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Review: Value in Amazon Prime goes beyond shipping
AMHERST, Ohio (AP) — Spending $99 a year for an Amazon Prime membership to get free shipping hardly seems like a deal. After all, I can usually get free shipping by spending at least $35 on a single order.
But Prime's benefits became apparent gradually over the nine months I've used it.
During a trip last month, for instance, I got started on the first season of "The Good Wife" and read Michael Lewis' "The Blind Side." Last weekend, I added Journey's "Greatest Hits" album to my music library and began watching the spy drama "The Americans." I finished a book on photography on my way to work Monday.
All that came for free with Prime.
Some features work only with a Kindle e-reader or tablet — or with the new Fire phone that Amazon.com Inc. announced Wednesday. Buyers of that phone will get 12 months of Prime for free.
Nonetheless, there's plenty to enjoy, even without an Amazon device:
Since 2006, Amazon has been offering video for download, much like Apple's iTunes. Although TV episodes cost just $2 or $3 each, I hate paying for something that's been shown on television for free.
Amazon changed the dynamics in 2011 when it started offering movies and TV shows to Prime members for free. Unlike Netflix, Amazon offers only part of its collection that way. Video is available on a variety of devices, but not Google's Chromecast or smartphones and tablets running Google's Android system, with the exception of Kindles.
As with Netflix, free video has typically been limited to streaming, meaning you need a persistent Internet connection. But last fall, Amazon began enabling downloads on Kindle tablets. That came in handy during my train trip through Ohio and other states last month, when I kept encountering stretches without cellular service and couldn't watch Netflix.
Lately, Amazon has been making exclusive deals to block shows from Netflix, Hulu and other streaming services. Prime is the only way to get free streaming of past seasons of "24" and classic HBO series such as "The Sopranos" and "The Wire." This summer, Amazon is making episodes of two CBS series, "Under the Dome" and "Extant," available through Prime just four days after the broadcast.
Without Prime, you can still buy some shows digitally or on DVD. CBS is also making its shows available for free, though they will carry ads, while Prime will not.
Amazon also has been getting into original programming, though none of its shows has gotten the critical reception that Netflix has had with "House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black." After getting customer feedback on 14 shows, Amazon ordered full seasons for two comedies and three kids' series. So far, people who don't have Prime aren't able to buy episodes.
You can borrow one book a month as long as you have an Amazon e-reader, tablet or phone, but you're not offered everything that Amazon makes available for purchase. The selection includes the "Harry Potter" and "Hunger Games" series and several books by best-selling author Michael Lewis. But once I finished those, I struggled to find books of interest.


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The Ballbreaker are formed by five musicians with numerous musical experiences behind them, all united by the love for true and pure Rock n' Roll. The idea to form a new rock band, specifically an AC/DC tribute band, was born in summer 2005 following the meeting of Denis e Michele.
It only takes a couple of Jams to convince the boys that there are the basis to start a new project; in particular the incredible resemblance of Michele's voice, other than his moves, to Brian Johnson, quickly makes everybody agree on the road to take.
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Silva-Sonnen spat continues
Chael Sonnen's lobbying to take on Wanderlei Silva on UFC's upcoming debut on the FOX Sports 1 stepped up a couple notches on FUEL TV's "UFC Tonight."
A week after Sonnen issued a challenged to Silva on Twitter, Silva responded on Tuesday night.
"Jon Jones and Anderson (Silva) have been too nice to Chael," Silva told FUEL TV's Ariel Helwani. "I want to suck his blood. I want to smell it. Not just fight. Not just fight. I want to hurt him."
Sonnen had a curt response, as you'd expect.
"I think the real breaking news there is that Wanderlei Silva put together a coherent sentence that somebody understood," Sonnen said. "But I can assure you, Wanderlei, I will not be signing a contract for you to suck on any part of me. I suggest you take a bath and find yourself."
Silva said that he hadn't even heard about Sonnen's challenge and, further, that nobody at UFC had contacted him about a potential fight.
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Preheat oven to 325F.
Make Caramelized Sugar: Place 1 cup sugar in heavy skillet; cook over low to medium heat, with- out stirring, until sugar has melted and begins to form a light-brown syrup; stir to blend.
Use at once to coat a 1-1/2-quart casserole: Hold with pot holder, and slowly pour in hot syrup.
Turn and rotate until bottom and side are thoroughly coated.
Make Custard: In medium saucepan, over medi- um heat, heat milk just until bubbles form around edge of pan.
In large bowl, with rotary beater, beat eggs slightly.
Add 1/2 cup sugar, the salt, and vanilla.
Gradually add hot milk, stirring constantly.
Pour into prepared dish.
Place in shallow pan; pour hot water to 1/2-inch level around dish.
Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until silver knife inserted deep into the center of custard comes out clean.
Cool; refrigerate overnight.
To serve: Run small spatula around edge of dish to loosen.
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(CNN) -- Battered by a devastating earthquake, left for nearly a year without real homes, promised aid that failed to arrive, the people of Haiti now face a new killer, and the littlest children are among the hardest hit.
"The heart-wrenching piece of all of this is the children, who we have seen are suffering the most," aid worker Roseann Dennery said from the desperately poor Caribbean island nation.
She doesn't flinch in describing the effects of cholera; the water-borne disease has claimed at least 259 lives so far and is spreading quickly.
Children "are coming in with hard-to-control diarrhea and vomiting. Their little lives are frail, weakened. And so scared," she said in an iReport.
"Robens Jeune and his 2-year-old son came into the clinic. His little boy looked up with wide eyes and sat on the cot, scared and suffering. We started an IV and sat with him and his father to quiet his crying," said Dennery, who is with a Christian aid organization called Samaritan's Purse.
"Today, he just started throwing up," the boy's father told Dennery as he placed his hand on his son, Frantzley.
"I was on the way to the Saint-Marc hospital and someone told me that there was a clinic here, closer to home. So we came. And he has perked up, he is feeling better. I am hopeful he can live through this," Jeune told the aid worker at a rehydration clinic her group set up in Villard, near the center of the outbreak.
