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"I Want My Safety Net"
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George Silli, a 66-year-old waiter from suburban Philadelphia, had a brush with President Bush's Ownership Society, and it was an experience he'll not soon forget. Silli's psyche and his wallet still bear the scorch marks of the 2000 market meltdown. He saw the value of his mutual funds drop by 60% and is convinced that opening Social Security to individual investing would produce similar results on a massive scale. ``If people are left to their own devices, we'll become top-heavy with poor people,'' Silli says.
A political independent, Silli has learned enough about the market to be pessimistic about a small fry's chances. He not only wants to leave Social Security alone but also thinks politicians should expand entitlements by mandating near-universal health insurance as a shield against soaring medical bills.
Although Silli may not know it, he has plenty of company from all walks of American life. He's part of a diverse group that includes the pathologically risk-averse and those who are willing to take the Ownership Society for a spin -- as long as it's equipped with air bags.
April Tsirigotis, a 30-year-old Republican and an information technology executive from Lusby, Md., is a big fan of the President and applauds his efforts to solve Social Security's fiscal woes. But, says Tsirigotis, the divorced mother of a 7-year-old, ``I disagree with the idea of giving people private accounts in which their annual returns and their eventual benefits would be based on the stock market. It's too risky. No one knows how much will be there in the end.''
While many members of Safety Net Nation have nothing against investing and choice, they're worried that the country's web of public and private social protections is fraying. They believe in more, not fewer, safeguards against downward mobility in a world that's already pulsing with economic uncertainty. Safety Netters include plenty of card-carrying Republicans and independent swing voters, and the group may represent a broader swath of America than the White House imagines.
A Sept. 2-5, 2004, survey by the Civil Society Institute, a Newton Centre (Mass.) nonprofit group, found 67% of Americans think it's a good idea to guarantee health care for all U.S. citizens, as Canada and Britain do, with just 27% dissenting. Support for a government-directed universal insurance system is strong, despite GOP warnings about socialized medicine. Similarly, a Feb. 3-5 Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 47% of respondents believe the government ought to guarantee a minimum standard of living for retirees, vs. 35% who felt that was an individual's responsibility.
The most predictable members of Safety Net Nation are liberals who favor activist government. The really crucial bloc, however, is made up of those who backed Bush in 2004. They still approve of his overall job performance but have soured on Wall Street and dislike the President's approach to Social Security. This faction -- estimates range from 17% to 22% of the electorate -- rejects both traditional liberalism and conservative laissez-faire. In an era of rampant job insecurity, when employer-provided pensions and health coverage can no longer be taken for granted, they want a middle-class security blanket that gives them protection as they build wealth.
Stretched Thin
Safety netters' fear of social unraveling comes amid some disquieting trends. Big swings in family income, according to studies by Yale University political scientist Jacob S. Hacker, have increased markedly over the past two decades as the finances of two-earner households have been stretched thin. Even houses -- most Americans' entrée to the Ownership Society -- are increasingly in hock: In the past 15 years, mortgage and home-equity borrowing has risen from 35.1% of home values to 43.9%. That has made families, especially those with unskilled workers, more vulnerable to a catastrophic jolt such as job loss or serious illness. Personal bankruptcies increased fivefold from 1980 to 2002, with many filers citing a layoff or medical emergency as the tipping point.
As income volatility has grown, government -- prodded by free-market Republicans out to reverse the New Deal -- has been offloading ever more responsibility onto individuals. The financial pressure has become much more acute because of another squeeze occurring in the private sector. Corporations vying to compete globally have steadily shifted costs and responsibility for pensions and health care to their employees as part of the restructuring wave that began in the 1970s.
The Sellathon That Didn't
Conservatives see disentitlement as a recognition of new economic realities -- and the death rattle of the Nanny State. But skeptics, among them prominent New Democratic thinkers, counter that America's safety net can be both modern and market-based without piling still more financial burdens onto the stooped shoulders of Joe and Jane Average.
Because social engineering through tax breaks, preferential loan and savings plans, and other indirect subsidies favors those with good jobs and income to invest, New Democrats advocate policies that tilt savings incentives toward lower-income Americans. They include universal 401(k)s, compulsory savings plans set up for kids, and mandated social insurance -- a subsidized rainy-day fund for financial emergencies. Hacker is working on ``a kind of catastrophic insurance plan that could be administered by the private sector but heavily regulated by the government.'' Employers would be required to match employee contributions to the new financial umbrella. The price tag, he concedes, ``would not be trivial'' -- meaning a multibillion-dollar commitment.
Conservatives dismiss such proposals as security pie-in-the-sky. But they've got their own problems in the here and now trying to generate momentum for personal accounts and other becalmed elements of the Bush ownership initiative.
The centerpiece is an audacious bid to ``modernize'' the government's retirement system by letting workers divert part of their payroll taxes into stocks and bonds. On the road, Bush tells audiences he's selling a retirement iPod -- sleek, shiny, and designed for the Digital Age -- while Democrats cling to a system as retro as an LP record. Besides, he says, the downside of personal accounts will be limited. Those who opt in will have a carefully chosen range of investment options, selections modeled on conservative fund choices found on 401(k) menus.
Trouble is, the President, in his guise as Salesman-in-Chief, may have done too good a job raising alarms about Social Security's imminent implosion. ``Bush said, 'We're going to have a crisis,' and offered private accounts as part of the solution,'' says James K. Glassman, an American Enterprise Institute scholar. ``But the two things are really separate, and the President was never able to make a connection between them.'' What's more, the crisis-mongering only served to heighten anxiety among the risk-averse cohort.
Bush made an overture to critics on Apr. 28 when he offered to protect payouts for the poor. His idea: preserve the current benefit structure for the bottom third of wage earners while progressively reducing guaranteed payments for those up the income scale. The result is a means-tested version of Social Security. But despite such gambits, the President has little to show for a 60-day national sellathon that took him to 23 states. If Congress enacts Social Security reform this year, it could be a far cry from reformers' dreams of big private accounts carved out of payroll taxes. ``Bush will come out of this with something, some change or other that allows him to say he moved the ball,'' predicts pollster John Zogby. ``But it won't be what he wanted.''
Down on Wall Street
Objectively, this is not a bad time to be raising the issue of reform. Baby boomers are about to retire en masse and on paper, family balance sheets have improved. Americans' household wealth has floated upward of late, propelled by recovering stock valuations and soaring real estate values. Moreover, real wages for the civilian workforce have grown 8% in the past decade after a long stretch when they fell. And the family poverty rate, tallied at 10% in 2003, has improved from the 13.9% numbers recorded four decades earlier.
Still, what private-account backers seem to have misjudged is the public's current jaundiced view of Wall Street and investing risk. America, unlike most other advanced nations, has a dual welfare system. There are direct government-transfer payments to the poor and elderly -- programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. But there is also a huge set of private-sector protections for workers, largely underwritten by employers -- items such as subsidized life insurance, disability coverage, and help with day care. Plus, powerful groups in society snare subsidies in the form of preferential loans offered to farmers, disaster relief, tax-deductible flood insurance for beachfront property owners, and a fistful of tax breaks for small businesspeople.
