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Reply #15 on:
August 11, 2005, 02:59:42 AM »
Is this going to be another one of those extremly long course's that are only enjoyed by those guys who can throw 400-500 foot? My wife and kids like to play disc golf, and sorry but I won't be taking them to Blue Valley Park for reasons that I won't state here.
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Reply #16 on:
August 11, 2005, 10:06:08 AM »
I keep reading these posts whining about how long KC's new courses are and how its just too much for my weeny arm and I'm going to have to walk to far and its really hot and there's no shade and........my advice to you is to get used to it, work on your distance and accuracy Disc Golf is evolving and experienced players are looking for more of a challenge then throwing an easy drive then putting out. At the very least new courses need to be designed with a combination of par 3, 4 and 5 holes just so its not obsolete as soon as its developed.
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Reply #17 on:
August 11, 2005, 11:19:11 AM »
This is okay to a point Dan. There should still be some newbie friendly courses around to get folks started. If I were just starting out in this sport I wouldn't want to play BV, Rosedale stretched out, etc.. all the time. There is always a need for a short, friendly, accessible course to get people interested and allow them to practice. We have the junior course at BV for that now but I feel that at least one of the major courses should be kept short in a rotation with the others that are set more difficult. If we want to expand the sport we need to make sure it is accessible and not too intimidating for new players.
I agree that new players need to get used to the idea of the sport evolving but they are, after all, just getting started. I also agree that the sport needs to evolve to continue to challenge players at all skill levels. But calling these players whiners and dismissing their concerns is not conducive to making them feel welcome in our community of disc golfers.
If we could come up with a schedule of what course(s) will be set short and then publish it on the marquees and website that would go a long way towards making new players feel welcome. I will bring this up at the next EC meeting. Up to now I haven't seen much of a pattern to when courses are changed. It seems to be at the whim of the course coordinator. and being a course coordinator myself that is how I approach it, right or wrong.
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Reply #18 on:
August 11, 2005, 11:24:06 AM »
Not this again.
I you want a pitch and putt, buy a couple of baskets and set them up in your back yard. Or better yet, get with the city and build a nice short course in a public park. That way I can bash it on the forum before it's even finished...
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Reply #19 on:
August 11, 2005, 11:39:38 AM »
I hate to compair disc golf to ball golf, but.......
Golf as the average person knows it has been around for centries and I'm sure they have figured out a few things. I mean how many times do you see a golfer pull out a 3 wood on thier second shot or third shot? Not many. On the average golf course thier is 2 or 3 holes that are made for the Tiger Woods, Vejay Sing, or Tom Daly. The average golfer who can hit the ball accuratly can still compete with them because every single hole isn't a mile long. Come on, how do you expect to accomindate the guy who has just picked up the game or better yet the guys who are getting up in thier years of age, and simply don't have the strength or stamina to throw a driver 400 foot each hole. So what your saying is that if you can't perform this well every time then go try bowling because we don't care about you. That a shame because I would think that you would want as many people playing this game as you can get, and you're not going to get them that way. Shanee Mission Park is a beautiful piece of land in an upper scale community that has a chance to draw people into this game that normally wouldn't have known about it because it isn't in Swope (which is a bad area) or Rosedale ( look at the pervious statement about Swope). I think you might want to re-think your thought process on this every hole is 800 foot. I suggest looking at ball golf as your example, after all they are no dummies and have been doing it a lot longer then the last 30 years. Yours truely Pope Perry
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Reply #20 on:
August 11, 2005, 11:54:32 AM »
So is disc golf about competetion all the freaking time or what? Isn't it something that families should be able to enjoy too? I would think so seeing how it's played in public parks. I have spent a considerable amount of time working on the Cliff Drive course and I know I won't even be able to walk it in 30 years let alone play it competively. It would be nice to see something go in the ground to look forward to playing when I'm old. So far that hasn't happened. Maybe never will with the way things are going. I think I'll just stick to Rosedale, at least there I feel like playing a second round. Maybe I'll check out Swope since it's going to be shorter for a moment in time.
Mike Penney
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Reply #21 on:
August 11, 2005, 01:07:46 PM »
Just a few points for clarification.....
With my seniority I believe that its my inalienable right to call out the whiners..... I'm sure that some of the people posting would love the original 18 holes that Tom Ingle put in at Swope which had several 150 -200 ft holes with the longest maybe 300-325 ft.....we played that with the old Moonlighters. When he redid it about 1983 and made the shortest holes about 250 -300 ft and the longest 350-400 ft I didn't much like it but as disc technology has evolved it has gotten a lot easier. Like I said in my earlier post Disc Golf technology is evolving if its not challenging when the course is initially installed then it will be obsolete immediately.
Competitve courses are not designed for children, handicapped, or inactive people...... you should be prepared to walk, it should be physically challenging. If you're playing with your family (which I do frequently) be prepared to make allowances ie play doubles or wolf versus singles, kids only throw drives and putts (even short courses are tough for kids under 10).
I don't want to discourage people from playing but at the same time I think players should have the attitude of looking forward to the challenge versus the course is too hard.
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Reply #22 on:
August 11, 2005, 01:16:36 PM »
A lot of what a course becomes is dictated by the land available. Some holes just beg to be longer while others provide a unique challenge at shorter lengths. I forsee Shawnee Mission being a nice balance of both. It will not be the length of Blue Valley or Wyco but will contain its own unique holes that will challenge newer and experienced players.
I'd like to see a wide variety of shot available on this course. There will be tight fairways, wide open shots, hyser/anyhyser holes, several uphill and down hill shots. Some cross hill shots. Flat shots, and some woods. All in one course. I am working to achieve a well balanced course that players of all skill levels can enjoy. A good course has the ability to adapt to long and short play. Swope and Rosie are great examples of this, and I anticipate Shawnee Mission will follow suit. Come out this Saturday at 10 and play!
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Reply #23 on:
August 11, 2005, 01:17:05 PM »
The problem of acommodating/challenging players of various levels on a single course has been around as long as golf, and so has the solution- multiple tee pads. With all the discussion on the subject no one seems to mention this rather obvious solution. Alternate pads do not need to be concrete(at first), but clearly marked and well planned. I have seen this method used on some world class courses (Warwick, NJ) and it can work.
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Reply #24 on:
August 11, 2005, 01:46:37 PM »
I'm gonna chime in on this topic. Personally, I don't care if a course is monster long, or a pitch and putt. I think what needs to happen when a new course is being designed is that the course par shoud be established early. When I play a course, I want to know what the designer thought the par should be, so I can play for par, or better. That's all we should want, a clear, obtainable, objective to strive for. If a course is designed to be a par 72, that's fine. There should be a balance of par 3s, 4s, and 5s. There should be some easy 3s and some hard 3s, and so forth. I do think the par for a course should be attainable by a player that is possibly not a top pro. I would think if a course has a par 72, then somebody like Laron, or Eric McCabe, with a +-1000 rating should, on a good day be able to beat par by 5 to 7 strokes. Likewise, on the same course, a strong am player on a good day should be able to play it par, or maybe 1 to 2 under.
