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text: Watch An Insanely Stupid BMW Driver Nearly Get Destroyed By A TrainPatrick George2/26/14 12:40pmFiled to: TrainlopnikBMWAsshats966EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink I know it seems like we rag on BMW drivers a lot around these parts, but that's only because they keep giving us reasons to do it. And this 3-Series driver just raised the stupid bar to new heights.AdvertisementCarscoops featured this video of unknown origin (possibly Russian because that would make sense for a lot of reasons) that shows a 3-Series driver who inexplicably comes to a stop on some railroad tracks and then parks there while the gates come down. Now, a normal person would be inclined to get the hell out of there immediately, but this driver just... sits there.And sits there. AdvertisementAnd sits there. Eventually he or she figures out what's coming and pulls up closer to the gate, but never goes past it. At this point you'll be screaming "Go around the gate, you fool! AROUND THE GATE! Or THROUGH IT! Just get off the damned tracks!"But no. They just sit there until some Good Samaritan runs up and lifts the gate so the Bimmer can drive through it mere seconds before the train comes through. SponsoredWhat was the deal here? Did they not want to scratch their hood by driving through the gate? I can guarantee the scratches from the train crash would have been a lot worse. Your stupid car isn't worth your life. Reply96 repliesLeave a reply

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Monday April 5, 2010 4:53 pm
HP Slate gunning for iPad with cameras, USB, SD slot, and iTunes
Take a look at the latest marketing video for the HP Slate, the tablet computer that should be launching fairly soon from HP. As you can see in the video, it appears that HP has built a program that runs in Windows 7 to give a custom tablet appearance, but when all is said and done, this is really just a touchscreen tablet running a full version of Windows 7, not a mobile operating system. Some will, of course, see that as a plus.
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STAUNTON, Va., April 10, 2012 - Federated Member Hovis Auto & Truck Supply celebrated the grand opening of its Hovis Technical Training Center with an open house March 23-24 at the Mercer, Pa. facility.
The open house featured a business management course entitled "More Profits and More Cash for My Automotive Repair Business," conducted by Mike Allen, vice president, Federated Auto Parts. Manufacturer representatives and training partners from key suppliers were in attendance to speak with Hovis customers about new products and upcoming training to be held at the center.
Since opening in November 2011, the Hovis Technical Training Center has trained over 550 customers.
"We are excited to see our training center grow so quickly and to be a part of bringing the newest technology and techniques in the automotive repair, coatings and heavy duty industries to our customers and employees," said Curt Hovis, vice president of Hovis Auto & Truck Supply.
The Hovis Technical Training Center is dedicated to instructing with the most advanced tools and equipment to help with time-saving and problem-solving techniques. The center boasts a fully-equipped body shop with mixing rooms, prep deck, oversized paint booth and a 14-foot overhead door for heavy duty truck access, as well as four-post and two-post lifts, wireless alignment machine, tire changer, balancer and diagnostic labs.
"The Hovis Technical Training Center is committed to educating professional technicians in a state-of-the-art facility, close to home, reducing shop downtime and travel expenses," continued Hovis. "We recognize the critical need to provide technicians with comprehensive instruction, technical materials and educational programs, and we understand they don't want to travel across the country to get it. That is why we are bringing leaders in the industry to western Pennsylvania."
The Hovis Technical Training Center has developed an educational curriculum to bring together leaders in the automotive, heavy duty, and paint and body industry to train on the latest technology, techniques, and applications in their specific fields. These certified trainers from DuPont, Akzo Nobel/Sikkens, 3M, Delphi, Federal Mogul, Abex, Meritor, etc. bring their expertise and industry knowledge to the training center in a streamlined curriculum that allows technicians to choose the courses that best suit their needs. In addition to technical training, the facility offers technicians, managers and owners the opportunity to participate in best business practice education to maximize traffic to their shops, improve return visit rates and increase their bottom lines. For more information, visit www.hovistrainingcenter.com or follow the Hovis Technical Training Center on Twitter at @hovisttc.
About Hovis Auto & Truck Supply Located in western Pennsylvania, Hovis Auto and Truck Supply has been a family-owned business since 1952. Since that time, the company has grown to 14 locations including a new warehouse facility. Hovis executives are industry leaders with Cliff Hovis currently serving on the executive committee and board of governors for Federated Auto Parts, while Vice President Curt Hovis serves on a variety of paint, body and equipment manufacturer boards. In addition, Cliff has also served as a member of the board of governors of AWDA.
About Federated Federated Auto Parts, headquartered in Staunton, Virginia, is one of the largest auto parts distribution and marketing organizations in North America. Federated is dedicated to supporting its customers with quality name brand parts, programs designed to grow their businesses, and experienced counterpeople who are knowledgeable in today's evolving automotive technology. For more information, visit www.federatedautoparts.com.


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Valley Forge Educational Services: Free Internet Safety Workshop for Parents: join a cyber-security, cyber-bullying, social media expert to learn about the real hazards that exist beyond the streets. Workshop will be held at VFES Activity Center 1777 North Valley Rd., Malvern, PA 19355 on Thursday, March 9 from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Register here. Questions: email or call: 610-296-6725 ext. 116.
A Step Up Academy: Surviving & Thriving Group: we help you rediscover your strengths, put a priority on self-care and parent from your best self. Group will be held at A Step Up 520 Meetinghouse Rd., Jenkintown, PA 19046 on Saturday, March 18, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. For more information and registration click here or contact BethAnn.
Ruttenberg Autism Center (RAC): free open forum for families of Individuals on the autism spectrum. Forum will be held at RAC 1740 Walton Rd., 1st Floor, Blue Bell, PA 19422 on Sunday, March 26 at 3:30 p.m. To learn more and to RSVP, click here or contact Mary.
Foundations Community Partnership presents Educational Workshops for Professionals: Co-Occurring Conditions in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Workshop offers Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) and are held at the Doylestown Health and Wellness Auditorium, 847 Easton Rd./Rt 611, Warrington, PA 18976 on Wednesday, March 1, 8:30 a. m. - 12:00 p.m. For more information and to register call 267-247-5584 or visit www.fcpartnership.org.
Bucks Life Office presents: Crisis Planning: a free parent and professional workshop. The presenter Mark Boorse, Director of Program Development with Access Services, will lead this interactive discussion regarding crisis planning at the Ivyland Office, 882 Jacksonville Rd., Ste 203, Ivyland, PA 18974 on Tuesday, March 21 from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Register here.
Special-Ed Services to get a Bump: Settlement to provide ESY for Philadelphia StudentsFrom: www.philly.com by Kristen GrahamThe Philadelphia School District has agreed to provide enhanced special education services over school breaks to students who qualify for them.
With Talk of Waiver Changes, Medicare Services May Be At RiskFrom: www.disabilityscoop.com by Michelle DiamentThe Trump administration is planning to fundamentally alter Medicaid, a move that could mean big changes to everything from health care to home and community-based services waivers for people with developmental disabilities.
Was Dr. Asperger a Nazi? The Question Still Haunts AutismFrom: http://www.npr.org by Steve SilbermanThe publication of a new history of autism called In a Different Key, by John Donovan and Caren Zucker, has reopened an unsettling question about the pioneering Viennese pediatrician Hans Asperger: was he a Nazi sympathizer, or a man who paid lip-service to his bosses' murderous ideology in order to save the lives of as many of his young patients as possible?
The Special-Education Charade: Individual Education Programs, or IEPs are one of the greatest pitfalls of our country's school system. From: http://theatlantic.com by Tracy ThomsonI am in hell or its equivalent. Specifically, I am in an Individualized Education Program (IEP) meeting for my 14-year- old daughter, a special education student at Prince George's County, MD.
