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By Bernard Weiner, Co-Editor The Crisis Papers
August 29, 2006
The imminent fifth anniversary of 9/11 provides the proper moment for a good, ol'-fashioned sum-up of the past half-decade under CheneyBush, especially because so much has happened in the past 12-months:
The Bush Administration's Katrina debacle, Iraq being sucked deeper into the civil-war vortex, Afghanistan turning once again into a major war theater, more and more military leaders speaking out about the disaster that is CheneyBush foreign policy, the defection of so many moderate conservatives from their GOP home, the plummeting of Bush's popularity to not much more than his fundamentalist base, the revelation that Bush&Co. have been spying on citizens' phone calls and emails without court warrants, the indictment of CheneyBush's chief aide Scooter Libby for obstruction of justice in the case of the White House's outing of a covert CIA agent, the "rendering" of detainees abroad for extreme torturing, etc. etc.
I'll get to the annual list in a moment. But first let's step back and take a deeper overview. Buckle your seat belts, here we go.
Whatever you may think of 9/11, and the extent of involvement of Bush&Co., it's crystal-clear that the events of that tragic day were and continue to be used as an excuse for a wide variety of immoral and illegal actions by the CheneyBush Administration. The radical agenda that was barely on the public's horizon five years ago has since become all too evident, both domestically and in terms of foreign/military policy, which is why so many traditional conservatives are abandoning the extremism of the Republican Party.…Continue reading
By Anthony DePalma
The New York Times
September 6, 2006
The largest health study yet of the thousands of workers who labored at ground zero shows that the impact of the rescue and recovery effort on their health has been more widespread and persistent than previously thought, and is likely to linger far into the future.
The study, released yesterday by doctors at Mount Sinai Medical Center, is expected to erase any lingering doubts about the connection between dust from the trade center and numerous diseases that the workers have reported suffering. It is also expected to increase pressure on the federal government to provide health care for sick workers who do not have health insurance.
Roughly 70 percent of nearly 10,000 workers tested at Mount Sinai from 2002 to 2004 reported that they had new or substantially worsened respiratory problems while or after working at ground zero.
The rate is similar to that found among a smaller sample of 1,100 such workers released by Mount Sinai in 2004, but the scale of the current study gives it far more weight; it also indicates significant problems not reflected in the original study.
For example, one-third of the patients in the new study showed diminished lung capacity in tests designed to measure the amount of air a person can exhale. Among nonsmokers, 28 percent were found to have some breathing impairment, more than double the rate for nonsmokers in the general population.
The study is among the first to show that many of the respiratory ailments – like sinusitis and asthma, and gastrointestinal problems related to them – initially reported by ground zero workers persisted or grew worse in the years after 9/11.…Continue reading
September 29, 2006
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The Senate has agreed to give President Bush extraordinary power to detain and try prisoners in the so-called war on terror. The legislation strips detainees of the right to challenge their own detention and gives the President the power to detain them indefinitely. The bill also immunizes U.S. officials from prosecution for torturing detainees who the military and the CIA captured before the end of last year. We get reaction from Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
On Capitol Hill, the Senate has agreed to give President Bush extraordinary power to detain and try prisoners in the so-called war on terror. The editors of the New York Times described the law as tyrannical. They said its passage marks a low point in American democracy and that it is our generation's version of the Alien and Sedition Acts. The legislation strips detainees of the right to file habeas corpus petitions to challenge their own detention or treatment. It gives the president the power to indefinitely detain anyone it deems to have provided material support to anti-U.S. hostilities. Secret and coerced evidence could be used to try detainees held in U.S.…Continue reading
There has been a great deal of discussion about the Military Commissions Act
of 2006 [.pdf], recently passed by both houses of Congress, and most of it has
to do with the provisions allowing torture of alien detainees, that is, of non-citizens
apprehended in, say, Afghanistan or Iraq, and their treatment at the hands of their American captors. Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and John Warner,
all Republicans, grandstanded for weeks over the torture provisions, then capitulated.
Another "Republican maverick," Arlen Specter, zeroed in on the real
issue, however, when he said the bill would set us back 800 years by repealing
the habeas corpus protections against arbitrary arrest and jailings — and then went ahead and voted for it, anyway.
Liberal opposition mainly centered around the morality
— or, rather, immorality — of torture, but the debate largely ignored the ticking time-bomb at the heart of this legislation, scheduled to go off, perhaps, in tandem with some future crisis, e.g., another terrorist attack on American soil: the redefinition of the "unlawful combatant" concept that lays the foundations for this administration's reconstruction of the gulag. Here is the new, broadened definition, as enunciated in the legislation recently passed by the House:
"The term 'unlawful enemy combatant' means ñ (i) a person who has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States or its co-belligerents who is not a lawful enemy combatant (including a person who is part of the Taliban, al-Qaeda, or associated forces); or (ii) a person who, before, on, or after the date of the enactment of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, has been determined to be an unlawful enemy combatant by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal or another competent tribunal established under the authority of the president or the secretary of defense."
It doesn't say "alien" or "terrorist," although it specifically includes members of the Taliban and al-Qaeda.…Continue reading
Jenna Orkin, of WTC Environmental Organization www.wtceo.org, describes the envirotoxic disaster of 9/11, horrendous health effects on residents and rescuers, and lies of the administration that led to the situation.
"Jenna…details how the Bush administration Environmental Protection Agency told the public that the air in Lower Manhattan after the attacks of 9/11 was safe to breathe even while knowing is was not. This raises the question: if the Bush administration was willing to sacrifice the health and the lives of United States citizens, what else would they be willing to do?"
November 22, 2006
Defeating the Bill of Rights
Bush's Lone Victory
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
George Orwell warned us, but what American would have expected that in the
opening years of the 21st century the United States would become a country in
which lies and deception by the President and Vice President were the basis
for a foreign policy of war and aggression, and in which indefinite detention
without charges, torture, and spying on citizens without warrants have displaced
the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution?
If anyone had predicted that the election of George W. Bush to the presidency
would result in an American police state and illegal wars of aggression, he
would have been dismissed as a lunatic.
What American ever would have thought that any US president and attorney general
would defend torture or that a Republican Congress would pass a bill legalizing
torture by the executive branch and exempting the executive branch from the
Geneva Conventions?
What American ever would have expected the US Congress to accept the president's
claim that he is above the law?
What American could have imagined that if such crimes and travesties occurred,
nothing would be done about them and that the media and opposition party would
be largely silent?
Except for a few columnists, who are denounced by "conservatives"
as traitors for defending the Bill of Rights, the defense of US civil liberty
has been limited to the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International,
and Human Rights Watch. The few federal judges who have refused to genuflect
before the Bush police state are denounced by attorney general Alberto Gonzales
as a "grave threat" to US security.…
by Kristen Lombardi
November 28th, 2006 5:22 PM
Village Voice
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It was October 6, 2004, three years after Ernie Vallebuona's three-month stint as a rescue and recovery worker at ground zero in the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, and he was hunched over and trembling, racked by a pain like nothing he had experienced in his 40 years of sound health. He had just returned to his Rockland County home after finishing the midnight-to-8 a.m. shift in the NYPD vice unit, where he'd reported to work for the last six years. Vallebuona had bought some fish from a street vendor near his office, on the Lower East Side. And as he drove the 35 miles from Manhattan to New City, he chalked up a searing stomachache to food poisoning. Maybe the vendor had filleted that fish with a dirty machete?
