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COASTAL BEND - So, it turns out that Nueces County's Appraisal District isn't the only one with credibility problems. Nueces County's misery did NOT need San Patricio County's company.
The San Patricio County Appraisal District overestimated last year's county property by $240 million — not small potatoes for a county with a total valuation around $3.6 billion. The district forgot to figure in the Papalote Creek wind farm's tax abatement.
The error was discovered in November, after the 2010 county budget and tax rate had been approved. It caused the county to take in about $1.1 million less revenue — not small potatoes in the context of a $20 million budget.
So county officials decided Monday to make up the difference by raising taxes. This decision was presented as a choice they were forced to make because of the appraisal district's error.
Elected officials try to blame tax increases on year-to-year appraisal fluctuations in the best, most accurate of times. An error like this makes it that much easier for them to pretend that they're not the ones who decide how much their constituents will be taxed.
We're not saying San Patricio County officials don't have a right to be angry at the chief appraiser. They do. To say he made their jobs harder is a gross understatement. But appraisal districts don't determine taxes. They only determine the size of the property base that will be taxed.
The appraisal district's error affected only the county's budget because only the county granted the abatement to the wind farm. County officials had another serious complaint — tardy appraisal notices. Chief Appraiser Rufino Lozano blamed computer errors related to changes in software.
That's eerily reminiscent of the alibi presented by the Nueces County Appraisal District after the disclosure that the district had double-calculated homestead exemptions for the city of Corpus Christi. District officials blamed new software. The district also severely underestimated new construction in Port Aransas, a mistake that had nothing to do with software.
The problems in San Patricio County make the Nueces County Appraisal District seem a little less isolated and unique. But the basis for comparison is limited.
San Patricio County's situation shouldn't deflect any heat from the Nueces County district, whose chief appraiser has been slow to respond to the problems, and whose assistant chief appraiser was operating a real estate agency on the side and now is on paid leave pending an internal investigation.
Speaking of slow to respond, Chief Appraiser Ollie Grant still hasn't submitted a letter of resignation or a notice of his retirement date, after having announced that he would step down. The sooner he does, the sooner a search for his replacement can commence.
Speaking of replacements, the City Council this week appointed former councilman Jerry Garcia to the appraisal district board after Chairwoman Sandy Billish resigned.
Garcia is a builder and real estate professional, which on the plus side is a relevant background and on the minus side might be construed as a fox-henhouse risk. Garcia said he wants to bring a businesslike approach to this assignment. "It's all about business and it's all about growth," he said.
No, it isn't. It's about competency and the public's trust. Those are what need to be restored. Business and growth are best left to Garcia's friends at the chambers of commerce and economic development corporations.
We will write off his comment to exuberance and anticipate that he understands the mission. We encourage him to be businesslike. We doubt he'd have tolerated anything approaching the appraisal district's level of mistakes and mismanagement in his private business.
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Despite having nearly a week off from competition, Hickory Post 48 picked up where it left off on Friday.
A six-run top of the fourth lifted Hickory to a Area IV West Division victory against Asheville.
Post 48 improves to 8-3 overall and 4-2 in divisional games.
The Conover Cowboys youth football organization is competing for titles on Saturday.
The Cowboys varsity, junior varsity and mighty mites teams play Saturday at Rocky River High School in Mint Hill to try and win a trio of National Spring Youth Football League (NSYFL) championships.
Born with a stutter in his voice, Greg Lucas has done nothing so far this summer season to show he is sputtered on the baseball diamond.
The Post 48 pitcher and first baseman has stepped up when his team needed him the most and became a quiet leader on the Hickory squad.
Lucas has battled stuttering from a very early age.
Bandys' Hunter Harvey is expecting to sign a contract with the Baltimore Orioles next week and start his journey through the minor league system.
The 6-foot-3 pitcher was taken No. 22 overall by the Orioles in last Thursday's Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft.
Harvey said on Wednesday that he expects to be the last of the 41 players drafted by Baltimore to sign their deal.
In its first season of competition, the Carolina Heat Post 240 kicked off its inaugural campaign of American Legion baseball on Tuesday with a doubleheader against Kings Mountain Post 155.
The Heat's much anticipated debut was spoiled with Kings Mountain sweeping both games at Newton-Conover High School.
Patrick Ewing will join the Charlotte Bobcats as the team's next associate head coach, according to multiple media sources.
Ewing spent five seasons (2007-12) as an assistant coach with the Orlando Magic — all with former Magic assistant and new Bobcats head coach Steve Clifford.
Hickory heads into nearly a week-long break from American Legion baseball competition with a full head of steam.
Post 48 tallied 12 hits on Sunday — three of them off of the bat of catcher Luke Barton — in a 9-0 six-inning victory against Hammond Post 3.
Former Hickory High and current N.C. State track and field standout Ryan Hill ended his collegiate career on Saturday.
Hill finished in ninth place in the 1,500-meter final during Saturday's NCAA Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
Kyle Kelly made the best of his first appearance at the plate for Post 48 on Saturday.
Kelly connected on two home runs in his five at bats of the season against Kings Mountain, helping lead Hickory to a 8-4 road victory.
Entering Saturday, Kelly had played in three games — all on the mound as a pitcher.
Hickory Post 48 arrived at Henkel-Alley Field on Friday expecting to play a doubleheader against Lincoln County Post 455.
What it got wasn't anywhere close to that.
Post 48 picked up 7-6 victory against the Cardinals in a rain-shortened 4 1/2 inning game.
