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After months of endless chatter the opening qualifying session of the 2014 season is now just history. Was it worth the wait? Well, if you like grumpy Frenchman and laughing at Pastor Maldonado's expense, certainly. On a serious note, what did we learn from this opening hour long shootout? Our very own sleep deprived Dan Paddock runs you through the talking points from qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix.
Ever since Jerez the story has been that Mercedes would turn up at Melbourne and hand out a 1998 McLaren style humiliation to the entire field. Now, today's qualifying session was wet, which means that we will have to wait until Sunday to really see if the boys and girls at Brackley have truly built the monster of a car that we all fear, but still, it was not a bad day for the Silver Arrows. I am sure there will have been those fans who had a right good laugh when Lewis Hamilton ground to a halt after just five minutes of FP1 on Friday, but on the back of today's result, Mercedes, as long as their reliability holds, will be the team to beat, at least initially.
It would be a disservice to move on without recognising what a cracker of a lap Lewis's pole time was. Having fluffed his best lap in FP3, and with Nico Rosberg driving beautifully, pole looked to be Nico's for the taking, but Lewis pulled out a right stonker to pinch the top spot, but not from his team-mate as expected, but from Daniel Ricciardo in the Red Bull.
But I thought Red Bull were rubbish I hear you cry. On the basis of the running we have seen so far this weekend, that might not quite be the case. On Friday alone Sebastian Vettel completed a third of the entire amount of running he managed over the course of 12 days of testing. And not only has the RB10 lost its tendency to go on fire, but as Vettel's fourth quickest time in FP2 shows, it is quite a handy machine.
However, on Saturday it was Daniel Ricciardo who produced the goods for Red Bull, not the four time champion in the garage next-door. Second on the grid is a huge credit to a man, who some, in my mind foolishly, questioned whether he was ready/deserving for the second Red Bull seat. Wow, second in a wet session, am I not getting ahead of myself? Well, maybe a touch, but put simply, Ricciardo was the only man who at any stage seriously questioned the Mercedes pair over the course of the hour.
It remains to be seen what Daniel can do on Sunday, will he, as he did so often in his Toro Rosso days, fall down the field after out performing his car on Saturday? Maybe, but regardless of that, he has given both the Australian fans, whose roars you could hear as he snatched that provisional pole, as well as the guys at Red Bull something to smile about.
Much has been written about two of this year's F1 rookies (Sorry Marcus Ericsson) in Kevin Magnussen and Daniil Kvyat. One has been mistakingly called by his Dad's name, while the other, well, some people cannot pronounce his name at all. Both are graduating champions, Kevin, or Kev, as he likes to be called, joining McLaren having convincingly won the Formula Renault 3.5 title last year, while Daniil won the 2013 GP3 crown in some style with Arden, with a seat at Toro Rosso his reward.
In fact, so highly do McLaren rate Magnussen that they dumped Sergio Perez and locked Martin Whitmarsh in the MTC dungeon (the second part of that statement may not be 100 per cent true). In doing so Magnussen becomes the first rookie to race for McLaren since Lewis Hamilton, that is quite an expectation to live up to.
The status quo of 2007 that so allowed Lewis to dazzle is long gone, but his 21-year-old predecessor did not half make a good start to his F1 career on Saturday with fourth fastest overall. The Dane quietly went about his business throughout the session, dodging the 'weather problems' that affected his much more experienced team-mate, and as a reward will join Nico Rosberg on the second row of the grid, much to the delight of Ron Dennis.
Kvyat did not have a bad Saturday either, progressing, along with his team-mate, all the way to Q3, where despite a minor brush with the wall late on, he qualified eighth, ahead of the Williams duo.
Again, it is a bit early to be thinking too far ahead, but if this initial sign of promise translates into outright genuine pace, then both men could be a threat to the longevity of their team-mates F1 careers.
Talking of team-mates, Kvyat's Toro Rosso partner Jean-Eric Vergne, who, having looked rubbish since it became evident that he would not get the seat alongside Sebastian Vettel, was excellent today. The Frenchman, who at most has a year left at Toro Rosso before he is, A. forced to pack up and become a DJ, or B. drive trucks in America, must convince someone other than Red Bull that he is worthy of a race seat. He simply must dominate the young Russian, or his Formula One career will be over. A strong drive into the points, which he has not scored since last year's Canadian Grand Prix, would be a strong start.
The revival of Williams has been one of the talking points of the winter break, first they managed to replace arch-villain Pastor Maldonado, with everyone's favourite Ferrari refugee Felipe Massa, then they shined throughout the pre-season tests, and finally they blew the pants of everyone when they unveiled their new Martini livery. Face it, Williams are cool now.
However, for all the promise show over the winter, and the strong signs seen on Friday, Williams disappointed in qualifying. Felipe Massa, who flirted with the outside wall between turn nine and ten all day, ended Q3 just ninth, one spot ahead of his team-mate Valtteri Bottas, who faces a five place grid penalty after his gearbox went kaput in FP2. Everyone at Williams, and I suspect many fans of the team, and of the vermouth brand their car now carries, will be hoping for more on Sunday.
As the first big scalps knocked out during qualifying, if you don't count Lotus, which in this case, no one does, Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel present themselves as perfect targets for a bit of a bashing in this here analysis.
While Vettel's disappointing performance can be somewhat brushed aside by a reported software problem that limited his power and drivability, Raikkonen once again did not look at all comfortable at the wheel of the F14 T. Truth be told the Finn has looked like he has been struggling for confidence in the car ever since he first got his mits on it in Jerez.
This lack of confidence under braking, an area which his prior mount, the Lotus, always excelled at, has been evident so far this weekend in Melbourne, with the Finn making countless off track excursions. It was his most recent 'excursion' that actually brought a premature end to his qualifying session, marooning him down in 12th.
Kimi blamed the fact that he was fiddling with the switches on the steering wheel of his car for his accident coming out of turn three, late in Q2. Quite why Ferrari would add a switch with the sole function of making their driver spin coming out of a traction zone, and in the process hit the inside wall, to their new steering wheels is beyond me, but despite this Raikkonen said he would not have made it out of Q2 anyway.
Even the hope of hearing the Finn mutter his infamous words, "I hit the wall," won't be much of a comfort for his countless fans. Raikkonen won this race in serene style last year, and while it might be too much to hope for a repeat performance, if the Iceman can conjure up anything close to that level he should be well on for a bucket of points.
We have all missed Kamui Kobayashi, we may have forgotten all about him last year when he went and raced those cars with, wait for it, tin roofs, but the former-Sauber man is a popular figure with fans, and one who everyone is happy to see back in F1. But you could well have been forgiven for forgetting that Kamui had made a comeback this weekend, as he has spent most of the first two days of running in Australia watching on from the Caterham garage.
Despite this, the Japanese ace reminded us what we have all been missing over the last 12 months, as he hauled his Caterham into Q2, ending the second part of qualifying in 15th, just two tenths shy of Adrian Sutil's Sauber, and ahead of the spinning Sergio Perez. Not bad for a guy who had completed just a single laps of running on Friday. Kamui, it is good to have you back.
