - 10
2005 - 16
2006 - 17
2007 - 25
2008 - 14
2009 - 16
Roundabouts on the other hand, never stop traffic. Traffic is always moving (if present).
Monderman is pretty smart is messing with people's minds in traffic. By removing borders that supposedly create safety, he takes away blind trust and creates interaction. Of course that doesn't work everywhere, but does force another mindset.
And even without taking traffic lights are. Why is it, for instance, that the pavement of side walks is always interrupted for concrete driveways when cars need to cross? This gives cars the idea that pedestrians are in their way. Why can't the pavement just continue, making it more clear for cars that *they* are crossing the sidewalk, as opposed to the pedestrian crossing "their" driveway.
You can even do the same things at intersections. Do not interrupt the paved sidewalk for the asphalt road, but interrupt the asphalt road for the paved sidewalk, especially is combined with bulb-outs.
Such changes do not even need to cost a lot of money, but have a pretty good impact in traffic safety.
Painting bike lanes does the same.
Stop lights have an inherent flaw, they stop traffic.
The first sentence makes no sense, especially given the information presented in the chart. "On average, there have been 665 collisions involving pedestrians." What average? What time frame? What's the location? Who? WHat? Where? When? Huh?
Then you go on, and it says "In 2008, pedestrians accounted for 38% of the traffic fatalities in the District of Columbia, which showed a significant increase from 2002 where pedestrians accounted for 18% of the fatalities in the District of Columbia." But 2008 isn't the end of the time series and 2002 isn't the start. So why pick those years? Also, 2002 was clearly an anomaly, and I'd guess it's not because there were actually that few fatalities, but because data collection experienced a hiccup for some reason.
In any case, yes, this year's pedestrian fatality data may not be particularly low, but neither is it particularly high. What does seem to be going down is total collisions involving fatalities, pedestrian or driver. So fewer driver deaths while roughly the same number of ped deaths - maybe speed is becoming less of a factor? Fewer collisions with telephone poles for whatever reason?
You bring up an interesting point about the merits of roundabouts in highly pedestrian areas. In England, roundabouts are highly preferred over traffic lights but in many areas pedestrians have a clear right-of-way - people don't think twice before walking in front of a car. Of course the culture is completely different and speeds tend to be slower.
There is an annoying 5-way intersection in Alexandria where Mt. Vernon, Commonwealth, and Hume meet.
I always wondered if this would work as a roundabout instead but I'm not sure it can be done because of the relatively high amount of pedestrian traffic. Two miles away near Braddock Road Metro, there are two pedestrian crossings with blinking lights indicating that stopping is mandatory but it seems like a third of cars don't stop.
The rule with roundabouts is that traffic *on* the roundabout has the right of way. This makes sense because that way traffic can always exit from the roundabout, making room for new traffic onto the roundabout.
The great realization that most people have to make is that pedestrians (and bikers) who "cross" a roundabout are also *on* (the side walk of) the roundabout and therefor have the right-of-way. A few signs could make this clear to car drivers.
Another great feature of roundabouts is that they slow down traffic because everybody has to make a turn. They greatly reduce the need to separate lift and right turn lanes. They do not need power. They can't go out of order due to lack of power (after a storm). And they are a nice place to put some greenery.
Not only the UK has many roundabouts by the way. France, Spain and the Netherlands have plenty as well.
Flashing crosswalk lights are, IMHO, not a great idea. They tell drivers that this is a special case where they need to yield to pedestrians when the lights are flashing, and that other crosswalks, in comparison, need not be taken so seriously. I understand the impulse behind these contraptions and I imagine they do improve safety at the specific intersections where they are installed, but overall they may send the wrong message, just like speed bumps tell drivers that slowing down is something they only need to do when it's physically necessary to preserve their cars' suspensions.
Roundabouts are a better substitute for 4-way stop signs than for traffic lights.
This doesn't seem accurately to describe much of DC. The large majority of driveways/parking entrances are at the same grade as the sidewalk, and then have an apron/ramp where the curb cut is. Yes, there are exceptions, but they appear to be the minority and discouraged by DDOT.
