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Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the "Google Guys", while the two were attending Stanford University as PhD candidates. It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Google)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. The product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service, currently in use at around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites. Another market share analysis claims that Google Analytics is used at around 49.95% of the top 1,000,000 websites (as currently ranked by Alexa). GA can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click networks, e-mail marketing and digital collateral such as links within PDF documents. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Google Analytics)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database. The service was formerly known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. Google's Library Project, also now known as Google Book Search, was announced in December 2004. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Google Books)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form, and data storage service offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users. Google Docs combines the features of Writely and Spreadsheets with a presentation program incorporating technology designed by Tonic Systems. Data storage of any files up to 1GB each in size was introduced on January 13, 2010. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Google Docs)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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The University College London (UCL) CIBER group will be conducting a study for the JISC and the British Library to investigate how the Google generation searches for information and the implications for the country's major research collections. The study will try to address the following questions: - whether or not as a result of the digital transition and resources being created digitally, young people, the "Google generation", are searching for and researching content in new ways and if so, how this will shape the way they research and search in the future; - whether or not new ways of searching and researching for content will prove to be any different from the way that existing researchers/scholars work. The project comprises three main activities. The CIBER team will examine library and information science literature published over the past 30 years, including a twenty-year long survey into the research behaviour of academics as they get older. Secondly, they will analyse web logs of two online services from the BL and JISC to ascertain whether people of a variety of ages interact with them differently. Finally, a panel of industrial and technology experts will help to assess the strategic implications of the findings from the two main studies for information experts, national libraries and policy makers. Project start date: 2007-03-03. Project end date: 2007-09-30. (Excerpt from this source)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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Google Maps (formerly Google Local) is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free (for non-commercial use), that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world. Google Maps satellite images are not in real time; they are several months or years old. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Google Maps)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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Google Refine is a standalone desktop application provided by Google for data cleanup and transformation to other formats. It has now been renamed to OpenRefine and is hosted as an opensource project on Github. It is similar to spreadsheet applications (and can work with spreadsheet file formats), however acts more like database. It operates on rows of data which have cells under columns, which is very similar to relational database tables. One Refine project is one table. User can filter rows to display using facets that define filtering criteria (for example, showing rows where given column is not empty). Unlike spreadsheets, most operations in Refine are done on all visible rows: transformation of all cells in all rows under one column, creation of new column based on existing column data, etc. All actions that were done on dataset are stored in project and can be replayed on another dataset. Unlike spreadsheets, no formulas are stored in cells, but formulas are used to transform data, and transformation is done only once. Transformation expressions are written in proprietary GREL language. Also Jython can be used to write expressions. The program has a web user interface, however it is not hosted by the software developer (SAAS), but is available for download and use on local machine. When starting Refine, it starts a web server and starts browser to open web UI powered by this webserver. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Google Refine)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers. It is similar in function to the freely-available Scirus from Elsevier, CiteSeerX, and getCITED. It is also similar to the subscription-based tools, Elsevier's Scopus and Thomson ISI's Web of Science. Its advertising slogan - "Stand on the shoulders of giants" - is a nod to the scholars who have contributed to their fields over the centuries, providing the foundation for new intellectual achievements. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Google Scholar)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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Google Search or Google Web Search is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. and is the most-used search engine on the Web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. The main purpose of Google Search is to hunt for text in webpages, as opposed to other data, such as with Google Image Search. Google search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Google Search)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., based on Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages. The horizontal axis of the main graph represents time (starting from some time in 2004), and the vertical is how often a term is searched for relative to the total number of searches, globally. Below the main graph, popularity is broken down by region, city and language. It is possible to refine the main graph by region and time period. On August 5, 2008, Google launched Google Insights for Search, a more sophisticated and advanced service displaying search trends data. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Google Trends)Percentage of Ariadne articles tagged with this term: [term_node_prcnt_1]%.
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With its roots in the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous, when wives joined their husbands at the AA meetings and found refuge and understanding in one another, Al-Anon Family Groups has grown into a robust worldwide fellowship of men and women healing from the impact of addiction.
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Plan to Raise Estate Tax Divides Democrats
At Least Three Senators in President's Party Oppose His Proposal for 45% Rate; Republicans Generally Oppose Any Levy
Sen. Mary Landrieu and President Barack Obama can link arms on many pieces of the White House's proposed budget package, including raising taxes on higher-income Americans and spending more on infrastructure.
But Ms. Landrieu, along with a notable handful of Democratic colleagues, parts ways with the White House on one increasingly thorny issue: the president's call to raise the estate tax as part of Washington's bid to strike a deficit-cutting deal before year's end.
"This particular tax is inherently unfair," Ms. Landrieu said, adding that she would oppose any year-end deficit-reduction package that raises the estate tax. "That's a make-or-break for me."
The Louisiana senator was joined by Democratic Sens. Max Baucus of Montana, who heads the Senate Finance Committee, and Mark Pryor of Arkansas, who said this week they would prefer not to raise the estate tax. They wouldn't say how an increase would affect their support for a broader agreement as the parties scramble to head off a package of hefty spending cuts and new taxes known as the fiscal cliff.
Little about averting the fiscal cliff is simple, in part because its many moving parts draw supporters and opponents across the spectrum. On this particular issue, these three Democrats, who are up for re-election in 2014, face a choice of supporting their president or their constituents, many of whom oppose any increase in the estate tax.
Mr. Obama has proposed raising the tax on inheritances, which would hit some family-owned businesses and farms. Though just a small portion of estates are large enough to incur the tax, the issue is emotionally charged, partly because the levies can force heirs to sell off land or businesses that have been in a family for years.
It arises because of the looming expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts, which, if left unaddressed, would raise taxes for most Americans next year.
Mr. Obama is proposing a 45% estate tax after the current 35% rate expires on Jan. 1. He would exclude from the tax the first $3.5 million of an estate's assets, down from the current threshold of $5.12 million. The proposal—which would raise $276 billion over 10 years, according to the Tax Policy Center—is part of Mr. Obama's deficit-reduction plan.
Under his proposal, some 7,500 estates would owe taxes next year, compared with 4,000 if current policy continued, according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute.
If the White House and Congress take no action, the current tax cut will expire, and the rate will rise to 55% next year and apply to assets above $1 million.
Many Republicans support repeal altogether. In the current negotiations, their congressional leaders are seeking an extension of all the Bush tax cuts, which would maintain the current rate and allow the size of estates covered to rise with inflation.
While Democratic lawmakers generally support Mr. Obama's call to raise individual tax rates on high earners, a steeper estate tax is another matter. Ms. Landrieu said at least six Senate Democrats feel "very, very strongly" that the rate should remain at 35% and apply only to inheritances above $10 million.
"I really don't think we should change the estate tax," Mr. Pryor said. Mr. Baucus said he thinks it should be repealed, or at least kept at current levels.
Estate-tax rates have fluctuated through the years. It was 70% in 1977. Under President George W. Bush, they were gradually phased out until they were effectively zero in 2010. That cut expired and the tax returned at the 35% rate in a late 2010 deal.