Max Chilton has taken something of a bashing in the pages of this analysis over the last few race weekends, stretching right back to the Indian Grand Prix, when, as I put it, Jules Bianchi handed the well-funded young man in the other Marussia a proverbial thrashing. Max is an easy man to wack with the Bianchi stick, but on Saturday in Melbourne he out-qualified Jules fair and square, only the third time he has done so in the year that they have spent as team-mates at Marussia.
However, on both prior occasions that Chilton has outdone the Ferrari protege, Bianchi has been afflicted by problems. Monaco he had an engine failure, while in Suzuka he completed barely any running before attempting to qualify at the daunting high speed track.
But this morning, in the tricky wet conditions seen in Q1, Bianchi was genuinely outpaced by the man from Surrey. In fact, Chilton was unfortunate to miss out on a spot in Q2. Credit where it is due, it was a fine performance from Max Chilton.
And finally we come to Lotus. Where do you begin? Months of uncertainty over the team's future, an exodus of staff, a delayed launch of their car, followed by a troubled pre-season, and then they turn up and lock-out the back row of the grid. Lotus, as Lotus do, made light of the situation via perhaps their last shining light, their social media feed, but to be honest there is nothing comical about the situation. As is stands Pastor Maldonado is only running under clearance by the stewards, the Venezuelan having failed to set a time. Going by Romain Grosjean's animated radio messages, the Frenchman would probably love it if the stewards stopped him from starting the race, such is his distaste for the E22. As a small saving grace, even if he is unfortunate enough to have to take the start, going by the team's reliability record the car will almost inevitably go up in flames after just a handful of laps anyway.


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Associate Professor Dawn Bessarab from the Aboriginal Health and Education Unit, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, has won a 2011 Social Worker of the Year Award.
Associate Professor Bessarab clinched the Aboriginal and Torres Straits Island category in recognition of her extraordinary determination and passion to help Aboriginal and Torres Straits Island individuals, families and communities.
Her extensive experience in the sector has ensured she is at the forefront of working and engaging with Indigenous people, especially those experiencing alcohol issues and domestic violence.
The former Curtin University graduate's unique approach ensures she connects with Indigenous people and gets results at an individual level.
Graduates of Curtin's Bachelor of Social Work degree were also big winners this year.
Natalie Hall, who graduated in 1986, and works for Parkerville Children and Youth Care, won the Agent of Change Award. Ida Curtois, who graduated in 1990, and is semi-retired, won the Rural and Remote Practitioner Award.
A further two social work graduates from Curtin University were finalists for 2011. Daniel Ventris, who graduated in 2008, was nominated in the Rising Star category and Sharron Ryan, who graduated in 1983, was selected for the Agent of Change category.
Julie Dickinson, who recently retired from Curtin after many years of lecturing both undergraduate social work and postgraduate counselling students, won the Head, Heart and Hands Award.
The award winners were announced at a distinguished evening awards ceremony held at the University Club, University of Western Australia on Monday 7 November 2011.
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Two years, ago Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spent Thanksgiving in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam taking in the sights and enjoying some R&R. To get around, Pitt rented a Yamaha Nouvo scooter, with Jolie perched on the back. Of course, the paparazzi snapped away — and suddenly, free advertising for Yamaha turned into major sales. From the article,
"The image of the cool actor driving an automatic scooter changed consumers' perceptions that previously associated the model with female drivers. Japanese renowned manufacturer Honda forayed into the market soon after, debuting a sporty-looking Air Blade model in April last year that domestic motorbike traders said was a breakthrough in design for automatic scooters. The Honda Air Blade enchanted consumers and the current available supplies of the model have yet to meet overwhelming public demand."
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Townsville Crocodiles Andrija Dumovic could be the biggest benefactor of Greg Vanderjagt's wrist injury.
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- January 27, 2014
THE good news is Greg Vanderjagt hasn't broken any bones.
But the biggest benefactor from the centre's dislocated wrist against the Cairns Taipans could be development player Andrija Dumovic.
An X-ray on Saturday morning cleared any fractures or breaks after Vanderjagt leapt for a loose ball against Taipans captain Alex Loughton during the third quarter of Friday's loss.
Guard Scott Kenny will come into the main 10 contracted players and is a chance for his first minutes in almost a month.
But coach Shawn Dennis said a chance was there for 20-year-old Dumovic to grab the first minutes of his NBL career.
Given they've got home games for the next two weeks, the Crocs are entitled to use their development players in addition to their contracted 10.
"As a young player this is what you really hope for and it's what you strive for," Dennis said.
"With Greg definitely out for this week and who knows how much longer for, this is his opportunity and what he came up here for.
"This is his chance to step up."
Dumovic, a 208cm forward/ centre who most recently played with the Canberra Gunners in the Southeast Australian Basketball League (SEABL), moved up to Townsville in December to pursue a top-league opportunity.
Despite a lack of NBL opportunities so far, he has pedigree on the junior national representative stage having won silver at last year's World University Games in Russia as a teammate of Todd Blanchfield and Mitch Norton and played for the Australian under-17 and under-19 teams.
"From a junior point of view he's got heaps of experience and the thing I like about him is he doesn't back down from anybody," Dennis said.
"That's going to bode well for him so it's a really good situation."
Vanderjagt will have an MRI this week to clear him of any ligament or cartilage damage.
"It's no break which is good but he won't play this week and he will get an MRI this week and obviously he'll see the specialist from there," Dennis said.


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This recipe is special because it's based on the ham my grandma and mom used to make for holidays. Leftovers can be frozen up to 3 months, and thawed before using. You'll want to remember this recipe for Easter! —Penny Hawkins, Mebane, North Carolina
- 1 fully cooked bone-in ham (6 to 8 pounds)
- Whole cloves
- 1-1/4 cups orange soda
- 1-1/4 cups orange marmalade
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup Dijon mustard
- Place ham on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Score the surface of the ham, making diamond shapes 1/2 in. deep; insert a clove in the center of each diamond. Loosely cover ham with foil. Bake at 325° for 1-1/2 hours.
- In a small saucepan, combine the soda, marmalade and brown sugar. Bring to a boil; cook until liquid is reduced by half, about 15 minutes. Stir in mustard.
- Brush ham with some of the glaze; bake 15-30 minutes longer or until a thermometer reads 140°, basting occasionally with remaining glaze. Let stand 10 minutes before slicing.
- Slice and cube 2 cups ham; save for Ham & Noodle Bake (recipe also in Recipe Finder). Slice and serve remaining ham. Yield: 9 servings plus leftovers.
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But but, you forgot the picture of Scarn with his little fire adds in mDD. We 4-manned that dungeon on test a few weeks back. What a joke. Everyone should be running around in full T3 before long!
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This building located at 38 N. Clinton St. in the City of Poughkeepsie, the former Brothers residence located adjacent to the former Our Lady of Lourdes High School (now the Family Partnership Center), could be bought and developed into housing for former inmates returning to the community from jail or prison. / Spencer Ainsley/Poughkeepsie Journal
38 N. Clinton St. in the City of Poughkeepsie could be bought and developed into housing for former inmates returning to the community. / Spencer Ainsley/Poughkeepsie Journal
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This 1959 artist rendering shows the former Brothers residence located adjacent to the former Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Poughkeepsie, which is now the Family Partnership Center. The 12,000-square-foot building, owned by the Archdiocese of New York, is listed for sale for $399,000 by Houlihan Lawrence, and it is described as in great condition and as ideal for apartment conversion.
