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Mbak Widya Bloop ordered this one as a wedding present for her beloved friends.
I found many interesting things in making this order, and I felt so proud making it :D
1. Mbak Widya herself was in London, and she wanted to take the frame when she got back to Jakarta for holiday.
2. The wedding itself would be held in Calamigos Ranch, Malibu. It is a very beautiful place, especially for wedding. I got confuse at first in picking the scene because every bit of the place that I saw on the screen captured my heart.
3. Rachel is Mbak Widya's friend in London, while Ryan Meinerding is the costume illustrator of Watchmen, suit developer and visual development supervisor of Captain America, conceptual illustrator of Iron Man and Iron Man 2, and many more that you can see HERE. Awesome, yes?
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This is the Best Captains Bed Package You Will Find on the Internet
These Captains Beds are exceptional value. "I ordered three of these captains beds for my boys, easy to put together, and they look great! Looked everywhere local, these were the best value and exactly what we were looking for. Lots of storage in the drawers and under the bed, very sturdy. Customer service was very helpful and kind."
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So easy that when my husband arrived home I had completed the setup by myself." We just purchased this bed for our son who just turned 5! Well our son LOVES his new bed and so do we! The color is a true rich honey and the quality of the bed seems to be very good." "Thoroughly impressed with the set and the setup. Would recommend to anyone."
"The quality of the bed was above what I thought I would receive for such an inexpensive price. Set up was easy and the instructions were fine." You can read more about the Captains beds twin with trundle and drawers on this page where you will find a product description and additional information on the bed. I'm going to focus on what the reviewers who have purchased this package have said about the quality of the furniture, the look, and the ease of assembly. After all of the great reviews that I read on this particular bed, I really wanted to find out more about what makes this captains bed package special.
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The reviewers are most impressed with the quality and the look of this bed. Since the bed is crafted from real wood, it is sturdy and has the beautiful appearance of wood furniture. One reviewer noted that after seeing the price, she thought that the beds would be pressed wood or laminate, but the quality and consistency of the wood are excellent – especially when you consider the price of these beds. Since the quality of this bed is so high, the cost of the entire package is very reasonable. If you are looking for a great value, you will not find a better product on the market. People who have been searching for a Captain's bed ended up purchasing this set after doing extensive research, both locally and online, to find the perfect bed at the most affordable price. One reviewer had this to say about how she decided on the Captain's beds
Storage becomes a breeze with a Captains bed.
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- Captains Bed Twin with Twin Trundle and Drawers in Expresso
We are just amazed at the quality and the value of this bed. After reading many reviews on this furniture line, the reviewers have said it all for us. This bed is a great addition to any kid's room, and makes storage and organization much easier and more efficient. You can buy this bed in several different shades so that it will fit in with your existing furniture, or you can purchase the whole set for a completely new look. When you buy this package from Amazon you will also receive a safe shopping guarantee so that you can feel secure in completing the purchase. You will also be able to have the furniture shipped directly to your doorstep.
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Having read the five star reviews on Amazon boys love these quilts as much as girls. The fabric is soft and good quality so it is a cosy one to wrap up in and snuggle down in, all they will want to do is curl up and go to sleep.
Made of 100% polyester this comforter is lightweight and machine washable. In fact most of the mothers said this was amazing and excellent value for money.
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This sheet set is so attractive it is even bought by grandparents who want some fun for themselves. As with the comforter the quality is very good, the colours are strong and stay true with washing. The fabric is soft and gets softer with washing so overall this bedding set is of extraordinary value and will last well.
This set will be the perfect bedding for your grandchildren's new Captain's bed
This sheet set is a Queen size and is made of 60% cotton and 40% polyester so it is machine washable.
The set comprises of a twin sheet set with one flat sheet 66 by 95-inch and a fitted sheet 39 by 75 inch +9-inch and a pillowcase 20 by 26 inches
The sheets have an allover print with a coordinating reversable pillowcase which is 60/40 cotton/polyester
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Prince Charles Learning Arabic to Read Qur'an
May 9, 2013 by TMO
By Laura Fawaz, Contributing Reporter
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While in Qatar last month, Prince Charles of Wales said that he is learning Arabic so that he will be able to read the Qur'an.
Tom Sykes, from The Royalist (a division of The Daily Beast), who reports on all aspects of the British Royal Family, first reported the story, and the Prince's difficulty mastering a foreign language. When Qatar's energy minister inquired if Charles spoke any Arabic at an event yesterday, Charles replied, "I tried to learn it once but I gave up. It goes in one ear and out the other."
Nevertheless, a report in the UK's The Telegraph Newspaper cites a close aide to the Prince who has disclosed that Charles had indeed been taking Arabic lessons over the past six months, and he was motivated in part by a wish to be able to read the Qur'an in its original form. Understanding Arabic would enable the Prince, who is passionate about encouraging dialogue between different religions, to read the Qur'an in its original form. It would also mean he could decipher Arabic script during visits to mosques and museums of Islamic art.
The Prince of Wales is on a tour of the Middle East with Camilla. On Wednesday, they visited a camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan.
This emerging news resonates with some older allegations that Prince Charles' ex-wife the late Princess Diana was engaged to a Muslim man, Dodi Al Fayed. In fact, many speculations came about after Al Fayed and the princess' tragic death, that someone powerful had had them killed, perhaps in response to concerns the princess might embrace Islam. Princess Diana is rumored to have said "When it's not convenient anymore, I will– they will blow me in a car or in a helicopter," according to her old friend, Argentinean businessman Roberto Deverik.
In life, it was Princess Diana's glamour and fame and her modesty and caring, that caught the world's attention. Today, it is the mystery surrounding her death. The questions remain over a decade after the princess' tragic death in a Paris tunnel. Billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi's father, has relentlessly accused the British government of orchestrating the death of Princess Diana and his son. Al Fayed believes that his son and Diana were killed in order to prevent the princess from marrying his son, a Muslim, and having his child.


