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Do your children love inflatable toys? We are excited to offer a large selection of inflatable toys, as well as other fun objects for playing and decorating. Inflatable toys are a great way to keep kids occupied, especially if you are on a small budget or don't have a lot of room. Kids love being able to have fun fights outdoors with inflatable weapons, or to create their own games with inflatable balls, like beach balls. With different inflatable toys, kids can truly let their imagination run wild without adults having to sacrifice a large amount of room or money for various toys.
Did you know that you can also find inflatable party games and obstacle courses? We are excited to offer a variety of inflatable games to make playing indoors or out more fun. Best of all, kids of all ages can easily pick up an inflatable game and go, allowing everyone to have fun at your party. Once see our large selection of inflatable balls, inflatable weapons, and animal assortments, we are certain you will agree that inflatable toys are great for kids parties! Just make sure to keep checking back to see all of our amazing products, as well as the sales we have throughout the year.
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Some homeowners like to see things clearly, leading the way to glass shower enclosures. C.R. Laurence is helping this trend by offering a large line of accessories for frameless glass showers.
In the August issue of Qualified Remodeler, we introduced you to C.R. Laurence's, also known as CRL, Hydroslide Frameless Sliding Shower Door Kit. This Hydroslide Frameless Sliding Shower Door Kit is designed for full-standing showers or to be installed above bathtubs. These kits can accommodate shower designs with fixed glass panels on either end or both sides at 90 and 180 degrees, and can be used for floor-to-near-ceiling glass panels with a sliding door. CRL Hydroslide Kits are available in either 60- or 84-in. widths.
CRL began over 44 years ago, when it started as a fledgling distributor of glazier's hardware and industrial supplies, operating out of a 5,000-sq.-ft. facility in Los Angeles, Calif. Very quickly CRL began its aggressive expansion throughout North America by first establishing branches in Dallas, Illinois, Northern California, Georgia and New Jersey and now holds 21 branches in North America, Europe and Australia.
Today CRL has a hand in glass fabrication, construction, architecture and automotive restyling. CRL offers a complete line of quality glass and mirror hardware, including its newest line of hardware for display cabinets and showcases. Whatever the mirror industry needs to mount, hang, seal or protect mirrors, is found at CRL.
In the general tool line, glaziers, carpenters, electricians, plumbers and other general handymen will find a wide selection of tools and equipment in CRL catalogs and on-line. This line of tools is constantly growing as new products are developed.
CRL carries all sorts of hardware and support for its Frameless Showers. It has materials for in-line, right angle, neo angle and custom angling showers in several finishes. To help out the remodeler, they also have a Frameless Shower Enclosure Design & Estimating Program to get started and come up with an appropriate quote for the consumer.
With all that CRL has to offer in Frameless Shower Door Hardware and Supplies, it's hard to imagine they wouldn't have what a remodeler is looking for.
For more information on C.R. Laurence go to www.crlaurence.com or indicate #87 in eInquiry form.
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Survey respondents see energy conservation as a leading source of return on sustainability investment.
"Top consumer groups turn to sustainability." That was the headline for an Entrepreneur.com article by Bill Roth, president of NCCT, a San Francisco-based consulting firm specializing in sustainability marketing and business strategies.
Roth, writing about last year's Sustainable Brands Conference, was referring to US youth, women and CEOS. Representing an annual buying power of about US$10 trillion, these three consumer groups are "shifting their purchasing criteria toward sustainability," Roth wrote.
Of course, this is not just a US phenomenon. Mintel says nearly half of UK adults view environmental and ethical issues as important, with up to 40% identifying animal welfare as their top food concern. In a Petfood Forum 2010 presentation, Jan Hoijtink, director, Hoijtink Advies BV, cited these statistics:
Judging by the results of a Petfood Industry survey, petfood companies understand how much consumers, employees and other stakeholders value sustainability: 62% of respondents cited consumer demand as a key reason their operations are adopting "green" practices. The next highest response, at 57.6%, was because it's the right thing to do.
The survey received a small (just over 100) response, but these industry members weighed in on a variety of questions and offered multiple responses when prompted. For example, other reasons for adopting sustainable practices included:
Probing further into public perception, the survey asked respondents how they thought consumers defined "green" petfoods. The most popular responses involved ingredients (natural, nothing artificial) and recyclable packing, yet manufacturers' practices weighed in at 52% (Figure 1).
These results help make the case that there is no single, prevalent definition of green or sustainable. Perhaps one respondent summed it up best: "Everyone has a personal idea as to what green is, and it is inconsistent at best."
Many respondents' organizations are gearing their marketing to meet consumer expectations, with 51% using sustainability claims. Just 33% said they're not using such claims. Nearly 45% believe the claims are somewhat more important to their marketing; another 28% said they are a lot more important while 16% said they have about the same importance. Only 5% said they are somewhat or a lot less important.
