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Running out to get the mail has never been easier than with this reliable mailbox. A spacious interior holds letters, magazines and catalogs with room to spare, and the rear door eliminates the need to step into the street to retrieve your mail. The mailbox features a rustic textured wood-grain design in earthy colors to help make the exterior of your home distinct.Product Features:
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i do wish they would include rust resist hardware nuts and bolts, screws that type of thing
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Excellent mailbox for Rural Delivery.
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Well made and of best quality construction
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Installation was very easy
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will stand out on my street as a clean cut mailbox. Loved the2.99 shipping special also
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This product replaced out dated dull mail / paper box.Easy to install, easy to assemble, looks great and matches surrounding natural area.No negatives at this time.
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Very attractive and matches our home!
Beautiful Mailbox!
By Joe
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After reading several comments regarding the unattractive cutout in the bottom post and seeing the situation in the assembly plans, I examined the possibility of reversing the bottom post so that the good-looking insert faced forward toward the street. Turns out that the upper mailbox part is symmetrical and it works! First remove the two screws holding the newspaper flap and move the flap to the other end of the receptacle and reattach with the screws. Then insert the upper mailbox in the OPPOSITE direction of that shown on the assembly instructions. Now you can use the nice filler part for the front of the post and avoid the ugly cutout!Thanks Step2 for a terrific mailbox (hope the vandals leave it alone).
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We bought this as a gift for my son, whose old mailbox mounted on a pipe gave up the ghost. The pole is substantial and bent at an angle because a car had taken it out a few years ago. This product permitted us to still mount to the same pole and have a surprisingly straight vertical mailbox. I'm so impressed, I can't wait til my mailbox needs to be replaced, cause I'm buying one of these for us.
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What is it about American football that is so compelling? Is it the preparation… the planning? The beautifully executed "set" play that works to perfection? The shocking turnabout that a turnover can cause? The athleticism? The physical energy expended? The pain endured? The victories? The losses? The "locks?" The upsets? The many ways to score? The variety of offensive and defensive schemes?
Its ability to serve as a metaphor for our lives, here in America?
Baseball, long "America's game" and oft used to teach us about life, falls short of capturing us, because in the end, it is not so much a team sport, but simply a collection of individual efforts. We may be compelled by the late inning comeback, or a Bill Buckneresque moment, but baseball does not parallel life nearly as much as football.
Hockey and basketball were ruined by Gretzky and Jordon. Not by the Great One and Michael, but by the selfish ball and puck hogs who followed, posers and imposters who attempted to shine in the same light, but never measured up. While the fluidity of each game provides a certain grace and beauty, they are compelling only for rabid fans, and teach us little about life.
I've never played organized football. I play, and have coached, hockey. I am drawn to football because of its tactical AND strategic nature. I am drawn to football because of its athleticism and brutality. I am most drawn to football because of its structure. The setting of plays, allows each of us a moment to project our hopes out onto the field, for the coaches to adjust, and for the players to dig down for more effort. This setting of plays is what sets football apart from all other games. As much as I love hockey, it is not football.
Life is a lot like football. We all run set plays sent in by the coaches. Grade school, middle school, high school, college maybe, work, family, joy, happiness, tragedy, and finally death. Set plays.
Perfect execution often, not always, produces outstanding results. We emulate successful set plays…high school graduation, college degrees, marriage…and we execute according to the play book, we score in the game of life. But sometimes there are fumbles, interceptions, blocked kicks, botched plays, and career ending injuries. These miscues often send our lives into different directions, re-shape us, or re-enforce our successes.
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At dinner last night we were sat next to a young family of 4. The father was obese (well over 400 lbs), the mother, while not thin, wasn't fat.
They children were young (6 and 3), but eating full-sized adult meals.
The children seemed lovely, happy, well cared for, dressed nicely. They were polite and sweetly interacting with one another. But obesity is definitely setting in at a very young age.
The CDC has stated that childhood obesity has increased more than 3x over the past 30 years.
Obesity is the result of caloric imbalance (too few calories expended for the amount of calories consumed) and is mediated by genetic, behavioral, and environmental factorsĀ
- Obese youth are more likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure. In a population-based sample of 5- to 17-year-olds, 70% of obese youth had at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
- Children and adolescents who are obese are at greater risk for bone and joint problems, sleep apnea, and social and psychological problems such as stigmatization and poor self-esteem.
- Obese youth are more likely than youth of normal weight to become overweight or obese adults, and therefore more at risk for associated adult health problems, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, several types of cancer, and osteoarthritis.
For debate: I understand that under any circumstance, there can be a genetic/medical factor contributing to obesity. I'm not debatingĀ that ... it's the environmental and behavioral issues I'm focusing on.
If malnutrition/lack of food in the house can be classified as child abuse/neglect, and warrant a call to CPS, why is childhood obesity not granted the same concern?
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Good reference book to have in the house
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The Cornell book is a very informative, very interesting and useful book. All homes with cats should have a book like this one - very helpful for answering questions and for looking up important information on health and behavior matters, etc.
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Cornell puts out some great reference materials and books and this is one of them. I would check this guide many times over my tenure as a direct animal care shelter employee.
A must have for the vet tech in your shelter!
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Cornell is the leading university in animal education. This book should be in every shelter and every home that has a cat. We have one in our shelter where we take care of kittens and use if often.
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WPF has a great feature called data templates. These allow you to specify the visual appearance for a data object, you can either place them in a control or put them in a resources section to reuse them for multiple controls.
The real benefit in my opinion of them is that you can tag them with the type of the data object that they display, WPF will then automatically select the appropriate data template when it needs to render an item of that type. This makes building controls that display heterogeneous data structures really easy.
