text:
Dean And Corrina Montgomery's Worked '72 Road Runner Replaced A Treasure
Most of us are lucky enough that some automotive disaster is far from our personal experience. We're not talking about blown engines or flat tires; we're talking about vehicle-totaling crashes, thefts, and fires. It was the latter that befell Dean and Corrina Montgomery when their 383-powered 'Cuda was completely destroyed in a car fire. Dean has owned Mopar iron since getting his driver's license, but the loss of this car was hard to take.
Though this '72 Road Runner was quite different from the E-Body Plymouth that proceeded it, the Montgomerys decided it would be a more-than-suitable replacement for the fried fish. Factory powered by a 400-inch engine, the '72 model is sometimes disdained by purists due to the drop in compression ratios and death of the multi-carbureted factory packages. Dean didn't let that problem dissuade him, since he was already planning to make this example a little more radical than stock.
The 400 wasn't a bad engine, but there's no replacement for displacement, so a '73 vintage 440 was screwed together to drop between the fenderwells. To keep it happy on street fuel, Chrysler 9.5:1 compression slugs are fed fuel by a Crane .488/284-duration hydraulic cam. Hedman headers and a 3-inch mandrel-bent, aluminized exhaust system take care of the exhaust, and the battery has been moved to the trunk. Most impressive is the top of the engine, which now features a pair of well-tuned Edelbrock 600-cfm AFB carbs atop an older Edelbrock dual-quad intake. Dean told us the linkage and all the parts needed were right off the shelf; no need to fabricate a lot of rods and small parts. Dressed to the hilt with chrome and trim, the engine bay is fully detailed and took First Place in B-Body Modified at the show where we shot it (Farmington Dragway's Piedmont Mopar Club event in North Carolina). Behind the engine is a 727 TorqueFlite with a B&M valvebody, plus a 4.10-geared 8¾ Sure Grip rear.
That is quite impressive, but the real showstopper on this car is the paint. Using PPG's basecoat/clearcoat process, the car is painted in Chrysler's later Basin Street Blue, but sports a unique twist. All the graphics are painted on instead of decals and are blended deep into the clearcoat, creating a seamless appearance that turns heads wherever it goes. The bodywork itself is also perfect, a stunning accompaniment to the underhood detail job. This exterior treatment was applied by Roger Smith of Tallmadge, Ohio, who succeeded in making it a suitable replacement for the singed E-Body.
Inside, Year One provided the pieces for a completely redone interior, while Dean supplemented this with a Grant steering wheel as well as Mopar Performance and VDO gauging. Other changes include four-wheel disc brakes, Weld Pro Star wheels, and big BFGoodrich rubber with 215/70R15s up front and 255/70R15s at the rear, making this car a street sweeper par excellence.
With help from friends like Billy Calvert and Scott Mitchell, plus brother Jeff and father L.T., Dean has the car ready for action, driving it on the cruising circuit in and around Roanoke, Virginia, on the weekends. We don't know what that 'Cuda looked like, but this Road Runner makes us feel like there's nothing but blue skies every day.


