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Many schools in developed countries have children and adolescents from a variety of ethnic, linguistic, religious and cultural backgrounds. They relate to each other in various degrees of encounter that range from harmony to hostility. The issue of how a school can foster inter-ethnic relationships...
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Miss. St.'s Roberts Off to Lithuania
Former Mississippi State star Lawrence Roberts signed a two-year deal with Lithuania's Lietuvos Rytas, the club announced Tuesday.
Roberts, 28, was a second-round pick of the Seattle SuperSonics in the 2005 NBA draft. He played with the Memphis Grizzlies from 2005-07, then went overseas to play in Greece, Serbia and Turkey.
Most recently, he was with Turkey's Efes Pilsen Istanbul, where he averaged 6.5 points and 5.1 rebounds last season.
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IT'S a laser, but not as we know it. For a start, you need a microscope to see it. Gleaming eerily green, it is a single spherical particle just a few tens of nanometres across.
Tiny it might be, but its creators have big plans for it. With further advances, it could help to fulfil a long-held dream: to build a super-fast computer that computes with light.
Dubbed a "spaser", this minuscule lasing object is the latest by-product of a buzzing field known as nanoplasmonics. Just as microelectronics exploits the behaviour of electrons in metals and semiconductors on micrometre scales, so nanoplasmonics is concerned with the nanoscale comings and goings of entities known as plasmons that lurk on and below the surfaces of metals.
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General Disaster Preparedness Materials for Children
"Disaster Preparedness Coloring Book" (ARC 2200, English, or ARC 2200S, Spanish) for children ages 3-10.
"Adventures of the Disaster Dudes" (ARC 5024) video and Presenter's Guide for use by an adult with children in grades 4-6.
To get copies of American Red Cross Community Disaster Education materials, contact your local Red Cross chapter.
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With recent talk about tenting with a hack, I thought I would bring out this idea stage I have in my mind.
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THE NUCLEAR industry in the US is down but not out. At least, not if the Advanced Light Water Reactor (ALWR) Program comes to anything. John Taylor, a scientist from the Electric Power Research Institute in California, described the industry's attempts to design reactors that are safer, simpler and cheaper than existing models. The idea is also to produce standardised designs that do not become bogged down in the licensing process.
Taylor and his colleagues also run the programme to clean up the reactor at Three Mile Island that was wrecked in an accident in 1979. Taylor blamed many of today's problems on the competition between designers and reactor makers in the early days of nuclear power. This, he said, 'resulted in rapidly increased sizes, reduced engineering margins, and greater system complexity'.
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A vacuum trucks cleans up oil in near Tioga, N.D., Oct. 8. The North Dakota Health Department says more than 20,000 barrels of crude oil spewed out of a Tesoro Corp. oil pipeline in a wheat field in northwest North Dakota. Officials say the 20,600-barrel spill, among the largest recorded in the state, was discovered on Sept. 29 by a farmer harvesting wheat about nine miles south of Tioga. (AP Photo/North Dakota Health Department)
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Sandima Koroma, of Grovelands Road, West Reading, was convicted by a jury at Reading Crown Court on Friday.
The 32-year-old targeted the Finchampstead home on Saturday, November 16, last year, forcing his way through the front door.
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He was convicted of one count of robbery, one count of possession of an imitation firearm and one count of sexual harassment.
Investigating officer, Detective Constable Karen Brown from Reading Force CID said: "This was an exceptionally traumatic experience for the victims and we are pleased to have secured the defendant's conviction as a result of this isolated incident."
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BEAUMONT - Looking to bolster the frontcourt and add experience to a young team, Lamar University men's basketball coach Pat Knight announced the signing of forward Donovan Ross out of Southwest Mississippi Community College.
A 6-foot-5 forward from Ridgeland (MS) High School, Ross spent one season at Southwest after playing his freshman year at Southland Conference rival Southeastern Louisiana. As a sophomore, Ross helped the Bears to a 15-10 overall record and a second place finish in the MACJC South Division with an 8-4 mark.
"Donovan Ross is the prototypical forward that we were looking for," said Knight. "He is skilled both inside and outside and fits exactly what we need. Height has nothing to do with it in the Southland Conference in the frontcourt, but skill and ability are what's important."
Ross averaged 15 points and nearly five rebounds per game for the Bears, hitting 68 percent of his field goal attempts and 73 percent of his free throws. He was named second-team all-state and was a MACJC All-Star selection for Southwest head coach Casey Carter.
"They (Lamar) were one of the youngest teams this past year and they needed a mature player with experience to add to their roster and that's exactly what they got," said Carter. "Donovan is as good as I have dealt with and will be a huge asset to Lamar University."
As a true freshman at SLU, Ross shot 52.3 percent from the floor and posted averages of 2.5 points and 1.6 rebounds per game in limited minutes. Ross scored a season-high 10 points against Blue Mountain College and finished with seven points and four rebounds in a game against Lamar.
A four-year letterwinner at Ridgeland High School, Ross was rated the No. 20 prospect in the state of Mississippi as a senior after averaging 17.8 points and 8.9 rebounds per game. Ross led the Titans to a 28-2 record as a senior after helping the team to a 23-9 mark during his junior campaign.


