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Here's a great chance to sell your used bikes or buy some bargains for the whole family. To ensure we offer satisfactory bikes, we reserve the right to refuse any items that do not meet our specifications. The park district is not responsible for lost or stolen equipment. All sales are final.
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2012's Babies of the Year
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After years of struggling to conceive, Giuliana and Bill Rancic welcomed a baby boy via surrogate Aug. 29. "It's like I have a new best friend," the E! News host told Us Weekly. "There's nothing quite like him looking up at me."
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Introduction to the study of History and Chapter 1
What is History?
Etymology of the word:
His – Man + Story = Man's Story
Social Science
Important/ significant
Past events
Chronicle of important and significant past events that influence the present and shapes the future.
Theories of History
n Cyclical theory
n Historical Nihilism
n Evolutionary/ Darwinian
n Marxism
n Biblical/Christian
The next question that we need to address is what are the uses of history?
n There are many different types of history:
n cultural history,
n diplomatic history,
n narrative history and
n social history.
n History clearly seeks to explain not just what happened but why it happened when it did.
n For a great period of time people believed that history unfolded according to Divine will.
n Thinkers such as Thomas Carlyle in the 18th century exalted the role of the individual in the process of history and it was the individual actions of key individuals at key moments in time that created history.
n Opponents of Carlyle contended that history was determined by forces and laws and by the actions of entire societies.
n Economists explain historical processes from the stand point of group action that is influenced by economic forces.
n In the 19th century Karl Marx argued that irresistible economic forces governed the action of human beings and determined the trend of historical events.
n Marx believed that the shift from one economic stage to another—such as the shift from feudalism to mercantilism to capitalism to what we have now—is attained by upheavals and revolutions.
n These revolutions occur because the class controlling the means of production eventually resists further progress to maintain its vested interests.
n Other 19th century thinkers such as Oswald Spengler maintained that civilizations grew like biological organisms and all experienced a spring, summer, fall and winter in their evolution.
n Finally, Charles Darwin argued that civilizations survived due to the survival of the fittest and Herbert Spencer later created what is known as Social Darwinism out of this line of thinking.
Why Study History?
n To know and be informed of the past.
n To understand the present.
n To design the future.
Branches of Social Sciences that historian consult about the explanation of some phenomenon.
n Economics
n Anthropology
n Archeology
n Geography
n Political Science
n Sociology
n Linguistics
n Philosophy
It is important to understand the cultural stages that human civilization has gone through and throughout history there have been six needs common to all peoples throughout history which for the basis of a "Universal Cultural Pattern"
# 1. The need to survive or make a living: all men and women must have food,
shelter, clothing and the means to provide for their children's survival.
n #2 The need for law and order and this includes the needs of the community to keep order within their own communities, protect community assets and protect the community from external attack.
* #3 The need for social organization. For numbers 1 and 2 to be achieved there must be a social structure and hierarchy within the community.
n #4 The need for knowledge and learning. Human experience and knowledge are transmitted first orally, and then by means of writing systems.
n #5 The need for artistic self-expression. People need to express themselves creatively, either through cave paintings or by writing books or creating music forms.
n #6 The need for religious expression. All peoples have a need to understand or at least attempt to explain their existences, the natural world around them, and especially death.
What Is WORLD HISTORY?
- - it is a description of the changes that have been taken place in the earth's physical environment since earliest times.
- - a chronicle of the story of man and all his achievements, including every kind of culture and civilization he has ever established.
Topic Outline of the Unit:
- Geography
– The Universe
– How the Earth Began?
– Physical Characteristics of the Earth
– Natural Resources
– Climate
– Influence of Geography on History
– Geography and the World's Population
– Continents of the World
- The Origin of Man
- Ancient Civilization
- - a vast space with unknown boundaries.
- - compose of million of galaxies.
- - each galaxy is made up of billion of stars, planets, moons, comets, meteorites, and other heavenly bodies.
- - Milky Way galaxy – solar system is found.
- What is Geography?
- What are the different areas of Geography?
- - Physical Geography
- - Human or Cultural Geography
- - Economic Geography
- Theories of Science
- Nebular Theory – Kant
– Laplace
- Planetesimal Theory
- Theory of Little Planets
- Big Bang
- 3 degrees Kelvin radiation
What is the uniqueness of Earth than that of other planets and heavenly bodies that is found in the Universe?
Story of Divine Creation
- Why Story of Divine Creation?
- Story written in the Holy Bible
The Bible
- Compose of:
Old Testament
– 39 Books = Genesis – Malachi
New Testament
– 27 Books = Matthew – Revelation
Total Books = 66
The Days of Creation
- Genesis
Chapter 1
In the Beginning – Heaven and Earth = Universe
Formless and desolate= covered with darkness
- Day 1 - Light
- Day 2 – Firmament= sky =water above and below were separated
- Day 3 – Separation of Water and Land (Seas, Oceans / Earth)
- Day 4 – 3 great lights (SMS)
- Day 5 – Air/Sky and Sea Creatures
- Day 6 – Land Creatures & MAN
Earth's Physical Characteristics
- Water Forms
– Oceans
– Seas
– Bays
– Gulf
– River Systems
- Land Forms
– Land Area: 57, 280,000 km2
Continents of the World
- Asia
- Africa
- North America
- South America
- Europe
- Australia
- Antarctica
Other Land Forms
- Islands
- Greenland : Largest Island
- Peninsulas
- Mountains
- Hills
- Plains
- Plateaus
Natural Resources
- Raw Materials
- Energy
- Water
- Air
- Land
- Living Resources
– plants
– animals
– fishes
Kinds of Resources
- Renewable
- Nonrenewable
- Weather - the temperature and precipitation of a particular place at a particular time.
- Climate – the average weather conditions of an area over a long period of time.
3 Major Climate Zones
- Frigid Zones
- Temperate Zones
- Torrid Zones
Changing Climate Conditions
- "Why the weather growing wild?"
- "Greenhouse Effect"
- "Global Warming"
Natural Temperature Modifiers
- Volcanoes
- El Nino – Southern Oscillations (ENSO)
– Long dry season
- La Nina
- Long rainy season
- Brighter Sun
How Geography Influenced History?
Geography and the World Population
- What is the current trend of population growth?
- Explain the effects of uncontrolled population growth?
- How does geography influence population distribution?


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Sorenson Media is among the many industry leaders participating in a groundswell of technology and product development support for VP8. The official announcement revealing the VP8 ecosystem partners was made today at the 2010 Google I/O Developers Conference, the company's largest annual event for developers.
In addition to Google's own support across its network of platforms—including Google Chrome and YouTube—it is partnering with a range of technology vendors, from browsers to encoding companies, hardware and software vendors, and platform providers to foster development around this high-profile, high-quality codec.
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Commodity Corner
Views on commodities and energy
CBOT wheat passing baton to soybean/oil as market leaders?
By nature Chicago Board of Trade grain traders love talking about the markets. These days it just doesn't happen much. Between volatile price moves, exacerbated by electronic trading and huge participation by Wall Street funds, there's hardly a minute for them to catch their breath. Markets move faster than ever, with most of it, or 85-90 percent done on the screen.
This week took the cake. A trade by a clearing customer of MF Global, the world's largest futures/options broker, cost the firm $141 million and caused one of the most wicked moves in CBOT wheat history. That prompted veteran grain traders to ask: What's next? And doubt whether or not they'll survive another such move.
All this happened before the CBOT grain markets enter their traditional volatile period — spring planting followed by the crop growing season. This year promises to hold lots of surprises. The combination of volatile e-trade, big volume and a bullish fundamental outlook with the different commodities competing for acreage are sure to fuel the red-hot grain markets.