Is the Bar Too Low for Special Education?From: http://theatlantic.com by Laura McKennaThe Supreme Court is poised to decide the quality of instruction public schools must provide students with disabilities- a question that could get even thornier under the Trump administration.
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It's official! Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, who currently hosts his namesake show The Colbert Report, will be headed to CBS to take over the Late Show when David Letterman retires next year.
CBS's Leslie Moonves, the president and chief operating officer of CBS, and Nina Tassler, the chairwoman of CBS's entertainment division confirmed the news this morning in an announcement.
Colbert addressed the announcement with a statement of his own saying,
Simply being a guest on David Letterman's show has been a highlight of my career. I never dreamed that I would follow in his footsteps, though everyone in late night follows Dave's lead. I'm thrilled and grateful that CBS chose me. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go grind a gap in my front teeth.
Congratulations to Stephen Colbert (and my sympathies to Craig Ferguson, who hosts The Late, Late Show and who I thought would be a shoo-in for the job!).
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To better understand the meaning of FICTION, certain examples of its usage are presented.Examples from famous English prose on the use of the word FICTION
"African american girls fiction"
"Interracial adoption fiction"
"Racism fiction"
"As faith emerges whole from ancient fiction" - This term fiction was used by The Harmonious Blacksmith.By G.F. Handel. Sequenced by in the Poem Hope is not the creature of sensation.
"Dozens of non-fiction titles" - This term fiction was used by Ron Price in the Poem A clockwork orange and black.
"Its called fiction" - This term fiction was used by Sarrah Hanna in the Poem Stand up, i deserve this fight - poem.
"The most daring of contemporary fiction writers"
"Cryonics is more science fiction than serious science"
"Fast-paced fiction"
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Editor's picks from around the Web (3/1-3/8)
By Vanessa De La Rosa
This week's editor's picks feature how the annuity business needs to change, mistakes to avoid on LinkedIn, financial obstacles for gay couples, why advisors should include health care costs in their clients planning, and more. Feel free to comment or leave other article recommendations below.
It's time to fix the annuity industry (MarketWatch)
"The annuity business has really not changed that much over the years. It's one of those industries that makes a ton of money, so no one wants to upset the apple cart and kill the golden goose. Because annuities are regulated at the state level, the call for change will have to be unified and addressed at the industry, agent and product levels."
Have Americans Given Up On Saving for Retirement? (TIME)
"With an economic recovery under way, and housing rebounding and stocks verging on new highs, perhaps the sense of futility will ease before we all slip into a coma. Let's hope so, because giving up isn't the answer."
8 Mistakes You Should Never Make On LinkedIn (Forbes)
"LinkedIn has a special designation: professional networking. And there is a difference between professional and personal networking, according to LinkedIn Career Expert Nicole Williams: 'I see the same mistakes over and over!'"
Wealthy Gay Couples Could Pay More Taxes If Unions Legal (Financial Advisor)
"For gay couples where both earners are making salaries of $400,000 a year or more, the ruling may mean thousands of dollars in higher income taxes if the court accepts the legality of these unions. Such high-earning couples already may have added costs when they file their taxes, share employee benefits such as health insurance and transfer assets."
Cataloging Health Care's Excesses (The New York Times)
"The cover story in Time magazine last week wasn't the usual fare... 'Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us' is a serious, exhaustively reported piece about the problem the U.S. health care system has become. The article, by Steven Brill, has created unusual buzz in Washington; it spares no vested interest."
Protecting Life Insurance Beneficiaries From a Windfall (AdvisorOne)
"While the usual life insurance policy allows the policy death proceeds to be distributed in a variety of manners, the beneficiary is given the choice of how and when to receive them, whether this decision is in accord with the policy owner's wishes. A new trend in product offerings may serve to reverse the course of this eventuality by allowing the policy owner to protect the beneficiaries while generating potentially substantial additional benefits under the policy in the process."
No, the United States Will Never, Ever Turn Into Greece (The Atlantic)
"The short version of this story is that we'll spend ourselves into bankruptcy. The longer version says that too much public debt makes markets nervous. Nervous markets demand higher interest rates. Higher rates mean higher deficits and lower growth, both of which mean more burdensome debt. More burdensome debt makes markets even more nervous. And around and around we go in a vicious circle into insolvency."
Financial Advisors Should Help Clients Plan For Health-Care Costs (Financial Advisor)
"As a financial advisor, you can offer valuable guidance to your current clients, and attract new ones, by helping them understand and prepare for the health-care costs they will face in retirement."


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Generating MD5 HEX string from either URL or File instance in Groovy (more elegant than the Java version).
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Subscribe to comments- Posted By: ahornbeck on January 14, 2009
Thanks for the code sample! Found a small problem. To protect against leading zeros being dropped, change last line to.
return bigInt.toString(16).padLeft(32, '0')
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Thanks for the comment, could you explain why 32 zero pad?
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This example would benefit from the line
import java.security.MessageDigest
to make it work on its own.- Posted By: narkisr on January 31, 2009
Iv added the import, thanx for the comment.
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32 zero padding because the md5 digest string is expected to have 32 characters after left padding with zeros
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Thread: Boston Bombers ID'd
Apr 26, 2013, 07:48 PM #91
Apr 26, 2013, 07:53 PM #93
the same point that you realize that you should probably only take your nose rider out in summer time waist high mush, grow a pair, ditch the gopro (despite how this will negatively effect your jacking off habits), get an education and kneel down and suck my politically superior ****.
Apr 26, 2013, 07:55 PM #94
Its over Mfittz, for once you don't have "all the answers".
go fist yourself brother
Apr 26, 2013, 08:00 PM #96
lol, another winner from our resident "I just formed opinions on the world last week and you need to hear them" whipping boy!!! do youself a favor, delete your account and start over... this way you won't have such a trail ridiculous posts associated with you.... ok Turdvolution?
Apr 26, 2013, 08:05 PM #98
i would say im not going to respond anymore because you are making strictly personal attacks with no relevancy, and are now providing nothing of substance or with any intellectual weight to this thread, but NOTHING you ever posted has had any substance or intellectual weight so im just gonna let you have the last word after this.
Whatever strokes your overabundant ego man, i hope you are happy with the current condition of your life!
Hey Seldom Seen, in addition to our TV show idea I have a movie plot. If anybody steals this I'll get 'em.
Two surfers get into an argument that turns heavy on a surf predicting site. One of the particpants then launches a search to find the other one physically. Then chaos erupts with attacks and counter attacks. Nothing fatal, but everything from what can be called pranks to minor physical injuries. It can be a dark comedy.
Oh man, I can see the news in NY: Good evening I'm Toyota Kawasaki and here's tonight's headlines. Investigators have uncovered the cause of last Tuesday's assault and sodomy on a local man attributing the attack to an online argument gone bad. Apparently, two surfers(said very sarcastically) were arguing about terrorism, American freedoms and such when the dialogue escalated. It appears that Dwayne Todd Mackey of Oak Island, NC traveled to Pearl River, NY and hunted down local man, Harold McFitzberger, assaulted and sodomized him repeatedly. Mackey is currently being housed at the Essex County Jail, on $578.97 bail, after being arrested on The Garden State Parkway in New Jersey while returning to North Carolina. No update on McFitzberger's condition.
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It was announced yesterday that Rob Zombie will be bringing his maniacal serial killers from House of 1000 Corpses to this years Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. Details were slim, only revealing that attendees will be able to walk through the maze that'll be presented in 3-D. An official press release went out this morning that detailed the event titled "Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses: In 3D ZombieVision". Details inside.
Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen, the world's deadliest tourist trap, will be the setting for a nightmarish 3D world of carnage and chaos created by a preeminent master of contemporary horror as "Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses: In 3D ZombieVision" is presented at Universal Studios Hollywood's SM "Halloween Horror Nights


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Smitten - A Hafla Featuring Belly Dance Super Stars Kami Liddle & Zoe Jakes
Join us on the evening of December 8th for an unforgettable gathering and dance.
"Hafla" pronounced from the Arabic "Khafla" is a get-together, ceremony, party or family gathering.
This show will include performances by dancers from around the world as well as neighbor island and local talent.
Come early and check out some amazing and handcrafted items by: Medina Maitreya Designs, Belly Roll Designs, and more.
* See who's attending on the Smitten Facebook event page.
Location: Kalani Blue Moon Room.
Time: 7-10pm. Show starts promptly at 7:30pm
Admission: $10 at the door
Zoe Jakes
Zoe is a proud member of The Indigo, recently on the road touring their new show Le Serpent Rouge. She has been touring with Bellydance Superstars since the fall of 2005 and can be seen performing on their new Tribal Fusions DVD. She recently finished filming her debut instructional DVD, to be released in the fall. Combining talents with David Satori and Tommy Cappel to form the band Beats Antique, which released the album Tribal Derivations last spring, Zoe is currently working on its sequel. When not with The Indigo, she tours with The Yard Dogs Road Show, a cartoon circus sideshow of wacky dimensions, and has been seen tearing it up with the Extra Action Marching Band.
Recently nominated for Zaghareets "Best Interpretive Artist 2007″, Zoe is an inarguably innovative dancer, whose unique take on Tribal bellydance takes influence from Art Nouveau, tango, Breakdance, and Indian classical dance. She loves unicorns and has never once doubted their existence. To learn more about Zoe visit http://beatsantique.com/
Kami Liddle
Kami has been dancing all her life, butfound her true passion, Belly Dance, when she was 18 years old. She began to study cabaret style belly dance until she found Fat Chance Belly Dance and began to study their videos religiously.
Today Kami refers to her style as a modern fusion of an ancient dance. As she began to perform as a soloist she began to incorporate other styles into her ATS repertoire such as modern, hip hop jazz and bhangra dance. Kami has earned a degree in Art with a Minor in Dance fromthe University of Nevada, Reno and has been nominated for'Best Interpretive Artist" for 2005 and 2007 by Zaghareet Magazine. She joined Bellydance Superstars in 2005 and is a contributing choreographer as well as the director of the Tribal Superstars. Kami recently relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area. Kami is a Oahu favorite and has been asked back again and again to teach and perform here. Her silky moves will hypnotize and enthrall. To learn more about Kami please visit her at http://kamiliddle.com/
Kalae Kaina has been producing belly dance events and sponsoring workshops in Hawaii since 2006. Kalae is the director of Honolulu's own, Tribal Fusion Dance Company, Shakti Dance Movement.
For more info please visit http://shakti808.com/


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Dell will hold a conference call with analysts and investors on May 21, 2013, at 3:30 p.m. CT to discuss first quarter fiscal 2014 financial results. The call was originally scheduled to begin at 3:45 p.m. CT. Dell will conduct a live, audio-only webcast of its conference call. Dell expects to issue a press release discussing its financial results on the date of the call.
Conference call details are as follows:
Date: May 21, 2013
Time: 3:30 p.m. CT
Live webcast and replay will be available at www.dell.com/investor.
The press release discussing financial results for first quarter fiscal 2014 and slides containing additional financial and operating information for the presentation may be downloaded at the Investor Events and Webcasts portion of Dell's website at www.dell.com/investor on the day of the call.
About Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. For more information, visit www.dell.com.


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I have 64 days to start a step up program. They think I paid $21,999.00 for it so a 295 is free :lol: i wet myself when i saw that.
so when are the 300s coming out?
I have 64 days to start a step up program. They think I paid $21,999.00 for it so a 295 is free :lol: i wet myself when i saw that.
so when are the 300s coming out?
Not in 64 days.
What the? I dont even...
I have 64 days to start it. Then it lasts another 90 or more days.
I'm so confused.
Explain the situation.
December at the earliest. http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/07/...300-tapes-out/
What the fuck, explain what's going on please, you got a "coupon" of $20k?
Yes they think I spent $21,999.00 on it :lol::lol: they subtract the amount you paid minus another like $100 from the video card you want. Then when a new NV card comes out you get that one shipped to you(free in my situation :lol::lol::lol::lol: ).
Well start in on day 63/64 and there's no problem. Simple really.
Spent 21000 on what... You sound retarded.
Thread makes me go:
You bought a card for $210, then it registered as $21,000, and now they owe you free shit cause they think you gave them a lot of money?
That's what I'm guessing too.
I do believe that's fraud.
I believe we have just been mindfucked. Anti, please leave, learn English and proper sentence structure, then return and explain this, right now nobody knows whats going on.
si senior
Wow, fraud.
You seriously don't think they'll see through that in an instant when you try to claim a new card?
I sent them an email along with a complaint about my 275's performance.
Not sure how that changes anything...
once again /facepalm
i told them it says $22,000 and I don't know why. waiting for a reply
You sure it doesn't say $220.00 and and you're not stupid?
Anyways, I think once you try to order your new card they'll figure out what you're doing to them. They probably keep real tight sights on these sort of things.
I stand corrected.
I don't even think they have a card that expensive. :P
:O but dude what if there was one dude that would get liek 10000 fps duuuuuuuuuude!
Now the price is fixed. Should I step up to a 285? I could make $100 in 90 days :)
Anti-flag is a dumbass.
Thread ended.
(User was banned for this post ("Flaming/Dumb. Stop doing things that get you banned." - Monkeyjoe))
What the hell is wrong with you? Can't you take a joke?
cool, aren't quadros mainly for workhorses and not everyday gaming computers?
You mean that the quadro's are workhorses? because I'm pretty sure there is very little demand for graphic cards by horses.
I think you mean workstations...it's still an Nvidia graphics product.
you really are an obvious troll
wow a whole box I can make in paint
They're going to figure out you didn't pay $21000 for a GTX 295, so don't get your hopes up.
And it's not coming out til Q4, so like October-December.
wish we had some halfdecent trolls around here, it'd make it more interesting
The last really quality troll I remember is the "anti-overclocking chip" guy.
where is lazyV OH THAT'S RIGHT
/facepalm for the 4th time. are you familiar with the term workhorse?
i'd give you the screenshot but you'd steal my unused codes, and you call me the troll LOLOLOLOLOL
what the fuck is wrong with you people? why can't anyone take a motherfucking joke?
Wait a second I thought this was to be real and now it is a joke
(ps you can block the numbers in paint)
Yes, but workstation is what you were thinking of.
If you write /facepalm one more time, I'll fucking rage.
Um, you can easily just obscure the numbers.
It's hard to take a joke when it isn't fucking funny.
what the fuck are you talking about? I don't even.. That picture never touched paint you tard.
I'll get the SS when evga.com stops being a prick.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=7...9dcfeb7b6bca62 (it wont fucking leave it at the right res)
\/\/\/ if you have good eyes /\/\/\ if you don't
Yeah, EVGA's not gonna let you get away with that. You have to provide a Newegg Invoice. They gave me a hard time because I bought my GTX 280 for $500 CAD and the 295 is was $500 USD. So all I had to pay for my stepup was shipping and boarder tax.


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Last week this series started off with a look at why the military wants to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and some of the ways in which it plans to do that. Today we'll take a closer look at some of the specific technologies and products the military is pursuing and the various plans in place for making it all work.
