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Democrats see hope for 2012 in Medicare
After Kathy Hochul, campaigning on the issue, wins a congressional seat in a reliably Republican district in New York, Democrats hope the GOP's midterm momentum is finally over.
May 25, 2011|By Mark Z. Barabak and Kathleen Hennessey, Los Angeles Times
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Democrats "have gotten their chins up off the floor after dragging around since last November," said Mike Fraioli, a party strategist with clients nationwide. "Something like this makes it a lot easier to talk to potential candidates and get them interested in running.
"I'm not sure how long it lasts," he added, "but it's a whole new attitude."
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Michael Fraioli, a Democratic strategist who works closely with organized labor, said, "It's very simple. Wealthy individuals and corporations can still give six-, seven-, eight-figure checks to all the candidates, state parties and causes they want to. If you take away unions and their ability to organize … you cut at the heart of our financial support." Well, Mr. Fraioli, let's be serious about something…
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SGCC report features 4 utilities that get customer engagement right
By: SGN Staff
A number of utilities have met resistance against their smart grid initiatives, at least in part because they failed to involve and educate customers early on if at all. That's why a new report from the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative on four utilities that have found the keys to consumer acceptance makes for some interesting reading.
The SGCC report highlights the strategies and components behind the efforts of CenterPoint Energy, Oklahoma Gas & Electric, San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison to reach and successfully engage customers with the benefits of smart grid, smart meters, demand response and technologies for home energy management.
"When utilities take certain steps to engage consumers in the smart grid and empower them to manage their energy, it works," said Patty Durand, SGCC executive director. "As consumers become more educated about smart grid and smart meters, and have access to more information, pricing and automation applications, their knowledge and favorability grows, and so does our nation's energy efficiency."

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2013 NRA 500 Statistics:
Winner: Kyle Busch (lead 51.2% of the race)
Average Speed: 144.751mph
Margin of Victory: 0.508seconds
Lead Changes: 18
Number of Cautions: 7
Caution Laps: 36
First Caution: 39
Last Caution: 315
Drivers on Lead Lap: 18
2014 Driver Statistics
Hendrick Motorsports comprises 60% of the top 5 in average finish for the year thus far with 2 of those driving being the best this season. Joe Gibbs racing has all of their drivers in the top 8 (of average finishes) and Team Penske has both drivers in the top 9. Can Hendrick Motorsports keep the momentum going this weekend and stay on top; or will we see the Penske or Gibbs drivers make some more noise?
*The top 16 you see here is comprised on drivers who are eligible for Cup Series points and are racing for the championship (aka have, per NASCAR's rules, attempted every race). This is NOT the point's standings!!!*
Duck Commander 500 Predictions
I am pretty confident that we will see a 7th different driver in victory lane this weekend.
Dark Horses: Clint Bowyer, Joey Logano, Richard Childress Racing
Avoid: Brian Vickers, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Marcos Ambrose
Team Statistics
Hendrick Motorsports is still up top with the best team average finish while Stewart-Hass Racing has the most wins (2), but if it were not for Danica Patrick, the team average would be much better. When it comes to Texas, Hendrick, Joe Gibbs Racing, and Roush Fenway Racing are at the top; throw in Stewart-Hass racing and that is where all the wins have come from.
Manufacturer Statistics
Ford has the best run at Texas when they make their first visit, but Chevrolet does better overall.
Duck Commander 500: Key Statistics To Look Out For
Race Speed (mph):
Average: 144.218
Minimum: 130.055
Maximum: 160.577
95% Confidence Interval: (128.278, 160.157)
A slight increase over time would indicate a slightly faster race is in store this weekend; although that all depends on the number of cautions.
Margin of Victory (seconds):
Average: 2.19
Minimum: 0.028
Maximum: 8.315
95% Confidence Interval: (-3.399, 7.778)
2007 to 2010 had a fairly consistent margin of victory; since then, they have been slightly higher, but we can expect a margin of victory within 3 seconds.
Lead Changes:
Average: 22.4
Minimum: 13
Maximum: 31
95% Confidence Interval: (10.356, 34.444)
Lead changes do not tend to fluctuate very much and over time, are around the average. However, with this new car, we could easily see more than the average number of lead changes.
Average: 6.7
Minimum: 2
Maximum: 11
95% Confidence Interval: (1.981, 11.419)
Texas is a pretty fast, incident free track; while the speeds are high, the tempers, compared to other tracks, is relatively calm. We have seen a trend of fewer cautions over the years when Texas appears, but not too far away from the average.
Cautions Laps:
Average: 33.6
Minimum: 10
Maximum: 56
95% Confidence Interval: (8.351, 58.849)
The number of caution laps has been on a downward trend over time as well; with fewer cautions comes fewer laps.
First Caution:
Average: 36.4
Minimum: 3
Maximum: 98
95% Confidence Interval: (8.351, 58.849)
Drivers at Texas tend to have a lot of green flag racing, therefore an extremely early caution is not likely (but never impossible). Look for a long green flag run before the first caution comes out.
Last Caution:
Average: 276
Minimum: 95
Maximum: 331
95% Confidence Interval: (132.355, 419.645)
Again, with Texas, there is a lot of green flag racing. It would be rare to get the final caution within less than 15 laps to go so look for a long green flag run to the end.
Drivers On The Lead Lap:
Average: 14.6
Minimum: 10
Maximum: 21
95% Confidence Interval: (7.285, 21.915)
The trend over time has been pretty constant for the number of drivers on the lead lap; again, due to the fast nature of Texas Motor Speedway and all the green flag runs.


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The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) organizes an International Congress on Safety of Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanotechnologies - SENN2015, on 12- 15 April 2015, in Helsinki, Finland.
The next set of workshops of SafeLife-X will take place in Brussels, on March 19-20, 2015.
A forum for researchers, industry, and regulators on research findings on the interface between nanotechnology and sustainability.
In September 2014, PESI along with its European counterpart the ETPIS will hold the European Forum S2R, "Future Safety & Security Research in Europe 2014".
The next thematic Workshops of SafeLife-X will take place in Vienna (Austria) on September 2-4, 2014:
- Workshop on "Strategic Research Agenda and Implementation Strategy"
- Workshop "Methodologies of aging analysis and management"
- Workshop "analysis of the degradation laws and kinetics, and the implementation of probabilistic / deterministic approaches"
- Kick of meeting of the WP4 (development of guidance documents and standards)
In its Final Assessment Report of iNTeg-Risk Project (www.integ-risk.eu) the European Commission flagged the project and the work of the consortium made up of 60 beneficiaries and 29 Third Parties as a "success story".
The 2nd thematic workshop from SafeLife-X is organized by INERIS and will take in Paris city center on May 21st, 2014 (from 9:00 to 17:30).
SAF€RA organized a symposium aiming at identifying and confirming themes and subtopics for the future SAF€RA calls in Berlin, on March 10-11, 2014.
Following its 2nd General Assembly, NanoMILE is hosting a NanoSafetyCluster meeting on 20/9. This meeting is open for registration.
ETPIS General Assembly is planned to take place on May 23rd, 2013.
The European Commission organizes an event on Transport Infrastructure that will take place on March 22nd, 2013, in Brussels
This call for papers is intended to contribute towards making scientific foundations more explicit to the community of safety scientists.
TÜBİTAK, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey organises the 'TurKey Enabling Technologies 2012' – the International Brokerage Event focused on Biotechnology, Advanced Materials, Space, Manufacturing and Processing Technologies.
In order to understand European Standardization and be able to use it, CEN and CENELEC are organizing the StandarDays on April 17-18, 2012, in Brussels.
The NANODEVICE project partners and the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health invite you to the "International Congress on Safety of Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanotechnologies" to be held on 28–31 October 2012 in Helsinki, Finland.
The last call for proposals for the Cooperation NMP Programme of FP7 has been published on July 20, 2011. It includes the topic "NMP.2012.3.0-2 Total Safety Management for industrial organizations" promoted by ETPIS. To prepare the call, a workshop and brokerage event has been organized on September 19, 2011 in Brussels.
Nanodevice, ETPIS & Nanofutures with the support of CEN TC 352 organised a workshop to investigate the possible synergies and opportunities from on-going projects for standardization activities in the field of nanosafety.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Turkey (MLSST) have co-hosted the XIX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work from 11-15 September 2011 in İstanbul, Turkey, together with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Social Security Association (ISSA).
A review of the Seveso II Directive 96/82/EC has recently been concluded.
As a result of the review process, on 21 December 2010 the Commission adopted aproposal for a new Directive that would repeal and replace the current Directive) by 1 June 2015.
