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By Jason Bush
MOSCOW (Reuters) - An impending change in the leadership of Russia's central bank will test President Vladimir Putin's commitment to sound money.
Chairman Sergei Ignatyev will retire in June after 11 years at the helm, with a replacement to be named in March.
His successor will face the challenge of managing persistent inflation and slowing growth, husbanding half a trillion dollars in reserves and fixing regulation of Russia's financial markets.
While sources suggest Putin will pick an orthodox policymaker -- central bank insider Alexei Ulyukayev or perhaps ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin -- there are also fears he will yield to calls to use the appointment to force a change of central bank policy.
"Is the central bank going to be leant on to inject stimulus so that we get back into the bad old days of boom and bust?" asked Christopher Granville, managing director of London-based emerging markets research firm Trusted Sources.
"This will affect the nature of the Russian market: Whether it's going to be a volatile, short-term-trading-type market, or set on the foundation for much smoother, sustainable long-term growth."
Ignatyev's departure comes as the central bank faces unusually harsh criticism from leading businessmen and government officials.
Aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska has accused Russia's central bankers of being "leeches" who are "sucking all the blood from the economy". That followed a call for looser monetary policy from Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, one of Putin's most senior lieutenants.
The central bank hiked all its interest rates last autumn after inflation overshot its 6 percent target, and shows little eagerness to cut now, even as economic growth weakens.
The bank's determination to bring inflation down is hardening as it completes the transition to a formal inflation-targeting regime -- due by 2015 -- similar to central banking practice in developed economies.
But while Putin has also voiced concerns over the slowing economy, the betting is that he will pick a successor who will continue Ignatyev's tough-minded approach. Whatever the current policy tensions, Ignatyev's long-term record is hard to ignore.
"Probably of all the state institutions, the central bank has the highest trust of the people, which is obviously a big change," said Clemens Grafe, chief Russia economist at Goldman Sachs.
Ignatyev's success in preserving financial stability and bringing down inflation contrasts with the 1990s, which saw savings wiped out by hyperinflation, and the rouble's cataclysmic devaluation in 1998.
The rouble's value today -- just over 30 to the dollar -- has barely changed since 2002 when Ignatiev took the job. Although still high at nearly 7 percent, inflation has more than halved.
While some of Putin's officials may be passing the buck for the slowdown to the central bank, the president has political reasons to prioritize low inflation.
Opinion polls show rising prices top public concerns, particularly among the elderly who are Putin's core voters.
Moreover, the health of the Russian economy in five years' time -- when Putin is expected to seek re-election -- is more likely to be helped by low inflation than short-term stimulus.
"Stimulus doesn't look like it will work," said Jacob Nell, chief Russia economist at Morgan Stanley. "It's likely to turn into higher inflation so would be self-defeating."
Putin is said to be considering giving the central bank job to Kudrin, a long-standing fiscal conservative who is seen by most investors as the dream candidate.
But it is not at all clear that Kudrin, who is reinventing himself as a pioneer of political reforms, would accept the job even if offered it.
"He's hardly likely to agree to this work, because his interests now go beyond it," said Alexei Makarkin, an analyst at Moscow's Centre for Political Technologies.
Kudrin has already rebuffed suggestions that he could head a proposed financial markets 'mega-regulator' that would be housed at the central bank, in a move to consolidate oversight similar to that taken by Britain.
It is more likely instead that Putin will promote one of Ignatyev's deputies. Ulyukayev, the central bank's first deputy chairman responsible for monetary policy, is the natural choice.
A bookish ex-professor and published poet, Ulyukayev has emerged as the central bank's most effective public communicator, vigorously defending the tight monetary policies that have provoked the ire of businesses and banks.
He has also chipped in to the global debate on currency volatility that may shape Russia's annual presidency of the Group of 20 economies this year.
He is closely associated with the camp of liberal reformers led by the late Yegor Gaidar, prime minister in the early stages of Russia's post-Communist transition, bolstering his credentials as a custodian of sound money.
But analysts worry that Putin may instead give the job to a senior commercial banker. Leading banks have been among the loudest advocates of looser money.
Candidates linked to the job include Mikhail Zadornov, another ex-finance minister who heads the retail arm of state bank VTB. He has told Reuters that he sees his future at VTB.
"I would be concerned about someone coming from the banking sector, or from those people from the current administration who say that much more financing is needed to promote economic growth," said Sberbank CIB chief economist Evgeny Gavrilenkov.
"What Russia needs in the current situation is relatively tight monetary policy, and independence of the central bank is key."
(Additional reporting by Katya Golubkova, Maya Dyakina, Darya Korsunskaya and Oksana Kobzeva. Editing by Douglas Busvine/Mike Peacock)


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OSHA defines a confined space as any space you can bodily enter and work in but has a restricted means of access/egress and isn't designed for continuous occupancy. This definition isn't precise, but OSHA gives examples (e.g., tanks, bins, and vaults) and assumes employers will "fill in the blanks."
OSHA requires employers to identify its confined spaces (and if in doubt, do not leave it out) and apply confined space permitting to it. But as the definition is itself a bit slippery, so can be compliance.
For example, a manager might conclude that, because employees frequently enter a specific pit and it lacks a roof, it's not a confined space. But what happens if someone in another part of the building spills a heavier than air gas (e.g., carbon dioxide) that flows into the pit? The fact that someone failed to properly identify a confined space doesn't mean it isn't one. Assess every space for its potential hazards.


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Today the lead art director for Tomb Raider reboot has responded to a message on social networking site Facebook commented that more content for Tomb Raider is in the works and is planed for the game.
That would be nice, I mean I don't hate the online, but the story WAS the game. Looking forward to seeing more on this in the future.
Hopefully MS Doesn't have a death grip on it like Underworld. If we are forced to buy a GOTY collection or something stupid just to get the DLC, I'm done.
LOVE Tomb Raider, but that crap annoyed the hell out of me. However ND should be happy, it made me a bigger Uncharted fan.
I'm pretty sure the developers have already stated that all DLC will be for multilplyer only.
Would be nice but it's a tad late, this should of been the first thing they announced after the Tomb Raider launch instead of multiplayer DLC
If its MP, KEEP IT!
SP all the way. Give me a reason to dust this off.


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High Blood Glucose
About Insulin and High Blood Glucose
When you eat, your body breaks food down into glucose (sugar) and sends it into the bloodstream. Insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas, helps move the glucose from the blood into the cells to be used for energy. Your body usually makes just the right amount of insulin to match the food you eat.
