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Every day, 400 kilometres above our heads, there are astronauts living in space. Their home is the ISS, the frontier outpost of human exploration, and a workplace like nothing on Earth. With spacewalks and dockings to contend with, the responsibility is huge, as Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano explains: "We are still the last line of defense against any malfunctions. Especially when we are really close to the station, the time it would take for the ground to send a command to that machine in case something goes wrong would be too late."
It's also a surprising place to call home, as ESA's André Kuipers found when he spend six months in space last year: "Sometimes when you close your eyes and you go to sleep and you see a stripe or some flashes, and you go oh, I'm being hit by radioactive particles, your retina is hit, it happens then everywhere on your body."
The gateway to space for Europe's future astronauts is the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. All astronauts heading to the ISS have to train at the European Astronaut Centre, among them Parmitano, who is spending six months of 2013 in space. He will be overseeing the docking of the ATV resupply ship while he's on the ISS.
"I'm qualified as the main operator, and when the ATV arrives on the station what I do is I monitor the distance with a ruler, making sure that what I see and what the computer thinks he sees are the same. I also check its rate of motion, so that it's not too fast and not too slow, and should something go wrong I am the last line of defence, and I can send a command to stop, delay or completely abort the rendez-vous," he explains.
The astronauts are watched closely as they train, and then watched as they work on the ISS. If a European is in space, there's always someone in Cologne to keep a careful eye on them, monitoring their health status and the status of the technical systems that maintain their wellbeing.
The astronauts on the International Space Station follow a steady, pre-defined rhythm of work and rest, to make sure they don't get over-tired.
Frank De Winne, the Head of the European Astronaut Centre, says one of the biggest challenges is to pace yourself: "Of course in the beginning you're very excited, you want to do everything very quickly, but it doesn't work, you can't maintain this rhythm for six months, you have to pace yourself, and you have to try to maintain a stable kind of mood, a stable type of working rhythm."
The astronauts' main task is science work, acting as the hands and eyes of the scientists on the ground to complete their orbital experiments, and being part of that experiment themselves, with their bodies and minds studied and recorded as we explore how humans adapt to living in space.
One of the ongoing experiments on the ISS is called Energy, and Luca Parmitano is one of the subjects, with tests before, during and after his flight. Frank Salmen, a payload instructor at the European Astronaut Centre explains that the experiment will measure "the total energy expenditure of a male astronaut on a long term spaceflight on the ground and in microgravity".
"The goal is to optimise food allotments, for example for long term spaceflights, and to better understand what the crew really needs on long term spaceflights. The ground goal - and this is basic research - is to understand the principles and the regulation mechanism in obesity for example," Salmen explains.
The long term vision of agencies like ESA and NASA is for astronauts to travel further into space for longer periods of time. For that reason one of the central themes of research is to understand how our body reacts to living in zero gravity, as muscles and bones that aren't under stress just waste away.
Volker Damann, Head of Space Medicine, European Astronaut Centre, has studied the effect closely: "The lack of gravity negatively impacts our muscular system, our skeletal system, and that is the big danger that they lose bone mass over time, it's in the order of one to two per cent per month, so after six months you have already lost a significant amount of your bones, that is certainly a long term effect."
The only hope to maintain muscle and bone is to do exercise: cycling, jogging, and weightlifting. The bones of an astronaut who spends six months in space will take six months to recover.
That makes coming home difficult, according to ESA Astronaut André Kuipers: "The biggest physical challenge is coming back. Of course your body adapts, you go to space, you don't feel too good the first few days, you have to adapt to weightlessness, but coming back is even worse. You have to adapt to the planet, to gravity, so you become Earth sick."
"You have problems with muscle soreness. For three months I had muscle soreness, so all kinds of small muscles that you normally use you don't use any more in weightlessness. I mean, we do a lot of sports, but even that is not enough for small muscles, for example in your ankles, for balancing. You don't balance anymore, so for three months I had muscle ache," he says.
Another occupational hazard of life in orbit is space itself, and all the highly charged particles of radiation that bombard the ISS.
"Astronauts are of course very well aware of the long term medical effects that space flight could have. Yes, you have a higher level of radiation up there. Typically in a six month space flight you accumulate about the same type of radiation or level of radiation as a worker in a nuclear factory during his entire career," says Frank De Winne.
That kind of radiation exposure could lead to cancers such as leukemia, but for the moment the medical team has yet to find any long-term effects of spaceflight. Damann and his team watch them closely: "We continue to monitor the astronauts over a long period of time, to retirement and even beyond. We pool the astronauts, all the data worldwide of all the astronauts is put into a database, and we try to identify specific medical issues that may be related to the occupation of an astronaut."
It's an occupation with risks, but also huge rewards: with a view from the office window that is out of this world. Parmitano is looking forward to his voyage of a lifetime: "The astronauts that are on board now that are good friends - I was their backup only a few months ago - they just tell me all the time that time flies, and it is such an incredible experience that six months go by in the blink of an eye, so the biggest concern is to try and make it count for every second and to create memories while they are up there."
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Foreign Interests Hijack Tea Party with Help from a Professional Corporate Shill
Andrew Langer is a man who knows how to brew a Tea Party, or so he would have you believe. He is the president of the Institute for Liberty, a right-wing think tank which published a guide on the subject. Yet Langer's real expertise isn't in the brewing of the tea; it's in the selling of the movement. A recent New York Times article has revealed that Mr. Langer is far from a folksy tea party organizer who sticks up for the average American consumer. In fact he is a professional bloviator with a history of work with corporate funded anti-regulatory front groups.
One of his most recent projects, and the one that earned him attention from the Times, is called the Consumers Alliance for Global Prosperity.
Begun in August of 2010, the Consumers Alliance for Global Prosperity is an attempt to use the tea party movement to derail sustainable forestry in one of the world's most endangered rainforest - for the benefit of an Asian paper corporation. Here is an example of the destructive practices the Consumers Alliance supports:
Langer's pro-deforestation campaign, called "Pulp Wars," attacks environmental groups, labor unions, and American businesses, accusing them of conspiring to keep Indonesians poor and American retail prices high. The mission of Pulp Wars, according to a facebook page for the group, is to fight the "Empires of Collusion," defined as "greedy corporations, scheming union bosses and radical environmentalists -- that are working hard to restrict free trade in an effort to make countless everyday products more expensive for consumers." According to CAGP, the empire includes such unlikely colluders as Greenpeace, WWF, and Staples.