In order to promote such an integrated approach between Standardization, Innovation and Research, CEN and CENELEC have produced a new brochure.
The full programme of the conference is now available on the conference website: www.nanosafe.org
World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2016
Call for abstracts
The Spanish Hydrogen Association (AeH2) is honored to invite all international stakeholders on hydrogen and fuel cells technologies and subjects relating to hydrogen production, storage, transport and end uses to participate in WHEC 2016. For this purpose we issue this CALL FOR ABSTRACTS.
Abstracts due: October 31st, 2015
To ensure the success of the conference, WHEC 2016 will consist of guest plenary sessions, topical technical sessions of oral presentations, and technical sessions of posters. The topics to be covered by the conference communications include:
1. Hydrogen Production
2. Hydrogen Storage
3. Fuel Cells Components
4. Fuel Cell Stacks
5. Systems Modelling
6. Transportation and Aerospace Applications
7. Stationary Applications
8. Purification, Separation and Membranes
9. Safety, Hydrogen Properties and Environmental Impact
10. Hydrogen Infrastructure and Distribution
11. Commercialization
12. Codes and Standards
13. Countries Strategies, Associations and Assessments
Participants who would like to make an oral or poster presentation are requested to submit an abstract electronically. The instructions, abstract format and the accompanying form to be completed, are available at the conference webpage: www.whec2016.com. The submitted abstracts will undergo a reviewing process. Acceptance will be notified by the Program and Scientific Committee by January 10th, 2016. Authors of accepted abstracts will have the chance to submit a full paper of their work that may be selected for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
More information at: www.whec2016.com
The German and French National Contact Point (NCP) and Enterprise Europe Network Alsace with the Europe Alsace Network organise a brokerage event with he objectives to present the European Union's new NMBP Work Programme 2016 – 2017 of the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation "Horizon 2020" and to prepare future co-operations between participants. The corresponding calls for proposals will most likely be published in the third quarter of this year, for submission of proposals in early 2016.
Participants will have the opportunity to present their own project concepts and to meet representatives from companies/SMEs, universities and research organisations in order to exchange ideas during pre-arranged meetings with the aim of paving the way for future co-operations and European projects including call topics for 2016 and 2017. Brokerage activity support will be offered by representatives of National Contact Points and the members of the Enterprise Europe Network.
October 1st,015
at the Maison de la Région, Strasbourg, France.
The 25th edition of the European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2015) will be held at ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zürich, Switzerland, on September 7-10 2015.
The annual European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL stems from a European initiative merging several national Conferences into a major yearly conference under the auspices of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA).
The 25th edition of the conference, ESREL 2015, will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of scientific works covering theories and methods in the field of risk, safety and reliability, and their application to a wide range of industrial, civil and social sectors and problem areas. ESREL 2015 will also be an opportunity for researchers and practitioners, academics and engineers to meet, exchange ideas and gain insights from each other.
Our ambition for ESREL 2015 is to advance in the understanding, modeling, and managing of the complexity of the risk, safety and reliability fields characterizing our world, now and in the future. We aim at setting up a multidisciplinary platform to address the technological, societal, financial aspects of these fields. With the support of the ETH Risk Center, we engage in broadening the scope of risk, safety and reliability from the technical to natural, financial and social aspects, focusing on inter-dependencies of functions and cascade of failures in complex systems.
ESREL 2015 will be held at ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zürich.
Event website: http://esrel2015.ethz.ch/
Important dates
Final Conference
Belgium on June 24-25, 2015
conjunction with SafeLife-X education course / workshop on Resilience
to be organized on June 23-24, 2015
and with the RBi-EN meeting
to be organized on June 24, 2015
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre
4th floor: CEN-CENELEC Meeting Centre
Avenue Marnix 17
B - 1000 Brussels (Belgiium)
The SafeLife-X Final Conference is an excellent opportunity for project partners to communicate their results to the "outside world" and an opportunity for interested professionals, not participating in the project, to learn about the project and its results.
The Conference will be focused on the Strategic Research Agenda and its implementation strategy, as well as on the sustainable structure for the group. In addition to this, selected presentations from key project and outside partners covering topics related to the technologies and methodologies of aging management and business cases will be given.
Preliminary program:
Call for papers:
In order to ensure that the most interesting and
relevant topics are included in the program of the Main Conference, we kindly
invite you to communicate your interest by registering and submitting an abstract (200 words) at:
May 12, 2015
Please, note that
the relevance of your contribution to the topics of the conference
(management of aged infrastructures networks and industrial plants) will be
decisive for the peer-review based acceptance of your paper/presentation.
course / workshop on resilience:
Modern society
depends more and more on the effective and reliable operations of infrastructure
systems (infrastructures), such as those delivering energy, water,
sanitation, shelter, information, emergency response and other critical
services. These, on the other side, need to be assessed on their resilience
in case of large and/or cascading events. Whilst most people fully agree
about the importance of resilience, common agreement about the resilience
assessment approaches, methods and tools is still an issue.
The course will look at these issues primary from the engineer point of view and,
after preparing the overview and information about the state-of-the-art focus
on some practical examples highlighting aspects of the practical quantitative
assessment of resilience. More
meeting (mandate of the National Mirror Group needed)
Information to be
provided soon.
The registration for the Main Conference is open at:
May 22, 2015)
Announcement leaflet:
For possible queries, please, feel free to contact
us at email@example.com.
'Opening up to an ERA of Innovation'
In the presence of Commissioner Moedas, this conference will bring together some 500 participants from key research and innovation organisations to discuss EU policies on three interconnected topics: Open Science, the European Research Area and Innovation.Please mark these dates in your agenda; the detailed programme and the link to the registration page will be sent as soon as they are available.
Brussels, 22-23 JUNE 2015
The European Technical School on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells 2015 is funded by the European Commission under the H2FC project and coordinated by the University of Ulster. The 2015 Technical School will be held at Aquis the Arina Sand hotel in Heraklion, Crete (Greece) on 22-26 June, 2014.
The sessions at the European Technical School on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells 2015 address the themes of hydrogen safety, storage and fuel cells. The programme will include topical lectures, a workshop on instrumentation and transnational access, presentations on state-of-the-art research and discussions on modelling for hydrogen safety, storage and fuel cells.
Programme for the Technical School 2015
Fee: 850 Euro
Registration Deadline: Registration in the TS2015 is first-come, first-served. Applications are accepted in the order in which they are received. Register early. Because the room are limited.
More information at www.h2fc.eu/technicalschool
The 2nd European Symposium on Fire Safety Science
(under the auspices of the International Association of Fire Safety Science – IAFSS)
The 2nd European Symposium on Fire Safety Science will take place on June 16-18, 2014, in Cyprus.
The 2nd European Symposium on Fire Safety Science aims to bring together young and experienced researchers from Europe and beyond in 5 interesting topics. The Symposium will be revolved around 5 themes, with the following keynote lectures:
Five half-day sessions will be organized, one in each of the above mentioned themes. Each session starts with a keynote lecture, followed by a poster session and finalized with a workshop with summarizing discussions. The conference language is English.
Call for papers
Practitioners, Researchers and Policy Makers are invited to submit papers related to one of the following themes:
Authors are invited to submit a 1-page abstract and, upon acceptance, a 6-page paper that fits within one of the 5 themes.
Important note: the themes will be interpreted in a broad manner for the poster sessions, so authors are encouraged to submit their work, even if it does not fit perfectly into one of the 5 themes. 'Work in progress' submissions are particularly encouraged.
Important Dates
Abstracts due: February 1st 2015
Notification of acceptance: March 1st 2015
Paper submission due: May 1st 2015
1st CoSaCM conference: June 16th to 18th 2015
Abstract Submission
Please submit your abstract electronically in MS Word or PDF format at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2ndesfss no later than February 1st 2015.
Receipt of abstracts will be acknowledged and decisions on acceptance will be provided no later than March 1st 2015.
Event website: http://2ndesfss.com/
24th SRA-Europe conference - Call for abstracts
The conference will take place on June 15-17, 2015, in Maastricht (Netherlands).
The theme of the conference will be "Science, Policy and Society". Authors are invited to reflect on critical directions in risk science as well as the promises and challenges of developing science-informed policy.
Keynote speakers
Prof. Marjolein van Asselt, Dutch Safety Board
Prof. Claude Fischler School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris
Ms. Sharon Gesthuizen MP, Dutch House of representatives
Ms. Julie Girling MEP, Chair of the Risk Group at the European Parliament
Prof. Erik Lebret, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
Prof Ellen Peters Ohio State University
Prof. Sybe Schaap, Senator, Dutch Senate
Dr. Bernhard Url, Executive Director, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
Abstracts may be presented orally or in a poster session. Authors are furthermore invited to submit full-length papers which will be assessed for publication in a special issue of Journal of Risk Research (optional). The submission of a full paper is optional; it is possible to present an abstract without writing a full paper. Deadline for submission of full papers is 1 June 2015.
