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Wireless door bell works without costly installation...no electrician needed! Waterproof outdoor remote self adheres in seconds! Wireless doorbell allows you to choose the "ringer song" that can be heard up to 260' away, such as: Clementine, Beethoven's Fur Elise, Cuckoo Cuckoo, two-tone bell, even tunes in the spirit of the holiday season. Sound unit is 4 1/4"H; uses 3 AA batteries, not included.
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This weekend a new thread was posted on the Internets' biggest conpiracy website, Above Top Secret. The thread started with a starling claim:
The photos reveal a structure in the Schroedinger crater near the southern lunar polar region; official sources have failed to provide an explanation for it. Scientists are baffled by the discovery, and numerous UFO and conspiracy researchers have interpreted it to prove the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.
And not only that, looking at the picture there was no change of mistake, the huge structure was shaped like a swastika. It quickly gathered several pages of discussion and soon was one of the most popular topics on the site. By end of sunday over 11,000 people have clicked trough the link to read the news.
It was just the kind of news people browse conspiracy theory forums for, something that would change the world as we know it. And they'd be the first to know. There was just one small problem. The news was published on a newspaper called "The Truth Today".
Yeah, you might remember we gave away The Truth Today at the Berlin and Cannes Film Festivals. After that we also set up a website to archive all the great stories people from Wreckamovie had written. Volunteers are to start updating the Truth Today website with fresh articles soon, but lately the paper has lived a quiet life as we've gotten ready to start the production.
Apparently it was all a well-meaning mistake, the original poster hadn't checked rest of the stories before posting the story on ATS. It didn't take long before people started pointing out that it's all just marketing for the film Iron Sky. Still, even on page 6 of the discussion some are still wondering if the picture has been Photoshopped. Some have even been going over Nasa's employee records to prove there is no Roslyn Villacorta working there!
Honestly, we're all very flattered by this. I barely had 15 minutes to Photoshop that picture so I'm really happy it stand up to scrutiny!
The story has now been moved from the conspiracy forums to the movie forum, wich is quite an elegant move from the moderators in a situation like this. Hopefully no one feels hoaxed, because we honestly never have tried to pass The Truth Today off as a real newspaper. And quite frankly I never imagined it even could be mistaken for a real news (something many commentators also pointed out).
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AMES, Iowa - The tables were turned this week as the Iowa State women's basketball team visited the residents of Green Hills Retirement Community.
During the basketball season, the people of Green Hills board two busses and head for Hilton Coliseum to see every ISU women's home basketball game. Monday afternoon, the Cyclones returned the favor and headed to Green Hills to meet and thank some of their biggest fans.
"It's really touching being here," junior Alison Lacey said. "I really appreciate all their support and their interest in us. They get so excited to meet us. It's fun to hear their stories and how long they've been here. It's good to see friendly faces that really care about us."
Green Hills assistant leisure services coordinator Cheryl Gleason has been putting together visits by the women's basketball team for five or six years. She said that when the Cyclones come to the retirement community, the residents become kids again with huge smiles across their faces.
"Women's basketball is one of the most popular things that we do here in Ames," Gleason said. "We usually have two busses that go to games. They love it and they look forward to it. When the girls come, they are all excited. It brings the kid out in them."
ISU head coach Bill Fennelly opened the afternoon meeting by introducing the staff and having the players introduce themselves to the residents. Fennelly thanked the loyal Cyclone fans and answered questions they had for him. The student-athletes finished the afternoon my mingling with the residents.
"When you get a chance to go to a game and see them, you actually know them," Roger Lawrence said. "They aren't just a body out there playing ball."
Roger and his wife Pauline have held men's basketball season tickets since 1957-58 and have been attending women's games for several years.
Irene Beavers and Marge Henning are Cyclone fans that enjoyed their afternoon with the ISU players and staff. Beavers has been attending games for "at least 10 years" and Henning believes she might be the oldest Cyclone fan attending games at 97.
"It means an awful lot for us for the girls to come out here to visit," Beavers said. "It gets us in the spirit for the games. We look forward to it."


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Iraq | Extortion remains one of the rules of the road in still dangerous provinces
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MOSUL, Iraq-Odisho Yousif's job every two weeks or so was to take money raised on behalf of church families, people victimized by violence, kidnapping, or persecution mostly in Baghdad, and deliver it to them or their church. Almost since the war began, Iraqis living in the United States and elsewhere in the diaspora, as well as Iraqis with secure livelihoods in the north, became a kind of life support system. When a family lost its grocery store due to a bombing, or a relative had to raise ransom after a kidnapping, the support system kicked in. Yousif, 61, a lay leader in the Assyrian Church of the East and an active member in the central committee of Iraq's minority Assyrian Patriotic Party (APP), developed a networking talent for raising money and finding need during the worst years of terrorist fighting-when Iraqi deaths easily averaged 500-1,000 a month. That is, until he himself became the victim.
En route to Baghdad on July 2, 2006, with $4,000 to deliver, his car broke down. The driver, a distant relative and a Christian also, went for help. But he didn't get far before a black Opal drove up and stopped. Four men stepped out wearing masks. They ordered Yousif and later the driver face down into the car. When Yousif hesitated, one of the men shot him in the leg, grazing the skin. He tumbled into the car, frightened. "The first thing I knew I had to figure out was where we were going."
As the Opal headed into the desert, Yousif calculated that it was headed toward Baquba, a town 40 miles north of Baghdad and riddled with violence. That same day a series of bombs exploded there. Iraqi authorities buried al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in "a secret but marked grave," officials said, after U.S. forces killed him in a raid just five miles outside Baquba. The area seethed with high crimes: On the day that Yousif was captured, terrorists killed an Iraqi army colonel and kidnapped several prominent Sunni politicians. In Baghdad approximately 10 bombs went off with lethal force. Overall Iraqi civilian casualties in July 2006 would eventually stand at nearly 1,100, only to be surpassed by August, when nearly 3,000 Iraqi civilians died at the hands of terrorists. (In contrast, U.S. military casualties for the month reached 43; in August they rose to 65.)
Aware of the growing number of threats against Christians, Yousif nonetheless was shocked by his capture, he said, and fearful of what might happen next. He was the most prominent member of his party ever to be kidnapped. Soon he would also be its most expensive.
By nightfall the group arrived at what looked like a deserted military depot with old equipment and some shelter. In the distance Yousif could see Hamrin Mountain, a range extending from Diyala province in the east to Kirkuk in the north. Soon a bearded and masked man described as "the commander" arrived and questioned Yousif. Upon examining his Iraqi identity card, he declared, "You are an agent with the Jews of Israel." When Yousif protested that he was a Christian from Iraq, the commander again called him a Jew and kicked him in the chest.
Initially, Yousif said, he did not believe these men were well-connected terrorists: "They behaved more like gang members searching for money." But with the questioning and accusations, he told WORLD, he began to doubt his instincts along with his ability to withstand the kidnapping and what might be ahead of him. He was overcome with despair about whether he would see his family again. "I felt too sad to remember my sons," then 6 and 12 years old, he recounted, his voice breaking with the memory of that moment even now, two years later.
