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Norene Hale of Collins died on April 13 at the age of 89. Here are comments made at her funeral by her son John. They point out that mothers and fathers teach us important lessons throughout our lives.
Parents are the first and often the best teachers we have in life. That was certainly the case with Harold and Norene Hale. They taught us so much about life and living - as children and as adults.
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|Association of fetal choroid plexus cysts with trisomy 18 in a population previously screened by nuchal translucency thickness measurement.
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|OBJECTIVE: The study's aim was to determine any association between choroid plexus cysts (CPCs) and trisomy 18 in a population of fetuses previously screened by nuchal translucency (NT) thickness measurement. METHODS: During the study period (May 1999 to December 2004), 7,795 fetuses had an NT scan and second-trimester fetal anatomical scan at our institution. The prevalence of trisomy 18 was determined among four types of pregnancies: 1) those with isolated CPCs, 2) those with CPCs and enlarged NT, 3) those with CPCs and other ultrasound markers, and 4) those with CPCs, enlarged NT, and other ultrasound markers. The fetal outcome according to NT and presence of CPCs was calculated. Incidence rates of enlarged NT and CPCs in fetuses with trisomy 18 and fetuses with normal chromosomes were also evaluated. RESULTS: For the entire population, ten trisomy 18 cases were diagnosed prenatally (prevalence, 0.13%). Among fetuses with enlarged NT, the likelihood ratio of trisomy 18 was significantly increased in fetuses with CPCs compared with fetuses without such cysts (333.6 versus 15.2, P = .002). However, among fetuses with normal NT, no significant difference was demonstrated for likelihood ratio of trisomy 18 between fetuses with and without CPCs. CONCLUSION: In pregnancies complicated by isolated CPCs, fetal karyotyping is not indicated when no additional anomaly is detected on ultrasonographic examination and first-trimester NT results are normal.
|Po-Jen Cheng; Sheng-Wen Shaw; Yung-Kuei Soong
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|Created Date: 2006-05-15 Completed Date: 2006-06-12 Revised Date: 2006-11-15
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Chesapeake Energy founder Aubrey McClendon was stripped of his chairmanship role Tuesday following shareholder complaints that his personal business interests could conflict with those of the company he runs.
McClendon will remain CEO. The company's board said it's searching for an independent chairman.
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They keep talking about "competitive balance."
Then they make it harder for the less competitive teams to get that balance.
They tease them. But it's just a tease.
I didn't like the new rules on draft and international bonuses last week, when they were still sketchy and unannounced.
It's no better now that we know most of the details.
This isn't going to help teams like the Pirates and Royals. It's not going to hurt teams like the Yankees and Red Sox.
It's not going to help Theo Epstein, who came to Wrigley Field preaching the wonders of player development, only to find out that baseball just made player development less costly but more difficult.
It's not going to help baseball, because lower signing bonuses could chase away talented two-sport athletes.
Bud Selig didn't get the hard-slotting system he wanted for the June draft, but what he did get in the new collective bargaining agreement announced Tuesday might well be worse.
Here's why:
The last few years, teams like the Pirates, Nationals and Royals have realized that they can build a farm system quickly by spending big in the draft. The draft and the international market have become the one place where teams like that can realistically compete with the big boys for the best talent.
Now, if they exceed their assigned "signing bonus pool," they'll lose future draft picks, or the right to sign future international stars.
Baseball would remind you that the "signing bonus pool" will be higher for teams that pick higher in the draft (the teams that finished lower in the standings the previous year). That's true, but the cost of losing a future pick is far greater for those teams than for teams like the Yankees.
I'm not advocating a hard-slotting system, which would assign a specific bonus to each draft pick. But it sure would be a lot harder for the Yankees to take advantage of that system than this one.
The Yankees have been more than willing to surrender their first-round pick to sign free agents. They did it last winter to sign middle reliever Rafael Soriano.
So wouldn't they be just as willing to surrender a future pick to overspend on a big-time talent in the draft?
In most cases, the pick they'd be surrendering would be somewhere in the 20s. If the Pirates did the same, the pick they'd be surrendering might well be in the top 10.
And believe me, the new system makes it very easy to lose a pick. You only need to exceed your assigned "bonus pool" by five percent in any one year to lose the following year's first-round pick.
Baseball would explain that teams can choose to divide the "bonus pool" any way they wish, spending more on their first-round pick and going cheap on the second and third rounds, for example. But by the current rules, the Pirates overspent by a ton in both the first and second rounds in 2011.
Baseball would remind you that picks surrendered by teams that overspend will be distributed in a lottery that favors teams that need the most help (i.e. finished lowest in the standings). But to qualify for the lottery, you need to stay within your limit, and potentially allow the best talent to go elsewhere.
There's no way this rule helps "competitive balance," even with provisions that provide extra sandwich picks (between the first and second rounds) to low-revenue teams.
There's a reason that most baseball people don't like this new system, even though many of their owners pushed hard for it.
It should accomplish Selig's goal, which is to severely limit the amount of money teams spend on the draft and on international free agents. Truth be told, he'd love to limit the amount they spend on major-league free agents, too, but that wasn't going to happen.
It will not help "competitive balance."
Other parts of the CBA are big pluses. The fact that the CBA got done without even the smallest threat of a work stoppage is a huge plus.
This new draft and international system? It's a minus.
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Posted on: November 24, 2011 2:38 am
New CBA hurts 'balance' more than it helps
The Royals and Pirates have spent a lot of money to sign picks the last few years. KC has consistently been able to sign Scott Boras clients and it shows in the quality of the players now coming up. Any system that potentially makes teams pick a player because of signability is a bad system...period. Baseball owners are often a nearsighted bunch and fail to realize the unintended conequences of their actions.
Of course if the bonus pool figures are high, this all might be a moot arguement. Depends on how that figure is derived. As in all of thie money mumbo jumbo sports seems to do these days, the devil's in the details.
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Posted on: November 23, 2011 2:55 pm
New CBA hurts 'balance' more than it helps
I think you are nit picking here. The whole system should be scrapped and replaced with the NHL model. Three year entry level contracts that are scalled depending on the round drafted, and then bonuses for first round players that are decribed in the CBA. Now obviously this would have to be changed because it typically takes longer to develop major league baseball players than hockey players - so maybe a five year entry contract as opposed to a three year. If the players play well and make it to the MLB, they get paid. If not, then they get nothing. Having a system where the top draft picks demand a huge bonuses without having played a game is ridiculous. If they had a defined entry level contract the Royals or Pirates or Twins or whomever wouldn't have to worry about how they are going to pay their draft picks, they just have to identify the best player.