Photo: To date, 75 recovery workers at ground zero have been diagnosed with blood cell cancers that a half-dozen top doctors and epidemiologists have confirmed as having been likely caused by that exposure. Ernie Vallabuona (left) is one of them. photo: Scott McDermott
By the time he pulled into his driveway, the pain had grown excruciating, too horrible for him to even lie in bed that day. The chills swept over his body; so did the shakes. He called his doctor, who suggested ulcer medication. His mother advised him to forget that diagnosis and consult a… Continue reading
by Catherine Komp
Dec. 11 — A US Department of Homeland Security program that compiles data on millions of travelers and determines how likely they are to be terrorists may be operating illegally, according to privacy advocates and some members of Congress.
The Automated Targeting System (ATS) gathers travelers' data from foreign governments, from numerous Customs and Border Protection sources, and from the Passenger Name Record, a controversial system used by the United States and Europe to gather travelers' information from airlines and travel agencies.
ATS has long been used to track imported and exported cargo. But recent revelations by the Department show ATS is also being used to scrutinize airline passengers and cars entering or leaving the United States. The system draws on the collected data to assign a risk factor to each person or vehicle in order to help border patrol agents decide whether travelers "should receive additional screening because the traveler may pose a greater risk for violation of US law."
It is unclear how long ATS has been used to screen humans. The DHS announced it had expanded ATS to include monitoring people in a November 2 notice in the Federal Register. However, the Department did not say when the expansion took place and some DHS officials have said the program has been in place for years.
Calling the program "equitable," the agency said it "uses the same risk assessment process" for all individuals.
The DHS has announced it will keep the personal data gathered by ATS for up to 40 years to "cover the potentially active lifespan of individuals associated with terrorism or other criminal activities.…Continue reading
Information about New Film and Interviews at Visibility911.com
Visibility 9-11 last week published a three-part series focusing on the 9-11 dust and its aftermath. One week after September 11th, Christie Todd Whitman, then Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, stated, "Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington D.C., that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink", even though the EPA had information to the contrary.
In fact, the 9-11 dust was extremely caustic and in August of 2003, the EPA issued a report documenting changes made by the Bush administration to the EPA's initial cautionary statements, which were originally worded to warn the public of the dangers in the dust. These warnings were changed to reassurances and the public never heard the truth. These lies have resulted in at least 70,000 people getting sick from breathing the toxic dust, and now, over five years later, they are dying. If you think our own government isn't capable of deliberately allowing its own citizens to become sickened and die, think again.
Interviewed in this series:
Jenna Orkin of the World Trade Center Environmental Organization
Penny Little, producer of the new 9-11 documentary 9-11 Dust and Deceit at the World Trade Center
John Feal, president of the Feal Good Foundation.
You can hear this series of interviews and watch the trailer of the new film, "9/11 Dust and Deceit at the World Trade Center" at the Visibility 9-11 Dust Special webpage.…Continue reading
by Sid Shniad
The Hidden History of 9-11-2001
Research in Political Economy
2006 Volume 23.
Ed. by Paul Zarembka
Governments have long found it useful to manufacture rationale for pursuing war and repression. The sinking of the Battleship Maine at the outset of the Spanish-American-Cuba War is the classic example. When President Harry Truman wanted to offer assistance to anti-Communist forces in Greece and Turkey in 1947, Republican senator Arthur Vandenburg promised his support if Truman would "scare the hell out of the American people." In 1962, the Pentagon mounted Operation Northwoods, a plan involving false-flag actions, state-sponsored terrorism and the hijacking of planes on U.S. and Cuban soil designed to generate American public support for an invasion of Cuba. Then there was the case of the distraught young Iraqi woman testifying before U.S. Congressional hearings in the run-up to Gulf War I about babies being tossed out of incubators by Saddam Hussein's soldiers.
The essays included in The Hidden History of 9-11-2001 lead to the conclusion that the attack on the World Trade Center may have been the biggest false-flag operation of them all. This 2006 issue of Research in Political Economy examines different aspects of 9-11, which, taken together, provide a serious challenge to those who dismiss the possibility that a government-based conspiracy was behind the events of 9-11.
The first section of the journal debunks the information provided by the U.S. government about the number and identity of the hijackers. Following that, other authors provide evidence indicating that it was impossible for the burning jet fuel from the planes to have caused the collapse of the World Trade Center towers; that a series of military war games taking place on 9-11 caused confusion in military circles and prevented normal emergency response operations to kick in; and that the insider trading in the shares of the airlines that were hijacked that day lays open the possibility that huge sums were made by people who were aware in advance of what was coming.…Continue reading
Note: The Mt. Sinai study, referred to by David Miller, can be found here, with other resources from Mt. Sinai for individuals affected by WTC toxins.
Report from NY911Truth.org:
"9/11 First Responders: Voices From The Pit"
Sunday, June 25th at Community Church
I'm not sure how David Miller found us, but he has been attending our Sunday events for at least 3 months. NY 911 Truth has been enriched by his presence. Between hearing of his experience as a first responder with his National Guard unit, reading the many recent articles about the plight of responders, and meeting several other responders at a conference sponsored by SUNY-New Paltz, we've had our eyes and hearts opened to a unique aspect of the 9/11 tragedy.
We knew we had to have an event dedicated to calling attention to the cause of responders, survivors, and also downtown residents who were all told by the EPA, the air was safe to breath. However, 14 rescue dogs died and nearly 5 years later many responders have died, thousands are very sick, can't work, and are in dire straits financially. Adding insult to injury, 1 billion dollars of federal funds are sitting in an offshore bank account and many have had to fight to get workers comp due to incredibly slick maneuvering by government agencies. Our event began with comments from Father Frank Morales who served as chaplain at Ground Zero in the early weeks after the attacks. He shared an essay about his experience which was deeply moving.…Continue reading
Bloomberg Seeks U.S. Aid for Treatment of 9/11 Illnesses
By SEWELL CHAN
WASHINGTON, March 21 — Testifying at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg pleaded for at least $150 million in annual federal aid to monitor and treat thousands of people who became ill after being exposed to dust and debris at ground zero.
The mayor also called for the creation of a special fund to compensate those who became sick, urging that the city and its contractors be protected from potentially ruinous liability as a result of lawsuits brought by rescue and recovery workers who have argued that they were not adequately protected from the environmental hazards left by the World Trade Center's collapse.
Senators from both parties expressed sympathy for the mayor's arguments, which were delivered at the start of a three-hour hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
A panel appointed by Mr. Bloomberg last month put the total cost of evaluating and treating everyone potentially affected by the trade center attack at $392.6 million a year. The panel called for the federal government to provide, at a minimum, $153 million a year to sustain health programs run by the Mount Sinai Medical Center, the Fire Department and Bellevue Hospital Center.