When asked the same question about green claims and sales, responses were similar: 44% said the claims are somewhat more important to sales; 19%, a lot more important; 25%, about the same; 4%, somewhat or a lot less important.
Yet when it comes to their businesses' success, much of respondents' thoughts about sustainability are focused toward regulatory bodies. Asked to rate their level of concern with a number of issues, respondents said they're very concerned about regulations:
"I won't play this game until there is consistency and transparency. Green is eliminating industry in this country!" wrote one respondent.
Other issues registering a moderate level of concern included consumer demands for excluding certain ingredients (33%), availability of proteins (32%) and traceability requirements for ingredients (31%).
To date, respondents' organizations are receiving return on investment (ROI) in sustainable practices like energy conservation (54.5%), product formulation (51%) and waste systems (50%). For most initiatives, however, respondents see payoff coming down the road, with potential for ROI delivery highest for production systems (75%) and new facility design and construction (71%). Figure 2 includes a full list of ROI delivery and potential.
Perhaps the levels for currently delivering items are lower because only 28% of respondents said their businesses are applying sustainability to a large extent, with the same amount replying such practices are being employed to just a limited extent. Another 37% said the practices are being used moderately.
Half the respondents rate their organizations' progress as about the same as other industry companies, while 36% believe their businesses are further along than most in petfood. As for the industry overall, 46% believe petfood is about the same as most industries, though 37% believe it's behind; only 14% said it's ahead.
Yet if these respondents' views are any indication, petfood may soon be moving faster: 41% believe it's very important for their organizations to be leaders in adopting sustainable practices and 36% said it's somewhat important. Also, 68% believe increased sustainability is somewhat or very likely to lead to rising long-term profits for their businesses.
Sent to the Petfood Industry audience via e-mail in February and March 2010, the sustainability survey received 108 responses. Respondents were mostly from North America (66%) and work for petfood manufacturers (63%), yet Europe (14%), South/Central America (10.4%), Asia (4.7%) and Asia-Pacific (2.8%) were also represented, as were industry suppliers (19%), wholesalers/distributors/brokers (10.4%), consultants (8.5%), retailers (5.7%) and marketers (3.8%).
In terms of functional areas, 59% of respondents work in product development, 47% in sales, 43% in marketing, 37% in purchasing, 26% in environmental/regulatory compliance and 25.5% as nutritionists.
About half (49.4%) of respondents said their job responsibilities do not involve developing or implementing sustainability initiatives; 44.4% said they do. Fewer than half (42%) work for companies that have a person in charge of sustainability initiatives. Titles for such people include sustainability director, VP or chief, but in some organizations the responsibility lies with the CEO or an executive in charge of regulatory affairs, supplies, R&D, quality or market insights.
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Watch Antonio Teixeira de Miranda Neto, president of Total Alimentos, describe how his company and others in the Brazilian petfood market are going green. View the video here.
For more about sustainability in petfood, watch Jan Hoijtink's Petfood Forum 2010 PowerPoint, "Corporate social responsibility: from whim to a matter of strategy."
See the full results of the survey sent to the Petfood Industry audience on sustainability.
Companies like The Honest Kitchen, Pulse Canada and Mars Petcare are making "green" ingredients a top priority
US trade data show petfood faring relatively well
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Howlin' Wolf's self titled second album, which has come to be known as 'The Rockin' Chair Album', was originally released by Chess Records as a collection of 6 singles recorded between 1960 and 1962 and since then it has taken on a life of it's own and become arguably Howlin' Wolf's best known and best loved album. This is curious considering that the album was not originally released as an album at all in the traditional sense of the word. It was more like a best of in a lot of respects, and bearing in mind that these tracks were recorded in separate sessions and in different months and even years in some cases, it is interesting to note the changing nature of the recordings themselves – particularly relevant between the opening two tunes, 'Shake For Me' and 'The Red Rooster'.
Why then, one might ask, is this record considered to be one of Howlin's Wolf's best if it was just a collection of singles? The answer to this is in the quality of the b-sides. From 'Spoonful' down to closer 'Tell Me' Wolf is at his absolute best. It's almost as if he was instructed by his label to just go in and knock something out really quickly so they could tack it onto the existing and more linear singles and you know what they say – when the subconscious is in control the best of ones' art flourishes.
This writer likes to imagine Leonard and Phil Chess strolling into the studio and saying something like – "Yeah we've got the singles in the bag Chester just let it rip for the b-sides".
Definitely what happened.