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September Song
A Review of "The New Pearl Harbor"
By Marc Estrin
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11
David Ray Griffin
Olive Branch Press, 2004
Paper, 214 pp, $15.00
The official story goes something like this:
With no actionable warning from intelligence agencies, four planes were hijacked by terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001. Two crashed into the Word Trade Center, which then collapsed, and shortly thereafter, the third into the Pentagon. The last plane went down in Pennsylvania after a struggle between passengers and hijackers. Air defense arrived too late to stop the catastrophes. Responding to this attack on the homeland, the president declared a global war on terror which may last for generations until evil is finally eradicated, the security of America firmly established, and the world made safe for freedom and democracy.
In The New Pearl Harbor, David Ray Griffin compiles the evidence that every single assertion in the official story is implausible or impossible, and that something other must explain the inconsistencies and contra-factual assertions.
The implications of the accumulated evidence is that the Bush administration was complicit in the events of September 11th, and not merely a victim of structural problems or incompetence on the part of the intelligence establishment. In a nuanced discussion of "complicity", Griffin distinguishes eight possible levels, from the lying about events to maximize political ends, through intentionally allowing expected attacks, to actual involvement in the planning of them.
Griffin does not make specific accusations, nor does he hypothesize a "true" version of what happened. But he does demand unflinching investigations of all the contradictions, clear reporting of the results, and most difficult, a courageous drawing of conclusions, no matter how "unthinkable" or outrageous they may appear.
Excellent review of Griffin's tour de force by the intrepid Counterpunch crew, one of the few lefty journals willing to even look at that day.
In the months since the book was published, we have been swamped with news from the 9/11 Commission concerning both domestic and foreign intelligence which indicated a large and imminent attack on the United States. But the Commission, its members appointed by President Bush, is focusing on the future. According to Vice-Chair Lee Hamilton, "We're not interested in trying to assess blame…" Their goal is to understand what happened so as to restructure intelligence so that such "a breakdown" may not happen again. Given this limited mandate, almost none of the contradictions Griffin raises is likely to be discussed, or its ramifications analyzed before the case is closed.
The first part of The New Pearl Harbor looks in detail at the timeline and events of 9/11 itself. How is it, Griffin asks, that even the first airplane was not intercepted — given standard procedures, operating normally many times a year, for off-course or otherwise anomalous aircraft? The FAA, NORAD, and the NMCC (National Military Command Center at the Pentagon) have a clear and working set of standard operating procedures which on September 11th, and on that day only, failed to operate. Griffin lays them out, along with the strange, and changing official excuses for their "failure". Continue reading
The 9/11 Commission v. 19 Named Muslims:
A Trial in Absentia
Gary Wenkle Smith1
[This article first appeared in The Warrior, the official journal of the Trial Lawyers College (www.triallawyerscollege.com) and is reprinted here with permission.]
Within a few hours after the 9/11 attacks, our government named a group of 19 Muslim men as the principal players in the most devastating attack on this country–even more so than Pearl Harbor, as it was mostly civilians who were murdered on 9/11, unlike the mass murder of our sailors by another military power. Further, in addition to approximately 3,000 murders, there could easily be many counts of attempted murder2 charged, as well. Assuming an indictment is issued, there will undoubtedly be dozens of kidnapping charges, some major theft counts, destruction of public and private property, and sundry other charges arising out of the death and destruction of that day's events. Of course, the principal charge will be the conspiracy to commit these crimes. The 9/11 Commission Report, frequently referred to as the Kean-Zelikow Report3, has concluded that the 19 named Muslims were the operatives of Osama bin Laden, and that they conspired to hijack airliners and commit the atrocities of 9/11.
I will proceed with this article as though I had… Continue reading
March 5, 2007
by Sherwood Ross
The trouble with thinking 9/11 was an inside job staged by George W. Bush & Co. is that it defies belief any president might be capable of such an iniquitous crime against his own people.
Yet, subsequent Bush actions, such as lying the nation into war, makes one wonder if the man didn't earlier create the 9/11 massacres to justify his aggressions. After all, his record reveals him to be a serial liar, warmonger, tyrant, torturer, and usurper of civil liberties. Here are a few illegal actions that betray what Bush is really about.
# Bush lied the U.S. into what former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called an "illegal" war on Iraq. This conflict has killed 650,000 civilians, wounded over a million more, drove nearly 2-million from their country, and turned life into a living hell for the rest. The death toll there is already equal to about 240 WTC massacres, yet Bush persists in waging the war.
# Bush okayed $1.5-trillion for new weapons' research including grisly weapons that would thrill mad scientists, such as sound waves that crush a victim's internal organs. Another gem is "rods from god" to hurl tungsten poles down from Earth orbit down upon its victims at 7,200 miles an hour, striking with the atomic fury. He is illegally militarizing space. These are not the actions of a humanist.
