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There's a predator out there with rows of razor-sharp, needle-like teeth strategically positioned inside a wide mouth framed with strong jaws. It has a torpedo-shaped frame built for lightning-fast bursts of speed. Its remarkably camouflaged body becomes invisible to unsuspecting foes. It has a voracious appetite, triggered to attack anything that moves in its path.
There's a predator out there with rows of razor-sharp, needle-like teeth strategically positioned inside a wide mouth framed with strong jaws. It has a torpedo-shaped frame built for lightning-fast bursts of speed. Its remarkably camouflaged body becomes invisible to unsuspecting foes. It has a voracious appetite, triggered to attack anything that moves in its path.
It's the ultimate aquatic predator, so abundant in our lakes and streams that we often take it for granted. Minnows, shiners and other fish certainly take heed to this menacing marauder, so with due respect, I introduce you to the chain pickerel.
The chain pickerel, Esox niger, is one of five species of fish native to Pennsylvania in the pike family. Its cousins are the smaller red-fin and grass pickerels, along with the formidable northern pike and the colossal muskellunge.
All species of pike are built long and slender, with backward angled fins and long, forked tails. Just like sharks, this body design allows for stealth and quickness for hunting, and the chain pickerel is no exception.
The chain pickerel gets its common name from the dark, chain-like pattern along the sides of its elongated body. Its dorsal or topside is patterned in shades of green and yellow, while the sides of its body are toned light green. The underside of the chain pickerel is bright white.
Its head and mouth is disproportionately huge compared to its narrow body. Its keen eyesight is attributed to large, round eyes marked with dark teardrop stripes below. Perhaps these dark facial markings, similar to peregrine falcons, reduce glare and enhance vision, as chain pickerel are daytime hunters of shallow waters.
Chain pickerel are fairly large freshwater fish that can exceed 30 inches in length and weigh more than five pounds.
A female chain pickerel typically deposits hundreds of eggs over submerged aquatic vegetation. The tiny eggs attach to plants and other debris. Newly hatched fry remain in this dense habitat and feed on tiny aquatic insects. When about 2 inches long, they consume small fish and other aquatic animals.
Young chain pickerel grow quickly and become aggressive predators. Adult chain pickerel have quite the appetite as they consume fish, frogs, crayfish, water snakes, waterfowl and even each other.
Throughout its range in Pennsylvania, the chain pickerel can be found in lakes, ponds, streams and rivers. It chooses shallow margins of lakes and streams bordered with thick submerged vegetation, where it blends in perfectly with its aquatic environment.
However, the chain pickerel thrives in the naturally acidic lakes, ponds, marshes and streams of the Poconos. Here they are abundant, live long and grow large ... and hungry.
So abundant and hungry are Pocono-born chain pickerel that two friends and co-workers, Allen Shiffler and Gerry Youngken, recently spent a few hours ice fishing on Skytop Lake and caught and released 44 chain pickerel.
I asked Allen if he would catch a pickerel for me to photograph for this article. We met at Skytop Lake, set a few baited tip-ups and within minutes, a smiling Allen pulled up a nice 18-incher.
"That's a small one compared to the monsters we caught last week," chided Allen. "We landed a few 26-inchers."
Allen wasn't kidding. The Pocono area is the king's domain of the chain pickerel, as the two largest chain pickerel ever captured on hook and line in Pennsylvania were from Pocono waters. According to big fish records provided by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, the state record chain pickerel was an impressive 8-pounder dating back to 1937, from Shohola Falls in Pike County.
On Jan. 17, 2002, an 8-pound, 14.8 ounce chain pickerel was taken by ice fisherman Dave Wilson of Honesdale, setting a new Pennsylvania state record. Wilson's catch measured 30 inches long.
In 2012 the two largest chain pickerel captured in the state were a 7-pound, 1-ounce monster taken by Joseph J. Zajko from the Francis E. Walter Dam in Luzerne/Carbon counties and an impressive 5-pound, 8-ounce chain pickerel taken by David Sevek at Hidden Lake in Monroe County. Both fish were 28 inches long.
Without a doubt, the Pocono area is home to the largest chain pickerel in the commonwealth and perhaps holds the highest densities. Chain pickerel, the ultimate aquatic predator, reign in our lakes, ponds and streams, where they remain hidden in the densely vegetated shallows, waiting for their next victim. This is why I am so fascinated by the mighty chain pickerel: barracuda of the Poconos.
Contact Rick Koval at email@example.com or write to him at PO Box 454, Dallas, PA 18612.


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Shell, Stone & Metal Inlay
Learn a straightforward approach to creating stunning details.
By Marco Cecala
Pages 33-39
I come to the field of woodworking with an unfair advantage. I grew up in a family jewelry business and did a lot of detail work from an early age. So it's no surprise that when I started making furniture I was drawn to the detailed work of marquetry and inlay. Even a simple inlay can make an otherwise plain piece of furniture more appealing. It can also serve as the perfect final touch on a near-masterpiece.
Using a combination of materials – from wood to more exotic materials such as shell, stone and metal – endless effects can be obtained. The work can be done with tools found in most shops and the results are beautiful.
I'll guide you through the straightforward process of installing a shell inlay. I'll break down the steps required to achieve great results, even if you've never tried your hand at inlay before. For the most part, metal and stone are applied using the same methods; I'll explain the few differences as we go. You will be surprised by how much effect you get with the addition of inlay to your projects.
Design Made Easy
There is no need to be a great artist to produce pleasing inlays. Books and web resources will give you plenty of design ideas. While you are learning you should choose a design with crisp lines and pieces that are not too small; simple is better.
The inlay should also be sized to fit the scale of the piece. If it is placed high or low on a larger piece, it can be positioned in order to be more easily seen. Start by drawing your design on tracing paper. Make a copy and trace it one or two more times to refine the design.
As you will learn, there are several opportunities throughout the process to improve the look of an inlay or save a piece that chips or breaks. Until the cavity is routed in the wood, the design of the inlay can be changed.
Once you're happy with the design, make at least four copies of it. Cut the individual pieces outside the lines so you can see the entire piece. I cut on a self-healing cutting mat available at fabric stores. To attach the pieces of paper to shell or stone, use medium-viscosity cyanoacrylate (CA) glue. For metals, use epoxy. The heat from sawing will loosen the paper from metal if you use CA glue. For more on glues, see "Choosing Adhesives for Inlay Work" on page 35.
Video: Watch a free video presentation from Marco Cecala on making and installing shell inlay.
To Buy: Paul Schürch's DVD "Creating Veneer, Marquetry & Inlay."
In Our Store: Glen Huey's DVD "Line & Berry String Inlay by Router."
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It would be easy to be scared off by Future of the Left, the aggressive Welsh rockers who released their third lyrically precise and musically explosive album "The Plot Against Common Sense" earlier this year.
Singer Andy Falkous rarely goes for long without tiptoeing (or, more accurately, fully leaping) into a scream. Both on record and at Monday's show at Bottom Lounge, the band possesses a thickness driven by snarling guitars and some of the hardest basslines you'll hear on either side of the pond.
Bring an open-mind, of course, and Future of the Left delivers constant rewards, showcased throughout the group's too-short 50-minute set. Sampling equally from all three records—the best of which is almost undeniably "Travels with Myself and Another"—Falkous and co. pummeled through "Arming Eritrea," "Small Bones Small Bodies," "Sheena Is a T-shirt Salesman" and more with a force that never covered up the band's underlying, heavy tunefulness. Locked in like an iron gate, the quartet makes hard-edged rock sexy and even funky, swaggering through "Failed Olympic Bid" with the focused intensity of the rare person who can remain articulate and eloquent while angry.
Falkous' chatter was sparse but snappy as ever, blending self-deprecation and wicked smarts and noting that the queen's jubilee is not as successful as the Olympics "seeing as it didn't take place in 1746." He may do more yelling than you prefer, but he's always tapped into something worth yelling about, particularly on the hilariously spot-on skewering of terrible sequels, "Robocop 4—[Bleep] Robocop," on which he dryly barks, "If Michael Bay wants a bigger house, let's help him."
