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It's the social media battle cry: "More engagement!" It's almost always the first response to "What should brands focus on when developing a social media
Engagement is loosely defined as listening and responding to your audience—conversing on various social media platforms.
It's terrifying to think that's what a business's No. 1 social media objective should be.
Let's reframe our approach to social media.
There's a time and a platform for engagement.
Why are we so stuck on finding a tried-and-true way to do social media? As with any other business practice, how your company
manages social media should reflect your own or your company's business goals, not the goals of another company. Yet we rail against brands that don't
"engage" in the online space or spend vast amounts of time having conversations.
Our CEO's Twitter feed, @MarkRaganCEO, is a news feed. He chats with customers from time to time, but our audience knows the account is primarily a source
of information. We post links that lead back to our sites.
Our goal is to be a resource and provide information; we don't use his Twitter feed to have conversations, because, realistically, Mark's time is better
spent running the business.
That's not to say that Ragan's social media strategy pooh-poohs engagement. Au contraire, we love chatting with our audience. But there's a time
and a platform for it.
Our weekly Twitter chat, #RaganSocial, has become a place for PR and social media pros to discuss hot industry topics. After the chat, they can—and
do—continue the conversation in our Facebook group. Our Facebook pages and LinkedIn groups are also rife with conversations, discussions, and article
Know your goals.
Our company's goals are to draw traffic to our social media sites; to encourage conference, webinar, and Ragan Training site registrations; and to be known
to our audience as a resource for communicators. Our social media strategy focuses on these three core elements. Our Twitter feeds are newsfeeds that serve
as a resource to draw traffic to our sites. There is a specific Twitter strategy that I employ that I'll save for another post.
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Our #RaganSocial Twitter chat, #RaganSocial Facebook group, and LinkendIn groups are hubs to create conversations about industry hot topics. These
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Our Facebook pages are used to disseminate information, post thought-provoking questions (resource), and more. Most of our social media channels are used
to share information about conferences, webinars, and our training site.
Be a resource, internally and externally.
Is your social media strategy helping you connect with your audience and meeting your clearly defined business goals? Great. Now think internally.
If you spend hours maintaining and managing social networks, you're sifting through hundreds of pieces of content a day (at least). Start thinking about
how you can repurpose that content.
Can you curate content posted to your LinkedIn group for your website? If there's a hot topic—such as crisis management—that's being discussed regularly on
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If you've noticed that certain promotions are doing particularly well on a specific social media channel, reach out to your marketing team and tell them.
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Texas Maps
This entry was originally written by Wendy Bebout Elliott, Ph.D. FUGA for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
The GLO (see Texas Land Records) houses original plat maps for the state (see www.glo.state.tx.us/archives/map_description.html). The Archives Division, Texas State Library, maintains an excellent collection of Texas maps. Original, photocopies, and compiled maps include general state, county survey, road and highway, United States Geological Survey, coastal and nautical, street, town plats, and Birdseye maps with card index to the collection, arranged by date or location. James M. Day's Maps of Texas, 1527–1900: The Map Collection of the Texas State Archives (Austin, Tex.: Pemberton Press, 1964) describes maps in the collection acquired prior to 1965. Other printed sources include:
- Creuzbaur, Robert J. DeCordova's Map of the State of Texas. Compiled from the Records of the General Land Office (GLO) of the State. Houston: n.p., 1849.
- Day, James M., et al., comps. Maps of Texas, 1527–1900: The Map Collection of the Texas State Archives. Austin, Tex.: Pemberton Press, 1964.
- Frantz, Joe Bertram. Lure of the Land: Texas County Maps and the History of Settlement. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1988.
- Gamble, W. H. County Map of the State of Texas: Showing Also Portions of the Adjoining States and Territories. Philadelphia: n.p., 1879.
- Gannett, Henry. A Gazetteer of Texas. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904.
- Gray, O. W. Gray's Railroad Map of Texas. Philadelphia: the author, 1877.
- Martin, James C., and Robert S. Martin. Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513–1900. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. Brief historical sketches accompany the maps in this atlas.
- Pool, William C. A Historical Atlas of Texas. Austin, Tex.: Encinco Press, 1975. Maps of the state depict the frontier and various historical periods as well as Indian territories.
- Stephens, A. Ray, and William M. Holmes. Historical Atlas of Texas. Consultant: Phyllis M. McCaffree. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.
- Tarpley, Fred. 1001 Texas Place Names. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1980.
- Texas State Gazetteer and Business Directory. R. L. Polk and Co., 1882–83, 1884–85, 1890–91. These directories provide a means to identifying business owners in Texas towns as well as locating communities that have disappeared.
- Webb, Walter Prescott, and Eldon Stephen Branda. The Handbook of Texas. 3 vols. Austin, Tex.: Texas State Historical Association, 1952–76.
- Wheat, James L. Postmasters and Post Offices in Texas, 1846–1930. N.p.: n.p., 1973. Provides most complete list of communities.
Other map collections are housed in the libraries of the University of Texas at Austin and El Paso http://libraries.uta.edu/SpecColl/mapcoll.html and Southern Methodist University DeGrolyer Library www.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/collections.html.

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Kindergarten Jihad
I remember my kindergarten graduation. We wore crowns on our heads and had big smiles on our faces. We sang songs, cute songs about the changing seasons and growing up. And then we received our diplomas, had an ice cream party and were hugged and kissed by our loved ones.
It was a traditional early childhood graduation, replayed over and over, year after year, in almost every school.
But then, I didn't grow up in the Palestinian Authority or Gaza.
Traditions are different in the Palestinian Authority and Gaza. In Gaza this graduation season like in years past, three, four and five year old children marked their big day with ceremonies depicting Palestinians becoming martyrs and by dressing up as Israelis who torture Palestinian men, women and children. Certainly, an educational message was being presented, as it should be at every graduation, but not a positive message. Here it is a message of murder.
These young Palestinian graduates performed plays about slaughter, marched with weapons and wore traditional bandanas. They sang songs of love and they glorified murder. No Palestinian graduation from pre-school through high school is complete without stories, performances and songs about the killing of Israelis.
It is a part of the general Palestinian curriculum and it is a major theme at graduation time. In one school a teacher was quoted as saying: "At every kindergarten graduation ceremony we focus on the children to represent the role of struggling and resistance in the way of Allah so they will grow up to love the resistance and serve the cause of Palestine and Holy Jihad, as well as to make them leaders and fighters to defend the holy soil of Palestine." That same school's kindergarten director took it even further: "It is our obligation to educate the children to love the resistance, Palestine and Jerusalem, so they will recognize the importance of Palestine and who its enemy is."
Even at a tender age, the message is not lost on the students. In their own, translated, words from Ynet (http://www.ynetnews.com/ articles/0,7340,L-4241588,00. html we hear children saying: "When I grow up I'll join Islamic Jihad and the al-Quds Brigades. I'll fight the Zionist enemy and fire missiles at it until I die as a shahid and join my father in heaven.' And: "I love the resistance and the martyrs and Palestine, and I want to blow myself up on Zionists and kill them on a bus in a suicide bombing."
That's just one example. The internet and Youtube are full of other examples, some posted by media outlets like Ynet, others posted with pride by Hamas and by general Palestinian Authority sources.
Kindergartens in Gaza are sponsored by Islamic Jihad. But it would be wrong and narrow minded to believe that only Hamas and Islamic Jihad engage in this kind of war mongering cum education, wrong to think that only they transmit this hateful educational message. PA sponsored schools in the West Bank are on board with Muslim extremists when it comes to glorifying resistance and martyrdom – catch phrases for murderous attacks against Israelis and Jews. It is a part of their curriculum, too, it is enshrined in their school books.
Israelis teach about peace and coexistence as a formal part of their curriculum. But for the Palestinian educator, it is easier to teach hatred than to talk about peace. Idealizing mass murderers and calling them defenders packs much more emotional punch than does talk about co-existence. And when Palestinian children march with toy guns and accompany mock coffins, when during their ceremonies they play 'Kidnap an Israeli Soldier' they are cheered on by older children they admire and by adults they respect.