This 1959 artist rendering shows the former Brothers residence located adjacent to the former Our Lady of Lourdes High School in Poughkeepsie, which is now the Family Partnership Center. / Journal file
When the Rev. Blake Rider began working with inmates at the Dutchess County Jail, he met a woman who chose state prison over going home.
She was excited about transitioning out of jail until she realized she would have to return to the place where there would be temptations to use drugs again, said the rector of Christ Episcopal Church in the City of Poughkeepsie.
Without safe and stable housing, an ex-offender is often drawn back into trouble, including addiction and crime, according to the countys Criminal Justice Council Re-Entry Task Force. The group examines services for people returning to Dutchess from jail or prison. Housing is one of their priorities.
The county also is studying whether to build or expand its overcrowded jail, which could cost taxpayers up to $200 million.
Its not county efforts that may lead to the expanding of needed housing services by next year.
A real estate developer, who has been fixing up properties in the area, has his eye on a vacant property in the City of Poughkeepsie to potentially house the formally incarcerated.
Wulf Lueckerath of Westchester County appeared before the City of Poughkeepsie Planning Board last month to propose a community residence at 38 N. Clinton St., a building owned by the Archdiocese of New York.
The 12,000-square-foot building is listed for sale for $399,000 by Houlihan Lawrence in great condition and as ideal for apartment conversion.
If the project is completed as proposed by the developer, the property would join Hillcrest House, run by the nonprofit Hudson River Housing, and a 50-bed housing facility run by the the Salvation Army in supplying beds to former inmates.
As of July 9, Hillcrest had five beds reserved for state parolees, according to the county, and the Salvation Army had five men on parole staying in its facility, said its spokeswoman, Joyneia Joyner.
Thomas Angell, the countys public defender, said despite existing services, Many people returning from state prison do not have a home to go back to.
This is one of the countys principal areas of need, he added.
Rider agreed. He told county criminal justice officials last month during a public meeting the need for housing coupled with support services for females returning from prison or jail is just immense.
The vacant three-story building was formerly the Brothers residence of Our Lady of Lourdes High School, according to Journal archives.
Now covered with No Trespassing signs, it sits on a corner of North Clinton and Thompson streets, near the Family Partnership Center, formerly Our Lady of Lourdes High School prior to its move to the Town of Poughkeepsie in the mid-90s.
Because the for-sale property is located within 1,200 feet from a group home, Lueckerath will need a use variance from the citys Zoning Board of Appeals before it can be used for parolee housing, said city building Inspector Gary Beck.
Lueckerath said plans were very preliminary, including what kind of housing might be offered there and which agency might offer the program. One possibility is for the countys re-entry service provider, Exodus Transitional Community, to run the residence.
Exodus, which has an office on Cannon Street, received a $100,000 state grant this year to work with parolees in Dutchess.
Weve said we love the idea, but theres been nothing formal, said Exodus Associate Director Diana Ortiz.
Kimberly Martelli, the architect working for Lueckerath, said the building is in great shape and could open by the start of 2014, pending approvals.
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It took Adena a while to get going, but once the Warriors got started, they never let off.
After a scoreless first, Adena rolled off nine runs in the next two innings on its way to a 16-0 win over Paint Valley in the sectional semifinals.
On the mound, Crystal Detty struck out four and did not allow a hit as she recorded her 11th win of the season.
"We thought it was important to go out and hit the ball early - which we didn't in the first inning," Adena coach Paul Thomas said. "But once we got our timing down, we were fine."
Offensively, Britney Snyder mixed a double among her two hits, while Kristin Snyder, Kirsti Yates, Brooke Snyder and Jessica Seyfang each had two hits. So did Tori Skinner, but one of hers was a three-run bomb - her first home run of the spring - in the third inning.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A former national Golden Gloves boxing champ
has died after a bout in Philadelphia.
Boxing promoter Dominic Pesoli says Francisco Rodriguez died Sunday night after losing a USBA super bantamweight bout Friday night against Teon Kennedy.
Philadelphia promoter J. Russell Peltz says Rodriguez began to lose consciousness as the Chicago boxer sat in his corner after the fight was stopped in the 10th round. Rodriguez, 25, was taken to a hospital and underwent emergency surgery.
Rodriguez was 14-2 going into the bout against Kennedy for the vacant USBA super bantamweight title. Rodriguez was a national Golden Gloves champion in 2001.
Pesoli, president of 8 Count Productions, says a fund is being set up for Rodriguez's wife and infant daughter.
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I've slipped away for a month again, but that happens from time to time. The truth is, I've been on a pretty big writing jag on the fiction side of things with a few projects that are shaping up nicely. What that boils down to is that most of my free time has been spent writing, which boils down further too…no time to watch movies! I have gotten some reading done however which is important for any writer to do.
Amongst the scattered novels I'm plowing through a little bit of a time, I received some new trades from Vertigo last week that made for some interesting diversion. The first of these is "A Sickness in the Family" by Denise Mina. I can't say I'm familiar with the line but Vertigo now as a 'Vertigo Crime' series which is essentially your straight up muder mystery type stories. Mina has quite a history with this style of story with her six novels and her stint on Veritgo's Hellblazer.
"Meet the Ushers. (By the way, this name is no accident). The parents, Ted and Biddy. Grandma Martha. The three kids, William, Amy and Sam. Just a normal, middle class family gathered around the table on Christmas Day. Until they start dying very violent deaths. One by one. As secrets and resentments boil to the surface, it becomes clear there's more than one Usher with a motive for killing off the others. But in the end, the truth turns out to be far more shocking than anyone in the ill-fated family could have imagined."
Once we dig into "Sickness", it becomes apparant early on that we're dealing with your standard large wealthy family arguing over inheritences. Granted, nobody has died to pass the money on to the children yet, but they're going to argue about it anyways. To spice things up, we're given the setting of a creepy old flat with a nasty history and the hopes of ghost stories being mixed in along the way. While standard, the story is readable yet fails to be very innovative. It's one of those cases where you finish the story and don't hate the fact that you read it, but you didn't take a lot out of it either. There's a lot goign on here in the limited amount of pages Mina has to work in. The nuts and bolts of the story are solid, I just can't helpt to think that it would have worked better in a standard novel format where Minda could have fleshed out her characters to a more hearty presentation. As they are, they're a little thin.
As for the artwork by Antonio Fuso, it makes a great companion on the story that is here. The black and white art fits well with the gritty setting and family drama. There are touches of a Japanese influence here and there to help to give the book a different look. Overall, the art really helps the package for me.
"A Sickness In the Family" is an allright read, but I can't really recommend that you go beat down the doors of your local shop to get a copy. If you happen across a bargain copy or find at your library? Sure, snap it up. Keep in mind however, muder mysteries are generally not my standard fare. If you like some good crime fiction, you might enjoy this book a lot more than I did.
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White/Green, White/Blue or White/Red are the colors available.
Second on the list is the RB19, 512MB, 1GB (499NT$), 2GB (799NT$), 4Go (1488NT$) et 8GB.
