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The Tennessee Valley Authority has to monitor more than 200 acres of land around Kingston every year for the next 30 years for high toxicity due to the coal ash dam breach in 2008. According to a joint press release from several environmental groups, 9 percent of the coal ash waste that spilled into the Emory River four years ago still remains.
Coal ash, the waste from coal-fired plants, is usually stored in ponds to keep it away from other land and waterways, but sometimes, those ponds or dams fail, as in the case of the Kingston Power Station, and the waste pollutes land and water with toxins.
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Appalachian Voices, the Southern Environmental Law Center, and NC Conservation Network launched a website that aims to inform people on all the coal-fired plants in their area, and the risk these plants pose to the general public who live near them. The site, called SoutheastCoalAsh.org, provides an interactive map of coal-powered plants, safety ratings of their coal ash impoundments (ponds), and information on how people can advocate for stronger federal protections from coal ash spills. The map covers nine states and includes info on more than 100 plants.
The joint press release state that all eight of Tennessee's plants are rated as either a "significant" hazard--which would mean serious environmental and economic damage if coal ash is spilled--or "high" hazard, which could result in human fatalities. The website lists the Bull Run Power Station in Clinton as a "high" hazard plant, and the Kingston Power Station remains a "significant" hazard.
Sandra Diaz, of Appalachian Voices, says in the press release that the potential danger of coal ash was largely unknown until the 2008 Kingston spill. "Now we know what the potential is--and yet EPA has yet to provide adequate regulations for this toxic waste," she says.
Ann League, chair of the Energy, Ecology and Environmental Justice Committee of Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment, agrees in the release, and say, "We need resources like this website because people like me have very few places to get information about the serious dangers of coal ash."
Check out the website for yourself. It doesn't include info on how the coal ash is contained at each plant, but it does have the total amount of coal ash stored at some facilities (others have "unknown" amounts of coal ash stored), and it provides links to EPA information sheets where a lot of the data on the website is collected.
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Broderick received a HEW traineeship for graduate study and earned her Masters Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from George Washington University. After receiving her degree, she served as a Probation and Parole Officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Following law school, Judge Broderick was Law Clerk to the Honorable Henry F. Greene from 1981-1982. In 1982, she joined the U.S. Attorney's Office as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, where she served in the Misdemeanor Trial and Grand Jury Sections, as well as the Appellate and Felony Divisions. Judge Broderick also served in the Felony I Division, where she tried cases involving premeditated murder, rape, and sexual offenses against children. She received the Department of Justice Special Achievement Award in 1988.
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The pretty teacher was concerned with one of her eleven-year-old students. Taking him aside after class one day, she asked, "Little Johnny, why has your school work been so poor lately?"
"I'm in love," the boy replied.
Holding back an urge to smile, she asked, "With whom?"
"With you," he said.
"But Johnny," she said gently, "don't you see how silly that is? It's true that I would like a husband of my own someday. But I don't want a child."
"Oh, don't worry," the boy said reassuringly, "I'll use a rubber."
One day little Johnny comes home one day from school and his mom asks him how his day was.
He replies, "Mom, today I had sex with the teacher!"
Immediately she was angry. She said, "just wait 'till your dad gets home, he's going to be very mad at you. Go to your room!"
So the boy goes to his room and finally his dad is home and comes up to the room. The boy tells his dad and the dad is proud of the boy.
"Great job son! How old are you 12? 13? How about we go down to the store and get that shiny red bicycle you wanted?"
So, they go to the store and the dad buys the bike for his son. Then he says, "well Johnny, do you want to ride the bike home?"
The boy answers, " No, that's okay Dad, My ass is still sore!"
It was the first day of Third Grade in a new town for Little Johnny. As a test, his teacher went around the room and asked each of the students to count to 50.
Some did very well, counting as high as 30 or 40 with just a few mistakes. Others couldn't get past 20. Johnny, however, did extremely well; he counted past 50, right up to 100 without any mistakes. He was so excited that he ran home and told his Dad how well he had done.
His Dad nodded and told him, "That's because you are from Alabama, Son."
The next day, in language class, the teacher asked the students to recite the alphabet. It's Grade Three, so most could make it half way through without much trouble.
Some made it to S or T, but Little Johnny rattled off the alphabet perfectly right to the end. That evening, Johnny once again bragged to his Dad about his prowess in his new school.
His Dad, knowingly, explained to him, "That's because you are from Alabama, Son."
The next day, after Physical Education, the boys were taking showers. Johnny noted that, compared to the other boys in his grade, he seemed overly "well-endowed". This confused him.
That night he told his dad, "Dad, they all have little tiny ones, but mine is ten times bigger than theirs. Is that because I'm from Alabama?" he asked.
"No, Son," explained his Dad, "That's because you're 18."
One day in class, the teacher decided to ask the kids what their fathers did for work, have them spell it, and describe it. She went around the room, first to little Susie. Susie said " My dad is a doctor, D-O-C-T-O-R. And right now, he is helping someone to feel better". Then to Toby. Toby said " my dad is a paleontologist, P-A-...umm..L..ummm.." The teacher, seeing Toby was having trouble said " you think about it for a moment Toby," and she reluctantly called on Little Johnny. Johnny said "My dad is a bookie, B-O-O-K-I-E, and right now he is laying 5 to 1 that Toby aint gonna spell paleontologist by the end of class"500 fights, that's the number I figured when I was a kid. 500 street fights and you could consider yourself a legitimate tough guy. You need them for experience. To develop leather skin. So I got started. Of course along the way you stop thinking about being tough and all that. It stops being the point. You get past the silliness of it all. But then, after, you realize that's what you are.
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Little Johnny goes to school, and the teacher says, 'Today we are going to
learn multi-syllable words, class. Does anybody have an example of a multi-syllable word?'
Little Johnny waves his hand, 'Me, Miss Rogers, me, me!
Miss Rogers. 'All right, little Johnny, what is your multi-syllable word?'
Little Johnny says, 'Mas-tur-bate.'
Miss Rogers smiles and says, 'Wow, little Johnny, that's a mouthful.'
Little Johnny says, 'No, Miss Rogers, you're thinking of a blow job".dlefdal said:
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LOL ~ yes, little Johnny jokes, all the rage here because that's what we call our Prime Minister!!
This is my favority Little Johnny tale ~
Little Johnny walks into school one day to find a substitute in place of his regular teacher.
She says, "Hello class, Im Mrs Prussy. When you say my name class remember it has an "r" after the first letter."
The entire class says, "Hello Mrs. Prussy."
A few days later the regular teacher is still sick. When Little Johnny gets to his desk the teacher asks what her name is. Little Johnny thinks hard and the says to the teacher, "I remember it has an "R" after the first letter."
"Thats right," she coaxed.
Then after a few seconds Johnny says, "Mrs Crunt?"