text:
"We didn't do it."
We were cordially invited to stay at FOB Kutschbach for a few extra days by the rotary wing folks, who bumped our return flight to a day earlier than scheduled. So, as we had some extra time on the ground, we did a foot patrol with the French, the PMT and the ANP through the Tagab bazaar a couple of days after the attack. Being that there were two of us, and we each had an interpreter, we were able to talk with the people we ran into at the bazaar. That is, when we weren't being hurried along.
While asking people what village they were from, if their village and/or family had suffered any casualties, and how they felt about the attack, the story the Taliban was telling came out. First, they insisted that only one rocket was fired… so the other round must have come from either the Americans or the French on the FOB. Right there they shucked off half of the responsibility. Secondly, they insisted that the rocket was not fired by a Talib. They had, they insisted, "arrested" the man who had fired the "single" rocket, and they were investigating to discover who had paid him to fire the rocket into the crowded bazaar.
"Really?" I asked the man who conveyed this. "They are really saying this?"
"Yes. This is what they say," he asserted.
"They really think that you are so stupid that you would believe something so ridiculous?"
Blank stare. The man searched for something… something that wasn't coming.
"I've been talking with you for several minutes. You are going to go to college in Jalalabad to be a lawyer. I know that you are too smart to believe such a ridiculous lie." Clearly, he wasn't; but it was beginning to work on his brain.
He stammered a bit… the corners of his mouth began to curl upwards a little. He was stuck.
"If a man kills someone and you ask him if he's done it, he comes up with a stupid story about how it wasn't him, right?" I asked.
"Yes," he replied, hesitantly.
"So that you won't want to kill him," I continued.
"Well…" he shifted uncomfortably.
"So then he thinks that if you believe him, then you are a fool. You would be foolish then, right?" I pressed.
"Yes, that would be foolish," he agreed.
"But you are too smart to believe a foolish lie, aren't you? You are smarter than that, aren't you?"
"Yes, I am smarter than that," he agreed.
"The Taliban think you are very stupid people, but you are not so stupid, right?" I offered him a way out.
"Right. We are smarter than that." The men gathered around began nodding their heads.
It's not like I could undo the damage done after the Taliban IO (Information Operation) had time, unfettered, to respond to the catastrophe that they had caused among their neighbors. Their gaff was like a kid who throws rocks at a house and breaks a window and then runs away. If confronted by the homeowner later, he comes up with a creative story about someone else breaking the window. Except this rock-throwing nimrod was throwing rockets, and he had killed innocent people.
The French had found rocket fragments from two rockets. One was Chinese and the other of Russian manufacture. They did not get the word out immediately. In fact, the reaction of the French leadership was to cancel a mission that they had planned and "wait it out." They did not hit the streets immediately, telling the story and showing the rocket fragments to everyone they could find. This gave the Taliban time to concoct a ludicrous lie that, in the absence of any information to the contrary, some people were believing.
The fact is that on the morning of the attack, we were informed that there was some intelligence to indicate that the Taliban were going to attack the District Center that day. The reason was that there was a French General who would be participating in a Shura with local elders and the Sub-governor of Tagab District. COL Z, the local ANP Chief who is much-hated by the Taliban, and the ANA commander would also be there. As with all intelligence, there are a lot of red herrings. The PMT joked about the odds of actually being attacked. But, at roughly 12:30, twin booms rang out from the nearby bazaar. The French quickly identified the site of the launch, a site that the Taliban frequently use to launch rockets at FOB Kutschbach… often missing. This time they missed their mark by a scant 200 meters… just enough to land them in the bazaar, crowded by shoppers stocking up for the Eid celebration on a market day.
The 107mm (4.2 inch) rocket is not a precision weapon system. When tube launched, it is an area weapon. You can get it into a general area, but you cannot ensure a precision hit. When launched Afghan-style… propped up on rocks… it is an order of magnitude less certain. To launch these weapons from four kilometers away at a site which is so close to the bazaar on a bazaar day is criminally negligent at best.
These weapons were fired with a total disregard for civilian lives. It was akin to firing high explosives into a mall during the Christmas shopping season.
The 107mm warhead packs a wallop, but it is notorious for its horrible fragmentation pattern. The warhead casing fragments unevenly, often throwing out very large fragments in a haphazard manner. This undoubtedly spared some while mutilating others. Civilians were torn asunder, some left in bloody heaps while others lost limbs instantly. Still others were injured by flying chunks of rock. One rocket impacted near the place where people shopped for livestock for their Eid feast, not unlike our Thanksgiving Dinner. Livestock and citizens alike were shredded by razor-sharp, white-hot fragments. The carnage was horrendous.
As the shocked survivors gathered themselves and the bazaar emptied in a frenzy, severely wounded shoppers dragged themselves away from the center of the disaster. Colonel Z sprinted out the gate of the District Center, four ANP running to keep pace as their Chief ran into the dust and smoke left on the wake of the high explosive warheads. The Colonel lifted injured people into vehicles and dispatched them to either the FOB or the District Center. Within minutes, casualties began to arrive for French and American medics to triage and treat. The Colonel helped retrieve six dead from the litter of blood and body parts. The families took their dead directly home. More would die later from their wounds. Few villages were left unscathed by the toll. Everyone I spoke with a couple of days later knew someone who had perished or been wounded.
"You notice," Colonel Z mentioned later, "that no one took their casualties to the Taliban for medical treatment. They brought them to the FOB, or to the District Center. They depended on the government or its allies for help when they needed it."
This is true. That's what the people did.
There is a "Radio-in-a-box" setup at FOB Kutschbach, broadcasting to the people of the Tagab Valley. The local commander offered the elders an opportunity to come and denounce the attack on the radio. Only one man, Colonel Z, came and denounced the Taliban for their cowardly act. All the other elders declined. So, as they sat watching, the enemy began their damage-control campaign.
"We didn't do it. We caught the man who did, but he only fired one rocket. The Americans or the French fired the other one. We didn't do it…"
As long as the elders and the villagers refuse to talk or denounce atrocities like that, the Taliban keeps an upper hand. I feel that until the Afghans get a set, we will be beating you heads against a wall. Glad you got back okay, too.
Old Blue, you might publish a map of Kapish with this story (Tagab being a district of Kapish):
Why didn't the NDS, ANP, ANA, Kapisha governor and Tagab sub-governor publicize that this was a Taliban attack with one Russian and one Chinese rocket? Isn't it primarily their responsibility to manage IO (information operations)?
If I could ask a related question, how many Kapisha locals think that ISAF is secretly backing the Taliban against them and their GIRoA/ANSF?
for me the Taliban are a strange lot. bully your way to win over the harts an mines of the folks. but when the afghans need help, they will have to come to us. because the Taliban can't or won't help. strange.
Those cowards. I hate them.
I want you to know we have your troops and you in our prayers this Thanksgiving Day. God bless and protect you.
Reading crap like this is depressing. I wonder who the idiot was who decided to wait two days to go and investigate. Are they TRYING to lose the war??!!
It's the old classic – "say a lie loud enough, long enough and people begin to believe it's true."
Hopefully somebody learned from this mistake. I can only pray it is so.
As long as you have a top heavy bureaucracy with dozens of nations (that answer back home to their home govt's) then this kind of IO clusterfog will continue. The enemy on the other hand often has IO down to the cell level. That's because they empower their subordinates. Our POG leadership is afraid to do so…nothing we do in the field is worth a potential negative on someones career.
Of course Old Blue you know my feelings on the entire enterprise at this point. Stay low.
Enjoy the speech. I am recording it, I will probably erase and just review the text later. Less stressful.
Don't keep fucking that chicken. In other words, don't buy it. You're on Pork Chop Hill, this is a Hudna in progress.
The speech … I would not be surprised to see all cooperation from the locals dry up when they learn that we are out of there by 7/2011.
That effectively means one fighting season to win right? March-April to what, September-October? About seven months, max? Christ have mercy.
2011 C-YA: Well he may find it easier said than done. I think that was a sop to his base. It's still unfortunate that he said it, because it does undercut the Hell out of the effort, and 2) It might be more accurate to say we'll undertake a review over the next 12-18 mos to see where we are, which is what his peeps are pointing out.
I think they are being given a year + to reverse the momentum the Talib had, then we re-evaluate and draw down/scale back.
It will be enuf to put a hurting on the Talib, if they are stupid enuf to come out and play – which so far their rhetoric indicates they will. But they'd be stupid to put in more than economy of force. Just as we are. The Bush stratergy for Astan could probably be summed up as economy of force. As far as failed state – when was it a state? It's a 3 decades old civil war that sucked in the Soviets – hastening the demise of the USSR (along with other factors), drew AQ and hence us, and has destablized the region. Which is inherently unstable anyway.
The victory of Lawfare Jihad in NYC – which will rejuvenate AQ, from the point of near death – is far more important, and renders this moot.
That and I am still convinced that NYC in particular is part of Bammy's Hudna strategy, with NYC being sacrificed, and the US and it's defenders being humiliated on the World Stage of Stages – NYC – as the real red meat on the table.
The Taliban have never been all that good with rockets and Kabul has the rubble to prove it.
I've been to Tagab before while on my deployment. Interesting story. I met Colonel Z once – he was a bad ass. And not surprising about the local reaction – I came into contact with that a lot while serving there. The locals want to believe both sides of the story – that's why they're always changing what they think really happened.
I have recently finished a very good book that deals with our first responder strike team that was sent to Afghanistan a few short weeks following 911 – It, along with a great deal of other literature and blogs I have investigated, gives a powerfully base of for understanding the conflict there, who the Afghanistan people are, what they are up against, what we are up against, and ultimately who we are.
I think a huge problem with the current generations that are living in America is a failure to understand "terror", origins, motivations, goals, and its advocates.
The advocates of Islam are telling us very specific things.
The onus is on the Muslim nation to police its advocates and terrorist appendages.
Just because we do not wish to believe what they are saying, does not make what they are saying less true.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Bisons blast three HR in win
The Bisons continue to tear the cover off the baseball putting up 10 runs Sunday evening, the second time they hit double digits on the scoreboard in less than 24 hours with a total of 25 runs scored in two days.
The Bisons two through four hitters dominated Columbus pitching all day long scoring seven of the ten runs themselves in the Herd's 10-2 victory Sunday at Huntington Park.
The herd picked up right where they left off last night when they scored 15 runs against Columbus Saturday. After being held scoreless in the first inning Sunday the Bisons scored at least one run in the next four innings.
Six of the 10 runs were scored on home runs the first coming on a solo-shot by Jesus Feliciano, three more when Zach Lutz drilled a shot in the third inning and two more in the fifth inning courtesy of the Bisons RBI leader Valentino Pascucci.
Dylan Owen worked seven innings giving up just one run on a home run in the fifth inning. Owen gave up four hits one walk and struckout seven Clippers in his best start of the season, and just the second time that Owen has gone seven innings.
For the second start in a row Owen also gave up just one run and got a win to keep the Bisons winning streak going at three games. The Herd also moves to 6-1 in their last seven games out scoring the Clippers 25-5 in the Herd's last two wins.
Game Notes: Valentino Pascucci moved his team leading RBI total to 90 with the help of his 20th home run of the season Sunday against the Clippers and has 15 games left to reach the century mark…Josh Satin failed to get a hit Sunday halting his hit streak at eight games…Dylan Owen had his best start of the year pitching into the seven inning while giving up just one run, it's Owen's second start in a row giving up just one run.


text:
If you're a new visitor to this electronic directory,check out our DEMO for a brief overview of the features. NOTE: the number of board certified physicians is current as listed in this paragraph and may differ from the number displayed in the demo. With ABMS Directory you'll enjoy quick and easy access to
professional information about more than 900,000 board certified physicians in 50+ specialties and 100+ subspecialties
from the 24 member boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). A directory of all 24 member boards, with their contact information, can be found by clicking on the Resources tab at the top of this page.
This website provides the ability to search for physicians electronically, based on a combination of criteria,
including name, board certified specialty, city or state, etc. The quick search results make it possible to easily identify:
Information is updated quarterly with data from ABMS, as well as other updates received from the physicians.
New physicians and new certifications will be displayed on this website with each update.
In addition to board certified specialties, this authoritative reference tool also provides:
This website is the perfect reference to find specialists in various geographic locations, to confirm whether or not a
physician is board certified (and the specialty), and as a research tool. However, it does not meet the standards of
Primary Source Verification (PSV) for professional credentialing or accreditation. If you require professional,
Primary Source data for credentialing please visit www.boardcertifieddocs.com.
Mailing Lists
In order to ensure that our list customers are provided with the most
current and accurate mailing information, Elsevier has contracted with
Lake Group Media.
The ABMS directory website does not allow exporting of the mailing
information to build a list. A complete rate card with list rental
details for the ABMS file is available at http://www.lakegrp.com/CMP/DC/DC037004.htm.
For additional list information or rental requests please contact:
Lake Group Media
Jinelle Cruz
email: email@example.com
website: http://www.lakegroupmedia.com


text:
Enjoy a selection of quilts from the 2006 Journal Quilt Project which were displayed at the 2006 International Quilt Festival in Houston, TX. The Journal Quilt Project was originated by Karey Bresenhan as an ongoing, free-form exercise in creativity, specifically planned to encourage quilt artists to stretch and grow. Participation has grown to such proportions that the artists were requested to select their best quilt pages for exhibition. The exhibit consists of five small monthly quilt pages done over time and a journal entry from each participating artist. These examples are but a fraction of the many entries in this extremely popular challenge. More examples of Journal Quilts can be found in Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project by Karey Bresenhan.
Many thanks to Karey for giving Quiltart the opportunity to participate in this project and for displaying it for all to see in Houston at IQF.
Click on images for a larger view. Some of these files are VERY large.
Please be patient!
Cullen, Davila, Dodge
Gripenhov, Hansen, Hart
Cay Mackenzie
Jeanne Markin
Kerri Murphy
Alyson Olander
Linda Schmidt
Sarah Ann Smith
Synnove Vanar
Click on each image for a closer view.
Return to the Quiltart Home Page