Bad movies and bad bands come around all too often, offering progressively less; for particular tastes, Future of the Left is exactly the right kind of more.
Watch Matt on "You & Me This Morning," Friday at 6:55 a.m. on WCIU, the U
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Leap Wireless International (NASDAQ: LEAP) provides wireless communication services through its Cricket and Jump Mobile brands. Leap differs from traditional carriers such as Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless in offering pre-paid, unlimited wireless plans. The company targets youth and minority markets, and its payment structure means customers avoid credit checks and contracts.[1]
While Leap is more exposed to low-income demographics than its industry peers, 65% of the wireless provider's customers rely on Leap for their only phone service.[2] This dependence helps cushion the company from U.S. economic conditions, because Leap's customers view their phone bill as non-discretionary spending. However, customers do not have contracts with Leap, which creates pricing pressure that intensifies in a recession. The lack of contracts means Leap's customers will switch to alternatives such as landlines, VoIP, or plans offered by Leap's direct competitors, MetroPCS and Sprint Boost Mobile, if they view these plans as a better value.
Since 2005, there has been widespread consolidation in the telecommunications industry. AT&T (T) purchased Cingular Wireless at the end of 2006 and Verizon Communications (VZ) acquired MCI in 2005. Furthermore, Sprint bought Nextel in 2005 to form Sprint Nextel (S). These three companies, Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint-Nextel, now account for 72% of the entire U.S. wireless market share.[3] With only 1.2% of the market share, Leap Wireless faces challenges competing with such large players - it costs more to offer expansive networks to customers, network improvement is more expensive, and competitors can offer bundled packages.[4]
Prior to the consolidation in the telecommunication industry, Leap had filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection in April of 2003. The company had amassed $2.5 billion mostly to equipment makers like Nortel Networks (NT), Lucent Technologies, and Ericsson, but also defended itself against NextWave Communications, which challenged the company's winning FCC license bids.[5] After emerging from this bankruptcy in 2004, Leap focused on buying coverage area in urban markets in order to keep expenses low; it kept infrastructure costs minimal by avoiding less populated areas. In order to operate within a specific area, a wireless provider needs to either purchase coverage area from the Federal Communications Commission or enter a contract to use another service's bandwidth. Leap Wireless purchased 10-year PCS licenses that expire through 2006-2015 (each has renewal clauses). These PCS systems allow for two-way voice applications and limit the number of carriers to six per coverage area. The PCS licenses give Leap Wireless access to 54 million customers located in 23 states. In 2006, Leap Wireless spent $984.3 million to purchase AWS spectrum, which allows two-way mobile wireless and broadband service. This new AWS spectrum added 85 million potential customers to Leap's wireless coverage area.[6]
Upon establishing a network in a city, Leap advertises primarily through radio, and as a result, its cost per gross customer addition is much lower than most competitors.[7] 22% of these new customers buy directly from one of Leap's 152 retail locations and kiosks, and the rest buy indirectly from roughly 2,690 authorized dealers and distributors.[8] Cricket customers can choose from an array of unlimited wireless calls, text messaging, and broadband services that range from $35-$60 per month.[9] Jump Mobile uses a pay per minute plan that requires customers to deposit money before using the service. A customer pays 10 cents per minute on incoming and outgoing calls, 69 cents for roaming calls, and has free text messaging as long as the customer has a positive balance in his or her account.[10]
In 2009, Leap incurred a net loss of $239.5 million on total revenues of $2.14 billion. This represents a 59.4% increase in net loss on a 25.4% increase in total revenues from 2008, when the company lost $150.2 million on $1.96 billion in revenues.
Leap's expansion into new markets increases sales and marketing expenses, along with raising service costs. In order to recoup these expenses, Leap has to retain its customers and seek new ones. The wireless provider can also increase revenue by selling more wireless services to each customer on average. As such, five performance measures are good indicators of Leap's business health. These metrics include:
The following table[12] shows the figures for these five business metrics over the past three years. Also, one can see how Leap compares to its competitor in the Competition Segment of this article.
Leap operates through a single reportable segment - it is a wireless communications carrier offering digital wireless services in the United States.
The International Data Corporation places the United States wireless penetration at 80%.[14] With over 250 million active wireless subscriptions in the United States[15], companies have to fight for market share or add services to existing customers, such as data, in order to drive revenue growth. Benefiting Leap's recent past has been the lack of attention telecom giants Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, and AT&T gave to the minority and youth markets. However, within the past year, these wireless providers began flat rate unlimited service offerings much like what Leap offers.[16] Despite the maturing market, Leap believes a large portion of the remaining growth will come from people with low-credit scores and consumers who do not like contracts. Its relatively low cost model for attracting business and servicing clients will keep its plans competitive as it enters new markets.[17]
The M&A Activity has helped Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel (S), and AT&T claim almost three-quarters of the wireless communications industry.[18] This consolidation puts pressure on smaller wireless providers. For instance, these large companies control wider coverage areas and have pricing power over Leap when it comes to using their networks.[19] These giant wireless providers can also use large advertising budgets to target particular areas. Leap tries to avoid paying competitors for use of their networks by soliciting in mainly urban centers, where calls tend to be local and within its coverage area.[20] Further, Leap focuses marketing expenses on radio advertising, which runs cheaper than alternatives such as television ads.[21] The attention to urban markets will allow Leap to remain competitive by not requiring it to build and maintain national coverage or spend as much as competitors to attract business.
With 57% of Leap's customers earning less than $35,000 a year, rising prices at the pump and higher food costs, along with layoffs, will lower disposable income. However, 90% of Leap's customers use Leap service as their primary phone service, so they may find themselves decreasing spending outside of their phone bill.[22]
Competitive pressure for the roughly $168 billion wireless communication industry is quite fierce. These companies use quality, reliability, brand awareness, and value pricing to try to capture new and retain existing customers in the saturated wireless market. Leap's larger competitors are Verizon Communications (VZ), AT&T (T), Sprint Nextel (S), and Deutsche Telekom AG (DT). Smaller competitors include Alltel (AT) and MetroPCS (PCS).


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Brad Rowbotham's busy summer continues, but he's getting closer to rebuilding the upper management of the Stockton Thunder.
Brad Rowbotham's busy summer continues, but he's getting closer to rebuilding the upper management of the Stockton Thunder.
Rowbotham, the Thunder's owner, said he has narrowed his search to fill the team president and head coach vacancies to three finalists for each position. Face-to-face interviews for each job were expected to be completed in the next few days.
"I think we're moving along the process nicely, and as it turns out both are pretty much in the same place," Rowbotham said. "We've had a lot of response, and very good candidates for both jobs."
The Thunder is the ECHL Western Conference champions and is coming off its first Kelly Cup Finals appearance. It is also going through it's most tumultuous offseason. In quick succession, team president Dan Chapman and coach Matt Thomas resigned to move to the collegiate ranks. Chapman is a new associate athletic director at Pacific, and Thomas is taking over as head coach at Alaska-Anchorage.
Chapman left the Thunder on June 21, and Thomas' last day is Sunday. Rowbotham, who has owned the franchise since 2010, also attended the league meetings this week in Las Vegas, and finished up the interviews there.
He declined to name any of the finalists.
"We did several phone interviews and narrowed it down before doing the face-to-face interviews," Rowbotham said. "Now we go back through and follow things up, maybe have some more questions, and gather more information so we can make the best decision in each case."
Rowbotham and chief financial officer Bill Davidson have had more of a hand in the daily business of the Thunder since Chapman's departure. The Thunder signed a 10-year lease with the city in 2005, with two five-year options belonging to the franchise, and Rowbotham said he was pleased by the news that the city of Stockton granted the $2.4 million subsidy request for the next fiscal year by SMG, the company that manages Stockton Arena and three other city venues. It's an increase of $26,000 from last year.