Abstracts for individual papers, posters and symposiums must be submitted to the organizing committee by 20 January 2015 (instructions to submit abstracts to be found on www.sraeurope.org). Oral presentations will last 20 minutes. The abstract of an oral presentation or poster should not exceed 400 words and include specific field of interest, issues addressed, methodology applied and results achieved or expected.
A symposium is a conference session composed by 3 to 6 presentations/abstracts on a common topic, lasting for 90 minutes. In some cases symposia may be extended to last over 2 consecutive sessions, involving 7-8 speakers. Symposium proposals must be submitted to the organizing committee (firstname.lastname@example.com) by 20 January 2015. The symposium proposal must contain:
Please notice that each abstract in the proposed symposium needs to be submitted individually to the organizing committee by filling out the abstract submission form on www.sraeurope.org. Symposium organizers and presenters must pay participation fee similar to other conference participants.
Authors whose abstracts have been accepted will be expected to attend the conference and present their work in person.
Abstracts and proposals will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. Upon acceptance the Maastricht organizing committee will notify authors by email. The conference program schedule will be available mid-May 2015.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 20, 2015
Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2015
Early Bird registration: until April 15, 2015
Late Bird registration: until May 15, 2015
All information on the conference, as well as instruction to submit abstracts can be found on the SRA-Europe website. All questions can be addressed to email@example.com
EuroNanoForum 2015
The EuroNanoForum 2015 will take place on June 10-12, 2015, in Riga, Latvia.
The EuroNanoForum 2015 is Europe's largest networking conference on nanotechnologies and advanced materials science, innovations and business, across all industrial sectors. The Latvian capital of Riga will host the bi-annual conference that is expected to attract more than 1200 visitors from over 50 countries during its three-day programme.
The EuroNanoForum 2015 is a meeting point for industry, science and policy. It enables its participants to explore cutting-edge research, latest innovations and rising companies from all around Europe, provides extensive networking and matchmaking possibilities, and features aspects of upcoming H2020 calls as well as regional and public-private partnerships.
Over the three days, a range of must-see talks, reviewing the status of European technology development in nanotechnologies and advanced materials, will be delivered by the leading minds to complement vast opportunities for doing building partnerships for business and research. Essentially, EuroNanoForum 2015 enables its participants to be in the vanguard to explore cutting-edge research, innovations with an impact, and rising companies from all around Europe. A Brokerage Day helps to find research and business contacts, as well as partners for future EU projects.
Additional details are available at www.euronanoforum2015.eu. To keep up-to-date with announcements and news for EuroNanoForum 2015, follow @ENF2015 on Twitter.
FIRM15 - FEHRL Infrastructure Research Meeting
The FEHRL Infrastructure Research Meeting 2015 (FIRM15) will be held on 22nd & 23rd April 2015 at the Diamant Centre in Brussels, Belgium.
This key event, which will be held in English and cost 150 Euros per person (2 days conference, exhibition entrance and cocktail), will gather some 120 transport infrastructure innovation and research experts, including European and national policy makers, leading industry, standardisation agencies, SME's and the media.
With the theme of "Innovative maintenance of Transport Infrastructure. Faster, cheaper, more reliable, safer, greener", FIRM15 will feature multiple information sessions on the following themes.
Register now
Click here if you are a speaker for guidelines on your presentation.
Contact email@example.com to send any documents and if you need any more information about the event.
EU-VRi & ETPIS events
This year annual meeting of ETPIS will be organized together with the General Assembly of EU-VRi and is accompanied by a Brokerage Event and a Cross-ETP Event.
All events EU-VRi and ETPIS are organizing on April 20-21, 2015 will take place at the European Commission premises Covent Garden in Brussels, Belgium.
Condition of participation:
The participants have to be registered as EU-VRi member or ETPIS member.
If not yet done, send the registration form duly filled and signed to the ETPIS secretariat.
As soon as we have received your form, we will send you the official invitation.
The goal of the Congress is to:
The abstract submission deadline for SENN2015 is 17 October 2014.
Should you have any questions about the SENN2015 Congress, please do not hesitate to contact the organizing committee: firstname.lastname@example.com.
More information about the programme and practical arrangements is available at: www.ttl.fi/senn2015
6th European Transport Research Conference (TRA)
Call for abstract
The Call for Abstracts for the TRA 2016 Conference is open.
All researchers working on Transport can apply.
Click here to download the 1st Announcement including the Call for Abstracts details.
The deadline of the call is March 30, 2015.
SafeLife-X Workshop
Overview of the event:
March 19, 2015
March 20, 2015
From 09:00 to 12:30
3rd meeting of the Implementation strategy (Deltares)
From 14:00 to 17:30
4th meeting for the preparation of the SRA and adoption (Tecnalia)
From 13:30 to 17:00
2nd meeting to prepare the sustainable structure (VCE)
These events will be hosted by FEHRL at the following address:
FEHRL - Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories
Blvd. de la Woluwe 42 bte 3
B-1200 Brussels
Please find here more information about the venue (including a list of hotels).
Registration for SafeLife-X events:
We kindly ask you to register by February 27 at the following link:
Contact: email@example.com
SafeLife-X Final Conference
Safe Life Extension management of aged infrastructures networks and industrial plants
Brussels, Belgium on June 24-25, 2015
in conjunction with SafeLife-X education courses on Resilience
to be organized on June 23-24, 2015
and with the RBi-EN meeting
to be organized on June 24, 2015
4th floor: CEN-CENELEC Meeting Centre
B - 1000 Brussels
The SafeLife-X Final Conference is an excellent opportunity for project partners to communicate their results to the "outside world" and an opportunity for interested professionals, not participating in the project, to learn about the project and its results.
The Conference will be focused on the Strategic Research Agenda and its implementation strategy, as well as on the sustainable structure for the group. In addition to this, selected presentations from key project and outside partners covering topics related to the technologies and methodologies of aging management and business cases will be given
Preliminary program:
In order to ensure that the most interesting and relevant topics are included in the program of the Main Conference, we kindly invite you to communicate your interest by registering and submitting an abstract (200 words) at:
March 18, 2015
Please, note that the relevance of your contribution to the topics of the conference (management of aged infrastructures networks and industrial plants) will be decisive for the peer-review based acceptance of your paper/presentation.
SafeLife-X course on resilience:
RBi-EN meeting (mandate of the National Mirror Group needed)
(Deadline: May 22, 2015)
For possible queries, please, feel free to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
15th International Symposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries and accompanying exhibition
The International Symposium on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries, comes to Germany: From 5 to 8 June 2016 occupational, plant and process safety professionals from all over the world will meet in Freiburg.
Since the first LP symposium 1974 in Delft the Working Party on Loss Prevention of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering has being holding this event successfully every three years. The upcoming Loss Prevention 2016 will have a strong praxis oriented focus both in its technical programme as well as in its accompanying exhibition.
The German chemical industry association (VCI), the Swiss business association for the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech industries (ScienceIndustries) and the European Process Safety Center (EPSC) actively support the success of the LP2016. Sponsors are the following distinguished companies: Bayer AG, BASF SE, TÜV SÜD, Consilab GmbH and Linde AG.
You are invited to contribute to the LP2016.
Please submit your abstract (max. 500 words) for oral or poster presentation latest by 15 March 2015. For more information see please the Call for Papers.
3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015
On 20 December 2013, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution to hold the 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction from 14 to 18 March 2015 in Sendai, Japan, outlining the modalities for the preparations of the 3rd World Conference.
This Announcement
summarizes the expected outcomes at the 3rd World Conference per
Assembly resolution A/RES/68/211, reviews steps to be taken towards the
World Conference, and provides updates on activities towards the
development of the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction and
United Nations System engagement in the future framework, advocacy and
media activities, budget and resources, and tips for planning
participants' attendance.
More on WCDRR: http://www.wcdrr.org
STALLION – STABALID joint final conference
STALLION and STABALID consortia are pleased to announce that they will organize their joint final conference during the IRES/ESE conferences in Düsseldorf on March 10, 2015.
on March 10, 2015,
From 13:00 to 17:00
in Düsseldorf (Germany)
The STABALID (STAtionary Batteries LI-ion safe Deployment - www.stabalid.eu-vri.eu) and STALLION (Safety Testing Approaches for Large Lithium-Ion Battery Systems - www.stallion-project.eu) EU FP7 projects aim at supporting the deployment of safe Li-ion stationary batteries for large-scale grid applications. In close collaboration, STALLION and STABALID have developed, tested, validated and are disseminating a new international standard for stationary battery safety tests. In parallel to this collaborative work, STALLION has incorporated the state of the art in the relevant technological areas like materials, cell architecture and detection methods. From its side, STABALID has assessed the environmental regulatory frameworks existing in various countries and the corresponding barriers for the deployment of stationary batteries.