Mr. Bloomberg told the committee's chairman, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, that he supported a bill they introduced that would provide $1.9 billion for 9/11 health monitoring and treatment between 2008 and 2012.…Continue reading
The American Freedom Agenda's (AFA) mission is twofold: the enactment of a cluster of statutes that would restore the Constitution's checks and balances as enshrined by the Founding Fathers; and, making the subject a staple of political campaigns and of foremost concern to Members of Congress and to voters and educators. Especially since 9/11, the executive branch has chronically usurped legislative or judicial power, and has repeatedly claimed that the President is the law. The constitutional grievances against the White House are chilling, reminiscent of the kingly abuses that provoked the Declaration of Independence.
The 10-point American Freedom Agenda would work to restore the roles of Congress and the federal judiciary to prevent such abuses of power and protect against injustices that are the signature of civilized nations. In particular, the American Freedom Agenda would:
Terrorized by 'War on Terror': How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America
By Zbigniew Brzezinski
Sunday, March 25, 2007
The "war on terror" has created a culture of fear in America. The Bush administration's elevation of these three words into a national mantra since the horrific events of 9/11 has had a pernicious impact on American democracy, on America's psyche and on U.S. standing in the world. Using this phrase has actually undermined our ability to effectively confront the real challenges we face from fanatics who may use terrorism against us.
The damage these three words have done — a classic self-inflicted wound — is infinitely greater than any wild dreams entertained by the fanatical perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks when they were plotting against us in distant Afghan caves. The phrase itself is meaningless. It defines neither a geographic context nor our presumed enemies. Terrorism is not an enemy but a technique of warfare — political intimidation through the killing of unarmed non-combatants.
But the little secret here may be that the vagueness of the phrase was deliberately (or instinctively) calculated by its sponsors. Constant reference to a "war on terror" did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear. Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue. The war of choice in Iraq could never have gained the congressional support it got without the psychological linkage between the shock of 9/11 and the postulated existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.…Continue reading
Apr 20, 2007
(CBS/AP) NEW YORK An appeals court ruling could spell trouble for New Yorkers
suing the Environmental Protection Agency and its former chief for saying that
sooty Lower Manhattan air was safe to breathe after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
A three judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared this
week that EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman and other agency officials
can't be held constitutionally liable for making rosy declarations about air
quality in the days following the World Trade Center's destruction.
The opinion, written by the court's chief judge, Dennis Jacobs, said opening
EPA workers up to lawsuits for giving out bad information during a crisis could
have a catastrophic side effect.
"Officials might default to silence in the face of the public's urgent
need for information," Jacobs wrote.
The ruling, filed Thursday, applied only to a suit brought by five government
employees who did rescue and cleanup work at ground zero, but it contained language
suggesting that similar legal claims could face trouble.
It specifically mentioned a class action lawsuit brought by lower Manhattan
residents who claim Whitman jeopardized their health by declaring that "the
air is safe to breathe" at a time when, according to the EPA inspector
general, a quarter of dust samples were recording unhealthy asbestos levels.
Last year, U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts, refused to dismiss that case,
calling Whitman's statements "conscience-shocking."
That decision is now on appeal and has yet to be argued before the 2nd… Continue reading
By SUSAN EDELMAN
April 22, 2007 — Twenty-six firefighters who toiled at Ground Zero came down with sarcoidosis, an inflammatory illness that often attacks the lungs, in the five years after 9/11 – a significant increase, a new study has found.
The study has angered the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, which complains that the NYPD has refused to acknowledge that 9/11 caused sarcoidosis in cops.
Half the firefighter cases were diagnosed in the first year after 9/11 – a rate six times higher than the average for the Bravest in the 15 years before 9/11, according to a paper to be published in CHEST, a medical journal.
The results "strongly argue for improved respiratory protection" at future fires, disasters and toxic sites, says the report, whose authors include FDNY top doctors David Prezant and Kerry Kelly.
The PBA, which has its own registry of ailing WTC responders, counts 19 cops with sarcoidosis.
Unlike the FDNY, the NYPD has been reluctant to link the disease to 9/11.
The NYPD has also rejected some cops' medical bills for sarcoidosis.
"First they denied any connection between the WTC and sarcoidosis. Now that there's scientific evidence, they refuse to accept it," PBA president Patrick Lynch told The Post.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Commissioner Ray Kelly welcomed line-of-duty death benefits recently given the daughter of detective James Zadroga, 34, a 9/11 responder who died of respiratory illness.
"The department hasn't refused to acknowledge a link. The medical division is reviewing the cases," Browne said.
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Working for the Clampdown: What might the president do with his new power to declare martial law?
By James Bovard
04/25/07 "American Conservative" — – How many pipe bombs might it take to end American democracy? Far fewer than it would have taken a year ago.
The Defense Authorization Act of 2006 [Ed.: Details at http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-1815], passed on Sept. 30, empowers President George W. Bush to impose martial law in the event of a terrorist "incident," if he or other federal officials perceive a shortfall of "public order," or even in response to antiwar protests that get unruly as a result of government provocations.
The media and most of Capitol Hill ignored or cheered on this grant of nearly boundless power. But now that the president's arsenal of authority is swollen and consecrated, a few voices of complaint are being heard. Even the New York Times recently condemned the new law for "making martial law easier."
It only took a few paragraphs in a $500 billion, 591-page bill to raze one of the most important limits on federal power. Congress passed the Insurrection Act in 1807 to severely restrict the president's ability to deploy the military within the United States. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 tightened these restrictions, imposing a two-year prison sentence on anyone who used the military within the U.S. without the express permission of Congress. But there is a loophole: Posse Comitatus is waived if the president invokes the Insurrection Act.
Section 1076 of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 [Ed.: Details at www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-5122″] changed the name of the key provision in the statute book from "Insurrection Act" to "Enforcement of the Laws to Restore Public Order Act." The Insurrection Act of 1807 stated that the president could deploy troops within the United States only "to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy." The new law expands the list to include "natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition"–and such "condition" is not defined or limited.…Continue reading
By Naomi Wolf, Chelsea Green Publishing
April 28, 2007
Alternet Editor's note: This is adapted from Wolf's forthcoming book "The
End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot."
autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took
a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In
a sense, they did. Within a matter of days, democracy had been closed down —
the coup leaders declared martial law, sent armed soldiers into residential
areas, took over radio and TV stations, issued restrictions on the press, tightened
some limits on travel and took certain activists into custody.
They were not figuring these things out as they went along. If you look at
history, you can see that there is essentially a blueprint for turning an open
society into a dictatorship. That blueprint has been used again and again in
more and less bloody, more and less terrifying ways. But it is always effective.
It is very difficult and arduous to create and sustain a democracy, but history
shows that closing one down is much simpler. You simply have to be willing to
take the 10 steps.
As difficult as this is to contemplate, it is clear, if you are willing to
look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated in the United States
by the Bush administration.