SMG is in the third year of a five-year contract with the city.
"My point of view is it shows the city has confidence in SMG and believes it is headed in the right direction," Rowbotham said.
Another item on the off-season agenda is the NHL affiliation, although it's not likely to change. The Edmonton Oilers have been the Thunder's parent franchise since the 2006-07 season. Although there have not been any formal discussions, Rowbotham said he hopes to continue the relationship.
"Edmonton is an excellent organization, and they are just going to improve," Rowbotham said. "We've enjoyed our relationship with the Oilers."
Contact reporter Scott Linesburgh at (209) 546-8281 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Recall Details
Chrysler is recalling certain 2010-2011 Dodge Ram trucks equipped with a diesel engine and hydroboost brake system because the brake pedal may be slow to return after brake application. A slow returning brake pedal will cause the brake lights to be slow to extinguish, which can increase the risk of a crash. Dealers will replace the power steering reservoir cap in order to lessen the vent pressure in the reservoir.


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What to do with Houston's CisternHope you caught Lisa Gray's great Sunday Chronicle article and amazing pictures of Houston's very own unused, underground Cistern. It's next to the Jamall Skatepark west of downtown along Memorial. Check out this incredible photograph where the water reflects the columns and the ceiling.
In 1927, he told me, the City of Houston built its first underground drinking-water reservoir - a concrete holding tank roughly the size of one and half football fields on Sabine Street, near Buffalo Bayou. But after decades of service, the reservoir sprang a leak that couldn't be found, much less stopped. So the reservoir was drained, and for years it sat unused: just an odd hill topped with hatches behind a Public Works building.
But when the partnership's consultants climbed through the hatch, they were stunned. When their eyes adjusted to the steamy darkness, they saw row upon row of slender concrete columns, 25 feet tall and reflected in about 6 inches of water at the reservoir's floor. From the hatches, light fell in dramatic shafts. The enormous old reservoir, never intended as anything more than efficient infrastructure, turned out to be stunningly, startlingly beautiful: an industrial cross between a cavern and a cathedral.
The question now, of course, is what to do with the Cistern. Hagstette says that everyone now agrees it won't be used for parking or storage. But what should it be? How should the public have access to it? And how will it be paid for? (The Cistern was discovered after the Buffalo Bayou Project had budgeted all its Shepherd-to-Sabine money for other projects.)My own idea? Sure, have art and music, but wrap a major, signature, tourist attraction bar/nightclub/dance club (and restaurant?) around it to generate steady attendance and revenue, not unlike what Studio 54 used to be for NYC. The kind of place we would all take our out-of-town friends when they visit (just like we take 'em to our favorite restaurants). To get maybe a bit of a visualization, check out two scenes in this trailer for The Last Days of Disco, at the 0:41 and 1:21 points:
"Basically, it's a cathedral of light and sound," he said. "Can you imagine the right concert in here? Or art or sound installations? Different lights could change the look completely. Sometimes you might have water on the floor, but sometimes not."
The next big question would be how to pay for it and who would run it. Coincidentally, the answer was on the front page of that very same day's newspaper: Landry's and Tilman Fertitta. Like me, you probably have mixed feelings about his developments, but despite Hair Balls' objections, he's got the deep pockets and the experience to make this an... um... experience - like what they've done with their restaurants, Kemah, and Vegas casino. It may not be perfect or high art, but at least it would get turned into something interesting with a lot lower chance of dying from a lack of funds or attendance.
Thoughts/ideas/feedback welcome in the comments.
UPDATE: The Chronicle editorial board picks up on this, including a mention of this post.
UPDATE 8/13: Update story and very cool 3D fly-thru video.
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GOP Sen. Rubio Blocks Confirmation Of First Gay Black Judge To Federal Bench
Judge William Thomas appeared to be on his way to confirmation as the first gay black judge on the Federal District Court, but it appears that confirmation has been derailed by Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio.
The nomination of a gay black Miami judge to the federal bench will not move forward after Senator Marco Rubio announced he was withdrawing his support over concerns about the judge's actions in two criminal cases.
Without Mr. Rubio's approval, Judge William Thomas's nomination to the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida, in Miami, is effectively blocked. Judge Thomas, who serves on the Miami-Dade Circuit, was nominated by President Obama, with Mr. Rubio's backing, more than 10 months ago.
Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, signed off on the nomination on July 24 after a background check raised no red flags. For a confirmation to proceed, nominees must secure the approval of both United States senators in their home state.
Had he been confirmed by the United States Senate, Judge Thomas would have become the first black openly gay man on the federal bench.
"As much as I would like to think that politics has nothing to do with this, it looks as if it does," said Yolanda Strader, president of Miami's largest association for black lawyers, who called Judge Thomas one of the hardest working on the bench. "It would be unfair to prevent a well-qualified judicial nominee from proceeding with the nomination process because he is an openly gay black male."
Progress derailed. What's your take on Rubio's decision to block a black gay judge's historic appointment?
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Move over television's Judge Judy. Arizona employers, including those agriculturally-based, are embroiled in a real life courtroom nail biter that could either push Arizona employers out of the state or negate or scale back the most aggressive employer sanction's law in the nation before it even takes effect.
In mid-November, U.S. District Court Judge Neil Wake was scheduled to hear oral arguments in a legal challenge to the Legal Arizona Worker Law slated to take effect in Arizona on Jan. 1, 2008. Judge Wake's decision is expected before the end of December.
The legal challenge by 12 plaintiffs includes the Arizona Farm Bureau (AZFB), the Arizona and U.S. Chambers of Commerce, Arizona Contractors Inc., Employers for Immigration Reform Inc., Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc., and others.
"Arizona's new employer sanctions law will result in discriminatory enforcement against employers who employ Hispanic workers," said Kevin Rogers, AZFB president. "The new law's sole dependence on an inadequate federal verification system and its lack of constitutional due process are the reasons the Arizona Farm Bureau has joined with other business groups in a legal challenge against the new law."
If the law stands intact, Arizona employers that "knowingly" or "intentionally" employ an unauthorized worker on or after Jan. 1, 2008 could lose their Arizona business licenses, i.e. articles of incorporation, pesticide applicator license, driver's license, and all permits.
At stake is the absolute survival of Arizona businesses. For employers found guilty of hiring an undocumented employee once, each Arizona license the business has could be suspended for up to 10 days. If found guilty twice, all state licenses could be permanently revoked.
"License revocation is a euphemism for putting people out of business," said Joe Sigg, government relations director with the Arizona Farm Bureau.
According to attorney David Selden, "The Legal Arizona Worker Law threatens the state's agricultural industry by depriving the industry of the workers needed to tend and harvest crops. If you can't harvest the crops, you won't get them to market."
Selden is co-counsel to the lawsuit brought by the Phoenix-based law firm Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP.
Selden spoke to farm employers during a labor-immigration workshop in early November at the AZFB annual meeting in Carefree, Ariz. He handed out inch-thick booklets noting current federal immigration law, thorough explanations of the new state law, and examples of the myriad ways he claims the new law violates the Arizona and U.S. Constitutions.
"I am extremely confident that Judge Wake will declare the law unconstitutional," Selden said.
The Arizona Legislature passed the employer sanctions law, House Bill 2779, in 2007 out of frustration with Congress' failed attempts to pass meaningful immigration reform. Gov. Janet Napolitano, Arizona's chief executive, sealed the deal with her signature on July 2, 2007, just days after Congress failed to adopt reform.
The federal government prohibits states from fining companies who knowingly hire illegals, so Arizona lawmakers flexed their way around the law settling on license revocation.
The end result is an Arizona law that's not ready for prime time, Selden said.
"There should have been more discussion, study, and deliberation to get it right. Instead, lawmakers passed a law that wasn't anywhere close. The law on the books is flawed," Selden said.
The lawsuit seeks declaratory judgment proclaiming the act as unconstitutional to block enforcement of the act. If the plaintiffs prevail, Arizona could be precluded from legal enforcement.
