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Westfalia Technologies hires Robert Douglas as service manager
March 06, 2014 - MMH Editorial
Westfalia Technologies, a leading provider of logistics solutions for plants, warehouses and distribution centers since 1992, announced today the appointment of Robert (Bob) Douglas as service manager.
From the firm's York, Pa., headquarters, Bob will ensure customers' automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) solutions operate at optimal efficiency and Westfalia's service and parts department has the bandwidth to support its growing customer base.
Bob brings more than 30 years of management and customer service experience to the position. At Quad/Graphics, he was a member of a team that oversaw the acquisition and operation of multiple Westfalia AS/RS solutions used to optimize the sequencing and sorting of materials required in the print production process.
Douglas said, "I respect Dan Labell and the Westfalia management team and truly admire the way they do business. I will concentrate my initial efforts on holding face-to-face client meetings to understand service and parts needs; explore what, if any, gaps exist in the vendor-client relationship; and ascertain what can be done to eliminate any perceived gaps."
Dan Labell, owner and president of Westfalia Technologies, said, "The addition of Bob Douglas to the management team marks a significant milestone in Westfalia's history. I am confident that Bob's managerial expertise and professional demeanor will be an asset to the firm and contribute to our continued success."
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Chris Mortensen on D&C: Randy Moss griping not 'Patriot Way'
|10.06.10 at 8:37 am ET
ESPN's Chris Mortensen joined the Dennis & Callahan show Wednesday morning to talk about the rumored Randy Moss trade to the Vikings. To hear the interview, visit the Dennis & Callahan audio on demand page.
Mortensen said his sources are telling him the deal will go through Wednesday, and the analyst tried to explain why the trade will be made.
"I think if you just look at the DNA of the Patriots, from the owner Bob Kraft to Bill Belichick, and Jonathan Kraft and what have you ' from Week 1 when Randy Moss decided to make a very clear statement that, 'Yes, I want to be a Patriot but I want to be a contract but I want a new contract,' that's just not the Patriot Way, is it?"
Added Mortensen: "The contract thing probably was going to rear its ugly head more than one more time this year."
Mortensen said there were signs on Monday night that Moss was being iced out of the offense, on a night when he had no catches and the Patriots posted a big victory over the Dolphins.
"Belichick was as happy as I've seen him," Mortensen said. "Outside of the four AFC championship game and three Super Bowls, it's about the happiest I've seen him look. And I think it was because, it was like, 'All this work we've done, these young guys are starting to come around,' combined with the fact that they had made a decision clearly a couple of weeks ago ' especially when Minnesota got involved and they could not acquire Vincent Jackson ' that Randy Moss was going to be out of town."
Mortensen said he doesn't believe the Patriots will in turn acquire Jackson, the suspended Chargers receiver, as some have speculated. He also said he didn't consider the Patriots a Super Bowl-caliber team, but their performance on Monday bumped up their contending status.
"What I saw the other night, I said, 'OK, you know what, of the top six teams or seven teams that I see as Super Bowl contenders, maybe I can still put the Patriots in that group at the bottom. And if you get young guys who get better, and Tom Brady is the best at what he does, and Belichick is the best at what he does. So, anything can happen."
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Deal to avert disbanding of UCAN falters; Shames was to resign but is still on payroll
The settlement agreement announced last month to avoid the dissolution of the Utility Consumers' Action Network has fallen apart, threatening the existence of the crusading nonprofit.
Kim Malcolm, the former state Public Utilities Commission official named UCAN executive director four weeks ago, said Tuesday that the case will now return to Superior Court.
"It is pending litigation, so there's not much I can say," Malcolm said. "The main issue has to do with the spinoff of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse."
The clearinghouse for years was a program of UCAN, which sought dissolution in Superior Court in February after former executive Michael Shames was accused by agency employees of accepting illegal payments and maintaining secret bank accounts — accusations that spurred a subpoena by federal law enforcement officials.
Shames, who had advocated on behalf of ratepayers against San Diego Gas & Electric and other utilities for nearly 30 years, denied all of the allegations.
For the moment, Shames remains on the payroll in a specific role fighting a rate hike proposed by SDG&E. He is on vacation and just returned from Costa Rica. Under the settlement deal struck last month, he was to resign without further compensation.
UCAN paid up to $710 an hour for lawyer Mikel Bistrow to negotiate the agreement, according to the receiver's report filed in court, and is already on the hook for at least $130,000 for various receivership fees. The case is scheduled to be taken up again by Judge John S. Meyer on June 29.
Meyer may also be called on to rule on whether the UCAN board even had standing to file for dissolution without a vote of its broader membership.
Last year, during failed merger talks with the Northern California-based nonprofit The Utility Reform Network, internal UCAN documents indicated a vote of the membership would be required to change governance.
According to a September letter from UCAN lawyer Paul Dostart to the California Attorney General's Registry of Charitable Trusts, state law "does not appear to provide grounds for such petition" without a vote of the 36,000 or so members of UCAN.
Between that merger concept and February — when the board decided to file for dissolution — the group decided its members no longer had the right to weigh in on such matters.
A follow-up letter by Dostart in February tells state officials that UCAN alerted members in a 1990s newsletter that the charity would no longer be member-run. As a result, the board decision to dissolve would be legal, he said.
Beth Givens, who ran the UCAN privacy program for years before organizing it as an independent charity in March, was not available for comment Tuesday.
Malcolm said the request to withdraw the settlement was filed to give her time to evaluate UCAN funds, including donations that were restricted for use by the privacy program.
"I am in the process of engaging a (certified public accountant) to go through the books for the past several years to give me some numbers for what remains," she said.
An audit ordered last year by the UCAN board remains in draft form and will not be released, Malcolm said.
The agreement, now in limbo, called for the newly organized independent Privacy Rights Clearinghouse to receive about $1.5 million.
The for-profit company Death By China was also to get $400,000. According to current UCAN employees, in addition to opening secret bank accounts, Shames negotiated a $1 million deal with Death By China to produce a documentary film.
Board President Kendall Squires was out of town Tuesday and unavailable for comment. Malcolm said as far as she knows, UCAN is not run by members.


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Never Again?
Without urgent action, we'll be watching Hotel Congo in 2014.
By the end of Hotel Rwanda, you've seen so much horror and pain that it seems dishonorable to criticize the triteness of its final scene: a partially reunited family walking through a refugee camp, holding hands with an aid worker who insists, "There's always hope …" Otherwise, Terry George's rendering of the story of Paul Rusesabagina, the Hutu hotelier who saved the lives of thousands of Tutsis during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, provokes what all accounts of genocide should—fury, depression, desolation, and ultimately, soul-searching. You want to believe that "there's always hope," but the story that begins where the film ends makes that seem a bit naive.
In the two weeks before HotelRwanda opened nationwide, both the International Crisis Group and the International Rescue Committee released reports warning that the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo is on the brink of returning to full-scale war—a war that, to a large extent, was borne out of the Rwandan genocide.
The nearly concurrent release of the reports and the film is an unfortunate example of cognitive dissonance. If there's a lesson to be learned from HotelRwanda, it's "never again." Never again will the international community stand by, will the United Nations ignore its moral obligation, will anyone let ethnic problems in Rwanda—or anywhere else—devolve to the point of mass killing. If there's a lesson to be learned from the ICG and IRC reports on Congo, it's that the world has once again stood by, the United Nations has been allowed to more or less fail to stop the violence, and Rwanda's ethnic problems remain near the center of one of the deadliest situations in the history of the world.
By now, the historical outlines of HotelRwanda's genocide tale are well known. The movie begins in April 1994 when the mass killing starts, and it ends about 100 days later when a Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, stops the killing. In the packed theater where I saw the film, the audience erupted in cheers when the RPF good guys started kicking the Hutu Power bad guys' asses. It was like any great action flick—the end was definitive and good was triumphant.
A movie certainly has no obligation to narrate the history that follows the period it covers—the ramifications of the genocide are infinite and infinitely complicated, and the story Hotel Rwanda tells is important in its own right. But a film like Hotel Rwanda also has the effect of freezing the genocide in a time and place, as if the genocide had a clear beginning and ending, as if the aftershocks weren't felt across many borders and don't continue right up to and including the moment you read this. The Tutsi and Hutu groups are found not only in Rwanda, but throughout the region, and the story of what happened after the RPF ended the genocide is often left out of popular narratives because, well, it's complicated.