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Mad Men is back, and nothing seems to have changed. The same quality we have grown to expect is what we got with the first two episodes of the long awaited fifth season. High production values are still evident and the writing is still top notch. Characters story lines are as interesting as ever and the way they approached the long hiatus makes us feel that they too continued on with their lives. Writers and Staff were very hush hush about the plot line, this was criticized widely as there is probably not a thing in the new episodes that could be spoiled with a well arranged trailer. To me, they wanted to build more speculation towards certain plot lines that were left unclear. Did Draper marry Megan? How bout Joan's kid? Is the company safe without Lucky Strike? (Spoilers ahead)
This new season clearly deals with age, new responsibilities, civic rights, social awareness, youthful wives and coming of age. Don Draper feels old, in this episode Megan, his hot young wife gives him a surprise party in which he invites Don's office mates. Draper doesn't appreciate it even though Megan sings a burlesque like song as a birthday gift for him that draws awes from most of the guests. Megan obviously knows about Don's secret but quietly maintains it that way in the back of her mind in order to play out as the perfect Ms. Draper. She has also been given along with the title of Ms Draper a new place in the office, writing copy alongside Peggy.
Things in the office have been running as they were, tight budget, limited staff, looking for newer clients. Pete and Ken seem to be working out things as good as they can and clearly are the new direction in the agency. Cooper is still there and Roger is just playing around. The surprising thing is seeing Don so detached from his previous form. He is uninterested, looks happy, and is always smiling. For those who thought Draper was just getting married because of impulse, well you may be wrong. Megan clearly fits Don pretty well, or at least she has. This has Peggy frustrated as Don is no longer a person to follow. She now has to use her whole acquired expertise and use it to her advantage. She is not used to this and gets pissed off because of it, even making the usual classy remarks that most men in the office use in front of Megan in Don's party.
We can feel the tension growing between Pete Campbell and Roger Sterling. Its a clear changing of the guard situation were Roger doesn't know how to get clients on his own, and ever since he lost his big horse he doesn't have anything to show for. He's been spying on Campbell's agenda flirting with his secretary and arriving to his own meetings first. Campbell is a smart man and quickly catches Roger's strategy, this leads to a pretty funny moment at the end of the episode. Pete on the other hand is still very ambitious but in a more mature way. He is actually delivering the goods and has managed to keep the company alive in difficult times. Even though he has the title he wanted he is still not satisfied. He wants a bigger office so he can deal with the clients in a proper way. This brings all sorts of problems for Roger as he knows that Pete is right. Just before the end of the episode, Pete gets his office and plays a prank on Roger, he tells his secretary to write in his agenda that he has a meeting with Coca Cola at 6:00 am in Staten Island. Sterling falls for it.
Joan is dealing with the same issues she was at the end of last season. She now has Sterling's child and has to deal with her mother pressuring her to not go back to work. Her husband is still M.I.A. as he has fulfilled his dream of being a doctor, even if it has to be in the service. She craves office work and starts speculating that maybe they have filled her role in the agency. She comes back to the office even falling in tears in front of Lane. A very nice moment emerges as Lane tells Joan that she can't be replaced. She'll clearly be back to her previous position. Lane finds a wallet in a Taxi Cab, he goes through the things inside and finds a picture of a young lady. He calls the phone number to give the wallet back but instead finds himself flirting with this girl. He is back with his wife but he undoubtably isn't happy. Lane has become a funny easy going guy, and I'm intrigued to see what happens with his side of the story.
Betty Draper is a no show and the kids make a brief appearance in the beginning. Sally is the obvious main character between the kids and is sure to give Don problems with Megan. Don is the obvious main subject in the series and he is still as mysterious as ever. He may look happy with Megan right now, but I still sense he is not complete. Megan is a young hot girl that is obviously filling some big shoes. Its evident she isn't in the same world that Donald is and it can be predicted that she won't last long. The difference in age is evident much in the same way Roger is with Jane. Episode 1 and 2 were a fabulous intro to the long awaited 5th season and can't wait to watch next Sunday's episode. This is what good TV is all about.


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AMSTERDAM, Oct 04, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) is expanding its broad portfolio of wireless connectivity solutions with the new ultra-low-power, sub-1 gigahertz (GHz) MC12311 smart radio. The feature-rich, cost-effective MC12311 includes software and development tool support, making it a ready-to-go wireless networking solution ideal for smart metering, medical, building and home automation applications.
Pike Research predicts 535 million smart meters will be deployed worldwide by 2015, of which approximately 50 percent of them will use wireless mesh technology. To address the needs of these growing markets, Freescale, a leading provider of 802.15.4 ZigBee(R) wireless chipsets, has been expanding its wireless portfolio through new product introductions and partnerships to provide a broad range of solutions for standards-based and proprietary wireless connectivity. The Freescale wireless portfolio includes off-the-shelf and application-specific standard products for sub-1 GHz, 802.15.4 and ZigBee connectivity.
With the introduction of the new MC12311 radio, Freescale is expanding its wireless portfolio beyond its successful 2.4 GHz devices to include an integrated sub-1 GHz solution. The MC12311 platform combines a sub-1 GHz RF transceiver featuring high link budget and strong blocking immunity and a low-power, high-speed 8-bit HCS08 microcontroller (MCU) in a single land grid array (LGA) package, along with outstanding support in the form of multiple protocol stacks, development tools and reference designs to decrease design effort and time to market.
"Our new MC12311 smart radio offers consistent and robust RF performance as well as feature-rich flexibility to help simplify and speed our customers' path to market," said Bruno Baylac, director of Freescale's Metering, Medical and Connectivity Solutions business.
The MC12311 helps designers quickly connect to the smart grid by making it easier to add wireless connectivity to many types of equipment. The device provides improved propagation and increased range for home area network (HAN) RF communication to perform the wireless last mile connection for utility meter reading. It can connect smart meters to remote displays that show consumption data and thermostats that help control energy use. For medical applications, the MC12311 can replace cables to eliminate problems associated with wired connectivity, including cable or connector damage, as well as the potential spread of infection. Additional application examples include ultra-low-power medical sensors worn on the body, wireless building sensors that detect temperature and humidity, garage door openers and general cable/wire replacement.
Freescale and its partners provide a variety of resources, including software and development tools, to help improve design cycle time. Software and hardware enablement includes certified reference designs that simplify the design of applications that require RF connectivity, as well as complementary CodeWarrior development tools and kits that include cost-effective board combinations and features. Several protocol stacks are available, including Simple MAC (SMAC) and a subset of the IEEE 802.15.4g standard. These are part of the Freescale BeeKit Wireless Connectivity Toolkit, a standalone software application that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) in which the user can create, modify, save and update wireless network solutions. Additionally, a wireless M-bus protocol stack that meets the requirements of the EN13757-4 communications standard is available from Freescale partner AMiHo.