In 2008, the most recent year for which complete figures are available, less than 1% of adults who died left estates that were taxable, according to the Internal Revenue Service. In 2000, before the Bush cuts, the share was 2.18%.
And few of those hit by the tax are small businesses and farms—just 300 of 3,600 taxable estates left by individuals who died in 2012, according to Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation.
Greg Galpin, owner of an auto dealership outside Phoenix, recalled the estate-tax headache he experienced when his father died unexpectedly in 1992. The company had to sell its used-car inventory to come up with money to pay the tax—then 55%—along with attorney and appraisal fees. He said that some key staffers quit out of uncertainty about whether the business would survive.
Mr. Galpin said if the current policy continued and he died, "it would be a doable situation." But under Mr. Obama's plan, "we would probably have to lay off a bunch of people just to keep the ball rolling."
Many of those who would be affected are actively opposing any increase. Among those lobbying are the Mars family, owners of the Mars candy company; Wegmans Food Markets Inc., the grocery-store chain; Mary Kay Inc., the cosmetics company; and Anschutz Co., the holding company for the assets of billionaire Philip Anschutz, according to public disclosure forms.
The Newspaper Association of America is also lobbying on estate taxes. Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, is a member of the group.
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Tricuspid atresia is an abnormal development of the right side of the heart. It includes a missing valve between the upper and lower chamber. Tricuspid atresia makes it difficult for your heart to efficiently pump blood to the lungs to get oxygen. Holes will be present in the walls between the left and right side of the heart that cause oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor blood to mix. These holes are necessary to allow blood to be brought to the lungs before a repair can be done. It is often associated with a smaller than normal right lower chamber and abnormalities of the pulmonary artery and aorta.
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Volume 19 Issue 15 | August 25 - 31, 2006
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Filming the Katrina filmers
By Andrei Codrescu
About six months ago I went to St. Bernard Parish with my cameraman Jason to get my own share of disaster photography for the documentary that Im making, which is different from the documentary everybody else made or is making. Every fifth person in New Orleans is either making or helping make a documentary. We are like the Amazon tribes whose families were said to consist of a mother, father, children and one anthropologist.
We chose, for our first foray, a beached shrimp boat in St. Bernard Parish that was carried several blocks inland by the storm surge before it slammed into a house and rested there to provide a backdrop for the news. On the lawn of the house there was a broken plastic Santa shadowed by the huge boat, and a bunch of soggy schoolbooks. I bent down to examine a notebook that was having its pages riffled by the wind, and saw that it was a first-graders exercise book and the page I was looking at had on it, written in a childs hand, a poem entitled I Love Santa. I kid you not. It got to me. I read the poem out loud and a tear I hadnt counted on sprung down my cheek. I hope that Jason got a closeup.
When I stood up, two women wearing shirts that said, Make Levees not War, were coming toward me, and we struck up a conversation. They told me that they had houses on that street and that this was the first time that theyd come back from Dallas after the storm. I asked them how badly their houses fared, and they told me that they hadnt gone to their houses yet, theyd come to see the shrimp boat first because theyd seen it on the national news. One of them said that she was afraid to see what remained of the house where shed raised her kids, and her friend had tears in her eyes. I was in the middle of asking another question, when my interview exclaimed: Now, there is a real celebrity! She tore off the lapel mike and headed for Anderson Cooper, who had appeared suddenly with his own cameraman.
Anderson thought that he might use the shrimp boat as background to anchor the next days news. I asked him, while he signed autographs for the residents, how he could keep from becoming part of the story. He shrugged. Of course, we filmed the whole thing.
Those were the last days of the photogenic disaster when no matter what you pointed your camera at you were bound to hit pay dirt. On August 18, just shy of the one-year anniversary, somebody burned down the shrimp boat. Around the same time, two bulldozers belonging to a company building a monument to the victims of the Ninth Ward were stolen from the site.
The two crimes against image- and symbol-making were psychically related. One year after Katrina, we are no longer photogenic. The cameras focus on narrow slices of rebuilding, which is all that fits within the lens. If youve been looking at the city for a year, things look better. Most of the flooded cars packed in the neutral grounds and under freeway overpasses are gone. There is no debris in places most visible to motorists. There are trailers and gutted houses in every wasted neighborhood. If you look only at the swarms of life in isolated spots you might feel optimism, but if you look at whats around these spots you might feel dread instead. Yes, there is a recovery going on, but there is also a pervasive depression. The media isnt equipped to deal with both hope and despair, it can only show and tell one story at a time. The gray zone where we live is beyond its power.
In New Orleans nothing is what it seems. People believe things they dont say and say things they dont believe. To the media, we are recovering. To ourselves we are sinking. Our heavily mediated and heavily medicated city is generating paradoxes, not certainties. About the time the shrimp boat burned and the monument-building machines were ripped off, there was a picture in the newspaper of a young woman from Los Angeles playing songs on a guitar to St. Bernard residents waiting in line at a parish office. The singer looked superoptimistic and the women looked amused and disbelieving, but at least they beat the August 29 deadline/anniversary for permits to rebuild.
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The South Adams boys won all 12 blue ribbons in a 130-55 win at Adams Central Tuesday, while the SA girls made it a sweep, winning eight of 12, in a 107-78 victory over the Lady Jets.
Caleb Wurster won the 200 IM and the 500 free, and Cole Farlow took the 100 and 50 freestyle events, and both were on a pair of winning relay teams to lead the victory.
Wurster went 2:21.07 to key a sweep in the IM as Joel Schmidt was second and Jacob Werst third. Wurster beat teammate Cory Sank by 34 seconds to win the 500 in n5:48.38. Jacob Weil took third for the Jets.
Farlow won the 50 free in 24.77, beating the 25.08 of AC's Ellison Kaehr. Dom Richert took third for SA. He added a 56.92 to beat Kaehr in the 100 free, with Richert a close third.
Josh Armenta took the diving with a 142.6 to the 139.75 of teammate Lance Hummer. Tyler Sipe was third for AC.
Josh Dynes went 2:15.52 in the 200 free for that win with Cory Sank second. Brey Reidenbach went 2:28 for third.
Jacob Werst went 1:08.35 to win the 100 yard butterfly for the Stars. Johnny Everidge earned second and Dynes was third.
Joel Schmidt reeled off a 1:10.31 to win the 100 backstroke, easily beating Weil of AC. Jim Everett took third for the Jets in 1:17.32. Mitchel Kaverman won the 100 breaststroke in 1:14.85 for the Stars, taking Dylan Krueger of Adams Central.
Schmidt and Werst joined Farlow and Wurster in the 200 medley relay win in 1:54.23.
Richert and Werst were on the 400 free relay team, which put up a 4:09.49, along with Farlow and Wurster. Schmidt, Derek Schwartz, Everidge and Richert were on the winning 200 free relay team, which swam a 1:44.6.