Again, the military's interest in clean technology and renewable energy, while certainly supported by federal policy, seems to be more about resource efficiency than any particular political agenda. And while the Solyndra debacle has had everyone complaining about the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program, when it comes to military projects the business case is very different.
In September 2011, for example, the U.S. Army announced a plan to install rooftop solar installations on as many as 160,000 privatized military residences in 33 states. The army announced that developer SolarCity would install, own and operate the rooftop arrays at 124 military bases. SolarCity announced that it would put Army veterans and military family members to work installing the panels. USRG Renewable Finance, the debt financing arm of US Renewable Group, announced that it would lend $344 million to SolarCity for the project, in partnership with BofA Merrill Lynch. Up to 80 percent of the loan would be guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office. In this scenario, the risks are incredibly low. SolarCity has a clear interest in ensuring that its product is installed and operating properly--not only does it want to keep a large customer like the U.S. Army happy, but the better its panels operate, the more excess energy it might be able to sell back to the grid. The Army gets to lock in a guaranteed energy rate for the next several years through its power purchase agreement (PPA) with SolarCity, but doesn't have to worry about the up-front costs or maintenance of the panels. USRG Renewable Finance and the DOE get a low-risk investment, and the solar industry gets greater scale (the Army installations would just about double the amount of installed rooftop photovoltaics in the country) and a solid showcase of its potential.
Perhaps more importantly, as the various branches of the military pinpoint which technologies and solutions work for them, their approach has not been to seek more appropriations, but to meet with private developers and investors who can help fund projects and eliminate the need for more government funding. The Department of Defense is prohibited from paying a premium for goods or services, which is an obvious hurdle when it comes to many renewable energy technologies, but it's also driving innovation in the military's strategy and could eventually help to drive down costs in the renewable energy sector.
As of September 15, 2011 the Army launched the Energy Initiatives Office, the mission of which is to engage the private sector in identifying and investing in big green power projects that could be built on the Army's vast land holdings. The Army estimates it will need about $7.1 billion in investment over the next few years to meet its goal of using 25 percent renewable energy by 2025, and it doesn't expect that money to come from the federal government.
Part of what makes the military's renewable energy projects so attractive to would-be investors is that the service owns so much land that lends itself to such projects. A recent solar project installed at Edwards Air Force Base, for example, features three photovoltaic installations across the base, generating 3.4 megawatts of electricity. The project was developed by Borrego Solar, which leases the land the installations sit on from Edwards, and sells solar power to the base through a 10-year power purchase agreement.
We're able to fulfill about 10 percent of energy needs on base with that system," says Jon Gensler, federal project developer with Borrego. "They're operating live missions out of Edwards and this gives them 10 percent of their energy over 10 years where they know what they'll be paying for it."
Gensler calls the Edwards project a great example of the willingness of the DOD to work closely with the private sector. In this case Borrego owns and operates the system, provides operational and maintenance support, leases land from Edwards and sells the base electricity. This sort of arrangement seems to be emerging as the DOD's preferred way of getting renewable energy projects built, but Gensler says it hasn't been without its obstacles.
Anywhere in the DOD, or really the government in general, having a third-party owning assets is not common" he says, but draws a corollary between what's happening with renewable energy projects now and how the military privatized housing on bases a few years ago. "It's a similar model--developers come and build housing for soldiers on bases, they own and operate those residences, and it keeps housing off the balance sheet of the military and converts a CapX expense to an operational expense, which saves taxpayer money on an annual basis. Now they're looking to do the same thing with energy.
The bulk of renewable energy projects currently being considered or implemented by the country's military bases are focused on distributed energy. By generating energy onsite, the military can help to ensure resiliency and reliability in its energy supply, which is clearly preferable to the vulnerability inherent in using energy from a source the military does not control.
With distributed energy projects, you can build plants at scale and ramp them up over time," explains Tim Keating, VP of field operations and marketing at Skyline Solar, a Silicon Valley-based concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) company with contracts to develop solar plants at Edwards Air Force Base and Fort Bliss. "You can build one or two or three megawatts, and put those online in a local grid, so not only can you scale up over time, but you also don't have to worry about all the issues associated with transmission. Thirty percent of power sent out on transmission lines is lost right off the top."
Beyond Solar
It's not just solar projects the military is looking at, but also technologies that improve the efficiency of everything from buildings to transport vehicles to jets and carriers. According to a recent report from analysts at Pike Research, among the key sectors that will receive significant Pentagon attention and investment over the next two decades are solar power for both permanent bases and temporary facilities; fuel cells for individual soldier power; microgrids for military facilities; and biofuels for military vehicles, particularly the Navy's "Great Green Fleet" initiative to shift to a largely biofuels-driven fleet by 2016.
Pike analyst Peter Asmus says some military branches are getting into demand-response technologies first, often as a way to generate revenue for renewable energy, microgrid, and/or biofuels projects. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will be enacting Order 745 this summer, which stipulates that any organization that effectively uses demand-response technologies to "balance supply and demand as an alternative to a generation resource ... that demand response resource must be compensated for the service it provides to the energy market at the market price for energy."
In other words, if you can deliver energy reductions that save the grid from needing to make more energy, you should be compensated, just as you would be if you were adding energy to the grid; reductions in demand should be valued at least the same as increases in supply. Because the cost of installing demand response software is far less than installing a large-scale renewable energy project, some bases are looking down that road first, planning to generate revenue through demand-response installations, which will then help fund renewable energy projects.
In other cases, bases are installing projects with capacity to produce more renewable energy than they need so that the sale of renewable energy credits can offset any premium incurred by replacing fossil fuels with renewables. And then there are products like Soladigm's Dynamic Glass and Global Solar's rechargeable batteries, which, rather than imposing a premium, deliver lasting savings. Soladigm's Dynamic Glass, which tints on demand in order to provide not only visual comfort and daylihgting, but also to reduce solar heat gain and thus air conditioning requirements, pays for itself immediately.
We have a clear vision to bring a product to market that is cost neutral on day zero," says Soladigm VP of products Erich Klawuhn. "There's no ROI or payback time because of the system-level savings that offset the premium in the glass. There's immediate energy savings in terms of consumption, but it also helps to reduce peak load, which enables building designers to downsize the HVAC system they need. That value proposition holds pretty strong.
The value proposition for Global Solar is equally strong. The military had been in the habit of using non-rechargeable batteries, which it is now largely replacing with fewer rechargeable batteries and solar panels. A tactical team out for a three- to seven-day mission would typically need five to ten non-rechargeable batteries to supply enough power to operate a Sincgars (military radio) for the mission. These are one-use batteries, each of which costs $80 to $100, so that's $400.00 to $1000.00 per mission. Global Solar can replace those five to ten batteries with two to three rechargeable batteries ($300 each) and their 62w solar panel ($800 each). These systems (called Sunlinq) pay for themselves in two to three missions and can be used 300 additional times or cycles before the batteries need replacing.
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Comments for:King Korg Is Now In Stores03-May-13 7 Comments... Comments are closed while we transition to Disqus loneraver Said... It's a great sounding synth that's coming out at a bad time. Their biggest competition is their own other synths. 03-May-13 07:33 AM GuestKT Said... Trying to find more audio demos but... More than timing, probably it just doesn't have enough hands on controls and it is priced too high with only 2-timbres. Same price you can buy two new real analogue synths like Bass Station 2 plus korg MS20mini and have £100 spare change. Or other combos like a mini brute and a tetra for a total of 5 versatile timbers... Or a subphatty and volca stuff? Yes 24voices polyphony but for only 2-timbers who cares 04-May-13 01:33 PM Mattsynth Said... I am very intrigued with this synth but something is holding me back from buying it. I cannot put my finger on it but there is something telling me that this synth will not added anything new to my studio. 06-May-13 09:17 AM raphus Said... What's holding me back is that it's ugly and appears flimsily made (based on videos and reviews). If it had more knobs/sliders and was 4-part multitimbral with effects on each part, I'd be tempted to replace my Ion. 06-May-13 03:04 PM PlaNiT G Said... Say what you like about Korg. At least they're thinking out of the box. Big fan! 16-May-13 03:04 AM Peter K. Said...