text:
The 15 Silliest Star Wars Character Names
The introduction to this post contains some minor SPOILERS for Solo: A Star Wars Story. If you want, you can just skip past it and head straight to the silly character names. You do whatever you need to do.
We learn a lot of stuff about Han Solo in Solo. We learn how he first got the Millennium Falcon. We learn how he met Chewbacca. We learn how he met Lando. We learn how he got his blaster. We learn how he got that belt he likes to wear. We learn where he grew up. We learn about his first love. We learn how he learn to be a master smuggler. And we even learn some surprising stuff about his name and its origins. Without getting into the details, I can promise you that stuff will catch you off-guard.
The name stuff got me thinking about Star Wars names in general, and not just where they come from but how ridiculous they are. Luke Skywalker is one thing; Biggs Darklighter is another. And then there are the 15 characters on the list below, whose monickers (which I swear I did not make up) range from the extremely goofy to the downright laughable. Some are named after their jobs, some are named after their looks, a few are even named after their fates. They all have one thing in common: They are extremely silly. And at least one of them is from Solo: A Star Wars Story, which is in theaters now.
" align="center"]


text:
I wanted to use my "Bio Green" eyeshadow from MAC (Pro Color), so I used it with "Eyepopping" and "Wondergrass" and lined my lower lashline using Milani's Color Brilliance Eye Pencil in "Aqua".
I liked how it was still subtle and wearable despite the fact that these were bright colors.
Natural Light:
What I used:
- Monistat Chafing Gel as Primer
- MAC StudioFinish Concealer NC30
- Meow Cosmetics Primer Powder
- Silk Naturals Foundation
- EDM "All Smiles"
- MAC e/s in "Chrome Yellow" inner corners
- MAC e/s in "Eyepopping" in lower half of the lid
- MAC e/s in "Bio Green" on 3/4 of the lid and contour
- MAC e/s in "Wondergrass" on outer-half of the lid
- ULTA e/s in "Shell" as highlight
- MAC Fluidline in "Nightfish"
- L'Oreal Telescopic Mascara
- Milani Color Brilliance Pencil in "Aqua" on lower lashline
- MAC l/s in "Curtsy"
- MAC l/g in "Sockhop"
Recent Posts
Popular Posts
Upcoming Posts
Sunday, April 13, 2008
FOTD: Parakeet Colors
I wanted to use my "Bio Green" eyeshadow from MAC (Pro Color), so I used it with "Eyepopping" and "Wondergrass" and lined my lower lashline using Milani's Color Brilliance Eye Pencil in "Aqua".
20 comments
- stylishmomy said...
aww this is such a lovely look Vanessa =) greena, yellow and aqua.. I never thought those would look good together but you pulled it off, like always, gorgeous! Those Milani eye pencils are nice.
- April 13, 2008 at 11:44 PM
- Jenny said...
Gorgeous look!! I've been looking for good colorful eyeliners, now I'm definitely going to buy the Milani ones! Great post, thanks!
- April 13, 2008 at 11:50 PM
- Erica said...
can you do a review on those Milani pencils? thanks!!
- April 14, 2008 at 12:29 AM
- Mrs. Lynne, MakeupFix.net said...
ooh, sexy bird! hollar!
- April 14, 2008 at 2:45 AM
- Anonymous said...
i love the pose with the mobile lol! you look fantabulous gurl! ;)
- April 14, 2008 at 4:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
LOVE LOVE LOVE. Just beautiful.
- April 14, 2008 at 5:29 AM
- Anonymous said...
i love the wing on the lower eyeline! this looks so great on you!
- April 14, 2008 at 7:02 AM
- Bliss said...
Lovely colour combo, i especially love the aqua you used as eyeliner, very pretty :D
- April 14, 2008 at 7:38 AM
- Tanya Annette said...
Those pencils are gorgeous (and your eyes!!! wowza!)!! I've seen them at 3 different places and still haven't picked them up. Ummmm, so now that I've seen swatches I'll NEED to get them now :D
- April 14, 2008 at 8:32 AM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
ohhh pretty! i love those milani pencils...beautimous!
- April 14, 2008 at 9:17 AM
- BeautyTalk said...
I really like this. You're right, it is totally wearable.
- April 14, 2008 at 9:45 AM
- the Muse said...
pretty girl ;)
- April 14, 2008 at 10:20 AM
- Her.Peachieness said...
Awwww, I love this! I'm gonna copy this look one day. =D
- April 14, 2008 at 11:02 AM
- Nic Nic said...
you always look beautiful in green, i love how you made it so fun-looking as well!
- April 14, 2008 at 12:41 PM
- iamsutil said...
love the colors! :)
- April 14, 2008 at 12:42 PM
- Anonymous said...
After I saw this post - I ran to the nearest drug store(s) and bought all 4 of the Milani Color Brilliance pencils. Ahahaa. They're HOTTTT. I thought the aqua was pretty. The green was even prettier.
- April 14, 2008 at 1:38 PM
- Nicole said...
Hi pretty girl! This look is amazing & I loveee it :) Have fun in San Fran!
- April 14, 2008 at 2:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
absolutely adorable. love it!
- April 14, 2008 at 9:23 PM
- Emilee @ GMM said...
Pretty! You make the bright colors look so wearable. :)
- April 15, 2008 at 2:43 AM
- yummy411 said...
ah i guess i got the wrong liner. i bought the green initially and it doesn't show up as much on me, just a dark green. i guess i need aqua.. i have the purple =)
- April 15, 2008 at 5:28 PM


text:
Last night in New York, Old Navy had a big ol' party to celebrate the retailer's "new look," which is supposedly super fashion-forward. (Does this mean no more drawstring shorts?) A terrifingly-dressed Natasha Bedingfield headlined the event, and also in attendance were Ugly Betty's Becki Newton (above left), and Sophia Bush and Kristen Bell, both of whom looked great. See 'em all and more with the full good, bad, and ugly, after the jump.
The Good:
Sophia Bush looks va-va-va-voom!
Blake Lively as she should be: Casual, fresh, and age-appropriate. Xoxo, Gossip Girl.
Our little Veronica Mars is all grown up! Kristen Bell looks super sophisticated in this gray sheath.
I know that Heatherette designers Trevor Raines and Richie Rich aren't traditional picks for "The Good" category, but you gotta admire the boys' consistency. They've been rockin this look for what, 20 years now?
The Bad:
Hayden Panettiere looks totally uncomfortable and totally old in this ensemble. Loosen up, lady.
Paula Garces looks straight out of 1996. I don't have fond memories of 1996.
Doesn't Bethanny Frankel's blouse look like it could have been designed by Project Runway's Christian? Oh, those sleeves! That plaid! Ugh. Also, do not show your stomach on the red carpet, please.
Why must maternity designer Liz Lange dress like Carol Brady?
The Ugly:
[New York, January 30. Images via INFDaily]