The suit claims the law violates the Arizona and U.S. Constitutions in the following areas: U.S. Constitution — supremacy clause and pre-emption by federal immigration law, procedural due process, the commerce clause, and substantive due process guarantees, and the fourth amendment; and the Arizona Constitution — procedural due process guarantees, and separation of powers.
According to Selden, three major wrongs of the law include:
The law makes bad economic sense.
Immigration is a federal issue and it's wrong to have state and local governments enacting a patchwork of laws that have unintended consequences that burden the economy. It's basically trampling on the constitutions to jump into the immigration issue.
A third area is the lack of due fairness in the law's administration. To have racial profiling-based complaints and the government taking action based on that is un-American, Selden said.
News of the precedent-setting law has farm employers thinking twice about continued farming in the Grand Canyon State, Selden said. This is especially true in the Yuma County area where an estimated 20,000 employees are required daily during the winter vegetable season to tend crops. Moving production into Mexico is a current thought.
"We've heard anecdotal reports that some producers are planning not to plant or are withholding planting intentions until they learn what happens with the lawsuit and whether the law takes effect," Selden told the farm employers. "We've also heard that some chile peppers may not be planted. This ripples throughout the entire agricultural economic sector."
Chile peppers are grown primarily in southwestern Arizona.
The new Arizona law mandates employer use of the E-Verify program (formerly know as the Basic Pilot). That's in strong contrast to a new Illinois law that bans employer use of the program. In those states where E-Verify is utilized, employers enrolled in the program have three days after hiring to check an employee's work-authorized status.
For Arizona farmers currently not enrolled in the E-Verify program, Selden urged them to delay enrollment until late December. Once an employer enrolls, 30-day notice is required to cancel out of the program after enrollment.
"There's no reason to panic just yet. Hopefully the court will say this law cannot be implemented because it conflicts with the Constitution." Selden is optimistic that Judge Wake will rule in favor of the plaintiffs.
E-Verify enrollment is a contract between employers and the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). By signing the Memorandum of Understanding, permission is granted to the SSA and DHS the right to inspect employment records with no other consent or legal action required.
About 19,000 employers nationwide are enrolled in E-Verify while about 9,000 actively utilize the program. If the law is upheld, Arizona's 150,000 employers would be required to enroll in E-Verify by Dec. 31, 2007.
Could similar legislation be in the cards for California employers? Selden thinks not since the political climate in California is more diverse because of its larger Latino voting block.
If the state law is upheld, Selden offered this employer advice:
"Make sure the I-9 employment verification forms are complete and accurate. If there are flaws, generate new I-9s. Every hired person should go through the I-9 and E-Verify processes. If an employer acquires information that a person is unauthorized, take action to no longer employ them," Selden said.


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NBC Executive Didn't Think Jay Leno's Ratings Jokes Were Very Funny
"It's so bad, <i>The Biggest Loser</i> isn't just a TV show anymore ... it's our new motto."
On February 28, Leno delivered a gallows humor-heavy monologue about NBC's recent ratings trouble. (The network came in fifth place — behind Spanish-language station Univision — that month.) "It's so bad, The Biggest Loser isn't just a TV show anymore ... it's our new motto," Leno said. "It's so bad, NBC called Manti Te'o and asked him to bring in some imaginary viewers." NBC's top entertainment executive, Bob Greenblatt, found the routine especially weak, according to Media Decoder. Sources say Greenblatt "fired off" an angry e-mail to Leno, which began a "pointed" exchange of messages between the two, with Leno "strongly [defending]" himself and a late-night host's sacred right to poke fun "at their masters." The report doesn't offer much detail beyond that but, just a few days later, NBC was forced to deny rumors that it planned to replace Leno with Jimmy Fallon.


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Helluva lot to prove, isn't it? Hardly a Burkey "hot mic" problem.Hockey Widow wrote: Something just doesn't add up in all of this but if it is true then it is a clear case of tampering.
What if Jovo or Campbell told Lou to "hold tight, we'll get ya..."? Hardly tampering if the players are just tossing rumours around like the internet pundits.
I can see if it's someone in the organization doing that. Good luck proving it,though.


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One thing software developers often forget after we write brilliant code is that someone will need to actually operate the applications we create. No matter how spectacular the code, we can't anticipate everything that developers and users might change in an application.
Related: SSIS Logging and Data Auditing
Issues concerning system changes, data changes, and errors are particularly acute in any extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) work. ETL code, by definition, must bridge two or more systems. Those systems change over time. Even without new development, upgrades, and patches, changes can cause problems. In addition, the user community continually adds data to source systems. Data that's allowed on the source system could violate a business rule set on the target system, causing your elegantly designed ETL code to throw up like a frat boy on his 21st birthday.
There are two laws of ETL development that are as inviolate as the laws of thermodynamics. They are:
- Source systems change constantly. No one involved in the changes will ever tell the ETL developers that the change is coming until after the change has been made and your extractions fail. This is usually accompanied by someone with a "C" in their title (as in CIO) getting upset over data marts not having data and indiscriminately lopping off various appendages.
- Users continually mess up data input. They do it in new and varied ways that boggle the mind and make no logical sense. You'll need to deal with all of these issues while management screams at you that they need their reports. You'll do this until someone takes pity on you and you, blessedly, retire a shattered and broken human being.
Therefore, we need to design systems that can recover from these errors. It also must provide sufficient information to the appropriate people so that they can address these issues on an ongoing, operational basis. This raises the questions of what should be logged and, sometimes, where it should be logged, versus how you should log it. Broadly speaking, there are three main areas for logging:
- Things that go bump in the night
- WTF (as in "Where's this From?" …. Get your minds out of the gutter)
- Event driven logging, or Audit logs
Let's take a look at these three logging areas in a bit more depth.
Things That Go Bump in the Night
Things can go bump at any time, but the typical ETL job runs late in the evening or during the early morning hours. That's when data is extracted from a transactional system and loaded into a data mart or data warehouse for analysis, or when different systems are synchronized during a maintenance window. I'm referring specifically to unrecoverable errors. As good developers, we need to provide the operations staff with enough information for them to find and fix the problem. As self-centered megalomaniacs (we leave out megalomaniacs who aren't self-centered), we need to provide this data so that we aren't getting phone calls in the early morning hours or on the weekend asking us to come in and fix a broken system.
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These problems should be (but often aren't) rare. For example, it's difficult to imagine how one can programmatically recover from someone kicking the power cord out of the source system's server. We simply need to build our code with a nod to the fact that it runs on a machine and machines occasionally break.
When these events occur, the error needs to be raised in such a way that it is visible to the folks who can begin to address the problem. So the first thing required here is an interface for the operations staff to view the status of each job as it runs. Let me say the following in big bold letters, so I'm very clear—NEVER USE EMAIL TO REPORT ERRORS!
Why? First, email lists for notification purposes are rarely, if ever, maintained or kept up-to-date. Second, everyone, without exception, puts rules on their email accounts to route such email messages to some folder. No matter what this folder is named, the name means "Ignore Until Management Calls." The result is the error is ignored until you have annoyed users. Third, bad things come in threes. If the first thing bad is that the application died, the second thing bad is that the person who gets the email about it is unavailable (e.g., out sick, on vacation, in some remote location with no cell phone coverage). The third bad thing will be the 2AM call you get to come in to fix the problem.
Fourth, many times these email messages are sent to groups. It's an ironclad law of corporate behavior that when everyone is responsible, no one is responsible. So nothing will happen until someone with a "C" in their title (as in CIO) gets a call asking why there's no data. This isn't where you want to be.
Ideally, there will be a simple interface with an easy to understand "red light, green light" approach to these errors. That application will direct the operations staff to detailed messages that will help them. Unfortunately, we typically get rather cryptic error messages back from our applications. Often, we have stumbled across these problems while in the development cycle or handing off to operations. We should be making it a practice to decipher these messages for the operations staff.