Well let it rip he did. Wolf's 'Spoonful' is simply one of the best tunes ever recorded. It's really just a simple blues traditional in terms of arrangement, but it's how he delivers it. His voice has a visceral character and an almost sinister quality that takes the music away from slipping into that pool of bluesy lethargy. Also, on tracks like 'Going Down Slow' the entire soul of what the blues is really all about is prevalent. The low tones and languid nature of the verses wherein Wolf laments – "I did not say I was a millionaire, but I said I have spent more money than a millionaire", goes on to belie the cut and pure guts of the brilliant choruses. No one could get the energy out of that tune like Howlin' Wolf does.
The first half of this album moves between great and in some cases iconic singles – 'The Red Rooster', 'Wang Dang Doodle'. However it's on side 2 that Wolf really steps into the light and delivers his dynamic and unique voice like never before.
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Students involved in Greek life are hoping to make themselves known in a positive way off the Fort Hays State University campus.
Dozens of members of fraternities and sororities helped clean up downtown Hays on Thursday evening, picking up trash between Eighth and 17th and Oak and Fort streets. Order of Omega, the Greek honor society, sponsored the event, which capped off Greek Week -- a series of events designed to make more students aware of and involved in Greek life.
Griffin Bortzfield, president of Order of Omega, said this was a big part of the week after other activities were canceled due to poor weather.
"It is kind of a recruiting event and kind of gets our philanthropy out there, too," Bortzfield said.
The project was spurred by the FHSU Leadership 310 class, which has a group working with the Downtown Hays Development Corp.
"We usually do something on campus, but we chose to do it out in the community to show support for community members and show Greek life is involved in Hays," said Josh Doak, who is in the Leadership 310 group and a member of Sigma Chi.
Greek organizations are required to accumulate 10 community service hours per organization, but Bortzfield said organizations try to compile as many as possible.
The Greek organization that accumulates the most community service hours for the year receives a philanthropy award during Greek Week.
Traci Konrade, DHDC executive director, said she appreciates the help.
"Any help that we can get from outside entities, especially students, is so great for us," she said.


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WHAT USED TO BE A BIPARTISAN GOAL.... Every time President Obama's goal of reducing -- and eventually, eliminating -- nuclear weapons comes to the fore, some on the right see grounds for mockery.
A year ago, for example, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, with a child-like tone, equated eliminating nuclear arsenals with missiles that "can shoot dandelions," and altering the one-dollar bill to encourage Americans to "turn their frowns upside down." Yesterday, Rudy Giuliani followed suit, trying to once again pretend he knows what he's talking about.
"A nuclear-free world has been a 60-year dream of the Left, just like socialized health-care. This new policy, like Obama's government-run health program, is a big step in that direction. President Obama thinks we can all hold hands, sing songs, and have peace symbols."
Let's set the record straight here. JFK spoke often of eventually ridding the world of nuclear weapons. So did Truman. Ronald Reagan -- someone Giuliani may have heard of -- called for the abolishment of "all nuclear weapons," which he considered to be "totally irrational, totally inhumane, good for nothing but killing, possibly destructive of life on earth and civilization."
"[F]or the eight years I was president," Reagan wrote in his memoirs, "I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind."
President Obama's approach is very much in line with the bipartisan approach outlined three years ago by George Shultz, secretary of state in the Reagan administration; Henry Kissinger, secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations; William Perry, secretary of defense in the Clinton administration; and Sam Nunn, a former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
It's easier for clowns like Giuliani to mock than think, but there's really nothing naive or fanciful about the president's vision. Obama has conceded that eliminating nuclear arsenals is not likely to happen in his lifetime, but he's said we can begin the work with a variety of short- and long-term tasks, including U.S. ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, strengthening the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a new arms treaty with Russia, a new initiative to secure all vulnerable nuclear material, the creation of an international fuel bank as part of a new framework for civil nuclear cooperation, and the approach outlined this week in the Nuclear Posture Review.
To dismiss this as an effort to have us "all hold hands, sing songs, and have peace symbols," is a reminder that Giuliani considers national security issues with all the seriousness of a child with crayons.
Greg Sargent reminds us today that Giuliani's resume "boasts no meaningful national security experience of any kind." Greg added, "Someone needs to tell the bookers at the networks that the fact that Rudy Giuliani happened to get photographed walking through the smoke and dust on 9/11 does not give him any authority or credibility on foreign policy and national security issues."
In the spirit of the NCAA Basketball tournament just concluded here in Indianapolis, I offer the following comparision. Mocking 9/11 Rudy is in the same category as mocking the Maverick McCain. You are shooting uncontested layups against an opponent taking his shots from mid-court. Way too easy!
Regarding bipartisanship on this issue, my senator Dick Lugar would be out front in support of this - if he had not sold his soul to the belief that the republican party is more important than our country.
"Someone needs to tell the bookers at the networks that the fact that Rudy Giuliani happened to get photographed walking through the smoke and dust on 9/11 does not give him any authority or credibility on foreign policy and national security issues."
Sorry, they are too busy deleting "maverick" from their John McCain macros.