It is hardly education. It is indoctrination. And what happens when these educational goals and objectives are challenged? What happens to the
Palestinian family that does not think that the only good Israeli is a dead Israeli? They are labeled as collaborators, as people who have sold their heritage for money. They often have to seek refuge and sanctuary outside the Palestinian Authority, they are no longer welcome within.
Graduations, we are told, do not signify the end, they embrace a new beginning. We do not conclude, we commence. How frightening.
Micah D. Halpern is a columnist and a social and political commentator. His latest book is "Thugs: How History's Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World through Terror, Tyranny, and Mass Murder" (Thomas Nelson)


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A Broadway writing team create a musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe.
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A Broadway writing team create a musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe.
The Callback
Ivy and Karen jump through hoops for the director Derek Wills.
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The search begins for a Joe DiMaggio to play opposite Marilyn.
The Cost Of Art
Karen must learn to advance in the high-stakes world of Broadway.
Let's Be Bad
Karen finds a new use for her acting talents.
Ivy faces major problems as her voice begins to fail her.
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"Marilyn The Musical" is presented to would-be investors.
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Hell On Earth
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This year for Christmas my small guild has decided to donate quilts to the neediest residents in the local nursing home. This is the first one out of my sewing room. The second one has the blocks ready for their last two seams and the third one is cut. As soon as I have all three of them pieced I'll layer and baste all three of them and then quilt them on my Janome 6600.
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At the very least this is such an unexact science! I have been tested and diagnosed with hsv2, a couple of years ago. Since the, I have had to man up and disclose to all I have dated. I have never seen an outbreak to my memory. Several women, who seemed to be very interested in a relationship at first, all but ran from me. Std Test nearest Murphys, CA. I recently became reunited with a hometown GF and we were all about a new life together. She even seemed unaffected at first after a I told her, but that changed in a few days. I honestly am very down right now, I want another chance at a stellar relationship and to be in love again.
Acyclovir (Aciclovir). Acyclovir is the drug of choice for treating infections caused by herpes simplex virus (be it type I or type II). It is used in order to decrease the viral shedding (especially in genital herpes). Note that this drug acts mainly on the nucleic acid synthesis of the virus to stop its multiplication, and is therefore can act as a chromosome mutagen. This means that pregnant women cannot take this drug unless the potential benefit of taking it outweighs the danger to the fetus.
In men, it can result in chronic, painful inflammation of the prostate gland and urethral strictures (narrowing of the urine canal inside the penis). In women, half of the infections will be asymptomatic, but this does not stop the bacteria from spreading inside their bodies and causing further damage. The most common result of untreated gonorrhea in women is pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which can cause chronic pelvic pain and infertility. It is a sad fact that untreated gonorrhea, even when asymptomatic, can silently steal a woman's ability to have children later in life. (So can untreated chlamydia, another sexually transmitted disease.) Since the majority of gonorrhea and chlamydia in the United States occurs in people ages 15-24, young people are especially at risk.
Std Test nearby Murphys. An under-discussed type of gonorrhea occurring in both sexes is gonorrhea of the throat. Infection in the throat is acquired through performing oral sex on an infected partner (usually male). As if gonorrhea of the throat weren't ghastly enough, 90 percent of these cases are asymptomatic yet can still silently travel to other parts of the body via the bloodstream, a phenomenon known as dissemination. (The other 10 percent of throat gonorrhea cases will complain of a sore throat, usually 4-6 days after oral sex.) Disseminated gonorrhea wreaks havoc, causing swollen joints, painful skin lesions, infected heart valves, and even meningitis.
Gonorrhea is nicknamed the clap," an expression possibly referencing an old treatment. Before penicillin entered mass production in 1944, gonorrhea was difficult to treat and one method involved clearing gonorrhea pus from the urethra (the urine canal inside the penis). The penis was clapped" on both sides simultaneously to expel the pus, a procedure which could either be done with one's hands or with a heavy book slammed down on the penis against a table or other hard surface. Expulsion of the urethral pus restored normal urine flow. These days, we recommend a round of antibiotics over the clap" approach (to the relief of our male patients).
Gonorrhea and chlamydia are best friends and usually party together, so if you test positive for one, we treat you for both. The treatment is fairly simple and involves a shot in the arm and antibiotic pills. We recommend that sexual partners be treated as well, given the highly contagious nature of the bacteria. Doctors are now able to write prescriptions for the patient's partner without ever seeing the partner. This is called patient-delivered partner therapy, or PDPT, and is just one of the creative tactics public health officials have taken to combat sexually transmitted diseases.
Chlamydia is transmitted through contact with infected mucous membranes of a partner during vaginal or anal sex, and more rarely, oral sex. If there are symptoms, they generally develop one to three weeks later and are usually mild. Men with chlamydia may experience urethral discharge and pain when urinating. Std test in Murphys, United States. Women may have vaginal discharge, burning with urination, pain during intercourse, abdominal or low back pain, nausea, fever and bleeding between periods. Less often, there may be rectal pain, discharge or bleeding in both men and women from anal intercourse.
Chlamydia can have serious long-term consequences. In women the bacteria can primarily infect the cervix and eventually make their way to the fallopian tubes, leading to pelvic inflammatory disease, or PID. This can cause chronic pelvic pain, ectopic (or tubal) pregnancies (which result in miscarriage or even death of the mother) and infertility. Up to 40 percentof untreated women with chlamydia get PID, and as many as half of all cases of PID can be blamed on chlamydia. That makes chlamydia a leading cause of infertility in women. Women with chlamydia are also more likely to become infected if exposed to the HIV virus.
Bon Scott was known for his outrageous behavior both on and off stage. He told this story in the same Sounds interview: "One time I had the jack and this girl wanted f-kin' and she was so ugly I figured, s-t! Nobody else would have her so she wouldn't spread it. But when we'd finished she went next door to Phil (Rudd, their drummer) and gave it to him. And a few weeks later she sent him a doctor's bill for 35 dollars for the cure. Well, next time she came to a show I got her up on stage in the middle of 'The Jack' and explained how she'd got it wrong and it was me owed her the money." On mike that was.
Congratulations Ryan, you have completely missed my points... except for the one this whole blog was created for. Perhaps I forget that I have to rely on other people to read with a certain tone that I cannot assure they are reading with. To hell with conservatism and to hell with radical liberals, they are all puppet parties anyway. I'm pretty left-leaning as it is. Inherently with living as an American today, you are doomed and are dooming other nations. And, sadly, it isn't just us. I said in my comment that we don't like our president nor the dictatorship created by "terrorist states" we live under, so thanks for adding on to the record that was already there....... I'm just saying, don't you have anything to say to the Aussie down there? He is as human as I am. At some point, you have to break down the barriers and look at others as people of the same race and not as separated entities of social constructs. I wasn't the first to throw hate, as my first comment 6 columns down shows. What does his type of commenting represent? An overly patriotic from Australia. I don't care where he's from, he's a dumbfck. What gives him any more authority then anyone else? If he were to claim he knew a lot about The Doors, I wouldn't say he doesn't have the authority to criticize them simply because he is from "ffffff, Australia" and not from ddddd, America. It's not like I have any way of getting to know any American band better than anyone living overseas does, save the exclusive list of friends and family those bands associate themselves with. So go ahead, label me a conservative and talk trash, I don't care. You're an equally pathetic excuse for flesh and bones yourself, have a good day. And that's a real cute picture you made for me, it goes well with your 8=> (fully erect)Marshall - Bar Harbor, Me
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Oh my. Well, first off the song is very well written and Andrew is correct about the seriousness of the lyrics, full of metaphores and puns. And to Jonas from Detroit, damn it man, you made me soooo cranky. AC/DC won't allow Brian to play it the original way because of the connnection it has with the band, and becomes empty when anyone else plays it besides Bon. That is why there are two versions. Bons and Brians. This is also why Led Zeppelin would sound bad playing it. And Dylan, please tell me where you got your information on the Quote, so I can look into that. I have heard other stories, but I won't comment on them until I see into it further.Stephen - Steamboat, Co
Syphilis has several clinical manifestations, making laboratory testing a very important aspect of diagnosis. In North America, many unsuspected cases are discovered by laboratory testing. The etiological agent, Treponema pallidum, cannot be cultured, and there is no single optimal alternative test. Serological testing is the most frequently used approach in the laboratory diagnosis of syphilis. The present paper discusses the various serological and alternative tests currently available along with their limitations, and relates their results to the likely corresponding clinical stage of the disease. Std Test near me Murphys. The need to use multiple tests is discussed, and the importance of quality control is noted. The complexity of syphilis serology means that the services of reference laboratories and clinical experts are often needed.