For example, I recently completed a project that used a web service as a source for a data mart. Towards the end of development, I would often get the following exception in my code: An unknown error has occurred. Please contact the application administrator for further information. This is hardly the most informative error message ever created. However, we noticed that invariably this error would arise because the web service server was down. It seemed to me to be a matter of common courtesy, if nothing else, to pass this knowledge to the poor soul who would be getting it at 2 AM, when this data load was scheduled to run. In this case, some simple code wrote the additional details out to a text file, and the path to the text file was then put in the message logged in the Windows Event logs, as shown in Listing 1 below.
It should also be noted that in this application the inner exception messages contain a good deal of information that could help solve the problem. This is a simple method call that can be abstracted to a class file and called in whatever way you typically call a method. In our case, for example, we simply called the method from the catch portion of a try/catch block in a VB Script. You can also incorporate this method into a CLR stored procedure and execute it from a try/catch block in a SQL statement, or you might call it from the packages on error event handler.
Where you raise such errors will depend on where the monitoring system looks for the application status. I have yet to find a monitoring tool that didn't look at the Windows Event logs for errors, so logging errors to the event logs would be a good place to start. Again, the code to do so is quite simple using the EventLog class as Listing 2 (below) shows.
In this case, we simply note that an error has occurred, raise it to the Application event log, and direct the user to a text file where they can find the details they need to diagnose the problem. In short, this need not be complex, but it does need to provide the operations staff with the data they need to do their jobs. The following are three best practices for providing operations staff with the necessary information:
- Operational staff needs a simple UI to monitor ETL status (NOT EMAIL!).
- Provide error details somewhere. It's easy to simply write these details to a text file and provide the path to this file via the Windows event logs or the monitoring tool.
- Have some courtesy. If you can provide more details then the exception thrown by the application, do so.
WTF Logging
Every ETL project invariably comes across data in unexpected formats or is otherwise a knuckleball. For example, you're expecting integers and get "two" instead of "2." None of these problems will rise to the level where an application can or should fail. Instead, these represent business rules or data quality issues that should be reported back to users so that the inconsistencies might be addressed. Data from source systems can, for example, violate business rules or constraints on the target system. Every database professional has, at some point in their career, come across a table that was created using poor design practices or coding practices. Such practices result in critical data held in nullable fields. If a more carefully designed BI system attempts to enforce the NOT NULL business rule, an insert or update error will inevitably arise when someone attempts to insert a null value carried erroneously on the source system. This error should not rise to such a level that an entire ETL process fails. Instead, the single row causing the error should be caught and the error handled gracefully through the WTF logging process.
Data from the source system can violate rules of common sense or industry standards, and a bug in the source system can produce illogical data. For example, in one application, the cumulative production of an oil well would reset to 0 from time to time on the source system because of a source system bug. So, when calculating the average production of a well, we tried to use a simple formula of
(Cumulative Volume Now – Cumulative Volume Then)/elapsed time
With a cumulative volume reset to zero, we would get a negative number as a result—implying the company was putting oil back in the ground. At the price at the time, about $140/barrel, this seemed unlikely.
These examples illustrate different types of data quality issues, each of which might be handled in different ways using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Those issues can broadly be classified as the following:
- Data from the source system fails based on some constraint or business rule on the target system.
- The source system consistently violates either an industry standard or a corporate standard.
- A bug in the source system produces unexpected or illogical data.
There are several ways to handle these issues as they arise. The first, and my preference, is to work with the folks running the source systems to resolve the problems. This usually involves a dope slap, accompanied with some variation of "@#$, what are you thinking?!" Unfortunately this method, while effective, violates most HR policies. Your fallback here should be more political negotiations around field mappings, particularly where you want to keep your data mappings within some reasonable semblance of logic and industry standards.
The next thing that should be done is to enforce business rules and logical rules on the target database itself. Although doing so is a standard best practice for database design, it's remarkable how often developers fail to follow this practice. SSIS provides easy mechanisms for logging violations of these rules or constraints. For example, consider the case where the cumulative volume of oil pumped from a well is reset to zero. A simple check constraint on the target field enforces the rule that the cumulative volume for today must be greater than or equal to the cumulative volume for yesterday. Should this test fail, the insert of today's data will fail. SSIS can then catch and log this failure for this one row of data, while continuing to load data that complies with the business rule. Figure 1 shows an extremely simple example of how this can be handled.
Data is extracted from an OLE DB source to be loaded directly to an OLE DB target. Should an insert fail, the data will be written to a comma delimited file, along with the error code and the error column.
Most frequently, the business process breaks down at this point. You have this data in some type of log, and then what? The best practice is to provide an easy UI that will let a business user address these issues. At a minimum, this UI would provide
- Identifying information that will allow a user to track the offending data to its source.
- A clear reason that the insert or update failed. This will require that you translate the error code. You can view the SQL Server 2008 error codes at msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345164.aspx, and the SQL Server 2005 error codes at msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345164(SQL.90).aspx. Adding an error description requires a single line of script, as described in the SSIS help topic, Enhancing an Error Output with the Script Component.
- Additional information that will help the user identify the error. For example, simply telling the user "The data value violated the schema constraint" isn't helpful. You must tell the user why the constraint was violated so that they can do their job to fix the issue.
Audit- and Event-Driven Logging
There will be times when the business requires auditing of data transfers. Most of these requirements can be met with the event-driven logging internal to SSIS. The basic logging screen is relatively simple. Simply select which events to log, as Figure 2 shows.
On the advanced screen, you have more control over what gets logged, as shown in Figure 3.
You should be cautious with SSIS logging. It carries a large I/O overhead and can slow application performance dramatically. Unless absolutely required, I would limit SSIS logging to OnError and OnTaskFail events. I would suggest you limit the details to the computer, source ID, and Message Text details for production purposes. For day-to-day operations, this will provide enough information to troubleshoot failures and raise the errors to a level in which they can be seen and handled.
If you begin to see more routine errors or intermittent errors, or if you're not getting sufficient data to properly diagnose an issue, it's best to add additional events to the log slowly. First, you should avoid simply overloading your own diagnostic efforts with too much data. Eventually, someone will need to plow through all of this data to ascertain what's causing a problem. Second, the logging itself introduces overhead—in some cases substantial overhead—to the SSIS process, and this additional overhead could cause additional problems to arise. I would add the On Warning events and diagnostic events first for errors and bugs. For other issues, such as slow-running loads, you might want to look at the OnProgress, OnPreExecute, and OnPostExecute events as well. Other events can, of course, be used as your environment warrants.
The How
How one should log will vary based your specific situation. Here, I have limited myself to the simplest text file logging. You can also log to any OLE DB–compliant application you choose by selecting the correct tool from the SSIS tool box, or by creating a custom script or class. This is limited only by your imagination.