In spite of the absurdity of the claims, Pulp Wars is not the only place they are made. Asia Pulp & Paper, a massive corporation responsible for clear cutting the Paradise Rainforest, made the exact same claims about in a report called "Green Protectionism." Tellingly, APP's report came out three days before Langer released the Pulp Wars version. The Times writes:
"Three days later, Mr. Langer came out with his own detailed report that hewed to these same themes, and put up a Web site, pulpwars.com, to promote it. Titled "Empires of Collusion," it reads like a brief for Asia Pulp & Paper and has been followed by reports on subjects like palm oil and American paper industry subsidies that are important to Asia Pulp & Paper and its parent company, Sinar Mas. He has worked these issues into podcasts, Facebook postings and opinion columns, often with a folksy Tea Party-friendly twist... Although some of his material cites Asia Pulp & Paper, Mr. Langer insists that he had not even heard of the company."
In addition to suspiciously similar reports, Langer is linked to other people and groups who have run public relations campaigns for Asia Pulp and Paper, as this graphic by the New York Times shows.
Langer and his institute are a perfect example of how professional apologists masquerade as tea party populists, couching pro-corporate propaganda in democratic language. But he is not the biggest or the baddest in the corporate shill industry. Groups like the Koch funded American's for Prosperity and Dick Armey's Freedomworks (both of whom Langer has worked closely with), are much better funded, yet their funding and motives are equally obscure. As Greenpeace's Scott Paul says: "If you can spend as much money as you want and remain anonymous, then it doesn't matter if you're an overseas company or the Koch brothers, you pay the same network of anti-regulatory front groups."

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In this field of study the student will learn how we arrive at decisions, how we react to environmental stimuli and how our past experiences have come to shape who we are. There are a vast many careers that use psychology at its base. Becoming a psychotherapist is an obvious path, but less obvious are careers in marketing and advertising. These jobs require a secure knowledge in human behavior in order to predict how to create the most attractive marketing methods. Knowing how consumers think is a necessary ingredient in compelling them to action. Lawyers rely heavily on psychology when utilizing a jury because human thought processes must be taken into account in order to predict the best means of achieving a desired verdict.
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Another popular form of psychology is abnormal psychology, which is not to be confused with clinical psychology. Abnormal psychology focuses on mental disorders, mental retardation, aberrant behaviors and syndromes which require intensive treatment and a system of classification.
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Pat Cash said the strict all-white dress code for tennis players at Wimbledon has "gone ridiculous".
The 1987 Wimbledon champion spoke out about the tightened up clothing rules not long before his manager confirmed he will not play at the legends' matches at the tournament.
Duncan March said the Australian's withdrawal is because he has a sore back - and insisted it has nothing to do with clothing rules.
But Mr March added: "Pat would be naturally disappointed that he couldn't wear his headband."
The black and white checked headband famously worn by Cash throughout his career would break the current rules at the SW19 Grand Slam.
Mr March said a referee told Cash his headband "probably won't be allowed", and that Cash replied: "You must be joking."
Cash claims tennis players at Wimbledon have been told to change their underwear when it was noticed it was not entirely white.
He told BBC Radio 5 Live some of the women have been sent back to "change their bras and tops because they had slight colour on them".
Cash added that he believed some of them did not have suitable sports bras and had to go without them.
He also claimed one of the players was called into the referees' office because he had blue underwear "that showed through when he got sweaty" so he was told not to wear dark underwear.
"It has absolutely gone ridiculous," he said.
A spokeswoman at Wimbledon said all the players were written to before the Championships about the white clothing rule.
She did not confirm any breaches of the dress code.
In the letter, players were told caps, headbands, bandanas, wristbands and socks must be totally white except for a single trim of colour no wider than one centimetre.
Shoes must be almost entirely white, including the soles, players were informed.
They were also told: "Any undergarments that either are or can be visible during play (including due to perspiration) must also be completely white except for a single trim of colour no wider than one centimetre (10mm). In addition, common standards of decency are required at all times."
Mr March said they made it known to the club at the start of the tournament that Cash may not be fit to play.
As well as a sore back, Cash also has a knee injury, his manager said, adding: "He loves Wimbledon."
His partner for the legends' competition was set to be fellow Australian Mark Woodforde, and Mr March said Cash would not let Woodforde down "for a change in clothing".


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DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The Blue Jays' options in free agency have been slowly dwindling over the past several weeks, and all of a sudden there is just one remaining big-name pitcher still left on the board.
Right-hander Ervin Santana is the only viable solution that remains on the open market after Baltimore signed Ubaldo Jimenez to a four-year contract on Monday night. The talent pool was never all that deep to begin with this offseason, but over the course of several months, the likes of Masahiro Tanaka, Matt Garza, A.J. Burnett and Jimenez have signed elsewhere.
Santana is still available, but that is expected to change in the relatively near future with camps across baseball already open for business this spring. Toronto reportedly still has interest, but it's possible there will be competition from the likes of the Yankees and Mariners.
"Some things could still change, but we're going forward with what we have, unless something happens," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "We like this group. That's not my department. [General manager] Alex [Anthopoulos] is working hard, he has been doing it all winter and half of last season, looking at some different options. Whether something happens or not, nobody knows -- we just approach it with, 'Let's get after it with what we have.'"
At the end of last season, it seemed like a foregone conclusion the Blue Jays would upgrade their rotation. The question wasn't if Toronto would add another starter, but how many pitchers the club would be able to acquire.
There was a seemingly endless list of rumors associated with the club over the winter months. Jeff Samardzija of the Cubs was one target, while a deal with the A's for left-hander Brett Anderson reportedly fell through because of an issue with his physical.
Then there were the constant links to the available free agents, but to date, nothing has happened. That has unsettled some of the fan base. Those are the type of things the players can't concern themselves with, but it does become a problem if the disappointment seeps into the clubhouse as well.