text:
A Day in Your Life
Though we usually fail to notice it, government programs and policies improve our daily lives in innumerable ways.
Ask yourself this question: "What has government done for me lately?" If you are like most Americans, you will probably answer: "Not much." Many people feel like they pay a lot in taxes but don't really get anything back from government. Surveys show that 52% of Americans believe that "government programs have not really helped me and my family."1 But let's see if that is really true. Let's examine a typical day in the life of an average middle-class American and try to identify some of the ways that government improves that person's life during that 24-hour period.
6:30 a.m. You are awakened by your clock radio. You know it is actually 6:30 because the National Institute of Standards and Technology keeps the official time. And you can listen to your favorite radio station only because the Federal Communications Commission brings organization and coherence to our vast telecommunications system. It ensures, for example, that radio stations do not overlap and that stations signals are not interfered with by the numerous other devices – cell phones, satellite television, wireless computers, etc. – whose signals crowd our nation's airwaves.
6:35 a.m. Like 17 million other Americans, you have asthma. But as you get out of bed you notice that you are breathing freely this morning. This is thanks in part to government clean air laws that reduce the air pollution that would otherwise greatly worsen your condition.
6:38 a.m. You go into the kitchen for breakfast. You pour some water into your coffeemaker. You simply take for granted that this water is safe to drink. But in fact you count on your city water department to constantly monitor the quality of your water and to immediately take measures to correct any potential problems with this vital resource.
6:39 a.m. You flip the switch on the coffee maker. There is no short in the outlet or in the electrical line and there is no resulting fire in your house. Why? Because when your house was being built, the electrical system had to be inspected to make sure it was properly installed – a service provided by your local government. And it was installed by an electrician who was licensed by your state government to ensure his competence and your safety.
6:45 a.m. You sit down to breakfast with your family. You are having eggs – a food that brings with it the possibility of salmonella poisoning, a serious food-borne illness affecting tens of thousands of Americans every year. But the chance of you getting sick from these eggs has now been greatly reduced by a recently passed series of strict federal rules that apply to egg producers.
7:00 a.m. You go into your newly renovated bathroom – one of a number of amenities that you enjoy in your house. But the fact that you can legally own your own house is something made possible by government. Think about this: "ownership" and "private property" are not things that exist in nature. These are legal constructs: things created by laws that are passed and enforced by government. You couldn't even buy your home without a system of commercial laws concerning contracts and a government that ensures that sales contracts are enforced. So the fact that you live in your own home is, in part, a benefit of government and the rule of law.
7:01 a.m. Government also helps you own your house in more than the legal sense. On a more practical level, the federal government actually gives you money every year to help pay for your house. It's called a mortgage interest tax deduction and it is one of the larger benefit programs run by the federal government – amounting to over $60 billion dollars a year. You can also deduct any real estate taxes you pay. These largely overlooked subsidy programs have enabled millions of people to buy their first home or to move up to a larger home than they could afford otherwise.
7:02 a.m. Back in the bathroom. You use the toilet and flush it. Your local government then takes care of transporting this waste, treating it, and disposing of it in an environmentally responsible manner – all without a second thought by you.
7:20 a.m. As you are getting dressed, a glance outside the window shows some ominous clouds. You check the weather on your TV. All these weather forecasts are made possible by information gathered and analyzed by the National Weather Service, a government agency. Every day, on your behalf, it takes in 190,000 weather observations from surface stations, 2,700 from ships, 115,000 from aircraft, 18,000 for buoys, 250,000 from balloons, and 140 million from satellites – all just to help you plan what to wear and make sure you don't get stuck in a snow storm. And oh yes, this agency may save your life with its hurricane and tornado warnings.
7:30 a.m. Before you leave home, you take your pills to control your high blood pressure. But how do you know that this medicine is safe or effective? Without the testing required by the Food and Drug Administration, you wouldn't. And without the vigilance of the FDA, you could easily fall victim to unscrupulous marketers of unsafe and worthless medicines.
7:45 a.m. You put a couple of letters in your mailbox. For less than the price of a cup of coffee, a government employee will come to your house, pick up the letters, and have them delivered in a few days to someone on the other side of the country. A pretty good deal.
7:50 a.m. You and your child walk across the lawn to your car and arrive without getting dog poop on your shoes. A small but welcome achievement that is made possible now by a local law that requires people to clean up after their pets. Also, the reason your neighborhood is not plagued by stray cats and dogs is that your local Animal Control officer is on the job dealing with this constant problem.


text:
"Mathematics is a vibrant subject accessible on some level to any undergraduate."
Ryan Stuffelbeam has an uncanny interest in fractions—particularly "weird fractions."
"Weird fractions are fractions that enjoy a 'correct' invalid reduction," explains the assistant professor of mathematics. "For instance, students often want to (incorrectly) reduce a fraction by canceling 'like' digits in the numerator and denominator. When such a cancellation is made in a weird fraction, the resulting fraction remains equal to the original."
Stuffelbeam uses an algorithm developed by others to prove a uniqueness result for weird fractions and to count certain types of weird fractions.
Stuffelbeam's interests are far from one-dimensional, however. He conducts research on number theory, representation theory, and transcendental numbers. He's also presented to the Mathematical Association of America on incorporating writing into the undergraduate math curriculum.
"Critical reasoning and effective communication skills are hallmarks of Transylvania's liberal arts curriculum," he says. "Through the process of writing proofs and constructing counter-examples, math students routinely use these intellectual traits.
"Mathematics does not exist in a vacuum," Stuffelbeam concludes. "The breadth of knowledge acquired through a liberal arts education allows students to place the big ideas and events of math into context."


text:
Dr. Christian James Lambertsen, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Environmental Medicine in the School of Medicine, scientist, inventor, and environmentalist died February 11, 2011, at the age of 93.
Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania since the 1946, Dr. Lambertsen's research focused on experimental therapeutics and human physiology. He founded Penn's Institute for Environmental Medicine in 1968, where he conducted pioneering research in undersea and aerospace medicine. He served as director until 1985. Dr. Lambertsen was appointed as an instructor in the department of pharmacology in 1946. After serving a year as a visiting research associate professor at the University College in London, he was promoted to professor of medicine. He had also held an appointment in the School of Veterinary Medicine as a professor from 1976 to 1987.
Dr. Lambertsen is best known for inventing the first self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, the Lambertsen Amphibious Respiratory Unit (LARU), while a medical student at Penn. The LARU was used by the Maritime Unit of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in World War II for underwater stealth operations. After he was awarded his medical degree in 1943, as a U.S. Army Medical Corps Captain, Dr. Lambertsen trained the first OSS operational swimmers and served as their medical officer. For that reason, Dr. Lambertsen is recognized nationally as the father of U.S. combat swimming.
In recognition of these accomplishments related to underwater military operations, Dr. Lambertsen was awarded the Legion of Merit by OSS Chief Major William J. Donovan in 1945. He was awarded the U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret Award; the U.S. Special Operations Command Medal; and the Distinguished Public Service Medal of the U.S. Department of Defense. In 2009, Dr. Lambertsen was honored by the OSS Society with its Distinguished Public Service Award. He was also a recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and in 1965, the University of Pennsylvania Alumni Award of Merit. In 2010 he was awarded the John Scott Medal by Philadelphia's Board of Directors of City Trusts for his invention of the underwater breathing apparatus known as SCUBA, which he first developed during World War II for use by the United States Navy while he was in the U.S. Army Medical Corps detached to the Office of Strategic Services.
In his scientific and academic activities, Dr. Lambertsen developed advanced decompression methods to support military and commercial undersea exploration, aerospace and industrial ventures, and founded the Undersea Medical Society (now Undersea Hyperbaric Medical Society). Methods for hyperbaric oxygen therapy, that he and his scientific team originated remain at the forefront of medicine today. He was a fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of the Cosmos Club and was active in numerous scientific organizations.
Dr. Lambertsen's work included medical advisorships with NASA, the Navy, the Air Force, NOAA, the Smithsonian Institution, Air Products & Chemicals and oil exploration ventures. He contributed to manned space flight as chairman of the nation's Committee on Man in Space and as a member of the President's Space Panel. More recently, he invented Inergen, the environmentally-friendly replacement for halon fire-fighting agents and with industry partners implemented its worldwide use to protect Earth's stratospheric ozone layer.
Born in Westfield, New Jersey, Dr. Lambertsen earned a BS from Rutgers University in 1939.
He is survived by four sons, Christian, David, Richard and Bradley (all Penn alums); and six grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at Penn this spring, on a date to be determined.


text:
sydneyes doesn't have any friends on yet.
sydneyes hasn't added any Apps yet.
TicketENVY- Find & Buy Sold out Concert, Sports and Theater Tickets Worldwide
SportsBrook- Fully Licensed Online Urban Sports Betting and Gaming Platform (Coming Soon)
Dispensary GRC- Compliance Mgmt Training and Governance System for Cannabis Dispensaries
BK Hookups- Find Urban Dates and HookUps
KaratMoney -Save and Transfer your Money value in GOLD!
MyTeleMedic- Get your Personal and Family Remote Healthcare Services NOW
MyGigga @ The Brooklynne Agency- A Professional Marketing and Lead Generation Services Marketplace that Serves Urban Businesses in need of a Professional Outsourced Team.
Brooklynne WiFi- Social Guest WiFi Solution for Very Small Businesses
Brooklynne Credit- Establish Strong Credit Profile for your Businesses
BrooklynNEEDS- Crowdfundng Platform for Brooklyn Based and Regional Urban Related Projects
VerticalRents- Manage your Urban Real estate Tenants and Properties Easier
Write a Review of Brooklynne LLC
Start or Scale Your Digital Marketing Agency
Build Your Business Website the Easy Way
Try ClickSend to Reach your Customers
Try ProTexting -Text Marketing Platform
Try Loopy Loyalty for your Retail Customers
Get a Virtual Office for your Profession
Find Legal Contracts and Forms
Start & Sell an Online Course @ Teachable
Get BeamBox Social WiFi for Your Shop
X3 Digital is a well-known digital marketing agency providing web design and SEO services to help you grow your business. They've been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Insider and more.
ReHab Valuator for Real Estate Investors
Become a K-Exchange Location & Exchange Local Cash for Gold!
Become a K-Merchant & Accept Gold for Payments For your Goods and Services!
Added by Smeumrod 0 Comments 0 Promotions
Added by France213 0 Comments 0 Promotions
Posted by England Premier League on December 14, 2019 at 6:09am 0 Comments 0 Promotions
Posted by rowanuvcy039 on December 14, 2019 at 6:09am 0 Comments 0 Promotions
Posted by cesarozau016 on December 14, 2019 at 6:04am 0 Comments 0 Promotions
Posted by riverdhoj291 on December 14, 2019 at 6:03am 0 Comments 0 Promotions
Posted by dominickdjmx771 on December 14, 2019 at 6:03am 0 Comments 0 Promotions
Posted by collinrjob613 on December 14, 2019 at 6:03am 0 Comments 0 Promotions
Posted by Cliff Collins on December 14, 2019 at 6:02am 0 Comments 0 Promotions
Gifts Under $100 @ OMAHA STEAKS
VitaCost.com- Discount Supplements
The Smoke Cartel- Pipes and Glass Smoking Art
FoodStirs Inc-15% Off Sitewide on your first order! (Use Code: MOREFLOUR15)


text:
Welcome to our new website! Please register an account by clicking the Login/Register link at the top of the page. We apologize for the inconvenience, but at this time you will need to re-register even if you had an account with us before. DismissSkip to content
No products in the cart.