The etiological agent of syphilis is Treponema pallidum. Syphilis has diverse clinical manifestations and shares many clinical features with other treponemal and nontreponemal diseases. Therefore, it is mandatory that the clinical diagnosis is always supported by appropriate laboratory tests and that the test results are interpreted with reference to the patient's history and physical examination findings. Syphilis progresses through distinct primary, secondary, latent and tertiary stages. The ulcers that appear in primary and secondary syphilis are rich in treponemes; venereal transmission occurs through direct contact with these lesions. The stage of the disease at which the patient presents has implications for diagnosis and treatment. In some stages, the disease may be asymptomatic, and there are problems in diagnosing very early syphilis, neurosyphilis, asymptomatic congenital syphilis and syphilis in intravenous drug users and persons coinfected with serologically cross-reacting agents and HIV. Std Test nearest Murphys.
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Summaries of EU Legislation
Summaries of EU legislation: direct access to the main summaries page.
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Turkey – Competition
Candidate countries conduct negotiations with the European Union (EU) in order to prepare themselves for accession. The accession negotiations cover the adoption and implementation of European legislation (acquis) and, more specifically, the priorities identified jointly by the Commission and the candidate countries in the analytical assessment (or 'screening') of the EU's political and legislative acquis. Each year, the Commission reviews the progress made by candidates and evaluates the efforts required before their accession. This monitoring is the subject of annual reports presented to the Council and the European Parliament.
Commission Report [COM(2011) 666 final – SEC(2011) 1201 – Not published in the Official Journal].
In its 2011 Report, the European Commission identifies satisfactory progress concerning State Aid and notes Turkey's alignment with the European Union acquis on matters concerning cartels and anti-trust. However, some state aid schemes still need to be aligned with European legislation.
EUROPEAN UNION ACQUIS (according to the Commission's words)
The legislation on competition covers both anti-trust and state aid control policies. It includes rules and procedures for fighting anti-competitive behaviour by companies (restrictive agreements between undertakings and abuse of dominant position), monitoring mergers and for preventing governments from granting state aid which distorts competition in the internal market. Generally, the competition rules are directly applicable throughout the Union, and Member States must cooperate fully with the Commission in the enforcement of these rules.
EVALUATION (according to the Commission's words)
On competition policy, Turkey's alignment record in the field of anti-trust and merger control is high. The Competition Authority enforces antitrust rules effectively, with a satisfactory level of independence. Good progress has been made in the area of State aid. In particular, the State Aid Monitoring Authority is now set up. However, a number of important State aid schemes remain to be aligned with the rules of the Customs Union.
Commission Report [COM(2010) 660 final – SEC(2010) 1327 – Not published in the Official Journal]. In its 2010 Report the Commission noted the high level of alignment achieved by Turkey and its proper application of the rules on competition. Progress has also been made in the area of state aid.
Commission Report [COM(2009) 533 final – SEC(2009) 1334 – Not published in the Official Journal].
Commission Report [COM(2008) 674 final – SEC(2008) 2699 final – Not published in the Official Journal].
The November 2008 Report noted satisfactory harmonisation in antitrust policy and the monitoring of mergers but still reported the absence of progress in the area of State aid.
Commission Report [COM(2007) 663 final – SEC(2007) 1436 final – Not published in the Official Journal].
The November 2007 Report stated that further headway had been made in the area of antitrust policy but noted that there had been no progress with regard to state aid.
Commission Report [COM(2006) 649 final – SEC(2006) 1390 final – Not published in the Official Journal].
The November 2006 Report noted that harmonisation with the EU legislation regarding restrictive agreements was well advanced and improving all the time. It noted though that no progress had been made with state aid.
Commission Report [COM(2005) 561 final – SEC(2005) 1426 final – Not published in the Official Journal].
The November 2005 Report noted that Turkey had made only limited progress with regard to competition issues. In the area of antitrust, it again acknowledged that legislation had been aligned and that application of the rules was largely satisfactory, but it found that there was still no progress concerning state aid.
Commission Report [COM(2004) 656 final – SEC(2004) 1201 final – Not published in the Official Journal].
The October 2004 Report recorded Turkey's progress in the area of antitrust policy but noted that no progress had been made with state aid, a situation that Turkey urgently needed to remedy.
Commission Report [COM(2003) 676 final - SEC(2003) 1212 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
The November 2003 Report found that, although Turkey had made some progress in the antitrust field, further efforts were needed as regards alignment of block exemptions, adjustment of state monopolies and companies enjoying special rights. Turkey should urgently adopt legislation on the monitoring of state aid and establish a state aid supervisory authority.
Commission Report [COM(2002) 700 final - SEC(2002) 1412 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
The October 2002 Report found that Turkey had continued to make progress in the antitrust field but that progress on state aid monitoring and the adaptation of state monopolies had been very limited.
Commission Report [COM(2001) 700 final - SEC(2001) 1756 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
The November 2001 Report highlighted substantial progress on antitrust matters but none whatsoever on state aid (the supervisory authority was not operational until January 2003). In addition, despite the fact that the transitional period allowed by the customs union agreement ended in 1998, the liberalisation process started by Turkey was inadequate (see the state monopoly for alcohol and tobacco).
Commission Report [COM(2000) 713 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
The November 2000 Report found that Turkey was coming into line with the EU legislation and it had adopted most of the antitrust secondary legislation. No progress had been made, on the other hand, in adjusting monopolies and the situation was still far from satisfactory. As no state aid supervisory authority had been set up, progress in this area was limited.
Commission Report [COM(1999) 513 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
The 1999 Report found that, despite the changes made to the Competition Act, progress still had to be made in antitrust matters. The Commission was particularly concerned about the privileges enjoyed by certain firms in monopoly positions and holding exclusive rights. The arrangements applying in Turkey for state aid were still being discussed by the Commission and the Turkish authorities.
Commission Report [COM(1998) 711 final - Not published in the Official Journal.
See also
- Website of the Directorate General for Enlargement: Enlargement Strategy and Progress Reports 2011
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copy and paste), but it does appear to have a number of
relatively enthusiastic
hardware partners. And now AT&T has revealed itself as
a key ally with some big claims.A spokeswoman for AT&T,
the second largest mobile phone carrier in the U.S., told PC
"We'll be the premier carrier for Windows Phone 7. We
haven't given guidance on timing."Altimeter Group
analyst Michael Gartenberg claimed in a Twitter
post last week that AT&T has plans to buy 8 million
Windows Phone 7 smartphones. That's a fair number, but still
very plausible considering that globally 55 million smart phones were
sold in Q1 2010.There's no telling yet what exactly AT&T
means by being the "premier" carrier of the new Microsoft
smart phones. It could simply be alluding to the company's data
network, which is generally regarded as superior to that of America's
top carrier, Verizon. Or it could even be suggesting something
more exciting.Regardless, Microsoft likely is more willing to
work with AT&T after Verizon's involvement in the trainwreck
that was Microsoft Kin. While the failure of Kin rests
mostly on Microsoft's shoulders, Verizon deserves a bit of blame as
well -- it could have offered more competitive pricing and advertised
it more effectively.In the wake
of Kin and questions about Windows Phone 7, AT&T seems
like the only one enthusiastic about Microsoft's upcoming phone
platform. Sprint and Verizon reportedly refused comment on the
platform and T-Mobile never responded to a request for comment.For
AT&T, regardless of how Windows Phone 7 is received Windows Phone
7 could play a key role to drawing in more customers. AT&T
has always prided itself for having a diverse portfolio of
smartphones. While its Android offerings have been a bit
lacking, it has, of course, the infamous
iPhone. And its spokesperson recently bragged to us that
the company has "more smartphones than any other U.S.
carrier."Thus Windows Phone 7 products, like the
Dell Lightning, should form a critical fourth pillar to AT&T's
efforts, which currently consist mostly of Apple, Blackberry, and
Android smartphones.