That's just my opinion.
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Reply #25 on:
August 11, 2005, 04:53:31 PM »
The duel tees is a great idea and was discussed on a similar thread in the Blue Valley section.
Comparing disc golf to ball golf, you can see that ball golf does have par 3's, 4's, & 5's. Proffesional golfers are usually quite challenged to break par when playing from the pro tees.
Up until recently most all courses being designed had holes that were fairly wide open and averaging 275' in length. A professional disc golfer could regularly shoot 10-15 under par in one round, making these "par 2" courses. You can't really call a hole a par 2 because you have to ace it to get a birdie. You can see how it is hard to establish a par for every hole as there are a lot of "in-betweeners". What you can do is see what the world class par is for the course. Pro par for the course should be a little less than world class par and amateur par should be much lower. Pick a player rating for each and you can calculate what the pro / am pars should be.
By making courses longer and tougher to include difficult par 3's, and true par 4's and 5's, you are indeed making a more defined par for each hole and a style of course that more closely resembles the masterful game of golf.
This game is one of the easiest sports in the world to become competitive at. This is partly the nature of the game and partly because it's something that more people can physically achieve (we certainly can't all play professional football). People seem to pick it up quick. Why do we need to make an easy sport easier?
To use another comparison to ball golf... I've been playing ball golf for 15 years. I've always admired the game and have worked on improving my own, but, I've never broke 90 and often shoot over 100. I have many good shots, but I lack the consistency to shoot well. Does that mean that I don't enjoy playing? Does that mean that I wish all of the holes were 90 yards so that I'd have a chance? Not at all. This challenging game allows me to learn from the great players and to see the weaknesses that I can work on to become better.
Pitch and putt disc golf courses are everywhere. By making the courses longer, I think it makes them more fair, not less. If a hole is 550 feet with tricky routes to the pin, no-one is going to make 2. You play the hole smart and well to get a good 3 or decent 4. It is your strategy off the tee along with a good upshot that makes for good scoring, not just a bomb drive that can get you in trouble.
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Reply #26 on:
August 11, 2005, 05:08:21 PM »
No one is saying you have to play the S&M course, or Blue Valley, or Cliff Drive, or Rosedale...or any other course.
That's part of the the joy of having so many great courses in this city--there's something for everyone. I heartily agree with Kevin, though--some coordination needs to be made among the various CCs to have one or two courses essentially short at all times. ESSENTIALLY, not completely. Nothing wrong with Swope 13 long, or 14 or 15, Rosie 7, 8, 9, (I will draw the line on 17
if the other holes are medium or short. Variety is good, even for the beginner. But, we, as a club, need to be better about promoting the OTHER courses, besides Rosedale and Swope and WW, to get people playing them as well. Having some of those promoted as short at specific times would help in numerous ways.
The root of this whole problem is lack of public realization that the KCFDC is really behind all these courses. If it wasn't for the Club, the courses wouldn't be there at all, much less changed periodically. We've done a lot of work ('we" being The Club, including all who are paying members)
to establish, maintain, and improve the KC courses, and it's a shame that 75% of the people out there playing don't know about us.
This is getting into another thread...better taken onto Topica.
Ace? I'll take a freakin' BIRDIE!
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Reply #27 on:
August 12, 2005, 09:29:52 AM »
I like the topics here, but can we not criticize the parks as being "bad"? Personally "bad" is a relative term, be smart, and aware in any public environemnt, the malls are "bad" places in some location, but people still shop.
On distance, if you feel that 400-500' shots are too long, then you are not thinking about strategy within golf. Again I can not throw regularly 400', downhill off a cliff with a tailwind, maybe....... What this course in particular does, BV, is create more of a need to emulate golf, it becomes placement, upshots, and thinking after each shot. Quite a few of the fairways are designed to have risk rewards on each hole, it now makes my up game on the other courses better. It has improved that part of my game, because that is the part that I without a big arm must work on. It also improves your drives, because you can really throw the disc as far as you want on quite a few holes with no regard to distance, because, it aint going near the basket on my drive.
I tend to disagree with Penney in regards to Cliff Drive, 30 yrs from now we will be able to walk it, it will be better, and if people like Mike continue to help with the evolution of the area it will be better. It takes all the people the get the courses playable, if you want to help, PLEASE HELP. Too many people are club members, which is great, but don't do things to help out at their local course. Kevin is right on with a rotation component, I like that idea a lot, we alternate courses on a regular basis might be a solid idea, posting here would be ok, but having an idea on each marquee where the courses should be set would be easier to read whilst at the course.
We have many courses in town, we have many types of players, we will never be able to make all players happy, but we need to ensure that all players enjoy the game, and try to get new people involved with the club. It starts with you, if you are a member and you want something done, please step up and ask to help, or start doing something and ask how to get help. We would all like to see more participation from everyone in our sport. The same migs week in and week out doing the work get old, get stagnant, and lead to less change and better improvements.
Please contact anyone on the board on how to better serve the disc golf community, we crave your attention, in fact we are starved for it.
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Reply #28 on:
August 12, 2005, 09:40:22 AM »
"My wife and kids like to play disc golf, and sorry but I won't be taking them to Blue Valley Park for reasons that I won't state here."
Why not? There is a beautiful brand new kids playground there that the Dante Hall Foundation and neighborhood association put in last year, disc golfers helped with that. There is the SMALLEST course in town with the Jr. 9 on the land, it is one of the best places for views in the city.
You are only helping the bad environment by refusal to go there. We are part of the solution, and that comment means that you don't care about the parks to me. We have to make this a priority in the park, we must be present to foster change within the park. If everyone took that stance we would not be looking at the park.
Take a phone, and if you see anything you think is wrong, CALL THE POLICE! I call almost every time. One week for prostitution going on, one week for a drunk belligerent woman stealing discs, one week for dead animals, one week for wreckless driving. The thing is if we go the park and we make our presence known as people that do care, the police will then start to drive through the park on a regular basis and deter the bad element.
This is not like SM park where there are rangers to take care of the land, these parks are severly underfunded and part of the civic minded individual is take care of our land that is donated for use. It takes time, effort and energy. If you don't have these qualities, then you need to look inside yourself for what is important within your community. We make a difference by being ourselves, and conscience individuals, if you choose not to be a part of that, it is your choice, but you are simply letting otheres dictate your community to you instead of being an active individual in making things better for all people to use.
Just my thoughts, I don't want it to sound demeaning, but that stance has been taken by many. I am not trying to single you out, (Please dont think of this as an attack, but rather a stance that I have) but rather create an observation that we must not ignore these things in our community. Our community is the greater metroplex of KC. I work just as hard for JoCo and WyCo courses as I do for the KCMO courses, though I live in KCMO. We as people must make a difference, ignoring great parks as items of concern only allows that bad influence to continue.
