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01 Mar 1998 Government Rules Akin to "Regulatory Racism," by Kevin Pritchett
A new report from the Milton E. Eisenhower Foundation claims the predictions of the 30-year-old Kerner Commission have come true: America has become two separate societies, one black and one white. Among other problems, the urban policy group cites high inner-city unemployment rates, large numbers of incarcerated black males and low minority academic achievement as a call for more social spending, cuts in the military and other liberal policies. It is sure to cause old-line civil rights types to cackle for more government intervention into the problems of the poor.
Few liberal social engineers realize government intervention is the problem, not the solution. Whether it be too much regulation or illogical policies, government has stymied the efforts of community-based organizations seeking to alleviate the many problems facing the inner-city and poor areas through job training, education, tutoring, housing development, homeless care, senior citizen care and other social functions. Some groups receive government money, while some do not.
There is a common theme in the stories told in How Government Harms Charities, a new report by the African-American leadership network Project 21. That theme is that government – local, state and federal – hurts the poor, especially minority poor. Harmful regulations and red tape seem almost targeted towards crowding out community-based assistance. It is almost as if there is "regulatory racism" at work.
Eighty-nine percent of the 441 community groups responding to Project 21's survey indicated they had problems with government, or were afraid to apply for government funding due to fear of excessive control of their activities.
Several laws were specifically cited as hindrances to expanding opportunities for the minority clients of these organizations. One law often cited by these groups was the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), an initiative to expand handicapped accessibility that has become a boon for disability-rights lawyers. At the De Le Salle Academy, a New York City school for low-income, academically-talented students in grades 6, 7 and 8, founder and principal Brother Brian Carty told Project 21 that any renovation of the Academy's rented space would trigger ADA requirements like ramps and an elevator. "But in New York, it can cost upwards of $500,000 to install an elevator. This is just too expensive," said Brother Carty. "The money is just not there! As a result, we can not renovate to expand our program offerings or the work space for current programs."
Another harmful law is the Davis-Bacon Act. Passed in 1931 to keep non-unionized blacks and other minorities out of the Depression-era construction job market, it requires almost all federal projects to pay employees a "prevailing [union] wage." Today, it is used by labor unions to raise construction wages. This stifles the growth of housing stock, especially low-income housing.
Impact Services Corporation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania provides employment and training to poor people with the objective of placing them in the private sector. They are also involved in comprehensive community development, with particular focus on low-income housing. Executive Director John McDonnell said, "There are so many rules and regulations that exist. The Davis-Bacon Act mandates that firms like Impact pay 'prevailing wages' on construction projects. Well, this requirement often makes projects too expensive for us. Plus, it becomes harder just to bid for jobs. Impact is thus often pushed out of competition."
Government-mandated paperwork has also hindered community-based organizations from spending more of their time helping the poor. The Hispanic American Multi-Service Center of Indianapolis, Indiana provides human services for at-risk Hispanic families like food, clothing, employment, senior citizen programs, translation, immigration assistance, legal services, pediatrics and domestic violence assistance to name a few. Center Executive Director Pam Flores complains that "Sometimes it feels like we're spending 90% of our time on paperwork, and only 10% on providing actual services."
Jobs for Youth of Chicago, Illinois helps young blacks with little or no work experience by promoting vocational counseling, job placement and educational services. Executive Director John D. Connelly said the Job Training Partnership Act requires 37 pages of forms to enroll one child. In comparison, he noted an Ivy league college application has only eight pages.
When Teen Challenge of San Antonio, Texas applied for state funding, they received a negative review from state inspectors because they used plastic trash cans instead of state-required metal ones. For more than 28 years, Teen Challenge's mission has been to provide drug-addicted teens with spiritual, educational and financial help. It is amazing that such a worthy cause can be tarred by pin-headed, bureaucratic rules.
Project 21's How Government Harms Charities tells these stories and over 125 others. Not only that, it profiles 44 organizations that are worthy of special recognition and monetary support.
Over $1 trillion has been spent on a top-down "war on poverty" over the last few decades. It has created the economic rifts that plague disadvantaged communities. Unfortunately, when citizens try a bottom-up approach in dealing with their community's own problems, government stands in the way. The people most hurt by government's harmful regulation are the minority poor. While there may be no conspiracy, there seems to be a subtle, concerted effort to hurt such groups by regulating them to death. Such an effort, in any other context, would be called by its real name – racism.


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The Lion King's strong circle of life has reached into a second weekend.
According to studio estimates Sunday, Disney's photorealistic remake brought in $75 million to again finish at the top of the North American box office. Its domestic total of $350 million makes it the year's fourth highest-grossing film after just 10 days of release.
"Once Upon A Time in Hollywood" was a distant second with $40 million in its opening weekend for Sony, but it was the biggest opening ever for a film from director Quentin Tarantino.
The film with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie bested the 2009 opening of Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" by $2 million.
Sony's "Spider-Man: Far From Home" was third with $12.2 million in its fourth weekend and has earned a cumulative $344 million.
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Like many famous athletes, Italian soccer player Mario Balotelli has developed a reputation for outlandish behavior. But photographer Levon Biss was not worried during his recent TIME International cover shoot with the star, who is currently playing for the British football club Manchester City.
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"His personality is very shy, actually," said Biss. "He wears outrageous clothes and sometimes on the football pitch he does outrageous things, but as a person he is not outrageous, he is very, very shy."
The shoot did get off to a slightly rocky start when Balotelli arrived at the studio Biss had set up at Manchester City's training grounds. "He walked in and there were 12 or 13 people in there," Biss explained. "I think he got quite nervous and walked straight back out again. We had to wait another half-hour for him to come back."
Despite the delay, the shoot eventually went off without a hitch. To compensate for Balotelli's discomfort, Biss focused on stylized portraits, rather than action shots. "He looks quite interesting, so you don't need to do much with him," said Biss. "He's got quite a brooding character, so we tried to enhance that with a bit of red lighting and keep the images quite graphic."
This is not an unusual approach when photographing athletes, who unlike actors and other celebrities, said Biss, are not used to performing for the camera. "These are sports people," he said. "You have to hinge on what you can do photographically instead of relying on them to come through with a shining personality."
Biss makes sure to work fast and use a straightforward, no nonsense approach, similar to what his subjects would encounter on the field. Most importantly, Biss, said is keeping the sessions short and sweet.
"They want to be out of there," said Biss. "If you can get on their side by saying 'look we've got an hour but we can do this in half an hour,' you are automatically their friend and they will give you what you want straight away."
Levon Biss is a London-based photographer and regular contributor to TIME.
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#I wrote this on PG on 13th Oct 2010. And posted on FB Notes on 30th Jan 2011.