In theory, cholera should not be hard to control or to treat -- which is why aid organizations are racing to tell Haitians how to avoid it.
"First of all, drink clean water -- bottled, treated or boiled water," said Abdikadir Hassan, head of the Mercy Corps office in Mirabalais, downriver from the center of the outbreak.
The aid agency is telling people to "wash their hands every time they do something -- go to the toilet, eat. If you have enough water, wash the food before you eat. We're trying to give them soap and water treatments."
Mercy Corps is not waiting for Haitians to come to them for help.
"We put speakers on a van," Hassan said by phone from the town of Mirabalais. "We're going out to the community, we're at the market, we're at the schools."
They don't get to everyone in time.
When Hassan got to the local prison, he found it had 50 cases of cholera, of whom two had already died.
Next he went to the local hospital, where there were 800 cases, of whom 10 have died, he said.
"It started with children and then adults," he said. "In the past few days we have seen more children."
Mirabalais is a textbook case of how shock waves have rippled out from the earthquake since it struck in January.
It's on the central plateau in the center of Haiti, Hassan explained.
"It was not affected by the earthquake, but it received families that were," he said -- about 16,000 people made homeless came to stay with family members in the area.
More than nine months later, about half those people are still there, known officially as internally displaced persons and living with host families and relatives, Hassan said.
"We don't have IDP (internally displaced person) camps where I am," he said
"They are staying in villages, they are staying in towns -- but they are staying in... very small houses with eight or 10 people, houses that normally have four or five people," he said.
Those are exactly the kind of conditions that make it easy for disease to spread, and that's what worries aid workers.
"It would be irresponsible to plan for anything but a considerably wider outbreak," said Nigel Fisher, U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Haiti.


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my uppipe sensor keeps working its way loose and allowing the air passing threw the uppipe out the hole for the sensor. this causes the car to run and sound like an old VW. i wrench it as tight as i can and it keeps comming lose. any segestions for keeping the bugger in the damn hole???? was thinking of lock tight, but dont know!?
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loctite can be used..but it will be a PITA to take out, use RED to keep it in
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thanks, i wrenched it hard, and put some loctite on it!! we will see if that does the trick
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Keeping with a Disney theme I thought you'd like to see these cuppies I made :)
They are adorable Lisa and look really nice. You are so clever with all your different designs for your cupcakes :D
If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together.......
there is something you must always remember.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
But the most important thing is, even if we're apart...... I'll always be with you.
Winne the Pooh - A A Milne
A friend is a hand that is always holding yours,
no matter how close or far apart you may be.
A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care.
A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.
Omgosh they are amazing
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Time travel in fiction
Time travel is a common theme in fiction and has been depicted in a variety of media from prose fiction to television and advertisements.[1][page needed] It can be the central theme of the plot, or merely a plot device to set the story in motion. In some science fiction stories, time travel is included in the plot or at least normal time speed is slowed down. Whereas the theme of time travel may be restricted in hard science fiction which would examine the causes and effects of time travel paradoxes; the theme may be allowed in soft science fiction, fantasy and science fantasy which may ignore these aspects and focus on fantastic wonders and adventures.[2]
Sean Redmond regards the time travel motif as providing a "necessary distancing effect" which can allow fiction to address contemporary issues in metaphorical ways, and valuable for providing a view of history where every person is significant.[3][page needed]
Early stories featuring time travel[edit]
Although The Time Machine (by H. G. Wells, published 1895) was instrumental in moving the concept of time travel to the forefront of the public imagination, non-technological forms of time travel had appeared in a number of earlier stories. Some even earlier works had featured elements suggestive of time travel, but remain somewhat ambiguous.
- In ancient Hindu mythology, the Mahabharata, written around 700 B.C. mentions the story of the King Revaita, who travels to a different world to meet the creator Brahma. The King is shocked to learn that many ages have passed when he returns to Earth.[4]
- Another very old example of this type of story can be found in the Talmud, with the story of Honi HaM'agel, written in 300 A.D., who went to sleep for 70 years and woke up to a world where his grandchildren were grandparents and where all his friends and family were dead.[citation needed]
- Urashima Tarō, an early Japanese tale, involves traveling forward in time to a distant future,[5] and was first described in the Nihongi (720).[6][page needed] The tale was about a young fisherman, named Urashima Taro, who visits an undersea palace and stays there for three days. After returning home to his village, he finds himself three hundred years in the future, where he is long forgotten, his house is in ruins, and his family long since dead.[5]
- In Walter Map's 12th century De nugis curialium ("Courtiers' Trifles"), Map tells of the Briton King Herla, who is transported with his hunting party over two centuries into the future by the enchantment of a mysterious harlequin.
- Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733), by Samuel Madden, is mainly a series of letters from English ambassadors in various countries to the British "Lord High Treasurer", along with a few replies from the British foreign office, all purportedly written in 1997 and 1998 and describing the conditions of that era. However, the framing story is that these letters were actual documents given to the narrator by his guardian angel one night in 1728. For this reason, Paul Alkon suggests in his book Origins of Futuristic Fiction that "the first time-traveler in English literature is a guardian angel who returns with state documents from 1998 to the year 1728", although the book does not explicitly show how the angel obtained the documents. Alkon later qualifies this by writing, "[i]t would be stretching our generosity to praise Madden for being the first to show a traveler arriving from the future", but he also says that Madden "deserves recognition as the first to toy with the rich idea of time travel in the form of an artifact sent backwards from the future to be discovered in the present."
- In the play Anno 7603, written by the Dano-Norwegian poet Johan Herman Wessel in 1781, the two main characters are moved into the future (AD 7603) by a good fairy.
- In the science fiction anthology Far Boundaries (1951), the editor August Derleth identifies the short story Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism, written for the Dublin University Magazine by an anonymous author in 1838, as a very early time travel story. In it, the narrator is waiting under a tree to be picked up by a coach which will take him out of Newcastle when he suddenly finds himself transported back over a thousand years. There he encounters the Venerable Bede in a monastery, and gives him somewhat ironic explanations of the developments of the coming centuries. It is never entirely clear whether these events actually occurred, or were merely a dream.
