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Little Tikes Showcases New-For-Spring Line-Up At Toy Fair 2013
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Infant Basics, Sports, Sand & Water Tables, Climbers & Slides as well as Scooters, Trikes And An All-New Cozy Coupe Among New-For-Spring Little Tikes Lines
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NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Established in 1969, Little Tikes has burgeoned into an iconic brand whose expansive catalog of product lines for growing children are a staple part of the toy aisles at all major and specialty retailers. Continuing its legacy of imaginative, role play toy excellence, Little Tikes brings to the New York International Toy Fair 2013 an array of new-for-spring offerings within the iconic toy company's core Ride-on, Infant Basic, Sand & Water and Climbers & Slides categories.
In its Infant Basics line Little Tikes introduces Wiggimals, a fun and colorful new brand comprised of four characters – a cow, sheep, chicken and pig. They start as cuddly characters, then with the flip of a switch become a wiggling, jiggling ball of fun!
Continuing the company's recognized commitment to healthy and imaginative play Little Tikes unveils its spring 2013 indoor and outdoor activities line-up.
Taking little ones from parent guided through kid powered stages, the 4-in-1 Sports Edition Trike not only grows with the child, but also provides adjustable, lab certified UV protected canopies and brand new spring colors and options to make every ride easy and comfortable for parent and child. The much-beloved Cozy Coupe line introduces Princess Cozy Coupe, offered in Pink for the special Princess in each home.
Also in its popular Ride-On line, Little Tikes unveils the 3-wheeled Lean to Steer Scooter, a new introduction into the scooter category that boasts two bold colors that are sure to make a statement on the pavement!
In the new Clearly Sports line, Little Tikes launches Golf, Kick Ball and Baseball and Bowling for sturdy, indoor and outdoor fun and play that builds skills and self-confidence.
In the Sand and Water Tables category, Little Tikes re-introduces the more than 35-year-old Turtle Sandbox, along with the Garden Table and Bubble Machine. The Turtle Sandbox features the classic turtle with friendly molded-in face and lots of turtle shell details surrounding a large area for lots of sand play. The Garden Table features plant and water flowers, a basin to hold water, lots of storage space and table-top design encouraging multiple child play. The Bubble Machine, a stand-at bubble table that entertains little tikes for hours of bubblin' fun.
In the category of Climbers and Slides, Little Tikes unveils the new, whimsically-styled Hide and Seek™ Climber and Swing, offering multi-child climb-up, slide down and crawl through play along with swinging and clubhouse windows to peek through.
About Little Tikes
The Little Tikes Company, founded in 1969, is a Hudson, Ohio-based multi-national manufacturer and marketer of durable, high quality and engaging children's products. Since becoming a part of the MGA Entertainment family in November 2006, Little Tikes® has been taken to new heights through exciting product innovation and strategic marketing.
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This project uses lead-acid batteries harvested from other equipment; basic safety systems; and a permanent-magnet DC motor specifically designed for light EVs. Inexpensive "donor" lawn tractors are easy to find in the classifieds or at local junkyards. The technology for this project is proven and readily accessible, since it comes from the golf-cart, mobility scooter, and forklift industries. It can be a "just-for-fun" project for riding around the backyard, or a powerful addition to your garden tool stable. And, down the road, the skills and tools you've acquired in this project can be useful in converting other small vehicles.
The fundamental parts of any EV are the batteries, motor, and controls. Secondary parts include an on/off switch, speed control, safety systems, and the mechanical attachments and brackets. Finally, you will need a charging system for the batteries.
This project initially used four 12-volt sealed lead-acid (SLA) mobility-scooter/wheelchair batteries that were left over from another project. At 22 Ah and 48 V, they make a pretty small battery pack, but they're handy and will give us real-world testing ability so we can figure out the battery capacity we really need. Used 12 V flooded lead-acid batteries are also an option—they're inexpensive and readily available.
The "beta" motor, which we'll use as a test motor, is a Briggs & Stratton 48 V, 10 kW ETEK. It's small, lightweight, and fairly powerful. Another motor, the Motenergy ME1004, is designed specifically for an electric lawn-tractor conversion. It has a heavy-duty brush design and a 1-inch output shaft to accommodate the stacked pulley that drives both the tractor and the mower deck. It's also rated at 48 V, but can provide more power and torque. If we can demonstrate that the tractor is worth the investment with our beta motor, the ME1004 will be a worthy replacement.
Since most mowers of this type are run at full-throttle most of the time, and the tractor already has a transmission, clutch, and brakes, you can skip spending a few hundred dollars on a DC motor speed controller or a throttle. We're simply going to turn the motor fully on and off, and manage the rpm with battery pack voltage. Forty-eight volts should provide about 3,000 rpm on either motor, which is pretty close to what a gas engine will produce at full throttle.
Some safety mechanisms for the on/off switching are necessary. Almost every EV has a contactor or large electromagnetic relay that uses a small amount of current to control the full power of the battery pack. A fuse is required that can accommodate the motor's 100 to 200 A draw. These parts are available from golf-cart/forklift parts companies or EV conversion suppliers.
Simple gauges, found through golf-cart part suppliers, will indicate battery state-of-charge (SOC). Since the tractor spends most of its life sitting idle, a large, fast, and expensive charging system isn't needed. Although you can charge the batteries individually with an automotive 12 V charger, a low-current charger that matches the voltage of your pack is a smart purchase. Thirty-six and 48 V systems are very common, and a simple 2 A charger costs less than $50. It may take as many as six hours to fully charge the batteries (depending on the battery capacity), but that can be done overnight. You might also use a small PV array and charge controller to recharge the batteries on the tractor's days off.