CBOT analysts and traders have no idea how high grain and oilseed markets will go. But they agree that prices will be on an upward roll until USDA releases its March 31 planting intentions report.
Private analysts are starting to release their U.S. acreage estimates. Most are forecasting that U.S. farmers will plant more soybeans than the 63.6 million acres seeded last spring, at least 70 million. Corn plantings will still be big near 90 million acres. But nothing is written in stone. The price action over the next few months and spring planting weather will impact the actual planted acres that will be reported in USDA's June plantings update.
Equally important will be spring wheat seedings. Current U.S. wheat stocks are projected at a 60-year low and spring wheat, the highest protein variety, is in the shortest supply. There's hope among world wheat buyers that the United States will be planting a lot more than last year.
At the USDA outlook forum held more than a week ago, the government's preliminary forecast was for farmers to seed 2 million more acres to spring wheat (including durum) than the 15.446 million acres planted in 2007. Private analysts aren't as hopeful as bean profits are looking more attractive than new-crop spring wheat, they say. New-crop CBOT November soybeans are hovering around $14.25 a bushel while Minneapolis spring wheat for new-crop delivery is near $11.25.
"We'd be surprised if the spring wheat went up more than 1.25 million acres which is less than USDA's 2.0-million-acre gain," Rich Feltes, senior vice president and director of MF Global Research.
The other interesting phenomenon that's occurring is that soybeans and soybean oil are taking over as the Chicago leaders from wheat.
Both soybeans and soyoil prices soared to all-time highs, led by soyoil this week. The product value of soyoil as a percentage of the soybean crush is rising — over 50 percent in the December contracts this week vs. near 40 percent a year ago. In contrast, the wheat markets deflated with the start of the March futures delivery period despite a lack of deliveries in Minneapolis and Kansas City.
Does anyone know anything about the Chinese conspiracy to ruin the soybean market? Reportedly, Minister Wei has internally ordered that many buy contracts be unfulfilled. The idea is to publically state that they will release edible oil reserves and then buy heavy on beans when the price drops while failing to honor earlier contracts at real-market pricing. Being such a big player, they do have the ability to manipulate the market. Who is going to control this massive corrupt giant? How can we keep them from (or minimize) controlling the market to the disadvantage of suppliers? Is it possible that the global market takes a stance against them, or do we simply have to suffer their dishonesty in sight of their buying ability and the need to move product?


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There's many songs which describe my life: Crawling, Blackout,Breaking the Habit, Hands held high, The little things you give me away..
oh and many many others. :)
It depends on the type of day im having. sometimes its The Little Things Give You Away. Other times its a place for my head or given up
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LOL, none. o, wait, eseer 2 run does, cuz its eseer 2 run frm linkin(stinkin) park to gud music, liek justic beiber, that god of music.
in the end describes my lyf......
The Linkin Park song that would describe my life would be What I've Done
I have two songs that describe my life 1. faint 2. lies greed misery
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- Concept and design for a traveling exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's work.The poster design prominently showcases one of his most famous collages, with extra collage elements layered over the work to it to provide the viewer the information on the exhibit. We wanted to reinforce the nature of the artist's work, in this exhibit primarily his collage work.The magazine spread is for Metro Magazine, Minneapolis and an exhibition at the Walker Art Center.
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John Arena and Karen Gately Herrick, Reading's two candidates to fill Camille Anthony's seat on the Board of Selectmen will duke it out on RCTV in a debate on Feb. 28.
The debate will air at 7 p.m. and will be hosted by Kevin Vendt and Dick Curtis, who have hosted RCTV's election coverage for the past five years.
Don't forget to tune in for what looks to be the final public event pitting candidate against candidate before the March 6 election. Still not sure who to throw your support behind? Hear what the two people who are vying to serve as one of your highest elected officials have to say about the issues that matter to you.
And if you can't tune in live, no sweat. Keep an eye on this space as Reading Patch will be bringing you extensive coverage of the debate next week.


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CHESTER, Pa. — The alarm rang on John Stewart's phone at 1:10 a.m. He was up at 1:30, caught one bus north into Philadelphia a little after 2 and another bus, south toward Philadelphia International Airport, a half-hour after that. He made it into work around 3:25 for a shift that started at 4, for a job that pays $5.25 an hour, which he cannot afford to lose.
Stewart is 55, tall and thin and animated. At work, he wears a clip-on tie, a white cotton shirt with a fraying collar and a pair of black sneakers he nabbed on sale for $12.99 a few days ago. He wheels elderly air passengers from the ticket counters through security and to their gates, and back again, and every once in a while they tip him. Usually for lunch, he buys a candy bar. His skin flakes from psoriasis, which gets worse when he worries, which, these days, is all the time. He can't pay for treatments to soothe the itching or for a car to shorten his commute.
"I can't save money," he said recently, "to buy the things I need to live as a human being."
American workers are living with unprecedented economic anxiety, four years into a recovery that has left so many of them stuck in place. That anxiety is concentrated heavily among low-income workers such as Stewart.
More than 6 in 10 workers in a recent Washington Post-Miller Center poll worry that they will lose their jobs to the economy, surpassing concerns in more than a dozen surveys dating to the 1970s. Nearly 1 in 3 (32 percent) say they worry "a lot" about losing their jobs, also a record high, according to the joint survey, which explores Americans' changing definition of success and their confidence in the country's future. The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia specializing in public policy, presidential scholarship and political history.
Job insecurities have always been higher among low-income Americans, but they typically rose and fell across all levels of the income ladder. Today, workers at the bottom have drifted away, occupying their own island of insecurity.
What matters in this new anxiety, what unites the people who worry more now than ever, are income and education. Workers who earn less, and workers who didn't graduate from college fear losing their already weaker livelihoods more than anyone else.
Spend a day with John Stewart – a man who has worked low-wage jobs since the late '70s – and you start to understand why.
His first job – he doesn't remember if it was in 1978 or '79 – was cooking eggs and pancakes at a five-and-dime in New York City. He made $2.35 an hour, which would be a little less than $8 an hour today.
He did leave that cooking job, fairly quickly. He found work right away as a messenger, running documents all over the city. In later years, he would work in offices and at a trash dump infested with rats. He tried college for six months but left when his mother died. He has never gone back, though he would like to; he says he has never had the time or money for school. Eventually he landed in New Jersey at a Walmart, poised, he thought, for a manager's job. But he lost the promotion chance and the job – he was late to work too often, because of unreliable public transportation, he says – and in the fall of 2010, he retreated to Philadelphia to live with a cousin and look for a new gig.
This time, finding a job took him five months. It's sadly typical for this recovery: In October, more than 4 million Americans had been looking for work longer than six months. That was down from nearly 7 million people at the start of 2010, but still 1 million more than at any point in U.S. history before the 2007-09 recession.
When Stewart finally got the job at the airport, through a man at his church, he thought he was signing on to $7.25 an hour. On the first day, they told him no, it's $5.25 plus whatever tips come your way. That's not usually very much. He brings home about $600 most months after taxes and accounting for unpaid sick days, he says. He pays a family friend $400 a month to live in her basement.
Tips vary from day to day – sometimes he leaves work with enough cash in his pocket for a takeout dinner. Sometimes hardly any at all.
Stagnant wages
There is a reason workers like Stewart are so nervous in today's economy. That reason is the economy itself. There are still 11 million Americans looking for work who can't find a job. The unemployment rate is 7.3 percent, higher than it has been since 1980, except during recessions and their immediate aftermaths. Adjusting for inflation, average household incomes for the poorest 40 percent of workers have fallen steadily – by more than 10 percent, total – since 2000.
Lower-income workers get most of their money from wages, as opposed to investments or other capital gains, said Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the liberal Economic Policy Institute, who writes extensively about unemployment and income.