Eastern Congo borders Rwanda, and it was to these densely forested hills that a million Hutu refugees and tens of thousands of génocidaires fled to escape the RPF advance. The RPF followed them across the border, and, during a vengeful period of years whose atrocities will never be fully documented, the Tutsi rebels seemed to consider every Hutu they came across a génocidaire and massacred tens of thousands (at least) of soldiers and civilians alike. The RPF soon moved on to massacre Congolese Hutus, who in turn responded (with the help of other Congolese ethnic militias) by massacring Congolese Tutsis.
During this time, the RPF, now in control of Rwanda's government, backed Laurent Kabila's coup d'état to overthrow the vicious and unstable Congolese President Mobutu Sese Seko. This caused many Congolese—including Kabila, eventually—to fear a de facto Rwandan occupation and annexation of Congo's mineral-rich east. The resulting conflagration exploded into a major war, which at its height involved seven countries and at least a dozen militias (and by that point was at least as much about money and power as ethnicity).
Today, the cycle of killing continues, in spite of a peace accord signed in 2002 and the presence of U.N. peacekeepers on the ground. The deaths of 150 Congolese Tutsi in a Burundi refugee camp this August was another chapter; in the last month, Rwandan-supported militias have sacked towns in the east, and Rwanda issued a threat (since withdrawn) to invade further under the pretense of chasing down the remaining génocidaires.
According to the IRC report, the current number of deaths attributable to the fighting has surpassed 3.8 million. That's about four times more than the number killed in the genocide, 300 times more than the number killed in Kosovo, at least 30 times more than in the current crisis in Sudan. Its only peer in the last 60 years of violence is World War II.
The Congo disaster seems to get overlooked—Hotel Rwanda's leading man, Don Cheadle, is on his way to Sudan, not Congo, for example—because it's so messy. There aren't Nazis or Hutu Power or Janjaweed who can play the part of evil incarnate. Congo is filled with shades of gray, and no one's hands are clean—not the Tutsi-supported militias or the RPF who stopped the genocide; obviously not the Hutu génocidaires or the Hutu-supported militias; not the Congolese military groups of other ethnicities or the Congolese transitional government.


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Training Center Yorktown has a rich history and also enjoys the opportunity to display Coast Guard artifacts. A short reading of the material below will give you a hint of some of the displays scattered around the 157 acres we call TCYorktown. Better yet, visit the Cyber Café on the first deck, south face of Steuben Hall, to pick up a printed version of this material including a map locating each area of interest. From that site, you can exit the south doors following the map to wander west to the CGC Cuyahoga Memorial site to start your journey on a 'Historical Walking Tour' of TCYorktown.
On October 20, 1978, CGC CUYAHOGA, while on a night-time officer candidate school training cruise, collided with the M/V Santa Cruz II in the Chesapeake Bay and sank about two minutes later in 58 feet of water. Eleven shipmates died in the tragic collision.
As a partial result of this accident the Coast Guard instituted more stringent controls and certifications. These include periodic examinations for deck watch officers and rigorous seamanship refresher courses for all prospective commanding officers and executive officers. A memorial to honor our shipmates who lost their lives is located across the street from the Coast Guard Dining Facility and Lincoln Hall. Visit the USCGC CUYAHOGA Memorial site.
CGC UNIMAK (WTR-379) was stationed at Reserve Training Center Yorktown from 7 August 1972 to 31 May 1975. Its mission was to train reservists. CGC UNIMAK (WAVP-379), later WHEC-379, WTR-379, and again WHEC-379, was a Casco-class cutter in commission from 1949 -1975 and from 1977-1988.
The Casco-class ships were built as small seaplane tenders by the US Navy. They were designed to oper-ate out of small harbors and atolls and had a shallow draft. The fact that the class was very seaworthy, had good habitability, and long range made them well suited to ocean-station duty. Bridge equipment and other relics are on display on the quarterdeck of Lincoln Hall. Visit the USCGC UNIMAK site.
The National Aids to Navigation Museum is located in the atrium of Canfield Hall. The museum includes eleven lenses, four artifact cases, several ship models, four display panels and many other interesting artifacts. The array of Fresnel lenses are considered the most complete collection in the United States.
Aids to Navigation are placed at strategic points along the coasts and navigable waterways as markers and guides to enable mariners to determine at all times their exact position with relation to land and hidden dangers. ATON includes buoys, day beacons, lighthouses, minor lights, lightships, fog signals, radio beacons, markers and other devices used to guide mariners. Visit the NATON Museum site.
The designation of Yorke Village as a marine port in 1633 demonstrated the importance of maritime commerce to these first settlers. Although the exact size and population of Yorke village are unknown, history clearly indicates that during a major portion of the 1600's, it served as the social, municipal, and religious center of this portion of the York River area.
The only remaining feature from either of the two churches is the gravestone of Major William Gooch, who died in October 1655. The Gooch grave is one of the oldest legible tombstones in the New World. The abandonment of the village coincided with the up-river development of Yorktown as a superior deepwater port in the late 1690's.
The booming of a U.S. Lighthouse Service Bell like this warned mariners of the dangerous conditions close to shore. Activated during periods of low visibility, its booming sound could be heard more than a mile at sea. Bells were replaced by power operated fog horns.
Cannon, mortars, and howitzers made up the three types of artillery used at Yorktown by the Americans, French and British. The maximum range is 1,300 yards. The effective range is 750 yards. Artillery was not an exact science, so the skill and experience of the gun crew often determined the success of the artillery.
Geoffrey Lance Matthews was a Gunners Mate Third Class stationed at Training Center Yorktown. He died tragically while on active duty in 1998. His memorial is located next to the saluting guns to honor his life, profession and to remind us of our proud heritage as the Nation.
The Coast Guard took possession of the U.S. Navys Mine Warfare School site on 3 July 1959, commissioning the Reserve Training Center (RTC), as it was originally called. The original purpose of RTC was to serve as home for Officer Candidate School and large summer training programs for Reservists.
Training Center Yorktown recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Located in the lobby of Thayer Hall are pictures, historical videos, and the contents of the 1984 recovered time capsule. On the second deck, display items include artifacts excavated from the Olde Yorke Village site and a model of CGC Cuyahoga.
A collection of vintage Coast Guard uniforms are on display in the East quarterdeck of Steuben Hall. The collection includes a Surfmans uniform (1930); Service Dress Blues, Service Dress Khakis, Jumper Type Dress Blues, Jumper Type Dress Whites (1940-1974); a SPAR Winter Dress uniform (1942); and present Service Dress Blues.
In 1995, twentyone Famous and Historical Trees were planted in a Living Classroom. The trees were grown from seeds or cuttings from trees having a unique place in history. These trees include a Honey Locust from Gettysburg, a White Oak from the home of Abraham Lincoln, a crab apple tree from from the Sullivan brothers home in Iowa, and many more.
The trees were planted in honor of Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, Douglas A. Munro and Michael E. Thornton by students from local Yorktown Elementary and Middle Schools, assisted by the Training Center Chief Petty Officer's Association. Visit the Living Classroom site.
Some 36 years after the United States won its independence from England, the young nation once again went to war with Great Britain in 1812. The war of 1812 is often referred to as the second half of the American Revolution. On the front lines was the fledgling Revenue Cutter Service which had 16 small cutters stretched from Maine to New Orleans. The Revenue Cutter Service engaged the British Navy who maintained an effective blockade over the American coast.
One of the more fiercely contested wartime engagements of the war for the Revenue Cutter Service was between the cutter Surveyor, commanded by Revenue Captain Samuel Travis, (this buildings namesake) and boarding parties deployed from the British frigate HMS Narcissus. The battle took place in the York River not far from Training Center Yorktown. Although Surveyor was captured after a bloody skirmish, the British commander considered his combat opponent to have shown such bravery that he returned Captain Travis' surrendered sword.
Hanging on the wall within Samuel Travis Hall is a commemorative plaque with the names of 86 courageous men from the Revenue Cutter Service who were imprisoned by and held by the British in POW camps in both Canada and England. Also on display are period uniforms and weaponry used by the American crews. Various historical documents and original art work depicting the battle between the cutter Surveyor and frigate Narcissus are also available for viewing.


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101 LAYOFF notices IN MAIL; half of jail to be closed
By PETER H. MILLIKEN
Friday was a tumultuous day for Mahoning County government, with Sheriff Randall A. Wellington announcing plans to lay off a third of his staff and close half the county jail.
At the same time, the Fraternal Order of Police obtained petitions for a recall of the county commissioners.
Because of the county's budget shortfall, layoff notices were mailed Friday to 101 employees of the sheriff's department, Wellington said.
