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BERLIN (AP) -- German police say a train struck and killed a woman trying to rescue her blind dog after it fell onto the tracks.
The 62-year-old woman was hit by a train at a station near the southwestern town of Ludwigshafen on Monday while trying to save the animal. She suffered serious head injuries and died at the scene.
Police say her 12-year-old granddaughter and the girl's friend of the same age witnessed the accident and are being treated for shock. The dog was rescued unharmed. It was not immediately clear how it managed to avoid the train.
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Tender lamb might seem time-intensive, but it's actually quite simple to prepare. This 15-minute recipe makes for a no-fuss spring meal that tastes like it took all day to make!
Submitted by ANGEL3248
Carbs: 2.6g | Fat: 8.5g | Fiber: 0.4g | Protein: 35g | Calories: 234.7
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I remember watching the Frug make these on TV about 20 years ago and I have long since lost his exact recipe. This is my version of it and they are YUM-OH! The recipe makes 6-8 servings or more depending on how hungry you are. I haven't made it in forever, but I believe you will get at least 12 - 16 wrapped lamb packages out the recipe
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Carbs: 7.8g | Fat: 13.5g | Fiber: 1g | Protein: 10.7g | Calories: 197.8
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This is a delicious Morrocan dish, which can be served with cous cous or rice. If you use lamb shoulder, the meat may need extra time in the oven to be tender. Leg meat tends to take a little less time. The cooking times below reflect the use of leg meat.
Submitted by PIEGRRL
Carbs: 24.1g | Fat: 11.8g | Fiber: 1.7g | Protein: 45.9g | Calories: 389.8
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A traditional Moroccan tagine adapted for the slow cooker. Long ingredients list but f you are missing one or two of the ingredients the dish will turn out fine. Serve with couscous.
Submitted by MELLY75
Carbs: 56.4g | Fat: 13g | Fiber: 10.8g | Protein: 25g | Calories: 420.6


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Your money's worth: reception staff speak English and German very well, very good price/quality ratio, and they try their best to meet your demands! Highly recommended, to singles too!
Simple clean hotel, breakfast is good for 2 stars. Room is tidy and clean, clean towels daily, train station is nearby, busstation is 30 minute walk (for the bus to Monaco, Eze, Cannes, etc.) Busticket is 1.30 euros, no matter the distance.
Messy hotel and garden. Rooms and hallways as well as stairway very sloppy. Breakfast is good. Distance to Vieux Ville and the sea is rather big. I wouldn't pick this hotel again if I was to go to Nice again.
close to the railway station,friendly reception,
Basic but clean. Bedroom bit small. Good breakfast and helpful staff. OK if you're after no frills economy.
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Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
WOW realy
you copy 1 of the blazblue songs
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i got stick in level 4 in easy mode:(
Rated 3 / 5 stars
I agree with cpe007
The idea itself is great, graphics, characters, controls are all good. But there are some huge glitches. Such as the loading page, either not loading at all, taking forever to load, or not making up it's mind about what percent it's on. If you could please fix these problems it would be a SQUILLION times better. (And I would actually get to play).
Please take this into consideration, because no matter how good a game is, after a while the glitches become too much to handle. I'm sure you can fix it!
Rated 3 / 5 stars
The Perfect Fighter is far from just that.
There was obviously a lot of time and effort put in this, but it lacks is polish. The idea is really original. Making new characters almost from scratch is no easy task, and neither is coming up with new ideas for said characters without making it too obvious what characters is which. What was wrong with the game are the sane things that plagued FlashWing's other games. Good ideas and pretty graphics, but an abundance of glitches, weird choices in music, and inconsistent AI. Controls are just fine, but good luck stringing normal attacks with specials. The CPU has no trouble doing that. If all the things that are wrong with this game were fixed, then we would have a fantastic browser fighting game.
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars
Has some promise
I don't mind reskinning Street Fighter characters, because you mix up their moves and change things enough that they're unique.
But the hit detection is really wonky ay times. The animations don't seen to have any correlation on what hits and what doesn't, and it seems like I can go from being missed by a move, to being hit, back to being missed and back to hit, all while standing about the same distance.
It's also pretty laggy. Using the supers is difficult because you never know when your moves are going to register. And even if they do, actually hitting them is a matter of pure luck because of the aforementioned range issues.
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Discussion in 'Political Discussion' started by mikey, Jul 22, 2006.
Dont worry NEM..I've got you covered:
Hillary's "etiquette squads."
Here is an atricle about Kathleen Willey's cat
wow dude, that Clinton sh!+ is f****ed up! I even want her to run in '08 so we can all have free health care... but maybe not now!
Interesting that the "strip search" blaring headline that Mikey posts is one line in the two page article yet is NEVER mentioned again even by the ACLU. That would make me wonder if thier was a strip search what the purpose was, but doubt one really happened as it never comes up again.
I can tell you this, many people get arrested at Presidential appearances...including Kerry's when he was running. You rarely get asked twice to do something the Secret Service asks you to do. The second time you are removed. I've worked 3 details with them and they don't mess around. They are the wrong ones to pull typical protester BS on.
They need to do their job to keep the President safe, so I don't blame them for not taking sh!t from anyone. But they need to leave people alone for wearing T-Shirts or having bumper stickers. They are legally responsible when they overstep that line.
Nothing like dead soldiers and a male strip search to get Mikey jerking off.
It's humorous when the "football" forum members trash the political forum because of the attacks on members, then they make posts with no redeeming qualities, go figure.
As far as this administration cuffing protesters, its just another example of W going to extreme measures with his powers. There is no doupt that some protesters need to be handcuffed and taken away, but there are examples in every city Bush visits that he violates people's free speech. I imagined he saw his father not being able to give a speech due to a ranting protester and decided that would not happen to him. He would banish anyone from the crowd who wasn't pro-Bush. He would control the crowds just as he selects people in his "town" meetings, adding to his image of the bubble boy.
Didn't Billy Boy BJ's protesters coincidently get audited by the IRS?
There is one member who has earned the trash.
Anyone who's going to pull the "Clinton did it" defense... it was just as wrong for him to do it. Seriously, does ANYONE think it's OK to arrest peaceful protesters at public events, regardless of whether you agree or disagree with the administration?