While federal spending on the safety net for the poor has grown briskly, it hasn't kept pace with society's needs. Medicare is straining to cover seniors' bills, and some states are downsizing Medicaid programs. In 1996, strict time limits were put on welfare dependency, a step that slashed the rolls by half. Meantime, huge holes have been ripped in the private safety net as the cost shift to workers has accelerated.
The result is riskophobia. ``With a far greater portion of family budgets devoted to the mortgage, car payment, and health insurance, a transitory shock to wages becomes much more menacing,'' says Raj Chetty, a University of California at Berkeley economics professor who studies risk. ``Equities are seen as risky, and if people aren't jumping for the investment option [as part of Social Security reform], there's a reason. Risk in general has become a much more pervasive issue.''
In January, 2000, before the dot-com bubble burst, 67% of Americans said that if they had $1,000 to spare, investing it in stock would be a good idea, according to the Gallup Poll. By April, 2005, that percentage had fallen to 45%, with 51% saying the stock market would be a bad choice. Among the groups whose faith in the market dipped most are three key Bush constituencies: baby boomers, college grads, and suburbanites.
Chasing Gushers
To George W. Bush, a Texan who revels in the myth of the wildcatter, running risks in pursuit of the big gusher is a quintessential part of the American character. But as the scion of an aristocratic Eastern dynasty, the budding young tycoon always had a network of family friends and relations to call on. Those golden connections bailed George W. out of his early forays into the oil business.
The not-as-well-fixed Net Setters want some bedrock guarantees in turbulent times, too. Private Social Security accounts? Sure, in addition to core benefits. Portable medical savings accounts? Fine, but not as a replacement for employer-provided health insurance. ``They want the Ownership Society -- but they want it with a warranty,'' says Representative Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), who has introduced legislation to expand tax credits for lower-tier families and to make college savings easier.
According to a BusinessWeek analysis of data compiled by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, at the core of Safety Net Nation are white men. You read that right. These are the same white-male swing voters who have been trending strongly Republican in recent Presidential contests. They tend to be socially conservative and patriotic. They have average incomes and are slightly less educated than the citizenry as a whole.
The Safety Netters are not monolithic, however. They include aging men who are suspicious of Big Government and Big Business and who view private accounts as a giveaway to Wall Street and a gamble for their children and grandchildren. There are suburban Security Moms -- convinced by Bush that Uncle Sam should aggressively protect them from terrorists and cultural pollution -- who worry that the President is making retirement dicier. And there are the burned investors of the Baby Boom generation, who want some government safeguards from the serrated edge of globalism -- from corporate downsizing to vaporware pensions and rampant outsourcing.
Bush über-strategist Karl Rove, who commands the White House's Social Security war room, sees personal accounts as vital to shifting the allegiance of younger voters to the GOP. But there's a glitch in Rove's machine: Polls show that, rather than flocking to Bush over Social Security, the under-40s are growing skeptical of his approach.
Among those resisting a Bush move to pare middle-class entitlements are thirtysomethings who feel squeezed between saving for their kids' college education and taking care of retired or soon-to-retire parents. Then there are disillusioned techies who once wanted government to get out of the way and let them get rich by age 30 but who now favor a federal role in shielding them from the excesses of capitalism.
Put these pieces of the electorate together, and you have the makings of a political boulder that stands between Bush and his shining city on Ownership Hill. ``We are now living in the Security Society,'' says independent pollster Thomas H. Riehle. ``People say, 'Protect me.'''
If the President can't win over some of these skeptics, GOP knees will continue to buckle on Capitol Hill. More important, other elements of his agenda, from new savings plans to personal health-care accounts, could be imperiled by the flight to safety. ``If Social Security reform stalls, blood will be in the water,'' warns Daniel J. Mitchell, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. ``Democrats fighting for what I prefer to call the Dependency Society will be emboldened to oppose all of Bush's ownership agenda.''
To complicate the President's push for private accounts, the performance of stocks in what was supposed to be a sprightly spring has led to more skepticism. In April, the Dow Jones industrial average hit a new low for the year on stagflation worries, and the major indexes gave up most of their '05 gains as investors fled from risk.
``Bush's timing is not good,'' notes Eva Bertram, a political scientist at the University of California at Santa Cruz. ``The public is leery of becoming more dependent on the market, and there is great anxiety over employment prospects and stagnant incomes. Right now it's just very hard to give up the security offered by things like Social Security and traditional Medicare.''
Shifting the Risk
Democratic pollster Stanley B. Greenberg is more blunt. ``I never believed this Investor Class hype for a minute,'' he says. ``What happened is that Bush gave the nation an extended tutorial on risk, and that came on top of growing awareness of the risk shift from private institutions to individuals'' as both traditional pensions and 401(k)s fell short of offering true security. The result, Greenberg's data show, ``is a collapse in support for Social Security reform.''
What the White House proposes, in fairness, is not a complete swap of a public retirement supplement for a private one. Bush says that letting workers voluntarily set aside a chunk of their payroll taxes -- say, 4 points of the 12.4% tax -- in conservative investment options will let retirees reap a richer reward than the government system's puny 2% return. But if guaranteed benefits are slashed for the middle class and above, more Americans will be drawn into private accounts to make up the difference, changing the nature of Social Security. ``The plan does have a guarantee in it in the form of the core benefit,'' says Kent Smetters, a Wharton School associate professor and former Bush Treasury official. ``Since it's only partial privatization, Bush needs to play up the safety net angle.''
The model for private accounts is the 401(k) system of workplace savings. But critics claim Bush is overselling the ability of such self-directed plans to build a nest egg. Former Clinton economist Alicia H. Munnell, director of Boston College's Center for Retirement Research and an expert on 401(k)s, says the numbers don't bode well for Social Security.
Skimpy Savings
Munnell's research shows that 26% of eligible people never opt in to 401(k)s, fewer than half of the participants take the advice of financial planners and diversify their holdings between stocks and bonds, and 55% cash out their savings when they change jobs -- which is frequently. Models project that a median-wage worker contributing 6% of pay, plus a 3% employer match, should have about $300,000 in his 401(k) as he approaches retirement. The actual figure: $42,000.
``People have not done a very good job with 401(k)s, and it weighs on them,'' Munnell says. ``I don't see any sign that they're dying to take on still more of this kind of responsibility. The Social Security debate may be testing the limit of the swing to individualism we have seen for the last 20 to 30 years.''
To the counter-reformers who believe Bush is misguided in his ownership strategy, the question is not whether to kill off market-based measures that aim to increase family savings or health-care security. It's how to use markets and choice in a more effective way.
Democrats would keep core Social Security intact but are willing to augment it with an add-on investment option. ``If the President says individual accounts would be separate from Social Security and was willing to make the financing of reform progressive, he could get Democrats to sit down, and [he would] have a shot,'' says Gene Sperling of the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank. ``If he wants to start down the slippery slope toward privatization, why should we work toward goals that are the antithesis of what Democrats believe in?''
Other Dems are more forgiving. ``The President has the right idea to strive and make more people own more of America,'' says Ray Boshara, director of the asset-building program at the New America Foundation (NAF), a centrist think tank. ``Owners are better citizens. But we need to preserve the safety net while helping people build wealth.''
The NAF is pushing two pet ideas: a tax-favored savings account for every child, seeded with a $500 grant at birth and with government subsidies for low-income kids, and an option for taxpayers to direct the IRS to channel part of their tax refunds into savings accounts. If savings can be made automatic, backers claim, taxpayers are less likely to spend refunds.