This final event aims at presenting the results of the two projects. The programme will include presentations on (the detailed programme will be communicated later on):
We kindly ask you to register at the following link by February 6, 2015:
If you register for our seminar (which is free of charge) you will receive a free one-day ticket for the exhibition.
About IRES/ESE conferences
As mentioned, the final conference will be organized as a side event at the International Renewable Energy Storage Conference (IRES) and Energy Storage Europe (ESE) conferences and expo.
More information about these events at:
As a participant, you will receive a free one-day ticket for the exhibition. If desired, you may register for the conference(s) separately (at the appropriate cost).
STABALID Coordination Team: firstname.lastname@example.com
STALLION Coordination Team: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Lapostolle Cabernet Sauvignon Casa 2005
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i bought this wine because it was Wine Spectator's number one wine for 2008, and i have to say i was a great wine, *but* not really my style. it was very well-balanced, smooth drinking with substantial fruit, but felt "over the top". it was a little too bold, too concentrated, and the oak was too much for my taste. perhaps i would love it with another 5 years of age.
Mild wood and berry scent. Mildly tart fruit flavor. Dry with a slight powdery finish.
Fabulous, esp for the price! Interesting, bright fruit nose, followed by a dark, almost malbec-like effect on the palate. I think I would have guessed "Chile" for this, even if I didn't know. A great wine with food. Smooth and delicious.
This bottle makes an excellent decanting study. Knowing that this had a rating of WE 91 and WA 88, I was very surprised on how much I disliked it when I popped and poured. Smelling the cork, I already sensed a huge presence of alcohol. The smell of alcohol overpowered the faint nose of sour cherries. It had a very short lived red currant presence, then huge oak, tannins, heat, and bitterness. I then let it sit, and sipped after 2 hrs, then 5 hrs. I should say that it got better the longer it sat out. After 5 hrs, you get a nose of raisins and red currant. Some black pepper as well. It tastes of unripe black fruit, cedar, spices, smoke, earth. Mild tannins, pretty full bodied for a merlot. Pretty complex - it will take your tastebuds for a ride. The finish is long but a bit on the hot side. Although Snooth has it at $12, I got it at Costco for $16. This is pretty serious and old world for a Chilean wine. Please serve with serious food, and....DECANT!!!
This refers to the 2006. This was ok. It really jumps right out of the bottle onto the pallet. Fully of fruit, medium body. Highish on the alcohol (14.5%)
The wine has a luminous light yellow color that glistens in the glass. There is plenty of tropical fruit, pineapple and peach on the nose with flavors of delightful citrus fruit and white flower and a touch of asparagus. There is some oak but this is not the overwhelming woody California style Chard. It is more French in nature with the fresh flavors that come from the rich terroir of this South American wine. It is full and mouth filling with sensuous acidity and a long finish. I also love the sexy new label.
Tried this once at Mo and Rich's house and don't really remember it standing out...perhaps we drank it too soon because as of last month Mo and Rich both raved about it. Currently have a bottle "aging" and will update this once we drink it. No comment from Pants.
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The 2005 Clos Apalta Limited Release is composed of 42% Carmenere, 28% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot, and 4% Petit Verdot. Opaque purple-colored, the nose reveals notes of pain grille, mineral, spice box, and plummy black and blue fruits. This leads to a layered, nearly opulent wine with gobs of savory, spicy black fruits, excellent balance, and superb integration of oak, tannin, and acidity. It will evolve for 4-6 years and be at its best from 2013 to 2025.
Wine Enthusiast ReviewRated 91 EDITORS CHOICEDense and solid, this is top-flight Chilean Merlot without any hints of green to drag it down. The nose deals polished oak and bright berry aromas; the palate offers a peerfect feel and impressive plum, berry, chocolate and vanilla flavors. Properly tannic and balanced.Wine tasting NotesBright and deep red ruby with a purple robe. Apaltas vineyard fruit expression as its best. Plums, cherries, blackberries and blackcurrant with sweet spices coming from elegant French oak aromas. Black spices from the Carmenere gives a unique and complex addition. Powerful and deep structure that surprises. Soft and chewy palate that evolve towards a long and pleasant finish with a very well achieved balance.
Casa Lapostolle Cuveé Alexandre Merlot 2005: Dekantier-Empfehlung (1 Std. vorher belüften), Empfohlene Serviertemperatur: 16-18°C, in Barriques gereift (12 Monate), lagerfähig 5 - 7 Jahre ab JahrgangJahrgang: 2005Inhalt: 0,75 LRegion: Valle de RapelWeingut: Casa LapostolleRebsorte: 85% Merlot, 15% CarmenereRestzucker: trockenRestsäure: Alkoholgehalt: 14,5 % Rotwein
Cuveé Alexandre Merlot 2005 - Casa Lapostolle: Cuveé Alexandre Merlot 2005 - Rotwein von Casa LapostolleDer Casa Lapostolle Cuveé Alexandre Merlot ist enorm frisch und fruchtig. Sehr angenehm sind Pflaumen und Tabak zu spüren. Im Glas sehen wir ihn in einem tiefen Rubinrot mit violetten Reflexen am Glasrand. Er beeindruckt durch ein reichhaltiges Bukett von Kirschen und Brombeeren, neben Tabak, einer Spur Schokolade und würzigen Eichenaromen. Auch am Gaumen zeigen sich intensive Aromen von reifen roten Früchten wie Pflaumen und Kirschen, zusammen mit Nussaromen und einem sehr gut integrierten Holzton, der ein wenig an Vanille und süße Gewürze erinnert. Er zeichnet sich aus durch Komplexität, eine gute Struktur in Bezug auf Säure und Körper sowie durch reife und weiche Tannine. Sein langer Nachhall ist ebenfalls geprägt von der guten Struktur und weist auf Reifepotenzial. Zu Rehrücken mit Pilzen und dunkler Sauce und rosa gebratener Entenbrust schmeckt er noch besser.Weingut: Casa LapostolleLand: ChileRegion: Valle de RapelRebsorten: 85% Merlot, 15% CarmenereAlkoholgehalt: 14,5 Vol. %Restsüße: trockenInhalt: 0,75 lEmpfohlene Serviertemperatur: 16 - 18°CFassreife: in Barriques gereift (12 Monate)Lagerfähigkeit: 5 - 7 Jahre ab JahrgangAuszeichnungen des Casa Lapostolle Cuveé Alexandre Merlot 2005:Mundus Vini Silberwine spirits 92 Punkte - Winespectator 87 PunkteWine Spectator's Insider - 90 Punkte Rotwein > Chile > Valle de Rapel
Wine Enthusiast ReviewRated 91It doesn't take an expert to quickly realize that this is a fine Cabernet. The nose deals potent black cherry and char, while airing unleashes a subtle perfume and floral notes. In the mouth, there's ripe berry flavors and chocolate, while late in the game the tannins stay smooth but tight. A congruent wine with no flaws. Ready now or ageable for a couple of years.Wine Tasting NotesA full-bodied and expressive red, with plenty of berry, red plum and chocolate-spice flavors. There are nice mineral and cedar notes mixed in, with fine tannins on the finish.
In der Nase elegant, reichhaltig und komplex. Der Gaumen ist weich und konzentriert mit einer schönen Frische, gefolgt von einem langen, eleganten Finish.
The 2004 Clos Apalta is composed of 86% Carmenere and 14 % Merlot. Purple colored, it has a splendid bouquet of pain grille, spice box, blueberry, and blackberry liqueur. This is followed by a rich, layered wine with excellent grip and plenty of ripe tannins. This nicely balanced effort should reach its peak in 5-6 years and drink well through 2027.
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Originally posted by naldric
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"Your XP bar is NOT your fun meter"
I hope they can taker there time, and not get forced pulling a "Vanguard". The game has the potential to be a really ground breaking game.
The problem with WAR is that they're trying and hoping to compete with WoW. If they'd simply settle for being a good game and getting a respectable player base they'd be so much better off than trying to please everyone to become the next mega hit with 4.5 million in Europe and the US.
I wouldn't be too surprised if a year from now, Pirates of the Burning Sea is bigger than both WAR and AoC, and I don't consider it entirely unlikely that AoC will also be bigger than WAR. Simply because trying to be a second WoW will simply have players go for WoW instead of your game.
