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Strafford is a town in Orange county, Vermont. It was formed in 1761 in N.H. The probate district for Strafford is Bradford, while the court district is Orange. For more information, contact the town at 227 Justin Morrill Hwy, P.O. Box 27, Strafford 05072. On the attached map, Strafford is shown as 16 in Orange county.
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Tigers' Kelly continues to bedevil Masterson
Detroit outfielder caps five-run rally; Tribe offense held to one run
CLEVELAND -- The Indians have built their season to this point around resilience. Knock them down, count them out, and they keep getting up and coming back for more.
On Tuesday, Detroit dropped Cleveland to the floor once more.
"We've got to do it again," first baseman Nick Swisher said.
In the wake of Tuesday's 5-1 loss to the Tigers, the Tribe is looking for a way to get back on its feet. Detroit's dominance over Cleveland this season continued courtesy of a stellar outing from ace Justin Verlander and outfielder Don Kelly's unexplainable ownership of Indians starter Justin Masterson.
The defeat dropped the Indians five games behind the first-place Tigers in the American League Central and extended Detroit's winning streak to 10 games. Now, instead of using this four-game series as an opportunity to steal the top seed from the Tigers' grasp, the Indians can only hope for a series split with two games left to play.
On the season, Cleveland has just three wins in 14 meetings with Detroit.
"These guys have put it on us pretty good," Swisher said. "We need to get them a couple times."
Kelly provided the fatal blow.
"He's definitely been a thorn in our side," manager Terry Francona said.
The average baseball fan might not know much about Kelly. Around Cleveland, though, children who dare utter his name risk being sent to their rooms without supper. Facing Masterson, Kelly cursed the Indians once again, launching a critical three-run homer in a game-changing fifth inning.
Kelly entered the evening with a .232 average over the course of his career in the big leagues, but the light-hitting left fielder has feasted on Masterson. The latest example came on Tuesday, when Kelly improved his career mark against Masterson to .458 with two homers, eight RBIs and no strikeouts.
Masterson had no way of explaining Kelly's success.
"He loves facing me," Masterson said. "If I was Superman, he'd be my kryptonite. Especially this year, with a couple of homers. I guess there's always a guy. He salivates when I get up there."
Kelly singled twice within the first four innings, but Masterson minimized the damage through that stretch. That included an impressive escape act in the second inning, when the Tigers loaded the bases with no outs. Masterson used a pair of strikeouts and an inning-ending groundout off the bat of Ramon Santiago to escape unscathed.
Masterson's nightmare began in the fifth.
The chain of events began innocently enough, with Santiago squaring around for a bunt attempt. Masterson yanked a slider too far inside, and it struck Santiago in the left knee. Austin Jackson followed with a single and Torii Hunter sent Santiago home with a fielder's-choice groundout, pulling the game into a 1-1 deadlock.
Detroit pushed ahead, 2-1, when slugger Miguel Cabrera launched a pitch from Masterson to deep center field and off the wall for a run-scoring double. Two batters later, Masterson's slider -- such an overpowering pitch all season long -- betrayed him again. This time it darted down and in on Victor Martinez, who took a painful blow to the right foot.
"Hitting those two guys on some sliders," Masterson said, "really yanking them, taking them over there, that was probably the thing I was most upset about."
Martinez dropped to the ground and winced in pain while Masterson headed back up the hill to await an ill-fated meeting with his Tigers nemesis.
Kelly pulled a 93-mph fastball, sending it arcing high over right field and into the seats for a three-run homer. Masterson did not flinch following that blast, giving Cleveland seven innings, with six strikeouts and two walks.
The four-run lead that Kelly provided, however, proved damaging enough and sufficient for Verlander.
"We get to Kelly, and he hits the home run," Francona said. "That kind of spread the game out a little bit. Other than that, Masty was really good. But you give them an opening, that's what they can do."
Verlander cruised through eight innings, ending with seven strikeouts and no walks, his lone blemish coming in the second inning. Michael Brantley reached with a single and eventually scored on a groundout from Ryan Raburn, putting the Tribe ahead, 1-0.
That is where Cleveland's push ended.
The Tribe threatened for a moment in the sixth inning after Yan Gomes was hit by a pitch from Verlander and Michael Bourn followed with a single. Detroit's ace locked in and -- even after Bourn stole second base -- set down the next three hitters in order to halt Cleveland's rally.
"Every game's a big game, but especially against the guys that are chasing us," Verlander said. "They've been playing extremely well; so have we. We know it's going to be a battle this series and it's not over with, but obviously getting off and winning the first two is a great start. You can't ask for a better start than that."
Swisher passed up the opportunity to praise Verlander's performance.
"I don't necessarily think it's who we're facing," Swisher said. "We're just not getting the job done -- that's it. So regardless of whoever is on the mound, we've got to find a way to get the job done."
Masterson said it's important for the Indians to focus on the big picture beyond just the games against Detroit.
"We've got two more against these guys, but we've got another 50 games left," Masterson said. "Yeah, we want to win these games, and we're definitely going to come out and hopefully split the series, but the main factor is going to be, as we continue on with the season, winning games we're supposed to.
"If we can't do that, there's no point even if we beat Detroit. That's kind of the main factor."

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Species: Caramel Xocomel
Birthday: Saturday, December 19, 2015
Owner: Tyrannogon
Xocomels grow up extraordinarily fast, probably because they are in constant danger of being eaten. When fully grown, these strange creatures are roughly the length of one's palm. They give birth to only one other xocomel, and before long, these wonderfully strange creatures are gone for the year. Most people around the castle enjoy sweets and candy, and so the arrival of the xocomels is a welcome one. They come in two varities, and are easy to tell apart from each other. The xocomels that are all chocolate have paler colors, and their spots are red. The other xocomels taste of caramel, have golden heads and tails, and the spots along their sides are the same color. Both types blend in quite easily with their surroundings, making them even harder to find. It is fortunate, or perhaps planned, that these creatures show no interest in leaving The Keep, because gryphons are very allergic to chocolate. As it is, the dogs show some interest in eating the xocomels. Whenever a chocolate or caramel xocomel is being chased by an animal, the xocomel somehow manages to become even faster, evading capture. Naturally, xocomels need to eat rather a lot to maintain the energy necessary for their running around all the time. These creatures desire nothing more than sneaking into the kitchens and feasting on whatever treats they can find; sugar, cinnamon, and particularly caramel. Despite their lives being so short, they are some of the most cheerful creatures at The Keep, and they always seem to be grinning.