Layoffs are scheduled to take effect at 7 a.m. March 28 and are to coincide with the closing of the 96-bed minimum-security misdemeanor jail as an overnight facility and the closing of about half the main jail, the sheriff said.
The layoffs and closings are necessitated by an anticipated cut announced by county Administrator George J. Tablack of between $4 million and $5.7 million below the sheriff's $17.5 million in operating expenses in 2009, the sheriff said.
"The recession that everyone is facing should probably be called a depression, as it certainly is one around here. The county is in a financial free fall," the sheriff said of the loss of tax revenue.
The proposed layoffs and closings can occur only with the permission of the federal court that has been overseeing jail operations as part of a three-year consent decree that settled a jail inmates' lawsuit concerning crowding, the sheriff said.
City and county officials and the inmates' lawyers will meet with U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster in Cleveland on Wednesday. The county will seek permission for the cutbacks at the jail.
"I am bound by a federal-court consent decree that is impossible to abide by due to a lack of funds. State law holds me accountable to not spend money that is not in my budget," said Wellington, who will attend that conference.
"Sending out the notices is not a violation of the consent decree, but actually laying off any deputies or closing portions of the jail is a direct violation of the consent decree," said Anthony Farris, deputy city law director, who will attend the Cleveland meeting.
"I have sympathy for the sheriff's predicament, but the larger issue is the money that was removed from his budget. That is the cause of the problem," Farris said.
"We are definitely going to oppose any such request" for layoffs or closings of parts of the jail, Farris said. "The reason being that there is a valid consent decree in effect. Mahoning County is bound by its terms," Farris said. The decree expires May 17.
A full hearing must take place before the three-judge panel that approved the consent decree before any layoffs or closings of parts of the jail can be put into effect, Farris said.
Wellington "will not be approved to engage in the cuts or layoffs he is proposing," Farris predicted.
Wellington acknowledged that the release of nonviolent inmates as the jail shrinks will increase crime, but he said he sees no alternative to the cutbacks.
"We knew they were talking layoffs. We had no idea of the depth. ... We were devastated. That's 101 families," said Deputy Glenn Kountz, president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 141, which represents deputies.
Kountz said the FOP went to the county board of elections Friday to pick up petitions to recall the three county commissioners.
"We have no confidence whatsoever in their leadership abilities anymore," he said. "We don't have a problem with the sheriff. The sheriff can only do what the commissioners fund him for."
The county is operating on a temporary budget. By law, the commissioners must adopt a permanent budget by April 1.
"I don't have any response to any of Glenn's comments. Glenn knows just as well that the commissioners have not made any final determination on any budget numbers for any department," said Commissioner John A. McNally IV. McNally said he'll likely be at the Cleveland meeting.
"Given our revenue streams at the moment, many of our larger departments are going to see significant budget cuts," McNally said.
Those receiving layoff notices include 90 deputies, four sergeants and seven civilians. The sheriff now employs 302 people. The layoffs are projected to save $4 million this year.
The misdemeanor jail will remain open as a staging area for the day-reporting inmate program.
The county's current capacity in both jails combined is 602 inmates, and that number will drop to 254 when the cutback occurs, the sheriff said. The county now houses 459 inmates in both jails, including 40 federal inmates.
When parts of the jail close, the county no longer will have any space available for federal inmates, the sheriff said.
"The stress and uncertainty is going to be felt throughout the organization. I understand the pain this brings to our deputies and their families," the sheriff said.
In 2008, revenue from the city and federal governments for inmates was $4.31 million. That dropped to $2.96 million last year and is projected to fall to less than $1 million this year, the sheriff said.
The city's prisoner-boarding agreement, under which it paid the county for each of its misdemeanor prisoners beyond its 71st inmate expired Feb. 23. The city won't renew that agreement, Mayor Jay Williams said. Farris said the city can't afford to renew it.
The U.S. Marshals Service recently has been reducing the number of prisoners it houses in the Mahoning County jail in favor of housing more prisoners in the Cuyahoga County jail, which is closer to most of Northeast Ohio's federal courts, the sheriff said.
The county jail receives $80 per prisoner per day for inmates sent to it from outside sources.
Time to start scaring the Mahoning County voters into approving the 1/2% sales tax. Well it is not gonna work this time - VOTE NO!!!. People's personal economies can't stand more Democrook tax and spend. County residents need to get themselves a CCW and protect themselves. A county the size of Mahoning doesn't need 300 emplyees in the sheriff's office. Downsizing is a good thing. There are plenty of other places in the county budget to cut - start doing it commissioners because your 1/2% sales tax will be going down to a NO vote!
It isn't more tax and spend, it is a continuation. But that is really irrelevant b/c the commissioners can impose the tax w/o a vote of citizens. So it really won't matter if tax passes or not.
And where are your "plenty of other places in the county budget to cut"?
I'm not saying there are not any, but where do you think they are?
Silly for FOP to do recall, if that is even available under Ohio law.
Kountz sorry for the lay off of your members, but they could of worked for less money! And protected the people of Mahoning Cty. What really gets me is NO ADMINISTRATION people were let go. They almost are working it like the Private Sector! Which I always have been an opponent of. Goverment jobs should be ran by the Private Sector and do away with these CIVIC CLUBS! And cults.
what I don't understand is why are there layoff's only in the sheriffs department. Why arn't there any layoffs notices going out to other county departments?
I quess it's time for the county to start scaring the voters into the 1/2 percent sales tax in May
How about George Tablack's high salary. Has it even been approached that he take a cut.
I am sick and tired of people like Union Forever. You do not know the facts about the Deputies. The Deputies all took concessions that you as a private sector union member would never have taken to keep working and keep the jails and courts open. The idea that the pensions of public employees are extreme are false. The way that the facts were presented were inaccurate. The public employees in the DROP program all sign up to retire in a set amount of years. During that time the pension fund pays into an account that earns a set interest rate what you would have earned in retirement. The amounts are what the retirees would have earned if they did retire, taking that money out of the pension fund. Yes they still get their pay chceks but the money that is placed into that account allows seasoned officers and fire fighters to stay on the job and helps the pesion funds earn money on those accounts. The pesion funds are now in a better position and wont be a burden on society becasue they are self funded unlike the pro union demonazis who force unfunded programs on society raising our taxes. Lets see the unions agree to extend their retirement dates for years and in the process help fund future retirements all without raisng taxes.
layoffs at the jail are absolutely ocscene~ what the deputies have to put up with most of the inmates is not known to the general public and they do this every shift~ they have taken more concessions than is generally known ~ I am not a deputy nor married to one but I know what these guys deal with every day~ it is not fair for the commissioners
the funding of the jail as they have and we need more protection in this county than in all the other 87 counties in ohio we have more crime rate here and that is apparrant in what is housed in the jail ~ and then to lose the federal inmates is ridiculous that is a huge loss here~ we definitely need a clean sweep in this county of all elected officials from the mayor on down ~ wake up people we need to get a grip on what is happening in this city ~ it has gone on long enuf from inept people in office
Yes Timothy, you are still a moron. Pay cuts "like everyone else". Mahoning County Sheriff's deputies are some of the lowest paid in the state. Deal with more crap than you ever will, and then have to have a bunch of nobodies like you tell them they still make too much.
You fools are running around saying, it's more money in my pocket, I'm not giving another cent blah blah blah. You WILL NOT even notice the difference in your bank account, or at the store, but you will notice when the roads aren't plowed next year, and when there is even more crime because they are now CERTAIN to only get probation. But hey, you are the smart ones, taking a stand and will still cry out....screw them, the cops make too much anyway. You bunch of gutless wonders, not deserving of the sacrifice these men and women make every day.
yes rokscout~ very true ~ these deputies ARE the lowest paid and deal with the idiots housed in the jail ~ inmates whoare a bunch of sissy sniveling "im locked up you need to take care of me" and rant and rave if they are given one less second of attention and its Ill sue you all for a million dollars if something doesnt happen the second they open their mouths ~ this is what happens every day and these guys are NOT paid enuf for what they do ~ but hey this is what itis so deal with it ~~ right timothy~~ Id like to see you work one day at the jail and then make your comments
Short of bankruptcy or mutual agreement to re-open a contract, bargaining unit members most likely cannot have a pay or other cut unilaterally imposed on them (I say this because clearly some people don't get this). You could get away with that with non-union employees (administrators, etc). Salary and benefits are a big-ticket item for any employer.
The jail is under a consent decree. That means that cuts have to be approved, which may or may not be.
The alternatives are eliminating employees completely, eliminating services, or finding other cuts. Recalling the commissioners is not likely to fix the problem, although it may "shuffle the deck" as to where cuts fall.