- In 1843, the Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol depicts Ebenezer Scrooge being transported back and forth in time to points in his own lifetime by a series of Ghosts to visit Christmases Past, Present and Future. However, the things he sees are merely "shadows"; he and the Ghosts do not interact with them.
- The book Paris avant les hommes ("Paris before Men"), by the French botanist and geologist Pierre Boitard (published posthumously in 1861), has the main character transported to various prehistoric settings by the magic of a "lame demon", and who is then able to actively interact with prehistoric life.
- The short story The Clock that Went Backward, written by editor Edward Page Mitchell, appeared in the New York Sun in 1881, another early example of time travel in fiction.
- Looking Backward (1888), by Edward Bellamy, and News from Nowhere (1890), by William Morris, each feature a protagonist who wakes up in a socialist utopian future.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), by Mark Twain.
- Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1891), by Thomas Anstey Guthrie (and written under the pseudonym F. Anstey), was the first story to explore the paradoxes that time travel might cause.
- Golf in the Year 2000 (1892), by J. McCullough, tells the story of an Englishman who fell asleep in 1892 and awakened in the year 2000. The focus of the book is how the game of golf would have changed by then, but many social and technological themes are also discussed along the way, including devices similar to television and women's equality.
Time travel themes[edit]
A number of themes can be seen to recur in time travel stories.[citation needed]
- Changing the past: in this genre, a visitor to the past changes history using knowledge and/or technology from his or her own time, either for good or evil, creating an alternate history as a result.[citation needed] Examples of this genre include Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp and the 2009 Star Trek film.
- The Guardians of time: in this genre, a group of people are charged with ensuring that time turns out "properly" (i.e. protecting it from changes by other time travelers).[citation needed] Examples of this genre include John Schettler's Meridian series[7] and Simon Lee's Timekeepers.[8] TimeRiders, a series of novels by author Alex Scarrow, tells the story of three people who are rescued moments before their deaths and are recruited into a secret organization in order to prevent time travel from unraveling history.
- Preventing a bad future: in this genre, the main characters learn, either by going to the future and returning or by the arrival of a time traveler from the future, that the future has not turned out well, having either turned into a dystopia or resulted in the end of the world. The characters try to change something in the present which prevents that future from coming to pass.[citation needed] The Terminator film franchise includes several stories of time travelers from the future waging war with each other so as to create or prevent a post-apocalyptic future. In the TV series Terra Nova, humans travel 85 million years into the past to begin the human race again. This was also shown in the film X-Men: Days of Future Past, when a main character is sent back to 1973 to prevent a pivotal moment that leads to the future dystopia, including both humanity and mutantkind facing extinction.
- Unintentional change or fulfillment: in this genre, a time traveler intends to observe past events, or is taken to the past against his will and tries to return to his proper time. However, the time traveler discovers that his actions have unintentionally altered the future because of the Butterfly effect.[citation needed] A Sound of Thunder is an example of this genre.
See also[edit]
- ^ Nahin, Paul J. (1999). Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction (2. ed., [corr., rev. and exp.] ed.). New York, NY [u.a.]: Springer [u.a.] ISBN 9780387985718.
- ^ Vichitra Kumar,St... (2013-11-18). "Codes & Conventions of Time Travel Sci-fi". Slideshare.net. Retrieved 2014-05-20.
- ^ Redmond, Sean (2014). Liquid Metal: the Science Fiction Film Reader. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231501846.
- ^ "Revati". Mythfolklore.net. 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
- ^ a b "JET 15(1) - February 2006 - Yorke, Rowe - Malchronia: Cryonics and Bionics as Primitive Weapons in the War on Time". Jetpress.org. 2005-01-03. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
- ^ Rosenberg, Donna (1997). Folklore, Myths, and Legends: A World Perspective. Lincolnwood (Illinois): NTC Publishing Group. p. 421. ISBN 0-8442-5780-X.
- ^ "The Home of Author John A Schettler". Dharma6.com. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
- ^ "Timekeepers - the time travel adventure book for children aged 9 to 90 - Home". Timekeepersbook.com. 2011-02-15. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
External links[edit]
- timelinks - the big list of time travel video, time travel movies, & time travel TV - over 700 movies and television programs featuring time travel.
- SciFan: Time Travel - Time Control - Time Warp - list of over 2400 books featuring time travel
- Storypilot's big list of adventures in time travel
- Aparta Krystian. Conventional Models of Time and Their Extensions in Science Fiction A master's thesis exploring conceptual blending in time travel.
- Andy's Anachronisms - Exploring the themes of Time Travel and Alternate Universes in Literature and Entertainment.
- Ultimate Time Travel - Reviewing books, movies and computer games that deal with concept of time travel.
- Time Travel Movies - Reviews and clips of the some more influential movies involving time travel.


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Michele Bachmann on intelligent design
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In the recent state legislative battle over the repeal of the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA), Zack Kopplin, the high school student who was leading the charge, produced a list of dozens of Nobel Prize-winning science laureates who endorsed repeal of the LSEA — a law allowing "supplemental materials" to be introduced into public high school biology classes. People on both sides of the issue agreed the LSEA would allow theories of "intelligent design," or creationism, into Louisiana public schools. (For more on the issue and the LSEA, see Gambit's March 8 story, "Evolution vs. Creation.")
In May, Kopplin took his list and challenged Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, a presidential candidate and one of the leading advocates of "intelligent design" in American politics:
In 2006, Congresswoman Bachmann claimed "there is a controversy among scientists about whether evolution is a fact… hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel prizes, believe in intelligent design." ... Congresswoman Bachmann, you claim that Nobel Laureates support creationism. Show me your hand. If you want to be taken seriously by voters while you run for President, back up your claims with facts. Can you match 43 Nobel Laureates, or do you fold?
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'Jersey Boys' to close in Chicago
The Chicago company of the rock 'n' roll musical
Jersey Boys is to end its two-year run at the Bank of America Theatre in January, the show's producers said.
The story of how the group Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons formed premiered in Chicago initially as a limited engagement Oct. 5, 2007, but reviews were so good and the demand for tickets so high, it became a resident production Feb. 27, 2008. The musical will have its 951st and final performance Jan. 10.