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Despite the landmark 2013 decision by a federal judge in New York condemning the New York Police Department's misuse of stop-and-frisk, it remains a popular tactic for surveillance and control in cities of all sizes. The policies and actions of the police are instrumental in deciding who gets stopped, searched, arrested, and funneled into the criminal justice system; indeed, the United States' overincarceration crisis begins at the front end of the system. Meanwhile, often under the guise of our failed drug war, abuse of civil asset forfeiture is rampant, while federal grant programs enable the increasing militarization of local police departments.
CLRP relies on various strategies to challenge a broad range of unjust police practices. In some instances, we work with law enforcement to develop reforms at the departmental level, using data on deployment, stop, search, and arrest disparities to press for change. We also pursue litigation against departments enforcing unconstitutional and counterproductive policies and tactics that harm the communities the police are responsible for protecting. Ultimately, our efforts are intended to address the longstanding adversarial relationship between police and communities and to help create police departments that work collaboratively and democratically with all of the communities they serve, increasing transparency, accountability, fairness, and public safety.
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Ovation Products
How would you feel about drinking a glass of water distilled from your own raw sewage? You've no doubt just experienced what Bill Zebuhr, founder and CEO of Nashua, NH's Ovation Products, calls the "yuck factor"-which may present a major hurdle to market acceptance of his household water distiller. Then again, it may not. If, for example, you live in a part of the world where your drinking water is already directly contaminated by sewage (yours and your neighbors'), the distilled option is clearly more palatable, and one that might save your life. Or perhaps, if you can't quite bring yourself to take a sip, you might not balk at watering your lawn or washing your car with the output of Ovation's machine. Especially when you consider that distilled water is as pure as water gets.
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Zebuhr claims that his distiller can take water contaminated with virtually anything, from pathogens to toxic chemicals, and produce 45 liters of pure distilled water each hour for the astonishing price of more than five liters per penny. The device looks a bit like R2-D2 with extra tubes hanging out, and while I'm certainly no expert, it appears to be a tour de force of thermodynamic engineering, an area in which Zebuhr specializes and holds more than two dozen U.S. patents. Contaminated water, at room temperature, is boiled into steam, and the steam is compressed and condensed into pure distilled water. Through a series of innovative heat exchangers, the pure water also leaves the system at approximately room temperature, largely conserving energy within the system. (Its droidlike appearance comes from encasing the entire mechanism in a stainless-steel dewar, which acts like a giant thermos.)
Zebuhr's vision is that someday every house, apartment building, and Third World village will have an Ovation distiller humming away, recycling wastewater into drinking water and eliminating the need for central water and sewage treatment plants, as well as endless kilometers of connecting pipes. While the market opportunity for cheap drinking water is mind-bogglingly vast, Ovation is attacking some richer niches first.
Zebuhr explains that more than 150,000 household septic-system leach fields (the areas where wastewater is purified by percolation through the soil) fail each year, requiring some form of expensive remediation. He holds a patent on a process for distilling septic-tank waste to separate out pure water for reuse (though not necessarily drinking), effectively eliminating the need for the leach field in the first place. Zebuhr's back-of-the-envelope calculation holds that while leach field remediation usually costs between $10,000 and $40,000, Ovation can build distillers in quantity for around $1,000 each. He places the total septic-tank remediation market at more than $1 billion annually, yielding considerable revenue opportunities if he can successfully attack the market.
Zebuhr and his team are also making a foray into cleaning industrial-waste runoff, where they believe they can cheaply remove clean water from toxic chemical solutions-enabling factories to drastically reduce the cost of pollutant disposal. The Ovation team notes that in certain situations, such as the washing of machine parts, distillation is the only viable process for separating toxins from the water in which they are dissolved.
Ovation was founded in 1996, and after seven years of development, it appears to be on the verge of bringing in its first sales from the industrial-cleanup market. Those sales, however, are contingent on successful production of a beta version of the distiller. Every startup runs a race between generating sufficient revenue and running out of money (an event affectionately known as the "splatter date"), but in Ovation's case, the contest has hit a particularly dramatic stage. The alpha distiller apparently works, but not well or reliably enough for commercial production and sales. The beta model is well under way, but Ovation's splatter date is rapidly approaching.
Ovation has spent about $6 million to get this far, mostly invested by angels and an anonymous strategic partner, and Zebuhr believes he has around $700,000 in new investment committed, buying six months of extra runway. He hopes to find a few more angels to provide some room for error, despite his firm belief that he'll have his beta in production and into the hands of paying customers in early 2004. But Ovation is a bit long in the tooth to still be out looking for angel money.
Conventional wisdom in technology startups is that the "mad scientist" founder can never make a good long-term CEO, and Zebuhr takes pains to emphasize that he is open to a replacement should the need arise. But I got the distinct impression that this veteran of several startups is in fact rather attached to captaining his own ship, having had some difficult experiences in the past. It seems to me that managers accumulate business experiences like bad girlfriends or boyfriends: once they're burned in some particular way, they go through the rest of their lives ultrawary of being burned the same way again. Nonetheless, Zebuhr has what I see as a critical attribute for an entrepreneur: he knows his own mind and sticks to his guns. Often in a startup it's better to be decisive than to be entirely right.
For now, Zebuhr is sticking to his belief that there are endless applications for a low-cost water distiller, from the industrialized West, where a household device can pay for itself in water- and sewage-bill savings, to the Third World, where the widespread lack of safe drinking water is perhaps the biggest threat to human health. Ovation also sees a tremendous opportunity in homeland security, where the poisoning of central water supplies has been identified as a major terrorist threat against which there are currently no practical protective measures.
But like all startups, especially those that seek private investment, Ovation has some formidable obstacles to clear, most notably finally getting the product to beta and then on to production. And then there's the yuck factor, which may stand in the way of the full realization of Zebuhr's water-recycling vision. Would you take that sip?


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Codemonk-Our prices have increased pretty much the way yours have.
It's weird because the bermuda is now more than the alfalfa. In the past the alfalfa has always cost more. We feed mostly bermuda. I just paid $17 for a 3 string bale of it.
The pellets and grain have only went up a couple dollars this year.
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• Trailing by two points and facing a fourth-and-1 from their own 25-yard line with 3:46 to play, the Boilermakers lined up to go for the first down. Hope said he was trying to draw the Owls offsides, but eventually burned a crucial timeout. ...


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Critical Gamer's Luke K writes: Shigeru Miyamoto has been known as a cuddly developing genius worldwide since the only way we got our gaming news and reviews was via shop shelf magazines. Due to the explosion in indie games journalism and social media over the last ten years or so however, we are now all able – for better or for worse – to take a close look at many, many more of the people making the games that we play. This often leads to pleasant surprises, as we find that some developers are much more like us than we suspected; that not only do they make great games, they seem to be exactly the sort of people we'd like to talk to between gaming sessions; maybe – shock, horror – about something other than videogames. Inevitably though, some devs appear (to some of us, at least) to be arrogant and self-important. We only see this because they're thrust into the spotlight so often… because they're working on some of the biggest games out there.
I've already covered the Mass Effect 3 debacle in part one though I will, as a final note on the matter, comment on one aspect of Dr. Ray Muzyka's initial response to criticism of the Mass Effect 3 endings which irked me greatly. After acknowledging that "some" people aren't happy with the endings, he goes on to say: "However, most folks appear to agree that the game as a whole is exceptional, with more than 75 critics giving it a perfect review score and a review average in the mid-90s". Perhaps I don't understand the term well enough, but this assertion seems somewhat at odds with the "humility" Muzyka promises in the first paragraph.