When your body does not use insulin properly, it is called insulin resistance. At first, the beta cells make extra insulin to make up for it. But, over time your pancreas isn't able to keep up and can't make enough insulin to keep your blood glucose at normal levels.
When blood glucose levels are higher than normal it is called high blood glucose (hyperglycemia). If your blood glucose gets too high, you will be diagnosed with prediabetes or diabetes.
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- Inactivity
- Side effects of medications
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Technology is Brainchild of OEConnection InnovationFest 2012
Richfield, OH – OEConnection LLC, a leading provider of online solutions for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) distribution networks, has announced the release of a time-saving Short Message Service (SMS) notification feature to D2D Express, the automotive industry's most widely-used e-commerce backorder parts sourcing and fulfillment solution. The enhancement – born from the company's annual InnovationFest competition – allows dealers to instantly commit to selling a part from their inventory, or decline the offer, directly from their SMS-enabled phone, mobile device or email account. By eliminating the need for dealers to be at their desktop computers to respond to D2D Express orders, the SMS notification feature is expected to increase the speed at which backordered auto parts can be delivered to waiting customers.
Introduced in 2005, D2D Express complements OEConnection's D2DLink online parts locating tool used by GM, Ford and twenty-seven other leading original equipment manufacturers and their dealership networks throughout North America. The solution uses sophisticated sourcing algorithms, based on time and distance, to automatically identify backordered parts in circulation and proactively offer stocking dealers the opportunity to sell the part back to their OEM. The order is filled by the first dealer to accept the online transaction.
The SMS notification feature is among six new technologies revealed at OEConnection's InnovationFest 2012, an internal program that gives developers the opportunity to spend time outside of their normal workday to create new and innovative technologies.
"InnovationFest allowed me to take time to address customer feedback and create a working prototype to prove out the concept," said OEConnection Sr. Software Engineer and InnovationFest team lead Jeff McCleary. "I am excited to see the OEConnection Development and Product Teams bring this to market."
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On my way to see this movie I kept saying to myself, "I hope they didn't louse it up!" The Muppets mean too much to me to let Jason Segel, or anybody, for that matter, diminish them. The minute the picture started, I heaved a sigh of relief and broke out in a smile. This is a joyful movie, the kind the Muppets (and their many fans) deserve.
In the tradition of Jim Henson's original Muppet Show, this movie is essentially about putting on a show. Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller have concocted a serviceable storyline about a good-hearted fellow (Segel) and his puppet brother Walter, who (along with Segel's girlfriend, Amy Adams) make a pilgrimage to the Muppet Studio in Hollywood, only to discover that it's deserted and about to be torn down by a greedy developer (Chris Cooper). The only way to save it is to locate Kermit the Frog and persuade him to reassemble the old gang to put on a fund-raising telethon. There is just enough drama and suspense to lay a foundation for the comedy that defines The Muppets. The writers and director James Bobin haven't deviated from the troupe's original modus operandi. And the humor is never mean-spirited.
All of our old favorites are here, from Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy to the original grumpy old men, Statler and Waldorf, along with a number of celebrities in amusing cameos, from Selena Gomez to Mickey Rooney (whose son Michael choreographed the picture).
Simplicity is the key to the film's success, perfectly expressed in an opening musical number featuring Segel, Walter, Adams, and scores of people from their home town, who sing and dance to Bret McKenzie's "Life's a Happy Song."
I like all of McKenzie's bright new compositions, but when Kermit broke into Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher's "The Rainbow Connection," I had to wipe a tear from my eye. It's a tear of nostalgia for the happiness these characters have brought me for so many years. It's great to have them back in a movie that audiences of all ages can enjoy
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Guerilla Clockwork
I don't usually simply pass on things I hear about from other blogs, but this is simply too good to pass up. A friend of mine found it on Crooked Timber:
"For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon's unsuspecting security officials, a group of intrepid "illegal restorers" set up a secret workshop and lounge in a cavity under the building's famous dome. Under the supervision of group member Jean-Baptiste Viot, a professional clockmaker, they pieced apart and repaired the antique clock that had been left to rust in the building since the 1960s. Only when their clandestine revamp of the elaborate timepiece had been completed did they reveal themselves....
Klausmann and his crew are connaisseurs of the Parisian underworld. Since the 1990s they have restored crypts, staged readings and plays in monuments at night, and organised rock concerts in quarries. The network was unknown to the authorities until 2004, when the police discovered an underground cinema, complete with bar and restaurant, under the Seine. They have tried to track them down ever since.
But the UX, the name of Untergunther's parent organisation, is a finely tuned organisation. It has around 150 members and is divided into separate groups, which specialise in different activities ranging from getting into buildings after dark to setting up cultural events. Untergunther is the restoration cell of the network."
Sometimes, guerrilla culture is the best kind.


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1. Re: No scanning feature Cs6Seattle User Apr 25, 2012 10:04 AM (in response to Flugo99)1 person found this helpful
This depends upon which OS you're using and if you're running in 32 bit or 64 bit mode. See this discussion:
2. Re: No scanning feature Cs6Pattie F Apr 25, 2012 10:11 AM (in response to Flugo99)1 person found this helpful
This is still a feature.
You can still select File>Import.... in Photoshop to get to your scanner. In Windows 32 twain, Windows 64 and 32 WIA, and on Mac via toolkit. Twain is not supported in windows 64 bit. The gotcha here is that many of the companies who make the scanners do not yet have drivers for 64 bit.
3. Re: No scanning feature Cs6Pattie F Apr 25, 2012 2:21 PM (in response to Pattie F)
PFerguson said it even better, here is his explanation:
On the Mac, Photoshop CS6 is a 64-bit only application, and so in order for TWAIN to work in Photoshop, you must install a 64-bit TWAIN driver for your scanner. Unfortunately, very few scanner manufacturers have released 64-bit TWAIN drivers for their scanners, so the number of scanners which will work in Photoshop CS6 is limited by that situation. In practice, this means most people will not be able to use TWAIN for scanning in Photoshop CS6 on the Mac, but we have added support for scanning using native Cocoa scanning APIs (ImageKit) added by Apple in Snow Leopard. This can be found under the File > Import > Images from Device... menu command. (Note that ImageKit scanning is fairly basic, and does not provide the flexibility or control of more full featured, commercially available scanning applications.)