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Erika Waugh took the 200 and 500 freestyle events, while Kara DeLong won the 100 free and 100 backstroke to lead the SA girls to victory.
Ali McClain was a double winner for the Adams Central girls, taking the 100 butterfly in 1:07.68 and the 50 free in 27.22.
The Jets' 200 yard free relay team of Whittney Landis, Sydnee Reinhard, Yuleeza McCullough and McClain took that win in 1:59.21. Landis added the 100 yard breaststroke win for the Jets in 1:18.27 to beat out SA's Michaela Rupp.
Waugh went 2:07.21 in the 200 and added a 5:39.22 to win the 400 over teammate Brooke Kirchhofer. McCullough was third for the Jets.
DeLong went 1:03.88 in the 100, and added a 1:09.76 for an easy win over McCullough in the 100 back.
Olivia Turner compiled 149.2 points to win the diving, six points ahead of Alisen Barger of AC.
Alex Fox won the 200 IM for the Stars in 2:39.5.
The Starfire team of Delong, Rupp, Fox and Waugh went 2:06 for the medley win. The same foursome went 4:58 in the 400 free relay for victory.


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Quindío[1] is a department in the Zona Cafetera region of the Andean Highlands of Colombia.
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One of the more exclusive places to stay in the Quindío region is Casa Alto del Coronel in Salento. Owned by the mayor of Armenia, there are only two suites available for visitors. Carefully restored and furnished, prices are around 115,000 pesos (£26), including breakfast. Each suite has a master bedroom and two single beds in an adjoining room. No email or website, but call 6-759-3760 when in Colombia to book ahead.
To the north-west of Quindio's capital Armenia lies the spectacular Valle de Cocora where visitors can walk amongst forests of the world's tallest palm tree and the national tree of Colombia; the wax palm. For further natural excursions, the expansive Los Nevados National Park provides high mountain peaks, topped with snow; the perfect habitat for the elusive but majestic Andean Condor. For the family, Quindio is the perfect get-away. Safe and relaxed amidst the lush greeness of the surrounding mountains. Activities that families will enjoy emmersing themselves in include the National Coffee Farm that offers theme-park rides and tours, the Panaca animal petting farm and the "Mariposario" or Butterfly Park.
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A good first port of call is the Quindío tourism authority website, turismoquindio.com. This site lists dozens of mainly upscale fincas, many with pools, all with balconies and spacious rooms, extensive gardens and the opportunity to see coffee production at first hand. Prices are around 50,000 pesos a night per person (about £11).
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Most BeOS programs compile and run with little or no changes and Bill has already ported the BeOS CPU monitor, Pulse, to the system. "Existing Atheos programs will need changes to compile. I haven't found one that took me longer than a few minutes to 'convert'. Where Atheos and BeOS use different semantics, I chose the BeOS method", Bill said. Deskbar and Tracker are reportedly difficult to port as they depend on very BeOS-specific APIs and behaviors, but Bill says that it is getting there, especially because the 2.4.x kernel supports node monitoring.
The AtheOS community took the announcement a bit bitter as they would not like to see a forking of AtheOS, but reportedly, Kurt Skauen (the original author of AtheOS) hasn't touched the AtheOS source code in five months, as he is taking a break from development for now (which is a usual thing for Kurt, he has done so twice in the past). However the despiration and frustration from AtheOS coders who would like to see more AtheOS development is now at high levels (Kurt does not accept patches or new code for his OS, so everyone is dependant on Kurt when it comes on the AtheOS future).
OSNews featured a review of AtheOS' latest version some months ago.


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Carol R. Seigler, 70, of Tobyhanna, passed away Saturday evening, Nov. 24, 2012, at Golden Living Center in East Stroudsburg.
She was born March 3, 1942, in Johnstown to Ruth (Knauer) Oshalkin and the late Paul Wilson.
She had worked for most of her life as a nurse's aide in the New Jersey area, where she lived. Carol had spent the past three years living in the Tobyhanna area. Prior to that, she lived in Johnstown for eight years. For most of her life, she had lived in Paterson, N.J.
Carol is survived by her mother of Tobyhanna; her son, John Estrada of Japan; her daughter, Rose Teny and her husband, Anthony, of Conway; six grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter. She also is survived by her sister, Linda Garyfallou and her husband, Nick, of Tobyhanna; and her brothers: Paul, Raymond, Terry and Frank Wilson, all of the New Jersey area, and Robert Wilson of Johnstown.
A visitation will be held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, at Joseph J. Pula Funeral Home, 35 Sterling Road, Mount Pocono. A service will follow at 10:30 a.m. at the funeral home. Burial will follow the service at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson, N.J.
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Carol R. Seigler, 70, of Tobyhanna, passed away Saturday evening, Nov. 24, 2012, at Golden Living Center in East Stroudsburg.


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HOUSTON, Texas
Theodore Conway
Aug. 18, 1972 - Dec. 18, 2012
Theodore Conway of Houston, TX, formerly of Oconomowoc, passed away Dec. 18, 2012.
Theodore "Big Ted" was born Aug. 18, 1972, in Milwaukee, the son of John and Marlene "Molly" Conway, the second oldest of six siblings.
Ted graduated from Oconomowoc High School in 1990. He went on to further his education as well as play basketball at Winona State University in Winona, Minn., where he graduated with a degree in criminal justice.
After college, Ted began his career in government service with the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minn. He later transferred to SeaTac Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, Wash. While at SeaTac, Ted met Dita. The couple married July 3, 1999, a day Dita fondly calls "the day she lost her independence." Both Ted and Dita then transferred to the Federal Detention Center in Houston, Texas.
Ted continued his federal government career with the Department of Homeland Security, serving as a United States Air Marshal and working in various capacities with the agency.
From Ted and Dita's union, two children were born, Peyton Taylor Conway (who preceded him in death) and a 3-year-old daughter, Skylar Paige Conway.
To cherish his memories, Ted leaves his wife, Dita; daughter, Skylar; parents, John and Marlene of Oconomowoc; and siblings, Amber (Steven) Moore of Oconomowoc, Katie (Stephen) Brennan of Exeter, England, Matthew (Victoria) of Ixonia, John Paul (Samantha) of Winona, Minn., and Patrick of Middleton. He also leaves a host of uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, cousins, close friends and neighbors.
Funeral services were held Dec. 29 at St. James Catholic Church in Texas, officiated by the Rev. Charles J. Samperi. Internment is at Earthman Resthaven Cemetery in Houston.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, Jan. 12, with visitation at 9 a.m. followed by Mass at 10 a.m., at St. Joan of Arc Church, 120 Nashotah Road, Nashotah.
Suggested memorials in Ted's name are much appreciated to the Marine Law Enforcement Foundation or Ted & Dita's church in Texas, St. James Catholic Church, 22800 Aldine Westfield Road, Spring, TX 77373


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misdemeanor / high misdemeanor
In current U.S. legal parlance, a misdemeanor is a less serious crime. It is contrasted with a felony. This sense dates to 1504 and Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 14 §8:
This Acte to take his effect and begynnyng for such reteynours and offences and other Mysdemeanours as shalbe doon...contrary to the forme of this acte.