You have to remember it is ONE SIDE of the story. I saw people get arrested for not following reasonable security requests. The people themselves were unreasonable, they figured they could pull thier normal I will push the "cops" buttons because they know the cops can't leave thier post and I can cross X number of lines before they will actually arrest me. Well sorry the Secret Service doesn't play that game and thier is many more of them than you would believe at any event the President is at. I can guarantee you that there is more to the "story" (good word for it) than someone wearing a T-shirt. You know how many times I have heard stuff like that?
One guy assaults a guy in his home when he is burglarizing it but the owner comes home. Guy runs, we eventulaly catch him in another persons yard. His lawyer makes a statement to the press that he was just looking to rent a place and the guy assaulted him. As far as running through peoples yards he was looking at another possible rentals backyard and a dog chased him...he was not running from the police. YES the paper printed that and only that, seriously. (Oh by the way, convicted violent felon, no job, arrived in a stolen car full of stolen items (said he didn't have one but had walked. but NONE of that was reported in the PAPER! Yes they knew about this stuff)) There is more to this "story" but you will never hear it because it makes for "better" news. So you kow how many times I have ACTUALLY SEEN stuff like that not "heard"?
That is probably a fairly accurate presentation of what sometimes happens, but in this instance we are talking about two 55 year old school teachers. Combine that with Bush's track record of propaganda. I lived in Tampa when he visited, and the same incidents would occur. While there are incidents of people acting improperly, there are many more of people being singled out for just wearing the wrong T-shirt.
Fair enough also, but remember again you are reading one side and later they can say anything they want. "was walking down the street and they snatched me off the street in a black van. I wasn't doing anything." When the reality was quite different. But do you think the papers would print it if the "story" was "Well I was acting like an A hole and they took me away."?
I can tell you this if you have 20 people acting like A holes but 50 people just excersizing their rights...then one of the people who is wearing the T-shirt pipes up with stupidity that normally wouldn't get them arrested but the line has been crossed by the A holes...wearing a nasty T-shirt is like a big neon sign that says "I'm with stupid" (the A holes causing most of the problem)
Hey I'm not saying someone never has gotten arrested for just a T-shirt, it could happen. But don't believe everything you read because I'm saying it almost always is one sided and probably only 60% true max. Protesters getting arrested for being A holes does not make for good headlines. Protestors arrested for doing NOTHING WRONG is an attention grabber. I'm telling ya I have seen people act like total immbeciles then later when they are telling the "story" I was just minding my own business...
As far as the 55 year old school teachers are they a threat? Probably not, but do rules apply to them...yes. What if that was NEM there. He is very passionate about his hate of Bush and if he was there, he could easily cross the line. Now how would that look in the papers that a 60 something year old man was arrested? I'm not saying that they are guilty or thier story isn't true...but again what about the "strip search"? Where did that part of the story go? I mean that is what distrurbs me was someone really strip searched? That would be out of line unless there was a reason...butr one sentence and never mentioned again. Could it be because it never happened so it was just put there to "inflame" and show how "unfair and extreame' the action against them was? Doesn't that peek your curiosity a little. That to me there is an agenda in this article. Just presenting the other side here.
I thought the story is straightforward.
The two 55-year-old Iowa teachers were handcuffed and strip-searched.
Christine Nelson and Alice McCabe were told to strip off their clothings and were searched.
What part of the story don't you understand?
How many times must the words "strip search" appear for you to believe that the incident occurred?
All you're saying, Pats-Blue - and I don't disagree - is that in some cases the cop is telling the truth and in some cases the protester is. But with as many cases as we've seen reported (and the charges later dropped), the balance of probabilities says that at least sometimes the police are being overbearing, and that is completely unacceptable.
I think overbearing might be a little harsh. Now if it is a couple of protesters and some one gets arrested for a little comment or a T-shirt sure bad police work and probably news worthy.
If it is a large protest and some people are being stupid well stupidity begets stupidity and unless you nip it in the bud it can get out of control fast. Not saying this is always the case but is my take from my actual experience not reading it in the papers and having it filtered. The cops or security are always outnumbered so sometimes arrests are quickly made and problem is solved (that may sound bad, but I don't mean "false" arrest) These cases might be completely 100% legit but the prosecutors don't have the time to do the cases they have so yeah sometimes even legit cases like this get dropped because it isn't worth the expense to prosecute for something that would result in a fine that won't cover the light bill for the court room. Also sometimes maybe the cop or security jumped the gun...my point is and I think you see that is that more often that not these people are not simply wearing a bad T-shirt and they are wisked away to the gulag. They may say that is what happened and that is what gets printed but I'm just telling you that is rarely the case from personal experience. I could write a book on the "fairy tales" I have personnally experienced. Sometimes it is funny, but sorry when the paper prints these fairy tales as fact it does make the job harder and encourages otheres to act stupid because the media is the lawyers lap dog.
You seem like you're too willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the cops in every case. You can tell me true stories all day about your experience, but it doesn't change the fact that even if 95% of the people are lying, the 5% that are telling the truth represent a big problem. And like probably everyone here, I have my own personal experiences with the cops, too. Not from being a cop (I'm not), and not from being arrested (I've never been) but I've watched a mounted cop use their horse to intimidate people (he took his horse into a gallop very close to where some people were sitting and turned the corner at the last minute). I saw another cop (same event) get off his horse to get in someone's face to act like a tough guy (the guy had mouthed off to him, but he wasn't vulgar and it didn't rise to the level of a criminal offense). Granted, in both of these cases there was no false arrest, but by my book both of those cops should have been terminated & criminally charged, or at the VERY least reassigned to desk duty for the rest of their lives.
Police get too many powers and too much benefit of the doubt not to answer when they do cross the line.
Ok you are either an idiot or being condesending. First WHERE IS THE SECOND SENTENCE IN THE ARTICLE???? I'll give you a hint it ISN"T IN THERE! You added it!
Second you obviously don't know what a strip search is as defined by the Supreme Court..maybe you should educate yourself before you start making stuff up and then trying to be condesending from behind a computer. Making stuff up is your fortee though.