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Categories: Crushworthy Moms, CrushworthyMoms Picks - Tags: Amy Koslowsky, Barneys, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Carniosacral, Earnest Sewn, Flow Physical Therapy, holistic education, Magna tiles, mascara, mastectomy, Miss Lily's, Nutrition, Palmalleto, physical therapist, pink, Robert Sweet Williams, Solomay, Su Jok, Sue Devitt, yoga, Yves Saint LaurentAmy Koslowsky has been practicing physical therapy for 15 years specializing in breast cancer rehab, women's health and orthopedics. Amy combines combines her skills in manual therapy, exercise techniques, yoga therapeutics, and patient education to help her patients reach their goals and meet their full potential.
Amy integrates the powerful mind/body connection into her treatment approach. She is passionate about her work with women with breast cancer and is honored to be part of their transformation. By participating in holistic education, and updating her knowledge of healing the body, Amy is dedicated to honing her treatment skills. She is trained in the hands on work of the John F Barnes Myofascial and Craniosacral Release Technique and recently became certified in Su Jok Therapy. Su Jok therapy, developed in India, is a treatment that involves stimulating specific points on the hands and feet which have specific correspondence to areas in the body. The aim is to balance the flow of energy in the body.
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38 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him." | 38 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive." |
The World English Bible is in the public domain. (The World English Bible Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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'City of Life' Releases On DVD
December 11, 2010 by Faisal Hashmi
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DVD signing at Mall of the Emirates on December 15th at Virgin Megastores.
City of Life DVD Design Competition
October 10, 2010 by Hitesh Uchil
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City of Life is set to release on DVD in the Middle East in November 2010. The DVD double disc will include the director's cut and lots of great bonus material. If you're a skilled graphic designer and fancy having your artwork featured on the cover of the DVD, you can enter the City of [...]
City of Life releases on 22nd April
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Filmed entirely on location in the United Arab Emirates, City of Life follows the lives and fortunes of three central characters living and working in Dubai. The film depicts the very different cultures and lifestyles that exist side by side in this complex, multi-cultural city. The destinies of a privileged young Emirati man, a disillusioned [...]
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City of Life, the UAE production helmed by an Emarati filmmaker, is history in the making. Being the first UAE big-budget production, the ensemble piece exceeds expectations with strong acting and visuals and successfully captures the essence of Dubai. No one could wish for a better launching pad for the local industry.


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I bought the (new 20122/2012) black large compact on ebay for $5 (was $8 with shipping) - usually they are $16 through a consultant. Hopefully they won;t change the format very soon - as I just bought a bunch of MK shadows. I got suckered in by a friend who is a MK consultant. I hate that you have to buy the compact separately.
I bought this thinking it was an investment, because I had a lot of MK eyeshadows... Now, they changed the format!!!!!!!!!!(the black compact is a lot prettier!!!)So I won't buy any new eyeshadow! I will finish what I have and then just keep the compact for the mirror!!! GRRRRR
Or maybe buy loose eyeshadow and press it into empty containers! A lot cheaper! hate you MK! Why did you do this to me!!!! The compact was so expensive!!!!!!!!!!
I love this compact! It holds everything you needed all in one container. It is great for taking on trips, then you just have to take skin care in roll up bag which I also love. However, I saw in the newest MK catalog that MK is retiring alot of their eyeshadows/blushes so I think they are going to replace all of the packaging, then everyone will have to buy a new one for their new colors! That sucks after you have spent all of this money! So bottom line is, don't buy any new eyeshadows or blush until they announce what they are doing!
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I've had this compact for over five years now (the pink version) and it holds everything you need from this line (e/s, liner. mascara, powder, bronzer, blush). I believe it is way too expensive but if you like this brand it is a good investment. I gave it to my mother in law who loves this brand I don't use them anymore.
The version of this that I have holds 3 eye shadows, a blush, a lipstick or lipgloss and space for applicators/brushes. I love this! I love how you only have to buy the colors YOU choose and use and can refill it. It is less expensive that way and much more environmentally responsible. I would buy it again but I probably wouldn't need to for quite a while unless I drop it or something. I can see myself needing to replace the applicators on occasion, but I shampoo them every month or so to keep them fresh.
I absolutely LOVE this. I love it because it fits 12 eyeshadows, my pressed powder and all my eyeliners and lip gloss and the brushes! Having over 20+ MK eyeshadows, this compact was simply a god send :) It keeps my drawer so very organised and holds my "going out" colours i.e. the extra bright ones like jade, lagoon, blue moon etc etc. Makes me fabulously organised for once :) EXCELLENT value for money especially if you have heaps of makeup :)
I love my compact i holds so much I did use to be a consultat but I end up quieting because I no longer could use there skin care but I love this It holds everything. My only grip is like one of the coments before I dont were MK foundations I just dont like them so I do wish that comparment for them were optional. But I do like there bronzer so I gess I have one wasted space. I do like MK colors they work well with my skin tone and yeas I would buy agin Its woth it not have a darw full of stuff this give you a place to put it.
I just wrote a review on the e/s, so thougt I'd add a note here too.
Love this compact!! Everything goes in it, and nothing rattles around. Both my pressed powder and my bronzer fit nicely, so I don't have to carry around extra cases, and I can keep all of my eyeshadows in here, as well as a my lip and eye liners. Very handy for travelling. Someone mentioned that it was made of plastic, but mine has been really durable. Also, my consultant told me if I should have any problems, or it breaks (I seem to ALWAYS crack the mirror in my compacts, drives me insane) that it has a 100% guarantee, and I could get it replaced at no charge. LOL, I think that was final deciding factor for me!
I LOVE the Color 101 packages.. .except theyre SOOO expensive. I love how theyre put together by makeup artists and everything, but they just cost SO much! In any case, I got a set for my birthday with (a really light beige I forgot the name to), Whipped Cocoa, and rainforest complements my green eyes perfectly. The blush and Cantaloupe lipstick that goes with it brings out all the colors in the eyeshadow as well. Awesome! I love it. I just dont get to treat myself that often. =( Would definitely buy again... IF i had the money.
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I do agree with the other reviewers in that the price is a bit much and there needs to be 2 layers! I love this compact as it was the only one I could find that carried a foundation (albeit I am learning to love the creme to powder), powder and/or bronzer! I carry 2 blushes and 8 shadows along with my mascara and pencils. If I only want to carry one thing, I just take out a few pencils and replace it with a couple of lipsticks or glosses and it holds everything! A trick--when traveling, place a papertowel on top of the color then close. Nothing cracks!