I was recently working on a Silverlight application in which I had a 3 pane view, one of the panes contained the main content and the other two contained navigation elements in a typical master / details type scenario. The items in the navigation pane were are of different types all deriving from a common base class. When I selected the item in the navigation pane I wanted to display the details in the main pane, however since each item was of a different type they needed to display differently in the main pane.
Fantastic I thought, I can use data templates and this'll be easy. That was when I found out that Silverlight doesn't support data templates that vary by type. You can define them and share them using a named key but unfortunately you cannot assign a target type to them like you can in WPF.
This wouldn't be much of a blog article unless I'd found a way around this though so here we go. There are probably several different ways you could do this but this is the way I chose and it seems to work quite nicely, at least for me.
What I thought was I can databind the data object to the data template property of the control and implement a converter that yields a data template based on the type of the data object it receives. Ignoring the loading of the resources you can see the code below takes the type of the value passed into the converter and then looks it up in a map to find out the template to use which is then returned.
This allows the XAML to look like this. The content control for the main pane binds the content to the current item in my data context (which is a view model), this item has a child property called Item that I want to use to choose the type of data template to use. I then use the converter MainItemTemplates to convert the CurrentItem.Item into a data template for the content control.
Declaring the converter in the resources then looks like this. The converter declares (in this case) 4 mappings from various source types into various data templates previously defined in the resources. These data templates are defined as regular keyed resource data templates.
The above approach is nice since it allows you to have multiple mappings of types to data templates and also allows you to have the data template selector something different from the item being data bound to the content control. One downside to it is that you have to build and maintain the map though.
In order to get a more WPF like effect I introduced an attached property with some behaviour as shown below. I then look for any data templates in the application resources that have this property attached and pre-populate the map from them.
GetSourceType() is the get method for the attached property declared above. Currently GetDataTemplates() only looks in the application resources but later it could check all of the resources in the application.
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For dogs with cumulative allergies to preservatives, dyes, etc., this is a choice that's affordable, effective and seems to be tasty to dogs.
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Spike has allergies so this is the perfect food for him. He loves it and tries to open the bag before we even get it into the dog food bin. I would have to say this is a better price and option then pedigree. Also when you purchase this brand part of the profits go to help animal shelters.
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Well, you know how that panned out. Of all the years that people have been predicting the guidebook's demise—through real crises and false alarms—2013 has so far been most anxious-making. In March, parent company BBC Worldwide unloaded Lonely Planet for $120 million less than it paid for the brand a few years earlier. That same month, rumors flew that Google—which had bought the stalwart Frommer's imprint last summer—was killing off print editions. (Two weeks later, Arthur Frommer himself took back his namesake, vowing to continue in book form.)
The latest iteration of Google Maps revealed the company's real reason for acquiring Frommer's and, a year earlier, Zagat: both series had essentially been strip-mined for digital content. Meanwhile, as print sales wane, mergers are shrinking the industry, threatening titles such as Rough Guides and DK's Eyewitness series. So could it finally be coming to pass? With travelers young and old turning to flashier, cheaper (or free) resources, might the quaint old guidebook go the way of the traveler's cheque?
Our attachment to the medium may be largely sentimental. But the guidebook's decline isn't just about the death of another outmoded format—it's about the end of a whole way of encountering the world. Back in the Limited Information Age, the paperback travel guide was our touchstone, our shared reference point. If its heyday is indeed over, then it stands as a marker of the last time travelers agreed on something, the last time we drew inspiration from a common source.
The modern travel guide took its current form in the 1830s, back when Karl Baedeker was charting paths across Europe with his famous red book. Not until the mid 20th century did the genre go truly global. In America, the postwar era ushered in a new wave of guidebooks for a broader array of travelers—cresting in 1957 with the debut of Arthur Frommer's "Europe on $5 a Day."
I wound up writing for Let's Go myself when I returned from my year overseas. (The series is still produced entirely by Harvard undergraduates.) Working there gave me an early, prophetic sense of how inefficient guidebook publishing really was. Reporting was costly, even for a budget series; the work was pretty thankless (you try spending your days checking laundry rates in Portuguese); and, despite the relatively short turnaround time—reporting in summer, releasing in the fall—the books quickly went out of date. As early as 1992, long before digital flipped the medium on its end, the guidebook's fatal flaws were evident to anyone who worked on one.
If travel guides were cheap to produce, like sudoku books, the endeavor might work quite well. But they're enormously expensive to research, design, and print—and although prices appear high, margins are notoriously low. ("Lonely Planet: Western Europe" sells for $30; it ought to cost twice that.) Factor in their almost instant obsolescence—nobody wants last year's "Time Out: Paris"—and you've got a risky business model in the best of times.
One guy who's weathered the storm well is Rick Steves, whose namesake travel empire (comprising books, Web, radio, television, a tour company, and a gear store) raked in unprecedented print royalties last year. Starting in 1980 with his now-annual "Europe Through the Back Door" guide, this affable Northwesterner—partial to exclamations like "fun!" or "neat!"—has become America's unlikely authority on European travel. His books divine the quotidian mysteries of the continent: how to weigh bananas at a French supermarket, or how to say tap water in Polish.
In the wake of the Google/Frommer's news this spring, Steves wrote a blog post about the challenges of the guidebook business, likening them to those faced by the news media, which pays for on-the-ground reporting that ends up being cannibalized by the Internet. Guidebook publishers, he noted, "have a similar problem in hiring trained researchers to actually research their books in person. And new crowdsourcing alternatives give travelers the impression that they have all the reviews they'll ever need."