text:
Maritime Vessels Directory
- Type
- Patrol Vessel (3)
- Tender (2)
- Flag
- Canada (5)
- Port
- Companies
Patrol Vessel | Flag: Canada | Port: OTTAWA, ON
Tender | Flag: Canada | Port: OTTAWA, ON
Patrol Vessel | Flag: Canada | Port: OTTAWA, ON
Patrol Vessel | Flag: Canada | Port: OTTAWA, ON
Tender | Flag: Canada | Port: OTTAWA, ON
Maritime News
KHI Intros World's First Liquefied Hydrogen Carrier
The world's first liquefied hydrogen carrier, built to ship large quantities cryogenically frozen H2 internationally, was launched by Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) at it's Kobe Works yard.The Suiso Frontier ('suiso' means 'hydrogen' in Japanese) will play a key role in the Shell-backed HySTRA demonstration project (CO2-free Hydrogen Energy Supply-Chain Technology Research Association), which will see large quantities of H2 produced from brown coal in Australia and then shipped 9,000km to the city of Kobe in Japan.
Augmented-Reality Enters Maritime Maintenance
New TechGuide maintenance app from MAN CEON represents new generation of instructional material.As the global maritime community embraces new digitalization technologies aimed at reducing costs and enhancing safety onboard ships, MAN CEON, which is MAN Energy Solutions umbrella brand for all its digital products, comes to the fore for TechGuide, and augmented reality maintenance platform.The new generation of instructional material with augmented reality features a mix of different multimedia.
INSIGHTS: Sean Fernstrum, President, R.W. Fernstrum
This month, listen in as Sean Fernstrum weighs in on how his firm arrived at its enviable market position, what comes next, and why.Sean Fernstrum is a third-generation owner of R.W Fernstrum & Company. He graduated from Michigan Technological University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Scientific and Technical Communications. After college, he came home to Menominee, Michigan and began working as a Technical Writer at R.W. Fernstrum & Company. He has been President of the company for the last 8 years.
Pella Sietas Wins $111M Icebreaker Deal
Pella Sietas, a shipbuilding company in Neuenfelde, Hamburg, has secured a EUR100 million ($111Mln) order from Russian authorities for a new icebreaker described as the biggest ever built in Germany.The new icebreaker, "Eisbrecher7", with a length of 120m, a width of 27.5m and a draught of 8.5m, is the largest single order in Pella Sieta's company history. The icebreaker is part of the Russian fleet modernization program which, as a special vessel, not only keeps sea routes clear but also provides pilot service for large ships in ice, towing ships and other floating structures. It also offers the possibility of fire fighting, sea rescue and deck cargo transport.
Aircraft Carrier John F. Kennedy Christened
The U.S. Navy's newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) was christened Saturday during a ceremony at Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division.The second aircraft carrier in the Ford Class, John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) is also the second aircraft carrier built by Newport News Shipbuilding named for JFK. Like its forerunner CVN 78, Kennedy is a truly electric aircraft carrier, with many of the systems powered by steam on Nimitz-class carriers now powered by electricity.


text:
|English Version
|Version en español
The Office of Victim Services (OVS) is devoted to protecting the rights of victims of crime and assisting them in obtaining meaningful services and locating appropriate resources throughout the community while being sensitive to the needs of victims.
The Office of Victim Services further provides timely information and services aimed at enhancing and improving the victim's knowledge of New Jersey's correctional system.
Traditionally, the needs of crime victims have gained greater emphasis in correctional organizations throughout the nation through the post-sentencing phase. Historically, the focus of victim services was placed on the trial and sentencing phases. Federal laws have begun to expand the scope of victims' rights by addressing victim notification, victim impact statements, protection, and restitution throughout the correctional process. To this end, the New Jersey Department of Corrections specifically established the Office of Victim Services (OVS) in the year 2000 in order to strengthen the Department's role in responding to the needs of victims of crime.


text:
The Samsung 840 EVO solid state drive is already an impressive device. The company claims that simply plugging it into a computer can boost performance, even in older machines. Much of that boost is attributed to the fact that it's a solid state drive, which is inherently faster than one with moving parts. However, there are also features like local caching that also help to make the 840 EVOs one of the quickest reading and writing files.
It's also one of the first self-encrypting drives on the market, able to protect its data from most threats using encryption, and it's compatible with almost all professional security software.
Until now, the 840 EVO was mostly aimed at single installations. But a recent update makes the drives compatible with enterprise environments so that they can be centrally managed. Encryption keys for users can now be provided for files on each drive. Using crypto erase technology, encryption keys for large files can be adjusted in seconds, protecting data from being accessed without authentication. The keys can then be immediately reset for authorized users, cutting operation costs and raising efficiencies.
The newest security update will be installed on all future drives, and it can be added to the older drives, which were launched last August, as a flash update.
All drives also ship with the Samsung Magician 4.3 software, which manages the security features and can be used for improving drive efficiency.
The Samsung 840 EVO now offers three security types: Class 0, TCG Opal and Encrypted Drive (eDrive). While all Samsung's SSD solutions have Class 0 encryption, enabled with a BIOS password, the new update for the 840 EVO line allows third-party companies to enhance the security management of the drives. The update also adds compatibility with Microsoft eDrive security on Windows 8 and above.
According to Samsung, the new data security upgrade was enabled and deployed through a collaboration with Wave System's Wave Cloud and EMBASSY Remote Administration Server, which allows for products and systems to be updated securely, even if they exist in many different locations.
About the Author
John Breeden II is a freelance technology writer for GCN.
E-Mail this page
Printable Format
Advanced Search
Sign up for our newsletter.
I agree to this site's Privacy Policy.


text:
Pts Gentshop is a Prestashop responsive theme support multi – store. If you are a merchant who is in business for lots of areas, Pts Gentshop is the right choice because you can manage unlimited number of sub shops from the same back – office. This theme is a morden responsive Prestashop theme which is extremely suitable for any eCommerce site about fashion shop or store having huge product range. Theme is designed for fashion site but can easily modified to adapt to other fields with fully functioned and provides an unlimited style variation: Clothers Shop, Shoes Shop, Beauty Store, Accessories fashion Shop, etc,…
The highlight in the theme is the using landing page module at the top page to introduce overview about the website. With using white and black as main colours, Pts Gentshop is the smartest choice for an eCommerce solution for online market. And theme used parallax background in special blocks and simple color combination, clear structure and clean layout.
The theme is powered with Prestashop framework, it is fully responsive and supports both HTML5 and CSS3 that help to create refined web pages with semantic accuracy.
This theme built on Pts framework version 1.1 and bootstrap version 3.x to make fully responsive theme that works perfect on all kind of resolutions as for mobile, tablet, desktop having medium and large screen.
Pts Gentshop comes with lots of built-in functionality which includes powerful admin panel, it allows you to control almost every part of the theme like: Megamenu, Layout, Theme skin, Google fonts…. The powerful admin panel will help you manage your site better, customize easier.
Note: !!!! This theme is installed via BackOffice / Preferences / Theme.
After installed, modules will be assigned to hooks and installed data samples in automatic way without any more actions
Gentshop v2.0 is compatible with PrestaShop 1.7.1 +
Gentshop v1.5 is compatible with PrestaShop 1.6.1 +
Explore Features Via Docs Guide
Highlighted Features
Detail Features
- Compatible with Prestashop 1.6.x and 1.7.x
- 3 Skins Included
- Supported Install the package in Theme Installor Of Prestashop
- Easy to install theme with automatic make samples
- Support Wide Screen 1170px, 980px
- Built-in SCSS and Bootstrap 3.x
- No Hacking Core Prestashop Codes
- HTML5 and CSS3 Support
- Full Responsive Theme
- Google Fonts
- [NEW] Integrated Mega Menu Module With Lightweight Megamenu Editor Tool
- Integrated Leo Blog Module – Powerly Blog Management for Prestashop
- Integrated with Map in contact page
- Integrated SlideShow Module
- Valid XHTML and CSS markup
- Eeasy control theme such as skin changer, font-changer, modules – position via Control Panel Module
- Easy Use and Easy Customize As great for customwork
- Support Add Custom Javascript, Css, Change Background
- [NEW]Improved Awesome Font
- [New] Support SCSS Development
- [New] Live Theme Edtior to create unlimited Theme Skins Without Coding
- [New] Support Adding Custom Css and JS Code In Theme Control Module
- [New] Support Css Compression to improve Site performence
- [New] Easy install datasample, theme, modules on existed store
- [New] Support Multiple Language And RTL Language
- [New] Support Google Map And Custom Content On Contact Page
Support Ways
Updates History:
27 November 2017 * Update theme to prestashop 126.96.36.199 12 June 2017 * Upgraded to PS 1.7.1.x 06 October 2015 * Upgraded to PS 188.8.131.52 15 August 2015 * Upgraded to PS 184.108.40.206 Version 1.3 - 02 March 2015 * Upgrade the theme to Prestashop 184.108.40.206 Version 1.2 - 14 January 2015 * Fixed: Config.xml file Version 1.1 - 11 January 2015 * Updated theme to Prestashop 22.214.171.124 Version 1.0 – 14 August 14 * First release
How useful was this post?
Click on a star to rate it!
Average rating / 5. Vote count:
No votes so far! Be the first to rate this post.
We are sorry that this post was not useful for you!
Let us improve this post!
Thanks for your feedback!