According to Gibbons, he doesn't think that has happened but admitted it's really up to each individual how he will react to the moves or lack thereof.
"Some people might look at it that way, others won't," Gibbons said. "There's no question, we struggled with starting pitching last year, so naturally you're looking to upgrade that. But it's not easy to do. There were a couple of deals in the works that ended up falling through -- I'm talking trade route -- and then there's the free agents. There's a little bit of a bidding war out there, so it's not automatic that you're going to get those guys."
The one thing Gibbons went out of his way to clarify was that his GM has done everything possible to upgrade the team. It hasn't worked out yet, but things could change rather quickly, depending on whether an agreement can be reached with Santana or a trade scenario suddenly surfaces.
"The guys that are gone, that signed with other guys -- Garza and Jimenez -- Alex worked hard to try and sign those guys," Gibbons revealed. "It just didn't happen. But we'll see. You watch what happened last year, everybody thinks that easy and you can bring in guys any time you want, and it doesn't work that way. And it has to fit, it has to fit with what you're trying to do, with your plan."


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San Diego, CA – May 9th, 2011 – ChiroTouch™, the world's leader in chiropractic software solutions, has just completed its new 5.0 release for the ChiroTouch Total Chiropractic Practice Management System.
"The new 5.0 release represents a powerful set of new features for our family of practices," said Robert Moberg, President of ChiroTouch. "In our efforts to continually innovate, we collaborated closely with doctors from across the country to ensure this new release would bring the most benefit to practices."
The new features in the 5.0 release include:
Multi-phase Treatment Plans - allows practices to map out a patient's entire treatment plan at once and track the patient's current and completed phases within their overall plan.
Shared Care Packages - allows patients the ability to share their care packages with their families or other chosen individuals. All charges draw from the care package owner's pool of available items, and a detailed overview allows doctors to see which patient used each item.
Inventory Tracking - allows chiropractors to track, maintain, and order office inventory. Doctors and staff can track items left in stock as they are sold and manage activity and reordering through designated notifications and reports.
Tax Tables - allows practices to maintain tax tables for use with patient charges directly within the ChiroTouch System. Each tax table can be given a unique name, and providers can enter more than one tax rate per table. The taxes are then accurately calculated in the system based on the effective dates.
Bulk Payment Posting - allows staff to post a single payment to individual or multiple accounts with just a few clicks. The ChiroTouch bulk posting application also allows staff to consolidate payment sources, identify un-reconciled payments in a glance, maintain a history of write-off reasons, edit posted payments, and more.
Outcomes Assessments - allows providers to track their patient's pain and disability through a sequence of questions. Further, doctors can submit a request via the patient's email to have them fill out their own Outcomes Assessment online, where it is incorporated automatically in the patient's file. The feature also includes a graph/chart function, providing both the patient and the doctor the opportunity to get a visual representation of the patient's progress. Additionally, a full summary report, inclusive of all the assessment details, can be exported for dissemination as well.
"Our programming staff has worked tirelessly to get this new update to our practices," added Robert. "And we're fueled by the desire to better our product by constantly innovating."
To learn more about the latest version of ChiroTouch, please visit www.chirotouch.com.
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ChiroTouch, by Integrated Practice Solutions Inc., is the premier provider of innovative chiropractic software technology solutions for the chiropractic industry. Fusing advanced software systems with superior support services, we partner with chiropractors across the country to help them automate operations, improve patient care, and increase profitability. Visit www.chirotouch.com.


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Harris Academy Beckenham is an 11-18 school which opened in September 2011 and became co-educational in 2012 admitting girls for the first time into Year 7. The Academy has specialisms in Science and Enterprise alongside a broad, balanced and rigorous curriculum. The sixth form joined the Harris Federation Post 16 in September 2012.
We have improved our headline 5A*-C (including English and Maths) by 26% in our opening two years, and our A Level results have improved year on year also.
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- A personal best culture in which parents are confident their son or daughter is being fully stretched and developed
- Emphasis on the traditional values of good manners, strong discipline and smart uniform – as well as the best of modern teaching methods and technology
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- A culture of involving parents fully with their children's education and school life in general
- A smart, neat and affordable Academy uniform
- Students and staff that become established as trusted and reliable faces in the local community
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We got inside the head of Adam Platt, noted restaurant critic, serious gourmand, father of two, and brother of actor Oliver Platt [pictured here]. We find out what the faceless man behind New York Magazine's restaurant reviews really noshes on at home, why he might have one of the most dangerous jobs in the industry, and what he really thinks of Sifton.
To start off with some recent news, what do you think of Sam Sifton stepping down as New York Times restaurant critic?
I've enjoyed Sam's writing greatly, especially when he writes about recipes and the dishes he cooks at home. Like his predecessor, Mr. Bruni, I commend him for staying so svelte during his time on the job, and for getting out of the racket alive.
Give us your expert opinion on the most underrated or overrated food.
Foie gras is overrated, and so is caviar, unless someone else is paying. White truffles flown in from Italy are slightly less overrated, although it helps if someone is paying for those too. I also think the annual hysteria over springtime ramps is ridiculously overrated.
Ketchup isn't a vegetable, or possibly even a food, despite what the first President Bush said, but I think it's incredibly underrated.
What's the most dangerous part of your job?
Eating yourself into morbid obesity and/or eventual death. Or, choking to death on a chicken bone. Or, suffering a massive coronary event, while dining at some godawful restaurant. The dangers of the job are too numerous to count, when you think about it.
U.S. & World
What's your restaurant pet peeve?
I fly into a rage when I hear these dreaded words, "I'm sorry Sir, but we can't seat you at your table until everyone in your party has arrived".
What is the best thing in your fridge right now?
A bag of frozen pork and scallion dumplings from Prosperity Dumplings, in Chinatown. My two little girls love the dumplings at Prosperity.
Tell us about a moment in your life that could be described as extreme eating.
Once on a trip to Tokyo, I dined on grilled chicken uterus for lunch and the bloated sperm sack of a deadly poisonous fugu blow fish for dinner. I thought that was pretty extreme.
What is the best thing you've eaten between two buns?
The pulled pork lunchtime sandwich at Dickson's Farmstand in Chelsea. At least that was last week's favorite.