# Bush has allowed illegal radioactive ammunition fired in Afghanistan and Iraq that poison civilian populations and U.S.… Continue reading
by Kevin R. Ryan
Distribution via the Unanswered Questions Wire
Note: The author is indebted to a few particularly useful sources of information and inspiration, including Russ Baker's book "Family of Secrets", the websites nndb.com, sourcewatch.org and secinfo.com, and Richard Gage.
On occasion, the public has been asked by George W. Bush to refrain from considering certain conspiracy theories. Bush has made such requests when people were looking into crimes in which he might be culpable. For example, when in 1994 Bush's former company Harken Energy was linked to the fraudulent Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) through several investors, Bush's spokeswoman, Karen Hughes, shut down the inquiry by telling the Associated Press — "We have no response to silly conspiracy theories." On another occasion, Bush said in a televised speech — "Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th."
But paradoxically, we have also been asked to believe Bush's own outrageous conspiracy theory about 9/11, one that has proven to be false in many ways. One important way to see the false nature of Bush's conspiracy theory is to note the fact that the World Trade Center buildings could only have fallen as they did through the use of explosives. A number of independent scientific studies have pointed out this fact [1, 2, 3, 4], but it was Bush's own scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through their inability to provide a convincing defense of… Continue reading
by Kevin R. Ryan
Scoop Independent News
See also… http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0907/S00124.htm
Kevin R. Ryan: Demolition access to the WTC Towers
Who could have placed explosives in the World Trade Center (WTC) towers? This is the second essay in a series that attempts to answer that question. The first installment began by considering the tenants that occupied the impact zones and the other floors that might have played a useful role in the demolition of the WTC towers. [1] The result was a picture of connections to organizations that had access to explosive materials and to the expertise required to use explosives. Additionally it was seen that, in the years preceding 9/11, the impact zone tenants had all made structural modifications to the areas where the airliners struck the buildings.
The management representatives of these tenant companies were seen to be secretive and powerful. Through these powerful people, the tenants were connected to organizations that benefited greatly from the 9/11 attacks, including the defense contractors Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Halliburton, and Science Applications International Corp (SAIC). The tenants also had strong connections to the Bush family and their corporate network, including Dresser Industries (now Halliburton) and UBS, and to Deutsche Bank and its subsidiaries, reported to have brokered the insider trading deals. There were also links between these tenant companies and the terrorist-financing Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
Throughout this review we should keep in mind that, according to 2009 estimates, the membership of Al Qaeda's conspiracy network is… Continue reading
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Careful investigation leads one to notice that a number of intriguing groups of people and organizations converged on the events of September 11th, 2001. An example is the group of men who were members of Cornell University's Quill & Dagger society. This included Paul Wolfowitz, National Security Advisors Sandy Berger and Stephen Hadley, Marsh & McLennan executive Stephen Friedman, and the founder of Kroll Associates, Jules Kroll. Another interconnected group of organizations is linked to these Cornell comrades, and is even more interesting in terms of its members being integral to the events of 9/11, and having benefited from those events.
After the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center (WTC), a company called Stratesec (or Securacom) was responsible for the overall integration of the new security system designed by Kroll Associates. Stratesec had a small board of directors that included retired Air Force General James Abrahamson, Marvin Bush (the brother of George W. Bush) and Wirt Walker III, a cousin of the Bush brothers. Other directors included Charles Archer, former Assistant Director in charge of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, and Yousef Saud Al Sabah, a member of the Kuwaiti royal family.[1]
Yousef Saud Al Sabah was also chairman of the Kuwait-American Corporation (KuwAm), which between 1993 and 1999 held a controlling share of Stratesec. The other owners of Stratesec were Walker and an entity controlled by Walker and Al Sabah, called Special Situation Investment Holdings (SSIH).[2] SSIH was said to form a group with… Continue reading
Originally published at Washington's Blog by Kevin Ryan on 5/17/15
Recently it has been noticed that Wirt Walker, a 9/11-insider trading suspect who ran security for several of the impacted facilities, now works with men who were, prior to 9/11, key players in national defense and terrorism response. Given the role that Stratesec played and the relationships between suspects already revealed, this seems more than coincidental. Moreover, these men have top-secret clearances, which further suggests that Walker is a covert operative.
Walker, the son of a CIA and DIA man, was managing director for the Kuwait-American Corporation (KuwAm). This led to his management of Stratesec as well as other KuwAm subsidiaries that have surprising connections to 9/11. Stratesec had contracts to provide security services not only for the World Trade Center (WTC), but also for United Airlines, which owned two of the planes hijacked on 9/11, and Dulles Airport, where American Airlines Flight 77 took off that day.
Walker's employee Barry McDaniel, the Chief Operating Officer of Stratesec, went from providing security at the WTC to starting a business with one of Dick Cheney's closest colleagues. The fact that McDaniel is now working with an old partner of Cheney, who as vice president on 9/11 oversaw the failure of the nation's defenses, raises many interesting questions.