The commander told Yousif that the ransom demanded to free him had been set-at $300,000. It was nearly 10 times usual ransom demands Yousif had encountered as a free man. "Kill me; it is better," Yousif told the commander.
But the kidnappers relayed the demand to a clergyman in Kirkuk who for security purposes goes by the name of Albert. When he heard the ransom demand, he said simply, "We don't have that amount of money."
It was then that the network Yousif for so many months had used to help others went to work for him. Albert, working with a party official named Wilson, contacted APP members, families who had benefited from Yousif's help, and Yousif's relatives. Albert and Wilson tapped into a network of Assyrian-affiliated émigrés living in Chicago, Detroit, and Canada. "I was very much involved with this situation and started making phone calls to raise money," said Elias Shamuel, an APP member who fled Iraq during the first Gulf War and is now an accountant and a U.S. citizen living in Chicago. Shamuel is from the same village in northern Iraq as Yousif and knew him from childhood. "Our priority was the release of Mr. Yousif unharmed. We did not care whether the ransom money would be used to fund terrorist groups or not."
With the rise since early October of violence in Mosul and surrounding areas, including targeted killings of Christians, comes the revived threat of kidnappings and renewed debate about whether ransom payments actually fuel more terrorist activity.
In February of this year, unknown terrorists kidnapped the prominent Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, and held him for two weeks before friends found his body in a shallow grave near Mosul. Only later did they discover that the terrorists had extorted protection money from Rahho, which was paid out of the tithes given to the Chaldean Catholic church. When Rahho stopped the payments, the terrorists presumably nabbed him and demanded $3 million for his release. Rahho asked that the ransom not be paid, and church colleagues later said, "He believed that this money would not be paid for good works and would be used for killing and more evil actions."
But paying ransom has become almost commonplace, and upfront protection money, while less noted, is also not uncommon. One father from Mosul, now living in Syria, told WORLD he paid protection money for months to prevent two sons from being kidnapped. When the money ran out, the family fled.
U.S. military commanders now say that the Za'ab triangle-the area between Mosul/Nineveh Plain, Kirkuk, and Salahuddin-is perhaps the last worst area of violence in Iraq. It's a transit area for up to 12 insurgent groups with ties to al-Qaeda or former Baathists. U.S. forces believe it will take more cooperation from locals, as happened in Baghdad and Anbar province, to defeat them. So last month Brig. Gen. Tony Thomas, U.S. commander in Nineveh province, met with church leaders and up to 60 families who have taken refuge in a monastery north of Mosul. He promised, "I will give you a guarantee: I will crush them. I will crush whoever it is."
But the church leaders were reluctant to tell him who they think is behind attacks and instead blamed the authorities for failing to provide enough security. Shamuel agrees. In 1975 his father received a threatening letter, saying his children would be orphaned if he did not stop selling alcohol. "All he did was to bring the letter to the police station, action was taken, and he died 21 years later of old age."
Shamuel added, "Although we did not agree with the policies of the prior regime there was a rule of law that controlled the fundamentalists. The absence of rule of law following 2003 created a security vacuum and gave fundamentalists, terrorists, and criminals the upper hand to do what they please."
In the absence of security, Christians say they are in effect forced to pay jizya, the historic tax required under Islamic law for non-Muslims living under the "protection" of Muslims. Shamuel said he believes many businesses, as well as clergy, even now may be paying. "Do I think it is right? Well, of course not. But if I am a church leader and my obligation and duty is to protect my congregation, and it is the only way to do that, I think I am obligated to pay money."
In captivity Yousif and his driver were moved from location to location in the desert. Albert and Wilson, working by cell phones, negotiated day and night for three days in a bid to raise the ransom money while lowering the kidnappers' demands. "The first day we raised $6,000, by the end of the second day it was $10,000, so on the third day we told them that's all we had," said Wilson. He was tough, and eventually the kidnappers agreed to a $25,000 ransom. Locals agreed to float a loan until all the cash arrived. Then the kidnappers agreed to meet Wilson with the cash.
"My faith weakened but I prayed," Yousif said. He worried about how the money would eventually be delivered, and who would put his life at risk to rescue him. At one point he told his guards, "You can kill me but don't ask such a huge amount from the church."
Then a man showed up on a motorcycle, and assuming the men to be vagrants, offered to help them. The guards shot him dead. Then the guards fled, only to return later. He began to believe his guards not only were not methodical, but were erratic and perhaps uncertain about their mission.
The guards disappeared again the next day, and Yousif decided to turn his thought to action. Kept in a makeshift shelter but not bound as long as the guards were around, he decided to move out of the shelter "five meters at a time." If the guards could see Yousif, "they would shoot me. If no one shot me, then I knew they were not around." Slowly Yousif and his driver managed to get far enough away from the shelter to see a shepherd coming up a dirt track in a tractor. "When we reached the tractor, we knew we were safe. We were free."
Wilson by then was on his way to a rendezvous near Hamrin Mountain where he was to deposit the ransom money inside an abandoned tank. Once the money was retrieved, Yousif would be freed, the kidnappers told Wilson. But along the way a U.S. convoy blocked the road, forcing him to wait. Then Wilson received a call on his cell phone from a shepherd. Soon he heard Yousif's voice, telling Wilson he no longer had to make a ransom payment.
Yousif returned to a village outside Mosul where he was reunited with his family. Under better circumstances, that would be the happy ending to his story. But in the reality that is Iraq, Yousif remains in as much if not more danger. He now has round-the-clock bodyguards and is secretive about his whereabouts, even though he has made two trips to Baghdad. When I asked him if he has or would pay protection money to stay alive, he said, "You have to pay money. It is life or money, so you pay money."
A tax insurgent groups sometimes impose on Iraqi Christians, mandated by the Quran, Surah 9, verse 29: "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold forbidden that which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."


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Bellmore-Merrick Central District Board mulls $47.8M capital bond
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Board of Education is considering a $47.8 million bond proposal to fund new science laboratories, bathrooms, athletic fields and a host of repairs, from masonry and roof work to asbestos abatement and upgrades to art rooms and gymnasiums.
At the Aug. 21 Board of Education meeting, Roger Smith, of the district's architectural firm, BBS Architects, Landscape Architects and Engineers in Patchogue, laid out the costs of a bond proposal that the board could put to a public vote in November or December.
Smith noted that the value of the final proposal is subject to change. The Board of Education must now run through the numbers and determine which projects to keep as part of the proposal and which to reject, if any.
BBS's proposal includes $7.5 million for new artificial-turf athletic fields, $6 million for new bathrooms and $5 million for new science labs at each of the district's five schools. Additional improvements include upgrades to art and music classrooms, technology shops, gyms and locker rooms.
The bond would also bring the district into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, which mandates that public facilities be handicapped-accessible. In particular, Central District Superintendent John DeTommaso said, bathrooms would become ADA-compliant. And the bond could be used to upgrade the district's security with new monitoring systems and lockdown vestibules at school entrances, according to BBS.
Board President Susan Schwartz made it clear that $47.8 million is not necessarily the bond's final figure, and that projects could be removed from the plan. "This board has not really analyzed this," she said of Smith's proposal. "This is a big wish list."
Smith said that he addressed all of the facility concerns raised by site-based committees at each of the district's five schools –– Grand Avenue and Merrick Avenue middle schools, and Calhoun, Kennedy and Mepham high schools.