What do you crave after a few cocktails?
The comfort of my own bed.
If I weren't a restaurant critic, I would be a __________.
very portly stay-at-home dad
Favorite condiment?
It's a dead heat between Mayonnaise and Tabasco sauce.


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I noticed a weird issue today. I was trying to add a few resources to the same folder. After saving the fiddle, the newest resources added to the folder are not listed under the folder, but are instead placed at app root with the full path name for their display name.
For example, I tried to do the following:
However, after saving, it looks like this:
- <root>
- app
- store
- Store1.js
- Store2.js
This doesn't actually harm anything, but it makes the organization a bit busted.
- <root>
- app
- store
- Store1.js
- app/store/Store2.js
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Google's Improving the Android Market–Finally
There are signs that Google may finally be recognizing the importance of a well-run app store, after launching two substantial updates to the Android Market in the past two weeks alone.
Late yesterday, the company said its app store was now going to support carrier billing on AT&T, its second such deal in the U.S. outside of T-Mobile USA. Earlier this month, it rolled out a series of updates to its user interface that not only make it easier for users to navigate, but also for developers to monetize their applications.
Hopefully, the moves are only the beginning.
Despite Android's meteoric rise to activating 300,000 handsets a day, the application market is far from matching the capabilities of Apple's App Store. The biggest difference is that Apple's iPhone has a built-in monetization platform via iTunes, whereas Android has been mostly limited to its own checkout payment platform and credit cards.
The downside to this is that paid applications are only available in a fraction of the countries where Android is sold. And there's no official way to make in-app payments, so developers who want to give their apps away for free and then charge for items within, for instance, a game are out of luck. The lack of payment options have resulted in fewer high-quality apps, and fewer high-quality games.
If Google wants to be a worthy competitor to Apple, now is the time for the company to create a healthy and active ecosystem for Android applications.
We've heard it's simply a matter of resources and priorities, but how much longer can this wait?
On monetization: There's no excuse for Google to support only its own checkout platform and two U.S. carriers. Not long ago, there were rumors brewing of a partnership with PayPal, but now that seems to have stalled. Making payments as seamless as possible is a no-brainer.
In the meantime, there are plenty of options it could investigate, such as Amazon Payments, or Zong or Boku, which could integrate carrier billing on behalf of Google.
A number of the third-party players have already worked around Google to create in-app purchasing platforms. In yesterday's announcement, Google promised to continue to partner with more carriers in the future, but with only two such partnerships after more than a year, the pace is not optimistic.
On organization: A number of new features announced on Dec. 10 will also help developers monetize, by simply making a better organized app store.
It's added new categories for widgets and live wallpapers. It has also created a "related content" section on each app page that details applications of similar interest to help with promotion.
However, one of the biggest updates is a change in policy from a 24-hour refund window to only 15 minutes. Previously, consumers would buy a game, play it for a few hours hours and then return it. The 15-minute window gives users enough time to decide whether an app is worth it, but not enough time to get sick of it.
In addition, the Market just looks nicer. Better graphics and a more logical layout.
Perhaps, Google's New Year's resolution will include more Android Market updates.


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"Quince is about providing more than a 'box of tools' and instead helps developers create an experience that is visually stunning and compelling for the end user," says Infragistics CEO Dean Guida.
In a related announcement, Infragistics announced the immediate availability of NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 2009 Volume 1. A collection of data visualization-focused user interface (UI) controls, NetAdvantage for Silverlight Data Visualization 9.1 is geared towards developers who build information dashboards tracking Key Performance Indicators and Rich Internet Applications that deliver business intelligence
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2001 8:41 am
Post subject: NY city and WASHINGTON bombed...you guys this is SERIOUS!
I pray for all the victicms...is this going to get worse?The 2 NY twin towers have collpsed down.The Pentagon is burning....I hope Bush can handle this and we have no more unbelievable tragedy...I really pray that there is no world war 3...this is very serious.
My love to everyone affected...although we all are.
My bro was flying to NY for vacation today...I don't jnow where his plane is now...I hope he calls soon.
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Guys it's important!Turn CNN on...I'm in Spain,you'll probably get better news than me.It's a world problem!!!Hope all NYC members are Ok...as well as family and friends.
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2001 9:08 am
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oh my god! there's not a lot that i can say other than that! my heart is broken for everyone in the US today!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!!!! my heart is broken! i don't know anyone personally that was due to fly anywhere today, but my heart is breaking for everyone!!! you know, why in the hell do people have to do this?? if you want to make a point, good for you, but blow yourself up, don't kill innocent people that weren't even involved!!!
this is just SICK!!!!!
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2001 9:11 am
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Hey Nazareth,
That is tragic news about New York and the Pentagon. My prayes go out to all the families and friends and loved ones.
I hope your brother,and e-factor,are safe.
*Care & Concern*
To the online members of the MarkWahlberg chat affected by this tragedy...just letting you know that
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In complete shock. I don't know what to say. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone.
Nazareth, I just turned on the tv and heard a few minutes ago myself, but as things become more clear I will post some info. Thus far, it seems that a plane struck one building, though I'm not entirely sure which. Both building of the World Trade Center have collapsed. Peter Jennings mentioned a group that may be responsible, but I don't know how to spell the persons name (Bin Lahden...that's how it's pronounced).
Please post more info for Nazareth if you have it guys, ok?
If anyone else has more in
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Ok..it was 8 in the morning,people heade to work in Wall Street when an American Airlines plane crashed against North twin tower in NYC trde center.5 minutes later another plane crashed.Time passed by.The pentagon suffered another atack,and half the building collpased.White House has been evacuated.Twin towers finally both collapsed down,fisrt south,second north.
President bush confirms it's a terrorist atack.
2 planes are now missing(American Airlines).They fear for another atack.
Number of victims is still not known.
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I'm well informed now ,thanks...CNN spain is doing a good job.
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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2001 10:16 am
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unfortunately it's both towers of the world trade center that were hit by hijacked planes
they showed the second one live on the news and they keep showing it
it looks so fake! unfortunately we all know that it's real
i can't believe that people are so sick!!!!