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In recent comments on Common Core standards, State Superintendent of Education Mick Zais stated that high school students should not be required to take courses in the literary classics or study any mathematics beyond basic algebra if they have decided by ninth grade that they don't want to attend a four-year college. Among the advanced math classes mentioned were geometry, trigonometry and statistics.
I disagree with his statement about these mathematical subjects. Some exposure to basic geometry and trigonometry is certainly needed. This is especially so in vocations such as carpentry, machining, etc. Also, H. G. Wells predicted more than a half-century ago that statistical thinking would someday be as necessary for good citizenship as reading and writing. That day has come, considering the vast amounts of data collected everywhere and statistical information in the daily newspapers, on television and in magazines!
Further, students in eighth or ninth grade most likely do not know whether they will be attending a four-year college after high school graduation nor what mathematical knowledge might be needed in the future. Making the decision about the last four years of high school studies at such an early stage would not be in the best interest of the student. Incidentally, from the latest Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) survey of 15-year-olds in 65 countries and economies, the United States slipped from 25th in 2009 to 31st in 2012 in mathematics. This does not argue for less math education!
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Karl Rove had a spot-on column in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. He wrote, in part:
Mr. Obama's speech to the Associated Press last week and two appearances in Florida on Tuesday provide a glimpse of the low road the president and his campaign likely will take.
He will distort beyond recognition his opponent's arguments…
No honest differences are possible with Mr. Obama. He will impugn the motives of any who disagree with him…
To divert attention from his administration's many failures, Mr. Obama will also offer poll-tested nuggets that pit the many against the few.
Exactly. If I had to offer a brief summary of Obama's campaign strategy this year, it would be this:
Clearly, this is not an ideal strategy, for any candidate. Typically, successful reelection campaigns – e.g. 1936, 1956, 1972, 1984, and 1996 – have been based on narratives about how the country has turned a corner, thanks to the incumbent's greatness. Think "Nixon's The One!" "It's Morning In America" or "Bridge To The 21st Century." None of that applies to President Obama, who instead looks to tar Mitt Romney as the evil stepchild of J.P. Morgan and Barry Goldwater.
The obvious question is: why is he doing this? The answer is simple, and suggests Obama's lead in the head-to-head polls is quite tenuous. Recall Ronald Reagan's closing statement in the October 1980 debate:
Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls; you'll stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision, it might be well if you would ask yourself, are you better off than you were 4 years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was 4 years ago? Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was 4 years ago? Is America as respected throughout the world as it was? Do you feel that our security is as safe, that we're as strong as we were 4 years ago? And if you answer all of those questions yes, why then, I think your choice is very obvious as to who you'll vote for. If you don't agree, if you don't think that this course that we've been on for the last 4 years is what you would like to see us follow for the next 4, then I could suggest another choice that you have.
This, put simply, is Barack Obama's problem. If the 2012 election is framed on "are you better off than you were four years ago?," then he is going to lose. His record on the economy, the deficit, energy policy, and health care are all very unpopular.
So, Obama's objective is to get the country to think about other things. In particular, he has of late employed a series of gimmicks to induce the country to conceive of Mitt Romney in the above terms. The whole "war on women" is exactly along those lines, as is the Buffett Rule. Both speak to the core strategy – Romney is a conservative radical and tool of big business who wants to deprive women of birth control and help only the rich get richer.
In pulling this off, Obama has two very substantial problems.
First, Mitt Romney will have an opportunity to define himself for the electorate, funded by hundreds of millions of dollars worth of television ads. And he has a compelling story to tell: family man and father of five, started his own company that invested in a lot of visible businesses, saved the Salt Lake City Olympics, and worked with Democrats in Massachusetts of all places. It is going to be easier said than done to stick either the Barry Goldwater or the J.P. Morgan label on him.
Second, and more importantly, this is not what swing voters want to talk about. Think of the campaign in terms of consumer economics: Customers want Walmart and Target to stock their shelves with certain items at certain prices, and the purchasing power of their dollars forces the two firms to comply. Well, our parties are like Walmart and Target, the voters are their customers, and the campaigns are like the marketplace. In the competition for votes, the two parties invariably end up talking about what the country, and in particular the swing vote, wants to talk about.
I'll bet you dollars to donuts that the average swing voter does not want to talk about the "war on women," the Buffett rule, or whatever else Team Obama is going to throw out there in the weeks and months to come. That voter wants to talk about jobs, the economy, the deficit, gas prices, the health care bill--in other words, all the issues where the president is vulnerable. And the competition of the campaign means that swing voter will get what he wants – Team Romney is more than happy to discuss all those issues, and so Obama will have no choice but to respond.


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Mass Effect 3 : Diana Allers Diana Allers is a reporter who can join you on the Normandy to provide humans all across the galaxy with up-and-close-and-personal look at the most important battle of the age. She's voiced by (and modeled on) IGN writer Jessica Chobot.
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New #1 in USA Today's Top 25 Coaches Poll
The Big 12 is making a big splash in the newest USA Today's Top 25 Coaches Poll released today. The Big 12 has four teams in the Top 25, and two of those four are holding down the top two spots in the country. Keep reading to see the entire Top 25, and to find out who the new top team in the country is.


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Restitution is the money that a judge orders a juvenile or adult offender to pay to the victim for out-of-pocket expenses that occurred as a direct result of the crime. It is part of the offender's sentence and is based on the victim's expenses and the offender's ability to pay. The expenses might include medical or therapy costs, lost wages due to the crime, or replacement of stolen or damaged property. The Office of Justice Programs at the Minnesota Department of Public Safety offers information on collecting court-ordered restitution.
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You must complete an affidavit of restitution form. The form must be notarized and include the offender's name and any court file numbers. Copies of bills, receipts, insurance claim forms and estimates should be attached to the affidavit. The form should be filed with the court as soon as possible. If you need help or assistance completing the affidavit form, please contact the Victim/Witness Services Division at (651) 266-3099.
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Join the congregation, led by the Choir of Men and Boys, as we mark the beginning of the new liturgical year with scripture, poetry and song.
This Advent Procession in its present form dates from the early part of the 20th century. It incorporates much older liturgical forms that express the Church's preparation for the coming of Christ that we celebrate at Christmas, as well as the ever-present coming of Christ's kingdom into a world in need of redemption. A living flame is a potent symbol of the victory of light over darkness: as the procession moves around the cathedral and we hear ancient prophecies of Christ's coming, we respond with prayer and song as we move, both literally and spiritually, from darkness into light.
After the service, join us in the Chapter House Dining Room for the Advent Tea, a festive potluck of sweet and savory treats. Bring finger-food and sweets to share to the Chapter House Dining Room any time before the Advent Procession at 3 p.m.