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Noah "40" Shebib did an interview series with MTV and he discussed Drake's hit song featuring Rihanna "Take Care". Check out the video below to see what he has to say, the track is suppose to officially hit radio stations January 17th, but Miami has been bumping that track for a while now already.
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|Marc Couturier
|PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)
|University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
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I current serve as primary medical director for several large infectious disease diagnostic laboratories at one of the nation's largest reference laboratories; ARUP Laboratories. My daily activities vary greatly from day-to-day, commonly reflective of patient-to-patient differences. For instance, I am consulted daily by physicians to discuss laboratory test results and how they may be interpreted in a specific clinical context. In many cases I recommend adjunct testing, repeat testing, or discuss alternative diagnoses. The most electric conversations are those that center around incorrect or clinically inconsistent test results. Often the discussions are academically stimulating, but rarely amount to an ultimate resolution. Enigmatic clinical presentations are simply the nature of my discipline.
I also oversee the day-today quality of the laboratory through data review, problem resolution meetings within the laboratory, and assay validation. I am regularly consulted by my lab itself in regards to issues of specimen acceptability and appropriateness, as well as result quality. My staff if excellent, and can make many technical judgment calls on their own accord, however my ultimate clinical knowledge in addition to technical knowledge allows me to serve a higher level of directorship for the laboratory.
In my position I also get to interact with medical residents and fellows on a regular basis for teaching purposes. This is separated out in both informal laboratory plate rounds as well as structured didactic teaching sessions. The residents and fellows also consult with me on issues related to when they are on-call.
The common theme to my job is consultation and peer education. This is an invaluable aspect of my job that provides me with constant variation in my day-to-day experience.
What do you love about your job?
The aspects of my job that I love the most are: conducting clinical research projects without the need for large grant funded resources, constant peer-level education, and having no two workdays be the same.
Considering the first point, I am able to apply for large grants if I choose, but they do not define my success and survival. I find myself publishing many articles in the absence of large grants. This also allows me to conduct smaller focused studies in shorter time periods and not become focused on one specific pathogen for 5-10 years.
The second point is explained in the previous discussion of my day-to-day work. I love educating and consulting with my peers and advanced level trainees in an unstructured setting.
The third point touches on the first point. My days are so variable that I can never expect redundancy in my work week, much less work month. I find the variation and multidisciplinary knowledge of my field to be extremely enriching.
Degrees, experience, license(s), and skills required for position:
To serve as a medical director in a diagnostic microbiology laboratory as a non-MD, a Ph.D. in medical microbiology is paramount. Once this is obtained, certification with the American Board of Medical Microbiology is nearly a universal requisite. This can be obtained best by training in a CPEP approved Clinical Microbiology fellowship program. I found that the Ph.D. research conducted in most microbiology departments is very far removed from clinical microbiology, so gaining experience in a clinical lab is paramount in order to be competitive for CPEP training programs. Experience can best be achieved by incorporating clinical aspects into the Ph.D. research project if possible, attending plate rounds in the clinical lab as a guest, attending infectious disease case presentations in order to learn the lingo and immerse yourself in the culture, and (if possible) to secure a short post-doctoral research fellowship in a clinical laboratory to gain more practical experience.
Tips/Advice for how to secure a job in microbiology upon graduation:
In terms of clinical microbiology, there are several important ways to be successful and gain a quality job in the field:
1. Don't wait too long to start paving the way for clinical microbiology. Many CPEP programs require 12-18 months lead time for applicants to be accepted. Knowing what you want half-way through your Ph.D. is very helpful in order to strategize and end-date for your Ph.D. research and a start to your new career focus.
2. Complete a CPEP fellowship and pass the ABMM exam to become board certified: Certify Your Worth. The exam is not easy, so you should advertise your qualification whenever professionally appropriate and be proud of it.
3. Get your name out! While publications are a great way to get name recognition, often that will only take you so far. Volunteer for committees, introduce yourself to colleagues at meetings, give local seminars at regional meetings, establish multicenter collaborations, and be a good colleague. The clinical research community is very collaborative and our immediate goals are improved patient care, rather than competing with other laboratories that may share your interests. Honesty, openness, and communication go a long way in this field.


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Walmart Could Easily Pay Its Workers $12 An Hour
Ethonomic Indicator of the Day: $12 - The minimum wage Walmart could pay its workers without affecting prices.
Walmart is plowing through its global responsibility goals, cutting down on plastic waste, improving energy efficiency in factories, and reshaping the crop diversity of entire U.S. regions. But it's doing a less-than-stellar job when it comes to doing right by its workers. According to a new report (PDF) from the University of California, Berkeley, Walmart could significantly raise the wages of its employees without affecting its low prices. Chronically underpaid people around the country could benefit.
When Walmart inevitably moves into cities like New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco (all places where it wants to expand this year), its cheapskate policies could actually lower the local average wages. And since the costs of living a comfortable life march inexorably upward (especially in big cities), this is a problem for all of us.
According to UC Berkeley's report, Walmart employees earn 14.5 percent less than other workers in large retail companies. Depressing stuff, but there is any easy enough fix: If Walmart implemented a $12 per hour minimum wage for all employees, it would cost the company $3.2 billion. That is a lot of money, unless you're Walmart, in which case it's just 1% of your overall annual $305 billion in sales. Even if Walmart passed on the entire burden of the wage increase to customers, it would only average out to a cost increase of 46 cents per shopping trip. That's surely something that most Walmart shoppers can afford.
But they wouldn't even have to. Remember Walmart's exceptional energy-saving plans? Perhaps it could take some of the money it will inevitably save from energy and materials efficiency and pass it on to workers.
There is reason for Walmart to consider this. If the company raises wages, it might garner more community acceptance in the cities where it is trying to expand. Because who doesn't like the idea of a relatively well-paying employer coming to town? It's an especially big deal when that well-paying employer has 1.4 million members in its workforce.
So come on, Walmart: It's time to believe that being good to your workers is as important as making clean energy. We want to stop having to wince when we champion your excellent environmental record.
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Organize and get a union that represents the employees so that wages, benefits, and job security are on the table, that is the only way employees will get their fair share.
I just want to point out a small number disparity in this article. You're saying that the raise would be 1% of the total sales. But ultimately, raising the wages would affect the company's net income, which is only $15B for 2011. The costs of doing this is a whole 20% of their income. All personal feelings about the wages aside, convincing a company and its shareholders to take a 20% revenue cut in order to raise employee wages is a considerable task.
Please think this through. Although that's only 1% of Walmart's sales, Walmart's profit margin is less than 4%, therefore, the amount suggested here would actually be 25% of profit.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?... indicates profit margin of 3.89% as well as a higher revenue figure, but even so, this proposal still amounts to around 10% of Walmart's profits.
Will we get better customer service if a minimum wage employee is given more money? I don't understand why people think that a minimum wage employee should be given more money if they don't earn it.
So I could pile on with some of the other commenters and address this article's economic naivete, but I think most readers already get that.