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I'm in the middle of Times Square right now - and all i can say is this is the worst experience in my life. I'm going places like this site because anything that can take my mind off it, the better. I'm so totally sicked and frightened it's unthinkable. Please everyone pray for those of us here and everyone in involved and the horrific numbers downtown that are wiped out.
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kim, girl, thank you so much for posting!!! i was worried about you!! i can't imagine what you are feeling right now. i mean, i'm thousands of miles away, but still my heart breaks! i can't imagine being there!
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It's totally crazy. I mean, I just went outside and you look up and there's NO trade center. There's nothing but smoke and people in the streets. The death toll rises every five minutes and the city is running out of blood. Jets are flying over and it's so surreal. So shocking and tragic. Weird that today is 9/11 - 911. Sick coincidence?
There aren't enough tears to cover this tragedy.
Thank you for your hugs.
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shawn pointed that out after we heard the news, that it's 9/11... 911
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This is really seriouse. It is the begginig of something horrible!!! I have been talking latly to some friends (we all have predictions once in a while) and some of them said that something horrible would happen to New York between the dates of 10´th and 18´th of september 2001! I´m just really chocked....I only pray for everyone in New York and the US...I don´t have any realatives there but alot of friends...This is really one of the most terrible things that has happenend in our century.
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I have to say.. i am about to cry for years.. Each time i drive into the city or take the train from BKLYN.. i always glance at my BEAUTIFUL CITY NYC*, and its so heartaching to say that those 2 buildings will no longer exist. Instead absolute emptiness. You know everytime you see a picture of NYC, you see those buildings, and knowing they wont be there anymore, defintitly leaves you heartbroken. I LOvE my city, and i hope we do go to war. They said like ARABS are to blame for this terrorist attack, and im sorry to any innocent arabs in here. BUt your people will go down, and i will help. Because no one, and i mean no one messes with my city and gets away with it.
Ya Heard!
Besides when i heard that a flight from Boston 2 L.A. was hijacked and crashed.. My first thought. OMG! Mark, and thank god he wasnt on that flight.
This is not over...
I am sooo Pissed.
If anyone in the NYC area wants to help. I will be helping ( volunteering )
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oh my god, i saw on CNN... the palestinians are CELEBRATING the attack!!! OH MY GOD!!!! how in the hell can ANYONE celebrate this!?!
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About BMC
No other brand makes framesets as visually distinctive as BMC. The Integrated Skeleton technology that gives such a unique look to their frames is also a key structural element. Ride a BMC and you'll experience a combination of lateral stiffness, shock damping and lightness unlike anything you've ever ridden. Not unlike the Onda fork and seatstay you see on the Pinarello Dogma Carbon, the radical shaping of BMC's tubesets are the first thing people talk about when they see a Pro Machine SLR 01 or Race Master RM 01. And like Pinarello's Onda, this visually startling detail isn't just there for looks. It serves a vital function in providing a BMC frame with its dynamic ride -- stiff enough for dramatic accelerations, light enough to provide a distinct advantage on an Alpine climb, and compliant enough to smooth out rough, rural roads. And BMC doesn't reserve innovation for their top-dollar frames only. With designs like the Streampost integrated seatmast, you get futuristic design, authentic benefit, and pure beauty in less-costly bikes like the Race Master SLX 01 and Road Racer SL 01.
Few brands have invested more money or shown more of a commitment to CAD analysis and computer simulations during development and production, and stress testing of the final product. BMC's ability to transform a chalkboard idea into a sophisticated bicycle isn't just a road phenomenon. As evidenced by the Advanced Pivot System suspension and the carbon construction of the Fourstroke and Speedfox, as well as the wicked lightness of the Team Elite, BMC's Swiss Precision is just as single-minded in the mountain bike realm to create a beautiful bike that delivers unmatched performance.


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Remember how weird it was when you first learned your childhood TV nerds were actually stupid? Like Tracey Gold, who seemed so smart on Growing Pains, and Jessie Spano a.k.a. Elizabeth Berkley, whose poignant account in yesterday's Page Six Magazine of how she got roped into Showgirls nearly brought us to excited, scared tears. Click the pic for the choice quotes.
"If you just looked at it on paper, it felt like a no-brainer." After all, the Basic Instinct team of director Paul Verhoeven and writer Joe Eszterhas had just made Sharon Stone a household name. Her only concerns at the time were simple, she says. "I thought, 'Do I feel comfortable with this director? Do I feel like I will be protected in this?' Those things all felt like 'yes' prior to filming. After filming, I can't say I felt that way." Because there, of course, is when the media skewered the movie, unanimously crowning it the year's worst film.
"I think that was the part where I felt let down. I didn't feel like any of the filmmakers had my back when it came up — at all. Nobody stood up and said a word when the media was being so mean." She was all of 20 at the time. The actres says she took the Showgirls fallout on her own, promoting the film single-handedly when the other players backed out. "I didn't want to run away and hide. It was a nasty moment, but I found out what I was made of, I'll tell you that for sure."
Of course, these days Showgirls is recognized for the cinematic achievement it was and is one of MGM's Top 20-selling DVDs of all time.


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True, but voting on a post that will be erased is not too effective either. There should be some other way to alert vroom of trolls which are inherently different than bad posts in the manner that trolls should be erased while a low rep post might bring up a misconception that everyone should be reading about. In that case, I would keep the misconception and scrap the troll even though they may have the same -- rep. Well, the trolls have so far few and far between trolls, so I'm not too worried, but I see it as a potentially serious problem (since it's just really easy...)
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Some 9 million American families lost their homes to foreclosure during the late 2000s housing bust, driving many to economic ruin and in search of new residences. Hardest hit were black, Latino, and racially integrated neighborhoods, according to a new Cornell University analysis of the crisis.
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With the presidential campaign kicking into high gear after the conventions, we thought it would be interesting to look at just how well compensated the commander in chief is these days compared with his original counterparts.
Along the way, we compared the wages and benefits of other political and private-sector jobs. The results aren't perfect. After all, there are many factors that go into compensation besides straight salary.
Comparing the original 1789 annual presidential salary of $25,000 with today's $400,000 is not as easy as it looks. The simple way is to calculate what 1789 dollars would be worth today. But over the years, Congress has added perks like expense accounts, a pension and money for staff salaries that have made the presidency more lucrative.