A buddy of mine has one and it's a pretty cool instrument. It feels like a Krome; so it's alright but lightweight and kinda plasticky. It sounds really good though, and the controls are quick and intuitive. It's like today's version of a Polysix.
The controls feel okay but the sound is very smooth and free of stepping. It's a decent board that sounds great. Light weight, good value. 26-May-13 12:42 PM miekwave Said...
I own 6 or 7 korg products and a bunch of their software products.
Played kingkorg this for at least 30 minutes on three occasions at local synth shop. I was impressed with its live performability. Keys respond nicely, knobs and mod wheel feel nice.
Unfortunately its not very studio friendly, it has crypic controls and changing midi channel requires more button presses than id like.
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Apparently, it is from 1973 - it certainly looks it, stylewise, though it still looks almost brand new.
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I will pull it out and wear it tomorrow, I think. Thanks for the reminder.
Thanks! I know you have the same, have been wanting this for a while now and a friend at work works with watches aswell. So got this for a good price, couldn't resist. It's never wrong with to many watches :D
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Thank you very much. On the other hand if I didn't buy this JLC watch I could have the AP now :( But few more months is worth the wait!


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It used to be simple. Companies reported earnings in accordance with GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). Media sources published the news. In recent years company managements and sell-side analysts have taken to adjusting GAAP data higher. Those better-sounding profit numbers are called Non-GAAP. The non-standard measures of financial performance are far looser than GAAP numbers. Many times it is only these inflated results that are widely circulated by the press. Financial website Investopedia said it this way… "Many companies report non-GAAP earnings in addition to the required GAAP earnings stating that the alternate figure more accurately reflects their performance. Some common examples of non-GAAP earnings measures are cash earnings, operating earnings, EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) and pro-forma income." Companies would rather have analysts focus on higher 'adjusted' EPS in order to make their stock valuations look cheaper. Restating EPS to carve out employee stock option expenses obscure true compensation levels, including those of company officers. Differences in reported data can arise from many sources. Other common adjustments come from merger-related expenses, revenue recognition decisions, plus any or all non-recurring items and even the most appropriate number of shares outstanding to be used in calculating EPS. Managements must always disclose GAAP earnings. Often, however, they are buried in the footnotes of SEC reports and earnings call transcripts. Companies would rather have analysts focus on higher 'adjusted' EPS in order to make their stock valuations look cheaper. On-line financial sites don't always disclose when they are not using GAAP figures. This can make a huge difference in the reported P/E that various research services carry for the same stock. Pharmacy benefits management firm Express Scripts (ESRX) provides a prime example. Its shares closed at $62.98 on Monday, June 17, 2013. Here are the 'Analyst Estimates' sections for ESRX as shown on that date from Yahoo Finance, MSN Money and Value Line. Yahoo used Non-GAAP estimates in showing 2013-2014 projections of $4.30 and $4.93 respectively. They did not mention or footnote that these were not GAAP estimates. Investors using those numbers came up with reasonably low P/E multiples of 14.7x and 12.8x for this year and next. MSN Money Central showed an almost identical set of estimates. Once again the current year and 2014 multiples look quite low for a high-quality, conservatively financed growth company. Check out ESRX in Value Line and you see a very different set of estimates. Value Line's research used GAAP accounting in coming up with 2013 and 2014 expectations of $2.70 and $3.30. Based on those numbers this year's P/E is 23.3x and the 2014 multiple would be 19.1x. Value Line noted that Express Scripts' management has said publicly that they see $2.80 for 2013 including any additional amortization charges from the 2012 purchase of Medco Health Solutions. It is mainly these non-cash charges that created the large discrepancy in reported EPS. How would a typical investor know that? Which figures are correct? Does two-out-of-three count? Consulting MSN money would break the tie with estimates based on non-GAAP, again without mentioning that fact. Taking the time to read official company reports, with all their footnotes, will make you a better informed investor. Deciding if a stock is reasonably priced means comparing apples to apples. Don't get caught thinking a valuation is low by viewing adjusted EPS the comparing those figures against previously reported GAAP data. You would expect that well-regarded sources of financial data could be relied upon for accuracy. As always, it is safer to trust… but verify. Express Scripts is a large personal holding for me. Whichever way you choose to calculate its earnings the company appears to offer good growth prospects. Disclosure: Long ESRX shares A wide variety of easy-to-understand educational articles is available here [marketshadows.com] Details of my Value Portfolio can be seen here [marketshadows.com] Stocks Discussed: ESRX,
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Some observers contend that it is performances such as these that keep the steam car from coming back. They claim that powerful automobile and gasoline interests, having long ago won the battle against steam, are certainly not going to allow their old rival to be revived commercially. In at least one instance, this is not true. Not long ago, the Chrysler Corporation brought Calvin and Charles Williams to Detroit from Philadelphia to demonstrate their highly improved steam motor, which works equally well in cars, trucks, buses, or boats. It can be built for one third the price of a gasoline engine and can perform with greater efficiency and economy, operating on fuel oil costing sixteen cents a gallon.
The Chrysler Corporation is reported to be interested in producing the Williams' steam motor. It is perhaps significant that the Williams brothers are twins. Automobile history may yet repeat itself. In fact, one auto expert, Ken Purdy, writes in Kings of the Road: "The steam-lovers may have to wait just a bit longer—until the atomic-powered automobile is ready. Chances are that it will be a steam car, for it seems doubtful that we will find a way to use atomic energy for transport except by converting it to steam."
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Is it overkill to get a mac mini solely for the purpose of running iTunes for your Atv? Right now I'm running it off my MacBook Air but it would be nice to have iTunes available all the time for my Atv without having to pull up iTunes on the Air.
Losts do, and as many I expect use it instead of an ATV connecting it straight to their TV. Theres gotta be a iTunes running somewhere so a mac mini is as good as any other option.
I also do exactly that! I like to be have everything just there. Only I got my Mac mini when they still had an optical drive. So I ditched the dvd player at the same time. So its handy if the odd time I have a DVD I want to watch, I pop it in and watch from the Mac mini on the TV. Everything else I access through the AppleTV and use home sharing for it to see all the content in iTunes on the Mac mini. If it wasn't for the optical drive, I would stuff the mini and attached HDDs in a cupboard and watch it all through the Apple TV. So not overkill. My friends comment on how easy it all is to use as well. Definitely the way to go. Mebbe even consider a refurb with an optical drive. Depends on how many DVDs you might watch?
I know some of the routers have built in iTunes servers like RTN66U. I do not know how they work but something worth exploring.
These iTunes servers do not work with the ATV 2/3. They cannot and do not use Home Sharing. Instead, they use the old outdated way of broadcasting iTunes libraries over the network. This works fine for Macs and PCs but will not work with your iOS devices, Apple TV, or other Home Sharing accessories (receivers, sound docks, etc).
I think if you are just using it for iTunes then it is overkill, any cheap netbook can do that and because a netbook has a screen, keyboard and mouse built in they are much more practical to stash away with a couple of external drives and just have it run.
I use a mini the same way and it runs VMs. Before that I used to log into my daughters iMac remotely and we used that as the media server without impacting her...much
I have a Mac Mini running ML Server to keep iTunes up all of the time. It serves tv shows and movies up to 5 aTV's w/o a problem. I also use it as a small home website, central file server and time machine for every mac in the house.