Am I the only one who's tried clicking through to the PDF? If you click the link you're taken to a Mansueto Ventures corporate intranet login. It seems that Ariel copied/pasted the link from her webmail, not realizing that she was pasting a webmail redirect URL. The Berkeley report is here: http://laborcenter.berkeley.ed... .
Note also that the report was not produced by UC Berkeley, but by the UC Berkeley Labor Center, a subtle but important distinction.
Thanks for you wonderful comments Ashley...
Many of the comments among these disappoint and on occasion disgust me. Rather than making blind and ridiculous emotional, READ THE ARTICLE: Wal-Mart could offer $12/hr WITHOUT affecting prices. That is Econ.101.
Last I checked, UC Berkley is among the finest and prestigious MBA and Economics universities in America.
In regard to just quit, well, with unemployment as high as it is most people don't just have a choice to go out and get another job.
When you comment on articles please, draw on respect and common sense.
Fools, all. A living wage paid workers creates a viable, capable consumer base thus supporting those paying the higher wage. That is how capital economy thrives. Cutting wages and staff to the bone destroys the consumer base and while providing short-term gain, creates long-term devastation to the economy and the companies so-doing. This is ECON101 @BarbaraAnn.
Ha! This "study" was done at Berkeley?
Why not just skip ahead and like in "Atlas Shrugged" have an "equalization" law enacted?
"Fast Company" has quickly become a complete Bolshevik wrag.
Having actually studied the issue and publishing in peer-reviewed journals does not make you less qualified to speak to it. Assuming it's wrong because it came out of Berkley just means you don't actually care about reality, but just want to be angry at the other side. Read the study and then see what you think.
I worked for a progressive outdoor retailer in San Carlos (SF Bay Area) and I was paid under 11 dollars an hour. This company is lauded for being a paragon for employees. No one writes reports on them because they are so "progressive".
"Progressivism" has bankrupted the country.
They SHOULD pay their workers a decent wage. My son has been with them for over two years, does his job well and they rely on him time & time again because he is 6.5" to "bounce" people who steal (a dangerous job!!) along with all the other things he does for them, cashiering, custumer service (boy are some people RUDE) and collecting carts in the rain, snow cold, heat.
Pay him, promote him or he WILL move on. Reward him. like I do for my RE agents when they work hard making me money!! Share the wealth, as I do and I am a conservative!!
You can't be serious? If your son has held a job for two years, then he can find something better. Help him to write a resume, get references and look for better work. Look on job websites such as careerbuilder.com and monster.com. Try to find openings that he may be qualified for, or look for positions that one can acquire skills for. Nobody gives you anything in this world, you have bring yourself up. I make close to 100K per year, but I'm not waiting for my company to give me a raise, I'm going on a job interview tomorrow. I have never gone more than one year without interviewing for a job. Even when I'm happy at work, I'm always looking for something better. Retail is one of lowest paying things you can do in America.
You're not conservative, or you wouldn't have posted such rubbish. Your son is free to find work elsewhere. It's a free country. A lot of opportunity out there. Tell your son to quit today!
The underlying smugness of many (not all) of these comments is astounding to me. The belief that America is a capitalist meritocracy, and that you will somehow be monetarily rewarded how you 'deserve', also, astounding to me. WalMart is full of senior workers who had fast-track careers at Fortune 500s, were let go due to age, and literally cannot find anything else. And they are the best off - at least they can pad their low wages with their pensions or 401Ks. Think if someone in your family was forced into working at WalMart, because they were older or lived in an area where jobs were slim. Your facts re: the free market are all true, but try to look beyond blind faith in capitalism at the larger facts of society. $12 an hour (barely a living wage) is hardly socialism.
I have never visited a Walmart that is ostensibly being stocked, cleaned and cash registers run by "fast-track Fortune 500" former employees. What are you smoking?
Fast Company could easily pay workers $200 an hour. Wait, who am I to tell you how much you can or cannot pay YOUR employees?
I'm confused... was this written by a seventh grader or something? Did somebody win an essay contest?
First off, the implication that wages fall once Walmart moves in is incredibly misleading. "Average wages" may fall if the average before did not calculate unemployed people. However, what you imply is that Walmart moves into, say, San Francisco, where average wages are $12 an hour (just for speculation). Upon arriving, Walmart announces that it will pay its workers $8 an hour. And suddenly everybody who was earning $12 an hour... agrees to work for $8? Or are they physically enslaved by the evil corporation and forced to do so?
Clearly in a metropolitan environment Walmart would be forced to pay more. Unless there is heavy unemployment, in which case the workers who work there for less would be making a voluntary exchange (some money vs. none).
Furthermore, your tone seems to imply that Walmart has a moral duty. It seems subversive of any school of moral thought to imply that executives at Walmart have a duty to do anything more than provide profits for their shareholders. These executives and managers are hired by their shareholders to do a job, and saying they should violate that contract or complicate their moral stance is wrong. You are putting these individuals in impossible situations.
Walmart owes to its employees what it agrees to pay them. If the work sucks (and I'm nearly certain it does) and the pay is terrible (we can all agree that is true), then those employees can quit their jobs and find other work, and Walmart will have to deal with that.
Hey Barbie,
Costco pays $12+ an hour without "risking its business"
and Costco is beating the pants off Walmart (from the perspective of investors, employees, and customers):
It's called "customer service 101" - treat your employees well, they treat your customers well.
If you guys want WalMart to pay $12 an hour or 25 an hour, just get Congress to pay a new minimum wage and bingo it will happen. Otherwise, why should Walmart risk its business that might go to Target, Dollar General, Family dollar or Dollar Tree that start off at the current minimum wage? Come on guys, this isn't rocket science.==========IT IS CALLED ECON 101.


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Negative Declaration
Dutchess County - The Town of Fishkill Town Board, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Rombout Sewer District Wastewater Treatment Plant Replacement will not have a significant adverse environmental impact. The action involves the Construction by the Town of Fishkill Rombout Sewer District of a new wastewater treatment plant to replace an aging facility and an expansion of permitted flows from 500,000 gpd to 750,000 gpd, requiring a modification of existing SPDES Permit. The existing outfall will not be altered. Possible funding to be obtained from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund. The action includes all necessary governmental approvals for construction of the proposed project. The project is located at 75 Industrial Way in the Town of Fishkill, New York.
Contact: Darlene Bells, Town of Fishkill, 807 Route 52, Fishkill, NY 12524-3110, Phone: (845) 831-7800, ext. 3329, E-mail: email@example.com.
Dutchess County - The Town of Hyde Park Town Board, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Municipal Cell Tower at Town Highway Garage will not have a significant adverse environmental impact. The action involves the construction of a town-owned communications tower for municipal use by emergency responders, highway, police and fire agencies, and for potential leasing to private carriers. The action includes a Monroe resolution exempting the project from certain local laws, a lot line adjustment, leases with private carriers and construction of the tower. The tower will be located on Town Highway Department property on State Route 9G in the Town of Hyde Park, New York.
Contact: Lawrence Delafield, Town of Hyde Park, 4383 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY 12538, Phone: (845) 229-0316.