text:
TIIN's ReadSpeaker completes management buy-back
TIIN Capital has sold its stake in Dutch software-as-a-service company ReadSpeaker back to the firm's management.
Latest News
Private wealth to increase allocation to private equity
High-net-worth individuals and family offices are hunting for yield, concerned about low interest rates and market volatility
Trea AM raises €120m for second direct lending fund
Fund expects to hit its target in the first quarter of 2020 and has already made six investments
ACG Management et al. back ADN Protection MBI
Soprome and BTC Capital also back the takeover of the security services company
VCs in £7m round for Perlego
Perlego offers access to online textbooks for a subscription fee of £12 per month
Back to Top


text:
Navy Seeks Enlisted Women for Submarine Force
From Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy released NAVADMIN 025/17, Feb. 6, reminding female Sailors that the third cycle selections for conversation to Submarine Force ratings closes April 1.
This cycle's conversions will be for the 2018 initial enlisted integration of the USS Ohio (SSGN 726) submarine crews in Bangor, Washington.
The Submarine Force is seeking hard charging, motivated female applicants from all ratings and ranks, seaman recruit to senior chief petty officer, to apply for conversion.
Applications are due by April 1, with selection process beginning in May.
For additional information on application requirements and selection process, please visit: http://www.navy.mil/ewis.


text:
We care about your health.Preventive care is one of your best weapons against disease and a method to monitor conditions before they become serious. Click on the links below for specific guidelines based on your age.
Adult Health Guidelines
Pediatric Health Guidelines
Copyright 2012 - 2019 Valley Medical Center. All rights reserved.


text:
Alarm.com is trusted by over 5 million people to protect their homes and businesses. We are proud of our A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and work relentlessly every day to earn that trust.
Connect with one of our Authorized Smart Home Security Providers.
The provider you choose will work with you to customize a solution that meets your needs.
Your system is professionally configured, installed and supported so you get the most out of it from day one.
Our services are available exclusively through a network of top security Service Providers who are committed to delivering better security at the highest level of customer service.
Alarm.com's software platform is tightly integrated with top hardware providers.
Copyright © 2000-2019, Alarm.com. All rights reserved.Alarm.com and the Alarm.com Logo are registered trademarks of Alarm.com.


text:
Stand for Children Colorado, an education advocacy group, is endorsing two Democrats and two Republicans in this year's June 24 primary.
The Republicans are House candidates Loren Bauman and Michael Fields; the Democrats are House candidate Alec Garnett, and Taggart Hansen, running to represent Congressional District 1 on the state Board of Education.
The education reform group is unusual in that its endorsements cross party lines. Executive director Sonja Semion explained how the group handles endorsements, which were made by a committee of parents and advisory board members.
"We sent a pledge to all candidates who filed to run in the primary and asked them to demonstrate their agreement with our policy priorities. … The issues that we asked candidates to support include: high expectations and quality instruction, quality investments, effective teachers and principals and effective oversight of low-performing schools," she said.


text:
Flagstar to pay Freddie Mac $8.9M for mortgage repurchase obligations
Troy-based Flagstar Bancorp Inc. has agreed to pay the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. - commonly known as Freddie Mac - $8.9 million to resolve repurchase requests for home loans originated between Jan. 1, 2000, and Dec. 31, 2008.
The total resolution was $10.8 million including credits and adjustments, Flagstar said today in a statement.
"This agreement is another positive step for Flagstar in further reducing the company's risk profile while supporting improved performance," said Sandro DiNello, Flagstar's president and CEO. "We believe that our accomplishments in 2013 have positioned Flagstar for sustainable long-term growth in 2014 and beyond."
In November, Flagstar (NYSE: FBC) announced a settlement of $121.5 million with the Federal National Mortgage Association, more commonly known as Fannie Mae, to resolve demands that the bank repurchase defaulted loans that were sold from 2000 to 2008. After credit for claims already paid, Flagstar will pay Fannie Mae $93.5 million, which will come from a reserve of $174 million the bank had set aside to cover such claims.
Both settlements follow a string of similar actions.
In May, the mortgage bank agreed to pay $110 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of making misrepresentations to Armonk, N.Y.-based MBIA Inc. to insure mortgage-backed securities that defaulted.
In February, Flagstar lost a federal lawsuit and was ordered to pay $90.1 million to a bond insurer, New York City-based Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp., over the same issues in 2005 and 2006.
In February 2012, Flagstar reached a $133 million agreement with the U.S. government to settle a lawsuit claiming the bank had been involved in fraudulent lending practices.
The bank admitted making false claims that caused the Federal Housing Administration to issue insurance on loans that were ineligible.
Flagstar is the largest bank headquartered in Michigan, with assets of about $11.8 billion.


text:
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is ready to let the "Jumanji" magic begin.
The actor took to Instagram Monday afternoon to update fans on the reboot. After meeting with director Jake Kasdan, producer Matt Tolmach and other co-workers, it appears everyone is ready to share an amazing story while honoring one of the movie's original stars.
"An important thing that I want to be honest and bring up is Robin Williams. The love and respect I have for this man is boundless," Johnson wrote in his post. "You have my word, we will honor his name and the character of 'Alan Parrish' will stand alone and be forever immortalized in the world of JUMANJI in an earnest and cool way."
U.S. & World
He continued, "I have an idea of what to do and I think his family will be proud. I also think Robin is somewhere lookin' down and laughing, remembering the first time we met backstage and I (for the first time ever) was a star struck bumbling idiot that couldn't even get my words out. Idiot. He literally calmed me down w/ that smile and laugh. But that's for another fun story down the road."
Williams appeared in the original, family-friendly flick, based on Chris Van Allsburg's book of the same name, in 1995. He co-starred with Hollywood favorites like Kirsten Dunst, Bonnie Hunt and Patricia Clarkson.
The film featured some serious computer-animated animal stampedes, which will likely receive a nice upgrade in the version being developed.
Ultimately, The Rock made it clear he wants to share the unforgettable story with a new generation of fans. And yes, there will be some exciting changes moviegoers of all ages can look forward to.
"Here's another fun part... in the original movie there were three big roles. In our new story there's now FIVE," he teased. "Been so damn cool to see all my actor buddies push their projects aside so hopefully they can come play in our world. Should have cool casting announcements this week. Will keep you posted."
"Jumanji" is tentatively scheduled for a July 2017 release.
Celebs Remember Robin Williams