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A highschool freshman who rather locks herself up in her room reading Harry Potter fan fictions then doing her boring&dull muggle work.
Likes flattering people - it's in my nature. When I review a story, I don't harp on them! If the story isn't all that great I will be constructive about it - in other words, I will try to spill the beans and not let the author be offending. No one likes that! Sometimes I do speak my mind - watch out! - but you have to wait for a blue moon to rise, for me to do that.
I'm hopelessly romantic and a sucker for angsty fics. I guess I just like the whole on-the-edge-of-your-seat feel.
Reviews make me squeal! Don't hesistate to review. I can take criticism but don't be too harsh about it. All right? ;)
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9/14/2010 | By REIT.com
As part of our REITs@50 Anniversary celebration, REIT.com sat down with 2010 NAREIT Chair Debra Cafaro, chairman, president and CEO of Ventas, Inc. (NYSE: VTR), to talk about the growth of the REIT industry and where things go from here.
When asked about what she felt was NAREIT's biggest contribution to the REIT industry, Cafaro spoke about the importance of reaching out to potential investors.
"NAREIT's biggest contribution has been in the area of investor outreach. Educating investors, both dedicated as well as non-dedicated investors, pension funds, plan sponsors, etc., about the benefits of investing in commercial real estate through the REIT model," Cafaro says.
In addition to the investor outreach NAREIT performs, Cafaro believes that the organization is an essential resource for the industry.
"The research that NAREIT has sponsored as well as that which it has undertaken on its own has been absolutely compelling in showing that the REIT model is the best way to invest in real estate. NAREIT continues to deliver the message broadly to drive capital to the REIT model," she says.
When it came to NAREIT's impact on her company specifically, Cafaro spoke about NAREIT's role in getting the REIT Investment & Diversification Act (RIDEA) passed, as it served as a very important element in the restructuring of many health care REITs, including Ventas. Cafaro said that RIDEA helped put her company on equal footing with other types of REITs and has allowed for additional avenues of growth for Ventas.
Cafaro also spoke about the overall impact listed REITs have had on the commercial real estate landscape.
"Listed REITs have been a very important product in allowing investors to invest in commercial real estate in a cash-flowing, liquid, dividend-paying way. REITs provide transparency, accountability and alignment with shareholders," Cafaro says.
Because of the advantages that REITs bring to a portfolio, she expects the industry's future to be as strong as its past.
"I think the REIT industry will continue to grow. Ten percent of the commercial real estate market is owned by REITs, and I'm very hopeful that percentage will continue to grow and perhaps double over the coming years. I also hope that more capital will flow to the REIT model as a superior model of investing in commercial real estate," Cafaro says.


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By Laura Paskus for the Santa Fe Reporter
Close your eyes, and picture a radical.
Bill Olson is not that guy. With a neat brown beard and a fondness for western shirts and jackets, even the occasional bolo tie, he's the quintessential water nerd. When asked, over coffee and a blueberry scone, to talk about groundwater, he actually grins. Delightedly.
In short, he's not exactly the person you'd expect to find at the center of a controversy over New Mexico's environmental rules.
And yet, here he is.
Olson is a former bureau chief at the New Mexico Environment Department, which regulates how industry impacts the state's natural resources. Specifically, he has worked to keep groundwater—the underground aquifers that provide most of New Mexico's drinking water—from becoming contaminated.
"I'm passionate about groundwater and protection issues," he says. "It's something that's important to me."
It's early May, and the state has just wrapped up a few grueling weeks' worth of hearings about a new water pollution rule for copper mines.
To industry, the new rule represents the chance to profit and create jobs in New Mexico. Others see it as an abdication of the state's responsibility to protect groundwater—and a move to hand over the public's water to private companies.
"Really, we're concerned that this copper rule turns back the clock, and turns back everything that New Mexico's been doing to protect groundwater for 35 years," says Phil Sisneros, a spokesman for the New Mexico Attorney General's Office.
Bruce Frederick, a water rights attorney for the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, goes even further. In his view, the new rule violates the state's 1978 Water Quality Act.
"We think it's illegal," he says frankly. "Now, they're giving across-the-board exemptions for pollution from copper mines. It's a sweet deal."
And Olson—known for his evenhandedness—is caught smack in the middle.
Before understanding the rule itself, it's important to know why anyone would change it in the first place.
In 2009, the New Mexico Legislature passed a law requiring new groundwater rules for two industries: copper mining and dairy farming. At the time, the bill was cast as a way to clarify pollution rules by setting certain standards. The state's Water Quality Control Commission—a 14-member group of state employees, gubernatorial appointees and citizens—would be in charge of writing the new rules.
The commission has no technical staff, so it delegated the task to NMED.
One critical aspect of the 2009 law, which was negotiated between lawmakers and industry, requires agreement from stakeholders before a new rule is approved. So not only did NMED need someone to write the rules; it also needed to hold meetings and revise the rules as needed. After NMED did the groundwork, the commission could accept or reject the changes.
That long, arduous process began in 2009.
First came the dairy rule. NMED tapped Olson, then chief of the department's Ground Water Quality Bureau, to help rewrite it. At the time, Olson had weathered five different administrations and sat for 13 years on the Water Quality Control Commission. When it comes to technical jargon and regulatory mazes, he knows his stuff. He's also known for navigating a middle line between industry and environmentalists.
In 2010, after months of meetings and three weeks of public hearings, Olson and his staff released the new rule. Among other changes, it would require dairies to install plastic liners to keep waste pits full of manure from contaminating water. But the dairy industry appealed, claiming the new regulations were too strict. Upon taking office, Gov. Susana Martinez tried to block the rule from being published—a procedural end-run that, in retrospect, foreshadowed future controversy.
The state Supreme Court stymied Martinez' move, issuing a stern rebuke: "No one is above the law." In 2011—just as Olson was retiring—the state and the dairy industry reached a settlement.
But Olson's time at NMED wasn't quite over: A few months later, the agency hired him as a contractor to write the new copper rule.
New Mexico has three copper mines: Cobre, Chino and Tyrone. All three are currently owned by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., the world's largest publicly traded copper company. Copper is an integral part of life; it's used in electronics and for everything from water pipes to telecommunications wire.
The three mines have shaped southwestern New Mexico's economy. They employ 1,550 people directly; indirectly, nearly twice that. But they also have a history of polluting groundwater. According to a 2012 report by the New Mexico Office of the Natural Resource Trustee, groundwater pollution totals more than 20,000 acres beneath the three mines. (In 2010, Freeport paid the state $13 million to settle allegations it had contaminated that water; that money is dedicated to groundwater restoration projects.)
On a recent Monday morning, Olson sits at a table in the Santa Fe Baking Company, a spot he favored for lunch while working for the state.
Setting his orange coffee mug atop a white, ceramic plate specked with crumbs, he illustrates what's at stake.
The mug represents a tailings pond or waste rock pile—the rocks dug up and discarded in the process of getting to the copper. He points to the base of the mug. That's where a monitoring well should be: As close as possible to the source of the pollution, so NMED can quickly detect any contamination in the groundwater.
Of course, monitoring wells don't prevent pollution; they simply measure it. In order to determine how much a given mine can pollute, NMED has used the general guidelines in the state's Water Quality Act.
Take the sprawling Tyrone Mine, south of Silver City. In 2012, it produced 83 million pounds of copper. It includes eight open pits and 2,800 acres of waste rock and leach piles. About a decade ago, Freeport maintained that it could pollute as much as it wanted because the groundwater under Tyrone would never be used for drinking. (After all, who would ever build, say, a town on top of a mine?) The state didn't buy it, and the two sides ended up before the Water Quality Control Commission and then in court.