Feature-rich functionality and industry-leading RF performance
Freescale's MC12311 platform solution offers an integrated, sub-1 GHz RF transceiver that supports 290-340 MHz, 424-510 MHz and 862-1020 MHz frequencies while complying with global and local regulations. The MC12311 also includes the HCS08QE 8-bit MCU with up to 50 MHz bus clock, embedded 32 Kb flash memory and 2 Kb of RAM to support wireless communication protocol and application software in a single chip. The MCU offers multiple 16-bit timers, up to 33 GPIO, 13-bit port keyboard interrupt, 10-channel 12-bit ADC, SCI, I2C and dual analog comparators.
Leading RF performance and security features include:
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The MC12311 platform solution is available in a RoHS-compliant 8x8, 60-pin LGA package, supporting -40 to +85°C operating temperatures with a voltage range from 1.8V to 3.6V to meet industrial and medical application requirements. Sample quantities of the MC12311 are available now from Freescale, with pricing starting at $2.79 (USD) in 1,000-unit quantities. Development kits are expected to be available from authorized distributors in December 2011. For more information, visit http://www.freescale.com/MC12311.
Metering Europe
Freescale will be demonstrating an In-Home Energy Display during Metering Europe at Booth F81 in the RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In this demo, the IHED receives data from a smart meter through wireless M-Bus communication running on the MC12311 smart radio.
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Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing and sales operations around the world. http://www.freescale.com
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Campus News - April 23, 2001
Ford discovers destiny in art
By Brian Lucero
Many search their entire lives for their destiny. For others, destiny searches
for them. For Paul Ford, a theatre professor at UNM, destiny not only searched
for him, it found him.
It was at the end of my junior year of high school between classes that
I realized that I had different options that I never allowed myself to look
at before, says Ford, with that, he sat down and missed his next three
classes to think about a new direction. When I got up, he says,
I knew I was going to be doing theatre for the rest of my life.
Since then, Ford has been acting and directing professionally in theatres all
around the country.
He describes his life in theater as fulfilling. Its been continually
thrilling and rewarding, he says. Although I wish that my retirement
fund was larger, I would not want to live my life any differently.
In order to create a more stable lifestyle for his family, Ford settled in
Sacramento, Calif. There he was able to pursue his interests in teaching. He
began to build theatre programs for local private schools, community centers
and theatre organizations. Eventually, his teaching brought him to New Mexico;
teaching in the former New Mexico Repertory Theatre and in the fall of 1989
he came to work at UNM.
Ford continues to teach because he loves the idea that he could have a long-term
investment in others in a somewhat transient business. Working in theatre
you have a good time, but you're always starting over again. There is no sense
of accumulation, he says. As a teacher, you make an investment of
time and energy in somebody and you get to watch the growth. You can actually
see that growth pay off in different areas of their lives.
It doesnt matter to Ford if his pupils dont continue to pursue
a career in theatre as long as he helped them become sensitized to themselves
and their surroundings through art. We live in a society that encourages
us to lose our senses, to not be able to touch, feel, hear or taste our connection
to a real world. Art calls upon us to become sensitive to those things,
he says. Which means we are in contact with our environment and our community
in a important way.
Ford continues to fulfill his destiny everyday of his life. In many ways his
destiny is associated with helping other find theirs. Besides teaching at UNM,
Ford is also an artistic director with Theatre-in-the-Making, a local youth
group theatre company.
The group will perform Grim at the Riverside Theatre on April 25 and 26 at 10:30 p.m. (visit www.Theatre-in-the-making). Ford is also staring in Betrayal at the Riverside theatre on the weekends of April 13 through May 6.
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Thousands of people gathered at Ossining's historic downtown despite the threat of bad weather during the 31st annual Ossining Village Fair. Covering the majority of the downtown historic area, the fair featured 156 Vendors, four stages, five D.J.s, two live bands, performances from children in area schools, martial arts demonstrations and even an Elvis impersonator.
"18,000 people came last year," said Gayle Marchica president of the Ossining Chamber of Commerce. "This is the fair to be in for a lot of people…We have a lot of community businesses. A lot of our Chamber members have booths so they are advertising their businesses."
The Village Fair highlighted the best of Ossining's diversity. There was literally something for everyone, from the martial demonstrations from the UMAC Marital Arts Center, to the Ossining Public Library selling used books for just a few cents, to jewelry, fine art, food and community groups such as the Boy Scouts and the Ossining Little League. In addition, many local businesses came out to support the fair and community such as Great Clips hair salon, Phelps Memorial Hospital Center, and Briarcliff Pediatric Dentistry.
"It seems to be a nice mix of adult and kid activities… some food choices which seem a little healthier than at a lot of other fairs which is good," said Jordan Rhett from Vermont, who was in town visiting his mom with his two sons.
One of the elements that set the Ossining fair apart from other village fairs was the strong presence of faith and spiritually with many booths from local churches from St. Ann's Catholic Church to the Trinity Episcopal Church which was advertising for choir members.
"We do have many churches," Marchica said. "We have a church tour of Ossining starting at noon."
"All the churches are very active," said Sally Evans, a member of Trinity Episcopalian church. "Its fun I like it [the fair]. It's a good way for people to get out there and been known. It gets bigger every year. "
Like many community traditions, this street fair meant more to some residents than just food, jewelry and a good time. It really was about the town coming together to celebrate each other and everything that's good in Ossining.
"This fair is our biggest event of the year and it's the event that pulls the community together and allows us [the Chamber of Commerce] to give back by organizing this and promoting local business…we need to impress the point to shop local and keep the money here," Marchica said.
"I like to be able to see people I only see once a year. I know a lot of people come into town," said Bob Davis, a longtime village resident. "It's a wonderful event."


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We got some AMAZING news, something that's NEVER happened before, and something we definitely didn't expect. In its first week Barefoot And Pregnant landed on Billboard at #7 on the Heatseekers Chart plus made the Current 200!! And we have OUR FANS to thank. No record label besides our own, no major label marketing team, no promotion machine. Just you guys, your word-of-mouth, your Pledges to pre-order, and everyone who's supported this record from the start!
Here are our expressions when we heard the news! Get CDs & PINK Vinyl direct from us through Bandcamp & digitally on Itunes & Amazon!
That's right! Our 5th studio LP Barefoot And Pregnant is out today, funded through a ridiculously amazing PledgeMusic Project that reached 200% of its goal with the support of over 1,200 awesome fans around the World! Check out the first music video below for the title track, filmed when Kelly was 8 months pregnant!
Get Barefoot And Pregnant on Itunes here, Amazon mp3 here, and on CDs and Vinyl here.
Here it is! Woooo yeah! Street date is Feb 25th but if you Pledge/pre-order through PledgeMusic HERE you can get it early Feb 12th.
OR you can get it at our album release on Feb 20th at Satellite in Los Angeles, CA with our plas Go Betty Go! Tix HERE!