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Optus has restored more than 50 per cent of sites that have been out due to flooding in the Central and South East areas of Queensland.
Yesterday the telco said mobile and fixed broadband services were now fully operational in Brisbane, following disruptions due to power outages.
Today Optus said while major population centres from Rockhampton to Gympie have 2G and 3G and fixed broadband services, the telco is still working to restore full mobile and fixed broadband services in Brisbane, which is still being impacted by power outages.
In Bundaberg, Maryborough and Rockhampton, Optus' mobile network is operational and being powered by generators.
2G and 3G mobile and fixed broadband services are still down in Laurieton, Camden Haven, Murwillumbah and Burringbar and one site is down in Byron Bay due to power outages.
Optus customers in regional Queensland and New South Wales are also experiencing patchy coverage due to power and transmission failures.
"Our focus is on re-establishing those sites that are not currently operating in flood affected areas in both Queensland and New South Wales," Sam Kennedy, director Optus Queensland, said in a statement.
"For those unable to connect to the Optus network, we have a number of initiatives in place. Optus consumer and small business customers impacted by the flood damage can divert their landlines to mobiles for free."
Yesterday Telstra began restoring emergency triple zero services to customers in flood-affected areas following repairs to a damaged redundant fibre cable near Harlin in Kingaroy.
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Information provided by a prominent American theologian close to the famous papal "birth control commission" of the 1960s shows it was tilted in favor of changing Church teaching on contraception from the start. Pope Paul VI eventually said no to the commission and reaffirmed Church teaching in his 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae ("Of Human Life").
The new information depicts the commission's secretary general as a supporter of change who influenced the commission's proceedings to produce that result. It also suggests a substantial number of members and advisers of the body were predisposed in favor of change, or at least more than merely open to it.
Jesuit Father John C. Ford, an American moral theologian with the commission who opposed change, is quoted as saying that far from pushing the commission the other way, Pope Paul "wanted to give the proponents of change every opportunity to make their case."
The new disclosures are contained in a biographical sketch of Father Ford by Germain G. Grisez, who worked with the priest in Rome during a critical period in the commission's proceedings. The sketch appears together with several previously unpublished documents on his website (www.twotlj.org). Grisez is the author of numerous books and articles, including an influential three-volume treatment of moral theology.
In brief, the story he tells is this.
Blessed Pope John XXIII established the Pontifical Commission on Population, Family and Birth-rate — popularly known as the birth control commission — in March 1963, shortly before his death. Its job was to prepare for the Holy See's participation in a conference organized by the United Nations and the World Health Organization.
Dominican Father Henri de Riedmatten of the Vatican's Secretariat of State was named secretary general of the new body. According to Grisez, the priest "single-handedly managed the commission's work," even after Pope Paul, who succeeded Pope John, appointed Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, its president. The priest's support for change could be seen in arranging meeting agendas and shaping documents — including his final report to the pope — to favor this outcome.
Pope Paul expanded the commission's membership and mandate in June 1964. In October he named Father Ford, then teaching at The Catholic University of America, to serve with the body. At that time considered possibly the leading Catholic moral theologian in the United States, the priest had drawn attention during World War II with a stinging critique of American and British saturation bombing of German and Japanese cities.
By the time the commission met in the spring of 1965, Grisez reports, 12 of 19 members of its theological section thought the Church's teaching on contraception was "reformable" — it could be changed. Father Ford did not.
The Second Vatican Council, then nearing its close, left the contraception issue to be resolved after the commission finished its work. The pope now reorganized the commission, naming the previous members "expert advisers" to a group of 16 cardinals and bishops who were the actual members. Father de Riedmatten then scheduled a cluster of meetings in spring and summer of 1966, culminating in a June 20-25 gathering of the 16 prelates to reach conclusions.
Father Ford by now was one of a minority of four within the 19-member theological section who supported the Church's teaching against contraception. The others were moral theologians Jesuit Father Marcelino Zalba, Redemptorist Father Jan Visser and sociologist Jesuit Father Stanislas de Lestapis. All were prominent scholars.
At the climactic meeting of cardinals and bishops, Grisez writes, there was "little discussion, and no minds were changed." On the crucial question of whether every contraceptive act is wrong, the vote was 9 no, 3 yes, and 3 abstentions.
Of the commission's three American members, Cardinal Lawrence Shehan of Baltimore and Archbishop (later, Cardinal) John Dearden of Detroit voted no, and Archbishop Leo Binz of St. Paul and Minneapolis voted yes. Archbishop Karol Wojtyla of Krakow — later, Pope John Paul II — who was expected to be a solid vote against contraception, had been prevented from attending the meeting by the communist authorities in Poland.
Father de Riedmatten prepared his final report and submitted it to the pope on June 27. Grisez recalls that he and Father Ford were "appalled" by how biased it was. At Cardinal Ottaviani's request, he and the priest prepared a document rebutting the pro-contraception arguments, and that document also presumably went to Pope Paul.
In the spring of 1967, selected theological documents from the commission, misidentified as the "majority report" and the "minority report," were leaked to some media, evidently to put pressure on Pope Paul. But in July 1968, the pope issued Humanae Vitae, which unequivocally affirms that every contraceptive act is wrong.
Back in the United States, Father Ford returned to the seminary in Weston, Mass., where he had taught for many years, but was received coolly, especially after Humanae Vitae came out. Grisez describes him as "dismayed but not surprised" by dissent from the encyclical on the part of many academics and some bishops. Retiring from teaching, he spent his last years doing pastoral work and died Jan. 14, 1989, at the age of 86.
Russell Shaw is an OSV contributing editor.
"Certain official documents of the Pontifical Commission on Population, Family and Birth-rate are published here [http://osv.cm/hjcyaA] without permission under the limitation of copyright called fair use, inasmuch as the documents on which [Jesuit Father John C.] Ford and [Germain] Grisez collaborated could not be accurately understood and fairly evaluated without the otherwise unavailable commission documents to which they were responding.
"In 2011, Grisez judged that he was no longer bound to keep these documents secret for two reasons: (1) he never undertook to keep them secret; and (2) after more than 44 years, the publication of these documents is hardly likely to harm the Church and may well benefit her."
— Germain Grisez's explanation of the release of commission documents
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Schools respond to FOI request for superintendents' contracts
The Torrington school district was the slowest to respond to a request for a copy of the school superintendent's contract in a recent test done by three daily newspapers.
About half of Connecticut's 149 public school districts responded within 24 hours to the Freedom of Information request seeking copies of the contracts, and many of the districts provided the contracts themselves within a day. Torrington's contract took 28 business days to receive.
The New Haven Register, The Middletown Press and The Register Citizen are working on gathering all school chief contracts for the state in order to build a searchable database. We also decided to also test the responsiveness of each district under FOI law with the project.
The state's Freedom of Information Act requires a response within four days, but this can be just a confirmation of receiving the request and an estimated time frame for when the documents will be provided. If no response is given by the fourth business day, it is automatically considered a denial and the requester may file a complaint with the state's Freedom of Information Commission.
Our test showed that 119 school districts out of 149 passed with flying colors. In fact, those school districts did not only respond within the required four days, but had also delivered the contracts within that time frame.
Seventy-three school districts delivered the contracts within 24 hours, and 30 of those actually sent them in the same day. The fastest were Wolcott (12 minutes), Meriden (25 minutes) and Preston (30 minutes).
The slowest response was from the Torrington school district (28 business days), where a reporter had asked for the contract before we started requesting copies from other districts, and had also asked for multiple contracts in addition to the superintendent's.
An FOI response can vary depending on how many documents the agency has to provide and how long it might take to put them together.
Shelton and Region 13 (Coginchaug) each took 18 business days to provide their contracts, but Shelton was in the process of revising its contract with the superintendent and it had not been signed by the time we first requested it. The Torrington contract copy we received was also not signed and dated until the day after we received the copy.
As of Nov. 9, we were still waiting for contracts from Bridgeport, Brookfield, Stamford and Region 19, which were requested between Oct. 11 and Oct. 18.
We had asked for the contracts to be delivered electronically, like in a PDF file, and for the district to waive the cost associated with the request. Under FOI law, a municipality can charge up to 50 cents per page for paper copies of a contract.
Two districts - Region 5 (Amity) and Naugatuck - requested that we pick up the contracts in person and charged us for the copies. We paid Amity $7.50 and Naugatuck $8 for a total project cost of $15.50.
All other districts waived the fee, including the seven districts that sent the contracts in via postal mail (Newington, Portland, Farmington, Watertown, Simsbury, Waterford and Region 11).
Two school districts faxed their contracts (Brooklyn and Voluntown) and one superintendent (Sprague) dropped off a contract in person at our office.
Another two districts (Glastonbury and Norwalk) had the superintendent contracts available online on the school district websites.
View all the contracts on our Open Records blog.