There are many wild newts and salamanders around The Keep, living in damp, muddy spots near rivers. They are as normal as could be, busy hunting for bugs, covered in shiny scales. The newts that live in the castle, however, are quite different, and are not even called newts because of these differences. Xocomels appear only once a year, and remain for a short time before disappearing. The talk around the castle is that some magi must have conjured them up, hoping to spread the spirit of Halloween. Whoever this person is, no one knows, but the xocomels are welcome entertainment. Xocomels are certainly not creatures that appear in nature, as they are actually edible and will melt if they remain too long in the sun. If captured, they turn at once into lifeless chocolate, and remain motionless in one's hand. Some enjoy eating them, as they are not truly alive when they are first purchased. It is common practice for friends to exchange these creatures. People from as far away as Synara city arrive to sample them, though if the xocomels are removed from the castle they lose the magic that keeps them alive, and they turn back into beautiful chocolates. If one wishes to see a xocomel, they had better be quick enough to catch one, or buy one before Remy is sold out.
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Although there is considerable uncertainty about the physical changes and response of the various freshwater and marine species, it is possible to suggest how certain species may respond to projected climate changes over the next 50-100 years. The uncertainties highlight the importance of research to separate the impacts of changing climate from natural population fluctuations and fishing effects. Many commercial finfish populations already are under pressure (e.g., overexploited), and global change may be of minor concern compared with the impacts of ongoing and future commercial fishing and human use or impacts on the coastal zone. Further, changes in the variability of climate may have more serious consequences on the abundance and distribution of fisheries than changes in mean conditions alone (Katz and Brown, 1992), and changes in future climate variability are poorly understood at this time.
Fish, including shellfish, respond directly to climate fluctuations, as well as to changes in their biological environment (predators, prey, species interactions, disease) and fishing pressures. Although this multiforcing sometimes makes it difficult to establish unequivocal linkages between changes in the physical environment and the responses of fish or shellfish stocks, some effects are clear (see reviews by Cushing and Dickson, 1976; Bakun et al., 1982; Cushing, 1982; Sheppard et al., 1984; Sissenwine, 1984; and Sharp, 1987). These effects include changes in the growth and reproduction of individual fish, as well as the distribution and abundance of fish populations. In terms of abundance, the influence occurs principally through effects on recruitment (how many young survive long enough to potentially enter the fishery) but in some cases may be related to direct mortality of adult fish.
Fish carrying capacity in aquatic ecosystems is a function of the biology of a particular species and its interrelationship with its environment and associated species. Specific factors that regulate the carrying capacity are poorly known for virtually all species, but some general statements can be made with some confidence. Fish are affected by their environment through four main processes (Sheppard et al., 1984):
Fish are influenced not only by temperature and salinity conditions but also by mixing and transport processes (e.g., mixing can affect primary production by promoting nutrient replenishment of the surface layers; it also can influence the encounter rate between larvae and prey organisms). Ichthyoplankton (fish eggs and larvae) can be dispersed by the currents, which may carry them into or away from areas of good food production, or into or out of optimal temperature or salinity conditions-and perhaps, ultimately determine whether they are lost to the original population.
Climate is only one of several factors that regulate fish abundance. Managers attempt to model abundance trends in relation to fishing effects in order to sustain fisheries. In theory, a successful model could account for global warming impacts along with other impacts without understanding them. For many species of fish, the natural mortality rate is an inverse function of age: Longer-lived fish will be affected by natural changes differently than shorter-lived fish. If the atmosphere-freshwater-ocean regime is stable for a particular time, it is possible to estimate the age-specific mortality rates for a species of interest. However, at least some parts of the atmosphere-freshwater-ocean system are prone to oscillations on a decadal scale, which may not be cyclical. These natural changes occur globally; thus, they will have impacts on the freshwater and marine ecosystems that support North American fish populations. Under natural conditions, it may be expected that the different life histories of these fish will result in different times of adjustment to a new set of environmental conditions.
Any effects of climate change on fisheries are expected to be most pronounced in sectors that already are characterized by full utilization, large overcapacities of harvesting and processing, and sharp conflicts among users and competing uses of aquatic ecosystems. Climate change impacts, including changes in natural climate variability on seasonal to interannual time scales, are likely to exacerbate existing stresses on fish stocks. The effectiveness of actions to reduce the decline of fisheries depends on our ability to distinguish among these stresses and other causes of change and on our ability to effectively deal with those over which we have control or for which we have adaptation options. This ability is insufficient at present; although the effects of environmental variability are increasingly recognized, the contribution of climate change to such variability is not yet clear.
Recreational fishing is a highly valued activity that could incur losses in some regions as a result of climate-induced changes in fisheries.
Recreational fishing is a highly valued activity within North America. In the United States, for example, 45 million anglers participate annually; they contribute to the economy through spending on fishing and related activities (US$24 billion in 1991). The net economic effect of changes in recreational fishing opportunities as a result of climate-induced changes in fisheries is dependent on whether projected gains in cool- and warm-water fisheries offset losses in cold-water fisheries. Work by Stefan et al. (1993) suggests mixed results for the United States, ranging from annual losses of US$85-320 million to benefits of about US$80 million under a number of GCM projections. A sensitivity analysis (U.S. EPA, 1995) was conducted to test the assumption of costless transitions across these fisheries. This analysis assumed that best-use cold-water fishery losses caused by thermal changes were effectively lost recreational services. Under this assumption, all scenarios resulted in damages, with losses of US$619-1,129 million annually.
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With New York Fashion Week just nine days away, Ana Gilca is sneaking in any sleep while she can. "I went to see 'Django Unchained' yesterday and I fell asleep after 10 minutes," the Wilhelmina model says. "At the end, I woke up and my boyfriend was like, 'That was the best Tarantino movie ever.'" After a two-year hiatus, the 21-year-old is in full preparation mode for her runway return. WWD sat down with the Moldova native to get the scoop on her pre-fashion-week game plan.
WWD: What castings have you been to already?
Ana Gilca: Yesterday I had Marc Jacobs. I've known the casting director since I started, basically. The casting only took 10 minutes. I was the first one because I got there near the end so no one was waiting.
WWD: Have you ever done his show?
A.G.: I did New York two years ago, but not Marc Jacobs. I wish! But, I've done other shows. I did Christian Siriano, Tracy Reese, Rachel Roy. I did 12 shows, I think.