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Alonzo Bodden, JB Smoove, Sommore, and Jo Koy Headline at Carolines on Broadway, Jan 2013
Carolines on Broadway, "America's Premier Comedy Nightclub," announces its all-star line-up of talent for the month of January 2013, highlighted by headliners Alonzo Bodden, from NBC's "Last Comic Standing" and his Showtime special "Alonzo Bodden: Who's Paying Attention?", today, January 3 - 6; JB Smoove, from HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and the films "Hall Pass" and "Date Night," January 10 - 13; "The Queen of Comedy" Sommore, from BET's "ComicView," Comedy Central's "Comedy Central Presents" and VH-1's "Celebrity Fit Club," Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend, January 18 - 20; and Jo Koy, from E!'s Chelsea Lately" and NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," January 24 - 27.
Theme nights at Carolines on Broadway in the month of December are The Big Show, hosted by Hot 97's Cipha Sounds, on January 5, 12 and 26; Carolines New Talent, featuring New York's best up-and-coming talent, on January 7, 12, 14, 21 and 28; the Breakout Artist Comedy Series on January 8 (with Luis J. Gomez), January 15 (with Matt Ruby) and January 22 (with Kara Klenk); Late Night Comedy on January 13; Nick Turner and Acquaintances, hosted by Nick Turner, a finalist from the 2012 New York Comedy Festival's New York's Funniest Stand-Up competition, on January 24.; the Don't Get Gassed Comedy Series, hosted by Hot 97's Cipha Sounds, on January 29; and The Rich and Bonnie Show, starring Rich Vos and Bonnie McFarlane, on January 30.
Other events taking place at Carolines on Broadway in January are Ryan Hamilton, from TBS' "Conan," performing on New Year's Day, January 1; Joe DeRosa, from Sirius XM Radio's "Opie & Anthony," performing on January 2 and 3; Sean Donnelly, from FOX News Channel's "Red Eye," performing on January 9; International Incident, hosted by Anish Shah and featuring Mo Amer, Saurin Choksi and Azhar Usman, on January 10; Harrison Greenbaum, one of Comedy Central's "Comics to Watch," on January 16; Mark Viera, from his Showtime stand-up special "Mark Viera: Tales of a Nuyorican," on January 17 and 20; and Erik Griffin, from Comedy Central's "Workaholics," on January 31 (through February 3).
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Portsmouth have agreed deals to sign Jamie Ashdown and Stephen Jordan.
Goalkeeper Ashdown is re-signing for the club having been released at the end of last season and defender Jordan is a free agent after leaving Burnley.
"We've agreed terms with Jamie and Stephen - now it is about making sure we can lodge the contracts," boss Steve Cotterill told The News.
"That will be with the Football League and everything is in their hands now. We've done all we can on that one, all we can do now is sit and wait. Hopefully we'll get the green light and the pair of them can be in the frame for Coventry."
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Jumblatt told Hollande no Lebanese party could defeat another in the country's upcoming polls.
BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt said he highlighted the importance of protecting Lebanon from the repercussions of Syria's unrest and stressed the need to maintain a distance from the Syrian conflict to French President Francois Hollande Monday.
Speaking to reporters after holding talks with Hollande in Paris, Jumblatt said he delivered a message that stressed the importance of stability and dialogue to French authorities as well as ensuring that Syria's crisis does not spill over into Lebanon.
The PSP leader said that no Lebanese group could defeat the other in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
"Any [political] group will be mistaken if it thinks that it could defeat the other in the elections," Jumblatt said.
Separately, President Michel Sleiman reaffirmed his support for the current policy of disassociation Monday. He told visitors at Baabda Palace that by distancing itself from the current conflict in Syria, Lebanon is not taking sides and has not supported any faction in the conflict.
"We have not attended meetings with the supporters of President Assad or his opponents," he added. He also told his visitors that the Lebanese Army has clear instructions to detain any armed person crossing the border in or out of Syria and that there is no need for the establishment of a buffer zone.
The government of Prime Minister Najib Mikati has adopted a policy of disassociating itself from developments in Syria. The Syrian crisis has further divided political groups in the country and over 200,000 Syrians and Palestinians fleeing violence in Syria are now in Lebanon.
The Cabinet has devised a plan to meet the needs of refugees and is placing hope on a donor conference that will convene Wednesday in Kuwait to raise funds to support Lebanon.
Mikati said Monday he was optimistic that the donor conference would raise the funds required, adding that it is also important to discuss the social and security aspects of the Syrian refugees' presence in Lebanon.
"On the social level, the interaction between refugees and Lebanese citizens may lead to further problems in the future," Mikati told members of the honorary diplomatic corps that visited him at the Grand Serail.
Meanwhile, Social Affairs Minister Wael Abu Faour said that Valerie Amos, the U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, has informed him that the U.N. is making efforts to support Lebanon at the Kuwait conference.
He made his remarks to reporters after meeting Amos along with U.N. Resident Coordinator for Lebanon Robert Watkins and the UNHCR's representative in Lebanon, Ninette Kelley, at the Social Affairs Ministry.
"The U.N. Secretary-General is contacting more than one donor at the Arab and international level, either directly or through representatives to help the Lebanese government get assistance [during the conference]," he said.
Abu Faour said an agreement would soon be signed between the Higher Relief Committee, World Food Program and the International Immigration Organization to provide aid to Lebanese refugees from Syria.