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This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on working with young people, focusing on education, health and social work, and draws on projects and perspectives from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia. The volume highlights the ethical challenges and dilemmas as these and other services are integrated and addresses how ethical practices are confronted and shared across disciplines.
The first section looks at professional practice; the second foregrounds children's and young people's voices and is especially concerned with children and young people as co-researchers. Subjects addressed within the text include sex education, health education, custodial care, confidentiality and gaining consent, ethical issues around ICT and researching with vulnerable populations.
The book is intended for both scholars and practitioners. It places examples in clearly articulated theoretical frameworks as well as considering professional principles and practice.
Contents: Anne Campbell/Pat Broadhead: Introduction – Avril Brock/Carolynn Rankin/Louise Boyle Swiniarski: Are we doing it by the book? Professional ethics for teachers and librarians in the early years – Anne Campbell/Doug Martin: Every Child Matters: New ethical challenges arising in schools – Angela Anning: Research with vulnerable people: The importance of sensitivity – Pam Nason/Anne Hunt: Pedagogy as an ethical encounter: How does it look in our professional practice? – Bruce Johnson: Maintaining professional ethics during a 'moral panic' over sex education: A case study – Bridget Cooper: Valuing the human in the design and use of technology in education: An ethical approach to the digital age of learning – Susan Groundwater-Smith: The dilemmas we face: Designing a curriculum for vulnerable children in short-term care – Dorothy Bottrell: Shifting perspectives, representations and dilemmas in work with young people – Emma Ramsden/Phil Jones: Children as active agents in gaining and giving assent: Involving children as co-researchers – Liz Webster/Pat Broadhead: Their life, their choice: Ethical challenges for supporting children and young people in the self-management of Type 1 diabetes – Kaye Johnson: Promoting ethical understandings in child co-researchers – Jo Armistead: Reflecting on ethical considerations around young children's engagement when researching children's perspectives – Bridget Cooper: Developing an ethic of care with children and young people: Opportunities and challenges – Pat Broadhead/Anne Campbell: New ethical horizons: Lessons learned for changing practices.
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Anne Campbell is Professor of Professional Learning at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her research interests are in practitioner research, professional learning and ethics.
Pat Broadhead is Professor of Playful Learning at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her research interests are in practitioner research, playful pedagogies and ethics.
New International Studies in Applied Ethics. Vol. 5
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"We can't really manage time," I told her. "But we can manage our activities."
Then, I gave her three suggestions for doing just that:
1. Block your daily activities.
Create a schedule that has you doing what you do best or what gets the most results at the time that works best for you.
If you need that first half hour of the workday to have your coffee, review the mail and answer emails, then train the people in your office to wait for you. Post a sign-up sheet on the door for the first people who you'll see after you've had the time to get started.
If you are better at meetings in the morning than in the afternoon, try to arrange them for when you are able to do your best work.
2. Do one thing at a time.
Close your door for some of your work periods and have your calls held at those times if you can. Don't review and answer emails just because you heard the "you've got mail" sound. If you're reviewing a report, the email can wait. Disable the signal (or turn down the volume) so that it doesn't distract you.
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I asked him if he could afford to waste an hour like that every day, and he replied, "Yes, an hour but not two or three!" So we came up with the idea of blocking in an hour of time every day for him to lose focus and do nothing. After that, he stopped completely falling off his schedule.
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Fuhu is a company that kind of appeared out of nowhere and blew me away with the nabi 2. Its two subsequent tablets – the nabi Jr. and nabi XD – cover age groups on either side of the nabi 2, so the whole family can get in on the fun. While I've already reviewed the 2 and Jr., I've been waiting to cover the XD for one reason: the Play Store.
If you picked up Fuhu's nabi XD tablet for tweens, then it's time to grab it and hit the update button. An OTA recently began rolling out that brings some intriguing new features to the device, including an all-new launcher.
The XD Launcher isn't a typical launcher, however – it's more of a complete overhaul to the way the XD works and feels. It actually slightly reminds me of Chameleon Launcher, as it has time- and location-aware options that will display certain homescreens based on specific attributes.
Back in early-to-mid December, Fuhu announced a pair of new tablets: the nabi Jr. for small children, and the nabi XD for tweens. While release details were scant for the nabi Jr., the XD was penciled in for a mid-January release date. That time frame has come and gone, but it looks like both device are now available through BestBuy.com, though it's possibly the company pulled the trigger a little bit early since there's been nary a word from Fuhu since the initial announcement.
Fuhu - the creator of the nabi and nabi 2 tablets - is on fire. Just a little over one week ago, they announced the nabi Jr., a new 5" tablet designed for small children, and today they're back at it with a tablet designed just for tweens: the nabi XD.
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rev80 commented on the blog post Three Reasons Democrats Will Make California the Face of Obamacare
Why isn't the White House using MA as the example of how ObamaCare works? Because it turns out that RomneyCare really doesn't work that well.
The Administration has been hitting the "it will end medical bankruptcy" talking point recently. It turns out RomneyCare really hasn't made much of a difference: http://www.pnhp.org/sites/default/files/docs/2011/AJM_Mass-Reform-hasnt-stopped-med-bankruptcies.pdf
Then there is the whole it will save money by taking away the need to get expensive ER care. Well that hasn't really happened in MA either: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1109273
Of course no one thinks about the impact of ObamaCare's insurance based approach effect on already high administrative costs. It looks like RomneyCare has driven up costs in MA while holding down the employment of direct care providers: https://www.dartmouth.edu/~dstaiger/Papers/2011/staiger%20auerbach%20buerhaus%20nejm%202011.pdf
When several peer reviewed studies contradict your talking points you stay away from it.
rev80 commented on the blog post Obama Job Approval Is Historically Low for a President a Year Out from Re-election
That means very little when the health insurance companies will simply reclassify administrative expenses as medical expenses.
Or classify patient care related expenses as administrative and cut them.
As a provider I can tell you it can takes days or weeks of work to get a diagnostic test approved by an insurer. A procedure can take up to a month especially with some of the big insurers. By cutting the insurance company staff that deal with pre-approval and appeals they can delay care and in some cases allow the patient to die while waiting. It also will cut their employee costs. It is a win-win for them
rev80 commented on the blog post Will Accountable Care Organizations Really Reduce Health Care Costs?
