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Salut! I lived in Oradea when I was a child... There must have been something in the water that gave us a knack for DSP. Edit: I haven't yet established that I have a knack for this, just to be clear.CalabiYauGuy wrote:I picked it up with just college math (from Romania)
And, on a serious note, I think the most important ingredient for learning anything is a desire. You have to want it.
I'm on hour 100 of 10,000.

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A question for the girls.
If you're not actually 'fine', why do you insist, when asked, that you are?
We're not fucking psychics.
You're picking the wrong girls, which makes YOU the fucktard.
I don't say things are fine when they're not.
*scratches bollocks*
because you should know by now
that fine=not fine. It's like if you go to a shrink that's the taboo word, it's always I'm "well" or "good". Didn't Malcolm in the Middle teach you anything alex?
shes trying to be strong and failing as women always do...u have to let her try thou... then when she finally gives up she'll tell you
sing it brotha
also, how long do they spend in the bathroom? Crazy stuffgonad and ethricdouble this'd this
"We're not fucking psychics."
too right, i never get my time/acceleration/speed combo correct
- DaddyorChips this'd this
'When Uranus is fully aligned , expect a turbulent but fulfilling turn of events"
Mostly because whatever I'm not fine about is likely to cause a row if brought up
And therefore I'd rather sweat it out in my own time, although sometimes this backfires if I only get more wound up rather than less.
Otherwise I'm not fine, but not pissed, just a bit :( which is current state of affairs most of the time and there's not much that can be said or done to change it.-gen- this'd this
if she tells you the stupid shit thats bothering her she'll look stupid so doenst want to mention it.
some guys
do this thing when if you mention anything being wrong, however minor, they start telling you what you should do about it instead of being sympathetic. Maybe that's why.-gen- this'd this
basically ^
there are times when people would rather not answer the question of 'are you ok?' with 'NO YOU'RE A FUCKING BELLEND' or 'FUCK OFF EVERYTHING IS SHIT' because they are being considerate to your feelings or they need to formulate why they are pissed off. deal with it, it's not a female thing, it's an emotional thing.
Bizarre thread revival, this one.
I remember this girl, wasn't worth the bother.
- sexy_girl this'd this
Sometimes I follow it up with 'no, I'm dying' if I'm sick
but I generally am never in a mood or anything
- japes this'd this
Oh and the answer to this thread in the end is:
They are not 100% sure why they are upset but it's a series of complex calculations which should result in a decision being made, but the realisation of the future decision that needs to be made is overwhelming to her in this moment so she can't say, in simple terms, what's going on, thus, she is 'fine' until such a time as the decision is made and the world is righted again.
might be the worst ever DiSer.
(I never experienced _vikram).
(ER I can at least sympathise with).
(Joe can still make up for the dodgy stuff THERE IS HOPE ALWAYS no but he's smart enough to be a completely good guy if he tries).
_vikram was the fucking Voldemort of DiS...
I'm convinced he's still here under a different name.
Bit harsh
still_here's never punched someone in a bar and stole a load of alcohol because he was coked up and couldn't remember where he'd left his shitty knock-off coat.
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Note2: The USB hard drive is fat32, connected via USB1.1 host. Note that I said my _hard drive_ is fat32. I went into fdisk with every intent of creating a partition to format and saw a fourth partition. I deleted that, created a first, exited fdisk. Upon lsing /dev, I saw no partitions at all for the drive -- partition 4 was gone, 1 was nowhere to be found. Someone told me to use /dev/da0. So I did. This drive doesn't work on windows boxes, btw -- they say it's unallocated space.
Note3: [~]# mount /dev/da0 /mnt/USB mount: /dev/da0 on /mnt/USB: incorrect super block
Hmm. Musta fergotten to umount before ripping out the cable again: [~]# fdisk -s /dev/da0 /dev/da0: 7296 cyl 255 hd 63 sec Part Start Size Type Flags [~]#
umass0: Myson Century, Inc. USB Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/a0.01, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <HITACHI_ DK23FB-60 00M0> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 57231MB (117210240 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 7296C)
/dev contains only da0. No da0xx. The umass is also gone, it seems.
kernel conf (seems ktrace is commented out; most likely no debug support): http://w3.uwyo.edu/~ablair/DrkAthlon.conf
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I believe the world was built at the same time.
[~]$ XFree86 -version XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 5.1 i386 [ELF] Build Date: 18 June 2003
Woot. New 60 gb USB drive, using a notebook hard drive. Portable, smallest notebook drive I have that fits, good external storage for this poor BSD box with about 3 gigs total on it. Course, I often rip out the USB cable of the poor fat32 drive without umounting it. I try one day:
[~]# mount /dev/da0 /mnt/USB
mount: /dev/da0 on /mnt/USB: incorrect super block
"Oh, no," I think. "I need to run fsck now." So I proceed to do so:
[~]# fsck /dev/da0
** /dev/da0
** Phase 1 - Read and Compare FATs
*drive read and write lights light up, stay as such for about 1 minute, at which time the hard drive in the BSD box starts crunching away, lagging everything*
top, a few tens of seconds in: Swap: 384M total, 281M used, 103M free, 73% in use...
*drive resumes reading/writing, top reports swap usage as 107M Free. The BSD box resumes crunching on the internal hard drive, I go, "Oh shit -- Mozilla's the first thing to go!" I quickly control-C fsck, it having no effect. It keeps going. In a mad rush, I copy this e-mail to vi before I lose it. Only lost notes 1 to half of 3.*
So, to recap, and after fsck died and took my mozilla with it: [~]# fsck /dev/da0 ** /dev/da0 ** Phase 1 - Read and Compare FATs fsck: /dev/da0: Killed
dmesg: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed swap_pager_getswapspace: failed pid 81209 (fsck_msdosfs), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
fsck ran out of swap space and killed mozilla along with it.
Now, that's the basis of what happened when I lost my consoles -- I couldn't get the drive to mount after I fsck'd, so what else to do but try it again? I do, and it killed X completely. Damn. Restart x, try mount, no go... so, I start fsck in a terminal (ctrl-alt-F3). It goes and goes, eventually it dies. Terminals still work, I believe, so I try it again, alt-F9 back into my X to play.. fsck fails with the usual great system lag and the death of X. But I'm thrown to a black console, not a text prompt with an error from X saying what went wrong. Alt-F[1-8], all black. Monitor turns off. Damn. Alt-F2 one more time, "startx" and here I am for the last week or so. I can use X just fine, but all my consoles are black.
Anyone know why this happened? Does anyone have a way to get my consoles back? rebooting isn't fun. But, I'm perfectly willing to help debug something -- it's a personal desktop machine, so I can easily tolerate downtime and spend a bit of time working with things, if any debugging suggestions are given (note, I have no idea how to use any debugging utils, so you'd have to give me very specific directions).
With that, this is perhaps the third or fourth time I've lost all my terminals in such a way. I've never experienced this on 4.7, and I don't remember if all times were related to this fsck and taking gobs of swap space. Also keep in mind my dmesg is full of swap_pager_getswapspace: failed, so I can't see if anything was given when the error happened.
Finally, for those who don't know, the proper way to mount the fat32 is "mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt/USB"... else it says invalid superblock ;-) fsck was also using fsck_msdosfs, as I would expect.