Because Americans like me were born in freedom, we have a hard time even considering
that… Continue reading


text: No recent wiki edits to this page. HistoryKai and Charles HaungRed octane was founded in 1999 by the brothers Kai Huang and Charles Huang. They got their beginnings operating the worlds first online video game rental service. They soon began to create game accessories such as the Red Octane dance mat, Joysticks, and other accessories to build upon already existent musical games. After soon realizing that their game accessories were tied to the launch dates of the games they were producing for, Red Octane began producing games. Their first original game was In The Groove developed by Roxor Games for the Play Station 2 and Arcade platforms. Later in 2005 Red Octane teamed up with Harmonix Music Systems to create their smash hit, Guitar Hero, making the popular SG guitar. They later went on to help make peripherals for Guitar Hero 2 and Rock the 80's with Harmonix, as well.Guitar controller made by Red OctaneThe next landmark event for Red Octane was their split from Harmonix in May of 2006. Activision bought out Red Octane for $99.9 Million in cash and common stock. Later after the split, Red Octane teamed up with Neversoft, creators of the Tony Hawk Skateboarding franchise, to create Guitar Hero 3, Legends of Rock. They have also put out Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Guitar Hero: World Tour, Guitar Hero: Metallica, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, Guitar Hero: Van Halen, DJ Hero and Guitar Hero 5 with Neversoft.In February 2010, Red Octane closed it's doors and the Guitar Hero software making was internalized by the Activision team.

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Microsoft Corp., CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at the Seoul Digital Forum in 2012. Bloomberg
In a rare peek behind the scenes at Microsoft, its most senior ex to ever write a book about his time at the company said that Steve Ballmer forces out competitors for his job.
Joachim Kempin, who oversaw Windows software sales to computer makers during part of his 19-year career at Microsoft, talked to Reuters Monday about his book, "Resolve and Fortitude: Microsoft's "SECRET POWER BROKER" breaks his silence," due out today.
"Is he a great CEO? I don't think so. Microsoft's board is a lame duck board, has been forever," said Kempin, according to Reuters. "They hire people to help them administer the company, but not to lead the company. That's the problem."
Assuming for a moment that Ballmer is in fact forcing out his own competitors as the book claims, understanding what has become of those competitors since leaving is key to determining whether the practice is resulting in an over all benefit to Microsoft, its competitors, or both.
Click here to begin a slideshow of reportedly ousted execs compiled from the Reuters report, and what they've done since leaving.
Michael del Castillo is the technology and innovation reporter at Upstart Business Journal, a member of American City Business Journals. A graduate of Columbia University, his work has appeared in the New Yorker. He is also the cofounder of Literary Manhattan, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting Manhattan's literary community and creating new ways to appreciate literature.
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When Ardoin returned from his injury, the Rockies optioned J.D. Closser back to Triple-A. However, after being back with the Rockies for only five games, Ardoin was designated for assignment on August 25, 2006, clearing a roster spot for rookie prospect Chris Iannetta.
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Today I'm linking up with EmmyMom to wrap up September with her 10 things that made me smile in no particular order...
1. Getting the GoGirl in the mail from my Niece. I have seriously wanted one of these things for years, she makes me laugh!
2. Shopping with my girls on a Packer game day...before the game of course!
3. Watching Peanut and her team win the championship! This was only their 2nd time playing in their new 14U division and they won!
4. My fur babies. I love, love, love my babies!
5. Having IA come for a visit and act like she's been a part of the family forever. Both of my girls, my hubby, and all of my friends agree, she fits right in!
There have been many more things over the course of the month that have made me smile but if I'm being honest I'm going to say that right now I can't think of any more. I've been sick for almost a week, took a radioactive pill today for a thyroid test tomorrow {I'm fearful I'll be shooting webs from my wrists when I wake in the morning} and feel like crap.
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How about giving science as a gift this year? You can spark a world of wonder through hands-on discovery of science either through books or a kit. Books are always a great choice for that last minute gift. Your local book store probably has a host of science and hands-on titles as well as your online book retailer. Check out the recommendations from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (http://www.aaas.org) or the winning books from the National Science Teachers Association for 2014 (http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/ostb2014.aspx). The key is to pick a book that interests the intended recipient. Science activity books focus on a variety of topics – airplanes, chemistry, rocks, bugs, plants, ocean life, yo-yos, toys, etc. So surely there is the perfect topic for that special someone.
Don't just want to give the book – how about a book and an activity? KlutzTM, Discovery StoreTM and other specialty retailers have a host of kits and activities that are available. The old chemistry set and electronics kits have been revamped and redesigned. There are a host of likely candidates for that inquisitive child, student, budding inventor or scientist.
As science activities tend to become group and social activities, safety is a critical consideration. If you are a grandparent, friend, aunt or uncle, you may want to think about a resource or two for the parent of that budding engineer or scientist. Dr. Frankie Wood-Black has published a book titled "Staying Safe while Conducting Hands-On Science: Guidelines for Parents and Adults Conducting Hands-On Science with Children" that may be useful, particularly if you think that hands-on science is going to be a regular home activity.
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In addition to the specific information included in the kit or activity, you can also find additional safety recommendations on-line through some non-profit organizations such as http://www.safekids.org or http://www.toyinfo.org.
So give the gift of encouragement and continuing fun by giving a science related hands-on activity.
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We live in a high-tech world. There's no question about that. From microwave ovens to cellular phones every aspect of our lives seemingly revolves around electronics. When it comes to our love of performance cars, here, too, we are inundated with microchips that control everything from fuel and spark delivery to traction control. But, despite the high-tech attributes of computer-controlled machines there still lies in most hot rodders the desire for the simplicity of raw muscle.
The Italian-manufactured Weber 48IDA downdraft carburetor installed atop a Chevrolet V-8 (be it a Rat or Mouse) is a natural performance combination. When bolted in 2 x 4 configuration on an individual runner (IR) intake manifold, the Weber downdraft provides peak torque and instant horsepower (as opposed to a conventional four-barrel carburetor and plenum-style intake manifold, which progressively builds torque and horsepower). Simply put, a 48IDA Weber downdraft induction system performs much like a mechanical fuel-injection system, yet gives you the driveability of a conventional four-barrel fuel meter.
There is, however, a mechanical downside to Weber carbs, and that is they are somewhat hard to tune. The carburetor's fidgety nature has been known to produce a potentially fiery phenomenon known as "fuel standoff," which can transform a race car into a smoldering pile of ash in short order. However, those racers who knew how to deal with the Weber 48IDA's eccentricities were quite successful. In the mid '60s, 48IDA Weber carburetor systems powered up the infamous Corvette Grand Sport endurance racers, and early McLaren Can Am cars (just to name a few) producing championship-winning results.
When it comes to the street machine set, the 48IDA's looks are the primary reason why these carburetors enjoy such overwhelming popularity. Look at it this way, anybody can bolt on a Holley, but when you slap a set of these sexy little Italian downdrafts onto that small-block-powered Camaro or a restified Tri-Five, you make a high-performance statement which cannot be ignored.
Here's the dilemma. These carburetors went out of production sometime in the '80s, and are in extremely short supply.