"It's no surprise that security concerns are off the map now (among those workers) because the labor market is so bad," Shierholz said. "High unemployment hurts workers across the board, but it hurts workers with low and moderate incomes more."
Even worse, there aren't many signs that job and wage growth will rocket upward anytime soon – especially for workers like Stewart without college degrees.
"High-paying jobs for people who didn't go to college just aren't there anymore" in large numbers, said Melissa Kearney, an economist who directs the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution.
As low-income workers tightly grip their current jobs, few are seeking the skills and education often required to land better-paying ones, the Post-Miller Center poll suggests. Fewer than 4 in 10 of those earning less than $35,000 annually said they've taken training programs in the past year to update their knowledge or skills, compared with about half of middle-income workers and nearly two-thirds of those whose household income tops $75,000.
Several economists say there's a simple explanation for that gap: Poorer people can't spare the time or money to go to school. Stewart, for example, would love to ditch his airport job to work as a hospital aide, hopefully for higher pay and at least some health benefits. (His job now offers none.) He'd need to take classes to earn a certification to qualify for that work. He has no idea how he'd swing that, financially. But he has hope that he will – and that, too, is typical of low-earning, anxious workers today.


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The High Line's planting design is inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew up between rail tracks after the trains stopped running in the 1980s. Today, the High Line includes more than 300 species of perennials, grasses, shrubs, and trees — each chosen for their hardiness, adaptability, diversity, and seasonal variation in color and texture. Some of the species that originally grew on the High Line's rail bed are reflected in the park landscape today.
This week we share with you one of our gardeners' current favorites.
High Line Youth Staff alumna Carla Hernández is moving on from Friends of the High Line to join the Clean Energy Corps, Green City Force's full-time, six month-long service, with training and academics, and work experience in the clean energy economy.
This is an exciting next step for Carla. Her service with Green City Force over the coming months will focus on energy efficiency and health and safety, providing valuable hands-on training for her through projects that help create a more sustainable New York City.
Learn more about Carla after the jump.
We are thrilled to debut a new collection of limited-edition apparel and products Diane von Furstenberg, a long-time supporter of Friends of the High Line.
The exclusive collection features soft cotton T-shirts, notebooks, magnets, a printed scarf, a sunhat, and a canvas tote bag emblazoned with colorful illustrations and the phrase "Dreams Come True on the High Line." These special products capture the creative energy and spirit behind making the once so-called "impossible dream" of the High Line come true, something that would not have been possible without the visionary support of Diane and her family.
We were so excited about the collection's debut that we recently took some of the items for a test run on the High Line. Follow us after the jump to see more photos from the shoot.
This special blog post comes to you from Luz Delma Adon, Raquel Rosado, Liza Rosado, and Juwan Stone, who, with Hahillah Ahmed, Brian Bass, Gabrielle (Gabby) Bruno, Carla Hernández, Winona Holderbaum, and Javier Montero served as members of the High Line Teen Film Committee. Together, these local teens worked with staff at Friends of the High Line to curate and produce a free summer film series, called High Line Teen Picks, which took place over the course of three weeks in August, thanks in part to support from AT&T.
Over the course of this project, we were asked many times, "Why did you choose these movies for the film series?"
The High Line itself is a reinvention, built by people who didn't give up. Teen Picks consisted of different types of movies – a romance, an action flick, and a drama – but even though they differ from one another, each one relates to the High Line. Each movie features underdog characters who never give up on their beliefs and dreams, and that is what the High Line is all about. The High Line was going to be knocked down, but since people believed in it and wanted to make something of it, they fought for it, and today it remains standing.
When we set out to curate Teen Picks, our first task was to select three movies that fit our theme. We started with a selection of 20 movies, but we had to narrow it down. After three months of reviewing the films, we got the list down to the final four: Step Up, The Notebook, Real Steel, and Freedom Writers.
Four movies for only three film screenings. Weird right?
The High Line is a great place to take photographs. Whether you're a horticulture enthusiast focusing on blooms, an architecture fan capturing the cityscape, or an art-lover photographing the art on and around the High Line – there's a little something for everyone. The light, the views, the people, and the unique landscape offer a wide variety of opportunities for amateur and professional photographers alike.
Beverly Israely is a long-time resident of the West Village and High Line Member, and she was also one of the High Line's first visitors after it opened as a public park. "I've lived here since 1996, and I had heard all about the efforts to save the structure and make it into a park," Beverly recalls. "Our family came up on a rainy morning in June, not long after the High Line opened, and I was so inspired by how the space had been transformed. Since then, the park has become one of my family's favorite neighborhood places. You'll find us here often – walking, picnicking, relaxing on the lounge chairs, and attending performances and kids' events. We are so happy to share this treasure and support Friends of the High Line and the many members of our community who are dedicated to sustaining the High Line as a special place for New Yorkers."
Join us after a jump for a glimpse at some of Beverly's favorite parts of the High Line.
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The radiographic changes, the clinical behavior of expansion and the age of the patient are all consistent with fibrous dysplasia. Although the location is unusual for FD, it can still be included on the differential diagnosis. The histology is supportive of FD.
The etiology of fibrous dysplasia is unknown. The monostotic (one bone or bone complex area) form makes up approximately 80% of all fibrous dysplasia cases; the polyostotic form affects one or more bones with multiple lesions. FDs are expansile and disfiguring lesions, whether single or multiple, which differentiates them from the usually flat osteomas of Gardner's syndrome. Monostotic FD, which involves the jaws, affects males and females equally. It occurs in childhood and at puberty and usually stops growing at age 30. It appears as an asymptomatic swelling of the maxilla or mandible; maxillary lesions are the most common. It may involve bones other than the maxilla, such as the zygoma and the sphenoid. It is usually unilateral and is known to displace the teeth, but otherwise is firmly seated. The growth is usually slow, but rapid growth has been described, especially during puberty. The radiographic appearance, especially of the maxilla, is classically described as a ground glass appearance where fine radiopacity is noted. The mandibular lesions are much more deceptive because they tend to vary more, thus making diagnosis with a radiograph difficult. They may consist of a cystic unilocular radiolucency, multilocular radiolucency, or the classical ground glass radio-opacity. Treatment may be necessary and is preferably performed after cessation of growth due to the high incidence of re-growth and requirement for secondary procedures. Radiation therapy is contraindicated since significant incidence of development of osteosarcoma in the irradiated bone has been documented. Malignancies such as osteosarcoma arising in an area of FD that has not been irradiated have been described, but rarely; these occur mainly in irradiated lesions. The overall prognosis is good with close follow-up.


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Birthday - The Cat in the Hat
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- My backyard / Duvall / Washington / United States
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Beautiful birthday!!! The perfect way to celebrate a kids birthday party!!!
Hi! Beautiful party! I'm thinking of having a Dr. Seuss party for my sons first birthday also. Where did you find the large Cat in the Hat and the Thing 1 and Thing 2 picture stand?
Where did you get the dr.seuss paper that you made the pinwheels with
@ Erica- I'm not sure what picture stands you are taking about. I made most of the party...email me at email@example.com and we can chat there. Thanks, Nikka
@Brandy- I got that paper from Michaels Craft store. They have a Cat n the Hat section and if you look thru all that stuff there is a little kit to make pinwheels. I also saw that JoAnn Fabrics has the same little section. (dont forget your coupons when going to either store-totally cheap with a coupon!) Thanks, Nikka
@jessica- i made it- if you are in the seattle area we can meet, but if you are out of state- it costs about $160 to ship. not worth it. its made out of cardboard and acrylic paint. :)
Hello! I love this cutout! My nieces are having a Thing 1 & Thing 2 themed bday party this month and this would be a great addition! Do you rent it out?
