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MIDDLEBURY — More than 900 runners have signed up to run the sixth annual Middlebury Maple Run this coming Sunday, May 5. The half marathon starts at the Porter Medical Center at 9 a.m. and will necessitate closing a few roads for several minutes while the crowd of runners moves through the downtown area.
BRISTOL — A reshuffling of positions is under way in Bristol schools, as Bristol Elementary School Principal Catrina DiNapoli takes a one-year interim position with the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union. The school district is looking to interview candidates to fill the BES principal position for a year.
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VERGENNES — Vergennes aldermen have scheduled a public informational meeting for this coming Tuesday on their proposed $1.45 million bond to fund a new 4,611-square-foot police station on North Main Street.
City residents will vote on May 14 on the police station bond proposal and also join residents in neighboring towns to decide on a $600,000 loan proposal to fund new roofing for Vergennes Union High School (see related story).
MIDDLEBURY — American industrialist Henry Ford said that "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
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VERGENNES — The Vergennes Union High School board will host an informational meeting on Monday on its proposal for a five-year, $600,000 loan to put a new roof on the school's leaky classroom wing and auditorium. Monday's forum will begin at 6 p.m. in the VUHS library.
MIDDLEBURY — Back in 1978 what is now Middlebury's Town Hall Theater was the local Knights of Columbus Hall. Karen Amirault, a dancer and recent graduate of Middlebury College, joined forces with college dance faculty Patty Smith to rent the hall for their eclectic dance reviews.
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text: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Robert G. Brown wrote: > Steve Cousins writes: > > >> I'm fairly certain that the memory latency issue that Vincent was warning > >> about won't be an issue, although I'm a bit clueless about how to know for > >> sure. How would I go about finding out if our model is TLB trashing main > >> memory? I feel like I just bit the hook... I don't want to start a huge > >> discussion on this but if there are some quick tell-tale signs of it I'd > >> be interested to find out. > > > Why bother with tell-tale signs? Like I said, your previous post was > dead on the money. Get a loaner (which can physically be far far away > and should be "free"), install YOUR application and run the only > benchmark or test that matters. Hi Robert, I mostly agree. I was curious about how one goes about doing this, and if I find out that our program doesn't scale well to four cores then I'd like to know what the problem is. The first step is to just see though. Hopefully it will scale well and it will be a moot point. As you predicted, I have heard from a couple of vendors. We'll soon see how it goes, and I'll send an update to the list when I find out. Thanks everyone for your help. Steve


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Located approximately 150 miles southeast of Miami, Andros Island is the largest island in the Bahamas chain, yet it remains the least populated.
All of The Bahamas Out Islands boast abundant natural attractions, but Andros—the largest yet most sparsely developed of all The Bahamas—is the king when it comes to superlative natural experiences. It's a great place for a laid-back beach getaway, wedding or honeymoon, but for ecotravelers, kayakers, bird watchers, hikers, snorkelers, divers and fishermen, the big island of The Bahamas is the ideal vacation destination.
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text: On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, RANGI, JAI wrote: > HI > > I am looking for some sort of training on Beowulf cluster and parallel > programming. Also I want to know the areas where Beowulf can be used in > Educational institutes in term of different programs as well as > research. Wake Technical Institute outside of Raleigh, NC has a brand new program in this. They are partnered and co-recipients of an NSF grant with Maui Community College in Hawaii, Pellissippi State Technical Community College in Tennessee, and Contra Costa College in California. Each of these small schools is partnered with a supercomputer center or national lab -- NCSC, Maui HPCC, Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkley respectively. I informally consulted on their proposal and thus am fortunate enough to know about it. I believe that all of these schools are putting together two year (?) programs to cover cluster design, parallel programming, and cluster support. The one at Wake Tech has a variety of RTP and Red Hat persons on their advisory board (as well as, de facto, me:-). At a higher level, Clemson has an excellent cluster program with a number of respected faculty on this list. Duke has a program that has been around for a while working on exotic topics but is currently moving a little more mainstream. There are probably other programs out there at the four-year university or graduate level -- maybe their owners will speak up. LOTS of universities have clusters now and hence have upwardly mobile pathways for on the job training if you are skilled in basic systems admin. Scyld also offers training, I believe, although I don't know how broad it is or whether it leads to any sort of certification. Parallel programming per se I'm not as familiar with, although I probably should be. I'd expect schools "near" a supercomputing center to all have at least a class or two. Probably somebody else on the list knows. The answer to your second question is too large to even summarize. Ten years ago I was using our departmental SunOS/Irix LAN as a cluster supercomputer via PVM and scripts. Seven years ago Duke had pretty much one "beowulfish" linux cluster -- mine -- and a CPS cluster that wasn't devoted to "supercomputing" per se. Today the administration is having a hard time counting the number of clusters in operation on campus, and is openly encouraging more with lots of interested parties coming to any sort of meeting where they are discussed. Clusters are being used to do physics, mathematics, quantum chemistry, various kinds of biology, statistical simulations of all sorts -- and that's just here. A better question would be -- where within the sciences, mathematics, statistics, and even some of the humanities are clusters NOT being created whereever a compute need that exceeds the capacity of a single CPU exists? Not a lot, it seems. There is indeed a gap between this growth in application and the human resources needed to support it. Would be cluster-builders also tend to underestimate or ignore the hidden costs (humans, power, AC, other infrastructure) or view them as opportunity-cost advantages rather than real expenses. This is one of many things Duke is addressing at a high level -- how can Duke encourage all the advanced science clusters can facilitate while controlling costs and not exploiting already overburdened LAN sysadmins? What is the "cost-benefit" of all the various clusters to the University as a whole in terms of e.g. grant overhead, etc. (noting that the answer COULD turn out to be anywhere from greatly positive to somewhat negative -- not obvious, at any rate)? rgb > Any information will be appreciated. > Thanks > > Jai Rangi > ------------------------------------------------------- > In the world with no fences, why would you need Gates ? > - Linux > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Major parking changes coming to New Canaan
Feeding the meter at New Canaan's two railroad parking lots is often a hassle for commuters taking the first trains in the morning, especially if the person is using a credit card.
The frigid cold temperatures often make the situation worse to those in line to pay for their spots.
The town's Parking Bureau is hoping to eliminate that problem by launching a new smartphone app that would allow commuters to pay for parking without having to use the machine.
The new system, as well as the introduction of a license-plate reader for parking enforcement officers, gained the support of the Board of Finance Feb. 11.
The PayByPhone app initially would be available at the railroad parking lot downtown and at the Talmadge Hill train station lot. If successful, the system would eventually be implemented at other municipal parking lots in New Canaan, parking officials said.
Parking Bureau Supervisor Karen Miller said commuters have been requesting an alternative to the meters for a long time.