While it is true that NOS Webers can still be purchased through a very limited dealer network, their relative scarcity dictates a lofty selling price. On the other hand, used sets or rebuildable Weber cores also fetch a veritable king's ransom at swap meets.
In November of 1999, Bob Ream and partner Wes Henderson founded Imagine Fuel Injection. The Weber 48IDA carburetor was quickly disappearing from the performance aftermarket, and there were enough people out there who still wanted performance, economy, and the looks offered by the Weber 48IDA without having to scour the country and pay the lofty prices being commanded for these carburetors.
Ream and Henderson reasoned that if they could offer an IR-based, electronically-managed Weber-type throttle body fuel injection setup at an competitive price, they could effectively recapture, as well as revive, a waning market segment of the performance induction system's industry.
Today, most enthusiasts drive an electronically managed, fuel-injected car or truck. They drive them to work. They drive them to the racetrack. One thing which the EFI cars of the '90s have taught motorists is that a vehicle can perform at its best at all operational levels with this type of system. So why not install a setup similar to this on the car you drive for pleasure?


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You'll have direct access to the Franconia Notch Bike Path from the base of the Aerial Tramway, Exit 34B, I-93.
On top of that, you'll be able to catch a shuttle ride back to the Tram from the Flume Gorge - it's mostly downhill from the Tram to the Flume...
Bike Rentals are being offered by Sport Thoma and you'll find a full range of Scott and Giant all-terrain bikes for adults and children.
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Alexander Ghindin is one of the foremost pianists in Russia today. Ghindin has been a winner in several international competitions including the Queen Elizabeth (2nd prize) and Cleveland Piano Competition (1st prize). This recital includes Stravinsky's Petrouchka, Rachmaninov's passionate and wistful Morceaux de fantaisie and Tchaikovsky's Grande Sonate.
The Guardian, October 2012
At its best, the enthusiasm of Ghindin's playing is hard to resist, and Tchaikovsky's huge Sonata doesn't appear on disc so often that a performance with such sweep and grandeur can be easily ignored. Not everything comes off, but it's worth hearing when it does.
American Record Guide, March / April 2013
Ghindin's marvelous talents arrive on yet another label. He continues to specialize in the music of his native land, and has never failed to supply exciting, engaging performances. This is one of those recordings of a familiar work that you will return to many times because it does offer some different approaches that work quite well. Finally we have Rachmaninoff's first set of published solo piano pieces. These Morceaux still get performances and recordings. They make the youthful efforts far more satisfying. I see the opening 'Elegie' programmed by itself quite often. Another solid effort from one of the brightest stars in the world of pianists. The booklet notes have more on the artist than the music, but the recorded sound is quite good.
Recording information: CMS Studio Moscow (06/2011/12/2011).
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Works DetailsStravinsky, Igor : Movements (3) from Pétrouchka
- Performer: Alexander Ghindin (Piano)
- Running Time: 16 min. 1 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Written: 1921
Rachmaninov, Sergei : Andante semplice [fragment]
- Performer: Alexander Ghindin (Piano)
- Running Time: 18 min. 16 sec.
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Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Sonata for Piano in G major, Op. 37 "Grande Sonate"
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Was out the whole Friday afternoon/evening as Marc and I visited The House on a Hill in Antipolo. I got my long overdue gift (a fruit cake!) and was able to taste party food from the recipe blog.
Thus, this will come in as a delayed Friday round-up…
- Some guy named John Rana texted me about their new advocacy site, YabangPinoy.com. "Yabang Pinoy†is a campaign to raise awareness and heighten Filipino people's ethos, dignity and pride by advocating the use of a piece of braided abaca band that aims to make a statement. The abaca band aims to signify a Filipino being truly proud to be one. To John: can you send me a couple of those abaca wristbands? I like them.
- Kaye Inigo's new personal blog is up. She's one of our contributors at the Urban Living Blog. She's also looking for a Web Designer/Developer for her company.
- A regular reader who wants to remain anonymous sent me a link to a couple of U.S. Marines KC-130 "Hercules" aircraft, each firing their flares with incredible visuals of the condensation due to the wingtip vortices. There's a term for that whirlwind caused by the tip of the aircraft, just forgot what it's called.
- Connie blogs about the "stolen" blog materials (of Happy Vergara and Retz) by the PCIJ. I already noticed this last October 2005 when I got the first copies of the "Hello Garci" book. Had Retz told me he had issues with PCIJ, I could have mediated and help resolve the issue as early as November (and without much ruckus).
- The deadline for the blog/domain sale is over and though there were several bids, they didn't come close to expectations. The owner has now decided to retain the domain. Thanks to all those who emailed and inquired.
Rain is podcasting from China! He's now on episode 3 but I have yet to listen to the entire thing.Rain must be really bored in China (are you able to access your GMail from there? Is filtering already in effect?)
- Super-blogger mom An P is pregnant! You' ll see her blogging for almost all up and coming blog networks out there.
- Jayvee has a cool concept for a t-shirt design – "Basta blogger, sweet lover!" Remember, you
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Howard Stern is about to debut as the new judge on "America's Got Talent," NBC's summer talent competition show. As such, he is making the media rounds to promote the show, appearing on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" Wednesday night (May 9) and "The Today Show" Thursday (May 10).
Here are some of his bon mots:
- "What a crazy idea, to put me on a family show. Somebody at NBC should be fired, don't you think?"
- "I watch the show, I'm a fan of the show. I'm not going on the show to disrupt the beauty of 'America's Got Talent,' 'cause I love the show."
- "The more [the Parents Television Council] keep issuing these statements it makes me seem more interesting and more controversial."
- "I watch 'American Idol' sometimes and those three judges, they don't have a word of criticism and I think that's selfish. I think you owe it to the contestants to offer criticism."
- "I'm an honest judge and that's what I think America needs."
- "I want the level of judging brought up, I want it to be high-caliber."
- On if Howie plays a practical joke on Howard: "I'm going to punch you as hard as I can in the nose ... I guarantee you I can break your nose with my fist. And we've gotten along great."
- "If we go there and make the judging about the judges, like I feel on 'American Idol,' Steven Tyler, J.Lo, Randy, they've become the big celebrities on the show ... I think we should genuinely focus on the talent and make them the high priority ... let's really give them constructive criticism."
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Lens critics grill local architect about new St. Pete pier plans
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An architect working on the new St. Pete pier design dispelled what she calls myths about the $50 million project. More than 100 people crowded a Suncoast Tiger Bay meeting Tuesday to ask Lisa Wannemacher questions about the Lens.
âIt is not a sidewalk to nowhere. The pier is a promenade to a place.â
But critics have continued to lambaste city officials and architects over the project. After the design was chosen in 2011, a group called Concerned Citizens of St. Petersburg popped up to stop it from being built. Fred Whaley heads the group.
âWe would like to see them go back to the original task force report ⦠I donât think that you should go out and spend $50 million ⦠that we donât feel meet St. Peteâs objectives.â
Whaley and his followers have flooded city council meetings demanding residents get the chance to vote. The group even managed to compile more than the 10,000 required signatures needed to put the measure on a ballot and is now suing the city over the matter. City officials argue the public already had adequate time to give input, but Whaley claims that process was ignored.