What's most funny here is that none of this discussion really seems to bear any resemblance to the actual White House policy change ("We will not consider nuclear weapons first against an NPT compliant nation". Is this a promise of nuclear peace, or a threat against NPT noncompliant nations?)
More proof positive that Republicans have absolutely no intention of ever governing again. Oh, they'll take the office and title, thank you very much. But their only interest in holding public office is keeping progressives out of them.
The biggest irony is this: Republicans insist that government doesn't work. Then when elected, they spend all their time proving it.
Not to mention that Giuliani thought that an upper floor in World Trade Center Tower #7 was a perfectly safe place to put an emergency command/ control center. This was a convenient place for him to make romantic liaisons, but responsible people in the national security field had known for a long time that the WTC was a terrorist target.
It's easier for clowns like Giuliani to mock than think
A nuclear-free world has been a 60-year dream of the Left
Well, it certainly is my dream - then again, I'm not a slave to the military-industrial complex. After all, the past 60 years of US war, aggression, belligerence, and rightwing neocon hegemony has worked out just super-duper.
Oh...and check out the New Republican Strategy of equating every progressive initiative with "government-run healthcare." Never mind the fact that the ACA is a few light years short of being "government-run."
What's next? "The White House Easter Egg roll is the same failed policy that government-run healthcare is!" "The president's March Madness brackets didn't work for the same reason government-run healthcare doesn't!"
... a reminder that Giuliani considers national security issues with all the seriousness of a child with crayons.
Steve, I take exception to that statement! My 2-year-old can be quite serious when she's drawing with crayons.
"The biggest irony is this: Republicans insist that government doesn't work. Then when elected, they spend all their time proving it."
Brilliant. If you made that up, copyright it.
You can't call Rudi Giuliani a clown often enough, because he's surrounded by a forcefield of suckups who laugh at his anti-Obama jabs and ooh and ahh at his foreign-policy/defense ripostes. Rudi doesn't know he's a clown to millions, because a cast of dozens prevents him from finding out. A natural predisposition to big-headedness completes the shield against the truth.
History will reveal Rudi Giuliani as an American fool of epic proportions - hopefully while he's still alive, so the self-realization will crush him like a worm.
Sargent nails it; that quote ought to be printed on posters and mailed to every one of those bookers. I've had the same thought since Ghouliani's laughable Presidential run. To be fair, he at least showed more courage and seriousness on 9/11 than the faux-"president" at the time did, but that still doesn't mean he knows what the hell he's blathering on about at any given moment.
wikipedia.org on the 2nd pillar of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to which the US is a long time signatory: "The NPT's preamble contains language affirming the desire of treaty signatories to ease international tension and strengthen international trust so as to create someday the conditions for a halt to the production of nuclear weapons, and treaty on general and complete disarmament that liquidates, in particular, nuclear weapons and their delivery vehicles from national arsenals. The wording of the NPT's Article VI arguably imposes only a vague obligation on all NPT signatories to move in the general direction of nuclear and total disarmament, saying, "Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament."[8] Under this interpretation, Article VI does not strictly require all signatories to actually conclude a disarmament treaty. Rather, it only requires them "to negotiate in good faith."[9] On the other hand, some governments, especially non-nuclear-weapon states belonging to the Non-Aligned Movement, have interpreted Article VI's language as being anything but vague. In their view, Article VI constitutes a formal and specific obligation on the NPT-recognized nuclear-weapon states to disarm themselves of nuclear weapons, and argue that these states have failed to meet their obligation."
"President Obama thinks we can all hold hands, sing songs, and have peace symbols."
O-o-o-o, take that, Barack Obama.
I just finished The Dead Hand, by David Hoffman, which I strongly recommend.
Say what you want, it does appear Reagan -- deeply disturbed by ABC's The Day After -- really wanted to end the arms race, and worked hard with Gorby to do just that.
Unfortunately, when Bush Sr. came in, his team -- including Cheney -- were deeply distrustful of Gorbachev and sought to undermine him at every turn, and the efforts made by Reagan and Gorbachev died a quick death.
The problem with Nuclear Weapons is that none of the current leaders have first hand experience with one or with total war for that matter. They think in terms of winning a nuclear war. It can't be done. Every American president from Truman on has known that a nuclear exchange will be unbearable for the winners, losers and innocent bystanders.
In addition, Rudy is nutenfuks if he thinks wanting to eliminate nuclear weapons is something of interest only to people on the left. America, with it's smart bombs and advanced technology, is probably capable of winning a conventional war with any opponent in the world. Conservative military thinkers understand that the only fear of nuclear war stands in the way of total US hegimony.
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Does any level of evil exist which Cheney hasn't sunk to? We should all hope that history records him accurately: as one of the most morally corrupt, destructive and thoroughly vile individuals ever to disgrace public life.