Orange County - The Town of Goshen Planning Board, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Preliminary Approval for a 33 to 39 Lot Subdivision will not have a significant adverse environmental impact. The action involves the proposal to develop a 131.47 acre parcel for 33 to 39 single family residential lots as an Open Space Subdivision. Access to these lots is provided by a single road entering the southerly corner of the site from Owens Road. Utilities are provided by local service companies underground, along with individual wells and septic systems. The 39 lots are surronded by federal wetlands and a small floodplain. The Marcy South PASNY electric transmission line runs through the northerly corner of the site. The rear area along the Wallkill River and an open space along Owens Road combine to provide 71.9 acres of open space or 54.79 percent of the site. These number will be evaluated based on final lot count and surveys, but will not impact any environmental determination. The project is located on Owens Road between Hartley Road and Phillipsburgh Road in the Town of Goshen, New York.
Contact: Ralph Huddleston, Jr., Town of Goshen, Town Hall, 412 Webster Avenue, Goshen, NY 10924.
Positive Declaration and Public Scoping
Dutchess County - The Town Board of the Town of Red Hook, as lead agency, has determined that the proposed Adoption of Amendments to Chapter 143 of the Code of the Town of Red Hook entitled Zoning, Chapter 120 of the Code of the Town of Red Hook entitled Subdivision of Land, and the Comprehensive Plan may have a significant adverse impact on the environment and a Draft Environmental Impact Statement must be prepared. Written comments on the draft scope will be accepted until 4:00 p.m. March 16, 2009. A public scoping session will be held on March 10, 2009 at 7:45 p.m. at the Town of Red Hook Town Hall, 7340 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12571. The action involves amendments to the Town of Red Hook Zoning Law, Subdivision Law and Comprehensive Plan to implement the proposed Centers and Greenspaces Plan. The amendments will create two new zoning districts (the Agricultural Business District and the Traditional Neighborhood Development District), and will replace the Town's existing cluster regulations with provisions for conservation subdivisions, designed to more concertedly preserve the natural and scenic qualities of open space. The amendments will also add a new section on open space incentive zoning, in addition to other incidental changes necessitated by these amendments. In order to encourage village-scale density within the Traditional Neighborhood Development District, the law eliminates the density bonus for provision of central water in the R1 and R1.5 Districts. The amendments are designed to protect the health, safety and welfare of Town residents and to bring the Town's Zoning Law and Subdivision Law into conformance with the Town's Comprehensive Plan, Greenway Connections: Greenway Compact Program and Guides for Dutchess County Communities pursuant to Chapter 17-3 of the Town Code, and with recent changes to New York State Town Law. The project is located throughout the Town of Red Hook, New York.
Contact: Sue McCann, Town of Red Hook, 7340 South Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12571, Phone: (845) 758-4600, E-mail: email@example.com.
Notice of Acceptance of Supplemental Draft EIS and Public Hearing
Dutchess County - Dutchess County, as lead agency, has accepted a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Dutchess County Airport Runway 24 End Obstruction Removal. A public hearing on the Supplemental Draft EIS will be held on March 10, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at the Legislative Chambers, Dutchess County Office Building, 22 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, New York. Written comments on the Supplemental Draft EIS will be accepted until March 23, 2009. A copy of the SDEIS may be obtained from the contact person listed below or from the following:
Grinnell Library
2642 East Main Street
Wappingers Falls, NY 12590
Dutchess County Clerk's Office
22 Market Street
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
The website: www.dutchessny.gov
The action involves the removal of 67 acres of trees that are obstructions to Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Part 77, Objects Affecting Navigable Airspace, on Runway 24 end at the Dutchess County Airport. The initial SEQR FEIS and findings statement were filed on September 23, 1991. The project is located on the Dutchess County Airport property, northeast of New Hackensack Road in the Town of Wappinger, New York.
Contact: Ed Rose, Dutchess County Airport, 263 New Hackensack Road, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590, Phone: (845) 463-6000.
Orange County - The Town of Wawayanda Planning Board, as lead agency, has accepted a Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed CPV Valley Energy Center. A public hearing on the Draft EIS will be held on April 8, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at the Town of Wawayanda Town Hall, 80 Ridgebury Hill Road, Slate Hill, NY 10973. Written comments on the Draft EIS will be accepted until April 22, 2009.
A copy of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement may be reviewed at the following locations:
Town of Wawayanda Town Hall
80 Ridgebury Hill Road
Slate Hill, New York 10973
City of Middletown
16 James Street
Middletown, New York 10940
Middletown Thrall Library
11-19 Depot Street
Middletown, New York 10941
Goshen Library and Historical Society
203 Main Street
Goshen, New York 10924
Wallkill Town Hall
99 Tower Drive, Building A and B
Middletown,New York 10941
The following web sites:
Town of Wawayanda site: www.townofwawayanda.comand
CPV Valley Energy site: www.cpv.com
The action involves a proposal to construct and operate a 630 megawatt combined cycle electric generating system including transmission interconnects, related equipment, buildings and structures on an approximate 30 acre portion of a 122 acre site. The project is bounded by Route 84 to the south, Route 17M to the east, Route 6 to the north and west in the Town of Wawayanda, New York.
Contact: Ann Yates, Town of Wawayanda, P.O. Box 296, Slate Hill, NY 10973, Phone: (845) 355-5712.


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It's important that a more proactive, ongoing, sustained approach to the earth crisis—one that is an ongoing part of the life of the Monastery and the Temple—be created. The bodhisattva's vow is to respond to the cries of the world. Anyone who is paying attention, or who's actually turning towards and informing him or herself of what's going on, recognizes that those cries are coming from every quarter.
In the past, we have responded to issues in our local community, speaking as Daido Roshi said, on behalf of those beings who could not themselves speak and be heard. Those were important issues and we should continue to respond to those kinds of things. But it is also necessary to go beyond waiting for situations to arise that affect us in our home region. We should initiate responses towards things that need to be changed now and examine this need from all perspectives.
MR: You mentioned the bodhisattva vows in relation to taking care of the planet, and I wonder what you think that we as Buddhist practitioners, and specifically the MRO sangha, have to offer in this regard? Because as you know there are many organizations out there doing different kinds of work on every aspect of the earth crisis, so is there something unique that we have to offer?
SS: In one sense, we as human beings—everybody—has something unique to offer, but more specifically, Buddhism has potentially a very important role to play here. One of the revolutions of the Buddha's enlightenment was recognizing that human beings are intrinsically moral creatures, in the sense that every action we take with our bodies, every word we utter with our mouths, and every thought we think has a moral impact both on ourselves and on the world around us. There's no way to be neutral in the world, to not have an effect. As soon as we engage in the world, particularly in human interactions, we either have a beneficial or negative effect. That is, what we do is life-affirming, sustaining and supportive of life, or it's in some measure destructive.
When Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize, he spoke of the earth crisis as a fundamentally moral issue. That makes perfect sense from a Buddhist perspective because everything we do, whether we're aware of it or not, is having a moral effect. To understand this truth broadens both the crisis and our response to it. Understanding this ever more deeply transforms the response from changing light bulbs or driving a hybrid car to a much deeper inquiry into how we understand ourselves in this world, how we are in the world, how we are the world.
Conditioning is, in a sense, a dream that we have learned. We all live in the dream that is constructed within our families, our communities, and our nation. This country, for instance, has very strong and powerful dreams about what it means to be an American—we even call it the "American Dream"—and there are both noble and unhealthy aspects to it. Our practice is to see through the illusory and negative aspects of those dreams and wake up to what is actually going on: that we live in a world that is not just about us; neither us as individuals— as human beings—nor is it about any group that ignores its effect on others.