âThey asked for 30-some thousand ⦠retail space and public space to be air-conditioned out on the pier and none of that exists.â
St. Petersburg city council member Lesley Curran led the panel that oversaw the design competition in 2011. Sheâs confident that even if the Lens issue was put on a ballot, the design would still be approved by voters.
âThere are a lot of people out there that weâre finding now ⦠that state now that they would not have signed it ⦠the more information that gets out ⦠the more support is being gained.â
âSo, if you donât think the end result would change, why not just let it go to a vote?â
âBecause, we went through a process ⦠I was the chair of the jury that made the decision ⦠weâve been through this for almost four years. I think it is time.â
But critics arenât stopping the fight. Tiger Bay member Tom Dunn asked Lens architect Lisa Wannemacher why anyone would want to go to the Pier unless they were testing a new antiperspirant.
âThereâs no purpose in hiking a half a mile out around the sidewalk in the heat and humidity unless you are a glutton for punishment.â
âA lot of people walk out there now in the hot sun and with no shade. The new pier provides nearly 40,000 square feet of shade that is not provided now. The entire oval is covered by the iconic canopy.â
Over the course of debate another group formed to defend the Lens design called WOW St. Pete. Itâs headed up by infomercial pitchman Anthony Sullivan.
âI started hearing at the Saturday morning market, my taxes will go up, we didnât get a vote, thereâll be no shade, thereâll be no restaurants ... it looks like a toilet bowl â thatâs my favorite one ⦠and my favorite one was nobody likes it ⦠and I thought, baloney! I like it.â
Sullivan jokes with people when he speaks in public that the Lens doesnât cost $50 million, just two easy payments of $25 million. But joking aside, Sullivan said there is some financial gain in replacing the iconic inverted pyramid with the Lens.
âI donât think the pier is going to be profitable, but I do believe that itâs going to save money in the long by reducing the subsidy.â
The current Pier is set to close in May. It needs to either be replaced or rehabilitated because the roadway approach to the structure at the end of the Pier is falling apart. The new design would have limited access to vehicles and would serve primarily as a pedestrian and bike path.
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Thread: My first sketchbook thread!!!
December 6th, 2005 #1
My first sketchbook thread!!!
Here is my first sketchbook thread. These are a few of the sketches I've done during the past couple of months. Here's the earliest one done without reference. It was recently inked by an artist at a comic-con.
This one is a collaboration between my friend NAT and I during history class...
Here's another collab with some detail
People in my dorm...
Drawing in the car on the way home
Studying girls
Studying all sorts of stuff... a few graff artists, some Wesley Burt (topright+body), and the rest of the faces done without reference.
This one was done chillin at a coffee shop with Angelo, Brendan, Dan, and Drew. The guy in the middle is the infamous crackhead.
More studies of the master, WesleyBurt...except for the double face.
This one is from the pits of my imagination... Trance like state...
A quick acrylic test.
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Hide this ad by registering as a memberDecember 6th, 2005 #2
good start keep em comming
December 6th, 2005 #3
that top girl in perspective is amazing.
keep drawing!
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December 6th, 2005 #4
Cool man. Lots of nice drawings!
Good mix of styles you've got going here. Love your face studies as well. If i'm not mistaken, is that the girl from Tatou? She crazy!
Keep on posting dude!
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December 6th, 2005 #5
Heheh, I noticed the Tatu girls also.. terrible singers, FINE drawing refs.
A lovely start to a sketchbook! Keep this updated, it's a keeper
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December 6th, 2005 #6
Thanks for the comments, guys.
December 15th, 2005 #7
Here I have some 16x12 inch drawings I did for my drawing final this semester. It is supposed to show a progression; I chose degredation. It the story of the girl with the pink lips, you interpret the rest.
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December 21st, 2005 #9
Hell yea ... there is some good stuff in this book. How long did that final take?
Upper half of the pregnant woman and checkered hallway are my fav parts.
Krylon in acrylic ?
Who knew.. haha
keep on
December 21st, 2005 #10
Sweet holy sweetness.
Keep this up and i'll be subscribing! Very nice pencils.
Absofreakin' beautiful.
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January 5th, 2006 #11
IILooney - Thanks for the support.
aweshux - The final took plenty of time, about 2 weeks and many all nighters. I had to cover the pages with charchoal to have a midtone in which I can ad graphite or erase for highlights. I really enjoyed using this technique.
Erilaz - I will definitely update.
How bout now?
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This one took awhile...
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No ref...her arm is kinda messed up and the position looks unatural. It was a study of composition with echoing diagonals.
A better study of composition
An old piece
January 5th, 2006 #12
I also have some questions for you veterans.
Is there any way to change the name of this thread? Because it's not really my first one anymore.
And how do you properly add a sketchbook link on your signature area, without showing the link?
thanks guys!
January 5th, 2006 #13
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If expertise is the lowest on the stat weight does that mean I could have 7 expertise and still do the same damage per second as I do with around like 15 expertise? I've been looking at replacing my Heroic bone drake enameled boots ( 83 crit reforged to 33 haste and 60 expertise) with my blood soaked saronite stompers by doing so I lose 8 expertise which drops me to 7 from 15. I want to know if it is worth it to obtain all the extra haste from the boots and lose all the expertise.
Expertise is absolutely the least valued stat, it is a dps gain to use your Saronite Stompers. Also, if I read that correctly you reforged your Crit into Haste, which is not the absolute highest dps gain you could get out of those, always try to reforge your expertise over any stat. Most higher end dk's run with 0 to less than 10 Expertise as unholy.


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Anti-"government" Candlelight Action Staged in Seoul
| Pyongyang, May 21 (KCNA) -- The Round-table Conference of People from All Walks of Life to Cope with Ferry Sewol Disaster in south Korea grouping at least 500 civic and public organizations sponsored a candlelight rally in Chonggye Plaza, Seoul, on May 17, according to the south Korean internet paper Voice of People.
Attending it were about 50 000 people from all walks of life including members of civic and public organizations, scholars, media persons, students, religionists and housewives.
It was held on the largest-ever scale after the ferry Sewol sinking accident.
Speeches were made to denounce the Park Geun Hye group for burying hundreds of persons in the seabed.
Rev. Kim Sang Gun underlined the need to correctly probe the truth about the disaster and call the "government" and "president" to account.
Ri Kyong Ho, senior vice-chairman of the Press Trade Union, noted that media persons were rising up in actions, adding that they would struggle for the resignation of the reptile KBS president kowtowing to power.
Kim Kap Su, professor at Kyunghee University, said the will to fight against the "government" which failed to protect the safety of the people in order to set right media which turned away their face to the truth and build a stable society.
Kim Jin Mo, student of Hanshin University, who is staging a hunger strike after having his hair cut close in demand of the probe into the ferry Sewol sinking accident, put on stage and asked "Is the ferry Sewol tragedy an accident or a murder?" The participants answered in chorus "Murder".