Hi @Danielle d- so i do rent and sell ALL the items in this party! the problem with the cutouts are the size - they cost about $160 to ship each way. im in the seattle area - if you are, then i can meet you and well not shipping! :) hope you are local! thanks! nikka
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When my youngest of three kids turned one this summer, I knew it had to be fun. He is my only summer baby, so I finally got to plan a party outside. My 2 older kids were Thing 1 & Thing 2, and the birthday boy was Cat in the Hat.
I made all the decorations and food. It was fun to make things not so perfect, like an off centered cupcake stand and tall skinny candy jars.
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Three different players scored second-half goals to lead Rogers past the Graham-Kapowsin Eagles 3-0 last Wednesday at Sparks Stadium in downtown Puyallup.
Ian Muller opened the scoring in the 51st minute, and Evan Sowards added one four minutes later for the Rams (4-0-2, 14 points). Carson Mayes tallied the final goal in the 65th minute.
The game was scoreless at halftime, much to the chagrin Rogers head coach JR Farias.
"He told us at halftime to get on our game and play how we should," Rogers goalie Jake Fredrikson said. "We knew what we were supposed to be doing, and we just weren't doing it. We needed to do it."
Fredrikson finished with seven saves.
"The difference in the second half was that we were actually linking up, talking and communicating to each other," he said. "We played the ball to each other's feet instead of just playing the ball over the top the entire time."
Farias credited Graham-Kapowsin for frustrating his team in the first 20 minutes.
"I thought we were chasing the ball a little too much and were not staying with our marks in the first half," Farias said. "We gave them a lot of room. You've got to give them credit. They played really well and kept us on our heels in the first half. They had the ball a lot.
"In the second half, we settled down and stayed with our marks. We did a better job of keeping the ball, too."
The Rams were set to face the first-place Federal Way Eagles (5-0-1, 16 points) on Monday after press time in a battle between the two top teams in the South Puget Sound League South Division.
"We will be going into that game with first place on the line," Farias said last week.


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JERUSALEM — A prominent Palestinian American journalist has launched a hunger strike to protest his detention without charges by the Palestinian Authority, but a move aimed at winning his release was in the works Saturday.
The journalist, Daoud Kuttab, was summoned to the police station in Palestinian-ruled Ramallah on Tuesday and detained, apparently because of a battle he has waged against attempts by the Palestinian Authority to jam his live television broadcasts of debates by the Palestinian legislature. The lawmakers are often fiercely critical of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.


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In a nutshell: New World wines with crisp fruity acids and intense flavours.
Main grapes: Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris (white); Pinot Noir, Merlot (red).
The New Zealand wine industry, which produces a fraction of one per cent of the world's wine, has a real problem. Like the country itself, it is so small and vulnerable that navigating a safe course across the treacherous waters of the international wine market can be extremely difficult. One strong economic wind and a pronounced list to starboard can threaten to capsize the craft altogether.
In 1986, fearing over-production, the government encouraged growers to pull out a quarter of the country's vines. Just seven years later (thanks to short vintages, and damage done by the phylloxera louse) there was such a desperate shortage of grapes that there simply wasn't enough wine to mount a serious export effort.
However, the results of fast and furious plantings in the mid 1990s helped to introduce more and more wine drinkers to the unique character of wines from these Pacific islands three hours' flying time south east of Australia. Demand continues to outstrip supply, keeping the average price of New Zealand extremely high and encouraging continued planting fever. In the last 10 years, the number of wineries has doubled and the area under vine has more then trebled. However, uneven harvests mean that production is still a roller-coaster ride for growers.
New Zealand wines combine the well-preserved pure fruit flavours of New World winemaking with the natural grape acidity associated with northern Europe. This crispness, sometimes piercing and a characteristic of New Zealand reds as well as whites, is a feature markedly lacking in the great majority of New World wines, including most of those still made in Australia, which is why a number of Australian producers buy wine and even grapes from New Zealand (especially Sauvignon Blanc and ingredients for sparkling wine blends). In Europe vines tend to planted on poor soils, so yields are low and the grapes can ripen fairly well despite the high acidity, but New Zealand's soils can be very fertile so New Zealanders have had to devise ways of manipulating their vines, stripping leaves, and making every ray of sunshine contribute towards the ripening process. (New Zealand is the home of canopy management) New Zealand wine producers are allowed to make an unusually wide range of adjustments to the basic wine recipe: irrigation, chaptalisation, acidification and deacidification are all sanctioned in recognition of the country's extremely variable climate.
Wine drinkers outside New Zealand who have experienced New Zealand wines tend to regard the country's distinctively pungent, fruity way with the razor-sharp Sauvignon Blanc as the country's hallmark wine, but the dominance of this aromatic variety is a very recent phenomenon – the first Sauvignon Blanc vines were planted in the 1970s. Whatever the vicissitudes of fashion, it is clear that New Zealand is likely to remain a predominantly white wine producer and the growing interest in other aromatic varieties such as Pinot Gris and Riesling is reflected in increased plantings. Crisp, fresh, occasionally over-oaked Chardonnay, for some time the second string to Sauvignon Blanc, has now been eclipsed by the country's highly successful, impressively fruity Pinot Noirs. Intensely flavoured yet elegant wines have been produced in a variety of different regions, notably Martinborough on the North Island and Central Otago in the south of the South Island, although the temptation to use too much new oak has not always been resisted. Some particularly well-favoured vineyard sites, especially around Hawke's Bay on the North Island, can yield concentrated Cabernet/Merlot blends but these varieties sometimes struggle to ripen, yielding wines with marked herbaceous flavours.
From north to south.
At one time most of the country's wine producers were based in the suburbs of its largest city, particularly in Henderson. Today vine growing is focused on cooler areas but some of the bigger producers such as Montana still have their headquarters in Auckland and bottle their wines here. The family operation Kumeu River continues to pursue French-inspired techniques with grapes ripened in the Auckland suburb of Kumeu, producing especially fine single-vineyard Chardonnays. A short ferry ride from the city, Waiheke Island is drier than the mainland and is a focus for the 'boutique' or 'lifestyle' winery phenomenon, with Stonyridge's Cabernets setting a standard.
Waikato/Bay of Plenty
Between Auckland and Gisborne this dual-named region houses several successful wineries, of which Morton Estate is the best known.
Gisborne/Poverty Bay
The North Island's self-styled Chardonnay garden was ravaged by phylloxera in the late 1980s but is now on course to provide creamy, rather tropical fruit flavoured grapes, mainly as raw material for the larger producers. It has also produced the country's best Gewurztraminer (notably from the Gewurz specialist Nick Nobilo at Vinoptima), which can be very good indeed in some years, as well as intense Semillon and Chenin Blanc. The estate bottler of most note is Millton Estate, which preached the gospel of biodynamism years before Burgundy's top producers had even heard of it.
Hawke's Bay
South of Gisborne on the east coast of the North Island, Hawke's Bay is New Zealand's most varied wine region. Parts of it are quite warm and well drained enough to produce fine Cabernet and Merlot, particularly in the area known as Gimblett Gravels just north of Hastings, but also in the limestone hills of Havelock North, where John Buck established a reputation for the region's red wines at Te Mata estate. His Bullnose Syrah was one of the first to show the potential for this variety, now being enthusiastically planted on some of Hawke's Bay's poorest soils. . Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc are also produced here, with the former having overtaken Merlot as the most widely planted variety in an area that is probably New Zealand's most interesting for barrel salesmen.
Some favourite producers: Alpha Domus, Craggy Range, Kim Crawford, Esk Valley, Ngatarawa, C J Pask, Stonecroft, Te Awa, Te Mata, Trinity Hill, Unison, Vidal.