This distinction between felonies and misdemeanors in British law was abolished in 1967, but it is retained in the U.S.
Demeanor means conduct, so a misdemeanor is literally bad conduct. It comes from the verb to demean, meaning to conduct, to transact business and to behave oneself. Both senses of demean date to the 14th century.
An ordinary misdemeanor is not to be confused with a high misdemeanor, which is legal horse of a different color. High misdemeanor is a largely archaic term except for one important context, the impeachment of a president of the United States. Article II of the U.S. Constitution states:
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) states:
Misprisions, which are merely positive, are generally denominated contempts or high misdemesnors; of which the first and principal is the mal-administration of such high officers, as are in public trust and employment. This is usually punished by the method of parliamentary impeachment: wherein such penalties, short of death, are inflicted, as to the wisdom of the house of peers shall deem proper; consisting usually of banishment, imprisonment, fines, or perpetual disability.
So high misdemeanor refers to very serious misconduct, the most serious of felonies, not minor offenses.
(Sources: Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edition; Avalon Project at Yale Law School)
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F.T. Satalowich
College of Veterinary Medicine
Missouri Department of Health
J.L. Floss
College of Veterinary Medicine
Rabies is an infectious disease affecting the brain and nervous system of warm-blooded mammals and humans. Most people associate rabies with the "mad-dog" syndrome depicted in the movies. However, different animals will be affected differently.
Rabies virus is passed in the saliva from an infected animal when it bites another animal or person. Once in the body, the virus travels along the nerves to the spinal cord and brain.
The earliest sign of the disease is a change in the animal' s normal behavior. An animal with rabies usually will stop eating and drinking and will prefer to be alone. Following this, the animal may become aggressive. Some animals will become easily excited and attempt to bite or attack, while others will be attracted to and charge any moving object. This phase may be short or non-existent.
As the disease progresses, this aggressive behavior diminishes. The muscles of the jaws and throat are among the earliest affected during the paralytic phase of the disease. This results in excessive salivation due to the inability to swallow, often referred to as "foaming at the mouth." Paralysis quickly spreads to the rest of the body. Coma and death follow.
The number of animal rabies cases reported varies from year to year. During the 1980s, Missouri averaged 85 cases per year. Therefore, all of Missouri is considered to be endemic for rabies, meaning that the disease is naturally present.
Wild animals account for 88 percent of animal rabies in the United States. Raccoons, skunks, bats and foxes account for the greatest number of rabies cases reported. Domestic animals such as dogs, cats, horses and cattle are responsible for the remaining 12 percent of the reported cases. Since human bite exposure is most common with domestic animals, the most effective method of preventing human exposure to rabies is to have a buffer zone of properly vaccinated dogs and cats between wildlife populations and humans.
While rabies in Missouri is presently at a low ebb, rabies is on the rise across the United States. Raccoon rabies accounts for most of the increase. For the past several years, raccoon rabies has continued to spread from its new place of origin, in the mid-Atlantic states, at a rate of 25 to 30 miles per year.
As rabies moves into a new area with many susceptible animals, the number of cases increases and the epizootic, or animal disease outbreak, continues. At the present rate of western movement, we can expect the Raccoon rabies epizootic to reach Missouri in about the year 2000. However, since raccoons are found on flatbed trucks arriving in Missouri from Virginia on a monthly basis, we may very well give nature some assistance by transporting rabid raccoons into Missouri at an earlier date.
The other wildlife species that has shown a dramatic increase in rabies is the coyote in Texas. Since coyotes are known to travel great distances, Missouri could experience a coyote rabies threat from the south. An epizootic of skunk rabies in Kansas during the early 1990s could cause Missouri to experience a skunk rabies threat from the west. Thus with rabies proven to be endemic in Missouri and epizootics of rabies threatening from the east, south and west, vigilance must continue and protective/preventive measures should be implemented.
The Missouri Department of Health has a model rabies and animal control document that all individual counties have the authority to implement. Counties are encouraged to take and structure this basic document to meet their requirements. The document is comprehensive and covers all aspects of observation periods, proper vaccination of dogs and cats, general animal control and dangerous animal control. Counties should have copies of this document. Additional copies and assistance in implementing this local ordinance are available by contacting the Bureau of Veterinary Public Health (BVPH) at 573-751-6136.
The National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, Inc. (P.O. Box 570, Missouri Department of Health, Jefferson City, MO, 65102) provides recommendations annually for the control of animal rabies throughout the United States. These recommendations, described briefly in this guide, promote standardized programs for the vaccination of pets and livestock as well as for post-exposure management.
Rabies can be prevented in humans either by preventing exposure to rabid animals or by providing exposed individuals with prompt post-exposure treatment. Control of rabies in domestic species depends on the use of proper vaccination programs and the reduction of the number of stray dogs and cats. Dogs and cats should be vaccinated at 3 months and then at regular yearly or 3-year intervals depending on the vaccine given. Vaccinating all livestock may not be financially feasible, but valuable animals and those in a highly endemic area which come in frequent contact with humans may need to be vaccinated.
Rabies vaccination should only be administered by or under the direct supervision of a licensed veterinarian. Vaccines with a 3-year duration of immunity are recommended. Many rabies vaccines exist that are licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The route and frequency of administration must be in accordance with their label or package insert.
Vaccinated dogs and cats should be identified with a rabies tag that specifies the year in which the vaccine was given. These tags are also coded by shape and color. A rabies certificate (NASPHV form #50) should be issued to the owner of each vaccinated animal.
Wild and exotic animals should not be vaccinated, since there is no vaccine licensed for this use. Because of their susceptibility to rabies, raccoons, skunks, foxes and bats should not be kept as pets.
Dogs and cats should be vaccinated against rabies at least 30 days prior to interstate movement. These animals should be accompanied by a currently valid NASPHV form #50, Rabies Vaccination Certificate.
Post-exposure management
Unvaccinated dogs and cats bitten by a laboratory-confirmed rabid animal should be euthanized immediately. Previously vaccinated animals should be revaccinated immediately, confined and observed for up to 90 days.
Vaccinated livestock bitten by a rabid animal should be revaccinated immediately and observed for 90 days. Unvaccinated livestock should be slaughtered immediately or placed under close observation for 6 months. If the animal is slaughtered within 7 days of being bitten, its tissues may be eaten without risk of infection, provided liberal portions of the exposed area are discarded. Federal meat inspectors must reject for slaughter any animal known to have been exposed to rabies within 8 months. Neither tissues nor milk from a rabid animal should be used for human or animal consumption.
If a person is bitten by a potentially rabid animal, the wound should be washed immediately with soap and flushed thoroughly with large amounts of water. A physician should be contacted as soon as possible.