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Stocks could continue their sideways drift Thursday, as investors watch a few big earnings, jobless claims and an anticipated merger agreement for American Airlines.
But traders are also looking for will decide the next big directional move for stocks, after the market's near 7 percent climb since the start of the year. "We've made a very rapid move very quickly. Consolidation is not surprising," said Wedbush Securities' Steve Massocca. "I think in lieu of correction, we're going to have sideways action."
The Dow was lower Wednesday, finishing down 35 points at 13,982, while the S&P rose less than a point to 1520. The Nasdaq, which has been lagging, rose 10 points to 3196, and the Russell 2000 gained another three points to 920, another new record.


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Conflict within the Autism Community
ASAN argues that the main focus on autism expenditures should be on providing supportive services and thus finding ways to include autistic persons in society. It shouldn't be on finding a cure. In contrast, the largest advocacy group on autism in the US, Autism Speaks, still sees autism as an illness that needs to be cured. They want to see an emphasis on research on causes and cures. The New York times just published an article on the controversy.
From my perspective, as a clinician who has worked with persons with autism, the controversy is overblown. The reality is this:
First, advocates of the neurological diversity hypotheses about autism should remember that the vast majority of mutations occurring in the natural environment are maladaptive. There is no reason to assume that all diversity is good and this is the case with autism. The social and economic costs of having a child with autism in the family are tremendous and we should not idealize autism. Families are disrupted. There are divorces, because parents are depressed and guilty about the child. Siblings often feel left out and lost in the family while parents devote most of their energies to the disabled child. Autism can be a terrible disability. We have found that early intervention does have a positive impact on autism, but we are still a long way from a cure.
Second, there is a wide range in the functioning of autistic persons. People like Ne'eman can function fairly well and be remarkably successful. However, they are the exception to the rule. Most autistic individuals are unable to function independently and--if they can work at all--can only do manual labor. While there is nothing wrong with manual labor, people with autism simply do not have the social skills to function adequately in those kinds of situations. I know. I work in an county that still has a lot of factories. A person who is "different," perhaps in appearance, ethnicity, or functioning, gets horrible harassment, especially if they don't have the social skills to stop it. A factory or construction site is not a place for people with autism. There are few jobs out there for them in the community.
Finally, our current commitment to housing and social resources for people with autism is pitiful. It takes years to be placed in supported housing in Pennsylvania. I assume it is the same in other states. Care providers in group homes are terribly underpaid and there is a tremendous turnover in employees. The greater the turnover, the less the experience of the average care provider, and the worse the care is.
Ultimately, given our limited resources, we have no choice but must divide them:
- We need basic research to better understand the causes of autism, which we hope will lead to either a cure or prevention or both.
- We need treatment research to improve our current assessment and treatment protocols.
- We need more social services to provide more support so that we do not abandon persons with autism.
There is a book of Jewish wisdom, entitled Pirke Avot, which is variously translated, "Ethics of the Fathers," or (more modernly), "Teachings of the Sages." One of my favorite teachings comes from Rabbi Tarphon, who said, "You are not required to finish the job, but neither are your free to abstain from it." He was talking about religious study, but his advice has also been interpreted as applying to doing good works. As a society, we need to live by that wisdom, especially as it applies to all forms of disability.


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Siberian White Crane
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Siberian cranes stand about 1.4 m tall, with an average weight of 5.1-8.6 kg in males and 4.9-7.3 kg in females. Otherwise the sexes are alike.
The bill is brown-red or brick-red with slightly paler tip. It is long, slender and laterally compressed. The legs and feet are pale red, pink, or dull red, with black claws. The iris is pale yellow, in some birds it may be t9nged pink, ivory or red.
The Siberian crane is the most aquatic of the cranes, exclusively using wetlands for nesting, feeding, and roosting. For nesting, wide expanses of shallow fresh water with good visibility are preferred.
As in other cranes, usually two eggs are laid, which are incubated for about 29 days by both parents. The chicks fledge (first flight) at approximately 70-75 days.
Siberian cranes feed on cranberries, rodents, fish and insects. On migration and on the wintering grounds, they excavate nutrient rich roots and tubers from wetlands. They are predominantly vegetarian outside their breeding season.
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|Name (Scientific)
|Grus leucogeranus
|Name (English)
|Siberian White Crane
|Name (French)
|Grue blanche d'Asie, Grue nonne
|Name (German)
|Schneekranich, Nonnenkranich
|Name (Spanish)
|Grulla blanca asiática
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|There are two or more breeding areas in the tundra/taiga transition zone of Siberia (Russia), and there are two wintering populations, the western migrating to Iran and India, and the eastern to China.
|Wild population
|Western subpopulation: 4 (2002) and Poyang Lake: 3,750 (2008) (Red List IUCN 2011)
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|About 200, of which 58 reported to ISIS (2005)
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How this animal should be transported
For air transport, Container Note 17 of the IATA Live Animals Regulations should be followed.
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The Siberian crane is rated critically endangered by IUCN. With a view of building up a reserve population and supporting reintroductions, an International Studbook has been established under the WAZA umbrella, and coordinated conservation breeding programmes are operated at the regional level by EAZA and JAZA.