In 2010, they reached an agreement: Freeport could legally pollute the water under Tyrone as long as it obtained a variance, or exemption, from the commission. A variance would allow the company to pollute a very specific area for five years. Over the past three years, Freeport has requested two variances for the Tyrone Mine; the commission has granted both of them.
But the existing process is both ad hoc and inconsistent, according to Eric Kinneberg, director of external communications for Freeport. Enforcing groundwater standards through individual variances, he writes in an email, has resulted in excessive red tape and delays—and the new copper rule is a much-needed improvement.
"Not only are clear rules important to Freeport-McMoRan's ability to meet rigorous environmental protection standards," he writes, "but they will also allow us to more reliably plan for potential expansion and investment opportunities."
Since 2009, Freeport has played a key role in crafting the new rule. And, as Olson would soon find out, the company didn't intend to keep begging for variances.
For seven months, Olson worked with the copper advisory committee and a technical committee to craft the new copper rule. Convened by NMED, the committees included the copper industry, environmental groups and technical experts. Throughout the process, Freeport made clear its desire to do away with the variance system. But Olson never incorporated that change into the rule, and in mid-August he sent the draft rule—revised and written with help from the committees—to NMED's upper management.
From here, though, the story takes a surprising twist. Just as the rule was about to go public, NMED's senior staff pulled it back. At the last minute, they made crucial changes—in essence, giving Freeport everything it wanted. Rather than prescribing and enforcing how mines must keep waste from seeping into groundwater, the new rule allows NMED to defer to mining companies themselves.
To explain the changes, Olson returns to the mug—that pile of contaminated waste rock—atop his plate.
The plate, he explains, represents a groundwater catchment system, a way to try to capture the pollution and keep it from traveling too far away. Under the new rule, monitoring wells are drilled beyond the catchment—meaning the company is legally allowed to pollute the space between the base of the mug and the edge of the plate.
Sure, the company will try to keep pollution from leaving the space below the plate. But aside from requiring them to be downgradient of the pollution source, the rule doesn't say anything else about where monitoring wells must be drilled. It's unclear, even, if a company could just keep making its plate bigger and bigger and keep pushing those wells out further and further away from the pollution source.
Understanding this takes months of filing Inspection of Public Records Act requests, watching excruciating technical testimony, talking with lawyers—and, finally, having a guy with a plate and a mug explain the issues.
But the mining industry has found a better way to sell the new rule to the public.
In October, just after the Attorney General's Office and the New Mexico Environmental Law Center submitted their objections to the new rule, the New Mexico Mining Association hired The Garrity Group, a high-profile public-relations firm, to create a website about the copper rules. Polished and professional, the site includes video interviews with copper miners. One man describes growing up and wanting to be a copper miner; another recites a familiar mantra about the rule-making process: A diverse group of state officials, academics and environmental groups, he says, worked together to create a balanced rule for copper.
According to an emailed statement from Executive Director Mike Bowen, the New Mexico Mining Association supports the new rule because it represents proven technologies and best practices. The association, which represents copper, coal, uranium and other mining industries, has a lot at stake.
"The NMMA is interested and engaged," Bowen writes, "because, depending on how the rule is written, it would indicate that other commodities mined in our state will also be regulated considering proven technologies and best practices."
How the copper rule was effectively dismantled—by the very agency charged with environmental protection—is a story in itself.
Last August, after months of negotiation and tweaking, Olson sent a "discussion draft" of the rule to NMED's upper management.
Two days later, General Counsel Ryan Flynn wrote in an email, "NMED anticipates making changes to the rule over the next couple of weeks."
(Flynn, who was recently named NMED's new cabinet secretary, came to the department from Modrall Sperling Law Firm, which counts Freeport among its clients. Requests to interview Flynn for this story were ignored.)
The rule that emerged in mid-September was a different animal. It incorporated language Freeport had previously proposed, but the committee had rejected. Most notably, it freed copper companies from having to apply for variances.
"Our collective jaws dropped. It was such an obvious betrayal," Frederick says. During the process, he represented the Gila Resources Information Project, an environmental group that sat on NMED's copper advisory committee. "If they had told us this was the plan, we wouldn't have participated. We were basically tricked."
For months, copper committee members had traveled for meetings, spending hundreds of hours working together and believing they had a say. When NMED released its revamped rule in September, the law center filed comments opposing it. Tall, with graying hair and brown eyes, Frederick has a deep, lawyerly voice. He also has a master's degree in hydrology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and, in the 1980s, worked for NMED's predecessor, the Environmental Improvement Division.
"The department, at Freeport's asking, allows waste rock piles and tailings ponds to contaminate groundwater as long as there is an interceptor system downstream, and then downstream of that, a monitoring well," he explains. "The department went a step further, and eliminated the need to get variances. Ever."
Frederick spares a tight smile: He has to thank Freeport for its restraint. Based on how solicitous NMED's senior management has been, the copper company could have asked for even more.
The Attorney General's Office also urged NMED to reconsider the rule. In its comments, the office notes that significant changes occurred between August and September—and that the revised draft "in essence wholly incorporates the comments of the mining industry and wholly rejects the comments of the environmental groups."
Attorney Tracy Hughes, who spent a total of 17 years at NMED, now works at High Desert Energy + Environment Law Partners, LLC, a firm founded by four former NMED attorneys. Hughes represents the nonprofit environmental group Amigos Bravos in opposing the copper rule.
"We understand that in our society, there is a certain amount of pollution generated by our standard of living," Hughes says. "We're not anti-mining." The problem is simply that the proposed rule violates state law, she says. In essence, it allows copper companies to pollute groundwater above legal levels—as long as the pollution doesn't reach monitoring wells.
The impact doesn't stop there, Sisneros notes. In addition to copper, other types of mines, dairies, wastewater treatment plants, federal nuclear weapons laboratories—in total, some 900 other facilities—also pollute groundwater. If NMED goes easy on the copper industry, he says, "It would set a very dangerous precedent."
During rule-making hearings, commissioners spend hours listening to testimony about mining practices, how groundwater travels and other complicated details. They also must listen to the public. While the copper hearings in Silver City have been lively, the public hearings in Santa Fe were a testament to how little the public knows—or cares—about environmental regulations.
On a recent afternoon in Santa Fe near the capitol building, the nearly empty Apodaca Hall feels cavernous. The commissioners have spent all day sitting through technical testimony. Now, it's time to hear from the public.
There are 16 people in the audience, including me. The evening before, there were even fewer.
"The New Mexico Environment Department is not the most popular branch of government, but it's one of the most important," state Sen. Richard Martinez, D-Española, tells the commissioners. It's important that environmental groups, academics and industry have all been invited into the rule-making process, he says: "This kind of transparency is at the heart of the rules."
A few others speak: Dora Dominguez says the state Economic Development Department supports the revised copper rule. Plumber Jeff Romero explains that copper pipes are better for domestic water lines than plastic. A few citizens speak against the proposed rule, most of them noting that water is scarce and should be protected. Some say the rule is a step backward, or that it's illegal.
Public hearings are important to the process, and they reinforce the notion of democracy. But when it comes to actually writing the rules—and upholding their integrity—it is NMED's staffers who matter most.
And that, to some observers, reflects another worrisome aspect of the changing rules. Over the past two years, NMED has seen an exodus that includes some of its best, most senior employees—including several longtime bureau chiefs.
"These are among the best professional environmental agency people we've had in the state—people who had been there for many years—and it got so bad, they all left," says Jim Norton, who for eight years was director of NMED's Environmental Protection Division. Secretary and division director positions change from administration to administration, he says, but the bureau chiefs were once immune to political whims.
"They play an absolutely crucial role: These are the people who know the state and federal laws on the books to protect the environment and who respond to whatever comes at them, whether from a Republican or Democrat administration," he says. "Any administration will try to shape things the way they think things should be shaped, but it's the job of those bureau chiefs—these are the stable people—to say, 'Wait a minute, that's illegal' or 'That's against the rules that have been in place for decades.'"