And no, I don't believe for a second that the delay is for any other reason than trying to grab the WoW crowd. Mythic knows RvR, and already had that nailed down pretty well early on. I think delays are all to please the "WoW-market".
And of course this is my personal opinion and guesses, not adamant truth or analysis based on insider Mythic info. At least, when proven wrong a year from now, I won't be creating another account to hide from it. :-p
Edit: and my best wishes to the Mythic guys. We're all cheering for you. Just please keep this your game, not the game you had to make to make (more) money.
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Joined: 6/12/06
Originally posted by Dreamagram
Well I agree with you, but keep something in mind. WoW is so hugely popular for a certain reason...not because of the Warcraft name, or because of any certain graphical styles. It's because the game is fun. That's as much an opinion as it's a convention, and of course a good number of people will play it and not enjoy their time.
But nine million people, more than any other online game before it, many of whom are first timers to the genre, have played the game and become addicted. Still, just calling it 'fun' is a little vague. The character development is interesting, the abilities are fun to try in combat (and constantly changing through patches) the world itself is rather well conceived, and the game is programmed incredibly well. Nearly everything works the way it should, nothing seems too 'slow' or restraining, it's an easy game to just jump into and feel like a part of the world that's fun to interact with. It's on the easy side which makes it even more accessible, but there are a lot of further challenges players can find once the levelling process is tired out. Everything about WoW is solid. All of it comes together and ropes people in who never even thought they'd play a game like this.
I'm not writing a review for WoW, I'm trying to put the desire to emulate WoW's success into perspective. They're not just trying to put out a game made a certain way that will make a lot of money, they're trying to make a game so accessible that people in the millions will jump into this game and come away with it wanting to return. Sure, it will make them a lot of money...and that's why EA is so lenient with Mythic about this.
To put it conversely, think about Final Fantasy XI. There are some people who think the game is utterly badass, and hate the guts out of World of Warcraft. That's great for them, but people like me who think FFXI is just too slow and unforgiving to get motivated enough to play to the endgame simply aren't going to invest time and money into this product. And Mythic's bottom line is simply, why put out such an extensive, immersive product with such a prolific name as Warhammer if you aren't going to aspire to getting as many people to sink as money hours into this experience as they possibly can? Money or not.
BUT. One thing I agree with you about is that I do feel that they're pushing a little too far toward their perceived ideal of perfection. There's only so much improvement you can make before doing more harm than good. I feel that releasing the game pretty close to perfect and then making small changes after (there's these things called patches and expansions games have!) would be good enough.
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I do wonder what state the game, and it's gameplay is in considering the extra length of development put in place for WAR. On the one hand, one can only assume this extra development time is a good thing so that it's extra polished, but on the other hand, I'm worried there's issues with balance and the gameplay features that they had to delay WAR again. I have no interest in the Warhammer franchise, and the only reason I'm planning to buy WAR is because I've enjoyed DAOC for years, and I'm hoping Mythic can better themselves with this game.
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Joined: 3/17/07
"Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." - Mordin Solus
Well I'll give them a small applaud for not wanting to release something unfinished but lets be honest here, they weren't going to release anywhere near the same time as AOC. So lets not give them that much credit ok ? This game has been in developement for almost 3 years now and seems to be nowhere near finished. The last time they pushed it back they said they wanted to add more things to the game and polish. Ok great for the fans but asking for essentially an 8 month extension to add even more polish is mind boggling and it is not even guaranteed it is going to release in the fall of 2008. Sounds to me either the beta testers were still unhappy with the changes or simply they just don't want to release near AOC. Could be both but either way I wouldn't expect a 2008 release at all.
I think they put themselves into a hole now. If they released now then it would be the next Vanguard, extend the developement and run the risk of competing with other mmo games such as Stargate Worlds, Guild Wars 2, The Agency, Bioware MMO, Aion and also Blizzard has yet to announce its new mmo which hopefully will be announce soon! Hope someone has a big enough rope to pull them out of the hole cause its getting deeper and deeper.
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Joined: 4/08/05
I think some of the people posting they won't play something because it won't be out in the Summer vs the Fall is idiotic. I also think it's idiotic that people are swayed by forum user ignorance. A time frame for release is not the deciding factor for why anyone plays a game. The deciding factor is the community and friends that will be playing. The systems design of WAR appeals to my gaming style. I know many in my guild bought the CE just to make sure they could setup the guild during the Head Start period.
Reality check -- look over the facts and the mechanics of the game, ignore the forum hype and have fun with your guildmates once it goes live. If it's truly going to be a solid MMO, does it matter when it's released? Make up your own mind and don't be swayed either way by the forum cattle. When it comes out, either play it, or don't. This angst about it in the meanwhile is meaningless.
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Joined: 5/05/06
Well said Ghimpi :)
I never base my wanting to play a game..on when its released. INSTEAD I follow the game, watch the videos read what the critics have to say..either pro or con, and decide for myself if this is the game for me.
Once i do that...its just a waiting/patience game. If the game is pushed back a few times, that tells me that the Devs are not yet satisfied with how things are turning out..and CLOSED BETA is the best time to go back to the drawing board and revise things that looked great on paper but not so good on implementation.
Any work of art.........takes time, patience and love to produce.
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"Shutting down threads sense 2004"
I base my game purchasing on a game if said company has made a realtivly close game like it before. In this case, mythic has and two things always stick in my head when I see anything about this title. First, they balance a game to crap and kill the player base. Still have not learned that, second they had another title in the works for a few years and it was deemed "not marketable", Mark's comment about we never bla bla bla, is just like his comments on that cancelled title that "WILL be released" and "Trials of Atlantis was a great expansion to the game", both comments which are and have been proven false.
I give credit were credit is due, daoc rvr was top notch and really the first in game seige type game that was fun and made sense. But everything else was the worse of anything you could think about an MMO. It is why the population went south after so many changes, it is why so many people I know don't care for beta and on and on I can go.
More power to those that will play the title, I just don't eat the b.s. that is being fed here. History speaks mounds more then words, in the case of Conan for instance, I am interested, but pulled my pre-order for the information released started getting double talked, just like they did with AO. Nuff said.
"The monster created isn't by the company that makes the game, it's by the fans that make it something it never was"
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Joined: 6/07/04
Originally posted by Dreamagram
I think you have it there. Trouble is WAR is only looking like its going to be incremental improvements on the WoW formula and to be the MMO champ needs a "new generation MMO" I know I sound like an ad-man but seriously it needs something that dosent folow that whole tired EQ WOW formula. I have an opinion on the sort of thing that might be and there are a few titles that have some of the ingredients. Of course when people start to go back and look at what was fun in UO, & before that MUDS, the clues are there. It's all stuff McQuaid stripped out of the genre with EQ.
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Joined: 2/29/08
Man I dont mind the wait just finish it 100%. We as players and Warhammer Fans don't wanna see such a great combination ruined just casue of some people wanting to play early.
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Joined: 2/29/08
Just dont make us wait till 2009 Okay? Good.
Here's the thing.....You can only use the excuse "spit and polish" so many times. While I'll agree on most points and by no means want another vanguard released, I'm a little concerned over this last delay.
Its not whether or not the game is going to good, It will be good or great , but the beta testing has revealed some of the content or mechanics that they thought would be a hit were not.
So how long before we wait until they release? Who knows for sure, but I don't think hiding behind spit n polish to make the best dam game is going to work anymore.
The pre order info being posted shows around 10/07/08 - 10/14/08 or something like that. If Mythic doesn't clean up what they want by then and release the game good or great I think they will have comiited suicide for War.
If you don't have confidence in your game Mark then hire someone with some balls to push what the game needs to be released.
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Joined: 4/23/06
Originally posted by tmr819
I don't care about AoC, I don't want to play it and I won't play it.
It's not like there's is an alternative to what i want.
I want to play WAR and at the right time when it will be done.
I'm not currently playing any other MMO and I don't feel the need to.
Stargate World ?...a threat to a many years in developpement game? doubt so.
anyways my 2 cents.
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Joined: 8/21/04
Logic be damned!
I think this delay means that they should open up the beta test more.. to more testers...
like me..
I've probably been lurking for way, way too long.
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Joined: 12/22/04
Originally posted by seraphol
Both WAR and AoC have a challenging problem.
The reason WoW is so immensely popular is, of course, because it's easy for the MMO novice and the casual gamer to get into. Most MMO players are casual -- they don't PvP much, if at all -- nor do they raid much. The statistics bear this out, and it's really interesting since WoW is an equipment centric game where success and end game are based on raids and PvP.
That said, here come WAR and AoC. In both, PvP is central. In fact, WAR is nothing but PvP.