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For years, we've been pointing out that the worries about offshoring have been greatly overhyped. In fact, a new study points out that, despite popular opinion, offshoring isn't particular popular in the tech industry -- especially among companies doing serious innovation. It is more popular in the banking and insurance industries, to be sure, but the tech industry has learned that you don't outsource the actual innovation. That's because innovation isn't a commodity that goes to the cheapest workers. It requires the best workers. Of course, if our immigration policy continues to keep some of the most qualified workers in other countries, then we should expect more innovation to shift overseas as well. That's why it's never made much sense that the same folks who are against offshoring are often against increasing the number of H1-B and other visas for highly skilled foreigners. If you keep them out of the country, the work will only go to where they are. However, if the best innovators are here, then that's where the innovation will stay and there's less incentive to offshore work.
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Ajax 4Hire, 26 Jul 2007 @ 6:46am
The team that wins is the team together.The team that pulls together on the tug-o-war rope wins.
You cannot have people come up whenever they want and pull and
expect that all the contribution is additive.
Yes individual at home, distance collabrative work is possible but I have seen that the best arrangement is all together.
When the disparate far-flung groups working on the same project have problems the answer eventually is to get someone or someones on a plane to work together.
Oh yeah, first.
Overcast, 26 Jul 2007 @ 7:05amYep, get what you pay for. An Axiom that always rings true.
Unbiased, 26 Jul 2007 @ 7:14am
Is it just meIs it just me or does Techdirt consistently argue in favor of increasing H1B's? What about reporting on the abuses of the H1B program by big business?
Nick, 26 Jul 2007 @ 9:27am
Re: Is it just meUnbiased..
Good point..However, TechDirt usually flip-flops to the most popular side of issues...
H1B abuse is wayy under rated and under reported on. Furthermore, the abuse of H1B consultants is yet an area people dont even try to find out about. They come here as HIGH TECH workers...and after the 9 to 5 day...return to their apartments..and live like Mexicans. No offense to Mexicans..they live together because not all of them get leases even though they can afford it. With the H1B consultants..its a sheer affordability issue. They come to the US and get peanuts. Which is why they are pref. over native consultants. Anyways..I can keep going..but am going to stop while I am ahead.
Tod, 26 Jul 2007 @ 7:19am
"Highly skilled workers"?If they really are highly skilled, they need to come over as something other than an H1B that allows them to integrate into society and gain permanent resident/citizenship status more quickly.
I know some medical researchers from western Europe that spent or are still spending years and years trying to gain citizenship, who actually contribute greatly to America and wish to become American.
However, having worked in IT for 20 years, I have to say that most H1Bs in IT that I've dealt with are no more skilled, and generally less skilled, than their domestic equivalents. The main difference is that since most of the H1Bs in IT come from countries that still have average incomes of under $1000 US, they can and will work for less here. (For example, they don't graduate owing thousands of dollars in school loans.)
If someone is worth having, they deserve better than an H1B visa.
Anonymous Coward, 26 Jul 2007 @ 7:32amIt's a matter of having your cake and eating it too. Corporations want the innovation to stay in America but they want cheap foreign labor as well. They are against offshoring because they want to keep the high end paying jobs in America (the ones requireing specific skills) and are against the increase in visas because they are afraid skilled foreign workers will take their own high paying corporate jobs from them. They want the cheap foriegn unskilled labor but do not want not-so-cheap skilled foreign labor getting in as well.
Notice that there regulations that employers have to go through to hire someone (to confirm national residency) and fines and punishments in place for employers that do not go by them? It's because American business owners like being able to hire laborers for as cheap as they can get away with in order to increase their bottom line. But if skilled foreigners start coming the employers are afraid that these foreigners will be able to compete their jobs. And we all know how American corporations feel about competition...
mark r, 26 Jul 2007 @ 7:51am
H1BAwesome. So what magical threshold is in place to make sure that everyone (or that the effect of the program on aggregate) adds to the amount of innovation that happens in the US?
If you want innovation, open it up to everyone. Nikola Tesla would have been a Yugoslavian citizen unable to emigrate to the US under current immigration statues. Westinghouse wouldn't have gotten the pattens on alternating current, a Yugoslavian company would have. Yugoslavia would probably still exist as a country today.
hmmm, 26 Jul 2007 @ 9:36amnot really sure
Bill Gates, 26 Jul 2007 @ 9:50am
H-1BThe largest users of H-1B visas are the offshoring companies. In the computer industry the MAJORITY of H-1B visas go to offshoring companies. The assertion that not having H-1B visas will encourage offshoring is a conclusion one can only come to in complete ignorance of the data.
H-1B is the bigger threat. Given a choice between more offshoring and more H-1B visas, I'd take more offshoring every time. Fortunately, we don't have to make that choice. More H-1B visas means more offshoring.
Jamie, 26 Jul 2007 @ 10:05am
Re: H-1BI'm not really for or against more H-1B. I feel like I don't have a good enough understanding of how it is used or how it is meant to be used. I've heard arguments from both sides that sound good. So I don't think I can make a decision as to where I stand on it.
That said, I do completely disagree with your position that more off shoring is better than more H-1B visas. It's much better for the US economy to have money being paid to people who work here rather than some other country. the majority of money paid to workers in the US, gets spent in the US. Money paid to workers in another country gets spent there. Having underpaid workers in the US may not be good for the economy, but having the money from those underpaid workers go out of the country is a lot worse for the economy.
Vinay, 26 Jul 2007 @ 10:51amI agree ....
Kai, 26 Jul 2007 @ 12:08pm
Immigrants yes, HB-1 noI strongly favor encouraging smart and/or hardworking people to come to the US to live and work and earn a wage that reflects their skills. Unfortunately, from what I have seen, the HB-1 program promotes peonage, and temporary peonage at that. How can we get innovation from someone who is under paid and knows they are only here for a short time?
Steven Ashley, 26 Jul 2007 @ 3:30pm
Increase Immigration Quotas, not H1B visasThe H1B program is just another instance of creating an artificial program to solve a specific problem instead of doing the right thing in making the countries immigration laws match the countries needs.
Temporary worker programs just create a underclass of workers and I thought we outlawed slavery and indentured servitude years ago.
Anonymous Coward, 26 Jul 2007 @ 5:52pm
Temporary worker programs just create a underclasstrue
and they also discourage US citizens from entering that field. Who wants to gamble on a career where you have to compete with cheap imported (or offshore) labor?
Can you see that it is a vicious circle - that creates a self-fulfilling prophesy?
Who benefits - workers or corporations?
The only ones with the ability to start the circle going was . . . . . you guessed it. The corporations.
Mohan, 2 Aug 2007 @ 12:42pm
Innovation in the value chain.The blog makes me reflect on the point raised "However, if the best innovators are here, then that's where the innovation will stay" The intent to keep innovation "here," in order to maintain a lead and ownership of processes up the value chain; right? …but the corollary may not be really true…there still may be other incentives to incentive to offshore work; right?