We have been for long talking about changing the role of the government from being the regulator to that of a facilitator. It is impossible for the government and its administrators to handle the role of a regulator successfully. Therefore, Indian bureaucracy, which have people selected through one of the toughest exams and who boast of great knowledge and ability, are overburdened. This burden can be reduced if we make them the facilitators and not the regulators. Thus, they will be able to use their knowledge and ability in the right direction.
There is a scheme suggested by Finance Ministry of the alternative solution to PDS system. I would like to implement that. It is based on practical thought and behavioral economics. If you want details then read Chapter 2 of Economic Survey 2009-2010.
In India, we discuss about the bad situation of sports other than Cricket. I would like to implement the strategy used by administrators of cricket to bring it to the fore for other sports as well. A private club consortium structure for all the sports body will be the first step towards that goal and the government will provide tax benefits to the body. The government will act as a facilitator by running stadiums and giving them to these bodies on annual rent.
The foremost reform that I would like to see would be in the working of political parties. I would like to bring in the regulation/law for the internal functioning of the political parties. Members of a political party will follow career service, i.e., they will join at the lowest rung and will have to make their way to the top by working effectively. Pre-independence democratic structure of Indian National Congress will be the basis of any such regulation or law.
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MegaUpload's founder Kim Dotcom will remain in a New Zealand jail awaiting extradition to the U.S. where he faces charges of racketeering, copyright infringement, and money laundering. Dotcom was denied bail on Wednesday by Judge David McNaughton who expressed fear the 38-year-old Internet multimillionaire could escape to his home country of Germany, which has no extradition treaty with the U.S. Dotcom will remain in custody until February 22 when he faces an extradition hearing.
At Wednesday's hearing, Crown prosecutor Anne Toohey claimed Dotcom posed a "significant" flight risk because of the sums of money available to him.
Defense attorney Paul Davison who represents Dotcom said he would appeal Wednesday's decision. Dotcom's lawyers maintain their client's funds have been seized. They also say the media and U.S. government has been "misrepresenting" his client's business.
Dotcom, who legally changed his name from Schmitz, was arrested last Friday as he was accused of the biggest copyright infringement in U.S. history by enabling $500 millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content though the MegaUpload site he co-founded. According to a 72-page indictment MegaUpload earned $175 million in subscription fees paid for access to downloads.
Dotcom faces four more weeks behind bars, and reportedly has launched an appeal against the decision, while he awaits extradition hearing. New Zealand authorities said they denied Dotcom bail because of concerns he could flee to his home country of Germany. Finn Batato, chief marketing officer at Megaupload, Mathias Ortmann, chief technical officer, and Bram van der Kolk, programmer, all face similar charges.
Police raided Dotcom's $30 million rented mansion in New Zealand last Friday, where they seized 18 luxury cars including a 2010 Maserati convertible and a 2008 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead. A judge ruling also said he has more than $21 million in 23 separate bank accounts in Honk Kong, while the FBI claims Dotcom's earned $42 million in just the 2010 calendar year alone, according to a Bloomberg report.
MegaUpload was advertised as having more than 50 million daily visitors, and Dotcom reportedly said the website had agreements with copyright holders to remove any infringing content within 24 hours of notification. However, according to the indictment MegaUpload paid cash to people who agreed to upload large amounts of copyright-protected content. The FBI says MegaUpload's servers were based in the U.S. (others in Canada and the Netherlands).
Dotcom continues to face charges of criminal copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit racketeering and money laundering, with the latter two each carrying maximum penalties of 20 years. Dotcom is pending an extradition hearing on February 22 in connection with the charges in the U.S.
(PCWorld's sibling publication Computerworld (New Zealand) contributed to this report.)
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The Arizona Supreme Court has declared Arizona's education saving accounts (ESA) constitutional.
This decision ends the fight over ESA constitutionality and has affirmed Arizona parents' ability to customize their children's education.
In October, the Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's ruling that the ESA school choice option does not violate the Arizona state constitution. The court ruled that the "ESA is neutral in all respects toward religion and directs aid to a broad class of individuals without reference to religion." Furthermore, "the specified object of the ESA is the beneficiary families, not private or sectarian schools"—meaning the money funds and follows the student and is not given directly to any particular institution, religious or otherwise. But the plaintiffs still sought an appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court.
This afternoon, the Arizona Supreme Court refused the appeal, upholding the appellate court's decision.
Education savings accounts are the new frontier of school choice. Arizona's innovative program—called Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Accounts—is the first of its kind, although other states are taking note.
With an ESA, parents of qualified students can use 90 percent of what the state would have spent on the child in the public system, with funds deposited directly into a savings account for the parents' use. This "education debit-card," enables parents to use their ESA funds to pay for a variety of pre-approved educational services and providers, such as private school tuition and fees, educational therapy services, textbooks, private online learning, and tutoring. Parents can also roll over unused ESA funds from year to year, and funds can also be rolled into a college savings plan to pay for college courses and textbooks.
Originally limited to children with special needs, the program was expanded in 2012 and 2013 to include children from low-income families in underperforming schools, children from active-duty military families, and children in foster care, thereby making 220,000 Arizona children eligible for ESAs.
A recent Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice study by Heritage fellow Lindsey Burke found that more than one-third of Arizona families use their ESAs to fully customize their children's educational experience. The Institute for Justice, which represented the families in the case, cited Burke's study in the Supreme Court brief opposing review.
"We found that with the ESA we have choices on where we can actually take our son. There weren't those opportunities before," says mother Katherine Visser, who customizes her son Jordan's education with an ESA.
The true winners of this ESA victory at the Arizona Supreme Court are the families who can continue to customize their child's education with ESAs.
As Marylyn Deyoung, whose daughter Miranda goes to Gateway Academy with an ESA says, "You can live eight days without food, four days without water, but not one day without hope. And that's what the scholarship brings." Read more ESA stories here and here.