Other questions:
_almost_ every time I hit my right (not my left) control key, I get a backslash: \\\\\\ <-- 14 hits. The control key then functions as normal. Also, holding it doesn't produce many backslashes -- only one, and not always. (I have the dvorak layout set, but I've changed it back to qwerty and it does the same thing.) ... I suppose it COULD be a bad keyboard.. but.. I don't see what'd cause it, really. Something I guess I need to look into. Hmm. After unplugging it from the KVM and plugging it back in, it's much, much worse. Heheh..
I guess another question could be related to xmms: when it's playing, it will occasionally, on a new track, pop up a box saying it couldn't open the output device (/dev/dsp0.5 -- I have no /dev/dsp). It takes a bit, but telling it to play (retry, basically) will get it playing again after a bit. No idea why it does it, completely random and happens with other audio stuff as well, with other dsp0.x devices. device pcm is in the kernel, cat /dev/sndstat:
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0: <Yamaha DS-1E (YMF724F)> at memory 0xda000000 irq 10 (4p/2r/0v channels duplex default)
/dev has dsp0.[0-5], dspW0.[0-5], audio0.[0-5], no pcm*
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I have been with her for about six months now. It has a title, and yes, she is my girlfriend. I claim her and she claims me. We are committed to one another.
It's a typical night out. We are at a bar. Friends of hers are there, as are friends of mine. While I am catching up with my buddies, she stands maybe ten feet away, in a circle of girlfriends. Everyone is having a great time. Catching up, laughing, drinking, the usual.
And, right on cue, enter that group of guys… you know the group I'm talking about. The group of swaggering single dudes with their heads on swivels. The pack of hunters. The pride of lions (or jackals depending on the personalities). The dudes dead set on chatting up women and landing phone numbers… if not more. Prowlers. I know exactly what these dudes are up to, but I have no disdain for any of them. I was single not too long ago, so I know what it is to be out with your close single buddies, looking to meet women.
I notice one guy in particular eyeing my girlfriend. He musters up the courage, walks right up to her, says hi, and tries to get a conversation going. My girlfriend smiles politely, indulges him with a light conversation, acts like a lady, and then tells the guy to have a good night.
My girlfriend has it all figured out, and my life is easier for it.
You see, as this is all going down, despite some random dude hitting on my girlfriend, I am more focused on what's going on with my buddies and their lives. One of my friends notices the guy hitting on my girlfriend and points it out to our group. My buddies ask me if I am jealous. I simply respond "nope." When pressed as to why not, I offer a two part response.
Simply stated, who wants to be with someone that no one else wants to be with? When a guy walks up to your girlfriend in a bar, you should be flattered. Good for that guy… he has great taste. You should also be secure enough in yourself and your relationship that you don't see the guy as a threat. And further still, why shouldn't your woman be made to feel attractive by someone else? It's okay for her to feel attractive and beautiful beyond you. So, for those reasons, I am okay with this random dude validating the same things I see in my girlfriend… a beautiful, kind, and engaging woman.
On the opposite side of the equation, if my girlfriend ever attempted to make me jealous, I would simply back myself and let her know that I won't stand for it. There are women I have dated who would use jealousy as a tactic. They would try and make me jealous by flirting with guys at a bar in front of me, mentioning guys randomly in casual conversation, bringing up ex boyfriends and what they "used to do," etc. My response was always the same… cut it out. That kind of nonsense doesn't fly with me. When I am in a relationship, I go out of my way to make my girlfriend feel secure. I couldn't imagine actively attempting to make a girlfriend jealous or insecure. What kind of a relationship is that?!
So, as I sit on the bar stool, chatting with my buddies, and this guy hits on my girlfriend not more than ten feet from me, and I am perfectly content. Not a care in the world. She is a big girl, and she can handle herself. So, I don't need to spring to her rescue and defend her honor. Now, if the guy said or did anything disrespectful, that would be another story. I have no trouble addressing disrespect, especially the disrespect of someone I hold dear to me, and even more especially the a male showing disrespect toward a female. But again, the guy is just hitting on her, trying his best. I get it. I've been there. Again, good for that guy… he has great taste.
In the midst of it all going down, my girlfriend glances over and grins a reassuring grin. I do the same with a nod and a smile. And that is all that is needed. She is a big girl, she can handle herself. And for that reason, I don't have a care in the world. Just another great night out with my lady and my friends.


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Labour's Legacy
The above is just one example of what Labour did during their 13 years of terror and that is written by Nadeem Walayat, who is very respected financial analyst who predicted correctly the crash of 2007/2008, exposes the fraud of the banking elite on a daily basis and the agenda of the ruling elite. However, even without nadeem's experience and credentials, I and many millions of Brits lived through Labour's reign which translated to hating ourselves, hating Britain and working for nothing. I will never forgive them for what they did to this country and to working people and working families. Never! In fact if they ever got in, I have already told my wife that we are both to finish working because I said when they left office, I would never work under a Labour government again!
The Conservatives have already shown where they sit, yes they were given a shower of a mess as always by the utterly useless Labour government, but they are simply ruling the country by cutting and slashing anything and everything, because in their self serving narrow minds, they don't have to deal with crime, they don't have to use the NHS, they don't have to live in urban and suburbs, they don't have to send their kids to comprehensive schools, they don't have to choose whether they switch the lights on have the heating on, whether they fill the car up or put clothes on their kids, wether they eat today or concentrate on making sure their kids eat daily. They don't live in the real world, the common ground with them and Labour is that they are ruled by the banking elite and they treat workers as drones. The only good about Conservatives is that they don't totally hate Britain!
The Lib Dems are the same rich boys but they sit in no mans land as a mix between Labour ideology of Communist ruling and destruction of national identity and total anarchy ruled under any flag other than the Union flag.
Ladies and gentleaman, they are the three main parties. Now as far as I can see, unless you're an immigrant, you're not going to vote Labour. Unless you're rich and living in lush rural England, you're not going to vote Conservative and unless you're suffering from Schizophrenia, you're not going to vote Lib Dems. Yes this is a democracy, vote who you like, but unless you have an escape route out of this country when the SHTF, we;re going to be in a right mess. Many people in this country, certainly around where I work and live, have got escape routes, they can live in other countries thanks to family ties etc, I don't have that, millions of us don't have that, this is all we have. The main three have shown how pathetic and useless they are with the addition of Labour who have shown how criminal they are.
The 2015 election is probably our last chance, its not a protest vote, its our only hope and if UKIP fail, at least we can say we tried the democratic route because whatever will follow may not be pretty, but it will be justified.
Originally posted by stinka
Originally posted by SecretFace
Labour's Legacy
The only good about Conservatives is that they don't totally hate Britain!
Do you follow UK politics?
Originally posted by Taggart
Originally posted by stinka
Originally posted by SecretFace
Labour's Legacy
The only good about Conservatives is that they don't totally hate Britain!
Do you follow UK politics?
lol I meant in comparison to Labour and Lib Dems. Labour have a real blatant hate for Britain and all that is British, including the people, the Lib Dems are not far behind, the Conservatives don't hate all that is British, just everyone that is British earning less than a 100k. They have also at least spoken a good game on immigration, done little, but still again, that's more than what Labour did, who not only did not speak against their uncontrolled policies, but actively sort to destroy and label racist anyone that did speak against them.