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In a room full of mirrors,
It's all I can do to stay sane,
The same face,
The same man,
Surrounding me,
I can't believe it is really me,
When did my face begin to show,
Such dissapointment,
Such discust,
So much anger and pain,
It's unbareable,
I have tried to break free,
Tried to escape this hell,
I have shattered thousands of mirrors,
But as one breaks,
Two more appear in its absence,
My blood soked hand throbs,
Pain coursing through my whole arm,
But it is nothing compared to my heart,
The pain coursing through my heart and soul,
It's unfathomable,
And the screams,
The voices I hear,
Constantly her cries,
His screams,
Bottles shattering,
I hear his words of anger,
All about me,
It is my fault he is angry,
My mistakes she pays for,
It is because of me she cries herself to sleep,
I try to scream but nothing escapes my mouth,
I can say nothing,
Only listen to what I have brought,
And so I listen,
To her cries,
Only wishing I could atone for all I have done,
I hear his voice as well,
The dissapointment apperent in his tone,
His voice telling me I am nothing,
That I shame him with my actions,
That I am dead to him,
He secretly wishes I had never been,
I never sleep,
Time has no hold on this place,
I have an eternity to suffer,
To suffer in this hell,
No less then what I deserve,
So I accept my punishment,
But still I must ask,
Why is she punished for my weakness.
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Difference Between Earth Starfleet and the UESPA?
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Re: Difference Between Earth Starfleet and the UESPA?
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^^The exact nitpicky details of its government are beside the point, and all the real-world analogies were stated up front to be approximate at best. The point is that there's no reason to assume these worlds would completely abandon all spacefaring operations of their own simply because they were affiliated with a larger government.
I've always assumed the UFP leant itself more to the European Union/United Nations model of governance or the lack there of sometimes!
Also, didn't Reeds family, including his father belong to a long line of Royal Naval officers, even after the creation of a more unified Planetary Government on Earth, so why can't that be the case when each of the individual planets joined the Federation, they would keep there space navies as well as having one big fleet.
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About a year ago I went to an AG seminar. Half were Babylocks and half were Bernina 780s and 830s. The Babylocks sewed flawlessly. The Berninas went nuts. No one had an explanation. Now a year later after asking frequently about the solution I was shown that if you open the PES version in Artlink and then write to Bernina 830 780 or whatever, all the problems go away. I had been told by one person to try DST. At the dealer we tried that and lost our color info. With PES it retained all. Just posting in case you also had an issue with this. I can't tell you why it works but perhaps the EXP on the CD is just too generic and makes the machines go nuts. WHEW.
------Erin "Debbie" Wilson
A variety of machines I love for different reasons but a real sucker for beautiful Bernina Tula Pink 350
I have no idea what you are talking about. I am blissfully ignorant.
------"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant." - Horton(Dr. Seuss)
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I always use my Bernina DesignerPlus 7 software to transfer designs to a USB stick and then to my machine. I never have a problem.
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Thanks so much for this info!!! I love Anita Goodesigns so I find this very interesting.
Thanks for info - I also put my designs on a USB and never have a problem.
------So many projects, not enough time
At my house in VA:
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Singer 201-2, 221, BL Enlighten, BL Sashiko, BL Cover Stitch, Consew 75T
At my Lake House in PA:
Bernina 1010, Artista 165E, Singer 503A. Bernina Serger 1100d, BL Evolution
You always loose color info with .dst and .exp formats no matter where you get your embroidery designs from, or what machine you sew them out with. That is normal and always has to be that way. That should not be a surprise or a mystery for some teacher in any class, anyplace.
That is just because, in a .exp or .dst formatted embroidery file, there is no place in it, to even hold any particular color information. Instead, it just holds information on each "color change" as in when you change the physical thread going through a needle, instead.
So that is nothing wrong or unusual about Bernina's or AnitaGoodesign embroidery designs at all. That is just a property of .dst and .exp formatted embroidery designs.
But they (the vendor) make their embroidery designs in Pulse software, and they even give you on the CD that condensed native design format, and just lots of other expanded, stitch based ones too.
But, if you use anyone's embroidery design in .dst or .exp format and the colors are not the same on your machine panel or in your software, that's not a problem, that is to be expected and normal, and just the way it always is. So, you can either just ignore the actual colors (as they only denote a change of color instead) or if you bring a .dst or .exp design into some embroidery digitizing software, you can just change the colors visual you are looking at there, to anything you want. But, the visual colors in a design on a screen someplace, do not matter in .dst or .exp, just because you can still always put any color of thread on the machine you want.
So, it's nothing unusual or special or a problem, about that particular vendors embroidery designs at all, and they all are like that, if sold in .exp or .dst. It's just a function of the .exp and .dst formatted embroidery designs instead.
As I understand it, Bernina has a 'special' exp format that contains three files I believe. One file is the colors. So by importing the PES file into Artlink (or Designer Plus or Editor) and then exporting to the .exp for the machine the colors are preserved. The export can either be directly to the machine or to the USB stick I believe. But the key is that it is to one of the machines that uses exp (like the 830) so that you get the special Bernina version.
Glad it is working for you now Erinsluck!
------Bernina 880, Creative Sensation Pro, Bernina350SE,
Erinsluck, how did the machines go nuts? Was it just the colors? But, Beauturbo is correct - any teacher should know that, and what Janyce said too! I used to buy EXP and stopped doing that, because of the color problem.
I hate not being able to see the right colors, even if I have the color change sheet right there!
------Bernina 780, and 530
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Weird hopping stitches. Not cutting jump threads. A total mess. This was the heart design in a workshop. When I heard they now knew what happened I asked them to show me. Not everyone has software. I'm only trying to describe what I was shown. I really don't understand it
Great explanation, Janyce! Makes perfect sense.
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Scott Chandler is getting an opportunity to prove he?s a tight end who can both block and catch. Chandler was picked up off the waiver wire from Dallas last season.
When Scott Chandler was growing up in Dallas in the early 1990s, he rarely got the opportunity to go to Texas Stadium, but that didn't mean he was any less passionate about the Cowboys than anyone else.
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Recently I wrote a piece about "procrastinating." Is this problem ever going to be out of my life? I'm beginning to wonder, even though I know it is not healthy and I don't like the feeling it gives me. Just a short time ago I can say again…. Oops! I did it again! I just wrote an article about this, but instead of depending on God and His timing, I tried to deal with it alone.
Once again, because of – supposedly – concern for the other party, it caused me to get really angry and frustrated to the point I was ready to explode. I wasn't getting the response I had expected in a timely manner, so once again, I knew I had to deal with it, but I didn't; I procrastinated. Satan sure likes using this emotion against me on a regular basis. Do you find yourself stuck in a vicious cycle when it seems like you're coming back to the same problem over and over again? When are we going to get it through our thick skulls that doing the same thing over and over again is the definition of insanity?