WWD: Why did you take a break from the runway?
A.G.: I changed my agency so I had to change everything. It took quite a while to do it. I am excited to get back. I've been waiting so much. You do so much prep for the show, but you get so much energy from the people. For me, it's more fun than editorial.
WWD: Do you try to eat well leading up to fashion week?
A.G.: Well, I just got a pizza yesterday. How healthy is that? Normally, I promise myself that I'm going to have a pizza and Coke after fashion week, but it just happened like that. Oops. I've got the excuse that it's too cold and I need energy, so pizza is perfect.
WWD: What have you learned from your past runway experience?
A.G.: To be patient. You need a lot of patience to keep doing it. It doesn't matter how tired you are, but I get something from that. I get energy.
WWD: How did you start modeling?
A.G.: Accidentally. I went for model courses in my country, but it's supposed to be for four months and I only had money for two. Then, for the first time in the history of my country, a French agency came. I didn't mean to go to the casting. I was just going to watch my friend and see how she did. Then [the agency] asked, 'Can you go with them?' And now my friend doesn't talk to me anymore. It happens.
WWD: What were your initial thoughts?
A.G.: For my first casting, I went dressed in sports stuff. I didn't know what modeling was! But they booked me, so that was weird. I came dressed like a boy in my baggy pants and was just like, "Hey, my name is Ana Gilca," because that's all I knew how to say in English at the time.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An attorney representing inmates at two California state prisons told a federal judge on Monday that an airborne fungus occurring in the San Joaquin Valley presents the deadly threat of valley fever and that thousands should be transferred immediately.
Warren George, of the Prison Law Office, said 18 inmates died in 2012 and January 2013 from complications relating to the fungus that causes valley fever and more inmates would die if the court waited any longer. "It will go on, delay means more death," George said.
But Walter Schneider, an attorney representing the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, told U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health should be allowed to complete a study of the issue before the court orders the transfer of 3,250 of 8,100 inmates at the prisons. Schneider said the study would be finished by December.
The judge made no immediate ruling Monday.
California Gov. Jerry Brown's administration has argued in court filings that it is impractical to move so many inmates while the state struggles to comply with another federal court order requiring it to reduce prison crowding statewide as a way to improve conditions for sick and mentally ill inmates.
Nearly three-dozen inmate deaths and hundreds of hospitalizations at Avenal and Pleasant Valley state prisons have been blamed on the fungus that causes valley fever. About half of the infections from the fungus produce no symptoms, while most of the rest can produce mild to severe flu-like symptoms. In a few cases the infection can spread from the lungs to the brain, bones, skin or eyes, causing blindness, skin abscesses, lung failure and occasionally death.
Medical studies have found that black, Filipino and medically at-risk inmates are more vulnerable to health problems from the illness, which is a fungal infection that originates in the region's soil. The disease is not known to spread from person to person.
The CDC says the number of valley fever cases rose by more than 850 percent nationwide from 1998 through 2011. Valley fever cases in California rose from about 700 in 1998 to more than 5,500 cases in 2011, with the biggest increase in the region where the two prisons are located.
Since 2005, the corrections department has known about what the experts called a "medical and public health emergency" at the two prisons, which sit about 10 miles apart and 175 miles southeast of San Francisco.
The state thwarted a previous study by the CDC in 2008 and balked at spending $750,000 for improvements at one of the prisons in 2007 because of the high cost. Yet the experts noted the state spends more than $23 million annually to treat inmates hospitalized with valley fever
The federal court-appointed official who controls prison medical care, J. Clark Kelso, has said that inmates who are particularly susceptible to the disease should be moved out of Avenal and Pleasant Valley state prisons.
Kelso and three court-appointed medical experts argued in court filings last month that the state's resistance not only is potentially deadly to vulnerable inmates, but demonstrates that California is not yet ready to retake control of inmate medical care in the state's 33 adult prisons.
The corrections department has already upgraded all its air filtration systems in the prisons' housing units and provided the staff and inmates additional medical training, Schneider said. He said the state is already in the process of transferring out certain high-risk inmates.
The state wants to move about 600 medically high-risk inmates out of the two prisons by August while experts study whether other steps can cut down on the dust that carries the fungus. That includes covering dusty areas, keeping more dust from entering buildings and giving surgical masks to inmates and employees who request them.


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Late last year, DiS did a rare thing (for us anyway), and tipped a new British band who had just signed to the legendary Sub Pop label. And now, their debut album is finally here and - as predicted when we got excited about their first few singles - it's a wonderful collection of tunes.
In his album review full of praise, DiS' Rob Leedham said:
"Since emerging from the ashes of Pull Tiger Tail, Marcus Pepperell and John Hamson, Jr. have churned out sherbert-coated joy like a pair of alt-pop Willy Wonkas. Combining the pomp and ceremony of Talking Heads with Everything Everything's rhythmic prowess, their early EPs were as jubilant as they were inventive. In a world where the Radio 1 playlist isn't run by a gaggle of fuckwits, 'Sound Of Screams' and 'Unkinder (A Tougher Love)' would only now have begun to tumble out of the Top 40; such is their infinite brilliance.
Rather than roll out a further 10 cavalcades of blaring synth and breathless guitar licks on Galore, Thumpers' debut album is more considered than you'd expect."
And now, with your appetite whet, we present you with a stream of the band's bloomin' marvellous debut album:
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Editor's Note: A recent Reuters news photograph of burning buildings in Beirut is a blatant fraud. The "news photo" shows unnatural repeating patterns in the smoke and buildings, almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop "clone" tool to add more smoke to the image. Click here to see amazing animated GIFs which show how Reuters doctored the photo -- a shocking violation of media ethics.
Large sections of the international media are not only misreporting the current conflict in Lebanon. They are also actively fanning the flames.
The BBC World Service has a strong claim to be the number-one villain. It has come to sound like a virtual propaganda tool for Hizbullah. And as it desperately attempts to prove that Israel is guilty of committing "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity," it has introduced a new charge - one which I have heard several times on air in recent days.
The newscaster reads out carefully selected "audience comments." Among these are invariably contained some version of the claim that "Israel's attack on Lebanon" will serve as a "recruitment" drive for al-Qaeda.
But if anything is going to win new recruits for the likes of Osama bin Laden, it will not be Israel's defensive actions, which are far less damaging than Western TV stations would have us believe, but the inflammatory and hopelessly one-sided way in which they are being reported by those very same news organizations.