A healthy dog or cat that bites a person should be confined and observed for 10 days; the animal should not be administered rabies vaccine during the observation period. Animals should be evaluated by a veterinarian at the first sign of illness during confinement. Any illness in the animal should be reported immediately to the local health department.
If signs suggestive of rabies develop, the animal should be humanely euthanized and the appropriate tissues shipped under refrigeration for examination by a qualified laboratory. Any stray or unwanted dog or cat that bites a person may be humanely euthanized immediately and evaluated as described above.
Other biting animals that might have exposed a person to rabies should be reported immediately to the local health department. Management of animals other than dogs or cats depends on the species, the circumstances of the bite and the epidemiology of rabies in the area. To ensure proper medical management, the BVPH is available for consultation at 573-751-6136.
Any animal bitten or scratched by a wild, carnivorous mammal (or a bat) not available for testing should be regarded as having been exposed to rabies.
How to avoid rabies
Here are some ways to reduce your chances of exposure to rabies:
- Have your dogs and cats vaccinated and encourage your friends and neighbors to do the same.
- Avoid animals that are behaving abnormally. Don't give first aid to strange or wild animals.
- Enjoy wildlife in nature, but avoid wild animals that seem to be friendly. Don't keep wild animals as pets. They may eventually present a rabies threat and their possession is illegal.
- If your job brings you in frequent contact with animals, get a pre-exposure rabies vaccination.
- Appropriate pet selection and responsible pet ownership are essential. Make sure your pets get good nutrition, exercise, sanitation and health care. Also make sure your pets are not a nuisance to others.


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Josh Duhamel was manhandled by a mystery woman who tried to snog the handsome star at Thursday's premiere of his movie, "Life as We Know It." Duhamel, married to Black Eyed Peas star Fergie, was shocked when the well-groomed stranger "marched up to him after the movie had finished at the Ziegfeld, grabbed his neck and tried to start making out with him. She seemed pretty excited. He was trying to get away but she'd clamped on. A security guard had to pull her off and throw her out. She was lucky his wife was on tour." A source close to Duhamel said, "It was a little freaky. She wouldn't let go."
Mysterious woman tried to make out with Josh Duhamel
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I won't bore you with the details of the review itself (you can read for yourself), but the conclusion sums it up pretty well:
This words my feelings about this release perfectly. For a first attempt at a proper desktop-oriented distribution for 'normal' users, they seem to have done a pretty good job. If I compare my experiences with Solaris 9 on my Sun Ultra 5 with the first bits of information about OpenSolaris 2008.05, it's like comparing Fiona Apple to chewed and dried up gum; Solars 9 was incredibly difficult to administer for someone without extensive knowledge about the OS. It seems as if the 2008.05 release is light years beyond that - and it's only the beginning.
The comments at Practical Tech feel a bit like an attempt at 'fear, uncertainty, and doubt, to me.
What the article fails to mention is that Novell already has a lot of problems with its image in the open-source community. Its deal with Microsoft irked a lot of people in the Free software community, and I'm fairly certain Novell will not want to annoy them even further by blocking the open source release of OpenSolaris. Sure, OpenSolaris is a competitor to their Linux business, but doing something as drastic as the article suggests seems like a very bad idea for Novell.
But we've seen companies do weirder things. Like suing Linux users because Linux is an exact copy of UNIX.


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Stephan Kulow has announced the availability of the first development release of openSUSE 11.0: "We'd like to kick start the development of openSUSE 11.0 with releasing the current state of Factory as Alpha0 release. Since the release of 10.3, we checked in 2,187 packages including such fundamental package updates as GCC 4.3.0, Linux kernel 2.6.24-rc4, X.Org 7.3, KDE 3.5.8 and 4.0 RC1, CUPS 1.3.4, ALSA 1.0.15, GIMP 2.4 and YaST 2.16. The change between 10.3 and Alpha0 is big, but it still works pretty nicely." More here.


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U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner visited UCHealth's Longs Peak Hospital on Tuesday afternoon in Longmont to see firsthand how the hospital system is using technology to care for patients.
Gardner was a divisive national political figure in 2017. He started the year by drawing flack from groups formed in the wake of President Donald Trump's election for taking monthslong breaks from holding in-person town halls in Colorado.
When asked Tuesday about when he might hold an in-person town hall in Boulder County, Gardner said that he didn't have his calendar in front of him, but he was happy with the amount of interaction he had with constituents in 2017.
"We've done a number of town halls across the state and will continue to. We've held tele-town halls and had office hours. We had the opportunity engage over 60,000 people through tele-town halls and thousands of people in town halls, and we'll continue to do the same," he said.
In 2017, Gardner held six in-person town halls — in Grand Junction, Durango, Colorado Springs, Greeley, Lakewood and Pueblo.
Gardner was often shouted down and derided at the town halls as constituents expressed anger over his support of President Donald Trump and his votes in the Senate.
His office also fielded calls and sit-ins by protesters who hoped to influence the Republican senator's votes on the Republican tax bill and efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The tax bill passed 51 to 48 in the Senate, and included a repeal of the ACA mandate that everyone carry health insurance or face a tax penalty.
The hospital that Gardner visited Tuesday opposed the repeal of the individual mandate.
"We did oppose that because we feel strongly that people need coverage and it was one of those things that the American Hospital Association pushed really hard for," said Jeff Thompson, UCHealth vice president of government and corporate relations. "We are disappointed in that. There are projections that about 13 million people in the U.S. could be left uncovered, although that's just a projection right now."
Thompson went on to say that the repeal of the mandate will likely cost Longs Peak Hospital and other hospitals with emergency rooms.
"I think it remains to be seen how much and what the total impact would be, but if people lose coverage and then end up in the emergency room, for instance, who is going to pay? Ultimately, if the individual doesn't have insurance or isn't covered by Medicaid or Medicare, that generally falls to the hospital to handle the expenses," he said.
Gardner responded to questions about his ACA mandate vote by saying that he didn't feel it was fair that low-income Coloradans would be penalized financially by the federal government for not carrying health insurance.
"Look, over 100,000 Coloradans can't afford the health insurance they're mandated to buy and they're paying a fine right now to the federal government because they can't afford the insurance that the federal government has made unaffordable," he said. "I think we'll be able to find opportunities to drive down the cost of health insurance, but this eliminates the penalty on low-income Coloradans and it was one of the most unpopular provisions of the Affordable Care Act."
Gardner also defended his vote on the Republican tax bill by saying that more than 91 percent of Americans will receive a tax break because of the bill. He espoused the "trickle down" philosophy the GOP has touted in support of the bill.
"As a result of the passage of the tax bill, we've seen over a dozen companies — and many more unreported — that offered salary bonuses, they've increased wages and they've increased their minimum wage," he said. "The Bank of Colorado (parent company Pinnacle Bancorp) right here gave $1,000 bonuses to employees because of this, so people are going to be better off."
Gardner was interested to see Longs Peak Hospital because staff there use a variety of telemedicine technologies.