Finally, I was complaining to an associate, expecting her to be sympathetic, and she says, "Why don't you write a brief note asking for the decision?" My response was, "Well, I'm tired tonight so I will write her in the morning, have a friend check my grammar, and then I would pray about it and send it the next day." I thought she would be in agreement. Instead, she said those words I hate: "STOP PROCRASTINATING!" Just write and send it.
I was shocked, but she was absolutely right. What is almost funny about this is that after I wrote and sent it, what a relief. All feelings of anger, frustration, and resentment were gone. It was like a full-ton weight was lifted from my heart. Once again, Satan's hold was broken on this incident.
I'm happy to report that everything worked out. God moved on the decision, and everything worked the way He wanted it. Praise God, but the question in my mind is still: Why did I wait so long? I didn't need to…God knew what was best, and He handled it.
Life would be so much easier if you and I would just turn to God first in every decision we need to make no matter the size. He has the ability to handle everything. We just need to let Him.
His Word says, "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes." The Armor of God is such a powerful tool against Satan. Pray for that Armor every day.
Also make the following declaration coming from His Word: "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." Then do the following: Hold up your Bible and repeat this confession of faith…" This is my Bible, it is untouchable. It is the indestructible, life source of the Word of God. I know that I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do. In Jesus' name…AMEN."
Now, dear ones, be strong and faithful in your battle, and know God is on your side.
PASSAGE: Ephesians 6:10-11 (NIV) James 4:7 (NIV)
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Cheddars across from the Target shopping center in Smyrna is hugely popular for its food and for its decor. / Gary Frazier/DNJ
Asuka Hibachi and Buffet: More than 200 items are available daily. 645 President Place, 223-1855.
Bobs Barbecue: Get lip-smacking barbecue sandwiches. 106 Enon Springs Road W. 459-5885.
Byrd Dogs Pizza and Sports Bar: This Italian place makes its own dough, sauces and meat- balls. 114 Front Street. 459-3431.
Cedars Italian and Greek Cafe: Cedars offers an extensive selection of Italian cuisine and seafood. Options include angel hair alfredo with seafood, snow crab legs, eggplant manicotti, meat and five-cheese lasagna. 721 President Place in Smyrna. 355-4442
Chatterbox Coffee & Tea Cafe: Fine foods near downtown Smyrna. 197 Enon Springs Road.
Cheddars: Get a great Americana meal at this location, which has a little something for everyone. 955 Industrial Blvd. 223-9394.
Fat Mos Burgers: Come hungry when you dine, cause these burgers are big and made fresh to order. 298 Sam Ridley Parkway East. 355-4300.
IHOP: From early-morning eats to late-night snacks, you can get a variety of breakfast and dinner entrees. 779 Team Blvd. 223- 1401.
Hickory Falls: Classic steaks and chops, with a large, varied menu at reasonable prices. With polished wood furniture and an interior stone wall, the ambiance complements the food well. 999 Industrial Blvd. 459-3900.
Karins Kustard and Hamburgers: This diner promises great burgers, ice cream and a place to sit outside. 470 S. Lowry St. 220-0440.
Krispy Kreme: Pick up one or a dozen of the legendary glazed doughnuts, or try one of the other varieties. Dont forget the coffee. 434 Sam Ridley Parkway.
Legends Steakhouse: This new restaurant serves appetizing steaks, pasta seafood and burg- ers in a classy atmosphere. 1918 Almaville Road. 220-2115.
M&Vs Soul Food Restaurant: Some of the best home cooking you can get, M&Vs serves a variety of dishes each day. And the desserts are to die for! 281 N. Lowry St. 267-0571.
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ning for many years, Omni Huts owners bring together the best of Chinese and Polynesian cooking. Arrive early the restaurant isnt a secret and seating space is limited. 618 S. Lowry St. 459-4870.
Razz: Nigerian-born owner combines recipes from his native land with traditional American cuisine. 408 Sam Ridley Parkway. 220-9381.
Ringelinos Italian American Grill: The dinner menu offers a variety of authentic Italian dishes as well as some American favorites. 1890 Almaville Road, Suite 100. 223-9772
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Tee Gees: Downhome eats popular with the locals. 5238 Murfreesboro Road. 793-9133.
New Apple Buffet: Not the same as the former Big Apple Buffet. 5179 Murfreesboro Road. 793-3943.
WillStans Grill: Fine dining without leaving the neighborhood. 1925 Madison Square Blvd. 793-0083
Millers Grocery: Down home country cookin brings the crowds to this little cafe. 7011 Main St. 893-1878.
Las Fiestas: Dine on traditional Mexican favorites, complete with chips and salsa. 158 S. Main St. 274-3322.
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Now that the Supreme Court of the United States has thrown the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, back into the laps of the voters and Congress, it is time to be bold and make a fundamental change to medical care.
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Back in August of 2007, we shed the smallest of tears for Yoko Ono after she publicly urged automakers to "make hybrid cars as comfortable as a Bentley". We felt awful for her — and the millions of happy hybrid-owners who are oblivious to the uncomfortable and spartan interiors of their vehicles.
Thanks to a report on Autobloggreen this morning, Yoko now has reason to hope for the future. Apparently, Bentley may be considering offering a hybrid version of their insanely-priced luxury vehicles. Their 2009 models average about 9 mpg in the city and 14-17 mpg on the highway — so any movement toward a hybrid model would certainly save Yoko some fuel costs — and potentially keep the whining to a minimum.
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Various state and federal financial aid programs are available to eligible degree-seeking Quincy University students. Federal and State Grants are estimated pending finalization of Government budgets. Following are brief descriptions of the major programs.
To be considered for one of these awards, be sure to complete the FAFSA (www.fafsa.gov). QU's FAFSA school code is 001745.
Federal Pell Grant
The value of this grant can range from $605 up to $5645 for eligible students. Application must be made annually with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) www.fafsa.gov. Undergraduate students, with continuing financial need, may be eligible for renewal of this grant to complete their first baccalaureate degree up to twelve (12) full-time semesters. Quincy University's FAFSA code is 001745.
Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant (FSEOG)
The SEOG grant may be awarded to students who are eligible for a Federal Pell Grant and who applied by the priority date, April 1. Grant amounts depend upon the student's federally calculated financial need. Eligibility is limited to four years leading to the first baccalaureate degree.
Federal Work-Study Programs (FWS)
This program provides part-time, on-campus employment for students with established need. Students on the Federal work-study program usually work between 8 and 12 hours per week. Most jobs are on campus. The Office of Financial Aid will post information about available job opportunities on our website at On-Campus Work Study Jobs.
Federal Perkins Loan
The Perkins loan may be awarded to students with high need who applied by the priority date, April 1. These loans have a fixed interest rate of 5 percent with no fees. Repayment of interest and principal begins nine months after the borrower ceases to be enrolled at least halftime.