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Kyrgyzstan History
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Culture of Kyrgyzstan - History and ethnic relations __ An excellent overview of Kyrgyzstan history and culture. - From everyculture.com - http://www.everyculture.com/Ja-Ma/Kyrgyzstan.html
The history of the Kyrgyz Republic (Quirghizstan, Kyrgyzstan) __ A collection of click to read articles and resources about the Kyrgyz Republic. - From hartford-hwp.com - http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/53/index-e.htmlÂ
History of Kyrgyzstan __ "Stone implements found in the Tian Shan mountains indicate the presence of human society in what is now Kyrgyzstan as many as 200,000 to 300,000 years ago."Â An encyclopedic article along with links to related materials. - illustrated - From wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Kyrgyzstan
History of Kyrgyzstan __ "Comprehensive online resources about the history of the country of Kyrgyzstan" - From about.com - http://history1900s.about.com/library/world/blxkyrgyzstan.htm
Kyrgyzstan: History __ A good overview of Kyrgyzstan history along with access to additional information about the country. - From infoplease.com - http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107698.html
Kyrgyzstan - History __ "The area of present-day Kyrgyzstan contains evidence of human habitation from the time of the Lower Paleolithic on, approximately 300,000 years ago. Archeologists suggest that two types of economies developed in the territory�farming and pastoral nomadism." An overview of Kyrgystan history and a map. - From nationsencyclopedia.com - http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/Kyrgyzstan-HISTORY.html
Kyrgyzstan History __ A brief look, but you can access more detail by simply clicking, "more history." - From multied.com - http://www.multied.com/nationbynation/Kyrgyzstan/History1.html
Kyrgyzstan History __ "The earliest notable residents of what is now Kyrgyzstan were warrior tribes of Saka (also known as Scythians), from about the 6th century BC to the 5th century AD. Alexander the Great met perhaps the stiffest resistance from Saka tribes in his 4th century BC advance through Central Asia."Â A colorful and detailed Kyrgyzstan history. - From lonelyplanet.com - http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/kyrgyzstan/history
Kyrgyzstan- History __ "According to recent findings of Kyrgyz and Chinese historians, Kyrgyz history dates back to 201 B.C. The earliest descendents of the Kyrgyz people, who are believed to be of Turkic descent, lived in the northeastern part of what is currently Mongolia."Â A military history. - From globalsecurity.org - http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/centralasia/kyrgyz-history.htm
Kyrgyzstan: History __ A brief look at Kyrgyzstan history along with links to additional information about the country. - From cac-biodiversity.org - http://www.cac-biodiversity.org/kgz/kgz_history.htmÂ
Timeline Kyrgyzstan __ Annotated timeline of important dated in Kyrgyzstan history. - illustrated - From BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1296570.stm
The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Kyrgyzstan __ "Very little is known about the Jewish presence in the Kyrgyz territory before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Jews began to settle along the Great Silk Road starting in the 4th century C.E."Â An overview of the Jewish people and Kyrgyzstan. - illustrated - From jewishvirtuallibrary.org - http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Kyrgyzstan.html
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El Salvador vote counting under way
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El Salvador's left-wing presidential candidate Salvador Sanchez Ceren, from the FMLN party, is leading the polls with more than 50% of votes counted.
The current vice-president has more than 49% of the votes, but is still short of the 50% plus one needed to avoid a run-off election.
Trailing more than ten points behind is the right-wing opposition candidate Norman Quijano, from the Arena party.
Former President Antonio Saca, is trailing with 11%.
The campaign has been dominated by the sluggish economy and gang crime.
El Salvador's murder rate is among the highest in the world.
Correspondents say there are signs that a recent truce agreed between the two main street gangs is falling apart.
Mr Sanchez Ceren. 69, was a rebel commander when the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) was a guerrilla group during the 1980-1992 civil war.
He has promised to tackle crime through education and social programmes.
Opinion polls suggest he had a lead over Mr Quijano, who stood down from his position of mayor of San Salvador to stand for president.
Many voters are critical of the 2012 truce with gangs, and Mr Quijano has accused the administration of outgoing President Mauricio Funes of negotiating with criminals. He is advocating tougher policies against drug gangs.
The truce has led to a decrease in El Salvador's murder rate, but gradually the number of killings is going back up.
Analysts say the vote may hinge on the popularity of the third candidate, former President Antonio Saca who is running for the new Unidad party.
The second round of voting, if needed, is to be held on 9 March.


text: More than 125 people attended the Art League of Ocean City (ALOC) Starving Artist Supper earlier this month. Prizes for the holiday show were presented at the dinner. First prize went to James Connolly for his photo; second to Heidi Wetzel for her mixed media; and third to Rina Thaler for her watercolor. Honorable mentions were awarded to Tim Cooper, George Hamaty and Chris Ecker. The coveted People's Choice Ribbon, selected by those who attended the dinner, went to Jerri Miller. Pictured, from left, are Ecker, Wetzel, Hamaty, Thaler and Connolly.


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Quest Software recently signed an agreement to license source code from Liquidware Labs, a desktop transformation solution provider founded by David Bieneman, who earlier founded Vizioncore, a virtualization backup and management company that was acquired by Quest back in 2007.
With this new agreement in place, Quest was able to release its own Quest branded utility, VDI Assessment, which is a free product designed to help identify which physical desktops and users within an organization are best suited to be migrated over to a VDI or desktop virtualization environment.
[ Also on InfoWorld: Virtual Bridges launches VERDE 5 desktop virtualization management and provisioning platform, delivering desktops to the cloud. | Read about MokaFive Suite 3.0 adding Windows 7 support, multitenancy, and embedded security | Keep up to date on virtualization by signing up for InfoWorld's Virtualization newsletter. ]
Quest said it was making this technology available as a free download with the hopes of empowering IT departments to perform their own assessments, rather than require an organization to enlist the help of a professional services engagement. Doing so, the company expects to see faster adoption of desktop virtualization in all its forms, and it hopes to provide clear guidance as to which users and desktops these organizations should virtualize first.
Assessment tools like this are becoming an important -- and required -- component for any successful VDI desktop deployment. Kicking off any VDI project requires proper planning. Furthermore, any good plan should first determine which desktops, users, and applications are a good fit to be migrated from a physical environment to a virtual environment, as well as the candidates that should not be moved.
The basic idea is that you install the assessment tool in your existing environment. Over a period of 30 days or more, the software will gather important data about the environment, analyzing both desktop performance and user behavior over time in order to build up a complete picture of application usage and resource consumption across the organization. It can help determine which users or desktops can be moved over to a VDI environment or which applications may cause problems if moved -- basically, it takes the guesswork out of the deployment process by identifying for you the best targets for success.
The performance metrics collected during the assessment can evaluate how well the infrastructure will perform when moving to a virtual desktop solution such as Quest vWorkspace, VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and/or Windows 7. In addition, questions of sizing and scaling, infrastructure needs, and TCO/ROI can be more easily quantified.


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|Black glazed bowl, celadon vase, Dehua cup and qinghua jar
Earthenware was invented first and was made of clay found directly in the earth and fired at low temperature (700 to 900 degrees Celsius). Its texture is rather rough and porous. The sound of the body is dull, its surface isn't translucent and it's difficult to clean.
Porcelain requires kaolin clay which contains a high proportion of aluminum oxide and silicon oxide. And it requires a high firing temperature above 1200 degrees Celsius. It is usually glazed so that it gets a beautiful white gloss and won't absorb water or any dirt particles.
|Gongxian kiln, Henan province, Tang dynasty
The dish on the left is part of the exhibition 'Secrets of the Sea: a Tang shipwreck' taking place at the Asia Society Museum (NYC) until June 4th. There are very few qinghua wares preserved from the Tang dynasty.
The most famous kilns for qinghua ware are those of Jingdezhen. This town was renamed in 1004 after a Sung emperor who loved its porcelain so much.
