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As most of you know, we are a systems integrator, but working on the software side and not so much on the hardware side. However, we still tend to collect or acquire a lot of hardware for various purposes.
It is time to do some spring cleaning. Seriously, this stuff has to go. So starting today and ending sometime in the next couple of weeks, we will start selling off all the surplus that has accumulated over the past 5 or 6 years. Some of it is old technology, some very new and unused technology. Here is a sampling of what we will be selling:
- Graphics cards: AMD R9 series and Radeon HD 7950 series
- Hard drives (lots and lots)
- Memory
- Water cooling components (fittings, cooling blocks, tubing)
- Power supplies
- Cables of all kinds
- Laptops and netbooks
- Phones (WebOS to be specific)
- One solitary Bitcoin mining machine
- …and whatever other
crapstuff we have lying around
To keep it simple, we're going to be selling our stuff over on eBay. I'm not the biggest fan of selling on eBay (fees are way too high), but it should work nicely to unload what we've got and make some space in our office.
So here you go: Matrice Consulting Spring Cleaning Sale
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And where have I been? Busy. I have something cool planned for a couple of months from now. I'll give you a clue: it has to do with HRMS and SQL. If you're interested, subscribe.


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The Group's Annual Report gives more information about our approach and highlights our key achievements for the year.
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The new high tech Margaret River Wastewater Treatment Plant has been handed
over to the Water Corporation by the contractors who designed and built
it, IT Environmental (Australia) Pty Ltd, following 12 months of successful
trial operation.
Under the contract, IT Environment was required to operate the plant for
the first year to make sure it met requirements.
The fully automatic, state of the art plant is now under the supervision
of the Water Corporation's Margaret River based Leading Water Industry
Operative Mr Allan Miller.
The $10.8 million project included construction of the plant, a 2.8 km
pipeline, a pumping station near the Margaret River bridge and a 400 megalitre
(million litres) storage reservoir from which highly treated wastewater
is pumped during summer to irrigate a 60-hectares pine plantation operated
by CALM.
Water Corporation South West Regional Business Manager, Mr Chris Elliott,
said all of the plant's output was being used to irrigate the plantation,
which was an excellent outcome for the environment.
The Margaret River scheme was similar to wastewater treatment and reuse
schemes operating at Manjimup, Kemerton, Bridgetown, Busselton and Dunsborough.
"The upgraded treatment system also allows further growth in the
Margaret River area, and enabled the connection of 65 properties as a result
of the town's latest Infill Sewerage project," said Mr Elliott.
Margaret River's previous wastewater treatment plant had a pond
system that provided only secondary treatment that was less efficient at
removing nutrients. The new plant has a tertiary system that produces clear
and odourless treated wastewater which is highly suitable for recycling.
Mr Elliott said the new plant had been constructed away from residential
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The Minister-Designate of Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, has vowed to flush out all foreigners involved in small-scale mining, popularly known as galamsey, if Parliament approves his nomination.
Addressing the Appointments Committee last Friday, Alhaji Inusah said galamsey operations are reserved under our laws for Ghanaians, but unfortunately, non-Ghanaians have flooded the sector, leaving havoc in their wake, promising that a new policy would be put in place to monitor the activities of all galamsey operators in the country.
He noted: "The galamsey menace is one that everybody appears to be worried about, and there is a cause to worry, because they spoil the forest, pollute our water bodies and cause environmental challenges. They could be a catalyst to the resource curse, and that is why government has said small-scale mining must be the preserve of Ghanaians.
"It is important for us to embark on a vigorous information and education campaign to ensure that Ghanaians who want to engage in small-scale mining have an opportunity to do so within the laws of the country.
"We, as a ministry responsible for that sector, will be able to monitor the activities of galamsey operations. We will make the system of registration less cumbersome for citizens who want to undertake the venture, so they successfully do the small-scale mining legally. Foreigners are not by law entitled to any piece within small-scale mining."
Good talk. But, The Chronicle hopes it is not just sweet talk to entice Parliament to give him the nod to clinch the political headship of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources.
But a number of questions arise: If the law is so clear on who and who can engage in small-scale mining in the country, why did Alhaji Inusah's predecessors seemingly turn a blind eye and allow foreigners into galamsey operations? Were they settled by the foreigners or ordered from above to ignore our law? If so, what makes Alhaji Inusah so sure that he could resist the inducements or disobey superior directives?
The Chronicle also gets the suggestion that because they are Ghanaians, local galamsey operators would be allowed to leave craters in our forests, pollute our waters, and seed environmental challenges. That would be most unfortunate.
We hope the impression that indigene galamsey miners could be a law unto themselves is due to lack of details of the new law to govern galamsey operations, and that when the new policy does come out, it would include measures to ensure that they restore the environment before they leave their old sites for new ones.
The Chronicle wishes the incoming Lands and Natural Resources Minister well. We hope he will be able to actualise his vow to sanitise the small-scale mining sector. We assure him that we will be watching him; we will praise him for his commendable actions, and chastise him for the condemnable ones.