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In addition, the company will send devices it calls "smart pigs" through the pipelines to measure the walls and how straight they are to find if there's something causing problems, like roots trying to come through or an unexpected kink.
Maintaining durability
Most of the big pipelines in San Diego were installed in the 1950s and 1960s, said Bret Lane, SDG&E's vice president of field services.
They are faring much better than the water lines from that era, which regularly burst.
That's in large part to the corrosive nature of water, as opposed to natural gas.
The gas lines are also coated to prevent piercing and corrosion from outside forces like groundwater, Lane said.
"Age isn't really a determinant factor," he said. "As long as you maintain it, we may get another 50 years out of these pipelines."
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The company takes complaints of possible gas leaks through a toll-free number, (800) 611-SDGE.
Workers shut service if they suspect a leak and use sniffing devices to try to find where the problem is.
Signs of natural gas leaks include not only the rotten-egg sulfur smell that is added to the gas, but also dying plants or the sound of rushing or hissing, the company said.
It also monitors pressures inside its pipelines in a control center in the Los Angeles area, where workers can remotely shut valves if they suspect there's a problem. Loud warnings will go off as sensors on lines indicate pressures have changed significantly.
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Texas Transportation commissioner Ric Williamson is one of those Texas personalities who seem almost self-consciously to will themselves toward caricature. One Democratic staffer in the Capitol casually referred to him as Darth Vader; Texas Monthly recently called him "the most hated person in Texas." Owner of a natural gas production company before becoming a state legislator in 1985, he has lately been reincarnated as a transit policy wonk, a role he plays as a cross between mid-twentieth-century road builder Robert Moses and J.R. Ewing from Dallas: the planner as good old boy. He does not suffer from a lack of confidence. "We're the greatest state agency you'll ever interview," he told me at one point. With his good friend Governor Perry hemorrhaging political capital, it's fallen to Williamson to advocate for the corridor and draw fire from its opponents.
At first the press contact for TxDot told me Williamson wouldn't be available, but after I informed her I'd lined up dozens of interviews with TTC opponents, she called me back a week before my trip to Texas for this article to set up an interview. When I was ushered into Williamson's office, he was in the midst of a discussion with one of the four staffers who flanked him. At my appearance in the doorway, he made no move to acknowledge my presence other than slightly pulling out the chair next to him, where, apparently, I was to sit.
Williamson's case is straightforward: The state needs a whole lot of new roads it can't pay for. The sheer population growth in Texas, particularly in the urbanized area in the eastern part of the state that contains San Antonio, Dallas, Houston and Austin, combined with the projected increase in commercial traffic, has precipitated what Williamson says is an impending crisis. The TTC would provide the necessary increase in capacity at the low, low price the state can afford. "Our view is, you can run from the corridor if you want to," he told me, smiling, "but that's eventually what we'll build. Because that's where the fricking people live!" At that he shot up to walk over to a map of the state hanging on one wall, patting my shoulder with paternal authority as he passed. "It's so logical to me it drives me nuts."
He's right about the challenges the state faces, but it's a long jump from the diagnosis to the cure. Opponents of the plan point out that, as conceived, the corridor will run parallel to the existing Interstate, possibly far from the same cities where it's supposed to relieve congestion. (TxDot says state law will require the roads to connect to Interstates, which connect to cities.) On top of that, the current plan employs a novel privatized financing mechanism that has many crying foul.
Under a comprehensive development agreement (CDA) signed in March 2005, the Spanish concern Cintra (in partnership with Texas-based Zachry Corp.) will pay the state for the right to develop the roads along the corridor, where it will be able to collect tolls and establish facilities within the right-of-way for fifty years. This kind of road-building deal is commonplace in other parts of the world, often in places where government lacks the ready capital necessary to develop large infrastructure projects. It's called a BOT, for build, operate, transfer. Until recently it was unheard of in the United States.
The arrangement has been heavily criticized for a number of reasons. The CDA includes a noncompete clause that could conceivably prevent the state from building necessary roads in the future because they would "compete" with a stretch of the privatized TTC. It's also expensive. A recent state auditor's report estimated the cost for just the first section of the corridor at $105 billion. TxDot portrays the deal as a clever way of getting the private sector to pay for public roads, but eventually the total cost of the project, plus a layer of profit for Cintra-Zachry, will be coming out of the pockets of Texas drivers. Finally, the timeline for development of the project, which will be constructed piecemeal, is based on which sections of the corridor Cintra has identified as "self-performing," according to Williamson--in other words, those sections that contain a high enough volume of toll-paying passengers that they will turn a profit.
Williamson argues that the state simply has no choice. Or, as he put it to one reporter, "If you aggressively invite the private sector to be your partner, you can't tell them where to build the road." But this seems, to put it mildly, pretty ass-backward. The point of transportation planning is to provide the infrastructure for people to move efficiently, safely and quickly from point A to point B, not to maximize the profits of some conglomerate that managed to win a state contract. You wouldn't want to place, say, fire stations across a city using the same logic that guides the placement of Starbucks. But that's more or less the way the TTC is unfolding.
"I always think of the corridor as a payday loan," said Kolkhorst's chief of staff Chris Steinbach. "You're going to get a little money up front, but you're losing the long-term gain you're charged by the people to oversee." As he said this I noticed his computer's screensaver, which featured an image of the Texas Capitol dome with a bright red banner Photoshopped in that read Everything Must Go!