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Deck the halls with guts and braaaaains! We've partnered up with our pal Matt Mogk from the Zombie Research Society… and are thrilled to provide the punky companion song to his brand new zombie-meets-Xmas children's book I Saw Mommy Biting Santa Claus. Get the illustrated hardcover book HERE, FREE mp3 download HERE, and watch the vid with scenes from the book below!
Is "Because I'm Awesome" your theme song? Always wanted a version with YOUR name in it? Check out the latest package we're offering to peeps who pre-order the new album via PledgeMusic – a very pregnant Kelly shows you how it works in this video update!
We're playing a streaming show over the internet at StageIt.com and you're all invited. Watch us play our favorite Ramones songs LIVE and chat with us Wednesday, October 30th at 3pm PST! That's 6pm EST and 1pm in London. Pay-what-you-want! And the top tipper gets a SWEET acoustic from our collection.
Here it is folks! A music video for the last song off the most recent album… here's to "Starting Over Again" on a new record NOW! Yeahhh!
(Directed by Andrew Hooper's Art Factory with shots by Will Von Bolton)
We're heading into the studio to record our 5th full-length album and it's available NOW (along with other awesome & one-of-a-kind goodies) for pre-order via PledgeMusic.
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The StageIt show this month is going to be amazing. We're doing a double header with our pals Jarinus LIVE from StageIt HQ in Hollyweird! We will make cameos, play your favorites acoustic-style and who knows what other mischief we'll get into. AND the top tipper prize is the LAST Dollyrots Om Nom Nom lunchbox FILLED with home baked cookies from Kelly.
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President Obama said that Romney is "pledging to rubber-stamp the Tea party agenda in Congress," at several campaign events. He clearly believes that the Tea Party is a "lost" cause and proves that the politics of polarization continues.
Politico reports that during the divisive "Romnesia" speech, the president blasted Romney by telling "folks he was 'the ideal candidate' for the Tea Party." Romney, unfortunately, is not the ideal candidate for the Tea Party, however, his vision comes much closer than the president's vision. The president has previously shown support for the Occupy movement.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid also accused Romney of "kowtowing" to the Tea Party. Reid also dashed all hopes of bipartisanship, by declaring, "Mitt Romney's fantasy that Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his 'severely conservative' agenda is laughable."
The Tea Party
What exactly is the problem with the Tea Party? The movement has been vilified as "radical" by the left and even the right-wing in the government. The grassroots effort may be radical in that it believes that America needs to return to the vision of the founding fathers, which has been eroding in America for a century.
A century of minimizing the Constitution by referring to it as a "living, breathing, document", dismissing the founding fathers as "old, white, slave owners", and a century of promoting and implementing unsustainable entitlements has left it's mark on America. Unfortunately, Americans have lost their way and as time has gone by, politicians on both sides of the aisle have trampled on the founding documents that enabled America to achieve unsurpassed heights, including the ability to inspire and help other nations.
President Obama and all those who trash the Tea Party are turning their backs on the founding documents. The president, instead, has chosen to embrace the America-destroying ideas promoted by many in the Occupy Movement, such as greater, more intrusive government, keeping racism alive with polarizing racebaiting and class warfare; or the ideas promoted by the founding documents—liberty and equality. Perhaps the Tea Party is radical, but so were the founding fathers.
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Payton, Loomis, Vitt to attend Sunday's Saints game
Suspended Saints head coach Sean Payton, GM Mickey Loomis and linebackers coach Joe Vitt will attend Sunday night's Chargers-Saints game.
Son of Unitas sends Brees letter about TD record
Johnny Unitas' son has sent a letter of encouragement to Drew Brees, who is in position to break a long-standing NFL record held by Unitas.
NFC South Spin cycle: Week Four
For the second week in a row, the Falcons are the only NFC South team celebrating a victory on Monday.
Packers hand Saints their fourth loss
Aaron Rodgers threw a go-ahead touchdown to Jordy Nelson in the fourth quarter, and the Packers rallied to beat the Saints 28-27 on Sunday.
Saints having hopes dashed at linebacker
The Saints tried to fortify their linebacking corps in free agency during the offseason, but the position has not been exempt from the struggles plaguing the team.
Key matchup: Packers RB Cedric Benson vs. Saints run defense
The Packers' Cedric Benson could become the latest running back to break out against New Orleans' porous run defense.
NFC South Spin cycle: Week Three
The undefeated Falcons had no trouble disposing of the Chargers, while the rest of the NFC South came up short in Week Three.
Charles, Succop lead Chiefs past Saints
Jamaal Charles had 233 rushing yards and PK Ryan Succop kicked six field goals as the Chiefs rallied for a 27-24 overtime win over the Saints.
Saints look to rookie DT Hicks for spark
We hear the Saints' coaching staff was impressed with the flashes rookie DT Akiem Hicks showed in Week Two.
Hall Call: Drew Brees
Is Saints QB Drew Brees worthy of the same level of appreciation as Peyton Manning and Tom Brady?
Smith, Hargrove visit NFL for talks on bounties
Will Smith and Anthony Hargrove met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday about the Saints bounty scandal.
NFC South Spin cycle: Week Two
As the Falcons celebrate a 2-0 start, panic might be setting in for the 0-2 Saints. The Panthers and Bucs, at 1-1, both have positives to build off of.
Report: NFL shows Vilma affidavit from Williams about bounty
Roger Goodell showed Saints LB Jonathan Vilma a sworn affidavit from Gregg Williams that Vilma put a bounty on Brett Favre.
Saints drop to 0-2 after 35-27 loss to Panthers
Cam Newton threw for 253 yards and ran for a career-high 71 yards as the Panthers defeated New Orleans 35-27.
Saints' Spagnuolo searching for answers to defensive woes
First-year Saints coordinator Steve Spagnuolo is already under fire after his defense's poor showing in the season opener.
Greer is out for Sunday's game because of a concussion.||||||| Greer was ruled out Friday with a concussion.
Saints starting cornerback Jabari Greer has left Sunday night's game against San Diego because of what team officials say is a hip injury.||||||| Greer was hurt late in the second quarter and the Saints said he would not return, a blow for a New Orleans team already ranked last in the NFL in defense. Second-year pro Johnny Patrick took over for Greer, with rookie Corey White entering on passing downs as the nickel back.
Greer returned Sunday.||||||| Greer was out for the season opener against Washington. He spent much of the preseason rehabbing a sports hernia.
Greer has not played since Nov. 8 with a left groin injury. He was again out Saturday night against Dallas.||||||| Greer's status continues to be uncertain. He's been replaced by Randall Gay.
The New Orleans Saints signed Greer, a free-agent, to a four-year deal Wednesday.||||||| The 27-year-old Greer, 5-foot-11 and 180 pounds, spent the past five years with the Buffalo Bills, starting 23 games over the past two seasons. Greer has four career interceptions, including two last season that he returned for touchdowns. He missed the final six games last season because of a knee injury.