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"It will offer our commuters who rush to the train every day (a way to) bypass the machine, get on the train, pull out their phone and go to the app and pay," Miller told the board.
The license-plate reader would consist of two cameras, which would be mounted on the right and left sides of a parking department's vehicle and would alert officers to cars that have exceeded the parking limit and cars that don't have permits, among other functions.
With the system, parking officials could, for example, drive on Elm Street and record all the license plates.
Two hours later, they could go back there and an alarm would sound for any vehicle that has exceeded the area's 90-minute parking time limit.
To fund the projects, the Board of Finance approved four transfers in the Parking Bureau's budget. The money was taken from office supplies and the electricity accounts.
"We're going to sacrifice some of our office supply budget (to support it)," Miller said. "That's how strongly we feel about it."
The license-plate reader costs $18,000. PayByPhone has a $1,500 set-up cost and a monthly fee of $200. However, the town won't have to pay the monthly charge as long as there are at least 1,000 transactions a month. If half of New Canaan's commuters use it, Miller said, there will be about 2,400 transactions every month.
"We've had so many requests for this," she said. "I think it'll be really well received."
The cost for each PayByPhone transaction is 35 cents, which would bring the annual total for daily commuters to about $84.
"The fee is really being passed along to the commuter, but believe me, they're very willing to pay," Miller said.
Formerly known as Verrus, PayByPhone is part of PayPoint, an international provider of payment services.
As for the license-plate reader, Board of Finance members noted there's a fear that the databases could provide a log of where people are and for how long, but Miller said the department would not be storing any information.
Town Council member Roger Williams said he would be looking into the project "to make sure there's no capturing of data."
"Essentially, my concern is with a massive invasion of privacy," he said. "Is it going to capture data while it goes to the parking lots? Is it going to create a database within the public record?"
Christopher Kaiser, the town's director of information technology, said the database would be strictly used for parking enforcement and would be rewritten every 24 hours so that there's no storing of data.
The system also would eliminate the need for permit stickers or slips.
The Town Council is scheduled to consider the request for the license-plate reader at its meeting Wednesday, Feb. 26, at the Nature Center, according to Miller. If approved, it would just take a few days to install the cameras and software, she said.
The PayByPhone project is expected to go to the Board of Selectmen Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the police station. If approved, it would take about five to six weeks to implement it, Miller said.
The only PayByPhone payment option would be for 12 hours, which would be good for the whole day, since parking is not enforced after 4:30 p.m.
Miller said the current parking machines are "very frustrating," especially because they take a long time to process credit card authorizations. She noted that the process is even worse in the winter and during the early morning hours, since most of the commuters get on the first two trains.
"Literally, they're all lining up in freezing cold weather at the machine," she said. "Some of them are trying to pay by credit card and it doesn't always work the first time. It's very frustrating."
Miller said the PayByPhone service would be integrated with the current system so that the parking transaction can automatically show on the enforcement officers' tablets.
If for some reason the app does not work, commuters will have the option of making the payment through a phone call.
Commuters still would be able to use the meter machines to pay with cash or credit cards.
At the Greenwich train station parking lots, where PayByPhone has been used for about two years, the system has been increasingly getting more users, according to Roderick Dioquino, business operations supervisor for Greenwich's Department of Parking Services.
"It's been pretty good," he said. "I would imagine it's because it makes it easier to pay for your spot."
Dioquino said about 1,700 commuters use the app in Greenwich every month.
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- Tour de France
Yorkshire to host Tour de France start
Yorkshire will host the opening two stages of the 2014 Tour de France, bringing the race back to England seven years since it last visited in 2007.
A third stage will be held in southern England with a finish in London before the race moves into France.
Yorkshire beat bids from Edinburgh and Florence in Italy to host the early stages of the world's most recognisable bike race.
Race director Christian Prudhomme said that Bradley Wiggins' victory in this year's race and the enthusiasm for cycling among the general public played a part in the decision.
The Yorkshire stages, including the Grand Depart in Leeds, will be run on July 5 and 6 and it will be the fourth time the Tour has visited Britain overall.
"Since the resounding success of the Grand Depart in London in 2007, we were very keen to return to the United Kingdom," Prudhomme said.
"Bradley Wiggins' historic victory last July and the enormous crowds that followed the cycling events in the streets of London during the Olympic Games encouraged us to go back earlier than we had initially planned."


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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament failed on Sunday to break a political deadlock that is holding up the formation of a new government to tackle an Islamist-led insurgency raging less than 50 miles (80 km) from Baghdad.
After a brief session, parliamentary officials put off until Tuesday efforts to reach agreement between Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish politicians on the posts of prime minister, president and parliamentary speaker.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, whose State of Law coalition is the largest individual list in parliament, is seeking a third term but faces opposition from Sunnis and Kurds who say he has ruled for the Shi'ite majority at the expense of minority communities. Even rival Shi'ite parties want to unseat him.
The political impasse has been given added urgency by the Islamist-led insurgency which swept through Sunni provinces of northern Iraq last month, encouraging Maliki's opponents to try to force his departure.
Bomb attacks struck the capital and its outskirts after the inconclusive session. A blast near a busy street in the southwestern district of Bayaa killed three people and wounded seven, police and hospital sources said. In Yusifia, 15 km (10 miles) south of the capital, a bomb went off near a crowded market, killing another three people, medics and police said.
The disagreement over Maliki's future appeared to be blocking progress on the other political posts.
Sunni politicians said the main Sunni bloc put forward Salim al-Jabouri, a moderate Islamist, as their candidate for speaker, but accused Maliki of effectively torpedoing their proposal by linking it to their acceptance of his bid for a third term.
"We have presented our candidate for speaker and done what we should do," said outgoing speaker Osama Nujaifi. "We hold the other blocs responsible for the delay.
"Once we manage to complete the democratic process to form the government, this would help to stop the great destruction happening in Iraq, which is jeopardizing the country's unity."
An arrest warrant on terrorism charges was issued in 2011 against Jabouri, who was serving on parliament's human rights committee at the time. He had confronted Maliki over abuses against prisoners in special jails in the fortified Green Zone of central Baghdad where parliament is also located.
The charges were dropped after the April election amid rumors that Jabouri would back Maliki to remain as prime minister. But Saleh Mutlaq, a prominent Sunni politician, said that kind of deal would be rejected by many of his fellow Sunni lawmakers.
"We have presented Salim al Jabouri and Maliki put a condition - in order to approve Jabouri as speaker, he himself should be approved as prime minister," he said. "This is something we don't accept."
Iraq's political elite are under pressure from the United States, the United Nations and Iraq's own Shi'ite clerics to reach agreement so politicians can deal with the insurgency and prevent the country fragmenting on sectarian and ethnic lines.