First, staff showed him how UCHealth doctors who specialize in strokes and are located in Denver can consult with an emergency room doctor dealing with a possible stroke patient in Longmont.
Rooms come equipped with a mobile cart where the specialist doctor can teleconference with a high-resolution camera and monitor. The consulting doctor on the screen and the ER doctor in the room in Longmont collaboratively decide whether a patient is having a stroke and what treatment to administer.
The innovation, and others using similar technology, can reduce the time it takes for triage and to get vital medicine in a patient who is having a stroke.
"Our goal is less than 60 minutes from the time they come in the door to when we get the medicine running in their vein," Dr. James K. Teumer told Gardner.
Gardner also toured an intensive care unit room outfitted with similar technology and talked with nurses who use special communication and monitoring devices.
The communication device resembles a smartphone and works on the same principle — hospital staff can page any other member of the staff by saying phrases into it such as "call the director of oncology."
The monitoring device fits on a patient's wrist and connects to electrocardiogram leads on the chest. This way, nursing staff can monitor a patient's blood pressure in real time without having to wake them to take a reading every four hours. The devices together means that patients can sleep longer and the communication device eliminates the need for staff to page doctors over the public announcement system.
Gardner seemed particularly interested in whether there were any privacy or IT concerns that comes with the changing technology. UCHealth officials explained that they take extreme measures to keep the system private and HIPAA compliant. While the system operates on fiber-optic-connected Wi-Fi, expanded high-speed broadband networks throughout the country would advance telemedicine considerably, officials said.
Specifically, he spoke with Deborah Voyles, executive director of virtual health at UCHealth, about tweaking Medicare reimbursements to fund hospitals' telemedicine efforts.
Medicare sees telemedicine as a tool to help patients in rural areas rather than a way for health care providers to better use resources such as specialized doctors or nurses who are in located in different cities.
Longmont is not considered "rural" or "remote" using the Medicare formula and as such, the hospital is not reimbursed for its telemedicine technologies.
Gardner said "we need to fix that" as Congress gears up to discuss Medicare and Medicaid in the new session.
Dr. J. David Cowden, the medical director of Longs Peak Hospital's critical care services, told Gardner that many legislators who oppose expanding options for telemedicine providers just haven't seen it in action.
"It's not replacing medicine; it's augmenting medicine and supporting medicine so we can rapidly intervene," Cowden said.
Voyles and Gardner discussed taking savings from Medicare reimbursements for doctor and nurse travel and applying it to reimburse providers for telemedicine technologies.
"I live in a rural area and this could be a life-saving opportunity for us," said Gardner, who is from Yuma.
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Driftwood Café on Chesterman Beach Now Licensed
Tofitians have long known the Driftwood Café is a fantastic spot to stop for a latte after a walk down Chesterman Beach.
Now, after years (literally!) of planning and applications, the Café has received a long-awaited liquor license, allowing us to serve wine and beer to guests enjoying the outdoor patio or inside warming by the fireplace. Our culinary team has created a menu of bites including cured seafood, charcuterie and dips to go along with the new beverage selections.
The Driftwood Café was named after the massive driftwood bar – complete with barnacles – which is the focal point of the room (after the view, of course). Originally, this space was created with the opening of our Beach building to serve coffees, pastries, fresh breads and smoothies.
With our new license, Tofino residents and visitors have a new casual option for bites and bevvys on Chesterman Beach, serving until 9:00pm. We look forward to welcoming you soon!


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It's widely known I am very anti forum then sub of a sub of a sub splitting it but.....but is a lovely word isn't it
Could I ask what the teams and members opinions are in splitting General discussions and Fun?
I only ask because under general discussions, the topics tend to be quite serious and a bit more indepth and often things that are just normal sillyness such as jokes, favourite music videos and sometimes the light hearted stuff..... gets lost in the mire
if agreed then at the momment all I can see that would be nice to transfer over would be the music video thread BUT..that is not necessary if easier because the same thread could be started up again..so it's possible to start another section with no transferring required?
So no big noise from me on this but I wonder what others would think about splitting "Fun" into it's own forum and if it was possible, would it be something others or the team would even want? Opinions are most welcome.
Just as an add on..the font size seems quite small to what it used to be?
A forum section split?
A place for comments, criticism and suggestions about the website in general.
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Il 12 Febbraio
The 6 Resorts Tournament is a 7 a-side rugby tournament on snow, or "snow rugby".
It opposes 6 resorts in a sporty competition with ski races and snow rugby matches.
Val thorens will be hosting the 6 stations tournament on the 15th of February.
This winter the 'Tounoi des 6 stations" supports two associations dear to the heart of its players "Action Enfance" sponsored by Marc Lievremont and "Serge Betsen Academy", sponsored by our ambassador Serge Betsen. Support this project helping them collect funds to provide healthcare and sport equipments to underpriviledged children : https://www.lafinancieredusport.fr/project/tournoi-6-stations-sengage-enfance/


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NEW YORK — The death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman underscores a surge in heroin use reminiscent of the 1970s and early '80s.
More than 660,000 Americans used heroin in 2012, health officials say — nearly double the number from five years earlier — and users tend to be more affluent than before, living in the suburbs and rural areas rather than the inner city.
"It's reached epidemic proportions here in the United States," said Rusty Payne, a Washington, D.C.-based spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Mexican cartels are pushing ever-larger amounts of heroin across the Southwestern border, sometimes hidden in fake coconuts,...


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Giro d'Italia Stage 16
26 May 2003
Pavia Goes GIRO (May 26th, 2003)
Photos and text by Fabio, all rights reserved.
The following set of images was taken in Pavia, Italy,
both during and after Stage 16 of the 86th Giro d'Italia (Arco-Pavia, km.
207), on Monday, May the 26th, 2003. After taking the start in Trentino,
the peloton moved to Lombardy and crossed the predominantly flat roads of
the Southern part of the region, going from the cycling-mad East to the
sultry Southwest and its race fields. Riders got to Pavia at about 16h40
local time, greeted by a huge crowd of fans, under cloudy skies suddenly
turned sunny. Pavia is also the place where the Unione Velocipedistica
Italiana (since 1964 "Federazione Ciclistica Italiana" - Italian Cycling
Federation) was born back in the days of 1885.
Many wished local favourite Giovanni Lombardi of Domina
Vacanze-Elitron could cross his arms in triumph today, but the 1992
Olympic Champion wasn't given the chance to go for a home win, because he
was "used" as leadout man for young sprinter Daniele Bennati. Probably not
a very good choice, as the 22-year-old from Arezzo was pipped to the line
by both Alessandro Petacchi (Fassa Bortolo's fastest wheels, getting his
fifth win so far in the race despite the bad crash he suffered on Sunday)
and France's Jimmy Casper.
The Jolly Roger flag (or just plain Skull and Crossbones) and a Mercatone
Uno Jersey in Pavia's "Viale Matteotti", not far from the finishing line.
Just one of the many examples of immense popularity Marco Pantani still
enjoys among most Italian fans.