The department has been hemorrhaging attorneys, too. At the end of 2012, the NMED attorney working on the copper rule resigned. In addition to Hughes and her law partners, there's Tannis Fox, a former general counsel who left the department in late 2011 and is now leading the charge against the rule as an assistant attorney general.
"It's like with the bureau chiefs: all the solid environmental attorneys who have been there, sometimes for decades, have left because they don't want to be part of the dismantling of environmental laws and regulations," Norton says.
As administrations change, there will always be political pressure, he allows, "but to have this level of devastation in the environment department? This is unprecedented."
In September, when Olson read the re-written rule, he was shocked. He was also told he wouldn't be testifying before the Water Quality Control Commission. Thinking there was nothing more he could do, Olson terminated his contract with NMED.
The more he mulled things over, though, the more he knew they weren't right. The rule contradicted everything he had worked for.
"It's bad groundwater policy to allow pollution to occur," he says. "Especially now that we're in a drought, and we're going to be pumping more groundwater."
Olson set aside thoughts of spending his retirement riding horses; he abandoned the hope of landing future contracts with NMED. In February, he announced he would testify before the commission as a private citizen.
Immediately, NMED objected.
According to a letter obtained through a public-records request, Flynn called Olson to tell him that NMED wanted reimbursement for money it had paid him to work on the copper rule. According to the letter, which Olson sent to NMED, Flynn also accused him of breaking the contract's confidentiality and reminded him he'd been told to remain neutral on the copper rule.
In March, NMED filed a motion to exclude Olson's testimony and any transcripts from previous hearings.
As though to further stack the deck, the Water Quality Control Commission saw a member shakeup. Most commissioners serve at the discretion of state department heads; four are appointed by the governor. By the end of last year, Frederick says the commission—once a group of technical experts and scientists—had become bunch of "good ol' boys" who sided with NMED and Freeport even during the hearings.
"We would cross-examine NMED or Freeport witnesses, and the commissioners would ask questions, almost as if they were advisors for Freeport or the environment department," Frederick says. The reverse was true of the law center's witnesses, he says, whom commissioners often cross-examined.
"They're ideologically driven, and it looks like they've already made up their minds," he says. It's the commissioners' duty to protect groundwater, he adds, which according to New Mexico law belongs to the public. Instead, he says, "This commission seems to think its duty is to bend over backwards and hand the public's water over to Freeport."
NMED didn't stop at trying to block Olson from testifying. It also lined up its own witnesses: Resource Protection Division Acting Director Tom Skibitski and a contractor, Adrian Brown.
Skibitski began his career in construction management; at NMED, he's worked on everything from underground storage tanks to US Department of Energy facilities. His résumé reflects no comprehensive experience with groundwater, and email records of the rulemaking process do not show his involvement.
Brown, a civil engineer and president of the International Mine Water Association, landed a $75,000 contract for his work as an expert witness. (According to an amendment to the contract, Brown voluntarily reduced his hourly rate from $225 to $150.)
When Olson appeared before the commission, toward the end of the hearings in April, only nine of its 14 members were there to hear him correct misinformation offered by both Skibitski and Brown.
"I thought it was important to give the commission factual information," Olson says now.
After a weekend of catching up on sleep and trying to unwind from the hearings, at the café, he explains that capture systems aren't foolproof.
"Nothing is perfect. That's why you try to prevent pollution rather than capture it," he says. "Groundwater movement isn't uniform. There are fractures and channels, and you don't always know where those are."
With the copper rule, Olson is not casting his lot with environmentalists and demonizing the copper mining industry. That's just not his thing.
"There always has to be a balance, and you have to be doing things that are practical for industry to do," he says. That's not what the new rule does. Instead, he says, "It's almost like we're trying to institutionalize a failed system."
In all the discussions about rules and regulations, it can be easy to miss the big picture. While a rule can always change, an environmental legacy is forever. Even though he's no longer with NMED, Norton worries about the future.
"If the copper regulations go through, they are going to allow groundwater to be polluted by mining companies," he says. "That lasts forever. Once you pollute the groundwater like that, it can't be reclaimed."
Click here to see all the testimony submitted by witnesses and attorneys to the WQCC.


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October 4, 2009
It has been confirmed that the HTC Leo supports Windows Mobile 7! Here is the info on the internal ROM: ROM: 512 MB / RAM: 320 MB / HD: 207.13MB (deliberation is that it may come in more than one partition). If you want to know more about the same, below mentioned are some of


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This Friday marks the 100th installment of one of the Terrarium's most popular features: Fridays with Fred. In that time, he's told us about students paying their tuition with produce and the time that Abraham Lincoln came to Beloit, among many, many delightful and illuminated tales of Beloit history.
Click here to see the bulk of the series.
In order to celebrate this accomplishment, all are invited to join in congratulating Fred today (Thursday, April 25) at 10:30 a.m., on the north end of the lower level of the library, just outside the Paula Black Seminar Room.
And make sure to tune in to the Terrarium tomorrow to see the milestone Fridays with Fred post!


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Thank you!! Now I can see the addl, movb, etc.
i got the same thing.. Until i typed in the following command. make sure your using the appropriate arch. i1386 is 32bits. x84_64 is 64bit
otool -arch x86_64 -vt ATIFramebuffer | tee filename.txtthis allows the results to be written to a text file. The txt file will be in the same location as your ATIFramebuffer file. Once you get your file, you can open it with any text editor and search for Uakari. Find your profile underneath.
Hope this helps.
But it looks like I'm doing something wrong, when I edit a framebuffer found by me doesn't work :\
Hi bcc9,
Thank you for the brilliant guide. I tried on my notebook (Dell Studio 1557 with HD4570). I was able to get the external monitor which is connected to HDMI port detected but for some reason there is no output. The monitor act like there is no signal to it. In System Profiler & IORegistryExplorer, I can see the monitor is properly detected at @0. I'm using peregrine personality. The monitor is full HD LCD. Do you have any idea why there is no output?
EDIT: Sorry. I forgot to post relevant information. I'm going to post it in a couple of minutes.
EDIT 2: Looks like I got QE/CI on the external monitor. I can see the water effect with Dashboard. Unfortunately no output on the external monitor, only can see it via VNC.
Not bad at all, at least you have QE/CI, maybe editing the framebuffer you can have signal. What have you done?


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snagged for $1200.00
will need a stiff cleaning, fresh points and plugs, correct wire ends, and probably carb rebuild, and front brake rebuild.
and a paint job...
snagged for $1200.00
will need a stiff cleaning, fresh points and plugs, correct wire ends, and probably carb rebuild, and front brake rebuild.
and a paint job...
Welcome to one of the sane activities today, working on an airhead and then riding it for enjoyment. Other BMW models can be included also, but airheads are in a special place in the history, performance and expense/return for investment.
Nice.... Those cases look like a Wixom set...niceeeee. Welcome and have fun. another airhead NOT being parted out or junked yeaaaa so what's the model and year? Looks like its got some mix match not sure though...
...driving to work on my airhead
serial comes back as a 1973 r90/6
and other than the horrid fairing, it's not bad.
And this would make the...4th airhead I've rescued from the breakers.
and while it's bad, it's not 'Renegade!' bad. long time forum members might remember Renegade. poor guy, I wonder if he ever did get that thing rebuilt...
Don't touch it! Just ride it as is... Totally hardcore!
1969 Triumph Bonneville T120R, 1972 Commando 750, 1974 Vespa Rally 200, 1974 Commando 850, 1975 Commando 850, 2010 Triumph T100 w/sidecar, 2011 BMW R1200RT, 2013 Honda CB1100
Paint job? We don't NEED no stinkin' paint job!
I think that might be the rare original and beautiful "Gilbert Grape" color -- one of the few colors that the factory applied by brush, versus spray-gun. Be a shame to change it.
Merit Badge with Oak Leaf Cluster for you -- save #4, and counting!
Walking Eagle
can't quite tell from the pic- but if a '73 then the front rotor should be solid and not drilled. Also, original issue in '74 came with a kicker on the trans. Somethings been changed in that regard, me thinks.
And, it's probably actually a 1974, as 1973 was still a /5, and '74 was first year in US of the /6. Date of manufacture is likely listed as sometime in 1973.