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When did Brookside and Jerusalem Ave. School become part of the Bellmore-Central HS district. The article indicates Bellmore Merrick HS District consists of five schools Kennedy HS, Mephan HS, Calhoun HS, Grand Ave. Middle School and Merrick Avenue Middle School.
This is an outrage to ask the community to pay for such extravagances when the economy is falling apart, the US government is ready to close. The community has not recovered fully from Hurricane Sandy.
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The Federal Cabinet has created the conditions for the European fiscal compact to be implemented in Germany. On 7 March, it agreed on draft legislation that is intended to implement stricter budgetary rules in German law. Foreign Minister Westerwelle spoke of it as "the right course towards more Europe". Now the Bundestag and Bundesrat must pass the law with a two-thirds majority.
The fiscal compact opens a "new European chapter", said Foreign Minister Westerwelle after the Federal Cabinet approved the draft legislation. "The contractually secured commitment we have made together to sound budgets is an important step in European policy integration and the right course towards more Europe and a better Europe," he continued.
The Foreign Minister had beforehand presented the draft legislation on the fiscal compact to the cabinet. Within the Federal Government, the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Foreign Office were jointly responsible for the project.
The Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union, called the "fiscal compact", is the contractual basis for a further enhanced coordination in fiscal and economic policy. In it, the Heads of State and Government commit themselves especially to enacting uniform and permanently binding budgetary rules in their national legislation.
National debt brakes
Among other things the fiscal compact envisages national debt brakes. According to the treaty, within a year of its coming into force, permanently binding rules must be enacted in the national legislation of the contracting parties. These are to ensure that the entire budget of the country is balanced or has a surplus. The implementation of these national debt brakes is to be reviewed through legal proceedings before the European Court of Justice.
The new fiscal compact was signed by the Heads of State and Government of 25 EU countries at the European Council of 1 and 2 March. Great Britain and the Czech Republic have not signed the treaty. The fiscal compact strengthens the legal basis of the economic and monetary union and requires EU member states to move towards budget consolidation. The fiscal compact will enter into force on 1 January 2013. It must be ratified by at least 12 EU countries.
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Endangered Executives 2013: Whose Jobs Will Survive the Year?
CEOs of struggling companies managed to avoid the axe and will head into 2013 with their jobs intact... for now. We decided to take stock of a few of these endangered executives to assess which ones will get through 2013 in one piece.


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Doris Gengler of Remsen is the KLEM "Citizen of the Day" for Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Doris has volunteered for 19 years as the ticket co-chairperson for the Friends of St. Mary's Ball. Doris will receive a tailored carnation from the Le Mars Flower House, pizza from Pizza Hut in Le Mars or Kingsley, a movie or game rental from Jo's Movie House in Le Mars and a car wash from Easy Clean Car Wash in Le Mars.
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Christina's charms extend beyond real estate, though. The lake is serenely lovely, set in the Monashee Mountains, near the Canadian Rockies. August lake and weather temps belie the north-of-the-border location: 71° (or, as they have it up here, 22° C); daytime averages around 82°. If you're looking for a lake with sweeping, sandy beaches where you can get so warm that you have to make regular plunges into the water, this is it.
One potential drawback—the lake's somewhat remote location, more than two hours north of Spokane—is in some ways a plus. Things aren't crowded here. True, in summer the population soars from its year-round 1,500 to 6,000, but that won't faze anybody familiar with, say, Lake Tahoe. And with the north half of the lake embraced by Gladstone Provincial Park, it's easy to find quiet moments, when you can fantasize about living here permanently.
Stay: For rental cabins and homes, which cluster along the lake's eastern shore, a reliable agency is Christina Lake Vacation Rentals (christinalakevacation.com). If you want someone to coddle you, the Sunflower Inn Bed & Breakfast (from $131 U.S.; sunflowerinnbb.com) has three great suites with good lake views, a private beach, and a dock.
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BIG, BOLD, AND BRASH, Frank Baldino has built Cephalon into one of the nation's most dynamic biotechs. The company, based in suburban Philadelphia, is 20-years-old this year, and is already marking its birthday with a flurry of honors. In January, Cephalon was inducted into the World Economic Forum's Community of Global Growth Companies—a tribute to a 44 percent increase in annual revenue (to $1.67 billion in 2006) and its new footprints in Europe and Asia. The company also made Forbes' list of 25 Fastest-Growing Technology Companies in America, ranked above Amgen, Genentech, and Celgene, thank you very much. On the R&D front, its leukemia treatment, Trisenox (arsenic trioxide), won high praise from the National Cancer Institute as a treatment for newly diagnosed patients, a timely lift to Cephalon's grand scheme to leap from CNS, where it made its reputation, into oncology, where its late-stage pipeline promises lie.
Although Cephalon has yet to launch a single product out of its own discovery program, the company is much envied for its genius at spotting, developing, and promoting neglected drugs. Its first and now flagship drug, Provigil (modafinil), with a narrow sleep-disorder label, delivered more than $700 million last year, at least half of which was for off-label uses ranging from MS fatigue, depression, and ADHD to jet lag, campus cramming, and multipurpose "brain boosting." Actiq (oral mucosal fentanyl), a sluggish-selling painkiller popsicle for cancer patients until Cephalon snagged it from Anesta in 2000 and relaunched it, earned a cool $570 million last year, with more than 90 percent of sales serving off-label uses.
This strategy hasn't always scored, of course. The biotech bought Abbott's anti-seizure drug, Gabitril (tiagabine), in 2001 and sent it through the biotech's standard boot-camp efficiency tests for neuropathic pain and anxiety, among other conditions. But Gabitril has so far shown only middling benefits, while reports that it actually caused seizures in some non-epileptic patients have cramped its off-label style.
But Baldino is known as much for what he has said as for what he has done—especially when he's angry at FDA. Tracy calls the Cephalon chief's tendency to shoot from the hip "refreshing," adding that, "It's very unusual among pharma CEOs, who generally present a bland, controlled public face and talk out of both sides of their mouth."
Despite being named Neuroinvestment's "CEO of the Year" numerous times, Baldino no longer speaks to Tracy—reportedly offended by unfavorable coverage. Baldino's apparent thin skin makes an odd combo with his raging-bull persona, and, according to Tracy, "in the CNS field, he is the one big CEO whose career stumbles would most likely inspire a feeling of schadenfreude." But Baldino's detractors may be eating their words, given Cephalon's banner year.


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MOUNDSVILLE - Jason "Jake" Padlow is not yet ready to give up on being a Marshall County commissioner, as the Democrat is seeking a recount in the race he lost to Republican challenger Robert Miller Jr. by 70 votes.
Filing for the recount late Friday, Padlow posted a $300 bond for an electronic recount, Marshall County Clerk Jan Pest said.
"If changes are found, the county has to pay for the recount. If the vote total is the same, the candidate will have to pay for it," she said.
Pest said she could not yet make a final determination of the cost, as it would depend on how much work her office has to do. Pest said she has until Tuesday to notify Miller of Padlow's recount filing. She said Miller also would need to post a $300 bond for the recount, though he did not ask for one.