More images of "the Pirate" along the route.
Not just Pantani's, but also Cipollini's popularity continues unabated in
Italy. And the "images" you can see on this Domina-Vacanze Elitron truck,
featuring the World champion as well as other team members, are a further
proof of that.
At just 400 metres from the line, the crowd could watch (and they did
watch, ven though in this pic most sem to be looking somewhere else) the
last part of the stage live on TV, thanks to the giant screen you can see
at the center of the image.
The boys are coming!!!! The peloton is getting closer to the line. Just a
few more metres and, after turning to the right, they'll be on the final
straight. Pavia's very own Lombardi knows it well, and stays up front,
doing the final leadout for Bennati. Cyclamen-jerseyed Alessandro Petacchi
and young Graziano Gasparre (wearing the De Nardi Colpack's blue jersey)
enthusiastic crowd welcomes the peloton, including that pink jerseyed man
going under the name of Gilberto Simoni, whom you can see in the middle of
the pack. The Giro is back in town 21 years later, after the 1981 edition
when another sprinter (Switzerland's Daniel Gisiger) took line honours. 12
years before, in 1969, Pavia brought good luck to Denmark's Ole Ritter,
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Silicon Graphics Inc. today issued a melancholy press release confirming that it has been kicked off the New York Stock Exchange, and will now trade as a 'penny stock'. SGI was the high-bandwidth, visualization-rich, media-savvy computer systems company that flourished in a decade when media pundits clamored for a winner in what they called 'the convergence space'. SGI obliged, and spared nothing - for a while its budgets were flush for R&D and fancy architecture. "Oh, SGI, we loved you and you screwed up. Bigtime."


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Republicans are having a great time ridiculing the Obama administration for canceling White House tours as $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts take hold. They've got questions for the White House: Why not instead cancel golf, or calligraphy, or the president's upcoming vacation? They've also got advice for disgruntled tourists: Come on over to the Capitol for a tour, we'll show you a good time.
Fact-checkers, meanwhile, have been in overdrive debunking many of the dire claims President Obama and his allies have made about the impact of the across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester. The White House, which says it's trying to save on Secret Service costs by canceling the tours, is losing the current round of public-relations competition.
But Republicans should be as worried as the White House about what's on its way. Job losses and furloughs at some point will hit every town and county they represent, followed by more job losses due to decreasing demand for goods and services. Eventually the cuts will start showing up in a higher national unemployment rate and a lower gross domestic product. And then the real public-relations contest begins. Not the one about canceled White House tours; the one about who owns this mess — the president, the GOP, or both.
It would all be quite amusing, except that it's dead serious. Just ask Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, who visited the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday to plead against closure of the air traffic control tower at an airport his Arizona city operates. Each of the approximately 200 small regional airports on the potential cut list is, no doubt, above average to its patrons. The one right outside Phoenix has "unique foreign policy implications" because it is used by NATO for military training exercises, Stanton says.
If the feds don't relent, the only way to keep controllers on the job would be for someone else to pick up the $600,000 tab. If it's Phoenix, that means $600,000 in cuts somewhere else in the city budget. "People are going to feel this," Stanton says of the sequester. "The impact won't be immediate, but it's going to be there."
Local media across the country are beginning to publicize the impact of spending cuts on parks, schools, airports, food banks, seniors meal plans, student aid, domestic-violence programs, Coast Guard patrols, defense contractors, and the military. Pentagon cancellations range from ship deployments to a performance by the Navy Sea Chanters Chorus at a high school in Topeka, Kan.
There is a lot of talk around Washington about how to amend or replace the sequester to avoid some of the pain and economic damage of its meat-ax approach. The possibilities range from allowing Obama or Cabinet secretaries — or at least the Defense secretary — some flexibility in making the cuts to a full-fledged grand-ish bargain replacing the sequester with cuts, tax reform and entitlement trims. But all that's a lot more complicated than the sad tale of sixth-graders in Waverly, Iowa, who were told their White House tour was canceled. Their disappointment was irresistible to the media and to 14 GOP senators who wrote to the White House to protest the cancellations. The president should suspend "his own wasteful golf outings" rather than the tours, said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.
Rush Limbaugh summed up the current state of play in his inimitable way, juxtaposing the tour cancellations with Obama's budget-focused dinner the other night with a dozen Republican senators. "We're shutting down White House tours while Obama takes a 20-vehicle caravan one-half a mile? By the way, that's how far the trip was from the White House to dinner with the Republican ruling-class guys last night: Half a mile!" Limbaugh said. He added: "They wanted people sad and let down, and they wanted people blaming the Republicans for it. And it's backfiring, not working."
True, but the barely suppressed GOP glee at the White House fumbles, and the cavalier acceptance of the sequester by some Republicans, is also bound to backfire. The White House may have been overly dramatic in some of its sequester rhetoric, Stanton says, but "you owe it to the American people to explain what will happen." He predicts that over time the prevailing sentiment among Americans will be "now we understand what the administration was talking about." At that point, White House tours will be the last thing on their minds.
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ECS GF8200A Review
With the success of the GeForce 8200 chipset from Nvidia, we are seeing more and more motherboards coming out based on this technology designed for mainstream computer users and system builders. The GeForce 8200 chipset takes older, proven technology and combines it with new, interesting technology for a fast, feature-packed platform for today's users. The biggest feature of the GeForce 8200 chipset is the integrated motherboard graphics processor - or mGPU - which brings to the table DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0, and Hybrid SLI Graphics technology for a well-rounded motherboard base. What is this Hybrid SLI technology, you ask? Basically, it is a dual-GPU setup using a discrete graphics card (dGPU) and an mGPU in combination, which together provides a graphics power increase from GeForce Boost, or power savings - HybridPower - when paired with the correct card. Unfortunately, only certain 8-series cards can enable GeForce Boost, and certain 9-series cards will support HybridPower.
Today, we are looking at one GeForce 8200 based board from ECS - Elitegroup Computer Systems - which is part of their "Black Series" of motherboards aimed towards enthusiasts and gamers who want top-end technology on a budget. Earlier this year, we took a look at the ECS A780GM-A board, which is based on the AMD 780G chipset, and the two boards look strikingly similar, which is not surprising, since the GeForce 8200 chipset was Nvidia's answer to the 780G chipset. The ECS GF8200A supports the latest AMD processors, including the 50 series tri and quad core Phenom CPUs. With all that said, now let's take a closer look at the ECS GF8200A motherboard.
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The ECS GF8200A comes packaged in a black box sporting the Dragon mascot that ECS has been using for their Black Series motherboards. The front of the box lists some of the features in a logo type format, and there's another logo that states that this board is a "Gamer's Buy." The back of the box offers a glance at what the motherboard looks like, for people wanting to see the layout prior to purchase, as well as an in-depth look at highlighted features.
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A couple of paragraphs from David Warren's column in Sunday's Ottawa Citizen worthy of contemplation.