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Ford and General Motors have taken turns besting the Toyota Camry in quality surveys for the past two years, but if you talk to many Americans especially the ones who would never consider supporting home-based auto companies you'd never know it.
Last year, the Chevrolet Impala beat the Camry in initial quality, according to J.D. Power & Associates. And Consumer Reports just announced that both the Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan scored higher than both the Camry and the Honda Accord this year.
Even as GM and Ford have accumulated award after award on vehicle quality, you'd almost never know about such quality gains made by American companies.
There's also the mythical perception that foreign automakers produce the most fuel efficient cars and that Detroit only makes gas-guzzlers when the truth is that all automakers including Toyota, Honda and Hyundai-Kia alike have allowed fuel economy to slide in the past 20 years since they all now sell bigger trucks and more SUVs.
Perhaps the biggest perception problem is that American automobile companies GM and Ford Chrysler is now German-owned squander all their money on plants overseas and foreign automakers build their factories in the United States. Foreign car lovers will surely point to Kia's plans to build its first-ever U.S. plant in Georgia, but they probably won't mention that they received $400 million in tax giveaways to do it, which translates into $160,000 per job.
Among the many benefits for the foreign-owned company, your tax dollars are going to be used for road improvements surrounding the complex, complete with flower beds and other beautification features. Hey, as long as we're going to allow states to bid for private jobs with our public tax dollars, we might as well make it look good, right?
And the foreign car lovers will probably also not tell you (or maybe they just don't know or don't want you to know) that GM and Ford pour more money into existing American facilities than foreign automakers spend on new plants, usually with little or no tax breaks. GM has already spent more than $500 million upgrading two transmission plants this year, and has spent nearly a billion dollars over the last decade, for example, for facility upgrades in Texas.
And what do GM and Ford get for making their existing plants more efficient? It isn't tax breaks. Instead, they get accusations of not being "competitive" enough! Maybe here I should also mention that the average domestic parts content for Kia is 3 percent, while the average domestic parts content of Ford and GM is 78 percent and 74 percent, respectively. This means that buying a U.S.-assembled (or even foreign-assembled, for that matter) GM or Ford supports more American jobs than a U.S.-assembled car or truck with a foreign nameplate.
Fortunately for our benefit, the United States remains the overall global leader in research and development, and a big reason for that is that American automakers. According to the Level Field Institute, U.S. car companies invest $16 billion in research and development annually, outpacing any other industry one could name.
Admittedly, the Level Field Institute counts German-owned DaimlerChrysler as an American automaker, so Ford and GM's combined R&D contribution to America is closer to around $12 billion. But who's counting, right? Certainly not the American auto-bashing media.
Japanese companies do employ 3,600 American workers in R&D, but that still leaves the foreign competition behind in the dust staring at American rear bumpers 3,600 sounds like a big number until you realize that 65,000 Americans work in R&D facilities in the state of Michigan alone. In fact, two of the top four R&D spending companies in America as reported by the Wall Street Journal are you guessed it Ford and GM. The other two are also American companies: Pfizer and Microsoft.
Ford has recently made headlines as the American automaker with the most challenges to its future, but these challenges certainly are not because they "aren't making cars people want to buy." Toyota did outsell Ford in July, but since then, Ford has reclaimed the No. 2 spot.
GM has the highest market share, increasing over 2 percentage points from a year ago, so it apparently can't be accused of not making cars people want to buy either. Ford sales also are up in Europe, and Ford doubled its sales in China, where GM has the highest market share of any automaker.
GM also reported a 3.9 percent rise in August vehicle sales despite high gas prices and a supposedly slowing economy. And even though Toyota reported record sales that month, it couldn't match the non-record setting sales volume of Ford. GM's sales rose 17 percent in October from the year-ago month and Ford sales rose 8 percent the same period.
And for all the talk about the lack of fuel efficiency of American automakers, it seems three-fourths of all automakers failed to meet Europe's improved fuel-efficiency standards intended to cut carbon-dioxide emissions. Japanese and German automakers topped the list of the study's worst performers, but according to an environmental group's study, GM's Opel division and Ford both "come out well."
In closing, I'll leave some encouraging numbers for those of us who actually like to root for and support the home team. The J.D. Power 2006 Vehicle Dependability Survey reports that Mercury, Buick and Cadillac (in that order) grabbed the No. 2, 3 and 4 spots to beat Toyota, Honda, Nissan, BMW and everyone else (except Lexus) in having the least number of problems per 100 vehicles.
Perhaps someday the American media will give GM and Ford the credit they deserve. And once they do, perception among the majority of the American public will rightfully change. GM and Ford aren't only doing what they should to make gains in the American market to deserve American consumer loyalty; they're also doing what they should to make gains in the markets of China, Europe and across most of the rest of the globe.
Good read - thanks for posting that Scott...
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The media really needs to get it's head out of it's @$$ and start giving the American car manufacturers some credit!
And one of the biggest culprits are the car "rags". I admit to being a subscriber to several of them, but that may change if things keep going the way they are.
A few examples:
The latest 'Motor Trend' might as well be called 'Toyota Trend' for all the coverage 'Toyota' receives in it. The cover, 'Car of the Year', The Toyota Camry.
Then there's the nice review of GM's new full size pickups. Great! But. They (Motor Trend) can't leave it at that and give GM credit. No. They have a story of the GM v. the upcoming Tundra, and how the Tundra may well be the best pick up coming.
Finally, they run a huge story on Toyota and it's moving into Nextel Cup, along with what a wonderful thing this will be.
Next. 'Road & Track'. The editor calls the Honda Remix concept "the way concepts should be done", while calling the concept Camaro and Challenger "unimiginative"!
(That prompted a letter to the editor from me. We'll see if they have the b@lls to print it in 'Ampersand'.)
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that's what I said a while back when my friend was raving about her scion xB. I told her that think looked like a shoe box and that since she had the lime green it was even worse. then she mentioned something about my car breaking down and blah blah blah. and I told her to do her research. next thing I know she wasn't talkin to me anymore. lol.
I cancelled my subscriptions to Motor Trend, Road & Track and Autoweek back in the early nineties when that BS started. It never ended...
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That's pretty pathetic. My biggest concern is the tax breaks these foriegn companies are getting. I mean c'mon! A $400 million tax break?!?!?! Just imagine what that could do for OUR AMERICAN companies. How's about a tax break for GM? Hell, how about one for Ford, too? Why not??? We're talking about our brothers and sisters we're supporting here! It's OUR economy. Then, the mags aren't doing anything whatsoever to help out. They are just supporting "the other" automakers. Here's a "Thanks a lot" to you........
Yeah...you guys know I bought a Kia Sorento for my wife. Why? The only vehicle Ford had which interested me (not my wife) was the Escape. You must understand my wife. She doesn't want a BIG SUV. She wants a mid size SUV. Moving along...GM had the Tahoe (exactly what I wanted.. ...not what the wife wanted...too big) :( . The only other SUV GM had? The Trailblazer. She didn't like that one either. If there were any others, she didn't like them and after all, it was going to be her car . She wanted something with style and the Sorento caught her eye. The fact that it looks like her parents Acura also had some play in the buy.
I have only purchased 4 brand new vehicles....all made by GM. I will continue to buy GM vehicles....the 5th being a brand new 5th Gen Camaro. And, I will be happy knowing I will be supporting our economy in doing so. Here's to you GM. Thank you for making the Camaro and keeping the AMERICAN musclecar alive.
Tag I can't agree w/you more, thank god for GM.
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I for one took the commentary and pasted it into an email and sent it to everyone in my address book. I asked everyone who received it to do the same. It might be a good idea for you guys and gals (I think there is at least one here) to do the same. Maybe we can get some people to change their minds and buy an American car. Our economy is our country's future. Like I've heard in the past...Buy American, the job you save may be your own!
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"I feel like I've still got a little something in the tank," he said.
And the once-dreadlocked, single glamour boy of the tour is a father and husband now, and, by his own description, "an adult."
"I'm really comfortable with where I am," he said.
Tennis Channel coverage begins Friday at 1 p.m., continues Saturday at 2 p.m. and finishes beginning Sunday at noon.