Third I think it is very obvious why this would be important and I CLEARLY explained why. A strip search would DEFINTELY be extreame and I would be hard pressed to understand why something would be done like that and it CERTAINLY would be the biggest concern of the ACLU if IT HAD OCCURRED, but is never mentioned again. No attorney, no witnesses or even victims quotes on the "strip search". No quotes on something serious as a strip search, no questions towards the commanding officer of the ones that conducted the "strip search"? HHHMM that doesn't seem plausible unless maybe that part didn't happen and it is just an unfounded accusation ment to inflame on purpose and put there for people like you that don't want to ask any questions if it fits your agenda?
A strip search is a BIG DEAL in law enforcement and if they were strip searched for no reason they would have a great lawsuit on thier hands. It is a slam dunk...but like I said they simply let that slide but are upset because they got arrested but no quotes about the "strip search".
Sorry I have to explain things to you, must be great being that niave in front of your computer gobbling up anything you can read as the truth.
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Imagine a President of the Untied States Of America putting out a contract on a womens Cat. :singing:
Hey there ARE BAD COPS. I don't know any "crooked" cops, but do know some that I think are badge heavy and others I wouldn't let in my house (socially...I simply don't like them...and I get along with everyone usually).
As far as the mounted cop...hey I wasn't there. But I will say this. Why is it ok for someone to mouth off to a cop? Why if someoen feels they can mouth off to a cop that it is awful if the cop gets in thier face? I can tell you this I hate cowards. If you have something to say say it to someones face. If you say it be prepared to back up your words. So it is ok that this guy figures the cop can't "fight" back so he mouths off to him? But the cop should be fired for defending himself.
Cops aren't robots they are human being doing a hard job. So the guy mouthing off gets away with it...how many people there see that? How many go away from there and think they can do the same think with no repercussions? Maybe someone leaves there and takes that a step further next time to another cop or so on down the line. So it seems that it is ok to disparage someone in a uniform because they should be held to a higher standard and shouldn't react? What planet is this so cops have to put up with bigotry towards them while they protect others rights?
To tell you the truth my gripe is more about the media. My guess is that they got arrested for a valid but cheesy reason because they got out of hand and wouldn't follow simple requests and the people onscene finally just solved the problem by arresting them. The media however panders to them and makes it a gestopo raid...with a "strip search"
Again my problem is with the media. As far as my experience you have seen a couple of instances, maybe there was something else that happened maybe there wasn't and it was na over reaction...but I can tell you I have seen it day in day out for many years so my "experience" while on the other side of the fence has a lot more information. You would really need to do the job to realize. It isn't like TV. It would take to long to explain but there is a lot more to the job than you realize and see.
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Gigabit nics? If so have you tried slowing them down?
We' ve just purchased 50 Dell Vostro 320's (all in one design) and I am trying to test Windows 7 on them. We usually have Optiplex's which boot without fail into Deployment services/Lite Touch etc. But these new ones have a different BIOS and different NIC (Realtek opposed to Intel) and just sits there on boot trying to get an IP address and never does.
I've enabled everything I can see in BIOS (the BIOS on these are terrible compared to Dell's usual offerings) but no joy.
No new BIOS updates so what can I try? Why would it not get an IP address when everything else I boot (including laptops with Realtek NIC's) work fine?
I'll contact Dell if need be but I just cant see what they could do :-/
Gigabit nics? If so have you tried slowing them down?
No option in BIOS for that. I've tried it both connected to a 10/100 and a gigabit switch and no difference.
I've got a bit further - I missed it all the times before, but it flashes up a message before it moves to the next boot device: "proxydhcp did not respond on port 4011"
So I looked in DHCP and the machine is actually getting assigned an IP address, just something stops it after that. The only DHCP option we have configured for PXE is option 60, and this works fine for everything else. The WDS and DHCP servers are on seperate machines if that makes any difference
Option 60 tells the client to try to boot from the same machine that it got a DHCP address from but you want it to boot from a different one.
Thus try removing Option 60.
Ok, removed that and sure enough, it does get an IP address straight away. But then receive a Windows Boot Manager screen saying Windows failed to start.
And even weirder, without option 60 it now doesnt work on the Optiplex's - they get a PXE-E51 error - No DHCP or ProxyDHCP offers were received. These have Intel NIC's
OK now they're both working...must have taken a bit of time to kick in
The boot manager error on closer inspection, was due to it going to the wrong server - the DHCP server, probably because of option 60
So no option 60 now and a couple of WDS restarts and it seems ok
Sometimes a BIOS update is a good idea, has I had a WDS problem today, has it wouldn't respond to the ftp server on it. After I done the BIOS update, it worked fine!
I currently have exactly the same situation as you. A client has puchased 10 Dell Vostro 320 all in one machines which I have created an image for and uploaded to WDS.
In your previous post you mentioned you had a boot error after loading the image, would it happen to be 0xc000000f?
I have that exact error and although you seem to have resolved your issue it is not clear how you were able to get past the boot error?
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Hi foana
My error was before I had loaded the image, it appeared immediately after the client had got an IP address. It seemed that instead of loading the boot image from the WDS server, it was looking on our DHCP server and of course it couldnt find a boot image there. I only noticed after about 10 boots and I saw the IP address at the top of the screen displaying the error was not of the WDS server that I worked it out.
So I think it might be slightly different to your issue? Mine was more with my server configuration rather then the specific model of PC - in face I've now imaged 50+ Vostro 320's successfully
I had the same problem it turned out to be the Samsung digital sign-age software was trying to dish out PXE info. it caused big problems with FOG....
Thanks Sidewinder.
Forgive my lack of terminology but my issue appears to have been resolved after rebuilding the drive bcd and boot.ini with shadowprotect.
Appears as though some kind of Dell bootloader was causing issues with the image after having been pulled down from WDS.
Thanks for your replies.
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Let markets do what only markets do well.
John C. Goodman, PhD, President and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis, "Three Simple Ways Medicare Can Save Money," Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2011
August 13, 2011 – John C. Goodman, an economist with impeccable conservative and academic credentials, believes market competition will save Medicare more money and provide higher quality care than Obamacare, or any other government-run scheme.