We came to Chicago for a visit, and the Windy City became our home away from home for what will be over two years. Such conversions happen rarely in the theater and we are proud to have made Chicago home for as long as we have, Michael David, the show's producer, said in a statement.
It is breathtaking. Our profound thanks to the citizens of Chicago who have made us such welcome neighbors.
Broadway In Chicago and the city of Chicago have been so privileged to have this sensational hit for over two years, added Lou Raizin, president of Broadway In Chicago.
This blockbuster musical has brought over 1 million people from across the country and around the world to Chicago 's Downtown Theatre District. We are so honored that 'Jersey Boys' chose Chicago as their first resident production outside of New York.


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Athens, Ga. On the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon blowout, a national panel of researchers including University of Georgia marine scientist Samantha Joye is urging the federal government to reassess how it would respond to similar oil spills that might occur in the future.
The 22 researchers, whose paper was published April 20 in the peer-reviewed journal Bioscience, noted that the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was unlike any other oil spill encountered previously. Although the well blowout occurred at unprecedented depths and released enormous quantities of oil (an estimated 4.9 million barrels or 206 million gallons), the response to cleanup and contain the oil followed a framework that assumed the oil's behavior would mimic previous shallow-water and surface spills.
In addition to creating a new model for understanding how deep water oil spills occur, the authors argue for an increase in immediately accessible research funding following oil spills so that society can be better prepared to respond to future spills, should they occur. They also noted that the requirement of the federal Natural Resource Damage Assessment Process that requires cooperative decision-making between the government and the responsible party and mutual approvals of research studies slows down the process and limits the scope of studies that are conducted.
"So many aspects of this oil spill were uniquethat it was an offshore, deep-water blowout; that both methane and oil were released from the wellhead into the pelagic ocean; that dispersants were used at both the sea surface and sea floor," said Joye, the Athletic Association Professor in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. "Doing science in response to the spill was an incredible challenge, and what we learned during the response led us all to the new spill response model that is described in our paper."
The authors noted that the lack of a model for understanding
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The Best Lemonade Stands in America 2008
Lemonade Stand of the Week Winner: Kaylee, Age 11, Massachusetts
A seasoned entrepreneur, Kaylee opened her first lemonade stand when she was six years old, and has been operating it every summer for the past five years. In her hometown near Cape Cod, Kaylee has built up a regular customer base -- she opens for seven weekends each summer -- and like any smart business owner, she gradually expanded her offerings. In addition to selling lemonade, she offers T-shirts that she designed and has a yard sale with her gently used toys and books. At the end of every summer, Kaylee donates all her money to the Boston Children's Hospital; she has given $5,000 to the charity in total.
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Letters: Benghazi
Anyone recall the administration's original statement on "Fast and Furious" after Agent Brian Terry's death? "No gunwalking took place!"
But again, no worries. Obama was going to conduct an investigation.
Oh, sorry, he's invoked executive privilege on that! So how long before we'll hear that the Benghazi incident is covered by executive privilege as well? The current administration has been short on results but long on excuses. – Dan Shapiro, Oceanside
In regard to the editorial " 'You have the blood of an American hero on your hands' " (Oct. 31), accusing President Obama of incompetence and lying: The Benghazi consulate affair is blown extremely out of proportion. Although the four lives lost is indeed tragic, I cannot recall the Union-Tribune ever condemning President George W. Bush for taking us into two wars resulting in the deaths of more than 6,500 Americans, with both wars being of doubtful value to our security.
Or would the U-T consider the Benghazi attack comparable in significance to the Oct. 23, 1983, Beirut bombing of the Marines' barracks in Lebanon, where 241 American servicemen were blown up? If ever there were a huge credibility gap in the presidency, it was President Reagan's incompetence in allowing this tragedy to occur. The sentries at that encampment were denied the right to have loaded weapons to fend off an attack, and the barracks building was not protected by concrete barriers. For the terrorists in their explosive-laden truck, it was like driving through a marshmallow fence. It's impossible to believe that Reagan and the secretary of Defense, Caspar Weinberger, were not aware that suicide bombers were a threat in 1983. Those young men were sent in with no specific role to play in the Lebanese civil war, and were deliberately denied the right to protect themselves. They were slaughtered.
The blunder was more than adequate reason to impeach President Reagan. The Republican Senate made sure that never happened. – David Kreitzer, Rancho Bernardo
Primo Vannicelli (Letters, Nov. 1) asked if the U-T had editorialized the same way when dozens of "American heroes" were killed in Iraq following President Bush's deceptive to invade a country by fabricating information? I ask, what does this have to do with bloody Benghazi? It seems that Obama supporters will use any opportunity to blame President Bush. How sad that's all they can think of. – Lloyd Cooper, Coronado


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ISLAMABAD: Back-to-back exchanges of fire on the line of control, low-intensity violence in Kashmir and the series of blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad have hit the Indo-Pak peace process hard.
So much so, that, diplomatic sources in Islamabad said, India stopped short of suspending the process.
They said the Indian government was under immense pressure in the wake of the terrorist attack outside its Kabul embassy and the blasts in the capitals of two opposition-ruled states, allegedly by Pakistan-linked terror groups, but the chill in Indo-Pak relations had already set in.
The sources believe it would be difficult for the new coalition government of prime minister Manmohan Singh to sustain the pressure with general elections scheduled next year.
This is the second time that the peace process has come under stress in July. The first time was in July 2006 after the Mumbai train blasts.
The 2006 deadlock was removed at the meeting of Manmohan Singh and president Pervez Musharraf in Havana, Cuba, in July the same year.
As things stand, there is a possibility of a meeting between the prime ministers of the two countries on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summit in Colombo on August 2, but nothing is confirmed.
Though India and Pakistani foreign ministers are scheduled to meet in Colombo, diplomatic circles believe the meeting could only provide temporary relief, as there is no quick fix to terrorist activities.
Even otherwise, sources said, no substantial progress had been made between the two nuclear-armed neighbours on resolving major outstanding issues including Jammu & Kashmir, Siachen and Sir Creek despite several rounds of talks.