A mini just for iTunes and literally nothing else? That's an expensive option. I'd build a cheap windows PC or buy a really cheap used one if that's all I wanted it for. edit: on second thought, I would also consider looking around at Walmart/Microcenter/Newegg/etc and look for sales on really cheap prebuilt PCs. You can probably get one for less than half the cost of a base mini. You probably couldn't build one much cheaper than that once you consider the cost of Windows.
I would LOVE to have a mini as my HTPC but I just can't justify it. Maybe when I replace my '09 server... Anywho, I currently use an OLD Dell GX620 with a Pentium D and it BLOWS. HARD. (No really, the fan sounds like a hair dryer when this thing gets going, lol). I use XBMC with streaming online video (Hulu and TV networks; I don't care for the XBMCFlicks app compared to my PS3/Sony streamer); any chance that a G4 mini could handle this? It is FLASH, after all, and Flash and PPC don't tend to get along. If it could, though, it might be an idea for the OP, too...
Ditto this. I got an Acer Revo nettop (don't remember the exact model off the top of my head). It has an Atom processor, and I wouldn't want to do much more than run iTunes on it at this point, but it's rock solid for that. It cost a total of $330. Wireless keyboard and mouse included. That was from Amazon.com . I don't know if it's still around, but that would be my recommendation. It's small, quiet, and produces no noticable heat. My Drobo leaves more of a footprint than it does. I looked at a Mini, but I couldn't justify the price. I could get a better processor and more RAM, but I don't need them just to run iTunes. Plus, adding a wireless keyboard and mouse to the base model puts you $400 more than what I paid. If you're planning on doing something beyond iTunes, sure... I can see that, but if you're whole purpose is to just run iTunes, buy a cheap PC. You'll come out better in the long run.
OK. I do not see the benefit of it using such a server, you might as well connect your drive holding the media direct to you PC or Mac.
I'd get at least a Core 2 Duo Mac Mini, not a G4. XBMC runs perfectly smoothly, even with HD content on my 2.53Ghz Mac Mini, on my G4, it had choppy frame rates at times with even 640 x 360 video, let alone 1920 x 1080.
Great advice guys. I'm leaning towards the mini a bit right now. I guess when I said the sole purpose of the mini would be running iTunes was a bit off. I guess what I actually need is a server. I have multiple HD's that I would like to connect to it and be able to access them from multiple ATV's and multiple computers. On the mini,I don't want to have to buy an extra display. Can I use my MacBook Air for a display for the mini? I suppose the only time I would need a display is when I'm setting it up and turning on iTunes. Mini still sounding like the best option?
Run the mini headless and then screenshare from the air to the mini. For the initial setup just connect the mini to the tv, then afterwards screenshare in and don't look back. I use my mini 09 as an iTunes / Elgato TV Server and is fine. Can stream itunes to my ATV and also Elgato to my ipad at the same time.
I'd still go the Windows PC (or Linux/FreeBSD with Windows running in a VM for iTunes) route as it would be cheaper and would let me use a case that has lots of room for internal HDs. Whether or not a mini is the best option depends on you. I'm not saying using a mini for a server is a bad choice. It's just usually going to be the more expensive option. However, you have to consider the cost of your time. If you're going to save yourself lots of time by using a mini, then that might be the best choice. Yes, you can use your MBA to control the server, no matter what OS it's running. If the server is a mini, you can use OSX's screen sharing. If the server's running Windows, you can use Microsoft's Remote Desktop. For both you can use VNC as well if you setup a VNC server to run on it. You'd just need to hook it up to a monitor/tv for the initial setup and if something really goes wrong. You'd want to set it up so that iTunes is automatically started on boot.
linux and windows are so much more of a maintenance pain. I'm totally sucked into the 'It just works' thing after being a windows professional for 17 years and being an Ubuntu die-hard community member and user for 5 years. Right now I'm Apple > Linux > Windows
Mac-Mini Hello everyone, New member I am a very long time user of Mac/Apple computers; I have a Woz in the attic. Im also a regular reader of MacRumors and find the information on this site invaluable. Anyway regardless of my lengthy use of Mac/Apple products I am a basic user With little understanding of the inner workings of the machines and can barely keep up with all the changes and up-dates. I teach and develop copious amounts of PowerPoint and Keynote presentations and I also review and edit other presentations on-line. Will a current generation Mini allow me to go on-line and display web sites on my 50-inch television? I have no interest in watching movies or music with it. Take care, Garv
That will not be a problem. No matter how big your TV is, it's still only 1920x1080. A mac mini could do that "with it's eyes closed"
This is exactly where I started with my first mini. I just wanted it to be an iTunes server for ATV to my living room and bedroom. I tried a million different ways to not let it be a full on desktop computer, thinking it was a lightweight machine to begin with. My advice is this: If it's going to be used mainly as an iTunes server, get the base model, maybe even look on Amazon or Apple's refurb page for last years model. You don't need a ton of storage on board if your HD's are all external and USB 2.0 provides fast enough speed for content delivery--even for very large 1080P content. Find a place to put it that's comfortable, get a display (you can find half-decent displays for $100 or less online) a keyboard and trackpad/mouse and go ahead and set it up as a desktop. Trust me, you're going to do this anyway eventually. You'll be spending lots of time organizing your iTunes library, you'll want to do that comfortably and trying to remote in from your Air will work, but will be more trouble than it's worth if you run headless. The machine just needs to be connected to the same network as your ATV's, it doesn't need to be in the same room. You can put it anywhere in the house. For seamless iTunes/Apple TV/iOS integration you couldn't ask for a better machine, but the reality is that running it headless is way more trouble than it's worth.
I bought a 'second-hand' Mac Mini, installed PLEX and runs now as home theater. Nice and smoothly (in parallel, iTunes is always active and can be used/accessed/started by ipad,...) MVa
Am also thinking of the same setup as you, running plex media server on the mini. Which model of Mac mini did you get? Do you know what the minimum spec is to run plex media server? I am also interested to hear how you have arranged your storage - do you have drives attached directly to the mini or are you using a NAS? From what I have read I understand that it is probably best to keep itunes media files off the NAS (so I would look to store those files either on the mac mini or on a hard drive attached to the mini) with any other media on the NAS. Any thoughts/comments?
Hi, my setup is as follows: - 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo/2 GB DDR3 SDRAM (PC3-8500)/160 GB HD/SuperDrive/GeForce 9400M/AirPort & Bluetooth Built-in (The Minimum system requirements for Plex are: For HD Content (720p and 1080p) or SD content with upscaling: A Macintosh Computer with an Intel Core Duo processor 1.6 Ghz or better At least 1GB of RAM, Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 => go for better is my recommendation ) - 1.5TB 2.5" directly attached to the mini (no separate power supply required for this storage) - NAS on network (always on) - iTunes on HD Mac Mini (limited iTunes library), homesharing with other Mac's iTunes Library (Main Library) on the same network. Works fine, but I would like to transfer all the files to the Mac Mini since other macs can be in sleep mode )


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I thought I would take the opportunity of what will probably be my last Commissioner Comments to lay out some of my opinions about things that remain unfinished in the county as I leave office. I don't mean to imply that these things have the highest priorities, some everyday stuff is more important. These are just some things that might not be constantly on our mind as the county moves into the future, but they would make life easier in the county.
The first is the expansion of our county GIS system. A GIS (Geographic Information System) has been implemented in the assessor's office, but greater implementation is possible and desirable. Ten years ago it was not so important, but with each passing year it becomes more so. GIS systems are capable of integrating many of our normal county records with one another. Besides being valuable to the assessor, it is also valuable to law enforcement, emergency management, planning, grant writing, and the commissioners, not to mention the value the public could gain by easier access to public information kept in the courthouse. Some of our neighboring counties have fully integrated GIS systems and they have proven to be valuable. We can't get left behind technologically.