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Performance tuning the network controller (MTU)
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- Every time you send a 1500 size packet out on a MTU1492 network you end up with two packets: 1492 + 8. That's why the speed drops - The second packet is almost empty! If you type:
ifconfig eth0
- It will show:
- The standard MTU[1] for DSL and cable is 1492 maximum, for DSL via PPPoE[2] it is often 1480 (you best ask your provider for the correct value). You can:
- Add the following line to one of your startup files in the start section, e.g. in
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 1492
- Add "mtu 1492" (a line by itself) to /etc/network/interfaces
echo "mtu 1492" >> /etc/network/interfaces


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Schroeder Cemetery in Dundee
Interesting news and controversy over the sale of the Schroeder Cemetery in Dundee.
The Schroeder Cemetery was purchased recently by a developer. Evidentially, the cemetery is a long-lost treasure, probably tied to early pioneers of the area. There are no visible boundaries to the cemetery and no gravestones exist. The question on the table is: are there still bodied buried there? Local historians are trying to make that determination, as there may be plans to develop the land.
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Why does the Museum's Snowmastadon Project collect?
On October 15, 2010, the National Park Service broke ground on
sorely needed new visitor and research center just off the
southeast corner of the intersection of Colorado Highway 160 and
the Mesa Verde Road. This $12,000,000 building, which is designed
to achieve U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED™) Platinum, will make the wonders of
Mesa Verde National Park accessible to visitors who do not have
time to make the 45-minute drive to the Mesa top.
Sometime either late Thursday, March 3rd, or in the early morning
hours of Friday, March 4th, a vandal or vandals fired shots at the Park's entrance
station. The bullet-proof glass on that station cracked and
will have to be replaced. Thankfully, no one was hurt, and it is
not known whether the shooting was related to the new construction
project, why would someone shoot at the entrance kiosk to a
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Event: Katrina, Ritesh & Akshay attended special screening of the film KAMBAKKHT ISHQ held at PVR, Mumbai.
Guest List: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Arjan Bajwa, Ritesh Deshmukh, Sophie Chaudhary, Anupama Verma, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Divya Khosla Kumar, Kehkashan Patel, Dj Akhil, Pooja Batra, Nikhil Advani, Vashu Bhagnani, Jackky Bhagnani, Vipul Shah, Dimple Kapadia, Alvira Khan, Queenie Dhody, Farah, Teejay Sidhu, Karan Vir Bohra, Kishan Kumar, Tanya, Dara Singh, Vindu Singh, David Dhawan, Sabir Khan, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Sajid Nadiadwala
Venue: PVR, Mumbai.
Date: 01-Jul-2009
Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
Bollywood producers-directors Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Krishan Kumar, Ravi Bahl, Divya Khosla Kumar, Sajid Nadiadwala, Wardha Nadiadwala celebrate diwali with Bhushan Kumar
Bollywood celebs Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Sonali Bendre, Nimrat Kaur among others were snapped by paparazzi.Bebo looked super cool in a casual look. She wore a white t-shirt with yoga pants...
Bollywood actress Shama Sikander celebrated Diwali festival at her residence.
Bollywood celebs Aamir Khan, Zaira Wasim, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Anil Kapoor, Nitesh Tiwari, Aparshakti Khurrana, Bhushan Kumar, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Sachin Tendulkar, Rajkumar Hir...


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Vermont's auction for five moose hunting permits is open until August 21 with a minimum bid amount of $1,500. Sealed bids on forms provided by Fish & Wildlife must be received by 4:30 p.m. that day.
Auction winners will choose to hunt in one of several wildlife management units (WMUs) open to moose hunting and choose to hunt during the October 1-7 archery season, or in the October 19-24 regular season.
Bids do not include the cost of a hunting license (residents $22, nonresidents $100) or moose hunting permit fee ($100 for residents and $350 for nonresidents).
Contact the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department to receive a moose permit bid packet. Telephone 802-828-1190 or email (email@example.com). Information about the auction is posted on Fish & Wildlife's website (www.vtfishandwildlife.com).
Proceeds from the moose hunting permit auction help fund Vermont Fish and Wildlife educational programs. Winning bids are typically at least $4,000.
Media Contacts: Cedric Alexander, 802-751-0105; Mark Scott, 802-241-3700
Source: Department of Fish and Wildlife
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Gary worked in the mines at Moab, Utah, and later was a truck driver for Swift Company.
He is survived by his sons, Ronny and Bobby and daughter, Karen; step-children, Jerry and Tammy; brothers, Dennis (Gladys), Roy (Carole); and sisters, Wanda Williams, Devota Davis (Bob), Joan Sisk (Lyndell), Regina Sackett (Dick) and Cheryl Mendoza (Juan).
He is preceded in death by his wife, Sue; mother and father, Walt and Clara; brother, Donald; and sisters, Jean and Beverly.