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Reply #29 on:
August 14, 2005, 08:01:22 AM »
The Shanee Mission course was fun to play yeasterday even though it was my D- game that I brought with me. I see some real potential there. I think that Dirk has a good design going on. It might have a little too much walking in bewteen holes, but other then that I thought over all it was great. It was a cross between Wyco and Olathe. I'm curious to see how this course developes over the next few years. There are some woods there that I would like to explore for holes as well. Over all a good course. Too bad more of you didn't come out to see it. You really missed out on a good time and a fun lay out. It didn't even rain until well, we (Dirk, Dan Cashen, and myself) picked up the baskets.
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♂If PA occurs less ℴften than 2 p. / Week, it is recommended to take tablets immediately before coition at a dose ℴf 20 mg.
the permissible upper limit ℴf the daily dose ℴf Cialis 20 mg.
♂Instructions for the use ℴf Cialis according to ED / BPH or BPH
With these pathologies, the patient is prescribed a drug ℴf 1 r./day for one tablet at the same time (any, regardless ℴf the time ℴf ingestion and the time ℴf sexual activity).
♂The duration ℴf the course ℴf treatment Cialis 5 mg is determined individually.
♂When the kidneys are affected, when the clcr score is 31-80 ml / min, there is no need for correction ℴf the dose. Patients with severe renal lesions, in which clcr does not exceed 30 ml / min, daily use ℴf the drug is contraindicated.
Single administration ℴf up to 0.5 g ℴf tadalafilum by a healthy person and repeated application up to 100 mg / day. ♂Tadalafilum in patients with erectile dysfunction is accompanied by side effects similar to those that occur with the use ℴf a lower drug.
♂In case ℴf an overdose, standard symptomatic therapy is performed. Cialis is practically not excreted in hemodialysis.
Interaction ℴf other drugs on tadalafilum
♂Biotransformation ℴf Cialis is carried out with the participation ℴf the isoenzyme cYP3A, and therefore drugs inhibiting this isoenzyme increase the value ℴf cmax and AUc ℴf tadalafilum.
♂Despite the fact that specific studies were conducted only on the interaction ℴf tadalafilum with ketoconazole and ritonavir, it can be assumed that such drugs as Itraconazole and Erythromycin are also capable ℴf increasing the activity ℴf tadalafilum.
♂Rifampicin, which is an inducer ℴf cYP3A, reduces the exposure ℴf a single dose ℴf the drug and the value ℴf cmax. Most likely, the simultaneous use ℴf other drugs from the group ℴf cYP3A inducers should help reduce the plasma concentration ℴf tadalafilum.
♂The use ℴf Cialis in combination with antacids (hydroxide Al / Mg hydroxide) helps to reduce the rate ℴf absorption ℴf the active substance ℴf the drug without changing the AUc for tadalafilum.
✌Drugs that increase the index ℴf the acidity ℴf the stomach (pH), and, in particular, the H2-blocker nizatidine, do not affect the pharmacokinetic parameters ℴf tadalafilum.
✌A study ℴf the safety and efficacy ℴf Cialis combination with other methods ℴf treating erectile ✌dysfunction (including in combination with other PDE5 inhibitors) has not been carried out, and it is therefore recommended that such combinations be avoided.
Tadalafilum does not contribute to an increase in bleeding time caused by ASA.
✌Effect of tadalafilum on other drugs
Tadalafilum able to enhance the hypotensive effect ℴf nitrates, because ℴf what these drugs are not prescribed in combination.
✌The substance has no significant effect on the clearance ℴf drugs that are metabolized with the participation ℴf the cytochrome P450 system.
In the course ℴf the studies it was found that tadalafilum:
☞Does not suppress or induce isoenzymes cYP3A4, cYP1A2, cYP2c19, cYP2c9, cYP2t1 and cYP2D6;
☞Does not have a significant effect on the pharmacokinetics ℴf S- or R-warfarin, as well as on the effect ℴf warfarin on PtV (prothrombin time);
☞Does not increase the duration ℴf bleeding caused by ASA;
☞causing a systemic vasodilator effect, is able to intensify the hypotensive effect ℴf the funds intended for lowering blood pressure (in patients taking several antihypertensive drugs in poorly controlled hypertension, the blood pressure decreased more pronounced, and in most patients this phenomenon was not associated with hypotensive symptoms);
☞Does not have a significant effect on the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetic prℴfile ℴf teℴfillin.
✌The results ℴf two studies show that the use ℴf the drug in healthy men in combination with tamsulosin (α1A-adrenoblocker) does not cause a significant decrease in blood pressure.
✌The use ℴf a drug with α1-adrenoblocker Doxazosin (provided that the latter is taken at a dose ℴf 4 to 8 mg / day) was accompanied by augmentation ℴf the hypotensive effect ℴf doxazosin.
✌Individual patients experienced pressure-related symptoms, including fainting.
☑Storage conditions
☞three years.
☞tablets should be stored at temperatures below 30° c.
☑Special instructions
Sexual activity can be dangerous in a number ℴf pathologies ℴf the heart and blood vessels. In connection with this, men with diseases that require restriction ℴf sexual activity, treatment ℴf erectile dysfunction, including tadalafilum, is contraindicated.
☑There are reports ℴf cases ℴf priapism (long, unrelated to sexual arousal, involuntary erection) against treatment with PDE-5 inhibitors.
Patients should be informed ℴf the urgent need to see a doctor if the erection persists for four (or more) hours.
In the absence ℴf timely assistance, such conditions lead to irreversible impotence.
☑Like other inhibitors ℴf PDE-5, the drug causes systemic vasodilation, which can trigger a transient decrease in blood pressure. Before appointing tadalafilum, the physician should make sure that the patient with cardiac / vascular pathology does not undergo undesirable effects due to this effect.
☑Non-arterial AION is one ℴf the causes ℴf visual impairment (in some cases, before its complete loss). In the course ℴf postmarketing observations, reports were recorded ℴf rare cases ℴf development ℴf this pathology (cases were time-related with the use ℴf PDE-5 inhibitors).
☑Determine exactly whether there is a direct link between tadalafilum and NAION treatment, to date it is impossible.
☑In case ℴf sudden loss ℴf vision, tadalafilum should be discontinued and seek medical attention.
☑The patient should also be warned that the people who have undergone NAION have a high risk ℴf re-development ℴf optical neuropathy.
☑If a patient is suspected ℴf having BPH, he should undergo an additional examination to rule out prostate cancer.
☑Despite the fact that dizziness with the admission ℴf tadalafilum occurred with the same frequency as when taking placebo, during the treatment should be careful when driving and machinery.
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Now that BMW has released this suspension kit and it DOES NOT fit the Alpina, question is - why?
Is it because the Alpinas have sustained no damage or... may not be prone to it? Since both models use the same chassis, the culprit for the damage I suspect will be the run-flat tires as the Alpina version did not come with run flats. I have heard that run flat tires were a late in the design stage decision for the Z8 and more than likely, they did not really assess the stresses that would be transmitted by the run-flat tires (which I have also heard transmit approximately 5 times as much "shock" to the same shock tower). IF this turns out to be true, dumping of the run flats will and should be a necessary part of the upgrade, IMHO. Which then of course opens the question, should BMW pay for your non-run flat tires too?