First time borrowers must complete an entrance counseling session at http://mappingyourfuture.org/pe. A Master Promissory Note is sent to eligible students with their Award Letter. It must be signed and returned to Quincy University along with a Statement of Rights and Responsibilities before any funds are disbursed to students.
Students will receive a statement each time funds are applied to their Quincy University account indicating the disbursement amount and the student's total debt to the Perkins Loan program.
Federal Stafford Subsidized and Unsubsidized Loan Program
This program enables undergraduate students to borrow annual amounts of $3,500 for freshmen, $4,500 for sophomores, and $5,500 each for juniors and seniors. Dependent undergraduates whose parents can borrow PLUS Loans may borrow an additional annual amount of $2000 through the unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loan Program. Undergraduate dependent students whose parents cannot borrow PLUS Loans and undergraduate students meeting the federal criteria for independent status may borrow for the freshman and sophomore years an additional annual amount of $6000 through the unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loan Program while students at the junior and senior level may borrow up to an additional $7000 per academic year. Contact Financial Aid for current interest rates and fees.
Subsidized Federal Stafford Loans are need based with all interest paid by the U.S. Department of Education while attending at least half time (six credit hours for undergraduates).
Unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loans are not need based and interest accrues on the loan. Students with an unsubsidized Stafford Loan are responsible for paying the interest while they are in school; however, the student has the option of capitalizing the interest.
Direct Loan borrowers must:
1. Complete the Federal Stafford Loan Entrance Counseling online at www.studentloans.gov. Entrance Counseling must be completed if you are a new student to QU even if you completed it for another institution.
2. Complete a Master Promissory Note at the same website. When you sign the Master Promissory Note, you are agreeing to repay the loan according to the terms of the note. If you complete a MPN in the last 10 years in the Direct Loan program and received funds based on it, you will not need to complete a new MPN.
You may check your loan history at: www.nslds.ed.gov/nslds_SA/
Graduate students can borrow up to the cost of education or a total of $20,500 unsubsidized Stafford Loan.
All Financial Aid documentation must be received in the Financial Aid office before your Stafford Loans can be processed including your Entrance Counseling and Master Promissory Note at www.studentloans.gov
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Parents (or step-parents) who need additional funds to assist with educational expenses may borrow up to the cost of education minus any financial aid the student is eligible to receive for the academic year. Parents must complete a Plus Loan Application and Master Promissory Note at www.studentloans.gov. Repayment normally begins 60 days after the loan is fully disbursed. Interest begins to accumulate at the time the disbursement is made. Contact Financial Aid for current interest rates and fees.
Illinois Monetary Award Program (MAP) Grant
The Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) offers a need-based grant to eligible Illinois residents. Residence status for dependent students is based on parents Illinois residency. Independent students must document Illinois residence for 12 months before the beginning of the academic year. Due to limited funding students are encouraged to apply early to avoid loss of funding.
Application for the MAP Grant is made by properly completing the FAFSA www.fafsa.ed.gov, listing an Illinois school, and meeting Illinois residency requirement. Eligibility is limited to 135 paid MAP credit hours. Students who have been paid 75 or more MAP credit hours must attain junior status. Quincy University's FAFSA code is 001745.
Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Students having disabilities which limit them vocationally may be eligible for the services of their state's department of rehabilitation. These services include vocational counseling and training, payment of tuition, fees, books, and job placement. Contact your local department of rehabilitation office for details.
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Quincy University is approved by the State Approving Agency for educational assistance benefits to veterans and veterans' dependents.
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On April 5, after six months of preparation, I took, and passed, the CISSP exam. Here are some of the lessons I learned along the way.
On April 5, after six months of preparation, I took, and passed, the CISSP exam. Here are some of the lessons I learned along the way.
What would my inbox be like without my old AOL account?
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That's great! I am looking for a woman who commonly is tidy, paint…
Seriously, it scares me to think that things like this work as openers to social engineering and Nigerian scams that end up robbing people of not only time and money, but sometimes even their lives. Be careful out there.
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This is the final warning you are going to receive from me, do you get me? I hope you understand how many times this message has been sent to you.
We have warned you so many times and you have decided to ignore our e-mails or because you believe we have not been instructed to get you arrested and today if you fail to respond back to us with the payment details below, then we would first send a letter to the MAYOR of the city where you reside and direct them to close your bank account until you have been jailed and all your properties will be confiscated by the FBI, CIA and other enforcement agency. We would also send a letter to the company/agency that you are working for so that they could get you fired until we are through with our investigations because a suspect is not supposed to be working for the government or any private organization.
Your ID which we have in our database have been sent to all the crimes agencies in America for them to inset you in their website as an internet fraudsters and to warn people from having any deals with you. This would have been solved all this while if you had gotten the CERTIFICATE ENDORSED AND STAMPED as you were instructed in the e-mail below. This is the federal bureau of investigation (FBI) am writing in response to the e-mail you sent to us and am using this medium to inform you that there is no more time left to waste because you have been given a mandate. As stated earlier to have the document endorsed, signed and stamped without failure and you must adhere to this directives to avoid you blaming yourself at last when we must have arrested and jailed you for life and all your properties will be seized and bank account will be confiscated too.
You failed to comply with our directives/instruction and that was the reason why we didn't hear from you, as our director has already been notified about you get the process completed yesterday and right now the WARRANT OF ARREST has been signed against you and it will be carried out in the next 48hours as strictly signed by the FBI director. We have investigated and found out that you didn't have any idea when the fraudulent deal was committed with your information's/identity and right now your ID is placed on our website as a wanted person, I believe you know that it will be a shame to you and your entire family because after then it will be announce in all the local channels that you are wanted by the FBI.
As a good Christian and a Honest man, I decided to see how i could be of help to you because i would not be happy to see you end up in jail and all your properties confiscated all because your information's was used to carry out a fraudulent transactions, i called the EFCC and they directed me to a private attorney who can help you get the process done and he stated that he will endorse and stamp the document at the sum of $98 usd only and i believe this process is cheaper for you.
You need to do every possible thing today and tomorrow to get this process done because our director has called to inform me that the warrant of arrest has been signed against you and once it has been approved, then the arrest will be carried out, and from our investigations we learnt that you were the person that forwarded your identity to one impostor/fraudsters in Nigeria when he had a deal with you about the transfer of some illegal funds into your bank account which is valued at the sum of $10,500,000.00 only.
I pleaded on your behalf so that this agency could give you till 6/20/2012 so that you could get this process done because i learnt that you were sent several e-mails without getting a response from you. Bear it in mind that this is the only way that i can be able to help you at this moment or you would have to face the law and its consequences once it had befallen on you. You would make the payment through western union money transfer with the below details.