Jong Hyong Gon, chairman of the steering committee of the Joint Council of Civic and Public Organizations, said that people from all walks of life are now demanding the exhaustive probe into the truth and punishment of those responsible for the accident. He called for turning out in a million-people signature campaign reflecting the mind of the bereaved families.
The rally was followed by a demonstration.
Loudly heard in streets of Seoul were shouts "Park Geun Hye, resign!" "Park Geun Hye, take responsibility for disaster!" "Find out those missing!" "Bring our children to their lives!" and "Institute a special law!"
The participants gathered at the joint incense-burning altar at Seoul Square, honored the memory of the victims and expressed their will to stage a candlelight action with 100 000 people attending on May 24.
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David Cameron: England's number one fan [1]
So you thought David Cameron was just faking being a football fan . . .
So you thought David Cameron was just faking being a football fan . . .
by Duncan Robinson [2] Published
David Cameron has a difficult relationship with football. Heading rallies with Kevin Keegan, à la Blair? Not for him. He purports to be an Aston Villa fan, but judging by his awkward demeanour while watching the football this summer with Angela Merkel he doesn't seem that comfortable with the national sport.
Or perhaps Cameron is so much of an England fan that he was just doing his best to stop himself from screaming "TWO WORLD WARS AND ONE WORLD CUP, DOO-DAH" in the German chancellor's face, followed by a few swift verses of "Ten German Bombers".
Further proof of Cameron's hardcore support for the national team can be found in this video.
(OK, so it's not really Cameron, and it's not even a hooligan, but it does look really like him . . . )
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Premature infants have a fight on their hands from the moment they are born. Part of the battle includes painful medical procedures that are needed to help a preemie survive.
A new study suggests that something as common as a few drops of sugar-water along with comforting and reassuring holding can ease their pain.
The study took place in three NICUs in Swiss hospitals. Preemies were given either sugar water, held tightly, or given both when they had heel sticks to draw blood during their first two weeks in neonatal intensive care units. The babies who got both sugar and an embrace called facilitated tucking suffered the least, compared to babies who got just sugar or who were just held.
The results are the latest in many studies that have shown that it is possible to relieve pain, even in the very young and fragile. Most preemies aren't good candidates for the pain relieving drugs used in older children and adults. So it's been a huge relief to parents to know that treatments without drugs can work.
Sugar water has been recommended since the late 1990s as the go-to intervention, and multiple studies have proven that it helps the most, even for babies who are in the NICU for months.
Giving sugar water during painful procedures is recommended by an international group of clinicians. Forms of touch usually give less relief than sugar. Using a pacifier with sugar helps best, according to a 2011 review of 44 studies by the Cochrane Collaboration. But not all preemies can manage a pacifier. Other effective ways to reduce pain are kangaroo care, in which a parent holds the baby against their chest skin while the procedure is performed, followed by swaddling or facilitated tucking. With facilitated tucking, the baby is held firmly so he or she can't flail arms and legs.
Given the results of the study, Denise Harrison, an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa School of Nursing, and who studies pain relief in preemies, believes it's time for all preemies to be given sugar with every painful procedure, as well as pacifiers and touch. But many preemies still aren't getting that simple help, she says.
"Parents should be aware of what they can do," Harrison says. That includes asking that their child be given sugar water, and holding their child as much as possible. "We're getting better at letting parents hold their babies, but we need to take that much more to the next step, and get parents to hold their babies for much longer periods."
Harrison also says that the benefits of sugar for pain relief are so clear that it was unethical of this new study to withhold it from the 24 babies who were only given facilitated tucking, especially since giving sucrose is the standard of care in the NICUs where the babies were treated. Giving the children small "rescue" doses of sucrose after the facilitated tucking would have let the scientists do their work while still letting the babies get the best standard of care, she says.


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1995 Chevy Camaro Z28 Rollcage - Raising The Bar
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1. Here's the starting point—a '95 Camaro Z28, which is slated to be a stock suspension 275 drag radial car. Top End Fabrication starts by elevating the car and placing it squarely on jack stands so the full weight of the car is resting evenly.
1. Here's the starting point—a '95 Camaro Z28, which is slated to be a stock suspension 275 drag radial car. Top End Fabrication starts by elevating the car and placing it squarely on jack stands so the full weight of the car is resting evenly.
2.The first bar to be fabricated is the main hoop, so it's time to grab a fresh stick of mild steel tubing and start measuring the distance and angle of each bend. Keep in mind that some folks use chromoly tubing for rollcages, but the mild steel is plenty strong. Its biggest disadvantage is weight.
3. After bending the main hoop, Jason and Shane test-fit it and make any necessary adjustments. Daniel wanted the tubing to be tucked tightly against the inner body panels, something that is generally out of the question with pre-bent cages. Top End is known for attention to detail and precise fitment.
4.With the main hoop tack-welded to the subframe connector outriggers, it's time to fit the rear support bars, also known as "down bars." These bars attach to another piece of round tubing, which runs horizontally from the left to the right rear framerail. Shane uses an angle finder to get a baseline angle so he can match the other side.
5. Fitting the second down bar, Jason and Shane cut the tubing in small increments to perfectly match the first bar in terms of angle. They also take several measurements to ensure the bars are the same distance from each side of the car. This isn't a matter of strength—it's a matter of consistent lines and good looks.
6. The down bars attach to this crossbar, which welds to a plate atop the rear framerails. The additional plate and rear bar ties the rear framerails to the rollcage, helping to stiffen the unibody structure.
7. With the rear section of the cage fitted and tack-welded, the guys carefully measure and figure out the exact location of each bend for the A-pillar bars, also known as the front down bars. These bars have complex bends, which must conform to the A-pillar and also match the profile of the roof to meet up with the main hoop.
8. Jason tack-welds the front down bar to the main hoop when he and Shane have it fitting to their liking. This bar also attaches to an outrigger on the custom subframe connectors, so there was a lot to be considered when fabricating this particular bar.
9. At this point, both front down bars are tack-welded into place, and they will eventually be supported with a horizontal bar at the upper edge of the windshield, along with a diagonal bar from corner to corner. These support bars, including gussets, will be fabricated later.
10. After cutting the tubing to length and fitting it, Shane welds in the rocker bars. These bars are often left out, but it's an essential part of strengthening the car, and providing safety for the driver. Top End TIG-welds all of its cages, even during the tack-welding process to ensure a strong, clean weld.
11. Next is the dash bar. This is a simple but effective part of the rollcage. Before it's tack-welded into place, Shane double checks to make sure it is level. In most cases, a stock dash will fit over a dash bar, but a moderate amount of trimming may be necessary.
12. Most of the main bars are tack-welded, so it's time for one of the most important aspects of building a rollcage: fitting the driver. Daniel positions his seat where he wants it and holds the wheel so Shane can take measurements and figure out the height and angle of the door bar.
13. Some folks like a bent door bar or a swing-out door bar to make climbing in and out of the car easier, but Daniel went with a standard straight-door bar. Here, Jason lays down a TIG-weld after test-fitting and notching the tubing to match the specific angle of the bar. (See more about tube notching in the sidebar.)