Earlier, Abu Faour said he agreed with the patriarch of Syriac Catholics, Ignatius Joseph III Younan, on a mechanism to address the suffering of Christian refugees from Syria.
"The first thing that we are discussing with the patriarch is that the Social Affairs Ministry tasks a special team with providing relief and assistance for Christian refugees, particularly registering them in schools and providing shelter," he said.
Abu Faour acknowledged that the state is not providing sufficient aid for Syrian Christian refugees.
"Some [of them] did not register their names with the Lebanese state or the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, but this does not justify negligence towards them," he said.
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Orthodox Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita scored a knockout in the third round to take the vacant New York State welterweight title.
Salita, of Brooklyn, N.Y., defeated James Wayka on Dec. 16 at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan. Wayka was brought in as a substitute at the last minute for the ill Mike Anchondo, whom Salita was slated to fight for the International Boxing Association welterweight title.
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LAKE WAUKOMIS, Mo. - Thomas Newhouse told police he killed his cat by holding it underwater until it was dead and prosecutor Eric Zahnd said it was completely legal.
The drowning happened July 14 behind Newhouse's Missouri home.
Tamara Judds lives two doors down and was on her back patio with her 4-year-old granddaughter and saw the whole thing.
"I saw him walk down with a little pet carrier and he leaned over the side of the dock and held it under water for about five minutes," Judds said, "That's sick. He's a sick individual."
Judds called police and according to the incident report, Newhouse told officers he killed the cat because it had scratched one of his family members.
Judds feels that's not a valid reason to put down a cat, and even it were, she feels there are other ways to do so.
"Call your vet, have him euthanized," Judds said, "It might cost you $50, but you do it in a humane way. Not until the cage stops shaking five minutes later under the water."
KSHB tried contacting Newhouse for an explanation, but none has been given.
Zahnd's office released a statement Tuesday explaining why no charges are being filed.
"Given that Newhouse could have easily taken the cat to a veterinarian to be medically euthanized, Zahnd said he found Newhouse's method of killing the animal disheartening. However, Missouri's animal abuse law, which prohibits killing animals in certain ways or intentionally causing injury or suffering to animals, does not apply to the '"killing of an animal by the owner"' or the owner's agent."
Zahnd said he would not be filing any charges despite an enormous public outcry calling for him to file a class D felony charge.
"People are definitely outraged," animal advocate Julie Pendarvis said, "Thomas Newhouse tortured and abused that cat."
Pendarvis is organizing a petition, and so far she has more than 1,300 signatures, including 17 percent of the Lake Waukomis community.
Together they're contacting legislators with hopes of making animal abuse laws stricter and clearer.
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The company in a statement said the new range of broadband Internet service packages offer businesses and consumers unrivalled levels of performance and value for money.
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The new entry-level CONNECT packages are designed to offer very reliable and very high performance business-grade Internet services at retail pricing starting from just $30 per month with download speeds of 1Mbps, it said.
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Sorry to join in the derail, but if you noticed, each time Shemp got into it with everyone, the issue was not that he stated a dissenting opinion about the topic at hand, but instead took issue with the way others were doing things on the forum. Anyone who comes onto an internet forum and starts talking about their right to this or that is off track. It's like being a guest in someone's home and acting in a way your host doesn't appreciate, and then telling your host why he/she is wrong to take offense.
He was generally polite enough, but what some people don't seem to notice is that he was fairly manipulative, and was smart enough to do it in a very round-about way so that the reactions to his statements could always be blamed on the ones reacting. He was pretty benign, in my estimation, but that type of manipulative behavior CAN be very destructive, and most people won't even realize they've been manipulated.
His is a difficult personality type for many to deal with.
Just best to move on, I think, since he has removed himself.
And I will state that all this is just my opinion, man.
And back to Mary, nice singing. Keep at it.
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RESOLUTE™ absolute optical encoder - Performance
Renishaw is introducing RESOLUTE, a true absolute, fine pitch optical encoder system that has excellent dirt immunity, and an impressive specification that breaks new ground in position feedback.
Renishaw is introducing RESOLUTE, a true absolute, fine pitch optical encoder system that has excellent dirt immunity, and an impressive specification that breaks new ground in position feedback.
Motion control performance
RESOLUTE's astonishing performance is the result of a sophisticated, reliable and completely unique method of operation. Think of RESOLUTE as an ultra-fast miniature digital camera, taking photos of a scale that consists of a long, non-repeating bar code.
RESOLUTE analyses these photos to determine its position down to resolutions as small as 1 nanometre (1 billionth of a metre) and with remarkable low noise (jitter to 7 nm RMS) and SDE (sub-divisional error, the error within a scale grating period) of just ±40 nm. This provides encoder feedback of superior fidelity, to ensure smoother velocity control and rock-solid positional stability.
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High speed absolute encoder
RESOLUTE's unique method of operation enables very high speeds to be achieved. The maximum surface reading speed is 100 m/s, which corresponds to 36,000 rev/min on a 52 mm RESA ring. Remarkably, these speeds can be achieved with resolutions as tiny as 1 nanometre (or 27 bits on a 52 mm ring).