Another important thing to consider is a new courtroom facility. Our current facility is inadequate in several ways. First, is a lack of capacity. It is impractical to schedule trials and hearings so that courtrooms are used at all times, but with five judges (including one magistrate) using two rooms, scheduling issues come up. A second consideration is security. Our current facilities are poorly secured. Security, including prisoner transport to court, depends heavily on personnel--many personnel. With a properly designed facility, security and transport could be handled with fewer personnel more securely, without resorting to such unpleasant things as metal detectors at the entrances. There is also the problem that defendants often have to occupy the same hallway as witnesses and victims. That is a really bad situation that needs to be corrected.
It is also vital that the county employ a road improvement program. We do a very good job at road maintenance, given our budget constraints. But it would be better to consider a road improvement program. The only thing lacking is money. However, there may be some things in the works that would provide more money for our road and bridge department than the county has now. Road improvement certainly doesn't mean that every road in the county needs paved. There are many other things that could be done like straightening out dangerous curves, dealing with places the snow drifts in all the time, hauling in more gravel or widening some roads. Some of this has been done, but money is always a limitation. The commissioners now have a detailed baseline road condition report of every road in the county. Such information can form a basis in the event of energy development or as a framework for deciding what roads need the most attention. It is way too easy to defer maintenance in order to get through a tight spot with the budget. That eventually catches up, and the county needs to deliberately move in the other direction.
Another item that needs addressed is our county comprehensive land use plan. There are some significant defects in it. One of the major reasons to have a comprehensive land use plan it that it is absolutely necessary in order to give our county a seat at the table in case the federal government wants to make changes in the regulations for the use of federal lands in the county. Federal land use policies are a source of enormous conflict in western Wyoming where federal land is much more abundant. Our fellow county commissioners there are well practiced in dealing with federal intrusion on a massive scale. One of the best tools they have in their arsenal is a well written comprehensive land use plan. We can learn much from them. The land use plan, properly written can also help us address the issue of Camp Guernsey expansion. Again, a properly written plan would give the county more power in a conflict than it might otherwise have.
While we're at it, and we're talking about changing the comprehensive land use plan the county might as well remove some of the Smart Growth elements from it. It can easily be demonstrated that the plan is a Smart Growth document. (For details, you might want to ask one of the commissioners, or maybe do your own research.) Ironically, the 284 people who signed the petition last year opposing the High Plains Initiative were actually defending this Smart Growth document. I know. That's a cruel thing to say, but it is most definitely true. They wanted to "keep what we have" and this was it. Now I think it is also interesting that the county has had this document in force for four years in the county, since before I was elected, and not one single dire prediction made by the opponents of HPI about the results of Smart Growth has come true in our county because of it. In fact, planning and zoning has moved in the opposite direction. The county regulations are much less burdensome than they were four years ago. Nevertheless, this might be a good opportunity to make people feel better by changing some of the wording, if only the citizens of Platte County will do one very important thing, actually read it before they defend or attack it. Or in the alternative, be very careful whom they trust.
I have enjoyed my time as commissioner very much. It has been a learning experience for sure. I have seen the best and the worst of Platte County citizens. I have seen some act in total disregard for their family and neighbors, and others sacrificially give for the benefit of others. I have seen drunken outrage in some, and quiet acceptance in others. I have seen the commissioners be the topic of outlandish lies, and at other times be genuinely complimented for doing a good job. I have seen attempts to rob our citizens of their constitutional rights and determinations to follow the law carefully. And all of that was just during commissioner meetings. I'm sure it was even more interesting out in public conversation.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention the gentlemen who have served with me as commissioners, Dan Kirkbride, Tim Millikin, and Steve Shockley. They each have had their own unique strengths and weaknesses. Each has always added to the quality of the decisions made. But they all have had one thing in common. Not one single time have I ever thought that any one of them was making a decision contrary to what he thought was best for the Platte County and its citizens.
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Grandes études
This pattern is also available as a part of the e-book "Variations on a Theme".
Caprice No. 24 in A minor is the final caprice of Niccolò Paganini's 24 Caprices, and a famous work for solo violin. The caprice has provided a rich seam of material for works by many composers. One of them is Franz Liszt. The Grandes études de Paganini are a series of six études for the piano by Franz Liszt. The pieces are all based on the compositions of Niccolò Paganini for violin.
"Grandes études" pattern is a set of two cowls knitted in a simple slipped stitch pattern. The slight tweak to the pattern gives an option of knitting two cowls that look completely different while using same slipped stitch technique. Both cowls are fast and easy projects. Enjoy!
Finished Size:
The sample cowl knitted using slipped stitch Variation 1 after blocking measures 140 cm (55 inches) long and 28cm (11 inches) wide. The sample cowl knitted using slipped stitch Variation 2 after blocking measures 140cm (55 inches) long and 31 cm (12 inches) wide. You can easily make your cowls bigger or smaller by changing the number repeats.
The gauge is not critical in knitting these cowls. Adjust your needle size to suite your yarn and achieve the size and the look of the cowl of your choice.
Yarn: The sample cowl knitted using slipped stitch Variation 1 was knitted with:
Classic Elite Yarns Fresco (60% Wool, 30% Alpaca, 10% Angora, Sport 5ply).
3 skeins = 483.8 yards (442.4 m) of colorway "5303 Cinder"
The sample cowl knitted using slipped stitch Variation 2 was knitted with:
ColourMart Merino/Mohair 2/16NM (80% Merino, 20% Mohair, Fingering 4ply wt)
0.65 skeins = 845.0 yards (772.7m) of colorway "Gris meddio". Yarn held double.
US 6 – 4.00 mm circular needles.
Pattern is both charted and written and includes Slipped Stitch lace photo tutorial.
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The East Mills wrestling team went on the road Thursday and earned a pair of dual wins at Tri-Center. The Wolverines knocked off the host Trojans 40-33 and A-H-S-T 33-27 in the double-dual. Colton Story (220 and 195 pounds), David Howell (285), Lane Stortenbecker (138) and Colby Jennings (160 and 170 pounds) all recorded two wins in the duals.
East Mills 40, Tri-Center 33
Harlan used a 15-5 run to pull away from Glenwood in a 42-32 Hawkeye 10 Conference victory on Friday in Harlan. The Rams (10-6 overall, 7-3 in the conference) struggled to find their touch on offense, shooting 26.4 percent from the field (14-of-53) in the loss.
Emily Blum paced Glenwood with 12 points. Grace Newman added nine points and Hailey Darrow eight. Taylor Wagner led Harlan with 12 points.
Glenwood 44, Atlantic 30
Fremont-Mills out-scored Heartland Christian 21-13 in the fourth quarter for a 56-50 come-from-behind victory on Friday. The Eagles held a 37-35 heading into the final frame before the Knights' comeback. Dakota Thomas scored 17 points and Aaron Flueren 13 to lead the Knights. Cody Cunard's 17 points led Heartland Christian.
Fremont-Mills 58, Essex 32
The Fremont-Mills defense limited Heartland Christian to 22 percent shooting in a 44-29 victory on Friday. Macy Williams led the Knights (13-5 overall, 9-0 in the conference) with a game-high 25 points in the win. Emily Smith added eight points and Taryn Williams, six. Steffi Cunard recorded 17 points to lead the Eagles.
Fremont-Mills 55, Essex 41
Tyler Jensen entered Glenwood game against Harlan second on the team in three pointers. After Friday's game, Jensen remained second on the team in made three's but the 5-foot-7 senior took the lead in the clutch three pointer department.