When we tested different qinghua cups with tea, it is this old double happiness cup that performed best and was the most fragrant. The reason is that it was made by traditional means with natural clay. Interestingly, the color of the qinghua porcelain isn't exactly white, but 'duck egg' (bluish) white.chicken cups.
Alishan Jinxuan Oolong and continued with that complex and well structured winter Alishan Zhuo Yan Oolong on the first night.


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Good Luck Socks
Throw it back to your childhood with these Count von Count socks from Good Luck Sock. That's two Count von Count socks!
- 48% Polyester, 45% Cotton, 5% Elastic, 2% Spandex
- Machine wash, hang to dry
- Though we consider these socks unisex, size M fits women's shoe sizes 5-9
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Good Luck Sock's Active Fit socks are made of combed cotton with reinforced heel and toe, and mesh vents. The Active Fit socks also have a deep heel pocket and an elastic arch band. The designs are sublimated into the fibres of the sock, and won't lose their colour. They're thicker than Good Luck Sock's Crew Socks, and are great for whatever your day has in store for your feet.
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According to accumulation and experimental analyses of on-site test data for more than thirty years, a Chinese grinding mill manufacturer, has researched and developed the fifth-generation pendulous hanging grinding mill – 5X Pendulum Roller Mill. All non-combustible and non-explosive brittle mineral products whose Moh's hardness are below Grade 7 and water content below 6% could be ground by this grinding mill.
Input Size: 0-55mm
Capacity: 2.7-83TPH
Limestone, calcite, dolomite, petroleum coal, gypsum, barite, marble, talc, coal powder, etc.
5X Pendulum Roller Mill are widely used in metallurgy, construction, mining, chemical industry, etc. such as grinding quartz, feldspar, calcite, talcum, barite, fluorite, iron ore, copper ore quartz, slag, cement clinker, zircon sand, fly ash and carborundum, coal, etc.
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About Mac's RoofingMac's Roofing is proud to have been providing quality roof installations and repairs in Houston and surrounding areas for more than 40 years. You can trust that your roof is in good hands when our highly trained staff takes on your project. Whether your roof simply needs to be repaired, or you need an entirely new roof, we will install every composition shingle to exacting standards to ensure that you receive the full benefit and longevity that was intended.
From the moment you call Mac's Roofing, you will find our staff to be courteous and respectful, and we will go the extra mile to make you a very satisfied customer.
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We hear horror stories all the time about roofing contractors who install a roof and cash the check, but when an issue arises they are nowhere to be found. Our integrity and profound belief in service after the sale means that you will never face this problem. We are not perfect, but should an issue arise, we will be there to make it right. This is just another reason Mac's Roofing is one of the best in the industry.


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#6552P: Pony size nylon halter with neoprene lined nose and crown
Pony size nylon halter with neoprene lined nose and crown. Accented with glitter overlay on cheeks, nose and crown. Halter has eyelets on crown and adjustable nose and throat latch.
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Nice softer rope halter. I haven't had it long enough to see how durable it is but it survived one pull back already so I'm thinking it will be good for a few years.
These hay nets are NOT cotton. They fell apart after 3-4 uses by a mini horse. I would NOT recommend these to anyone.
The leather is so soft and doesn't constrict at all! The tooling and flowers are just perfect!!
These wipes are the absolutely easiest way to clean silver. It makes it possible to use and enjoy your silver pieces without dreading future polishing.
love these stirrups- so beautiful and arrived in great shape- I would order again from this company!
The leather is very soft and flexible so it doesn't restrict movement, and the details are so cute!!
It stays in place on horse. Ride feel smoother and details on it just amazing
#623316: 16" Economy style saddle with smooth finish and zig zag tooled border and is accented with
Wish the cotton meca came tied, but a quick Google search and 15 minutes of fumbling, we got it on. Horse was super comfortable in it.
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We just finished our fair week with this brand new saddle. The stirrups were great, and easily adjustable to fit the kids needs. It fits our horses great! My son loves his new saddle!
This saddle fit my horse perfectly! The leather was super hydrated and no cracking. It's super comfortable to sit in. I definitely recommend this saddle to people who have a narrow horses!
I've had the saddle for 6 days now ridden in it 4 x and so far I really like. It fits me well and seems to fit my QH well too. We have a barrel race to tomorrow so will be using it for that . Overall it is a good saddle for the price!
We needed this for a goat harness (4h project-harness goat) we were very impressed with the quality my grandpa actually thought I was joking about the price. He was the president of the Ohio Mule and Draft Horse Ass. For a while. We had to make some adjustments but overall it's very sharp looking. It's cheaper but well worth it for the quality.
Accurate description and photos. Received it quickly. Overall great experience
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SCT was founded in 2003, born of the passion & expertise of a team that cut their teeth in performance shops, racing, vehicle calibration, performance parts manufacturing, and aftermarket tuning. From then on, SCT has devoted itself to the idea that engine tuning and calibration is a critical part of customization, and that enthusiasts should have the power to unlock the performance potential of their vehicles. As a result of its recent merger under Derive Systems, SCT, Bully Dog, Bully Dog Big Rig, and Derive Efficiency brands have integrated into a world-class operation and a dominant force in the automotive technology space. SCT's Business Development and Sales teams believe that customized performance is a key part of drivers optimizing their rides. The SCT team of engineers work hard every day to make advances in supported vehicles, off the shelf preloaded tuning, custom tuning, and dealer support, enabling SCT tuning solutions to continually surpass customer demands.
SCT unlocks greater vehicle performance through ECU calibration, so your vehicle is better equipped to meet your specific needs. We've released performance calibrations for hundreds of vehicle makes and models from Ford, GM and Dodge. SCT calibrations are quickly and easily uploaded to the vehicle's engine control module using their handheld programmer technology. By optimizing vehicle calibrations, SCT tuning unlocks greater vehicle horsepower, torque and drivability. SCT aims to provide top-shelf performance when and where it's needed most, and to continue as the benchmark for aftermarket tuning solutions.
SCT's Advantage III custom tuning software is boosting vehicle performance in 26 countries and is available through more than 1,100 dealers around the globe. Accesspeed is proud to offer SCT products to our customers. With our low price match guarantee, you will always find the best combination of price and selection at Accesspeed.
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The state of journalism is bad. Of course, Jonah Lehrer and Fareed Zakaria—high-profile writers at The New Yorker and Time, respectively—were recently exposed as frauds and plagiarists, but that's not the worst of it. Not even close. The phone-tapping scandal that nearly imploded NewsCorp's news division last year? Nope.
In fact, nothing illustrates the distressing state of affairs more clearly than the reaction to Judge William Alsup's recent order that Google and Oracle turn over the names of the reporters and bloggers whom the two companies had paid for potentially positive coverage supporting their case in a high-stakes copyright lawsuit.
Wait, what reaction? Oh, you didn't even hear about this?