Accountable care Organizations "are just rebranded 1990's style HMO's.
Here in MA Gov. Deval Patrick, one of Obama's friends, it trying to push the entire state towards these things as a way to save RomneyCare. He essentially wants to allow the insurance industry to pass all the risk to the providers. Your Dr will get the blame for denying care and the insurance industry gets to sit back and feed on the system.
This has spurred an explosion in for-profit health care in MA which has been free of this disease until recently. The hedge fund Cerberus bought a hospital group from the Catholic Church and has gone on a buying spree exclusively in the suburbs with the express goal of forming an ACO. It looks like they want to harvest the healthier, more affluent suburban population. They will dump the sicker, poor, urban population on the non-profit hospitals. The ACO model is easily exploited for profit.
Managed Care with capitation (known Patrick/ Obama newspeak as ACOs with global payments) is not new. It was tried and failed miserably in the 90's. We live with its legacy today. It is the parent of the shortest hospital stays in the developed world. Hospitals downsized to the point where they can't respond to minimal health emergencies (That is why you spend so long in the back hall of the ER waiting for a bed). Experienced trained healthcare professionals were replaced with barely trained ancillary staff.
I used to be a patient of a large group practice in MA that essentially functions as an ACO. Primary care was OK but specialty care was a nightmare. After a 3 month wait for a specialist appointment I ended up in the hospital before I saw him. After I was discharged I still only saw a PA and never the physician.
The ACO is just another way to keep the current corporate health care structure alive. They will divert money from patient care to feed the beast. Single payer will have to eventually come it is only a question of how many will get hurt on the way.


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SAN DIEGO - A 73-year-old diabetic whose PT Cruiser crashed into a bus stop shelter in City Heights, killing a woman and seriously injuring her 4-year-old son and his father, was sentenced Friday to three years probation and barred from driving during that period.
Jean Chizer-Williams pleaded guilty in January to a felony charge of gross vehicular manslaughter and a misdemeanor count of driving on a suspended license.
Judge Charles Gill ordered the defendant to be on electronic surveillance for a year. He also suspended an eight-year prison sentence for Chizer-Williams, which could be imposed should she violate probation.
Chizer-Williams was ordered to pay $1,962 in restitution.
Prosecutors said the defendant had been driving even though her license had been suspended because of her medical condition, and her blood-sugar level was extremely low at the time of the June 4, 2011, crash.
Chizer-Williams was driving about 35 mph when she lost control of her vehicle and crashed into the bus shelter in the 4800 block of University Avenue, killing 25-year-old Vanessa Mae Shane.
Shane's 4-year-old son, Elijah, and boyfriend David Abilez -- the boy's father -- were seriously injured. Both had multiple broken bones and the child had shards of glass stuck in his liver, authorities said.
Chizer-Williams apologized to Shane's family and said she thinks about the pain she caused them every day.
"The pain will never end. It will never end. But at least we know she would not be out to hurt someone else," said the victim's mother, Laura Shane, when asked if a prison sentence would have ended the family's pain. "I wanted her to serve prison time and suffer like my family has suffers every day."
"She definitely got away with murder," added Abilez, who said he is now disabled. "A femur rod, plates in my leg, screws, pins. I have tears in my right knee."
"This child is scarred for life," said Shane. "He was four and watched his mom die."
"Elijah has anger issues, depression, nightmares. He says, every time I bathe him, he says he's ugly because of the horrific scars that are on his back that will never ever go away," said Shane added.
"Elijah's always going to have his scars. I'm going to have my scars," said Abilez.
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The argument that "economic growth" is "the" global problem is false. The real problem is resources depletion. In principle it is entirely possible to have strong economic growth with a…contraction…of resource consumption. How is this possible? For starters it is happening steadily happening now. Efficiencies of performance driven by technology is the core. The most visible iconic form for this is the "iPod/iPhone". Only a handful of years earlier to appreciate the creative performance of others required large floor standing significant energy consuming equipment . Now that capability and much more is available to all the people of the world in hardware that weighs just grams. And the service industry that feeds that capability is massive, while requiring very little in support resources to enable it. The main consumption of resources now is for the living support for those engaged in this form of industry, and that is a variable which can be influenced by persuasion and legislation. So if the "soft resource industry" doubles its output economic growth will increase without there being a significant increase in resource consumption.
and she (Fran – the prolific pro nuke post deluger) would prefer (nuclear) waste being stored here in Australia.
Given that we have nuclear hazmat in the world, I'd prefer it to be stored in the least unsafe place, all things considered. Wouldn't that be any rational person's viewpoint, regardless of his or her attitude to nuclear power?
One of those least unsafe places would be here, and since Australia is an exporter of uranium oxide and is a party to NNPT, and since there are those worried about re-use of hazmat to produce weapons — would this not make sense?
And if we found a way to degrade this waste to less weaponizable form, to produce power from it without adding to the stockpile of hazmat and were paid to take it, would this not also make sense?
However as you know there is a diminishing return between increasing consumption and increasing quality of life once basic needs+ a bit are met [...] in fact we would increase quality of life if consumption of, say, cigarettes, heroin, Rush Limbaugh, leaf-blowers, etc decreased without any replacement
I completely agree. Indeed one might consider the question of the share of production/consumption spent on the military (along with the knock-on effects). I read that if the fuel used by the military alone were handed off to the world's largest airline they could have a zero fuel bill.
It's unlikely in practice though that the first world will agree to these kinds of cuts in consumption and even less likely that the military will be substantially dismantled. If we could have a verificable agreement amongst the states of the woprld to cut real per capita spending on the military by 1% per annum and to reduce the sizes of their arsenals and logistics by at least the same amount that in itself would be huge, but I don't see that happening. (the adjective I'd like to attach here would upset PrQs filter).
The broader question is that even if we did all these things, extra goods and services still need to be produced, however you count the total. You still need to produce the things near the Maslow's hierarchy stuff at industrial scale. At some point, you stop being able to eliminate wasteful consumption. Cutting waste buys us time — good thing — but it doesn't change the long run calculus. This side of cuts in population or at least stability, growth is necessary if poor people are to become not poor.