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So, yeah.
Discuss the matter here, what do you think the "2x Damage vs Undead" should be changed to?
I think making the first type of moster you kill "Unholy" (Causing you to deal 2x damage on other monsters of the same type.) could work, what do you guys think?


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A community-wide focus for cultural, entertainment and institutional activities will be provided for all the residents and businesses of Markham.
A vibrant mix of activities will be available on the streets and squares where people live, work, shop and play.
Public spaces and public Streets framed by human-scale buildings with high-quality design that generates an attractive and comfortable environment.
The Rouge River valley is a green spine connecting the broader Markham community to its Centre and knitting the Markham Centre community together.
A place where pedestrians move safely, easily and comfortably on streets and in public spaces, gaining equality with the automobile.
A high-performance, accessible transit system will be supported by a highly connected roads to allow for easy movement to and around Markham Centre.
In the early '90s, Markham set out on a path that would protect our natural environment and give residents the quality of life they expect. The idea was to limit outward expansion and concentrate our growth on a vibrant centre that would emphasize mixed use development and rapid transit. In other words, we would build a community where people come first.
Markham Centre, the 988 acre area between Highways 7 and 407, around Warden Avenue, is regarded as a model for sustainable development. It will have a distinctly urban character – higher density development with strong streetscapes – complemented by ample green spaces. It will provide a diverse range of housing opportunities to encourage seniors, singles, empty-nesters and families to live and work in our community.
Markham Centre will be integrated into the natural beauty of the Rouge River Valley, with a walkable downtown and a high-performance transit system. When finished, it will be a place where residents, businesses, culture, entertainment and institutions thrive side by side.
Putting people and families first, bringing jobs closer to home, and protecting our environment – this is the vision for Markham Centre, and that vision is now well on its way to becoming reality.


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DENVER—A Denver District Court judge has issued a preliminary injunction preventing Colorado from enforcing a law requiring retailers that don't charge customers Colorado's sales tax to report on purchases and sales to consumers and the revenue department.
The Denver Post reported Thursday ( http://bit.ly/1jgu3wl) that Judge Morris Hoffman said in his injunction ruling issued late Tuesday that his conclusions are preliminary, but that he found the law's reporting and notification requirements to be discriminatory.
The Direct Marketing Association, which represents thousands of businesses, went to court arguing the law is unconstitutional and places an unfair burden on companies like Amazon that do big business on line.
The Colorado Department of Revenue argues retailers doing substantial business in a state should not be shielded from "reasonable state laws."


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Entrepreneur Summit Meant to Inspireby John Dykstra '13 • February 9, 2012 Share:
Career Services is hosting its second Annual Entrepreneurship Summit 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, at Chadwick Court. The summit includes an overview of six entrepreneurial categories led by Wabash alumni, two keynote speakers, and a networking session to help those interested through the beginning stages of becoming an entrepreneur.
"Entrepreneur experiences are a complement to the liberal arts," Director of Career Development Scott Crawford said. "So, we want students and others who may not exactly know where they fit, to explore this as a resource or idea generator."
The Entrepreneurship Summit is much more than giving concrete details about being an entrepreneur. It provides those interested in being an entrepreneur with a broad understanding of what an entrepreneur is.
"Of course you are going to get a lot of concrete advice in the entrepreneur summit," Assistant Director of Career Services James Jeffries said, "but more generally, it's also meant to inspire people who have a good idea, who are ready to innovate, who want to take an idea forward and give it an institutional context. Even less than that, if you just have the sense that is valuable to innovate, even though you do not have an idea yet, this would be a good place to figure out what is going on in entrepreneurial activity and start to develop or key-in on an idea.
"Even more broadly than that, someone should have the idea that entrepreneurship is about more than just profit-seeking and business production; it is about innovation, and that innovation can be in a public or private context and non-for-profit context, it can be about social innovation in entrepreneurship. It's about bringing new ideas to life, and that means that students with a wide variety of ideas that they can't find a home for, can come and figure out what entrepreneurship has to offer."
See details and schedule on the related link, at right.
The summit covers a wide variety of information regarding the first steps in becoming an entrepreneur.
"There are six different categories, and these categories address issues in the start-up phase of the entrepreneurial process," senior Adam Miller said. "So, if you have an idea on what steps to take to make it a reality — dealing with the proper paperwork for the IRS and the various forms to fill-out, marketing and social media, and part managerial growth and partnering—we try to touch on every broad area we can think of.
"There are going to be two people on each panel, Wabash alums. They are pretty much going to give a preview of their previous entrepreneurial work. There is going to be a Q&A session where the crowd is going to be interacting with the panelists."
Twenty year old entrepreneur Cory Levy and author Kelsey Timmerman are the keynote speakers. Levy will speak at 9 a.m. and Timmerman will speak at 12:45 p.m.
Levy was recently at the University of Illinois, but has been on temporary leave in San Francisco to work on a mobile application Miller said.
Timmerman is the author of Where am I Wearing?: A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes.
"Kelsey is an author who approaches entrepreneurship in ways that people might not have considered," Miller said.
The final segment of the Summit is a networking session amongst the keynote speakers and the audience. Members of the audience will also have a chance to network with one another.
Career Services looks for the event to be a big draw. The event has expanded compared to last year's summit. Over 70 students outside of Wabash have registered along with over 40 Wabash students. Members of the Crawfordsville community are welcome to attend.