An Elemental Struggle
The ``kid-save'' idea is no pipe dream. An early fan was former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill, and conservatives such as Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) are mulling legislation to create the accounts. Projected cost over 10 years: $38 billion.
Yale political scientist Hacker and economist Peter R. Orszag of the Brookings Institution are thinking on a larger scale. Hacker's plan for a universal family savings account is being fleshed out and is scheduled to be unveiled in August. ``You have to provide workers with a basic form of protection that follows them from job to job and covers big risks,'' Hacker says. Universal insurance would be regulated by the government, and employers would have to kick in mandated matching payments. But administration of accounts would be left to the private sector.
Not so long ago, Republican economists would have been delighted to hear political rivals floating ideas for boosting savings and shoring up Social Security's solvency. But in today's hyper-partisan climate, the fight over the ownership agenda has taken on a larger dimension. Bush wants to wind down dependence on the bureaucratic welfare state. Democrats want to revalidate government by weaving costly new safety nets for workers. It's an elemental struggle, but one in which outcomes can be perverse.
In 2003, for instance, the White House set out to revamp Medicare by putting a lid on runaway costs of the huge entitlement program for seniors. GOP lawmakers, though, feared they would be hammered over the issue in the '04 election, so tough cost controls went out the window. What Bush wound up signing into law still has many conservatives seething: a $1.3 trillion expansion of entitlements in the form of a new Medicare prescription-drug benefit. It was hardly the monument he envisioned. But it was a testament to the raw power of Safety Net Nation, which -- for now -- seems to be just saying no to more financial risk.
By Lee Walczak and Richard S. Dunham, with Mike McNamee in Washington and Ann Therese Palmer in Chicago


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text: I haven't quite yet figured out how to steep Chun Mei in a way that I really like. Haven't figured out yet if it's that I am not a Chun Mei fan or if I just haven't found the right steeping parameters. For a Chun Mei this is good, it just keeps coming out a bit too dull and bitter for me. I've reached the end of my sample so it might be a while before I figure this one out.


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Greetings Alfredo, Take a look at the JDBC spec. In particular look at appendix B and everything which is said about table B-2. What you are attempting is not supported by the standard. Apparently, some drivers are more lenient and support this even though the standard doesn't suggest that it will work. If you look at tables B-4 and B-5, you will see that the setObject method of a PreparedStatement is supposed to handle some types of conversions. You might want to test this approach to see if the defined conversions cover what you need and work as expected in the PostgreSQL driver. Another alternative would be for your generalized method to check the ResultSetMetaData and create the appropriate object type for the ResultSet.updateObject method. I haven't tested that these methods work per standard, but on the face of it, both techniques look like they should work. If none of the above works, you might need to associate some sort of custom metadata with your queries or web pages so that you can create the appropriate object type for the setObject method. I hope this helps. -Kevin >>> Alfredo Rico <alfredorico(at)gmail(dot)com> 10/06/05 8:27 AM >>> Hi friends, greetings. Please apologize by my bad english ;-( I need to resolve a problem of data type abstraction using JDBC. In first place, please check out the following java code fragment: /********************************/ //for each row that I want to insert for(int i=1 ; i<= this.columnNumbers ; i ++) { this.insertColumn( columnNames[i] , columnValues[i] , i ); } /******************************/ In the code above, for each row that I want to insert: columnNames is a String vector containing columns names for a given table. columnValues is a String vector containing the values for each column for the same table. Ok, this string vector could contain int, float, double, Date, character string, I mean basic types, represented as string. The reason is due to this vector is fulfilled by users parameters that has been sent via HttpServletRequest and method request.getParameter("parameter") return its values as string. Now, please look at the following java method: //For each row that I want to insert: public void insertColumn(String columnName, Object X , int i ) { try{ if(i == 1) //only for the first column this.rs.moveToInsertRow(); this.rs.updateObject(columnName , X ); if( i == this.columnNumber )//if all columns (for one row) were updated this.rs.insertRow(); }catch(SQLException e ) { System.out.println("Error: "+e); } } Ok, if I'm using JDBC driver version 7.4 Build 216 there isn't problem with the data types. The method ResultSet.updateObject works perfectly inserting Int, float, double, Date. Evrything works very well. But I need use JDBC driver verion 8.0 Build 312 for another reasons, and the java code above not works because this version of JDBC driver is very strict about data types. I really need insert my data in an abstract way, I mean without knowing the data types. (Application requirements). I would not like to use a bulk of if setences for various data types according to obtained by using ResultSetMetaData. How could I overcome this situation ? Beforehand thank you very much by your help and support. Kind Regards. Alfredo Rico.
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Redhat 9 system displays "Boot Failed"
I have a relatively new Redhat 9 system that was working just great for 6 months until the last time I started it.
Now tonight, I press the power button, I see the BIOS splash screen, then "Boot Failed" instead of the Grub loader screen asking which version to boot.
I put in my Redhate boot diskette and try again. Among the text scrolling by the screen I see things like:
hda: read_intr: 0x04 { Drive Status Error }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 (hda) sector 2
EXT-fs: unable to read superblock
and many more. Then:
Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
Has my disk died?
Any suggestions? If dead, any other way to get the data off of it?
Boot a standalone disk, then try to mount.
My disk looks okay. It is a 30GB Maxtor ATA. I used the Maxtor diagnostic tool diskette and the drive passed all non destructive tests.
So what might be happening?
Could my boot area have become corrupted?
If so how would one recover?
Should I attempt a reinstall from the Redhat 9 installation disks?
Would this destroy may application data?
Well I tried a live boot CD (DamnSmallLinux) and tried to mount the partitions on the disk: hda1, hda2, hda3. I think hda2 is the root filesystem and I am pretty sure I used the default ext2 filesystem when I originally installed Redhat 9. The message I got was:
> sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
mount : wrong fs type, bad option, dad superblock on /dev/hda2
or too many mounted file systems.
The bad superblock was in an error message I got when I tried the boot diskette.
Could my "superblock" have become corrupted? How would I repair that?
Reading around the forum some more, it looks like you use e2fsck to fix superblocks. As in the thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/140535
Well this yields a:
e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/hda2
Could this be a zero length partition.
The thread goes on to suggest the partition table is bad. Here is mine:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3972 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 ? 267666 49364 497115833 29 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda2 ? 204081 49219 976730017 3 XENIX usr
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda3 ? 1 1 0 6c Unknown
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda4 92485 160850 516843863+ 49 Unknown
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Supposedly this is very bad. Since I do not have my original partition settings, attempting repair is unlikely to be successful.
So before I start anew on my Redhat 9 re-install from scratch, I appeal to the community two more questions:
1. Is my prognosis correct? The partition is bad, start over.
2. What could have corrupted it? I do not recall any "abnormal" event that might have caused this. The disk diagnostics all pass, no power failure, or the such. I did have DVD-ROM on the secondary IDE bus that was "bad" and causing syslog errors, but that was all.
I have a new red hat 9 system, but while booting the service sendmail takes a 3-4 minutes to start. So I don't want the sendmail service to start at boot time. But since I am not much familiar with linux I don't know how to do it... ?
Is there anybody who can help me to solve this problem?