Only now, in the face of immigration being a potential election decider, do they admit their policy was wrong, but its done and until every member of that government from '97 to 2010 are put on trial for treason, as far as I'm concerned a simple admission of a policy being wrong, not even an apology, that's not good enough! That's without them not even uttering a word on the creation and vast expansion of a benefit class devoid of motivation and morale to simply bribe people to stay at home while they use that as an excuse to open the flood gates to immigrants, that's disgusting behaviour, regardless of whether or not their orders were from the EU. So yeah, comparitively speaking the Cons don't totally hate Britain...Just anyone who earns below six figures and anything that's British that they can't privatise.
Originally posted by maintainright
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Sleeping children were woken by a "sonic boom" created as the golf ball sized meteor exploded above South Wales. Homeowner Steve Edwards, 56, said: "There was an enormous boom - It sounded like a bomb going off.
"The force of it shook the windows in my house, woke up my children and caused car alarms to start going off in the streets. "I'm just glad none of it landed on my roof."
Police and coastguards in South Wales had dozens of reports of a bright flash in the sky followed by a loud bang. Witness Nathan Jones, 34, who lives in nearby St Athan, said: "I've never seen something so amazing in my life. "It had a heat trail behind, It was orange and white and very bright, and also seemed very close.
"It looked like it was skimming through the atmosphere due to the curved path it was taking."
The meteor was first spotted in the North West and amateur astronomers watched as it sped towards the border of Wales and the South West. Hannah Sabido, 33, who spotted the meteor from her home in Bristol, said: "I first noticed it as a very bright glowing light behind cloud, travelling very fast.
"It looked like a bright white ball with a long bright tail and possibly a green hue. It was brighter than the moon. "It became more orange towards the North East, giving off orange sparks before bursting out."
The meteor eventually exploded above Cwmbran, near Newport, South Wales.
Astrophysician Dr David Whitehouse said: "It was a piece of space rock coming into the earth's atmosphere and burning up as it does. "It's the size of a golf ball, it's coming in very, very quickly and leaving a bright tail as it vaporizes.
"It's incredibly bright, it burns at an altitude of 60 to a 100 miles above the earth.
"So if one flashes across the UK you can see it all the way along its track even if it it only lasts a couple of seconds.
"It's not unusual for it to be soon for a couple of 100 miles all across the country.
"Scientists will now be very keen to know if it's survived so they can try and collect it and examine it.
"As for the rest of us we don't have anything to fear from a meteor or this size, there's no records of anyone having been killed by such a thing. "It's very, very unlikely to strike a person, much less likely than being struck by lightning.
"Very rarely something large will come into contact with the earth, like the one which helped the dinosaurs on it's way - that was the size of Britain.
"But this meteor is a wonder of nature, something in the night sky to be admired and enjoyed."
Police in Wales confirmed they had dozens of reports of the meteor lighting up the night sky.


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In keeping with the long tradition of excellence in Georgetown Prep Basketball, Prep is proud to host its Fourth Annual Father George National Jesuit Christmas Classic. The idea of creating the premier Jesuit basketball tournament in the country was borne from the vision of Dwayne Bryant, Prep's former Varsity Basketball coach. It has become a reality with his vision and the completion of the Hanley Center For Athletic Excellence on the Prep campus in 2006.
We welcome the players, coaches, families of our fellow Jesuit Schools and the many fans who will be treated to some fantastic high school basketball.
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<< -- 3 -- Kelly Ferjutz UNIVERSAL TRUTH
Stage Director Steven Daigle managed his large cast admirably, even appearing on stage infrequently as Mr Gardiner. (Robin DeLeon was his Mrs.) Choreographer Carol Hageman devised authentic-looking dances, which were a very popular pastime in that period. Lighting by Krystal Kennel greatly enhanced the production, changing day to night and back again. But it was the excellent costumes of Charlene Gross that brought this production its very Regency look. It was easy to see why young ladies were so entranced by a man in uniform. They did indeed, look splendid!
The music was tuneful and lyrical, as befits a story set in the early 1800s. It didn't challenge any of the singers by going out of the required vocal range. Conductor J Lynn Thompson kept everything together with a steady hand. Bravo to all the participants, especially the young composers, Lindsay Baker and Amanda Jacobs, who saw their dream -- the one that has occupied them for the last six years -- come vividly to life on the stage at Freedlander Theatre. Jacobs also assisted with the orchestrations. They joined the entire cast on stage during the bows garbed in gorgeous Regency-era costume. A fitting conclusion!
Amanda Jacobs (left) with Lindsay Baker in costume after the first performance of 'Pride and Prejudice' in Wooster, Ohio, USA on 14 July 2006. Photo © 2006 Kelly Ferjutz
(Afterthought: Because the two are such devoted Jane-ites, it's entirely possible that they're too close to the forest to be able to see which trees should be removed in order to leave the remaining ones in better health. Don't misunderstand. I truly loved this piece -- all of it! -- but, the first act was just simply -- honestly -- too long. It should either be cut in two, making the piece into a more traditional three-act work, as are many operettas, or cut perhaps by half an hour or so. I'm not entirely convinced of the value of Mr Bingley's sisters, or even the two youngest of the Bennett girls. Lydia and Wickham's story is rather integral to the part, as is Darcy's sister, Georgianna, but leaving the others out would lop off a good part of the extraneous timber, allowing one's ears and rump to enjoy the remainder all the more.)
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text: Android 72 New Emoji Revealed June 07, 2016 By Grant Fitzsimmons 0 Comments The new Unicode 9 emojis have been finalized and shown off to the public. These will most likely make its way into iOS 10 and OS X 10.12 (or macOS 11) following the announcement of the two at WWDC 2016. Android N's developer preview, as well as Windows 10 Insider Preview, already have support for the new emojis. Many of the new emojis are general food and breakfast items, important objects, and reactions. Some interesting emojis include the rolling on the floor laughing emoji, drooling face, and bacon. My personal favorite is the pancakes emoji, but the list goes on for quite a while. In total, there will be 72 new emoji. Link: http://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-released.html#1f922 #Android #Apple Share This Story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin this Post Newer Post Older Post You Might Also Like 0 comments


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I know, Sinterklaas has been over and we have to wait another 11 months for the ancient bearded man to arrive again..but while it's still icy cold and time for a cuppa hot cocoa, I'll keep dipping those speculaas. I have found speculaas to be an excellent dipping agent 😉
Of course, a perfect pairing for speculaas is mandarin, so I have incorporated mandarin marmalade in this cheesecake for extra pozzezz and tanginess. I have included a recipe for mandarin marmalade below if you can't find it in your supermarket! It's easy to make and tastes great on toast with some butter as well…
Mandarin and Speculaas Cheesecake
First published in Dutch the Magazine, november/december 2016 issue.
7 oz. speculaas cookies
⅓ cup unsalted butter, melted
3 cups full-fat cream cheese
¾ cup caster sugar
3 ½ tablespoon flour
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup mandarin marmalade*
- Preheat the oven to 265F. Grease and flour a 9.5 inch springform baking tin, cover the base with baking parchment.
- Crush the speculaas cookies into fine crumbs. Add the melted butter and toss until everything is evenly moistened. Transfer the crumbs to the tin and press evenly into the bottom (use a spoon if necessary). Leave to firm up in the fridge.