Ride Safe, Ride Lots
Sorry, you're right.. I think in terms of 'year of manufacture'
it was built 10/73... which makes it a 1974 year model.
sorry for the confusion.
ol' Renegade.
THanks! I was afraid that thread would be lost in time... poor ol Lonelobo.. wonder whatever happened to him.


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Any procurement not exceeding $10,000, including purchases made using imprest funds shall be made using simplified small purchase procedures promulgated by the Chief Procurement Officer. Procurement requirements may not be artificially divided so as to constitute a small purchase under this subsection and thus circumvent other source selection rules required under this section.History: Rule 8, eff. March 3, 1999.


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By Paul Hagen / MLB.com
PHILADELPHIA -- Scott Downs said Sunday morning he didn't want to miss any more time than necessary after fracturing the tip of the ring finger of his non-pitching right hand attempting to field a comebacker off the bat of Chase Utley on Saturday night.
Fredi Gonzalez went so far as to say that he wouldn't rule out using Downs in Sunday's series finale against the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.
"I'm not counting him out," the manager said before the game. "I probably won't use [Luis Avilan] today. That would be three in a row, the last two nights in one-run games. But I think Downsie may be fine. What are the chances of him using his glove on a comebacker? And if he's using a splint, it's not going to make it any worse.
"I'll bet we've all had broken toes and gotten through it. The biggest thing is when he takes his hand out of his glove to rub up the ball. He goes, 'I don't rub it up that much.' The umpires may come out and say, 'Hey, what have you got on your finger.' But before we get to that point, I'll take him into the umpire's room and say, 'Hey, this guy has a chance to pitch with a splint. I want you to take a look at it.' If he's OK, he's available. It's up to him."
Downs and Avilan are the only two left-handers in the Braves' bullpen. As it turned out, though, neither was needed in what became a 3-2 loss to the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.
Downs said he still isn't sure how a ball hitting the outside of his glove could break his finger.
"I have no clue. I even went back and looked at film to try to figure out if it hit the back of my glove," he said. "I have no clue. I just know that when it hit my glove, it got really warm. Almost like it exploded, or whatever. After the play, when I took the glove off, I didn't know it was broken. It swelled up a little bit.
"If I'm going to break a finger I'd rather have it be on that hand, as opposed to my throwing hand. I don't expect much of a delay. It's just going to be a matter of pain tolerance. I can squeeze a little bit. I can move it around. I wish I knew it would be today, tomorrow, whatnot. But we'll just see how the treatment goes and go from there. I'm not missing a lot, no. It's not in my nature just to sit back and watch. I'll do whatever I can."
Gattis clubs Majors' longest homer this year
PHILADELPHIA -- The Braves only had two hits in their 3-2 loss to the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on Sunday. Both were home runs by Evan Gattis. And the first one was so impressive, was hit so hard, that it remained a big topic of conversation in the clubhouse afterward even though it didn't prevent first-place Atlanta from being swept.
Even Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels, who served it up, was impressed.
"I felt like I was throwing a golf ball out there and he had a driver," said Hamels. "He's probably going to be in that strongest-man competition at the end of the year. Definitely going to vote on him, because he'll win. It was impressive."
Estimating the distance of batted balls is notoriously unreliable. Probably the most accurate yardstick is the ESPN Home Run Tracker, which had it at 486 feet. That's both the longest homer hit in the Major Leagues this year and the longest in the 10-year history of the Bank.
Gattis hit another one off Hamels in the seventh, the first multiple-homer game of his career. And he might have hit a third but his fly ball to dead center in the fifth was caught at the base of the wall.
"I think the wind just kicked up at the right time. I thought that ball had a chance, too," said Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez.
Added Gattis: "I thought I hit it well enough to get off the wall, at least, but maybe the wind knocked it down or something. But I felt like I put a good swing on that ball as well."
Gattis was surprised when told there hadn't been a longer homer this season.
"Yeah, I have figured somebody would have hit one further. [Miami's Giancarlo] Stanton or somebody like that. But it only counts as one. And we lost the game. So I'm ready to get after them in Miami."
Hamels had retired the first four batters he faced before Gattis nailed a 92-mph, 1-0 fastball. It carried over the fence, over the Ashburn Alley concourse and off the fronting of the open air Budweiser Roof Top, where fans can stand and watch the game in front of them with the Center City skyline at their backs.
Fredi not yet thinking about playoff rotation
PHILADELPHIA -- The Braves have the National League's best record. Their magic number going into Monday's series at Marlins Park is nine.
Still, veteran baseball people know better than to take anything for granted. Which is why manager Fredi Gonzalez insists he hasn't even thought about lining up his pitching in anticipation of the National League Division Series.
"Until they put one of those letters next to your name, then you worry about that," Gonzalez said with a laugh. "I'm a believer that there are still a lot of baseball games left to be played. I don't even let myself think about it, let the guard down."
Gonzalez conceded, however, that he and pitching coach Roger McDowell have already "tinkered" the rotation by trying to get a little extra rest for Mike Minor and Julio Teheran.
"I think if you have the flexibility, you kind of try to deal with it that way," he said.
Worth noting
• With Justin Upton getting a day off, shortstop Andrelton Simmons, whose ninth-inning homer tied Saturday night's game, moved up to second in the batting order for the 19th time this year.
"Just to get a bat up there," Gonzalez said. "I think the best is still way ahead of him. It's just a matter of experience and maturity. He's just going to keep getting better and better, in my view of him. Defensively, he's reached that. Offensively I still think there's much, much more. Because hitters improve with more at-bats at the Major League level."
Simmons went hitless in four at-bats.
• First baseman Freddie Freeman appeared to be limping after running into the fence trying to catch Kevin Frandsen's foul popup that drifted into the seats in the eighth inning.
"I think he just banged it up a little bit. He's fine. It's just one of those things I think we're going to have to manage a little bit and hopefully down the road here we can give him a couple days. But nothing major," said Gonzalez.
• Catcher Gerald Laird is a big USC fan. So, naturally, after the Trojans were upset by Washington State on Saturday, first baseman Freddie Freeman had the Cougars fight song cued up on the clubhouse stereo and cranked it up as soon as Laird walked into the clubhouse Sunday morning.
Paul Hagen is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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With a month to go before the U.S. Supreme Court issues rulings on same-sex marriage, several related announcements grabbed headlines this week over the heated national controversy.
- The Associated Press reported that the Obama administration is considering urging the Supreme Court overturn California's ban on gay marriage — a move that could have a far-reaching impact on same-sex couples across the country. The administration has one week to file a friend-of-the-court brief with the justices outlining its opinion on the California ban, known as Proposition 8. While an administration brief alone is unlikely to sway the high court, the government's opinion does carry weight with the justices. An administration official told the Associated Press that Obama — a former constitutional law professor — was not foreshadowing any legal action in his remarks during his state of the union and was simply restating his personal belief in the right of gays and lesbians to marry, though the official said the administration was considering filing a brief.
- In San Francisco, city attorney Dennis Herrera filed his last brief in the U.S. Supreme court advocating for equal marriage rights for lesbian and gay couples. The 62-page pleading addresses whether the 2008 ballot measure that eliminated marriage rights for same-sex couples in California violates the U.S. Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, and whether the measure's proponents had legal standing to pursue their appeals through the federal courts.
- Lawyers for a lesbian Berkeley couple and a Burbank couple at the center of the Supreme Court fight filed a 54-page brief on Thursday challenging the constitutionality of Prop. 8. Lyle Denniston, who writes for the SCOTUS blog, called it a "bold attempt to portray the constitutional idea of marriage equality as a victim of homophobia, and to persuade the Court not to settle for a California-only decision."
- The Associated Press on Thursday added a new stylebook item, declaring that the terms "husband and wife" are acceptable in any legally recognized marriage "regardless of sexual orientation."