So how does FunCom and EA Mythic draw the casual MMO player? Add more PvE to draw them in while finding ways to introduce these casual players into PvP in a way that's fun for them. Both FunCom and Mythic have experience with this.
I doubt if EA Mythic or FunCom are aiming for a niche market audience of hardcore powergamers who live and breath PvP. No. The only thing they want to emulate from WoW is the hugely popular wide-based appeal -- 9 million players is a nice, round number. So when comparing it to WoW, this will be the crux for the success or failure of both WAR and AoC.
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Joined: 1/12/05
I agree with some of the previous posters. Should never have given a date to begin with. Pushing it back over and over really upsets their customers and they risk losing some as a result.
Oh and personally I was looking forward to Imperator over WAR by far.
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Joined: 4/02/08
Please just make this the last delay. I understand that this will help of the quality if the game on launch day I'm getting anxious and don't know how much longer I can keep waiting.
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Joined: 1/12/05
I can also wonder if this is EA sticking their nose into the development mucking it up. In the past a lot of developers have said, American McGee for one, that EA wasn't a good company to work for from a development standpoint.
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Joined: 11/13/05
Sick of the crap on the radio? Try ETN.fm or party107.com
At least these guys have figured it out, if you have a bad release your game, no matter how good later on will not be as successful as it could have been.


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This week, more than 30 'good government' groups sent a petition to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform urging prompt hearings on the case of FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. The list of organizations includes the American Civil Liberties Union, Citizen Outreach, OMB Watch, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Government Accountability Project, Electronic Freedom Foundation, and the National Coalition against the Censorship.
We've had solid indications that the Chairman of the committee, Henry Waxman, is ready and willing to hold public, open hearings into Sibel Edmonds' case; however, we need to give him a final push and get him to publicly commit to a date.
Sibel Edmonds is the most gagged person in American history.… Continue reading
Send 500,000 impeachment letters to Pelosi by her first day as speaker,
January 3
While arguing about whether we should demand impeachment in another thread,
someone said there had to be a "groundswell of support" like there
was for the impeachment of Nixon and cited this article:
"More than 50,000 telegrams poured in on Capitol Hill today, so many,
Western Union was swamped. Most of them demanded impeaching Mr. Nixon."
John Chancellor, NBC News on a Special Report on October 20, 1973
We already have more support than that. When John Conyers took Bush his petition
demanding he answer questions about the Downing Street Memo, it had 540,000 signatures, over
ten times as many as wrote about Nixon. I would bet most of those people would
write to demand impeachment of Bush, probably more.
The great thing is, now we have someone to focus this demand on who can and
possibly will act (in spite of her protests to the contrary): Nancy Pelosi.
She should have a half million signatures waiting for her her first day as
Speaker of the House.
I think she and the many of the Democrats want to do this, but to overcome
the reluctance of the DC establishment and big money interests who are afraid
their ox will be gored along with Bush & Cheney, she needs constant overwhelming
evidence of public DEMAND not just support for impeachment.
Fax or snail mail the letter below or your own variation to:
Nancy Pelosi
2371 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
District Office:
450 Golden Gate Ave.…Continue reading
by Michael Keefer
December 4, 2006
The first thing to say by way of preliminaries (and I'd better get it in quickly before someone suggests that I've turned up late or over-weight for a pre-match weighing-in) is that I'm not overjoyed with the pugilistic metaphor of my title.
But some sort of response to the volley of attacks on 9/11 researchers and activists with which the Counterpunch website marked the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 seems called for.
Michael Keefer strikes just the right tone in responding to Alexander Cockburn's attempt to banish "conspiracy nuts" from the kingdom of the left.Keefer accounts for Cockburn's hostility to conspiracy by locating him in the "class of academics and public intellectuals, for whom a migration of power into military, deep-political, and corporate-media hands may…. be difficult to acknowledge." We'd add that when those intellectuals are wedded to a brand of analysis that cannot satisfactorily account for what they see transpiring before their eyes, that difficulty is only magnified.
Slowly but surely, the academic left is coming to understand that the deep politics paradigm offers the most promising analytic tools for understanding the dynamics of geopolitical struggle. Don't be surprised by the discomfort associated with the paradigm shift to continue to produce rhetorically overheated, but substantively lacking, complaints like Cockburn's for quite some time. But really, that's his problem.
Counterpunch co-editor Alexander Cockburn set the tone of these pieces with an article describing theologian and ethicist David Ray Griffin, the author of The New Pearl Harbor (2004) and of The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions (2005), as a "high priest" of the "conspiracy nuts""whom Cockburn denounces as cultists who "disdain all answers but their own," who "seize on coincidences and force them into sequences they deem to be logical and significant," and who "pounce on imagined clues in documents and photos, [".] contemptuously brush[ing] aside" evidence that contradicts their own "whimsical" treatment of "eyewitness testimony and forensic evidence."
It's a characteristically forceful performance, if at times slipshod. One small sign of carelessness may be the manner in which Cockburn slides from calling 9/11 skeptics a "coven" to comparing them, a few sentences later, to "mad Inquisitors" torturing the data (as the old joke goes about economists) until the data confess." Readers brought up to think that the victims and perpetrators of witch-crazes have not customarily been the same people may find this unintentionally amusing.
Despite the sometimes distinctly nasty tone of this polemic, the idea of exchanging even metaphorical blows with Cockburn and his colleagues is unappealing. The overall quality of the essays that he and Jeffrey St. Clair publish in Counterpunch makes it easy on most days of the week to agree with Out of Bounds Magazine's description of it (trumpeted on Counterpunch's masthead) as "America's best political newsletter." And I've admired Cockburn's own political essays for many years: he's written movingly, sometimes brilliantly, on a wide range of subjects1 even if his flashes of brilliance sometimes alternate with breathtaking pratfalls: among them his dismissal, as recently as March 2001, of the evidence for global warming; his scoffing, in November 2004, at the rapidly gathering indications that the US presidential election of 2004 had been stolen; and a year later, his mockery of the well-established theory of peak oil and his adherence to the genuinely daft notion that the earth produces limitless quantities of abiotic oil.2 One can forgive a journalist's slender grasp of the rudiments of scientific understanding. But given his self-appointed role as defender of the progressive left against a horde of fools, It's dismaying to find him sliding as frequently as he does into positions that seem not just quirky but (dare I say it) unprogressive. Continue reading
November 22, 2006
Defeating the Bill of Rights
Bush's Lone Victory
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
George Orwell warned us, but what American would have expected that in the
opening years of the 21st century the United States would become a country in
which lies and deception by the President and Vice President were the basis
for a foreign policy of war and aggression, and in which indefinite detention
without charges, torture, and spying on citizens without warrants have displaced
the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution?
If anyone had predicted that the election of George W. Bush to the presidency
would result in an American police state and illegal wars of aggression, he
would have been dismissed as a lunatic.
What American ever would have thought that any US president and attorney general
would defend torture or that a Republican Congress would pass a bill legalizing
torture by the executive branch and exempting the executive branch from the
Geneva Conventions?
What American ever would have expected the US Congress to accept the president's
claim that he is above the law?
What American could have imagined that if such crimes and travesties occurred,
nothing would be done about them and that the media and opposition party would
be largely silent?
Except for a few columnists, who are denounced by "conservatives"
as traitors for defending the Bill of Rights, the defense of US civil liberty
has been limited to the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International,
and Human Rights Watch. The few federal judges who have refused to genuflect
before the Bush police state are denounced by attorney general Alberto Gonzales
as a "grave threat" to US security.…
Among Hundreds of Books, The Strongest Approach to Truth
October 7, 2006
Reviewer: Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States)
It is with great sadness that I conclude that this book is the strongest of the 770+ books I have reviewed here at Amazon, almost all non-fiction. I am forced to conclude that 9/11 was at a minimum allowed to happen as a pretext for war (see my review of Jim Bamford's "Pretext for War"), and I am forced to conclude that there is sufficient evidence to indict (not necessarily convict) Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and others of a neo-conservative neo-Nazi coup d'etat and kick-off of the clash of civilizations (see my review of "Crossing the Rubicon" as well as "State of Denial"). Most fascinatingly, the author links Samuel Huntington, author of "Clash of Civilizations" with Leo Strauss, the connecting rod between Nazi fascists and the neo-cons.
This is, without question, the most important modern reference on state-sponsored terrorism, and also the reference that most pointedly suggests that select rogue elements within the US Government, most likely led by Dick Cheney with the assistance of George Tenet, Buzzy Kronguard, and others close to the Wall Street gangs, are the most guilty of state-sponsored terrorism.