The maximum operating speed rating for the linear encoder version is 100 m/s. The angle encoder version is ring-size dependent.
Caution: Very high speed motion axes require additional design consideration. For applications that will exceed 50% of the rated maximum operating speed of the ring, please contact Renishaw for further advice.
Fine resolution absolute encoder
The advanced optical detection method makes very fine resolutions feasible, without any compromise on speed.
Linear absolute encoder resolutions
Linear absolute encoder versions of RESOLUTE are available as standard with resolution options of 1 nm, 5 nm and 50 nm.
Rotary (angle) absolute encoder resolutions
Rotary (angle) absolute encoder versions of RESOLUTE have a variety of resolutions according to the protocol being used...
BiSS® versions are available with resolutions of 32 bits (4,294,967,296 counts per revolution), 26 bits (67,108,864 counts per revolution) and 18 bits (262,144 counts per revolution). Note that BiSS versions with 32 bit protocol are providing resolution that is below the noise floor of the encoder. Please see the RESOLUTE datasheet for more details.
FANUC versions are available with resolutions of 27 bits (134,217,728 counts per revolution) and 23 bits (8,388,608 counts per revolution). Note also that 27 bit resolution is only compatible with newer versions of Fanuc controllers. Please contact FANUC to confirm compatibility.
For resolution information for other protocols, please contact Renishaw.
High accuracy absolute encoder
RESOLUTE is available with a range of high accuracy scales, in both linear and rotary format. The majority of linear users will be satisfied with the ±5 µm/m accuracy of FASTRACK™ RTLA linear tape scale and versatile RESA rings.
For even higher accuracy, Renishaw also manufacture RELA ZeroMet™ linear spars with sub-micron certified accuracy and rotary REXA rings with sub-arc second installed accuracy.
For long-length applications where metrology cannot be compromised, Renishaw recommends the use of RSLA high-accuracy stainless steel linear spars. RSLA offers a total accuracy (including slope and linearity) better than ±4 μm over 5 m – an industry first! RSLA can be coiled for simple storage and handling yet once uncoiled behaves as a spar scale.
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High dirt immunity
RESOLUTE uses a state-of-the-art DSP (Digital Signal Processor) to analyse the photo to decipher all the complex aspects of code redundancy and cross-checking, focusing and motion blur, thus rejecting the effects of dirt and contamination. This analysis is so advanced that it can even calculate position in cases where parts of the code appear to the human eye to be completely obliterated by particulate contamination and even more impressively, overcome the light-scattering effects of oily or greasy smears that cause other encoders to miscount or raise alarms.
The three photos here show clean scale (top), particulate contamination (middle) and greasy contaminants (bottom). In all three cases, absolute position could be determined.
Wide set-up tolerances
RESOLUTE does not follow the conventional technique of using dual tracks side-by-side (one incremental, one absolute) which inherently suffer de-phasing problems when small amounts of angular misalignment are introduced. Instead, this new absolute encoder features a single track, optical absolute scale, combining both the absolute position and embedded phase information into one single code. This technology provides RESOLUTE with far wider set-up tolerances for quick and easy installation and superior long-term reliability, even if the motion axes settle or move over time. To further aid installation and diagnostics, there is an integral set-up LED on the readhead.
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The story of Hitler's last days in the bunker, told through the eyes of his 24 year old secretary, Traudi Junge. Bruno Ganz's performance as Hitler is absolutely chilling…it never degenerates into kitschy. As a historical drama, it's accurate, very compelling and well-made. Yes, it's long, but somehow, the suspense and the pacing keeps everything moving. Another film where you know the outcome (i.e. Titanic, All the President's Men), but you don't care — you're just riveted.
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A career back in school
Last updated at 10:16, Friday, 29 October 2010
Bronya Holliday, Chris Denwood and Natalie Armstrong talk about their school experiences
By Bronya Holliday, St Benedict's Catholic High School, Whitehaven
I RANG the bell. Anxiously tapping my foot, I waited nervously. A million butterflies were doing gymnastics in my stomach competing to see who was going to make me feel the most uneasy.
Then the door opened. A familiar scent of ancient, dusty books and fresh poster paints had unknowingly crept their way up my nose.
Suddenly a box inside my head, containing treasured memories from my primary school had popped like a balloon releasing happiness, fun and comfort. A woman greeted me with a smile. I smiled back, knowing I had won.
Having the opportunity to work at St James Infant School, Whitehaven for work experience was fantastic. Even though it was the week before summer, I learnt many things about teaching I hadn't known before.
For example patience is essential. Not only with the children but with some of the tasks I was asked to do.
Inevitably the last week of school there's sports day. Unfortunately I didn't have the chance to relax and enjoy watching the races. I was on work experience.
This meant I was running up and down the playground with egg and spoons for over 60 races. Luckily most of the other jobs like taking displays down and writing names on milk cartons was less painful the next day.
I was also shown how rewarding teaching can be – I don't just mean all the presents and cards at the end of term.
Teachers must feel a great sense of pride knowing they influence many peoples lives. Many of them were crying at the Year Two's leavers assembly. I myself was laughing.