The U.N. special envoy to Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, said the country could plunge into chaos if parliament failed to move forward on a government in Sunday's session. Violent deaths last month reached more than 2,400 -- a level comparable to the worst of the bloodshed seen during Iraq's 2005-2008 sectarian war.
Two hundred and thirty-three out of 328 deputies attended Sunday's short meeting, a significant improvement on the July 1 session, when only a third turned up.
With politics in Baghdad paralyzed, and Maliki continuing in a caretaker role, the fighting has raged on. Shelling and helicopter fire killed eight people and wounded 14 in the city of Falluja, west of Baghdad, a hospital spokesman said.
Militants from the al Qaeda offshoot now known as the Islamic State seized swathes of Iraq's northern provinces in a two-day offensive last month and have consolidated their grip in western Iraq in places such as Falluja, which they overran in January.
The Sunni Islamist insurgents attacked the town of Dhuluiya, about 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, early on Sunday, seizing local government buildings, police and witnesses said.
They said militants in 50 to 60 vehicles stormed the town at 3.30 a.m. (8.30 p.m. EDT), taking the mayor's office and municipal council building and trying to capture the police station. Police and local tribes were fighting them, the sources said, and four police, two militants and two civilians were killed.
Maliki's military spokesman said the army had retaken the towns of Sadur, Nawfal and parts of Muqdadiya after days of fighting in the area, northeast of Baghdad.
He was speaking a day after government forces launched an assault to repel Islamic State militants from a military base on the edge of Muqdadiya, which the rebels had attacked with artillery, mortars and captured tanks and Humvees.
In the predominantly Sunni town of Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, a roadside bomb exploded on Sunday afternoon outside the home of a police major general, killing four members of his family, local police said.
(Additional reporting by Raheem Salman in Baghdad; Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)


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"Yes, I was very close to signing Aaron when I was at Everton" claims David Moyes
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Moyes had a bid accepted by Cardiff and thought he had got his man, only to lose him to Arsenal.
And Ramsey is set to line up for the Gunners against Moyes' new team at Old Trafford on Sunday, having been in superb form so far this season.
"He has played really well," said Moyes."He now sees himself as one of their really important players and has not let them down with the goals he has scored.
"Yes, I was very close to signing Aaron when I was at Everton. I had him and his family in my house but Arsenal beat me to it."
United decided not to pursue Ozil
Mesut Ozil is also likely to be in the Arsenal side on Sunday, having made a successful switch from Real Madrid, and Moyes said United could also have been in the mix for the German's services but decided not to get involved.
"We weren't close to buying him but something was mooted," said the United boss.
"We had Shinji Kagawa and Wayne (Rooney) and people of a similar ilk, so it wasn't quite what we required at the time. We were looking at different positions."
Moyes did buy Marouane Fellaini from his former club Everton for £27.5m but the midfielder has yet to score for his new team and was sent off during the midweek draw at Real Sociedad.
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However, Moyes says he has been forced to use the Belgian more than he was planning to and that the slow start is understandable.
"We had to put him in earlier than we thought," Moyes explained.
"He was a little bit behind and my plan was to put him in much slower and give him a chance to settle in, but we had to put him in and he wasn't quite ready.
"I actually thought he played well in Sociedad. We could have taken him off after the first booking."
Moyes also believes the Italian referee Nicola Rizzoli that sent Fellaini off should be the one under the microscope if Ashley Young dived to win a penalty in Spain on Wednesday.
Young has been castigated for his behaviour in the Champions League encounter with Sociedad, when he went down under minimal contact from Markel Bergara.
Although top Italian referee Nicola Rizzoli was right on top of the incident and elected to show a yellow card to Bergara, other observers have been less impressed.
Ray Wilkins, said the antics had been "pathetic", whilst Dietmar Hamann labelled the winger "worse than Luis Suarez".
A long-time opponent of diving, Moyes has previously called for retrospective action to be taken against culprits and censured Young earlier this season when he was booked for simulation against Crystal Palace.
On this occasion though, he has taken a different stance.
"If you didn't think it was a penalty, you should say the referee got it wrong not the player," said Moyes.
"He refereed the Champions League final so you are expecting him to be as qualified as anybody. He was two yards away."
Instead, Moyes believes Young is being attacked on reputation.
"I do think a little bit of that," he said. "The referee was two yards away from it and gave a penalty. If you need to talk to anybody, you should ask the referee.
"I didn't see an issue at all."
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Galapagos National Park Dive Permit Impacts
Posted 11 July 2007 - 09:57 AM
Park suspended ALL dive operations in Galapagos....The only yachts which apparently are not effected by this
decision Ë at least not immediately Ë are the Sky Dancer and the
I just got another email from Ken, saying, "Things are occurring at the speed of light. My head is spinning. I
just got a call from Ecuador. The owners of the all the yachts have
collectively hired a heavy hitting attorney who supposedly is going to
be filing an emergency appeal with the supreme court of Ecuador later
today. The local Galapagos politicians are now involved with this issue
and they have requested an emergency meeting with the President of
Ecuador for the yacht owners. If approved, all the yacht owners may be
flying to Quito to meet with the president this afternoon.
I donât want to get your hopes up but your trip might actually still be
salvaged. I will let you know as soon as I know so sit tight.
I haven't been able to find any info on this. The Explorer Ventures people, who also have a boat there, hadn't heard anything about it.
Has anyone else heard anything about this?
Posted 11 July 2007 - 10:20 AM
Posted 11 July 2007 - 01:08 PM
reply, they are not online right now so they might be in the middle of this
situation, or it might be a storm in a teacup.
i'll make a post as soon as i know.
Posted 11 July 2007 - 04:51 PM
Posted 11 July 2007 - 05:10 PM
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 08:33 AM
I was on the Sky Dancer a couple of weeks ago and our guide was telling us how there were actually only 3 boats permitted for diving in Galapagos, the Sky Dancer and the two Aggressor boats. All the other boats were operating on a different permit intended for land excursions and snorkeling. He had heard that the park service was going to start cracking down on these other "Dive" charters and had already informed them to stop selling trips and that once they completed trips that had been sold as of some date that they must make other arrangements with the park service. Our guide thought that this permit enforcement would not begin until 2008.
I just got word from Ken that my Galapagos trip is now officially canceled.
I think that could possibly have been the problem.
Now I have to scramble to find the best, last-minute liveaboard solution somewhere...that's a good deal. I have the 14th-29th of July off from work and can't change that because of scheduling problems. Any suggestions on a good, last-minute liveaboard? Any and all suggestions appreciated.