Don't worry, you didn't somehow miss the stunned denunciations from the media elite. You didn't miss the outraged editorials by the Poynter Institute and Columbia Journalism Review. Because they didn't happen. Just as Sherlock Holmes gets his clue from the fact that the dog didn't bark in "The Hound of the Baskervilles," the lack of outcry is actually the sound of every insider in journalism tipping his or her hand. Reporters taking bribes from major tech companies in Silicon Valley? Old news!
The corruption is endemic. Take Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch.com, which sold to AOL for $25M in 2010; his bold editorial stand last year caused him to be ousted from the site he started. What was that stand? Simply that he was perfectly justified in simultaneously launching a side business called CrunchFund, which would invest venture capital in the very same startups his immensely powerful blog covered. It would be hard to imagine a clearer conflict of interest, but most of his peers eagerly took his side.
Some, like former TechCrunch editor and tech journalist Sarah Lacy, even followed his lead. This year, she founded PandoDaily, a new technology news blog. Investors include Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Tony Hsieh and Chris Dixon. If those names sound familiar, it's because they are the owners, founders or funders of the biggest companies in tech—outfits like Facebook, Zappos, PayPal, LinkedIn and Foursquare. Mr. Andreesen is also an investor in the news website Business Insider. (Full disclosure: The Observer Media Group is partially owned by Josh Kushner, a principal in the investment firm Thrive Capital, which funds a number of start-ups.)
What happens when the robber barons once again not only pull the strings of the industry, but also control the press that is supposed to cover it and hold them responsible?
At the end of the day, it's these guys who are the real "customers" of the news outlets: not all of the readers out there, but the marketers, advertisers and investors to whom journalists are trying to a deliver product—that product being you and your attention.


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Freelancer.com has just hit 30 million users worldwide, and to celebrate we're offering a share of US$5,000 in prizes for the best projects in some of our most popular categories: architecture; branding; 3D and digital.
The lucky winners of this competition will also get the chance to become the new face of Freelancer.com, with the stories behind the winning projects to be shared with the rest of the global Freelancer.com community.
We want to make a big deal about this landmark milestone, but we wouldn't have made it to 30 million users if not for the talented individuals and innovative businesses that have come together on the Freelancer.com marketplace to work on new and innovative projects.
"To date, nearly 15 million jobs have been posted on Freelancer.com in more than 1,000 different areas of work. None of this could have happened without the talented and innovative individuals who make up the Freelancer.com community," Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie said in a blog post marking the new milestone.
Our users are the beating heart of Freelancer.com. That's why we've launched this competition to find the new face of Freelancer. We want to recognise the great work and the incredible talent behind it which has helped to make Freelancer.com the world's largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace.
We're encouraging the valued members of our global community who would like to be featured along with their project in a global marketing campaign and have their story told to enter the competition.
Freelancer.com users who have designed or built something on the platform that is visually stunning, or those who have employed someone who has done a fantastic job can submit a project to compete for a share in the US$5,000 worth of prizes that will be handed out, along with the chance to become the new face of Freelancer.
We're excited about uncovering the amazing work the Freelancer.com global community has created and telling the world about it. Here's to our users, you deserve to be recognised.


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New drought monitoring tool gives hope of better preparation, mitigation at farmer level
State-level workshops will be conducted to help users interpret data from the system
Water, Marathwada women's woe: No brides for farmers as families look for city matches
Access to water, better infra drive marriage prospects as women yearn for more 'comfortable' lives
As told to Parliament (September 21, 2020): No data on farmers' suicides, admits government
All that was discussed in the Houses through the day
No basic facilities, no vote, say residents of 160 villages
Lack of facilities like electricity, water and roads makes villagers in 14 states boycott the Lok Sabha elections
Rewind 2018: How farming hogged headlines, yet not spotlight
The country saw a host of agricultural protests, policies, disputes and distress in 2018; here's all of it
Can goats secure livelihood for small and marginal farmers?
The Centre's discussions on boosting the goat sector to double farmers' incomes may be futile if fodder and grazing lands, both …
Rural households have higher debt than urban counterparts: NSSO report
The debt in rural households is higher, even though their total assets are less than urban households
Smita Narula on Farmer Suicides
Did you know that every 30 minutes a farmer commits suicide in India? Listen to Smita Narula, faculty director at the Center for Human Rights and …
In the name of the farmer
Illnesses were behind half the suicides in Punjab in 2021
Healthcare costs too high, farmers at risk due to pesticide use says expert
Every day, 28 people dependent on farming die by suicide in India
People in the farm sector accounted for 7.4 per cent of the total suicides in India, according to the latest NCRB report
Scientist meets bumpkin
Aparna Pallavi on what happens when farmers' innovations are brought to the notice of agriculture scientists
Amrit kaal for adivasis? Union Budget 2023-24 weakens safety nets for tribals
Schemes for food security, child welfare, employment guarantee for tribals saw shrinking of funds
Sealed Nepal border, reverse migration puts villagers in Bihar's border town in a spot
The farmers in flood-prone villages lost access to a more lucrative market in Nepal, resort to distress sales to cut losses
As told to Parliament (June 25, 2019): Fewer claim settlements didn't affect farmers
All that was discussed in the House through the day
Maharashtra rejects more agri insurance claims even as farm suicides double
No data on suicides across India since 2015; number of claim rejections far exceeded number of cases approved in 2016-18
Jharkhand's success story of fruit plantation under MGNREGA
The state's experience in horticulture orchards can serve as a model for the country
Bhavantar Yojna: MP farmers refuse to sign up for 2nd round
Most of the over 200 farmers Down To Earth talked to in 6 villages of Hoshangabad and Sehore districts said they would not register for the …
Modi sedates the farmer
The BJP is repackaging old schemes and offering cosmetic changes to the agrarian policy
Tikait on Green revolution
When asked to comment on the green revolution, Mahendra singh Tikait, Bharat Kisan Union (BKU) leader relates it to issues of organic …
Tikait on farmer loans
Here's a sneak preview of BKU (Bharat Kisan Union) Leader Mahendra Singh Tikait's tête-á-tête with DTE on farmers' income, …
The amendment to the Indian Forest Act, 1927 will create new markets & jobs for poor communities
After amending Section 2(7) of Indian Forest Act, 1927, bamboo is no longer a tree. This enables the livelihoods of forest communities as well as …
What monsoon holds for India in 2015
From forecasts over El Niño to fears of economic loss, many predictions in the last week have raised eyebrows
Common Facility Centre: A rallying point for SHG-FPO convergence
There is much to gain for FPOs if they converge with local SHGs. Nothing is more amenable for SHGs than delegating the responsibility of building …
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Closing the Digital Divide in US Education—for Good
Inspired collaborations among educators, business, and policymakers to close the K-12 digital divide are paving the way for a brighter postpandemic future for US education.
Educational systems, from K–12 through higher education, are being stress-tested around the globe. With disruptions at an all-time high, now is the time to deliver true innovation.