- To make the filling, add cream cheese, sugar, flour and eggs to a bowl and mix until everything is evenly incorporated.
- Pour filling into baking tin. Drop in tablespoons of the marmalade, make sure you divide it evenly so that every slice of cheesecake has roughly the same amount of marmalade in it. Place in the oven, bake for about 1 to 1,5 hours. The middle of the cheesecake should still be wobbly. Leave to cool on a wire rack, then transfer to the fridge and leave to set for at least 2 hours (preferably overnight).
* Mandarin Marmalade
6 mandarins
1 ½ cup sugar
- Simmer the mandarins in plenty of water for 45 minutes.
- Quarter and deseed the cooled mandarins and chop them in a food processor fit with a blade attachment.
- In a sauce pan, mix the sugar and chopped mandarins and simmer for 35 minutes. Leave to cool and scoop into a jam jar. Store in the fridge.


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About three weeks ago, I wrote a post regarding a couple who were pulled over for traffic violations and had a bumper sticker "It's a Druid Thing" on their vehicle. The couple claimed they were only pulled over because of this bumper sticker, seeming to leave out the part about all of their violations. The ACLU took up their cause and demanded an apology.
Recently, a police officer involved in the traffic stop left the following comment on my blog:
"I am the Police officer that was involved in the traffic stop. For almost three months I have been silent. I have noticed that the internet has mostly slammed me.
Most of the sites and chat rooms are not interested in the total story, just the lies told so far.
I am ashamed that so many people will listen to the loudest voice regardless of what is being said.
Most recently the ACLU called me a stalker and asked the Greer Police department to issue a restraining order against me.
To view more of these details, visit my churces website and look at the MLB in the news link.
There have been a lot of Christian support and I am very thankful for websites like yours. You are however in the minority as most sites side with the ACLU.
Ex-Officer - Tony Stewart
Tony Stewart was a reserve officer for the Greer, S.C. police department for 14 years when this event unfolded. When the couple's allegations came forward, officer Stewart was placed on administrative leave while an internal investigation took place, and was cleared, with the issues that this couple brought forward unsubstantiated - well, by the internal investigation team anyway. Enter the ACLU, coming to the defense of these troubled and picked on people.
Now, Officer Stewart, as a reserve officer, did not issue tickets (he never drove a cruiser or wrote tickets during his time of service). The actual traffic stop and citation(s) were not initiated by Officer Stewart. However, he has faced a mountain of accusations - one of them being stalking - from any number of websites, news bureaus and, of course, the ACLU. Around the time this issue was escalating, the four reserve officer positions, including Stewarts, were cut and he was without a job. The timing seems very interesting to me, but here is what Tony says about it:
The motives for the Gaineys to make charges against me were two fold. One of those was to make enough noise so as to force the police department to drop their charges. The dismissal of all four of the reserve officers due to budgetary reasons came at an unfortunate time, which may have looked suspicious to some. I can only say that I hope a creative approach to solving their budget problems will one day allow them to reinitiate this program, as it was a resource that helped the other officers do their jobs more safely. I doubt that I would ever be asked to return, but I have no hard feelings. I enjoyed serving the people of Greer.
With all he's been through, he is most gracious, isn't he?
I encourage you to go see Tony's comments on his church's website. There is a lot he can't disclose or discuss due to the pending legal matters surrounding the case, but on the flip side, he does give you some perspective of what happened and what he is going through.
One particular item in Tony's comments caught my attention:
As a Christian and a volunteer police officer, I constantly desired to help people. That night I heard a cry for mercy from a lady who told of hard times and living on food stamps. I heard that the trip to Walmart to get needed groceries was unfairly interrupted by the arrest of her husband. And the towing of a car that could not be legally driven without insurance or tags would add further burdens to a family she described as without hope. I heard that some of the groceries would spoil and that they had no money to replace them.
This was the chance that I prayed for. I responded by asking her if I could mail her a letter about a bible study and Mt. Lebanon Baptist church where I told her the search for answers to the questions she asked could begin. I wanted her to meet my Pastor Mark Smith who god used every day to show people the way to better days. I wanted her to know what the support of a church family like mine would do for her. Before we parted I resented her with $40 dollars to help with the spoiled groceries.
Why did that catch my eye? Well, my initial throught was that an officer should not be witnessing to a person while on the job. Not so much the church versus state idea, but more along the lines of keeping it "about the job." I truly believe his intentions were good. Do I think he should defer from witnessing about his faith while on the job? Perhaps. Do I think that his witnessing in the case of this couple had a direct impact on the officer's descretion in handling the situation from a law enforcement perspective? Absolutely not. The driver was driving with a suspended license, had no insurance and other such significant violations warranting the traffic stop. The sole reason for the traffic stop was related to their violations, NOT whether they were druid, blue with stripes, orange with dots, Catholic, etc. Hence, the danger of the ACLU. They don't use common sense and rational thought, while looking at the big picture. If there had been any evidence tying the traffic stop merely to the bumper sticker, I wouldn't be writing about this.
…and what of Ex-Officer Tony Stewart? He has many opportunities coming his way such as public speaking opportunities and because of his faith, Mr. Stewart sees the blessings in this course of his life.
Mr. Stewart, best of luck to you in your endeavors. Hold onto your positive outlook and you will get through this trying time and it will have made you stronger. The ACLU doesn't win them all - I don't think this will be in the "winner's" bracket for them, either.
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Indian models doggedly refuse to cat-walk in bikinis
All the top Indian female models walk the ramp in contemporary or traditional or western fashion attire revealing lots of skin without much ado, but cat-walking in bikinis or lingerie is a strict taboo to them..
No Indian designer has so far ventured into creating an exclusive line of bikinis or lingerie because of this self imposed ban on themselves by the Indian models.
It's not just the fashion show. No mainstream Indian model is willing to appear in a lingerie advertisement. Thus, innerwear manufacturers have to rely on second or third rung models or even foreigners to pose for their products.
Model Laxmi Rana also thought it was a matter of personal choice but given the Indian milieu most models were not comfortable wearing a bikini. Model Urvashi Sharma went to the extent of saying bikinis went against Indian culture.
Advertising guru Prahlad Kakkar had a totally different story to tell on this bikini issue. "Indian models do not have the perfect body to pose for a lingerie brand," he said. "On top of that, they and their mothers throw tantrums at shoots and mothers keep asking questions about how much their daughter will be asked to expose. Exposing comes at a price and Indian models ask for exorbitant amounts for shoots."