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This page is devoted to the microwave bands. Click here for the RAC Bandplan for these bands. See also the links that apply to several or all VHF, UHF and Microwave bands.
Be aware that Web servers do go down occasionally and that the response from overseas sites may be slow.
This page, dedicated to stirring up interest in what we believe to be the future of amateur radio, was constructed by Ken Pulfer VE3PU with help from Laura Halliday VE7LDH.
There is a whole world of amateur radio in the Microwave Bands, which we are not exploiting. Hundreds of megahertz of bandwidth are under-utilised. If we don't get up there and use them, the private sector communicators certainly will, and we will eventually be squeezed out.
At the ITU in Geneva, spectrum users from around the world are actively competing for frequency allocations all the way up to 275 GHz. Allocations up to 1000 GHz are now being discussed.
Microwaves are being used for commercial satellite up and down links, radio astronomy, earth and space based radars, passive remote sensing, weather observation from both earth and space, inter-satellite communications, radio navigation, broadcasting satellites, fixed and mobile land based communications, vehicle control systems, search and rescue, radio location, and of course microwave heating just to name a few. Is it any wonder that there is pressure on the amateur bands?
Some time ago, amateurs in Canada were relegated to secondary status in our own bands between 430 MHz and 10 GHz. This means that we can only operate there if we do not interfere with other users IN OUR BANDS. The way commercial use of microwaves is growing, we are in grave danger of losing our primary privileges in the bands above 10GHz. If we have any hope of regaining primary status we will have to be seen to be using them in ways that benefit the public.
Have a look at the Canadian Amateur Radio Frequency Allocations, and the RAC Bandplans. This will give you an idea of how much bandwidth we currently have available.
Some Canadian and US amateurs are using the bands. The ARRL have a data base of activity on the VHF, UHF, and Microwave Bands on their web site. Or you can visit VE6NTT's Western Canadian Weak Signal Registry
See also our own page on Canadian Claimed Microwave Records prepared by Steve Kavanagh VE3SMA
We can use these bands for satellite communications, communications to, and between, manned spacecraft, and moonbounce communications, just to name a few. Line of site land based communications is easy, but beyond the horizon communications is a challenge, and there is lots of room for experimentation.
At the very high microwave frequencies, atmospheric absorption of the signals becomes significant, and so commercial use is mostly limited to space to space communication.
On the other hand, the short wavelengths allow us to build small antennas with very high gains at a reasonable cost, which in turn allows us to work with low power transmitters and less sensitive receivers.
VE7LDH presented a paper on how to get started in microwave amateur radio at the AMSAT conference in Toronto, October 1997. Try and find a copy and read it.
In the meantime, here are a few sites on the internet where you can see what others are doing, where you can find help, and where you can look for components and equipment.
Clubs and Organizations
Design Tools
Equipment Suppliers
Information Sources
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The Bruins are heading to middle Canada after a tough loss against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Penguins beat the Bruins 2-1. But now the Bruins turn towards the Jets who are a very tough team at home. The Bruins are 3-4 in the last 7 games against the Jets in Winnipeg. Winnipeg so far this season is second in the SouthEast with 32 points (15-12-2). Carolina is in first place but they also have 32 points with a 15-11-2 record. Every game is important for the Jets because the division is on the line for the Jets. 1) Krejci Out. David Krejci sustained a knee injury off of a Boychuck slapshot. Krejci didn't break any bones but the knee is very sore and Krejci will be out against the Jets. Replacing Krejci is prospect Ryan Spooner. In 50 games Spooner has played 50 games and has 12 goals and 33 assists. Spooner doesn't need to put up good offensive numbers. And he's not expected to. As long as Spooner doesn't make huge rookie mistakes, he'll be fine. It helps to have Horton and Luc...
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Shri P.K. Srivastava, GM/SCR congratulates the SCR's Mens Kabaddi Team for clinching the
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The South Central Railway Mens Kabaddi team clinched the title at the VIII All India Men & Women A Grade Kabaddi Tournament organized by the Kanyakumari District Kabaddi Association at Kanyakumari in Tamilnadu recently.
The SCR team outclassed Hi-tech, Chennai 21-16 in the keenly contested finals. on the way, SCR had beaten Vijaya Bank, Bangalore in the Quarter Finals and Integral Coach Factory, Perambur, Chennai in the Semi Finals.
A total of 16 top teams from all over the country participated in the tournament, which had a prize money of Rs 1.5 lakhs to the winners. Shri Ravi of South Central Railway was adjudged the best player of the tournament.
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In view of breaches to Railway track due to heavy rains between Regupalem and Bayyavaram stations on Vijayawada-Duvvada section in Vijayawada Division of South Central Railway, the following changes are made in the pattern of train services in the section as detailed below:-
1) T.No.17016 Secunderabad-Bhubaneswar Visakha Express scheduled to leave Secunderabad at 05:00 pm on 14.10.2014 is cancelled.
2) T.No.12740 Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam Garibrath Express scheduled to leave Secunderabad at 08:15 pm on 14.10.2014 is cancelled.
3) T.No.22825 Shalimar-Chennai Central Express scheduled to leave Shalimar at 12.10 pm. on 14.10.2014 is cancelled.
4) T.No.02874 Tirupati-Visakhapatnam Special scheduled to leave Tirupati at 04:00 pm on 14.10.2014 is cancelled.