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Titleist Brand Ambassador Tim Clark rallied to win the RBC Canadian Open by 1 shot after birdieing 5 of his last 8 holes. ; Titleist Pro V1 golf ball loyalist Bernhard Langer won his 2nd Senior Open Championship, finishing a record 13 strokes clear of his nearest competitor.
Gray, an associate editor of community/content, contributes to the Golf Central blog.
Davis Riley is one match away from claiming the title that barely eluded him a year ago.
After tying the course record, Jim Furyk now finds his name atop the leaderboard as he looks to win the RBC Canadian Open for the third time since 2006.
The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews announced Friday that it will use a postal ballot this fall to decide whether the club will admit its first female members.
Tim Petrovic was the last player added to the field this week at the RBC Canadian Open, but he's making the most of his opportunity.
Jarrod Lyle's first competitive round in the U.S. in more than 29 months was a strong one, as the Aussie opened with a bogey-free 67 at the Web.com Tour's Midwest Classic.
Twenty-nine months after he last teed it up in North America, Jarrod Lyle is on the cusp of his return to competition.
This week marks the 37th event of the 2013-14 PGA Tour season, as the Tour heads north to Canada for the RBC Canadi
Stacy Lewis holds the top spot in the Rolex Rankings, and as a result her name was atop the standings when the women's Olympic Golf Rankings were released Monday for the first time.
World No. 1 Adam Scott is once again atop a set of golf rankings, as the Aussie tops the list of the initial Olympic Golf Rankings, published following the Open Championship.
It's officially been a while since we've had any real drama down the stretch at a major championship.
Important 2 weeks for Tiger | Begay's event
Spain wins Crown | Mozo clinches | Wrap | Scores
Clark nips Furyk in Canadian | Glance | Scores
GR: Elk attacks pin; Obama's ball found in woods
Rory, Stenson can take No. 1 | Furyk a Ryder lock
Sponsor says he has deal for 2015 LPGA opener
Fans to pick pin position on 16th at Valhalla | OWGR
Advantage, Watson: McGinley pulls out of PGA
Whan likes Crown format despite early U.S. exit
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There is another revelation out today, written in WND, about a retired postman who remembered delivering mail to the Ayres home in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s. He has retired after 39 years of great service to the Postal Service and has supplied the Sheriff Joe Posse with a signed and sworn affidavit which answers three big questions.
1/ Did Ayers help support Obama at Harvard?
2/ Did Ayers know Obama was a foreigner?
3/ Did Barack Hussein Obama make mention way back then of eventually becoming president of the United States?
The following article says YES to all three. Please click on the link and feel free to pass on to all your social media, family and friends.


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This was posted over at xbox-scene:
>> An internal Microsoft source sent us this exclusive info about the COD4 Beta '2nd Profile Exploit':
this is awesome! i laugh at the people who payed others on ebay to do this for them only to get banned. hopefully it will get some of the non-americans out (i dont mind playing with them but it causes alot of lag and IW wanted the beta to be USA only to help optimize the online play and then slowly let the rest of the world in)There was an exploit (it's been resolved), in the call of duty 4 beta. The public beta had 100k valid participants who qualified and were provided special tokens which allowed them to download the COD4 beta from marketplace.
There was an exploit that enabled valid beta participants to sign in with their accounts on a different machine, use their beta token and download the beta. The beta was then fully functional for any LIVE profile on that 2nd machine (even after the beta participant's account was removed). Approximately 23k consoles were used to take advantage of this exploit to illegitimately access the COD4 beta.
The exploit has been fixed to prevent any additional users from illegitimately accessing the COD4 beta.
The current POR is to issue a 24-hour console lockout that will prevent these 23k users from using their consoles to sign in to LIVE. These users will also receive a message in the dash with an explanation as to why their console has been locked out for 24 hours for violating the LIVE TOU [Terms of Use] and a warning that more severe actions may be taken if they attempt a similar action in the future (console could be banned permanently, etc.). Again, this is not a permanent console ban - it's more of a "slap on the wrist" and a warning to these 23k users who used this exploit


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Trac Layout Recipe
This is a recipe explaining how to reproduce the official edgewall.org site layout and design using SiteHtml and SiteStyleCss.
The layout described below is ideal for Trac setups where one organization (e.g. Edgewall Software) offers multiple projects (e.g. Trac, Bitten, Genshi, etc.).
site.html Template
The first step is to prepare a
site.html template that will be used by all projects.
There are two ways to specify a
site.html template for an environment:
- Set the
templates_dirin the
[inherit]section of each
trac.inito the same directory (e.g.
/path/to/common/templates), and save the
site.htmlfile in that directory.
- Copy the
site.htmlfile to the
templatesdirectory of all environments (or better yet, create symlink in all directories to a single common location).
A reference
site.html template may be found in the
templates directory of the zip archive attached to this page.
The reference file is documented inline, so I will just give a short overview of the template:
- It begins by adding a CSS file to the head — make sure to update the URL if needed for your setup.
- It includes a list of topnav items as quick-jumps between projects — make sure to modify it to your specific project-list, as it is hardcoded.
- It includes a left box and right box that will appear on the left-hand side and right-hand side of each page. You can use these boxes for whatever you want (e.g. quick links, Google ads, etc.).
An example for a left box is included in
templates/site_leftbox.htmlin the zip archive.
There is no right box in the example…
- There's also a footer section for contact & copyrights information (or anything else you'd like to put there).
Adjust the Site Style Sheet
A reference
projects.css style sheet is included in the attached zip archive (under the
css directory), with the styles of the edgewall.org site.
You may modify and adjust the style sheet to meet your artistic taste.
One important thing to notice with respect to the
projects.css file is that it refers to various images (used for backgrounds, gradients, etc.).
All images needed may be found in the
gfx directory of the attached zip archive,
but the
projects.css file assumes that the images are available under the
../gfx directory, where
.. refers to one level up relative to the directory in which the
projects.css is located.
You must make sure that one of the following is met:
- The
gfxdirectory is visible, and is one level up relative to the
- All references to
projects.cssare replaced with a correct URL.
Note that the paths in this context are URLs, not filesystem paths.
See also: TracInterfaceCustomization, SiteHtml, SiteStyleCss
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Paramount talks co-op and exploring the Enterprise in the latest Star Trek: The Video game trailer
Paramount's Brian Miller, executive producer on Star Trek: The Video Game gets all excited about co-op in the latest trailer for the game.
Among other things Miller explains how the game could only have been a co-op game; with skydiving; and flying the Enterprise. In fact he manages to squeeze rather a lot of excited information into a two-minute trailer.
Miller opens the trailer enthusiastically by saying "Kirk is this brash cowboy character, whereas Spock is the exact opposite - and when you break down Star Trek to those elements, you had to make a co-op game. There was no other game we could possibly make."
Star Trek: The Video Game will be released for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on April the 26th.


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Why One Yoga Teacher Decided to Gain 40 Pounds
Trina Hall intentionally gained weight – and learned more than she bargained for.