Listing 1: Writing Additional Details to a Text File to Be Added to Windows Event Logs
public static void RaiseTheAlarm(string errPath, string LoadName, Boolean writeToEventLog, Exception ex) \{ //irrelevant code removed StreamWriter ErrorWrite = new StreamWriter(logPath.ToString() ); ErrorWrite.WriteLine("There has been an error in the load of " + LoadName); ErrorWrite.WriteLine("Exception Message"); ErrorWrite.WriteLine(ex.Message); string errMess = ex.Message; if (ex.InnerException == null) \{ if (errMess.Contains("An unknown error has occurred. Please contact the application administrator for further information.")) \{ ErrorWrite.WriteLine("This error typically appears when there is a failure with a call to a web service. Please chack the appropriate WCF service for errors."); \} \} else \{ ErrorWrite.WriteLine("Inner exception: "); ErrorWrite.WriteLine(ex.InnerException.Message); if ( ex.InnerException.InnerException != null) \{ ErrorWrite.WriteLine("Inner exception: "); ErrorWrite.WriteLine(ex.InnerException.InnerException.Message); \} \} ErrorWrite.Flush(); ErrorWrite.Close(); //irrelevant code removed \}
Listing 2: Using the EventLog Class to Log Errors to Event Logs
if(! System.Diagnostics.EventLog.SourceExists(LoadName)) \{ System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource(LoadName,"Application"); \} StringBuilder PleaseSee = new StringBuilder(); PleaseSee.Append( "Please see "); PleaseSee.Append(logPath.ToString()); PleaseSee.Append(" for further details"); System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry(LoadName, ex.Message,System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntryType.Error); System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry(LoadName, PleaseSee.ToString(), System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntryType.Error);


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quote:Originally posted by Beans151) Penner will be playing with Hemsky and more than likely Horcoff. Horcoff is a seasoned centre, albiet not a #1 centre on most teams. He had a bad year with 50 pts, like all the Oilers did last year, but the year before he 22-51-73. I guess that doesn't count as a capable line mate?? Last year Horcoff and Hemsky had the same amount of points as Perry and Getzlef in fewer games. The year before last (as we all know Edmonton tanked last year) Horcoff and Hemsky had 40 goals-107 assists for 147 points. That's a pretty solid tandem on most if not all teams in the league. I can't see how you can say that Penner will not have solid linemates. 2) 20 minutes a game over 82 games is the same as playing 117 games at 14 minutes/game. Statistically (and I know it's a poor measure) he played 1148 minutes last year, meaning he scored a goal every 39 minutes. If he goes up to 20 minutes a game at the same pace, that's 42 goals a year.3) I think you are also not giving credit to the potential powerplay. I would tend to think his increase in minutes will be largely attributed to the #1 PP unit. Souray is a PP specialist, Pitkanen is no slouch either. Add in Hemsky, perhaps Stoll/Horcoff, and if Robbie Shremp makes the team he's a PP specialist also. How can Penner not improve in that environment? With the Ducks, he was getting 2nd PP line time. 4) I really don't think it is that far fetched to think that Penner could get 20-25 even strength goals and another 10-15 on the PP. But I don't totally disagree with you either. He may crack under the added pressure. He may be restricted by MacT's defensive system. Who knows. All I am saying is that there is a potential for this to be a great hockey move. I would not be surprised to see Penner as a 60+ point guys next year, and 75+ for his next 4 years. If that happens(and I said if) is the $4.25 million/year an overpayment?? Hockey contracts are not all what the player has done, they also involved what a player has a potential to do. I Love your Kids, IHC is the man, and The Oilers Rule. Does that make me insane??
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Molina hit a two-run homer in the first, doubled home a run in the third and his sacrifice fly in the fourth scored Pete Kozma.
While the Cardinals own the best road record, 19-9, in the majors, the Royals dropped their ninth straight home game - one shy of the franchise record set last year.
The anticipated pitcher's duel between Adam Wanwright and James Shields failed to materialize.
Wainwright (7-3), who had given up 12 hits in 22 1-3 innings in his previous three starts, allowed 12 hits, the most he has allowed in a game since Sept. 14, 2010 against the Chicago Cubs.
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OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Japan's biggest slum is visible just blocks from bustling restaurants and shops in Osaka, the country's second-largest city. But it cannot be found on official maps.
Nor did it appear in the recent Osaka Asian Film Festival, after the director of a new movie that is set in the area pulled it, accusing city organizers of censorship.
Osaka officials asked Shingo Ota to remove scenes and lingo that identify the slum, on the grounds that it was insensitive to residents.
"To me, what they were asking was a cover-up attempt to make this place non-existent," he said in a recent interview.
This place is Kamagasaki, home to day laborers, the jobless and homeless, where one in three are on welfare. About 25,000 people live in this compact area, mostly single men who stay in free shelters or dozens of cheap dorms that charge as little as 800 yen ($8) a night.
The day starts early at the welfare-employment center, where hundreds of people line up for manual labor work, mostly with subcontractors of Japan's construction giants. Those not picked stroll the backstreets aimlessly, queue for free meals or resort to cheap alcohol. In the evening, the homeless line up at the center to get tickets for the shelters.
"I'm jobless, for months," said one 52-year-old resident who came to Kamagasaki after losing his home in the 1995 Kobe earthquake. He gambled away his monthly welfare money of 70,000 yen ($700). "Now I'm doomed."
Ota's movie, "Fragile," tells the story of a TV assistant director who takes off from his job one day after conflicts with his girlfriend and his colleague. He heads to Kamagasaki to make a film about a teenage boy, and whether success and wealth are necessary for happiness. But he quickly falls into trouble, and his plan unravels.
The full-length feature shows recognizable landmarks of the slum, such as a park known for both squatters and illegal garbage dumping and the center where men line up for jobs. It also shows the protagonist receiving an amphetamine injection from a drug dealer operating in the slum. Ota says Osaka officials wanted those scenes and others deleted, as well as the slang words "doya" (cheap accommodations) and "shabu" (stimulants).
Osaka official Kazumitsu Oue said the film festival organizers wanted to protect the area and its people from exposure to prejudice. "We felt that the film lacked consideration to the area and its people," he said.
Ota says while living there to shoot the film for several weeks, his outsider's impression of the slum as a poor, dangerous place changed and he began to regard the community — also known by the nickname Airin or "loving neighborhood" — and its inhabitants with more compassion. The scenes city officials objected to are needed to portray the different faces of the town, he said.
The city provided a 600,000 yen ($6,000) grant for the director on condition that it premieres at the Osaka film festival. Ota says he has offered to return the grant, but the city wanted him to keep it and not disclose details of the dispute to the media. The two sides are examining the dispute and seeking ways to explain it to the public.
So far it's only been shown at private screenings in Tokyo and Osaka. Ota, who directed two well-received documentaries previously, hopes to enter "Fragile" in the competition for this year's Cannes film festival.
During Japan's economic boom in the 1960s and 1970s, Kamagasaki bustled with hundreds of thousands of young day laborers. But the day labor market shrank after the Japan's stock and real estate bubble burst in 1990, and again during the more recent global financial crisis.
In the world's fastest graying nation, the challenge of aging is layered on top of economic decline. Nearly 40 percent of the residents of Kamagasaki are 65 or older, nearly twice elsewhere.
"Many day laborers in the area can't keep up with construction work as they get old," said Yoshinori Kishi, an Osaka city official in charge of support and welfare of day laborers in the area.
In recent years, there have been some improvements, thanks to job support, anti-crime and beautification programs, including one that aims to turn the neighborhood into a backpackers' hangout like Bangkok's Khaosan road.
Masanori Momiyama, 50, runs a tiny bar on the edge of the slum. He has seen its residents gray since he moved here 16 years ago.
"They are the ones who helped to construct many buildings and roads in the 1960s. I think we should thank them," he said. He dismisses a common view that the area is dangerous and to be avoided. "Even though people in this area are quite unique, we are all harmless, friendly people."


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Armored (US - BD)
Welcome new reviewer A.J., who puts his love of heist flicks on lockdown...
A film need not always try so hard to be a success. Sometimes, all that's required is to do a job exceptionally well, and greatness might very well follow. On the flip side, when the bare minimum of effort is exercised you get something as generic as Armored. Director Nimrod Antal pulled this routine a while back with Vacancy, a close-quarters thriller that just barely did enough to justify a theatrical release. Armored shows what happens when Antal gets his hands on the heist drama, the results of which are as dishearteningly bland as my transparent segues indicate.
The economy is hitting everyone a little hard lately, and action heroes are no exception. Fresh off a tour of duty in the military, Ty Hackett (Columbus Short) is having a hell of a time trying to stave off welfare agents and keep his baby bro on the straight and narrow. Shifts are scarce at his new job as an armored truck driver, so when co-worker Mike Cochrane (Matt Dillon) proposes a larcenous offer, Ty can't refuse is. With some fellow down-on-their-luck employees, Cochrane plans to make off with a $42 million haul they've been hired to transport. The plan seems too good to be true, and, wouldn't you know it, it is, as the heist goes quickly and violently awry, forcing Ty to choose between financial security and living to glower at the camera another day.