Posted 12 July 2007 - 08:48 AM
the information by jdaley is largely correct, but please don't view the others as in any way 'cowboy' illegal operations. some of the affected are exteremely reputable companies, and have been hit hard by this
galapagos national park 'about turn'.
considering seashepherd just busted a large haul of fins in ecuador, and found a number of slaughtered
giant tortoises, you'd think GNP would have better things to be worrying about.
maybe, just maybe, all this is conenected to the recent restatus of the galapagos to world heritage site in danger.
Posted 12 July 2007 - 09:10 AM
I would think that the GNP would welcome and ecourage ecotourism rather these heavy handed tactics. The people that live and work in Galapagos will survive by either promoting the environment or exploiting it. If the crews on these affected boats cannot make a living catering to tourists they can easily make a living on fishing, finning or poaching boat.
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 10:27 AM
Posted 12 July 2007 - 11:21 AM
When you put all this in the perspective of Ecuadorian politics, where presidents come and go faster than the dancers at a strip joint, one can see that the GNP, is obviously easily manipulated, and directed according to the prevailing political wind.
Edited by loftus, 12 July 2007 - 11:23 AM.
Posted 12 July 2007 - 01:08 PM
don't get their own way. it's not too difficult to look on the web and find plenty of accounts the time various GNP officials were ousted when fishermen rioted there over sea cucumber quotas.
maybe we should start a wetpixel petition? maybe the mods could move this thread to a more prominent place on the forum? i feel very angry.
Posted 12 July 2007 - 02:50 PM
Apparently the Galapagos National Park has banned all liveaboards except the Aggressor and Peter Hughes. Scuttlebutt is Agg and PH are the only two ops that have proper dive licenses/permits. All of the others were operating without permits and have been banned.
See below for email that was sent out.....
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:08:08 -0400
From: Galapagos Adventures <email@example.com>
To: Galapagos Adventures <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Your Galapagos dive trip may get canceled
The majority of the dive trips in Galapagos have been cancelled by the
Galapagos National Park.
I have some very unfortunate news. On Tuesday, July 10, 2007 the
Galapagos National Park suspended ALL dive operations in Galapagos.
This decision took effect immediately and is going to effect countless
divers worldwide who are booked on numerous yachts including some people
who are already in Ecuador. There are no less than 14 yachts which on a
regular basis operate dive trips and all but 3 will be effected by this
decision. The only yachts which apparently are not effected by this
decision â at least not immediately â are the Sky Dancer and the
All the other yachts were told that if they are caught operating dive
trips, their permit to operate in Galapagos will be revoked. Apparently
the GNP is now monitoring the islands of Darwin and Wolf with an
aircraft. It certainly makes me wonder why these same resources are
not used to monitor and catch illegal fishing boats but apparently the
GNP director has priorities that are different than mine.
No one is quite sure the motive behind this insane decision. One thing
that is certain is the director of the National Park either does not
understand or does not care about the economic effect this is going to
have on the local community or to Ecuador as a whole. They stand to
lose hundreds of thousands of dollars a week in lost revenue and
countless Ecuadorian people will be unemployed as a result of this
action. The Galapagos dive industry will to be set back years, if not
The owners of the Deep Blue traveled to the GNP headquarters on the
afternoon of July 10, 2007 to plead their case with the director in
hopes of savaging the dive tours that are booked on their yacht but
their pleads fell on deaf ears. Every possible compromise that they
suggested was vetoed without discussion. They called me right after the
meeting and told me what happened and informed me that there was going
to be another meeting of all the owners of all the yachts that are
affected by this decision to discuss bringing litigation against the
GNP. However, as I am sure you are aware, litigation, even if
successful, will take months.
They informed me that they have no choice but to cancel all the dive
charters until further notice. The conversation ended when the managing
partner / co-owner of the yacht said â âI have to go now Ken. I am
feeling very sick.â
Many divers worldwide are getting the same news that you are as the tour
operators that have dive charters on the various yachts begin to cancel
their charters. I know this for a fact as my phone has been ringing off
the hook and my email box is full with divers worldwide seeking
information and/or looking to replace their cancelled tours.
Unfortunately under the current situation, there is no way to replace
any tour because all of the yachts are in the exact same situation..
On Wednesday, July 11, 2007, I was told that the yacht owners had banned
together and had collectively hired an attorney to filing an emergency
appeal with the supreme court of Ecuador. The local Galapagos
politicians are now involved with this issue and they have requested an
emergency meeting with the President of Ecuador for the yacht owners.
Unfortunately President Correa is currently in Europe. No one knows
where this is going to lead but at this point in time, there is a fairly
good chance that all the dive trips on the Deep Blue and most other
yachts in Galapagos will be cancelled. I will let you know as soon as
I know more.
I apologize for this serious inconvenience but I sure you understand
that neither I nor anyone else can control the actions of a bureaucrat
in Ecuador.
I know that this is disappointing news but please keep things in
prospective. Many people in Ecuador are going to lose their livelihoods
over this decision and by the time all the refund are made, numerous
companies including Galapagos Adventures could possibly be out of
All the above information is being sent to all divers and tour operators
who have trips booked with me. The information below is specific to
your trip. Iâm sure that you may want to call me to discuss this but
please understand that everything that I know about this situation is in
this letter. I have no additional information at this time. As you
can only imagine, I have countless hours of work ahead of me to try to
do my best to clean up as much of this mess as I possibly can.
Therefore please give me a couple of days to work on things before you
Thank you for your understanding.
Ken Weemhoff
Galapagos Adventures
August 6 - 13, August 13 â 20 and August 20 â 30 Groups
I had no choice but to cancel the July 16 â 26 trip and notify all the
clients. This trip will be the first trip that the Deep Blue has been
forced to cancel. Many other yachts are also forced to cancel their
charters for next week. Therefore as of today, no one in Ecuador has
actually felt the economic impact of this crazy decision. Next week
that will change. I can only hope that being unemployed will motivate
some of the common people in Galapagos to protest against the GNP in
Puerto Ayora. The lawyers should also be heavily involved by then so
it is possible but not probable that the prospect of having to deal with
lawsuits and protests will motivate the GNP director to reconsider her
As you can probably imagine, this whole thing is creating a very
explosive situation in Ecuador. I expect very soon the international
press will get word of this and then the pressure will really begin heat
up on the Ecuadorian politicians. It is my personal belief that the
director of the national park will probably lose her job over this
decision but only time will tell. In my option, the sooner this happens
the better.
Unfortunately there is not much time before your trip and therefore is a
strong possibility your trip will be cancelled. Here is what I
1. Be aware of the situation but donât panic. This situation is very
new and the effects of it have not been felt in Ecuador yet. Letâs give
things a little time to see where they go. I would like to wait for at
least two weeks (until July 27) before canceling your trip.