The situation on Windows is somewhat different, but has its own limitations. First, TWAIN is not supported at all in the 64-bit version of Photoshop CS6; this has been true for every 64-bit version of Photoshop. Microsoft does not provide a 64-bit TWAIN DLL in Windows, and as on the Mac, there are virtually no 64-bit TWAIN drivers ever if Microsoft did support 64-bit TWAIN. So 64-bit is (and has always been) a non-supported environment on Windows. Microsoft provides scanning support through WIA, and Photoshop does include a WIA plugin to support direct scanning into Photoshop through that mechanism.
You can perform TWAIN scanning in the Windows 32-bit version of Photoshop CS6, and it should work exactly as it does in earlier versions of Photoshop. As with CS5, you do need to download and install the TWAIN plugin for Photoshop from the Adobe web site; the TWAIN plugin is not part of the normal Photoshop installation process.


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Here are two things I learned today:
1) tips for mixing SAS and SATA in one enclosure:
2) Getting "kernel: Machine check events logged" in your /var/log/messages on your x86_64 machine? Use 'mcelog' to get more info:
Exchange can do 'Send As' as well as 'Send on behalf of', with the former leaving no obvious trace in the standard mail view.
mRemote is awesome. Especially in a workgroup environment because it can store its data on an SQL server to be accessed by multiple users concurrently.
I learned that contrary to popular opinion, most SAS RAID controllers are crippled pieces of crap.
As an example - Adaptec currently ship 12 SAS RAID controllers of which only 3 have firmware that supports more than 8 drives (these are hard limits, drive multiplexers aren't supported by those cards either).
My internet-facing hosts are more secure than I thought http://nmap.org/download.html
That Jimmy Johns is freaky fast only when ordering for a family. An office-sized order is not freaky fast. It was still freaky good.
McAfee Agent 4 is significantly more reliable than 3.6, but still isn't even close to "good enough."
Setting permissions on cifs shares on an openfiler box with a good sized AD is a 30minute process. Which sucks.
I am tired of IBM's shitty support. I think we may move to Dell (600k/year at least, just for server/storage).
I used to work there, their stuff was good. Now its like they intentionally make it hard for you to get what you need.
mcelog + kdump = Everything I need to know when hardware fails.
Today, I learned that NFSv4 is much easier to support than NFSv3 (so long portmapper). I can now very easily tunnel NFS connections over SSH for systems that don't support SSHFS.
Their website says otherwise. Pretty much every controller they currently ship (which is way more than 12) supports either 128 (for series 2 and 3) or 256 (for series 5) devices. The only ones that don't support expanders are RAID 4000 and series 1 controllers (the latter are based on SiI chips, I think).
Brain fart! I meant to write LSI not Adaptec.
I learned that for some reason our Switchvox with Aastra phones setup will use BLF buttons, but only if the configuration is pushed from the TFTP server and not if you configure them by hand using the web interface. I also learned that attempting to do testing on our Aastra phones using the web configuration option is probably a bad idea.
Ah, LSI is another story, I'm not familiar with them at all as they aren't sold in Israel except as Dell and Intel rebrands, and Dell PERC5/PERC6 do support expanders.
Bags of Crap (Woot) are nearly impossible to successfully order.
We had an Adaptec SAS card that would support 24 drives but could only build 12 drive RAID packs.
I also learned that next day HP support is next day, is in, it arrived before I did.
I learned that IBM's XIV arrays are actually kind of awesome. It's very rare to see something stomp a Symmetrix DMX-4.
I learned how to do large IP lists in OpenBSD. If you're running 64-bit you can do entire RBLs.
more about Lustre, more about figuring out which locks are getting hogged.
still loving the new job learning curve.
I learned that Hyper-V is a lot of fun on a fast box with 16GB of RAM.
I learned that HP DL380 G4 + brand spankin new ubuntu server setup + lots of walkthrus for ebox + ispconfig are plenty of fun to kick through on a friday.
Sharepoint in combination with Exchange 2007 and OCS 2007 is pretty cool.
The day before vacation everybody finds some bullshit piece of work or server request or database voodoo or software install or stupid question or piece of code that has to be done right now! And I know that when I get back, none of the stuff will have been used by them yet...
No matter how well informed you keep your organization and do your job during these crazy patch events, those in charge of sending out end-user notifications will fuck it up and make you look like an idiot by sending out incorrect information.
When working with multiple tables and potentially hundreds of records, it's best to use multiple statements instead of trying to force everything in one.
Pardon my french, but it was a total cluster-fuck.
We've done a poor job of training the new folks.
Lots of people are lazy/stupid, and I want my job title changed to "Fucking Persistent".
That applying a deadline to a WSUS update that requires a reboot does not give the user a option to delay the reboot even if their GPO settings normally would
I learned that sending people who just don't "get it" to training usually just means you've spent some money and they still don't "get it".
I can confirm this.
++ and the extortionist unions will still prevent you from firing them.
That VMware Converter is awesomely awesome.
Used it a couple of times before on healthy, non-critical stuff. Client had a very sick win2k/ex5.5 server with all sorts of config oddities (was effectively a one-node cluster, for one thing). It had corrupted it's information store and had real problems with it's logfile and DB arrays - just copying a few small files about would take forever, sometimes hanging it either temporarily or permanently. IS far too big to be fixed with eseutil or isinteg, and restoring it from tape would fail after a couple of hours at horribly slow speeds.
They'd had some disk failures in the past but the controller was quite happy with the state of things, and no relevant events to say something was amiss. No spare controllers to try either.
Fortunately they had an ESXi box which we'd prepared for another project. Put on Converter, set the ESXi box as the target, a little over an hour later it's virtualized self was running perfectly. Restore worked great, IS came up fine, the world is saved.
Today I've learned that the purpose of a raised floor in a wiring closet is to grow and cultivate a zip-tie garden. Just like mushrooms after the rain: bits and pieces of zip ties, and sometimes complete zip ties, springing up from the floor, and when you ask no one seems to know how they got there.
Keeping a Cisco AP with autonomous firmware laying around is a good idea when the rest of your AP's have the lwapp firmware.
It's a lot quicker than breaking out the TFTP server if you need to one off something in a hurry.
I've observed five strategies that are used to isolate the inept from the productive where firing isn't an option.
1. Then the union steps in and says you're penalizing them.
2. We have one and its fun to watch, but unfortunately they run a system that the rest of us depend on and it ends up affecting us.