The author draws on historical examples of US fabrication of threats (e.g. the bombing of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor) and many others (Jim Bamford publicized Operation Northwoods). It is an undeniable fact that the U.S. Government has been willing to kill… Continue reading
Conspiracy theorists insist the U.S. government, not terrorists, staged the devastating attacks
by Jonathan Curiel, Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle
Dylan Avery has a theory that he says casts doubts on Mark Bingham's actions on Sept. 11, 2001. According to Avery, the San Francisco public relations executive never called his mom on a cell phone from the cabin of Flight 93, and never told her that "some of us here are going to try to do something." Instead, says Avery, someone using a voice synthesizer — possibly a government official — called Alice Hoglan on the morning that Flight 93 — and Bingham — became part of Sept. 11 lore.
"The cell phone calls were fake — no ifs, ands or buts," Avery says in "Loose Change," a film he wrote and directed that's one of the most-watched movies on the Internet, with 10 million viewers in the past year. "Until the government can prove beyond a shadow of doubt that al Qaeda was behind Sept. 11, the American people have every reason to believe otherwise."
Avery is one of perhaps millions of Americans who believe the U.S. government — or rogue elements within it — either orchestrated the attacks or tacitly supported them for nefarious reasons.
As the five-year anniversary of the attacks approaches, the clamor of Avery and other conspiracy theorists has gotten stronger — and more widely accepted. According to a poll by Ohio University and Scripps Howard News Service, 36 percent of Americans believe that government officials "either assisted in the 9/ 11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East." Twelve percent of Americans believe a cruise missile fired by the U.S.…Continue reading
Image: CBC News: Sunday's Evan Solomon interviews Lee Hamilton , 9/11 Commission co-chair and co-author of the book "Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission" .
Evan Solomon : Tell me why you felt the need, with Thomas Kean, to write this book "Without Precedent"?
Lee Hamilton : We felt we had an important story to tell, 9/11 was a traumatic event in our history, every adult in America will remember exactly where they were on that day when they heard the news. We felt that the Commission's work gave a lot of insights into how government works, and particularly how government in the national security area works. We had hundreds of people tell us, or ask us, how the Commission did its work, and so we responded by writing the book and tried to let people know the story, the inside story of the 9/11 Commission.
Solomon : Do you consider the 9/11 Commission to have been a success, and if so, under what ways do you measure that success? How do you call it a success?
Hamilton : The 9/11 Commission was created by statute. We had two responsibilities – first, tell the story of 9/11; I think we've done that reasonably well. We worked very hard at it; I don't know that we've told the definitive story of 9/11, but surely anybody in the future who tackles that job will begin with the 9/11 Commission Report. I think we've been reasonably successful in telling… Continue reading
Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national firestorm in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, the US military's account of activities during the Vietnam War, to The New York Times. The release awakened the American people to a systematic program of organized deception carried out by the Pentagon against the population to continue the Vietnam War.
Daniel Ellsberg, speaking on air to GCN radio host Jack Blood, stated his concerns that criminal elements of the US government were psychologically capable to have carried out 9/11.
"If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country."
– Daniel Ellsberg
Author, Pentagon Papers
Ellsberg said that he worked with individuals at the highest… Continue reading
REASONS TO DOUBT THE OFFICIAL STORY OF SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001
… An outline in simple talking points …
We are continuing to compile the best documentation links for every single point on this page, and intend to post the updated version as soon as possible, and create teaching tools and more from the info. This is a significant and time-consuming process–if you have useful links, please send them to janice[at]911truth[dot]org. Thanks for your help!
If you use the search function with title key words, you will discover that 911Truth.org is home to articles backing virtually every point made below. Much of the basic research is available at the Complete 9/11 Timeline (hosted by cooperativeresearch.org), the 9/11 Reading Room (
911readingroom.org), and the NY Attorney General Spitzer petition and complaint (Justicefor911.org). For physical evidence discussion, see Point 7.
1) AWOL Chain of Command
a. It is well documented that the officials topping the chain of command for response to a domestic attack – George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Myers, Montague Winfield, Ralph Eberhart – all found reason to do something else during the actual attacks, other than assuming their duties as decision-makers.
b. Who was actually in charge? Dick Cheney, Richard Clarke, Norman Mineta and the 9/11 Commission directly conflict in their accounts of top-level response to the unfolding events, such that several (or all) of them must be lying.… Continue reading
Mar 30, 2006:
Lost in last week's hubbub over the media breakthroughs for 9/11 truth was the latest twist in the Sibel Edmonds saga. The FBI whistleblower last Thursday filed a court motion demanding that the federal judge hearing her First Amendment case be recused for deliberately hiding his financial background.
The judge, Reggie Walton, is also currently hearing the perjury case involving I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, former chief of staff to Dick Cheney, on allegations that Libby leaked the name of a CIA operative to the media. Edmonds is seeking to show Judge Walton is in violation of federal law (The Ethics in Government Act) because of his refusal to meet financial disclosure provisions.
A few months after September 11th, the FBI hired Edmonds as a translator for Farsi and Turkish. She says she discovered that documents already translated (and suppressed) prior to 9/11 had contained details of a pending attack on the US with airplanes. In addition, one of her colleagues attempted to recruit her as a spy for a Turkish lobbying group. When she spoke out about these experiences – and other finds suggesting corruption, money laundering and drug deals at the top levels of the US government – she was fired. Attorney General John Ashcroft slapped Edmonds with a gag order under the seldom-used State Secrets Act. In the most bizarre and Orwellian twist, Ashcroft "retroactively classified" many of the statements Edmonds had already made. This included information published in the press prior to the gag… Continue reading
W. David Kubiak thought the 9/11 attacks would be a "wake up call."
"Once you could accept 9/11, you could say, 'I've really got to look at the world again with new eyes,'" he said during a recent phone interview with The Wire .
Kubiak is a member of the steering committee of 911truth.org , a group formed "to investigate, unearth, and widely publicize the full truth surrounding September 11th, 2001."
It's been three years since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, and while supporters and detractors of the war continue to debate the causes of and solutions to that conflict, one fact is almost indisputable: the long, bloody journey in Iraq began on Sept. 11, 2001.
I say almost indisputable because, in the world of the 9/11 truth movement, everything from photographic evidence to offhand statements and individual words are up for debate. The term "conspiracy theory" calls to mind images of a spider's web. That's an accurate description for the complex and intricately constructed narratives found in any number of conspiracy theories, but the actual building of conspiracy theories, the steady accumulation of new evidence, new proof, new witnesses, is more like sedimentary rock. A pebble here, a pebble there and, after a number of years, a looming monument to suspicion and paranoia.
But, as they say, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. We've got plenty of reason to be suspicious. Most recently, President George W. Bush has been stumping… Continue reading
by Ted Rall
On the first anniversary of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge delivered a speech at the site of the disaster in western Pennsylvania. "Faced with the most frightening circumstances one could possibly imagine," he told grieving relatives of the passengers and crewmembers aboard the fourth plane hijacked on 9/11, "they met the challenge like citizen soldiers, like Americans." He recited the now-familiar story of passengers learning by phone about the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, deciding to fight back and breaking into the cockpit–a heroic act that led to their own deaths while sparing countless others in Washington.
"The terrorists were right to fear an uprising," Ridge rhapsodized. "The passengers and crew did whatever they humanly could–boil water, phone the authorities, and ultimately rush the cockpit to foil the attack."
Ridge's boss repeatedly used United 93 to close his standard stump speech. Calling the passenger revolt "the most vivid and sad symbol of them all," George W. Bush said: "People are flying across the country on an airplane, at least they thought they were. They learned the plane was going to be used as a weapon. They got on their telephones. They were told the true story. Many of them told their loved ones goodbye. They said they loved them. They said a prayer; a prayer was said. One guy said, 'Let's roll.' They took the plane into the ground."
The legend of Flight 93 had everything a… Continue reading
The Complete 9/11 Timeline hosted by The Center for Cooperative Research recently published a revised set of entries on the military exercises of September 11 , providing a goldmine of well-sourced information. Compiled by Paul Thompson, the 9/11 Timeline long ago became the leading resource of mainstream news reports about September 11. Available in book form as The Terror Timeline (2004), it continues to evolve online.
The latest material for the first time casts light on what may have been the day's master wargame: Global Guardian, run out of Offutt Air Force Base by the US Strategic Command (Stratcom) under Admiral Richard Mies ( official bio ). He has since retired and taken up a gig as the CEO of Hicks & Associates, a "strategic consultant" to the federal government dealing in "military transformation."
Our New York correspondent, Nicholas Levis, has written a review.