I'm not enthusiastic about the sales tax, but as I'm already paying for it, and they've committed to it being for a limited time, I'll vote for it.
what a joke!!!!!! the retirement package that these county employees get is unheard of. Commissioner's employees get 24% of their pay/salary (pre tax) deposited into their retirement accounts. This is without them paying a dime out of their pocket. You won't find that in any corporation. There are many concessions which can be made!!!!!
Do you have ANY IDEA how much of their pay they contribute. I have seen some of the pay stubs. It is unreal. If you contributed to your retirement, what they do to theirs, maybe you would be just as "golden". ORRRR put on the uniform, shut up, and serve.
joesmoe - explain this to me? Summit County with Akron has a population of 550,000 while Mahoning County with youngstown has a population of 250,000 yet both sheriff's offices employee 300 people. I think the number employed by Mahoning is way too many and this layoff will do the county budget good and put them on par with other counties in Ohio. Time to end tax and spend.
This mess with the jail was about the lawsuit about the prisoners and the lies told by the commissioners on how the jail would be paid.


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when i was studying for my calc exam at van vleck tunnel bob sat at my table and stared at me the entire time.
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When I was a kid, I loved going to Mets games at Shea Stadium. My Summer Family is anarrative of my memories as a young fan and the relationships I've formed as a result of being a Mets and baseball fan.
My dad (Mr. E for those of you who know him) used to have a weekend plan back when I was very young, but it was also a treat for me to go to games during the week. I would leave home right after school, hop in Dad's truck and we'd take the drive from the Jersey Shore all the way to Queens.
Some games, my dad would "let me loose" and I'd walk around the stadium. My favorite places to go were the far reaches in the Loge (where we would sit) and look at the landscapes around. Sure, there's not much to look at in the Iron Triangle, but it was something I could call my own.
I don't know why, but that's how I felt when I was sitting in the non-Coop Coop seats in the Excelsior level for Thursday, June 24 against the Detroit Tigers. It was a Thursday evening game, we got to the game just minutes before the start, and I guess I felt like I was transported back to the late-'80s mostly because I didn't have my cell phone with me.
The night started off as a comedy of errors with my phone brain cramp, but then ended on a note of sweet irony when the Mets could not cap a comeback against the Tigers late in the game. Of course, with a huge visible strikeout by David Wright with the bases loaded (as Will would say, WTF, Davey???), it was probably the only time I wanted to be on Twitter since I knew several Mets fans who would be absolutely murdering Dave for striking out in that type of a situation. Morbid curiosity on my part (though truth be told I did see it coming).
So Senor Coop and I got these seats as a compensation for the rain-shortened game against the Braves in April. The Mets gave us the option to trade them in for one of two series -- against the Padres earlier in the month or the Tigers. We choose three games and we got the 24th. However, we thought we'd get comparable tickets to his Sunday plan, which are in the Promenade.
No, the Mets did us right. We got Excelsior level seats with full access to the Acela, Caesar's and Promenade Clubs.
I'd been to the Caesar's and Promenade Club a few times but never the Acela.
I wasn't sure what to expect, but SC was hungry and we thought maybe we could get a snack at Acela.
Although it reminded me of the old Diamond Club at Shea, they had the grill (which was basically the whole ballpark menu) and the sit-down restaurant, which actually had pretty decent food. I remember the prix-fixe back then was something like $35/person. The Acela is not that bad -- $48/person, but not really what we wanted, especially since I wasn't eating just yet, and SC couldn't eat $48 worth of food if he tried, we just took some pictures and left for the comfort of our seats. Ironically, they our seats were in the same section we sat in during the rain shortened game, when the officials told us to move down to Field and Excelsior.
My favorite part of the Excelsior level are not only the lounge areas (read: air conditioning) but the BAR AREAS. I miss the old Diamond Club, which was so horrifically cheesy (old F-O-C and MSF All-Star Bookie D used to call it the "Bus Depot to Purgatory" which was so true), but it was part of the experience of Shea. They used to serve Mets-themed alcoholic drinks like Boys of Summer or Mets Martinis, which were pretty good for the money. Now it's Absolut Lemonade, Cuervo Margaritas and Bacardi Mojito drinks (notice: all product placements).
Of course, I opted for the DonQ "Home Rum Punch" which is sort of like a hurricane. It was only $2 more than a draft beer. A problem I've had with the mixed drinks, take for example the Absolut Lemonade is that there is more "fruit" or "lemonade" than the "Absolut" or "Rum" or whatever. I don't know, perhaps you are better off with a gin and tonic or something.
The best part of having the mixed drinks right next to your seats is that there's no alcohol abuse. Meaning: you can bring the drinks over to your seats without worrying about people knocking into you or spilling your drink, since you do not have far to walk. In my handy dandy cup holder, I kept my rum punch. One thing I did notice when I went back to CitiField over the weekend is that the rum stand down by World's Fare Market is there is no rum punch on the menu. I believe it's only pina coladas. That's fine but I am no coconut fan, so you'll never get me to buy one of those drinks. Also, I am not even that big of a rummy but I'll tell you what. I would buy the rum punch if it were offered there, just sayin'.
Okay so no more talk about me being a lush and back to the game. As I mentioned earlier, our seats were pretty good.
The Coop season seats are located in the outfield reserved, which are on the same level as the field seats, but you pay probably half the price you would for the seats closer to the infield. Not to mention, I have always thought that the Excelsior level, as Greg from Faith and Fear in Flushing likes to call it the "logezzanine" area, are the most overpriced seats in the park. Save the Left Field Landing and perhaps the Pepsi Porch, you are not getting much bang for your buck except for maybe the club access. However, for a fraction of the cost, you can sit in the outfield reserved and still get club access. It's a bit head-scratching to me. I truly feel like we got these "comped" tickets because they just wanted hineys in them, not necessarily that they wanted us to experience them as ticker plan holders.
One of the biggest drawbacks to these seats though are if you are sitting in the back rows, you have no view of the lineup. The scoreboard is obstructed as well. I know, we are not there to see the CitiVision or the scoreboard, but for someone like Mr. E who likes to keep score, this is a major drawback for me ever wanting to upgrade to this level.
Of course, I probably never will. It's the principle. Of course, I just kept watching the game, which was, I have to admit, a very good view.
It's not a universal view of the field like you can get from the Promenade in the surrounding infield areas, but if you like to chill and watch a game, you can't beat these. Though this was a night game, I can see the allure to these seats. You are out of the sun, the lounges are right there, and there are stores to go into. Take for instance...this one.
I had to chuckle a bit when I saw the outside sign, since Daniel Murphy and Carlos Beltran are still on photo. I should probably also mention that all Daniel Murphy merchandise is discounted and some of Beltran's items are as well, at least in the Mets Clubhouse store by Bryant Park.
Meh, whatever. Anyway, you can see that I am not talking much about the game but rather my experiences at the game. I figured that is more interesting, since the game itself didn't turn out like we would have liked it. I know, the Mets will win some games, they will lose some games. Believing in "home field advantage" though, you'd think I'd get to see a lot more wins. Instead in the two road games I attended, they won (hey, can't complain), but home I've seen way too many losses for my liking. Sure, winning series are just as if not more important than sweeps, since you can't possibly sweep every series in a season. But can't they just sweep one little series when I am in attendance?
I digress. I can't complain about losing one game out of three to the Detroit Tigers, who are a VERY good team. I can't expect Hisanori Takahashi to be dominant in every start (or at the very least, put them in a position to win). I guess I can glean some satisfaction that they could come back late in a game after being put in a hole (but don't get me starter on Johan Santana's start on Saturday).
The game itself might not have been interesting, yet I had some interesting things happen while I was in the seats.
For one, the Pepsi T-Shirt Launch landed, well, right at us during the game. Joey Beatran technically caught it, but since the shirt is much too big, he let me have it.
At one point, I decided to try and find an ever-elusive Jon Niese shirt for my friend Senor Solly out on the West Coast. I didn't find much in that respect, but how can we have tons of Barajas shirts, Davis shirts and no Niese. Hell, there was even a BOBBY PARNELL shirt available, and he was literally pitching his first game back in 2010 that night. Don't get me wrong -- I have no problem with there being those choices there. However, Niese has been our show-stopper all season. I'm sure some fans would like the opportunity to purchase one at the Mets stores on site.
I also found a cutie little Mets shirt wearing polar bear, that I bought for my husband. See, because the Mets failed to get runners in at one point, I became a major bitch about it. Buying this little guy made it up to him.