3. Ugh.... position bloat.
4. Then they can't handle the SRs and the productive ops people step in to do the work anyways.
I really wish firing was easier.
I take it that the fifth way is to have them assassinated by ninjas.
A small South American man can be a bad ass at running Cat 6 up 5 floors.
You have to be painstakingly explicit when you give interns instructions.
ie: "Put 2 monitors on each desk, plug the monitors into power, plug the monitors into the computers, turn the computers on, turn the monitors on ..."
Both IBM and VMWare reps that those respective companies send out to client sites really don't know their product all that well, but are great at wasting contracting hours/dollars.
ZFS is as cool as it is made out to be.
We have a host that has 4x 2gb FC connections to a disk array. When reading or scrubbing that array we see damn near line-speed:
Just reading from the array (a dd to /dev/null) nets 780 MB/s, just 20 MB/s under the speed we achieved when directly accessing the underlying block devices directly. And very, very close to the theoretical max speed you can get using 4x 2gbs fiber paths.
The scrub, which is actually doing some processing on the data is proceeding at ~690 MB/s, which is way above what I expected out of the anemic CPUs in the T2000 we are using for the testing.
The best part (so far) is that it whipped up a ~60TB filesystem on a bunch of devices in 5 seconds.
I learned that when you move an entire Helpdesk & IT Ops group downstairs, away from every other person in the company, two things happen:
1) There's a hell of a lot fewer walkups and interruptions, so suddenly there's a lot more work getting done, and
2) There's a hell of a lot more people filing tickets instead of just walking up and asking for something, so suddenly upper management is a bit more receptive to pleas for additional hands.
Oh yeah, and sometimes a complete reset of your desk environment is just the ticket to finally getting it properly (re)organized.
pattern matching when seating up vxfs file systems. When adding 31 100 GB luns this is a blessing.


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Oce ColorStream 10000 Flex Press Exceeds Expectations at Royal Printing
Productivity soars at ballot printing company after purchase of Oce digital press
Jul 25, 2012, 11:01 ET
TRUMBULL, Conn., July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Oce, a Canon Group company and an international leader in digital document management, today announced that Royal Printing Company has replaced three offset presses with the Oce ColorStream® 10000 Flex Press and has reached unprecedented levels of productivity.
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Why digital and why now?
Royal Printing, founded in 1961, has been Oklahoma's premier ballot printer for over 50 years. With the introduction of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) that was about to change. HAVA mandates that ballot printers accommodate the exacting requirements of electronic voting machines, and that they are able to produce variable-size, variable-color, and variable-data (sequentially numbered and bar coded) ballots.
Royal Printing's President Kelley Thomas knew that their offset workflow was not up to the task. She spent months researching the digital press offerings before she decided on the Oce ColorStream 10000 Flex Press. "Digital printing was completely new to us," said Thomas. "And Oce was the only company that did a thorough analysis of every aspect of the entire workflow before recommending a solution."
The Oce ColorStream 10000 Flex Press is the fastest toner-based, color digital web press on the market, offering unmatched flexibility and fully automated and variable perforating, cutting, and stacking. The innovative system features dynamic productivity and pricing, giving both cost-efficient color printing and b/w printing at traditional b/w cost.
According to Thomas, the sophisticated technology of the digital press and Oce PRISMAproduction® software that drives it comprised only part of the solution. The real success of the system rested with the Oce technical support team, who trained Royal's operators and responded to every question and issue with responsive and professional help. Thomas noted that Oce tech support really understands the time-critical nature of printing and the need to resolve issues as quickly as possible. Thomas herself has learned how to run the press. "I really love that this digital press is so easy to use, and that it's clean and green," she said.
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Now, Royal is able to produce 100,000 ballots in one shift, without breaking a sweat. "That means we'll be able to print 2 million ballots in 20 days – unheard of!" said Thomas.
Equipped with inline finishing, the Oce ColorStream 10000 Flex Press has also significantly reduced post-press operations. Moreover, the day of drying time that was formerly required has disappeared, and Royal can ship the same day they start the job.
Because the company's Oce system is so productive, Thomas is looking for overflow work from other printers – forms, books, transpromo, and direct mail. "I know that we made the right decision, and I couldn't be happier," she said.
"We are gratified that the Oce ColorStream 10000 Flex Press has been so helpful to Royal Printing, and we look forward to more opportunities for collaboration as Royal continues to grow," said Kris Albee, Director of Product Marketing, Production Printing Systems division of Oce North America. "Royal's experience has proven that the unique abilities of the Oce ColorStream 10000 Flex Press provide them with a competitive advantage, offering their clients dynamic productivity and pricing structures while maintaining excellent quality."
About Oce
Oce is one of the leading providers of document management and printing for professionals. The Oce offering includes office printing and copying systems, high speed digital production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and color display graphics. Oce is also a foremost supplier of document management outsourcing. Many of the Fortune Global 500 companies and leading commercial printers are Oce customers. The company was founded in 1877. With headquarters in Venlo, The Netherlands, Oce is active in over 100 countries and employs more than 20,000 people worldwide. Oce North America is headquartered in Trumbull, CT, with additional business units in Chicago, IL and Boca Raton, FL. For more information, visit www.oce.com
Oce and Canon: Stronger together
In 2010 Oce joined the Canon Group of companies with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, to create the global leader in the printing industry. Canon develops, manufactures and markets a growing line-up of copying machines, printers, cameras, optical and other products that meet a diverse range of customer needs. The Canon Group comprises over 198,000 employees worldwide. Global net sales in 2011 totaled USD 45.6 billion. Visit the Canon Inc. website at www.canon.com.
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Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions. With approximately $45.6 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE : CAJ ), ranks third overall in U.S. patents registered in 2011* and is one of Fortune Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies in 2012. Canon U.S.A. is committed to the highest levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent U.S.-based consumer service and support for all of the products it distributes. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss.
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The Treasury Inspector General of For Tax Administration recently issued a report entitled Employers Do Not Always Follow Internal Revenue Service Determination Rulings that indicated the employers just do not get it when it comes to treating workers correctly for tax purposes. This report sheds more light on non-compliance and will result in more audits of small businesses who have miss-classified workers as independent contractors. So employers beware!