14. With the door bars in position, the remainder of the cage can be finish-welded, and additional bars can be added for strength. The roof features a horizontal as well as a diagonal bar and gusset bars between the main hoop and front down bars. The main hoop also has support bars that tie into the main portion of the subframe connectors.
15. Another important feature of a rollcage is the crossbrace. This runs horizontally to strengthen the main hoop and provides a mounting point for the aluminum Kirkey seats, as well as the safety harnesses.
16. There's no question that Top End Fabrication greatly strengthened this fourth-gen Camaro with its custom rollcage. Daniel now has a safe platform to build upon, and a strong chassis when it comes time to put the power to the ground.
1. Jason uses a hole saw for notching rollcage tubing and changes bit sizes according to tubing size. Some folks use a grinder to notch tubing, but using a drill press with a tube notching attachment is a much easier (and cleaner) way to notch a piece of tubing.
4. Here's a great example of a perfect notch. The bar fits perfectly flush against its attachment point and the angle is precise. Also notice the grinding marks on the end of the tubing—this is done to remove scale, created by cutting the notch. It also removes any oxidation, which makes for a cleaner weld.
2. Many rollcage components, such as the rocker bars, dash bar, and crossbrace are installed completely level. With this in mind, Shane ensures the bar is level when it's being installed in the notcher.
3. The tube notching attachment allows Top End to match the angle of a particular bar and notch it accordingly. This is a lifesaver when it comes to notching a bar that attaches diagonally because a dead-on straight notch will not offer the correct contour.
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For both sides in today's strike action, there are two separate battles. One is the argument over the issue which is causing schools to close and disruption elsewhere - namely cuts in the public pension.
The second battle is the "hearts and minds" one: winning the PR battle. The jury is out on that with all the polls suggesting the public is fairly evenly split, with support for the government and support for the strikers about 50/50.
Which explains why both are treading rather carefully and avoiding the kind of provocative language and brinkmanship that sometimes characterise industrial disputes.
Both recognise they risk forfeiting public sympathy if they escalate their language and adopt rather more macho positions. The government is conscious that there remains a large groundswell of support for the view that the national deficit and economic crisis had its roots in the reckless practices of the banks and many still believe that no-one has really paid much of a price - indeed any price at all - for this.
So the unions are enjoying perhaps more sympathy than they otherwise might have because their message that the pain is being inflicted in the wrong place has some measure of support.
On the other hand, those employed in the private sector are pointing out that despite the recession public sector workers continue to enjoy more generous pensions than many.
The real test of public opinion - and sympathy - will come if there are more strikes and more disruption. Parents may tolerate the inconvenience of making hasty child care arrangements for one day but not if it happens on a weekly basis. The same goes for holiday-makers facing queues at passport desks.
Who will blink first?
A good line from Kent NUT rep John Walder responding to the claim that it is wrong to disrupt children's education by striking. "There was a decision to take a day off for the Royal Wedding and I don't recall a big outburst about that harming children's education."
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Hearing trade unions leaders at the TUC conference was a frightening reminder of the dark days of the 1970s.
It had all the echoes of the three-day week, the Winter of Discontent, Arthur Scargill and other horrors that plunged the nation into doom and gloom.
It was a far more "darker, brutish and frightening place" in those dismal days than it could ever be now, despite the apocalyptic warning by Brendan Barber.
Well done to the Balpa chief for injecting the only note of sanity into a tribal rant by the band of brothers.
Sure, the Government has handed union rabble-rousers an open goal with its continual harping on about draconian cuts.
They should have been a lot more subtle. They have given the impression that cutting spending is their only goal whereas they should be stressing the need for sensible spending, increasing it in some areas where the payback is substantial or where fairness to the vulnerable is concerned.
Tax and public spending went too far under the last Government and has to be reined back. It would have been better PR for the new union barons to have tempered their anti-Government tirade with recognition that the nation cannot go on spending beyond its means for ever.
The public sector has been protected for too long. It is time it shared some of the suffering felt across the private sector. And public spending does not of itself buy civilisation as the union leaders claim because you cannot trust the recipients of our cash to spend it wisely.
Sensible spending is what we need, and with the nation's economy in such a parlous state, we need to cut our cloth accordingly. Threatening massive disruption, and carrying it out, will surely lead to far greater economic and social crisis.
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On July 17, I returned from a blissful basecamp in the Cordillera Blanca to the bustling city of Los Angeles with a serious case of vertigo, gut rot and culture shock like I've never experienced before. As soon as I stepped off the plane, I felt the ground sink below me and the horizon shift and move away. All I wanted was a hot shower, a toilet I could sit on, and a warm, comfortable bed, but the California I dreamed of turned out to be a lot harsher in reality. Hot, dizzy, nauseous and disturbed by growling ghetto birds and ringing cell phones, I immediately took off to Palm Springs to connect with friends, soak in a salt water pool and relax under a cool mist. While this plan sounded rejuvenating in theory, the stifling heat, pungent aroma of burning flesh and bananas, and my black rubber flip flops melting onto the 200 degree concrete sidewalks rendered me speechless. Sick and strained between the two realities, I couldn't eat, drive or express a complete thought. I had grown accustomed to the simple and secluded basecamp life and was seriously affected by the differences between the old and new. I never expected the transition from extreme high altitude isolation to sea level civilization was going to be this difficult and awkward.
It took a few weeks for my culture shock and oxygen induced delirium to disappear. However, while staring at the glowing red eyes of the car stopped before me in LA's bumper to bumper traffic, I often daydream about the glitter of sunlight on frosted nylon tent walls. The heavenly smell of sweet mountain air. The taste of fresh Peruvian dark roast coffee made with glacial-fed water. The innocence of morning. The feeling of immaculate granite on my fingertips and warm sunshine on my chapped face. The sounds of laughter illuminated by dancing candle flames. The dazzling gold Milky Way arching over the glowing white peaks. The Cordillera Blanca was beyond my wildest imagination. I feel so fortunate to have experienced the life-altering influences of the majestic Peruvian Andes.
The last two months have passed by in a feathery blur. I have been traveling non-stop from the Outdoor Retailer trade show in Salt Lake City to the Monterey Historics and Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance to a climbing/paddle boarding/camping trip with Marmot and REI in Lake Tahoe to the Goodwood Revival historic race in England. During my three weeks of downtime in LA, I've taken advantage of the granite bouldering at Black Mountain and surfing in So Cal's warm water.
Even though I'm now working on my laptop five days per week instead of climbing all day, I'm incredibly inspired by my current projects. Next week, I will travel back to Boulder, Colorado for the 2012 Adventure Film Festival. It's a great honor to be the Producer of this year's festival, founded by my dear friend, the late, great Jonny Copp. It's incredibly rewarding to collaborate with our industry's most talented filmmakers, photographers, athletes, artists and the inspired community who helps to carry on Jonny's vision: Make Your Own Legends. If you're in Boulder on October 4-6, don't miss this magical weekend with over 40 outdoor adventure films, filmmaker and photographer workshops, interactive art gallery, live performances, parties and more.
Also, look for the complete story and videos about our high alpine Peruvian adventure, coming soon!