I hesitate to use the term 'Hitchcockian' in reference to Armored and further dilute its meaning. To Antal's credit, though, he does employ a set-up ol' Hitch might've favoured once upon a thriller. Moral mettles are put to the test here, wherein flaring tempers and an enclosed setting are used to drive the suspense. The primary pieces are established well enough, and there's even a little comfort in knowing that Antal won't bite off more from the genre than his gut can handle. But this approach is also the man's Kryptonite, for where other filmmakers would start making their respective tweaks to the formula, Antal adopts a surprisingly complacent stance. He sort of stands back and lets the drama do whatever it wants, which is nice, except this story summons about as much ambition as the average Jeff Dunham groupie.
In its haste to be lean and mean, Armored misses out on chance after chance to ratchet up its intensity. Antal has respect for the material and enough know-how to recruit tough guy vets like Fred Ward and Jean Reno to give the ride some weight. But when real character development is sacrificed to keep the story moving, decorum becomes the only reason to stick around. Still, what Antal lacks in storytelling substance is made up for in part by the man's ability to nail an appropriately dingy atmosphere and throw in a couple nifty visual tricks for good measure. Plus, even with seasoned pros in the cast, Antal coaxes the best performances from Short as the conflicted hero and Milo Ventimiglia as a clean-cut cop caught up in the post-heist ruckus.
Though it's one of my few Blu experiences to date, I have to say that Armored is quite the sharp flick. Antal plays with the grittiness enough so that it never becomes a problem or looks as if someone replaced the lens with a coffee filter. Just about every trace of filth comes through with great clarity, and those dying to see every crevasse on the face of Skeet Ulrich outlined in sweat will find their wishes granted here. The image gets a tad wonky when there's little light involved, but such moments don't last long and leave no impact on how snazzy the picture looks otherwise.
A 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track is used here to intermittent advantage. This really isn't that much of an action-heavy romp; aside from a chase scene or two, the loudest thing you'll hear is Laurence Fishburne cackling up a storm. But sound is a boon to the suspense factor in two key scenes, one in which not hearing a certain action taking place is a sign of a certain substance hitting the fan. Overall, though, Armored's audio is low-key; it's all well and good, but you won't be tapping your feet to the music as the ending credits roll.
The Armored Blu edition I got hold of is fairly basic in terms of bells and whistles. A ubiquitous digital copy is included (which I've no use for), as well as BD-Live content (which I, at the moment, cannot access). The disc offers a feature-length commentary track with actors Ventimiglia and Skeet Ulrich, along with producer Dan Farah, though there's not much to be gleaned of it aside from the occasional anecdote. Weirdly enough, all three sound incredibly similar, so it was hard to tell which of the trio was talking about how badass Jean Reno is. You're likely to get more out of the three making-of pieces, all of which are basic but plenty informative. 'Planning the Heist' (15:19) is your traditional behind-the-scenes doc, the highlight of which is a great quote Antal relays in regards to making heist movies. 'Armored and Underground' (06:47) touches upon aspects of the production design, which included taking brand-new materials and whipping them into a grungy hellhole David Fincher would be proud of. 'Crash Course' (11:30) discusses the film's stunt work, of which there's little, so the closed-course truck chase at the picture's center becomes the main attraction. A line-up of Sony previews is also included, ranging from the promising ( It Might Get Loud) to the utterly disheartening ( The Bounty Hunter).
I'd barely recommend Armored to rent, let alone advise adding it to one's hi-def library. The film looks nice, yes, but it's hard to justify ponying up the extra scratch for something a CBS cop drama could out-do on an off day. Armored has the look of an old-school treat down pat, but it's in duplicating the same badass spirit that Nimroad and company come a little short.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by A.J. Hakari
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13
Disc Details
Release Date: 16th March 2010
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French
Subtitles: English, English SDH, French
Extras: Producer and Cast Commentary, Making-of Documentaries, Digital Ccopy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Nimrod Antal
Cast: Columbus Short, Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno
Genre: Action
Length: 88 minutes
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i am not very technically tought but power cuts and the billing figures are really getting to me, thus i have decided to try and generate alternative power.
i found an alternator of a car which generates on my volt meter 11.4 v (i take it that this is ac - as i measured the volts from the inside of the alternator, there are 3 fairly thick wires)
the general idea is to power the alternator with wind and a 5 or even 10 to 1 gear ratio (the blades would be mounted on a big wheel connected by chain or fan belt to a small wheel on the alternator), in times of no wind the alternator will be powered by a solar panel.
i need to power 1) geyser 2) airconditioner 3) 3 x 250 watt security lights 4) house hold lights
so in my ignorance i have devised a few plans to accomplish this
plan 1
is to utilise the alternator volts via a 20 to 1 step up transformer to give me 228 vac ? (alternator will always be spinning as long as i have wind or sun)
plan 2
to use the dc volt of the alternator (i believe only 12vdc) to charge enough batteries then convert the dc back to ac to give 220 vac power.
plan 3
a welder utilises alot of power and i have heard that there are guys that have converted an alternator to produce enough power to run a welder, this for me would also be sufficient, but as i mentioned i am not very technical, but even with just this idea i was thinking that if one alternator can power 1 welder = geyser, the more things i want to power i just need to add additional alternator power stations.
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Ilkka Huotari wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the answer. > > Could they be published if I change the stylesheets to comply to your > standards? > There isn't any major reason to why I have changed the stylesheets - I > didn't know about those rules originally. So I could very easily change the > stylesheets to the same what you have (they could be exactly the same, I > think). Ilkka, it may help for you to read the document license. Everything I am telling you comes from there: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-documents-20021231 "Permission to copy, and distribute the contents of this document, or the W3C document from which this statement is linked, in any medium for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the document, or portions thereof, that you use: 1. A link or URL to the original W3C document. 2. The pre-existing copyright notice of the original author, or if it doesn't exist, a notice (hypertext is preferred, but a textual representation is permitted) of the form: "Copyright © [$date-of-document] World Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-documents-20021231" 3. If it exists, the STATUS of the W3C document. When space permits, inclusion of the full text of this NOTICE should be provided. We request that authorship attribution be provided in any software, documents, or other items or products that you create pursuant to the implementation of the contents of this document, or any portion thereof." This is the policy for just making a copy with no modifications. So, if you were reposting the documents as is on your site, these are the rules you have to follow. > So... if this could help it? > > > Thanks, > Ilkka > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janet Daly" <email@example.com> > To: "Ilkka Huotari" <email@example.com> > Cc: <firstname.lastname@example.com>; <firstname.lastname@example.com> > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:18 PM > Subject: Re: W3C specs reformatted > > > >>Dear Ilkka, >> >>Thank you for your request. Susan Lesch of the W3C Communications team >>provided an earlier response, on the site-comments mailing list: >> >>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/site-comments/2004May/0051.html >> >>But what remains is whether what you are proposing to do complies with >>the Document License at W3C: >> >>http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-documents-20021231 >> >>No right to create modifications or derivatives of W3C documents is >>granted pursuant to this license. So, changing the stylesheets and >>republishing them is not permitted. >> >>I appreciate your caution and request, but inform you that it is not >>possible for these to be published. >> >>Best regards, >> >>Janet >> >>-- >> >> >>World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) >> >>Janet Daly, Head of Communications >>MIT/CSAIL, Building 32-G518 >>32 Vassar Street >>Cambridge, MA 02139 >> >>voice: 617.253.5884 >>fax: 617.258.5999 >>http://www.w3.org/ >>email@example.com >> >> >> >>Ilkka Huotari wrote: >> >> >>> >>> >>>Hi, >>> >>>This email concerns the reformatted W3C specs that I made. Only this > > late I > >>>am asking you for the permission to do/distribute those versions: >>> >>>You may (or may not) have seen that I made some reformatted specs of > > HTML > >>>4.01, CSS 1, 2, 2.1 specs. The url was http://www.visiomode.com/docs/ > > and > >>>there were CHMs and web versions. >>> >>>I just found out that I didn't follow the proper procedure to publish > > these > >>>and I want to say that I'm sorry and express my apologies. I did read > > the > >>>document use statement which was linked from HTML 4.01 mainpage, but > > maybe I > >>>should have been more careful. Your statement >>>(http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents-19990405) grants > > the > >>>use and distribution but maybe I was crossing the line with the > > reformatted > >>>versions, although I didn't change the content/HTML code. >>> >>>I made CHMs and web versions, so maybe my versions were actually > > derivatives > >>>and not only distribution of your material. >>> >>>So, I want to now ask for your permission to do the conversion (well, > > it's > >>>already done), and the permission of distribution. If you haven't seen > > these > >>>reformatted specs, I can email them/put them somewhere for you to view. >>> >>>There is a discussion at alt.html wth the subject line "W3C specs >>>reformatted." >>> >>>So, sorry again for my hasty actions... I tried to follow the right >>>procedure, but apparently I made an error. >>> >>>Ilkka Huotari >> >> >> -- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Janet Daly, Head of Communications MIT/CSAIL, Building 32-G518 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 voice: 617.253.5884 fax: 617.258.5999 http://www.w3.org/ email@example.com on Friday, 21 May 2004 13:55:40 UTC
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By Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers will begin to vote as soon as next week on legislation that could continue aid to Egypt even if the Obama administration determines that the ouster of elected President Mohamed Mursi was a military coup, lawmakers and aides said on Thursday.