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1) T.No.12718 Vijayawada – Visakhapatnam Ratnachal Express departed Vijayawada at 06.05 am on 14.10.2014 is partially cancelled between Samalkot and Visakhapatnam and will runback as T.No. 12717 from Samalkot to Vijayawada.
2) T.No.12717 Visakhapatnam – Vijayawada Ratnachal Express scheduled to depart Visakhapatnam at 12.40 pm on 14.10.2014 is partially cancelled between Visakhapatnam and Samalkot.
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1) T.No.17240 Visakhapatnam-Guntur Simhadri Express scheduled to leave Visakhapatnam at 07:10 am on 14.10.2014 which was partially cancelled earlier (vide Press Release No. 437) is now restored and rescheduled to depart Visakhapatnam at 04:00 pm on 14.10.2014.
1) T.No.12245 Howrah-Yesvantpur Duronto Express is rescheduled to depart Howrah at 11:45 pm instead of 11.00 am on 14.10.2014.
2) T.No.12841 Howrah-Chennai Central Coromandal Express is rescheduled to depart Howrah at 05:15 pm instead of 02:50 pm on 14.10.2014.
3) T.No.11020 Bhubaneswar-CST Mumbai Konark Express is rescheduled to depart Bhubaneswar at 09.00 am on 15th October 2014 instead of 03:25 pm on 14.10.2014.
4) T.No.15901 Bangalore-Dibrugarh Town Express is rescheduled to depart Bangalore 04:30 pm on 14.10.2014 instead of 11:55 pm on 13.10.2014.
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· The Train Number of Kakinada Town-Hyderabad special (announced vide Press Release No. 437 dated 14.10.2014) is revised as T.No.07137 instead of 07127.
· T.No.17240 Visakhapatnam-Guntur Simhadri Express will run from Rajahmundry on 14.10.2014, and its number is revised as 17240A instead of 17240.
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Prior to going out and beating the Milwaukee Bucks on Friday night at TD Banknorth Garden, Celtics coach Doc Rivers called a meeting of the reserves before Friday night's game, asking them if the opponent took away their best skill, how could they still help the team. Eddie House, Leon Powe and Glen "Big Baby" Davis had all the answers as the Cs wore down the Bucks in the fourth quarter with a 28-19 run to end the game and improve to 5-1 on the season, with Allen Iverson and the new-look Detroit Pistons on the horizon on Sunday night.
Eddie House said Doc got his message across before the game.
Former UConn star and Milwaukee forward Charlie Villanueva was disappointed the Bucks couldn't hold their early 25-12 lead in the first quarter.
Kevin Garnett said the Celtics took Milwaukee's best shot.
Paul Pierce said the Celtics need to solve their problems with slow starts.
Doc Rivers said Pierce working with the second unit was huge.
Kendrick Perkins is looking forward to seeing the Pistons with Allen Iverson on Sunday night.
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Matt Ridley has graciously allowed me to repost his speech in entirety here. It follows below. If there's one speech about the climate debate worth reading in your lifetime, this is it. Andrew Montford of Bishop Hill has also formatted the speech into a PDF file, with an improved version, better graphics, A5 format for printing by Mike Haesler here Ridley_RSA (PDF) suitable for emailing, printing, and snail mail. Distribute both as widely as possible. The lecture was delivered with slides, Dr. Ridley has sent me the ones he considers key, and I have inserted them . For background on this prestigious lecture, here is the lecture web page, and here is what RSA is all about and the history since 1754.
It is a great honour to be asked to deliver the Angus Millar lecture.
I have no idea whether Angus Millar ever saw himself as a heretic, but I have a soft spot for heresy. One of my ancestral relations, Nicholas Ridley* the Oxford martyr, was burned at the stake for heresy.
My topic today is scientific heresy. When are scientific heretics right and when are they mad? How do you tell the difference between science and pseudoscience?
Let us run through some issues, starting with the easy ones.
Astronomy is a science; astrology is a pseudoscience. Evolution is science; creationism is pseudoscience. Molecular biology is science; homeopathy is pseudoscience. Vaccination is science; the MMR scare is pseudoscience. Oxygen is science; phlogiston was pseudoscience. Chemistry is science; alchemy was pseudoscience. Are you with me so far?
A few more examples. That the earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare is pseudoscience. So are the beliefs that Elvis is still alive, Diana was killed by MI5, JFK was killed by the CIA, 911 was an inside job. So are ghosts, UFOs, telepathy, the Loch Ness monster and pretty well everything to do with the paranormal. Sorry to say that on Halloween, but that's my opinion.
Three more controversial ones. In my view, most of what Freud said was pseudoscience.
So is quite a lot, though not all, of the argument for organic farming.
So, in a sense by definition, is religious faith. It explicitly claims that there are truths that can be found by other means than observation and experiment.
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CHENNAI: The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has dismissed an appeal, filed by the Tamil Nadu Housing Board, against the order of a district forum.
The Commission said the appeal lacked merit.
S. Venkateshan, of Ganapathy Post, Coimbatore, complained to the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Coimbatore, that the board had allotted him a flat after receiving Rs.3, 000 as registration fee and Rs.41, 200 towards initial payment. After a long wait, the board gave the key order in February 1995 and he took possession. He noted several defects in construction and repeatedly requested the board to rectify these. But his pleas fell on deaf ears. He carried out the repairs on his own, spending Rs.28, 000. The board should return the amount. The board also demanded payment of monthly instalments from April 1994. Mr. Venkateshan refused to comply.