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Originally published at Homeland Security Today by Amanda Vicinanzo on 6/9/15
Nearly 15 years after the tragic September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, problems with interoperable communications continue to plague the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to a DHS Inspector General (OIG) audit report.
"In other words, nearly a decade after the 9/11 Commission highlighted the problem with interoperable communications, DHS components could not talk to each other using about $430 million worth of radios purchased," said DHS Inspector General John Roth, whose office just concluded a verification review of its 2012 audit of DHS's oversight of interoperable communications.
In the 2012 audit report, DHS' Oversight of Interoperable Communications, the IG's review of progress on intra-agency communications during an emergency, such as a terrorist event, found less than 0.25 percent of the 479 radio users could access and communicate via that specified common channel.
Moreover, of the 382 radios tested, only 20 percent contained all the correct program settings for the common channel.
The IG determined the reason behind the communications failure was lack of an effective governing structure with the authority and responsibility to ensure DHS achieved department-wide interoperable radio communications.
Now more than two years later, the IG found, DHS still hasn't complied with the recommendations of the initial 2012 audit. Although DHS has taken some corrective actions to standardize department-wide radio activities, plans have not been finalized and DHS could not provide a timetable for finalization of the plans.
Furthermore, some component… Continue reading
by Philip Giraldi
The most recent issue of the National Counter Terrorism Center's annual Report on Terrorism [.pdf] came out last week, covering the year 2011. I would like to say that it is well worth a read, but actually it is quite tedious. For those who are interested, it is essentially a statistical and analytical breakdown of the terrorism phenomenon derived from the U.S. government–maintained Worldwide Incidents Tracking System, or WITS, which is based on publicly available open-source material reporting alleged terrorist activity around the globe. Most often the analysis is bare bones and avoids political coloration, not, for example, going deeply into the motives of the various terrorist groups but instead providing information in a pie chart and chronological fashion. This year's report is 33 pages long.
The United States is engaged in what most Americans still refer to as a global war on terror or, in shorthand form, a war on terror. The Obama administration avoids the expression because it is a legacy of the Bush years and because it uses the expression "war," so it refers to "overseas contingency operations," which has a nicer sound and does not appear to be so preemptive or premeditated. It also fudges the reality of what is taking place by pretending that the process is reactive, which it is not. The unrelenting expansion of U.S. military intervention is in response to many diverse overseas developments, most of which are not genuine threats. This was recently demonstrated by the White… Continue reading
A newly uncovered Army document details U.S. internment camps on American soil .
Ryan Cummings, Contributor Activist Post
The topic of civilian internment camps in the United States has been largely dismissed as a paranoid "conspiracy theory" by the mainstream media. Recent legislation and newly uncovered government documents, however, reveal the sad truth: The United States is quickly descending into a full-blown authoritarian police state.
NDAA 2012: Patriot Act Part Two
On December 31, 2011, while the majority of Americans were busy watching balls drop and drinking themselves into oblivion, President Obama quietly signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. This unprecedented legislation effectively codified the executive branch's authority to indefinitely detain American citizens without trial, stripping them of their Constitutional right to due process and habeas corpus.
Under this legislation, if you are simply "suspected" of providing support to a group the government classifies as a terrorist organization–or an affiliate or associated force of said organization–you can be rounded up and detained until the end of the "War on Terror"–a war, according to policy makers, that has no end.
Over the course of this endless and prefabricated war, the government's definition of "terrorist" has slowly shifted post 9/11 from Al Qaeda, a group of dubious power initially funded and supported by the CIA and the Pakistani ISI , to such "domestic terrorists" as Occupy Wall Street protestors , pro-life advocates and Ron Paul supporters . When the FBI set-up a band of dimwitted… Continue reading
By Paul Craig Roberts
Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded, because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands exceeded the value of conquest and governance. The reason Rome did not extend its empire east into Germany was not the military prowess of Germanic tribes but Rome's calculation that the cost of conquest exceeded the value of extractable resources.
The Roman empire failed, because Romans exhausted manpower and resources in civil wars fighting amongst themselves for power. The British empire failed, because the British exhausted themselves fighting Germany in two world wars.
In his book, The Rule of Empires (2010), Timothy H. Parsons replaces the myth of the civilizing empire with the truth of the extractive empire. He describes the successes of the Romans, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Spanish in Peru, Napoleon in Italy, and the British in India and Kenya in extracting resources. To lower the cost of governing Kenya, the British instigated tribal consciousness and invented tribal customs that worked to British advantage.
Parsons does not examine the American empire, but in his introduction to the book he wonders whether America's empire is really an empire as the Americans don't seem to get any extractive benefits from it. After eight years of war and attempted occupation of Iraq, all Washington has for its efforts is several trillion dollars of additional debt and no Iraqi oil. After ten years of trillion dollar struggle against the Taliban in… Continue reading
March 25, 2012
Guest Post by Kevin Ryan, former Site Manager for Environmental Health Laboratories, a division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL). Mr. Ryan, a Chemist and laboratory manager, was fired by UL in 2004 for publicly questioning the report being drafted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on their World Trade Center investigation. In the intervening period, Ryan has completed additional research while his original questions, which have become increasingly important over time, remain unanswered by UL or NIST.
The U.S. Secret Service failed to do its job on September 11, 2001 in several important ways. These failures could be explained if the Secret Service had foreknowledge of the 9/11 events as they were proceeding. That possibility leads to difficult questions about how the behavior of Secret Service employees might have contributed to the success of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Answering those questions will require the release of existing interview transcripts as well as follow-up questioning, under oath, of a few key people within the agency.
The most glaring example of Secret Service failure on 9/11 was the lack of protection for the President of the United States after it was well known that the country was facing terrorist attacks on multiple fronts. The interesting thing about this was that it was not a consistent approach. That is, the president was protected by the Secret Service in many ways that day but he was not protected from the most obvious, and apparently the most imminent, danger.…Continue reading
By Coleen Rowley
Dear Department of Justice and Department of Treasury Officials:
We might have just helped you bag another material supporter of terrorism this week! And you'll never believe who the culprit is! We were even able to tape record some of his own damning admissions! (That's the reason for my calls last week to your duty attorneys and media offices.)
As you know, Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has an ongoing investigation into several high profile former political figures, trying to discover their financial transactions with the terrorists in the Mujaheddin e Khalq aka "MEK". One of the former political officials apparently being investigated for his financial transactions and paid advocacy on behalf of MEK is former Attorney General Michael Mukasey. Well Mukasey happened to get tapped on March 15 to give an "ethical leadership" speech at the University of St. Thomas Law School and some of us went to hear what he had to say. As an aside, the overall thrust of his speech was anything but ethical. Instead he mostly defended the Bush Administration and its lawyers for having used their talents "to push the legal limits" of what the Executive Branch could do in its "war on terror." (Of course there are many legal scholars who think those Bush attorneys pushed over the legal limits.) He especially defended John Yoo and Robert Delahunty (now a St. Thomas law professor) who working in Bush's Office of Legal Counsel, co-wrote memos in early… Continue reading
February 29, 2012
Just when you thought the government couldn't ruin the First Amendment any further: The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it.
The US House of Representatives voted 388-to-3 in favor of H.R. 347 late Monday, a bill which is being dubbed the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. In the bill, Congress officially makes it illegal to trespass on the grounds of the White House, which, on the surface, seems not just harmless and necessary, but somewhat shocking that such a rule isn't already on the books. The wording in the bill, however, extends to allow the government to go after much more than tourists that transverse the wrought iron White House fence.
Under the act, the government is also given the power to bring charges against Americans engaged in political protest anywhere in the country.
Under current law, White House trespassers are prosecuted under a local ordinance, a Washington, DC legislation that can bring misdemeanor charges for anyone trying to get close to the president without authorization. Under H.R. 347, a federal law will formally be applied to such instances, but will also allow the government to bring charges to protesters, demonstrators and activists at political events and other outings across America.
The new legislation allows prosecutors to charge anyone who enters a building without permission or with the intent to disrupt a… Continue reading
Why Ron Paul Can Win
by James Jaeger
If you have been watching the news, you know that Ron Paul is now beating both Gingrich and Romney in the polls and could walk away with a win in Iowa.
Some say he could also walk away with a win in New Hampshire, and possibly even win the Republican (GOP) nomination.
For the Republican National Committee (RNC), this must be uncomfortable − the idea that they would be forced to nominate a principled, Constitutionalist just because WE THE PEOPLE demanded it.
But here's what really terrifies them: Ron Paul is in a position to hand the election of 2012 over to Barack Obama and the Democrats because he would be a "spoiler." But even… Continue reading
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Ten years after 9/11 and 16 years after the Oklahoma City bombing, it appears the federal government continues to view some Americans who embrace their First Amendment rights — press and speech, primarily — as a danger to the State, and as a result they are listing certain investigative websites as extremist and a terroristic threat to the "homeland."
One, labeled as "extremist" and therefore a threat to the U.S. Government, includes a well-known site, once operated by a truth-seeking Oklahoma state legislator, working to expose anomalies related to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing — OKCbombing.net . A link to the document can be seen here .
This shocking designation is indeed troubling, particularly to the local documentary film production company Free Mind Films , which is also releasing an explosive documentary about the Oklahoma City bombing, A Noble Lie.
OKCbombing.net was formerly operated by State Rep. Charles Key (R-Oklahoma City), as a site to inform the public about reams of information discovered by the Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee, much of it originally ignored by the same federal agencies who now list the site as a threat to the homeland. As for Rep. Key, he concluded his role in the OBIC in approximately 2002 and Free Mind Films is now paying for access and domain rights to… Continue reading
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) When I read a story yesterday about an 89-year-old woman being water-boarded by nursing home staff over an argument about ice cream, I knew something terrible was amiss across the American landscape. Spontaneous acts of tyranny have been cropping up lately like cancer tumors: a food tyrant in Nevada raids a farm picnic and orders everyone to destroy their food ( http://www.naturalnews.com/034125_f… ); student protesters in California get pepper-sprayed by thuggish cops who clearly enjoy causing pain and suffering ( http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/_ne… ); and now nursing home staffers torture their own resident using techniques borrowed from Guantánamo Bay ( http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2011/11… ). I watched all this with a sense of sadness and disgrace for the human race. And then a realization hit me like a sledgehammer…