While the slanted comments and interviews are bad enough, the degree of pictorial distortion is even worse. From the way many TV stations worldwide are portraying it, you would think Beirut has begun to resemble Dresden and Hamburg in the aftermath of World War II air raids. International television channels have used the same footage of Beirut over and over, showing the destruction of a few individual buildings in a manner which suggests half the city has been razed.
A careful look at aerial satellite photos of the areas targeted by Israel in Beirut shows that certain specific buildings housing Hizbullah command centers in the city's southern suburbs have been singled out. Most of the rest of Beirut, apart from strategic sites like airport runways used to ferry Hizbullah men and weapons in and out of Lebanon, has been left pretty much untouched.
From the distorted imagery, selective witness accounts, and almost round-the-clock emphasis on casualties, you would be forgiven for thinking that the level of death and destruction in Lebanon is on a par with that in Darfur, where Arab militias are slaughtering hundreds of thousands of non-Arabs, or with the 2004 tsunami that killed half a million in Southeast Asia.
In fact Israel has taken great care to avoid killing civilians -- even though this has proven extremely difficult and often tragically impossible, since members of Hizbullah, the self-styled "Party of God," have deliberately ensconced themselves in civilian homes. Nevertheless the civilian death toll has been mercifully low compared to other international conflicts in recent years.
CNN's Nic Robertson admitted that his anti-Israel report was stage-managed from start to finish by Hizbullah.
The BBC, which courtesy of the British tax payer is the world's biggest and most lavishly funded news organization, would of course never reveal how selective their reports are, since such a disclosure might spoil their campaign to demonize Israel and those who support her. But one senior British journalist, working for another company, last week let slip how the news media allows its Mideast coverage to be distorted.
"CNN senior international correspondent" Nic Robertson admitted that his anti-Israel report from Beirut on July 18 about civilian casualties in Lebanon, was stage-managed from start to finish by Hizbullah. He revealed that his story was heavily influenced by Hizbullah's "press officer" and that Hizbullah have "very, very sophisticated and slick media operations."
When pressed a few days later about his reporting on the CNN program "Reliable Sources," Robertson acknowledged that Hizbullah militants had instructed the CNN camera team where and what to film. Hizbullah "had control of the situation," Robertson said. "They designated the places that we went to, and we certainly didn't have time to go into the houses or lift up the rubble to see what was underneath."
Robertson added that Hizbullah has "very, very good control over its areas in the south of Beirut. They deny journalists access into those areas. You don't get in there without their permission. We didn't have enough time to see if perhaps there was somebody there who was, you know, a taxi driver by day, and a Hizbullah fighter by night."
Yet "Reliable Sources," presented by Washington Post writer Howard Kurtz, is broadcast only on the American version of CNN. So CNN International viewers around the world will not have had the opportunity to learn from CNN's "Senior international correspondent" that the pictures they saw from Beirut were carefully selected for them by Hizbullah.
Another journalist let the cat out of the bag last week. Writing on his blog while reporting from southern Lebanon, Time magazine contributor Christopher Allbritton, casually mentioned in the middle of a posting: "To the south, along the curve of the coast, Hezbollah is launching Katyushas, but I'm loathe to say too much about them. The Party of God has a copy of every journalist's passport, and they've already hassled a number of us and threatened one."
Robertson is not the only foreign journalist to have misled viewers with selected footage from Beirut. NBC's Richard Engel, CBS's Elizabeth Palmer, and a host of European and other networks, were also taken around the damaged areas by Hizbullah minders. Palmer commented on her report that "Hizbullah is also determined that outsiders will only see what it wants them to see."
Palmer's honesty is helpful. But it doesn't prevent the damage being done by organizations such as the BBC. First the BBC gave the impression that Israel had flattened the greater part of Beirut. Then to follow up its lop-sided coverage, its website helpfully carried full details of the assembly points for an anti-Israel march due to take place in London, but did not give any details for a rally in support of Israel also held in London a short time later.
Indeed, the BBC's coverage of the present war has been so extraordinary that even staunch BBC supporters in London seem rather embarrassed -- in conversation, not on the air, unfortunately.
If the BBC were just a British problem that would be one thing, but it is not. No other station broadcasts so extensively in dozens of languages, on TV, radio and online.
Its radio service alone attracts over 163 million listeners. It pours forth its worldview in almost every language of the Middle East: Pashto, Persian, Arabic and Turkish. Needless to say it declines to broadcast in Hebrew, even though it does broadcast in the languages of other small nations: Macedonian and Albanian, Azeri and Uzbek, Kinyarwanda and Kyrgyz, and so on. (It doesn't broadcast in Kurdish either; but then the BBC doesn't concern itself with Kurdish rights or aspirations since they are persecuted by Moslem-majority states like Syria and Iran. We didn't hear much on the BBC, for example, when dozens of Syrian Kurds were killed and injured in March 2004 by President Assad's regime.)
In spite of hundreds of hours of broadcast by BBC reporters, you wouldn't really know that hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been living in bomb shelters for weeks.
It is not just that the supposed crimes of Israel are completely overplayed, but the fact that this is a two-sided war (started, of course, by Hizbullah) is all but obscured. As a result, in spite of hundreds of hours of broadcast by dozens of BBC reporters and studio anchors, you wouldn't really know that hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been living in bomb shelters for weeks now, tired, afraid, but resilient; that a grandmother and her seven-year old grandson were killed by a Katyusha during a Friday night Sabbath dinner; that several other Israeli children have died.
You wouldn't have any real understanding of what it is like to have over 2000 Iranian and Syrian rockets rain down indiscriminately on towns, villages and farms across one third of your country, aimed at killing civilians.
You wouldn't really appreciate that Hizbullah, far from being some rag-tag militia, is in effect a division in the Iranian revolutionary guards, with relatively advanced weapons (UAVs that have flown over northern Israel, extended-range artillery rockets, anti-ship cruise missiles), and that it has a global terror reach, having already killed 114 people in Argentina during the 1990s.
The BBC and other media have carried report after report on the damaged Lebanese tourist industry, but none on the damaged Israeli one, even though at least one hotel in Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee, was hit by a Hizbullah rocket. There are reports on Lebanese children who don't know where they will be going to school, but none on Israeli ones.
The relentless broadcast attacks on Israel have led to some in the print media indulging in explicit anti-Semitism.
