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Traditionally (old school) fogs were yellow and driving lights were white.
Personally i prefer yellow in fog/snow (bad weather) .
I've been seeing alot of people on the forums w/ yellow fog lights. Is there an actual benefit of having yellow over the normal white? And is a yellow hid's brighter than a super white hid's? I think it looks cool....just different from everyone else. Also when you have both low hid's and yellow fogs it seems like it would look really weird with those color combos. Is it really bright aka fuctional. Anyone w/ this setup/info give their opinions... Pros and Cons, thanks
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Traditionally (old school) fogs were yellow and driving lights were white.
Personally i prefer yellow in fog/snow (bad weather) .
Yellow light is better able to penetrate fog, while white light has a greater tendency to be reflected by said fog. Same reason High Pressure Sodium lighting is preferable to Metal Halide in applications where fog is likely to be present often.
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You know where I can get a yellow fog hid kit? Or will just changing the halogen bulb be good enough? Would like a hid kit if I can find a quality setup. Also do I need to change the actual light from a clear lense to a yellow lense?
pretty much every where that sells HIDs has 3400k kits and those are as yellow as I've seen for an HID kit. Never seen them in person though.
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I have a set of 65 W, 2500K, 9005's installed as fogs. They are ebay sourced from NOKYA. Fantastic in snow storms. I also have fogs in the rear like the Euro 300's to make sure I can see and be seen.
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^^Maybe, yellows are extremely mellow toned and don't shine as far. I bet it's just a typo though.
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Ahhh - physics!
There is no good reason why fog lights are yellow. Here is an excellent explanation provided by Professor Craig Bohren of Penn State University:
"First I'll give you the wrong explanation, which you can find here and there. It goes something like this. As everyone knows, scattering (by anything!) is always greater at the shortwavelength end of the visible spectrum than at the longwavelength end. Lord Rayleigh showed this, didn't he? Thus to obtain the greatest penentration of light through fog, you should use the longest wavelength possible. Red is obviously unsuitable because it is used for stop lights. So you compromise and use yellow instead.
This explanation is flawed for more than one reason. Fog droplets are, on average, smaller than cloud droplets, but they still are huge compared with the wavelengths of visible light. Thus scattering of such light by fog is essentially wavelength independent. Unfortunately, many people learn (without caveats) Rayleigh's scattering law and then assume that it applies to everything. They did not learn that this law is limited to scatterers small compared with the wavelength and at wavelengths far from strong absorption.
The second flaw is that in order to get yellow light in the first place you need a filter. Note that yellow fog lights were in use when the only available headlights were incandescent lamps. If you place a filter over a white headlight, you get less transmitted light, and there goes your increased penetration down the drain.
There are two possible explanations for yellow fog lights. One is that the first designers of such lights were mislead because they did not understand the limitations of Rayleigh's scattering law and did not know the size distribution of fog droplets. The other explanation is that someone deemed it desirable to make fog lights yellow as a way of signalling to other drivers that visibility is poor and thus caution is in order.
Designers of headlights have known for a long time that there is no magic color that gives great penetration. I have an article from the Journal of Scientific Instruments published in October 1938 (Vol. XV, pp. 317-322). The article is by J. H. Nelson and is entitled "Optics of headlights". The penultimate section in this paper is on "fog lamps". Nelson notes that "there is almost complete agreement among designers of fog lamps, and this agreement is in most cases extended to the colour of the light to be used. Although there are still many lamps on the road using yellow light, it seems to be becoming recognized that there is no filter, which, when placed in front of a lamp, will improve the penetration power of that lamp."
This was written 61 years ago. Its author uses a few words ("seem", "becoming recognized") indicating that perhaps at one time lamp designers thought that yellow lights had greater penetrating power. And it may be that because of this the first fog lamps were yellow. Once the practice of making such lamps yellow began it just continued because of custom."
Also, take a look at the following web site:
Do Fog Lights Really Work?, Alaska Science Forum
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Daniel Stern Lighting Consultancy and SupplyWhat is Selective-Yellow Light?
It's what happens when you subtract blue from the output of a lamp producing white light. But first, what means "white light"? Under US Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 108 and Canadian Motor Vehicle Standards 108 and 108.1, headlamps as originally installed on motor vehicles (and as installed by anyone other than the vehicle owner) must produce white light. The relevant SAE (and identical ECE) color standards define "white" light as a rather large range within the CIE 1931 colorspace. That's why both brownish sealed beams and bluish HID headlamps are considered "white". It's also why "blue ion" or "crystal blue" bulbs with blue-pass dichroic filters sold to poseurs who want to try to pretend they have HIDs are not considered "white". The light can tend towards a yellow tint to a certain degree and still qualify as acceptable "white" light.
In 1936, the French for tactical reasons wanted a way to identify the registration nationality of vehicles at night. However, they did not want to reduce roadway safety, and wanted in fact to improve it if possible. So, they figured to remove the blue from the output spectrum of their vehicles' front lamps. Some technical papers out of France on the subject can be had here and here. White light with the blue component subtracted is known as "selective yellow" light. It is a pure yellow color with little or no orange component�hence the French yellow headlamps. Yellow lamps have consistently over the years been subjectively ranked as better in poor weather and lower in glare than white ones, but is the effect real? Or is it just a subjective impression? One problem with this conclusion as drawn from the French experience with selective-yellow headlamps in France is that when the question was being considered, the lamps that were being compared with white lamps reduced the absolute intensity of the beam by about 12 percent. This fact may have had a part in reducing the glare. Because the requirement for yellow light no longer exists (though it remains allowed in many countries) we probably will never know the vagaries of the answer to this question.
What explains the persistent subjective preference amongst experienced poor-weather drivers for yellow fog lamps, despite decades of white fog lamp prevalence? Selective yellow light can improve a driver's ability to see in fog or rain or snow, but not because it 'penetrates fog better' or 'reflects less off droplets' as is commonly thought. That effect is known as Rayleigh Scattering, and is why the sky appears blue. However, it occurs only when the droplet size is equal or smaller than the wavelength of the light, which is certainly not the case with ordinary fog, rain or snow. Roadway Fog droplets are several orders of magnitude larger than visible light wavelengths, so there's no Rayleigh Scattering.
So, why do yellow fog lamps seem to work better? It's because of the way the human eye interacts with different colors of light. Blue and violet are very difficult for the human optical system to process correctly. They are the shortest visible wavelengths and tend to focus in front of our eyes' retinae, rather than upon it. To demonstrate this to yourself, find a dark blue store front sign or something else that's a dark, pure blue against a dark background in the absence of white light�from any appreciable distance, it's almost impossible for your eyes to see the blue lighted object as a sharply defined form;the edges blur significantly. Deep blue runway lights exhibit the same effect; check it out the next time you land at night. Blue also is a very difficult color of light to look at; it stimulates the reaction we call glare. Within the range of allowable white light, bluer headlamps have been shown to be 46% more glaring than yellower ones for a given intensity of light � see studies here and here. So, it seems culling the blue out of the spectrum lightens the optical workload and reduces glare. For a more detailed examination of this effect with respect to driving in foul weather, see Bullough & Rea's study on the topic.
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Poster B: Well i dont accept that it made gains, its just there to look pretty, no car i've put it on made gains, dynos vary 5-20whp per run.
Funny how nothing makes gains, until THEY find a way to sell it to you.
In case you think I'm kidding. I'll say one thing and that is the white fogs actuall hurt my eyes in a snow storm these don't.
i have the same bulbs in my fogs except they arent 9005. i didn't realize they burned hotter than normal bulbs. i had the gts fog covers on at the same time and it melted them to my fog lenses. i'll probably just switch to hids when i replace the lenses.
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Jay is still recovering from surgery so Marc and the robotic voice of Jay talk about preseason, the final roster, defense, contracts, and more
Episode 323: Flirting with 500
Marc and Jay talk about the last 4 games, talk to Joey Knicknuts and Sir Insider, 10 day contracts, free agents, top 5 ways to fix the Nets, the next 5 games, and much more
Episode 306: Book Club
Marc and Jay talk about giving books to players, JR finally getting a contract, expectations, and more
Where to Begin
Written by Nicholas McGowan
Where to Begin
Let me tell me explain to you as to why I am so happy about the Knicks season so far. Now I certainly wasn't imagining the Knicks being this bad, but hey, if they up with a top 3 pick in next year's draft its certainly seems like the Knicks will end up with a stud. I don't know how many of our readers and listeners follow college basketball but if you want to see some talent then look no further than Jahlil Okafor of Duke or Karl-Anthony Towns Jr. of Kentucky. And we can't forget about the other consensus top 3 pick Emmanuel Mudiay. While Mudiay originally committed to play basketball at SMU, he could not qualify academically so he headed overseas to China to play for the Guangdong Southern Dragons. No matter the case he is still top 3 prospect and Knicks could certainly use a point guard.