Most of our actions throughout history speak to the fact that we regard human activity as being supremely important. There has been an historical evolution towards recognizing that all human beings have certain basic rights, but we have a much longer way to go to recognize that all life forms have certain rights, just by virtue of their being present on this earth. And so from that perspective, caring for the earth is a deeply spiritual concern. We really must understand ourselves in a fundamentally different way to get to the root of how we created this crisis to begin with, and how to move forward in a way that's sustainable.


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Faith-Based Initiatives and the Caring State by Lew Daly Chicago, 344 pp., $37.50
George W. Bush entered the White House in 2001 determined to implement, as the keystone of his administration's domestic policy, a "faith-based initiative" in which the government would ally with religious poverty-fighting organizations in a new effort to help the poor climb up the social ladder. Such an effort, he insisted, would show that his administration would practice "compassionate conservatism," a more humane and less mean-spirited form of conservatism.
"In every instance where my administration sees a responsibility to help people," Bush had declared in a 1999 speech, "we will look first to faith-based organizations, charities, and community groups that have shown their ability to save and change lives. . . . We will rally the armies of compassion in our communities to fight a very different war against poverty and hopelessness."
But like most of the Bush administration's domestic policy, the faith-based initiative didn't accomplish very much. The Department of Health and Human Services's Compassion Capital Fund annually doles out about $60 million in pilot grants to religious nonprofits, but that was the only new source of funding created in the Bush years. Sociologists Mark Chaves of Duke and Bob Wineburg of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro looked at data from the National Congregations Survey, a large religious social survey that, in 1998 and 2006-7, quizzed about 1,500 congregations about their practices. The survey found increased interest among congregations surveyed in fighting poverty; the number of congregations having a guest speaker from a social service organization rose from 22.2 percent in 1998 to 30.6 percent in 2006-7. But the survey also found no increases in the number of congregations that received government funding, engaged in social service work, or had a paid staff member who spent at least one-quarter of his time helping the poor.
Surprisingly, Barack Obama has continued the faith-based initiative. But Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance director Stanley Carlson-Thies, who worked on the faith-based initiative in the first Bush term, notes that while the Bush administration tried to learn from successful faith-based poverty fighters, the Obama administration appears to be using the faith-based office as a way to convince independent Christian and Jewish nonprofits to follow the administration's agenda.
"The attitude is, 'We're the government, doing wonderful things, you can come join us," he recently told the Washington Post.
But suppose the Obama administration were to court religious charities as actively as the Bush administration did during its first term? You could come up with a policy supporting this position—say, "compassionate liberalism." What would such a doctrine be like? Lew Daly provides an answer here. Daly, a senior fellow at Demos, has a bold agenda: to convince liberals who ignore or hate religion that faith-based organizations should be their allies in an effort to dramatically expand the welfare state. He wants to unite leftists who fear capitalism and social conservatives who are skeptical of the market in a grand coalition against antireligious liberals and market-oriented conservatives. His ultimate goal is to bring European conservatism—and European-style Christian democracy—to America.
In many ways, Daly cuts across left/right boundaries in the way that Christopher Lasch did 30 years ago—except that Daly is angrier, more doctrinaire, and less interesting than Lasch was. His funding also cuts across traditional lines. His principal benefactor is the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, a liberal foundation controlled by Bill Moyers. But Daly also got money from the Kohler Family Fund, a leading source of funding for social conservatives.
Daly advances his argument in several ways. A large chunk of God's Economy is an amazingly detailed outsider's account of the efforts of about 25 conservatives in the mid-to-late 1990s to create the ideas that ultimately became "compassionate conservatism." This section will be intensely interesting to the writers quoted at length in God's Economy, but others may wonder why Daly bothered. His most serious argument is an analysis of important Roman Catholic and Dutch Calvinist thinkers whom Daly sees as his intellectual ancestors. Daly is right to focus attention on these thinkers, including Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI and Holland's Abraham Kuyper, for the ideas they created a century ago have consequences for our time.
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CAMAS, Wash. – A 24-year-old church volunteer from Vancouver was arrested this week and charged with possessing and distributing child pornography.
Bradley J. Gilliam was arrested on Tuesday, according to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement spokesman Andrew Munoz. ICE is the agency tasked with stopping the trafficking of child pornography.
Agents and local police searched a search warrant at Gilliam's house last summer and said they seized a laptop and several other storage devices. Forensic analysts found thousands of images and videos of kids engaging in sexual activity, Munoz said.
Investigators said Gilliam traded child porn, including images of toddlers, on peer-to-peer networks using the username "Bllover69." They used that username to track an IP address used at Gilliam's Vancouver home.
Munoz said Gilliam was enrolled in classes to become a child sex abuse counselor and that he also volunteered with a youth group at Camas Grace Church.
Agents alerted officials at Camas Grace Church when they first found the pornography and he was immediately banned from participating in youth activities.
Pastor Dave McCave at the church said Gilliam had only volunteered with them for a brief time before he was let go because of the investigation.
McCave said Gilliam helped with simple things like setting up chairs and was never alone with kids. McCave added that nothing came up in a background check they ran on him.
A court document filed in the case shows that Gilliam was investigated in 2003 for a child rape in Camas, but that charges weren't pursued at the request of the victim's parents. Gilliam was just 15 years old at the time.
Gilliam has his next court appearance on Monday in federal court in Tacoma.
The investigation was part of Operation Predator, a nationwide effort to stop child pornography, sexual predators who target children and child sex traffickers. If you suspect someone of committing any of these crimes, you can call an ICE tipline at 1-866-347-2423 or fill out an online form.


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Yes! I wake up in a warm, comfy bed, next to the coolest person ever. Leaving my heavenly love cocoon and going to my lame *** job is the most difficult thing I have to do all day.
I still think that there has to be a better way to start your day than to have to wake up.
Yes. Every day. If I don't have to work, I don't get up till noon. I feel like I have no reason to get up basically.
only when i dont have my son in my face screaming "time to wake up its wake up time"
Yes. It's always hard to leave the arms of the one who holds you all night long.
I have to go to work. I get up when the alarm goes off. To which I'm going to bed right now 5:30 AM is not far away.
MORNING? HA! Even God doesn't get up that early. :D
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Yes, I am not a morning person at all!
some mornings, but it's stiffness of the joints, or just a really late night.
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The weekend's heavy rains left much of East Tennessee hoping to dry out Sunday afternoon.
The rain finally did move out of Knoxville around 5 p.m., but not before it left numerous lawns and roadways underwater.
Parts of Middlebrook Pike and Emory Road in west and north Knoxville, respectively, had spots will standing water throughout the day. Streams like First Creek and Third Creek also could not handle the rain. Each waterway swelled as they rose to the height of their banks.
Gus's Good Times Deli Deliveryman Cullyn Cochran spent much of his day out on the region's wet roads. He said he had to use caution.
"It was really bad earlier today," he said. "I had to go out on the interstate, down toward a local road. It was pretty gnarly, a lot of wrecks, a lot of people pulled over."
But, luckily, both THP and KPD said the amount of accidents their departments encountered Sunday was not abnormal.