I was surprised at the reactions from people after I published my piece. Everyone seemed to have an opinion. My friends and family were incredible; my students seemed to feel empowered.
Overwhelmingly, the Internet response was positive – but there were some seething comments. People were attaching to whatever part of the process they either resonated with or were offended by. The bottom line is the reactions belong to the people, and I tried not to argue with the readers. I allowed myself the space to observe my feelings about their reactions but remain distant enough that I didn't take it on myself. If I don't want to absorb the negativity, I can't become attached to the positivity either. I tried to remain neutral as an observer of my personal experience.
Yes, it feels less then empowering when someone attacks your character when you really want them to look at and own their own thoughts and reactions to the piece. Ultimately, I had to release control of the outcome. It was an art piece and I am speaking from my place of truth. I allow others to do the same. I believe in Freedom of Speech.
The experiment ended in July, and you're back to eating healthfully – though you haven't weighed yourself since then. Has yoga been helpful in taking off the weight?
It's been very helpful, and so has taking nature walks. But I have not given up Mexican food!
What other lessons did you learn?
I thought my identity was about how I treated people and the actions I took to make the world a better place. But those things were only a piece of my identity. I learned that I was – and still am – very judgmental about physical appearance. I was afraid of dying alone – I noticed that was a thought coming into my mind. I'm single, and the thought kept coming in, "You're going to die alone. You're going to die alone." And so I started to see that I had that thought process, that fear of not being loved, even when I weighed much less.
Do you think there's a stigma against overweight people within the yoga community?
I do think that exists because there is a society-wide idealized version of a human being. We've got all those magazine covers – and yoga magazine covers in particular represent an image of a fit and trim yoga teacher or yoga practitioner in general. And yoga aims to get people past that.
What do you hope others take away from this?
I would love for people to see their reactions to what I did – and know that those reactions are more about them than they are about me. I'd also like them to know that it's very helpful to become more self-aware.
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We can't say we're exactly smitten with what the artists came up with. There's plenty of Bentley in that nose, sure, but it doesn't quite fit on a car the size of one's slippers. The good news is, Saab has plenty of time to turn the design into something mouth watering. While Muller made waves at this year's Geneva Motor Show by saying he would like to bring the 9-2 back from the grave, it's going to be a long hard road before the Swedish automaker is introducing any models that are new from the ground up.
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Strategic Cohorts Result in Higher Pass and Retention Rates - November 2011
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Journo disses Twitter, logs off
Twitter is just a medium, its defenders say. But can we at least agree that some mediums lend themselves to reflection more than others? And that the time spent sending thoughts on Twitter might be a distraction from time spent conjuring and developing thoughts worth sending?
So I'm done, finished, and I don't care what the bosses say. More here.
Every time I go to Twitter, I find a story. That's right. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. It is a great listening post. And that's exactly why I started following bloggers more than seven years ago. Twitter and blogs are online town hall meetings, barber shops, churches, community centers, PTAs and neighborhood ball fields all rolled into one. Too bad some people are too busy talking to listen. I never learn anything when I talk.
Oh, BTW. This post is a result of reading this tweet.
You're spot on Michael.
Maybe GC isn't following the right folks. Maybe there aren't enough sports people on twitter to make it relevant to him. Or maybe, as you suggest, it's a forrest for the trees situation.
In any case, I learn something interesting almost every day on twitter. It didn't happen overnight. It took a long time to find the people I currently follow, and for them to follow me. Maybe he's not willing to spend the time. In any case, it's unfortunate.
You make a good point, Steve. It does take time. And to be fair to the writer, whom I do not know, I sensed a bit of sarcasm in the piece.


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Rick Ungar, Contributor
I write from the left on politics and policy.
Recent data provided by the nation's largest health insurance companies reveals that a provision of the Affordable Care Act – or Obamacare – is bringing big numbers of the uninsured into the health care insurance system.
And they are precisely the uninsured that we want– the young people who tend not to get sick.
The provision of the law that permits young adults under 26, long the largest uninsured demographic in the country, to remain on their parents' health insurance program resulted in at least 600,000 newly insured Americans during the first quarter of 2011.
Wellpoint, the nation's largest publicly traded health insurer with some 34 million customers, reports adding 280,000 new members in the first three months of 2011.
Add in the results of some of the other large health insurers including Aetna, who added just short of 100,000 newly insured to their customer base, Kaiser Permanente's additional 90,000, and Highmark's 72,000 new customers, and we begin to sense our health insurance pools are filling up with some badly needed young blood.
The Health & Human Services Department had estimated that the changes in the law would result in about 1.2 million new enrollees in 2011. However, according to Aaron Smith, the executive director of a Washington based non-profit that advocates for the young, it now looks as if that number will be exceeded.
This is very good news – particularly for those in the individual and small group markets that tend not to 'self-insure' as the larger corporations tend to do.
It is also very good news for those of us who write a large check every month for our health coverage.
For starters, every one of the young immortals we add to the rolls of the insured is one less young adult who will turn to the emergency room to fix a broken leg and then find themselves unable to pay the bill – leaving it to the rest of us to pay the tab.
And it gets better.
Because the under 26 crowd tends not to get sick, adding them to the insurance pools helps bring the very balance that was intended by the new law. The more healthy people available to pay for those in the pool who are ill (translation- the older people), the better the system works and the lower our premium charges should go.
One cannot help but notice that the health insurance companies turned in record profits for the first quarter of 2011 due, according the insurance companies, to fewer people seeking medical treatment.
Mr. Unger, the issue was never whether or not young people would accept free health insurance. The issue is whether or not the government should be able to tax Americans without a transfer of money taking place in order to provide them with free insurance. Even you must admit that Grad students could have been able to stay on parents coverage up to 26 w/o the individual mandate. You also didn't mention how the ins industry plans to carry fwd the extra cost to compensate for the losses incurred by covering children up to age 26, which doesn't cost 1 extra dollar in premium if they already have younger siblings on their parents plan, which many do. Please view this video and use your platform to help us more than you are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrWnRljMzfE
Thank you for your article.
How would it be if we just quit saying the word Obamacare? There's no such thing as Obamacare. Last year, Congress passed a bill that made some rather timid but much-needed reforms to the health insurance business. Medicaid was expanded somewhat, but there was no new, large entitlement program like Medicare, Medicaid or VA benefits. The single-payer idea didn't go over; neither did Alan Grayson's plan to put everybody on Medicare. Nobody got free insurance.
No one with a brain believes a word OweBama (D) and the writer (D) says.
Neither has any front-line experience, dealing with patients and their families. But, of course, they have the "solution." Sure — and pigs fly.
Nov. 6, 2012 — the nightmare ends. Unless OweBama (D) resigns first, to be King of the World.
Re-elect the Harvard Law "perfesser" — the USA dies. You will have to find another country — or love Socialism.
> 1. Where do you get the idea that people under 26 are getting 'free' health care? While they are permitted to remain on their parents' policies, they certainly are charged for being covered.