This region in the south east of the North Island is known as Wairarapa or Martinborough, although officially the latter is a subregion of the former. Temperatures are lower and autumns reliably drier than in other North Island regions and it produces some stunning Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Pinot Gris is the latest fashion. Unlike most other regions, wines tend to be made by those who grow the grapes here.
Some favourite producers: Ata Rangi, Dry River, Escarpment, Martinborough Vineyard, Palliser.
In the north west of the South Island, Neudorf is the star of Nelson, for rich Chardonnay and ageworthy Pinot Noir.
The wide, flat, vine-covered expanse of the Wairau Valley and the sharply etched mountains around it may now be New Zealand's most photographed wine region but in 1973 the entire South Island was terra incognita to the country's wine industry. The Marlborough region at the island's north-eastern tip was created by the Montana winery, which bought up sheep-farming land almost by stealth, gambling on its assessment of the region's potential to produce wines that would be as attractive to consumers as to their producers.
Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc seduced the imagination and palates of thousands of wine drinkers outside New Zealand in the mid 1980s when the first releases of Cloudy Bay trickled on to the British, American and Australian markets. At that stage, Cloudy Bay was just a clever name, label and concept dreamt up by Western Australian winemaker David Hohnen of Cape Mentelle, but the distinctively lush tropical flavours he and winemaker Kevin Judd coaxed from this sometimes austere variety were sufficient to put Marlborough Sauvignon on the international wine map. Others such as Hunter's established an early reputation for their Sauvignon and Chardonnay, too, while subsequent increases in grape prices encouraged all manner of investors, gamblers and local farmers to chance their arm at vine growing. Although most of them sell their grapes to the bigger companies, many of them also sell some wine under their own label, many of them made at contract wineries.
Marlborough Chardonnays can be attractively lean and refreshing - the ripest of them benefiting imperceptibly from some barrel fermentation and maturation, the lightest making an increasing contribution to some fine traditional-method sparkling wines. There has also been talk here, as elsewhere in the world, of a Riesling renaissance, although Pinot Gris, often made in a gently floral, off-dry style unlike either Alsace Pinot Gris or Italian Pinot Grigio, has now overtaken Riesling in terms of quantity. Red wines, mainly Pinot Noir, are steadily gaining more flesh with some of the most convincing examples coming from the Swiss-owned Fromm winery and Vavasour (second label Dashwood), which has pioneered the Awatere Valley to the south. It is generally drier, cooler and windier than the Wairau Valley, with more marked day–night temperature variation, but summers are long and hot, so that Merlot and Cabernet ripen fully. Pinot Noir is grown both for sparkling wine and still reds, the latter sometimes sweet and rather simple.
Some favourite producers: Clifford Bay, Cloudy Bay, Delta, Fromm, Hunter's, Jackson Estate, Isabel Estate, Mud House, Saint Clair, Seresin, Vavasour, Villa Maria, Wither Hills.
Further south on the South Island, the climate can be so variable that few wineries can promise top quality year in and year out. But in the Canterbury region round Christchurch, some inspiring wines have been made by Waipara Springs and St Helena. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay were the first varieties to show promise, as Mountford has shown, and the likes of Pegasus Bay are now also producing crisp, flinty Rieslings. Other particularly ambitious growers include Bell Hill and Pyramid Valley.
Central Otago
The world's most southerly wine region, where until recently viticulture was a truly marginal activity pursued with vigour and dedication by Rippon, Gibbston Valley and Felton Road. The growing season is short and the vineyard area is small but it has grown fivefold in the last 10 years. The focus here is intensely fruity Pinot Noir, much of it the produce of young vines and some wines are still seriously overoaked. However, as the vines age and producers show greater experience and restraint, the wines are becoming finer and more elegant.
The new region of Waitaki in north-east Otago boasts limestone and seems to be the next area ripe for development.
Some favourite producers: Felton Road, Gibbston Valley, Mount Difficulty, Mount Edward, Rippon.
See New Zealand Wine for more information on wine in this region.
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The stealth adventure game occupies a particular spot on the video game spectrum. With its emphasis on tactical fighting over raw firepower, the stealth game isn't as frenetic as the first-person shooter. But the real-time combat element also keeps the stealth game from devolving into turn-based tactical tedium.
Decoding that for the casual gamer: The stealth game is exciting, but not too exciting.
"Assassin's Creed III" (PS3, X360, WiiU, PC; $59.99; rated M) is an excellent stealth game, easily the best of the franchise so far. But that's only part of the story because "AC3" can also be enjoyed as a finely detailed historical adventure, an open-world role-playing game or a combat-heavy action title. It's the most generous video game of the year.
The game picks up where the series' last installation, "Assassin's Creed: Revelations," left off. You begin as modern-day protagonist Desmond Miles, descendent of a long line of Assassins dating back to the Middle Ages. The Assassins are a line of warriors who have been at war with the mysterious Templars for centuries. Thanks to a machine called the Animus, Desmond can relive the memories of his ancestors by tapping genetic material in his own DNA.
This premise allows for both modern and historical story lines to play out simultaneously – Desmond has previously battled the Templars during the Crusades and the Italian Renaissance. This time around, Desmond is transported back in time to the American Revolution in the person of his half-Mohawk ancestor Ratonhnhaké:ton – "Conner" to his friends.
"Assassin's Creed III" was built from the ground up around a new game engine that maximizes graphics capabilities, and it looks amazing (I played on PlayStation 3). Among the visual delights on display: Frontier wilderness hunts in the woods of Virginia, rooftop chase sequences in historical New York, and dazzling naval battles from Boston to the Caribbean.
The revamped combat system splits the focus between careful stealth attacks and a simplified melee system that will be familiar to players of the "Batman: Arkham" games. The thrilling parkour system is back as well, allowing Connor/Desmond to climb and vault his way through forests or dense urban environments with scary velocity.
As with previous titles, weapons and tools are era-specific and (for the most part) historically accurate. Your hidden blades can be complemented with judicious use of muskets, pistols, tomahawks, bows and rope darts. That last one is more fantasy than history, but it's so much fun to use that it seems churlish to quibble.
Combat is of course central to the AC3 experience, but there's plenty or room to stretch. Out on the frontier, you can explore and hunt to your heart's content, and even establish your own homestead or village. The game employs (optional) RPG elements like crafting and trading, plus endless side quests and character interactions.
The homestead missions feel like another full-sized RPG game dropped into the middle of the existing historical adventure. Both stories are themselves nested in a contemporary Assassins versus Templars conspiracy story, with the usual high stakes – saving humanity from cosmic cataclysm, etc.
If nothing else, "AC3" is a festival of storytelling. Onscreen cues regularly invite you to pause the action and read about actual historical contexts. You'll run into some familiar faces, places and events: Sam Adams, Valley Forge, the Boston Massacre.
Aside from the surprisingly compelling historical milieu, "Assassin's Creed III" is just plain impressive in terms of scope and ambition. It expands on the series' existing strengths (combat, visuals, story), adds new dimensions (naval battles, homesteading), and threads it all through a rich and detailed open-world environment.
With such an agenda, it's not really a surprise that the game has its share of technical issues. Bugs and glitches pop up with increasing frequency as the game progresses – objects and characters might disappear suddenly or pop up in duplicate. I haven't run into anything too extreme myself, but online reports suggest each platform has its problem spots.
I think what I like best about Assassin's Creed III is that, at its core, it still plays like a state-of-the-art stealth game. New options let you blend in with crowds, hide in tall grass and get the drop on enemies from treetop or rooftop. Ever since the days of D&D and tabletop gaming, I've preferred a combat style that values sneakiness over strength. This is the stuff that will keep me coming back for months.
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Campus clubs and volunteer work offer ways for international students to develop leadership skills.
The number and variety of clubs and activities available at U.S. colleges and universities often surprises international students. But these clubs are a great way to build important skills, like leadership, and understand cultural differences.