Accounting for all the factors is more art than science, but the results provide an interesting glimpse into how times have changed, from the earliest days of the republic.
And then there are all those modern-day federal employees below the office of the president. Much is made about how "bloated" salaries are compared to the private sector. But that depends on how you look at the data. We take a look at that issue, as well, in How Much Do They Earn? From Presidents to Privates:
1800: $25,000 per year
Today: $400,000 per year
George Washington received $25,000 per year while holding the nation's highest office. Since George W. Bush took office, the chief executive has been paid $400,000. That $25,000 would be equivalent to a salary of about $300,000 today. (These figures are not set in stone. One inflation calculator, at Measuring Worth, more than doubles the worth of that $25,000 today.) But Barack Obama and other recent presidents have had much more money at their disposal. For one, there's a $50,000 expense account, as well as other money to pay for official duties like entertaining and travel. In addition, Congress has provided a generous pension and money to pay staff members during the transition back to private life. For instance, Bill Clinton is expected to receive $6 million in pension during his lifetime.
1800: $6 per diem
Today: $174,00 per year
Of all the high-profile jobs in the U.S. government, this one has almost certainly seen the biggest change in pay. Even with the inflation rate accounted for, that $6 per diem only comes to about $75 today, barely enough to hit a trendy D.C. hot spot for lunch. Of course, the founding fathers never envisioned legislators working fulltime as they do now (in between raising campaign funds, that is). The compensation for senators and congressmen is so complicated it takes the Congressional Research Service 12 pages to explain it. Other benefits include health and life insurance, retirement benefits, a mileage allowance for travel to Washington for sessions, franking privileges. That's not everything, but it's enough to see the job pays better than it did in the 1st Congress.
Supreme Court Justice
1800: $3,500 per year
Today: $213,900 per year
The original salary of a justice on the nation's highest court, which was the same as members of the president's Cabinet, would be worth about $44,000 today. So there's been a big upgrade in relative pay. Add to that access to the same health benefits members of Congress have and the compensation these days is clearly better. And then there's the generous pension. In 1869, Congress granted federal judges full pay for their entire retirement. The idea behind that was to encourage the judges, who are appointed for life, to step down from the bench.
Army Private
1861: $156 per year
Today: $17,892 per year
Early pay for military personnel is difficult to find, although a private in the British Army during the Revolution was paid 8 pence a day. A paltry sum considering the risks. More solid data can be found for the Civil War. By then Congress had created a framework for military pay. Privates didn't make much in 1861 (the pay translates to $3,700 today) and they don't make much today. There are more benefits today, however. Soldiers and their families receive medical and dental care at little or no cost, as well as life insurance benefits. The GI Bill offers help paying for college for veterans. Both the Civil War vets and their modern counterparts were allotted pensions based on factors including rank and length of service.
Bankers: 19th Century vs. Today
Financial data for companies in the earliest days of the country is scarce. However, Bloomberg News Service used documents from states to put together what it called a "Fortune 500" list for the infant nation. Banks and insurance companies dominated the list, with the Bank of the United States and Bank of America (unrelated to its modern namesake) taking the top two spots. Two banks, City Bank of New York and the Manhattan Co., survive today as part of Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase respectively. Finding the annual salary of the early bankers was a fruitless pursuit, but the wealth they compiled was staggering. A case in point is Moses Taylor, the second president of City Bank. When he died in 1918 at 67, his net worth was $77 million (about $1.3 billion today), more than 1/1000th of GDP. That might make Citgroup's current CEO, Vikram Pandit, envious. His net worth has been estimated at $60 million, and he has faced a lawsuit over executive compensation. He currently ears $15 million per year.
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Civil Service vs. Private Sector Employees
We wanted to see if those in the Civil Service really make out like bandits. It turns out that in literal terms, federal workers do make much more than private workers, although not double as some critics have claimed. But the comparison is not apples to apples. Most of the difference in pay, according to factcheck.org and the Bureau of Labor Analysis, is because federal jobs generally require people with higher skills and more education. Adding to the disparity has been the shift of many blue-collar government jobs to private contractors. Government workers are twice as likely to have a bachelor's degree.
Factcheck.org looked at the BLA's statistics for 2009 and 2010 and arrived at an average salary and compensation of between $109,000 and $116,000. Drilling down further, it turns out the lower-skilled employees, such as secretaries, make slightly more in pay than their private counterparts. On the other hand, higher-skilled workers make less. The biggest pay disparity is for Cabinet secretaries, who in 2009 each earned $199,700. That is a paltry sum compared with Fortune 500 CEOs in the private sector. They earned an average of $11 million in 2009.
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NEW ORLEANS - Linebacker Luke Kuechly, Carolina's tackling machine, has won the Associated Press 2012 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award.
Kuechly, a first-round pick from Boston College, led the league with 164 tackles. He began the season on the outside but moved to middle linebacker five games into the season and the Panthers went from 24th in the league in overall defence to 10th.
He earned 28 votes from a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the league. That easily outdistanced Seattle LB Bobby Wagner with 11.
Green Bay cornerback Casey Hayward got six votes, while St. Louis CB Janoris Jenkins got three. Tampa Bay LB Lavonte David got the other two votes.
He is the second Panther to win the award; DE Julius Peppers got it in 2002.
Kuechly accepted his award Saturday night at the "2nd Annual NFL Honors" awards show on CBS saluting the NFL's best players, performances and plays from the 2012 season.
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Questions on differing state, federal laws
Driver's licenses for some young illegal immigrants in Ohio are being blocked by state officials questioning whether a new federal program gives the immigrants temporary legal status.
The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reports that Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles offices apparently are reaching differing conclusions about those immigrants' status.
The federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program established last year by President Barack Obama's administration gives immigrants who came here illegally as children two years of legal status, allowing work permits and Social Security numbers.
Some states are issuing driver's licenses to those in the federal program, and others are not.
A spokesman for Ohio's Department of Public Safety, which oversees the BMV, says the department's lawyers are trying to determine whether the federal program "coincides" with state law.