Curious if there is a huge difference between those Z8 owners that have damage and those of us that switched to the non-run flats early on and do not have damage.
Also curious if Alpina is going to make their own version of a performance upgrade AND whether or not it will fit our Z8 and what it wil be made of.


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Just think, rule-based test filtering. ARQ-905
Users of Arquillian would really benefit from having an extensible test filtering mechanism, something that JUnit and TestNG just aren't giving them today.
This feature could be provided as an SPI (or observer hook) for deciding whether a test class (or even method) should be executed.
There are many reasons to filter which tests are run:
* See ARQ-287 Add support for filtering tests based on required execution environment
We can't think of all of them. That's why we should over an SPI to allow these possibilities to be explored.
Currently, test filtering (or selection) can be handled in a couple different ways:
While these options can handle many of the cases, they are still very limiting, esp since they are static declarations. Imagine long lists of test classes or brow-wrinkling include/exclude logic.
Let's give the developers the choice of how they want to implement filtering. We can then provide some nice options in the way of extensions. For instance, imagine a rule-based test filter extension. You can write rules in the Drools DSL to decide which tests to execute. This is very powerful for user story-based development and even contract deliverables.
The filter should be able to inject various parts of the Arquillian runtime, including:
The filter should be able to invoke an "ignore" or "skip" method to instruct Arquillian to skip running the test.
Also killer feature would be to automatically decide which tests should actually be run based on code changes - similar to JUnitMax / Inifitest (I like to call it reversed code coverage). Maybe we can resurrect SibillaTest


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It's impossible to cover each bit of new music that comes out during the week, so every Friday, we'll be doing an end of the week music roundup. It's called Final Track, and we'll count off a few songs released during the week that are worth giving a listen to. (Banner via)
This week, we've got selections from the Flaming Lips, Desaparecidos, James Blake, and more.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" by the Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are at the "why the f*ck not?" stage of their career. Their legacy and popularity is set in stone, so why NOT do a Super Bowl commercial? Remake of the Stone Roses first album? Cover "Bohemian Rhapsody" and record an extremely NSFW music video for it? That kind of weird commitment to doing whatever they want when they want takes balls, and they've got huge ones. (Sorry.)
"Underground Airplay" by Joey Bada$$ feat. Big K.R.I.T., and Smoke DZA
For more on "Underground Airplay," check out the Smoking Section.
"Retrograde" by James Blake
Dubstep for the lonely, from Blake's highly awaited second album, Overgrown.
"Paul's Not Home" by Gibby Haynes and Jack White
The medical X-ray makes a lot more sense, when you consider how many bones are going to broken to this song.
"Anonymous" by Desaparecidos
It's Desaparecidos, not Bright Eyes, that Conor Oberst ought to be known for; his political angst comes across a lot better when he's screaming with a punk band, not with an acoustic guitar. So it's very exciting that they released two new songs this week, including "Anonymous," an ode to the hacker organization, and are going on tour this winter, though, to be fair, if Oberst wants to dust off a number from Cassadaga, that'd be cool, too.
"Strangers" by Physic Twin
Erin Fein's voice echoes across "Strangers," racing in time with the layers of 1980s synth and drum beats, resulting in a vibe reminiscent of an actual psychic swinging his clock back and forth. (Or do they only do that on TV shows?)
Just a reminder that the Grammys are this weekend. Hopefully Kurt doesn't show up. That'd be confusing.


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Not one single kpop idol has come out as LGBT. We are all aware that not every single one of them can possibly be
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Hello Advocates! As you may know, we work closely with our friends at Americans for the Arts to promote healthy arts
It is important that we honour Ozzy Osbourne with a Knighthood for his significant contribution to the music industry.
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Los niños y niñas del sur de Quito necesitan tener un espacio de formación musical mas cerca de ellos.
Spread Art Education. Promote Collaboration. Inspire Creativity. Exposure to the arts is fundamental to a child's
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US ambassador to host Alumni Club of Israel
Prominent alums Forsan Hussein '00 and Galia Golan-Gild '60 also will speak
More than 200 Brandeis alumni, parents and friends will gather this week to celebrate a unique connection between Israel and Brandeis when U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro '91 and his wife, Julie Fisher '90, host a reception on Wednesday, Nov. 21.
Due to overwhelming interest from the Brandeis community in Israel, organizers moved the Alumni Club of Israel's event to a large tent outside the ambassador's residence in Herzliya. Original plans called for it to be held inside. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with a formal receiving line featuring Brandeis President Fred Lawrence; his wife, Kathy; Shapiro and Fisher.
"We are looking forward to welcoming President Lawrence back to Israel, and honored that Ambassador Shapiro and his wife are serving as our hosts for the evening," says Glen Shear '81, president of the Alumni Club of Israel. "We expect this event will serve as a kickoff for a series of exciting club programs for our more than 400 Brandeis alumni in Israel."
Shapiro will welcome attendees and reflect on the professional journey that brought him from Brandeis student to one of the world's key diplomatic posts. Lawrence will share news from campus and provide details about growing connections between Brandeis and Israel.
Other speakers include Forsan Hussein '00, CEO of the Jerusalem YMCA, and Galia Golan-Gild '60, a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and academic director of the government program at the institution's Raphael Recanati International School.
Shapiro moved to Israel as U.S. ambassador in July 2011 after serving as senior director for the Middle East and North Africa at the National Security Council in Washington. He previously was a senior adviser to President Barack Obama on Middle East policy.
Lawrence has visited Israel twice since becoming Brandeis president in January 2011. During those visits, he has participated in meetings with leaders of the country's major research universities, spoken at conferences, spent time at Israeli high schools, and met with alumni at events in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Before the Lawrences traveled to Israel for this event, they stopped in London to help the Alumni Club of Great Britain celebrate the Nov. 18 25th anniversary of its signature event, the Alumni-Student Thanksgiving Day Tea.
Coordinated by club president Joan Givner Bovarnick, Ph.D. '69, and hosted by Alberta Gotthardt Strage '56 and her husband, Henry, the Thanksgiving Day Tea drew a big crowd of Brandeis alumni, students and friends who live in the London area.
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The Prophet ordered us to follow the Congregation of Muslims when he said: "You have to follow the congregation for verily Allah will not make the largest group of Muhammad's community agree on error" (`alaykum bi al-jama`a fa inna Allaha la yajma`u ummata Muhammadin `ala dalala).1 Who are better examples and representatives of the congregation of Muslims than the great scholars and imams whom we have mentioned and from whom we have quoted extensively?