As a prospective student, I didn't consider the clubs on campus to be important to my choice of school, but they've ended up being a large part of my college experience.
The motivation to raise my hand and get involved came my freshman year of college. The opportunity to hold various leadership positions in different organizations has been one of the keys to my success at Drury University.
Universities in the U.S. offer international students the opportunity to get involved, both on and off campus. Drury University plays a big hand in getting its students involved, which improves their leadership skills. My school has about 1,475 students enrolled, but the university has around 120 student organizations.
[Check out campus resources for international students.]
Getting involved can seem overwhelming at first, so take the following steps to make the most of the activities and clubs offered at a U.S. college.
1. Learn what clubs are offered: My school says almost 98 percent of its students are involved in more than one organization. I was shocked when I heard that, and felt the need to get active.
As a freshman, I decided to attend the student activities fair, with a goal of signing up for two different clubs. Instead, I signed up for five.
Many schools offer these fairs, but clubs will also typically advertise their meetings around campus. You can usually also find a list of clubs on the school's website, so check that list when you're applying to see what a school offers that you may be interested in.
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2. Be an active member: I did not just sign up, but went to all the meetings and in the process learned more and more about this country. Not only do you learn about time management by getting involved, but you also build communication skills.
A wide number of student organizations provide various opportunities for active members to attend conferences or visit different cities. I visited Kansas City with one of the diversity-based student organizations at my school.
By getting involved, you have an opportunity to help plan club events and build those leadership skills – and you also learn how to be part of a team.
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3. Try a volunteer group: Volunteer for groups that need your help. Greek organizations typically have a philanthropy component, and they usually connect with volunteer groups.
Volunteering helps you give back, and might help you find a passion for your community. I have learned so much more than just academics through volunteering. Whenever I volunteer, I think about how many people do not have food to eat or clothes to wear, and I feel really lucky to have both.
Volunteering teams you up with other people, which also helps you learn. I had never thought about volunteering, but did so after joining clubs and learning more about what goes on around me. Even though the U.S. might not be your home country, contributing to the community is a great thing to do.
It does not take much to get involved, whether in college or around the community. My experience was different than I expected, and when I was applying to college I never imagined I would be such an involved individual once I enrolled.
Even if you're not successful in what you do, what really counts is that you raised a hand and tried.
Vikas Jagwani, of the United Arab Emirates, is a sophomore at Drury University, where he majors in accounting, finance and economics.


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The Congressional deadlock known as the sequester has been tough on America, especially on travellers, as air traffic controllers found themselves with mandatory 10% paycuts (attained through one-day-in-ten furloughs) and the delays on good-weather days at major airports like JFK shot up to snowpocalypse-like 2-3 hour slogs. But don't worry, Congress is on it! They've fixed things for the air traffic controllers -- and just in time! After all, Congress is recessing, and the Congresscritters themselves will all have to fly home.
Unlucky for them -- and the rest of America -- many of the most experienced air traffic controllers who'd been delaying retirement threw up their hands at this situation and left their jobs permanently, leaving a talent gap in one of America's most vital and esoteric industries.
On Thursday night and Friday afternoon, however, the Senate and House were literally moved to action by jet fumes: Congress rushed legislation to patch funding for air traffic controllers furloughed by the automatic budget cuts known as the "sequester" just before jetting home for a week in their states.
The Senate passed the bill without a vote Thursday night. House lawmakers approved the legislation, 361-41, before scampering out of town Friday.
The legislation stopped FAA staff reductions that left planes idling on runways across the country and canceled some flights altogether.
Before members rush for airports, Congress ends sequester flight delays [David Grant/Christian Science Monitor]
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42 Responses to "Congress fixes "sequester" air traffic control disaster just in time for their own flights home"
Oliver Crosby says:
If anything it shows you how politicians are biased by the immediate and mundane aspects of their existence. They aren't just bodiless ideologues, they are real people who are worried about how they're going to fly home… more so then they are worried about other peoples children going to kindergarten.
billstewart says:
It's not just that – the sequestration hit air traffic controllers just this past week, and not only has everybody who flies frequently been yelling at Congress, but the airline industry have been yelling at them about how much money this travel disruption is going to cost them.
As far as air traffic controllers retiring goes, a lot of them got hired back in the early 80s when Ronald Reagan did his union-busting attack on the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, so they've seen this kind of abuse before.
euansmith says:
Its stem cell research under the Reagan's; you just have to hope that your political masters have the same problems as you. Maybe people should look into their representatives' domestic situations when voting and chose the candidate that best fits their own life.
msbpodcast says:
They, ahem, fixed it going out.
Maybe they'll be fixed coming back.
I mean, why show up for work anymore?
They've pretty much all got Skype™.
euansmith says:
Air traffic control from home?
"So, Air Traffic Controller; you claim that the Dulles Airport Disaster of 2014 was caused by your cat, Snookums, sitting on your keyboard?"
oasisob1 says:
The fuck do they get to go on vacation? Anywhere else in the government there's a crisis, government employees have to stay late and fix the damn problem. With or without overtime or bonuses, or even a hot dinner.
Mordicai says:
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha wait, you know congress is only in session 126 days this year, right?
oasisob1 says:
Well that's kind of the point. They have enough days off, they should give up a few and do some work.
Chris Hogan says:
Reminds me of the old Michael Moore line about praying that rich people be afflicted with the hardships and diseases of poverty, coz that's the only thing that'll concenrate their narrow, selfish minds on fixing the problem.
You know, if the College of Cardinal don't manage to do their job (elect a Pope) within the first month of Conclave the Vatican staff stop delivering food to their gloriously decorated pen. There is much the new world can learn from this time-hallowed wisdom.
euansmith says:
Imagine how much more damage they could do if they worked the other 239 days of the year.
Mordicai says:
Imagine how much good they could do if they worked more & weren't just corporate lobby shills? I think that congress is a great idea, we just, you know, need some electoral & finance reforms.
Boundegar says:
That's a misconception. When members of Congress go home, most of them keep working hard. They normally have an office back home, where they can meet with donors constituents.
I'm sure some of them take 200 vacation days a year – but not many. That's a ticket to losing the next election.
billstewart says:
Besides, most of the time that Congress IS working, it's up to no good, and over in the Senate the Republicans are too lazy to stand up and speak when they're filibustering everything the Democrats want to do. Some Democrats complained when Bush was always on vacation down at his ranch, but any day he was cutting down brush or driving around admiring his cattle was a day he wasn't causing new trouble.
Boundegar says:
Years ago I read a clever aphorism about how making government more efficient is the worst thing that can happen. I wish I remembered where I saw that.
oasisob1 says:
While Nero fiddles, cancer-ridden Americans burn. Or something like that.
Navin_Johnson says:
Yeah, they basically spend all their free time fundraising and meeting special interests, which is why we need publicly financed elections and to practically ban lobbying.
soap says:
A large problem is that air traffic controllers are not a highly interchangeable workforce.
BAK (Columbus, Indiana) has an ATCT. Not that it's needed. It's a FAA part 139 airport (basically commercial flights of 30 or more people regularly scheduled) but you know what – the commercial pilots would be upset there is no tower for their four flights a day, but they'd get over it and the FBO is more than capable of advising that level of traffic.
Point being BAK (and many many other ATCT workers can be laid off, permanently, and the state of American Air Traffic will not suffer one iota. But that actually won't help our current situation.
Almost none of these individuals with jobs fit for the chopping block could work at JFK or SFO or even CMH if they wanted to. They don't have the training and (most) don't have the skills.
Zooid Organelle says:
You're an idiot. I work at one of these towers, and they are categorically, intrinsically more dangerous than any place I've worked — to include PSAB and Holloman AFB — regardless that they have a fraction of the traffic.