A Wednesday vote canvass showed incumbent Democrat Padlow received 6,148 votes, while Miller collected 6,218 to win the seat. Just 70 votes, or 0.56 percent of the total, separated the two in the final results.
That result differs from vote totals announced Nov. 6, which showed Padlow leading by 61 votes - 4,797 to 4,736.
Pest and her staff discovered an error in the unofficial report late last week, when it was determined 2,912 absentee and early votes had been overlooked as election night totals were released. Padlow was notified of the problem last week, eventually learning that updated totals showed him losing to Miller by 80 votes. The canvass reduced this difference to 70 votes.
Pest said the county commission will need to schedule a day and time for the recount. She believes Padlow's goal is to contest the election, which she said involves court action. A recount must be done before a contest.
For his part, Miller said he has "faith in the system."
"I am somewhat surprised. Every indication I have gotten is that I have won this race," Miller said upon learning of Padlow's challenge. "At first, I thought I lost. Then, I thought I won. I guess we will just have to work through the process to see how it ends up."
Padlow's attorney, Dan Guida, confirmed Padlow asked for the recount but he had no more comment.
City Editor Jennifer Compston-Strough contributed to this report.


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Sunday, August 3, 2008
We'd come to the end of the flying for Team Oracle and The Collaborators but that didn't mean that we were quite finished with our responsibilities. Although we did get to sleep in for a bit and could take our time getting over to the show from the Weeks Hangar, we did have one family coming as Oracle Guests. Once we arrived Sean had some autographs to sign, so I hopped into his car with him and off we went.
Today was different than the other days. Sean was able to relax a bit, as much as he can ever relax. Although still moving at a million miles a minute, he got to walk around a bit. And of course we got to talk about life and work and I soaked in all the words of wisdom he had to offer.
From sponsor to sponsor and tent to tent we zipped around with exuberant Sean leaving everyone in his wake with a smile. I have so much to learn from Sean and all of my coaches and mentors that it is unbelievable. From flying to business to interacting with current sponsors, potential sponsors and fans, the opportunities are endless.
The show was great, as is expected of Oshkosh, yet there was almost a touch of sadness looming over the entire airport. It was the last day of Oshkosh. Airplanes had begun departing a day or two before and as we drove through the warbird area it looked bare and lonely. Tents began to come down and people were packing their things.
Could it be that it had gone by that fast? Absolutely! They say that time flies when you're having fun, no pun intended. I guess they're right!
As we hurried back across the airport towards the hangar after the show, the sky began to get darker and darker. After doing some things we raced back over to the show side to drop off the golf cart and it was a good thing we went when we went. No sooner had Ian hopped in the car that I drove over than the sky opened up and thunder began to clap. It rained pretty much non-stop with thunderstorms rolling through off and on the rest of the night.
We all headed back to the house for an amazing dinner prepared by Kureha, Ben's girlfriend. And let me tell you, this girl can cook! I'm not just saying that…it was an awesome dinner and a perfect ending to a long hard week of work and fun. After a night of laughter and camaraderie it was time for bed. Then next morning we would all be heading home; different places for each us of, but only for a little while. The airshow schedule will be calling everyone back together soon enough.
My final thoughts on Oshkosh…it is a MUST for anyone who loves flying or just loves a good time. I could never have imagined that my first Oshkosh experience would be so amazing. From making new friends, seeing old ones to growing as a member of my new flying family, it is something for which I will be forever grateful. It just supports my belief that you should always dream big and never stop working hard for what you want. You never know what might come of it!


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For the first time as a featured event at the Phillips County Fair, an ATV rodeo brought fans and participants of all ages to the grandstand arena as men, women and children jumped on their ATVs for some rodeo fun.
Bryan Kroeger aims for a speedy time as he races toward the finish line Friday,
Events included poles, barrels, key hole and a hide race. Results are listed from first to third.
Peewee—Fallon Bamford and Layne Bellm.
Youth—Trent Huffman, Josilyn Lutze and Austin Vieselmeyer.
Adult—Mark Lutze, Gunnar Kroeger and Mendi Lutze.
Peewee—Bamford and Bellm.
Youth—Huffman, Vieselmeyer and Josilyn Lutze.
Adult—Tanner Smith, Kroeger and Kody Timm.
Tanner Smith races around the poles Friday night during the ATV rodeo. —Enterprise photo
Key hole
Youth—Josilyn Lutze, Vieselmeyer and Huffman.
Adult—Mark Lutze, Kroeger, Smith.
Hide race
Youth—Vieselmeyer, Huffman and Tristen Roll.
Adult—Chelsea Deering, Pam Haynes and Wess Foster.
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It has no trouble making "successful" calls every time.
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I haven't seen a single poster, here or elsewhere, report 6.4a on a Samsung yet.
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My R-10 installed it, with just its regular phone call, already.
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Mine is connected as well and I have forced several calls.
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They have their exits and their entrances;
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Gannett Hopping Mad Over 'Hopper' -- Longterm agreement reached!
Posted 07 October 2012 - 07:40 PM
Gannett is being completely unreasonable, and I hope Dish stands up to these clowns. It's OTA for crying out loud!
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Posted 07 October 2012 - 09:12 PM
It's getting to the point where networks are biting the hands that feed them, it's getting too expensive to continue to watch shows, cable's been too expensive for a long time, and even satellite companies are getting up there to the point where I may have to consider down grading and look for the shows I'll miss online.
And IMHO it's networks and studios are the primary cause. Skipping commercials has been done for years, for Gannett to get in a huff over auto-skip now is dis-ingenuous. The method whether its in software or me pressing a button on a remote is irrelevant. I still don't watch their commercials.
Posted 07 October 2012 - 10:09 PM
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So who blinked?
Posted 07 October 2012 - 10:26 PM
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Or Mountain ... Cheyenne time (unless they are waiting for Gannett affiliates on the west coast).
Wait till midnight pacific.
The WSJ says they were talking Sunday:
Dish and Gannett were negotiating Sunday in hopes of reaching a deal that would avert a blackout of Gannett's TV stations on Dish's satellite service, a spokesman for Dish said.
An agreement allowing Dish to carry Gannett's 22 TV stations on its satellite-TV service was due to expire at midnight on Sunday. If the two companies don't agree on financial terms for a renewal of the deal, Dish customers in 19 cities—including Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Denver and Phoenix—faced losing access to certain ABC, CBS and NBC-affiliated stations.
A blackout of Gannett TV stations would hit Dish customers in 19 cities.
"We remain committed to getting a deal done," a spokesman for Gannett said Sunday.
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Posted 08 October 2012 - 12:23 AM
The ironic thing is that Gannett is not talking. I've notice in most all their conversations of this, nothing has really been said other than DISH won't concede. Oh and nothing as I would expect on the main DISH site.
Posted 08 October 2012 - 12:49 AM
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Posted 08 October 2012 - 01:39 AM
Wow ... normally it is days. Seems odd to issue a press release for hours.
Posted 08 October 2012 - 01:51 AM
There is a dispute over two NBC denver stations 9 & 20 as well. Personally and I mean personally I am tired of my bill going up each year to the extent that I may just start hopping back and forth between Dish & DirecTV every two years. What I get is a brand new installation with the latest equipment and at least a 1 year discount under a two year contract.