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Chancellor Katehi's impressive learning skills
By Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
The UC-Davis Chancellor responsible for the pepper-spraying of her students, Linda Katehi, today went on Good Morning America and explained why she should not resign or otherwise be held accountable: "we really need to start the healing process and move forward." On a radio program in the afternoon, she expanded on this view by saying: "We need to move on." So apparently — yet again — the only way everyone can begin to "heal" and "move forward" is if everyone agrees that those in power with the greatest responsibility be fully shielded from any consequences and that… Continue reading
From EndoftheAmericanDream.com at Lewrockwell.com
If you live in the United States today, you need to understand that your privacy is being constantly eroded. Our world is going crazy, government paranoia is off the charts and law enforcement authorities have become absolutely obsessed with watching us, listening to us, tracking us, recording us, compiling information on all of us and getting us all to spy on one another. If you doubt that we are rapidly getting to the point where the government will monitor every breath you take and every move you make, just read the rest of this article. The truth is that the government is watching you more closely than ever, and they are spending billions upon billions of dollars to enhance their surveillance capabilities even further. If our society stays on this current path, we will eventually have zero privacy left. At this point, it is not too hard to imagine a society where we will not be able to say anything, buy anything, sell anything, assemble with others or even leave our homes without government permission. We truly are descending into a dystopian nightmare and the American people had better wake up.
Sadly, most people living in the United States and in Europe do not realize what is happening. Most of them think that everything is just fine. The "Big Brother control grid" that is being constructed all over the western world squeezes all of us just a little bit tighter every single day, and most people… Continue reading
by Paul Craig Roberts
September 30, 2011 was the day America was assassinated.
Some of us have watched this day approach and have warned of its coming, only to be greeted with boos and hisses from "patriots" who have come to regard the US Constitution as a device that coddles criminals and terrorists and gets in the way of the President who needs to act to keep us safe.
In our book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions , Lawrence Stratton and I showed that long before 9/11 US law had ceased to be a shield of the people and had been turned into a weapon in the hands of the government. The event known as 9/11 was used to raise the executive branch above the law. As long as the President sanctions an illegal act, executive branch employees are no longer accountable to the law that prohibits the illegal act. On the president's authority, the executive branch can violate US laws against spying on Americans without warrants, indefinite detention, and torture and suffer no consequences.
Many expected President Obama to re-establish the accountability of government to law. Instead, he went further than Bush/Cheney and asserted the unconstitutional power not only to hold American citizens indefinitely in prison without bringing charges, but also to take their lives without convicting them in a court of law. Obama asserts that the US Constitution notwithstanding, he has the authority to assassinate US citizens, who he deems to be a "threat," without due process… Continue reading
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2011, Issue No. 96
October 1, 2011
Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/
Last Friday, White House officials made at least two public references to Presidential Policy Directives (PPDs). PPD 1 was cited in a new executive order on computer security and PPD 8 was cited in a White House blog posting on disaster preparedness. Each Directive is a significant expression of national policy. Neither one is classified. And yet neither of them — nor any other Obama Presidential Policy Directive — can be found on the White House website.
The White House decision not to make these documents available is a stark reminder of the incoherence of the Obama Administration's transparency policy, and its inconsistent implementation.
"Information maintained by the Federal Government is a national asset," President Obama wrote in his January 21, 2009 memo on transparency and open government. "My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use. Executive departments and agencies should harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public."
But as the withholding of the presidential directives illustrates, not even the Obama White House itself complies with this policy, and so its impact in the farther reaches of the executive branch has been muted. Those who seek access to Presidential Policy Directives must look elsewhere.
"I think it's general policy that… Continue reading
by Kristen
Breitweiser, 9/11 Widow and Activist
July 16, 2011
Huffington Post
Breathlessly, six members of Congress have requested that the FBI investigate the "outrageous" allegations that News Corp might have hacked into the cell phones of 9/11 victims and their families. Lickety split, the Justice Department has done so.
First off, does it surprise me that a corporation like News Corp. might try to hack into the information of private citizens for their own financial gain? Nope.
Much like it wouldn't surprise me if my own government hacked into the private information of its citizens for political gain or… er, I mean, "reasons of national security." Just ask Dick Cheney and Karl Rove about that.
Of course, any such "accidental netting" on their part would be immediately explained away under the protections of FISA and the Patriot Act, because clearly it would have been necessary "in the ongoing fight against terrorism."
Too bad, Congress doesn't want to investigate those types of indiscretions. Sigh.
But truly, I am awestruck when people like Congressman Peter King, Chairman of the House Committee for Homeland Security is so quickly moved to demand an investigation into such vague, seemingly hollow allegations as someone hacking into the cell phones of people like me.
Is this the same Congressman King who when faced with actual hard, incontrovertible facts and figures regarding the vulnerabilities posed by dangerous chemical and water plants across the country remains disinterested? And, I might add firmly on the side of… Continue reading
May 20, 2011
By Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Buried in FBI laboratory reports about the anthrax mail attacks that killed five people in 2001 is data suggesting that a chemical may have been added to try to heighten the powder's potency, a move that some experts say exceeded the expertise of the presumed killer.
The lab data, contained in more than 9,000 pages of files that emerged a year after the Justice Department closed its inquiry and condemned the late Army microbiologist Bruce Ivins as the perpetrator, shows unusual levels of silicon and tin in anthrax powder from two of the five letters.
Those elements are found in compounds that could be used to weaponize the anthrax, enabling the lethal spores to float easily so they could be readily inhaled by the intended victims, scientists say.
The existence of the silicon-tin chemical signature offered investigators the possibility of tracing purchases of the more than 100 such chemical products available before the attacks, which might have produced hard evidence against Ivins or led the agency to the real culprit.
But the FBI lab reports released in late February give no hint that bureau agents tried to find the buyers of additives such as tin-catalyzed silicone polymers.
The apparent failure of the FBI to pursue this avenue of investigation raises the ominous possibility that the killer is still on the loose.
A McClatchy analysis of the records also shows that other key scientific questions were… Continue reading
Friday, March 11, 2011
by Staff Report
The Daily Bell
A controversial congressional hearing Thursday on the radicalization of
Muslim Americans touched on sensitive questions involving terrorism and tolerance
a decade after the 9/11 attacks. At times emotional and theatrical, the four-hour
session of the House Homeland Security Committee included calls from moderate
Muslims for support in overcoming extremists seeking to indoctrinate their children,
as well as protests from Democratic legislators who complained the hearing unfairly
implicated all Muslims for the criminal acts of a small minority. In the end,
committee Chairman Peter King (left), R-New York, said the hearing that generated
widespread media coverage "actually went a lot easier than it could have." He
… promised additional hearings in coming months, with the next perhaps focusing
on the radicalization of Muslims in U.S. prisons. — CNN
Dominant Social Theme: Don't trust the Muslims.
Free-Market Analysis: Yesterday's hearing on radicalization
of Muslim Americans brings up a larger perspective regarding what is going on
in America and a close look into Western-style democracy. The incessant harping
on "terrorist Islam" as presented in these US congressional hearings (see above
article excerpt) does seem to indicate a trend regarding America's — in fact
the entire West's — descent into authoritarianism, driven by hysteria over
a religion that many of its worshipers (ironically) conflate with "peace."
Peter King is promising more hearings on Islamic terror and one has no reason
to doubt they will occur. King has come under attack for these hearings, which
some believe are deliberately whipping up hysteria against Muslims, but he has
branded such accusations as false and baseless.…
The two main players in releasing the Pentagon Papers were Daniel Ellsberg and United States Senator Mike Gravel.
Senator Gravel is the person who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record. This act made the papers public record, so that they could not be censored by the government. He was the only member of Congress courageous enough to do so.
Both Ellsberg and Gravel – like many other high-level former officials in the government and intelligence services (including many well-known whistleblowers) – support a new 9/11 investigation. Ellsberg says that the case of a certain 9/11 whistleblower is "far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers". (Here's some of what that whistleblower says.) He also said that the government is ordering the media to cover up her allegations about 9/11.
And he said that some of the claims concerning government involvement in 9/11 are credible, that "very serious questions have been raised about what they [U.S. government officials] knew beforehand and how much involvement there might have been", that engineering 9/11 would not be humanly or psychologically beyond the scope of those in office, and that there's enough evidence to justify a new, "hard-hitting" investigation into 9/11 with subpoenas and testimony taken under oath (see this and this).
Gravel is now backing a California ballot initiative for a new 9/11 investigation. The text of the initiative is below.
The initiative would actually help support the 9/11 Commission and fulfill the desire of the 9/11… Continue reading
TSA and America's Zero Risk Culture
November 16, 2010
By Richard Forno
The lede on the DRUDGEREPORT most of Monday showed a Catholic nun being patted down at an airport security checkpoint, with the caption starkly declaring that
He's right.
Ten years after 9/11, Americans who fly are facing a Faustian choice between subjecting themselves to a virtual (and potentially medically damaging) strip search conducted in questionable machines run by federal employees or a psychologically damaging pat-down of their bodies. Osama bin Ladin must be giggling himself silly this week.
But what should we expect in a society that requires adults to wear bicycle helmets while pedaling in the park, provides disclaimers of liability on TV advertisements, or prints warnings on fast-food coffee cups? The name of the game is zero risk. Not risk mitigation, or accepting responsibility for one's actions, but risk aversion. It's a failure to acknowledge that we can't protect against everything bad that can happen to us, so we must protect against everything we think might — might — be harmful at some point.
It's living in fear.
TSA has established itself as the lead federal agency charged with perpetuating this risk-averse culture at airports around the country. The proof is evident over the past ten years: Because of the Shoebomber, we have to remove our shoes. Thanks to the Christmas Crotchbomber, we are subjected to invasive scanning or government-mandated molestation. Because there's a potential for explosives in liquid or gel… Continue reading