Senders Full Name:
Sender Full Address:
Direct Phone Number:
Send the payment details to me as stated above and make sure that you didn't hesitate making the payment down to the agency by today so that they could have the certificate endorsed, signed and stamped immediately without any further delay. After all this process has been carried out, then we would have to proceed to the bank for the transfer of your compensation funds which is valued at the sum of $10.500,000.00 usd which was supposed to have been transferred to you all this while.
Note: All the crimes agencies have been contacted on this regards and we shall trace and arrest you if you disregard this instructions. You are given a grace today to make the payment for the document after which your failure to do that will attract a maximum arrest and finally you will be appearing in court for act of terrorism, money laundering and drug trafficking charges, so be warned not to try anything funny because you are been watched.
Expecting your anticipated- Co-operation.
Yours in service,
Robert S. Mueller
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I've got my blogs (not that I've posted anything on any of them) set to automatic posting for 15 days, and then they have to be approved.
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I was just going to say that there's plenty of job email scams too.
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This month, I obtained a review copy of Passware's "Passware Password Kit Forensic 11.5". For brevity's sake, I'll refer to it as "Passware" for the rest of this review. Passware is a password recovery/cracking system which has the ability to work on multiple file types. The Forensic Kit version adds more features, such as cracking of filesystem passwords and resetting Windows user account passwords. (More …)
Today I passed the GCFE exam, making me GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner number 490. From the GIAC website,
The GCFE certification is for professionals working or interested in the information security, legal and law enforcement industries with a need to understand computer forensic analysis. The certification focuses on core skills required to collect and analyze data from Windows computer systems.
The GCFE certifies that candidates have the knowledge, skills, and ability to conduct typical incident investigations including e-Discovery, forensic analysis and reporting, evidence acquisition, browser forensics and tracing user and application activities on Windows systems.
Rock on! Oddly enough, as I was walking out the door to take the exam, we got a support request from a client who just located a stolen laptop and needs us to do some forensics on it to find out where it's been. Great timing.


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This year at the Legislature, local control of public lands was a big topic of discussion and the impetus for several bills. Although we actually passed a few of the bills, the issue is far from settled. The question of which lands are state controlled vs. federally controlled is outlined in each states' enabling act. The enabling acts move an area from a territory to a state and outline, among other things, how the public land in the former territory will be distributed.
Though our enabling act created a mechanism for the sale and distribution of the federal land holdings, this process was never completed, leaving nearly 70 percent of Utah under federal control. Our sister states in the Intermountain West have found themselves in equally difficult positions in-terms of federal land holdings. Interestingly, our Midwest and eastern sister states do not share this problem.
At first glance, this issue of land control might not seem to be a problem. One might think, "well we are Americans and the federal government is representative of all of us." However, I think we can agree that Utah is very different from New York, and St. George is certainly not Washington, D.C. Our state has abundant oil and natural gas reserves, but restrictions placed on public lands limit our access to the reserves and at times have cut off our access all together. Our wealth as a state is limited because we can't access our natural resources, and we are at the mercy of our federal landlord. We have seen examples of this multiple times. Closest to home is the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which was suddenly created, blocking off access to coal reserves. Too many times, oil and gas leases are offered and then pulled back at the last minute. A new proposed wilderness area on the Utah/Arizona border could close a uranium mine in Utah, which could cost us thousands of mining and associated jobs in Southern Utah.
As Utahns, we selected Gov. Gary Herbert to lead us and direct our economic development and land-use policy, but Gov. Herbert has less control over the public lands in Utah than a federal bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. The Bureau of Land Management manages the majority of the Utah federal land holdings. Director Bob Abbey hails from Mississippi and has spent 32 years working for state and federal land management agencies. He has a national perspective rather than a Utah-specific perspective when he makes decisions about our lands. He doesn't answer to our elected representatives and he doesn't answer to the people of Utah for these policy decisions.
I continue to believe that the best public policy is created by the people closest to the issue. We in Southern Utah ought to have more of a hand in creating policies, setting up the leases and assessing the impacts of energy and land development in our backyard. The tax dollars created from development ought to flow back to our communities in terms of better roads, smaller classrooms, and lower taxes for everyone.
Brad Last represents House District 71 in Washington County. He is participating in a rotating column on legislative issue with other legislators from Southern Utah.


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LOL. AT&T's 3G is probably faster than everyone else's but out of the major five but the others all have and are focusing on 4g ...including Metro PCS! This means that AT&T is in 5th and soon to be 6th if U.S. Cellular could get their 4G system out.
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Josh and I have now lived in Mesquite for two months. Everyone has been very kind and inviting. We were a little scared when we moved out here. I mean, we were moving 1,800 miles away from home, I think anyone would be a little terrified. We were afraid we wouldn't make any friends or that there wouldn't be a lot of people here our age.
Granted, there isn't a bunch of people our age here but there are people that are close.
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I liked it. At points, the script was a bit thin and a few characters were very "cookie cutter", but the production value was amazing and the 3D was unintrusive and well done.
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Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., speaks to a joint session of the Tennessee General Assembly on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, in Nashville. Alexander is proposing a 'grand swap' in which the federal government would take over all responsibility for Medicaid and the states would gain all control over education.
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U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander proposed shifting the burden of Medicaid entirely onto the shoulders of the federal government in a speech Wednesday to Tennessee lawmakers.
The Republican senator said he would file a bill that would take away states' responsibility to fund a portion of Medicaid, the health care program for the poor, in exchange for taking on more of the cost of public education and other expenditures.
Alexander said he first came up with the plan three decades ago while governor of Tennessee. With Medicaid set to expand under the Affordable Care Act and health care costs ...


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The Truth About Fracking
Fracking refers to a complex technology, is bored with the deep for unconventional gas resources in the ground. In the United States for 10 years, "gefrackt" – with the result that poisoned drinking water wells near the wells and the people are sick there. For a short time also in Germany first test holes instead of Fracking technology. Previously, neither citizens nor representative water authorities have been informed. An online petition of concerned citizens calls for transparency in the tails and advocates for the rights of man and nature.
Fracking – What is it?
Fracking refers to a complex technology, is bored with the deep for unconventional gas resources in the ground. In the United States for 10 years, "gefrackt" – with the result that poisoned drinking water wells near the wells and the people are sick there. For a short time also in Germany first test holes instead of Fracking technology. Previously, neither citizens nor representative water authorities have been informed. An online petition of concerned citizens calls for transparency in the tails and advocates for the rights of man and nature.
Fracking – What is it?
Rising gas prices make the promotion of unconventional gas resources such as coalbed and shale gas is becoming increasingly viable. Compared to natural gas, which can be recovered easily from so-called natural gas traps, shale gas is stored in rocks and can only with the help of sophisticated technology – called deep drilling Fracking (or "hydraulic fracturing" is named) – obtained.