text: MSExchange.org - Monthly Article Update Hi ExchangeList, New articles added to MSExchange.org last month: Title: Creating and Using Moderated Public Folders in MS Exchange Server Author: Lee Derbyshire Summary: Public Folders are one of the most useful features of Exchange Server. However, it's possible that there are situations in which a folder's visibility makes it desirable to have some extra layer of control, one final check, if you like, before something actually appears in full public view. This is where Moderated Folders come in. In this article, I will describe how you create and use a moderated folder in Exchange Server. Link: http://www.MSExchange.org/articles/Creating-Using-Moderated-Public-Folders-Exchange-Server.html Title: Why 64-Bit Is Good For E12 Author: Rodney Buike Summary: Recently Microsoft announced that the next generation of Exchange server, codename E12, would ship in a 64-bit version only. This article will explain what 64-bit is, the benefits of moving E12 to the x64 architecture and what to look for when purchasing new hardware so that it will support E12 when it RTMs. Link: http://www.MSExchange.org/tutorials/Why-64-Bit-Good-E12.html Title: Understanding the LegacyExchangeDN Author: Marc Grote Summary: In this article I will discuss the LegacyExchangeDN and how to use the free LegacyExchangeDN tool from the Microsoft website. Link: http://www.MSExchange.org/tutorials/Understanding-LegacyExchangeDN.html Title: Booking Resources with Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook System 2003 Author: Markus Klein Summary: After a successful implementation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, the next step would be implementing lots of improvements within the working processes of the company and its organizational infrastructure. Many companies are willing to plan their company resources using Exchange and Outlook to make it easier for each employee to find out if a resource is already booked or still available. Link: http://www.MSExchange.org/tutorials/Booking-Resources-ExchangeServer-2003-Outlook-System-2003.html Title: In-depth look at the Public Folder Improvements in Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 Author: Henrik Walther Summary: In this article we'll take an in-depth look at the new Public Folder improvements included in Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). Link: http://www.MSExchange.org/tutorials/Public-Folder-Improvements-Exchange-2003-Service-Pack-2.html Title: Rights Management Service and Exchange 2003 (Part 3) Author: Santhosh Sivarajan Summary: It is time to talk about custom templates since we have discussed built-in Do Not Forward templates in Part 2 of this document. In this part of the article, I will explain the procedure of creating and using custom templates. I will use the following scenario to better explain the use of a custom template. Link: http://www.MSExchange.org/tutorials/Rights-Management-Service-Exchange-2003-Part-3.html Title: Intelligent Message Filter version 2 (IMF v2) Author: Henrik Walther Summary: In this article we'll have a closer look at the new Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) which comes with Exchange 2003 SP2. Since IMF is included in Exchange 2003 SP2 it's no longer an add-on as was the case with IMF version 1, but has now become an integrated part of the Exchange Server 2003 product. Link: http://www.MSExchange.org/tutorials/Intelligent-Message-Filter-version-2-IMF-v2.html Title: Rights Management Service and Exchange 2003 (Part 2) Author: Santhosh Sivarajan Summary: I hope you enjoyed Part 1 of my RMS document. Thanks to all who sent emails. As I explained in the previous part of the RMS document, my focus was to explain the RMS functionality from an Outlook 2003 client. I received a lot of questions regarding RMS and Exchange integration. RMS is not integrated with Exchange so you don't need to have Exchange to use RMS. You can use RMS with any RMS aware application but RMS does require Active Directory. Link: http://www.MSExchange.org/tutorials/Rights-Management-Service-Exchange-2003-Part2.html Visit the Subscription Management (http://newsletter.isoftmarketing.com/) section to unsubscribe. MSExchange.org is in no way affiliated with Microsoft Corp. For sponsorship information, contact us at advertising@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Copyright © MSExchange.org 2006. All rights reserved.


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ANSI Lumens
ANSI (American National Standards Institute) lumens refers to the brightness of a projector.
Aspect Ratio
The Aspect Ratio of an image is the width divided by the height and are expressed as x:y.
Building Projection
Projections onto buildings can look spectacular due to the sheer scale but because of the size of the projection, large bright projectors and often multiple machines are required to produce images bright enough.
Cardioids, Supercardioids and Hypercardioids
Cardiods are named because the sensitivity pattern (see diagram above) is heart-shaped.
Condenser Microphone
In a condenser microphone, also known as a capacitor microphone, the diaphragm acts as one plate of a capacitor, and the vibrations produce changes in the distance between the plates.
DLP Projectors
DLP projectors produce the image by using thousands of microscopic mirrors laid out on a semiconductor chip called a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD)
DMX512 (Digital Multiplex) is a standard most noteably used to control stage lighting.
Dynamic Microphone
Dynamic microphones work via electromagnetic induction by detecting changes in sound pressure to move a coil of wire in a magnetic field.
Front and Rear Projection
Simply put, front projection is what we are all used to – a white screen with a projector in front of it. Rear projection is a handy technique where the projector is located behind a translucent screen.
Geometric Correction (Warping)
Geometric Correction in video processing can refer to Keystone but is more often used to describe detailed manipulation of a video source.
Holographic Projection (Peppers Ghost)
Contrary to popular belief, Holographic Projection is nothing new, in fact it has been around since the mid-nineteenth century when it was used by John Henry Pepper and the name "Pepper's Ghost" was coined.
Interactive Projection
Interactive projections are, as the name suggests projections where a persons motion is defected and the image is manipulated by it. It is often used for games and advertising and shown on the floor by projecting vertically down.
When a projector is physically positioned, depending on the angle that it is to the screen, the image projected may not be square.
Laser Grafiti
Laser Graffiti is something that would probably be far more common if projection mapping didn't come along but what is it? Simply put, it's graffiti that uses projectors instead of paint.
LCD or DLP Projectors?
The answer is it depends on the application. Here is a list of pros and cons of each system.This is not a definitive list and as technology progresses the pros become greater and the cons are being rectified.
LCD Projectors
All of our LCD (liquid crystal display) projectors are 3 LCD models and work by splitting the light
Lens Shift
Lens Shift is not too dissimilar to keystone correction as it allows flexibility in positioning a projector.
Letter-Boxed images
In video, letter-boxed is a term used to describe an image that does not fill the frame vertically.
Live Camera to Screen
Using live cameras on screen is very useful with a very large audience that have limited view of the stage. It is also a useful technique for relaying a presentation to additional overflow rooms.
Media Servers
Media Servers in the Technical Production Industry are essentially high spec computers that are used to playback video files.
A microphone is a device used to convert sound into an electrical signal which can then be processed, mixed and amplified before being sent to the loudspeakers where it is converted back to sound.
moving head lights
Moving lights as the name would suggest are lights which have integral motors to enable their motion as well as other attributes. They are part of the rather generic term Intelligent Lighting. This term covers any stage light that goes beyond a static light. In so much as the lights can produce some fantastic results, they do not have any intellegence of their own, this is down to the opperator!
moving head projectors
Moving head or moving yoke projectors are very similar to moving head lights. Instead of using a lighting fixture a digital projector is used. This gives the benefit of being able to physically move projected video around. By combining bespoke video content designed for purpse it's effect can be nothing short of spectacular.
Portrait Projection
The majority of projectors are primarily designed to be used in landscape orientation as that is typically how videos and computer graphics are displayed.
Projecting on to People
This is something that we are often asked to do for music videos and photo shoots. It is fairly straight forward and can produce interesting effects.
Projection Mapping
Projection mapping is a technique used to accurately project video content onto an irregular surface. This is often a 3D surface such as a building or car, however 2D surfaces can be projection mapped too.We have prepared a glossary of terms with definitions to help you understand video, lighting and audio jargon
Resolution dictates the definition and detail of an image and refers to the number of pixels in each dimension, horizontal and vertical,
Soft Edge Blending
Soft Edge Blending in the world of projection refers to 2 or more projectors being used to display a section of the same video image. If is often used when a very wide image needs to be displayed. If we take a 3:1 image for example:
Specialist Projection Surfaces
In addition to standard white or grey rear projection screens there are various more specialised screen surfaces that can be used or projection for functionality or effect such as Projection Films, Lenticular Screens, Electronic Switchable Screens and Scrim Screens.