Taking a look at each of them separately:
Jahlil Okafor, a 6-11, 270 pound center is my favorite prospect this year. He shows great maturity and has real sense for how the game is played. His lack of free throw shooting is his only real flaw and he certainly looks as though he can contribute immediately.
Points per game: 17.4
Rebounds per game: 8.9
Assists per game: 1.6
Field Goal %: 65
Free throw percentage: 51.1
Blocks: 1.5
Steals: .9
Karl-Anthony Towns is a 6-11, 250 pound shot blocking machine. While he does demonstrate that he has potential on the offensive end of the floor, he is much more of a defensive presence. It hurts that Towns only gets to play around 20 minutes a night because of the platoon system they use at Kentucky but Towns has still made quite the impression.
Points per game: 8.1
Rebounds per game: 6.6
Assists per game: 1.2
Field Goal %: 52.9
Free throw percentage: 73.3
Blocks: 2.6
Steals: .4
Now I don't get to watch Emmanuel Mudiay as much as I would like but from what every draft analyst is saying he seems to be the real deal. He is injured as of now with an ankle injury but he posted some impressive numbers in the ten games he has played thus far.
Points per game: 17.7
Rebounds per game: 6
Assists per game: 5.9
Field Goal %: 49.7
Free throw percentage: 58.1
Steals: 1.6
3 Point %: 30
Anyway back to the Knicks this season… Continue reading
Episode 259: Power Shift
Marc and Jay talk about Melo's new contract, Lebron leaving the Heat, all the other free agency moves, the state of the eastern conference, laughing at the Nets, and much more
The Melo Situation
Written by Nicholas McGowan
The Melo Situation
The countdown of when we as Knicks fans and the world for that matter, will know the future of Carmelo Anthony has started. Melo has the option to opt in for another year in New York and then make up his mind next summer or he can opt out, choose a new team, or opt out in order to solidly a max contract with the Knicks. We as fans hope that if he does opt out, that it is because he will sign the max deal. Yet with the sudden shoulder injury this might further Melo's thinking in one way or the other, it may make him lean towards locking up a max contract or it might drive him in the opposite direction. He may try now to win as soon as possible knowing that he will still get tens of millions of dollars guaranteed even though it may be 30 million less than what the Knicks can offer. Melo might have also learned that he needs another superstar, someone who can carry the load so that he does not take such a toll on his body for another season. Both of those seem to be the better option than a max deal, and while it depends on Melo's priorities, (30 million or a legitimate chance at one or more titles), most would choose the titles. Not saying that I would pass up 30 million but if you were Melo and have already made as much as he has, winning would be the one knock against me. Let's take a look at the possible championship scenarios for Melo.
Beginning with the Knicks, there is a real possibility that they can compete for championship, not next year but in two years. In two years the Knicks have cap space and a first round draft pick that will probability end up be a lottery pick. Going into the 2015-2016 season we would only have J.R. Smith, Raymond Felton, Hardaway Jr, Shumpert, and Pablo Prigioni on our roster. Now lets say Melo decides to resign, add Melo to that roster, add another superstar player or two to that mix. Then add on top of that a top 14 draft pick, this would make us a frontrunner for the title, we would be able to come close to beating the Heat (assuming their current roster does not change drastically) or perhaps even beat them if we add the right free agents. In the already weak Eastern Conference, we would be the second best team. I would put us ahead of both Indiana and Chicago because we have the superior superstar talent. The Nets at this point would have lost Garnett and Pierce and would not be the team they are today. By looking the 2015 free agents there are tons of options that would make us better than the Heat. Those free agents include:
2013/14 Knicks Roster Power Rankings – Week 25
|The Knicks are officially eliminated so now they are beating playoff teams that are still fighting for playoff position because Knicks. A 2-0 week and two games to go to end this miserable season.
|Last weeks Rank
|Anthony, Carmelo
|The 5 days off did Melo good as he's back to the great play we've seen most of the season. Melo had the best season of his career and yet misses the playoffs for the first time in his career. Props to Melo for trying until the very end. He could easily have half-assed his way through the last few games and no one would have blamed him.
|Stoudemire, Amar'e
|Amare has hardly missed any games this season and is still healthy. Figures that for the first time in 4 years he's healthy for the playoffs and still won't get to participate.
|Smith, J.R.
|JR isn't on the record setting pace he was last week but still hit 8 3's in the two games on a decent percentage. So what was up with the first 4 months, injury or just mental? I'd say injury but he seemed to instantly get 200% better the day after Woodson sat him for a full game as punishment.
|Shumpert, Iman
|Look at that defense! So glad everyone is rounding into form 2 weeks too late.
|Chandler, Tyson
|A grand total of 7 points in the last two games. OK, not everyone is rounding into form at the end of the season.
|Prigioni, Pablo
|Pablo passes the ball and he's not Raymond Felton, that's good enough for 6th place before we even mention he's 2nd in the league in 3 point percentage.
|Aldrich, Cole
|Aldrich has done a nice job at backup center when he's called upon. Which is about once a week for reasons only known to Woodson.
|Felton, Raymond
|Not a bad week for Felton. Not a good week but considering the way this season has gone I'll gladly take a mediocre week from Felton.
|Hardaway Jr., Tim
|THJ really regressed the last few weeks. He still has potential and hopefully will grow next season. Looking back at the draft there isn't one player that got picked after him that I'd rather have.
|Murry, Toure'
|Murry played 1 more minute than Brown this week for a total of 1 minute played. Why develop players when you're eliminated from the playoffs when you can add wear and tear to your vets for next year!
|Jeremy Tyler
|Same comment as for Murry, why in the world not play these guys 30 minutes a game to give them some run considering there is nothing to play for now.
|Shannon Brown
|Zero minutes this week but at least he got to wear a jersey.
|Martin, Kenyon
|Still getting dem checks.
|Bargnani, Andrea
|If you don't have anything nice to say….
Episode 237: Keeping Melo
Marc explains to Jay his strategy for getting Melo to resign in NY, we obviously talk about the 62 point game as well as the Lakers game, free agency, the worst two heated minutes and cutting down the nets ever, listener questions, and much more
Episode 200: Season Wrap Up Part 2
Marc and Jay answer over 40 questions about the Pacers series, who to expect back, what our expectations for next season are, free agents, the draft, and anything else you can think of.
Amare Stoudemire out 2-3 Weeks
OK we all knew he wasn't going to play 82 games, but after missing 3 out of 4 preseason games Amare is now out for 2-3 weeks with a ruptured popliteal cyst behind his left knee. Yes it's the knee he had micro-fracture surgery on. It's not serious, but he won't be ready for the beginning of the season.
So will Woodson do what everyone hopes and move Melo to the 4 until Amare comes back or will we see Kurt Thomas and Chris Copeland man the 4? And how many more injuries before this officially becomes the worst contract in the NBA?