Yet we find those who call themselves "Salafi" stepping forward and claiming to be better representatives, as if their usurpation of the name of the pious Salaf acquaints them better of the reality of the Salaf than the true scholars and Imams of this Community. Their motto is: "Everyone who came before us was wrong and we are right," and does this come from other than their arrogance? We advise every true Muslim not be cheated of their religion by such false teachers. Rather, read more, investigate more, and study more in order to know the truth, with Allah's help, concerning sound doctrine and the ways of self-purification and tasawwuf in Islam. It is entirely unbefitting of Muslims to be like parrots, repeating some phrases and condemning other phrases on the assumption that they know better than everyone else, because, they claim, "We are Salafi." Muslims know their scholars from the Salaf and Khalaf and they will not be fooled by a label flaunted by a vocal minority. We leave this minority of so-called "Salafis" to their false pedagogy of anthropomorphism, of questioning and condemning the scholars of Muslims, of attacking the Imams of high moral standards and true religion. We prefer to rally to the rope of unity, which is the rope of the elite of this Community among both the Salaf and the Khalaf who form not two, but one saved group.
We conclude this first part of our Repudiation of "Salafi" Innovations concerning Islamic Beliefs and Doctrine According to Ahl al-Sunna, by glorifying Allah, the Beneficent, the Compassionate, and by asking that He send abundant blessings and peace on the Master of Creation and the Seal of Messengers and Prophets, our Master Muhammad, Peace be upon him and upon his Family and Companions; that He accept from us our intention to serve Him in the way that pleases Him; that He support the renewal of the true belief of the Salaf everywhere and everywhere revoke its false manifestations; that He grant the renewal of the Way of Self-Purification, which is the Way of true and perfect Islam, at the hands of its true Teachers East and West, in Muslim and non-Muslim countries alike; and that He count us among those who have "heard and obeyed," who have "kept company with the Truthful," who have "followed those who turned to Allah with love," and who will be "raised with the saints" and "in the company of Prophets, the Most Truthful, the Martyrs, and the Righteous."
1 Ibn Abi Shaybah relates it with a sound (sahih) chain.
Reproduced with permission from Shaykh M. Hisham Kabbani's_The Repudiation of "Salafi" Innovations_ (Kazi, 1996) p. 401-402.Blessings and Peace on the Prophet, his Family, and his Companions


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Saw this at the Long Beach Press-Telegram newspaper's website.
I figure the more hits it gets the better it is. Any mainstream coverage wrestling can get is good. The writer's first column has a short but good interview with RVD. He also mentions PWG in the first column as well. The other two are opinion columns. Not a bad writer. Seems to know a little about wrestling and will probably get better.


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Newspaper Rips TriMas for Shutdown Handling
November 27, 2012 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Newspaper Rips TriMas for Shutdown Handling
Editor's Note: The following editorial appeared in a recent issue of The Goshen (Ind.) News and concerns the pending layoff of 450 workers at the Cequent Performance Products plant in that city.
Happy Thanksgiving. By the way, you're fired.
That was essentially the message for roughly 450 employees at Cequent Performance Products in Goshen this past Wednesday afternoon. After weeks of speculation following the haunting recommendation from executives at Cequent's parent company — TriMas out of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. — to move the Goshen jobs to Mexico, the final decision was officially announced by plant manager Rich Brown during a shift change.
TriMas officials didn't even have the guts to come down here personally and inform these hard-working employees they were taking away their jobs. They left that dirty little task to a plant manager who had nothing to do with this decision. That's just disrespectful and cowardly.
What is the message here? Where is the sense of responsibility to community and country? Is money all that matters? What TriMas officials are telling us is that corporate profits matter more than human lives and the prosperity of this nation. That may sound dramatic, but what other rationale is there? Labor is cheaper in Mexico. Many U.S. workers have union protection and living wage standards. In this sad circumstance it is clear that people are numbers and numbers count when it's time to add up the profits.
We understand the responsibility TriMas has to its shareholders. Maximizing profits is part of that responsibility. But this isn't a case of a struggling company or industry that has to make cuts in order to continue. Cequent was making TriMas money, according to the company's latest quarterly report. Obviously it wasn't enough and 450 people here in Goshen will soon be looking for work. Please excuse us if we take that personally. It feels like a slap in the face to us. We can hardly imagine what it feels like to each Cequent employee who is working to pay the rent, feed their children and even pay their tithes.
Why would executives at TriMas care about any of that? There's more money to be made south of the boarder (sic) and that trumps all. If we're wrong about that we'd certainly invite a representative of TriMas to set us straight in this very space, in this community newspaper.
Please, TriMas, we'll give you all the space you need within reason. Shed that cloak of anonymity and explain to us, eye to eye, how you're right and we're not just inadequate numbers on your balance sheet. Tell us how our American values are not detrimental to your corporate math. Please, tell us yourselves, without sending out your plant manager to do it.


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Global Sources reaffirms commitment to Hong Kong's exhibition industry
Contract renewal with AsiaWorld-Expo to continue hosting China Sourcing Fairs in Hong Kong through 2016
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Nov. 8, 2012 02:15 AM
HONG KONG, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Sources (NASDAQ: GSOL) announced today that it has renewed its contracts with AsiaWorld-Expo Management to host China Sourcing Fairs at Hong Kong's AsiaWorld-Expo (AWE) for 2015 and 2016.
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With a total contract value of US$21.4 million, the renewal reaffirms Global Sources' continuing commitment to the Hong Kong trade show industry -- a commitment which saw the China Sourcing Fairs in Hong Kong attracting over 122,000 buyers and featuring nearly 14,000 booths in 2012.
"The China Sourcing Fairs series are held every April and October and, since 2006, AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong has been the home for the shows. The renewal of our contracts with AsiaWorld-Expo Management will see us celebrating ten years of using Hong Kong's AsiaWorld-Expo venue in 2015 and that is something we are very excited about," said Spenser Au, CEO of Global Sources.
"The quality of buyers attending our Fairs is testament to the world-class manufacturers and suppliers the shows attract," added Au. The just completed fall shows featured more than 7,100 booths and hosted over 61,200 visitors from world class companies such as Best Buy, Bosch, El Corte Ingles, Forever 21, Li & Fung, Logitech, LOUIS VUITTON, Marks & Spencer, Panasonic, Quiksilver, RadioShack, Samsung, Staples, ThreeSixty Sourcing, Toys"R"Us, Tesco and Woolworths.
"The China Sourcing Fairs are just one aspect of the services we provide," said Au. "Global Sources maintains the industry's broadest and most integrated multi-channel sourcing platform, allowing buyers to find and meet suppliers using our online marketplace, along with print and digital magazines, face-to-face and online shows and private sourcing events."
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Richard Alvarez
University Director of Admission
Richard P. Alvarez is the University Director of Admission for The City University of New York (CUNY). In that role, he is responsible for the development, implementation and execution of the University's recruitment program and works closely with the individual CUNY colleges. Prior to this appointment, Richard served as a member of the enrollment management team at Pace University for 14 years. He began his career at Montclair State College (now University) in 1985 as an Admissions Counselor.
During Richard's tenure at CUNY, he has had a significant impact on the relationship between the University and the NYC public school system, school counselors and elected officials. He has been a consistent advocate for the institution and the nation's students, lobbying in both Albany and Washington, D.C. He has been involved in creating and maintaining access to higher education for the diverse population of the New York Metropolitan area and has been instrumental in increasing the University's exposure both nationally and internationally. Richard has been involved in a wide range of professional activities and has provided leadership and expanded professional development for high school and college admission counselors, thereby helping students with the transition to higher education at the local, state and national levels.