Stacking Projectors
Two or more projectors maybe stacked in order to increase the total brightness of the image.
In terms of video or audio, sychronisation reffers to the coordination of separate feeds so that everything plays back at the same time. It is extremely important in our industry and a good example of audio and video out of sync is lip sync. We've all seen bad examples of this when we hear words before seeing lips move on screen!
Vertical Projection
Projecting up or down isn't necessarely problematic but something that often needs more consideration than projecting horizontally onto a screen or wall. Many projectors are not "safe" to be used if inclined more than 15° as it can upset their cooling and airflow.
Video / Audio Distribution
Video/Audio distribution refers to taking a signal and spitting it so that it can be sent to more than one device, a screen, mixer, speaker etc.
Video Switching
A vision mixer, also known as a video switcher, video mixer or production switcher is a device used to select or mix two or more different video sources and in some cases to add special effects.


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Miles the monster reached up and bit Tony Stewart square on the left front and left rear of his car. Stewart was caught up in the "Monster" lap nine melee at Dover. It isn't a surprise really. After all, he qualified his car 29th in the field of 43 cars. I so wasn't thrilled when I saw the results of qualifying on my cell phone- that is back in the danger zone. The zone where if someone screws up you can be innocently caught up in their mistake because of Dover's "self cleaning" feature. I made sure that I put on my checker flag socks this morning- just in case. I just had a feeling that starting that far back would not.
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And I thought Richmond was a long race. Seriously- Darlington was LONG- and I have to say that I agree with Tony's comment on Race Day- Darlington should be shortened. I understand the history behind Darlington and The Southern 500- but really? I can't imagine what it was like for those on the east coast!
My favorite part of the Mother's Day weekend race is ALWAYS the command to start engines because it is given by a bunch of the driver's moms! I LOVE that part.
The Music of Bristol: The Epilogue (with WINNERS!)Posted by in General - (0 Comments)
I have always had a huge love of music and as I mentioned in earlier in both The Music Of Bristol Part 1 and The Music of Bristol Part 2- I have fairly eclectic tastes in music. For that reason alone I really wish they had played driver introductions in their entirety during the prerace show. I think that the choice of songs really helps highlight one of the best things about NASCAR and that is the personalities of the different drivers.
I admit that the whole twitter deal between Brian Vickers and Jimmie Johnson made the choice of introduction songs even more intriguing to me. Jimmie Johnson recently started tweeting (@JimmieJohnson) and to welcome him to the tweeting world Brian Vickers (@BrianLVickers) and he decided it would be fun to let each other and their twitter followers pick each others introduction songs. That alone right there should have made introductions more TV worthy. Apparently there was some legal reason that they couldn't show intros (that and the time constraint on the pre-race show, I suspect). Anyway- in case you were wondering Brian Vicker's got introduced to Shania Twain's Man, I Feel Like A Woman and Jimmie Johnson got introduced to Sisqo's The Thong Song.
Some songs choices that interested me were: Paul Menard picking Black Label Society's Concrete Jungle. I don't know if he actually likes BLS or if he just picked it because that is exactly what Bristol is…but I liked that choice. I also loved that two drivers picked Avenge Sevenfold songs (Matt Kenseth picked Nightmare and Regan Smith picked Welcome To The Family). Clint Bowyer's choice of the Theme to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly cracked me up. And how fitting was Bill Elliott's song choice of Devil Went Down To Georgia by The Charlie Daniels Band and Bobby Labonte's choice of God Bless Texas by Little Texas. The only driver who's song didn't seem to match the driver was Kasey Kahne's choice of A Country Boy Can Survive by Hank Williams Jr. It's not that I don't like that song- I do. But I don't hear Hank Williams Jr and immediately think Kasey Kahne- it just didn't fit Kasey in my mind. If you are interested in the complete list of driver introduction songs check out this article over on sbnation. Honestly I could probably go down the entire list and muse on for a paragraph per driver- but I won't bore you there.
Now onto Tony:
Tony Stewart was introduced to his standard Bawitaba by Kid Rock. Which I guess he must REALLY like it since he always uses it. I still stand by my assertion that Tony needs to pick a new introduction song. If he needs help all he needs to do is come here (or poll his fans) because we got some great suggestions for Tony when I called for suggestions on the first post of this series! Those would be (in no particular order): Real Good Man by Tim McGraw (which happen to be suggested by winner Claudia), Rough N Ready by Trace Adkins (I love Trace Adkins), When You're Hot You're Hot by Jerry Reed, Sound of Madness by Shinedown, Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple (hey Tony does like classic rock), Dirt Road Anthem by Brantley Gilbert and Colt Ford (suggested by our other winner Dudley- which is funny because I have been on a Colt Ford kick lately), #1 by Nelly, and Gasoline by Kicking Harold (which I had never heard before but I really like this song now that I have). All great songs to be used as introduction songs for Tony Stewart…but I still like my choice of I Don't Want To Stop by Ozzy Osbourne best (see The Music of Bristol Part 2) even though Tony told me in our second interview with him that he isn't a big heavy metal guy. Now if only we convince him to pick one of our songs just to mix things up a little bit! I mean seriously Tony- I like Kid Rock too, but we have some great suggestions for you to pick from here.
Anyway congratulations go out to Claudia and Dudley who were the winners of the contest I held as part of the Music of Bristol posts. Their Goodyear Racing prizes are on their way to them!
I just wanted you all to know that the winners were picked randomly and not based on how many comments each entrant made (some people made multiple comments and that was totally fine- but they still only got one entry into the contest) or what song you picked. Basically I put your name on a post-it note (pink for the girls and white for the guys) and picked one of each out of my old 20 knit cap.


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TOWN OF LORAIN -- Two men died in a one-vehicle crash Saturday morning in rural Polk County.
Polk County Sheriff's Office received the call at 8:37 a.m. April 1 about the crash, which happened about two-thirds of a mile west of 15th Street on 357th Avenue in the town of Lorain. The caller stated two people in the vehicle were unresponsive.
Upon arrival, 29-year-old Kevin W. Sommerfeld, of rural Lorain Township and passenger Robert A. Carlson, 56, of rural Burnett County, were pronounced dead at the scene.
Sommerfeld was operating a 1998 white Oldsmobile Cutlass four-door sedan eastbound on 357th Avenue when it left the roadway and headed into the right ditch as it approached a bridge over a small creek. Initial investigation indicates no marks suggesting evasive maneuvers. The vehicle appeared to have drifted off the road.
After it entered the south ditch, it continued on over the bridge structure and began to flip as the right side tires fell. The vehicle then launched into the air, and later struck the opposite side bridge structure. The vehicle fell into the creek on its roof.
Lorain and Frederic Fire Departments, Polk County Medical Examiner's Officer, First Responders and Northland Ambulance Service assisted at the scene.
The crash remains under investigation by the by the Polk County Sheriff's Department.


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Going from east to west in Broward County is getting harder and harder.
Two major east-west thruways, Sunrise Boulevard and Oakland Park Boulevard -- already clogged with traffic -- have been made worse by road work. Large parts of Taft Street and Prospect Road also are under construction.