If we first worlders are outrageously successful in persuading our fellow first worlders not to be reckless and to strive for "just what we need" and diverting those resources toward people who don't, then we buy useful time to do the other things that are also necessary. We put off the day of disaster or lessen its depth. We don't cancel it though.
Australia is a continent predominantly made from semi permiable sedimentary rock, with a massive and complex artesian basin. Just because there are barren suface areas where few desire to go does not make this a "suitable" dumping site for nuclear waste. Beyond that are the mangement times from hundreds to thousands of years, way longer than the life span of any previous civlisation, and certainly greater than any stable political environment in history. No present government can responsible force future governments and generations to bear that responsibility.
What you are suggesting is that it is ok for someone to pay you to mind their child with you for a few minutes, then disappear for ever.
Nuclear hazmat is not a magical substance. Essentially all you need to do is to house it somewhere that is secure from human contact in circumstances where it won't get access to water tables opr the atmosphere.
The volumes in question are tiny compared with CO2 and other fossil combustion releases. They are also tiny compared with the bulk of the decommissioning burden of renewables such as wind turbines or solar panels or even CSP.
It is a fact that there are large areas on Australias land mass that have been gologically stable for orders of magnitude longer than the time for completed decay of the waste to background levels. The jurisdictional questions are far more salient, and Australia has stable governance and is presently fairly remote from the major areas of civil conflict.
For the record, why don't you draw up a management plant for the storage of the various levels of waste? Where would you have these stored?
There are a few properties at Hunters Hill which the nuclear advocate(s) could move to for the purpose of learning by doing and putting their money where their mouth is. This would save the NSW tax payers a bit of money spent on belated decommissioning work.
I would not create the materials in the first place. The only safe system that I can imagine is granular vitrification and deep burial in a very dilute form ie small grains mixed amoungst massive amounts of impermiable clay, preferably in the deep ocean on the edge of a rapidly subducting techtonic plate.
The French have controvercially decided to bury theirs in low permiability clay beds. But what will bring that unstuck, depending on the amounts involved are that decaying nuclear waste emits heat and gasses while also having a variable neutron emission rate. What I can see going wrong with this plan is that the heat will change the properties of the clay allowing porosity which will provide the opportunity for progressively nuclear contaminated supporting material to become mobile thereby allowing the nuclear separation of the material to change offering the possibility of a critical mass event to occur. Of course the engineers have worked out all of the risks and have allowed for these things, just as engineers have before every disaster in history. The interesting one was the Marshal Islands test explosion which was planned to be a 4000 megatonne event but (woops) became a 15000 megatonne event (roughly) due to unforseen reactions.
I know, Fran, that you prefer to think about Chernobyl as though it was a bad long weekend on the roads, but for everyone elses "entertainment" he is one account worth reading
Moreover, the risk from long lived nuclear waste becomes vanishingly small if you choose a high enough discount rate.
It does, but your flippant tone ill-becomes you.
Consider this. While it is unlikely that we will discover a permanent technological fix for secure hazmat storage in the next ten years, it may well be twice as likely 20 years from now if there is any substantial expansion in the volume of waste to be dealt with and the costs of doing so. The further out into the future you push the consideration (250 years?), the more likely it is that we will come up with a good answer.
We don't know what the discount rate is and clearly, a technological breakthrough could occur anywhere along the timeline, so the real challenge for us to to adopt a strategy that allows us to manage the problem at low cost in human resources and risk until that day comes, precisely so that any discount rate works for us and those who come later.
Our relationship with future generations is more complex than you allow. Clearly, if we mess up, we mess them up, but the reverse is also true and has been true all thoughout human history. What we learn and build we pass on as legacy, and not the least way of messing up is to hand them a problem that exceeds their resources to handle and is very serious in scale. That's why GHG-buildup cannot be ignored. Unlike nuclear hazmat, CO2 emitted today will perturb the biosphere for well beyond 50,000 years. It cannot yet be stored securely in the volumes required for the time needed.
That's something the renewables-largely advocates miss. Their plan calls for large-scale resort to NG which is not only finite but CO2-emitting. The net-CO2 reduction is not the reduction from a CSP or a wind turbine but from the total package including the redundant fossil capacity. And if that NG comes (as some of it must) in the form of open cycle gas, then the savings fall still further since this more CO2-intensive relative to coal than are the most efficient closed cycle plants. These must be used since the more efficient closed cycle plants get damaged by being rapidly and repeatedly asked to meet slews (variations in the supply/demand balance) caused by supply from intermittents.
Endlessly referring to Chernobyl, BilB, proves nothing. No amount of sadness about that disaster is pertinent to considering the marginal utility of fundamentally different systems operating in a significantly different regulatory context.
What you don't say is how much damage to the environment resort to coal rather than nuclear has led to during the same period and will author in the future. One could argue that the disaster at Chernobyl will not only come to prematurely end the lives of 4000 or so people and seriously damage the lives of many others, but it will have authored a context in which much more coal would be burned, killing and harming orders or magnitude more people for hundreds of years into the future.
That of course is a failure of human politics because instead of knee-jerk reactions to nuclear — which we don't often do with other industrial-scale systems — we might have responded by ensuring we simply didn't repeat the Chernobyl system — a military grade reactor without a concrete housing operated outside of specs.
Think of this — how many people were killed at Three Mile Island?
Actually, you wrong there, Fran. The use of natural gas (NG) in the CSP (Concentating Solar thermal Power) hybride system, used to cover the non solar periods (13% in total), can be comfortably replaced with the use of biomass. And there are 2 projects that I am privy too that serve that need extremely well. One is a down draft gasifier that burns a broad range of biomass inputs to produce an ideal burnable output gas of CO (Carbon monOxide) and H2, plus biochar (this system is now in production I believe). The other is a project to use a biomass source that is massively abundant in Australia (can't talk precisely about it because of confidentiality constraints).
The biofuel component potential makes CSP 100% CO2 free and fully baseload deliverable 24/365. Another project that I am periferally involved with offers the possibility of 10Kw of solar power for every new house for as little as $15,000 per house, and with a complete payback period of 3 to 7 seven years without subsidy or special feedin rates. This project is really exciting and uses today ready technology with the certainty of higher efficiencies again in the near future.