CRESTON - The Glenwood wrestling team followed up its clinching of the Hawkeye 10 Conference regular season-title and a perfect dual season with a second place showing at the conference tournament on Saturday in Creston.
Glenwood is expected to have its new public library director in place by the end of February.
In a report to the Glenwood City Council at its regular meeting Tuesday, Jan. 22, Glenwood Library Board member Gary Johnson said a person has been selected to replace Angela Campbell, who is leaving the post in mid-February after accepting a position as the director of the public library system in Rock Island, Ill.
Judge Kathleen Kilnoski Craig Lee Hancock, Council Bluffs - O.W.I. (third offense), eluding law enforcement officers, pleaded guilty, sentence suspended to 30 days in county jail with credit for time already served, five years probation, driver's license revoked for six years, ordered to pay $3,125 fine, court costs and fees; interference with officials acts, pleaded guilty, sentence suspended to five years probation, ordered to pay court costs and fees.
Glenwood Community Schools Jan. 31 - Feb. 6, 2013
Breakfast (100% fruit juice and milk served with breakfast) Thursday - Breakfast Pizza Friday - Cereal & Crackers Monday - Cereal & Crackers Tuesday - Donut or Yogurt Wednesday – Pancakes & Sausage
Lunch Thursday - Chicken Fajita, Steamed Corn, Broccoli Salad, Chilled Pears, Milk.
Incidents Jan. 18 – Janett Babb of Glenwood reported an identity theft. Jan. 21 - Jack Palen of Hastings reported a burglary. Jan. 21 - Stephen Hollinger of Glenwood reported a burglary and theft. Accidents Jan. 17 – A vehicle driven by Jason Richmond was northbound on Levi Road when the driver lost control of the vehicle due to slick road conditions and rolled into the east ditch.


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James Kirwa, quite comfortable with Pittsburgh Marathon, seeks 3rd title in row
May 2, 2014 8:38 PMBy now, James Kirwa of Kenya is pretty comfortable with the Dick's Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon course.
Kirwa will seek his third consecutive Pittsburgh Marathon title Sunday over a course he has become intimately familiar with the past two years.
In 2012, he needed a massive comeback in the second half of the course to win. A year ago, he cruised to a relatively easy victory in 2:13:27.
This year, Kirwa hopes he can cross the finish line with a personal best and his third consecutive gold medal.
"It will be really cool if I run 2:12 to win it, that would be awesome," he said.
Kirwa's current personal best is 2:12:54, set at the Des Moines Marathon in 2012. He said he has felt good in training over the past few weeks, though, and if weather conditions cooperate, he could finish Sunday in 2:12:50 or 2:12:45.
"If you have been training really good and, if you are good in the last 10k, you're going to win the race," Kirwa said.
Kirwa's biggest advantage, of course, will be his knowledge of Pittsburgh's unique course. It's tempting for most runners to start off fast through the flat Strip District for the first few miles, but Kirwa said he prefers to take it slower, conserving his energy for the run up through Oakland around the 11th mile.
Since he has used that strategy to win twice before, he's confident heading into Sunday.
"If they're going to take the pace really hard, I will just relax and take the last 13 [miles]," Kirwa said.
"My focus right now is right there [in Oakland] … I want to be in the leading group," he said. "I don't want to be running alone in the hilly parts."
Kirwa's biggest challengers Sunday will be two Ethiopians, Gebo Burka and Negash Abebe Duki. Both boast personal bests faster than Kirwa's. Burka ran the 2009 Cannes Marathon in 2:10:18, and Duki finished the 2013 Kosice Peace Marathon in 2:11:14. Burka also won the 2014 Los Angeles Marathon in March. Neither, though, have run in Pittsburgh.
"You need to be smart," Kirwa said.
On the women's side, Dilliner, Pa., resident Clara Santucci has a chance to become the first American woman to win since Kristen Price in 2009.
This will be her first time racing in Pittsburgh but, like Kirwa, she said she was most focused on the hilly section crossing through Oakland. She has prepared over the past few weeks by driving and running different sections of the course.
Santucci, though, didn't have a specific finishing time in mind.
"Not specifically timed, I want to go for the win," she said. "That's the most important thing right now, but, hopefully, the time would come with it."
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Everyone Knows It's Windy . . .
An illustration of the buoy used to study the wind above Lake Michigan. The three red lines represent the laser beams, which measure wind speed and direction 1,000 times a second. Axys Technologies illustration
May 24, 2012—
. . . And now they have the data to prove it. The middle of Lake Michigan is a vast, untapped reservoir of wind energy. The next step will be to find out if it can be harvested economically without harming the environment.
The data comes from a six-ton buoy that was deployed at three locations in the lake: two points near the Muskegon shoreline and about 35 miles off shore. Loaded with scientific equipment, it has provided the first direct measurement of wind over the Great Lakes at the height of commercial turbines.
The project was led by Grand Valley State University's Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center and funded primarily by the US Department of Energy and the Michigan Public Service Commission.
To analyze the data streaming from the buoy, the Grand Valley State researchers called upon Guy Meadows, formerly of the University of Michigan and now the director of Great Lakes initiatives for the Great Lakes Research Center at Michigan Technological University.
"We've been carrying on that analysis at the Michigan Tech Research Institute," Meadows said. "It's very complex."
Indeed. The buoy shoots three laser beams up into the air that sense wind speed and direction. They take measurements 1,000 times a second at six elevations, from 20 meters to 175 meters above the water. The data are averaged at one-second intervals and stored on the buoy. Then every 10 minutes, it sends a report out via a cell or satellite connection.
The buoy is solar and wind powered and has a backup diesel generator. It can run fully automated for almost a year.
"This is really quite an instrument," Meadows said, and the results have been "very interesting."
"In particular, winds measured close to the shoreline were very turbulent, because of the presence of land. But the farther the buoy was from shore, the more the fluctuations were reduced."
That's important for wind generation, because the less turbulence, the more efficient the wind turbine and the less stress placed on its support structure. But that doesn't necessarily mean new wind farms will sprout up tomorrow.
"The Great Lakes in general are very wind rich, second only to the Pacific Northwest," Meadows said. "The question is, how do you capture that energy in an environmentally conscious way? And from an engineering standpoint, how do design equipment that will capture it and survive our most severe weather? These are big challenges."
The next phase of this research aims to answer those questions. Michigan Tech and Grand Valley State are seeking funding from the US Department of Energy for the initial engineering and design of floating turbine technology. Energetx Composites LLC, a wind turbine blade manufacturer based in southwestern Michigan, is among the partners in the project.
The idea is to design wind turbines and advanced floating platforms that could be installed miles out in the lake, a location that offers two advantages: it's so far from shore that it should have little or no environmental impact on the coastal zone, and the wind out there is wonderful for power generation.
"We want to know, 'Does it make sense to harvest this from all perspectives?'" Meadows said. "Michigan Tech's role will be as provider of unbiased data."
Whatever the outcome, the scientific implications go well beyond evaluating the feasibility of commercial wind development.
"The Great Lakes behave just as the oceans do, but with one major difference: we drink the water," Meadows said. "The buoy gives us a tremendous ability to forecast winds and weather, which means we would be much better at telling cities when they need to shut down water intakes because of pollutants."
And with better wind measurements also come better wave and current prediction, important for navigating not just Lake Michigan, but all the Great Lakes.
"This has been so successful that Michigan Tech is leading an effort to acquire a second buoy for Lake Superior," Meadows said. If anything, the results should be even more promising than in Lake Michigan, he added. "Throughout the Great Lakes the wind speed increases as we move farther north."
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.