Many have grown accustomed to left-wing papers such as Britain's Guardian allowing their Mideast coverage to spill over into something akin to anti-Semitism. For example, last month a cartoon by the Guardian's Martin Rowson depicted Stars of David being used as knuckle dusters on a bloody fist.
Now the Conservative-leaning Daily Telegraph, Britain's best-selling quality daily, and previously one of the only papers in Europe to give Israel a fair hearing, has got in on the act. The cartoon at the top of the Telegraph comment page last Saturday showed two identical scenes of devastation, exactly the same in every detail. One was labeled: "Warsaw 1943"; the other: "Tyre, 2006."
A politician had already given the cue for this horrendous libel. Conservative MP Sir Peter Tapsell told the House of Commons that British Prime Minister Tony Blair was "colluding" with U.S. President George W. Bush in giving Israel the okay to wage a war crime "gravely reminiscent of the Nazi atrocity on the Jewish quarter of Warsaw."
Of course, there was no "Jewish quarter" of Warsaw. In case anyone need reminding (Sir Peter obviously does) the ghetto in the Polish capital, established in October 1940, constituted less than three square miles. Over 400,000 Jews were then crammed into it, about 30 percent of the population of Warsaw. 254,000 were sent to Treblinka where they were exterminated. Most of the rest were murdered in other ways. The ghetto was completely cleared of Jews by the end of May 1943.
The picture isn't entirely bleak. Some British and European politicians, on both left and right, have been supportive of Israel. So have some magazines, such as Britain's Spectator. So have a number of individual newspaper commentators.
But meanwhile anti-Semitic coverage and cartoons are spreading across the globe. Norway's third largest paper, the Oslo daily Dagbladet, ran a cartoon comparing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to the infamous Nazi commander SS Major Amon Goeth who indiscriminately murdered Jews by firing at them from his balcony - as depicted by Ralph Fiennes in Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List. (A month earlier Dagbladet published an article, "The Third Tower," which questioned whether Muslims were really responsible for the September 11 attacks.)
Antonio Neri Licon of Mexico's El Economista drew what appeared to be a Nazi soldier with - incredibly - stars of David on his uniform. The "soldier" was surrounded by eyes that he had apparently gouged out.
A cartoon in the South African Sunday Times depicted Ehud Olmert with a butchers knife covered in blood. In the leading Australian daily The Age, a cartoon showed a wine glass full of blood being drunk in a scene reminiscent of a medieval blood libel. In New Zealand, veteran cartoonist Tom Stott came up with a drawing which equated Israel with al-Qaeda.
At least one leading European politician has also vented his prejudice through visual symbolism. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero wore an Arab scarf during an event at which he condemned Israel, but not Hizbullah, who he presumably thinks should not be stopped from killing Israelis.
It's entirely predictable that all this violent media distortion should lead to Jews being attacked and even murdered, as happened at a Seattle Jewish center last week.
When live Jews can't be found, dead ones are targeted. In Belgium last week, the urn that contained ashes from Auschwitz was desecrated at the Brussels memorial to the 25,411 Belgian Jews deported to Nazi death camps. It was smashed and excrement smeared over it. The silence from Belgian leaders following this desecration was deafening.
Others Jews continued to be killed in Israel itself without it being mentioned in the media abroad. Last Thursday, for example, 60-year-old Dr. Daniel Ya'akovi was murdered by the Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, the terrorist group within Fatah that Yasser Arafat set up five years ago using European Union aid money.
But this is far from being an exclusively Jewish issue. Some international journalists seem to find it amusing or exciting to bait the Jews. They don't understand yet that Hizbullah is part of a worldwide radical Islamist movement that has plans, and not pleasant ones, for all those - Moslem, Christian, Hindu and Jew - who don't abide by its wishes.


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In 2016, I learned about the death of an old friend by reading a post on Facebook. By the time I saw it, my friend's page had become a memorial. Dozens of people had posted heartfelt messages and photos of happy times, before disease had settled in her bones.
I hadn't talked to my friend in many years: Careers, family and living in different parts of the country had put distance between us, as often happens in life. In the days that followed, I returned to her Facebook page numerous times to read beautiful tributes written by grieving family, friends and colleagues. I wondered how many people, like me, had found out about her passing because of a Facebook algorithm.
The news was terrible, no matter the means or timing of delivery. But it did give me pause. Was social media the new norm for announcing deaths and memorializing loved ones? Was a virtual forum a healthy place to mourn and process grief?
How to respond
Once I had recovered from the shock of the news, I contemplated the best way to respond, if at all. Clicking a "like" button was out of the question – too strange. And writing a condolence on my deceased friend's Facebook wall felt like an empty gesture. Most of my memories were of a friendship from long ago, when we were young college students.
Facebook and other forms of social media make it possible to experience pain with others, well beyond the immediate circle of friends and family. Sharing stories about the deceased and messages of grief in a public forum can provide a sense of belonging, which may help in the grieving process. But not everyone is comfortable participating in that realm, or needs to be a part of an online grieving community.
I decided to contact a mutual friend of ours to express my sadness. We exchanged numerous private messages and memories of our friend. She told me about a memorial event at a bar—a real-time setting among friends to mourn the loss of a wonderful woman. That felt right to me.
The new normal
Mary Steers, Ph.D., a behavioral health provider at Providence Medical Group-Sunnyside, says sharing news of a death or details about the service on social media appears to be acceptable now. "Although I've found that older people tend to want more of the personal connection through emails and phone calls," she says.
Expressing grief, on the other hand, can elicit strong and varied reactions in people. Some people aren't comfortable with it, while others relish the chance to express themselves. There aren't social norms (yet) to guide online behavior, which means there's the risk that a person will write something tone-deaf or inappropriate, such as, "She's in a better place now." To family or friends close to the deceased, this may not be the message they need or want to read. It may not even align with their beliefs. Some atheists, for example, don't believe in an afterlife.
"Expressions of grief vary depending on the nature of the relationship to the deceased," says Dr. Steers. To this point, she suggests one should consider if they would feel comfortable saying in person to the family of the deceased what they write in a Facebook post. If not? "Don't write it," she advises.
Online in the afterlife
Several months after my friend passed, I returned to her Facebook page, curious if people were still leaving messages. Her status hadn't been updated; she still "lived" in the same city. It seemed strange. Had her family overlooked that detail on purpose?