So the way that I see the future unfolding now is that the 3 cent per Kwhr levy will fund the basic 28 gigawatt fossil fuel power generation infrastructure replacement with CSP/Wind/Wave and Geothermal, and privately funded PV (high efficiency Photo Voltaic) providing the supply of demand growth to cover the transition to electrically powered transportation over the next 30 years. All of that for less than the cost of a McHappy meal per family per week for the next 30 years. With the ongoing bonus that the progressive increase in the number of families with houses containing the 10Kw sytems will steadily improve the standard of living for Australian families as this offers an income improvement of $3000 per year after the payback period of the system has passed.
The future is potentially far more secure. The solutions are all there.
Fran5/10, the reality that you have to cope with is that Nuclear is entirely unnecessary in the Australian context (refer BilB 5/11) and if it were employed on the east coast of Australia, any accident at all jeopardises the premium farming/residential land that Australia has to offer. And a Chernobyl scale accident, however unlikely, would be absolutlely devastating in this region, the region of highest population and electricity demand. These are risks that Australians are entirely averse to.
You are pushing a barrow with a corpse in it. It is time to head for the cemetary, then get back to the living.
1. The 13% figure was provided by Dr Franz Trieb,
(his phone number can be found on this document), and is based on the accumulated experience of all of the operating CSP plants.
2. I cannot divulge that at this stage (confidentiality, I was involved in preparing samples for testing during the holiday break), but it is my undestanding that this is highly abundant and in near proximity to the areas where CSP plants are likely to be placed. However, it should be appreciated that the non solar periods are infrequent and provide more than ample time for stockpiles to be formed. This is a fully manageable facility which offers solid permanent employment opportunities for many inland Australian communties.
2b the "putative biomass combustion plants" would be a combination of the standard hybride gas powered boilers with the gas, instead of being natural gas (methane), being supplied by the downdraft gassifier above mentioned (CO + H2). This downdraft gassifier system (a mobile version) was demonstrated to the energy minister in the grounds of parliament house just recently, I am told.
Well, my future generation, presently, provides me with delight and entertainment. What I am more concerned about, though, is that it will be they who managed my dotage, and they have been more than direct in reminding me that my future comfort will be managed by them.
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LOL Ernestine…there is a real agenda going on here isnt there?? It is so very obvious…and that is to try to shove nuclear down peoples throats when they clearly dont want it here in Australia. I posted a link above. It really is no accident that the majority of nuclear weapons in storage happen to be close to nuclear facilities across the US and Europe and these shortsighted fools want to see them extend into the Southern hemisphere as well which is relatively free of the hideous weapons storage.
Then we get the propaganda that uses every semi pseudo technical term wrapped in jargon and triple wrapped in a snowstorm of posts to try to convince us all nuclear is normal and safe and we could eat it on our weetbix. I wish they would just disappear for my childrens sakes and their childrens sakes. They are a danger to us all.
Good on you BilB. I couldnt agree more with your comment at 13 "Fran5/10, the reality that you have to cope with is that Nuclear is entirely unnecessary in the Australian context"
But I agree with this comment even more "You are pushing a barrow with a corpse in it. It is time to head for the cemetary, then get back to the living."
Fran – do us all a favour and take BilBs advice.
I checked your linkt to Dr Trieb. There is neither a claim about 13% in it and still less any modelling to justify such an inference.
Certainly, one can't simply make such sweeping claims for every location, even if it turned out that there were at least one such location.
What does 13% mean anyway? Plainly it can't refer to the hours between dusk and dawn. It's also not going to refer to the hours each day when there is some sun. CSPs can harvest at peak only when the sun is fairly high in the sky. Outisde those times you aren't getting 87% of rated capacity.
Now I would be willing to pay a significant premium to have CSPs here if they could replace coal within 5 years, but I'd need to see some solid modelling to suggest this was actually possible.
In a CSP baseload capable systems the collector array takes in solar energy in the form of heat and transfers the heat with oil at 400 deg C to the enrgy conversion facility (boiler and turbines). As demand fluctuates during the day surplus heat is stored in either concrete blocks or molten salt tanks for use at a later time. During non solar periods (night time and cloudy day), the stored heat is transfered to the boilers to maintain continuity of supply. Where there is a short fall in heat storage gas burners or biomass burners come on line automatically to maintain the continuity of electricity output. By this method CSP performs the combined roles of coal power and hydro power but in the one facility. The 13% is the industry experience figure for the percentage of gas or biomass required for a CSP plant to maintain baseload performance. The figure was obtained from a phone conversation with Dr Trieb several years ago.
Dr Trieb is Europes foremost authority on CSP power. He was engaged by the former German government (pre Angela Merkil) to evaluate and implement government policy with regards CSP electricity in the Eurozone. Dr Trieb is less available for phone conversations these days, but his email address is readily available if you need verification on the figures.
There are two approaches to building expensive energy infrastructure. One is for the government to be the "owner builder", the other is for the market to provide an "off the shelf" or "supplier takes all risk" approach. The difference is seen in the delivered electricity price. If you need modelling then Dr Trieb is the only person that I am aware of who can provide such from a government "owner builder" viewpoint. For the "supplier bears all costs and takes all risk" point of view there are an increasing number of consultancies and corporations keen to obtain that opportunity. Australia's Professor David Mills being one of them.
All systems at the moment are compared to the "coal standard" with regard to electricity generation cost. The coal standard (in the Australian context) is a system where the infrastructure has been paid for by the public and the assets have been written off, and is fueled with coal that the state "owns" and makes available at cost through independent mining contractors. It is for this reason that the proposed 3 cents per retail unit levy infrastructure funding plan is the only system that can deliver truly comparible electricity generation pricing. This is the only method whereby the replacement alternative energy infrastructure is provided in a "paid up" manner thereby removing the "mortgage" component form the delivered electricity pricing.
If contracts were let today for CSP infrastructure, it would be 3 years before the first facilities came on line. By this time the retail electrity levy system would have 20 billion dollars accumulated. New capacity would come on line every year after that. The completion rate would be controlled by the available funding.
I looked at your link, http://www.kfas.com/information_pages/pdf-news/Dr-Franz-Trieb.pdf.
It contains an abstract of a paper by Dr Franz Trieb.
I assume you explicitly referred to the address and telephone number because the full paper, possibly presented at a conference, is not available in the public domain for commercial in confidence reasons.