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October 17, 2012 19:14 pm
Veteran Peter Waterfield will remain as Tom Daley's platform synchro partner until at least the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
British Diving performance director Alexei Evangulov has confirmed the 31-year-old four-time Olympian would continue.
Waterfield and Daley finished fourth at the London Olympics with the veteran later admitting he had apologised to his teenage partner for a missed dive that cost them a medal.
After enduring an injury-interrupted year there was some speculation Waterfield, who won Olympic silver in 2004, might bow out on the high of a home Games.
But with Waterfield still keen to compete at the top level, he will extend his decade-long career further.
"Pete Waterfield will remain as Tom Daley's partner in the platform synchro," Evangulov told Press Association Sport.
"They are a good team together as we saw at the Olympics Games."
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In today's world of checkbook hot rods, it's always cool to hear a story about someone building a great Bow Tie himself in a home garage or shop. What really kicks it up a notch is when we see a homebuilt car that rivals some of the high-dollar, pro built stuff. Enter our feature Nova.
Deacon Markey and his dad, Richard, found the perfect candidate for a new super Chevy in Las Vegas. The previous owner had started to restore the '63 ragtop, but life got in the way and he had to sell it. When the Markeys got to Las Vegas, the car that greeted them was covered in surface rust, thanks to the previous owner not spraying the body with primer after mediablasting it and replacing the floor pans and rear quarters. Even though it wasn't a pretty sight, the compact came with an LS1 engine so a deal was struck and the father-son duo hauled Deacon's new Nova home.
After the body had been re-blasted to get rid of the oxidation, they set to work on building what was going to be a daily driver. A T56 was located to bolt behind the LS1, and Deacon fabricated a new tunnel and crossmember so the six-speed gearbox would fit inside the Nova.
With the notorious poor qualities of the stock Nova front suspension, a Scott's bolt-on front clip was installed to make sure the car would go whichever direction the driver wanted it to. Out back, a Hot Rods To Hell Truck Arm panhard bar-style rear suspension connected to a 9-inch rear from a Lincoln Versailles keeps the Nova's tail under control while putting power to the pavement.
Because Deacon and his father were doing the work themselves, their patience and skills were tested more than a few times. In particular, Deacon remembers painting and detailing the underside of the car. With no lift at home, he did the whole job with the Nova on jackstands while lying on his back. Deacon also bent up and installed all the tubing for the brake lines. As for the fuel system, that part of the project was an eye-opener, expense wise. A budget of $500 had been set for the system, but once all was said and done, the cost had almost doubled with the purchase of fuel pump, filter, Mallory regulator, solid feed and return lines, and all the necessary AN fittings. As Deacon puts it, "After that, cost overruns were no surprise."
After the front suspension was finished, the engine and trans were dropped in, then the computer wired and sensors connected. Since a lot of the harness had to be custom-made, the Markeys were nervous about how things would go the first time the key turned. But everything went smoothly, the engine fired up, and the Nova was a powered roller again. With downhill momentum, work continued towards making the Nova a real car again. Wilwood brakes were installed up front, and along with the factory discs on the 9-inch rear, the Nova has plenty of stopping power. To lighten the nose up, a Glasstek 2.5-inch cowl fiberglass hood replaced the factory steel unit. As a bonus, the hood is forward-hinged.
With the body set, it was time for paint. According to Deacon, this was one of the more difficult parts of the project.
"I was shooting for an elegant, but not too subdued look. The hardest part about painting a car is picking the colors. I thought a two-tone would be nice. I came up with Ferrari Titanium Grigio over Porsche Polar Silver. While I was arguing with my dad over what color the stripe between the colors should be, orange or dark red, the painter settled the dispute by starting the stripe orange at the headlight and phasing it into dark red as it runs towards the taillight. It came out very nice and it's under the clearcoat."