Here, a mixture of water, sand and various chemicals at high pressure is forced to up to 1,500 meters deep borehole. Caused cracks in the rock now – similar to a blast or an earthquake – through which you can suck the gas. Worryingly, increasing by just this completely uncontrollable cracks in the rock up the remaining chemicals into groundwater and poison the water so many millions of people can.
Fracking promises billions in profits
In Europe are 50 trillion cubic meters of that lie hidden in the stone-bound gas deep in the earth, much of it in Germany. Multi-corporations like Exxon, BNK Petroleum, Mingas and Wintershall are about to stake their claims Fracking-order as soon as the hoped to pocket billions in profits. With Fracking – say the energy companies – leaving stimulate the economy. Also, jobs may be created by Fracking and green energy sources are developed.
In view of thousands of tons of chemicals that are pumped per Fracking operation in the Earth and – like the American Fracking-day shows – may well also get into groundwater and the environment, is the supposed environmental friendliness of the new energy source not only doubtful, but not simply available.
Fracking in Germany
In North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony, but the first Fracking licenses have been issued. The mining authorities of Lower Saxony approved such as the energy giant Exxon as early as 2008, the first drilling for shale gas. Since the mining law does not provide information to the public, hardly knew anyone. Sun learned water authorities, water works and public representatives only from the press, that the search in the catchment area of water protection zone by Fracking of gas.
Fracking – without chemicals as it gets
The so-called frac-liquid (or Fracking fluid) is 98 percent up to 20,000 liters of water (per Fracking operation), a little quartz sand and 0.2 percent of chemicals. The latter are required to indemnify the pumping means. A certain portion of the frac fluid always remains in the soil. The quantitative composition of the drilling fluid is so far a secret of the oil and gas industry. The companies argue, according to a report from the news agency Reuters that the publication would prejudice the ingredients competition. A very good reason for the secrecy should be the other hand, public skepticism about the chemicals concerned.
as can chemicals in each Fracking operation
In Germany, in the mission Monitor published a list of the Fracking used some highly toxic chemicals. The fracturing fluid thus contains cancer-causing, hormone-changing and highly polluting toxins, namely, tetramethyl ammonium chloride, petroleum distillates, and octylphenol biocides from the group of isothiazolinones.
Tetramethyl ammonium chloride is classified according to the relevant safety data in the Water Hazard Class 1, is considered hazardous for water, but should not get into ground water, water or sewage, even in small quantities. Nevertheless, per Fracking process 19,000 tonnes of tetramethyl ammonium chloride are used.
Octylphenol is a toxic and persistent substance defined as a phenolic resin for the manufacture of rubber tires, inks, etc. is used and is classified in the so-called Water Framework Directive as a priority. This means that water is toxic and is octylphenol in the water hazard class 2 At present some thoughts on a possible pollution to octylphenol including the tire wear, and proposes mitigation measures to keep the material largely from our environment. Now if used per week Fracking process 9.5 tonnes of the substance to be responsible are likely to find a whole new volume octylphenol problem again.
Biocides from the group of isothiazolinones belong to the highest possible water hazard class, namely 3 and are therefore extremely hazardous for water. Isothiazolinones are used as preservatives in detergents, adhesives, paints, etc. used because they kill microorganisms (bacteria, fungi). In humans, they often lead to a contact allergy, which is why they are now hardly used in personal care products. Pro Fracking process 680 kilograms of highly water-polluting substances into the environment.
Environmental authorities: From Fracking no idea
The potential dangers of Fracking is therefore unmanageably. Moreover, has worked in Germany so far, neither the EPA nor an environmental ministry with the Fracking risks. What can develop from a combination of ignorance and economic interests of the population and the environment, we see the United States. There is Fracking for 10 years everyday.
Fracking in the U.S.
In the meantime a total of 34 states, 90 percent of U.S. gas with Fracking methods are obtained. The Marcellus Shale, a rock formation in eastern North America, where the Fracking is rampant, should be concealed as much gas, so that all U.S. homes and electricity could be supplied for a period of 20 years. No wonder America is in the "gas rush". And so the run creates the huge energy reservoir in fact thousands of jobs and boosting economic growth even in states such as Wyoming, Texas and Louisiana (Business Week). In Pennsylvania alone was Fracking in 2009 for tax revenue at $ 389 million and created 44,000 new jobs in the same year.
Environmental Protection Agency holds out the
It becomes clear why politicians support well drilling. Nothing is they rather than letting the current tight economic situation as far behind. If at the same time, however, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency – U.S. authorities to protect the environment and human health) and other responsible authorities are silent, then the suspicion arises that something bad will take place in secret. The Business Week writes:
The drilling for gas is hardly monitored by the EPA or other state or local authorities. These authorities have their own rules.
Better late than never
After 10 years and numerous Fracking poisoned drinking water wells, the EPA now wants to bring a country-wide investigation on the way to learn more about the dangers of Fracking of public drinking water supply. Unfortunately, this task will prove to be extremely difficult because the companies refuse to disclose the ingredients of the fracturing fluid disclosed.
Risk of Bohrunfälle
In the relevant areas of the U.S. spread the harmful chemicals in any case already made on the basis of Bohrunfällen. In a recent accident involved the release of thousands of liters of fluid in the Fracking Towanda Creek in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. According to the American news agency AP and the news channel MSNBC, the technique failed in a Gasbohrstation the company Chesapeake Energy Corp.. The liquid, which could not be immediately detained, spread to the surrounding agricultural fields and in the adjacent rivers. The energy company is finally able to bring the leak under control – five days after the accident had happened.
Contaminated water supplies
Against the company Chesapeake Energy, Chesapeake Appalachia and NOMAC Drilling on behalf of the families of Bradford County, who had leased their land to these companies were brought ads. The families claim, according to the online edition of the Daily Review (a newspaper in Pennsylvania) that they must be "new suffering daily because of the negative effect of making the oil and gas drilling." The statements of claim, prepared by the organization The Marcellus Shale Oil and Gas Litigation Group, indicate that the "gross negligence conducted oil and Gasbohraktivitäten" had contaminated the property and the water resources of the applicants.
In addition to grossly negligent accidents, there are leaky fountain foundations in the ground or leaks at the surface. Even without accidents, and more or less obvious leaks environmentalists fear that hazardous chemicals Fracking through the rock into the groundwater to penetrate and contaminate the fresh water reservoirs in this manner can.
GAS LAND – The film, which opens the eyes
Gas companies gave $ 100,000 Josh Fox, for him to lease his land for natural gas production by Fracking. Fox refused and decided to instead make a documentary titled "Gas Land" to show people what happens when Fracking.