Dr Trieb's paper, like most research papers I've come across, signals its content in the heading: In this case: Concentrating Solar Power for Seawater Desalination AQUA-CSP. Dr Trieb's paper talks about the specific case of North Africa and the Middle East. Anybody who has elementary education in geography will therefore know that this region is arid, it includes the Sahara desert, and it has an shortage of water. Its relevance to Australia cannot be dismissed a priori.
I also had a look at the web-site of Dr Trieb's affiliation: http://www.sollab.eu/dlr.html
I found that Dr Trieb's affiliation (place of work) is part of a large EU-wide research net-work. The content of this web-site signals support for your statements as well as those if iain on this thread.
I am writing in this manner because I wish to illustrate to the target audience of 'communicators' (previously 'advocates', previously 'spin doctors', previously public relations experts, previously propagandists) that it is possible for non-experts in a field to carry out elementary checks on the credibility of the 'stuff' published .
Exactly, Ernestine. The link was to the source of the information rather than the content. In this case the individual with whom I have had a number of lengthy conversations, with the intention of determining the suitability of the European CSP system for the Australian environment. In my opinion "a phone call saves a thousand emails".
BilB – if I read you correctly you are saying that a CSP plant can deliver electricity with the same reliability and flexibility as a gas only plant whilst using on average 87% less gas. If this is so then I'd regard it as a technically feasible alternative to our existing purely fossil fuel plants. It then becomes a much more simple economic question.
The economic analysis I have seen still tends to put such alternatives in the very expensive category.


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Will we be seeing more tokensets etc in the future for released campaigns etc?
Has there been anything said about this matter?
I know they do it for WH:F rpg and i'd love to see them release maps etc for future SW campaigns.
Token sets etc
Posted 26 April 2013 - 11:20 PM
Posted 27 April 2013 - 06:00 AM
I am positive that they'll be doing more maps and token sets, most likely with adventure supplements or as an independent product - it's hard to package token sheets in with hardback books.
This sort of thing is right in FFG's sweet spot.
Posted 27 April 2013 - 02:47 PM
They've done acrylic tokens for most of their LCGs and even X-wing game, so I would be willing to be that we will see some cool tokens and maps at some point in the future.
Posted 01 May 2013 - 07:01 AM
I would like for them to add more tokens but it will not be a problem with me. I have a huge extinsive Staw Wars Minis collection from the WotC game from a couple years back. I think they will work out awesome for this game and intend to bring all 8 cases ( tackle boxes and toll boxes) I have to each gaming session for my players to use. There are enough to fit just about any character there is.


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Over the past few months, on behalf of this newspaper, I've had a chance to sit in on a couple of work sessions of the School Board, as well as interviewing two newly-elected members of that body. In the months to come, I hope to do a good deal more in this line.
What school boards do - and especially, budgetary matters - have never been part of my life before. Of course, having taught in three very different public high schools - and served as Assistant Principal of another - I know my way around the front lines of public education. And, while I never wrote my dissertation, I took all the classes for a Ph. D. in Educational Leadership at UVA, so I know the theory.
But until I started following the budget process at School Board meetings, I never knew just how badly our schools are being underfunded - in the places that count.
Now, please note the final qualifier in the previous sentence. As with all levels of government, our schools certainly waste a good deal of money. But unlike other levels of government, they don't have a lot of choice in the matter. And most of the waste is imposed from above, while many necessary parts of the schools' task are starved for funds.
The simple fact is that local school divisions - and the School Boards which supervise them - have for decades been caught between the Scylla of declining revenues and the Charybdis of Federal and state mandates. They are constantly commanded to do more - much of it having little to do with their central mission - but these mandates from on high are seldom accompanied by additional funds.
Meanwhile, after decades of government by politicians who would rather cut taxes than solve problems, the schools have less money - on a per pupil basis - every year.
Given these realities, it's little wonder that our schools seem to be in decline. They are in decline - and the trend seems irreversible. After several decades in which Americans' real wealth has not increased - in real dollars - we are entering an era in which our real wealth is actually decreasing. Because of that, Americans are less willing than ever to send more taxes to the various levels of government.
At least, in the case of our schools - declining public investment makes them ever less competitive with schools in Germany, France, China, Singapore, India, Brazil, Germany and Canada, among other nations. As our schools grow less competitive, America will continue to grow poorer, as a nation, compared with other nations which invest more generously - and more thoughtfully - in the education of their young.
Part of the problem - the simpler part - is to recognize that better schools will mean spending more money. In Chesterfield County, the percentage of local tax dollars devoted to education has declined sharply in the past four years. It's starting to show.
Chesterfield's growth and economic development have been, for decades, driven by our perceived superiority in public schools. Lately, however, those who follow the trends will tell you that Chesterfield is no longer Number One in the region. Hanover's schools are better. Goochland's are coming on strong. If the current Board of Supervisors continues to hold the line on taxes, while continuing recent cuts in educational spending, the effects will soon be felt on housing values and new economic development.
Once that spiral begins, it becomes almost impossible for a large county to pull out. When the schools are perceived as mediocre, housing values decline - and thus, the tax base suffers. Thus begins a vicious cycle.
For Chesterfield, this will mean that residential development will shift north and west - as retail and entertainment have already shifted. Chesterfield will become a declining bedroom community for families who can't afford to live where the good schools are.
There is nowhere to go but down.
Of course, revenues are only half the battle. The other half has to do with wasteful spending - and the difficulty there is that most of the waste is mandated. Various levels of government require local schools to provide various programs - usually for political reasons, having little to do with local conditions and nothing whatsoever to do with the education of young Americans.
As voters entering a new election cycle - with a President and Congress to choose this fall, and a Governor and House of Delegates to choose next year - Chesterfield residents should remember to ask tough questions about what mandates they are willing to eliminate - and which they are willing to fund.
A good place to start would be the elimination of the SOLs.
Later, we will have to address the matter of electing County leaders willing to pay for quality schools - even at the price of higher taxes.


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The control for my driver's front power seat keeps going...the fuse has been changed a couple of times, there were bare wires making contact under the seat that they placed conduit over....it is in again today (just was in yesterday) for another attempt @ repair. Anyone else experience this problem??? What was your fix?