But crowdsourced sites—as useful as they are, particularly for hotel and restaurant reviews—are no substitute for the depth and authority of a professionally written guide (or, I would humbly add, a magazine article). They're a helpful complement, but not a replacement, Steves argued—"just as you wouldn't want to get all of your news from amateur bloggers."
I depend on both crowdsourced and expert advice on my trips, and my experience is far better for it. Print and digital do make perfect complements—so much so that it amazes me how we lived without the latter for so long, and how we can fathom going on without the former.
Still, when the vastness of the digital world overwhelms, guidebooks offer something else: the sweet relief of being able to stop. To stop clicking, stop searching, stop worrying what else is out there. The Web too often devolves into an infinite series of questions—since a whole different answer is just another click away. The great advantage of a guidebook, it turns out, is that it is blessedly, reassuringly finite: a closed loop, a finished product, providing only answers. Answers, and perhaps a makeshift pillow.
This was brought home for me on a recent trip to Africa, where I found myself turning to the Bradt Travel Guides, a 40-year-old British series focusing on the developing world. Well-reported and smartly written, the books are a favorite of traveling academics, journalists, and NGO workers from Uganda to Ukraine.
For my safari I packed Bradt's hefty Zambia guide—at 1.2 pounds, a considerable chunk of my 20-pound luggage allotment. It wound up being as indispensable as a zoom lens. Every night I'd lie awake for hours reading by flashlight, devouring the guide like a potboiler. What I wouldn't have known about Zambia without Bradt would have filled … well, a 550-page book.
Apart from our human guides, there was no greater authority. Besides, we were in the bush, with no Internet. We couldn't just Google our way to an understanding of this place.
It was the first time in ages that I'd felt so disconnected from the digital realm, from the crutch of search engines and Yelp reviews—and, at the same time, so connected to and dependent on the printed page. What I felt most of all was a sense of self-containment: the certainty that all I needed to survive was this 1.2-pound, 550-page paperback book.
You know what? It felt a lot like gratitude.


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First author and study leader Dr. Maura Gillison, medical oncologist and head and neck cancer specialist at the OSUCCC – James, describes the findings of her paper, "Prevalence of Oral HPV Infection in the United States, 2009-2010" published online Jan. 26, 2012, by Journal of the American Medical Association.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – New research shows that men are three times more likely to have an oral human papilloma virus (HPV) infection than women. The findings help explain why HPV-related oral cancers are three times more common in men than women.
Dr. Maura Gillison, a medical oncologist and head and neck cancer specialist at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James), led the study, which was published online today (1/26) by the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide with presentation of the findings by Gillison at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium in Phoenix, Ariz.
Gillison and her collaborators sought to determine the prevalence of oral HPV infection in the United States and to understand the factors associated with infection and oropharyngeal cancer, tumors that affect the base of the tongue, the tonsils or back of the mouth. They analyzed mouth-rinse samples for HPV DNA and examined data collected from 5,579 men and women who participated in the 2009-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
"This study of oral HPV infection is the first step toward developing potential oropharyngeal cancer prevention strategies," says Gillison, who is the Jeg Coughlin Chair in Cancer Research at the OSUCCC-James.
"This is important because HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer is poised to overtake cervical cancer as the leading type of HPV-caused cancer in the United States, and we currently have no means to prevent or detect these cancers early."
The researchers estimate that 7 percent of Americans between ages 14 and 69 have an oral HPV infection, or about 14.9 million people, with 10.1 percent of men infected versus 3.6 percent of women.
- About 1 percent of the U.S. population is infected with HPV 16 – the type of HPV most often responsible for cervical cancer – and that HPV 16 infection is five times more common in men than in women.
- Oral HPV infection was uncommon among those with no history of sexual contact compared with those with a history of sexual contact of any type (0.9 percent vs.7.5 percent, respectively.)
- Oral HPV infection was independently associated with age, gender, number of sexual partners and current number of cigarettes smoked per day.
Other researchers involved in this study were Tatevik Broutian, Robert Pickard, and Weihong Xiao of Ohio State University; Lisa Kahle of Information Management Services, Silver Spring Md.; and Barry I. Graubard and Anil K. Chaturvedi of the National Cancer Institute.
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (cancer.osu.edu) strives to create a cancer-free world by integrating scientific research with excellence in education and patient-centered care, a strategy that leads to better methods of prevention, detection and treatment. Ohio State is one of only 41 National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and one of only seven centers funded by the NCI to conduct both phase I and phase II clinical trials. The NCI recently rated Ohio State's cancer program as "exceptional," the highest rating given by NCI survey teams. As the cancer program's 210-bed adult patient-care component, The James is a "Top Hospital" as named by the Leapfrog Group and one of the top 20 cancer hospitals in the nation as ranked by U.S. News & World Report.


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1. Nature of Industrial Revolution. -- The Industrial Revolution may be defined as the changes involved in the invention of power machinery and the substitution of the factory system for individual craftsmanship and the domestic system. The term "revolution" merely indicates the sweeping changes involved in the complete reorganization of our economic life.
Because the Industrial Revolution was a gradual evolution, the suddenness and rapidity of which are only relative, it is difficult to give exact dates to this momentous movement. It is impossible to say just when the Industrial Revolution began or just when it ended. Perhaps it is still in progress, for the series of inventions has been fairly continuous.
It is generally conceded that the Industrial Revolution first took place in England. Indeed, the Industrial Revolution, in the narrow sense of the word, refers to the changes in the English textile industries which took place in the latter half of the eighteenth century. The spinning jenny of Hargreaves, invented in 1764, is a convenient date to mark the beginning of the new movement. It was followed by the water frame of Arkwright and the spinning mule of Crompton, which combined the best features of the two earlier inventions. Weaving, as well as spinning, was revolutionized by the development in 1785 of the power loom of Cartwright.