In San Francisco, the city attorney has been vigilant and vociferous about arging in favor of same-sex marriage equality. Herrera's brief rebuts legal arguments in defense of Prop. 8's legitimacy, concluding that the measure's actual justification—"asserting the inferiority of same-sex couples"—was discriminatory and plainly unconstitutional when it was enacted. The two California couples at the center of the case are Kris Perry and Sandy Stier of Berkeley, and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarillo from Burbank.
"It is implausible that more opposite-sex couples will marry, and have children in wedlock, if same-sex couples cannot marry as well," Herrera's brief contends. "Nor can Proposition 8 be justified as an exercise in promoting the well-being of children or families. It has no effect on gay couples' ability to raise children, and in fact it denies tens of thousands of children who have same-sex parents the security and esteem of living in a marital family."
Meanwhile, Prop. 8 backers are trying to persuade the Supreme Court to leave the same-sex marriage ban intact, saying the state's voters had a right to restrict marriage to heterosexual couples.
The Proposition 8 ballot initiative was approved by California voters in 2008 in response to a state Supreme Court decision that had allowed gay marriage. Twenty-nine other states have constitutional amendments banning gay marriage, while nine states and Washington, D.C., recognize same-sex marriage.
The White House administration could also file a narrower brief that would ask the court to issue a decision applying only to California. Or it could decide not to weigh in on the case at all.
The Supreme Court, which will take up the case on March 26, has several options for its eventual ruling. Among them:
- Uphold the state ban on gay marriage and say citizens of a state have the right to make that call.
- Endorse an appeals court ruling that would make same-sex marriage legal in California but apply only to that state.
- Issue a broader ruling that would apply to California and seven other states: Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Rhode Island. In those states, gay couples may join in civil unions that have all the benefits of marriage but may not be married.
- Rule that the Constitution forbids states from banning same-sex unions.
Ahead of next week's deadline, nearly two dozen states have filed briefs with the court asking the justices to uphold the California measure.
Public opinion has shifted in support of gay marriage in recent years. In May 2008, Gallup found that 56 percent of Americans felt same-sex marriages should not be recognized by the law as valid. By November 2012, 53 percent felt they should be legally recognized.
One day after the court hears the California case, the justices will hear arguments on another gay marriage case, this one involving provisions of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The act defines marriage as between a man and a woman for the purpose of deciding who can receive a range of federal benefits.
The Obama administration abandoned its defense of the law in 2011 but continues to enforce it.
Associated Press writers Julie Pace, Mark Sherman and News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.


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A drop in the local postage rate from 3 to 2 cents will go into effect July 1. The change recently enacted also gives the president authority to make a general reduction in postal rates if he finds business conditions warrant that action.
J.R. Cheney, division engineer of the state highway department, was here Wednesday and stated that Dolores was in line to receive a portion of what is known as the three percent gasoline tax money for use improving the state highway through town. State highway No. 145 is now officially recognized as passing through town and it is Dolores' turn to receive this money, which amounts to about a thousand dollars a year, for improvement of its street. Cortez and Mancos have each received their money.
Chaplain Bayliss, of the U.S. Army, was here Sunday and made arrangements to hold services each Sunday at the two C.C.C. camps, at Mesa Verde and Beaver. Rev. C.L. Flanders Is appointed chaplain for the Beaver camp, and Rev. Bell, of Mancos, for the Mesa Verde camp. There will be Protestant services at these camps three Sundays of the month and catholic services one Sunday each month. Rev. Paul A. Shields preached at Beaver Camp last Sunday.
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McPhee Items: Loyal "Jack" Grabeel is suffering from a sprained ankle which he sustained Sunday when a rock he stepped on rolled over with him.
Lebanon Items: Mr. and Mrs. Bud Byran, Winnifred Neely, Marry Hoskins and Dan and Walter Wolff enjoyed a picnic at Beaver Friday.
Mancos Items: Sixteen members of the Mancos Study Club motored to Mesa Verde park where they were the guests of Mrs. Marshall Finnan Thursday afternoon. Under her guidance they visited some of the interested places, including the museum, Eileen Nusbaum hospital and the new amphitheater now under construction. The replica of Basket Weaver period - the joint work of the park architect, Lyle Bennett, and the naturalist, Paul Franke - is a work of art which is carried out in the minutest detail They further plan a replica of six periods and in this way picture the history of this people from the first period to the present time.


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London Welsh target the big stage
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London Welsh are determined to continue their rapid rise into the elite of English rugby by bidding for a place in next season's London Double Header at Twickenham.
Wasps, London Irish, Harlequins and Saracens have traditionally been involved in the big Aviva Premiership fixtures staged at Twickenham, which have drawn crowds of up to 80,000.
But having successfully fought their way into the Aviva Premiership last season - firstly through the play-offs and then through the corridors of power - and put themselves firmly on course for top-flight survival, Welsh are targeting involvement in next season's opener.
London Welsh chief executive John Taylor told the Rugby Paper: "It's certainly on our radar. It would be wrong to say it hasn't crossed our minds to say, 'Oi, we ought to be involved in that'.
"We haven't made representations because we're obviously preoccupied with survival, but it will be an interesting one to take on board as soon as we feel safe."
London Welsh were eventually given the green light to join the Premiership after their proposal to use the Kassam Stadium in Oxford was finally approved over the summer.
And while Taylor admits there were discussions of the Exiles moving again, he insists they are now comfortable with the prospect of remaining in Oxford for at least the medium term, despite average league attendances of around 4,500.
"Our future is very much in Oxford," he said. "The way our community programme has started and the way our crowds are building have been very encouraging, and our analysis leads us to believe that it's very sustainable in Oxford.
"We were talking to Brentford but we actually don't think there's room of another Premiership club there now and it would make no sense to go back.
"With Saracens going back to Barnet and Quins pretty well tying up South West London, the only feasible place now would be somewhere like Crystal Palace where you cold serve a very strong rugby county like Kent which has no big team. But Oxford is working for us and it looks like we're already developing a decent core following."
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The reason it's not as loud as it should be is because you have fans like SAR that feel it is exhausting to cheer for the D everyone there is a 3rd down, and say they have had "nothing to cheer for". This team has been to 2 AFC Championship games in 3 years, what has Seattle had to cheer for? What has Kansas City had to cheer for? Those places are 2 of the loudest places to play every year, yet the teams are usually garbage.
The difference is that they have passionate fans, and we have too many SARs who are more worried about *****ing and moaning than about making as much noise as they can to help give the team a home field advantage.
I can only speak for myself on this, but I felt like part of an angry mob in my section at the old stadium. Now I'm made to feel bad if I get up and loud on anything but 3rd down...not that it's stopping me. Nice people, sure...but not who I want to unleash with on Sundays...
The Jets twisted our arms, blackmailed us, and we begrudgingly forked over tens of thousands of dollars per family that we didn't want to.
That makes us loyal. That makes us heroes. You should be proud of us. Instead you call us foul names.
In my section, it's the same mix I had in GS, mostly super-vocal, very passionate, I lead the high-fives, everyone has a great time. But want to know who's even more raucous? The Club seaters right next to us. There goes the wine & cheese theory.
They have the talent. They don't try hard. They don't give 100%. Jets fans see this. It makes us angry. We have higher standards. It comes with going to the very AFCCG'S you want us to praise them so much for.
As a Mets fan, you don't understand this. So I post it for others to read.
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7 Sundays in a 16 week period I'm spending $5000 and 7 hours away from my wife and daughter with a bunch of face painted drunks and I have to take sh*t from a pretzel-eating couch jockey? I don't think so.
So many Mets fans, so little clue about what it takes to win Championships. If you listened to them, all we need are louder fans, green plastic seats, the name "Jets" on the facade, and a Queens zip code and look out, it's Lombardi time.
I don't care how much money you spend p_ssyboy, you are no more a fan then anyone else here - remember that.
You think your sh_t don't stink? F_ck off punk.
As far as a pretzel eating couch jockey goes, look in the mirror fatboy.
I am in the gym 7 days a week 3 hours a day and I guarantee you I can break your pencil-neck.
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I know you hate REX but the reality is..after 3 years..his ROOKIE record is way above average and like Parcells, Billicke, he should be given time to develop and learn.
Tanny? Well Im off that band wagon.