text:
BACKGROUND IMAGE: iSTOCK/GETTY IMAGES
- FeatureBackup Arrays Revisited
- FeatureFibre Channel and ATA: An Odd Couple?
- FeatureAre you paying too much for storage?
- FeatureCTRC Mirrors with iSCSI
- FeatureIBM Demos Storage Tank
- FeatureSNIA Relaunches Supported Solutions Forum
- FeatureRoad testing fast HBAs
- FeatureHBAs: Why some are better than others
- FeatureLearn from mainframe storage
- FeaturePixie dust & GBIC
- FeatureThe networked storage project: Getting started
- FeatureVendors and CIM: How Deep is Their Love?
- FeatureTape libraries on the SAN: sharing isn't always good
- FeatureBackup, Replication Next on Automation Agenda
- FeatureYour next data center: Think flexible
- FeatureCreating a storage services group
- FeatureDon't let vendor doublespeak prevent you from innovating
- FeaturePart two on troubleshooting your SAN.
- FeatureSnapshot: Deploying IP storage technology
- FeatureSNIA's new heterogeneous storage management solution
- FeatureOut with the old, in with the new
iSTOCK/GETTY IMAGES
Learn from mainframe storage
Open systems dudes--it's all been done before on the mainframe as far as systematic storage management goes. Check it out.
|Transitioning from mainframes to a SAN
When transitioning from the direct-attached world into networked storage, much of the general skill set remains the same. Still, there are differences.
Roger Cable, a senior systems programmer at Allegheny Energy Inc. in Hagerstown, MD, currently supports MVS and some Unix. If he were to switch to a SAN setup, he says, "What I'd need to do is learn more about different operating systems and how they function, booting from the SAN," and other things that are SAN-specific. The company also runs Windows and Linux, so he would need to learn about those environments.
Also, don't neglect to train on tools associated with the different environments. It's human nature to learn only what you need for the specific operating system you work with the most, and SANs require broader-based knowledge.
There are also some mindset tweaks to look out for. "A major change for most mainframe people is the idea of managing remotely," says Mike Karp, senior analyst with Enterprise Management Associates in Boulder, CO. "Mainframers are used to being able to going into the computer room to fix something that's gone wrong." Web-based SAN management tools might help mainframers make this leap into the remote world.
Another big change is the whole idea of different platforms grabbing whatever storage they can see. Staffers will have to be trained carefully about the concepts of LUN masking and zoning. "When you plug an NT server into a SAN, if NT can see the volume, it will try to grab it. That ruins it for Solaris," says Dianne McAdam, a storage analyst at Illuminata Inc. in Nashua, NH. "So people have to understand they're in a shared world--they have to be careful to section off what a server can see with what LUN. We didn't have these problems in the mainframe world."
Chuck Hollis, vice president of markets and products at EMC, recommends staff rotations as a way of teaching mainframers what they need to know about networked storage, and to let networked storage people learn some of the mainframe disciplines that still apply. "I've seen a lot of shops do this successfully," he says. "Backup is still backup--the tools might change, but the process is the same."
Specific technologies used in the mainframe and distributed worlds differ, of course, but it turns out that many policies and best practices apply to both realms. Disciplines such as change management, volume utilization, costing, planning, service level agreements and others translate well from Big Iron to networked storage.
"The reality is that much of what's being done in storage area networks (SANs) came from the mainframe world," says Mike Kahn, chairman of the Clipper Group, an analyst firm in Wellesley, MA. For instance, IBM's mainframe-based ESCON was one of the earliest SANs. "The other things that mainframes brought into the equation were structure and discipline--what people ran away from in open systems. But when you're talking about storage, you need well-laid-out methodologies for adding users, handling backup/recovery, security and other things," he says.
These kinds of policies are especially critical these days, given the trend toward server consolidation on the networked or open side of the house, and economic pressures that are pushing companies to make the most of what they already have. Throwing more storage arrays at a problem just doesn't work the way it used to, from either a cost-justification or implementation perspective.
Roger Cable, a senior systems programmer at Allegheny Energy Inc. in Hagerstown, MD, says that his company has transferred both general knowledge and specific practices from mainframes to networked storage. What helps is that Allegheny is using EMC's Symmetrix both on the mainframe and the open systems side. The two worlds aren't connected yet, but Cable says that the goal is to link the mainframe arrays into the SAN at some point.
For now, one of the "main strategies we've taken off our mainframe" has to do with backup and business continuance, Cable says. First, the basic disaster recovery strategy used for the mainframe was tweaked and then used for the open systems side of the house. Second, some of the specific technology translates, too. Allegheny uses EMC's TimeFinder software to split off business continuance volumes (BCVs) on both sides of the storage house. BCVs are local mirror images of production volumes, and they can be used for backup or for testing changes to applications or databases, among other things.
Also Allegheny's change management procedures are "pretty much the same" on both sets of platforms, Cable says.
Moving to a SAN
The Weather Channel, in Atlanta, GA, has moved from managing separate islands of direct-attached storage--on NT, Linux, Unix and Windows 2000 platforms--into a centralized SAN environment. Although the company has no mainframe, it does have an aging VAX minicomputer that the Weather Channel's staffers are trying to "get out the door," according to Vicki Hamilton, vice president of shared services in the company's IT operations group. The company is rewriting the VAX's applications to help that happen as soon as possible.
Begun in January 2001, implementing the Hitachi-based SAN is moving right along. "'Done' is a relative term," Hamilton says. "We're constantly making additions and changes."
She said the centralization has helped tremendously. "When you have distributed systems and servers, you have a lot of duplicated data." She says the company has "freed up a lot of storage," and that application response time has also improved. Although her group is just starting to gather statistics about the improvements, she says she's hearing positive feedback from her business users.
One set of constants from the old environment to the new include the policies that govern backup and restore, even though the tool has changed. "The policies didn't change--we still do rotational backups the same, then cumulative and entire systems backups," Hamilton says. "We still rotate our tapes every four months."
On the tool side, the Weather Channel now uses Veritas' NetBackup, and the process has become "a lot easier," she says.
Testing processes
Dianne McAdam, a storage analyst at Illuminata Inc. Nashua, NH, earned her mainframe chops as a systems programmer in a bank's corporate data center years ago. On a mainframe, storage utilization typically runs around 80% or 85%, she says, vs. typically 30% to 50% in the Windows environment. "We can bring some of the mainframe discipline to open systems and Windows," she says. "They're getting pressure to use what they've got more efficiently."
Also, she says that not everyone on the networked side of storage understands as deeply as most mainframers do about the importance of actually testing whatever backup procedures they have. "I see a lot of people who don't check to see that the backup has completely successfully--20% to 30% of them don't." People need to check to see how long it takes to restore a key database, for instance, to make sure their end users will have computing service resumed as soon a possible in case of an outage.
Brad Stamas, chairman of the Storage Networking Industry Association and StorageTek's director of storage domain management, says many of the issues remain the same, even if the platforms change. "Procedurally, you still have to decide what to back up, and how often and how you're going to do it. These are not software-based problems-they're more about analysis and assessment."
Mike Karp, senior analyst with Enterprise Management Associates in Boulder, CO, points to something else that translates from Big Iron to networked storage. "Inexpensive automation of HSM [Hierarchical Storage Management] is key for distributed systems," he says. The central theory behind hierarchical storage management is "you take the less deserving data, the stuff that hasn't been touched since 1998, and you move it onto slower disks or archived tape or optical."
Of course, HSM has to change to accommodate distributed systems-and in fact already has, Karp says. "The implementation changes not just because of the distributed environment, but because the technology itself keeps improving. We can offload data to hard disks now, and that was never an option in the mainframe world." Now there are different gradations of nearline, offline and online storage, and "we're now able to manage on issues by particular sets of data or applications," he adds. But even though it's not your grandmother's HSM, the fundamental concepts are still the same. "The issue all falls back to data management."
Overall, Karp admits that he really doesn't like mainframes. "I've been a rigorous advocate of the death of the mainframe for 15 years and have been proven wrong every damn time. But in storage, we've found a lot of value from the mainframe world," he says.
Some of the mainframe tools become even more important in the open systems and networked storage arenas. "When you're consolidating five or six applications, if nobody's doing capacity planning, then how those applications come together--and their additive needs--is a surprise," says Don McNicoll, a senior director at Hitachi Data Systems.
|Disciplines learned from
mainframe storage
He points out that it's not a matter of distributed systems ignoring these important issues, it's just that there hasn't been that huge a need. With each system--and its attached storage--being managed as an independent entity, there's been no burning desire to know what's happening across all of the systems as a whole. It's only when individual storage and servers are consolidated that cross-systems storage management becomes a more urgent matter.
To address this, "some of our customers have given all their storage management back to the IT group, typically the mainframers," McNicoll says. EMC has made a living, in part, out of taking mainframe storage concepts and adapting them for the networked storage realm, says Chuck Hollis, vice president of markets and products at EMC. PowerPath, one of EMC's software packages, handles intelligent storage-path management for Unix, something the mainframe does without needing third-party software. Similarly, EMC sells StorageScope software to help Unix administrators figure out how much storage they're using and what they've got left. "The mainframe does this for free," Hollis says.
"See a pattern here? It's clear where a lot of the good ideas came from," Hollis says, even though he says that his background is primarily Unix.
Vive la difference
Mainframes don't have a monopoly on best practices, of course, and nobody's pretending that life in the distributed world is as easy as it was when Big Iron ruled the roost. Just about everything becomes more difficult and complex with networked storage. Each different platform adds its own quirk to the mix (see "Transitioning from mainframes to a SAN").
For example, as Illuminata's McAdam points out, different operating systems handle backup differently. "So if you have a major disaster, Windows may come back as of 4 a.m. and AIX may be back as of midnight. There's no consistency of data."
EMC's Hollis points out another difference: "File sharing, data sharing, collaborating around information-the whole concept of networked storage came from open systems. Mainframers want to lock data behind 32 passwords. Philosophically, they're very different."
Chris Saul, an enterprise consultant for IBM's Storage Systems Group, says that "in many organizations, the biggest challenge is one of politics." The old model was to have separate administrators for each operating system and its attached storage--a Unix administrator, a mainframe administrator and so on.
With a shared storage setup, that organization no longer works. Instead, there need to be experts broken along functional lines--people who can tune storage for multiple applications, or who know about backup and recovery and can cope with different operating systems. This way, the IT operations group can handle centralized capacity planning or volume utilization.
As Hollis says, at the end of the day, "they're all servers, and business users don't really care where IT decides to put an application--the expectations are the same. Religion and cultural bias matters only in IT."
IBM's Saul admits that the discipline and standards from the mainframe storage world can sound pretty dull. "But when you're delivering around-the-clock IT service, you really want boring. When the service is not there, you wish it was boring again."
Web Bonus:
Online resources from SearchStorage.com: "Look to the mainframe and learn," by Mark Lewis.
Related Resources
- Reduce Management Complexity with Hitachi Storage Advisor –Hitachi Vantara Corporation