Although these important mechanical inventions meant the decline of the domestic system in the textile industries, water power was first used to run the machinery in the new factories. James Watt's invention of the steam engine, the first patent for which was granted in 1769, furnished a new motive power for manufacturing, however, and the small water-power mills gradually gave way to large steam-driven factories.
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OK, don't kill me for this and let me explain...an explanation is probably the best that I can do for "this". As I said before when I started this commission, I decided to have do a similar "growth of Layla" sequence in his own way to show her evolution in bust and muscularity. Now obviously the first five pics were exactly that...so then what is this? Well for those who know of this artist's works, his specialty is mutating girls way beyond the typical "maximum" that many artist go with, going way, way beyond with muscularity yet somehow keeping amazing proportion with the girls. Now with Layla, I know that her GAPAS will not let her grow this immense...but somehow I decided to ask the obvious question: what if it did? What if instead of the set-maximum, Layla's body continued to grow even as she continued to grow stronger regardless? Mostly it was an excuse to allow for the artist to do something that is more along their specialty...but it was a fun little experiment. Regardless, I really thank for his amazing work and letting Layla do what she did, both in typical and beyond typical terms!
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Zoning Practice — August 2011
Ask the Author
Here are reader questions answered by John W. Pestle author of the August 2011 Zoning Practice article "Federal Cell Tower Zoning: Key Points and Practical Suggestions."
Question from M. Lee:
T-Mobile has applied for 27 DAS sites in our city, one of many cities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The sites are within the residential area right-of-way. Residents do not want these sites in front (often 20 feet from rooms) of their homes. We feel they are unsightly, add more clutter to the already overburdened overhead powerlines, tear up driveways in some instances, add guy wires to walking areas, lower property values, and reduce the beauty of our walkable areas, etc.
- Is it possible to use the macro sites, outside of the residential areas, rather than the micro DAS sites to provide the increasing capacity needs that carriers want to serve?
- Have any cities you know been able to convince T-Mobile and other DAS vendors (like ExteNet) to keep out of the residential areas ROW. And if so, how were they able to do so.
Answer from author John W. Pestle:
This question about DAS overlaps with the similar DAS question from Doug Luftman below, so please see that response. The same disclaimers apply, as this relates to California law.
To respond on your two specific questions, whether conventional cell towers located outside the residential area can serve that area is an engineering and technical question dependent on the facts of your specific situation — there is no general answer. Presumably at some level of usage the answer is no, at which point the options are either conventional cell towers or DAS sites to serve that area.
I am aware of a city in another state which was able to very effectively camouflage DAS sites (as trees, cacti, signs, lamp posts, etc.) in residential areas, such that residents were often unaware DAS antennas were present. That was in a situation where the city could compel all utilities to go underground (achieved only after litigation), and the city and residents contributed some money towards the cost of undergrounding. My impression (which is only that) is that California law may not be as favorable, but you need to check with a California attorney experienced in such matters to find out — see the recommendation in my answer to Doug Luftman.
The more broadly applicable point is that DAS sites can be — and have been — camouflaged or "disguised" so as to reduce their visibility and intrusion. See the comments on camouflaging in my article in Zoning Practice, and visit the website mentioned there: http://cellularpcs.com/gallery/. It has literally hundreds of pictures of camouflaged sites — including some camouflaged/less intrusive DAS sites, some of which I believe are in California. Following up on those may prove helpful.
Question from Janine Divyak, AICP, Dona Ana County, New Mexico:
We are getting a flood of applications within our county for cell towers due to the high demand of the Smartphone. We have three different ordinances that regulate cell towers for each jurisdiction, and we are looking at having similar standards county-wide. Are there any model ordinances available and/or can you provide me with some ordinances that regulate cell tower sitings, please?
Answer from author John W. Pestle:
Here are a few suggestions on the topic of cell tower ordinances, with the caveat that any ordinance has to be carefully tailored to the laws and situation of the municipality in question:
- We have a model ordinance available which may prove helpful (if it isn't, send it back and we won't charge you). Go to www.varnumlaw.com/Services/Cable-Telecommunications/Order-Model-Documents.
- Be cautious about the ordinances offered by some firms, and adopted by some municipalities, that are very long and give the distinct impression that their purpose is to keep cell towers out. Although there are areas where cell towers may not be warranted, in general Federal law (as set forth in our article in Zoning Practice) does not allow a municipality to prevent a cell tower from being built if one is truly needed to fill a gap (although the courts require that the gap be filled by the least intrusive means possible, often a "stealth" tower concealed as a tree, etc).
- Check back in a few days, as I hope to have some actual ordinances which have been adopted to suggest to you.
Question from Debbie Todd, City of Madisonville, Kentucky:
Mr. Pestle, I have a public hearing on Friday to consider a height variance for a cell tower. The tower will be located on commercial property but adjacent to several residential homes. The tower could be located on property within ¼ mile that would be much more appropriate as it would be on our County fairgrounds (which they have agreed to allow) and not so close to residential homes. Kentucky Revised Statues state the following three things should be considered when granting a variance:
- The requested variance arises from special circumstances which do not generally apply to land in the general vicinity, or in the same zone;
- The strict application of the provisions of the regulation would deprive the applicant of the reasonable use of the land or would create an unnecessary hardship on the applicant; and
- The circumstances are the result of actions of the applicant taken subsequent to the adoption of the zoning regulation from which relief is sought.
If the Board makes a decision on one of the 3 above, in your opinion would their case stand up? I know regulating cell tower location is very hard but not really sure about the height. Any insight/advice you could give would be most appreciated.