I used to have a lot of respect for Lugar, but he's entirely lost that simply by not speaking up loudly or often enough (or ever?) against the insanity.
someone also needs to remind rudy!911 that at his considerable prodding and encouragement, bush nominated bernard kerik -- one of the sleaziest assholes evah -- to head the department of homeland security.
and i don't even give a shit about the bribes/corruption -- what he and judith regan earned their eternity in hell for was turning a volunteered apartment for wtc workers into their own private fuckapt. to conduct their trysts while the wtc still burned.


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front page photo by Ron Magill, courtesy of the Patronato Amigos del Aguila Harpia Panama needs to conserve its best things One of these is our national bird, the harpy eagle. We know of about 35 harpy nests in the Republic of Panama, although there are surely more. We don't know how to effectively reintroduce them into parts of their range from which they have disappeared. Dr. Eduardo Álvarez, one of the top harpy eagle specialists, was in town recently to promote an international approach to conservation and talk about the state of our knowledge about these majestic birds of prey. There were a bunch of high school kids among the birders, biologists and conservationists in the crowd at the Smithsonian's Tupper Center, and that was a positive sign. We will save our national bird by leaving it and its habitat alone, and that's a conscious decision that people have to be convinced to make. Over the long term, you get society to make the right choices by appealing to and educating the kids. Panama tends to be even less conscientious about defending its historical legacy than it is about its natural heritage, but there are honorable exceptions. What at my first glance a little more than a month ago looked like a terrible act of cultural vandalism turned out to be not that at all, but rather the creation of a more fitting monument to a 1914 tragedy that has come to symbolize the bravery and sacrifices of our firefighters. On the other hand, most Panamanians have not been convinced that graveyards are repositories of local history and should not be disturbed. Front and center in the national debate these days is the Panama Canal expansion program. Our opinion section leads with President Torrijos's speech at the partial unveiling of the plan, and the column following that is Miguel Antonio Bernal's legal criticism of the government's decision to declare that there will be total transparency while in fact limiting access to most of the documents supporting the project to that minority of Panamanian citizens who can read a foreign language. The proposal hasn't even yet gone to the cabinet, but the campaign is well underway, with Torrijos and the Panama Canal Authority using plenty of public funds to promote a "yes" vote but doing it so maladroitly that a ragtag, unfunded, divided opposition may well carry the day when all is said and done. The government is disseminating some truly ridiculous claims about how many jobs will be created, generally making these assertions to foreign media whose reporters don't know enough about this country to ask the hard questions that seem so obvious to most of the Panamanian press corps. Then the pro-government media here --- most of the news outlets are PRD-aligned --- pick up those stories, or else individuals here read them on the Internet. In this issue we look at a project that a decade ago some of the same people who are plugging this particular canal expansion plan told us would create some 20,000 new jobs for Colon. We also look at economic variables that could affect the financial success of a third set of locks one way or the other. The central issue, however, is not a pretty one. It's about trust. Yes, we must ask ourselves whether it's important for Panama to modernize its principal industrial asset. Personally, I believe that it is. However, we must also ask whether we can trust Martín Torrijos and Alberto Alemán Zubieta with $5.35 billion --- and most probably more with cost overruns --- worth of public works contracts. If we say yes to the first question and no to the second, a vote of no confidence means a few years of delay in expanding the canal, but won't mean that the canal will cease to function or that demand for its services will evaporate. The question of trust is implicitly raised in the first paragraph of the president's speech. He said that "the canal has never had better indices of efficiency, safety and transparency." I don't want to revive the unfounded Zonian taunts of yesteryear but I do think that of these three claims, one is exceptionally difficult to measure, another is a dishonest comparison of statistics compiled in different ways as if they were equal, and the third is patently false. Under the US administration there were problems with information policy, but we had the Freedom of Information Act and access to the public record about the canal was much better than it is today. It's simply not true that the canal is run more transparently than it used to be. I remember growing up in the Canal Zone and hearing all of the trash talk about how the Panamanians could never run the canal. That was an arrogant colonialist lie, and was proven to be such even before the waterway was officially handed over to Panama at the end of 1999, because by then a canal work force overwhelmingly composed of Panamanians was doing an excellent job. The canal itself has been well run since 1999, even if some of its ancillary businesses have been neglected to the detriment of the Panamanian people. But let's speak the truth about the safety record about which Mr. Torrijos and Mr. Alemán Zubieta so frequently boast. Under the US administration, every time a ship bumped into the chamber of the locks, no matter how slightly and no matter that there was no damage, that was counted as an accident for