I support Dish playing hard ball with Gannet, AMC networks and others that may come up in the future provided it keeps my bill lower than DirecTV or cable. The content providers have needed a big wake up call for over a decade and maybe lossing 20 million customers in their revenue stream may provide that. This is not going to be the same goal for everyone, some people are willing to pay whatever the cost will be.
I read over and over again that neither cable or satellite are growing at rates they did 10 years ago. Many wonder if the subscriber rates will actually start falling. Keep in mind that many of the younger folk buying their first home are choosing streaming sources over satellite or cable and pay as you go may be the only audience left for content providers if they don't change their position. I think a perfect example of this is the music industry. When was the last time anyone bought a CD? Now days people buy the specific songs they want.
Hey, I still buy CD's. I don't like paying for 10% of the music.
Posted 08 October 2012 - 02:04 AM
Got all the timers that really matter moved over to OTA. There's not many though.
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Posted 08 October 2012 - 05:19 AM
I think it's already been said, but my take is if you use your DVR a lot, you're going to skip commercials whether or not you have to hit forward a few times. Dish is just acknowledging that most people skip commercials when watching recordings, so they're just doing away with the nonsense of having to forward through them 30 secs at a time. If content providers think this new feature is causing lots of people to skip commercials who otherwise wouldn't skip commercials, they're kidding themselves big time. And if some of your favorite shows get dropped for a time ala AMC, can you say P2P torrents? Most of the popular shows are posted to sites like PB within hrs of airing. Download, connect your PC or laptop to the big flat screen via HDMI, then stream 'em to the TV in near-HD resolution. If content providers are gonna squeeze Dish to drop a not-too-consequential commercial skipping feature or demand they (we) pay more for the content, then there are workarounds if they decide to pull their content.
I use auto-hop all the time. I can activate the feature then put my remote down and watch.
Posted 08 October 2012 - 05:49 AM
I'll survive if KARE disappears from my channel list tonight. All the shows I care about are available on Hulu the next day. I can stream those through my Hopper with the PlayOn software.
Gannett is being completely unreasonable, and I hope Dish stands up to these clowns. It's OTA for crying out loud!
Can you give me more details on this software add on to your hopper?
Posted 08 October 2012 - 05:50 AM
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2:00am they went dark here in Atlanta, it is now 2:49am and they are back on.
Charlie hates it when his phone system gets overloaded.
Posted 08 October 2012 - 08:03 AM
Can you give me more details on this software add on to your hopper?
http://www.playon.tv/playon is the where you can download the software. Basically it just piggybacks on top of the DLNA protocol. You can access it once it's installed on your PC through the 'Local Media' option through the 'Menu' button on the Hopper.
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Posted 08 October 2012 - 08:07 AM
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37" Sony KDF-37H1000 RP LCD
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Posted 08 October 2012 - 08:36 AM
http://www.marketwatch.com is reporting Dish and Gannett reached a deal. No details yet.
KARE 11's Facebook page also confirmed the deal. They aren't providing any details yet, either.
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This Valentine's Day, legions of sweethearts will shower each other with flowers, candy, and honeyed Hallmarks. But while flowers wilt and greeting cards fade, real love lasts. How? To find out, WORLD sought out experts: Five couples, each married for more than 50 years. Despite hardship, these couples have weathered lifetimes together, and combined they represent nearly three centuries of experience in what it takes to make a marriage last. Here are their love stories.
Herman & Mary Fiala
King of Kings Lutheran Church
Omaha, Neb
Married 53 years
People often ask Mary Fiala how long she and her husband Herman have been married. "54 years," she'll say, then add with mock anxiety: "Do you think it's going to last?"
At this point, it looks certain. Mrs. Fiala, 72, has known Mr. Fiala, 77, all her life. The two were pupils together at a little country schoolhouse in Nebraska where Herman was several grades ahead of her and, she remembers, the same "gentle soul" he is now. One snowy day when she was 6 and Herman was 11, Mary looked in her lunch pail to find only a small packet of fried green tomatoes.
"My family was very poor, though I didn't know it," she says. "I looked at the tomatoes and thought, 'Omigosh, not again.' But Herman Fiala came over to me and said, 'Would you like a piece of my cake? I brought an extra piece today.'
"I said no! I don't know why I said no; I really wanted a piece of that cake!"
Though their families moved to other parts of the county, their parents kept in touch. Then one day, Herman came into the diner where Mary waitressed, earning money for college, and asked her to go to a church festival with him. They married about a year later, in 1951, when he was 24 and she was 19.
At first their ages often outstripped the balance in their bank account. Mrs. Fiala, now a retired teacher, recently purged paperwork she'd saved for decades and found bank statements showing balances as low as $2.50.
The Fialas also had their disagreements. "I'm the firecracker," said Mrs. Fiala: "I'm the one who explodes." But her husband, she said, is still as gentle as the day he offered her his lunch-pail cake. "He thinks things through to decide whether [an issue] is important enough to mention. If he does, he'll tell me, 'This is what I think we should do.'"
Nor is Mr. Fiala a man to shower his wife with flowery endearments. "It's more important to him to bring in flowers that he raised himself," Mrs. Fiala said. "Or to fix something when it's broken. That's his way of showing love, as opposed to a lot of fancy words."
Mrs. Fiala sums up their marital success in a word: God. A grandson in December told Mr. Fiala, "Grandpa, I would like to give the Fiala name to my girlfriend Katie, if that's OK with you." That was fine, Mr. Fiala allowed, as long as God would be in the new marriage, too.
Dick & Bettye Tremmel
Emmanuel Christian Center
Spring Lake Park, Minn.
Married 60 years
Bettye Johnston had known Dick Tremmel when they were kids growing up in northeast Minneapolis. But then the boy she'd known joined the Marine Corps to fight Hitler and Hirohito. When he came home on furlough in 1944, she remembers, he was a man. "I just noticed how he had a strength; he made the decisions: Let's go here, let's do this," she explains. "That's what attracted me."
On their very first date, Dick told Bettye he was a Christian and that he was going to heaven. "I thought, wow! I want this guy."
Dick wanted Bettye, too. They married in September 1944 and he returned to his Marine Corps unit in North Carolina, where she joined him a month later. But they were only together a day and a half before the Corps shipped him out to the South Pacific. Their son was born the next July.
But Mr. Tremmel would not see his baby boy or new bride for more than a year. As war raged across the South Pacific, Mr. Tremmel survived the battle of Iwo Jima, a bloody siege that claimed the lives of nearly every original member of his unit, plus many of their replacements.
"We knew what was coming," Mrs. Tremmel, 80, says now. "We knew whatever we had to do without, we'd do without, and we just hoped and prayed the Lord would bring Dick home."
The Lord did. Mr. Tremmel returned to his wife and son on Christmas Eve 1945. The post-WWII housing shortage left them without a place to live, but they endured that and other trials, said Mr. Tremmel, by practicing forgiveness. "Jesus Christ is our propitiation," Mr. Tremmel, 83, says. "If He can forgive us for all the dumb things we do, we can surely forgive each other for the little things that come up now and then."
He worries that couples today don't know the meaning of the word commitment. But the Tremmels have modeled it for their children. "Sometimes when you don't like what's happening [in your marriage], you just have to plough through," Mrs. Tremmel said. "Somewhere, somebody sees that and takes it to heart."