Until then I didn't know many teachers who had fallen over each other whilst walking down the stairs. Or many pupils who had failed to cut their noses off with scissors. My week at St James' taught me so much and reminded me of how happy, fun and comforting my own primary school was.
I'm still undecided about what career path I want to go down in the future but teaching is a good back-up.
By Chris DenwoodFormer Stainburn School student, Workington
FOR THREE years now, our school has run a talent competition for pupils of all ages, Stainburn's Got Talent.
In the past this has included magicians, bands, solo singers, dance groups, drumming and much more.
The show has always been organised by our school council and involves a lot of work, but it has always been a great success.
This year we had a lot to prepare, and it ran very smoothly. Our first job was to hold auditions. We asked anyone interested to fill in a form with details of their act before inviting everyone to attend auditions after school one day.
Loads of fantastic acts came along and it was really difficult to choose the final eight to go through to the live grand final.
Next we needed to organise the big show. We designed and created the tickets, posters, programmes and certificates of participation. We also made a giant cheque for the winner and made ballot boxes so the audience could vote.
Pupils from Workington Sixth Form Centre came along to set up the sound system and the lights.
On the day, we had dress rehearsals during school time so all the performers could practice on stage and we could make sure everything was just right. Everyone was very nervous but felt better once they had rehearsed a few times.
When the time came to open the doors, the school hall filled up really quickly – we sold over 250 tickers. The school council members stayed backstage to help the finalists prepare for their performances.
Mr McGrath, Mrs Creighton and Mr Harlow acted as judges and gave each performance comments just like on Britain's Got Talent.
Once all the acts had performed, the audience was invited to the school dining room for refreshments. While they were there, they used their tickets as voting slips and placed their vote in the ballot box of their favourite act.
The votes were counted, we had a winner. Ashley Mijatovic, aka 'Drummer Boy' in Year Eight had played his own drum composition and it had gone down a storm. He won vouchers for the store of his choice. The proceeds from ticket sales have gone towards projects in the school.
Overall, I think we did very well to organise and run the event, it took hard work and determination, but we managed.
I hope Stainburn's Got Talent will continue for many years to come.
By Natalie ArmstrongStainburn School, Workington
I THINK I can speak for any pupil at Stainburn School who has participated in Rock Challenge over the years when I say that the competition is one of the most memorable experiences thr oughout secondary school.
There are many aspects of participating that combine to make the event so unforgettable.
Preparations, routines, drama inputs, costumes, set designs, soundtrack and lighting... all need to be considered in making the perfect performance.
Having participated for four years now, I have witnessed first-hand the importance of Rock Challenge, not only to the individuals who take part but the school in general. Every year that Stainburn competes, the level of dedication and effort undoubtedly increases.
This year in particular the confidence of the school was at its highest – especially from the two people that we owe the greatest thanks to, Mrs O'Hagan and Mrs Kearton, who both received an award for being involved in Rock Challenge for 10 years this year.
Without them, our triumphant win at Carlisle would not have been possible. Our success meant we had an opportunity to compete in the Northern finals at Grimsby.
I'm sure everyone would agree it was a very exhausting experience but certainly worth while as we got to repeat our performance.
The competition was at a very high standard and our school was placed second amongst 12. This was a huge achievement to all of us taking part and most of all our school.
This wouldn't be a column about Rock Challenge without mentioning the performers.
Every single pupil from Stainburn School puts one hundred per cent into the performance and rehearsals.
Personally since I started Rock Challenge I have made several new friends, which is probably the main reason I would encourage any student to take part in the activity.
You bond with older and younger students from your school or sixth form. This contributes to the friendly environment within Stainburn's Rock Challenge team.
The competition allows you to be creative, energetic (that could be debatable with our early Sunday morning rehearsals), but most importantly it allows you to be yourself.
During my time at Workington Sixth Form Centre, I will continue to participate in Rock Challenge as it has been a big part of my time at Stainburn – and I don't want it to end just yet.
First published at 15:46, Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Published by http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk
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United We Stand?
by Carolyn Shea
During the 20th century, labor unions played major roles in building a robust middle class in America and forging a more equitable, economically mobile society. They spearheaded battles that gained shorter workweeks, ended child labor, won employer-based health coverage and secured passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Organized labor reached its zenith in the mid-1950s, when it embraced more than a third of the U.S. workforce. Since then, economic, social and political forces have worked to drive down membership, which has slipped to about 11 percent of all workers. In December, legislators in Michigan—a state that has long been at the heart of union activity—joined 23 other states in passing a "right to work" law which removes the requirement for people to pay union dues to work at unionized agencies, effectively decreasing union funding and making it less likely that workers will choose to organize.
Today, labor has lost much of the clout that came with collective bargaining, as well as the power to check the influence of big business. At the same time, nearly 12 million Americans are unemployed, wages are stagnant for most workers and income inequality has expanded to levels not seen since the 1920s.
So are unions relevant today? We talked with three Greeners who play key roles in unions that represent workers in several industries around the country: the National Education Association (NEA), the Teamsters and the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA). All spoke about how collective action by labor can bring about change for the better. Unions are in a unique position to "defend democracy, fight for equal opportunity and create a more just society," says John Stocks '81, executive director of the NEA. "Unions have to advocate for the greater good."