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The Importance of Measuring the Delivery of Services via Commercial Presence of Offshore Foreign Affiliates : Some Case Studies from Australian Business Experience
6TThere are major difficulties associated with measurement of each of the four modes of services trade delivery as defined in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) : cross-border supply, consumption abroad, commercial presence, and movement of natural persons. The consequence is that the extent of global trade in services is hugely underestimated and the services sector does not receive the trade and economic policy attention it deserves. The global economy meanwhile misses out on the productivity gains that focused reform of services sectors could generate. Australia is one of the world's most services-intensive economies. Of the 20 largest world economies, Australia's is fourth only to the United States, United Kingdom, and France in services. This means Australia's future economic growth will be substantially determined by improvements in productivity and competitiveness in services. Just a small rise of 0.1% in services sector productivity would result in a sustained annual rise of over A$1 billion in Australia's gross domestic product. But the services sector does not receive the policy focus these economic fundamentals would justify. This is largely because the balance of payments data measures Australia's services exports at less than 25% of total exports, consistent with World Trade Organization estimates that services account for roughly 20% of world trade. JEL Classification : F14, F23, M16, M21 In Australia's case, sufficient business survey work has been done to leave no remaining doubt that the balance of payments data have needed to be both improved in their own right as well as supplemented with foreign affiliates' trade in services (FATS) data to shed greater light on the services sector's share in international business. This paper highlights recent business case studies in Australia, which demonstrates the importance of intensifying official efforts to enhance collections of services export data and to measure specifically Mode 3 (Commercial Presence) delivery of international services. The studies are drawn chiefly from legal services and financial services but also cover the information and communication technology and architecture/building design sectors. This paper focuses on some of the problems commonly experienced in relation to statistics regarding international trade in services. It deals moreover only with case studies drawn from Australian business experience; and refers to practices and collections of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
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Stadium tech
In addition to supporting its players with technology, Cricket Australia also helps sports reporters file cricket match stories. For example, it supplies Wi-Fi devices to media at certain grounds where existing stadium systems are deficient.
Last season it implemented an online accreditation tool for all media and key stakeholders.
"This summer [2012-13] we are launching an 'at match' accreditation mobile solution," Twomey says.
"This is a custom-built road case with tablets where anyone who needs to be accredited at the ground can self-register, be approved and print their passes."
Behind the scenes
Within Cricket Australia, staff use laptops and a mixture of BlackBerrys and iPhones. While the organisation has a bring-your-own device (BYOD) policy in place, Twomey says that it supplies devices to the majority of staff.
Software employed by the organisation includes Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft's Dynamics 2011 CRM package.
"We don't have any immediate plans to move to the Windows 8 OS as we completed a migration of our data centre in September 2012," she says.
"It was not only business critical systems [migrated] but also publicly facing websites and services that needed to be benchmarked, pilot tested and migrated with a minimal impact on our customers."
By the numbers On Facebook, Cricket Australia has 1.5 million fans
88,665 accounts follow Cricket Australia on Twitter
It is listed in 22,500 Circles on Google Plus
The T20 Big Bash app was downloaded 90,0000 times across the iOS and Android platforms in the 2011-12 season.
The crowd goes wild
Like all sporting organisations in the 21st century, Cricket Australia is harnessing the power of the Internet to attract and retain fans.
"We have a collection of digital assets which we build and operate ourselves in addition to working with our commercial partners like Vodafone to produce apps such as Cricket Live," says online product manager Kane Washington.
The Cricket Live app includes live match video streaming. It was developed in 2009 and supports iPhone and Android devices.
"This app is very important in our strategy and puts Australian cricket content in the hands of our fans anywhere at any time," he says.
For the 2012-13 cricket season, the Cricket Live app will have domestic live scores included within it for the first time.
In addition to the Cricket Live app, the sporting body has developed an iOS and Android app for the 20/20 shorter version of cricket called the KFC Big Bash T20 League app.
Fans can customise it to the team they follow, whether it be the Melbourne Stars or the Adelaide Strikers.
"The app can be customised it to feature the team's players, news and latest scores. It also integrates social networking into the app including Twitter feeds during the game," Washington says.
According to Washington, there were 90,000 downloads of the app across iOS and Android in the 2011-12 cricket season.
Cricket Australia also operates Cricket.com.au where it provides live scores on a ball-by-ball basis for matches ranging from the Australian men's team and the CBA Southern Stars right through to interstate men's and women's senior competitions.
These live scores are also fed out via the Cricket Live app.
"We live stream the Bupa Sheffield Shield matches onto the Cricket Australia website from all the major venues around Australia," he says.
According to Washington, the organisation has received "very positive" feedback from fans about making matches available in a format which is convenient.
"There is a fan base out there that is heavily invested in interstate cricket."


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As a dedicated Nokturnal member since 2006, Mike Munoz is proudly representing his club with this 2002 Cadillac Escalade. Before joining the club, Mike spent a good deal of time attending car shows and these universal meeting grounds paved the way for his friendship with a number of club members. "I was friends with a lot of the guys from Nokturnal, so I guess it was inevitable that I would one day join them," explains Mike. His first ride in the club was also his first-ever show car. The experience only fueled his desire to outdo the initial build. Mike didn't have to go far for his next build, as he already had the Escalade.
"When I bought my Escalade, I wasn't planning on fixing it up," says the Monrovia, CA resident. "The only plans I had for it was to haul my show car around." While his previous project had a chrome undercarriage, he still found himself compelled to work on the Escalade instead. "I had added a nice system to the Escalade, that way it would be a nice weekend car, but things just started growing from there." As an enthusiast on the car show scene, Mike had a leg up on the competition in terms of knowing how to make his build unique. This served him well as he has created this latest build in his own style with plans to also add patterns to the Caddy's exterior and chrome-out the truck's undercarriage.
He would like to thank Roberto Pinto, Zacatecas, his fellow LA council members and everyone from his club that helped him out in the project.
"Bloody Money"
Owner: Mike Munoz
Vehicle: 2002 Cadillac Escalade
City/State: Monrovia, CA
Club: Nokturnal
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Interior: Peanut butter with red stitching sewn by Efrain of Ridin' Dirty Upholstery in Inglewood, CA.
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Setup: Air Ride by Pinto's Customs
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February 22, 2013 BY John Kim
Jun Watanabe's got a 'thing' for polka dots, doesn't he? The latest offering of the Jun Watanabe for Reebok does in fact feature fuschia dots on the royal blue Pump bladder on the usual vibrant colorway selected by the Japanese designer, only this version brings it atmos into the mix. This three-way collaboration clearly echoes the distinct tastes of our sneakerhead pals in the Far East – but would you cop if they arrived at US retailers? Zozo has these available for purchase at the moment so check out the gallery below and let us know what you think.
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CHARLES S. RANNELLS is a native of Morgan County, and was born Dec. 5, 1857. He was graduated from Illinois College, at Jacksonville, in the year 1879. His father, Samuel M. Rannells, was born in Bourbon County, Ky., Aug. 1, 1812, where he lived until he was sixteen years of age, when he emigrated to Morgan County, in 1828. He came here in company with his father, William Rannells. The ancestry of this family, on the paternal side, is traced to Scotland, while that of the mother is Swedish. On coming to Morgan County, William Rannells, the grandfather of Charles S., located on the home now owned and occupied by the latter.
Samuel M. Rannells, the father of Charles S., married Mary R. Springer, of Georgetown, Ky. She came to Morgan County in 1832, in company with the family of her brother-in-law. In her father's family were five children: Reuben R. and Charles G., of Cincinnati, Ohio (both died, leaving no children); Catharine, Caroline A., and Mary R. Samuel M. Rannells had eight brothers and sisters, four of whom are living.
To our subject's parents were born five children. Caroline M. married John C. Duer, of Jacksonville. He is deceased. Three children are living with the widow, whose names are Martha R., James M. and Anna C. Catherine, Ann, Mary, and Martha died in infancy.
Charles S., of whom this sketch is written, married Cornelia May Stevenson, daughter of Septimus Stevenson, on the 19th of May, 1880. He commenced his career in comfortable circumstances, and is now the owner of a magnificent homestead of 1,500 acres of land, and, in company with his sister, owns 1,000 acres more, all of which is well improved. He is engaged in general farming, and is an extensive feeder of cattle, of which he has on hand, at all times, a large herd. He is also engaged in breeding the Norman grade of draft horses, and also roadsters. He raises enough grain to supply the wants of his farm.
Mr. Rannells is a Republican in politics, and, in company with his family, worships at the Presbyterian Church. He is one of the leading and wealthy citizens of Morgan County, whose reputation is of the very best.


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Hillary Clinton with an Elvis collar on her derss jacket as she celebrates her win in the Nevada Democratic caucuses on Saturday. Image Credit: Associated Press via CNN
Uh-Huh! Hillary Wears An "Elvis" Collar To Win
Elvis is back in the building. Look at these photos of Hillary Rodham Clinton wearing what we, at MAXINE, believe to be a collar design lifted directly from the costumes of Elvis Presley in his living and performing heyday.