Even before COVID-19, educational institutions faced strong headwinds. In 2018, 258 million children, adolescents, and youths were out of school. The numbers have only worsened since the onset of the pandemic, which has disrupted learning for nearly 1.6 billion students in more than 190 countries. The racial and socioeconomic achievement gap has deepened, and students are losing ground academically or dropping out altogether.
While the pandemic has created unprecedented challenges, it also presents an opportunity to accelerate innovation and social impact in education. With the right strategic focus—coupled with powerful human and digital capabilities and a willingness to innovate—educational institutions can transform their cultures and educational models to enable 21st century learning.
At BCG, we have deep expertise in supporting transformative education initiatives at the local, national, and global levels, includingimproving student-learning outcomes for 2.2 million studentsin India and partnering with not-for-profit foundations—such as theBill & Melinda Gates Foundationand theWalton Family Foundation—to strengthen education in the US.
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Welcome to The Wikka Lounge
An IRC channel has been setup for discussing Wikka..... and idling. :)
Point your favorite IRC client to:
Or check the list of freenode servers.
Channel: #wikka
As always, feedback and comments welcome.
See below for:
- Getting an IRC client (organized by platform - please add any others you know about)
- What is IRC and getting (more) help
- Registering your IRC nickname
- Leaving messages
Getting an IRC client
All platforms
- GAIM: GAIM supports a lot of protocols, including IRC; download from http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php; see also http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q15 and the rest of the FAQ
- X-Chat: X-Chat for Windows - "shareware" - you pay a "build fee" because making a build on your own is very hard in Win; all versions after that are free. See also http://xchat.org/
See NOTE below.
- X-Chat: X-Chat 2 for Windows - the "SilvereX" free distribution of the same program; requires a GTK+ runtime, downloadable from the same location. See http://silverex.info/installation/ (and make sure you allow the GTK+ runtime installer to set the PATH variable)
- X-Chat: X-Chat for Windows - another free ("unoffical") distribution
- X-Chat: Another X-Chat for Windows - yet another free distribution of the same program, though it lags behind the "official" distribution a bit
- mIRC: mIRC - Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP, NT etc. See also http://www.mirc.com/
- Trillian: Trillian also supports IRC (including the free 'Basic' version) but it is a rather limited implementation; unless you already have Trillian, you're probably better off with X-Chat or mIRC
- eMule: eMule is actually a P2P client, but has support for IRC built-in as well. See also http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1. You can find the settings under Preferences/IRC.
NOTE: The legality of the "shareware" release of X-Chat (which is GPL) is being hotly debated; at least the free distributions are legal. The "SilvereX" distribution seems to be the most used (and I use it myself); it supports plugins, too. More links to free versions here: http://forum.xchat.org/viewtopic.php?t=597 --JavaWoman
Mac OS X
- X-Chat: X-Chat Aqua Free X-Chat version for OS X
- Fire: FIRE A multi-protocol instant messaging client for Mac OS X
NOTE: Any open source client running under *nix can normally be installed under Mac OS X. See the Fink Project for more infos
Fedora/Red Hat
- X-Chat: X-Chat for Fedora Linux Core 3. "Official" distribution (free). See also http://xchat.org/
- X-Chat: X-Chat for GNOME - See also http://xchat-gnome.navi.cx/faq.shtml
- irssi: irssi - See also http://irssi.org/beginner/
- Links to more clients can be found on the mIRC FAQ - see (5) Where can I find an IRC client? on that page
What is IRC and getting (more) help
- For help about IRC (what is it and how do you use it), try any of these links (just a selection...):
- For help using your IRC client try its built-in "help" feature first; many clients also have a FAQ or a user forum - look up the home page of your client.
- Once connected to a channel with your client, you can also try joining the "pseudo channel" #help:
/join #help
/join #irchelp
Registering your IRC nicknameYour nick is how people on freenode know you. If you register it, you'll be able to use the same nick over and over. If you don't register, someone else may end up registering the nick you want. So, make sure you register your nickname with NickServ; see the registration instructions. (Make sure you remember the password you choose!) It helps, of course, if your nickname on Freenode.net is the same as your Wikka username, but that is not required. You can only receive left messages (see below) if you have registered your nick.
Leaving messagesThe Freenode.net servers also provide a neat and useful service: we can leave messages for each other! That's very useful for a group like us with members around the globe, living and working in different timezones. This service is known as MemoServ.
For starters, make sure you register your nickname with NickServ - see above. In theory, you can leave a message for a channel, but in practice, most people can only leave a message for another person - and you have to know that person's registered nickname; if the intended recipient logs on with a different nickname, (s)he won't see the message.
You will only receive a notification you have a message intended for you (your registered nick) when you log on when you have your NOTIFY on (it seems to be on by default when you join Freenode.net). Leaving and reading messages is quite simple, and you can get instructions by typing
/msg MemoServe help


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Brighter than a Million Galaxies
September 11, 1997
"Gamma ray burster" might not be as appealing a name as "black hole" in cocktail conversations, but it's a far more mysterious and elusive cosmic character that you can call FRED.
FRED means fast rise, exponential decay. Suddenly the burst is there, shining 10 million times brighter than our galaxy. Next it fades away - rapidly, then slowly - over the course of several dozen or hundred seconds.
Since the 1960s, scientists have tried to pin down the source of flashes of energy that appear - at random - in space about once a day. Next week, more than 200 astrophysicists will gather for the Fourth Huntsville Gamma Ray Burst Symposium. Unlike past meetings, the scientists this year are closer to solving the mystery.
"We know that they live a long way away," said Dr. Charles Meegan, one of the conference coordinators, "but we don't know their address yet."
Meegan, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, is a co-investigator on the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE), one of four instruments aboard the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (left). Since the Compton observatory was launched in 1991, it has recorded more than 1,900 gamma ray flashes and helped resolve the first mystery: are the flashes local or distant?
Where to look, and what might be the cause, will be the subjects of the week-long 4th Huntsville Gamma Ray Burst Symposium, September 15-19. The conference has been held every two years since GRO was launched.
"This is a watershed year for the symposium," Meegan said, "because now we have what we've been trying to get for 30 years, counterparts in other wavelengths." The February 28, 1997, burst was seen by enough instruments to let scientists check a small part of the sky and confirm that it appeared to come from a faint, distant galaxy.
The energetic stranger
"The sense of the community is that the doubt is over," Meegan said. "Gamma ray bursts are cosmological." That means that instead of coming from within our galaxy or even immediately around the galaxy, they are deep in space, probably more than 8 billion light years away (by comparison, our galaxy is about 150,000 light years across).
"But they're still very strange," Meegan continued. "All of the questions about them being cosmological are still there." The principal question is, what produces so much energy?
Radio waves, visible light, X-rays, and gamma rays all are photons released when matter gives up some energy - or when matter is turned into energy.