Answer from author John W. Pestle:
Debbie, I am not a Kentucky lawyer knowledgeable about how the Kentucky courts interpret your statutes, so I can't advise you on the Kentucky statutes you cite. You should check with your City Attorney on them.
Here are some practical but non-legal points, as well as some thoughts from a federal law perspective:
- Cell companies start by specifying a "search ring" within which a local company is asked to find a site for a cell tower. I would ask about the search ring specified by the company's engineers to see what land it includes, what sites within it were considered, why certain ones were or were not pursued, etc.
- Obviously you want to ask why the county land will or will not work for them, as well.
- As set forth in my Zoning Practice article, federal law focuses on different points, mainly procedural (written decision, written record, etc.). The major substantive law aspect of federal law is that you cannot prohibit cellular service, such as by preventing the cell company from filling a significant gap. But even there the courts generally require showings along the lines that there is no other nearby site that would work, and that the site chosen is the least intrusive one possible.
- You may well find that the response by the cell company (which you may choose to ask for in writing, as well as verbally at the hearing) is quite technical. In that case, having an engineering consult specializing in assisting municipalities on these types of matters can be quite helpful, and often (I don't know about Kentucky) this can be done at the applicant's expense. See the discussion in our paper about this, and be sure to check the credentials of the engineer.
Question from Doug Luftman:
We have begun seeing DAS infrastructure vendors going through the California PUC to get authorization to add their DAS systems to utility poles in residential communities. Do you have any insight that you can provide as to the strengths and weaknesses of this approach and what municipalities should consider in this new approach that telecom carriers and their vendors seem to be pursuing (presumably to attempt to avoid local zoning regs)? Thanks for your insight.
Answer from author John W. Pestle:
Doug, this is really a California law question, and I am not a California attorney, so I cannot respond specifically to your question. Attorney Jonathan Kramer of Los Angeles is knowledgeable on the specifics of DAS in California, from a municipal perspective. You may wish to contact him at 310-405-7333.
In general though, in some states (and my impression is that this is true in California) DAS systems qualify as "telephone companies" under state law. And once they are so certified, then often (and again I believe this is true in California, although it varies by state) local zoning control is diminished. However, if they are a phone company, then typically local right of way controls apply, which may provide some assistance.
What can communities do? In some states it is local zoning ordinances which exempt electric utilities, phone companies and the like from zoning via an "essential services" (or similar) exemption. For this reason, many zoning ordinances provide that cell phone antennas and towers are not "essential services."
Question from Mark Sargis, Chicago, Illinois:
I'm somewhat familiar with the requirements for Cell Tower Zoning, and how issues of height and location must be handled reasonably by the municipality and in accordance with federal requirements. And I know that many if not most local zoning ordinances, following federal law, have adopted zoning provisions that specifically address cell towers. But I wondered whether there are any analogous zoning requirements, acceptable standards or best practices (per federal law or regulation, or industry standard) that apply specifically to radio transmission towers (such as AM band transmission, which might be non-directional during the daytime but directional at night). Also, do you know whether any local jurisdictions have set standards for RF safety, either incorporating by reference FCC or other safety standards or trying to implement additional safety standards?
Answer from author John W. Pestle:
To my knowledge there are no similar statutes or FCC rules applicable to radio or TV towers, although there have been cases we have been involved in (which did not go anywhere) where broadcasters sought FCC assistance in overcoming zoning ordinances or the like which applied to (and restricted) new broadcast towers.
The FCC radio emission safety standards apply to all transmitters, whether cell phone, radio, TV or otherwise. However, as you may be aware, communities can enforce the FCC's standards at least as to cell phones. In some instances this is done in the grant of zoning approval, by requiring testing for and compliance with the FCC's standards.
However, typically the situations for the most concern about violations of these standards are not free standing towers, but antennas on the sides or roofs of buildings, particularly ones that are occupied. This is due to the fact that radio waves can interact in unpredictable ways with the metal in buildings, and the greater risk in such installations that something can go wrong (rodent or workman making a hole in a cable, etc). And the fact that the distances from a malfunctioning antenna to people are typically much shorter for antennas on buildings than for those on towers.
The industry typically has been resistant to local initiatives in the RF emission area, the current example being the industry suit against a San Francisco ordinance requiring retailers to prominently label cell phones with the amount their emissions, even though the FCC requires each cell phone to be tested on this (and the result is available on the manufacturer's web site, among other places).
You may wish to take a look at the FCC publication which was co-authored with and for local governments, "A Local Government Official's Guide to Transmitting Antenna RF Emission Safety: Rules, Procedures, and Practical Guidance," available at http://wireless.fcc.gov/siting/FCC_LSGAC_RF_Guide.pdf.


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She makes me want to eat some cookies right now
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I don't know how some people could hate the texture, I mean for me, the texture is perfect. It's not too glossy (some lipsticks that are too moisturizing tend to look too glossy on me and sometimes that finish is not what I'm looking for) but it's NOT drying/cakey either. It goes on smoothly on my lips, even without lipbalm under it. I love it. I love the texture and I don't find any weird smell at all, it's scentless to me.
The color itself is also a pretty neutral nude. It's not concealer-like nude like my MAC Creme de Nude for instance, it has a little life to it, maybe a bit of peachy-pink tint? Just a liiiittle bit though.
All I can say is that this lipstick has become one of my favorite nudes now. It's perfect paired with dark smokey eyes. And by the way I'm Asian, NC35-37 skin with a slight olive undertone.