Well I ended up re-installing and forgetting about recovery.
As for rsj0719's problem, I am not sure why he/she posted it here.
I did have this problem and determined that sendmail wanted a hostname.domainname for its host in the /etc/hosts file. After adding that, it starts up very quickly.
not sure why rsj posted here either...
But to turn off send mail all together chkconfig sendmail off should do it.
Hi friends...
Thank you pwalden and reelwylde....
as a newbie i was not knowing where to post my questions..... sorry for that...
once again thank you....
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Axalp 2001 may have been cancelled, but Michael Balter reports on his personal Swiss Tour between 15 - 19 October
A helicopter crash on the Friday before the planned Axalp demo caused the cancellation of the event, an Alouette III coming down near Crans-Montana when it touched a cable, the four crew members sadly perishing. So the official Axalp demo was cancelled on Monday morning when we were already in Switzerland...
Monday 15 October
When we arrived on Monday morning after a six-hour trip I got a message from the team leader of the Patrouille Suisse that the Axalp demo was cancelled, so we had to re-arrange our trip. Thanks to Mr Eckhauer a base-visit at Dübendorf was hastily arranged and a whole day of sun was spent on base!
First we saw the F-18 flightline, where four of them (three 'Cs and a 'D) began to start for one of three missions that day. On the other side of the airbase we were able to take shots of seven Mirage IIIRSs on the flightline and during take-off. Between these flightline shots we were able to photograph all the resident aircraft such as the Falcon 50, Pilatus Porter PC-6HB/2, PC-7 and Super Puma - a surprise was a Ju-52 from Ju-Air doing some passenger flights, a nice example of one of these rare beauties!
Tuesday 16 October
At 10:40 we heard that practice flights on the Ebenfluh shooting range at Axalp were taking place during the afternoon - at that time we were at Meiringen Airfield where twelve F-5E Tigers are based. So, we threw our kit in the van and drove the two and a half hours to Axalp.
Normally a fit hiker would need another two and a half hours to climb to the range, but we made it in under two from the Axalp Sporthotel, the last place we could leave the van. We arrived just in time and were amazed at the view into the valley where you can see the blue colours of the Brienzer lake plus the city of Brienz.
At 14:00 the flying started with six Tigers from Meiringen - they flew attacks using their two M39A2 20mm cannons mounted in the fuselage nose, very spectacular to see this display for the first time! Their two General Electric J85-GE-21B turbojet engines, each rated at 22.24kN (5,000lb) with afterburners sounded great in the mountain ranges where you could see them diving out of the clouds and passing by oh so fast!
The weather was a bit drizzly, but luckily no snow as last year when the snow was ankle deep. Last year also saw 1,000 people standing at the viewing area at Ebenfluh shooting range, but today there was only about forty who had made the effort.
After the Tigers had finished their 'attacks' they were followed by four Mirage IIIRS aircraft from Fliegerstaffel 3 at Dübendorf. At first they made their well-known low approach at the Ebenfluh shooting range from the valley right up to the top of Axalp, very fast and very low - we were amazed to see this twice this day. Before they reached the top they crossed in front of us and flew over our heads very low......wowwwww! Luckily we had our ear protectors on...
They then made their gun attacks on the targets from three directions using their two 30-mm DEFA 552A cannons with rolling climb-outs. The only problem you have at the Axalp shooting range is that most of the time all flights come from the right so you always look into the sun, but still some stunning pictures can be made!
Then we had a short break before two F-18C Hornets from Payerne made their appearance, attacking the targets with their General Electric M61A1 Vulcan cannons. Unfortunately the weather changed so quickly above at the range that there sometimes was a fog-bank over the target, causing approaches to be broken-off before they could fire on the target.
After the 'show' we had our climb down to the Axalp Sporthotel which was not so hard as our up climb to the range. But, in our minds we still had those images up there at the Ebenfluh shooting range which is unique in Europe....unfortunately!
Wednesday 17 October
On Wednesday it was back to the taxiway at Meiringen, making shots of the based F-5E Tigers...plus what was a great surprise as a two-seat Hunter and a two-seat Mirage IIIS made a low flypast...thanks to my son Justin-Marvin who made us aware of these fast approaching aircraft! A spotter in the making, that lad.
Thursday 18 October
Thursday saw us at Payerne Airbase, where the F-18 training is done. Unfortunately the weather was not so good.....lots of drizzle in the morning, so first we had a good breakfast! Thanks go to my wife Melanie, as she arranged a visit with the base commander directly after going to the main gate and asking to get in! We were picked up by a ground crew technician who drove us around the base in his jeep, taking us to a hangar where we saw F-18C J-5008 on display, and answering every question we had about the F-18 Hornet in service with the Swiss Air Force. Afterwards we saw a Venom, Vampire, Mirage IIIS and Hunter that are destined for the new Payerne Airforce museum. Lastly we went to Hangar 5 where we could see a Super Puma and Alouette III in ground service, as well as a F-5E Tiger from Fliegerstaffel 1 and another Mirage IIIS there too!
Highlight of the morning was the start up procedure of three F/A-18 Hornets from their roll-in-and-out boxes that we were standing in front of - great!!! Another highlight of the day was the hook landing of Hornet J-5009 on the runway, unfortunately too far away for my camera, but luckily nothing happened! It was a nice experience to see one doing this kind of landing at Payerne.
That evening we drove back Germany, in our minds the best trip done in the last few years, already arranging our 'Swiss Tour 2002'!
My special thanks go to the following people for their great support and help, without which this trip would not have been so successful:
Mr Vallon and Mrs Berchtold of the Swiss Air Force Press Office who made so much possible. All my new friends in Switzerland like "Grimmi", Marcel and André who provided me with so much information and tips that this 'Swiss Tour 2001' was a great success!!
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BOSTON — No sport lends itself to the phrase "defense wins championships" less than baseball. Pitching and hitting are the two factors most scrutinized, and it's largely because they're easier to quantify. As the Red Sox are learning, though, defense still plays a critical role in a team's success.
The Red Sox made two errors in Thursday's loss to the Twins, and one cost them the game. John Lackey fielded a comebacker with runners on first and second and one out in the sixth inning. Lackey fired to second base for what should have been an easy inning-ending double play, but his throw sailed into center field. If Lackey made a good throw and the Red Sox executed the double play, the right-hander would have escaped the sixth inning unscathed. Instead, he found himself pitching in a tie game with runners on first and third and one out. The Twins ended up scoring four runs in the inning.
That entire sequence is obviously an extreme case of an error being catastrophic. The Red Sox have played subpar defense overall of late, though, and it's costing them big time.
The Red Sox have made 10 errors in their last seven games, and it's no coincidence that they're 1-6 in that span. Pedro Ciriaco's two errors in the eighth inning of Tuesday's game allowed the Twins to seize complete control, and a throwing error charged to Will Middlebrooks in the fourth inning of Saturday's game against the Rangers turned a bad situation worse.
"We've got to take care of the ball," Dustin Pedroia said after Thursday's loss. "That's a big part of winning ballgames, pitching and defense."
What's alarming is that defense was one of the Red Sox' strong suits early on this season. The pitching and the offense received most of the recognition — which is usually the case when a team is rolling — but the defense was very good. Boston didn't make its first error until the eighth game of the season, and manager John Farrell continuously brought up the team's glove work while analyzing win after win.