The Executive Engineer, Special Division II, TNHB, Cowly Brown Road, R.S. Puram, and the board chairman were cited as opposite parties. The Executive Engineer said though the house was ready for occupation in January 1994 and all allottees were informed, the complainant did not take possession. While taking possession, he had agreed to pay the instalments from April 1994. The defects he pointed out had been rectified. A sum of Rs.6,728 due to him from the board would be adjusted against his payments. The complainant was liable to pay interest for belated payment of instalments.
The district forum directed the board to pay the complainant eight per cent interest on Rs.3,000, another eight per cent on Rs.41,200, Rs.28,000 he spent on repairs, Rs.5,000 as compensation and Rs.1, 000 as costs.
Against this, the board filed the appeal.
The Commission Bench comprising Justice K. Sampath, president, and R. Vanaroja and Pon. Gunasekaran, Members, said the board did not produce any document to show the complainant was asked to take possession before February 1995.


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After earning his stripes at the Los Angeles Film School, RD Alba returns home to shoot and screen his first full-length feature, "Biktima," which opens in local cinemas today.
Alba—who was born in Bohol, but grew up in Philadelphia—feels it's important for wider audiences to watch indie films.
In an e-mail interview, he described a "theatrical run" for indies as "a huge deal."
"There are many talented indie filmmakers that should be given a chance to shine," he said.
A commercial run is also a heartfelt way to express his gratitude to the cast and crew: "I am thankful to all the hard-working people who made all this possible."
On top of his thank-you list are lead stars Cesar Montano and Angel Aquino, who play a married couple separated by tragedy and later reunited under trying circumstances as well.
He counts himself lucky that he had seasoned actors (including Sunshine Cruz, Ricky Davao, Philip Anthony and Mercedes Cabral) on board.
"Viewers will witness Angel's transformation," he remarked. "They will see every side of her character. She is perfect for the role (of a reporter who vanishes and is held captive by bandits)."
He praised Aquino as "an amazing actress … you can see the vulnerability and strength in her eyes."
Montano has been Alba's friend from way back. Alba worked as associate producer in the 2004 film "Panaghoy sa Suba," which Montano directed.
"Cesar and I always agree on the technical aspects, the characterization, the flow, the totality of the film," he said.
Alba, or Jose in real life (RD are the initials of his parents Ray and Disi), shot the film for eight days, using two Red One cameras.
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He had a simple goal in making this film. "I wanted to create a certain formula that would link American filmmaking and Filipino cinema."
He explained that he made use of the "shooting and editing" skills he had picked up in film school to tell a story that is intrinsically "Filipino but has universal resonance."
He counts Alfred Hitchcock, Wes Craven, Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg as some of his cinematic influences. Among Filipino filmmakers, he looks up to Brillante Mendoza, Marilou Diaz-Abaya and Montano, of course.
In 2002, he returned to the country to direct the Cebuano series "Kapalaran" (starring Chanda Romero, Pilar Pilapil Joel Torre) and later helmed "Milyonaryong Mini" (with Cherry Lou, Giselle Sanchez, Juliana Palermo), which aired in 2006, both for ABS-CBN Regional Network.
He hopes to submit "Biktima" to the Sundance indie film fest next year.
After "Bikitma," he is set to work on a movie for HBO/Showtime with actor Rockmond Dunbar, who starred in the US series "Prison Break."
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As well done as the article is, I'm getting sick of reading articles trying to justify the amount of heat that this thing produces.
But why does Nvidia believe that this sort of extreme heat and power usage is acceptable for retail usage? And why do so many people continually stand behind it saying it's an amazing product?
How can you get sick of reading these articles when there aren't any? This is literally one of the very few out there.
As far as why Nvidia believes this is acceptable, it's because it is acceptable, and the product is amazing. Most people who spend $500-2000 on video cards don't care about the stuff you are complaining about.
My year to year my power bill went up a whopping $3 in May. That's insignificant to me. I've seen reports saying it would be $12...also insignificant. As far as heat, 80% of the time they produce no more heat than a 5870. The other 20% of the time my gaming is improved and I couldn't care less.
I used to own this bad ass Firebird. Thing was loud as hell and sucked gas like it was going out of style. It was also fast as lightning and is to this day my favorite of all the cars I've ever owned. The 480 is my Firebird.
I'll gladly sacrifice a little power usage and heat for more power. And don't kid yourself, the performance isn't "quite good", it's ****ing excellent, and the gap between it and the 5870 is even larger than the benchmarks would lead you to believe.
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BALTIMORE (AP) -- An FBI spokesman says a death aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship has been classified as suspicious.
The FBI is investigating the death of a 62-year-old Virginia woman who traveled on the Enchantment of the Seas. Royal Caribbean says the woman's husband found her body Sunday inside her cabin.
FBI Baltimore field office spokesman Rich Wolf says agents boarded the ship Monday after it returned to Baltimore as scheduled. He says an autopsy is being conducted to determine the cause and manner of death, and agents are interviewing the unidentified woman's husband. Wolf declined to say whether the woman suffered any trauma.
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I experienced many of the same problems mentioned by others, but I also encountered them using the HULU Plus app. All while watching through my BD-D6500/ZA "Smart Hub" function to my TV.
Then, this past Sunday, June 27, 2012, I was not able to connect to any apps OR even sign into Smart Hub. Anything I tried got me the error message that there was an internet connectivity issue and I should call my ISP. I called my ISP and everything checked out fine on their end
On Monday, June 28, 2012, I still could not connect to anything EVEN THOUGH my network settings said that there was an internet connection discovered (Ethernet AND Wi-Fi) but that the player could not connect to it.