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
First off the packaging is cute with the quilt design nd the revlon logo embossed on the Lipstick itself.Great nude on my lips. The texture is soft and slightly moisturizing. Has good staying power for the most part. The color on my lips is a slight pinky nude. Not corpse like at all. Great everyday color. Maybe will repurchase.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Neutral
Hair: Red, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Blue
price is a bit high for a drugstore brand-- $7-something, i believe
i have naturally dry lips, and this wasnt all that moisturizing for me-- went on a bit dry, actually.
color: not at all what i was looking for. i was under the impression that "nude" would be very similar to the color of my natural lips, NOT the color of my skin, so i ended up with lips that looked like i'd covered them in my foundation :/
i wont wear it again without a gloss of some sort over it to change the color and add some moisture. i will DEFINATELY not re-buy
Age: 19-24
Skin: Sensitive, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Brown
LOVE this nude. its moisterizing and its the perfect color. its not too light but its pigmented more pinkish. so, its like the kim kardashian nude. this is similar to MAC hue. I love this lipstick tho because its cheap, moisterizing, a great everyday color, and really cute packaging! get this if you like nudes!!!
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Other
Eyes: Brown
I like this lipstick, for a pretty decent price, you get a decent product. Compared to Revlon's Nude Attitude, this is 100x better. The formula is creamier and smoother, the color is more pinky instead or orange, and it is nowhere near as drying. I prefer my MAC lipsticks, but this is a good drugstore alternative. I would probably purchase again.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Green
I bought this because not a single store I went to had GOSH Darling in stock. It's just okay. The consistency is nice, I have lipbalm on underneath so it feels really nice and smooth, but I find the color a little too orange. It's not obvious, it certainly doesn't look /bad/, but it's not what I was looking for. I have naturally really pigmented lips, so I wanted something to tone that down a little without giving me cocealer-mouth. This achieves that, but it's just a little too warm for my skintone. The word that comes to mind is 'caramel', even though that's not totally accurate, it should give you an idea of what I mean. I'll probably continue to use it on lipstick days, maybe under a lipgloss until I find something better, but once I do this will probably never be used again.
The case is super cute though, very Chanel, right down to the writing on the actual lipstick.
Age: 30-35
Skin: Normal, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
This is the perfect nude color for me. Most nudes are too brown on me. Not this one. It has a slight pink tone. It covers well. I have pale skin and this doesn't wash me out or blot my lips out completely. I had that problem with nude additude. I will definitely buy this again.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Cool
Hair: Other, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Green
I've tried a few more of these in other colors, and am loving this one. I wasn't happy really with the others - please see my other reviews for those, but this one is looking great! It does take the right kind of application, and the skin tone (like all other l/s in my experience!), and it can look good on lots of folks.
It is a pretty true neutral nude, IMO. It's not too pinky, and not too yellow, or gray. If you use a heavy hand, it will likely turn out to look like concealer. But if you use a nice liner, and just dab this on, and mix a little gloss or a little balm on top (depending for which look you're going for), it looks much better, and like a gorgeous nude to go with your look! You can really alter this by the color gloss that you add on top.
These really vary in price depending on where you get them. I think they are around $9 at CVS and Wags, but more like $8 at Target, and $6-7 at Walmart.
The texture feels great, like a moisturizing lipstick, and slides on nicely but with great payoff. I didn't find this to be chalky on my lips. This leaves a matte-satin type finish for me.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Green
I would never buy it again. The color is not a problem, the texture is. It is totaly cakey, streaky and drying. The price is too expensive for such a horrible quality product. Packaging is nice but it doesn't matter when the product sucks!
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Other, Other
Eyes: Black
I love it. I wouldn't wear it alone because it might look too pale,
but the color is very pretty and the packaging if also very pretty!
I think it's one of the most natural looking nude shade lipstick.
I am positively sure I will but this product again. It's really cheap anyway.
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rangies Dec 28, 2005 8:14 PM
in response to doctormacWhenever I try to back up the OS to the external drive, it tells me I can't. So, I'm trying to put the files from the external drive onto a disk and onto the iBook as backup, delete the HD, and reformat, and put on the new OS (Tiger) for an external backup. At this point, I'm having trouble putting any backup files onto DVD via iBook - whether I drag/drop, make archive, or copy/paste, or duplicate, I get only aliases on the disk. I saw in one post that once I burn, the aliases actually burn with real files in them, but that wasn't true. I had aliases on the disk that burned as aliases, and nothing was in them when I tried to re-open. Oddly, the CSR on AppleCare that fielded my call with this issue couldn't answer that question OR how to name my unnamed disk on the desktop. I was put on hold for 37 minutes and 11 seconds while he "went to check on it", and was disconnected at that point. He shoudln't be an Apple employee if he doesn't know how to do something as simple as rename a disk in Tiger. I found THAT solution on the discussion boards. This alias issue is more cumbersome. Any ideas?
Freddie L. Dec 29, 2005 5:16 AM
in response to rangiesWhat type of files are you trying to backup. Program files or Document type files? Have you tried backing up to a CD? I have not seen this problem before, but if you can give me some specific files that are doing this and there extension I can see if I can recreate the problem at home.
rangies Dec 29, 2005 6:25 AM
in response to Freddie L.I'm trying to back up document files (photos, iTunes, etc.) to a DVD-R which I purchased at the Apple store. I'm also having trouble trying to backup my system on the external hard drive. Using disk utility, I'm trying to do a "restore" function with my install disk onto the external HD. It takes a long time and appears to be working, and then I get an "error code (5)", whatever that is, saying that the files cannot be installed. Worked fine on the install of my iBook! AppleCare yesterday afternoon had told me to back it up by booting from the install disk and doing an install, and that didn't work either.