You don't get gamma rays from a light bulb burning out. You get it from thermonuclear reactions, like mass being converted into energy (a simple electron-anti-electron annihilation produces gamma rays at 511,000 eV, about 500,000 times more energetic than visible light).
"I wouldn't want to be on any planet in that star system when a gamma ray flash goes off," Meegan said. "If you were some distance away in the galaxy, it would be spectacular but not life threatening."
Spectacular means as much energy in 10 seconds as our sun will emit in 10 billion years - assuming they are about 8 billion light years away. That figure is based on the estimate that the bursters have a red shift value of about 1, or Z=1.
The farther away a star is, the faster it is moving, and thus the greater the Z number. Depending on which model of the universe you use, Z=1 can mean 6 to 10 billion light years. A burst recorded on March 8 appears to be connected with an object with a Z-number of at least 0.835 and possibly as high as 2.
"The truth is, we don't know it's Z=1," Meegan said. "That seems to be the best fit for the brightness. This is not ironclad at all. It's the simplest approximation."
Meegan said that it is most likely that scientists are tracking one phenomenon rather than several that end in similar bursts: "The net sum of all of these bursts have funny properties. There's all sorts of reasons to think that it is one phenomenon."
Fill in the blanks
Bursts appear to be coming from faint galaxies or the apparently empty space between galaxies. One would expect the burst to appear where matter is denser so it's easier to build whatever it is that goes off.
Models of what is happening vary. Most explanations involve matter falling into black holes or neutron stars, and questions about how the energy is released.
One model says it's a pulsar briefly beaming energy like a laser is reasonable. But then you need millions of bursters to account for the 1,600 aimed right at BATSE. A blast wave of material that moves almost as fast as light and "blue shifts" its radiation into gamma rays is reasonable, but then you have to design the stellar bomb that does it.
|Scientists at the gamma ray burst symposium are looking forward to new Hubble Space Telescope images of the February 28, 1997, burst source. The ones at left were taken in early March.
The solution won't come out of this conference (although the scientists are eagerly awaiting a Hubble Space Telescope observation that may show the remnant of the February 28 event).
The sharing of ideas, and vigorously debating opposing viewpoints, will help shape the course of investigations that will lead, eventually, to the answer.
Invited presentations at the 4th Huntsville Gamma Ray Burst Symposium are:
The new BATSE catalog of burst sources - adding 514 since the 3B catalog two years ago, for a total of 1,636 through August 29, 1996 - will be formally released by Dr. Meegan at the opening session on global properties of bursts.
The search for counterparts, and how they flare then fade, will be discussed by Dr. Kevin Hurley of the University of California at Berkeley. Only two bursts have counterparts, GRB970228 in light and GRB970508 in light and radio. No counterparts have been found for others with similar counterparts.
The famous February 27 event and other optical counterparts will be covered by Dr. Jan van Paradijs of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Van Paradijs discovered the optical counterpart to GRB970228 in images taken by telescopes in Chile.
Radio counterparts of gamma ray bursters will be reviewed by Dr. Dail Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Frail used arrays of radio telescopes electronically connected to see the same detail as a single, larger telescope, and detected a radio counterpart to GRB970508. Again, most similar bursts do not have radio counterparts.
Soft gamma ray repeaters, a special case in gamma ray bursts, will be discussed by Dr. Shri Kulkarni of the California Institute of Technology. They are special because they are known to be caused by bodies within the galaxy. Kulkarni will interpret the observations in the context of the "magnetar" theory, that the repeaters are caused by neutron stars with magnetic fields more than a trillion times stronger than Earth's magnetic field.
Dr. Peter Meszaros of Pennsylvania State University will explain how the observations of counterparts and of afterglows restrict theoretical models of bursters, and in what directions they point us in solving the puzzle.
And Bohdan Paczynski of Princeton University will discuss theory that gamma ray bursts are caused by hypernovae, exceptionally violent stellar explosions. In this model, a massive star's core collapses and leaves a torus as dense as a neutron star. The intense magnetic field then accelerates the torus and creates a fireball that appears as a gamma ray burst.
Gamma Ray Bursts. New Observations Illuminate the most powerful explosions in the universe. Dr. Gerald Fishman, BATSE principal investigator at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and Dr. Dieter H. Hartmann, a theoretical astrophysicist at Clemson University, explain bursts in as we understand them now in the July 1997 issue of Scientific American (pp 34-39)
June 10: Game Over: Counterpart Discoveries Show Gamma-Ray Bursts ARE Cosmological
March 31: Discovery may be "Smoking Gun" in Gamma Ray Burst Mystery
January 15: Gamma-Ray Bursts Thought to be from Edge of Universe
December 17: BATSE Discovers Unique Gamma-Ray Bursts
December 13: BATSE Pins Down Space Oddity
December 10: BATSE Scientists and Data Top 1996 Citations
October 15: SSL's BATSE Experiment Science Highlighted on NPR's StarDate
September 26: NASA Spacecraft Detects the Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst of its Mission
July 31: A Different "Campaign '96" - Catching Earth's Gamma-rays in the act
May 23: Astronomers Here Discover Bursting Pulsars
Author: Dave Dooling
Curator: Bryan Walls
NASA Official: John M. Horack


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- J.A. Happ feels fortunate.
Less than 24 hours after he was hit on the head by a line drive and carted off the field, the Toronto Blue Jays pitcher was back at Tropicana Field on Wednesday.
The 30-year-old said he had a skull fracture behind his left ear that doctors believe will heal on its own, as well as a sore right knee that he tweaked when he dropped to the ground Tuesday night.
Otherwise, he felt pretty good after his release from Bayfront Medical Center. He does not have a concussion.
"I feel really fortunate," Happ said after limping into a room at Tropicana Field for a news conference and climbing a couple steps to sit down behind a table.
"It looks like I moved just a little bit. I don't remember doing that, but it looks like it was just enough to where it must have caught me in a better spot, because I think it could have got me head on," he said. "I've got some stitches and there's a fracture in the skull, I suppose, behind my ear, but it's not serious or threatening. We'll let those heal."
Happ, put on the 15-day disabled list, had a brief conversation with Tampa Bay's Desmond Jennings, who hit the line drive that caught him squarely on the left side of the head. Happ shook hands with several teammates outside the Blue Jays clubhouse while assuring each one: "I'm fine."
"He just wished me the best and hoped for a quick recovery," Happ said. "Obviously, something like that is never intentional. I let him know that I knew that and I appreciated him coming over. It's a scary thing, I'm sure on his end, too."
Happ remembers releasing the ball.
"I don't remember seeing it," he said. "Just immediate loud ringing in my ear. Just pressure on my ear, and I was on the ground. That was kind of it. It took me a few seconds to kind of figure out what was going on, but I do remember them being there ... the coaches and Gibby (manager John Gibbons) and obviously, the trainers. I was coherent and talking pretty quickly."