We named him Ike. I wanted something Arctic-sounding, and we tend to name them after players and Ike could kind of look like "Ice." I thought of naming him Iggy, but I kept coming back to Ike. Now, it's Klondike Bear, which sounds more Arctic-like. Joey doesn't look all too happy about him being there. However, when he found out that he only likes cold drinks and cold food (think iced tea, iced coffee, cold soda and ice cream), Joey could handle his new sibling since they didn't have to share food.
The game itself was a loss, but the night wasn't, I suppose. Another perk of sitting in the Excelsior is that we had "VIP" access, which didn't mean much except we got to choose the special access entrance we wanted. I had gone through the Hodges entrance a little while back for the CitiField tour and a game I had attended in a luxury box (I haven't shared it here yet though). So we chose none other than the Franchise himself, the Seaver entrance.
My thoughts going into the entrance would be I'd flash my ticket around like Wayne and Garth do to get backstage at Alice Cooper's show, I'd get on an elevator. And that's pretty much it. I'm glad that I took the time to view the landscape there because the Mets did Tom Seaver right. Like the Mets Hall of Fame/Museum, I was blown away by the homage paid to George.
No one says "New York Mets" more than George Thomas Seaver. Once again, after seeing this display of affection and admiration for our own, I had to once again feel proud to be a Mets fan. Now I wonder what kind of homage they'd pay Mike Piazza. I have to hope they get that one right too. Since you heard it here first, he'll be in the HOF as a Met. Then, as Mr. E says, it will be more of a man-crush thing going on with Seaver and Piazza. Maybe they can get rid of the Stengel VIP Entrance. Eh, who knows, it's much too soon to discuss this
I've seen much of CitiField and save the Pepsi Porch, I've sat in as many sections I feel that I could have in order to find my happy place here. Once upon a time, I was a wee young Coop, and I'd go to Shea Stadium to night games with my dad, which were a rare treat but a treat nonetheless. And I'd swear that on a clear night, you could see forever. You could see Queens, you could see Long Island, and I would see the bright lights of the big city beckoning me.
I may not exactly have found my happy place at CitiField, not entirely because I do like my new home a lot. But I did feel like I could see forever on Thursday, June 24. The past, the present and the future of the team.
I have to admit, I kinda got giddy with anticipation.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever
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- vcmetsfan28 said...
Great post coop.... As much as I love Citi I miss Shea... Section 18 on Sundays was my stomping ground for 7 years.... boy was that section great...
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LUCENE-3175, the tests were sped up a lot by using reasonable number of iterations normally, but cranking up for NIGHTLY.
we also do crazy things more 'rarely' for normal builds (e.g. simpletext, payloads, crazy merge params, etc)
also, we found some bugs by doing this, because in general our parameters are too fixed.
however, it made the code look messy... I propose some new methods:
instead of some crazy code in your test like:
int numdocs = (TEST_NIGHTLY ? 1000 : 100) * RANDOM_MULTIPLIER;
you use:
int numdocs = atLeast(100);
this will apply the multiplier, also factor in nightly, and finally add some random fudge... so e.g. in local runs its sometimes 127 docs, sometimes 113 docs, etc.
additionally instead of code like:
if ((TEST_NIGHTLY && random.nextBoolean()) || (random.nextInt(20) == 17)) {
you do
if (rarely()) {
which applies NIGHTLY and also the multiplier (logarithmic growth).
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I think uwe's reported problems are fixed
I have also to note, that the tests now take horribly long in nightly. One build took 2 hrs and was finally failing at testBigSet. So it was not even running module/contrib tests, it took 2hrs for test-core in Lucene. Clover did also not run, but it does not use nightly or more than one iteration.
All OOMs are related to FST usage (mostly the one with the big file and lots of iterations):
- org.apache.lucene.util.fst.TestFSTs.testBigSet
but also:
- org.apache.lucene.index.TestPerFieldCodecSupport.testStressPerFieldCodec
- org.apache.lucene.search.TestPhraseQuery.testRandomPhrases
There are some problems now in nightly builds with OOMs (boith 3.x and trunk). We can do either:
- reduce some nightly settings
- raise -Xmx if nightly=true, maybe dependent on number of iterations, too?
we can fix the remaining tests to use this stuff as we get around to them.
Looks great! I love the LTC.rarely, usually, atLeast methods
here's a patch, also includes some random speedups to some of these tests.


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This post was contributed by Melissa Roberts.
What does a July 4th celebration have to do with Kosher Like Me? Well, not a whole lot really.
Except….Jews are an integral part of the American fabric. There are probably more of us here in the U.S. than in any other country or continent.
So celebrate America's independence?
For my family, the 4th is an official kickoff for summer complete with house guests, grilling, and a flag cake.
This year, I decided to move on from this unoriginal yet always delicious dessert and my mind turned to a pavlova, a marshmallow-y meringue filled with cream and fruit.
And what does a pavlova have to do with July 4th? Well, not a whole heck of a lot.
The pavlova originated in New Zealand and Australia (both countries claim its origin, though it's not clear who was its creator). Named after a Russian prima ballerina, Anna Matveyevna Pavlova(1881-1931), it began to appear after Pavlova toured New Zealand and Australia in the late 1920s.
Considered the greatest ballerina of her time, it was said, "she does not dance; she soars as though on wings" so a confection named after her would be as light and ethereal as her dancing.
And for summer's kickoff I can think of no better reason to enjoy something sweet, fresh, creamy, and light in red, white, and blue.
A nod to July 4th and independence from the flag cake.
Recipe: Melissa Roberts
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 3 large egg whites at room temperature 30 minutes
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 1/8 tsp. cream of tartar
- 2 tsp distilled white vinegar
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 cup well chilled heavy cream
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 cups mixed berries (sliced strawberries, blueberries, raspberries)
- 2 Tbsp. sugar
- Make meringue:
- Preheat oven to 250°F with rack in middle. Trace a 9-inch circle on a sheet of parchment paper. Turn parchment over and put on a baking sheet.
- Whisk together sugar and cornstarch in a small bowl.
- Beat whites with salt and cream of tartar using an electric mixer at medium speed until they hold soft peaks.
- Increase speed to medium-high and beat in sugar mixture in a slow steady stream. After all sugar has been added, beat 1 minute more.
- Add vinegar and vanilla and beat at high speed until meringue is glossy and holds stiff peaks, about 5 minutes (longer if using hand-held mixer).
- Gently spread meringue inside circle on parchment, making edge of meringue slightly higher than center (the "crater" is for cream and fruit). Bake until meringue is pale golden and has a crust, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
- Turn oven off and prop door open very slightly with a wooden spoon. Cool meringue in oven 1 hour.


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According to the survey, grooms jobs include organizing the band, suits for the best men, ushers and dads and choosing the wedding car. Over half of the men polled had the final say in the date of their big day while 56 percent chose the venue. With the economic climate the way it is, grooms also tend to put themselves in charge of haggling with suppliers to get the best price.
Many brides and grooms now tackle wedding preparations together said a spokesman from Red Groomswear, a Formalwear company in Belfast. Gone are the days when the bride does all of the planning and the groom just turns up. The survey done by Austin Reed went on to say that due to the huge cost of weddings it now makes sense that the responsibility is shared.
Grooms do tend to have a helping hand though. For grooms with a significant interest in menswear, we have a wide variety of styles and a team of experts who can discuss every single detail, said a spokesman from Red Groomswear. For grooms who dont have experience with formalwear, that same team can serve as a guide through every step the process, making planning as easy as possible.
Red Groomswear is a formalwear company in Belfast. They have won several recent awards, including in the Getting Married in Northern Ireland 2013 Reader Awards and the Wedding Journal Reader Awards 2012. It has three locations in Northern Ireland, in Cookstown, Carrickfergus and Dungiven. Grooms can contact a qualified representative in store, over the phone and online.
Like the survey says, planning a wedding requires more time than ever said a spokesman from Red. Our knowledgeable staff helps grooms by creating a convenient, affordable experience.
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Over the past few years Red Groomswear has become renowned throughout Northern Ireland for its fresh thinking approach to the Groomswear market. With the modern bridegroom becoming more style conscious Red is increasingly becoming the choice for contemporary menswear. Grooms can Buy or hire wedding suits and general groomswear. Red also offers other formalwear including dinner jackets, lounge suits, footwear, accessories and gifts. The company has recently earned honors in the Getting Married in Northern Ireland 2013 Reader Awards and the Wedding Journal Reader Awards 2012.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Rangers 5, Flyers 3: Wrapping up
Here's the game story from The Record.