Image from 1973 television broadcast, "Elvis:Aloha from Hawaii." - Image Credit: Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. and RCA Records.
Hillary has a lot to be happy about, even with the strong union endorsement support for Barack Obama and impromptu caucus polling stations being set up where people work as opposed to the traditional polling stations only being where people live … Clinton pulls out a convincing 6% win.
Sen. Hillary Clinton celebrates her win in the Nevada Democratic caucuses on Saturday. Image Credit: Associated Press via CNN
Poll Answers
This excerpted from CNN News –
Clinton claims Nevada caucuses with help from women, Latinos
CNN - Jan. 19, 2008 - 4:20 pm PT
In Nevada's contest, Clinton led rival Barack Obama by 6 percentage points with 97 percent of precincts reporting in Saturday's Democratic caucuses.
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards was a distant third.
"I guess this is how the West was won," Clinton told supporters Saturday.
Clinton issued a special thanks to her supporters from the 60,000-strong Culinary Workers Union. Clinton had been encouraging members of the union, which endorsed Obama, to vote their conscience.
Zachary Conine, a permanent caucus chairman in Las Vegas, said Clinton's campaign organization helped hand her the win.
"Her people are efficient, fervent. They were there first, they were calling people, they had a list of voters they were using to call people, making sure people came out. They had signs, they had shirts, they had a clear chain of command," he said.
"Right now, things are very uneasy in the black community," said Donna Brazile, a CNN analyst who managed former Vice President Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign. She said her own relatives in South Carolina are split between Clinton and Obama.
In Nevada, Obama also led strongly among voters under 30, while Clinton took the over-45 category.
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., greets workers at the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino in Las Vegas on Saturday. Image Credit: Rick Wilking - Reuters
Like Republicans, Democratic caucus-goers called the economy their top issue in 2008 -- and they preferred Clinton, whose husband presided over a lengthy economic boom in the 1990s, by a 49-38 margin over Obama.
And in the last days, both Clinton and Edwards blasted Obama over comments he made to the editorial board of a Reno newspaper, in which he praised former president and Republican icon Ronald Reagan's "clarity" and "optimism" and said the GOP had been "the party of ideas" for the last 10 to 15 years.
"There's no nostalgia in the Democratic Party for Ronald Reagan," Brazile said. "Hillary Clinton may have benefited from not just the love that people have for Bill Clinton, but also criticizing Obama in the last 24 hours about his support for Ronald Reagan."
The war in Iraq and health care were the No. 2 and No. 3 issues for Democrats, and Clinton led strongly among voters who chose those as their top issues, the entrance polls found.
Edwards has based his campaign on a strong populist pitch targeting corporate interests, whom he said have "rigged" Washington in their favor. But he drew the support of just 10 percent of caucus-goers who called the economy their top issue, and 11 percent among those who viewed health care their biggest concern.
Nevada Democrats said they had a record turnout for Saturday's caucuses, with more than 107,000 people taking part.
The caucuses were held after a dispute between two of the state's largest labor organizations, the 60,000-member Culinary Workers Union and the 28,000 strong Nevada State Education Education, which represents teachers.
The state Democratic Party gave the nearly 200,000 workers on the Las Vegas strip a chance to take part in the caucuses by setting up nine "at-large" precincts in casinos. That was expected to give a boost to Obama once the culinary workers endorsed the Illinois senator.
The teachers union went to court last week to block the plan, arguing it gave hotel and casino employees an unfair advantage over other workers and granted outsized weight to the "at-large" precincts. A federal judge in Las Vegas rejected the suit Thursday, ruling that caucus procedures were up to the state party to decide.
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New Elvis Collar Outfits!
Dark Blue Elvis Collar outfit featured in a campaign ad released by the Hillary Clinton campaign for president entitled "Night Shift" - Image Credit: hillaryclintondotcom via YouTube (2-19-2008)
Hillary Clinton at the University of Texas debate 2-21-2008 - The Elvis Collar! (black with white piping) - Image Credit: Edmund Jenks (MAXINE)
Hillary Clinton in her mid-blue Elvis Collar suit - Whitmer High School Fieldhouse, Toledo, Ohio – 2-23-2008. Image Credit: The Toledo Blade
UPDATE - Super Tuesday 2.0:
Hillary accepts applause from the crowd Tuesday night March 4, 2008 after posting campaign saving wins in Ohio and Texas. Again, Elvis is baaaaack in the building!
Hillary Clinton addresses the crowd in Columbus, Ohio in her Elvis suit that she first wore in Nevada. Stop the bus, the tour has come full circle. Image Credits: Associated Press (AP)
Yes, the plural of 'Elvis' is 'Elvi'. Thank you ... thank you very much!
... and now, a word from Elvis, himself. Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley - Hawaii 1973.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Uh-Huh! Hillary Wears An "Elvis" Collar To Win (UPDATED)
4 comments:
- George Vreeland Hill said...
If Hillary wants some Elvis fashion, then more power to her.
Elvis is a good example to follow.
But I don't think she had Elvis in mind.
Hillary has other things to think about.
George Vreeland Hill
- DrZibbs said...
She'll try anything won't she?
- Dr Zibbs said...
She'll try anything won't she?
The style of fashion is a calculated move that would be consistent with the venue and what one would expect from the Clinton political machine.
Come on, she just won the caucus vote in Nevada over Barack Obama!
She is capturing her moment as a Las Vegas Headliner.
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Looking back to 178 days ago, PVR Partners LP ( PVR) priced a 5,500,000 share secondary stock offering at $23.00 per share. Buyers in that offering made a considerable investment into the company, expecting that their investment would go up over the course of time and based on early trading on Monday, the stock is now 20% above the offering price. It should be noted that investors at the secondary have collected $1.10/share in dividends since the time of their purchase, so they are currently up 24.7% on their purchase from a total return basis.Investors who did not participate in the offering but would be a buyer of PVR at a cheaper price, might benefit from considering selling puts among the alternative strategies at their disposal. One interesting put contract in particular, is the August put at the $22.50 strike, which has a bid at the time of this writing of 25 cents. That would result in a cost basis of $22.25 per share before broker commissions in the scenario where the contract is exercised. If the contract is never exercised, the put seller would still keep the premium, which represents a 1.1% return against the $22.50 purchase commitment, or a 2.5% annualized rate of return (at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost).
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Have Relationship Questions? Ask a Counselor for Answers ASAP
See if he says anything or if you even see him out, either way you need answers or closure or you will always wonder why and what happened to change his mind. Make sure he hasn't move on to someone else without telling you it will make it even harder to get passed this and leave you wondering what you did wrong when in all actuality you did nothing wrong and it may just be a hang up he has. Just wait some time but don't wait too long for him to give you answers if he doesn't give you an answer in two weeks I would start the process of moving passed this and not looking back if he didn't have just a little bit of time to see if you were okay after your surgery then he is proving not to be a person you can rely on to be there for you through the good and bad times. If he does approach you then hear him out and see if he has a good enough reason as to why the cold shoulder, then make your decision as to whether to stay or move on.


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Stacey's Slice of Life Story for 4/1/08
It wasn't on the side table. It wasn't on my desk. It wasn't on the storage shelf. It wasn't anywhere that it should be. WHERE ON EARTH WAS MY WILSON CURSIVE KIT!?!!? I wondered.
I scheduled my kids' first day of cursive writing instruction for tomorrow afternoon and I couldn't find the box that contained everything I needed in it. Sure, I've taught cursive before, but my school bought me a kit.
Maybe if I stop looking for it, I'll find it, I thought.
I went on with the rest of the afternoon: math and then a prep period. However, the missing cursive kit loomed in my mind.
During dismissal I began to look for it again. I searched high, I searched low. I searched everywhere I thought it should be, but couldn't find it.
And then, I saw the blue milk crate by the heater. That's right! It's in there!!!
During an organizational binge I was on about six weeks ago, I recalled cleaning up a side table and putting a lot of 'stuff' into a milk crate. The cursive kit just had to be in there.
And it was.
So much for organizing myself!


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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) reports fiscal third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, July 24th, after the market close. The whisper number is $11.02, 67 cents ahead of the analysts' estimates. Apple has exceeded the whisper number in 42 of the 56 earnings reports for which we have data.