Sustaining the Unsustainable
Like other economists, left and right, Goodman regards the present Medicare structure as unsustainable. With 78 million baby boomers entering Medicare, this massive entitlement program will surely go bankrupt or add trillions more to the national debt unless restructuring takes place. Medicare is the single biggest driver of that debt, more than Social Security or the military.
But how does one slow Medicare costs to save it for future generations? Pay hospitals and doctors less, save money by jamming them together into Accountable Care Organizations, move the Medicare entry age to 68 or 70, means test Medicare recipients on basis of income and assets, shift costs to recipients using vouchers or health savings accounts, or leave it to market forces and market competition to lower costs and improve quality?
Explaining theUnexplainable
The government is having a hard time explaining why government-dominated care isn't containing costs. Goodman says one big reason is that Medicare generates more than one billion transactions based on 7,500 codes that vary with location, procedure, and other factors. Government not only sets prices. It regulates them.
Given the billions of transactions and the varying circumstances that surround them, it becomes impossible to explain, justify, and control every transaction and its price.
Government can never know what goes on or explain what occurs in the billions of human transactions between individual patients and doctors. Government cannot explain the unexplainable because it will never have enough information of what occurs at the level of the market.
And, in its ignorance and its bureaucratic bungling, government may create injustices. Goodman points out the cumbersome coding system is paying opthalmologists 15 times more for a routine 15 minute cataract procedure than a 25 minute office visit with a primary care physician, Goodman asks "Is there any wonder why the shortage of primary care is reaching crisis proportions in many parts of the country, while cataract removal is available at the drop of a hat?"
Obtaining the Unobtainable
Goodman suggests three ways Medicare can cut costs.
• Medicare should let enrollees shop for care at walk-in freestanding emergency care clinics, where prices are posted and where quality care is usually delivered. The fees of these clinics are "well below what Medicare would have paid at a physician's office or or hospital emergency room." Medicare should pay the fees offered at these clinics. It would save money and please constituents seeking access to convenient or emergency care.
• Second, Medicare should allow enrollees to take advantage of commercial telephone and email services. He says, for example, "Teledoc offers telephone consultations with physicians at a price probably lowe than the same service delivered by a nurse at a walk-in clinic. Teladoc doctors, he points out, use electronic medical records and prescribe electronically – two goals of the Obama health law.
• Third, Medicare should encourage doctors physicians to repackage and reprice their servies in a ways that are "good for the doctor, good for the patient, and good for Medicare." Medicare should encourage concierge doctor arrangements, which for about $1500 per patient per year, offers patients free telephone and email consultations, same or next day appointments, EMRs, and electronic prescribing. For these services, he says, "Medicare should be willing to throw its 7,500-item price lists away, pay some portion of the concierge fee, and let the marketplace handle everything."
Memo to Goodman
The Obama administration's anti-market mindset and its sentiment that its experts know more than doctors and patients, will never allow your suggestions to see the light of day. Your suggestions will never fly as long as Obama is President. Medicare may be unsustainable. Its policies may be unexplainable to millions seeking lower costs. The desired results of these policies may be unobtainable. But the administration's belief in its principles of redistribution and social justice is unshakable, even if those principles defy the laws of simple economics.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant and Informative
Warning: This is not light reading. The book is well-written but is not designed as entertainment. If, however, you are concerned about the Internet and potentially where it might go in the near future, or more specifically, how it might wind up controlled, this book will be an interesting and informative read. Important too because communication and information...
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103 of 109 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant and Informative,
Amazon Customer (North-western Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) (Hardcover)
Warning: This is not light reading. The book is well-written but is not designed as entertainment. If, however, you are concerned about the Internet and potentially where it might go in the near future, or more specifically, how it might wind up controlled, this book will be an interesting and informative read. Important too because communication and information dissemination are vital to the freedom of us all.
Columbia University Professor Tim Wu takes us on an in-depth tour of the history of the communication empires of telephone, radio, television, and now the Internet. Wu's analyses and conclusions are both brilliant as well as at times somewhat surprising. Every page gives evidence of Wu's thorough research, careful thinking and insights that went into the writing of this fine work.
The internet has become part of the lives of almost everyone, with its freeing and empowering presence; in fact in important ways it has become indispensable. A not-too-surprising worry might be that the federal government may someday try to control it, not so overwhelmingly as does the government of China of course, but the possibility is there.
What Wu so sagatiously points out is that that threat of control could just as easily, or actually more easily, come from the private sector, because in fact the existence of the internet and its smooth functioning are dependent, not on the government, but private enterprise. A different kind of monopoly looms ahead of us as a distinct danger, and this present information age presents new policy and regulation challenges.
One hopes that the right government officials at the federal level take heed to this awesomely researched book.
If you would like to understand more accurately recent decades as well as the present time the huge corporations that have in the past but also could one of these days control the ways and means of communication, by all means give this worthy work a read.
Highly recommended.
38 of 42 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Incredible History of Information Technology,
This review is from: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) (Hardcover)
Unless you're very young, you have memory of the "Dark Ages" of technology. Yes, there was a time before the Internet...even a time before the ancient 14 kbs modem. I know it's hard for us to believe, but you used to have to be there if somebody was calling AND you didn't know who it was until you picked up the phone! The answering machine could have been available in the 1950s, but why didn't they come out until a few decades ago?
The book has interesting points on technology cycles, which I'll get into in a moment, but first I'd like to congratulate the author on doing such a great job of giving a background history lesson. The topic helps because the history of information empires is every bit as interesting as the rise of military empires. It's all about strategies, "bloody" battles, and luck. It's just the weapons used that differ. Still, most of us have seen even exciting history made boring by poor writing. Mr. Wu keeps things interesting by giving the personal reasons for certain decisions and the circumstances leading to them, not just a bunch of dry dates. Some of the history discussed I was familiar with, but a lot of it was brand new to me.