Could be cultural factors at work here as well. DC is not Hanoi. Though I've never been to Hanoi, I have crossed Pennsylvania Ave, SE when the power to the traffic lights had failed, and DDOT simply set up a four-way stop sign. Traffic actually seemed to move *more* smoothly, and as a pedestrian I was actually able to cross the street without waiting 50 seconds for the (18 second) walk signal.
My guess is that eliminating most traffic signals in the city would calm traffic and make things flow more smoothly.
I'm slightly disappointed she didn't make Gray fire her. That's what I would have done. But this is more gracious, to be sure.
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Denny's lounge on South 320th closes
The Dennys restaurant on South 320th Street near SeaTac Mall has closed its lounge and will turn the space into a banquet room.
A manager was uncertain Monday how soon the new facility would be available.
The lounges last day was Sunday. Robert Riley, one of the bartenders, said regular customers paid their final respects at a special party earlier last week. About 120 people attended, he said.
The restaurant, one of two Dennys eateries in Federal Way, opened in the early 1970s, and the lounge is believed to have existed since 1975, Riley said.
It was a place where a lot of Federal Way old-timers came to talk. They had a lot of stories about how Federal Way has grown up over the years, he said.
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HP's Matrix has a great plus over Cisco's California and a big fat minus as well. It has a hole in its storage heart. Matrix goes very much farther than Cisco in unifying storage, iSCSI storage and the servers and networking, but not so far as Cisco in unifying networking, particularly storage networking. In fact there is a …
FCoE standard?
I wasnt aware FCoE was ratified yet (although I could be wrong), probably why HP hasnt included it as of yet?
Also you are forgetting that FCoE will require a new backbone which means if you go for it you basically will have to rip and replace your entire infrastructure. This seems a little more plausible as a migration type solution (use what you currently have in a different way) and then migrate up as and when you need to as opposed to Cisco's "our way or no way"!
8Gb FC Virtual Connnect
"Considering that virtually every mainstream storage supplier positions Fibre Channel as the SAN style for enterprises, with iSCSI the SAN protocol outside the data centre, this limits Matrix' appeal."
Not sure what this means since there is an 8Gb Virtual Connect I/O module.
FCoE Availability
FCoE probably won't be offered until the HP ProCurve 6600 and similar switches support it. They certainly don't want you to buy Cisco Nexus 5000 with their Matrix!
Mines the one with the name tag ripped off.
As already indicated, FCoE is not yet ratified as a standard. Cisco has effectively "jumped the gun" with its FCoE offering which may or may not meet the final FCoE specification.
For those of us with long memories who recall the mess we had with fibre channel products prior to ratification, I can understand why some vendors, inlcuding HP are reticent to release products right now.
FCoE is the future - so's electric cars - but we won't all go out and buy one now will we?
FCoE hype
It is amazing how much belief is being put into the notion that FCoE will suddenly unify and transform the data center interconnect. Do people really think that the storage network and public network will or actually ought to run over the same wire, separated solely by a differentitation based on shims and headers? Look at the breakin to the F-35 development, the only thing that saved the real secrets is the fact that they were stored on a system physically isolated from the public network. Furthermore, who thinks that existing storage and networking gear that currently does the job pretty damn well will be thrown out in favor of new hardware on a single wire? HP could quickly add FCoE to the existing solution, and when it is as secure as physically separate networks, and there is an actual need for it, maybe in 5 years, I am sure they will do it. Right now it is Cisco's marketing hook to try and sell their UCS
Flex 10 Virtual Connect
Virtual connect is not a switch, it maps the blade servers ethernet ports to external ports but it doesn't take part in normal switch activity such as spanning tree and you can't plug external devices (except switches) into it.
FCoE not ratified
spoke to some attending the HP Technology Event in Belin and they confirmed that the reason why FCoE is not in the Matrix is because it hasn't been ratified and HP policy is only to support ratified standards. Once it is ratified (if it is) then it will be on the roadmap for Matrix as long as business needs it.
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Yeah, HP has *never* supported anything that's not ratified. Yawn. They wouldn't happen sell any proprietary mid-range systems that they make huge margins on. Never.
Anyway, this whole announcement is yawn. If Unifying storages means a bunch of isolated disks plugged into my blade slots, then you can keep it. No thanks HP.
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