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Last month, Edward James Olmos shocked fans of Battlestar Galactica when he said that the fourth season of the show would be its last. The show's network, Sci Fi Channel, quickly dispelled Olmos' quote, saying that no such decisions had been made.
Now it appears a decision has been made, and unfortunately for Battlestar fans, Olmos was right. Executive producers Ronald Moore and David Eick have decided to end the series after the upcoming season, which concludes in 2008.
"This show was always meant to have a beginning, middle, and finally, an end," the producers said in a statement. "Over the course of the last year, the story and the characters have been moving strongly toward that end, and we've decided to listen to those internal voices and conclude the show on our own terms. And while we know our fans will be saddened to know the end ...Read more


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ONTARIO >> Fans of Korn, Stone Temple Pilots featuring Chester Bennington, Sick Puppies and Big B will get an early gift this year in the form of the Merry Meltdown concert at the Citizens Business Bank Arena.
The show, which starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, is presented by San Bernardino-based alternative rock radio station X103.9
Also on the bill is X103.9 Localpalooza competition winner Assuming We Survive of Rancho Cucamonga.
Stone Temple Pilots featuring Bennington, better known as the frontman for Linkin Park, will play the hits for which STP is famous, despite the fact the band parted ways with original lead singer Scott Weiland.
"No matter what kind of band you are, you're trying to be conscious of what people want to hear," said bassist and songwriter Robert DeLeo in a recent phone interview. "You got to keep yourself in the light of being a fan. You can't ever lose that. People pay money to come and see you play. You make a good blend of music and make a set of songs people are really digging. We have over 20 years of material and a lot of Top 10 songs. We don't really have dead spots in the set where people want to go get a beer."
Stone Temple Pilots is known for hits like 1993's "Plush" and 1994's "Interstate Love Song" with Weiland. The band just released an EP in October with Bennington titled "High Rise" that features the single "Out of Time."
DeLeo said the band is playing better than it has in years.
"I look at it like this: Stone Temple Pilots was getting run into the ground. It really was. That's sometimes what happens. And you know, I can't take something I'm so proud of and have it be run into the ground," he said. "There just really wasn't going to be any more Stone Temple Pilots the way it was going. I look at this as a new chapter of Stone Temple Pilots. A new fire, a new light in there, a new energy."
DeLeo added he hasn't talked to former singer Weiland in at least a year.
"It wasn't an easy decision to terminate Scott and move on," DeLeo said. "It's not an easy decision. I don't look for comments from people. You either like it or you don't. If you don't, then don't listen. If you dig it, then great."
Another of the show's headliners, Big B, said in a phone interview that he's excited for the night of music.
"It's a big thing to play with great bands. To have your name on this roster lets you know you're doing something," Big B said.
Big B, who was born in Upland but now lives in Las Vegas, plays a blend of hip-hop, punk rock, reggae and country.
The artist, whose real name is Bryan Mahoney, said his mom still lives in Upland.
Big B's latest album is "Fool's Gold" which was released in July on Suburban Noize Records. His biggest hit is probably 2009's "Sinner" featuring Scott Russo of Unwritten Law.
"I just go in and it's just life," Big B said. "It's one part fiction, one part non-fiction. I take life experiences and twist them. I just try to write stuff people can relate to or they've been through. That's the thing with a good song. It triggers an emotion. Whether that emotion is sadness or happiness, wherever it takes you, I just try and write a good song."
He loves live performances, he said.
"I feel proud to be playing out there and having an hour to an hour-and-a-half of songs people will know," Big B said. "It blows me away still that people can connect with me. Songs that started out as feelings inside and turned into music that people connected with."


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"oooh loved making these!"
I've always loved lions and had a lion necklace when I was a kid that I loved (and thought was pure gold!) so this pattern is long overdue! Liberty is great for using up small scraps for the mane and is fun to make from a single large print fabric like I did for the pattern lion.
Liberty is an easy pattern for beginners with a little sewing experience and is very quick to make as well. Soon, you will have a whole pride of little lion friends.
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- Fabric scraps equal to a half of a yard
- Craft velour, wool felt, flannel or solid color cotton for the face patch
- Embroidery floss for facial features
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- Polyfil and chopstick or wooden dowel for stuffing
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California Department of Transportation
Today's Date: February 10, 2012
District: 02
Contact: Lori Mathiesen
Phone: 530-229-0511
REDDING – Caltrans has awarded nearly $203 million in grants to improve public transit across California. More than 80 projects will upgrade transit service, purchase eco-friendly buses, modernize transit stations and create jobs throughout the state. The grants are funded through Proposition 1B, the 2006 voter-approved transportation bond, which is providing $3.6 billion over a ten-year period to improve public transit in California.
"These projects are a direct investment in our state's public transit system and will help energize California's economy," said Acting Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. "Not only will these projects help create jobs, they will also reduce traffic congestion, clean the air, and provide Californians an alternative to rising gas prices."
Some of the notable projects awarded Proposition 1B funding include:
Modoc County: Modoc Transportation Agency was awarded $243,373.00 toward the rehabilitation of buildings that will produce a modern transportation center. The buildings will be used for the Modoc Transit and Transportation Commission Administrative offices. The garage on the back of the property will be used for bus storage.
Tehama County: Tehama County Transportation Commission was awarded $1.5 million and will allow the purchase and modernization of the transit facility which the county currently rents. The Tehama Transit Center will continue to be used for bus maintenance and bus washing.
To date, Proposition 1B has funded $1.34 billion in transit projects.
For a comprehensive list of all projects that received transit grants in this funding cycle, please visit: http://www.dot.ca.gov/docs/Prop1BTransitProjectsFebruary2012.pdf
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Vikings Stadium Design To Be Revealed May 13
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The public will have its first look at the new $975 million Vikings stadium next month.
The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority says architects plan to unveil the preliminary design for the 65,000-seat, multipurpose stadium May 13 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
The stadium will be on the same site as the team's current home, the Metrodome, which will be torn down.
Michele Kelm-Helgen is chairwoman of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, which is overseeing construction of the downtown Minneapolis project. She says all the details of the building will be revealed.
The stadium financing legislation approved last year calls for the building to include 7,500 club seats, 150 suites and space for gift shops, restaurants and an NFL team museum and Hall of Fame.
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Catholic teenagers in Chicago and Rochester, N.Y., say they are tired of the violence around them and are taking positive steps to try to end it.
Recent stories from the Catholic New World and the Catholic Courier illustrate these efforts. In Chicago, teens organized meetings and a seminar to discuss the impact of violence and ways they could promote peace. In Rochester, teens took part in an evening prayer for peace.
Rochester teens organized the prayer service in response to the recent shooting death of a local teenager.
At the service, a Catholic youth group leader said: "All of you who are here tonight have come to say no more to the violence, the knifings, the killings on our streets. We come here to align ourselves with all people of faith all over the world."


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Students from OC's Department of Chemistry & Physics benefit from our integration of faith and learning, and from the connections, experience and service they can pursue through Philiatros.
Students' hands-on experience in our state-of-the-art labs gives them the opportunity to work on important research they can present at conferences and publish in journals as undergraduates.
Free tutoring through the MASH (Math and Science Help) helps students rise to the challenges of our rigorous programs.