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Sandusky Dance Walker Tyrone Doward is as recognizable as his yellow Hummer with the license plate "SSSOLID." Doward's exercise-while-you-run style has caught the eye of many people driving on Cleveland Road or Columbus Avenue for the past several years.
Click on the player to the right to see a video about Doward from two years ago.


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Wow, that is such a good price! I don't get the ranges: how often would I
get 1.5mbps and how often would I get close to 6mbps? If the range were
less huge, I wouldn't worry, but I'd hate to buy into the 6mbps and never
get half of that. Is this one of the distance from the nearest sbc box
type things?
Also, does anybody have any Surewest experiences? Those guys are digging
in my neighborhood right now and offer 10mbps (both ways! - wtf?) for $49.
A buddy at work has it already, but he only uses it for regular home
internet guy usage so besides saying he's had no noticable downtime over a
few months, that's not exactly the testimonial I'm hoping for.
I've asked the guys doing the work if they know when the service will be
available and they don't know exactly when...
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Rod Roark wrote:
> Sonic.net has gotten into the act too. This time it's
> $45/month, but only for the first year and only if there is
> no DSL currently on your phone line.
> http://www.sonic.net/sales/dsl/sbc/enhanced_promo.shtml
> -- Rod
> On Monday 19 January 2004 01:10 pm, Rod Roark wrote:
> > Just thought I'd mention that I signed up for a promotional
> > deal from dslextreme.com where you can get up to 1.5-6 Mbps
> > downstream and 384-608 Kbps upstream for $60/month. The new
> > service will be active sometime next month.
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> > This works out to 150%-238% of my current outbound speed
> > for the same price that I'm paying now, which is really good
> > since I run services for several domains. Colocation seems
> > to get continually worse by comparison....
> >
> > I'm in Fairfield and am not sure if this reaches to Davis.
> >
> > Warning: their web site works poorly with both Mozilla and
> > Konqueror; I was reduced to booting up Win 98 to sign up!
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By Tessa Raebeck
In efforts to reduce cuts to teacher positions, school programs and supplies brought on by tight budgets, the Sag Harbor Board of Education (BOE) is considering hosting a forum for East End school districts to discuss the possibility of sharing a superintendent and other services in the future.
In 2011, the New York State Legislature established a two percent real property tax cap, limiting the annual increase of property taxes levied by school districts (as well as local municipalities) to two percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less.
A provision of the legislation permits a handful of school districts with enrollments of 1,000 students or less to share a superintendent.
In November, the Greenport and Southold School Districts were the first in the state to announce plans to do so. Effective July 2014, the districts will equally split the salary of current Southold Superintendent David Gamberg, who will work for both districts and report to both school boards.
At Monday's meeting, school board member Daniel Hartnett proposed examining the possibility of a similar merger in Sag Harbor.
"The sentiment I sense in the community," said Hartnett, "is a great desire to value what is really treasured and honored here, which is our educational program, our sports program."
"Looking three to five years out," he continued, "and looking at numbers crunching and seeing a lot of that is in peril if the tax cap remains — and I think we need to assume the tax cap is going to remain — I think it is incumbent on us to examine all possibilities."
Hartnett suggested spearheading a summit of neighboring school boards and administrators, as well as local elected officials.
BOE Member Susan Kinsella said that offering a part-time job wouldn't provide the same opportunity for the superintendent to be an integral part of the community, which is a priority of the board in its current search for a permanent superintendent.
Hartnett said it is far too late to impact the current search; he simply wants to start a dialogue.
"This is a long-term project," he said, "but it comes from a place where we all value what happens in the classroom with our kids and the values we have of our curriculum, of our approach, of our style of teaching, of our class size — but all of that is in jeopardy in the fairly near future."
"Three years down the road, I'd hate to see us under duress," agreed BOE member David Diskin. "I'd much rather see that [conversation] now at a point where we can vet out these things."
In other school news, school board members Diskin, Mary Anne Miller and BOE vice president Chris Tice agreed to meet with director of technology Scott Fisher to take concrete steps to set up a podcast (audio recording) of board meetings to be broadcasted on the district website.
Also at Monday's meeting, district architect Larry Salvesen presented a projected schedule for the implementation of the capital projects approved by the bond vote November 13.
The timeline includes a startup phase, the preparation of construction documents to submit to state agencies, the subsequent review of those documents, the bidding and awarding of contracts and the actual construction.
The final closeout is projected for October 2016 according to the timeline, which Salvesen said represents a conservative estimate. Construction projects are scheduled so as not to interfere with school instruction.
Looking for feedback from the community, the district is hosting a public meeting to discuss the next steps for bond implementation and the reforming of the Educational Facilities Planning Committee Thursday, December 5 at 6 p.m. in the Pierson Middle/High School Library.


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We've looked at some of the common myths about home-based web work in the past – the ones about us all being naked, or getting lonely. But there's another set of myths that is even more pernicious: the ones that can kill your career.
But there's no reason to put up with this state of affairs. Whether you're already telecommuting, trying to launch a new telework program, or attempting to protect a remote worker budget for your department, there are ways to challenge these myths. Here are our counter-arguments to some of the ones we've heard.
Myth: People work harder in the office where they're supervised than at home where they can slack off.
Reality: People in the office get paid for every hour they're physically present, whether they're working, surfing the web, or polishing their nails. People working from home only get paid for actual productive work hours.
Myth: It costs too much to set up computer equipment for teleworkers.
Reality: Teleworkers need a computer and a network connection. Office-based workers need office space (at rates per square foot that are going up all the time), furniture, office supplies, free sodas, parking spaces…
Myth: Telecommuting represents an unacceptable security risk.
Reality: This is a solved problem. Standard-issue computers, remote management, and strong authentication products can all help keep telecommuters as safe as office workers. IT may have to learn some new tricks, but that's what you pay them for.
Myth: Teleworkers are never available when you need them.
Reality: Teleworkers have just as much stake in being connected with the rest of the team as everyone else – maybe more, in fact. Between email, phones, instant messages, VOIP, videoconferencing, and a plethora of Web 2.0 services, teleworkers these days can be as connected as the people in the cubicle down the hall.
Myth: Telecommuting is for other businesses.
Reality: Maybe so, but that's becoming less common all the time. Sure, if your employees all run drill presses full time they're not good candidates for telework, but if they have as little as 8 hours a week of portable desk work they can fit into a part-time program – with benefits for both employer and employee.
Myth: You'll never see the teleworkers again.
Reality: When geography allows, many teleworkers spend the occasional day in the office, ranging from once a week to once a month. This allows attending a few meetings as well as critical social bonding time. Teleworkers want to be part of the team just as much as everyone else.
What other telework myths have you run into? Share your answers to help your peers break down the prejudices against our way of work!


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Hi -
I have the same problem as inspired-art, regardless whereI try to install the dson importer and the genesis stuff, I end up with
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\DAZ\Studio\content\Runtime\libraries\Character\DAZ People\Genesis.py", line 1, in <module>
import dson.dzdsonimporter
ImportError: No module named dson.dzdsonimporter
when trying to load gensis to poser. I have poser 9, SR3.1 is installed, I used the 32 bit installer (and, yes, I'm still using Vista).
I installed the dson importer to the poser9- runtime, and tried installing the genesis stuff first to the (external) runtime I use normally, then to poser9, then to an external runtime on another partition (D). I also did a manual search for the called out file, but it could not be found. So I'm really clueless what else I could try.
I read the answer about there may not be any content installed in the same folder, I just don't understand - what do I need to do now?


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Woyrsch belonged to a generational group of composers including Wetz, Berger, Weingartner, and Juon, whose members carefully continued to develop the classical-romantic tradition in their own personal manner and style and enriched the history of genres such as the symphony with important nuances. Together with the Oldenburg State Orchestra, known for its enlistment in the cause of Dietrich, we would now like to see justice done to Woyrsch, the Northern German successor to Brahms.
American Record Guide, November/December 2012
The performances sound fine, and Dorsch's conducting really moves the music along with a proper responsiveness to the temperament of two quite different pieces. Once again, CPO mines the postromantic vein and turns up a pair of winners.
Expedition Audio Recommended
Performances by Thomas Dorsch and the Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester serve the music very well. If you are one of those listeners who would be perfectly happy had the romantic orchestral tradition continued a little longer, this will be a welcome addition to your collection.... read more ...
Recording information: Groáer Sendesaal Hannover (12/19/2011-12/20/2011).
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Works DetailsWoyrsch, Felix : Overture for orchestra to Shakespeare's "Hamlet", Op. 56
- Conductor: Thomas Dorsch
- Ensemble: Oldenburgisches State Orchestra
- Notes: Groáer Sendesaal Hannover (12/19/2011-12/20/2011)
- Running Time: 13 min. 29 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
Woyrsch, Felix : Symphony no 2 in C major, Op. 60
- Conductor: Thomas Dorsch
- Notes: Groáer Sendesaal Hannover (12/19/2011-12/20/2011)
- Running Time: 47 min. 20 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Orchestral


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2012 Energy Summit points out good, bad of industry
No environmental representative on event panel at Del Mar College
CORPUS CHRISTI - Some of the state's leading policy makers on energy issues gathered Thursday at the Del Mar College Center for Economic Development to discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of Texas' energy industry.
The 2012 Energy Summit, hosted by state Rep. Todd Hunter, R-Corpus Christi and the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute, drew about 200 and featured an expert panel on oil and gas development and regulation and another on utilities demand and reliability.
There was no environmental representative on the panel.
While other states such as New York have put the brakes on hydraulic fracturing, Texas continues meeting America's energy needs and should continue to do so, but there are challenges and strains, for instance, on state infrastructure.
Hundreds of trucks are needed to drill and serve a single well and the strain on roads equals millions of cars in terms of total weight and pressure, said Phil Wilson, executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation.
The punishment can cut a road's useful life from 25 to 5 years, he said.
"Oil and gas is great for jobs and economic development, but it's a strain on infrastructure," he said. A task force is working on solutions, he said.
Wilson reminded the group that, as with most things in life, deferred maintenance equals higher and higher costs.
The consensus among the first group of panelists, including U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold and State Rep. Geanie Morrison, R-Victoria, is that the Eagle Ford Shale play continues to drive economic development and job growth, particularly in South Texas, but the boom brings challenges requiring common sense solutions and regulations.
Farenthold said federal regulation is shifting beyond a reasonable approach to energy regulation.
"Unfortunately, the president has appointed regulators with an ideological agenda ... than basing decisions on sound science," he said. A logjam of federal regulation relative to drilling permits on federal land is driving away oil and gas exploration and production in some states such as North Dakota, Farenthold said.
"A state permit in North Dakota can take about 30 days but for a company to get a permit for drilling beneath federal land can take about a year," he said.
"The royalties that could be had for that production would go into the federal coffers would certainly help with our debt struggles."
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Chairman Bryan Shaw said he continues to hope federal regulators will work with Texas without usurping state authority under established environmental law but "it does not look promising."
A panel of experts, including Hunter, state Rep. J.M. Lozano, R-Kingsville, and several utility industry leaders, will address the group later Thursday afternoon.