I called Samsung and troubleshooted the problem with the rep. We even had me do a direct modem-to-player Ethernet hard wire connection. Nothing worked. I could not even sign into my account.
At other times, I had noted that problems with Netflix were only on my TV through the player. Otherwise, I was able to access and play Netflix through my PC just fine.
The rep told me the problem must be in my player, and told me to expect an email within 24 hours with a return label (I had to request that).
Today, almost 48 hours later, I had not received the email from Samsung, BUT, I did one more reset of my player AND of Smart Hub, and now everything works again (although still with buffering problems in Netflix and Hulu Plus.
I called Netflix and they told me they have been having trouble with Samsung's servers for about six months now.
I then called Samsung again. This new person said they have "never heard this news" that there might be problems with their servers. She said my only option was to ship them the unit (still under warranty) and have it repaired or replaced.
I had them promise me that if they could not reproduce the problem I would not be charged.
My gut tells me this is a Samsung problem, as a Netflix problem would NOT cause me to lose ALL internet access through my Blu Ray player.
Everyone call Samsung at 1-800-SAMSUNG (1-800-726-7864) and tell them you know it is their network/servers causing the problem.
That, and copy, paste this post or any other post everywhere you can on the internet.
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Let's say your company is downsizing, or just wants to escape Wisconsin's increasingly nasty employment environment by moving to Minnesota and you get laid off. You should be OK for a while because Wisconsin has a safety net for that, right? It's called Unemployment Compensation. It's been in place for many years and has helped thousands of workers stay afloat in that transition period between jobs.
All of that is about to become more difficult, with fines and even jail time awaiting you if you make a mistake during what is likely a very turbulent time in your life.
In his Budget bill, Governor Walker has proposed three main changes to the law: new drug testing requirements, increased concealment penalties, and job search changes.
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This issue is caught in a tug of war between the federal government and the states. Governors such as Walker want to use the opportunity of your temporary unemployment (through no fault of your own) to intrude on your personal life and make you pee into a cup to test for drugs.
The Obama Administration doesn't view unemployment as a punishable offense and appears to be drawing the lines quite narrowly as to which occupations will be liable for drug testing. It used to be illegal to drug test people as a condition for unemployment compensation, but the law was changed in 2012 to let states test people in federally-designated occupations where on-the-job testing is common.
The Feds have yet to designate these occupations, however, and no testing on this front will occur until the Feds act.
But, Walker also wants to force employers who presently drug test applicants to turn over those test results to the Department of Workforce Development (DWD), so that DWD can require those applicants to start drug treatment programs if they do not contest the test results. Those who don't take a test will be considered to have tested positive. And, employers will be dragged into unemployment hearings for applicants who contest these drug tests.
Finally, Walker wants to expand drug testing beyond federally-designated occupations to state-designated occupations. The criteria for identifying these occupations is unknown. But, given Walker's divide and conquer politics, it would not be surprising for the state to designate all public school teachers for drug testing while excluding private and charter school teachers. In so doing he would force an additional expense on local school districts to cover.
Concealment penalties
Here's where you could face some jail time—even if you think you did everything right. What is concealment? Concealment consists of a suppression of a fact and implies a purpose and design. A forfeiture of benefits may not be imposed against a claimant who makes an honest mistake, but only against one who engages in a willful act of concealment, not due to ignorance or lack of knowledge.
The problem is that DWD is now routinely charging the unemployed with concealment when they simply make mistakes on their claims. For DWD, any failure to disclose wages or other unemployment-related fact is automatically concealment, and it is up to the claimant then to prove a mistake was only innocent error. The Labor and Industry Review Commission has been holding the line on this broad application of concealment and requiring DWD to show that a mistake on a claim was actually intentional.
The stakes for charging concealment are high. Besides paying back all unemployment benefits that have been received, you will also owe a 15% administrative penalty and possibly a criminal penalty. The current penalty is a fine of $100-500 and/or 90 days in the pokey.
The governor proposes increasing the administrative penalty to 40% and increasing criminal fees and jail time to nine months in jail plus up to $10,000 in penalties. (The highest penalties go to those whose "concealment" exceeds $10,000). Keep in mind, you are supposed to pay these excessive penalties at a time when you're unemployed.
Victor Forberger, an attorney who often helps workers and employers with unemployment claims, cited numerous recent cases where mere mistakes were being treated as fraud. "The Commission has been overturning some of those decisions," he said, "but the Commission can only act on cases that reach it." He described one case where a person made mistakes when filing her claim on the computer because she is not good with computers. After each mistake, she called DWD to correct the error. Even though she informed DWD of the errors, DWD still charged her with concealment and an administrative law judge affirmed the concealment charges after a hearing. Not until she appealed to the Commission did she finally get someone to note that her mistake could NOT have been an intentional act to steal unemployment benefits since she notified the Department about the mistake in the first place.
Let's say you are unlucky enough to be unemployed for a long period of time. Forberger said that even small errors can multiply quickly, reaching the $10,000 mark because processing time at DWD is often quite slow to act and mistakes aren't caught right away. Under Walker's new budget, your penalty would increase from $1,500 to $4,000—and that's just for the administrative fees.