During the shooting he met with tap water due to a high methane content of flammable flowed from the taps, to large bodies of water full of toxic waste, on the banks of dead was the cattle and the vegetation had disappeared, to chronically ill residents, in different drilling areas had the same noticeable symptoms and to gas explosions and other accidents, which were routinely swept under the carpet
In Germany there are now the same gas companies that tell us that Fracking was safe and there can be no pollution.
Close friendships between politicians and energy lobbyists
Why Fracking is not set? The economic interests are too large and influential politicians work hand in hand with the lobbyists for the energy industry. So the news page DCBureau.org reported in its documentary "The Marcellus Shale: The Politics of Gas" by apparent conflicts of interest, the New York legislature in matters Fracking.
The deputy Maurice Hinchey of New York, for example, called for rigorous monitoring of the happily Fracking. But then revealed that his wife at the same time lobbying for the American Association of Professional operating landm, an organization on behalf of energy companies across the country culminating leases. In another case, supported the Republican Senator George Winner of Gasbohrrichtlinien revaluations, as requested by the energy industry. At the same time his own law firm represented the largest natural gas producer in New York.
Fracking-laws: Made by Fracking corporations
Chris Denton, an attorney, dozens of landowners in court represents, DC Bureau reported on a bill drafted by the company Independent Oil and Gas Industry (Ioga) from New York. This law was the energy multinationals in the pursuit of their dubious practices Fracking help and allow them to carry out drilling on private property, even if the landowners do not agree. "It is a design by Ioga," said Denton.
They wrote it down, put him in front of the Parliament, found a sponsor for it and set it down – without any parliamentary hearings – by easily.
Petition against Fracking in Germany
How far the entanglements of politics and the economy flourished in Germany before, we do not know. But we should do everything to give us the environmental and health hazards Fracking make every effort to meet. The petition to the Petitions of the Parliament in Nordrhein-Westfalen/Niedersachsen can be found here. Draw with!
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Challenge/response requires marketers to battle for each individual e-mail box.
With challenge/response, senders must prove they're human before their messages get through.
As if email marketers didn't have enough headaches, during the past few weeks two separate companies introduced spam-blocking email services that use a system known as challenge/response. It's a system well worth monitoring, as it appears destined to grow in popularity.
Most spam-blocking systems operate under a presumption of innocence -- you're only blocked if your message comes from the wrong IP address or has the wrong characteristics. Challenge/response operates under the presumption of guilt. Your email is blocked unless it meets certain criteria for making it into the inbox.
The first company promoting this approach (which, incidentally, is suing the second for patent infringement) is Mailblocks, a Los Altos, CA-based startup that promises consumers spam-free inboxes. The second is EarthLink, the nation's second largest ISP.
If nothing else, the challenge/response approach seems to be part of the Zeitgeist. Although it's nothing new -- other anti-spam players, including Spam Arrest, Vanquish, and MailFrontier Matador, have made challenge/response a part of their architectures -- the approach is garnering more attention lately as frustration with spam intensifies.
Challenge/response weeds out any email messages not sent by either a known sender or a human being who can respond to a "challenge" sent by the spam-blocking software. People on the user's personal whitelist (perhaps her address book), automatically get through. Unknown senders' emails are dropped in a "quarantine" folder. The system automatically generates a "challenge" email for the sender. The nature of the challenge is different with every system. EarthLink's allows the sender to request the recipient add his address to the whitelist. Challenges sent by Spam Arrest, Mailblocks, Matador, and Vanquish ask senders to verify their humanity (by way of a visual test).
This poses a serious problem for senders of high-volume or automated email. In my own short, two-day test of Mailblocks, messages from Eddie Bauer, drugstore.com, target.direct, Levi's, Procter & Gamble, and (ironically) EarthLink were placed in my quarantine folder. I received automated responses (also quarantined) from a couple of these companies. None has, so far, responded in such a way as to be allowed into the inbox.
E-mail service providers (ESPs), including those represented by the Network Advertising Initiative's (NAI's) ESP coalition, are understandably concerned.
"Ticket [or purchase] confirmations don't come from a customer service rep's outbox, they are delivered automatically," said Trevor Hughes, head of the NAI's ESP coalition. "Those systems don't have a person behind them that can go through the computational test to respond to them."
Tactically, ESPs are building workarounds to deal with the problem and simultaneously developing strategies for the future. For now, Bigfoot Interactive's Ari Osur says the company monitors inbound email in response to a mailing. It's routed to a human being, who scans messages for challenges and responds to them.
"You can also do keyword handlers on that reply mail [to find challenges]," he said. "And they would just go through and manually do it."
For many systems, that's enough. For EarthLink's, the user still needs to OK the sender's request to be added to the whitelist.
"There is no way for the marketer to 'make sure' their message gets through the system," said Jerry Grasso, an EarthLink spokesperson. "The user has to allow it to get through."
Mailblocks, to its credit, allows users to set up unique email addresses called "trackers," which they can use to conduct commercial relationships. Mail to these addresses isn't filtered. The process of setting these up is somewhat confusing. It's unlikely consumers will go back and change their email addresses with every commercial entity with which they have existing relationships.
Sound confusing and time consuming? That's why it's such a concern. Challenge/response requires marketers to battle for each individual email box. There's no central whitelist or go-to person to contact, making the problem especially difficult.
So far, challenge/response is a fairly small problem. Bigfoot's Osur said a recent mailing for one client resulted in around five challenges per million messages. The ratio of challenges is undoubtedly growing. Mailblocks, launched just two months ago, won't reveal subscriber numbers, although it said it's "getting traction." EarthLink won't divulge how many people are using its new system, either, but said it expects half of its 5 million subscribers to be using it by year end.
What to do? Enlist a human to respond to challenges. Ask your newsletter subscribers to add your address or domain to their address books or whitelists. Work to foster dialogue between legitimate marketers and ESPs, and the developers of challenge/response systems. Finally, keep an eye on the development of this technique and prepare to meet the challenge.
Don't miss ClickZ's Weblog Business Strategies in Boston, June 9-10.
Pamela Parker is a former managing editor of ClickZ News, Features, and Experts. She's been covering interactive advertising and marketing since the boom days of 1999, chronicling the dot-com crash and the subsequent rise of the medium. Before working at ClickZ, Parker was associate editor at @NY, a pioneering Web site and e-mail newsletter covering New York new media start-ups. Parker received a master's degree in journalism, with a concentration in new media, from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
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Any thoughts on a third jersey?
On the chat I was asked if the Giants were going to wear their red jersey on Sunday and it got me to thinking: would you be open to the Cowboys having a third jersey?
Not just the throwback but an alternate jersey, like a silver one or something like that?
Philly went with the black jerseys on Sunday vs. Washington.
Any thoughts or is it too traditional to mix in a third jersey?