Employers illegally treating employees as independent contractors can come clean through a program called the Voluntary Classification Settlement Program (VCSP). To explore in more detail the merits of this VCSP program and how it works, readers should look at Risky Business: Playing Fast and Loose with Worker Classification. Basically, this program allows employers to voluntarily correct erroneously classified workers from independent contractors to employees in exchange for paying less taxes and penalties than if audited by the IRS. Recently, the IRS provided some needed clarifications of this standard VCSP program under IRS Announcement 2012-46:
- An employer can now be eligible for this program even if being audited by the IRS, except for a payroll tax audit.
- An employer that is part of an affiliated group can not use the VCSP program where an employment tax audit involves one of its group members.
- An employer that is in court contesting classification of workers from a previous audit by the IRS or Department of Labor is not eligible for the VCSP program.
- An employer no longer has to agree to extend the limitation period on employment tax assessments as part of the closing agreement. Under the original VCSP program, employers had to extend the statute of limitation for three years for the three taxable years after the date of the closing agreement. This is no longer required under the standard VCSP program.
Additional Information and Insights:
For those interested in gaining greater insight into this problem and a lot more, please give a listen to my guest appearance on Money For Lunch. We discuss not only the VCSP program but also explore the allowable "piercing of the corporate veil" by the IRS to impose individual personal tax liability on shareholders and officers for corporate tax obligations under Section 6672 of the Internal Revenue Code. We also discuss related criminal tax implications. So please click on the triangle to hear our discussion:
Bottom Line:
Employers should objectively and carefully review their employment policies. If they are playing fast and loose with their classification of employees it could blow up in their face down the road. The voluntary payments under this special program could be far less than the cost of an IRS employment tax audit for all open years resulting in the required payment of back taxes, interest and penalties. With the IRS audit presence in this area, this may end up being a costly and in some cases a fatal gamble for a business and its shareholders or owners. The sure thing is to use the current or the temporary VCSP to clean up a looming and expensive tax problem.


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Once considered a luxury item; ice makers are now going mainstream. From its roots as a staple in the commercial food service industry, the ice maker has evolved into several residential variations with much smaller price tags. In doing so, the ice maker has become increasingly popular with average Americans.
Ice makers are an easy and cost effective alternative for individuals tired of hassling with ice trays, miniscule ice storage bins or trips to the store to buy bags of ice. Personal ice machines offer the benefits of increased ice making ability and extra ice storage, which is ideal for families, as well as those who live in remote areas, small apartments and college dorm rooms.
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What distinguishes clear cube ice makers from other types is the ability to produce clear, restaurant quality, square-shaped ice cubes. The clear cube ice maker does so by running water over a vertical grid chilled to precisely 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Because only pure water freezes at this temperature, impurities in the water are discarded and pure ice is all that accumulates. The clear cube ice maker is favored by restaurants and other food service providers because of the presentation of the ice it produces and the ice storage these models offer. In higher-end commercial-style models, the ice can be stored inside the ice maker without melting, because the storage bin is refrigerated to freezing temperatures. However, many residential models do not have a refrigerated storage bin, leading to gradually melting ice in the bin. Some clear cube ice makers, such as the Franklin FIM35 from CompactAppliance.com, can make up to 44 pounds a day and store 26 pounds continuously, while others, like the Scotsman DCE33PA, produce slightly less ice per day, but can store the same amount. Both models offer homeowners restaurant quality clear ice at an attractive price point, but cannot provide long term ice storage.
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Most of these models do not require a drain as the ice storage bin is kept at freezing temperatures. Most models, like the EdgeStar IB120SS, only require a 115v power source and a water inlet line to make ice. While these units generally make ice faster than clear cube ice makers, they produce ice slower than portable ice makers. They range in price from $320-$2090.
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CompactAppliance.com, a market leader and online retailer of ice makers for a decade, has seen a 20% increase in ice maker sales this year, despite the down economy. The company plans to continue expanding their ice maker product offering to accommodate the booming residential ice maker market.
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BIG Questions About Informational Text!
Lesson 2 of 15
Objective: SWBAT ask literal and inferential questions as they read to demonstrate understanding of key details in an informational text.
- Why We Have Thanksgiving** by Margaret Hillert You could use any informational text that has clear illustrations and is at the 2nd grade reading level
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: questioning, inference, beginning, middle, end, informational text, literal
- Set up whiteboard
- post-it notes for the students and teacher square size is fine
- big question mark cut from butcher block
- Ask & Answer Questions worksheet
This lesson is one of the first of many about questioning. My students are able to ask lots of questions, but they tend to be literal. Using questioning to improve comprehension is not a reading strategy that they often employ. In this lesson, the students ask and answer to demonstrate understanding of key details in an informational online text (RI.2.1), which supports the shift in Common Core Standards toward using text evidence to improve comprehension. This focus on using information from a text to support their answers, especially in an informational text is great practice for Social Studies, Science and other disciplines. This cross-curricular learning encourages students to draw on their abilities to discover answers for themselves rather than rely on adults to supply the facts, a shift in learning from the Common Core Standards.
** I chose this book because it has nice pictures about why the Pilgrims left England. Although the title is about Thanksgiving, it really sums up the Mayflower and Pilgrim experience nicely. The text is early 2nd grade level, which lets me focus more on the questioning strategy and allows the opportunity for independent reading.
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Underlined words should emphasized and put on my Reading & Writing word wall for later reference. I pull off words for each lesson, helping students understand the vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words.
Get students engaged
- Show giant question mark and post-it notes (see lesson image).
- "Today we are focusing on informational text and questioning. I'll write some questions and let you fill up my big question mark with your question post-its."
Common starting point
- Create a web on the board with the students about the history of Thanksgiving. Here is the web that we created. Keep the focus off food and on what happened to the Pilgrims and why they came to America (or the topic that you've chosen). Start with a few ideas - more will be added from the book.
- You'll be using the web to write a story. Here's my explanation of how we'll use the web to write a paragraph.
- Write a paragraph on the board based on the information. This is the paragraph that we wrote.
** The rigor expected by the Common Core Standards has caused me to shift the practice of teacher-led explanations toward student-led learning. I now spend time asking them to lead the learning process and discover information. Encouraging students to ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and demonstrate understanding of key details in a text allows them to become active learners. (RI.2.1) In the previous lesson, The Whys and Whens of Literature, I explained to students how to use find answers to literal and inferential questions in the beginning, middle, and end of a literature selection.
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Teacher's Turn
Give the purpose of the lesson
- "This story has lots of good information about the Pilgrims and colonies."