2. In the meantime, I would like everyone on these trips to consider
whether or not they would be interested in doing a naturalist trip in
Galapagos instead. I understand that you really want to dive in
Galapagos and that is what you signed up to do but if that is not
possible, the land stuff is also fantastic. The GNP is only targeting
dive trips at this point in time so converting your trip to a naturalist
trip should not be a problem. If enough people are interested in doing
this so we can cover the cost of operating the yacht, Iâm pretty sure
the owners of the yacht would agree to it. At least this way your
vacation would not be a complete washout. Very shortly I am going to
ask each of you if you would be interested in doing this. That way I
have an idea how many people are interested in a plan âBâ.
3. I have prepaid for all of your services in Ecuador. If the trip is
canceled, I will cancel all your arrangements and I will work on getting
refunds from all the suppliers. I will refund all the money you sent me
for the trip after the money is recovered.
4. I have requested the email address of the Minister or Tourism for
Ecuador but so far no one has been able to supply me with this
information. If and when I get this information, I will pass it on to
you so you can email her a complaint.
Posted 12 July 2007 - 03:43 PM
I've merged all these topics together and moved them to the Destinations section.
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Posted 12 July 2007 - 07:52 PM
I have a contact in Galapagos who has a good understanding of the current situation. The following is a synopsis of what I learned from him today.
The GNPS is beginning to enforce tourism regulations in the Galapagos as there are numerous tourism operators who only possess land tourism permits, but also carry out dive tourism as well. Tour operators benefited from the ambiguity and lack of enforcement over the years and offered services they were not permitted to. Now many tour operators have been stopped from offering this option.
GNPS is elaborating a new dive tourism permit process and hopes to define the framework within the next 6 months. Next year GNPS will begin a competitive process and issue new permits to operators who meet the criteria.
Currently only 3 live aboad operators legally operate diving operations in the Galapagos: 2 of Herbert Frei`s boats (Aggressor) and 1 of Santiago Dunn (Ecoventura). In addition, several dive shops, such as Scuba Iguana and SubAqua, also have permission.
Regarding how soon permits be available to yachts that have been providing live aboard dive trips for years in Galapagos, it is difficult to answer. GNPS has not addressed this issue for over 5 years because of politicalization of the institution. Since the Park has now begun enforcing the law, it is because they will soon work out the regulations and permit process. It is not likely that this will be resolved before the end of the year..
The GNPS is now regaining its credibilty and believe that both fishing and tourism regulations will be enforced equally. The Park faced much criticism from the fishing sector as they were constantly singled out for regulation violations while tourism operators did not respect Park laws either. The current Park Director is making it her priority to enforce all laws equally. She has inherited many problems that have been accumulating over the years and trying to be objective in a system where people have traditionally received what they want through bribes or collective pressure.
Please note: none of this information reflects any opinion or first hand knowledge on my behalf regarding the situation in Galapagos. This is only what has been related to me.
Posted 13 July 2007 - 02:47 AM
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Posted 13 July 2007 - 04:48 AM
good post. lets hope that her true intentions are the betterment of the running of the park. it is true that such a hard stance of regulations is exactly what is required, and maybe the recent arrival of correa
as president has enabled such transitions in ecuador to begin to take place. however, i heard this week
that correa has tried to bribe 18 mp's to try to gain control over the interest rate (media source) . so equally we may just be facing more of the same old same old.
support for fishermen in the galapagos is exteremely deep running, and obscured by corruption. let's hope that this may be and end to that too.
only time will tell. what is hurting the galapagos right now is this stupid way of managing the interim period of change. that needs to be addressed. if this is to take well into next year, which it probably will, then some short term solution needs to be arrived at, otherwise the damage will be far more than a few pockets.
a close friend of mine is involved in the drawing up of the diving law with the ministry of tourism, and that had been going on since late last year so we can only sit and wait i guess.
Posted 13 July 2007 - 07:12 AM
Posted 13 July 2007 - 02:50 PM
very useful posts to me. Unfortunatly I have my first trip to Galápagos booked for 20th to 28th October 2007. My travel Agency has not confirm any cancelation. The boat is the catamaran NEMO II.
I'll be waiting
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Posted 15 July 2007 - 05:22 PM
If you are having trouble with your bookings to Galapagos, surely there will be aggressor openings as I know we have some on our boats for Sept...
Two years ago at Dema --- I almost booked with Deep Blue -- Because the company was new, I chose the Aggressor -- I can not imagine what you all are going through --- For us we have had the Aggressor trip booked for 2 1/2 years!! It is a long time to wait for the trip we have all dreamed of... I can only imagine how devasted divers are going to be but also tour wholesalers and the owners of the live aboards!
Edited by scubafriends, 16 July 2007 - 06:07 AM.
Posted 15 July 2007 - 05:29 PM
Please keep all trip solicitations and announcements in the Commercial Trips forum. That's Wetpixel policy.
This thread is for the discussion of the current permitting situation. If you wouldn't mind editing your post to remove the solicitation that would be great.
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Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, and François Truffaut call for a halt to the 1968 Cannes Film Festival due to the ongoing nationwide strike in France.
Gilles Jacob:
Why did you stop the Cannes Festival?
François Truffaut:
Because it was the logical thing to do. France was closing down, therefore Cannes had to close down. While I was driving to Cannes on May 17 to take part in a press conference about the Cinémathèque affair, I was listening to the radio and every half-hour came reports of more factories being occupied. I wasn't sorry to see France paralyzed, the government was in disarray. Next day, when I asked for the Festival to be stopped, I wasn't thinking particularly of a gesture of solidarity with the workers—I'd have been more likely to feel solidarity with the four students who were sentenced to jail after a hasty session in a Sunday court. I wasn't really thinking of challenging or reforming the Festival, of doing away with evening dress or making it more cultural. No, I just felt that in its own interest the Festival should stop of its own accord rather than be halted a few days later by the force of events. I didn't see it as a military coup, I simply wanted an unambiguous situation. In fact, this is how it happened.
During the night I was told of the creation of the Etats Généraux du Cinéma and their decision to stop the Festival, and I talked to a few people about it. We had no idea how difficult it is to stop this kind of big business event. We just adopted the tactics that had worked for the Cinémathèque: producers who had films in competition would withdraw them, jury members would resign. We made a mistake in not giving more information about the situation in France to people who for a week had been reading nothing but the Festival daily. (You feel differently according to whether or not you've been listening to the news.) This was especially true of foreign journalists and delegates, who naturally had qualms about joining in an anti-government movement…
Anyway, we had to get the Festival stopped and we did. It could maybe have been managed more elegantly, but in circumstances like this you're inclined to check your manners with your hat—and someone probably throws away the cloakroom key. I know that a lot of people will hold our attitude at Cannes against us for a long time to come, but I also know that a few days later, when there were no more planes and no more trains, when the telephones weren't working and we'd run out of petrol and cigarettes, the Festival would have looked utterly ridiculous if it had tried to carry on.