Trading on an earnings event requires an understanding of post earnings price movement, both after hours and intra-day. We'll take a look at the average post earnings price movement, when those moves occur, and if Apple presents an earnings trade opportunity.
Since Apple reports earnings after the market close, it's important to look at after hours trading activity. Over the past four quarters the average price move in after hours trading following the earnings reports is +5.6%, and over the past eight quarters the average price move in after hours trading following the earnings reports is +3.6%. In other words if you took a long position prior to the past four earnings reports you were on the right side of the trade in three out of four trades, and if you took a long position prior to the past eight earnings reports you were on the right side of the trade in six out of eight trades
The average price move during next available intra-day trading (market open to market close) for the past four quarters is -1.3%, a limited and negative price move. The average price move within five trading days for the past four quarters following the earnings reports is -2.7%, a limited and negative price move. So Apple gives back some overnight gains in the five trading days following earnings.
Longer-term earnings analysis (last four years of earnings) shows the company tends to see (on average) price movement of -0.7% (intra-day) in one trading day following the earnings report, -0.4% in five trading days, +0.3% in 10 trading days, +0.1% in 15 trading days, and -0.9% in 20 trading days.
Apple has topped the whisper number in three of the past four quarters by an average of $2.47. The company fell short of the whisper number in October 2011 by $0.54.
Three quarters back (October 2011) was the first time Apple reported earnings short of the whisper number in five years. Within 20 trading days (from open) of that report the stock dropped 4.2%. Add that to the after-hours drop of 4.9%, and the stock was down a total of 9%. A miss this quarter could translate to similar price movement.
When considering all quarters for which we have a whisper number, the best time frame for positive returns falls at the 30-day mark. The 30-day price reaction for the 42 quarters that Apple has topped the whisper shows an average price move of +3.9%. And for the 13 quarters it has missed the whisper number, an average price move of +8.2% in 30 trading days following earnings.
Other factors that may influence post earnings price movement;
The majority of investors polled are expecting the company to provide a positive outlook:
- Positive 75.00%
- Neutral 8.3%
- Negative 16.7%
Compare this to last quarter's expected outlook:
- Positive 33.3%
- Neutral 0.0%
- Negative 66.6%
Apple has a 75% positive surprise history (having topped the whisper in 42 of the 56 earnings reports for which we have data).
- Beat whisper: 42 qtrs
- Met whisper: 1 qtrs
- Missed whisper: 13 qtrs
The whisper numbers have proven more accurate than analysts' estimates as well. Over the past 23 quarters the whisper number has been closer to the actual earnings in 21 of 23 quarters. The current "high" expectation is 13.87, while the current low expectation is 9.60.
Summary: Over the past four quarters Apple has topped the whisper number by an average of $2.47. The current whisper number is well above the analysts' estimates, showing some confidence from investors. The key to playing Apple earnings, however, is the expected price reaction. Historically the after-hours move is positive, averaging +3.6% to 5.6%. The stock tends to give up ground over the next 10-to-20 trading days, but the move is very limited (around 2.0%). The stock then sees strength through 30 days (averaging about 5% to 6%).
More post-earnings price movement and historical data can be found here.
What are your earnings expectations? Let us know in the comments section below or visit whispernumber.com.
Since 1998, WhisperNumber.com has been tracking and publishing "crowd sourced estimates" for earnings. We call these earnings expectations whisper numbers. The "crowd" that provides us with whisper numbers are primarily individual investors and traders just like you that have registered with our site.
We are an independent financial research firm. We have no affiliations with investment banks, investment management, or corporate organizations that could compromise our data or analysis. (So no relationships with the bad guys or so-called professional analysts).
As for our data collection, methodology, and price reaction accuracy: for the past 15 years we have remained consistent with data collection and methodology, and our data has proven itself over that time. We also have two independent academic studies supporting the premise that investor expectations for quarterly earnings (our whisper numbers) provide greater returns when used as an investment vehicle, and have a greater impact on stock movement than analysts consensus estimates.
A company's 'price reaction' to the whisper number expectation is the key - on average companies that exceed the whisper are 'rewarded', while companies that miss are 'punished' following an earnings report.
According to the Wall Street Journal, "positive surprises are becoming so common they are nearly universal. They are predetermined in a cynical tango-clinch between companies and the analysts who cover them. All the numbers are gamed at this point". This is why the proprietary whisper number we provide is a more useful and viable alternative to analysts estimates.
All trading involves risk and the information presented is not intended to be a recommendation of any kind.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours.


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Further Study: From the very beginning of the great controversy in heaven it has been Satan's purpose to overthrow the law of God. It was to accomplish this that he entered upon his rebellion against the Creator, and though he was cast out of heaven he has continued the same warfare upon the earth. To deceive men, and thus lead them to transgress God's law, is the object which he has steadfastly pursued. Whether this be accomplished by casting aside the law altogether, or by rejecting one of its precepts, the result will be ultimately the same. He that offends in one point, manifests contempt for the whole law; his influence and example are on the side of transgression; he becomes guilty of all. James 2:10.-Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 582.
Discussion Questions:
- Look at the Ellen G. White statement in Friday's study, a fuller rendition of the reference used in the introduction to this quarter. How does the Sabbath and what has happened to the Sabbath in Christendom help us to understand Satan's attack on the law of God?
- In the following texts (Mark 3:2, Luke 13:14, John 5:18, John 9:16) Jesus is charged with breaking the Sabbath. Review Exodus 20:8-11 and evaluate the merit of this charge. What do you say to those who claim that these passages provide evidence that Jesus broke the Sabbath?
- In class go over your answer to the final question at the end of Tuesday's lesson. That is, what are some things that the Sabbath frees you up to do that on other days of the week you might not be able to do because of worldly obligations?
- Review your own Sabbath experience. Is the Sabbath for you a day of liberation, rest, and freedom or a day of foreboding, bondage, and stress? How can you learn to enjoy the Sabbath, to make it a delight, as we are told to do in this verse: If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words (Isa. 58:13)?


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Poll: Most Floridians would hike taxes on Dosal butt manufacturer
One of the issues earning lobbyists and PR consultants a ton of money once again this year is the debate over whether Miami-based Dosal should see a major tax hike to level the playing field with other major tobacco companies paying much higher taxes under the 1997 tobacco settlement Gov. Lawton Chiles won. At the time Dosal represented barely two percent of the market in Florida and was dismissed from the settlement (Dosal supporters say that's also because Dosal wasn't engaging in the kind a sleazy behavior, targeting children as big tobacco). Now it represents more than 20 percent and big tobacco companies want Dosal subject to the same fees they face.
They have a new Mason-Dixon poll commissioned by the Consumer Federation of the Southeast with an assist from Ron Sachs Communications to bolster their position. The April 4-7 poll (MoE +/- 3.5 percent) found 71 percent of Florida voters support "requiring all companies that make or sell cigarettes in Florida to pay similar fees to the state."
Nearly seven in 10 said small cigarette manufacturers like Dosal should pay the 52 percent fee "because their product is so heavily discounted that the increase would have little impact on their sales or their business. Only 19 percent said they should not "because the impact of this additional cost would result in a loss of Florida jobs and the closing of
manufacturing plants in Florida."
"The results of this poll are clear: Floridians want all tobacco companies to pay their fair share to cover the health care costs incurred using their products" Walt Dartland, executive director of Consumer Federation of the Southeast said in a press release. "It is time for the legislature to take action and support common sense legislation that represents the sensible opinion of the great majority of Floridians."
"People know a cigarette is a cigarette. No matter who manufactures it the result is the same – people get sick and it adds additional health care cost to the state budget," said former attorney general Bob Butterworth. "All non‐settling companies should be paying their fair share."
"This poll is yet another ploy by Big Tobacco to gain marketshare by misrepresenting the facts and misleading the public," said Dosal spokeswoman Sarah Bascom. "These questions are blatantly loaded and disengious and do not even begin to explain the facts of the issue to those being surveyed. Our recommendation would be for this group to commission another poll and report back on how voters feel when asked if they support their business being taxed because a competitor engaged in acts of wrongdoing, settled in court, and then later complained that their settlement gives them a competitive disadvantage."