Now, we're looking at a club that's playing error-per-game baseball over its last 18 contests. Even when the result isn't as drastic as Lackey's game-changing miscue on Thursday, that type of sloppy play can kill a team, particularly because it makes life much more difficult for the guys on the mound.
"Our guys work on their defense every single day. It's not a matter of work. It's a matter of execution," Farrell said before Thursday's game. "They've come in bunches. I think it might be more the leveling out of the game itself."
Very few baseball teams, if any, will ever be built around defense. It doesn't mean that facet of the game can't significantly alter the success a team enjoys, though. Just ask the Red Sox.
Defense, specifically, may not win championships when it comes to baseball. But it can sure as hell prevent championships.
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Dublin, Ireland, 2011/06/09 - Award will see further development and commercialisation of an innovative manufacturing process for Photovoltaic (PV) solar cells - Nines-PV.com.
Dublin based Nines Photovoltaics was awarded 1.2 million in funding through a highly competitive European Framework Programme 7 (FP7), to further develop its innovative sustainable solar cell manufacturing technology.
Nines Photovoltaics has developed a potentially highly disruptive methodology for the manufacturing process of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells (a device that converts sunlight into electricity). This new technology will reduce the cost of production and the overall environmental impact while increasing the speed and degree of process control required for the production of Photovoltaic (PV) solar cells.
Commenting on the significance of the technology Edward Duffy, CEO, Nines Photovoltaics said From a cost and environmental perspective the current solar cell production process is unsustainable and limits the ability for Solar PV to compete with traditional energy sources. In 2010 there were roughly 10 billion solar cells produced worldwide, consuming over 25 billion litres of water and other chemicals. The heavy environmental footprint of solar cell manufacturing is strangling the ability of the PV sector to grow and meet the growing power demand. There is enough solar energy available to power the whole planet 100 times over but we must learn to harvest this energy in a sustainable and cost effective way.
The technology that Nines has developed enables the solar cell producer to dramatically lower their water consumption and enables investment in further scaling of their manufacturing facilities. Nines Photovoltaics is the first company to offer a process solution which uses a fully dry process using only Zero Global Warming Potential chemicals.
The FP7 funding enables Nines to collaborate with a consortium of European partners, Research institutes and SMEs, with specific expertise and domain knowledge to further develop the technology and bring the end product to the global market. Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development (FP7) promotes R&D collaborations amongst European countries. Nines Photovoltaics is leading this project from the front and will collaborate with the Fraunhofer IWS Institute in Dresden, Germany, the Fraunhofer ISE Institute in Freiburg, Germany, Vestlandsforsking in Norway, Alyxan in France, Solartech in Czech Republic, and Zimmermann & Schip Handhabungstechnik GmbH in Germany.
Laurent Clochard, CTO, added: This award is a superb endorsement of our technology by a panel of European experts and we feel very much vindicated in our technological development choices. We have been working on developing this technology for the last 2 years, capitalising on our semiconductor process knowledge, and have made some significant progress with our partners in Germany. The solar industry is a relatively young industry, growing very fast and there are many opportunities. It is very much a global market and we are planning to export 100% of our products. We hope to equip our first production lines in Q4 2012 with PV manufacturers based across the globe.
Welcoming the announcement John ODea, Enterprise Ireland Manager High Potential Start Ups said: This is a very high tech company showing strong success. As the lead partner in this project, Nines Photovoltaics is working with leading international researchers and companies in a partnership that enhances the international standing of the company. Enterprise Ireland is delighted to support Nines Engineering and to working with them as they continue to develop their international business.
Nines Photovoltaics is currently going through a second round of funding in order to finance further product development and insure global market penetration.
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Nines Photovoltaics (nines-pv.com) is the latest, market specific initiative to come from Nines Engineering. Nines Engineering specializes in custom design and manufacturing of high purity process modules for the micro and nanotechnology fabrication industry. In 2009 the founders identified a niche area in the Photovoltaic industry to which they could apply their expertise from the Semiconductor Industry. Based in the Synergy Centre on the Tallaght IT Campus, the company is headed up by Edward Duffy CEO, Laurent Clochard CTO and Simon Forsyth CFO.
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The Fraunhofer IWS (Institute for Material and Beam Technology), Germany
The institute offers application-oriented research and development in the area of laser and surface technology. The CVD group focuses on development and optimization of customized etching and deposition technologies at atmospheric pressure, and development and prototyping of equipment for industrial applications, including advanced process monitoring solutions.
The Fraunhofer ISE (Institute for Solar Energy), Germany
Europes largest institute in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency with a total of more than 1000 employees. Fraunhofer ISE holds numerous records in the field of solar cells from crystalline silicon wafers. In March 2006 the Photovolatic - Technology Evaluation Centre (PV-TEC) was inaugurated, being the largest non-commercial R&D laboratory for PV technology world-wide. Covering the whole process chain for standard and advanced processing, it offers unique options for R&D on a pilot equipment level. Thus the gap between standard lab type pilot processing (typically in the range of 100 wafers/day and the industrial throughput rates of 2000 wafers/hour can be closed.
Alyxan, France
Develop and commercialise novel gas measurement systems (FT-ICR mass spectrometer). Recognised experts in gas phase chemistry and analysis. The instrument FTICR-MS (Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry) they have developed is unique and provides precise information rich gas measurement.
Solartec, Czech Republic
Solartec are focused on crystalline silicon solar cell process development and subsequent production according to the requirements of their clients (various sizes, shapes, colors, concentration ratios, contact structures, optical sensors)
Vestlandforsking, Norway
Norwegian based R&D institute with competence in the fields of social studies, natural sciences, technology and the humanities. Environmental impact and risk assessment are major areas for evaluating industrial processes and products, in which the research takes the concept of sustainable development as its starting point. Industrial Ecology is applied for increasing the knowledge of how to reduce the environmental impacts of industrial production and products. Their involvement ensures that there are environmental improvements from the development of the new process.
Zimmermann & Schilp Handhabungstechnik GmbH, Germany
Z&S provide high-tech systems for the handling of highly sensitive products in an industrial environment. The core competence of Z&S lies in the internally developed ultrasound-air-bearing technology for non-contact handling of surface-sensitive and fragile products. Z&S acts as provider for complete automated handling systems as well as supplier for handling modules to be integrated into process tools. Applications include semiconductor, PV and glass handling industry.
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Mixcraft is a music-making website. It's very easy and fun to do, but if you need to save your musical piece on Mixcraft, that might be hard to do for you. If you read this article, then you might be able to properly save a piece of music on Mixcraft.
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Few people know what a quartermaster does. So during my aircraft carrier's Family Day, I demonstrated a procedure called semaphore—I grabbed my flags and signaled an imaginary boat.
When finished, I pointed to a little girl in front and asked, "Now do you know what I do?"
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Over 100,000 people showed up for the 2015 BottleRock Festival in Napa Valley for three days of music on four Brown United stages. Concert goers enjoyed Imagine Dragons, Robert Plant, and No Doubt among others. The fourth annual BottleRock runs May 27-29, 2016...Memorial Day Weekend.