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Since the bombing of the Boston marathon – in which three people, including a child, were killed and more than 200 injured – attention has naturally focused on what could have been done to prevent it.
Some, such as Rep. Peter King, the New York Republican who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, have argued for increased surveillance of Muslims in the United States. Local police departments "have to realize that the threat is coming from the Muslim community and increase surveillance there," he says.
Others have asked whether leads were properly followed and if better sharing of information between agencies would have helped thwart the bombing.
However, the government, with its $40 billion annual intelligence budget, already amasses vast quantities of information on the private lives of Muslims in the United States. The FBI has 3,000 intelligence analysts working on counterterrorism and 15,000 paid informants, according to Mother Jones.
Exactly how many of them are focused on Muslims in the United States is unknown; there is little transparency in this area. But, given the emphasis the FBI has placed on preventing Muslim terrorism, and based on my interviews with FBI agents working on counterterrorism, there could be as many as two-thirds assigned to spying on Muslims.
Taking the usual estimate of the Muslim population in the United States of 2.35 million, this would mean the FBI has a spy for every 200 Muslims in the United States. When one adds the resources of the National Security Agency, regional intelligence fusion centers, and the counterterrorism work of local police departments, such as the New York Police Department (where a thousand officers are said to work on counterterrorism and intelligence), the number of spies per Muslim may increase dramatically. East Germany's communist-era secret police, the Stasi, had one intelligence analyst or informant for every 66 citizens. This suggests that Muslims in the United States could be approaching levels of state surveillance similar to that which the East German population faced from the Stasi.
Yet, as the Stasi itself eventually discovered, no system of surveillance can ever produce total knowledge of a population. Indeed, the greater the amount of information collected, the harder it is to interpret its meaning. In the majority of terrorist attacks in recent years, the relevant information was somewhere in the government's systems, but its significance was lost amid a morass of useless data.
What is obscured by the demands for ever greater surveillance and information processing is that security is best established through relationships of trust and inclusion within the community. The real missed opportunity to intervene before the bombs went off in Boston likely came three months earlier, when bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev stood up during a Friday prayer service at his mosque – the Islamic Society of Boston, in Cambridge – to angrily protest the imam's sermon.
The imam had been celebrating the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which Tsarnaev thought was selling out. According to one report, Tsarnaev was then kicked out of the prayer service for his outburst.
Since 9/11, mosque leaders have been under pressure to eject anyone expressing radical views, rather than engaging with them and seeking to challenge their religious interpretation, address their political frustrations, or meet their emotional needs.
That policy has been forced on mosques by the wider climate of excessive surveillance, which means mosques are wary of even having conversations with those perceived to be radicals, for fear of attracting official attention.
The fear is that every mosque has a government informant listening for radical talk. Unsurprisingly, this means most people are reluctant to engage with young people expressing radical views, who instead tend to be ejected from the congregation.
The Tsarnaev brothers were said to be angry about U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan and Iraq, possibly drawing parallels with their own experiences as refugees from Russia's brutal wars of counterinsurgency in the Caucasus. But because discussions of foreign policy have been off-limits in mosques since 9/11, they were unlikely to have had their anger acknowledged, engaged, challenged or channeled into nonviolent political activism.
The heavy surveillance of Muslims has meant there is no room for mosques to engage with someone like Tamerlan Tsarnaev, listen to him, challenge those of his ideas that might be violent, or offer him emotional support. Instead, Muslims have felt pressured to demonstrate their loyalty to America by steering clear of dissident conversations on foreign policy.
Flawed models of the so-called "radicalization" process have assumed that the best way to stop terrorist violence is to prevent radical ideas from circulating. Yet the history of terrorism suggests the opposite is true.
Time and again, support for terrorism appears to increase when legitimate political activism is suppressed – from the French anarchists who began bombing campaigns after the defeat of the Paris Commune, to the Algerian National Liberation Front struggling to end French colonialism, to the Weather Underground's "Declaration of a state of war" after state repression of student campaigns against the Vietnam War.
Reconstructing the motivation for the bombings is fraught with difficulty; there can be little certainty in such matters. But pathological outcomes are more likely when space for the free exchange of feelings and opinions is squeezed.
As many community activists and religious leaders argued in Britain in the aftermath of the 7/7 terrorist attacks on the London transport system in 2005, the best preventive measure is to enable anger, frustration and dissent to be expressed as openly as possible, rather than driving them underground where they more easily mutate into violent forms.
These activists put this approach into practice, for example at the Brixton mosque in south London, by developing initiatives in the community to engage young people in discussions of foreign policy, identity and the meaning of religious terms like jihad, in order to counter those who advocate violence against fellow citizens. It is difficult to measure the success of such programs. But many see them as having played an important role in undermining support for terrorism. In what must seem a paradox to backers of East German levels of surveillance like Peter King, more radical talk might be the best way of reducing terrorist violence.
No one could have predicted from Tsarnaev's outburst that, a few months later, he would be suspected of carrying out an act of mass murder on the streets of Boston. And we don't know what would have made a difference in the end. But a community able to express itself openly without fear, whether in the mosque or elsewhere, should be a key element in the United States' efforts to prevent domestic terrorism.
Original article published on CNN.com.


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Eyewitness Booze Investigation: Early Times Mint Julep
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
You guys know Meredith Smith, right? The fried chicken chick? She's from Kentucky. I met her after she moved north to undergo a protracted and dangerous regimen of book-learnin' and shoe-wearin', but she retains about as much Kentuckianity as seems advisable in one small package.
I love bourbon and horse gambling and funny talk, so I figure Kentucky must be the place for me, but I've never actually been; Meredith goes back every 6 weeks for another cousin's wedding, but apparently her "+1" needs to have a few zeros attached before she even considers letting me tag along to a family affair. But that's all right, because at least I made the cut for her Kentucky Derby party Saturday (though not before she quintuple-checked that I would be adequately chaperoned; yes, Emily the girlfriend/research assistant is fancy-hat shopping as I type).