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VIENNA (Apr. 4)
Lt. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes, American military commander in Austria, issued the following message to the Jewish personnel in the U.S. army occupation forces here on the occasion of Passover:
"This festive season has, at all times, been an inspiration in mankind's struggle against slavery and oppression. It is incumbent upon all who by religious traditions stand on the side of freedom to join forces with all other freedom loving men and women in order to establish conditions for the maintenance of a free and just life everywhere. All members of the United States Forces in Austria are striving to achieve this end."


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Washington State Department of Ecology - August 22, 2013
The Port of Bellingham, with Washington Department of Ecology oversight, compiled a draft report that details contamination found on the site and evaluates potential cleanup options.
Ecology is hosting a public meeting from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 28, at the Bellingham Public Library in the Lecture room to provide more details and answer questions. A presentation begins at 7 p.m.
The approximately 16-acre cleanup site is located on the waterfront between Boulevard Park and the former Georgia Pacific pulp mill. It is most recognizable today for the large mounds covered with white plastic.
Extensive sampling found hazardous substances in the groundwater, soil and sediment.
The land was used for sawmill operations for nearly 60 years, dating back to the late 1800s. And as a city landfill for 12 years in the 1950s and '60s. The waste was covered with a layer of soil in 1965, and then the property was used for warehousing and log storage until 2005. In 2011, about 47,000 cubic yards of dredged sediment was placed on the site and covered with the white plastic as part of an interim project.
It's estimated that there are more than 295,000 cubic yards of municipal waste and 94,000 cubic yards of wood waste buried in the ground.
Some of the contamination associated with this waste includes: tannins and lignins, phenols, ammonia, manganese, benzene, phthalates, PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), and PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons).
The draft report uses a cost-benefit analysis to identify a preferred cleanup option that protects human health and the environment through a variety of containment and control features.
For the upland portion of the site, the preferred option includes a protective liner and layer of soil (known as a cap), an improved stormwater drainage system, a system to control landfill gas, and a legal covenant to provide permanent protection to these facilities.
For the shoreline and marine portion of the site, the preferred option includes stabilizing the beach to prevent erosion, a sand filter for groundwater treatment, a layer of sand over exposed refuse and wood waste near the shoreline (known as a cap), and monitoring of natural sedimentation further out in the bay.
The preferred cleanup option is estimated to cost $9.1 million. Ecology will reimburse up to half of the port's costs through the state's remedial action grant program, which helps to pay to clean up publicly owned sites. The Legislature funds the grant program with revenues from a tax on hazardous substances.
The draft report -- known as a remedial investigation and feasibility study -- is available for public review on the Ecology website, at Ecology offices in Bellingham and Bellevue, and at the Bellingham Public Library.
Written comments can be sent to Mark Adams, Ecology site manager, through Sept. 20 at email@example.com or 3190 160th Ave. N.E., Bellevue WA 98008-5452.
Media Contacts:
Dustin Terpening, media relations,
@ecynorth, 360-715-5205 or
Brian Gouran, Port of Bellingham site manager, 360-715-2329 or firstname.lastname@example.com
For more information:
Project website (https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/gsp/Sitepage.aspx?csid=220
Ecology's social media (www.ecy.wa.gov/about/newmedia.html)
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Helicopter downings vex U.S. military analysts
Published 4:00 am, Saturday, February 10, 2007
Alarmed by the recent spike in successful attacks against American helicopters in Iraq, military officials and analysts are trying to discern: Is this a string of bad luck for U.S. pilots or an ominous escalation in capabilities enabling insurgents to bring down aircraft crucial to American operations in Iraq?
If the latter conjecture is true, these new tactics could significantly impede the U.S. effort in Iraq, experts say. At worst, they might lead to an American defeat in the war by making the Iraqi airspace as dangerous to navigate as its roads, in the same manner CIA-supplied Stinger missiles contributed to the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan nearly two decades ago.
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"Either it's bad luck of no larger consequence, or we have an Afghanistan-sized problem," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a military think tank in Alexandria, Va.
Six helicopters have crashed in Iraq over the past three weeks. The latest accident took place Wednesday, when a Sea Knight helicopter crashed, for reasons unclear so far, near the town of Taji about 20 miles northwest of Baghdad, killing all seven people onboard.
On Feb. 2, a missile brought down an Apache in northern Iraq. On Jan. 28, another Apache crashed south of Baghdad. On Jan. 23, a Blackwater helicopter crashed after being attacked by gunfire and then hitting a power line. On Jan. 20, a missile and gunfire brought down a Black Hawk east of Baghdad. A helicopter operated by a private security firm went down near Baghdad on Jan. 31.
The military, which has been poring over the wreckage and an insurgent video of what appears to be the Sea Knight downing, says it is still trying to determine a pattern behind the attacks.
"I do not know whether or not it is the law of averages that caught up with us ... (or) a change of tactics, techniques and procedures on the part of the enemy," Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during Senate testimony on Tuesday.
But as the Pentagon plans to increase the number of troops in Iraq by 21,500, and the domestic debate over the war intensifies, the spike could become an essential element in the argument for withdrawal, said Nathan Hughes, military analyst at Strategic Forecasting, a Texas-based private security consulting group.
"It's a delicate time politically, domestically, and if there's suddenly all these new casualties from helicopter crashes, that's gonna be difficult at home," Hughes said.
U.S. troops rely heavily on aircraft, using helicopters for fire support of ground missions and for transportation.
Pike estimated that about 600 American military helicopters operate in Iraq today, flying an average of one or two sorties daily. Of at least 58 helicopters that have gone down in Iraq since May 2003, when the insurgency took off, only about half were brought down by enemy fire, according to the Iraq Index of the Brookings Institution.
At least 172 U.S. troops have died in the crashes -- a small fraction of the total 3,117 U.S. war casualties the Associated Press reports to date.
"We've had pretty much free rein in the air," Hughes said.
Loss of air superiority in counterinsurgencies can become cause for defeat. In the late 1980s, the CIA supplied Afghan guerrillas, through Pakistan, with shoulder-mounted Stinger missiles that helped bring down as many as 300 Soviet helicopter gunships, fighter jets and transport aircraft. The introduction of the missiles is widely regarded as a turning point in that war. The Soviets withdrew in 1989.
If Iraqi insurgents have acquired anti-aircraft missiles, the United States could soon find itself in a similar position. That is why it is critical to determine how the insurgents are shooting down the helicopters, Hughes and other experts said.
Adam Raisman, an analyst who monitors Islamist Web sites at the nonprofit SITE Institute, said he has seen no indication that fighters in Iraq have acquired new missile technology, but said that there was "no way of knowing for sure" whether insurgents have the missiles.
On Friday, a Sunni insurgent group released a two-minute video of what it said was the "downing of U.S. aircraft on Feb. 7," showing a helicopter that appears to be a Sea Knight. The video shows an object trailing smoke in the sky near the helicopter. Then it shows the aircraft, its hull on fire, spewing debris and trailing smoke, heading downward and hitting the ground behind a line of trees.
The group that posted the video, an umbrella organization called the Islamic State of Iraq, which includes al Qaeda in Iraq, has said its "anti-aircraft" battalion was responsible for the downing.
Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the Joint Chiefs' chief operations officer, cast doubt on the authenticity of the video, telling a Pentagon news conference Friday that "there are some eyewitness accounts that cause professional aviation officers to believe (the cause of the crash) was most likely ... mechanical."
Most heat-seeking, shoulder-launched missiles have a firing range of about 2 miles, enabling the attacker to shoot from a hidden location far from the target. Although today's American military helicopters are equipped to divert heat-seeking missiles, "there are countermeasures to the countermeasures," said Winslow Wheeler, a military expert at the nongovernment Center for Defense Information in Washington.
If Iraqi insurgents do have missiles, where did they get them?
Wheeler said they could be Russian-made SA-7s, bought by Saddam Hussein in the 1980s for the war against Iran and looted from caches of the old Iraqi army after the U.S. invasion.
But Hughes said the recent spate in downed helicopters suggests that militants could have access to newer, more sophisticated missiles, probably supplied recently from abroad.
"It's unlikely that they just now found a new hole in the U.S. operating procedure" that has suddenly, after four years of war, enabled the insurgents to take down helicopters more effectively, he said. "This is definitely an indication of some sort of assistance from outside."
If the missiles came from other countries, "probably they would be from Syria or Iran," Pike said.