The main concern for the Rangers now that they've clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference (for which they deserve congratulations for the professional and consistent manner with which they've approached this season) is not who their first-round opponent will be - the candidates are still the Capitals (most likely), the Sabres (who stayed in the picture by coming back from a 3-0 deficit to beat the Maple Leafs in OT, 6-5), the Panthers or the Senators - but the immediate health of goalie Henrik Lundqvist (37 saves).
Lundqvist had his right forearm wrapped with ice and he admitted backup Marty Biron nearly needed to play the third period Tuesday night.
Lundqvist lost feeling in his right arm and had trouble gripping his stick after being hit by the puck as Wayne Simmonds scored on the power play with 7.0 seconds left in the second period to make it 5-2.
Lundqvist faced 14 shots in the third period, allowing just Scott Hartnell's deflection over his glove of Andreas Lilja's shot at 10:46.
"I was struggling all third period," Lundqvist said. "I told Martin to be ready just in case I couldn't go. A couple of times, I was like, 'I'm out of here.' Luckily, they didn't shoot any hard shots."
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Biron will likely start Thursday at Pittsburgh with the Rangers having clinched the Eastern Conference's top seed.
"It will be a couple of days, that's for sure," Lundqvist said.
Lundqvist made the difference in the first period despite the Rangers' four-goal barrage. He made three saves in the first 2:33 then, falling to his stomach, robbed Simmonds at the crease with a glove save at 8:35, leaving the Flyers right wing shaking his head in disbelief.
"It's the best I've seen him play in a few weeks," coach John Tortorella said.
"Words really can't describe how important he is and how well he's played," defenseman Ryan McDonagh said. "Today is a prime example. He's so focused, so prepared. He's so clutch, so unbelievable."
As for the clinching party, there certainly weren't any champagne bottles opened in the Rangers' dressing room, just some sense of achievement and understanding of the tough job that lies ahead in the playoffs.
"I don't know about expectation other than maybe confidence," Ryan Callahan said. " I think it gives this team the attitude that we are right there with the best teams in this league. We can play with anybody so you know, that's the biggest thing for us. It gives us confidence as we go into the post season."
"It's tricky during the year," Brian Boyle added. "We keep getting points but things creep into your game. We're going to enjoy the accomplishment but we're not going to take our foot off the gas."
The Rangers have now won eight straight over the Flyers. Their longest undefeated stretch over the Flyers was a 13-game span from 1971-73.
Defenseman Dan Girardi wore the celebratory Broadway hat after playing 26:27, including 7:34 on the penalty kill, with an assist and six hits.
Defenseman Michael Del Zotto played 17:09 but just two shifts in the third period.
Artem Anisimov needed stitches to the left side of his mouth after a high stick from Pavel Kubina as he scored in the first period but said he was fine.
Marian Gaborik extended his point streak to six games.
Brad Richards had two assists and 12 Rangers had at least one point.
"The biggest thing is our consistency," Tortorella said. "That's where I think our team has really grown, in not getting into too many valleys. We had one in March here. Really about the only one that we had all year long. And it's a credit to them, and I know you guys (the media) piss and moan when I say it, but it's a day to day thing for our team here. I think our guys have really bought into that, of just coming to work each day and trying to be the best they can be."
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A new community group aimed at connecting new and existing professionals in the Snowy Mountains had its inaugural event last week.
Snowy Mountains Professional Network (SMPN) held its First Friday Drinks last week at the Cooma Hotel.
The group is open to anyone and is a chance to socialise and network with a wide range of industries and will meet monthly on the first Friday of the month.
The creator and organiser of the group Sarah Kate Atkinson hopes that offering a platform for business owners and professionals to network will increase productivity in the town and help embrace new comers to the area.
The next First Friday Drinks will take place on April 4 at the Cooma Hotel.
For more information contact Sarah Kate Atkinson firstname.lastname@example.com and follow the group on Facebook.


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text: At this time last year employers were using attrition, hiring freezes and massive layoffs to cut workers while some businesses closed their doors forever. After one of the worst years in decades, the Sacramento regional employment market is regaining traction. Usually a slow period for hiring in the Sacramento area Pacific Staffing has learned that 46 percent of 100 top area companies surveyed plan to hire in the first quarter of 2010. During that same time in 2009, more than half of Sacramento regional employers surveyed weren't hiring anyone, another 20 percent planned staff cutbacks and three local companies closed and laid off all employees. In contrast, this new first quarter just 7 percent of companies surveyed plan to reduce workforces in January, February or March. This year layoffs or reductions-in-force are attributed to seasonal change and a merger, not to a failing recessionary economy. Twenty-five percent of companies reported hiring for growth needs in the last quarter of 2009. For more information and surveys, go to pacificstaffing.com. ~ Staff report


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The Muppets, branded as Disney's The Muppets since 2004, are a group of sketch comedy variety puppet characters known for their absurdist, burlesque and self-referential humor. Created in 1955 by Jim Henson, they are the namesake for the Disney media franchise that encompasses films, television series, music recordings, print publications, and other media associated with The Muppet Show characters.
The Muppets were the crux of multiple television series and films including; The Muppet Show (1976-1981), The Muppet Movie (1979), The Great Muppet Caper (1981) and The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984). After Henson's death in 1990, The Muppets continued their presence in television and cinema with Muppets Tonight (1996-98), a series continuation of The Muppet Show and three films, The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), Muppets From Space (1999), the former two were co-produced with Disney, who sought to acquire the characters since the late 1980s. In 2004, The Walt Disney Company purchased the rights to The Muppets, and later formed The Muppets Studio, a division created specifically for managing The Muppets franchise.
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Homebed-bathBeddingAccent PillowsBlossoming Grandly Chrysanthemum Needlepoint Pillow 16x16" by 123 Creations
Pillows are generally overlooked; but they can indeed add the wow-factor to your ambience. This Chrysanthemum Needlepoint Pillow is one such creation that has the beautiful mums flower depicted on its surface. With a yellowish border and a colorful interior, this pillow is also as comfortable as it is beautiful. Because of its square shape this pillow can be used on a hammock, or a couch, or on a resting chair in the veranda.
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So the other week i bought my first mawata. it is gorgeous. i am trying to make the helix scarf with it. i am not sure how i am doing, but it seems to be coming along.drafting is proving interesting. i have never spun or drafted before, but this seems like a good place to start to get a feel for fiber. granted, it is sticky and catches on everything; including air; but the fibers are long, which makes it a little more difficult to not pull them apart. stay tuned for an update.
socks. awhile back i started tehse purple socks and made them HUGE widthwise. so i frogged them. about a month ago i started a new pair with Felici Sorcery. Cast on 3 different times. got to the last 2 color changes and realized that 1. they were HUGE widthwise, and also the leg would only be about 2" from teh ankle. not cool. so frogged again.
I wear a size 9.5-10 and can sometimes wear a wide width shoe. I want to just make a plain vanilla stockinette stitch sock. I have been using melissa morgan oakes toe up 2aat book. so i cast on this time about 8 fewer stitches and dropped a needle size. i just want to wear my damn socks. so i think i am on the 4th row of increases as we speak.
I am waiting for my yarn to start the Central Park Hoodie. i have been waiting for 2 weeks now... my needles are twitching.
life decision...
I am in the process of quitting my job. I say process because i am a big ol chicken when it comes to confronting people (including saying "here is my notice") I have great people supporting me and cheering me on. there is a worry about money- especially since Issue 5 here in Ohio - also known as the union collective bargaining bill- also includes things that will affect non-union workers, some government employees (including my husband) will be losing alot of their benefits. But it is not about money per-se; but happiness.
this will also mean my little guy (4yo) will be taken out of daycare and i will be faced with the challenge of not killing him on a daily basis.
why can't life and decisions be simple????
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"Stay Loose – Read With A MOOSE!"Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
Each year the Michigan Reads! program, sponsored by Target, chooses one great kids book and encourages families, caregivers, teachers, and librarians to read it together with all Michigan kids from birth through grade school age. The choice for 2012 is Moose on the Loose by Kathy-Jo Wargin, a 2009 book from Sleeping Bear Press. Share your love for reading with a child and help them develop vocabulary, imagination, oral skills and a lifelong love of reading. What could possibly happen when you have a Moose on the Loose????
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Odd black-and-white film 'Blancanieves' moves the fairy tale to Seville in the 1920s
Rating: PG-13
When: Opens today
Where: Landmark La Jolla Village
Running time: 1 hour, 45 minutes
"Blancanieves," a Spanish take on "Snow White" done in silent-movie style (like "The Artist"), unfolds in and around Seville in the 1920s; the heroine's father is a matador and her mother dances flamenco.