Sight and Sound, Autumn 1968.


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This page is about the slang term arsehole | asshole
a selfish, unpleasant, obnoxious person
For example
- You shouldn't talk to Jack today. He's being an arsehole for some reason.
- Tony used to be a nice guy, but since he got promoted he's turned into an asshole. He thinks he's better than the rest of us now.
1. "arsehole" is the spelling used more in British and Australian English, while "asshole" is used more in American English 2. also used as a slang term for the anus
Warning! This is very bad language. If you are a non-native speaker, you are advised not to use it. (You could cause resentment or anger if you use it inappropriately.)
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Colombia's government and main rebel group announced an agreement to jointly combat illicit drugs in the South American country, which was long the world's leading cocaine producer.
Under the accord, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, agreed to divorce itself completely from the drug trade.
DEA and Colombian authorities have said that some FARC fronts are involved in the production and sales of drugs to Mexican and Colombian traffickers and through Venezuelan intermediaries. In the past, the FARC had denied any involvement in trafficking, claiming it only taxes producers. Peru recently overtook Colombia in cultivation of coca, the crop used to produce cocaine.
"What we have agreed upon recognizes that in order to set the bases for a stable and lasting peace in Colombia it is necessary to find a definitive solution to the problem of illicit drugs," said statement from the talks read at a news conference in Havana.
It was the latest agreement reached during months of talks in the Cuban capital. The two sides earlier reached accords on agrarian reform and the political participation for the FARC, but none of them will take effect until all items on the agenda for negotiations are settled. The FARC is the Western Hemisphere's last remaining major leftist insurgency, having taken up arms a half century ago.
The announcement comes a little more than a week before elections in Colombia, involving incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos, who launched the peace talks, and his main challenger, Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, who opposes them. Zuluaga, a protege of former President Alvaro Uribe, argues that the FARC needs to end hostilities for talks to continue and should not be permitted into national politics.
Earlier in the day, the FARC and Colombia's other main rebel group, the National Liberation Army, issued an unusual joint statement declaring a halt in fighting for eight days, from May 20-28, around Colombia's May 25 presidential election.
Rebels have tried to disrupt past presidential elections and often dismiss Colombia's electoral politics as a sport dominated by the country's elites, so the cease-fire appears to be a vote of confidence in the Havana-based peace talks launched in November 2012 by Santos. The FARC also declared a cease-fire during March legislative elections.
Santos, who is seeking re-election, has been under attack from his main rivals for breaking with the policy of Uribe, whose relentless, U.S.-backed military pressure had seriously weakened the guerrilla forces.
Conservative Party candidate Marta Lucia Ramirez said the rebel announcement "is a cease-fire in which the FARC joins the presidential campaign" of Santos.
Zuluaga, running second behind Santos in most polls, said that "the halt to criminal actions should be indefinite and verifiable."
But the action was welcomed by pro-Santos Sen. Roy Barreras, who said it "is a clear message Colombians that peace is close and is possible."
The rebels have declared temporary cease-fires in the past, though they have not been fully honored. The government itself has refused to grant cease-fires to the rebels during the talks.
Both of Colombia's rebel groups formed in the 1960s as an outgrowth of rural movements that sought a more equitable distribution of land.
The FARC is the hemisphere's largest active guerrilla army, with about 8,000 members still in arms. The National Liberation Army, which has about 2,000 fighters, is not taking part in the Havana talks, though it has expressed a desire for negotiations with the government.
Meanwhile, four presumed members of the FARC died in an explosion, apparently while mishandling explosives, according to Patricia Velez, mayor of the town of Planadas, where the blast occurred. She said the dead included three adults and one minor.


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Barack Obama and his fans (fangirls, in particular) are becoming almost impossible to parody. The reality is sillier than any fiction a humorist can come up with. Thus, this Michael Ramirez cartoon, published last month, eerily anticipated the "sex" ad that the Obama campaign launched last week. Only I think the girl in the ad is a little bit creepier:
I do think, however, that Ramirez is a little pessimistic. He captions his cartoon, "What America has become." I think it is actually only what 47% of America has become.


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What Is a Liberal Education?
Liberal Education is an approach to learning that empowers individuals and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity, and change. It provides students with broad knowledge of the wider world (e.g. science, culture, and society) as well as in-depth study in a specific area of interest. A liberal education helps students develop a sense of social responsibility, as well as strong and transferable intellectual and practical skills such as communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, and a demonstrated ability to apply knowledge and skills in real-world settings.
The broad goals of liberal education have been enduring even as the courses and requirements that comprise a liberal education have changed over the years. Today, a liberal education usually includes a general education curriculum that provides broad learning in multiple disciplines and ways of knowing, along with more in-depth study in a major.
To learn how liberal education is adapting to 21st century needs, read about The LEAP Challenge and engaging all college students in signature work on significant questions and problems important to them and to society.
Essential Learning Outcomes
Through LEAP, AAC&U has defined a robust set of "Essential Learning Outcomes" that students develop through a 21st century liberal education. Beginning in school, and continuing at successively higher levels across their college studies, students can prepare for both responsible citizenship and a global economy by achieving the essential learning outcomes.
- See the "economic case" for liberal education and the Essential Learning Outcomes.
- See the "civic case" for liberal education and the Essential Learning Outcomes.
Often-Confused Terms
Liberal Education: An approach to college learning that empowers individuals and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity, and change. This approach emphasizes broad knowledge of the wider world (e.g., science, culture, and society) as well as in-depth achievement in a specific field of interest. It helps students develop a sense of social responsibility; strong intellectual and practical skills that span all major fields of study, such as communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills; and the demonstrated ability to apply knowledge and skills in real-world settings.1
Liberal Arts: Specific disciplines (i.e., the humanities, sciences, and social sciences).
Liberal Arts College: A particular type of institution—often small, often residential—that facilitates close interaction between faculty and students, and whose curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts disciplines.
Artes Liberales: The historical basis for the modern liberal arts, consisting of the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music).
General Education: That part of a liberal education curriculum that is shared by all students. It provides broad exposure to multiple disciplines and forms the basis for developing essential intellectual, civic, and practical capacities. General education can take many forms, and increasingly includes introductory, advanced, and integrative forms of learning.
The Changing Nature of Liberal Education
Liberal Education in the
Liberal Education in the Twenty-First Century
Adapted from College Learning for the New Global Century, Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2007, page 18, figure 5.