The reason? Lack of training and discipline of the pilots — not the corporate fliers, but the *occasional* GA pilot, and it only takes *one* (or, God forbid, *two*) to ruin the broth, Brother…
That has been the real shot between the eyes about this whole deal: Huerta and LaHood are as ignorant as you when it comes to what actually goes down at ATCTs. You're right: For the majority of time I'm on duty, nothing very much is going on, certainly not enough to justify my pay. But… there is *rarely* a week that goes by when I don't 're-earn' a whole year's pay by unraveling cats-with-crocheted-tails that would have resulted in *deaths*, not just "loss of efficiency"…
Because the fact is pilots *cannot* work themselves out of every situation using just TCAS and CTAF (if y'all don't know what those are, look 'em up) as Huerta has suggested. Some of my customers don't have good radio technique and I had one just the other day who had no earthly clue what a "transponder" was, what the term "IDENT" meant, or what "Mode C" was. His transponder was on, with no operating Mode C, so there goes the notion of TCAS. He was effectively invisible to other aircraft. When I asked him to IDENT, he responded that he was a PA28R. I then queried whether he had a working transponder and if so could he utilize the IDENT feature. He replied "I'm a slant U" (transponder-equipped with Mode C), but still had no idea what IDENT was, neither how to turn on Mode C. In addition, he was fully 20 miles further away from where he reported himself in relation to the airport, so there goes CTAF. I finally 'found' him on radar, as previously mentioned, squawking VFR but no altitude data, and fit him into my traffic pattern which featured 6 aircraft going to 3 different runways, a mix of 3 small CAT I GA (~100KTS, 4500′ runway), small-plus CAT III bizjet (~150KTS, 6000′ runway) and 2 hi-speed, large CAT III test aircraft (penetrating at 220+ knots until 2 mi final, sequential front- and back-course approaches to 7000′ runway, simultaneous opposite direction ops, wake turbulence factor for the closed traffic CAT I's)…
The larger airports (and military) have rigid runway-in-use programs, pilot certification, and equipment requirements that must be met before pilots can participate. ATCTs don't. That's what makes us attractive and *necessary* for manufacturer test pilots, who have to qualify an airframe/avionics before it sells by doing multiple *opposite direction* front- and back-course ILS approaches, along with all the GPS/RNAV approaches we have.
…And we have one of the few remaining NDBs in the USA, and the USAF in particular are forced to fly these approaches a high percentage of the time in SW Asia, and Eastern Europe…
(NB: Sec'y of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 others were killed on a plane doing an NDB below mins in mountainous terrain, in Croatia in 1996.)
All those military, test and bizjet users — and the 1000+ jobs at the regional shipping center they headquarter — will be gone, "like tears in the rain", the very second the ATCT closes. But, of course, *you* already knew all of this, similar to how Huerta knew all of this without actually doing any impact studies, because the pair of you are godlike and omnipotent, in a very mollusk-like way. And if somebody doesn't believe how omniscient Huerta is, all they have to do is ask him: He unilaterally took furlough/closure actions without any data analysis whatsoever…Because, one presumes, he just *knew* it would still be safe, even without any supporting empirical evidence.
And I double-dog dare *any* controller from *any* of the airports/TRACONS/ARTCCs you named to come and work one of my rushes. You practically have to be psychic (observant + perceptive + analytical = 'psychic') — knowing what is going to mess up, and in what way, *before* it happens — to even minimally do my job. I, OTOH, could easily perform their over-programmatic LC. GC would be the tough/chaotic/dangerous part; FD/the various assist positions would be the most hectic, in terms of message traffic volume: if the Devil is in Details, then his attorney has offices in adjoining Coordination. …By the time it gets to LC, it's virtually all "Cleared to land/Cleared for takeoff", a dawdle.
I do all of those jobs *simultaneously*, combined at one position — and augment ASOS for significant/non-representative weather phenomena, which goes out to controllers and pilots nationwide via the NWS – for about half the cost to the American taxpayer of only *one* of the 3 'actual controllers' it would take to do what I do, at an FAA facility… I come to work and sign on position; then I sign off position when I leave 8 hours later. I take bathroom breaks based on radar and ramp activity…same with eating. FAA controllers work 30 minutes on, an hour (or more) off; that's the kind of redundancy they have (and undoubtedly need)…
Did I 'jack up' my customer who had no idea what equipment was on board his plane, how to operate it, or where he actually was in relation to the airport? I did not. It is *my job* to assist pilots in every way I can and to ensure the safety of all users in the system. The FAA — and some catastrophically undereducated pilots — seem to have forgotten what their Job #1 is (see previous sentence), and are making egotistical bets that somebody else will have to pay with their lives. However, in my airspace all God's children are safe as houses, regardless the arguable worth of their character, or the dubious validity of their opinions.
Todd Lingren says:
Nice to see another anti-government post cherry picking the the timeline as coincidentally self-serving. The FAA said that the employee schedules couldn't be modified for a few weeks. So NO benefit to congressmen flying this weekend, regardless of how you want to spin it.
oasisob1 says:
They still should park their asses at work until this is fixed.
billstewart says:
Their failure to come to agreement with each other isn't from lack of working. It's a conflict over values, and a preference for pandering to their base rather than compromising.
Crashproof says:
There's a huge difference between "anti-government" and "critical of Congress."
Stooge says:
There should be, but in this case there isn't.
Snig says:
This is clearly something that effects the more privliged donating class of citizens than the average citizen. Cherry picking this as a priority is elitist.
Boundegar says:
Not too many 1%ers will be devastated by cuts to Head Start or Meals on Wheels. But you'd better not make them wait!
fireshadow says:
The [FAA] said it expected its operations to be back to normal by Sunday evening.
niktemadur says:
I like this part of your post:
So NO benefit to congressmen flying this weekend
Any inconvenience that their own actions cause them is at least a little droplet of consequence splashing on their stone-like brains, even if just on the surface with no penetration.
SuperMatt says:
Because Congress members vote purely based on self-interest, I suggest you vote for poor candidates without health insurance who have lost a family member to gun violence. Until then, poor uninsured people and those who have lost family members to gun violence will not get any help. Funny how Gabby Giffords' "friends" in Congress told her to shove it after she got shot in the head. Our Congress is just full of wonderful citizens.
niktemadur says:
But come election time, most of these assholes get re-elected.
Alexis de Toqueville comes to mind: "In a democracy, the people get the government that they deserve".
Antinous / Moderator says:
In reality, it may only be 50.1% of the people who get the government that they deserve.
euansmith says:
I doubt the percentage is anywhere near that high.
niktemadur says:
Point taken, but as a person who stood guard at ballot boxes in Mexico back in the volatile eighties, when thugs could have shown up and things could have gotten violent, I've had many arguments with many people who don't bother to vote today, when their vote really counts because ballot boxes aren't stolen and stuffed anymore.
The apathetic ones are a lost cause, but I tell disillusioned citizens to at least show up at the polls and punch all the candidates in the ballot, as a registered show of protest, instead of being invisible and silent.
Boundegar says:
I see you haven't been watching elections in Ohio.
euansmith says:
Vote Early! Vote Often!
Navin_Johnson says:
I still vote despite the electoral college and a supreme court that picks winners….
Daneel says:
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
niktemadur says:
Forty two.
Anyway, gynnan tonnyx all around, I suppose.
Navin_Johnson says:
Our system is very undemocratic.
Navin_Johnson says:
Poor people don't fly much, middle class and up do. That's why people care about this more than all the other important things getting slashed. People with some money inconvenienced? "This will not stand!"
billstewart says:
The airline industry is going to lose far more money from furloughing air traffic controllers than the Federal budget will save, and that means lost jobs. It's also likely that the Federal budget will lose more money in tax revenue from the airlines and their employees than they'll save in reduced ATC salaries, which makes this locally stupid as well as globally stupid and destructive.