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Just wanted to say hello to everyone here. Lots of great info shared and though I may not be able to contribute much right now (lack of knowledge) I have been reading a lot and my research skills are second to none. So if you cant find something on the internet I might be able to help. Anyways...if I could bother you all with one question I need help on selecting a first shotgun. I pretty much narrowed it down to the Remington 1187 b/c of price point $650 at Wally World but which one?? There is the Premier, SP, SPS, and Sportsman. What is the difference?? I think I want some thing that shots 3 1/2" shells for duck, goose, and turkey unless a 3" will do. Any advise for a guy who has only shot other people guns before??


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WWE News: Alberto Del Rio Buys His Father A Vintage Car, Raquel Diaz Wants To Return To WWE
– In an interview with Miami Herald, Alberto Del Rio promoted WWE's upcoming Smackdown taping in the city on January 8. He said that his family will be in attendance, including his father, WWE Hall of Famer Dos Caras.
Del Rio said he will be driving a 1965 Ford Mustang to the ring and plans on giving it to his father as a birthday present after the show.
He added: "I love that car. I actually bought that car for my dad for his birthday, but I'm going to use it for TV, and then I'm going to give it to my father. My dad is in love with this car, that particular model, and I was looking for that car for over a year, and I finally found it."
– Former NXT Diva Raquel Diaz (Shaul Guerrero) said she would like to return to the WWE. She was released earlier this year after some personal issues.
She wrote on Twitter: "I defiantly want to return to WWE but I have a couple of things to accomplish. My life is in Gods hands now! I'm dancing and off to college."
More must-read wrestling news:
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This past week, the Kentucky House of Representatives spent much of its time focusing on two important groups: Our children and our farmers.
On Wednesday, for example, the full chamber voted to make viewing child pornography a crime, a move that would close a loophole that has made it tougher to prosecute pedophiles who don't actually possess the images they view on the internet but don't keep.
Nothing gives spring's arrival away better than the ever-growing thorn in all drivers' sides.
When I think of spring, I generally think of things that make me happy.
For example, with spring comes warmer weather, outside events, volleyball, warmer weather, getting a tan, volleyball and the always enjoyed... warmer weather.
In a small rural community like ours, the farms tend to shine and the scenery, for the most part, looks similar to pictures you might see in a magazine.
FRANKFORT – In today's economy, most employers ask for at least some postsecondary experience and all but require a high school degree. Those who drop out are often not even considered.
To the editor:
I am convinced that major changes are needed in our government before it is too late.
I am concerned that we have too much regulation, which stifles not only our individual freedoms, but curtails free enterprise. It is no wonder, manufacturers moved their companies (and our jobs) offshore...
I am concerned that our government officials are not concerned about efficient use of our tax dollars. They seem inept at making hard but fiscally sound decisions...
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I don't know if this will do me any good, but I feel that others need to know what goes on in Battle Grove Cemetery.
Cynthiana lost one of its Christian soldiers last week with the passing of Ruth E. Furnish.
When I first started working at The Cynthiana Democrat in 1976, Ruth was the bookkeeper for the newspaper and the Cynthiana Publishing Co. plant. During her tenure, she served with several publishers.
I say "with" because many of those publishers would probably agree that they were publishers because Ruth said they could be, much like most men are the head of the house because their wives say they can be.
FRANKFORT – One of the biggest issues this legislative session – stopping prescription drug abuse – took a major step forward early last week, when Governor Beshear and House and Senate leaders voiced their bipartisan support for plans to take quick action.
There is no doubt that something needs to be done. We are seeing far more Kentuckians die from prescription drug overdose than on our highways, and our rate of abuse is well above the national average.
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We are writing to tell your readers about a recently formed non-profit animal welfare organization in Harrison County, Helping Hounds Find Homes. Its objective is to rescue and transport homeless dogs, cats, puppies and kittens to non-profit, no kill shelters and foster homes where the animals will await adoption to forever homes.
In 2010, 2,307 unwanted dogs and cats entered Flora Shropshire Animal Shelter. Of that number 437 were adopted, 130 were returned to owners, 381 went to rescue and 950 were euthanized.
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[FLASHBACK] England whitewash India
The euphoria of winning the 2011 World Cup on home soil had hardly settled down by the time that MS Dhoni's men embarked on the tour of England, but as the Test series went on, that joy turned to disappointment as Andrew Strauss' team outwitted India in all the four Tests.
England drove the last nail into India's coffin in this series at The Oval on August 22, 2011; when they won the fourth Test by an innings and 8 runs and inflicted a 4-0 whitewash.
Ian Bell was India's chief tormentor as he scored his maiden double century and also put on a mammoth 350-runs stand with Kevin Pietersen.
Rahul Dravid's 146* in the first innings helped India make 300 for the first and only time in the series. In the second innings, Sachin Tendulkar and Amit Mishra's 144-runs partnership with Amit Mishra raised India's hopes of salvaging a draw, but the then No. 1 ranked Test team lost their last six wickets for 21 runs with Graeme Swann running through the middle and late order.
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Kevin O'Connor (Utah) got 3 votes?!?! .
Again, another award that should wait until after the season to be voted on. Considering everything Walsh has done in the past 3 years is now starting to come to fruition in that he built a team with the league's best record, what the hell does it take? Can't believe he's never won.
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Gareth Pugh is fashion's crowned Prince of Darkness, but he pulled back a bit from his heavy, futuristic designs for Spring 2013 and channeled something more medieval, regal, and romantic. The first look set the tone: a sleeveless, high neck, cinched waist gown paired with a veiled mantilla hat (you might recognize one from Lady Gaga's Alejandro video): so beautiful and serene that one could not help but instantly be intrigued. Then the collection burst into leather with pants, sculpted bustier tops, a floor-length cape on Jeneil Williams, and open-toe booties which might be a big hit with the fashion set for the season because of their functionality.
Pugh became quite attached to billowing bell bottoms and wide-leg pants, which gave a menswear-inspired yet simultaneously bohemian vibe to the collection.
It wasn't all about neutrals for the season: fiery red pieces added zest including beautiful turtleneck gowns, capes, and a pair of wide-leg trousers that were among the most wearable designs in the offerings.
Last, but not least was fringe detailing which fell elegantly yet powerfully off of turtleneck dresses and long tops. These were among my favorite designs in the collection and were easily some of the most functional: great for pairing with tights and flat boots or skinnies and your favorite point-toe pumps.
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Report: Gronkowski may need back surgery, too
A day after the Globe reported that Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski will have a fourth surgery on his left arm — to replace a plate — USA Today reported he also may need back surgery.
According to that report, Gronkowski recently had an MRI to check on a disk that had to be shaved down in 2009, and a problem was detected with a different disk. A decision on whether to have surgery for that problem, according to the report, has not been made.
Meanwhile, an ESPN report said that if Gronkowski has back surgery, it will be done during the time he is recovering from the arm surgery, and should not extend his recovery period. The arm surgery, which a team source confirmed will be done next week, will require a recovery time of 10 weeks, which is just about the time training camp would start.
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PROVIDENCE, Cache County — A snowmobiler was rescued from an avalanche in Providence Canyon on Tuesday afternoon.
The man was riding near Millville Peak with about five other snowmobilers when the slide buried him. His companions dug him out and resuscitated him after the slide. The man was conscious and breathing as rescuers worked to reach him, Cache County Sheriff's Lt. Mike Peterson said.