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Looking back, looking ahead
The following, originally titled "Year in Review – Achievements and Plans for our Future," was prepared by the Watkins Glen Village Board at the request of SchuyLines. Pictured: Mayor Mark Swinnerton
What a year it's been! It's hard to believe that almost one short year ago, the Village of Watkins Glen Board of Trustees welcomed Kevin Smith and Scott Gibson as its newest members and Mark Swinnerton as the new Village Mayor. Coupled with the past experience of Wayne Weber, and our recently appointed member, Paul Clifford, it was clear from the start that the Village was embarking in a new direction. With a campaign platform for change, members of the board promised to improve its role in municipal government from several perspectives.
• Conduct business in an open and transparent manner;
• Reunite the local government with its community by encouraging open participation and involvement, holding true to the belief that "it's your government";
• Review the overall budget process, making cuts where necessary to ensure that taxes are kept at a minimum;
• Plan for our future with long-term goals;
• Make the tough choices on changing policy, programming, and operations to benefit the entire community;
• Improve partnerships with our municipal neighbors, businesses, and organizations.
With a fiscal crisis faced by all municipalities and dwindling State and Federal support, our first task was to take a long and hard look at how the Village has been spending your money. To make matters more difficult, on January 1, 2012, the State limited the annual growth of property taxes levied by local governments to just 2 percent, which is equivalent to about $25,000 of the Village budget. While this looks good on paper, the fact of the matter is that the cap does very little for costly unfunded mandates or expenses beyond the Village's control including the likes of health care costs, insurance rates, fuel surcharges, or equipment and materials which must be considered above all else. As you can see, that $25,000 is easily expended even before we make any modifications in how the Village operates.
By reviewing each department budget starting from scratch, the Village was able to maintain its costs without increasing your taxes. We were able to overcome $85,000 in State mandated increases in health care and retirement and the saying "can we accomplish more with less" became our motto. We are proud to say that each department head made the sacrifices that were necessary. This effort was not without its casualties and we continue to this day to seek ways to fund past staples of the community like the Summer Recreation Program by looking for support from other municipalities or through grants. In the long run, we applaud our staff for the tough choices that had to be made and ask that you do the same the next time you see them.
The core of what makes a community great is the level of service that it provides. We love our small town feel, appreciate what it has to offer, and yet depend on economic boosts and partnerships from our retailers and tourism to support it all. We have worked very hard at partnering with the Schuyler County Partnership for Economic Development (SCOPED), the Chamber of Commerce, the County and surrounding towns and villages on how to maintain the optimum level of services possible. With constant improvement in mind, we strive to continue to make Watkins Glen a better place with the following achievements:
• We partially funded two separate studies with SCOPED to improve the northern and eastern gateways into our community. The plan would be to develop a more welcoming approach from Route 14 heading into the Village by improving signage, traffic calming, tourism services, additional waterfront development, and parking. From Route 79 heading onto 4th street, the study would focus on improvements for ecotourism. Our marshes are a literal gem that many surrounding communities envy and we'll be looking at the possibility of creating facilities to better explore them. Tank Beach, areas of Clute Park, and the marshland itself would be considered for boardwalks, kayak launches, fishing areas, bird watching platforms, and information and welcome-area kiosks.
• We have embarked on a sewer rate study partnership with the Town of Reading. The plan will evaluate present operational and capital needs for the Town of Reading, the Town of Dix, and the Village of Watkins Glen as well as long-term plans to cover costly and inevitable expenses like sewer replacements, equipment rehabilitation, and plant maintenance.
• We have partnered with the Town of Hector, the County, the Town of Reading, and the State of New York on a potential grant for the purchase of an emergency services fire "rescue boat" that will help protect our community, private property, commercial watercraft enterprises, and our tourists with a sorely needed service. The Fire Company continues to fund-raise so that costs can be kept to a minimum on behalf of the Village.
• We have embarked on a consolidation study for our Police Department to possibly combine our forces with that of the Schuyler County Sheriff's Department. The results of this evaluation would determine whether the move would a) prevent loss of services, and b) determine what kind of cost savings it would mean to the taxpayer.
• We are working with the New York State Power Authority on participating in a "green" initiative by buying into a subsidized program that will allow us to qualify for grants at a substantially reduced rate for Electric Department equipment purchases such as vehicles, lighting, materials, infrastructure upgrades, etc.
• We are working with fiber optic cable providers to install an optical "backbone" through our community. This would initially benefit businesses and we are hoping that it would lead to residential areas over time.
• We repurchased the Raw Water Intake Building on Magee-Salt Point Road. Faced with an exorbitant expense of taxpayers' dollars, the Village was required to embark on a $1.2 million dollar construction project for a new water intake pumping station to replace the one that was sold within the Village Electric Plant back in 2008. The intake draws water from the lake and pumps it up to our filter plant off of Route 409 and is a vital component of our water supply. For various reasons, the new station was never constructed and the owner of the property threatened legal action to evict the Village from the property. After much negotiating and mounting legal expenses, the Village repurchased the property for $825,000. This represented a savings to the community of almost $500,000, including estimated future legal fees. We are at this moment partnering with a private developer who intends to buy back the property from us at fair market value and cohabitate the building with our existing pump station to convert it into high-end apartments. The transaction will provide an additional cost savings to the community overall.
• We are working closely with staff and are helping to implement their great ideas to help the municipality run more efficiently. They are the experts in what they do and they have great vision for our Village. Recent examples include the development of an event planning and approval process to ensure that each department is satisfied with how an event functions within the Village.
Improvements to the Public Process
The Village of Watkins Glen is your community and it is imperative that you be a full participant in the governmental process. How we spend your tax dollars and revenue is as important as how you manage your own funds at home. As such, we have made the following changes to help improve the way business is conducted:
• We encourage public participation! Come to our board meetings and be part of the discussion. If you have a question, ask it. If you have a comment, say it. You are part of the process.
• We have improved the detail and turnaround of our meeting minutes. Whether it's a current board member, a future one, staff, or a member of the public that simply wants to know what's going on, you will find our minutes published on our website in a timely manner with better detail of our discussions and decisions.
• We now televise our meetings to our community! Local channel 5 now airs each board meeting during the week following the meeting.
• Improvements to short-term and long-range goals. We now have an annual workshop which the public is encouraged to participate in. Come and assist staff, local officials, and businesses by joining in the discussion to help direct our community's future.
• We are available. Your e-mails and phone calls are responded to in a timely manner. No ifs, ands or buts. Your concerns are important to us and we will do what we can to constantly improve how we operate.
• We have improved communication. You may or may not disagree with our decisions, but you know why we made them. We are plain and straight talking and we do not hide behind political rhetoric.
Improvements to the Community
• You will begin to see improvements to Lafayette Park. As part of the remaining funds to the Catharine Valley Trail grant that was supported by the past administration, the entrance at the corner of Decatur and 4th Street will see granite paver stones and improved landscaping. The stones will be made for sale to the community for monogramming or family name personalization to help raise funds for a period style clock that SCOPED is working on to help grace the entrance.
• The Village will continue to systematically replace curbing and conduct street improvements as funds become available.
• Village water supply tanks will need to be repainted and rehabilitated soon. We will continue to build on capital funds over the next year or two to fulfill this requirement.
• We will be working on long-range plans to begin a replacement program for our water, sewer, and stormwater infrastructure, some of which have been in use for 100 years. A capital improvement system for the highest priority cases will need to be developed to cover costs that can easily exceed our water and sewer budgets alone for one project covering just a few Village blocks.
• We are improving old policies and procedures to make our community better. An updated traffic law that has been under review for several years will make changes including the reduction of the Village speed limit in our residential areas to 20 mph. We will also be extending the range of mandatory 15 mph school zones to help protect our children.
• Our Parks Department will soon be implementing a new on-line reservation system for our Village Campground. This will save staff time and resources to help reduce costs.
• Business District: We are constantly striving to come up with new ways to keep our businesses and lure in new ones. We have a proactive relationship with the Chamber of Commerce and we will continue to look at ways to improve. We are working with the Chamber to develop and reformat the BID (Business Improvement District) so that we can improve our downtown appearance, helping growth and adding services. Businesses are the lifeblood of our community.
Finally …
In closing, we have made great strides in changing the perception of the Village Board. We are here to listen, to assist, and to partner with all. We have made some very difficult decisions in the past year and there will be more looming, but we are making those choices because we feel they are the right ones. We make decisions for today, not for the re-election campaign of tomorrow. We will use our passion and our commitment to make our community a better place to live and visit. Thank you for your continued support. We hope to see you soon, and we'd like you to join us in helping to shape our future.
The Watkins Glen Village Board:
Mayor Mark Swinnerton
Trustee Scott Gibson
Trustee Kevin Smith
Trustee Wayne Weber
Trustee Paul Clifford
Photo in text: Mayor Mark Swinnerton