Several ideas presented on the cycles were thought provoking. Most of us are conditioned to immediately think monopoly = bad, but the point of view of the monopolists helps explain why society allowed them to exist. For example, before modern telephone infrastructure existed it almost took a gigantic AT&T to have the drive to force to link up every person to a phone line; while their methods of dealing with opposition were at times abhorrent, they still succeeded in using the monopoly's advantages (economies of scale, no duplication of research by different companies, steady income, etc.) to do a great deal of good. Bell Labs not only researched phone related technologies for the company but also provided resources and advancements in entirely unrelated areas. On the other hand, all was not altruistic. The same advantages that helped it expand and provide service also stifled progress as the monopoly jealously guarded itself against competitors and devoured or squashed possible competitors. They succeeded in connecting nearly everybody for the common good, even rural farms that likely would have been unconnected far longer because of greater costs per user in small population areas. However, those who are old enough will remember when there was only one choice of phone and it was an AT&T phone only. Once AT&T was broken up, we saw tremendous advances in technology and cost benefits to customers. The point being, things aren't purely black and white.
The issues of information control and free speech were also fascinating. To me the most interesting was censorship in Hollywood. It's a lesson in unintended consequences. The big studios' very "monopoly" allowed them to succumb to rules of conduct that had married couples depicted sleeping in separate beds for years. In that case rules came from the private sector in the form of religious groups threatening boycotts. There too you see a dichotomy. On one hand, the threat was private individuals in a sense voting with their money and what could be more democratic than voting? On the other hand though, people who didn't agree with those rules had their ability to watch uncensored materials taken away from them in the name of somebody else's view of the public good. It's this kind of struggle for balance we see over and over and over again with the advent of new technologies.
I love reading about history and watching documentaries. The adage "History repeats itself." is shown to be true time after time. It's funny how we all think we're so unique, doing things for the first time, but looking back (in some form) most everything's been done before. From the phones, to radio, to the Internet, you can see how the cycle of inventor becomes a wide open free-for-all becomes a tightly controlled industry, and eventually is usurped by some new idea from the outside that changes the rules of the game. It's all one big cycle of progress.
Now if only I could figure out what the next major cycle will be, I'd be a very rich man...
46 of 53 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A complex, complete and compelling story of business,
Mark P. McDonald (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) (Hardcover)
The Master Switch is part history, business theory and technology presented in a clear and enjoyable read. This is neither a business book, nor a history book, nor a novel but it has the best elements of all three. Some advice for the reader, be prepared to read a book about business information and technology this is deep, complex, expansive and thoroughly enjoyable.
Wu demonstrates throughout the book his ability to research and capture the historical events that led to the world we have today and present them more like James Michener than a dry recitation. The details and descriptions led me to feel like I was reading a historical novel more than a business book. Yet all of the conversation revolves round issues of information, technology and business ownership of it.
Wu demonstrates his business thinking through the book and research findings. This is a business book as it discusses how information and new technologies often start out as an explosion of small companies that coalesce into a few dominate firms that then often explode into smaller more innovative companies. Those ideas, the decisions and actions behind them are the context that gives the business history context.
The Master Switch is a rare combination of history, theory and technology. People looking to read the book from one of these perspectives will either be delighted or deeply disappointed. As a history, the book is a delight as I learned things I never knew before. As a business book, one with a very clear argument, sequential prose and an explicit `bottom line' this book suffers because it meanders through the history parts. Readers looking for a business book should reset their expectations and get the Master Switch. Reset their expectations from the perspective that rather than loading your brain with `programmed' messages, it may be better to get a broader perspective that will let you think through these critical issues. Setting your expectation to read something enjoyable, informative and comprehensive and you will not be disappointed.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Inform Yourself!,
This review is from: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) (Hardcover)
I have a two-hour wait while my kids take lessons. Right after I received "The Master Switch", I took it and a novel to lessons, the idea being that I'd start the former, and when I got bored I would switch to the latter. I never switched. Though "The Master Switch" is dense, it's not just well-documented non-fiction it's engagingly written non-fiction.
This is the saga of modern information/communication systems, starting with the telegraph & the movie industry, then telephone, AM radio, FM radio, television, cable television and the Internet. Information systems go through what Wu has named "The Cycle". They start out competitive free-market with innovations flying, then consolidate (frequently by nefarious methods) into 1-3 major players (monopoly or oligopoly). The big players, frequently with the help of the government, squash upstart innovations and particularly any new system = rival.
For example, the U.S. had a "vibrant decentralized AM marketplace", which the government literally wrecked in favor of regional monopolies (which became national oligopoly).
The title comes from Fred Friendly, CBS News president from 1951 to 1966. In speaking about whether or not there's free speech, Friendly said that you first had to determine "who controls the master switch". I find this quote very interesting, because Friendly resigned from CBS when the corporate chiefs decided to run the regularly scheduled episode of "The Lucy Show", rather than air the beginning of the U.S. Senate hearings questioning our involvement in the Vietnam War. This isn't mentioned in "The Master Switch", but I think it is illustrative of the very point Friendly was making. You can't have free flow of ideas and information if the content is selected by just a few.
The chapter on the Internet is open-ended. At this point, it isn't for sure that the Internet will follow The Cycle, and end up with it's content controlled by a very few corporate monoliths. But based on what has happened to prior information systems, we should be watchful. How would you like all your available websites to be picked by a FOX or by an MSNBC?
That may seem impossible now, but no one in the 1930's thought there would eventually be only a handful of radio station owners nationwide. Do you remember the 1992 documentary "The Panama Deception"? It won the 1993 Oscar for Best Documentary. Do you remember the brouhaha when PBS tried to air it? Nearly whole states were not able to watch it because the monolith corporate cable owners in their areas refused to air it, stating that it was unpatriotic in its implied criticism of the Panama "war". (The local PBS stations were forced to show another show in the time slot).
Wu doesn't mention "The Panama Deception", but he has other illustrations and notes that "a medium [of communication]... is literally something that comes between the speaker and the potential listeners.... If it becomes the means by which most people inform themselves, it can decisively reduce free speech by becoming ... the arbiter of who gets heard."
I was particularly struck by two of Wu's themes. First, the methods used by an information company to gain power do not have to be straightforward to succeed. Secondly, government regulation can both promote free market or squelch free market.