Ron & Mary Lou Davis
The Chapel
Akron, Ohio
Married 55 years
In 1947, when Mary Lou was a sophomore in high school, she learned that the school's Future Farmers of America chapter had planned a party. Among the invited guests: members of the Future Homemakers of America, a club to which Mary Lou belonged.
"I'm not going to any farmer's party!" Mary Lou told her mother. "If you've been invited," her mother replied, "you most certainly will go."
Mary Lou is glad she obeyed. That's where she met Future Farmer Ron Davis, a handsome senior and her future husband.
Ron came from a broken home: His father had abandoned his mother, and his grandparents raised him and his younger brother on a farm in the Allegheny Mountain region of Pennsylvania.
Ron knew he wanted the solid, traditional home life he had not had as a boy. Mary Lou wanted Ron to have a happy home like her own. Two weeks after she graduated, the couple became Mr. and Mrs. Davis.
Tough times followed. In 1957, they moved to Ohio, where Mr. Davis earned a living as a long-haul truck driver. "I was by myself a lot. It was hard during those times," Mrs. Davis says now. She believes one thing that kept the family strong was their decision that she would not work outside their home. "Just him knowing I was there, that when he came home, the whole family was there, that was important."
Mr. Davis agrees. "She handled it a lot better than most women. I knew a lot of men in the trucking industry and there was a high divorce rate because of adultery" by both husbands and wives. "We never had that problem. We attribute that to our obedience to Christ."
Not that they've had a perfect marriage. "We've had differences. We still do," Mrs. Davis said. "But we pray about things and we talk it over and everything seems to work out. I have to think back, what made me fall in love with him years ago? He's still the same person now."
"Wait a minute, you told me I was a better person," Mr. Davis says. "And that if you stayed married to me another 50 years I'd be perfect!"
They laugh, still best friends.
Daniel & Rachel Craig
Saddleback Church
Lake Forest, Calif.
Married 56 years
Rachel Craig fell in love with her future husband when she was only 9 years old. Daniel was the son of a British missionary who traveled around Argentina planting churches. She was the daughter of European parents who had emigrated to Argentina. When their paths crossed at Plymouth Brethren Church, Daniel was 18 and taught Sunday school to elementary-school boys. Rachel's elementary-age class met in the same room, but she didn't learn a lot that year: "I spent all my time looking at him."
Seven years later, when Daniel was 25 and Rachel was 16, he asked her to marry him. For Rachel it had only been a matter of time: "I knew when I saw him in Sunday school that he was for me."
The Craigs traveled a lot, living first in Argentina, then in London where they moved with Daniel's career as a manager for a worldwide steamship company. In 1953, they returned to Argentina to raise their children, the eldest of whom was 9. But soon, Eva Peron swept into power and her dictatorship absorbed the country's political and educational institutions. Daniel was pressured to join the Peronist party or face losing his salary. At the private British school their children attended, the lessons began to revolve around the life of Eva Peron.
"We decided that wasn't for us," Rachel said. "No matter what, the Lord was going to come first." The Craigs applied at the American embassy for resident visas and moved to the United States in 1959. "We came seeking freedom for our children, freedom of religion, seeking the Lord in every way."
They raised four children, have 12 grandchildren, and now volunteer as marriage counselors at Saddleback church. Their marriage-buffeted at times by financial problems and family separation due to Daniel's career-has been largely a peaceful one, a fact they attribute to the culture of Christian devotion they encouraged in their home.
They also try to keep things light. "Sometimes people take life too seriously," Rachel says. "They enlarge their problems so big that they cannot cope with them." Many of the married couples they mentor, she said, spend no time in God's Word, and want to "manage their lives with their egos instead of by the Holy Spirit." To make strong marriages, the Craigs suggest switching drivers.
Arthur & Cookie Wood
Park City Presbyterian Church
Dallas, Texas
Married 57 years
While courting her in New York City in December 1947, Arthur Wood kept telling Betty "Cookie" Cooke that they'd known each other long enough to marry. They'd met and dated a bit the previous April when he flew in from Oklahoma for a business meeting at the home offices of New York Life. She was 25 and he was 28-in those days a bit old to be single, an issue that concerned them both. Still, as Arthur squired her around the city when he returned for two weeks that December, Cookie told him she'd always favored a long engagement.
Arthur, however, wouldn't take no for an answer. Every day for a week, he sent long-stemmed roses to her 5th Avenue office where she worked as a corporate secretary. "She was vivacious, attractive, outgoing, interesting," he says now. "I noticed especially that she related well to people. I could see she had what I needed. She had the whole package."
For her part, Cookie said Arthur was attentive and romantic, taking her to dinner, indoor polo games, the theater, and walking with her all over New York. As for all those roses, well, "I think that's when my personnel manager started looking for a replacement."
After traveling to Oklahoma to meet Arthur's family, the couple married in February 1948. Despite their whirlwind courtship, they were practical about marriage and thought their common backgrounds-both had college educations, came from families of similar financial standing, and were Christians-boded well. And they did. Still, they fought about the normal things like money and child discipline-"and a few others," Arthur laughs.
Their children grew up during the child-indulgent Dr. Spock generation. Cookie says she wasn't very good at spanking. Arthur says he was better at spanking than talking things out. Family finances were also tricky because as an insurance agent, Arthur always worked on straight commission. Cookie stayed home to raise their four kids, but, not knowing how much money was coming in, often felt insecure. Eventually, they worked out a viable solution: Cookie would have her own budget regardless of what kind of financial month Arthur was having.
That solution was 20 years in the making.
"There's always something to work through," Cookie says of marriage, noting that today's "something" is Arthur's hearing ("I think he has a hearing problem. He thinks it's my talking.") But the Woods urge other couples not to get hung up in the struggles.
"Focus on living one day at a time," Cookie said, "because God's grace is fresh every morning."
'You just can't give up'
Not every married couple makes a big deal out of Valentine's Day, but Anthony and Mitchie Stewart of Tallahassee, Fla., vividly remember Feb. 14, 1996. Their son Jamal, then 3, was spending the night with grandma, and Mr. Stewart had planned a cozy dinner for two, a warm bath, rose petals-to some wives, the stuff of romantic dreams.
But not to Mrs. Stewart. By then she was tired of fighting with her husband over the time he spent away from home, working overtime or hanging with his friends. It had gotten so bad, she remembers, that the couple would pass in the driveway-Mrs. Stewart and Jamal pulling in, Mr. Stewart pulling out. On at least one such occasion, Jamal began to cry.
"So when Anthony planned this really nice dinner at home, I was like 'whatever,'" said Mrs. Stewart, 41, a university admissions officer. "I thought, he's never here, what's the point? Valentine's Day comes around and now he wants to be the perfect husband. I did not want to be bothered. I just went through the motions."
She kept going through the motions for three more years. Mr. Stewart, meanwhile, truly loved his wife and thought he was showing it by being a good provider. The pharmacy supervisor, now 42, tried to change to please her, but change never lasted. Finally, in February 2000, the Stewarts divorced.
They don't recommend it.