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Two recent enforcement actions by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") confirm that there is continuing attention in the United States on compliance by investors with the reporting requirements under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the "HSR Act") in connection with significant acquisitions of voting securities of a public company. On June 19, 2013, the Department of Justice settled with a civil penalty of $720,000 a civil antitrust action against MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc. based on MacAndrews having increased its equity stake in Scientific Games Corporation without first filing the required notification under the HSR Act and observing the HSR Act waiting period. In addition, on July 2, 2013, the FTC announced that Barry Diller will pay $480,000 in civil penalties to settle charges alleging that Mr. Diller violated the notification requirements of the HSR Act as a result of Mr. Diller's acquisitions of shares of The Coca Cola Company between 2010 and 2012.
While neither one of above-referenced situations involved shareholder activism, both enforcement actions should serve as a reminder to activist investors that antitrust counsel should be consulted before an investor takes a significant position in a public company and in connection with any subsequent stakebuilding effort, and that the government will take action where it finds violations. On the flip side, there may be opportunities for a company that is the target of shareholder activism to use the HSR Act and other legal limitations offensively in dealing with an activist investor. What follows is a short outline of certain key considerations regarding U.S. reporting obligations that a target company should bear in mind when facing an activist investor.
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Maybe they looked too suspicious while walking home, or maybe they just wouldn't obey when you gave them a command.
A Dorset police spokesman said Old Harrovian Mr Harbord's death was not being treated as suspicious.
Yet some Egyptians are suspicious of the Brotherhood, calling it secretive, arrogant, and devoted to its own interests.
"deserving of or exciting suspicion," mid-14c., from Old French suspecious, from Latin suspiciosus "exciting suspicion" (see suspicion). Meaning "full of or inclined to feel suspicion" is attested from c.1400. Edgar Allan Poe (c.1845) proposed suspectful to take one of the two conflicting senses. Related: suspiciously; suspiciousness.


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Absolute Encoders
Avago absolute encoders are position feedback devices that report absolute positional information. An absolute encoder generates a unique code for each position. When powered up, these absolute encoders do not require a home cycle even if the shaft was rotated while the power was switched-off. Avago absolute encoders in this category use optical technology or Hall effect sensing technology to sense positional information.
Absolute encoders come in two categories, single-turn encoders and multi-turn encoders. These absolute encoders provide a variety of resolutions (i.e. 12, 13, 14, 16 bit). The sizes of these absolute encoders are compact to enable easier integration into space constraint applications including medical, security, brushless DC motors, and industrial applications.