Rescue crews were approaching on snowmobiles Tuesday, and the side area remained active, Peterson said. He did not know how deep the man was buried.
The man refused transport by a medical helicopter, according to the Utah Avalanche Center. The size of slide was not available. The center's website reported avalanche danger in the area was high.
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Big Bones Canine Rescue
The rescue organization specializes in large breed dogs and is in need of donations. If you are interested in adopting, donating, being a foster home, sponsoring a dog or taking a look, go to bigbonescaninerescue.com or call (970) 310-3616.
A dozen years ago, Kristie Fisher drove up to the 13-acre property in rural Windsor with her husband and smiled. All her dreams, even her foolish ones, seemed to be coming true.
Fisher was a city girl whose parents were divorced when she was 8. She spent a lot of time in apartments. She would think about what it would be like to have room, or even a wide-open, peaceful space where car horns were muffled by the wind. Then she would dismiss those dreams as folly. That, she told herself, would never happen.
Yet there she was with her husband, with the sky above and the mountains to the west, and she could picture it all. She pictured where their new home would eventually go after they lived in the smaller house for a few years. She pictured kids riding dirt bikes and having their own adventures in the fields. She pictured her own hair salon in the basement of that new home that would allow her to work and raise her kids herself.
The dream came true. The house is there, and so is the salon, and so are the kids. Yet the dreams changed, too. They often do.
Now when you drive up past that old house, to the new one, down the long driveway, a flurry of barks greets you as your tires crunch on the gravel. Bark, bark, bark. A lab puppy wags his tail at you from his kennel. Other dogs, which look as big as miniature ponies, seem OK with you but bark just to make sure. As you approach her house, some of the barks turn into howls that echo around all that space. Fisher says hello from her hair studio, where Lola, a mastiff, greets you and starts pawing you for a pat.
Fisher needs to finish a haircut, then she needs to check on the dogs, especially the great dane puppies who make messes every couple of hours. It's another busy day, even with the 10 valuable volunteers who come regularly to help. And though she loves her Big Bones Canine Rescue, she will admit that as big of a part of her life as it is now, it was something she didn't picture, or even imagine, when she drove on their new property with her husband a dozen years ago.
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It's safe to say her husband, Scott, didn't picture it, either, and that's part of the problem. It takes time to run a rescue organization with more than 25 dogs, even with her impressive adoption rate. It also takes money, and that's the more immediate problem. She owes her veterinarians more than $5,000.
"The rescue organization is the only thing we fight about," Fisher said and, even then, Scott helps with pouring concrete and building kennels and remodeling.
She got into rescue the way most people do, meaning she sort of stumbled into it simply because she loved animals. When she got her own place, she got three. They were all rescues. When they moved into the new house they built down the driveway six years ago, two years after her son, Gannon, now 8, was born, she turned the old place into a boarding business.
That, and doing the hair of Floss Blackburn, the founder of the Denkai Animal Sanctuary, led to taking in a few rescues herself. She and Karen Durlin started Big Bones in January 2013, just three years after her daughter, Wynsloe, now 5, came.
"The perfect dog always has a home," Fisher said, "and yet they are all so deserving of that. It's so, so sad."
Following Blackburn's lead, she relied on the strong rescue network for grooming and baths and free food and discounts on supplies. But that network, strong as it is, can't pay vet bills. Just last week, she was facing a $700 eye surgery on another dog. She was, at one point, $9,000 in the hole, but she knocked that down by selling the water rights on their property. Scott didn't like that, either.
She understands her husband's frustration. She keeps two English mastiffs and two crazy puppy great danes that are deaf. She also keeps a crazy, messy house, and that's because of the dogs both inside and out in the kennels. She has cats, too. A couple of very friendly, very patient cats.
It's hard to say why some people like animals and others share a deep connection with them. Fisher can't explain it herself. But what she does know is there are times when she can go out to the kennels, away from the newer house and the kids and her business and talk to the dogs. She pets them. She lets them know they are loved. And then she can go back to being a hair stylist, and a wife, and a mom, and she can do what she needs to do to keep her dream alive.
Big Bones Canine Rescue
The rescue organization specializes in large breed dogs and is in need of donations. If you are interested in adopting, donating, being a foster home, sponsoring a dog or taking a look, go to bigbonescaninerescue.com or call (970) 310-3616.


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HIGH POINT, N.C. – High Point police have identified the woman who died Saturday in a wreck.
Two cars collided in the intersection at South Main Street and College Drive. Guilford County EMS found Nancy Cole unresponsive and pronounced her dead at the scene.
Crews took three people - with a range of injuries - to High Point Regional Medical Center.
Gloria Fogle was driving a 1990 Toyota Camry, with Cole as her passenger. Police say Cole was trapped in the car.
Divie Martin was driving a 2007 Ford Ranger and was going northeast on South College Drive. He had a 15-year-old boy in the car with him.
Investigators say Martin was suffering from a medical condition at the time of the crash. He went though the intersection at a red light.
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City appoints consultant for Federal rebuildJul 19, 2012 By Emily Etheredge, Staff Writer
Riverton City Council members voted July 3 to appoint Jim Gores with Gores and Associates to provide consultant planning services for the North Federal Boulevard reconstruction project, which is slated to begin in 2014.
Public services director Bill Urbigkit said the city advertised a request for qualifications to firms interested in performing the planning of the Federal Boulevard rebuild from Washington Avenue to the Burger King on North Federal Boulevard.
"We had two firms submit statements of qualifications from James Gores and Associates, teamed with West Plains Engineering of Casper, and Sage Civil Engineering of Cody, teamed with Aeroland Planning of Denver," Urbigkit said. "It was the recommendation of the reviewers to award it to Jim Gores and Associates as the consultant."
Councilman Richard Gard said he had been involved with the project and thought Jim Gores was a confident engineer who would do the job correctly.
Urbigkit said the consultant would serve as a facilitator for the reconstruction along Federal Boulevard.
"I think we all want a finished project that everyone in this town can be proud of," Urbigkit said. "I'm not going to kid myself that everyone is going to be happy with decisions made about Federal Boulevard, but I do want to get the public's input."
Following the model for the Main Street project, city staff applied for and was granted a community development block grant planning study to assist the city in moving forward with the North Federal Boulevard project. Gores and Associates will facilitate the citizens planning committee work, coordinate between the committee, city and WyDOT in helping to identify and procure funding for selected enhancements, and give a final report to council members.
The grant is for $44,796 and the city has budgeted $12,500 for a total project cost of $57,296.
Gard said he wanted to make sure the consultants felt they were being listened to.
"We are coming to a point with this project where it is going to be costing us a lot of money," Gard said.
Mayor Ron Warpness agreed with Gard that it would be a costly project, but he thought having a professional person on hand would help in the process.


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Palo Alto, CA, United States, 2007/05/18 - Frost & Sullivan selected Espial® IPTV as the recipient of the 2007 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for IPTV Entrepreneurial Company for its outstanding efforts and innovation to become a dominant participant in the IPTV market (STBs).
Espial experienced strong growth in 2006 and has now shipped over one million Evo® IPTV middleware subscriber licenses to service providers and partners. The Evo IPTV Service Platform includes Evo Client middleware and applications including Evo EPG, Evo VoD, Evo DVR, Evo Browser and Evo BML Browser, and the carrier-grade Evo Server. The company believes that IPTV is not just about emulating broadcast technology, but applying Internet rules to the TV viewing experience to provide a superior experience for subscribers and a service creation platform for operators.