Take the 1st theme. AT&T, nationwide monopoly, was ordered to allow rivals access to it's switching equipment by renting them space in its buildings. AT&T complied, at rents 5000 times the going rate, and who could afford it? Similarly, Wu proposes that the greatest danger to a continuing free-market Internet is dedicated equipment. If everybody dumps their open-system PC for a closed-system iPad, that means that only Apple's browser would be available and there are lots of ways to block sites that haven't paid the a requisite fee to be available, or at least not easily available, on said browser. I'm not saying it definitely would happen, but how much faith do we put in a corporation INdefintely resisting good old greed when there's quarterly profits to be reported?
The second theme concerns the role of the government in promoting free flow of information. President Nixon forced AT&T to allow computer networking/Internet on it's lines, and also required it to accept non-AT&T equipment attachments, such as fax machines.* Similarly, President Clinton required AT&T to allow access to ISP's without deal-killing "rental charges". Both of these presidents, a Republican and a Democrat, did their parts to insure that the Internet, as an information system, was free-market.
On the other hand, the court of Chief Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, under Republican George W. Bush, gutted the Telecommunications Act, on the assumption that no regulation is good regulation. This is distinctly different from fellow Republicon presidents Nixon and Reagan, who believed in regulation that benefited competition. The Bush administration actually wrote that "competition didn't necessarily require that there be any extant competitors"!
As I mentioned, this book is a dense read, but it raises questions I didn't know enough to care about. To paraphrase Mr. Wu, the conseqences of allowing an information system to devolve into a monopoly are incalcuable. It's not just possible censorship (whether in the name of ideology or monetary greed), it's the guaranteed lost or delayed (can I use "squashed" one more time) innovations.
This review is written from the Uncorrected Proof.
* Bell Labs, part of AT&T, has many incredible technological breakthroughs to its credit. However, AT&T deliberately squashed or successfully delayed others, such as mobile phones, fax machines, voice mail, speaker phones, packet networking, fiber optics, and very early on, a phone answering machine with magnetic tape. Invented in 1934 by a Bell engineer, management killed it because, according to an internal memo, it would encourage people to not use the telephone! Magnetic tape would be invented (again) in the 1990's by Germans, and imported to the U.S sixty years after an American first invented it!
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27 of 33 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Lotsa style -- substance? Not so much . . .,
Fred Goodwin "Old school Cowboys fan" (San Antonio, TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) (Hardcover)
The great thing about prophecy is the prophet cannot lose, regardless of his prediction. If his doom-and-gloom prediction comes true, the prophet can rightly say "I told you so". If instead, disaster is averted, the prophet can claim his warning put us on the right path.
So what to make of Wu's latest tome? After 300 pages of doom-and-gloom leading up to the climax, Wu hedges his bets and makes no prediction either way. He suggests the "Separations Principle" as a way to preserve the openness of the Internet but then like a wide receiver going over the middle, pulls his arms in and ducks the ultimate prediction -- does Wu think the Internet will fall to the "Cycle" or not? Don't be fooled by Wu's statement "why the Internet will be different". A careful reading reveals he's not convinced that it WILL be different, only that it CAN be different, if only the government imposes his "Separations Principle".
As you know, Wu coined the term "Net Neutrality" in the early 2000s. He wrote his book before the FCC's December, 2010 net neutraility decision (which will be appealed as soon as the rules are published in the Federal Register). That should please him. But the last time the FCC ordered net neutrality (in the Comcast decision), the DC Circuit struck down the decision. But I digress.
Wu spins an elegant story. But I'm no expert in movies, television, radio, or cable. So it's hard to know just how accurate he is in describing the "Cycle" as applied to those industries. But I know a little bit about the history of telephony. If Wu's accuracy (or lack thereof) in his telephone chapters is representative of the book as a whole, I have to doubt some of his conclusions.
Take chapter 18 for example ("The Return of AT&T"). On page 246, he accuses SBC of a series of nefarious deeds, but one will look in vain in the end-notes for a reference to ANY of them (I'm not saying that SBC is innocent, just that it would be nice to have references so the reader can decide for himself). At the bottom of the page, he cites the Trinko case as an example of the courts allowing the free markets to work at the expense of competition. The Trinko decision says nothing of the sort -- essentially, SCOTUS decided in Trinko that the 1996 Telecommunications Act governed behavior between carriers and that there had been no anti-trust violation. And while the Court didn't cite lack of standing per se, its clear to anyone reading the decision that AT&T, if it were truly harmed by Verizon's behaviour, should have brought the suit, not a customer of AT&T.
On p247, Wu cites SBC opposition to the "line-sharing" provisions of the '96 Telecom Act. Again Wu gives no reference, so it's hard to know exactly what he means. In the telephone business, the term "line-sharing" has a very specific meaning (it means resale or leasing of DSL). If Wu means the telcos opposed leasing their voice lines to competitors, then he is wrong. Incumbent telcos had to do this in order to enter the long-distance business. If instead, Wu is referring to leasing DSL to competitors, he would be correct. But of course, he fails to mention that nothing in the '96 Act requires incumbents to lease DSL to competitors.
In a footnote at p247, Wu refers to the FCC eliminating the "platform" sharing requirement, at the suggestion of the DC Court. Again, Wu fails to mention that the '96 Act does not require incumbents to lease a "platform" to competitors. The Act requires incumbents to lease switching capacity, access lines, and computer systems ("OSS"). The Court overruled the FCC and rightly so, but you'd never know it just by reading Wu's account.
All this is to say Wu goes to great lengths to paint incumbent telcos and AT&T in the worst possible light to support his theory of the Cycle. Anyone versed in telephone history can see the bias in Wu's presentation. As one not so versed in the history of film, radio, TV and cable, I have to wonder if evidence of Wu's bias is so apparent in other sections of his book.
Disclosure: I used to work for SBC and AT&T, but I no longer do (in fact, AT&T/SBC involuntarily "downsized" me three years ago so I have no reason to defend them). My opinions are strictly my own and do not reflect the position of any employer, past or present.
� Copyright Fred Goodwin, April 17, 2011
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Was Heaven's Gate Really Worse than Phantom Menace?,
Stanley W. Rogouski Jr. "Stanley Rogouski" (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) (Hardcover)
The strongest section of Tim Wu's history of American "information empires" is his analysis of the American film industry.