Diplomatic circles in Islamabad believe the conflict in the explicit and implicit interests of Pakistan and India in Afghanistan added a new dimension to the already tense ties between the two countries. They pointed out that the war-torn, impoverished landscape of Afghanistan had become a new playground for India and Pakistan to score strategic points over each other.


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'Chicago' Doesn't Quite Hit Right Note
By The Fresno Bee, Calif.
Jul. 31–Call me a purist, but I think that the musical "Chicago" should be more sexy than funny. Sure, there are lots of frivolous and laugh-out-loud moments in the oft-performed John Kander/Fred Ebb/Bob Fosse stage version, which got a big boost from the Oscar-winning 2002 movie. But the laughter should be sharp and cutting. This is a show about skin, sex, corruption, gyrating bodies, tight costumes and — not to forget — murder, along with the whole theme of glorifying empty celebrity. Goofy and slapstick don't fit nearly so well on that list.
Consider the second-act courtroom scene, a near-train-wreck moment, on opening night of the Good Company Players production at Roger Rocka's Dinner Theater.
Steve Souza, playing all the members of the jury as is customary, hopped from chair to chair just as you'd expect. As he created different characterizations, he pretended to pick his nose, chat on the phone, use binoculars, drink out of a flask, etc.
All this takes place as Roxie Hart (played by Julie Lucido), on the witness stand for murdering her lover, is undergoing friendly examination by her superstar attorney, Billy Flynn (Peter Allwine). The trick is to make the multiple-jury-member gag wryly amusing without disrupting the flow of the action.
As staged by Scott Hancock, however, the scene bogs down.
Souza, front and center, hams it up far too much — so much that the forward momentum of the scene just kind of fizzles. This is, after all, about a woman on trial for her life. As stylized and self-aware as the script for "Chicago" is, you have to remain true to the story. Otherwise, the show is nothing more than a collection of high leg kicks, snarky banter and torchy songs.
I'm not saying that this "Chicago" is devoid of sex appeal. This show is feistier than most Roger Rocka's fare. The ensemble in the show does a pretty good job slinking around on stage, and Kaye Migaki's choreography alludes to Bob Fosse's crisp style. From the moment that the emcee, played by Michael J. Willett (and his belly button), saunters onstage to deliver the show's prologue, it's obvious that the cast is revving up for a sultry evening.
There are some strong moments in this "Chicago," including a nice rapport between the leading ladies of the show. In some productions of "Chicago" I've seen, it's almost hard to tell Velma Kelly (Kat Dorian), the reigning murderess of the Cook County Jail, apart from Roxie, the new flavor of the month. But in the hands of these two Good Company veterans, you get a real sense of who these women are. Lucido, cheery and blowsy, excels both in her harsh and tender moments, and Dorian has a nice, brassy connection with her character.
Anthony Taylor is an amiable Amos, the "cellophane man," with a powerful voice and a suitably mopey demeanor. Ashley Taylor has a strong, shrill presence as Mary Sunshine. And Allwine's Billy Flynn, while perhaps not offering the most cutthroat or smarmy interpretation of the role, puts on a charismatic show, particularly in the number "Razzle Dazzle." (Even a potential Janet-Jackson-style wardrobe malfunction in "All I Care About" didn't detract from Allwine's performance.)
Still, there are aspects of the show that felt particularly rough on opening night. Jerrica Edmundson struggled at times as Mama, the all-powerful matron of the jail. She never really connected with the rousing and effusive nature of the role. The "Cell Block Tango" number didn't crackle with the intensity that you'd expect. (Andrea Henrickson's lighting in the song, which I'm assuming is purposefully murky, didn't showcase it to the best dramatic effect.)
Roxie's startling first-act revelation just sort of came with a thud. The moment when we learn the fate of the Hungarian inmate (Lorraine Christiansen) prompted a laugh from the audience rather than the expected somber moment.
And while I've been recently impressed with the recorded accompaniment to Good Company's shows, this production suffers from a meek, heavily synthesized-sounding arrangement that sets a mild and nonjazzy tone for the show.
Hancock tries to highlight the Brechtian nature of the show by kicking off both acts with a backstage voice "calling" the actors to their places. But it comes across as too insider.
Migaki does a fine job making the small stage seem bigger than it is, and some of the moves of the ensemble do have a genuine sexy flair. At other times, such as in the number "Roxie," the sultry nature of the dancing got mucked up by silly hand movements.
Ginger Kay Lewis-Reed's costumes are a little odd, right on the line between eclectic and hodgepodge, and while I understand what Hancock was trying to do with the "Cabaret"-meets-Europe-and-circus-meets-punked-out-Disney feel of the lineup of garments in "Razzle Dazzle," I'm not sure it works.
In all, this "Chicago" makes a strenuous and often enjoyable effort, but it does have some significant weaknesses. I'm assuming that as the run progresses, it will become a little more comfortable with itself.
There's still a lot of jazz to enjoy, but it's not quite "All" there yet.
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Westinghouse Appoints Jim Ferland President, Americas Region
PITTSBURGH, June 17 /PRNewswire/ — Westinghouse Electric Company today announced the appointment of Jim Ferland to the position of president, Americas Region.
Mr. Ferland, a former Westinghouse vice president who has served the past three years as senior vice president of Utility Operations for PNM Resources in Albuquerque, N.M., begins his new assignment October 1. However, he will join Westinghouse in August to begin establishing the Americas organization. His appointment completes the Westinghouse regional leadership team which, as announced last week, also includes Anders Jackson and Jack Allen as the respective presidents of Westinghouse's new Europe and Asia regions.
In these new roles, Messrs. Ferland, Jackson and Allen will lead Westinghouse's efforts to build customer relationships, develop business plans, capture new markets, and deliver projects and products in the regions they serve.
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At PNM Resources, Mr. Ferland was responsible for all regulated transmission and distribution operations for PNM and TNMP, utilities that serve electricity customers in New Mexico and Texas. He also has provided oversight of PNM's existing generation facilities, future generation development, wholesale power sales, supply chain, safety and environmental oversight.