the purposes of safety statistics. Now such minor collisions where no insurance claim is going to be filed are not counted. The comparison of accident statistics under the pre-reversion record keeping system with those generated under the present procedures is dishonest. That's not to say that the canal has become unsafe in Panamanian hands, but rather that the people who are managing it are playing corny politician games with their customers and with the Panamanian people. And how do you determine what's more efficient? Does the ACP run a world-class multilingual print shop as well as the PCC did? (Well, no. In an exercise of the false religion of market worship, the print shop was sacrificed to the privatization god.) Does the ACP look after the public recreational uses of Gatun Lake like the PCC used to do? (No, it has done its best to eliminate these.) Does the ACP get more large container ships safely through the canal than the PCC did? (It most certainly does.) So what things will we count when trying to create some sort of efficiency index? I would argue that narrowing everything down to tonnage that safely transits and tolls that are generated is not a healthy way to figure the canal's present performance and plan for the future. The recreational use of Gatun Lake has value. The Pedro Miguel Boat Club, which the ACP is trying to evict, also has value. The primate refuge that the ACP did evict from islands in Gatun Lake had value. The Panama Canal watershed includes a valuable but rapidly declining fishery. The electrical generating capacities of the Gatun and Madden dams are valuable, and were the canal expanded in a different fashion than that proposed, some farmers might have to be relocated but the ACP might find most of its revenue coming from sales of electricity rather than from ship tolls. I don't claim to know it all. Between now and Referendum Day, people with different points of view, and people who know a lot more about the canal than I do, will weigh in on the relevant questions and maybe even raise a red herring or two. That's how democracy is supposed to work. This canal debate is going to dominate the news for months, but of course it's not the only thing happening in Panama. In the past couple of weeks I have been to fight night at ATLAPA, the Mayday parade and on buses to and from Colon. The restored tower at Panama Viejo has been opened. A teak scam scandal is touching the highest levels of government. Embera basketry skills are getting unprecedented recognition in North America. Some kids at the International School are working hard for their popular upcoming annual theatrical performance. And for all of its problems and controversies, Panama remains a wonderful place to live. Just keep your eyes open. Enjoy.
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Protecting retirement savings But what about retirement accounts? Are they backed by the guarantee of the government? The answer is, sort of.
Under FDIC rules, bank deposits in self-directed 401(k)s and Keogh plans, Roth IRAs, SEP IRAs and SIMPLE IRAs that are owned by the same person are covered up to a combined total of $250,000.
Limits get a bit complex with employer-directed 401(k), employer-directed Keogh, pension or profit-sharing plans, but in general, money that is allocated to bank deposits in individual employees' accounts is insured up to $100,000. This is referred to by the FDIC as "pass-through" coverage.
It's important to understand that FDIC protection only applies to bank deposits in these retirement accounts. Investments such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs and annuities that are sitting in these accounts are not covered.
The FDIC offers the Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator, which tells customers if their accounts at an FDIC-insured institution are within the $100,000 insurance limit.
Not enough cash on hand? The money paid out to make account holders whole when banks fail comes from the FDIC deposit insurance fund, or DIF. "That fund currently totals $52 billion," says LaJuan Williams-Dickerson, an FDIC spokeswoman. (According to the FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile, the DIF stood at more than $45.2 billion as of June 30, 2008.) Meanwhile, total FDIC-insured deposits ring in at around $4.5 trillion. So, if the DIF stands at a little over 1 percent of the total deposits it covers, how can we be sure it won't run out if there's a cascade of bank failures?
"We don't anticipate that there will be enough bank failures to deplete the $52 billion fund," says Williams-Dickerson.
But even if there was, Nagel says, "The FDIC has a $30 billion line of credit that they could draw on from the Department of the Treasury." And failing that, Nagel says, "the U.S. Congress has said that the FDIC is backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government."
So even if the FDIC's funds are overwhelmed by a flood of bank failures, the federal government would be there to make sure depositors got their insured funds back.
What happens if you're not covered? All this federal protection is moot if your deposits aren't covered by the FDIC. If you have an account that exceeds FDIC limits and the bank goes under, you'll get access to the first $100,000 almost immediately. For the rest, though, you'll have to wait until the failed banks assets are sold off by the FDIC. And if the sale of the bank's assets doesn't yield enough cash to pay off depositors?
"There's no guarantee that they'll get 100 cents on the dollar," says Williams-Dickerson.
In fact, the average return for uninsured deposits is 72 cents on the dollar. And if your bank is caught up in the wealth-destroying subprime mortgage meltdown, you may get much less.
And of course, if you bank at an instituition that is not FDIC-insured, all bets are off. You can be sure a bank is properly insured by doing a search on the FDIC Web site.
Michelle Samaad contributed to this story.