Though he's confident he will pitch again, he's not sure when.
"From everything, CT scans of the brain, neck, spine and skull, it looks pretty good," Happ said. "I don't think there's a ton of concern."
The hit, still being replayed on TV a day later, left some of his fellow players unsettled.
"I felt horrible yesterday. I played with Happ last year for a little bit," Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Villanueva said. "There's a lot of talk out there about the gear and protective stuff. Hopefully, they'll come out with something that won't affect us pitching out there, but it's still such a fast game. What happens if the ball comes directly at your face? There's nothing you can do. You can't pitch with a mask on. It just comes down to the draw of the luck, I guess."
Major League Baseball, meantime, is trying to determine the best way to protect pitchers from similar injuries.
The league's senior vice president, Dan Halem, said a half-dozen companies were designing headgear for pitchers but no product was sufficiently protective and comfortable.
"If it doesn't absorb enough impact, then it may be ineffective," he said.
Dr. Gary Green, MLB's medical director, said the Head Injury Criterion (HIC) scale is being used to evaluate products and that a cap liner likely would have to be 8 ounces or lighter.
"We've found some things that are very lightweight, but they're not very protective, and then other things that might be protective but they are too heavy and don't meet the other specifications," he said.
Robert Vito, president of Pennsylvania-based Unequal Technologies Co., said a patent had been submitted for a product he hopes to make available in June. Vito said his employees met with pitchers, coaches and trainers from 26 big league teams during spring training.
"My biggest concern coming from the MLB Players Association is the mirror test. When they put it on, it must be concealed protection that cannot be detected by the fan," he said.
In testing the product, he had someone smash a Louisville Slugger bat into his chest.
"Energy is like water. It's got to go somewhere," Vito said. "So the energy is either going to go into my body and devastate tissues, tendons and break ribs and crush my heart to where I'm bleeding out internally, or it's going to get absorbed into the pad and then return some of that energy to the bat, all the while protecting me."
While Unequal has used Kevlar-based products in the past, Georgia-based Evoshield employs "gel-to-shell" technology.
"There is no fast and easy solution," Evoshield CEO Bob Pinckney said in a statement.
Green said an average of two pitchers had been struck on the head by line drives during the past seven or eight seasons.
"While these things are catastrophic, they're still rare events," he said.
Baseball stepped up its efforts after two pitchers were struck last year. Oakland's Brandon McCarthy was hit on the head by a liner last September, causing a skull fracture, an epidural hemorrhage and a brain contusion that required surgery. He was released from a hospital six days later.
McCarthy, who pitched for Arizona on Tuesday night against the Los Angeles Dodgers, said he won't watch video of Happ getting hit.
"I don't know what the GMs and the owners have to do with anything. It's not like they're pitching," McCarthy said. "Until someone makes something that works, it's going to be tough for someone to wear it.
"Most everything that's come out wouldn't have protected me, and it wouldn't have protected (Happ) if he got hit directly in the ear. You're at a point now where you're looking at batting helmets. You'd have to have something that protected the ear and then the face and beyond. So it's kind of a slippery slope. Someone will have to come up with something really good and really sound. Otherwise, I don't know how you answer that question."
Still, McCarthy maintains hope.
"We've put things on the moon before, so I feel like we can create some sort of a device that sits over your head and protects you," he said. "Someone will do it. It's just a matter of when, not if."
Detroit's Doug Fister was struck in the head by a batted ball during the World Series; he was unhurt and stayed in the game.
"I've heard a lot of pitchers say they wouldn't mind trying it. And a lot of pitchers just don't want it," said Tampa Bay's David Price, the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner. "So I think the decision would still be left up to that player. If it worked and it didn't affect anything in the mound, I would definitely look into it."
When a product is available that MLB thinks will provide protection without getting in the way, it will ask the players' association for its input.
"I guess you'd have to see some prototypes," Happ said. "It would be tough."
In the macho culture of baseball, the adoption of protective gear has been slow. While Cleveland's Ray Chapman died when he was hit by a pitch in 1920, MLB didn't make the use of helmets or protective cap inserts mandatory until the National League required them for the 1956 season. Helmets weren't required until the 1971 season and, even then, they weren't mandatory for players already in the big leagues.
An earflap on the side of the head facing the pitcher was required for new players starting in 1983. Stronger and slightly heavier carbon-fiber helmets, the Rawlings S100 Pro Comp, were required starting this year.
"You can't ask a pitcher to use material that he's not comfortable with. But I'm hopeful that, much like with batting helmets, we'll figure something out that both allows the players to play without any obstruction but adds to player safety," union head Michael Weiner said. "When they get close to something that they think might work, then at that point we're both going to look at it together."
Bryce Florie doesn't see well in his right eye to this day, the result of being struck by a line drive hit by the Yankees' Ryan Thompson while pitching for Boston in September 2000. Florie returned the following year but ended his career after just seven more big league appearances.
"With the way everything is being condensed, I think it's inevitable that it's going to happen, that they're going to have something in the hat," Florie said. "You'll have a hard time to get major leaguers and minor leaguers to say, 'OK, Let me try this out.' Most of them are not going to want to be the first guy. But if you talk to guys like myself and other guys that have been hit, up in the face, in the head, we'll be, 'Like yeah, I'll do it.' But then, it's kind of late."
Pitchers around the majors sounded resistant to a new product -- even after seeing replays of Happ's injury.
"You know the risks," Angels lefty C.J. Wilson said. "Guys get hurt crashing into fences. Guys get hurt tripping over first base and blowing their knee out. This is professional sports, and we are paid well to take those risks."
MLB could implement the safety change in the minor leagues, as it did a few seasons ago with augmented batting helmets, but would require the approval of the players' union to make big leaguers wear them.
Colorado Rockies left-hander Jorge De La Rosa said if a helmet or liner is developed for pitchers, he'd gladly wear one.
"It wouldn't be hard for me," De La Rosa said. "To protect against those kinds of things, it's good for us."
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Homer Bailey doesn't like the idea of wearing protective headgear.
"The game's been played a long time. Situations like that are unfortunate, but we have to keep it our game," he said. "I don't think you have to adjust the whole program."
And Seattle Mariners right-hander Aaron Harang thinks it would be difficult for veteran major league pitchers to adapt to new equipment.
"I know it's a hot topic," he said, "but I don't think it's a problem that's easily solved. I know a lot of people want pitchers to start wearing helmets. It's a good idea in theory, but I don't know how practical it is. I think you need to start with that at the lower level, I'm talking high school and maybe even lower, and then gradually introduce it into the higher level. I've been pitching since I was 6 years old and I've never worn a helmet. I think it would be tough to make that adjustment while pitching in a major league game."
Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington wondered if there's a viable solution.
"What can you do?" he said. "Tell hitters not to hit it back up the middle?"
Information from The Associated Press and ESPN's Willie Weinbaum was used in this report.