Richard is currently serving a three-year term as a Director on the National Association for College Admission Counseling's Board of Directors (NACAC). He is a past President of the New York State Association for College Admission Counseling (NYSACAC) and has played an active role in the association since 1998. In addition, he has been a member of several College Board committees including the Middle States Regional SAT Advisory Committee, the NY State Advisory Committee and the NY GEARUP Admissions Action Panel.
Richard is a frequent speaker on the transition to higher education, as a guest at high schools and community panels, at local and national conferences and on television and radio.
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Takedown (Non-DMCA) Filed Against YouTube Video Challenging Controversial Cancer Clinic
from the standing-up-for-free-speech dept
And, it appears, the clinic continues to bully critics too. The website Skeptical Humanities is claiming that Eric Merola, a filmmaker close to Burzynski who made an uncritical film about it, has been able to take down a video critical of Burzynski, and is also trying to get the author at Skeptical Humanities, Bob Blaskiewicz, kicked off Facebook. Skeptical Humanities claims that he used an "illegal DMCA takedown" to get the video taken down, but I don't think that's correct. You can look at the page where the video once was, and rather than a typical DMCA notice, instead it has a notice I hadn't seen before: "This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy against spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content."


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Write OTP generator in C# ----- Urgent -- 2
Urgent need coder *today ! Small Demo/guarantee Required to award. Also I need to test ur demo on my *old Win 7 pc for my client.
We want C# code/ App to
1-generate WiFi OTP(one time password) that expires after 2 hours.
2-monitor the system default printer and print the OTP after each print job and then generate a new OTP to print after the next print job etc.....
3-when someone try to access my WiFi redirected to a page to enter the printed OTP.
4-each OTP can be used to authenticate one device only.
5-after two hours the WiFi disconnects or give the user a message that his OTP expired.
6-the app and/or website will run on Windows 7/10 if possible.
7-We suggest using ***RADIUS.
**Pls Budget is around $75 - Bonus and more work may be possible. **
Few more details in attachment
Budget is around $90
I have some existing code or u can start from scratch !!
Please I can't offer upfront milestones but once u start showing working demos I can start paying
5 威客就此工作平均出价 $113
Hello Sir, Being a software expert I can complete your project in time and in an efficient manner. I have around 4 years of experience in: C#, ASP .Net,HTML 5, LESS/SASS/SCSS, AngularJs, Ionic Framework, jQuery, 更多
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2:00 pm
Curious George "Follow That Boat/Windmill Monkey" Follow That Boat - Steve needs an A to pass his history class and his model papyrus boat is sure to make the grade. George helps him test the boat in Endless Park's pond, but a sudden rainstorm sweeps it down the sewer grate! While searching for the boat, Steve and George learn that debris from the street ends up in the ocean. Will they ever find Steve's little boat in the big ocean or will he be taking history again next year? Educational Objective: To recognize that waste needs to be disposed of properly to prevent unnecessary harm to the environment. D
2:30 pm
Martha Speaks "Paws and Effect/The Trouble with Teddy" Paws and Effect - When Martha gets a piece of glass in her paw, everyone realizes that littering hurts more than the environment. But what can they do about it? As Alice, Helen, and TD know, protecting the environment (and paws) is important, but it is easier said than done. Vocabulary: (E) discard(ed)(ing), litter(ed)(ing), thoughtless, debris, recycle(d)(ing) (I) careless(ly), trash, important, broke(n), injured. D
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The Electric Company "A Fistful of Confetti" It's Neighborhood Record Day, and everyone in town is trying to break silly records. Francine and Jessica are both trying to break the same record - filming the most broken records on record day. When Francine tries to get in Jessica's way by giving her fake tips, The Electric Company works together to lead Jessica to victory. D
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WordGirl "The Fill-In/Word (Hicc)Up!" THE FILL-IN - The Butcher volunteers to fill in when one of Dr. Two Brains' henchmen, Charlie, goes on vacation. But instead of giving him orders, Dr. Two Brains tries to convince him to team up to create the ultimate ham and cheese duo. It's up to WordGirl to intervene and still find time to go to the Around the Moon dance. D
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Wild Kratts "Attack of the Tree Eating Aliens" The Wild Kratts get an urgent call from a group of North American Wild Kratts kids telling them almost all of the trees in the forest are dying. It's a race against time to solve the mystery and help the forest and the creatures who live there. D
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Cyberchase "Mother's Day" Special Holiday Episode!" It's Mother's Day in cyberspace - and Hacker is determined to ruin it for everyone, especially Motherboard, by derailing the train that picks up the rare and colorful Madre Bonitas. This beautiful flower symbolizes Mother's Day, and it must be harvested on this one day only. It's a race against time, as the kids and Digit try to repair the breaks in the line and save Mother's Day. D
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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Dog of the Rings" Ruff decides to send all the FETCHers, dressed as Elves, Dwarves and Wizards, on a mythic Live Action Role Playing mission!. D
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Nightly Business Report Tonight on Nightly Business Report, a strong September showing for stocks so far this month. But with the Fed meeting, Syria and a budget fight looming, will fortunes change? And, why are stores pushing Christmas sales in September?. D
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Dialogue "Israeli-Palestinian Partnership" As talks between Israelis and Palestinians start up once again, host Marcia Franklin talks with an Israeli and a Palestinian about conversations they have organized between their respective communities as a result of funding from a Boise non-profit. Eden Fuchs, a former colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces, and Ibrahim Issa, a Palestinian educator, are part of the Center for Emerging Futures, started by a Boise couple.G
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Scott & Bailey The team members investigate when the body of an eight-year-old boy is discovered but, as they search for the pedophile killer, they are unaware that the culprit has placed himself in the midst of the child's grieving family. Dom's HIV test is negative, but in his relief he does something stupid which jeopardizes Rachel's sergeant exam. Sean thinks that he and Rachel are destined to be together, although she is not convinced.G
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Great Performances "Paul McCartney's Live Kisses" The former Beatle presents an evening of standards and two of his own new songs in this program drawn from his latest album, Kisses on the Bottom. Produced with the help of Grammy Award-winning producer Tommy LiPuma and Diana Krall and her band, this is the first project that features McCartney almost exclusively on vocals.G
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American Masters "Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound" Filmmakers follow Baez on her 2008-2009 world tour, capturing her in performance and in conversations with individuals whose lives parallel hers. The film also examines her history as a recording artist and performer as well as her unwavering journey as the conscience of a generation. Making appearances are Bob Dylan, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne.G
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2019 Silverado 1500 Double Cab 4x4, Pickup (Stock #19CC280)
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Chapter 12 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Chapter 12. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Mike Vendetti. Playlist for Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL752595FA3E1D6D74 Babbitt free audiobook at Librivox: librivox.org/babbitt-by-sinclair-lewis/ Babbitt free eBook at Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1156 Babbitt at Wikipedia: goo.gl/986Dr View a list of all our videobooks: www.ccprose.com/booklist


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Innova Trimming
- Provides flowline configuration and control
- Monitors product input and output to and from individual trimmers
- Maximizes yield and throughput
- Monitors product quality to ensure food safety
- Compares production figures to targets to instantly pinpoint production problems
- Provides immediate performance feedback to trimmers
- Offers manual line configuration and control
- Enables evaluation of raw material from suppliers
- Enables immediate intervention and corrective actions to minimize losses
The Innova Trimming module controls and monitors flow lines and manual trimming lines in real-time.