These countries stockpile Russian-made missiles, a dozen of which can fit in the back of a pickup truck and be driven across Iraq's porous borders. According to Strategic Forecasting, Iran also has U.S.-made Stingers.
The increase in attacks also could have been a result of intensified air travel over Iraq as the United States deploys new troops there. But Hughes dismissed such a possibility, saying, "It's really too much to be just an increase in air traffic."
It is also possible that insurgents have simply finessed their use of small arms, said Wheeler.
"Helicopters are slow, fragile, not very maneuverable and very easy to shoot down," he said. "Machine guns are extremely lethal to helicopters, and there is no countermeasure. Once the stream of bullets is in the air, they're gonna hit you."
For now, helicopters remain faster and safer than ground traffic in Iraq because the attacks have not been "on a scale that would really turn the tide," said Hughes.
"But (the insurgents) can certainly make that more risky, more costly," he said. "And the more friction they put in that process, especially in terms of casualties, the more they're going to hinder our operations."


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Social Media Breakfast Calgary #23
Social Media Breakfast Calgary
Friday, October 28, 2011 from 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM (MDT)
Event Details
Social Media Breakfast Calgary #23
8:30 a.m., Friday, October 28th, 2011
The Calgary Social Media Breakfast (SMBYYC) is pleased to announce Christi Millar as the October presenter.
Topic this month is:
Social Media, Innovation and Inspiring the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
Christi Millar, Director for Canadian Youth Business Foundation in Alberta (CYBF), will share how CYBF is using social media to create excitement for YOU Innovate Canada – and the role social media can play in inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs.
The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) is the 'go to' place for youth entrepreneurship in Canada; an organization dedicated to growing our nation's economy one entrepreneur at a time. In honour of Global Entrepreneurship Week (November 14-20), CYBF has launched YOU Innovate Canada - a national tournament that challenges Canadians to create value out of almost nothing at all... a coffee cup! At the centre of YOU Innovate Canada is the notion that the spark of a great business idea comes from looking at an ordinary thing in an extraordinary way. In the spirit of Global Entrepreneurship Week, the tournament will encourage Canadians to embrace their 'inner entrepreneur' and inspire them to consider entrepreneurship as an exciting and rewarding way of life. For more information, visit www.cybf.ca/youinnovate.
Seating is limited and fills up quickly so hurry to RSVP on Eventbrite.com. Seats will be released in increments to give everyone fair access to the event. 50 seats will be available immediately and 50 more will be released on Friday, Oct. 21th at 12:00 PM. (Registration will be taken at the event.)
Stay after the discussion to network and share ideas in the realm of social media. Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend.
Event Information:
Where: Venu1008 - 1008 14th Street SE Calgary, Alberta, T2G 3K3 (Google Map)
When: Friday, Oct. 28th, 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Registration: To register, visit (http://smbyyc23.eventbrite.com/)
Cost: There is no fee to attend Social Media Breakfasts.
About the guest speaker:
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Prehistoric America
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Publisher: American Antiquarian Office 1892
Number of pages: 424
It is certainly very interesting to open the door and get a view of a condition of things which once existed, but will never be seen again. It was a stage of society so unique and so purely aboriginal, that it would seem that every American citizen should know about it.
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Google Glass Won't Cost $299 & Won't Be Sold At Best Buy Next Year
With the final stretch of 2013 staring us straight in the eyes, there's been a lot of speculation lately about when Google will start selling Google Glass to the public, where it'll be sold and how much it'll cost.
Google's Chris Dale, part of the Google Glass communications team, put at least some of the speculation to rest today on Twitter. He didn't reveal how much Glass will cost or how Google will sell it; but he did say where it won't be sold and what it won't cost.
Google Glass not coming to Best Buy in 2014… oh, and it won't be $299 either. #factcheck
— Chris Dale (@cadale) August 23, 2013
That tweet is partly in response to a rumor that Robert Scoble spread earlier this week, where he said that a "source" had told him that Google would be leasing 6,000 square feet of space in Best Buy stores next year to sell Glass to the public. That's a hefty amount of retail real estate, but with both Apple and Samsung already having mini-stores inside Best Buy stores, the idea seemed (and still seems) to make sense, even if Google is debunking it.
As for the Glass price tag, reports started spreading about two weeks ago that Glass would retail for $299 when it launches. Dale's tweet obviously refutes those reports.
As far as when Glass will be sold, Dale's tweet didn't address that, but much has been made this week about Glass being "pushed back" to 2014. That's not actually news. The official Google FAQ for Glass has always said that only Explorers will get Glass this year, and "broader availability" won't happen until next year. I suspect some of the confusion stems from Google recently saying that the consumer launch is "many months" away.
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Early in the morning, rising to my feet. Time to light my cigarette and strap shoes on my feet. Got to find a reason, reason things went wrong. Got to find a reason why my money's all gone.
-That is sublime!
not more of that chit
must here Saliva.........................................
Woot Woooooot!!!
bang your head against the stage like you never did before
make it ring
make it bleed
make you really soar
in a frenzied madness with your leathers and your spikes
heads are bobbing all around
it's hot as hell tonight
adrenalin starts to flow
your thrashing all around
acting like a maniac
I am a man a man I'll give you something that you won't forget
I say you shouldn't have a worn a dress
I say shouldnt have a worn a dress! Worn a dress!
I know you want what's on my mind!
I know you like what's on my mind
I know it eats you up inside
I know you know you know you know
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This is Sublime. A must for anybody. Just don't let your children listen to it
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Rock on sista!
"Can't fight against the youth!"
**kicks over trash can**
"Cause we're strong"
I don't know any Metallica lyrics off the top of my head. Just a lot of Sublime right now for some reason.
"We gonna rule this land among children"
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As I was going over the Cork and Carry mountains,
I saw a captain Ferrel and his money he was countin'
I first produced my pistol
I then produced my ravier
I said, "Stand and deliver! Oh or the devil he may take ya!"
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UPPMAX had to restart part of storage system Pica, because it worked too slowly with nearly no read/write traffic.
The restart was done a little after 1300 hours.
For Rackham users, this meant that you might have had problems with reading and writing to your home directory.
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Contested Rate Increase Heads to Appeals
Oregon Insurance Division defends process past and present
March 31, 2011 -- The Oregon Court of Appeals will revisit today one of the largest health insurance rate increases to hit Oregon consumers, a 26 percent average hike on Regence individual plan holders nearly three years ago.
Attorney and former state senator Charlie Ringo, representing Regence plan holder Karen Kirsch in the case, said he will argue that regulators did not fully apply state law, which bars unreasonable rate increases.
Ringo will repeat arguments he laid out in an administrative law hearing last year, that actuaries in the Oregon Insurance Division were overruled by the director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services, at the time Cory Streisinger, which oversees the Division.
"The non-legal argument is the decision was made for political reasons," said Ringo, who plans to ask the court to set up some sort of "rate reserve fund" to benefit consumers. A decision is not expected for another nine months.
"It's important the Insurance Division applies the standards and the statutes that are in place," Ringo said. "The Division has been very remiss in the way it applies the statute. Like all organizations if they are not held accountable they tend to get sloppy. They need to be diligent."
Attorneys for the Oregon Department of Justice will argue that DCBS acted appropriately, there was no undue influence and the rate increase was justified, according to a brief submitted in the case.
Ringo said today's rate review process is dysfunctional. "We don't have any meaningful rate review right now. I know that based on the documents I've seen and the testimony in our contested rate hearing."
Cheryl Martinis, Insurance Division spokeswoman, disagreed. Martinis and Division Administrator Teresa Miller have said Oregon's insurance rate review process is one of the strongest in the country.
"Our rate review process has changed pretty significantly since the Kirsch hearing," Martinis said. "We didn't have a 30-day comment period. It's far more open now, and we've hired a consumer group (for expert commentary). It's changed quite a bit since that time."
Recent rate requests
The Division has scaled back several recent rate requests from insurers including a 16.8 percent proposed increase on United HealthGroup small employer plans reduced to 10 percent and an 8.7 percent requested increase by HealthNet on small group plans lowered to 7.52 percent. The Oregon State Public Interest Research Group said those reductions saved consumers around $5.5 million.
In addition, Martinis said the Division has spent $150,000 from a federal grant to hire a consultant firm from Dallas, Texas – L&E Actuaries – for ideas on how to use the rate review process to lower medical costs. As it stands now, the Division has little control over what insurers spend on claims.