He joined PNM from Westinghouse, where he served as vice president, Field Services. Prior to that role, he was president and chief executive officer of Louisiana Energy Services. His career also includes serving as director, Strategic Business Development at Westinghouse, and various operations and business development positions at Duke Engineering and Services and Carolina Power and Light.
Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation (TKY:6502), is the world's pioneering nuclear energy company and is a leading supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the world. Westinghouse supplied the world's first pressurized water reactor in 1957 in Shippingport, Pa. Today, Westinghouse technology is the basis for approximately one-half of the world's operating nuclear plants, including 60 percent of those in the United States.
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(REUTERS) - Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri expects to be out for around eight weeks after suffering a serious knee injury in Sunday's 2-0 Premier League win at Newcastle United.
The 26-year-old was carried off the pitch on a stretcher following a tackle by Newcastle defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa towards the end of the match at St James' Park.
"Thank you everyone for your kind words and overwhelming support, I suppose it's kind of good news that I will be out around eight weeks," the French international said on his official Twitter account on Monday.
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini told reporters after the match that he thought Nasri had hurt medial ligaments, and was angered Yanga-Mbiwa had not been sent off for the challenge.
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Nagpur residents on Thursday expressed their satisfaction with the maiden general budget proposals of the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government, which was presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
The Budget proposed four more AIIMS to be set up in Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Vidharbha and Purvanchal with allocation of Rs 500 crore.
Commenting on this, a Nagpur resident told ANI, "Budget has directly focused on two major issues. In central India we have major health related issues. Opening of Institutes like AIIMS in four other states is a step welcomed. People belonging to lower class will benefit the most from it."
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The Finance Minister also announced a number of other measures including Rs 7060 crores allocated by government for developing smart cities, launching Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana as well as allocating Rs 200 crores for Sardar Patel's statue.
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I think it's a great ambition, Carly, but it would demand a considerable change of direction from the manufacturers, and they would need to take the public with them if they were not to be left with a warehouse full of unwanted mowers, however well-engineered.
I bought my daughter an electric mower for about £50 from B&Q to do her little squares of lawn front and back, and I doubt if a push one would be cheaper. And I can cut her privet hedge to perfection in about five minutes with the machine.
She is of a generation that prefers an electric gadget, and she prefers zumba to gardening. I was brought up push-mowing with a Qualcast, but I'm not sure there's any way back.
Is this area literally a bog, i.e. water table permanently at surface?
I'd agree with Geoff.
How short you cut the grass is a separate issue. A lot of damage is caused by scalping lawns; just raise the mower by one notch at first and see the difference, then try another notch.
What kinds of hedges do your House Sparrows prefer? My observations suggest that beech is particularly popular, followed by other semi-dense deciduous, then hawthorn, with any sort of evergreen a long way down the popularity list.
Thanks for the useful list of products, Tim.
The questionnaire doesn't really suit my circumstances, because the only lawns that I mow are other people's, and I use their mowers. It's likely that there are other professional gardeners on this board who might wish to answer, with the benefit of their wider experiences with different machines in different circumstances and with different priorities. Interested?
I've only ever used one Hayter and it was a bit of a pig. The 'skirt' round the blade was too low and the grass box was very low-slung, so these two things meant it scraped or jammed on any ground that was even slightly uneven. And it was a bit difficult to get the grass box in and out compared with other mowers. (By the way, I wouldn't recommend your elastic loop round the dead man's handle to keep the engine running. I see people doing it and pray that they never have an accident.) There's obviously a need there for a better design of electric starter.
I've never had any trouble fuelling a mower; surely, provided you use the nozzle pipe that is supplied with the petrol container, there's no problem?
I don't know how keen manufacturers would be to put a side blade on a mower - I can see there might be some nasty accidents. I use edging shears, which seems perfectly easy.
Rollers are probably a personal preference. Unless they actually drive the machine, there will always be conflict between the setting height of the roller and that of the driving wheel. Driving off the edge of the lawn occasionally is an occupational hazard and I find I just have to take extra care. A wider front wheel would have to be so wide that it would flatten a lot of grass in front of the blade and it would become less effective going round a curved lawn edge.
Was your Atco a cylinder or a rotary? I'll bet it had an engine with really good torque and weighed a fair bit. The other problem with rollers, which can weigh a heck of a lot, is that they can compress the ground over time, depending on the soil type.
Clogging is quite a problem and it would need a lot wind tunnel experiments to design the optimum profile for the chute. I suspect that most of the better mowers have already come to somewhere near to the optimum by an iterative process. Cleaning after every mow obviously helps a lot, but I'm not sure that using, say, Teflon for the surfaces would help, because it would be easily damaged. Otherwise, if I'm mowing wet grass and the mower keeps clogging, I just resort to inaudible swearing.
I have to mow in the wet or I wouldn't get round all the jobs, and two of my lawns are almost permanently wet, so if I left the cut material the lawn would be impossible to deal with after a month.
I make a living out of doing people's gardens; I don't think they'd be very happy to see me on my hands and knees with a pair of nail scissors! And those women in India were probably being paid about one rupee a day. Same principle applies to shears and push mowers. (My granddad used to cut lawns with a scythe back in 1910, but that was because (a) the landowner was filthy rich and could afford an army of serfs and (b) lawn-mowers weren't that good.)
I agree that noise from machines is bad - it's even worse when you spend quite a lot of the week causing it! Unfortunately, we have got to the position where people demand neatness and tidiness and there is no alternative to doing that by machine. Your plane to India was much quieter than 50 years ago, but it's still very noisy, polluting and irritating to people near airports.
Two-stroke engines, essential for hedge-cutters, strimmers and blowers, are naturally noisy and silencing them would make them heavier (try waving a 7kg hedgecutter around all day) and more unwieldy.
Mowers could be made quieter, but again at a price that people may not be willing to pay, because they only use it for 30 or 40 hours a year. Most people buy the cheapest mower they can get away with, which is a good approach if you've only got 20 sq m of lawn.
I've no problem with Luke wanting to look for innovative ideas, but he did invite comments, so don't shoot the messenger.