Despite the potency of the black-and-white imagery and the fineness of Sofia Oria, who plays Blancanieves as a frowning little girl, the charm at first is a bit oppressive.
But then writer-director Pablo Berger throws in sequences from "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (with the great and gorgeous Maribel Verdu, of "Y Tu Mama Tambien," as the crazy imprisoning stepmother) and "The Conformist" (the chase through the woods).
By the time Blancanieves has grown up and met the dwarfs (who allow Berger to reference Bunuel and Fellini and, a bit predictably, "Freaks"), the film has achieved stratospheric levels of weirdness.
The acidity of flamenco pairs easily with the sadism of the Brothers Grimm. Yet the darkness doesn't have all that much conviction. Partly because of the silent-movie nostalgia, the picture is soft around the edges.
In this all-too-enlightened 21st-century telling, "Blancanieves" has the choice of becoming a dancer like her mother or a bullfighter like her father. There's no Prince Charming, but one of the dwarfs is very handsome.


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Don't worry — Justin Bieber's abs will keep him warm.
It's been a Justin Bieber-heavy few days, but (1) when has that ever been a problem for ANYONE, and (2) when you wear a
definitely almost diaper, you kinda deserve to be revered, praised, and talked about all the time. Besides, today is The Biebs' 19th birthday (!!!), so we kinda feel like we have full license to yack on about him (and only him) for at least the next 24 hours. Which brings us to our most important point: Were you guys aware that Justin Bieber wore only his rock-hard abs and some baggy pants in the freezing cold London weather? Because that's precisely what happened LAST NIGHT, on the eve of his 19th birthday, and we've got VISUAL PROOF!
See more of Justin's birthday abs after the jump.
The "Right Here" singer, who started his 1-9 celebration a bit early, was snapped totally shirtless while returning to his hotel after playing a sold-out performance in Birmingham, England. And mind you, it's still pretty damn frigid in London, but we have a hunch that Justin's milli-pack ab situation probably kept him warmer than one of those hideous floor-length, goose down puffy coats ever could. So, happy birthday, Justin! May you have happiness, success, love, and the ability to maintain your stunning physique until you're at least 42. Because that would be the greatest gift of all!
Hope someone got you a belt for your birthday, Justin!
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text: HomeFight Shows UFC 136 Chael Sonnen And Brian Stann Pre-Fight Conference Call Bruno September 30, 2011 Fight Shows 12 Comments UFC 136 Chael Sonnen And Brian Stann Pre-Fight Conference Call. Tweet Pin It UFC VP Reed Harris Talks UFC In Mexico UFC On Versus 6 Cruz vs Johnson Preview Video 12 Comments Genghis Khan September 30, 2011 I hope Stan gives him a good beating. I should be a really good fight, these guys are pretty much equals. Very hard to call this one, Sonnen has the experience and Stan has the knockout power. Reply Bellend Bisping September 30, 2011 I hope Stann can withstand the wrestle**** comin his way. Seeing Chael get knocked out would be funny (not hatin). Don't count Stann out; former WEC middleweight champ. Reply chiroguy September 30, 2011 WOW…have you ever heard Sonnen show someone so much respect!!! Sonnen actually sounds slightly scared to for this fight…that being said, Sonnen is not going to go down easy…He is one tough SOB!!! Reply BimboSlice September 30, 2011 I see this one going to the ground. Sonnen by Submission. Reply ak47 October 1, 2011 so, A. silva couldn't stuff one of chaels takedowns, so how is Stan going to do that,….hmm? Stan has a punchers chance IMHO Reply metallica fan October 1, 2011 i dont see stann being able to defend sonnens takedowns Reply damnitrudy October 1, 2011 I think Sonnens only chance is taking it to the ground. Reply G.Zilla October 1, 2011 WAR SONNEN! Reply white tiger October 1, 2011 Stan has much more than a punchers chance. I actually hate that term. When I think of a punchers chance, I think of someone swinging with his/her eyes closed and accidentally hitting someone on the button. In essence, everyone who is willing to swing has a punchers chance. Stan is a brawler. He always keeps his head in the fight and hits incredibly hard. He also has a hell of a chin. Stan has much more than a punchers chance. Reply KungFuLowKick October 1, 2011 You guys are counting Stann out.Even if he goes to the ground,he's no slouch at all.He won by raingle choke against Mike massenzio who's a black belt in BJJ.And Chael has a long history of getting triangle choked so if you add up Sonnen getting punched before securing the takedown and you might have a traingle win.I'm not betting on Stann to win by ubmission but i'm just saying he knows enough BJJ to get back up and not take to much damage.And Chael almost never goes for submiissions.I would love to see Stann win because i hate Chael sonnen and I hate that people call him an exciting fighter because of 1 fight he got choked the f$%k out.Chael is the definition of a boring fighter.He doesn't have much power in his strikes and he doesn't go for submissions.Talk about a boring fighter.He's really good but still boring as hell. Reply chris October 1, 2011 your all a bunch of idiots sonnon ground and pound duh Reply nocomeoahu October 1, 2011 Hope Stan Wins so there can be Belfort vs Stan.! Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Name Email Website Current ye@r * Leave this field empty


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You know that feeling at a theme park when you round a corner and stand face-to-face with a roller coaster whose thrilling spirals propel you forward? Or when a smiling cartoon character causes the children around you to stop and squeal with delight?
Sure you do, and so do the theme park's designers. Every aspect of a theme park is carefully planned to shape a visitor's behavior and experience.
A theme park can in fact be considered a "total landscape," argues Dr. Miodrag Mitrasinovic in his book, "Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space," forthcoming from Ashgate Publishing. Environmental conditions are controlled to a level that human behavior follows expected and strictly designed paths. The thrills, the giggles and the pauses in the street are nearly scripted.
Mitrasinovic, assistant professor of design in the College of Fine Arts, took a circuitous route to theme park research. Growing up in Belgrade, he never visited a theme park. There were none in Yugoslavia at the time.
"Initially," he says, "I was interested in totally controlled environments, environments that exhibit a totalizing degree of control of manifold environmental conditions, from microclimate to social practices, from scale to lighting."
Theme parks are not the only such environment. Shopping malls, airports and all-inclusive tourist resorts function similarly.
How many times do people enter a mall and come out to discover it has been raining or the sun has set and they didn't even know it? Inside the mall, almost every aspect of the environment is controlled: the lighting, the temperature, the visuals, the manners of the salespeople, the food, the music. It's easy to lose track of time and the outside world.
"There are many examples where the inner workings and manifestations of total landscapes are obvious, but I found that theme parks were really the most interesting of all," Mitrasinovic says.
"They combine elements of many of the other examples—they involve shopping, but they're not only about shopping. They are resorts, but they are not only resorts. They do everything to a completely different degree of elaboration and detail."
Theme parks draw on military theory and cinematic design to keep people seamlessly moving through the space and emotionally stimulated. Visual anchors such as roundabouts and vistas draw people forward. Environmental buzz created by jugglers and street musicians keeps them busy.
It's not surprising that entering theme parks feels like entering a different world. They are designed that way, and often their scale itself makes them encompassing. Walt Disney World, for example, is twice the size of the island of Manhattan and employs more than 30,000 people.
The product produced in this world is human experience. And theme parks have their roots in another producer of human experience: the movies. Walt Disney, father of the modern theme park, was a filmmaker. It was the experience of losing oneself in a film for an hour or two that he wanted to mimic in the theme park.
"He asked the questions like, 'How do you actually create the cinematic experience for an extended period of time? How do you create surprise at every single corner?'" Mitrasinovic says.
Disney also sought out environments he perceived as the best of the best, the ideal, such as the Palace of Versailles. He would then set about discovering what made the environment work.
"His 'Imagineers' would measure everything—angle, depth, color—and find everything useful from an architectural design standpoint and everything useful from a planning standpoint," Mitrasinovic says. "Then he started combining this with his experience as a filmmaker."
Filmmaking is very much about controlling the viewer—where he or she looks, what he or she feels—and the same thing is true of the theme park. While visitors maintain a feeling of control, in reality they are being led by the design of the environment.
Disneyland's Main Street USA provides a perfect example. Main Street USA is a nostalgic, idealized representation of small, mid-Western towns such as Marceline, Mo., where Disney grew up. It acts as an entry funnel into and out of the park, framing Sleeping Beauty's Castle with the building facades. However, all is not as it seems in Main Street USA.