I love going to the horse track. I used to live near Suffolk Downs in East Boston, and one of my favorite after-work activities was jogging the couple miles to the track, losing $12 on two bets and two wax-paper cups of Bud, then taking the subway home. The track is one of the few places in judgmental-as-heaven Boston where you needn't worry about making the wrong impression should you roll up to the bar panting and perspiring and rummaging through your sweatpockets for your soggy beer singles. I get the impression Churchill Downs is a different sort of operation, but that shouldn't affect my scuzzy track routine: Meredith's party is taking place 1,000 miles from Louisville, plus there's no way she'll let me sit on the furniture no matter how dry my pants are.
One thing that will be different is that I'll finally get to drink a real mint julep. Yup, I'm a bourbon-loving, track-going, Kentuckian-befriending booze columnist who's never had a proper mint julep. Fraud alert! Look, I'd be all for drinking mint and complication if someone else wanted to do the herb gathering and ice shaving, but no one in my life ever has. The people who make Early Times Kentucky Whisky make a premixed facsimile, though, and the people who market it sent me a bottle. Close enough?
Early Times Kentucky Whisky Mint Julep is the "official drink of the 137th Kentucky Derby," which would be impressive if I didn't think topping their bid by $1 could make Will's Old Crow, Lemon, and Seltzer the official drink of the 138th. Although then I'd have to commission a painting for the commemorative bottle, and I doubt I could match the Early Timers there. This is pretty packaging. But so what?
Good news: The gift is nearly as nice as the wrapping. This is my favorite premade cocktail or flavored liquor or whatever you want to call it. You know what I mean: It's better than Kid Rock's Cherry Jim Beam, for instance, and incomparably superior to any of canned, low-watt, ready-to-drink cocktails I've had recently. Of course, Early Times Mint Julep has an unfair advantage over the single-serve premixes because it's 60 proof. At that medium-high level of commitment, there's much less "natural flavoring" getting in the way of the good stuff.
The label recommends pouring your cheater's julep over crushed ice and garnishing with a mint sprig, but that seems like a bit much bother for a premixed drink. I tried it neat, over ice, and with soda water, and it was plenty fine every time.
The mint element is stronger than I'd like, since it comes across as just a little fake—more like a stick of chewing gum than a muddled mint leaf—and I'd rather get more of the uncut Early Times whisky character. And it's sweeter than it should be, too, but that actually works in its favor if you seltzer it down by a couple ounces and chug it like soda pop, which is what I'll do if I'm cut off from the real stuff before the race starts. Pounding booze might strike my refined Southern hostess as insufficiently genteel, but the Kentucky Derby's only two minutes long, and never let it be said that I nursed one drink through an entire sporting event.


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Connecticut gun maker moving to South Carolina
BRISTOL >> Less than a week after Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed gun restrictions into law in April, gun manufacturer PTR Industries said it intended to leave the state to avoid the damage it expected to be inflicted on its business.
On Wednesday, the rifle manufacturer kept its promise, announcing it will move to Aynor, S.C.
"One hundred percent of our product line is now illegal in Connecticut due to that law," said John McNamara, the company's vice president for sales.
He offered few details of the relocation, saying that a formal announcement and ribbon-cutting are scheduled for Monday at the new site. Most of the company's 41 workers will relocate and the labor force is expected to expand to 100 within a year, McNamara said.
"It will be as fast a transition as we can without interrupting production," he said.
Malloy and legislators negotiated for months to craft new gun restrictions following the killings of 20 children and six educators in Newtown last December. The legislation that emerged expanded the state's ban on assault weapons, banned ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds, broadened background checks and made other changes.
Executives at other gun manufacturers say they've been in touch with states seeking to lure the businesses from New England, which has had an arms manufacturing presence dating to the Revolutionary War.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry made a splashy visit to Connecticut on Monday, meeting with gun manufacturers and other businesses and talking up the Lone Star State. South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard made a more low-key trip to Connecticut this week to drum up new business for his state.
Andrew Doba, a spokesman for Malloy, said the governor has made job creation a top priority but in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook killings, ensuring public safety was critical.
"We're out there every single day competing for jobs," he said. "But on this particular issue the governor decided to prioritize public safety and the gun violence prevention law he signed will improve public safety."
Bristol Mayor Art Ward told WTNH-TV that he recognizes the business issues confronting PTR. "We understand. We wish it wouldn't happen," he said.
McNamara said the gun issue was not the only draw, and that although he's familiar with South Carolina from travels to meet customers, he expects the move from New England will not be without its problems.
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The Republican tax bill looks set to pass next week, possibly with unanimous GOP support, after Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Bob Corker both said Friday they'll vote yes.
Rubio said he'll support the bill after changes were made to the child tax credit (more on that below). Corker was the only Republican to break ranks when the Senate approved its version of the bill earlier this month, essentially making him the last deficit hawk standing in the Senate GOP caucus. Corker had said he would not vote for a plan "adding one penny to the deficit" and he called the rising national debt "the greatest threat to our nation." He explained Friday why he is now supporting the massive tax cuts, despite the $1 trillion or more they'll add to that debt:
"After great thought and consideration, I believe that this once-in-a-generation opportunity to make U.S. businesses domestically more productive and internationally more competitive is one we should not miss," he said in a statement, adding, "In the end, after 11 years in the Senate, I know every bill we consider is imperfect and the question becomes is our country better off with or without this piece of legislation. I think we are better off with it. I realize this is a bet on our country's enterprising spirit, and that is a bet I am willing to make."
Lawmakers working to merge the House and Senate versions of the bill signed off on it earlier Friday following a last-minute tweak to expand the child tax credit. Republican tax writers had proposed to double the credit to as much as $2,000 per child, but many families would not have qualified for the full amount, with some only getting up to $1,100.
The final version of the bill increases the refundable portion from $1,100 to $1,400, a move intended to win back the support of Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who criticized the tax writers for prioritizing the wealthy and corporations over working families and said he would vote no on the final bill without a "meaningfully higher" portion of the credit being refundable.
The changes were enough to secure the votes of Rubio and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who had also pushed for a more generous credit, even though they reportedly did not include one tweak the two senators had sought: making the credit refundable from the first dollar earned instead of earnings above $2,500, which would have put more money in the pockets of the lowest-income earners.
It wasn't immediately clear how Republicans offset the increased cost of the expanded credit.