As I said, bunnysg, you can get mowers that do all sorts of things, including mulching, but not everyone wants to do that - for instance in wet conditions.


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i couldn't really finish the movie after about 10 minutes. i dont know how good a movie it is, i just didnt feel like watching movies overall. And this movie just felt too much like a cheap attempt to make it sound asiany like The Last Samurai or that Shogun movie - both really disgusting patheitc and revolting movies. Am I bad to feel this way?
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cba to watch this movie. i already have a giant backlog of actually good samurai movies dled to watch.
Just saw this thread... You do realize that this is how Japanese people actually speak English, right?
Was going to say the same, it's like none of you have seen Jackie Chan out-takes.
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KAPAA, Hawaii, March 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The Lawrence Bowman Family Foundation is excited to announce the donation of a $135,000 Vet Rocket portable x-ray system to the Marine Mammal Center. This is the latest significant gift from Falko Partners and the Bowman Family Foundation in their campaign to protect the Hawaiian monk seal from extinction. "We've committed nearly ten years and over $500,000 to saving monk seals, and we'll continue to help however we can," says Larry Bowman. "This exciting project is the culmination of a year-long team effort to deliver the first portable x-ray technology for monk seals."
"Vet Rocket is an amazing diagnostic tool that will allow us to quickly assess the health of Hawaiian monk seals directly on the beach," said Dr. Shawn Johnson, Director of Veterinary Science at The Marine Mammal Center. "Thanks to this breakthrough solution in on-beach diagnosis, the generosity of Falko Partners, and a successful collaboration between The Marine Mammal Center and NOAA, these critically endangered animals will have a better chance of survival."
Adds Larry Bowman, "This is a great example of a private/public partnership working together to save Hawaiian monk seals. We are especially grateful to Dr. Michelle Barbieri of NOAA for driving the solution. We do hope that our gift will inspire others to donate Vet Rocket systems to each Hawaiian Island for the benefit of this noble animal. Falko Partners is honored to have contributed to this solution."
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Adam Almohtadi of Northwest Missouri State University checks in.
Carhartt College Series anglers converge in Osage Beach, Mo., to take on Lake of the Ozarks in the Midwest B.A.S.S. Regional.
Going to a college with an excellent academic reputation is great. But going to one that also has a bass fishing team? That's just icing on the cake.
Eighty-seven college teams from 32 schools will descend upon Lake of the Ozarks in Osage Beach, Mo., for the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Midwestern Regional, March 28-29.
Jordan Lee offers bass fishing tips for when water temperatures hover in the 45- to 55-degree range.
Jordan Lee is pressing on after his sixth-place finish, looking for an Open win to provide him with another Classic qualification.
In the first-ever winner's tie of the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series, the University of Oklahoma and the University of West Alabama shared the trophy.


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Parkland blog
Welcome the Parkland Institute's blog. Here, we feature writers and researchers associated with the Parkland Institute writing about topics of interest to Albertans.
February 09, 2015
Instead of austerity, Alberta needs wage-led economic growth
posted by Ian Hussey
In response to the latest Alberta revenue crisis, Premier Jim Prentice has increasingly been beating the austerity drum. But is an austerity agenda the best way for the province to deal with the current fiscal crunch?
Tagged with: austerity, corporations, flat tax, jobs, taxes
January 29, 2015
A modest proposal: Alberta needs income and corporate tax reform
posted by Barret Weber
It has now been a couple of weeks since Alberta Premier Jim Prentice floated the idea of a provincial sales tax in a speech to the Edmonton Economic Development Corporation (EEDC) luncheon (a trial balloon which Albertans soon overwhelmingly deflated, according to a somewhat-questionable poll on the issue).
Tagged with: corporations, flat tax, taxes
October 15, 2012
Canada should follow Lesotho's good example
posted by Shannon Stunden Bower
The right to an abortion? This should not be an issue at all. But recently, some members of Canada's Conservative government, with the support of like-minded Liberals, sought to pry open a debate that most Canadians are only too glad to have closed.
Tagged with: equality, gender gap, Motion 312, women
October 15, 2012
Columnist wants to have his cake and eat it too
posted by David Campanella
In his recent column in the Calgary Herald, "Don't grumble about lower corporate tax rates," Rob Breakenridge would like to have his cake and eat it too – corporate tax cuts and higher revenues. Conservatives love promoting corporate tax cuts because it enriches their corporate friends and ultimately means less money to support a generous welfare state.
Tagged with: corporations, flat tax, taxes
July 17, 2012
Is liquor store privatization worth toasting?
posted by David Campanella
This letter to the editor was submitted to the Calgary Herald on July 17, 2012.
One wonders if Mark Milke was still suffering the after-effects of a Stampede-filled weekend when he wrote his terribly one-sided review of Premier Klein's ad-hoc and short-sighted decision to sell-off Alberta's liquor stores, a decision which continues to be a major headache for Albertans.
Incredibly, Milke denies privatization has meant lost revenue. This assertion ignores the fact that today Alberta earns nearly 25% less revenue per litre of alcohol sold than prior to privatization. In fact, Albertans would have enjoyed the benefit of an extra $1.3 billion if government revenue from liquor sales had continued to be generated at pre-privatization levels.
This revenue loss is largely due to the gradual erosion of Alberta's real, inflation-adjusted liquor tax rate. So lower taxes means cheaper booze, right? Wrong. Despite Milke's claim to the contrary, recent research indicates that Albertans pay among the highest liquor prices in the West – prices higher than those on offer in the publicly-owned stores of BC and Saskatchewan.
Alcohol consumption is inextricably linked to health and crime-related problems, primarily involving the occasional heavy-drinker. As a result, rational liquor policy promotes limits on consumption and generates sufficient revenue to address alcohol's consequences. Privatization has meant the opposite in Alberta: higher consumption and diminished public revenue. Is this really worth toasting?
In reality, the real kudos belong to Saskatchewan, where the (primarily) public liquor stores earned the province an extra $9.4 million last year despite selling 135,000 less litres of pure alcohol. More revenue from less consumption? That's a feat worth celebrating.