- "We can read and ask questions to help us to bring meaning to the text and become active readers! We question before we read, as we read, and after we read."
- "Where do we find answers to the questions?"
- "We find answers to literal questions in the text."
- "We find answers to inference questions from what we know - our background knowledge."
- Here's a great connection from a student - he connects the vocabulary from a previous lesson.
Introduce strategy - teacher models with the paragraph on the board
- "Let's ask a question before we read...Where were the Pilgrims from?"
- "Now let's read part of the paragraph and ask with a different question word...How did the Pilgrims feel about the King?"
- "I'll finish the paragraph and then let's ask a question...Did the Pilgrims pay a lot of taxes?"
- "Now I'll go back and answer the questions, inferring or finding the answers in the text. If I infer I color it yellow. If the answer is in the text, I color it pink."
Practice strategy - guided practice
- "Let's try this questioning strategy with our book."
- Question before you read the first page - get question ideas from the students - write the question on my question organizer. My kids picked...'Who did the Pilgrims feast with?'
- Here are the questions that I wrote, and this is what the whiteboard looked like when we were done.
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Assign Task
- Pass out worksheets
- "I'll go through the book and let you read on the Elmo."
- You need to write a question for each of the 'question words' on your worksheet."
- "Draw a yellow or pink star next to the question - pink for infer and yellow for literal."
Students work
- Go through the pages and (right and left side both) on the Elmo - let kids read them.
- Give the kids time to write questions - I went through the pages again for them to look at. Here's some pictures of my kids working: student working 1 and student working 2.
- Check to see that the kids are marking the questions as inferential or literal. Here's an example of how I asked a student for question type and she described how she finds the answer.
- Prompt as needed. I had to have several students reread their questions so they could check the wording of the questions.
- Ask students about the evidence - Here's a student student checking the question type.
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Share What You've Learned
Share what you know
- "Now choose your best question and write it on the post - it note. When you're done, put it on the big question mark." Take a look at a student adding a post-it.
- "Which kind of question did most kids write? Why do you think most kids used that question word?" Here's our discussion.
- We did take some time to reflect on the activity. This is our reflection on the question mark.
- "Let's work together to answer these questions." This is the part of the reading lesson when the students can learn social studies/science! Love the cross-curricular focus.
- "Did these questions help you understand the text better?" Discuss with the kids.
- Help students understand that hearing others' questions inspires new ones of their own; likewise, listening to others' answers can inspire new thinking.
Scaffolding and Special Education: This lesson could be easily scaffolded up or down, depending on student ability.
The text for this lesson is easier so students with difficulty reading could still participate. You could also read through the text as you show it on the Elmo or bring the students to the rug to work separately. They may need help formulating questions.
Students with greater ability should be encouraged to ask more inferential questions. As you walk around, see if they can ask a question with a 'harder' answer - that's not in the text. Remind them that we must be able to answer the question however. One of my students said, "What is the name of the Pilgrim?" I reminded the whole class that we need to focus our questions on what we can answer.


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October 4, 2006
Contact: Ben Sherman, NOAA Public Affairs
NOAA Implements Harmful Algal Bloom Forecast System for Texas Gulf Coast
A new harmful algal bloom forecast system developed by NOAA is now in place along the Gulf coast of Texas. The announcement of the ecological forecast program was made at today's meeting of the Gulf of Mexico Alliance, a federal-state partnership to address critical coastal issues facing the Gulf states. The system generates forecasts weekly to determine the current and future location and intensity of blooms, and the likely impacts to the environment.
"Because these blooms contain neurotoxins, they threaten human and ecosystem health, and can substantially impact coastal economies," said Margaret A. Davidson, director of NOAA's Coastal Services Center and the NOAA delegate to the alliance. "Using a combination of satellite and in place ocean and coastal observational data for ecological forecast systems shows the value and need for the development of an integrated ocean observing system (IOOS), one that can assist in addressing the threats to our health and our economy caused by harmful algal blooms."
Harmful algal blooms occur in the waters of almost every U.S. coastal state. Direct economic impacts of blooms in the United States have been estimated to average $75 million annually, including impacts on public health costs, commercial fishing closures, recreation and tourism losses, and in management and monitoring costs.
NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) operates the system geared to predict harmful algal blooms (HABs, or "red tides") caused by the highly toxic algae Karenia brevis. The blooms are known to cause fish kills, shellfish toxicity, water discoloration, and respiratory distress in humans. Texas coastal community managers will be notified of bloom status through a weekly e-mail bulletin NOAA will send to state natural resource managers.
Advance warning of blooms increases the ability to mitigate the impacts of these events. The harmful algal bloom forecasting system works with observations made by Texas state agencies with NOAA imagery and models to supply improved information on the location, extent, and potential for development or movement of the blooms in the Gulf of Mexico.
Since 1999, under a research program designed to develop informational tools to assist coastal managers, NOAA has been working with agencies managing harmful algal bloom monitoring and impacts in the Gulf of Mexico. NOAA has been providing advisory bulletins to identify blooms before they are reported at the shore, and has provided assessments of the extent of the blooms allowing for more effective sampling and monitoring.
The bulletins are developed by integrating data from various ocean-observing systems, including imagery from commercial and government satellites; meteorological data from NOAA observing stations; and field data collected by state and university monitoring programs. This information is then synthesized and interpreted by an expert analyst, in order to determine the current and future location and intensity of Karenia brevis blooms, as well as their potential impacts on humans, marine mammals, and fish.
Conditions are posted to the forecasting system Web page once a week during non-bloom periods and twice a week during bloom periods. When NOAA detects a possible bloom, Texas state managers are notified to conduct field sampling. If state managers confirm the bloom, then the public is informed through the forecasting Web page, the news media, and other appropriate outlets.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, NOAA, and scientists from the Coastal Services Center met during the summer with local resource managers, tourism groups, and Chambers of Commerce in Galveston, Corpus Christi and South Padre Island to provide information on the development of the Texas forecast system.
The system created for Texas was based on the detection system that NOAA designed for Florida's Gulf coast in 2004. While the organisms are the same, Florida experiences multiple blooms annually. Texas has only experienced two bloom events since 2000 but previously bloom events occurred no more than once a decade.
In 2007 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department, celebrates 200 years of science and service to the nation. From the establishment of the Survey of the Coast in 1807 by Thomas Jefferson to the formation of the Weather Bureau and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries in the 1870s, much of America's scientific heritage is rooted in NOAA.