In the last quarter of 2014, 110,614 initial claims were filed for unemployment benefits. Not all of these folks were determined eligible for benefits, especially since there are a host of new ways to disqualify folks. Each year the Department pursues about 14,000 concealment cases. How many of those people are going to clog up our already overfilled prisons? How many of them will be there because of innocent mistakes, bad advice, or misunderstandings?
Job search changes
You say you've been a welder for 14 years? How about running the French fry machine at McDonald's part time? Current law says for the first six weeks you can be pretty choosy about staying in your field, but you may have to branch out after that, with a certain level of undefined "reasonableness" being the standard. The proposed system would require broadening the definition of "suitable work" in a kind of systemic manner that currently does not exist.
Forberger argues that such a system may not even be possible because it would be too complicated given individual work histories and training, geography, and time.
Taken as a whole, the changes reek of punishment, cruelty and disdain for workers.
To follow developments in unemployment law, look to the blog http://wisconsinui.wordpress.com/.
Thanks to Victor Forberger for his help with this article. Union Labor News is published by the South Central Federation of Labor, Madison, Wisconsin
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• City Council District 1, Seat 1: Dorothy Krause (I)
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Madison Mayor: Paul Soglin (I)
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We are not alone in this fight. Our allies in the community, from small businesses to contractors to faith leaders, have stood with us as we oppose this dangerous and unnecessary legislation and the undemocratic process that's being used to fast-track it through the Legislature.
Over the past week, workers and friends of workers have packed the Capitol hearing rooms, the rotunda, and the sidewalk outside. We have had conversations with our neighbors, we have testified to our legislators, and we have made our voices heard in overwhelming numbers.
This week, join our coalition as we stand up for all workers. Make your voice heard at a committee hearing, at a rally, or on the phone.
Testify at the Assembly Committee on Labor Hearing
Monday, March 2
Until 8 PM
Capitol, Room 417 North (GAR Hall)
Phone Banking Against RTW
Monday, March 2, Until 7 PM
Tuesday, March 3, 12 PM – 6 PM
Wednesday, March 4, 12 PM – 6 PM
Thursday, March 5, 10 AM – 11:30 AM
Madison Labor Temple, Room 212 (1602 S. Park St.)
Capitol Rally and Assembly Floor Session
Thursday, March 5
12 Noon
State Street side of the Capitol Building
Following the rally, please stay to pack the gallery during the Assembly Floor Session beginning at 1 PM.
The struggle for workers' rights has been a centuries-long battle. No matter the outcome of the Assembly's vote, we must always be vigilant and ready to raise our voices, organize our fellow workers & community, and act against those who seek to push us down.
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Next legislative session elected leaders in Wisconsin should come together to focus on jobs and the economy. We don't need another divisive attack on workers' rights. It is time to put aside the partisan politics and get to work on fixing our economy.
So called right-to-work (RTW) legislation would be a distraction from the real issues impacting Wisconsin families. Often called right to work for less, these bills are designed to crush the very soul of unions by crippling solidarity among working people.
The case against RTW rests on fundamental principles of economics and fairness. Data from the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Census Bureau show that workers in RTW states have lower wages, higher rates of poverty, less access to health care and poorer education for children. The average full-time, full-year worker in RTW states makes about $1,500 less than a similar worker in a non-RTW state.
This has implications for everyone. Despite rhetoric about the wealthy being job creators, we know jobs are actually created by middle class demand for goods and services. When wages are depressed by RTW laws, consumer demand goes down, taking employment opportunities with it.
RTW legislation is part of a national attack on the American Dream and democracy funded by power hungry CEOs and influential corporate interests. It allows for the government to interfere in the relationship between a private employer and its employees.
While supporters claim that RTW laws promote job growth, studies show a different picture. Oklahoma adopted a RTW law 10 years ago after supporters claimed it would stimulate employment. According to the Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce, the number of new companies coming into the state has instead decreased by one-third since RTW was enacted. Closer to home in Indiana, where Gov. Daniels signed RTW legislation last February, officials have yet to identify a single company that relocated to that state because of RTW. In fact, Indiana continues to lose jobs to free bargaining states like Ohio, Illinois and California.
Let's get the facts straight. No worker is ever forced to join a union. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled long ago that no one can be forced to join a union or pay fees not directly related to the cost of bargaining a contract. RTW laws encourage people to get something for free that others pay for – it's called freeloading. These measures give workers the unjust opportunity to reap the benefits of collective bargaining grievance procedures, apprenticeship training programs, affordable health care, a good wage – without contributing their fair share to the cost of negotiation. This is unfair and un-American.
RTW simply redistributes income from workers to owners. At a time when corporations are enjoying record profits while workers' wages remain flat, right-to-work is exactly the wrong way to go. The middle class has lost ground economically and income inequality is greater now than at any time since the 1920s. If we want a thriving economy we need to strengthen workers' ability to collectively bargain, not weaken it.
Now more than ever, Wisconsinites across the political spectrum need to be unified in our efforts to create good jobs and restore prosperity for all. The RTW road is a dead-end for Wisconsin's working families. (from AFL-CIO)
(December 2014 Union Labor News)


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Ruth Myles: And the winners of The Amazing Race Canada 2 are . . .Dudes! Mickey Henry and Pete Schmalz, the two totally stoked brahs from Muksoka, are the winners of the grand prize on Season 2 of The Amazing Race Canada. The "long hair, don't care" duo are taking
Ruth Myles: Sukhi and Jinder talk about being clueless on The Amazing Race CanadaQuestion: Why did you think you would be strong contenders on The Amazing Race Canada? Jinder: We have done everything together, since I was 11 years old. We just know everything about each other.