The system records the amount of raw material delivered to individual trimmers and the quantity of product produced by each trimmer, allowing processors to monitor throughput, yield and product mix for individual trimmers.
By interacting with the Innova Quality Control module, the system can perform both random product inspections and also target individual trimmers. Product batches or pieces selected for inspection are sent to a QC station, where an inspector evaluates the batch based on fully customizable inspection parameters.
At the same time, the system automatically increases product inspection from trimmers with unsatisfactory QC scores. Targets can be set for throughput, yield and QC scores for individual trimmers, and reports and screens highlight figures that are not within targets.
Performance figures can be displayed on information terminals at the trimming stations. This allows the trimmer to compare his performance with the line average and to instantly receive notification of QC problems. The information terminal can also be used to convey production instructions and messages to the trimmers.
Trimmers can log on to stations using either an information terminal or a TR-11 ID reader. Stations are automatically enabled and disabled when trimmers log in and out.
The system supports multiple types of production on the same line, by assigning individual stations to a specific product type.
- Monitors product input and output to and from individual trimmers
- Maximizes yield and throughput
- Compares production figures to targets, to instantly pinpoint production problems
- Effective management tool
- Provides manual line configuration and control
- Enables evaluation of raw material from suppliers
- Enables immediate intervention and corrective actions to minimize losses
- Provides continuous monitoring of throughput and yield by trimmer and by line
- Stores lot/batch data for customer verification of batch results
- Provides a centralized storage location for all trimming programmes
- Provides integrated solution support for other Innova modules, such as QC and box labeling
- Integrated traceability support
- Rich export capabilities including HTML, PDF, Excel and Text
- Sends reports via local email client
- Supports multiple trimming lines
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|Device Support
|Marel M3000-A571 product and input scales
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|Marel M2200-PO2 trim/waste hoppers
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|Processing lines:
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|Other Requirements
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text: Home / Professional / Landscape Lighting / Certified Training / Event Registration Event Registration Event: Advanced-LED-Dec.10-11-2019 *First Name: *Last Name: *Company Name: *I am a: Landscape lighting contractor Specifier Distributor Kichler Employee Other: *Who is your Primary Distributor? *Landscape lighting experience: None Less than 5 years Over 5 years *Street Address: *City: *State: Please Choose Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachussetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virgina Wisconsin Wyoming ----------- Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Nova Scotia Northwest Territories Nunavut Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon *Zip/Postal Code: *Phone Number: *Email Address: *Are you currently purchasing Kichler Products? Yes No *Who are you currently purchasing from? *Are you currently a LightPro Rewards member? Yes No *How did you hear about this training? Twitter Facebook Kichler web site Distributor Sales Rep Prior training class Other: Hotel Room Preference: NonSmoking Smoking No Preference *Payment Options (You will be contacted for payment processing): LightPro Rewards points Credit Card


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Op-Ed: Time is right to consider long-term debt
Imagine another ravaging winter storm in Greenwich, one that not only topples trees and telephone poles but damages a number of school facilities and destroys scores of police cars. In other words, imagine a storm of even greater destruction than Hurricane Sandy that forces town managers to ask: How are we going to pay to rebuild our schools, and buy new police cars?
If you're the town first selectman, or a member of the BET, you have two choices: Demand higher taxes, and foot the bill up front, or borrow the money, and defer the cost until later. Now if you're a standard issue Republican, or even a Tea Party Republican, we know you're philosophically opposed to higher taxes, anytime, anywhere, as well as viscerally averse to debt. But you're not alone. Turns out Democrats also dislike higher taxes! And no one likes debt, even though Greenwich has virtually no long-term debt, and unlike other municipalities in the state, is constrained by a five-year debt limit schedule that pushes the cost disproportionately onto present taxpayers.
Going back to our example of another damaging, and expensive, storm, what to do? How do we pay for the cars we will need to buy and the schools to fix?
If you're a financial manager, and you've ruled out the taxation and debt options, you're not left with much. You may be tempted to engage in a little hand-waving, and pretend the damage isn't real, or "isn't as bad as we think," and kick the can down the road. Alternatively, you might posture that we can ameliorate matters by cutting "wasteful" spending, examples of which you mumble under your breath, but which, truth be told, you know don't add up to much. All of this hand-waving and posturing about the twin scourges of debt and out-of-control spending may be psychically satisfying, but it doesn't answer the question of how to put new police cars on the street, and to repair our broken school buildings.
Returning to our thought experiment, imagine for a second that we adopted the borrowing option. Imagine that we decided to pay the bill -- for investments we all agree need to be made -- by borrowing now and paying later (say 10 years from now). Keep in mind that under our low-tax regime, which we have not changed, we will encourage more investment in residential and commercial activity, stimulating economic growth. If our town economy continues to prosper, as it should, the burden of paying off the loan will ease over time. Thus, if the debate centers on paying for the additional spending via taxes or via borrowing, isn't the choice clear?
But wait just a second, opponents will surely say, what about the evils of taking on more debt? Haven't you failed to take into consideration the interest payments lenders demand on that debt, and the crushing burden those payments will put on our weakened economy?
But here's the rub. To extend our thought experiment, consider that current interest rates are below the rate of inflation. This means we can borrow right now at a negative real interest rate! The market will pay us to borrow money! We can pay back the principal on the loan ten years hence, when our economy will be richer and the burden of paying back the loan will be lessened. What's not to like about the borrowing option?
For one, with interest payments off the table, raising taxes makes less sense as a way to pay for our broken infrastructure. Conversely, borrowing makes a lot more sense, as we can put new cars on the road and repair old school buildings in a continued low-tax environment.
Of course, this thought experiment I have posed isn't so imaginary. We currently have a raging debate on the Greenwich BET over how to manage town debt, with the leadership steadfastly refusing to consider long-term debt, thus leaving improvements to town services in limbo. In a recent Greenwich Time column, Bob Horton detailed how this "myopic" approach to public finances is not only fiscally foolish, but unfair to current taxpayers who are left carrying the load.
Quoted in the article was Randall Huffman, a recognized authority in municipal finance law, and Democratic BET member who said, "Professionals in municipal finance are puzzled that Greenwich won't even give serious consideration to a more sensible approach to financing investments in infrastructure."
Will it take another "storm of the century" for town financial leaders to re-examine their long-held assumptions about paying the bills for much-needed infrastructure investments? Such a re-examination is long overdue. With interest rates at historic lows, indeed below zero in real terms after inflation, it makes immense sense to tax less and borrow more.
Bill Gaston is a vice chairman of the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee.