When the Facebook wall of a deceased person is memorialized, they continue "living" in a virtual world, allowing family and friends to maintain a relationship of sorts. Recent studies examining the effect online memorial pages have on the living reveal that they often help people cope with loss. "Turning toward an individual's pre-existing profile provides the bereaved with a tangible representation of the deceased, making interaction feel more commonplace," wrote researchers from Oklahoma State University.
Maintaining an online relationship with the deceased, however, can suspend the finality of death, or at least postpone acceptance. And new posts on Facebook, especially around death anniversaries, can trigger a second grief reaction. "It's possible that it could create a feeling that the deceased person is dying all over again," says Dr. Steers. "Even if a person has incorporated the loss in their life, new posts in social media can bring up stuff that a person may have thought he or she worked through."
Dr. Steers says she doesn't believe in telling people how to grieve – there isn't a right or wrong way. But she encourages her patients who are dealing with grief to reach out to friends, family, a chaplain or support groups, and not rely entirely on social media as an outlet. Although she recommends attending a support group in person, an online group can help as well. "I would be concerned if social media is the only place someone is looking for support," she says.
Other things the bereaved can do to process grief include journaling or creating a memorial scrapbook with photos and memorabilia of the deceased. Dr. Steers also recommends "The Grief Recovery Handbook" by John W. James and Russell Friedman.
Although grieving is a part of life, it can be difficult to navigate alone. If you need help in your grieving process, seek support from others. Providence behavioral health specialists are here to help. You can find one in our multistate directory by clicking here.


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Well, that's what this commercial seems to tell us:
Their claims? That my slow browser is probably "several generations old." They tell me that IE8 is "a huge improvement on the speed scale."
These statements are true if I ordinarily run Mosaic. Of course, IE8 is one more generation of the same old software, and to say that IE8 is faster than IE7 is kinda like saying that Windows 7 will be faster than Vista. They'd have to try hard to make it the other way around.
Of course, they completely fail to mention that IE8 fails almost as hard as IE7 when it comes to meeting web standards. Finally, Microsoft managed to turn this:
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Congratulations, Microsoft. You finally passed the Acid2 test. But every other browser's been breezing through for quite some time now. Find something else to impress me with.
And how about Acid3? Here's the debacle we know as IE7's rendering:
And here's the major improvement shown by IE8:
Wow! Now it says, "FAIL" in giant letters just to let you know that it does, in fact, fail. It probably says that in the IE7 rendering as well, but it's difficult to tell what with all the mangled distortion of crap way up there.
This test takes about two to three seconds to run in Firefox and Chrome (with Chrome running about half a second faster). In Internet Explorer, it's about nine seconds. How's that for fast!
One generation older and seven seconds slower.
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PA1HR's DeltaLoop antenna
This DeltaLoop antenna has a length of 125 meters, divided into three sides of 40, 42 and 43 meters.
The antenna is at a height of 10 meters.
This DeltaLoop let the following results:
10m: a maximum enhancement of 12 dBi at 12 degrees elevation
12m: strengthening a maximum of 13 dBi at 15 degrees elevation
15m: a maximum enhancement of 12 dBi at 16 degrees elevation
17m: a maximum enhancement of 12 dBi at 20 degrees elevation
20m: a maximum enhancement of 10 dBi at 23 degrees elevation
40m: a maximum enhancement of 6 dBi at 39 degrees elevation
80m: a maximum strengthening of 8 dBi at 88 degrees elevation
160m: a maximum enhancement of 2 dBi at 89 degrees elevation
On the high bands, the radiation has a somewhat erratic pattern,
but at 160 and 80 meters the antenna has an almost multi radiation pattern.
The wooden poles are "poles in the bark", similar to very straight trees without branches.
This type of poles is also known as pile.
Below are the poles over 25 and the top is about 15 cm.
The piles are a 1,5 meters in the (sand) ground.
Here is how visible the antenna between the poles is tense.
One of the three poles to which the antenna is mounted.
For the antenna and the open feeder lines the same 2.5 mm2 bronze wire is being used.
Note the strain relief.
The glass Pyrex insulators are 30 cm long, as well as the steel springs.
All other parts are of stainless steel, the katrol is part of plastic.
The nylon cord is 5 mm thick and has a strength of 450 kilos.
The open feeder lines, over a distance of 17 metres from the power supply to the house.
This is the mounting of the open supply lines to the exterior of the house.
Two Pyrex insulators from glass of 9 cm long.
Here again a strain relief.
The same mounting, but from the bottom photographed.
The open feeder lines running across the facade of the house.
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The same spacers are being used, but with a height of 6 cm.
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The 8 cm plastic spacer on one of the tiles.
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The open feeder lines stretched tightly over the tiled roofs.
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Following disappointing data this morning from The Institute for Supply Management's January manufacturing activity index, as my colleague Ben Levisohnreported, stocks sold off in a major way, with the Nasdaq Composite Index declining by 2.6%, to end the session at 3,996.96.
Within the crunch, Apple (AAPL) held up well, rising 93 cents to $501.53. Some of the worst decliners today included Xerox (XRX), off 44 cents, or 4%, at $10.41; VeriSign (VRSN), down $2.47, or 4.2%, at $56.28; and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), down $1.82, or 3%, at $58.59.
But J.P. Morgan hardware analyst Mark Moskowitz comes to the rescue this evening, offering a view for global IT spending this year that is "constructive," he writes.
In particular, Moskowitz urges investors to heed J.P. Morgan's global count, as opposed to the ISM's U.S.-only data:
Earlier today, the J.P. Morgan Economic research team released the headline J.P. Morgan global manufacturing PMI. While the PMI declined slightly versus the prior month (52.9 in January versus 53.0 in December), it has remained firmly above 50 since December 2012. Overall, the January data pointed to stability in global manufacturing as the headline number alongside new orders and inventory pointed to the PMI remaining on firm footing.
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Now that the holidays are over, a bit of reflection is in order. The days were short, the nights long, and the awkward, forced social interactions all too frequent. Many of us breezed through uncomfortable office holiday parties or family dinners with the aid of alcohol; some drank too much, others drank way too much.
Not surprisingly, alcohol consumption tends to spike over the holidays. But how do we know when the ruddy little cousin in the Rudolph sweater who's never really known when to say when has transitioned from the bro with the high tolerance to the bro who's an alcoholic?