David Campanella,
Public Policy Research Manager at the Parkland Institute


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Seth MacFarlane has been asked to return as the host for the 2014 Academy Awards, sources exclusively reveal to JustJared.com. The 39-year-old Family Guy creator hosted this year's ceremony to acclaim from many critics, but also caused controversy with some of the jokes he made throughout the show. Despite the controversy, the ratings for the 2013 Oscars ceremony were up significantly over the year before with 40.3 million viewers tuning in. Earlier this week, it was confirmed that producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who hired Seth for this year's show, will be returning to helm next year's show as well. "After defending his performance, the producers reached out to Seth and invited him back to host the show again," sources close to the comedian tell JustJared.com exclusively. "He's not sure if he's going to do it, but he has to decide within the next couple of weeks." Seth previously tweeted that he would not host the Oscars if he were asked to do it again. We can't wait to find out if he accepts the gig!
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President Barack Obama is announcing a new effort to establish fiscal reform that works for everyone.
President Obama said he's signing an executive order to create a bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. The group is tasked with recommending ways to address national financial problems which have been put on the back burner.
"For far too long, Washington has avoided the tough choices necessary to solve our fiscal problems – and they won't be solved overnight," the president said before announcing that Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson would lead the commission. "I'm confident that the Commission I'm establishing today will build a bipartisan consensus to put America on the path toward fiscal reform."
The commission will have a total of 18 members from both chambers of Congress. Democrats will be able to appoint six members to the panel, and so will the Republicans. President Obama will pick the remaining six members of the commission, but no more than four of them will be from the same political party.
"This is one of the most critically important challenges facing the country today and it has be addressed in a bipartisan manner," said Erksine, a former White House chief of staff. "This is not a Republican or Democratic problem– this is a challenge for America."
The biggest challenge facing the commission will be finding a way to put the national budget in primary balance. Alan, a former Republican Senate Whip, knows that may be a tall order to fill. Still, Alan said he's pleased to accept the new position and the responsibilities that come along with it.
"We find ourselves in a difficult fiscal situation that is unsustainable," he said. "Whatever the results of our work, the American people are going to know about a lot more where we are headed with an honest appraisal of our situation and the courage to do something about it."
— Sonya Eskridge
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Campus building bids low
Nonunion firms appear undeterred
Background: A San Diego Unified School District policy mandates that firms bidding on Proposition S contracts in excess of $1 million hire from union halls. Thirty-five percent of workers must come from high-poverty ZIP codes in San Diego.
What's happening: Three contracts have gone to bid to date. A majority of bidders are nonunion contractors, but fewer companies are bidding for the work.
What's next: Industry groups are working to outlaw such agreements in Chula Vista and Oceanside, where voters will consider whether to ban the pacts in June. A similar effort is under way to bring a ban to the San Diego ballot in November. And the Board of Supervisors voted to ban the labor agreements last month.
San Diego The political squabbling over union hiring mandates hasn't deterred nonunion contractors from seeking construction jobs in the San Diego Unified School District. But fewer companies are bidding for the work under a Project Stabilization Agreement implemented this year.
Just three campus construction projects have gone out to bid since the new hiring preferences were implemented, and none of the contracts have been awarded.
But both union advocates and industry representatives are claiming victory in the high-stakes debate over labor agreements, which require public-works contractors to hire out of local union halls.
Some industry groups are working to outlaw such agreements in Chula Vista and Oceanside, where voters will consider whether to ban the pacts in June. A similar effort is under way to bring a ban to the San Diego ballot in November. And the Board of Supervisors voted to ban the labor agreements last month.
As the pacts stir controversy throughout the region and state, San Diego Unified is moving forward with its agreement as it pushes ahead with school renovations outlined in its $2.1 billion Proposition S bond measure approved by voters in 2008.
Since the majority of bidders on the first three projects under the pact have come from nonunion firms, proponents say the agreement is proving to be nondiscriminatory. But with fewer firms bidding for the work, and with one project coming in over San Diego Unified's estimate, opponents say the pact is failing.
"A lot of contractors are simply not bidding. There is less competition and the district is not getting good prices for the work," said Jim Ryan, executive vice president of the Associated General Contractors Association San Diego chapter.
Xavier Leonard, a spokesman for the labor-friendly think tank Center on Policy Initiatives said the district's agreement appears to be debunking the critics' arguments.
"The claim that nonunion contractors would find the agreement so onerous that they wouldn't even bid for it, I think that's been proven false," Leonard said.
A divided school board approved the agreement last year, requiring contractors to hire workers referred from union halls for Proposition S projects that exceed $1 million. Proponents say the pact ensures that workers receive decent wages and benefits. The policy says 35 percent of workers must come from high-poverty ZIP codes.
Industry representatives contend they could not fairly compete if they are forced to use an unfamiliar workforce and pay union benefits.


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Roommate ships out sailor's dog
During an interview Friday afternoon, Christa said there was no written agreement for her to take care of Bert in exchange for free rent, although it "could have been mentioned once." She said she assumed she would be paying her cousin back, but she doesn't currently have the money.
Christa said she has never owned a dog, and thus wasn't prepared for Bert, although she admitted having fostered three. Christa added that she lost Emily's email address, so she couldn't tell her what was happening.
Finally, Christa said she feels "a little bit" guilty about what happened.
"I'm willing to help her find another dog if she wants another dog," she said. "I thought she didn't care about him."


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There are 65 ministers in the Modi Government
New Delhi: The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Corruption has approved the Draft Public Procurement Bill.
The Draft Bill seeks to regulate government purchases using a transparent bidding process.
Talking to reporters after the meet in New Delhi, the Minister of state for Personnel V Narayanasamy said, it will now go to the Prime Minister for approval and then to the Cabinet for final clearance.
The Draft Bill was recently put up in public domain by the Finance Ministry to elicit opinion. A fresh draft incorporating public views was cleared by the GoM. Narayanasamy said, the Bill could come up during the Budget session of Parliament.


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What is your favorite data vis tool. Anything that is not on this list?
Amazing list Raz - I'd also put dashboard sites in there somehow, I love both Geckoboard and Ducksboard for different things and they both have interesting data visualizations.
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