The United States sends $1.3 billion in military aid and $250 million in economic aid to Egypt each year, but the military coup label would cut off the flow under a U.S. law dating to the 1980s.
As a result, the White House and State Department have so far refused to characterize Mursi's ouster as a coup, with administration officials often resorting to verbal gymnastics to avoid using the word.
Republican U.S. Representative Kay Granger, chairwoman of the House of Representatives subcommittee in charge of the aid, said her panel could consider allowing more flexibility, such as language that would allow the aid to continue if doing so were deemed to be in the U.S. national security interest.
Granger said she is not considering changing the coup language but that it was possible for Congress to change it to make it more flexible.
"There is not a waiver (provision) in the coup legislation," Granger told Reuters in an interview. "That could be changed, however, if the Congress says we are going to allow a waiver."
The law as currently written bans the administration from waiving the restriction, even if the administration judges it to be important for national security.
Congress approved President George W. Bush's request to allow aid to Pakistan's government after the September 11, 2001, attacks, despite the ouster of its government in a coup.
Lawmakers said a similar bill was one possibility for Egypt. They said another possibility would be rewriting the law on foreign aid to allow waivers for national security reasons more routinely.
The House subcommittee is due to begin considering the fiscal 2014 aid to Egypt this month, possibly as soon as next week.
The Senate subcommittee also expects to vote on its version of the legislation this month, likely during the week of July 23, aides said.
After the state and foreign operations subcommittees of the House and Senate appropriations committees debate and vote on their versions of the bill, the measures will be voted on by the full committees before being sent for a vote by the full House and Senate.
Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate panel, has said he considers Mursi's ouster a coup, although the ultimate determination is up to the administration. A spokesman said the Senate panel is not now considering a provision in its legislation to waive the coup requirement.
However, Senator John Boozman, a Republican subcommittee member, said he was open to the possibility of a waiver, depending on the situation in Egypt.
"With the situation as it is now, I would certainly be open to having that discussion," he told Reuters. "And right now my tendency would be to vote for the waiver and, again, we'll just have to wait and see what happens."
President Barack Obama asked Congress to appropriate $1.55 billion in aid for Egypt for fiscal 2014, including $1.3 billion in military aid and $250 million in economic assistance.
Committee members and aides from both panels said it was too soon to comment on whether they would approve that level of aid, because the situation in Egypt is changing so rapidly.
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I agree with what you said Herb.
Hearing the comments from various people after the trade deadline, I assumed that MG decided that the price for a decent right sided d-man was just too high. He had two choices....trade the future for a better shot at winning this year, or, make the best he could out of a difficult situation. He has commented in the past that he wants to follow the Detroit model, have a good team each year, and feels that if you have a team that can contend for the cup each year, eventually you are going to win it.
How important is it for the Canucks to win the cup this year as opposed to next year? From his perspective I don't think there is any difference. By keeping Schneider and not trading roster players and draft choices to shore up the defence, and with the trade he made, he has done what he could reasonably do to help the club contend this year. Who knows, maybe the Canucks will luck out and win it all this year. But next year with a Schneider (most likely) trade and likely a Ballard trade in the forecast, and the newer players having the extra time to learn the systems the club should be stronger than this year.
From a fan's perspective, every year I want to see them win the cup this year, and think they should screw the future and go for it. I wouldn't care if once they win it the team tanks and is out of the playoffs for a few years, getting top draft choices, and training the next defensive corp (which is what Edmonton seems to have forgotten about). But that is just me.
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Nicholas Hooper on Scoring Half-Blood Prince
Jul 24, 2009
HBP Film
Composer Nicholas Hooper has given another interview, this time to IFMagazine, where he speaks again about scoring the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Mr. Hooper speaks on bringing in some of the cues from his music for Order of the Phoenix as well as working with the now iconic "Hedwig's Theme" for HBP. Quotage:
Although a lot of things seem logical after the event, I tend to write instinctively, allowing things to develop in their own way. It would be easy to say that I meant to use such and such a theme in a "brilliant stroke of genius." But in fact a lot of what works comes out of trying things out first, and then discussing them later. A bit like throwing paint at the wall one day and coming in to have a look at it the next to see what shape it makes. The use of the Possession theme from HP V (where Voldemort possesses Harry) came back as an idea when Voldemort is first mentioned by the name of Tom Riddle in Dumbledore's speech at the start of the new term. It seemed to work there and gradually worked its way into the movie following Dumbledore's own involvement with Voldemort. This along with a new theme created the DNA for the whole score. Placing John Williams' themes became obvious as we went along. The beginning of the film has to have at least a hint of Hedwig's Theme (look out for the end of it in the brass just before the Death Eaters attack London). Later in the film, Hedwig's theme gave a sense of being back in a POTTER movie, so it was used on the train to Hogwarts and Harry's arrival at the Weasley's home. I also enjoyed using a bit of William's Quidditch theme in the Quidditch match to point up Ron's amazing goal saving.
Readers will recall of course, as first noted here on July 14, then several days later, Mr. Hooper will not be returning to provide the score for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, as legendary John Williams is indeed in talks to return to the series and create the music for the final Harry Potter films. Nicholas Hooper says again:
"I have made the decision not to do the next two HARRY POTTER films. I'll be handing the baton on to another composer. It has been a roller coaster ride, and, I feel, an enormous privilege to have the opportunity to have scored such great films and such a fantastic story."
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Reported at 13 B.R. 15. The court ruled that Cessna held a valid perfected security interest under Kansas law in the proceeds of an airplane that defendants willfully converted to their own use. Under the Bankruptcy Act, however, debt is dischargeable
In accordance with In re Terry, 630 F.2d 634 (8th Cir. 1980), confirmation of debtor's Chapter 13 plan was denied where the plan proposed no payments to unsecured creditors and the entire amount of the monthly payments appeared to be for attorney's fees
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BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts dioceses are planning special services to honor Pope Benedict XVI on the day he steps down.
In Springfield, Bishop Timothy McDonnell will offer a special Mass on Thursday to give thanks for Benedict's papacy and ask for his continued well-being after he steps down.
The Mass will start shortly after noon and is timed for just prior to Benedict's abdication at 2 p.m. local time.
Several hours later in Boston, Auxiliary Bishop Robert Deeley will lead a Mass of Thanksgiving on Thursday evening for the pope's ministry and for the election of a new pope. Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley will be in Rome at that time. He's one of 117 cardinals eligible to elect the new pope.