But American culture does. A booming marriage-therapy industry encourages warring partners to seek first their individual happiness. Hollywood tries to normalize divorce, populating casts with characters who've split or are splitting. Even bumper stickers celebrate divorce with slogans like "I miss my ex, but my aim is improving."
"The societal model today is if you're not happy, well, just dump them, move on, and find someone else," said Ellen Purcell, administrative director and master teacher for the PAIRS Foundation, a marriage-education group in Reston, Va. Increasingly, PAIRS and other marriage-education and mentoring programs are battling against society's divorce-as-antidote message.
For example, Marriage Savers, a Bible-centered program, has trained mentor couples in 10,000 churches to coach other couples through troubled times. Meanwhile, more than 70,000 brink-of-divorce couples have attended Retrouvaille, a free, weekend program at which attendees learn from other couples who swerved to avoid divorce and rebuilt happy marriages. Eighty percent of couples that attend Retrouvaille decide to stayed married.
Divorce didn't cure Anthony and Mitchie Stewart. They remained on cordial terms as they shared custody of Jamal. By 2003, both were even engaged to marry someone else. But as their new nuptials approached, each wrestled privately with God.
One night after dropping off Jamal at Mitchie's house, Mr. Stewart went home, lay down on his bed, and cried. "I prayed and told God, 'Here I am about to marry [another] young lady, and I still seem to have feelings for Mitchie. I don't want to make a mistake. Show me what to do.'" He realized then that Mitchie was his wife, the woman he had made a covenant with.
Mr. Stewart didn't know it, but Mitchie had already had the same change of heart and had broken off her own engagement. And when Jamal, then 10, learned that his father wasn't going to marry the new lady, he told his mother: "Mama, my prayers have been answered."
Last year, the Stewarts made a very big deal out of Valentine's Day: They got married again at their home church, Bethel AME in Tallahassee. But not before attending a PAIRS class to learn how to work through struggles that once tore them apart.
PAIRS helped the Stewarts learn to communicate without the extremes of cold wars or fireworks. "It helped me learn to listen and not just hear, to really listen and take in what he's saying," Mrs. Stewart said. Her husband agrees: "We learned to try to come to a mutual agreement, and not just shut down. Now, if I have to take one step back to go forward, I say let's do that. I've learned to work toward the middle ground."
The Stewarts' advice to couples considering divorce? "Don't give up," Mrs. Stewart said. "You may not like that person right now, but you have to keep working at it. You just can't give up. It's not worth it."


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I first joined the FCC in 1999 and worked various positions within the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, including legal advisor to the bureau chief. I then moved to Office of Legislative Affairs as Special Counsel. Finally in October of 2008, I joined IGA as Chief.
The Office of Intergovernmental Affairs (IGA) was created to act as a point of contact within the FCC for state and local governments as well as other federal agencies. One of IGA's functions is to aid these entities in their understanding of the FCC's programs, policies and rules. However, we do not want the communications to be one-way. We are looking for state, local, and federal input into FCC initiatives. To kick this off, we are rolling out this blog with the hope that state and local governments will post comments about important developments in their jurisdiction. With this, we expect the blog will become a path for dialogue on key issues of mutual concern such as rights-of-way and tower siting.
Your input will be useful to the FCC in understanding state and local perspectives as well as allow the FCC to pass on information pertinent to the state and local interests. We also hope that state and local governments will take advantage of our new email account dedicated to the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs staff, by emailing us at email@example.com. In the months ahead, we also expect to be reaching out to state and local governments through events such as webinars. We also look forward to working with you in the implementation of The National Broadband Plan, which was released by the FCC last month. For more information on the National Broadband Plan please visit: http://www.broadband.gov/ or click here to see The Plan.


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Try Keeping Up With A Mother
May 12, 2013
There is no such thing as a mother who doesn't work, of course. Anyone who thinks so has never prayed for Divine intervention to stop a baby's crying....
And these are the easy years. You can put the baby in a safe place. In a couple of years, you can no longer to that. I just wished a young relative with a 3 yr old a happy mothers day and said that I hoped she got the day off from daily chores. She said "you dont get mothers day off, you are just showed a bit of appreciated for cleaning up vomit, cleaning poop out of the potty chair, wiping snotty noses, having the patience of a saint, dealing with tantrums, etc"
As an imperfect mother, but one that has done very well, I can only say that it is when our own children have their children that they really come to appreciate the role of parent. That is when they appreciate the small things in life, a full night sleep, eating a meal without stopping to nurse a baby, and being the glue that gets it all done and still has a good attitude regardless of whining, complaints, and sibling disputes. Its when our kids finally see that parents had a life before kids,
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In an interview with ET Now, G Chokkalingam, Executive Director & Chief Investment Officer, Centrum Wealth Management, shares his views on various sectors and stocks. Excerpts:
ET Now: What is your call on the sugar space that seems to be in focus today on the back of decontrolling news? This is being talked about for a while now. How would you advise investors to play the sugar space?


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Great Eggspectations
by Julie Besonen, 08/14/2012
(From left) Minetta Tavern, photo by Malcolm Brown • Chicken and waffles from Buttermilk Channel, photo by Phil Shipman
There are boilerplate brunches, and then there are some that wake you up. Actually, you have to wake up pretty early to be the first in line at eternally popular weekend spots like Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant on the Lower East Side and Barney Greengrass on the Upper West Side. Sometimes the herd mentality gets it right. If you're wandering around Greenwich Village, dip into Minetta Tavern for the incredible latkes with smoked salmon, poached eggs and dill hollandaise. In the East Village, Cafe Mogador is a sweet spot, with low-priced Middle Eastern specialties best enjoyed at a sidewalk table. Walking the High Line? The can't-miss brunch nearby is at Cookshop, a New American bistro with fantastic seasonal dishes from Marc Meyer, who wrote the book on brunch. His first restaurant, Five Points, is also a must for wood-oven roasted farm eggs and chocolate French toast with crème anglaise and black raspberry jam. Brooklyn has a wide range of great brunch options, too, such as Colonie in beautiful Brooklyn Heights and Buttermilk Channel in Carroll Gardens, where it's agony to decide between pecan pie French toast with bourbon and molasses or the fried pork chop with cheddar waffles and maple syrup. To see which brunch spots made the cut for our top five, read on.


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Our History
The institution was founded in 1919 as The School of Automobile Trades and opened under the direction of Albert Sobey to train engineering and management personnel. In 1923, the school became the Flint Institute of Technology offering a four-year cooperative education program, and enrolling more than 600 students. Recognizing the potential of cooperative education, the General Motors Corporation took over financial support of the school in 1926, renamed it General Motors Institute, and started utilizing the facility to develop its own engineers and managers. In 1945, the Institute added a fifth-year thesis requirement and became a degree-granting college with a continuing commitment to cooperative education.
Independence came in 1982 as GM divested itself of ownership. With independence came another name change - to GMI Engineering & Management Institute. Administrators decided to keep the proven cooperative education program and expand the number of employers. Also in 1982, the institution began offering graduate programs to on- and off-campus students.