If you've ever wondered why the merely boring Heaven's Gate destroyed a Hollywood studio and exiled a major director to the margins of the film industry and the execrably bad Phantom Menace spawned two more films, The Master Switch provides the answer.
Heaven's Gate was a standalone work of art that had to make its money at the box office. The Star Wars prequels were essentially branding efforts designed to sell not only theater tickets by toys, trinkets, coffee cups, t-shirts and anything else they could use the film to advertise.
Tim Wu's discussion of the film industry and of the kind of media conglomerate created by Steve Ross and best characterized by companies like Viacom and Time Warner is so clear and so elegant, it makes you wish the rest of the book were as good.
The weakest section of The Master Switch is, interestingly enough, the last part, Wu's analysis of the Internet and of net neutrality. It's not necessarily bad writing, and it obviously has the disadvantage of covering current events and not history, but it reads too much like a press release for Google.
The first half of the book is a solid history of the telecommunications industry. The writing is clear, precise, and never boring. He introduces figures you've probably never heard of, Harry Tuttle, for example, who barely shows up in a Google search and doesn't even seem to have a Wikipedia page. Wu also discusses events that are as important to understanding our history as they are obscure, Western Union's machinations to help Rutherford B. Hayes steal the election from Tilden.
All in all, I'd give this book 4.5 stars if I could, but I think it closes out too weak for a fifth star.
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5.0 out of 5 stars important history of American communications industries,
Robert D. Harmon "bobnbob3" (Mill Valley, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) (Hardcover)
Mr. Wu has given us an important angle on business history: how the telephone, motion-pictures, TV network (broadcast and cable), and Internet companies not only created new communications media but how they fought off earlier ones, such as telegraph. The book shows how these companies prospered and came to monopolize their fields. More importantly, we learn how they could stifle innovation as well as create it: the painful experience with early FM radio, for instance, or how the few motion-picture studios could enforce a Decency Code, or the fact that voicemail, modems, fax, private (non-Bell) and the Net itself was possible only after the 1980s breakup of Ma Bell. The "vertical" integration of a medium, how, say, the movie studios could dominate not just production but distribution -- individual movie theaters and chains.
We learn just how important patents can be, and how difficult it may be for the original inventor to keep control of his invention.
The book has immediacy, since Net neutrality is going to be up for review in 2011, and any changes would have major effects on the Net and the economy. Other proponents can tell you how important net-neutrality is now, but this book tells us how, time and again, past communications industries could stifle their competitors and the medium itself. This, above all, is a study of business, not how an innovation can succeed, not even how much money it can make its owners, but just how much power it can create.
Strongly recommend.
UPDATE, April 2011: Given the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile, which would narrow the major wireless-telephone providers to three, or maybe two, this book is more timely than ever -- especially given the book's fully-told history of the previous AT&T (Ma Bell) monopoly.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Everything Old is New Again,
T. I. Farmer (Edmonds, WA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) (Hardcover)
For the last 20 years we have been listening to starry-eyed techno-vangelists insist there has never been anything like the Internet, the Internet changes everything, no force can constrain Internet freedoms... well, if ever you were cynical, even skeptical, about the grandiosity of Internet-era rhetoric, grab Tim Wu's masterful book for comfort and backup.
Recounting the history of communications/tech empires since Bell, AT&T and Western Union, Wu ably demonstrates that the "Internet era" is traveling a familiar cycle -- one that doesn't bode well for users. Communications technologies have a nagging, predictable habit of exploding all over the landscape in egalitarian Wild West style, but then coming under the control of a monopoly or at most a cartel of oligarchs who maximize profits while foreclosing freedoms and options for the "user base." Thus did the Bell System become a benign monopoly offering the American people reliability instead of options or innovation; this did radio evolve from a woolly pack of hobbyists to a more profitable -- and much duller -- centrally controlled handful of networks; so it went with movies and television; so, contends Wu, it is bound to go with the Internet.
Wu's thesis, backed by his colorful 140-year survey of every serious telecommunications boom, is impossible to dismiss. If he is right, and the evolution of the World Wide Web is fated to follow Wu's "Cycle" pattern, then net neutrality is, pragmatically, a pipe dream; we can look forward to web content being controlled, suppressed, and tier-priced by a handful of unassailable networks in the same way that your local cable TV supplier controls what channels you receive, or your choice of smartphone dictates what apps you can access. This is the titular "master switch" -- a private interest's power to shut down, or at least dictate terms for, a critical communications network with one stroke. When it comes to the Internet we are, Wu makes plain, a lot closer to that state than we think.
This brilliant book is part business and economic text, part cultural survey of the information empires of our lifetime, and part warning. It proves two things. One, today's "information revolution" has painfully familiar rhythms. Two, we've probably already seen the Internet's free-rein heyday, and can look forward to a future whose terms are dictated by oligarchs such as Fox and Comcast. If the web were all LOLcats and Snooki this would be less worrisome; but as it's become our political, social and economic spinal column in very short order, the prospect of rich, elite private interests controlling... everything... is real and chilling.
Wu is an excellent, visionary writer who gives the Internet era what it has long lacked: history, antecedents and perspective. Please read this book and consider the awful consequences of Wu's "Cycle" in today's information marketplace.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Information history worth reading,
Dan Leithauser (Seattle Area, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) (Hardcover)
The Master Switch is an interesting read on history that many Americans probably do not know. In The Master Switch we learn that while knowledge is power, the ability to distribute information is more powerful. Movie, radio and phone technologies are covered extensively, along with the influences of multiple parties in how those industries developed in the US.
These are powerful technologies with the ability to dictate the course of human thought and societies. Those that hold the power can either use it for the public good, or abuse it, but no matter how the power is used, that same power tends to want to perpetuate itself at the expense of innovation. The cycle is simple. A technology takes hold through small steps. Then it is consolidated over time, usually by a corporation, and with infrastructural considerations and support from government. Disruptive innovative technologies are slow to enter the marketplace because the giants are too large and present either huge financial or legal obstacles. Eventually, a disruptive technology cannot be ignored, and the old ways must adapt; just as TV replaced radio as a primary entertainment medium, and the web is slowly eroding many different telecommunication industries. Then the giants slowly embrace and work to control that new medium, consolidating power once again.