UPDATE: Filmed in January 2000, and aired on 3/4/2001, the makers of "The Lone Gunmen" show that the idea of crashing planes into buildings isn't anything new. As a matter of fact, their representation is eerily familiar given what we know today about the Wargames taking place on September 11th, 2001. (The Lone Gunmen Clip: Click Here )
Aug. 2005:
As the day dawns over the East Coast on September 11th, 2001, the US Strategic Command headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska is on full alert, busily dispatching warplanes around North America in a rehearsal for Armageddon.
Stratcom directs the US nuclear arsenal. A number of interrelated air-defense wargames are underway around the country, under the overall umbrella of Global Guardian.…Continue reading
by Thomas Hansen, Ph.D.
It is nearly a year since the 9/11 Commission report was finished and the investigation of the events of 9/11 officially came to a close. But unofficially, many Americans have unanswered questions, and at least some of this hesitancy to close the book on 9/11 is because of the long-standing connection between the Bush Administration and the man who was the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, Dr. Philip Zelikow.
In a new book by Professor Emeritus David Ray Griffin of the Claremont School of Theology (The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, Olive Branch Press, 2005), the case is made that the staff of the 9/11 Commission acted as gatekeepers who followed the official explanation of events of 9/11, rather than acting as true independent investigators. Griffin gives detailed and abundant evidence that he feels shows Philip Zelikow and his staff did not thoroughly investigate information that was contrary to what the Bush Administration had already accepted as the facts of 9/11.
Last fall I had a conversation with Zelikow, which I feel supports the ideas and evidence of Professor Griffin's book. But before I go into what… Continue reading
by Matt Everett
The Journal of Psychohistory Volume 32, No. 3
Winter 2005
If what I say is right, the whole US government should end up behind bars.
– Andreas von Bülow, former German government minister and author of "Die CIA und der 11. September"
At the beginning of the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promised: "What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before." The invasion that ensued was, like all wars, destructive and resulted in the loss of thousands of lives. Yet Baghdad fell in a mere three weeks and just six weeks after the invasion commenced, President Bush announced: "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." Despite the death and destruction, it was hardly a war of a 'force,' 'scope' and 'scale' beyond what had been seen before.
Extensive excerpt from Everett's absorbing psychohistorical analysis of movers and motives behind the 9/11 tragedy. Everett is a research colleague of Paul "Terror Timeline" Thompson and documents his work with painstaking rigor.
However, before it began, there were indications that some people wanted a far more destructive war than that which ensued. For example, ridiculous as it may now sound, it was suggested that Britain and America might use nuclear weapons against Iraq. As The Guardian reported at the time:
… Continue reading
"From last year's US defence review and the testimony of the Defence Secretary, Geoffrey Hoon, to the defence select committee last March it was clear that a major change in the US and UK nuclear policy was taking place.For the first time Britain and America were contemplating using nuclear weapons against an enemy using only chemical or biological weapons.
By Ward Reilly
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
— Samuel Adams
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
— Patrick Henry
"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
— Thomas Paine
My friend Dennis Kyne wrote a song that we recorded together while he was staying at my home in January. He was in Baton Rouge in order to attend, and to speak at, the "Jazz Funeral For Democracy" in New Orleans, a counter-inaugural demonstration that activists from south Louisiana had organized.
The song is called "All We Want Is the Truth."
Dennis is a Gulf War vet, and was a medic with the front-line 24th Infantry in 1991. I am an older volunteer infantry vet, one who spent 32 months overseas, from 1971 to 1974, serving this country as an occupation soldier. We are patriots.
The truth. It's not too much for a soldier or vet to ask for, particularly when the subject is whether or not our nation goes to war.
As many of us – those who actually tried to stop the occupation of Iraq before it got started – watched this tragedy unfold, what we saw… Continue reading


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I'm trying to force PHP's Memcache extension to timeout almost immediately if a memcached server I'm connecting to isn't available (for whatever reason). I'd like to throw an exception in this case (which will be handled somewhere else).
I've been searching and trying different things without any luck. I'm adding servers (only one for now) to the pool with the standard:
$this->memcache->addServer ( $server['host'], $server['port'] );
I then killed the memcached deamon (also tried with a wrong port&host) and opened my page. It just loads for a very long time and then nginx comes back with a
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How can I tell the memcache client to try for, I don't know, 1 second and then give up, at which point I should be able to detect the timeout somehow.
The bottom line is that if our memcached server would be down I'd like to display a user-friendly error page (already working for uncaught exceptions) as soon as possible and not make the user wait for 30 sec before he sees a generic server error.


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All Stories
Anything for a buck - Greg Gelpi
The strength of the human bond, the invisible link that holds two people together is amazing.
How to keep those resolutions - Gerry Yandel
I'm not really a fan of New Year's resolutions... perhaps because I have such a hard time keeping the darned things.
Local drivers support NASCAR decision
By Anthony Rhoads
Henry is driving me slowly crazy - Justin Boron
I can't say how many times I've been behind John Deere on the roads in Henry County since I came down two weeks ago to fill in on the short-handed staff.
Resolution reservations - Michael Davis
I'm not sure I'm ready for it to be a new year. There's so many things that I had wanted to get done that I just didn't seem to get around to this year.
Search for a good time, and my digital camera - Zach Porter
Some of you will find what I'm about to say beyond comprehension while others may find it impossibly clich?. On New Year's Eve I realized that almost everything around me is a distraction from some ultimate reality and that social constructions such as New Year's Eve parties only result in undue stress on my life. You see I never, ever, ever, no not even once; have had a "Happy New Year."
January 7, 2005
Vigil to be held for homeless Riverdale woman
By Greg Gelpi
Stray bullet hits Hampton woman on New Year's
By Ed Brock
Lovejoy woman paints into retirement
By Justin Boron
Soaring to new heights of fun - Bob Paslay
A friend of mine said to me recently that for somebody who hates to fly, "you sure seem to do a lot of it."
'Twas the night before Sickmas - Rob Felt
Behold... Christmas Eve, and I lay with a still. On the couch near the tree with a fever and chills.
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Employees' attorney raises contempt question
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Contributions 'link' students to tsunami victims
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2005: Things will get better - Ed Brock
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In the novel, Andrew McKinney believes he was "saved" from the streets of Glasgow in 1885 by the grace of God. When Reverend Alan McLean offers to take Drew into his home, Drew insists he is unworthy. But soon the young boy realizes the only way to escape the life of crime is to take Reverend McLean up on his offer. With the Reverend's help, he learns to read and write and becomes an altar server at St. Stephen's Church. There he encounters an unfriendly parishioner, Catherine Westwater, who seems determined to destroy the young man.
When Drew returns from three years in seminary, he finds he has lost his love, Mairi Macalister, to Catherine's son. Then Catherine commits the worst crime of all. Privy to her past, Drew sets out to see her pay for her crimes with the help of his friend, Hugh Henderson, the newest forensics officer for the Glasgow Police Department. When Catherine is convicted, Drew feels some relief until he realizes her mission has not been completed.
For Frankenberger herself, it was also an opportunity to connect with her Scottish heritage. Although story is fictional, Frankenberger'
The Redemption of Reverend McKinney is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble and is available in both paperback and e-book. To the delight of her readers, Frankenberger is currently working on the sequel, The Salvation of Reverend McKinney, due out in 2013.
About the Author
Bonnie Frankenberger has been writing adult and young adult fiction for twenty-five years. A retired Speech-Language Pathologist, she lives in Webster, NY with her husband, Michael. She has two adult daughters. A member of the McLean Clan on her mother's side and the Gray Clan on her father's, Bonnie has always been interested in exploring her Scottish roots. She is a founding member of the Webster Writer's Group. When not writing, she enjoys reading, gardening, and traveling.


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Originally Posted by Fintan
Sean there is no "new thread" button or link showing on the wap pages on my browser, so creating a new thread isnt possible. Actually there isnt a reply button/link either just the 'quote' link. Hope this helps.
I went in last night and had the same observation.
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Hi WAP users, I have done an upgrade on the WAP software, can you try it out and tell if the old bugs still remain? Thanks!
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Sunday morning in Seattle, people should be drinking their morning coffee, reading a paper (or this site, obviously) or going for a morning run. But when the Seahawks are headed for the Super Bowl, the city takes on a different vibe. Streets are lined with people along the drive from the team's offices and training facility at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center (VMAC) in Renton, to SeaTac for their journey to Phoenix.
The airport was surrounded by fans, family, and friends of airport staff who were plane-side to wave farewell. But their departure leads to a bigger, more important, question for AvGeeks: who, and what, were they flying?
Continue reading The "Battle in Seattle" Now Involves Delta, Alaska, Football, & Planes