text:
Remedyforce Summer 2014: Configuration Management (WBT)
The BMC Remedyforce Summer 2014: Configuration Management online course is designed for BMC Remedyforce change managers. This self-paced course introduces participants to the features of Configuration Management.
This course explains the concepts and procedures of Configuration Management. These concepts and procedures will help change managers to create, manage, and work with configuration items (CIs) in BMC Remedyforce.
Major release:
BMC Helix Remedyforce 2014
Good for:
Administrators, Users
Course Delivery:
Self Paced | 1.00 hours
Course Modules
Using Configuration Management
- Lesson 1: Managing Configuration Items
- Lesson 2: Working with the CI Explorer


text:
Who is Project Mayhem?
Hi, my name is Mathias Mahling. I am a graphic designer based in Berlin. I specialise in creating experiences and solutions, that help to turn your visits into sales. The primary focus in all of my work is to deliver a great user experience with love for details.
Got a client login?
Enter here


text:
Westward Bound
Photo 39 of 378
Looking west from Kelso Depot on the tracks that connect Salt Lake to Los Angeles. During the war, this section was used to transport ore mined at Kaiser's Vulcan Mine 9 miles away. Today, freight trains still pass by regularly but the depot is no longer used and has been restored as a visitors center.


text:
Retirement Plan Sales Consultant
Tampa, FL
Job Description
The role is for a retirement plan sales position and there is an absolute defined career path for this role that can lead into management. This role can also be for a Financial Advisor to focus their specialty on the retirement plan market.
The right candidate for this role will be knowledgeable and passionate about selling 401k and 403b plans within their territory. Your incentive compensation will be tied into the amount of assets gathered from the sales in your territory.
Job Requirements
This role requires
- Active and clean FINRA Series 6 and 63.
- Life and Health Licenses
- Past 401k and/or 403b sales experience.
- An ability to network- Referrals and Prospects.
- The skill to not only maintain our great relations but bring in new business as well
- Regional Travel - You must be able to travel within and throughout your designated territory.
- Ideal Past Experience in: Retirement Plan sales, Business sales, Financial Sales.
- Proven track record of sales success.
- This is a W2 NON-commission role with excellent benefits including:
- Base Salary: $55K to$65K (possibly more)
- Significant bonus range (to 150% of the base salary)
- An increased base compensation of 5K per promotion
- A defined benefit retirement plan
- 401k with a match
- Almost four weeks of vacation.
- Position can lead into running your own regional office


text:
Typhoon Usagi Blasts Hong Kong
Businesses reinforced windows and shelters prepared as Typhoon Usagi made its way toward Hong Kong. Dean Napolitano and Deborah Kan discuss how the typhoon is wreaking havoc on the city.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... the the ... I saw you kick in the very tip of the Philippines killing two people and is now making its way towards Hong Kong ... I'd ever con joining me now is even call it the next year in Hong Kong ... Dean at this store anything to be a really big lie that just how strong it should be expected to be ... well it hadn't been described as a super typhoon ... the Hong Kong Observatory is no downgraded it to a severe typhoon but that still fairly strong ... the cayenne tidy up are the reason why this time is expected the sippy is that usually when they give up the in the issue they they tend to hit the Philippines or hit landfall ... before coming to Hong Kong ... that this was kind of doing the right to me to leave the timeline and and the Philippines and it is a hunk of his view that this wasn't gonna make the land right yes exactly that there was a bit of of ... damage in ... Taiwan ... but it emerged largely unscathed ... in the Philippines and ... there were a couple of people killed ... that as you said it's not that it between the waters ... in the waters between the two ... pieces of land and now it's headed toward Hong Kong Taipei and now we are expecting it to be trained as a single three that were expecting the signal a two-week waste it ... I'm ... getting in some sense that the party any time I got a call from a friend earlier he said that she was actually stuck in Japan and probably wouldn't be back for the next twenty four forty eight hours the break of most of the airlines have been so that they're going to stop flights at about six o'clock on Sunday ... but already we've seen hundreds of flights inbound outbound flights canceled so people are stranded ... that only around Asia but around the world and not to mention isn't really that weekend were to have been given the fact we just had the Moon Festival it was a long weekend here in Hong Kong ... in China for that matter a three-day weekend right exactly we we seen a lot of the time travelers coming to Hong Kong ... no no a lot of them are facing a canceled flights as they prepare to head home on Sunday so it's going to be a few days before the airlines are able to iron out ... that their itineraries to get people to where they wanna go ... again now I know I'm and that taking shelters are preparing our it people II giving up their windows as best they can but ... at the beach yesterday nifty new Hong Kong's a place that typically gets in ways that lead it to do this well was Q ... EPS in exactly those fees have been particularly rough ... and ... Hong Kong we don't see too much syrup in action ... surfers have been hitting the the water because we've seen some pretty big waves and are taking the advantage before the storm hits in full force ... to ride the wave ... the cayenne or certainly expecting it to be a big clients that we will have a lot to report after the strike at Hong Kong ... for more on this term coverage go to Des beest dot com and ever con


text:
The Book of CSS3 Review
With the advent of CSS3 support in today's modern browsers, web designers and developers have more control over typography and graphic layouts than ever before. Learning these nuances just got easier with Peter Gasston's The Book of CSS3. Read on for my review.
The Book of CSS3: A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design is an easy to read, easy to implement handbook of the newest additions to the Cascading Style Sheet specification. The book's 17 chapters and two appendixes offer readers a well-organized approach to learning how to create stunning web page designs. Beginning with a brief historical overview of CSS3, the next few chapters cover media queries (having the ability to view the same web content seen in a desktop browser formatted for mobile browsers without additional programmatic overhead), understanding the DOM, and attribute selectors and pseudo classes/elements. One of the more exciting (and license-centric) features of CSS3, web fonts, combined with a chapter on text effects, show how web browsers are no longer limited to the system fonts on the client. Page layout aspects such as multiple columns, background images, and borders are also demonstrated. Chapters 10 through 14 cover color, gradients, 2D and 3D transformations, and a variety of interesting transitions and animations available in CSS3. Flexible box and template layouts are described in chapters 15 and 16, and the book concludes with the Future of CSS. Given the fact that the author is one of the contributors to the CSS3 news and information website css3.info, he should certainly be in the know about what to expect in upcoming CSS releases.
Many of the book's examples are available for browser-based display (along with reprints of the browser compatibility tables from the book for WebKit, Firefox, Opera, and IE browsers) at the book's companion website at thebookofcss3.com. The site also features links to CSS3 code generation tools, feature detectors, web fonts, and other resources.
Beyond browser compatibility tables, I would have liked to see more examples of how variations in CSS3-directed page rendering appears in browsers that either partially support or don't support the CSS3 tag being described. Does IE9 fail entirely or is it passable with certain conditions. Do Chrome and Safari look identical, or is there an ever-so-slight difference between the two? In other words, how fully can I trust the "supported" categorization for these browsers?
Overall, I found reading The Book of CSS3 easier, with less cruft than other CSS3 tutorial/reference books. There is no hand-holding here, as the book assumes previous exposure to CSS since it only covers CSS tags new to the CSS3 release. If you're a web developer who meets that criteria and wants to learn about the new CSS3 features in a fast, easy way, this book will certainly help you achieve that goal.
Title: The Book of CSS3: A Developer's Guide to the Future of Web Design
Author: Peter Gasston
Publisher: No Starch Press
Pages: 304
Price: $34.95 (Print+Ebook)