Disney's designers used cinematic techniques to control the perspective of the street. The width of the street changes in order to force the framing of the distant castle on the way in and to create an illusion of shorter travel on the way out. The facades of the buildings are also scaled. The first-floor facades are built at 90 percent of full size, the second floor at 80 percent and the third floor at nearly 80 percent. This makes the visitor feel larger and as if he or she has more dominance over the landscape.
It's actually an example of the fabricated landscape's dominance over the visitor.
"The environment is literally shaped, almost sculpted, so that it allows them to actually design what we experience," Mitrasinovic says. "There are variations, of course, in how each visitor reacts to specific and cumulative stimuli. But you can say with great certainty that 90 percent of the people will experience the same thing. From there on it's just a matter of how to achieve it."
Excitement is built on Main Street USA through carefully placed visual stimuli. Store barkers, street bands, an old tram pulled by horses, newspapermen and an ice cream boy are among the performers who keep the visitor entertained. They also produce a cacophony of background sounds that enhance the visual illusions. And they keep visitors moving from one thing to the next.
It's not just Disney that is designing with an eye toward human response. Regional theme parks are employing similarly sophisticated methods, and they reach nearly as many people as Disney does.
Six Flags Inc. now figures as the second largest theme park company in the country, operating 31 regional theme parks around the country and eight subsidiaries around the world. Six Flags theme parks are within 35 of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., and an estimated 90 percent of Americans live within a day's drive of one of the parks.
Japanese theme parks are also very sophisticated. The Huis Ten Bosch theme park operates as a town with 30,000 inhabitants and more than four million visitors. In an attempt to replicate a 17th century Dutch town, the designers at Huis Tenn Bosch used original building plans of Dutch architectural monuments and copied them to scale.
All theme parks seek to heighten experience so that they place visitors in a state where they don't think, don't question and don't engage in critical dialogue. Mechanical devices direct desirable fragrances like chocolate and cinnamon rolls at visitors while the tempo of the music urges them to move faster or slower.
They are in the park's hands, which means that they may have the ride of their lives, and they may also spend far more time and money than they had planned.
"In order to successfully move you through the environment, your cognitive ability has to be brought down to a minimum but your emotional involvement has to be up for extended periods of time," Mitrasinovic explains. "That's how you move beyond being critical or fighting to suspend your disbelief. Most of the information processing unfolds on the visceral level, and it is processed much later on the intellectual level."
The larger implications of this concern Mitrasinovic. Theme park technology is not limited to theme parks alone. It is finding its way into public spaces of all kinds. When mass-produced, theme park technology holds the possibility of controlling our experience of being in public.
Public and private spaces already overlap. New York City's Times Square underwent significant revitalizing in the 1990s through an agreement between the city and Disney. And the city's Bryant's Park, built over the underground stacks of the New York Public Library, is leased to a non-profit public-private corporation and brings in large revenues each year.
Bryant's Park is scripted, much like a theme park, with events like the Mercedes Benz Fashion Show and film festivals sponsored by major corporations. It has a Web site, a dress code, a private police force and corporate businesses like Starbucks and Ben and Jerry's.
"We risk losing true public space, which is about being with others and interacting with others," Mitrasinovic says. "What we are left with is pure commodified spectatorship."
Mitrasinovic sees theme park technology expanding into more of the public sector. In the competitive global economy many institutions apply the lessons of the theme park in order to distinguish themselves from the competition and drive profits up. Hospitals are competing within the new area of "competitive hospitality," where theme park-like technologies play a key role, and universities increasingly standardize their operations to appear more like theme parks.
Which is not to say that Mitrasinovic thinks people shouldn't go and live it up at their favorite theme park. There is something reassuring in spending time in a place where the people are friendly, the streets are clean and everything operates exactly as expected.
"I don't want to destroy anyone's pleasure at visiting a theme park," he says. "Many people get genuine pleasure from the experience, in searching for confirmation that what they experience in the media has a grounding in the material world."
And he admits, with a grin, his five-year-old daughter cannot wait to meet Tinkerbell.
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Yokogawa, SAP and the Middleware Space
Emerson, in his address on business and control system integration this week at the Yokogawa Users Conference, indicated that the standards-based approach Yokogawa takes—using the ISA88 and ISA95 toolsets he helped to pioneer—actually lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO), provides real economies of scale, removes costs from the supply chain and enables true interoperability.
"It's web services up and OPC down." Yokogawa systems architect Dave Emerson explained where the company's new MDX integration platform fits between process automation and enterprise systems.
Defense-in-Depth Key to Secure Automation
Indeed, when it comes to cybersecurity—that is, the protection of process control systems from digital disruption—we, as an industry, tend to rely on techniques that the IT world gave up on 10 years ago, said Eric Byres, CTO of Byres Security, in an address to the Yokogawa Users Conference this week in Houston.
"The firewall is important, but it's only one piece," said Byres Security CTO Eric Byres of the need for process automation professionals to consider a multi-tiered approach to cybersecurity.
Organic Wireless Growth Must Be Managed
"As a plant becomes wireless and those circles get bigger and cover more of the map, it has to be managed," he explained. "You may have 5,000 points from 25 vendors, and each one has a different configuration and management tool."
Because so many wireless applications are being added, all on different systems and with varying bandwidth requirements, a plant's myriad wireless networks need one management system that sits on top to coordinate communication and avoid interference.
"Today it's many proprietary point solutions." Apprion CEO Mike Bradley on the evolving nature of wireless applications which three years from now, he estimated, will rely on standards-based, open and extensible frameworks.
Industry Struggling to Balance Performance with Security
People who come to process control cybersecurity from the IT domain sometimes have a distorted view of what's necessary and what's practical. "It's okay to shut down the mail server for four hours for maintenance," he said, "but what happens when you shut down the plant?"
On June 10, 1999, a 16-in. diameter steel pipeline operated by the now-defunct Olympic Pipeline Co. ruptured near Bellingham, Wash., flooding two local creeks with 237,000 gallons of gasoline.
"The vulnerabilities are starting to move downward into the control systems and field devices." Security consultant Joe Weiss predicts that cyber events will affect increasing numbers of automation devices such as drives and PLCs.
To Fix System Bugs, Wurldtech Gets Fuzzy Wid It
Kube explained some of his company's techniques for detecting software faults and failures at the 2008 Yokogawa Technology Fair and Users Conference this week in Houston.
"Anything can be hacked," said Kube. "There need to be layers of protection to everything. People, quality and devices are all components to security. At the end of the day, don't get comfortable just because you have antivirus protection."
"In a house, if you know where the doors and windows are, you have a better chance at securing it," said Wurldtech CTO Nate Kube, in explaining the need for vulnerability testing during system development.


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tonight after disabling windows automatic update, an alert show "sysocmgr.exe" asking permission to operate. I deny it. This is the first time I have ever had this alert. Is this an important session that I should allowed to run?
I am running windows xp home edition. The reason why I disable windows automatic update, because I did not want to install the latest update from windows.
I also have some knowledge about computers, not an expert by any means.


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Canonical, the U.K. software company behind Ubuntu, wants to make the Ubuntu Edge smartphone — and it's asking you for help.
The company today launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to help fund the production of the super powered, super expensive phone. The all-or-nothing funding goal: $32 million.
If Canonical's campaign succeeds, it would shatter the current crowdfunding record held by the Pebble Smartwatch, which raised more than $10 million on Kickstarter last year. If it fails, Canonical won't make the phone.
The crowd is responding positively to the ambitious campaign, pledging more than $2.3 million to the project in a matter of hours. At the time of writing, 3,600 people have snagged the early bird pre-order for $600. That introductory price will expire after 24 hours — or, more likely, when 5,000 have been claimed — after which contributors will have to plunk down $830 to reserve an Ubuntu Edge of their own.
According to Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, the Edge will not be sold in stores; it will be made exclusively for backers of the crowdfunding campaign. Although "if it works well, we might even do it annually, just to keep ahead of the curve," he added.
By making thousands of phones, not millions, Canonical can utilize next-generation technology that's not yet available for mass production. Shuttleworth compared the Edge to a Formula 1 car in a world of sedans.
The phone's specs (subject to change) are seriously impressive. It can run both Ubuntu mobile OS (Linux) and Android, so current Android users won't have to scrap their entire app collection, and it rivals the computing power of modern PCs.
Here's the full list of specs:
The Ubuntu Edge is already the most-funded campaign ever on Indiegogo. But even with a month left, there's a long way to go before Canonical hits the $32 million mark. Stay tuned to Crowdsourcing.org for updates, and check out the campaign video below to see what this "superphone" is all about.
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