On Oakland Park Boulevard, the intersection with State Road 7 is being widened during the next eight months, and there is construction between Federal Highway and Powerline Road, where left-turn lanes are being added.
Sunrise Boulevard near Florida`s Turnpike interchange is being widened from Northwest 47th Avenue to State Road 7, and only one lane in each direction is open on the Sunrise Boulevard bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway.
Griffin Road is being widened and improved from Federal Highway to State Road 7. Sheridan Road is being resurfaced from University Drive to Palm Avenue.
Only one lane in each direction is open on Taft Street, which is being widened to five lanes from University Drive to State Road 7. Traffic is being slowed on Prospect Road as it is widened between North Andrews Avenue and Dixie Highway.
State repair crews will close the southbound left lane of Interstate 95, south of State Road 84, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and for the next two weekends.
A 25-foot section of the guardrail on the I-95 bridge over the Dania Cutoff Canal will be replaced. The metal fence was ripped away in a car accident.


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The results from new computer-based California assessments will be reported to parents and students later this summer
This spring, Kern County students in grades 3-8 and 11 took part in the first-ever statewide administration of the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments for English–language arts (ELA) and mathematics. These computer-based assessments align the Common Core State Standards and replace the paper and pencil, multiple-choice tests students took as part of the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program.
The new state assessment system that replaces the STAR program is called the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP). In addition to the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments, CAASPP also includes the following:
- Alternate assessments include ELA and mathematics assessments in grades 3 through 8 and grade 11, and the California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA) for science in grades 5, 8, and 10.
- Science assessments in grades 5, 8, and 10 (i.e., California Standards Tests [CST], California Modified Assessment [CMA], and CAPA)
- Standards-based Tests in Spanish (STS) for reading–language arts in grades 2 through 11 (optional).
The new Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments are an important part of California's plan for high-quality teaching and learning, which seeks to help all students graduate prepared for college-level coursework and a 21st-century career.
Similar to the assessments included in the old STAR program, the new assessment aim to provide an academic check-up, but were designed to give teachers more timely and informative feedback so they may improve instruction and better meet the needs of students. For instance, the new tests allow for a wider variety of questions and allow students to demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills. And, because the new tests are "adaptive" — meaning questions get more difficult or easier, depending on the test taker's success on the previous question — the new tests are more accurate in providing information about an individual student's performance.
How results will be reported
CAASPP student reports will be mailed to Kern County districts in late July. It is up to the district to provide reports to parents. Some districts may choose to mail them to parents later this summer, while others may elect to hand reports out at the beginning of the school year.
The reports will include detailed information about a child's performance.
Students will receive an overall score for both ELA and math, ranging from 2,000 to 3,000. Overall scores will be reported within one of four levels:
- Standard not met
- Standard nearly met
- Standard met
- Standard exceeded
These new reports will also highlight students' strengths in key areas called "claim areas" for both ELA and math. ELA results will include information about the students' performance in four areas:
- Reading
- Writing
- Listening
- Research
Reports of math results will include information about student's performance in three areas:
- Problem solving
- Using concepts and procedures
- Communicating mathematical reasoning
The student's performance in "claim areas" for each subject will be reported using the following three indicators:
- Below standard
- At or near standard
- Above standard
For students in grade 11, individualized reports will also indicate their readiness for credit-bearing college-level work – and if further preparation is needed, what areas to focus on in their senior year. For many students, that's the kind of information that could help make the dream of a college education come true.
For students in grades 5, 8 and 10 individual reports also will include student scores from the California Standards Test for Science, a requirement of the federal government. California is in the process of developing a new state science assessment aligned with our recently adopted science standards. California may also develop new assessments in other subjects, including history social science aligned to state-adopted content standards.
After all individual student scores have been reported to districts, the state will release full results in late summer or early fall via a public reporting website — http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/. Results will be made available by school, district, county and the state, and will include mean scale scores and percent of students at each of the achievement levels.
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Like the new learning goals they were designed to measure, the CAASPP tests in ELA and math are too fundamentally different from the old exams to make any reliable comparisons between old scores and new. That's why this year's scores are better thought of as a starting point — a baseline for the progress we expect students to make over time. Overall scores should only be viewed as a basis from which to compare performance in future years.
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he told the Senate committee reviewing his nomination in January that he could protect workers as OSHA's new leader.We'll see.
"As head of OSHA," he said, "I understand that I will be ultimately responsible for helping to ensure as much as possible that every employee in the United States works in a safe and healthy workplace."
Dear Assistant Secretary Foulke:
Congratulations on your appointment to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It's an enormous responsibility, as I'm sure you are aware: you literally hold the lives and health of thousands of American workers in your hands. Don't screw it up.
I'm sure you're not happy that I've previously characterized you as a union-busting Republican political operative whose fundraising and party leadership skills have finally paid off. And you may not be happy about my prediction that your administration will be (yawn) a continuation of the same tired, ineffective, moribund, anti-worker programs that have succeed in making OSHA almost totally irrelevant to workplace safety in this country.
On the other hand, I'm sure, in the wee hours of night, as you lie awake in bed, wondering what the next three years hold, you're also asking yourself what contribution you can possibly make to humanity by heading up an agency that has been castrated by the President at whose pleasure you serve.
Well Ed, here's your chance to put your money where your silver-toungued mouth is. For a short period of time, you have an opportunity to take a number of giant steps to protect workers, defend your manhood, and, most important of all, do what both John Henshaw and Jonathan Snare have spent countless hours fantacizing about: you can make a complete fool out of me.
Here's how.
You can show the Mayberry Machiavellis at the White House, and those wet-behind-the-ears, know-it-all, young Republicans who are actually running this country that that you've got balls, cajones, that you're no Brownie, that all that B.S. you were spewing at your confirmation hearing about how OSHA's biggest challenge is to cater to small business was just a bunch of confirmation claptrap intended to warm the cockles of Senator Enzi's heart.
OK, here's your 100 day agenda:
- Issue the "Payment for Personal Protective Equipment" standard. The standard has been languishing at OSHA since the end of the Clinton Administration. Explain that if anyone is going to take seriously OSHA's efforts to reach out to Hispanic workers, the first step must be to ensure that employers pay for their boots, gloves and other equipment.
- Issue an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for a standard to protect health care workers against a flu pandemic. Show you're serous about ensuring that this country is ready for a flu pandemic by safeguarding the health of our caregivers
- Propose legislation calling for increased criminal penalties and higher fines. Yes, maybe most employers may take safety seriously, but there are still far too many in this country who continue to knowingly and willfully cut corners and kill workers. Their only punishment is a relatively insiginificant fine, considering that they killed someones' father, mother, son or daughter. Only the certainty of high fines and jail terms will stop them from considering violations, injuries, illnesses and fatalities to be an acceptable risk. (Spend a few hours reading Confined Space, and then tell me you don't agree...)
- Launch a serious and sustained effort to update the OSHA's Permissible Exposure Limit for chemicals. Hundreds of chemicals are regulated by OSHA based on science from the 1950's and 1960's, making the agency a laughing stock, and exposing workers to thousands of hazardous chemicals.
- Fill the empty labor-liaison positions in the field. Due to deaths and retirements, fewer than half of the OSHA Regional offices have labor liaisons. None of the empty positions have been filled. If you really want to know what goes on in American workplaces, you need people that workers will trust.