More on Liberal Education
In Historical Perspectives
"Those persons, whom nature has endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens; and . . . they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or other accidental condition or circumstance." --Thomas Jefferson, 1779
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Morrill Act to set up a system of public colleges throughout the United States. The purpose of these land-grant colleges was, in part, to "promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life" (emphasis added).
"We want one class of persons to have a liberal education and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privileges of a liberal education." --Woodrow Wilson, 1909
"Education is by far the biggest and the most hopeful of the Nation's enterprises. Long ago our people recognized that education for all is not only democracy's obligation but its necessity. Education is the foundation of democratic liberties. Without an educated citizenry alert to preserve and extend freedom, it would not long endure." -- Truman Commission on Higher Education, 1947 (see "Higher Education for Democracy" for more details).
"Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental." --W.E.B. DuBois, 1949
"When we ask about the relationship of a liberal education to citizenship, we are asking a question with a long history in the Western philosophical tradition. We are drawing on Socrates' concept of 'the examined life,' on Aristotle's notions of reflective citizenship, and above all on Greek and Roman Stoic notions of an education that is 'liberal' in that it liberates the mind from bondage of habit and custom, producing people who can function with sensitivity and alertness as citizens of the whole world." --Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education, 1998
In the Twenty-first Century
"Education serves democracy best when it prepares us for just the kinds of questions we face now: questions about a wider world, about our own values, and about difficult choices we must make both as human beings and citizens. . . . The approach to higher learning that best serves individuals, our globally engaged democracy and an innovating economy is liberal education." —AAC&U Board of Directors, 2002
"The only education that prepares us for change is a liberal education. In periods of change, narrow specialization condemns us to inflexibility--precisely what we do not need. We need the flexible intellectual tools to be problem solvers, to be able to continue learning over time." —David Kearns, Xerox, 2002
"This approach to liberal education--already visible on many campuses--erases the artificial distinctions between studies deemed liberal (interpreted to mean that they are not related to job training) and those called practical (which are assumed to be). A liberal education is a practical education because it develops just those capacities needed by every thinking adult: analytical skills, effective communication, practical intelligence, ethical judgment, and social responsibility."—Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College, AAC&U, 2002
"This division has not always existed. Both education and engineering have deep roots in our history as a nation. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, each in his own way, recognized that discovery and innovation are the twin pillars of a democratic society." —Joseph Bordogna, NSF, 2003
"It should not be liberal education for some and narrow or illiberal education for others....Access to educational excellence is the equity challenge of our time."— AAC&U Board of Directors, The Quality Imperative, 2010
"So what does business need from our educational system? One answer is that it needs more employees who excel in science and engineering and the remainder of a workforce that is exposed to enough science and mathematics to function in the rapidly evolving high-tech world.
But that is only the beginning: one cannot live by equations alone. The need is increasing for workers with greater foreign language skills and an expanded knowledge of economics, history and geography. And who wants a technology-driven economy when those who drive it are not grounded in such fields as ethics?" —Norman Augustine, former Chairman and CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, 2013
Statement on Liberal Education
Read the Statement on Liberal Education approved by the AAC&U board of directors (1998).
Other Publications on Liberal Education
The LEAP Vision for Learning (pdf)
College Learning for the New Global Century (LEAP Report)
Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College
According to a 2013 survey conducted by Hart Research Associates on behalf of AAC&U, 74 percent of employers would recommend this educational approach to college-bound students. After Hart Research "tested" the definition of liberal education in the employer surveys. The employer research found that 3 out of 4 employers would recommend this kind of learning to others—and for their own children. For a full report on the survey and its complete findings, see www.aacu.org/leap.


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The IndyCar Series will have a doubleheader — the Shell and Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston — this weekend, much to the chagrin of racing icon A.J. Foyt.
"You always like to run in your hometown. I wish I was still young and still driving, because before we came back here I was fortunate enough to win right here in my hometown," the 79-year-old American racing legend said. "But I'm not driving anymore."
Takuma Sato, who won the Long Beach Grand Prix earlier this year, drives for Foyt.
"I think he'll run good, and they'll have to beat him because he's very fast on street courses," Foyt said after last week's Fontana test session. "You know, if we don't get penalized on something, we'll be in good shape."
Still, Foyt wanted for years to compete in his hometown.
"I wish I wasn't so damn old that I could run myself. But time passes on. There comes a time when you have to quit," said Foyt, whose last race was in NASCAR in 1994 at the age of 59. "I felt like it was there the day I quit it at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. That was it.
"I crawled out and I haven't crawled back in one since. Even though we go testing, a lot of people say why don't you get in one, and that would be like an alcoholic. You take to hearing all that and have a beer or something like that, and then you're right back on it.
"I know I'm too old to even try, but I fight. But there is no way you could hog-tie me in one anymore."
Foyt appreciates life these days.
"Everybody said when I started I was never going to live to be 22, so I don't know if that's good or bad. I wasn't even supposed to be around this long," said Foyt, whose victories in Southern California were at Riverside International Raceway and Ontario Motor Speedway. "They showed me pictures of my earlier days up on two wheels and one wheel. That's when you didn't have all of the roll cages.
"I guess I'm lucky to still be here. It's been a good life. It's been a fun life. Life is very short. People don't realize if you cannot do what you want to do in life, you have a miserable life. So far I've been able to do what I want to do and had a lot of fun."
And unlike his early days on the track, Foyt is secure in his status.
"I've been able to feed my wife and the children," he said. "I'm no big, big, multi-, multi-millionaire, but at least I know where my next meal's coming from now.
"It's been a good life and I've had a lot of fun. So what else can you ask about life?"
IndyCar community
Less than 12 hours after leaving Auto Club Speedway following last week's IndyCar test in Fontana, the Ed Carpenter Racing tractor/trailer caught fire west of Flagstaff, Ariz., on its return trip to Indianapolis. But with hard work and the cooperation of the IndyCar Series community, Carpenter will be racing this weekend in Houston.
"It has been a tough week for the ECR/Fuzzy Vodka team, to say the least," Carpenter said. "The trailer fire in Arizona last Wednesday made everything a real scramble to get ready for the Houston race. But I'm so proud of this team and how they came together to get things cleaned up and prepared.
"We were able to obtain the trailer from Dreyer & Reinbold's team as well as some added equipment. But luckily, we were able to salvage a lot of things from the fire. It was a massive cleanup operation for the guys as well as they having to prepare the Houston race car.
"We want to thank everyone who offered their assistance during the week and Andretti Autosport for delivering the race car and some parts back to Indy for us."
The Andretti transporter stopped at the fire site and aided truck drivers Matt Giese and Jeff Hughes in pulling equipment from the fire. They also loaded the Fontana car and equipment onto the Andretti trailer headed to Indy.
Giese and Hughes were not injured and were back on the road Tuesday en route to Houston.