The company allows service providers to build a strong subscriber "quality of experience" (QoE) through the use of interactive applications such as chat, games, personalized content and targeted advertising. Experiential features include fast scrolling and an intuitive program guide. Evo SkinTones UI technology enables service providers and customers to personalize the look and feel of the EPG.
"The companys data-driven architecture allows between 30,000 and 100,000 set-top boxes (STBs) to be managed per middleware application server," says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Lynda Starr. "This translates into a much lower total cost of ownership for the operator, allowing them to save tens of millions over the course of a wide-scale IPTV deployment."
Culturally, Espial is a place where employees are encouraged to wear many hats and challenge themselves. Many team members have been with the company since the start and have careers heavily invested in the company.
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Each year Frost & Sullivan presents this Award to the small company that has demonstrated superior entrepreneurial ability in its industry. The Award signifies the company's identification of a unique and revolutionary product solution with significant market potential. Additionally, it certifies that the company's marketing strategy is sound and poised for success. In selecting Espial as this years award recipient, Frost & Sullivan analyzed over 30 companies competing in the IPTV market.
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We have lots of new twists this year to welcome the holidays. The Ukiah Senior Center offers ways to get involved and volunteer, bargains on a budget, Christmas gifts, and a feast of a meal.
On Friday, Nov. 8, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., we will offer a photo session in an on-site photo studio. For this day only, you may have a photograph taken of you and your loved ones. Photos will be uploaded to a site on which you may order your prints reproduced in any manner you like. Just think of personalized holiday cards, coffee cups, a mouse pad?the ideas are limitless. Call and make an appointment for a sitting. Any donations will be accepted for this project.
On Thursday, Nov. 22 and Friday, Nov. 23 we will be highlighting the Crafty Ladies handiwork in a new venue. There will be rooms?living room, bedroom, kitchen and kids' room?set up with refurbished furniture for sale. The items for sale will be a step up as a result of being repaired, painted, and stained. This will be the place to get a good deal on re-doing one of the rooms in your house or finding a Christmas present. We still could use donations of furniture and quality household furnishings for this event.? If you have an item you would like to donate for this cause, please let our Administration office know.
Thursday, Nov. 28, there will be two servings for meals served at noon and 3 p.m. Only $8 per person. We are still in need of volunteers; if you want to join a worthwhile way to get involved please call me and get on the list. I need volunteers on Wednesday the 27th? and of course Thursday the 28th.? Even two hours makes a big difference!
On Saturday, Dec. 14, we will host a vendors craft fair. If you or someone you know would like to rent a table to sell your items, please contact Luayne Wright at 621-1081. The tables rent for only $25 each. What a good way to share your talent and for shoppers to buy unique and one-of-a-kind Christmas gifts!
Our fundraising campaign is still on. We continue to look to the community for support of the worthwhile services that we provide. I recently received a donation from a participant who attended the? Healthy Living Workshop? series held at the Center. She traveled from Cloverdale for this event. She stated in a memo that she was appreciative of the series and wanted to make a donation because she "wasn't a taxpayer of our county and wanted to contribute for the service she received." She and many others in our area have made the assumption that the Ukiah Senior Center is primarily funded through some sort of governmental contracts?the fact is, we are not. Only 25 percent of our budget is derives from contracts, the rest is self-generated or donations from the community. We are a private non-profit that has been providing this important service for 42 years. We depend on donations to keep our local seniors independent and living in their own homes for as long as possible. Please consider putting us on your list as an organization worthy of your annual support.
Our goal for this year is a hearty $100,000. We have been operating on furloughs since July 2012 and reduced operational hours, and still running short to provide our services. Our campaign to date has brought in $12,175. Recent donors are Ed and Barbara Schweitzer $25, Nora and Rick Kennedy $100, and Kerry Schrock $250. Thank you!
To send a tax-deductible contribution to the Ukiah Senior Center, our address is 499 Leslie Street Ukiah, CA 95482.
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Darcy Herman, owner and operator of First Choice Home Inspections serving Jamestown and east central North Dakota, attended the American Society of Home Inspectors' annual InspectionWorld conference in Nashville, Tenn., on Jan. 12-15.
The four-day conference provided attendees with the opportunity to acquire new skills, enhance their professional knowledge and network with professionals in the industry. As a result of attending the full InspectionWorld conference, Herman received 20 ASHI CE credits fulfilling his annual CE requirements for 2014 ASHI membership.
"ASHI remains committed to offering the resources and essential tools enabling me to provide my customers with the services they want and need," Herman said. "I am proud to be part of an association like ASHI — the only home inspection organization with a certification program recognized by The National Organization for Competency Assurance."
Herman has 36 years in the construction trades industry, 26 years in the energy conservation industry and completed his certification for licensing as a home inspector in North Dakota in 2011.


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Two more Search and Rescue dog teams were being brought in to search Tuesday for a elderly hiker last seen at a waterfall in Yosemite National Park. Rangers are hoping the additional Search an Rescue dog teams will be able to cover a larger area and catch a scent of the missing man.
The hiker went missing early Sunday morning while hiking to the top of Vernal Falls. Officials say 73-year-old Kenneth Stensby, an avid hiker from Edina, Minn., left a note to hotel staff saying that he was hiking to the top of Vernal Falls and would return by noon. Hotel personnel got worried when he had not returned by 5pm and alerted park rangers. Park rangers went up to the waterfall area and found the hiker's backpack near the railing to keep people away from the waterfall.
Park Rangers are conducting the search along the Mist Trail corridor, from Happy Isles to the top of Vernal Fall. To try and help pin point his last known location so that they can narrow the search the park service is asking anyone who hiked the Mist Trail or John Muir Trail to Vernal or Nevada Falls on Sunday to email their name, phone numbers, itinerary, and approximate time that they were at the top of Vernal Fall to firstname.lastname@example.com according to the Fresno Bee. Park Rangers have also asked that visitors check their cameras for photos of the missing man and anyone one with information about the missing hiker is asked to call (209) 372-0432.
Since 1999 Yosemite has had its own Search and Rescue dog teams of about twenty-five dogs and their handlers for searches within Yosemite National Park. Nick-named "YODOGs" at some point early in its history, this team of Search and Rescue dogs has some of the highest standards of any in the United States, for both dogs and handlers.
Many visitors to Yosemite see get to visit with the Search and Rescue Dogs, especially around park headquarters. Wile some visitors are surprised to see dogs at the park as dogs are generally not allowed off of developed areas. However Yosemite National Park and other National Parks across the country have found that using Search and Rescue Dogs is one of the best tools for making sure that search operations have the least impact on the park, its wildlife, and visitors' enjoyment of the wild splendor. Dog teams find victims quickly. That's to the victims advantage, of course, but it also minimizes the "footprint" of a search: helicopter flights, large groups of people combing the backcountry, the large and often intrusive arrangements to house and feed large teams are less necessary. For more information about the 25 Search and Rescue Dogs Teams that are a part of Yosemite Search and Rescue visit http://www.friendsofyosar.org/team/yodogs/aboutYODOGS.html