"Unions have to respond to the needs of society beyond their membership and enlist in broader movements… They have to advocate for the greater good, the public trust, the broad swath of the majority of Americans who don't have the kind of power and clout that the one percent has. Unless we can appeal to that, unions will become useless and irrelevant."
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DEATH rates at Burton's Queen's Hospital are to be investigated by the NHS's medical chief at the Prime Minister's behest.
Sir Bruce Keogh's probe will form part of an inquiry requested by David Cameron following publication of the Francis report into the Stafford Hospital scandal.
The NHS chief (pictured) has included Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in a list of 14 trusts which have seen abnormal death rates for two years.
Sir Bruce said: "The purpose of my investigation is to assure patients and myself that these hospitals understand the problem and have all the support they need to improve.
"This will be a thorough and rigorous process involving patients, clinicians, regulators and local organisations.
"These hospitals are already working with a range of regulators.
"If there were concerns that services were unsafe, the regulators should have intervened.
"The purpose of this investigation is to provide solutions that speed improvement."
Queen's governing trust and eight others will be scrutinised due to their performance according to a death rate measure called the hospital standardised mortality ratio (HSMR).
Sir Bruce has added them to five trusts he said he would examine because of their score on another measure, the summary hospital-level mortality indicator (SHMI).
The timescale and terms of reference of the investigation will be announced shortly.
Dr Craig Stenhouse, Burton Hospitals' medical director, said the trust welcomed the review and believed it was 'of fundamental importance these issues are openly and thoroughly investigated'.
He said: "The trust has already identified areas where there may be a higher than expected mortality and has taken pro-active measures to review these services."
The trust's most recent SHMI score was 98.67, better than the standard of 100, but it continually monitored performance to ensure patients received the safest care.
Burton MP Andrew Griffiths said: "Nobody is suggesting the care at Queen's is anything like the horrible occurrences we heard of at Stafford, but it's absolutely right that if something in the mortality figures does not seem right that it's rapidly and thoroughly investigated."


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WORCESTER, Mass. – The University of New Hampshire women's swimming & diving team finished the opening day of the America East Championships in first place with 290 points at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Sports & Recreation Center Friday.
After New Hampshire's 290 points, the University of Vermont and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County sit in second place with 183. Binghamton University (154) and the University of Maine (137) round out the five-team field.
Junior Katie Mann (Prince George, B.C.) set a new America East record in the 200-yard IM to open the meet, clocking in at 1 minute, 59.12 seconds. The mark dethroned the previous time of 2:00.42, held by teammate Jenni Roberts (Springvale, Maine) in last year's conference championships. Roberts improved her 2013 time, placing second in the event with a time of 1:59.19, off the pace by seven hundredths of a second. Senior Jenna Bull (Woodstock, New Brunswick) and sophomore Bettina Caspersen (Lyngby, Denmark) placed fourth and fifth in the event respectively. Bull registered a time of 2:01.87 while Caspersen logged a mark of 2:04.02. The freshman duo of Emily Giambastini (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Sarah Olver (Miluwakee, Wis.) and also logged points for the 'Cats. Giambastini placed 10 out of 16 swimmers with a time of 2:07.91. Olver finished behind Giambastini, clocking in at 2:08.02.
In the preliminary and final events of the 500-yard freestyle, the Wildcats earned the top two spots on the podium. Junior Oneida Cooper (Johannesburg, South Africa) compiled the lead time of 4:52.45. Senior Lauren McCandless (Macungie, Pa.) was edged out by her teammate, earning runner-up by five hundredths of a second (4:52.50). Katie Keefer (Waynesboro, Va.) notched a seventh place finish, earning a time of 5:01.97. Adria Morales (Santa Clarita, Calif.) rounded out the scoring for New Hampshire, placing 10th with a mark of 5:05.18.
New Hampshire also set a new school record in the 200-yard freestyle relay. The quartet of Roberts, Sarah Broderick (Haverhill, Mass.), Megan Suffel (Cornwall, Ontario) and Bull constructed a time of 1:33.25 to earn gold.
UNH paced the field in the 400-yard medley relay. The group of Roberts, Mann, McCandless and Bull compiled a conference record time of 3:41.88.
Broderick garnered silver in the 50-yard freestyle. After a first place finish in the preliminary round (23.38), the freshman blazed through the water to earn a runner-up finish of 23.41. Suffell registered a career-best in the event, clocking in at 23.79 for a fourth place finish. Junior Emily Magnavita (South Glastonbury, Conn.) earned a top ten finish, ranking ninth in the field with a personal-best time of 23.99.
On the boards, Kyle Bonus (Philadelphia, Pa.) led the 'Cats in the one-meter dive, posting a seventh place score of 192.50 points.
The Wildcats return to the water Saturday, Feb. 15 for the second day of competition. The meet will begin with trial runs in the 400-yard IM at 10 a.m. For more information about the UNH women's swimming & diving team, please visit www.UNHWildcats.com.


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