Barbara Brundage Dec 29, 2005 4:45 PM
in response to rangies HelpfulDear rangies, please be careful. You are confusing installing the system and backing up. There is no way in the world to back anything up by booting from the OS X install disc and installing the system. You can do an archive install of the system, but that is not in any way the same as backing up.
Backing up means making a copy of all your files so that if something goes wrong you will still have them.
The closest thing to a backup in installing is doing an archive install, which only means that your old system files are saved so that you can extract anything you need. However, it does not copy your documents or programs, and if something goes badly wrong in an archive install and you wind up having to do an erase install. you will lose your documents,so you should still back them up before doing an archive install, too.
EDIT Incidentally, if you have used disk utility to make a copy of your system and you successfully 'restore' that to your external drive, you will overwrite whatever is on it now, so that's probably not what you want to do.
Does your ibook have firewire?
rangies Dec 29, 2005 5:24 PM
in response to rangiesYes, the new iBook has firewire, up to 400 Mb/sec. What exactly is firewire?
When people in the discussion boards say that they often run their computers from an external hard drive (some have even said their hard drives became corrupted, so they boot from the external HD every time and use the system just like it was the actual computer without replacing the corrupted HD), what does that mean? It gave me hope that if I can install my system disks onto the external, then I wouldn't have to replace the corrupted HD on my iMac and it would work just like it used to work. What's the real story?
That is my only motive for wanting to install the system on the external HD.
Thanks for all of your help. Hope you had a great busiest day of the year musically!
Barbara Brundage Dec 29, 2005 5:47 PM
in response to rangies HelpfulThanks for your kind wishes, rangies. How much stuff do you have on the imac, and how much free space on the ibook? If you have enough room on the ibook, there's a way to copy the files directly from your imac to your ibook and burn them to CDs (or DVDs if the ibook has a superdrive) there.
Open a finder window (click on the desktop and press command+N) on each computer, and tell me what it says at the bottom of the window. On my G5 imac, for instance, it says "229 items, 197.61GB available.)
EDIT I think you said earlier that you are also using your external drive with your pc, didn't you? If so, it won't be formatted in a way that will let you install the mac operating system, so let's ignore that for right now.
Freddie L. Dec 29, 2005 6:21 PM
in response to rangiesFirewire is another type of interface that a computer uses to send and receive information. It is highspeed compared to a usb port. The best way to connect your external hard drive is through firewire.
rangies Dec 29, 2005 7:31 PM
in response to rangiesHi,
The iMac says it has 44.48 GB available (I deleted everything and reinstalled the system recently), and the iBook says it has 13.26 GB available (I already put all of my old iMac files on it, including biggies like movies, photos, and music) and the iBook does have a superdrive.
Now, when I tried to just drag and drop my whole "Old iMac Files" folder and burn it to DVD, nothing that copied was openable on the iMac. It created aliases instead of real files, and made them Retrospect Express files instead of iDVD, iPhoto, etc. When I tried to open them through Retrospect Express (BTW, try saying the name of that software out loud - I found, on a call to Apple Care, that it's impossible to pronounce without inverting syllables - surprised the name made it through a corporate marketing department!), it said that the supporting file folders couldn't be found.
Now, I opened iPhoto on iBook, dragged and dropped all of the photos there, and am currently using the Burn to Disk function through iPhoto to create a backup. The end result I'm hoping for is to backup everything in duplicate (on the iBook and on a DVD), then to reformat/erase the external HD so that I can install the OSX disks on the external HD.
I had partitioned the External HD in two 20 GB sections: one intended for iMac, one for PC. However, it wasn't readable by the PC so the second partition is PC in name only. I'm going to now use the two partitions one for iMac, one for iBook, and put the OS's for each on each of the two partitions. My hope is that I can boot from/work from the external HD with each computer. If this works, I won't have to replace the HD on iMac, and the iBook is ready in case of disaster after the warranty expires.
AppleCare seems to think this won't work, that the install disks will not read all of the files onto the external HD, and in a pinch I may have wasted my time. I'm willing to try, because the posts on the discussion boards seem to imply that it works. People out there say they use their external HDs exclusively after corrupting their HDs like I did on iMac, and have no problems.
Before I dare delete/reformat the external, I have to make sure that my files are on iBook and burned to DVD. I think I've figured it out with the photos, but I'm not seeing export functions in all of the applications for which I have files on that HD. They may never make more than aliases.
Once the OSs are loaded onto the external HD, I plan to move the old iMac files back onto the external, and clear out my iBook HD of these files. I don't want to use up all of my iBook space in the first week I own it! I'll copy them into the external, hopefully have backup DVDs, then I don't need them on iBook.
Does this sound reasonable?
Ronda Wilson Dec 29, 2005 8:55 PM
in response to rangiesThe easiest and (in my opinion) best way to do a backup and be able to start up from the external drive, is to use a third-party software solution like SuperDuper in order to make a bootable clone of your system on your external FireWire drive.
Barbara Brundage Dec 29, 2005 9:12 PM
in response to rangiesBefore you try to install any operating systems, rangies, how does the external drive connect to your computers? If it's a USB drive, you can't boot from it.
Barbara Brundage Dec 29, 2005 9:31 PM
in response to rangiesAlso, if you only backed up aliases, you did not back up your files. This is very important and it's the first thing we need to solve. You do not need to be using iphoto and so on to burn the files once they are on the ibook. The first thing to do is tell us exactly what your external hard drive is and how it connects to your macs.
rangies Dec 30, 2005 7:42 AM
in response to Barbara BrundageMy external HD is a Maxtor One Touch. It connects with USB. I didn't know USB wouldn't work. Can a firewire plug from my iBook work with the Maxtor in its USB port? If I borrow the wire and put the USB end into the maxtor and the firewire end into the iBook, perhaps I have a shot? If so, would I just need to go about the install of my system disks by restarting, holding down the option key, and selecting the maxtor as my destination?
rangies Dec 30, 2005 8:40 AM
in response to rangiesForget my last idea - the firewire plug doesn't have a male part which fits into the Maxtor. Do firewire plugs come in different shapes? The one I have looks like it attaches to a camera or something. It's a tiny plug, kindof "M" shaped on top and flat across the bottom.