Snig says:
On some level it may be deliberate long term political scheming rather than short term stupidity. The Republican strategy has been to derail as much of normal government functioning as possible, but to try to spin it as dysfunction caused by Obama and Pelosi.
Lauren Mayer says:
Here's a little musical humor in honor of Congress's speedy action last week to alleviate any inconveninece for wealthy business travelers (and for themselves as they race home for recess). I guess the pain of sequester cuts was only meant for Head Start kids, homeless people, Medicare cancer patients, national park workers, etc., etc., etc. . . .


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Hollway is the director of the Worcester County charity, Santa House, and she and her team hand-deliver some gifts each year."It feels good to me," said Barbara Marshall, as she received her 'goodie-bag.'
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The Heartwood and Handelsbanken tie-up, which came into force earlier this year, may have been a surprise to some, but a closer look at the apparent complementary nature of the two organisations appears to make it a logical move.
Heartwood chief investment officer Noland Carter explains: 'If you are going to get yourself aligned with a financial organisation, then Handelsbanken is a good one to get aligned with in the current environment with their business philosophy and approach to clients being very similar to our own. Their decentralised business model allows people to do the job they have done in the past.
'Six months since we started working with them, they have not in any way tried to change or influence how we do business, which has been great. The opportunity with them is two-fold for us. One is they provide us with a potential new route to market through our private wealth management capability, but also for our Heartwood investment management capability.
'The second thing is they provide us with a fantastic balance sheet and deep pockets. They are in growth mode and in the UK they don't have a private wealth management or investment management capability.'
Carter is particularly positive about the potential that Heartwood Investment Management, its dedicated investment subsidiary, has to develop a proposition that can be rolled out through Handelsbanken's branch network to target smaller clients later down the line.
'It gives us opportunities for distribution, resources and they have lived up to their word to let us run the business the way we always have done,' he adds.
The firm's centralised multi-asset investment proposition has certainly gained traction since Carter joined the business as CIO back in late 2008.
At the time Heartwood ran three different investment propositions, which he quickly merged into one with a global multi-asset approach as its basis. Four strategies lie at its core – defensive, cautious, balanced and growth – which can be accessed through the firm's model portfolio service or fund range. All invest in the six major asset classes, with over 30 sub-asset classes accessed below that.
At a strategic level, he explains that views are taken on each asset class. 'They are merged together in an optimal mixture to create a long-term risk and return framework. Each of those strategies then sits on an efficient frontier and each strategy is managed relative to each other. They move up and down the efficient frontier together so there is always the same gap between them.'
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Kathrine Thompson celebrated her 90th birthday.
This was a joyous occasion which took place at her home in Burnside Sunday, July 17, 2011.
The event was hosted by her family from 2 until 4 p.m. with 147 friends present.
Kathrine was crowned queen for the day and began her reception by giving thanks to our Lord for allowing her to serve him many years.
After reminiscing about the adventures of her life, the guests shared memories which highlighted the kind, caring and wonderful lady she is.
The Tateville Baptist's Youth Choir began the entertainment and the wonderful day ended with her cousin, Larry "Elvis" Davis serenading her with songs and shared a birthday dance with her.
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Elva Burton was born February 7, 1932.
She married Aaron Burton on January 14, 1950. They were married for 56 years when he went to be with the Lord on September 9, 2006.
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Clay Godsey and Corena Cochran are celebrating their 80th birthdays with an open house from 2 until 4 p.m. Sunday, August 21, 2011, at Piney Grove Baptist Church.
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Blanche Hubble White, 225 Norfleet Drive, Somerset, will be turning 90 years young August 5, 2011.
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A huge trove of documents has been released by prosecutors in the Trayvon Martin case. Among the biggest revelations so far is that the autopsy reveals Martin had THC in his system. But police said the shooting was "ultimately avoidable."
ABC News, which is digging through the documents, reports:
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Pop singer Donna Summer, whose long career began in the 1960s and reached its apex in the disco era of the '70s, died of cancer on Thursday at her home in Naples, Florida. Summer was 63 years old. According to Billboard magazine, the singer born LaDonna Gaines had 32 singles that charted in the Hot 100. Fourteen of them made it into the top 10. To hear Sami Yenigun's appreciation of Donna Summer's life and career, as heard on All Things Considered, click the audio link.
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Back when the dinosaurs ruled the Earth, some hardy bacteria took up residence at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Eighty six million years later, they're still there. And a new study says they're living out the most Spartan lifestyle known on this planet.
When you hear Cecil Taylor perform, you never forget it. He's a force of nature at the piano, with a furious attack and a sound all his own.
"His piano is an orchestra," says Ben Ratliff, music critic for The New York Times. "Cecil has been with us for so long. And every once in a while he does these amazing, galvanizing solo piano performances. And you go see them, and you think, like, 'Wow. What was that? That was amazing.' And I can't get that anywhere else in the world. And that's unique."
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When Facebook makes its initial public offering Friday on the NASDAQ, the stock will be priced at $38 per share, a price that's expected to bring in between $16 billion and $18.4 billion to the company. CNBC reports:
"[The price makes] it one of the most lucrative offerings the Street has ever seen. With that valuation taken into consideration, Facebook goes public with the highest valuation — in the $100 billion range — of any company on record at the time of its IPO."
"[The price makes] it one of the most lucrative offerings the Street has ever seen. With that valuation taken into consideration, Facebook goes public with the highest valuation — in the $100 billion range — of any company on record at the time of its IPO."
Originally published on Thu May 17, 2012 4:37 pm
Several news outlets are reporting that computer giant Hewlett-Packard will announce the elimination of 25,000 to 30,000 jobs. All Things D reports that the announcement will come from CEO Meg Whitman when the company announces its quarterly earnings next Wednesday.
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Sgt. J.P. Huling, a Marine from Ohio, was killed this month in southern Afghanistan.
It wasn't a roadside bomb or a Taliban sniper that killed him. It was another sergeant — an Afghan soldier known as Sgt. Zabitollah, who like many Afghans went by one name.
It was a grim coincidence that brought these two sergeants together on May 6, a Sunday afternoon, at a mud-walled compound along a desolate stretch of road in a remote corner of Afghanistan.
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That's what the stranger seated next to me on the plane whispered. We had exchanged the basic bios of airline chitchat, and he had inquired about the title of my recent book.
"Erotic phenomenon, oh no, that's not me," I quickly tried to explain.
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Originally published on Thu May 17, 2012 7:42 pm
Battleground states like North Carolina are where the action is when it comes to presidential contests. Thus, they are where political tactics like, say, the anti-Obama ad campaign featuring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, first reported by The New York Times Thursday (and now disowned by virtually everyone the Times linked to it), are most likely to be rolled out.


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Reading Insurance Law – Of Emperors and Clothes
We lawyers can sometimes adopt a herd mentality. A senior lawyer or judge says something. You go back and read the case. You may be reluctant to voice your difference. That's how we, as a profession, can just get things wrong. The example here comes from insurance law, but you can apply it to your area of expertise. Continue reading
CGL Policies – the Russian Doll of Business Insurance
Few subjects beguile new lawyers more than the interpretation of commercial general liability insurance policies (CGL).
This includes many corporate-commercial lawyers contributing to complex agreements running into hundreds of pages. Show them a CGL form, and their eyes glaze over. But most CGL policies are only a few pages long, and the longest run a few dozen pages. Once you "get" the basic structure of the agreement, as described by Justice Rothstein at paragraphs 26-28 of the 2010 Supreme Court of Canada decision in Progressive Homes v. Lombard, you'll wonder why you ever thought the subject so daunting: Continue reading
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