The Master Switch makes a case for moderate regulation with the input of industry, but not at the expense of neutrality or diversification of power. There are some interesting ideas about net neutrality in this book, but in the end, the devil will be in the details, and it is still questionable if the cycle can be broken.
The evolution of Bell Labs, ATT, CBS, NBC, ABC, Apple, the FCC, and google are contrasted and compared.
Clearly written and interesting history worth reading and understanding as we at a cross roads of the cycle in regards to the continued evolution of the web.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Rise and Fall and Rise of Closed Media,
J. Ott "John Ott" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) (Hardcover)
THE MASTER SWITCH is a highly entertaining tour of the history of today's major media industries: telephone, radio, television, motion pictures and the internet. It is also a work of theory, as Wu uses several lenses by which to view the developments in these industries. There is the "Kronos Effect" - where dominant companies swallow upstart firms who might grow to be threats; there is "The Cycle" - the constant push and pull between open and closed models; and there is "The Master Switch," which Wu demonstrates has been the constant goal of many a mogul and media titan, to centralize the flow of information so that it may be controlled by a single man. (They have all, so far, been men.)
The book reads like an extended New Yorker article, with the personalities and drama behind the developments of revolutionary technologies sketched briefly, yet with riveting, compelling detail. Coming from a man who (it is claimed) coined the phrase "net neutrality," I expected there to be more theoretical discussion of what constitutes information control and information freedom. But in the end, Wu mostly allows the reader to draw his or her own conclusions.
The chapter on how Hollywood films were able to be censored for years by a few pious moralists, simply because those censors needed only capture a few choke points, is particularly illuminating. This was not a government intervention, but a self-appointed private group. Wu implies that we need to fear similar interventions in our modern telecommunication systems since today's business leaders, Steve Jobs most definitely included, have designs on consolidating information behind their own Master Switches. It is precisely because so much telephone traffic goes through AT&T's switches, Wu points out, that the US government was able to enact its warrantless wiretapping schemes post-9/11.
All in all, this is a fascinating, informative book, well-researched and deftly composed. Highly recommended for folks who liked THE LONG TAIL, THE TIPPING POINT or THE BLACK SWAN.
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For population 25 years and over in Stafford:
For population 15 years and over in Stafford city:
6,134 residents are foreign born (14.9% Asia).
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2012: $2,767 (1.7%)
Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Missouri City, TX (3.2 miles , pop. 52,913).
Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: Houston, TX (14.5 miles , pop. 1,953,631).
Nearest cities: Fifth Street, TX (1.4 miles ), Meadows Place, TX (1.5 miles ), Missouri City, TX (1.8 miles ), Sugar Land, TX (1.9 miles ), Four Corners, TX (2.6 miles ), New Territory, TX (2.7 miles ), Mission Bend, TX (2.8 miles ), Bellaire, TX (2.9 miles ).
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Latitude: 29.62 N, Longitude: 95.56 W
Daytime population change due to commuting: +9,130 (+52.0%)
Area codes: 281, 832
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Crime rate in Stafford detailed stats: murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts, arson
Full-time law enforcement employees in 2012, including police officers: 61 (44 officers).
Stafford, Texas accommodation, waste management, arts - Economy and Business DataUnemployment in July 2013:
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Population change in the 1990s: +7,494 (+91.5%).
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Stafford-area historical tornado activity is above Texas state average. It is 165% greater than the overall U.S. average.
On 11/21/1992, a category F4 (max. wind speeds 207-260 mph) tornado 18.5 miles away from the Stafford city center injured 16 people and caused between $50,000,000 and $500,000,000 in damages.
On 9/13/1974, a category F3 (max. wind speeds 158-206 mph) tornado 9.4 miles away from the city center injured 2 people.
Natural disasters:The number of natural disasters in Fort Bend County (15) is greater than the US average (12).
Major Disasters (Presidential) Declared: 8
Emergencies Declared: 6
Causes of natural disasters: Hurricanes: 8, Storms: 5, Floods: 4, Tornadoes: 2, Fires: 2 (Note: Some incidents may be assigned to more than one category).
Main business address for: SYSTEMS EVOLUTION INC (GOLD & SILVER ORES), INPUT OUTPUT INC (MEASURING & CONTROLLING DEVICES, NEC).
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Particulate Matter (PM2.5) [µ/m3] level in 2010 was 11.5. This is about average. Closest monitor was 5.4 miles away from the city center.
Lead (Pb) [µ/m3] level in 2008 was 0.00566. This is significantly better than average. Closest monitor was 15.0 miles away from the city center.
Carbon Monoxide (CO) [ppm] level in 2010 was 0.209. This is significantly better than average. Closest monitor was 15.0 miles away from the city center.
Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) [ppb] level in 2010 was 1.04. This is significantly better than average. Closest monitor was 5.4 miles away from the city center.
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) [ppb] level in 2010 was 9.72. This is about average. Closest monitor was 6.3 miles away from the city center.
Particulate Matter (PM10) [µ/m3] level in 2010 was 23.0. This is about average. Closest monitor was 7.8 miles away from the city center.
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Number of convenience stores (with gas): 153
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0.15% of residents moved from foreign countries ($612 average AGI)
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0.12% of residents moved to foreign countries ($1,296 average AGI)
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FCC Registered Antenna Towers: 72 (See the full list of FCC Registered Antenna Towers in Stafford)
FCC Registered Commercial Land Mobile Towers: 1 (See the full list of FCC Registered Commercial Land Mobile Towers in Stafford, TX)
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 14 (See the full list of FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers)
FCC Registered Microwave Towers: 50 (See the full list of FCC Registered Microwave Towers in this town)
FCC Registered Paging Towers: 13 (See the full list of FCC Registered Paging Towers)
FCC Registered Maritime Coast & Aviation Ground Towers: 1 (See the full list of FCC Registered Maritime Coast & Aviation Ground Towers)
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 48 (See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Stafford)
FAA Registered Aircraft: 16 (See the full list of FAA Registered Aircraft in Stafford)
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