I believe they may need to make copayments for treatment and may have to pay some enrollment fee, but this is no where near the premium that they would pay in an independent policy.
I think there is some basic confusion in your article. There were two reasons given for bringing "young people" into these insurance pools.
Idea 1: Young people are healthier. The insurance company can transfer some of the money cost from the poor and unhealthy to the healthy. Basically, the company estimates a young person's health cost as $5 per month, but charges them $7 per month for their policy. The $2 can be kept as profit. It can also be used to subsidize someone else in the pool.
To implement Idea 1, you need young people to buy insurance and pay a stream of premium payments into the pool. The mandate was designed to force them to do this. But your article indicates that this is NOT happening. Most of the newly insured just latched onto their parents' policy. The insurance company will not be able to charge them $7 per month. It will only charge them the small enrollment fee. The net pool cost just went up, not down.
Idea 2: There are some unhealthy, young people out there who are unemployed and too poor to buy health insurance. If they are below 26, then they can at least stay on their parent's policy at the price of a small enrollment fee. From what you write, it's possible that this is happening. However, it is a transfer payment. Not some "better insurance scheme." And it did not bring in the young, healthy, premium-paying members that "we" had hoped to bring into the insurance pools.
Hello passingobamacare,
You wrote:"The issue is whether or not the government should be able to tax Americans without a transfer of money taking place in order to provide them with free insurance."
I do not see that this is a problem per se, the Federal government has been doing for many years with Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Administration, and the Medical Corps of the US armed services. Each of these programs takes tax dollars, transfers them to a medical insurance program, and provides "free insurance" to the recipients.
I would point out that there is still no foreseeable way for this system to reduce costs, other than people abstaining from care, which is what the insurance companies say is happening to account for their record profits.
"I'm betting that the policyholders, with the help of both state and federal governments, will win this battle." Now depending on the time-frame, I might just take you up on this.
Also, now that it's officially election season, let's try to keep a bright line between the discussion of health care and a desired electoral result. Like, when is it Obamacare and when is it ACA?
One of the biggest factors driving escalated cost, ironically, is that people don't have coverage. When the bill comes for care, especially emergency care (which is the way most uninsure deal with care to begin with), and it's too high to reasonably pay, then it goes unpaid. How do providers stay afloat when people can't pay? They pass that cost off to those that can. It's an upward spiral. Insuring everyone is the first best way to controlling costs.
" .. Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Administration, and the Medical Corps of the US armed services. Each of these programs takes tax dollars, transfers them to a medical insurance .."
.. and you get a $14,300,000,000,000 public debt that cannot be sustained.
GHWB and Jimmy Carter got one term — so can OweBama — that's FAIR.
Rick, I hope you realize that passingobamacare is simply using the ruse to promote his video, and that you are just giving him the benefit of the doubt.
It is astonishing however, to see the misunderstanding of the basic premise of your cogent points:
1. Younger people do not fall sick as often as older people.
2. Younger people struggle to get insured because of costs and availability were they to purchase insurance on their own.
3. Getting younger people to be *eligible* to be covered through their parents increases the odds that insurance companies will have additional revenues for which they incur proportionately smaller risks.
Other than you using the pejorative Obamacare instead of PPACA, I liked and learned from your analysis.
When's your book due?


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Series consists of records created and/or maintained by the Grosse Isle Quarantine Station. The series includes the following records: passports issued by the Visiting Officer of the Quarantine Station to masters of vessels "in a fit state to proceed to Quebec", 1834 (Vols. 9-10); drafts of letters, 1836, and letterbook, 1836-1839, of the Civil Secretary relating to the Quarantine Station (Vol. 10); letters, 1837-1838, from the Inspecting Physician and the Medical Superintendent to the Commandant as well as instructions for the staff of the Quarantine Station (Vols. 10-11); register of deaths at the Quarantine Station, 1834-1835 (Vol. 11); list of river vessels receiving certificates of discharge from quarantine, 1834-1835 (Vols. 12-17); weekly returns of the sick in hospital, 1834-1839 (Vol. 11); position of vessels coming up the St. Lawrence, 1833-1834; boarding reports, 1833-1838; completed questionnaires for vessels performing quarantine, 1833-1835 (Vols. 12-22).
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The quarantine station on Grosse Ile, an island located in the middle of the St. Lawrence river, 48 km downstream from Québec, was established by colonial authorities in1832, in response to reports that new immigrants with various contagious diseases. With cholera outbreaks in 1832 and1834, and a deadly typhus epidemic in 1847-1848, thousands of new immigrants were quarantined on the island, with thousands eventually perishing. The victims of the latter epidemic were mainly Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine. This period of virulent epidemics came to an end only after another outbreak of cholera in 1854.
At the time of Confederation in 1867, the Canadian government formulated a comprehensive policy on immigration and settlement, requiring the establishment of a reliable, efficient quarantine station. Dr. Frederick Montizambert, was in charge of establishing modern facilities at the Grosse Ile quarantine station, where he acted as medical superintendent from 1869 to 1899. As fewer people immigrated to Canada as a result of the First World War (1914-1918) and the Great Depression (1930s), and knowledge of microbiology and the treatment of contagious diseases was advanced, the hospital on Grosse Ile was reduced to treating minor childhood infections such as diphtheria, chicken pox and measles. New international health agreements stated that people infected with these diseases no longer had to be quarantined and serious infections such as cholera, typhus and smallpox could be successfully treated at the Parc Savard Hospital in Quebec, founded in 1907. The quarantine station on Grosse Ile was closed in 1937. Quarantine And Public Health: The Changing Role of Grosse Ile, by André Sévigny, Historian, September 1995, see Parks Canada website
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Apple's iPhone 4 is the most reliable of all major smartphones in normal use, yet it's also the phone most likely to break when dropped by a user, according to new research.
As the leader of the pack in "reliability," the iPhone 4 was followed closely by the iPhone 3GS and major Android OS phone makers Motorola and HTC, in that order. "BlackBerry and other smartphones were less reliable," contends a report issued by SquareTrade this month.
SquareTrade, however, is a company that issues product warranties, and its "reliability" ratings are based on the percentages of each device experiencing a "non-accident malfunction in the first 12 months." Further down in the report, the results are quite different when SquareTrade takes a look at the comparative accident rates for various types of smartphones.
Since the iPhone 4 and some other phones studied haven't been on the market yet for 12 months, SquareTrade didn't have a full year of data on some phones, so some projections needed to be made.
iPhone 4 Has the Highest Reported Accident Rate
With all of that in mind, the iPhone 4 emerged with a higher reported accident rate after 12 months -- at 13.8% -- than any of the other phones considered. Phones from Motorola and HTC tied for second place on that score, at 12.2%. each. The iPhone 3GS was somewhat less accident-prone, at 9.4%, whereas RIM's BlackBerry experienced a reported accident rate of merely 6.7%.