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I am from GM Customer Service. Is your vehicle currently at the dealership or are you fixing the vehicle yourself? Can you please email me so I can look into your situation further? You can access my email by clicking on my name. Thank you,
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booboo8115 Posts: 3The car was repaired @ the dealership. I just got home with it repaired.... They said someone had re-routed wiring under the driver's seat into the wrong channel, it needed to go through the middle & it was going to the left one. Hence, when I would put the seat to the lowest setting, it would short out. (I am tall & don't like my knees in the dash & I like to sit lower than most people I guess)
They were great with the repair...tried for 3 tries. Hopefully this fix will hold....time will tell. Does this sound right?, what they did I mean??
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I am glad to see they got your vehicle fixed. If it was causing a failure because the wires were in the wrong spot then it should be correct. I cannot say for certain because I cannot see the vehicle for myself. But, the information sounds correct. Keep me posted if anything happens. Thank you,
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gmfornow3 Posts: 16I have a 2008 Malibu with 61,000 miles. The driver's seat front to back movement has just stopped working totally. About a month ago it was working, if I tried the switch a few times. The other directions are working. Has anyone had any experiences with this failure? A short or bad motor? In either case, sounds like a lot of labor hours to fix at the dealer.
gmfornow3 Posts: 16I decided to take it in to my local chevy dealer to get it fixed in June 2012. It cost $245 total. The problem was the seat track was jammed. They did the following: dissasembled seat track, lubed run channel, retimed movement mechanism, and reassembled seat track. It has been working fine since then. They also gave me the option of replacing the seat track, since they were not totally sure the other option would work, but the cost of that was about $1,000.


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Photographs by Larry RacioppoAt the Museum of the City of New York (January 16 - June 27, 1999)
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) today announced the opening of Landscapes of Hope: Rebuilding New York City's Neighborhoods, a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, featuring 65 remarkable photographs taken by Larry Racioppo. From January 16, 1999, through June 27, 1999, the exhibition will highlight the tremendous changes that have occurred in New York City's neighborhoods as a result of the work of HPD and its many dedicated partners.
Landscapes of Hopefocuses primarily on the redevelopment activities in Central and East Harlem in Manhattan, the Morrisania section of the South Bronx, and Saratoga Square in Central Brooklyn. Racioppo's photographs vividly depict how HPD's affordable housing development programs have revitalized these neighborhoods and have restored some of New York's most beautiful residential architecture.
"This wonderful exhibit will provide the public with a better understanding of New York City's comprehensive housing and community redevelopment programs, and will offer an enriched perspective of the City's vibrant and prospering neighborhoods," said Commissioner Richard T. Roberts. "Racioppo's photographs of construction workers provide a captivating portrait of the men and women who are rebuilding New York City's neighborhoods."
Between FY '87 and FY '98, HPD has completed 14,402 units of housing redevelopment in Central Harlem and 5,534 units of housing in East Harlem. In the last ten years, HPD developed 43,413 units in the South Bronx and invested $133 million in this area. Almost $50 million has been allocated for investment in the urban renewal area of Saratoga Square. It will provide approximately 1,100 units of new homeownership housing, commercial investment, renovation of 140 units of City-owned buildings, and the construction of two parks.
The revitalization of these four neighborhoods are representative of the housing redevelopment activities that are taking place in many other communities throughout the City.
Under Mayor Giuliani's leadership, HPD has made a decisive shift away from City-ownership of properties, and has developed several innovative community revitalization initiatives that promote private investment and productive partnership. These initiatives include the successful Partnership New Homes Program, Building Blocks!, ANCHOR (Alliance for Neighborhood Commerce, Homeownership and Revitalization), and the new Anti-Abandonment effort.
Since 1987, HPD has provided over $4.5 billion to support the repair, rehabilitation, and new construction of 174,000 housing units citywide. During this period, the inventory of vacant and occupied units in City-owned residential buildings has decreased from over 86,000 to under 27,000. From January 1994 to June 1998 alone, HPD has made available 8,325 new homes across the City for working families. In the next four years, HPD plans to spend close to $1.5 billion in continued support of housing preservation and community development activities in New York City.
Landscapes of Hopealso demonstrates that successful housing development is a collaborative effort. HPD has worked in partnership with hundreds of neighborhood-based organizations and community developers through the City, such as the New York City Housing Partnership, Neighborhood Partnership HDFC, and the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC). These three organizations are helping to support this exhibit.
Photographer Larry Racioppo's work ahs been shown in several solo exhibits, including an exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., entitled Forgotten Gateway: The Abandoned Buildings of Ellis Island(November 12, 1998 - May 2, 1999). Racioppo recently completed a year-long Guggenheim Fellowship.


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Hey, I'm currently running Slackware 10.1.0 on my laptop. I'm trying to configure my Ralink 802.11G built in wireless card. I believe I've got the Module installed correctly due to ...
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Almost there (I think) wireless network config question.
ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412GHz Bit Rate:1Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
I've read the README file that came with the driver (version rt2500-1.1.0), however, none of the instructions given for configuration seem to work for me. I've tried editing the rc.wireless.conf file. which reads:
# Generic example (decribe all possible settings)
INFO="Fill with your own settings..."
# ESSID (extended network name) : My Network, any
# NWID/Domain (cell identifier) : 89AB, 100, off
# Operation mode : Ad-Hoc, Managed, Master, Repeater, Secondary, auto
# Frequency or channel : 1, 2, 3 (channel) ; 2.422G, 2.46G (frequency)
# Sensitivity (cell size + roaming speed) : 1, 2, 3 ; -70 (dBm)
# Bit rate : auto, 1M, 11M
# Encryption key : 4567-89AB-CD, sassword
# RTS threshold : off, 500
# Fragmentation threshold : off, 1000
# Other iwconfig parameters : power off, ap 01:23:45:67:89:AB
# iwspy parameters : + 01:23:45:67:89:AB
# iwpriv parameters : set_port 2, set_histo 50 60
However, none of this seems to be passed to the card. I run an open network, and have ruled out the possibility that it's my router. I'm just not sure where to go fron here. Any help is appreciated.
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What are you actually using as settings? The one you posted is all blank and/or defaults. You don't need to share your wep key, but everything else would be helpful.