We learn, with any luck as we grow older, that we do not, cannot, live only for ourselves. We live through family, good friends, colleagues, and neighbours; we live for our future, and theirs, of course. But also, the past is not yet done with us.Read the fill article at: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Voices+from+past/5773673/story.html#ixzz1eukyfQ9z
We are, so long as we breathe in this world, spokesmen for others. The ghosts of those who made us as we are, live on inside us; we embody them. Our eyes still see for them, and our tongues are guided by many mentors. All knowledge comes through love - all - and without love, everything is empty. The living remain plural, and everything we know is owed to former loves. Even those centuries dead, recalled only from reading, continue their orations in the Parliament of our soul; and we live to vindicate them.


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In a city such as Philadelphia, hotels are a dime a dozen. Nice hotels, however, are not a dime a dozen &mdash which is why we're so excited (albeit a little late), for Kimpton dropping the beautiful Hotel Palomar in the city of brotherly love.
Personally, as a Philadelphian, I don't tire of history and momentos from the past &mdash the more the merrier in my book. The hard part is, finding a common ground for modern design and history to stand on together.
A great example of finding common ground is the lobby of the Hotel Palomar. Ben Franklin takes his stand up top of a few pedestals and keeps a watchful eye over the guests getting ready to check in. Local modern art can be found throughout the hotel, which is extremely important given all of the amazing talent in this city! Also featured in the hotel, Square 1682 &mdash A restaurant named for the year William Penn issued his plans for what is now Philadelphia.
A huge selling point for me on the hotel is the fact that it's a LEED certified luxury hotel. It's important, especially in urban environments for hotels to strive to be LEED certified. Their website explains they were able to achieve the certification through their innovative design, unique sustainable building site, water and energy efficiency, as well as eco-friendly building materials and furnishings. If those amazing green high back chairs and chandelier are eco-friendly, more power to them!
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Four and a half years of studies and five failed votes in the House of Representatives later, what's happening with the Keystone XL pipeline? Nothing.
It is stuck at the US-Canadian border, where it is likely to remain until mid-2013, despite the issuance of one of three permits to begin construction in Texas for the smaller and much less controversial portion of the pipeline.
On 26 June, the US Army Corps of Engineers granted TransCanada Corp. a permit to begin construction on the $2.3 billion southern section of the massive pipeline, running from Cushing, Okla. to the Gulf of Mexico in Texas. The permit covers construction across the wetlands and waterways of Texas' Galveston district.
TransCanada still needs one permit each from Tulsa, Okla. and Forth Worth, Texas, to complete this southern Gulf portion of the Keystone. Tulsa is set to rule on the permit in a month and a half.
This southern section will initially carry 700,000 barrels a day of crude oil. Construction is set to begin this summer. The southern line, permits pending, could be functional by mid-to-late 2013. Pres. Obama, despite his objections to other parts of the pipeline, has pledged to speed up the approval process.
Approval for other aspects of the pipeline looks far more complicated. Because the northern section crosses an international border, it requires presidential approval, in accordance with an executive order from Pres. George W. Bush in 2004.
The "greater" Keystone project would extend the existing pipeline from Hardisty in Alberta, Canada eastward until heading south into the US through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, ending at Cushing. There is also an eastern branch spiking off at Steele City, Neb. and running to Patoka, Ill.
The proposed extension would run from Hardisty across the border through Phillips Country, Montana, and meet up with the existing pipeline at Steele City. This would represent 1,179 miles of new pipeline that would carry Canadian tar sands crude eventually to the Gulf of Mexico, with an initial capacity of 830,000 barrels per day.
In an effort to speed up the project after Obama's initial rejection in January, TransCanada split into the northern and southern sections, pursuing the southern one independently.
A comment period began Jun. 15 and runs through July 30, but the State Department has said it would not be able to complete its review until the first quarter of 2013. Approval is contingent upon whether the project is demonstratively in the country's national interest.
Republicans had tried an end run by slipping Keystone XL into a two-year transportation bill, but Obama threatened to veto the legislation, if necessary. (House and Senate negotiators Wednesday reached a tentative agreement over the bill which overhauls federal highway and transit programs.)
The fate of Keystone rests with the answers to two key questions: Is it in the Obama administration's interests, specifically in the run-up to presidential election; and is the pipeline also in the national interest.
Based on environmental and jobs issues, Keystone is not in the Obama administration's interests. Organized labor is not as interested in the jobs as it might because the administration has been fairly successful at creating energyjobs elsewhere. On the environmental front, the Obama administration's hesitancy over the project is the stuff of heroism to that voting bloc.
The Republicans had hoped to deal Obamaa lethal campaign blow by setting a two-month deadline for the administration to approve Keystone XL in January, knowing it wasn't enough time to evaluate the project and hoping the administration would have to reject the project. The idea was to force the administration into publicly denouncing massive job creation and working against US energy independence ahead of the elections.
The GOP strategy, however, was undercut by a sober response from organized labor. In addition, the President has been able to capitalize on his push for green-clean tech jobs as well as his support for oil and natural gas fracking.
In terms of the oil and gas industry, here, too, the Obama administration doesn't have much to gain by approving Keystone XL ahead of the elections. It would not be the end-all for the oil lobby's harassment of the administration.
The pipeline's broader impact is just as clear, although more debatable.
Construction of a pipeline that size will certainly create plenty of jobs — hardly a contested point — but again energy jobs are coming from other ventures and sources. Environmentally, the project brings the risk of oil spills and the certainty of higher greenhouse gas emissions as a result of increased tar sands (dirty oil) extraction.
In terms of economics, there is some solid research showing that Keystone XL is more likely to result in higher prices at the pump. Canadian tar-sand crude pumped into the Midwest and intended for domestic gas consumption would be diverted to the Gulf Coast where it would be used in diesel production and for global exports. It could very well mean reduced gas supplies and higher gas prices in the end.
The issuance of the first Texas permit for the southern extension is but a Democratic bone to big oil and a job-hungry public. It has little marrow. Keystone supporters lost this battle when TransCanada split the project in half, allowing the Obama administration to score points by supporting the smaller version while avoiding a decision on the larger project. Nothing will happen on the greater Keystone XL this year.
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The International Junior Golf Tour, based on Hilton Head Island, will host tournaments at eight area courses later this year. The tour released its fall schedule last week.
IJGT events will be held at Okatie's Oldfield Golf Club (Sept. 1-2); Bluffton's Hilton Head National (Sept. 8-9) and Old South Golf Club (Dec. 1-2); Hilton Head's Shipyard Golf Club (Sept. 29-30), Port Royal Golf Club (Oct. 13-14), Ocean Reef Golf Club (Nov. 3-4) and Harbour Town Golf Links (Nov. 8-9); and Savannah Quarters in Pooler, Ga. (Oct. 20-21).
The tournament at Harbour Town will be the fifth annual Hank Haney Invitational, which concludes the tour's fall season.
IJGT alumni include 2012 U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson, Rickie Fowler, Hunter Mahan and Paula Creamer.


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