- Announce that you are launching a review of the recently issued Hexavalent Chromium standard. New information has surfaced that the chromium industry hid important studies showing lung cancer at very low exposure levels, and there are numerous other flaws in the standard. Basically, the thing's a piece of shit, but you have a chance to blame it on someone else -- if you act fast.
- Announce that you are launching a serious review of OSHA's voluntary Programs, based on the 2004 Government Accountability Office report that showed there was no evidence that the programs were effective. Oh, and while you're at it, get rid of that idiotic alliance program. Admit that it's just a rather unsuccessful public relations ploy to hide the fact that OSHA has gone out of the standard setting business.
So, come on, Ed, prove me wrong. What do you have to lose but your irrelevance? You'll never have more political capital than you have now. They can't fire an Assistant Secretary the month after he's confirmed. What are they going to do, send you on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney? Dude, You've got 'em by the balls. Now, squeeze.
Good luck. You'll need it.
Jordan Barab
Blogger, Confined Space.
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The SEC Is Doing Its Job on Rules on Private Offerings
Contrary to the assertions in your editorial "Schapiro's Boss" (Dec. 6), neither I nor anyone I work with is trying to prevent the SEC from enacting the Jobs Act rule lifting the ban on the mass marketing of private offerings. What we are trying to do is to get the agency to follow basic, legally required rule-making procedures and to incorporate reasonable investor protections as it lifts the ban. This balanced approach to rule-making has been advocated by members of Congress, investor groups, current and former securities regulators, leading securities law scholars, institutional investors and the bipartisan, broadly representative SEC Investor Advisory Committee.
If there is a scandal here, it is that commission staffers argued that it would be legally permissible to lift the marketing ban through an interim final rule. There is no emergency to justify such an action. The private-offering market is thriving despite the existing marketing restrictions. Moreover, the rule would fundamentally alter the private-offering market, increasing risks of fraud with possible harmful effects on costs of capital for legitimate issuers. We can afford to take time to get the rules right.
When all it takes to invest in a private offering is annual income of $200,000, it is absurd to suggest that these offerings are sold only to wealthy, sophisticated investors. Under the circumstances, we think it is perfectly reasonable to take the position that the commission should balance loosened marketing restrictions with strengthened investor protections. Among the possible actions: updating the guidelines for who can invest, enhancing the agency's ability to oversee the market, adopting more stringent standards to ensure that only accredited investors purchase the securities, banning felons and other "bad actors" from participating in the market and setting some content restrictions on solicitation materials. Others may disagree. But these are precisely the types of issues that are typically resolved through the proposal-and-comment process that the SEC had planned to skip in this rule-making.
Finally, there is no reason why Chairman Mary Schapiro's departure should result in stalling this rule. Both Commissioner Elisse Walter and Commissioner Luis Aguilar have indicated that they are prepared to approve a rule so long as it adopts a balanced approach that includes reasonable investor protections. If the Republican commissioners are prepared to accept such provisions, the rule should be able to move forward without major delays.
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HBJ Gateley Wareing is growing its London real estate base with the hire of Joseph Mazzucca from White & Case.
The hire follows on from the recruitment of commercial real estate partner Nick Smith from Nomura and real estate finance partner Jim Garton from Mishcon de Reya.
Mazzucca joined the firm on 1 June as a real estate partner, specialising in real estate investment, acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant work and real estate management.
Senior partner Mike Ward said: "We're in a new office in London and large firms may feel overweight but we see lots of opportunities for a firm our size. We have a plan to expand in London – since the Shaw & Croft merger [in 2007] we've wanted to be full-service."
Ward said that rather than being opportunistic hires, the new joiners are as a result of "more people in the marketplace than there would be during boom times". He added: "We still apply the same criteria to candidates [as we always would]."
HBJ has 50 staff and fee-earners in London, of which six are in real estate. Property is run by Richard Pettifor, who is based in Birmingham.
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Bright and Large Soho/Nolita 3-Bedroom Loft
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Three bedroom NYC Loft sleeps up to eight guests. Direct TV and wireless high-speed Internet are included.
This is a very large, private, three-bedroom loft for up to 8 guests. It features huge windows along the entire west and north sides of the loft making it extremely bright.
The loft features beautiful hardwood floors throughout and is furnished in a comfortable and elegant modern style.
This is a spacious and comfortable loft with a large open living/dining/kitchen area and three separate bedrooms. This lovely apartment is perfect for a large family or a group of friends traveling together.
There are 3 flights of stairs for access and NO elevator.
It is located in one of the hottest and trendiest parts of Manhattan's Soho and Nolita district replete with restaurants, cafes, bars, clubs, shops and galleries, as well as just a couple of blocks to many major subway lines (N, R, 6, B, D, F, Q). It is also a quick walk into Little Italy, Chinatown, Greenwich Village, East Village, Lower East Side, Noho and Tribeca.
RequirementsPlease note that the balance is to be paid directly to the owner after booking by bank transfer.
Cleaning fee is to be paid by cash at check in.
Surcharge for check in between 7:00 and 10:00 PM: 70.00
Surcharge for check in between 10:00 and 11:30 PM: 90.00
Surcharge for check in between 11:30 PM and 2:00 AM: 125.00
Late check in fees are paid by cash at check in.
Also note that for the Christmas and New Years weeks, I keep to a 7 night minimum stay for EACH of the two holidays. So if it includes both Christmas and New Years, a 14 night minimum would apply.
Living roomThe living room has two large, comfortable sofas. In the large dining area is a beautiful, formal dining table that can comfortably seat 8 people.
Bedroom(s) and Bathroom(s)One of the bedrooms is very large and has a very comfortable king-sized bed, which can be split into two singles if guests prefer. The two other bedrooms each have queen-sized beds. Host will provide air mattresses for a maximum of four additional guests at an additional nightly charge.
Bedroom Sizes:
16.5' x 12.5'
10.5 x 8.5'
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KitchenThe kitchen is equipped with stove, oven, refrigerator/freezer as well as a microwave oven, coffee maker, cookware and tableware. There is no laundry facility in the loft but we can recommend nearby laundry options.
Other informationThis loft is located in the same building as another wonderful loft of ours. It is a great opportunity for a larger group traveling together to be in two units in the same building. Direct TV and wireless high-speed Internet are included on both floors at no extra charge.
Rates will be automatically calculated and includes all tax and charges
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Where and how do I get the keys to the property?
Your confirmation mail will include the telephone number to contact the greeter\owner upon arrival at the aiport of train station, You can arrage a time to meet the contact person at the property to make payment and get the keys
Check in time is from 15:00 and Check out is before 11:00
Please note that some owners have an extra charge for late check in
Can I check in early or where can I leave my luggage until check in time?
Early check in is only possible if the property is not booked the night before you arrive. You can arrange this with the owner 24-48 hours before your arrival.
How can I get from the airport to the property?Your confirmation mail will include instructions for getting to the property from central station.
If l have any questions or problem while I am in the city or at the property, how can I get help?
If have any problems with the accommodation or need any advice. we are on hand to help. Our Live Concierge Senvice is manned sixteen hours per day. Just click the Live Chat button on the site You will also have the contact number for the owner/greeter
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