First, it's important to define our terms. Alcoholism is a word we've all used, but it means different things to different people. In medicine, "alcoholism" sometimes encompasses both alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence—vague terms that denote a problematic relationship with alcohol—but what do they actually mean?
To help clarify things, the American Psychiatric Association recently revised its manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), and changed the way we talk about alcoholism.1 "Alcohol abuse" and "alcohol dependence" were replaced by a single diagnosis: "alcohol use disorder." The change deemphasized the sheer quantity of booze consumed and gave greater importance to symptomatology. To be diagnosed with alcohol use disorder, one must exhibit a problematic pattern of alcohol use—not just an isolated holiday binge—as well as two or more of the following within a 12-month period:
- Alcohol is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended
- There is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control alcohol use
- A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain alcohol, use alcohol, or recover from its effects
- Craving, or a strong desire or urge, to use alcohol
- Recurrent alcohol use resulting in a failure to fulfill major role obligations at work, school, or home
- Continued alcohol use despite having persistent or recurrent social or interpersonal problems caused or exacerbated by the effects of alcohol
- Important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of alcohol use
- Recurrent alcohol use in situations in which it is physically hazardous
- Continued alcohol use despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by alcohol
- Tolerance, as shown by a diminished effect when drinking the "usual" amount or a need for increasing amounts to achieve the desired effect
- Withdrawal
But some people aren't interested in symptoms; they want numbers. Fine, here: According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, men put themselves at risk for alcohol use disorder if their alcohol consumption exceeds 14 drinks per week and women may be at risk if they have more than seven standard drinks per week. (A standard drink is defined as one 12-ounce bottle of beer, one 5-ounce glass of wine, or a 1.5-ounce shot of liquor.)
Of course, the holidays are a time when many drink to excess. For some, the increased consumption is transient; for others, it's not. It's important to remember that even if you can consistently show up for work on time after a night of heavy boozing, you may still be doing irreparable damage to your liver—in the medically problematic way, not the "Oh geez we drink too much, OUR LIVERS!" way. You might not blackout or vomit or get hangovers, but the absence of those symptoms doesn't make the amount of booze any less dangerous, in a way you won't even feel.
So if you or someone you know seems to have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, do two things: tally up the number of drinks that person consumes in an average week and review the symptoms provided above. If there's an issue, reach out to a health professional.
1 Our country consumes an insane amount of booze. In a 2008 survey, just over half of Americans over the age of 12 reported being active drinkers (which translates into 129 million drinkers in the United States). In one study, 16 percent of eighth graders had consumed five or more drinks at one sitting within the last two weeks.
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Whitehead laments legal end to speech
On November 16, the Supreme Court decided to let stand an appeals court ruling that allowed the administration of a Nevada high school to cut off the microphone–- mid-speech–- of a student who tried to talk about religion in her high school valedictory.
"This is a sad day for the cause of freedom," said John W. Whitehead, director of the Charlottesville-based Rutherford Institute, which fought for the rights of student Brittany McComb.
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Shaggy, not sure what you're talking about--I didn't say the school committed a crime---they displayed intolerance. Also, my point in citing the cases was not that they were all overturned--it was to make the point that the court does not always get it right---just because the court made the decision it did does not make it correct. Sorry for the confusion.
Regardless whether you're a devout Christian, Atheist, or anything else, it was absurd not to let her finish. As a Christian, although I disagree with the view of an Atheist I wouldn't want one to be precluded from making a reference to it in a public forum if they chose to.
I recommend a great book for everyone....Free Speech for Me But Not for Thee by Nat Hentoff, former writer for the Village Voice. It details how the left and right both try to censor each other.
"Why do people, when confronted with the likely reality that god doesn't exist, start hurling insults as scrumpilious does?"
What insults are you referring to?
....also "likely reality" is a lot different from "scientific impossibility"
Perhaps if atheists stepped back a little and orthodox anybodies stepped back a bit then all of this bickering could go by the wayside.
Who said anything about Global Warming? I must have missed THAT part.
she's free to say what she wants. she's not free to use the school's PA system. The school is free to turn off the microphone.
She DOES represent the school if she stands in front of the audience and speaks at a school sponsored event. She is proselytizing.
These bible thumpers should save it for Sunday school. I don't want my kid to be forced to hear this garbage.
The sad part is that had she wanted to give thanks to atheist beliefs it would probably have been fine. (even though atheism is really just the belief that everyones opinion but theirs about how we got here is wrong) (hmmmm isn't that the pot calling the kettle african american?)
re:"even though atheism is really just the belief that everyones opinion but theirs about how we got here is wrong"
Wow is this an incorrect statement or what? Factually and grammatically just a big bag of incorrectness.
Atheism means the belief in the truth that there is no god. Sorry to burst your little pity pot.
Kitty, belief in god is based on as much fact and truth as the belief in santa claus. Unless you can establish some factual basis for the existence of something, I think you need to concede that that thing does not exist. Therefore the truth is that god does not exist.
Publius, what crime did the school commit? This is laughable. What precedent would you rely upon to state that this decision would be overturned at some point?
And by the way, Dred Scott was never overturned. Please get your facts straight.
ATHEISM: The belief that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magiacally exploded for no reason, creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason whatsoever into self-replicating bits which then turned into dinosaurs.
Makes perfect sense... a whole lot more logical than thinking that there may be a creator out there in outer space somewhere and we are just not intelligent enought to comprehend it despite all of our scientific knowledge. (you know the same knowledge that thought the earth was flat and the sun revolved around the earth.)
It has been my personal experience that the two most closeminded personalities in the world are those who believe every word of the their religion and atheists.
"...if the student speaker believed in ritual sacrifice and was about to decapitate a chicken at the podium of her state high school graduation ceremony in honor of her God." If this speaker had done more than talk about her relationship with her God, you might be able to draw such a parallel, but I must have missed the sacrifice part. It's funny how some people are threatened by a religious belief that preaches love and service, and applaud censoring those who wish to express it, but are the first to proclaim the new religion of global warming, and attack those who don't believe.
At least the original Joe Friday got the facts.
This shows how crazy we have become. When they granted her the time it was for her to give credit to all of the things that SHE felt lesd her to this point. If it was religion so be it. She was not representing anyone but herself.
I believe that Earth had a creator. Since I cannot create an earth myself I therefore believe that that creator is far superior to me.
Some might say that that creator is therefore a "god" in that he/she may still be out there somewhere and can destroy the earth as fast as it was created.