NOAA is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related events and information service delivery for transportation, and by providing environmental stewardship of our nation's coastal and marine resources. Through the emerging Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), NOAA is working with its federal partners, more than 60 countries and the European Commission to develop a global monitoring network that is as integrated as the planet it observes, predicts and protects.
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On the Web:
NOAA: http://www.noaa.gov/
NOAA National Ocean Service: http://www.oceanservice.noaa.gov/
Harmful Algal Bloom Forecasts: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/habf/
NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science: http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/
NOAA Coastal Services Center: http://csc.noaa.gov/
Texas HABs: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/landwater/water/environconcerns/hab/
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The state laws that make it mandatory for bikers to wear a helmet laws are useful, but the new "reckless driving" law proposed in the State of Florida (HB137 2008), may cause problems for bikers who are riding safely.
If this new law goes into effect, it will prohibit motorcyclists from performing stunts such as "wheelies" on public roads. At first glance it sounds like a good idea; it's easy to see how a motorcyclist who performs a stunt on a public street or highway poses a danger to themselves and other motorists.
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How Historically Low Interest Rates Increase Your Purchasing Power
October 28, 2016
According to Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, interest rates for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage are currently at 3.47%. Rates have remained at or below 3.5% each of the last 16 weeks, marking a historic low.
The interest rate you secure when buying a home not only greatly impacts your monthly housing costs, but also impacts your purchasing power.
Purchasing power, simply put, is the amount of home you can afford to buy for the budget you have available to spend. As rates increase, the price of the house you can afford will decrease if you plan to stay within a certain monthly housing budget.
The chart below shows what impact rising interest rates would have if you planned to purchase a home within the national median price range, and planned to keep your principal and interest payments at or about $1,100 a month.
With each quarter of a percent increase in interest rate, the value of the home you can afford decreases by 2.5%, (in this example, $6,250). Experts predict that mortgage rates will be closer to 4% by this time next year.
Act now to get the most house for your hard earned money.
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St. Louis band the Blind Nils joined us in the lounge at the station the other day for a short live performance on the air. They played 5 of their original tunes with eclectic instrumentation including banjo, slide guitar, and xylophone. Take a look the videos below for a peek into their set. Their entire set will be rebroadcast this Thursday at 3:30pm, so don't forget to tune in at www.kwur.com.
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Model and actress Jenny Mccarthy missed out on the chance to find love on TV when producers of dating show The Bachelorette turned down her bid to front the program a decade ago.
The pretty blonde, who is currently dating New Kids on the Block star Donnie Wahlberg, has revealed she asked her agent to approach show bosses and suggest her as their leading lady on the hunt for romance with 25 eligible men - but they weren't interested.
The 41 year old revealed all on her TV talk show The View on Tuesday (14Jan14), explaining she felt lonely after splitting from her husband John Mallory Asher and "needed to be loved".
She said, "I was single and I loved TV. Put those together and I thought, 'Brilliant!'
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Whether you're a company executive or a freelance copywriter, you've probably found yourself wishing for more hours in the day. Everybody's trying to boost
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If you're the kind of person who likes breaking up projects into manageable tasks, you'll love Toodledo. Track all your upcoming tasks and projects in one
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Following A.G.'s investigation revealing widespread abuses, contractors agree to end unlawful practices
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has announced a settlement with 211 home improvement contractors for violating the state's home improvement contracts law. The 211 contractors have signed an agreement to end their unlawful conduct and will pay penalties and fines, after an investigation by the A.G. revealed widespread violations of the law, including failure to provide written contracts or honor the most basic terms of consumers' work agreements.
The geographic regions in which settlements were reached include Binghamton (48), Buffalo (31), Poughkeepsie (27), Rochester (28), Syracuse (16), Utica (18), Watertown (35) and northern Westchester and Putnam (8). The contractors have agreed to do home improvement work using only underwritten contracts that comply with the law, and to put all advance deposits into a customer account at a local banking institution. Each of these contractors paid penalties and costs ranging up to $1,500.
"Far too often, homeowners hire contractors without having signed documents stating what work will be done and how long it will take. And time and again, consumers end up with much larger bills than expected, or with projects that were never started or completed," Schneiderman said. "They need to know their rights, and home improvement contractors must obey the law. My office will continue fighting to protect consumers' hard-earned dollars and ensure that bad contractors are held accountable."
Article 36-A of the general business law requires that every home improvement contractor, before beginning work, must provide the consumer with a written contract, signed by both parties, which sets out certain specific information and disclosures.
For example, the contract must:
Provide proposed starting and completion dates
Describe the work to be done
Include materials to be provided
Give notice that the consumer has an unconditional three-day right to cancel the contract without penalty
In addition, the law requires that any advance deposits taken by the contractor must be placed into an account at a banking institution separate from the contractor's other funds. The contractor must notify the consumer of the banking institution at which the deposit is kept.
Consumers should take the following precautions when hiring home improvement contractors:
Be specific about what work you want done
Educate yourself about the required permits - don't rely solely on the contractor
Shop around
Get references and check them
Get proof of insurance from the contractor
Check licenses (if required)
Never pay the full price upfront
Always put work to be done in writing
Know where your payments are going
Never do business with a contractor who is unwilling to abide by any of the conditions above
If consumers feel they have been victimized, they are urged to contact the attorney general's consumer helpline at 1-800-771-7755.


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Virtualisation technologies help customers' lower costs and deliver greater agility and economies of scale. Either as a stand-alone product or an integrated part of Windows Server, Hyper-V is the leading virtualization platform for today and the transformational opportunity with cloud computing.
With Hyper-V, it is now easier than ever for organisations to take advantage of the cost savings of virtualisation, and make the optimum use of server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines that are running on a single physical machine. Customers can use Hyper-V to efficiently run multiple operating systems, Windows, Linux, and others, in parallel, on a single server.
Windows Server 2012 extends this with more features, greater scalability and further inbuilt reliability mechanisms. In the data centre, on the desktop, and now in the cloud, the Microsoft virtualisation platform, which is led by Hyper-V and management tools, simply makes more sense and offers better value for money when compared to the competition.
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Michelle Williams & Matilda Ledger Take Flight
Michelle Williams and her cutie patootie daughter Matilda Ledger take a walk through LAX airport together before a flight out of Los Angeles on Friday (October 23).