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"[A] fast-paced story, which includes an unforgettable prison riot, a vivid portrayal of bikers as both outcasts and outlaws, and poignant moments between Alexander and his child. This book is impossible to put down." (Library Journal)
"Against the Wind"
This is a really good book. A little slow to start as the characters are being fleshed out but then it really takes off. This group of four not so nice motorcycle riders are convicted of rape which they technically didn't do but... They they weren't a gentle group. Anyway, the listener ends up rooting for their atty (who has his own demons to deal with) to win their case. Lots of political corruption is exposed and the bad/good guys are finally exonerated.
I've listened to David Colacci before and although he is not my favorite narrator he did a fine job.
If you can get through the first 2-3 hours it's certainly worth listening to. I enjoyed this very much and am happy with my purchase.
"Classic cover-up murder mystery"
Great first novel from this author. I listened to this one back in '92 when it first came out and decided to listen to it again. I liked it then and still like it now. Yes, there is sex, violence, and all that comes with it, but what novel doesn't have that nowadays? This was one of the novels I couldn't stop listening to thanks to the excellent narration by David Collacci. All in all, I believe this one is worth using a credit on. Don't plan on stopping very long though if you have to leave for a break. This one is that good. A great legal thriller. This one is as good as they get.
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The story was very good....but did it have to be so full of porn? We had to fast forward thru much of the story it got so disgusting.
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Overall good but narrator doesn't understand New Mexico and apparently no one noticed. It is called MA-drid not ma-DRID, and all locals know that. But I love the NM location..
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On Wednesdays I always rush to the grocery store sale ads and this week I struck GOLD!!! Cheese gold that is... it's BOGO!!!!
I truly do believe so many things are MUCH better with cheese. I love it sprinkled on my soups, used in tacos, burritos, quesidillas (did I spell that right?) and I dearly love grilled chees sandwiches... I put it on my spaghetti, I make homemade pizzas and if nothing else, I put slices of cheddar or provolone on whole wheat crackers, microwave it a few seconds and YUM! instant Heaven!
I love cheese so much that when I see a sale like this one... BOGO... I end up buying 10 or 12 bags, slices and blocks of cheese... there's no such thing as too much cheese! And you can freeze it so it lasts a lot longer. If I've got cheese, I've got dinner!
Oh... and double score this week... avacados are on sale, too! Guess everybody's happy because this Momma's ecstatic!
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By Annette Hinkle
The latke. It's a fairly simple dish that can be complicated (or compromised) in any number of ways.
Basically, latkes are potato pancakes spiced up with a bit of onion and held together with matzo or bread crumbs and fried in oil — typically topped off with applesauce or sour cream.
And they've long been a symbolic staple of Hanukkah.
Last Saturday at Temple Adas Israel's Hanukkah party, there was a latke contest (taste based, not number consumed) and temple members submitted their best efforts in hopes of taking home top honors.
Which for the uninitiated raises the question — why do latkes symbolize Hanukkah anyway?
"It's about oily foods," explained Leah Oppenheimer, director of the temple's Hebrew School. "It's the miracle of the oil."
Oil, of course, is the key component of Hanukkah, the eight day holiday commemorating the victorious Maccabees who, after winning back their Holy Temple in Jerusalem in 165 B.C.E. only had enough oil to burn the menorah for one day, but to their surprise, found it lasted a full eight days.
Though it was the Ashkenazi Jews of eastern Europe who invented the latke as we know it today, Laurel Berger, judge of Saturday's tasting, explains that "The Encyclopedia of Jewish Food" actually credits medieval Italy with the first latkes, where Jews made ricotta-filled pancakes fried in olive oil or butter.
"The potato version didn't appear until the 19th century when tubers were widely planted in famine-ravaged eastern Europe," noted Berger.
Though she has her own long history with latkes, Berger can't say it's been an altogether happy one.
"Years ago, while living in France, I ate an Alsatian potato pancake that landed me in a hospital emergency room," said Berger who can only guess at the cause. "Rancid oil? My delicate constitution? In any case, I've boycotted the potato latke since that unfortunate afternoon."
It was partly for this reason that Dasee Berkowitz, wife of Rabbi Leon Morris, proposed that Berger judge Temple Adas Israel's latke contest.
"The other reason is that I have many strong opinions about food," added Berger, who has written for publications like Gilt Taste and The New York Observer and also moonlights as a private chef.
Though her French experience was less than enjoyable, one might assume that Berger has happier latke memories from childhood. But one might be wrong.
"My mother's latkes emerged from the frying pan burnt at the edges, flaccid in the middle, and slick with oil — an affect achieved by frying the batter in a meager amount of cooking fat over a wan flame," said Berger. "On each of the eight nights of Hanukkah, as we switched on the electric menorah, my baby brother and I used to pray that our Italian neighbor would materialize at the front door with a plate of her family's Christmas ravioli."
So much for sentiment … last Saturday, it seems, was more about redemption, and Berger is clear about what she considers the ideal latke.
"A crisp, clean-flavored, non-greasy fritter, preferably made from local ingredients, and subtly spiced, would earn high marks," confided Berger who, when taste-off time arrived, took a seat at a long table with eight or so latkes lined up on paper plates.
Contestants and temple members looked on nervously while Berkowitz offered the play by play and Berger sampled the first contender.
"Takes me back to my childhood," announced Berger.
Uh oh.
Latke number two was also quickly rejected for containing raw potato, while number three, a sweet potato-based offering, came bearing too much onion.
"Don't take this personally," counseled Berkowitz as entries were rejected one by one.
"You know, before 1849 the potato was considered poisonous in Europe," offered Berger without elaboration.
Subsequent latke entries met similar fates — one was rejected as being too oily, another had too much egg and a third might have been a contender, had it not been over cooked.
In the end, however Berger did pick a favorite — a latke by Janet Grossman who credits her electric frying pan for keeping the oil at a consistent 350 degrees.
"I haven't won anything since high school," said a delighted Grossman, though she admits she wasn't really surprised she won. "I've been making them many years. One secret is stacking them on their sides so the oil drains off."
Hanukkah…it's all about the oil.
In the end, when asked if her search had been fulfilled Berger admitted, "I have never tasted the perfect latke."
Which prompted Berkowitz to suggest a challah bake-off next year.
(BASED ON A RECIPE IN Reform Judaism, Winter 2004)
Winner, Best Latke at Hanukkah Party, 2012
6 large Yukon Gold potatoes (or 9 medium), peeled and cut into 1 inch chunks
3 eggs
1 Tbsp. salt
¼ tsp. freshly ground pepper
1 heaping cup matzo meal
1 large onion, peeled and cut into chunks
1 cup peanut oil + 3 cups canola oil for frying
1. Grate the potatoes in a food processor, drain well
2. Grate the onions in a food processor*
3. Preheat the oil to 350 degrees
4. Using the cutting blade of the food processor, blend ¼ to 1/3 of the shredded potatoes with the onions until it makes a smooth paste
5. Add to rest of potatoes and fold in gently until well mixed
6. Beat the eggs well with salt and pepper and mix well into potato mixture
7. Fold in matzo meal until well distributed
8. Drop spoonfuls of the mixture (1/4 to 1/3 cup) into the oil; then flatten slightly
9. Fry until golden brown on each side
10. Drain each latke with a slotted spoon and stack on its side on crumpled paper towels
11. Serve with applesauce and/or sour cream
*The potatoes and onions can also be separately grated by hand and then simply mixed together. Shreds aren't necessary.


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(SportsNetwork.com) - The St. Louis Blues haven't let the loss of Alexander Steen slow them down.
With the winger nearing a possible return, the Blues aim to rebound from their first regulation loss in nearly a month as they host the Phoenix Coyotes on Tuesday night.
The Blues have been without their leading scorer in Steen since he suffered a concussion on Dec. 21 versus the Edmonton Oilers and he still leads the club with 24 goals and 38 points despite missing the past nine games.
St. Louis lost a shootout decision to Calgary in its first game without Steen, but then ripped off a season-high seven straight wins before having that run halted with Friday's loss in Vancouver.
Steen, meanwhile, was able to fully participate in practice on Monday for the first time since his injury, though there is still no timetable for his return.
"He's been skating on his own so he joins the team," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock told his club's official website. "As time moves forward we'll see when he's ready to play. It's a good sign. He had good energy. I think the guys were real happy to have him back on the ice.
"I don't think you want to read anything into it though until he's declared a player. You could go through this for days; you could go through this for weeks. You don't really know. It's all kind of how he feels."
Even without Steen, the Blues potted five or more goals in four straight games to begin January, helping the club post its longest winning streak since a nine-game run in 2002.
St. Louis' offense finally went cold on Friday in the 2-1 loss to the Canucks, with Alex Pietrangelo netting the lone Blues tally and Brian Elliott, who had won seven starts in a row, making 20 saves.
"We created some chances. He made some good saves, we couldn't bury a couple and the difference is a one-goal loss on the road," said Blues forward David Backes.
The setback was St. Louis' first in regulation over the past 11 games (9-1-1) since a setback to San Jose on Dec. 17.
Center Maxim Lapierre suffered a lower-body injury versus the Canucks and did not practice on Monday, though defenseman Roman Polak did and could play tonight after missing the last 10 contests with a partially fractured left ankle.
The Coyotes, meanwhile, have struggled to three straight losses and five in their last six. They were in action last night, dropping a 5-1 road loss to the Winnipeg Jets.
Defenseman Oliver-Ekman Larsson scored on the power play at 12:16 of the first period to get Phoenix on the board, but Winnipeg's Olli Jokinen countered just 36 seconds later to begin the Jets' string of five unanswered tallies.
Mike Smith allowed all five goals on 38 shots in losing his sixth decision in a row. The Phoenix netminder has not won since Dec. 21.
"You can start anywhere and we have to show improvement," said Phoenix head coach Dave Tippett. "Our goalies have to do better, our defense has to be better and our top forwards have to do better; it's as simple as that."
The quick turnaround might not be good news for the Coyotes, who are 3-7-4 in their last 14 games. That is because forward Mike Ribeiro left last night's game with a lower-body injury and he ranks tied for second on the club with 32 points off 11 goals and 21 assists.
The Coyotes have lost six of their last eight versus the Blues, but did snap a three-game series losing streak with a 3-2 overtime victory in St. Louis on Nov. 12 in the first meeting between the clubs this season.
Ekman-Larsson scored 56 seconds into overtime and Smith made 37 saves.
Lapierre and Polak both scored for the Blues and Jaroslav Halak made 16 saves.
Halak will start tonight and is 2-2-1 with a 2.61 goals against average in his career versus the Coyotes.
Smith improved to 4-5-0 with a 3.21 GAA in nine meetings with the Blues, while backup Thomas Greiss has split two previous starts against them with a 2.52 GAA.
Greiss yielded four goals on 23 shots in 31 minutes of work in his last start for the Coyotes, a loss to the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday.


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Oracle Introduces Open Office to the Cloud
Oracle Cloud Office and Open Office 3.3 are now available.
In a press release this week, Oracle announced the release of it's Cloud Office 1.0, and Open Office 3.3.
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More information on these releases can be found on Oracle's website.
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