Ruth Myles: A sweet challenge turns sour for one team in Paris on The Amazing Race CanadaThis week's episode of The Amazing Race Canada could have been super-sized what with all the shenanigans, switcheroos and smooching going on. Two U-turn are unleashed (shattering that kind Canuck stereotype),
Ruth Myles: Teams are lost in Fraaaance on The Amazing Race CanadaWelcome to The Amazing Race Canada goes to Normandy! Or, as I like to call it, Lost in Fraaance! Ryan has his own title: "If Ryan and Rob had a French travel show, it would be called 'Getting Lost and Hating Yourself.
Ruth Myles: Rex and Bob are open to doing more TV after time on The Amazing Race CanadaThe team that gave us gems such as "Who designs these torture tests: Satan?" and will have to forever live down the indignity of quitting two challenges in one episode have hung up their backpacks for good.
Ruth Myles: Eliminated team Nicole and Cormac even closer after time on Amazing Race CanadaA nation reached for its tissue box as mother-and-son team Nicole and Cormac Foster were eliminated from The Amazing Race Canada on Tuesday's episode. I caught up with the pair Wednesday morning to chat about their time on the reality series.
Ruth Myles: Who bungee jumped in their undies on The Amazing Race Canada?Hey, have you guys seen this awesome new TV show that follows Olympic gold medallists Natalie Spooner and Meaghan Mikkelson as they travel the world, taking on new and interesting challenges every week?
Ruth Myles: Veterinarian says snake challenge on The Amazing Race Canada was 'animal cruelty'A challenge on this week's episode of The Amazing Race Canada on CTV was cruel and should never have made it to the screen, according to an Alberta veterinarian.
Ruth Myles: Jackie and Laura talk about choosing the wrong challenge on The Amazing Race CanadaWhile Laura Takahashi and Jackie Skinner's journey on The Amazing Race Canada started on a beach in Nicaragua when they got the call they would be on the show, it ended in Hong Kong when the duo were last to check in at the Pit Stop.
Ruth Myles: Snakes alive! The Amazing Race Canada hits the streets of Hong KongIf The Amazing Race Canada's foray into China this week left you hungry for more international flavour, you're in luck: there's a second helping of Asian spice next week as the teams head to Macau.


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RemoteFX with Remote Desktop Session Host
After reading the Can you connect to a Terminal Server via RemoteFX post on brianmadden.com, I decided to quickly try it out in Xylos's lab environment. The installation, as expected, is very simple. On a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 system, install the Remote Desktop Services role and the Remote Desktop Session Host role service. There is no need to install the RemoteFX role service because it is only required for RemoteFX in combination with the Remote Desktop Virtualization Host role service and Hyper-V (VDI scenario). Note that a GPU is not required in the RDS scenario. It is required in the VDI scenario.
After installing the role services and the reboot, you need to enable RemoteFX with a policy (for full configuration steps, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff817595(WS.10).aspx):
Note that the policy setting below it can be used to optimize the visual experience (see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg288964(WS.10).aspx).
Now, what about the user experience? Well, I must say the difference is definitely noticeable especially when playing videos or heavy Flash and Silverlight. The performance improvement does come at a cost of extra CPU cycles as the RemoteFX encoding is done by the CPU. I actually had to give my RDS host two CPUs to get a good result.
Note that I did my tests over the LAN using a wireless connection. From home, RemoteFX also performed very well but that's a 35Mbit down connection over a 10Mbit up connection at work.
The question then becomes if RemoteFX is worth enabling in an RDS scenario for the incremental benefits it brings to performance and user experience. That's something only real-world testing and benchmarking will tell. In the meantime, take RemoteFX for RDS into account when designing a remote desktop solution and keep in mind that it will work with any virtualization solution.
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May 15, 2011 at 3:06 pm
RemoteFX will certainly deliver a great experience for LAN users accessing multimedia with VDI. For access over WANs though, organizations with remote users should consider complementing it with Ericom Blaze, a software-based RDP acceleration and compression product. It accelerates RDP by up to 25x and is ideal for remote users connecting over slow WANs who need to access graphics-rich content and applications. It works with any standard RDP host, including VDI, Terminal Servers and remote physical machines.
You can use RemoteFX for your LAN users, and at the same time use Ericom Blaze over RDP for your slow WAN users. This combined solution can provide enhanced performance in both types of environments.
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I suppose it depends on the intensity of of the public's conviction. A substantial majority also support action against cigarette and gambling addiction but those industries have been able to delay, and even stop, effective action,
I suppose with climate change and all these other issues (where a few millions spent by those dependent on the industries causing these problems can prevent or delay action) the public don't care enough to make something happen.
In Australia, Mr. Abbott's desperate battle to gain power for his party has exacerbated the problem - the Government has said it wants action on these issues so Mr. Abbott either denies, or downgrades the problems, or else says Labor's approach is wrong.
The cumulative effect is to blunten the public desire for action, making it easier for the spin-merchants to step in, financed by the industries causing the problems.


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Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport has been ranked as the world's second best airport in the 25-40 million passengers category by the Airport Council International. The best airport in this category is the Seoul Incheon in South Korea.
A nine-member team, with representatives from airport operator Delhi International Airport Limited and the CISF, received the 'ACI ASQ Award' at an award ceremony organised by the Airport Council International in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday.
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