Garrett Morris Dec 30, 2005 10:35 AM
in response to rangiesI have a strawberry imac 266 which i have had since 1998? i think. it ran 24/7 with seti@home plus everything else. I now have an Imac 17 1ghz flatpanel I call "r2-g4". I have had it since feb 2002. Neither one has had any kind of trouble. I have read in these forums about bad ram craching the cpu. Also as others have stated here the hard drive could be failing. Any thing made by man can and will fail at some time. I don't see a need to by a new one. A new drive will cost about $1 per gb and can be installed by you. I upgraded both of my internal drives by following the instructions I downloaded from someplace, I think it was versiontracker.com. If you have extra ram installed try pulling the one in the external slot. If the trouble still exists then i would by a bigger/faster drive. If you are short on funds (who isn't?), you could FRANKENSTEIN your imac with the external drive, booting off of and running on that.
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Pronunciation: /əʊvəˈsteɪ/
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verb[with object]
Stay longer than the time, limits, or duration of: he was arrested for overstaying his visa
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What a night of work that has to be – racing from accident to accident, dodging (and arresting) weaving celebrants all along the way. Spending a 10-hour shift working as the only line of defense between the general public and the ravages of inexperienced drunks turned out onto the highways and sidewalks like so many unguided missiles with ton-and-a-quarter payloads. I bet the officers have no problem falling asleep when they finally make it home after that.
It seems like, in recent weeks, we're getting a dose of that feeling here at the Heritage Foundation. Instead of racing around to wrecks, fights and other small disasters, we're trying to keep the country safe from the huge disaster that would result if Congress doesn't come to its senses about how to create a prescription-drug benefit for seniors.
Like those bedraggled cops, we don't get a lot of help. The House of Representatives wants to do it one way, the Senate another, and President Bush – whose original proposal most closely matched our own proposal – now just wants something, anything, done as soon as possible. Oh, and he wants bipartisan agreement – even more cooks in the stew.
We fully acknowledge that something has to be done so less-well-off seniors don't have to eat dog food to afford their prescription drugs. It's just that, aside from President Bush's original proposal to model the program on the highly successful health plan that serves Congress, the White House staff and other federal employees, no one has come up with an affordable idea that would actually help seniors.
At first, we were participating in a philosophical – and occasional – discussion on what legislation should look like with members of Congress from both sides of the aisle. Stuart Butler, vice-president of domestic policy and one of the nation's leading experts on health-care policy, has worked for years with members such as Sen. John Breaux, D-La., to find a reasonable answer to this problem. Bob Moffit, director of domestic policy at Heritage, is a former Office of Personnel Management official who understands the benefits of the federal employees' program and the budgetary nightmare the proposals in Congress would create.


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The 2015 Spring Tillage and Cover Crop Transect shows Hoosier farmers continue the trend of plowing less and using sound conservation practices that preserve and build valuable topsoil.
Each spring the members of Indiana's Conservation Partnership (ICP) load up their vehicles to conduct a field survey of tillage methods, plant cover, and crop residue in their county. A tillage transect is an on-the-ground survey that identifies the types of tillage systems farmers are using and long-term trends of conservation tillage adoption using GPS technology, plus a statistically reliable model for estimating farm management and related annual trends.
So why look at conservation tillage? Conservation tillage helps keep the soil where it belongs: on the field. Residue cover of just 30 percent can help reduce soil erosion by 50 percent or more compared to bare soil. This is good for our farmers, good for soil productivity, and good for our drinking water.
The ultimate in conservation tillage is "no-till", where farmers directly plant into the previous crop with little soil disturbance. No-till farming methods can reduce soil erosion by 75 percent compared to a conventional (chisel-disk) tillage system, and is a critical component to improve soil organic matter and soil health.
Reducing tillage can pay off in other ways. In fact, the 2015 report shows farmers saved over 32 million tons of soil that remained on crop fields by using reduced tillage methods as compared to conventional tillage. Indiana farmers who used reduced tillage systems also required fewer passes and they used less fuel that resulted in over 14 million gallons of diesel saved.
Another important conservation practice that the ICP is tracking is fields planted with cover crops. These plants benefit the soil before planting or after harvest by feeding the diverse populations of soil biology, protecting the soil, and building soil organic matter. Over 933 thousand acres of cover crops were recorded in the Indiana spring transect, which continues to increase each year.
These numbers confirm that Indiana is a national leader in acres of cover crops planted. Indiana farmers were some of the first in the country to figure out the economic and water quality benefits of soil health conservation practices like cover crops. With the record breaking rainfall this past summer, cover crops have proven a valuable tool for managing floodwater, protecting the soil and keeping sediment and nutrients out of our water.
In addition to no-till and cover crops, the eight partners who make up the ICP are promoting a soil health management system which combines other soil health practices such as adaptive nutrient management, integrated weed and pest management, and diverse crop rotations to improve soil function and make land more sustainable.
With the increase in demand for Indiana's row crop production and the reports on agriculture's role in the Gulf hypoxia and Great Lakes issues, it makes sense for the ICP to continue to observe, track and tell the stories of the good things Indiana farmers are doing.
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