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ArtsWatch: Issa Bashes ACTA
In recent news ...
On March 6 Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) posted the text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement on his website, KeepTheWebOpen.com, inviting public discussion and condemning ACTA as being conceived in secrecy, signed improperly and dangerously vague in its terms. These criticisms are bound to endear him to the popular movement against tougher copyright enforcement, which may even be their purpose. As for secrecy, draft language was regularly leaked and commented on by consumer advocates, and public draft language was officially disclosed in October 2010, a year before ACTA was signed. The argument suggesting ACTA was a treaty that should have required congressional approval was weakened as its negotiated provisions were softened in response to consumer advocates' vocal opposition — while adopting ACTA would require new commitments for many other countries, it doesn't appreciably toughen antipiracy for the United States and, more or less, exports the U.S. system internationally. As for dangerous vagueness, lawmakers use this argument to persuade against regulatory action itself, suggesting that courts cannot be trusted to adjudicate general terms without causing substantial unintended damage. These complaints are a far cry from much-needed suggestions for how the United States — which has among the toughest anti-infringement laws and enforcement in the world — can improve its protection of intellectual property without harming speech or innovation. Issa launched the website on which he posted ACTA last December, accompanying his introduction of the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act legislation that critics charged "goes easy on online piracy." So far the popular spirit against tougher antipiracy legislation looks likely to stall progress past November's elections, and ACTA bashing helps achieve such delay, further preserving a status quo that benefits many Internet companies and criminal enterprises but harms creative professionals' efforts to make a living.
Members of European Parliament's Committee for International Trade discussed ACTA on Feb. 29 and March 1, with an ACTA workshop held the second day. The committee is expected to recommend that Parliament join the European Commission in referring ACTA to the European Court of Justice but should add questions of its own. Parliament member David Martin said, "What I plan to do is bring about clarity on ACTA in the next year to provide the facts for this Parliament to vote." Addressing the workshop, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht described ACTA as exporting European levels of enforcement without harming legal safeguards and said the ECJ's "ruling should help support a calm, reasoned, open, and democratic discussion on ACTA — a discussion we sorely need to have." On Feb. 28 a petition organized on consumer activism website Avaaz was delivered to European Parliament consisting of 2.4 million signatures against ACTA. It would be cynical to suggest that the goal of delay has been achieved, but all this clarity is bound to take considerable time. On the bright side, all the passion young people have brought to demand that politicians protect the free and open Internet could pay off as engaged citizens inevitably consider the consequences of ongoing widespread content piracy.
On March 6 the United Kingdom's Court of Appeal ruled against the majority of Internet service providers BT and TalkTalk's grounds for appeal of their April 2011 High Court loss — contesting Britain's Digital Economy Act that was passed in April 2010. The law's provisions for notification of consumer infringers have been on hold because of the pending case. The ISPs were granted an appeal to argue for a change in one of several provisions related to sharing the costs of enforcement. Other than that, the ISPs' grounds for appeal — in Britain — are exhausted, less than two years after the law passed. The appeals court judge agreed with the High Court judge that the application of European law was clear-cut, but the ISPs are likely looking for grounds to kick the dispute up to the European Court of Justice.
Approximately 900 French writers signed a petition protesting their government's surreptitious passage of a law subsidizing digitization and publication of out-of-print 20th century books in conjunction with the Bibliothèque nationale. Similar to the Authors Guild's continuing efforts to control Google Books, the sticking point is that authors were given a chance to opt out but the traditional copyright-law approach requires that authors be given the chance to opt in.
Two sets of broadcaster plaintiffs have filed separate cases in the Southern District of New York's U.S. District Court to prevent Aereo's March 14 planned launch of its recently announced Internet television service. Observers believe Aereo investor and longtime media executive Barry Diller must have anticipated the lawsuit and wonder what legal defense is in store to avoid the seemingly inevitable shutdown, the fate that befell innovative services Ivi and Zediva last year.
Speaking of interesting defenses, on March 2 two British defendants accused by Sony Music Entertainment of hacking unreleased Michael Jackson tracks last year pleaded not guilty in Leicester Crown Court. Their attorney said both men "are eager to point out to Michael Jackson's fans and family that they would never do anything to harm the legacy that is Michael Jackson's music." The hack reportedly occurred last April while Sony was coping with high-profile penetration of its Playstation network. The haul of unreleased Michael Jackson songs has been estimated to exceed 50,000 tracks. A trial is scheduled for January.
The Recording Academy actively represents the music community on such issues as intellectual property rights, music piracy, archiving and preservation, and censorship concerns. In pursuing its commitment to addressing these and other issues, The Recording Academy undertakes a variety of national initiatives. ArtsWatch is a key part of an agenda aimed at raising public awareness of and support for the rights of artists. To become more involved, visit Advocacy Action @ GRAMMY.com and sign up for Advocacy Action E-lerts.
Click on the "ArtsWatch" tag for links to other GRAMMY News stories in this series.


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Their Vision Max 3D glasses promise universal compatibility on all 3D TVs—which is fantastic—but you'll need to use Monster's base station to make said TVs work with the glasses.
$250 buys you a base station (transmitting shutter sync information over 2.4GHz) and one pair of glasses. $180 buys you an extra pair of glasses.
It's not a bad idea—not at all. But so long as you can't just bring your glasses to a friend's house to watch a movie, so long as the glasses themselves can't decode every manufacturer's particular 3D timing, so long as you need a intermediary piece of equipment to make it all work, Monster's solution doesn't look much more tempting (or flexible) than that of the original manufacturers.


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Canned Food Drive For Snohomish Mudslide Victims
There will be a canned food drive going on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 9 a.m. at SaveOn foods on North Wenas in Selah. They will be accepting canned foods and nonperishable items to benefit the Snohomish County mudslide victims and there family's.
They are all in desperate need of food and Selah man Craig is putting this together. The mudslide has been declared as a national and federal tragedy. So many lives were lost from this natural disaster and they are in need of our help.
Please join us in helping this cause. The Red Apple market in Selah will have a drop box as well. Thank you so much for you help.


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(Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc Chief Executive Warren Buffett has said he has completed final radiation treatment for prostate cancer, the Omaha World-Herald newspaper reported on Saturday.
Buffett, the world's third-richest person, told executives from newspapers he has acquired in recent months on Friday: "It's a great day for me. Today I had my 44th and last day of radiation."
Buffett, 82, disclosed in April he was diagnosed with Stage 1 prostate cancer. At the time, he said his case "is not remotely life-threatening or even debilitating in any meaningful way."
Buffett, widely considered the most successful investor of the last century, started daily radiation treatments at the Nebraska Medical Center in mid-July. He said the treatment would hinder his travels for about two months.
Buffett joked with executives about planning to live to be the oldest man alive, the Buffett-owned World-Herald said.
Berkshire Hathaway is a conglomerate that employs more than 270,000 people in more than 70 businesses around the world.
Buffett told investors in late February that Berkshire had identified his successor. He declined to say who it was and admitted that even the chosen one did not know.
Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Doina Chiacu