On Monday, Michelle, 29, took Matilda, who turns 4 on Wednesday, to her first day of school in Brooklyn. Matilda shared some of her orange juice with mom before she went to class!
Michelle, who covered the October issue of Vogue, recently spoke about how she and Matilda are coping with the loss of Heath Ledger. "I'm falling more and more in love with her," Michelle said of Matilda, "and I think she deserves the bulk of my attention.
"We're lucky. I can work. She can go to a good school. There's a lot there for her. And she can know her dad in so many ways, and so many of his friends who will be able to tell her so many stories.
"His friends, his family – they were a big part of his life, and they will be a big part of her life."


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Richmond controversy lingers as NASCAR decides whether it has 12-driver field right
CHICAGO — A dozen NASCAR drivers donned stifling firesuits and sweated through a few hours of news media rounds under the blazing sun at Navy Pier on Thursday.
The reason was to snap a new class photo (replete with sponsor logos) for the Chase for the Sprint Cup, and the picture remains blurry as the 10-race title playoff begins its 10th edition under a dark cloud of disarray.
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After Ryan Newman was tabbed Monday for the Chase following an unprecedented penalty to Michael Waltrip Racing, Jeff Gordon was hoping for similar dispensation Thursday.
"I don't know if we're going to be taking another picture in a day or two," five-time champion Jimmie Johnson, Gordon's Hendrick Motorsports teammate, said with a laugh. "I'm sure Jeff's hoping there's a favorable ruling for him to be in the Chase. Unfortunately, I think he's going be disappointed."
EARNHARDT JR: MWR, Bowyer got off pretty easy
NASCAR's premier series will hit the track for the Chase's opening practice and qualifying Friday at Chicagoland Speedway with the sanctioning body trying to sort out suspicious radio traffic in Saturday night's race at Richmond International Raceway and its stars seeking clarity on what qualifies as unlawful etiquette after an unfolding scandal that has rocked the sport.
Transmissions surfaced Wednesday from the channel of David Gilliland that hinted at a deal with fellow Ford team Penske Racing that allowed Joey Logano to gain a spot in the closing laps at Richmond.
Logano pleaded ignorance of the communication Thursday, but the Penske Racing driver also downplayed the controversy because he would have finished 10th in the standings if he hadn't gained a position on Gilliland.
"That is stuff that happens week in and week out," Logano said. "They are up there trying to work deals out, 'Hey, help me out here, I will help you out here; let's work together.' If we didn't pass (Gilliland), we were still 10th in points, so it has no change in the outcome. I don't look at it as being a big deal. I am not concerned about it."
He did benefit, though, from passing Clint Bowyer and Brian Vickers, both of whose pit stops during the closing laps helped Logano move into the 10th and final Chase-eligible spot in points past Gordon and handed the final wild-card slot to Martin Truex Jr., a teammate of Bowyer and Vickers. NASCAR docked the trio of MWR drivers 50 points Monday and restored Newman to the wild card. But Logano kept his top-10 position over Gordon — and three bonus points for his win at Michigan International Speedway, which he wouldn't have gotten as a wild card.
GORDON: MWR stepped over code of conduct line
Logano defend his résumé. "We got one win and eight top-fives and 14 top-10 finishes," he said. "I don't feel bad about being in the Chase at all. We deserve to be in it. We are going to take those bonus points."
Hearing it from fans
Some fans didn't seem to agree Thursday, as Logano drew a smattering of boos while virtually all Chase drivers, including brothers Kyle and Kurt Busch, roundly were applauded at a Q&A event.
KYLE BUSCH: You do anything to get yourself in the Chase
There also was heckling for Bowyer, who denies spinning intentionally to trigger a final caution at Richmond that effectively took Newman out of contention for the win.
When a question was asked of Bowyer about what people were expecting from him in the Chase, a fan yelled out, "To spin out!"
NASCAR President Mike Helton opened the forum by telling the crowd officials were "still looking at some other things, (and) we'll announce if any action comes from us."
BOWYER: Continues to dodge Richmond spin questions
There was debate over what action might be taken in future instances of team orders, a concept unique to motor sports in which drivers are directed to give up spots if it helps a teammate score more points.
It's a longstanding tradition in NASCAR, but Dale Earnhardt Jr. said the MWR penalties will give teams pause on whether an elaborate orchestration is worth the risk. Two primary MWR sponsors said this week they were re-evaluating investments with the team after NASCAR deemed it guilty of manipulation.
"That was a heavy impact, and I think that sent shock waves through the sport," Earnhardt said. "Once we get a little further past this and realize how big a deal that was for Truex to be moved out, how big for his team, organization and sponsors. It's going to be profound. That's going to deter a lot of people from trying to manipulate a race going forward like that. I think those spotters and crew chiefs and some drivers don't realize in the heat of the moment how accessible all this information is.
"That's another thing that I think will be a deterrent. No matter how much you think you can camouflage this through smoke and mirrors, the media or fans can connect the dots."
Seeking clarification
Roush Fenway Racing's Carl Edwards talked Wednesday night with NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton to glean a better understanding of what might be considered fair.
"I think we will just see another evolution in the officiating of the sport," Edwards said. "I think it will take, at the very least, a few weeks, and I think it could be as late as next year before everyone really understands the implications of what we saw."
JOHNSON: Wants in-race reviews from NASCAR
Indicative of the changing climate, MWR essentially was punished because it directed Vickers to pit under green. In the Richmond cutoff race in 2012, Joe Gibbs Racing wasn't penalized for having Denny Hamlin pit under green to provide a point to teammate Kyle Busch, who missed the Chase.
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Teammates often allow each other to lead laps, and lapped drivers often will show courtesy by moving for faster cars.
"There are multiple layers to this thing," Roush Fenway's Greg Biffle said. "It isn't like price fixing. In certain situations, you are asking a lapped car to cut you a break because some racetracks are really hard to pass. There is nothing wrong with that."
Said Johnson, "That's the delicate part NASCAR is obviously trying to deal with. Letting someone lead a lap has been a no-brainer. It hasn't offended anyone over the years. ... I've seen the term 'Pandora's box' quite a few times, and I agree it's opened it up."
Now everyone waits to see how NASCAR closes its Richmond case. Johnson doesn't expect sanctions for Penske because the most damning chatter is on Gilliland's channel, not Logano's. "If you're bold enough to make the direct admission, you'll pay the price," Johnson said. "The vagueness is what allows wiggle room for (Penske)."
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