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AIG Hawaii Insurance Company sponsors the Cityĺs Sunset on the Beach this weekend, Saturday, August 2 and Sunday, August 3, at Queenĺs Surf Beach in Waikiki. ôAIG Hawaii is delighted to be a part of such a wonderful community event,ö said Robin Campaniano, president and chief executive officer. ôNo where but at Sunset on the Beach can visitors and locals enjoy great food, live entertainment and a blockbuster movie all on the same night ľ and all from the comfort of their beach chairs.ö Mayor Jeremy Harris acknowledged the support and generosity of AIG Hawaii. ôWe join loyal Sunset fans in appreciation of AIG Hawaii Insurance Company and its president and CEO, Robin Campaniano, for its stewardship and corporate sponsorship,ö said Mayor Harris. ôAIGĺs generosity will facilitate the enjoyment of Sunset on the Beach this weekend for tens of thousands of residents and visitors.ö The fun begins at 4 p.m. when food booths open. Restaurants participating this weekend include Royal Hawaiian Hot Dog & Shave Ice, Leoĺs Greek Taverna, Oliveneoĺs, Krunchies, Compadres Bar & Grill, Time 2 Grind, Bale French Sandwich & Restaurant, Popcorn Express and Mr. Pizza. Live entertainment begins at 4:30 p.m. On Saturday, Oldies 107.9 presents Hulili from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. Five by 5 and Simplisity follows at 5:30 to 7:15 p.m. On Sunday, Oldies 107.9 returns with Moonglow, from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m.; Hot Rain, from 5:30 to 6:15, followed by new singing sensation, Stacie, at 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. Blockbuster movies follow at 7:30 p.m. on the Cityĺs giant 30-foot screen. Saturday, Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson star in an outrageous East-meets-West action comedy, ôShanghai Knights,ö thatĺs sure to entertain the entire family. On Sunday, Keanu Reeves stars as a unsuspecting computer whiz who falls victim to a futuristic artificial intelligence plot in ôThe Matrix.ö Thirty-two crafters from the Hawaii Handcrafters and Artists Alliance offering unique Made in Hawaii products complete the cityĺs event. Booths open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day and continue to operate through Monday. Due to the popularity of Sunset on the Beach, the Waikiki Improvement Association has negotiated special parking rates at various hotels for people to attend these weekend events. ôHoloholo Parkingö offers special rates at any location displaying a ôPö logo with a floral lei around the letter. Rates are $1 per hour with a five-hour maximum at the following hotels: Ohana Reef Towers, Ohana Maile Sky Court, Ohana Waikiki Village, Ohana East, King Kalakaua Plaza, Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center, Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort and the Radisson Waikiki Prince Kuhio. Other specials offered include a $3 all-day charge on Saturdays and $1 all day on Sunday at the Waikiki Trade Center parking garage. In addition to AIG Insurance Hawaii, Sunset on the Beach is co-sponsored by Hawaii Tourism Authority, the Waikiki Improvement Association, the City and County of Honolulu, KHNL Hawaii News 8, KFVE and Oldies 107.9. For more information, contact Waikiki Improvement Association at 923-1094 or 523-CITY. ### |
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A patient asked Morris, a transgendered woman who is still legally identified as a man, to give her butt implants, according to NBC Miami. So Morris cut her open and injected the crazy mixture. She then closed the patient's wound with superglue. (These kinds of back-alley plastic surgery procedures are not terribly uncommon in South Florida.)
As a result of the procedure, the woman ended up in the hospital, treated for a serious condition by actual doctors.
Police believe that other victims might exist but are too afraid to come forward. Anyone with information is asked to call the Miami Gardens Police Department at 305-474-1420.
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Bad puns aside, the Command-Line issue is one of our favorites. Although Linux has evolved into an elegant operating system complete with GUI front ends and a stylish visual appeal, at its core, Linux is still text configs, symbolic links and log files. Around these parts, we consider that a feature, so this month, we've dedicated our issue focus to the command line.
Reuven M. Lerner starts us off in the world of text as he continues his series on non-relational databases. This month it's Cassandra, which appears to have amazing scaling abilities. I suspect Dave Taylor's column this month is really a subtle joke about coders spending too much time in their parents' basements. He shows us how to use a script to determine whether the sun is up. Granted, we could peek outside, but why do all that needless work when our computers could do it for us!
Daniel Bartholomew reviews the Ben NanoNote—this fascinating little sub-$100 device is a real computer inside a case the size of a large cell phone. What might a computer that small be good for? Read Daniel's article to find out. When you're finished doing that, check out Jes Fraser's roundup of CLI-based applications. She covers everything from multimedia to editors to Web browsing, and even instant messaging. Perhaps an SSH session and the Ben NanoNote will be all you need for a computer! (Assuming you don't stray more than 15 feet from a bigger computer. Be sure to read Daniel's article.)