No one can disprove this theory. That does not mean that my god doesn't have another god above him/her or that my god was not created by dust.
Scientists that say we were created from dust offer no explanation for the source of the dust.
Should have heard Richard Dreyfuss today --get over it --we went to war on a lie --do you care ? If you spend your life fighting about whether the pledge of allegiance should contain the word God or whether someone should mention God in high school you may have missed the fact that far more important civil liberties have been taken away and all the time you were focused on one word.
I wonder if Whitehead would be as upset if instead of Christianity the student speaker believed in ritual sacrifice and was about to decapitate a chicken at the podium of her state high school graduation ceremony in honor of her God.
She doesn't represent the school, she represents herself, and the purpose of her speech is to shed light on her journey to the top. This is supposed to be inspiring to those who may wish to choose a similar path. If she feels that her belief in Jesus, witchcraft, sacrificing chickens or weekend keg parties got her there than she should be able to say it as long as she does not defame anyone.
Political correctness has gone too far.
This is not the state sanctioning religion unless they picked her BECAUSE she was a christian/jew/buddist whatever.
There are people paid to be knowledgeable of the text and application of the Constitution of the United States. They are known as judges. The judges in this case on the Supreme Court of the United States (that would include judges thomas, scalia, roberts, alito, etc, etc, etc), believed that the school was within its right to cut her mic. Case closed, as they say.
It doesn't matter what you think is "supposed" to happen. What matters is whether or not the school was legally correct. They were. They probably would have been correct to let her speak, but they didn't. Tough cookies. Let that be a lesson to her on her continuing journey to "the top".
If anyone questions how objective John Whitehead and the Rutherford Institute are, I suggest you look at its website and see the cases they have handled. They represent the rights of a wide range of religions, not just Christianity.
The school was absolutely incorrect in its position. Just because the court upheld it does not make it correct---it simply resolves the dispute for now. In its past, the Supreme Court has held that separate was equal (Plessy v. Ferguson), that insurance was not interstate commerce (Paul v. Virginia), and that not all U.S. Citizens were entitled to full rights (Dred Scott). Were all of these prior decision correct? Of course not. They (and many others) were later overturned.
The school, supposedly a place where children learn, demonstrates amazing intolerance.
Atheism means the belief that there is no God. That may or may not be the truth.
why does the dust have to come from somewhere but the creator doesn't? How does that make sense?
Maybe matter itself is eternal. I mean, unless it's converted into energy, matter continues to exist. Why do humans have a need to believe that it came from somewhere?
Why do people, when confronted with the likely reality that god doesn't exist, start hurling insults as scrumpilious does?
Scientists can't explain exactly how the universe is created so therefore other humans that aren't scientists must be right when they invent a god that creates it?
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The G.F.C (Global Financial Crisis) seems to settle and expand on the Australian soil.
After poor months in December and January, the IT/Technology job market has reached it's lowest level since 2000. According to the Australian IT the technology job sector has slumped by 16.78%.
This trend is mostly due to the lack of investment in new projects and the outsourcing of IT departments. The Internet/Graphics/Multimedia has seen a drop of 3.8%, which is not too bad considering the current situation.
Judging by the amount of work I have and the number of jobs in the main employment websites, I would say that the SEO/SEM/Online Marketing sector is less impacted than the rest of the internet sector.
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Online Marketing Professional: All-rounder role working in-house for an online gift voucher store in the adventure industry. Darlinghurst Location. Great Salary package $70,000 to $95,000. More Information
Search Expert: Working for a media agency. 70% SEM, 30% SEO. CBD Based, 2-4 years experience required. Up to $80,000 based on experience. More Information
Junior SEO Specialist:Working for an agency in Sydney CBD. Minimum 18 months SEO experience. $60,000 package. More Information
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Birds have shown promise as models of diabetes due to health and longevity despite naturally high plasma glucose concentrations, a condition which in diabetic humans leads to protein glycation and various complications. Research into mechanisms that protect birds from high plasma glucose have shown that some species of birds have naturally low levels of protein glycation. Some hypothesize a diet rich in carotenoids and other antioxidants protects birds from protein glycation and oxidative damage. There is little research, however, into the amount of protein glycation in birds of prey, which consume a high protein, high fat diet. No studies have …
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UDATE: This story has been updated to include more protesters than originally reported. The total is now 11 protests.
The Air Force has asked the Government Accountability Office to dismiss a group of bid protests over its recent NetCents II awards because the service is rethinking its award decisions. In an Air Force letter to GAO, the service said it will take a "corrective action" on the $6.9 billion contract. "Specifically, the agency intends to reopen discussions with all offerors in the competitive range and allow them to submit another round of final proposal revisions," the Air Force wrote. A GAO spokesman said the watchdog agency would "likely dismiss all of the protests shortly." He did not give a timeframe for when the cases would be dismissed. GAO and the Air Force also didn't answer questions on what grounds the protesters had cited or why the Air Force made the decision to reopen the bids just weeks after making the awards. This NetCents II contract is primarily for hardware and is one of several contracts under the NetCents II umbrella. Commercial products to be sold through the contract include networking equipment, servers and storage, peripherals, multimedia, software, and identity management/biometric hardware and associated software. The NetCents program supports the Global Information Grid architecture, the Defense Information Infrastructure, the Air Force, and the Defense Communications Systems' info-structure for computer networks and telecommunications network mission areas. The contract runs through July 2022.
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The NetCents II program has faced several delays and in early April, the Air Force added to the ceiling of NetCents I, so work under task orders from the contract would not expire before NetCents II was up in running.
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If the AF thought they could have prevailed, they would bave allowed GAO to rule. They obviously recognized they had blown it AGAIN and didn;t want the embarrassment of another adverse GAO decision. The once proud AF Acquisition community has been going downhill since Darleen Druyun's conviction! Sad!
I suppose when you're already perceived as being unable to execute a simple procurement, what's another misguided decision?
It seems pretty obvious from the BAFO request that the protests were based on the fact that original pricing was done on equipment no longer available (since by now it's in the Smithsonian). But you know what? The AF could have stood its ground and won the protest. How could it not? The whole solicitation was pricing of 125 lines in a spreadsheet. Aside from the long evaluation time, I'm sure the determination of winners was based solely on price, just as the AF said it was to be. Therefore, nothing protestable was done, and they should have fought it and done the awards.
They'd have looked a whole lot better doing that.
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