Square Trade's accident data takes into account both drops and spills. Actually, the iPhone 4 showed itself to be less likely than any other major smartphone to suffer spill-related damage. On the other hand, the iPhone 4's score of 11.1% for drop-related damage was almost three times the RIM BlackBerry's rate.
Without saying so for sure, the researchers suggested that the iPhone 4's higher vulnerability to drop-related damage is probably due to the phone's dual-sided glass.
"With dual-sided glass, the iPhone 4 has twice the fragile surface area of the other smart phones," according to the report.
"At the other end of the spectrum, the average BlackBerry device has both the smallest screen and he lowest rates of drop damage. Of course, correlation is not causation, and there are numerous external factors like protective case use, but the data seems to support the fairly obvious observation that glass breaks much more easily than plastic."
The fragility of the iPhone 4 wouldn't have stood out as strongly if SquareTrade had combined the iPhone 4 and 3GS into a single category, in the same way that all Motorola phones got rolled in with each other, for instance.
Fragility of Dual-sided Glass Showed Up Earlier
Clearly, though, the differences in accident rates between the two iPhone models had already started turning up long before the November report. In an earlier study, published in October, SquareTrade found that "the iPhone 4 appears to be significantly more likely to break than previous versions, as we speculated back in our June iPhone report."
As its report elaborated, "Not only has the scratchable surface area doubled, [but] the new aluminosilicate Gorilla glass used in the iPhone 4 doesn't seem any less likely to break than [the glass in] previous models."
SquareTrade's recent reports haven't mentioned the problems with the iPhone 4's external antenna which have meanwhile caused Consumer Reports to continue to "avoid recommending" Apple's latest phone this month. Back in September, Consumer Reports publicly chastised Apple for not providing "a permanent fix to the phone's reception issues."
Smartphones More Reliable than Netbooks or Feature Phones
In SquareTrade's report in November, outside of accidents, the iPhone 4 showed only a 2.1% malfunction rate for the first 12 months of use. Comparable numbers were 2.3% for Motorola, 3.7% for HTC, and 6.3% for RIM BlackBerry.
Moreover, with an overall non-accident malfunction rate of 3.9%, the smartphone category as a whole turned up as "more reliable" than either laptop PCs (4.5%), netbook PCs (5.8%), or "basic feature phones" (6.9%). Only digital cameras, at 3.4%, emerged as "more reliable" than smartphones.
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The Movie Story of Summer 2008
"Iron Man?" Nah.
"Sex and the City?" A very big deal for its audience, to be sure, but not the No.1 item on the list.
"Get Smart?" "Journey to the Center of the Earth?" "Kung Fu Panda?" Surely, you jest.
"Wall-E?" A wonderful movie, but hardly the big movie story of the summer.
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?" It wasn't even the movie story of the summer the first time around.
The box-office flopperoo of "Speed Racer?" Nope. It was a radical enough movie in its way to make it more than possible the first time anyone laid eyes on it.
The movie story of the summer has long seemed to be Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight." His death in January insured that.
See today's story leading off this week's Spotlight Section. And tell us what you think.
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Dahl anticipates 'Ugly' battle over state budget in Topeka
"I'm afraid it's going to get ugly," Dahl said last week.
Why? In a nutshell, the challenge of creating a fiscally responsible state budget during this election year may be overwhelming.
In any election year, Dahl said, elected officials want to present the image of financially supporting programs and projects that are important to their respective constituencies, while also holding the line on taxes.
This year, Dahl said, it will be all but impossible to do both.
"The past two years, state spending has seen something like an 8.5 to 9.2 percent increase from the year before, and the state simply cannot continue on that route," he said. "Consequently, we're just going to have to vote no against a lot of proposed increases."
Or raise taxes to pay for them.
"This coming year is an election year for all senators and house members," Dahl said. "Who wants to go out and campaign, 'I voted for a tax increase to pay for the increased spending'?"
Dahl said even before the budgeting process begins this month, the Legislature is already committed to a budget increase of 5 percent: a $450 million increase for education mandated by the Kansas Supreme Court, and increases in Medicaid mandated by the federal government.
If legislators could agree to keep the increase at 5 percent, that would be one thing, Dahl said. But the political pressure to add projects and support favorite programs will be enormous in an election year.
"We have 40 senators and 125 representatives," Dahl said. "If each one has just a 'small' project they bring—like only $2 million—but you multiply that by 165, what do you do?"
The minority party always blames the majority party if the Legislature can't settle on a budget. This year, Dahl said even some Republicans may not have the backbone to make the hard choices.
"The same people who don't have enough guts to vote against a spending increase in some program are also the ones who are going to sit on their hands and not vote for a budget—on both sides of the aisle," Dahl said.
"That's politics, but that's reality," he added. "I know that ahead of time."
Dahl said one of his first tasks when he arrives in Topeka for the start of the session will be to work with House Speaker Melvin Neufeld to plot a way through the budget morass.
"We need to sit down right now and develop a plan on how we're going to get out of session (with a budget)," he said.
Dahl said he and other Republican House leaders have been talking with their counterparts in the Senate about altering the way the state budget is formed.
Currently, the governor and her staff meet with representatives of the various agencies and programs ahead of time, and develops a budget to present to the Legislature that incorporates the increases the administration favors.
Dahl said that only makes fiscal decisions more difficult for legislators.
"The governor's budget already includes the increases that are requested," he said. "So, if the governor proposes a $10 million increase in a particular program, and the House approves an increase of only $5 million, we get blamed in the media for cutting a program by $5 million when actually we approved an increase of $5 million from the previous year.
"What we'd like to do is use last year's approved budget as our starting budget for the next session and work from that," he said.
On the revenue side, Dahl said Kansas has enjoyed six or seven relatively strong economic years.
The additional tax revenue generated in private sector has helped offset state spending increases during that time.
If the economy slips, as some are projecting, the budget situation in Kansas will worsen dramatically—much like it did in 2001 and 2002, Dahl said.
The state's debt currently stands at $4 billion—compared to only $450 million in 1992.
"The interest and principal we pay on our current debt is even more than (the entire debt in 1992)," Dahl said, citing a current line item of $490 million in the state budget.
Dahl said Kansas ranks 44th in private-sector economic growth, the source that generates tax revenue for the state, while ranking seventh in public-sector growth, the source that spends tax revenue in the state.
"We need to make Kansas more business friendly," he said. "If you raise taxes, Kansas already has a bad reputation of being a high-tax state. Basically, it boils down to our appetite is bigger than our pocket book. People want Utopia in a lot of different areas, and it's not going to happen."
Dahl said he hopes constituents will be understanding if legislators make tough calls in an attempt to balance program needs—many of them legitimate—and hold the line on taxes.
"That's why I say it's going to be an ugly year," he said. "There's going to be a lot of things where representatives agree that a lot of the programs need more money, but we're going to have to say we just can't do it."
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