Questions for study include whether the Division should require insurers to spend more money on primary care, similar to a law in Rhode Island. "Many people think that helps provide better care at lower costs," Martinis said. "Should we reject rate increases if provider costs go up more than a certain percent each year? Should we reject rate requests if contracts with providers cover 'never events?'"
Recently submitted rate increase requests include a 10.8 percent average increase on Regence small group plans and a 10.26 percent increase on ODS small employer groups. The vast majority of those rate increases account for medical claims, Martinis said.
"We don't have any control of provider contracts," Martinis said. "We don't have the tools to affect that, but it doesn't mean there may not be way to influence those negotiations."
The results of the study will be too late to apply to a bill in this year's legislative session, however, concepts may come up for future consideration.
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Species Profile
Rusty Cord-moss
Scientific Name: Entosthodon rubiginosus
Taxonomy Group: Mosses
Range: British Columbia, Saskatchewan
Last COSEWIC Assessment: April 2017
Last COSEWIC Designation: Special Concern
SARA Status: Schedule 1, Endangered
Quick Links: | Description | Distribution and Population | Habitat | Biology | Threats | Protection | Recovery Initiatives | Recovery Team | National Recovery Program | Documents
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Rusty Cord Moss is a small, light- to medium-green moss measuring 2 to 3 mm in height. This species grows as individual stems or in small clumps. Leaves are broad and grow close together at the top of an erect stem. In a natural setting, it is hard to spot this inconspicuous plant since it is often hidden among other moss species. Sporophytes are common in British Columbia. These stems are tipped with organs that produce spores that form new individuals when they germinate. Spores are contained in erect, pear-shaped capsules that are brownish red to brownish yellow when mature, which explains the reference to "rusty" in this species' common name.
Distribution and Population
Rusty Cord Moss is native to western North America. It occurs sporadically in southern British Columbia, Montana, Arizona and New Mexico. In Canada, the species has been located in four sites in south-central British Columbia: the White Lake area in the southern Okanagan Valley and the areas southeast of Princeton, northeast of Kamloops and south of Riske Creek in the Cariboo forest region. Rusty Cord Moss is uncommon in all its known sites. It occurs only in a limited number of clumps measuring less than one square centimetre (each of these clumps is considered an individual). The current Canadian population is estimated to contain a total of 24 individuals. It is impossible at this time to define trends for this population.
In Canada, this species lives on a narrow strip of shoreline dominated by grasses and other mosses in seasonally wet alkaline habitats. The habitat is alkaline due to the minerals left in the soil following the evaporation of water during the warmest months. Rusty Cord Moss grows in the silt- or clay-rich soils found along the edges of ponds, lakes and mud flats, or on seepage slopes in environments that are otherwise relatively dry. While damp, alkaline environments number in the hundreds in British Columbia, there seem to be only a few that are suitable for Rusty Cord Moss.
Sporophytes are common in Canadian Rusty Cord Moss populations. In British Columbia, these spore-producing stems typically remain visible until fall, even though the moss leaves tend to dry out and become inconspicuous. This species matures in late winter and spring. Spores probably play a key role in short-range dispersal, particularly towards open areas. It is generally believed that Rusty Cord Moss is a short-lived species, although it may be perennial; or it may, at the very least, survive for a few years in a natural environment. In fact, there are many small buds on this plant's underground stems that seem to survive from one year to the next.
The main threat to Rusty Cord Moss is, in all likelihood, the trampling of its habitat by animals. Two populations have been trampled by horses and cattle and all of the sites that have been inspected show signs of various degrees of damage caused by domestic animals. Extended periods of drought could also threaten Rusty Cord Moss. The past few years have been particularly dry in the British Columbia interior and this may have led to a population decline.
Federal ProtectionMore information about SARA, including how it protects individual species, is available in the Species at Risk Act: A Guide.
This species is not protected under any provincial law in British Columbia.
Provincial and Territorial Protection
To know if this species is protected by provincial or territorial laws, consult the provinces' and territories' websites.
Recovery Initiatives
Status of Recovery Planning
Recovery Strategies :
Name Recovery Strategy for the Rusty Cord-moss (Entosthodon rubiginosus) in Canada
Status Final posting on SAR registry
Recovery Team
BC Bryophyte Recovery Team
Brenda Costanzo - Chair/Contact - Government of BC
Phone: 250-387-9611 Fax: 250-356-9145 Send Email
PLEASE NOTE: Not all COSEWIC reports are currently available on the SARA Public Registry. Most of the reports not yet available are status reports for species assessed by COSEWIC prior to May 2002. Other COSEWIC reports not yet available may include those species assessed as Extinct, Data Deficient or Not at Risk. In the meantime, they are available on request from the COSEWIC Secretariat.
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- Recovery Strategies (1 record(s) found.)
- Orders (2 record(s) found.)
- COSEWIC Annual Reports (1 record(s) found.)
- Consultation Documents (1 record(s) found.)
COSEWIC Status Reports
COSEWIC assessment and status report on the rusty cord-moss Entosthodon rubiginosus in Canada (2005)Entosthodon rubiginosus belongs to the moss family Funariaceae, characterized by small species with a great degree of vegetative similarity. There are twelve species of Entosthodon in North America, of which only 2 are found in Canada. Entosthodon rubiginosus is a small, pale green to green moss that grows as individual stems or in tiny patches. In habitat, it is inconspicuous and often hidden among other mosses. Sporophytes are common.
COSEWIC Assessments
Response Statements
Recovery Strategies
Recovery Strategy for the Rusty Cord-moss (Entosthodon rubiginosus) in Canada (2012)The Rusty Cord-moss was listed on Schedule 1 of the Species at Risk Act (SARA) as Endangered in August 2006. In the spirit of cooperation of the Accord for the Protection of Species at Risk, the Government of British Columbia has given permission to the Government of Canada to adopt the "Recovery strategy for the Rusty Cord-moss (Entosthodon rubiginosus) in British Columbia" under Section 44 of the Species at Risk Act. As the competent minister under SARA, the federal Minister of the Environment has included an addition (Part 1) which completes the SARA requirements for this recovery strategy, and excludes the section on Socio-Economic Considerations. Socio-economic factors are not part of the consideration process for federal recovery strategies developed under SARA. These factors are kept isolated from this strategic phase of recovery planning. The British Columbia Ministry of Environment led the development of the attached recovery strategy for the species (Part 2) in cooperation with Environment Canada.
Order Acknowledging Receipt of the Assessment Done Pursuant to Subsection 23(1) of the Act - Vol. 139, No. 24 (2005)Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment, hereby acknowledges receipt of the assessments done pursuant to subsection 23(1) of the Species at Risk Act (see footnote a) by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) with respect to the species set out in the annexed Schedule.
Order Amending Schedules 1 to 3 to the Species at Risk Act (2006)Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment, pursuant to section 27 of the Species at Risk Act, hereby makes the annexed Order Amending Schedules 1 to 3 to the Species at Risk Act.
COSEWIC Annual Reports
COSEWIC Annual Report - 2005 (2005)2005 Annual Report to the Canadian Endangered Species Conservation Council (CESCC) from the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.
Consultation Documents
Consultation on Amending the List of Species Under the Species At Risk Act: November 2005 (2005)The Government of Canada proclaimed the Species at Risk Act (SARA) on June 5, 2003 as part of its strategy for the protection of wildlife species at risk. Attached to the Act is Schedule 1, the list of the species that receive protection under SARA, hereinafter referred to as the 'SARA list'. Canadians are invited to comment on whether all or some of the species included in this document should be added to the SARA list.
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There is almost always more than one way to get the job done.
Here is one approach you can try adapting:
For discussion, we'll assume each data sheet holds a two-column table in the range of A1:B100.
Row-1 is a header row, where A1 = "Account" and B1 = "Amount"
This approach uses the DSUM function.
See also: Dynamic Reporting of an Excel Table
To keep this post as brief as possible, read the Excel Help on the details of how to use DSUM.
If F1:G2 are used as the criteria cells for the DSUM and our DSUM formula is placed in the same cell on each of the data sheets, then you can use the formula you showed in your post.
Where cell H1 is the DSUM formula cell on each sheet.