Team manager Tim Broyles said smoke damage was the toughest part of the cleanup.
"The car had soot everywhere, including under the car and inside it," he said. "We had to completely strip the car down to the bare bones and put the tub in the paint shop. Everything had to be scrubbed and cleaned, including the wiring. We were very fortunate that there wasn't any damage to the car."
Auto Club Speedway
Ever wonder how difficult it is for an IndyCar driver to head into turn three at speed at sunset during the MAVTV 500? Racing fans will get an opportunity to find out first-hand today during Lefty's Track Day.
For a $10 donation, fans can drive their cars two laps around the two-mile speedway. A ride on the official pace car costs $20.
What makes the event unique are the hours. The session will start at 4 p.m. and last four hours, allowing fans a chance to race into the sunset and/or under the lights. There also will be a sampling of Slater's 50/50 burgers (50 percent ground beef and 50 percent ground bacon).
A day after the MAVTV 500 concludes the IndyCar Series season, the North American Lamborghini Super Trofeo will compete Oct. 20-21 on the infield road course, also the season finale for the five-race series sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Association.
The series features the 570 hp, V10, permanent four-wheel drive Lamborghini Gallardo Super Trofeo with permanent four-wheel drive. It's the only one-make, all-wheel drive race series, as well as the fastest one-make series in the world.
Kevin Conway leads the points after the first three races, heading into the fourth round this week at Virginia International Raceway. All the North American winners will compete in the world "finals" in Italy against Super Trofeo winners from the European and Asian series.
A 50-minute race will be held Sunday and Monday. Tickets are $10, but free to those with either a MAVTV 500 stub or wristband.
Names in the news
Riverside sprint car driver David Cardey announced the 18th Budweiser Oval Nationals, scheduled for Oct. 31 to Nov. 2 at Perris Motor Speedway, will be his last in that type of car. "I am not quitting racing, I am just looking to head in a different direction," Cardey said. "I am just not mentally there to put my butt on the line every week anymore. Sprint car racing is dangerous." … Super Street driver Mike Blodgett Jr. of Long Beach won over the weekend at the Rocky Mountain Raceways' Night of Fire NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series in Utah. Ontario's Robert Naber was runner-up in Super Gas. … Izod has announced it no longer will sponsor the IndyCart Series after the Fontana race later this month. … Adam Arana (Pro Stock Motorcycle), Brittany Force (Top Fuel), Sidnei Frigo (Top Fuel), Chad Head (Funny Car), Leah Pruett (Top Fuel) and Billy Torrence (Top Fuel) are the candidates for the NHRA rookie of the year award.
Around SoCal
Irwindale Speedway will donate $2.50 of each admission Saturday night to the City of Hope to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The racing card will feature the final race between Upland's Ryan Partridge and Toni McCray of Highland for the Late Model championship. … Perris Auto Speedway will host Monster Truck action Saturday and Sunday as part of the annual Southern California Fair. The shows are at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. … Pirate Speedway on the National Orange Show grounds in San Bernardino will feature the Western States Championship program for support classes in addition to the Division One riders preparing for the WSC on Oct. 11.


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Community Engagement Grants Scheme (CEGS)
Applications for CEGS open 1 May 2019
The Community Engagement Grants Scheme provides funding to UOW staff for educational, research or outreach projects that partner with Community organisation and groups. Established in 2005, over $610,000 has been awarded to 73 projects.
CEGS projects:
- Have Impact: CEGS projects address key challenges in our communities and take action to create real and measurable outcomes.
- Build Capacity: CEGS projects are not one off events or top ups for ongoing projects. CEGS projects build the capacity of project areas toward ongoing and sustainable outcomes.
- Support the vision of UOW: To be a leader in ideas and solutions, a community of campuses and partners where discovery, learning and technology connect to transform people and the communities that we live in.
Above all, CEGS projects are innovative, starting small and dreaming big – they create new and sustainable approaches, connections and futures.
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General Motors Co. plans to move its fuel-cell research operation from Honeoye Falls to Pontiac, Mich., the company told employees Friday.
The majority of the 220 people who work at the hydrogen fuel-cell facility will be offered jobs in GM's global powertrain engineering headquarters in Michigan, GM spokeswoman Kimberly Carpenter said. Those that are not offered jobs within the fuel-cell arena will have an opportunity to explore other GM jobs.
"The decision has some significant business advantages for the company," Carpenter said. "One of the most pertinent reasons is that we'll really be able to capitalize on the synergies of having that technical expertise in one location."
Fuel-cell efforts move closer to the production stage
Additionally, the lease on the Honeoye Falls facility was set to expire in early 2013, so the company will save some money. Carpenter expects the move to be complete by the first quarter.
"Obviously it's disappointing news. It's as much as anything a reflection of the global and national economy," said Mark Peterson, Greater Rochester Enterprise Inc. president and CEO. "Major companies, global companies like General Motors, are having to make really tough decisions in this environment about how they can lower costs and consolidate operations."
While it is unfortunate to lose the Honeoye Falls facility, it makes sense in the current economic climate for GM to house all of its fuel-cell technology, research and development in one place, given that the majority of GM's operations are in Michigan, Peterson said.
"This is very unfortunate news for our region, the loss of more than 200 high-paying jobs in an industry that holds great promise for the future and has long been identified as a bright spot in our economy," said Sandra Parker, Rochester Business Alliance Inc. president, in a statement.
GM had a business decision to make in terms of consolidating operations to achieve efficiencies and be more productive, Parker said.
"The fact that they chose to do that in Michigan rather than in Honeoye Falls tells me that we have to be even more urgent in our efforts to make changes in New York State that will help us be economically competitive," she added.
Parker said lowering the cost of doing business in New York by reducing state spending, cutting taxes and rethinking some of the regulatory burdens on businesses would help in that regard.
"But we're not there yet, so we need to redouble those efforts and move even faster so that we can declare that New York is truly open for business," she said.
Peterson noted the move may have a silver lining for Rochester: Some 200 high-quality engineers may become available for other local companies to add to their payrolls, and may entice businesses to move to the region.
"Talent is a big reason why companies come here and now we have some available talent that is unique and highly motivated and highly skilled, so we'll be doing some things to help effectively market the location and the site itself that General Motors will be leaving, as well as some of the talent that might be available for a company coming in," he said.
GM fuel cells run on clean-burning, zero-emission hydrogen. Some 200 vehicles powered by GM's fuel cells have been on this area's roads for the past several years.
Carpenter said the move is not the end of the company's fuel-cell exploration.
"It's one of the technical solutions that we continue to develop," she said. "I really want to stress that GM as a company is really focused on various technology solutions to help our customers not only reduce their dependence on petroleum, but also have vehicles that meet their driving requirements."
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