When you stick to the command line, a surprising number of solutions will keep all that GUI stuff out of your hair. Whether you want to bookmark directories in Bash (Ira Chayut shows how) or to kick it old-school with a text-based spreadsheet (Serge Hallyn covers that task), the command line can make a superhero out of anyone. If you don't believe me, take a look at our resident command-line superhero on page 18. Kyle Rankin knows root is the true master of the Linux universe, and he sports his powers proudly. In fact, if you've ever hung around with Kyle, you know that although he has a fancy high-powered laptop, his aversion to all things GUI makes it unnecessary. He uses it to ssh into an 800MHz server and does pretty much all his work from there. This month, he shows us part of his elaborate e-mail setup with mutt. If you've ever doubted the power of mutt, you won't after reading his column.
I'm sure many of you love the command line for those things best done on the command line, but prefer a more point-and-clicky interface for other stuff. We can respect that. In fact, although I do much of my sysadmin work on the command line, things like e-mail and spreadsheets just make more sense when they're GUI, at least for me. Ibrahim Haddad gives us an intro to MeeGo, which is a combination of Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin. It's a GUI-based operating system for small screens. Of course, there's more to it than that, so you'll want to check it out yourself. We also have an article by Adrian Klaver that covers rdiff-backup, a command-line backup and restore system, but he also includes an intro to a Web-based front end to rdiff-backup called rdiffWeb. Finally, as one of those applications that can go either CLI or GUI, Greg Bledsoe shows us how we can use the normally graphical virtualization solution VirtualBox in a headless, command-line way.
Although choice is something we pride ourselves on in the Linux community, and those command-line-only folks can happily live with their GUI neighbors, Kyle Rankin and Bill Childers don't always agree on things. This month, feel free to take sides as they argue over sane defaults or extensive configurability in their Point/Counterpoint column. While they state their cases, in honor of the command-line issue, I think I'll go play a text adventure. I hope I don't get eaten by a grue.
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When I was studying to be a paralegal, we learned about a legal move called a sidebar. A sidebar in legal terms is when the judge summons a lawyer to come to the judge's bench to talk about something that he doesn't want the jury or the other attorneys to hear.
A lawyer can also ask the judge if he can approach the bench to talk about something off record. The opposing attorney is allowed to be there.
In general terms, a sidebar is a time when some people at a meeting, step aside to talk about information that they don't wish to share with the group.
These definitions kind of fit in with the sidebars in writing or on the computer. They talk about extra information off to the side. One difference with the law definition, the information isn't shared with the larger group.


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McLarens Lewis Hamilton left it until the dying moments of qualifying in Canada, but his lap of 1m 15.105s was sufficient to push Red Bull off the pole for the first time in 2010. And as it left Mark Webber second on 1m 15.373s, Sebastian Vettel dropped to the second row of the grid with 1m 15.420s.
Hamiltons McLaren was so light on fuel he had to stop and push before he completed his in lap. He ran Bridgestones option tyre, whereas both Red Bull drivers bucked the trend and used the more durable primes.
Fernando Alonso was fourth for Ferrari on 1m 15.435s, while a late improvement to 1m 15.520s put Jenson Button ahead of Force Indias Vitantonio Liuzzi, who lapped in 1m 15.648s for a career-best sixth.
Felipe Massa was seventh in the second Ferrari on 1m 15.688s, ahead of Robert Kubicas Renault on 1m 15.715s, Adrian Sutil in the second Force India on 1m 15.881s and Nico Rosberg on 1m 16.071s for Mercedes GP.
Button just saved himself from relegation in Q2 right at the end, but a rapid reshuffle saw the Williams FW32s of Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg jump ahead of Mercedes GPs Michael Schumacher, the trio being the first to miss out in 11th, 12th and 13th places with respective laps of 1m 16.434s, 1m 16.438s, and 1m 16.492s.
Also out were Vitaly Petrov on 1m 16.844s in his Renault, Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari in their Toro Rossos on 1m 16.928s and 1m 17.029s respectively, and Pedro de la Rosa in the lone BMW Sauber on 1m 17.384s.
There were few surprises in Q1 as Hamilton set the pace from Vettel, except that the Lotuses picked up speed massively and were very close to Kamui Kobayashis BMW Sauber, which was the first car to fail to make it through. The Japanese driver lapped in 1m 18.019s, with Heikki Kovalainen and Jarno Trulli hot on his heels with 1m 18.237 and 1m 18.698s respectively.
Timo Glock was also in the 1m 18s for Virgin with 1m 18.941s, then Bruno Senna beat fellow countryman Lucas di Grassi to split the red and black cars with his HRT, 1m 19.484s to 1m 19.675s. Karun Chandhoks morning troubles persisted, and he was 24th after the HRT F110 failed to let him improve on 1m 27.757s.
The race stewards have since handed McLaren a reprimand and a $10,000 fine after pole-sitter Hamilton exceeded the maximum permitted time to make it back to the pits. He had been told by his team to stop out on the circuit, as he was running low on fuel.