On January 1, 1998, GMI changed its name to honor the man who not only helped found this institution, but also had a strong influence in the concept of professional cooperative education -- inventor and industrialist, Charles Kettering. Kettering (1876-1958) liked to say, "Do the right thing at the right time." What began as a night school for engineers, managers, designers and technicians has grown into today's world-class Kettering University with co-op employers in the automotive industry, delivery services, aerospace, paper products, banking, metallurgical, health care and more. As Kettering University, the school continues its historic role of educating leaders for the businesses and industries of the world.


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I have killed my last couple elk with the 7 Rem Mag and found its performance more than adequate. My advice is to use the rifle you are most comfortable with. Bullet selection and shot placement erases any practical terminal difference between these two cartridges. As mentioned above, both of these cartridges are excellent choices for elk hunting with a quality bullet and well-placed shot.
Here, this will help you out I am sure, lol
Mike Eastman likes the 7MM Mag.
Guy Eastman likes the .300 Win. Mag.
Not that my opinion matters much, but just for the shear fact that you can get more bullet weights in factory loads, I would lean towards the .300 Win. Mag. Either way, I have personally seen both calibers put elk down with authority. If you choose the 7MM, stick with the heavy for caliber bullets like 160 grainers and for the .300 Win. Mag the 200 grain rounds work great for elk and the 180's for everything else. Just my two cents...
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I'd try a 300 with a good stout 180 or 200gr load and see if you can handle the recoil before purchasing one. A limbsaver pad can really help or a brake, but that adds length to your barrel without improving ballistics.
I personally used a 270 last year, I shot a 300WM with hot 180gr loads at everything from varmints up for years and developed a flinch doing it. I have found that now I shoot better with a 270 win or 264WM, pushing a 140gr bullet to 3000fps has been getting the job done at a recoil level that I can manage well. I practice more and shoot better this way, and where the bullet lands is still more important than how big it is. I'll have to pass some tough quartering shots I may take with a 200gr accubond from a 300WM, but I'm ok with that.
7 mag does a great job of pushing the 140gr bullet to 3k with a moderate load for a modest recoil deer rifle, and can push a 160-168gr the same speed if you need the extra performance. I did that for a while with a Colt light rifle I had, practiced most of the year with the 140's then stepped up to the 160's preparing for the elk hunt. The guy I hunt with used a 7 mag last season with the 150gr accubond long range bullets. He put 3 shots through the lungs of his bull before it fell at 420-450yds. All passed through and looked like they performed well. He was trying to shut the bull down before he dropped off into the nasty canyon he was bedded along, didn't work.
Placement is the key to anchoring them, just like any other animal. High point of the shoulder with a bonded bullet should do just that. I can shoot our rabbit sized WT square behind the shoulder with 180gr NBTs and them jokers are going to run.
I currently shoot factory Remington Core Lokt 150g. I've had great success in the whitetail world with this setup. If I need to step-up to a larger grain bullet or a better one I will?
I believe you have the right ammo and even though a heavier Core Lokt may be recommended I would stay with the same bullet you have been shooting because its enough for elk and you would not have to make any mental changes as ballistics go.
I would for sure for elk. But it's still all about shot placement.
I don't Break the rules, I Modify them.
The 150 Core Lokt is a good bullet for elk. I would stick with it if it shoot well in your rifle. Just put it through the goods.
I generally go with 160 -168 grain bullets in the 7RM, but more for the ballistic coefficient advantages than the terminal performance.


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Global Logistics: Freight forwarders maintaining their speed
October 01, 2012
Holiday gifting
For Barnes & Noble, the U.S. manufacturer of the "Nook," selecting the right freight forwarder for its launch into the U.K. has been key. Without naming the chosen provider, Dan Gilbert, Barnes & Noble's executive vice president of operations, says the EU-based intermediary has a global reach and proven track record.
"We fully intend to take the 'Nook' into the international marketplace," he says. "But we wanted to start with Great Britain to begin with. We work with a variety of logistics partners within the U.S., but we needed a highly specialized player for this major move."
Sophisticated shippers know that high-end consumer goods and high-tech gadgetry—like the Nook—requires flexible and resilient supply chains best served by leading international forwarders. But the detailed and underlying implications of that fact may not be so obvious. The latest report from the London-based research company Transport Intelligence (Ti) maintains that shippers should remain ever vigilant when evaluating forwarders.
"As companies compete on the thinnest of margins, those that are the quickest to adapt and innovate are the ones that not only survive in this highly competitive industry but are among the leaders within it," says Ti analyst Cathy Roberson.
While the overseas launch of the Nook is significant, Roberson points to Apple's introduction of the iPhone and iPad as being truly transformational.
"The entire supply chain has undergone great changes—from the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to the contract manufacturer, distributor, retailer and finally to the end customer," she says.
These changes have resulted in shifts in manufacturing locations and transportation modes as well as shifts in business strategies. For many OEMs, there has been greater emphasis towards software as opposed to hardware. Freight forwarders have responded to these changes by introducing specialized solutions to meet the industry needs. Niche forwarders have also emerged, especially those providers that work mostly with high tech companies.
"The high tech logistics market is a large and diverse one. Although it has grown at a healthy clip since the 2009 economic downturn, it's in danger of slowing once again thanks to yet another weakening of the global economy," says Roberson. "As mature markets such as the U.S. and Europe remain important to the consumption of these goods, it's the emerging markets of Asia, South America, and the Middle East that are spurring future demand for the latest devices."
Roberson says shippers are asking forwarders to provide a variety of modal choices as they reconfigure supply chains to cut cost. Some shippers opt for less expensive means of
transportation such as ocean and, in some cases, even rail service.
"Still, for many air cargo providers—particularly those that operate along the Asia Pacific trade lane—there has been an overdependence on high-tech product launches over the years," she says. "And due to the rise of oil prices, the shift towards ocean freight and slowing demand, over capacity issues have occurred."
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I've installed the Outlook Connector with no problems. I decided not to use the profile that it created for me because I have several accounts set up in my default Outlook profile.
When I go into my default Outlook profile, I add a new account. When asked what type of acount, Exchange, POP, IMAP, or Other, I select "Other". I then see "Zimbra Collaborative Suite" and add it. My Zimbra account now shows up in Outlook but it does not show me the Inbox.
It does show all other folders, including Trash... and it puts deleted items in the Trash folder (unlike IMAP).
So how do I get access to my Inbox via Outlook???


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Despite this, Netflix streaming is not perfect. Sometimes things are a bit slow to load, the variety can be a little odd and there can be some wild variation in the picture quality (and actual quality) of the individual films. However, these really are small prices to pay for something that, as a whole, is pretty wonderful.
There is, dear reader, one other major drawback to Netflix streaming.
The way that the site works is that you look through the lists and choose stuff to add into your queue, much like buying physical DVDs. Once you've got them in your possession, they're yours, right?
Due to the amount of space that all of this audio and video takes up, Netflix will, seemingly arbitrarily, get rid of movies. I don't know if it has something to do with traffic, use numbers, rights or contracts, but this is something that happens. It's like you have a stoner roommate who occasionally, without much of a warning, takes some of your DVDs over to his buddies house, never to be seen again. It all feels so very temporary.
Now, when I said without MUCH warning, there is a reason for it. If you go to a specific movie and look closely at the bottom of the screen, it will tell you if a movie is going away and the date that it is doing so. If this film that is going away is one that you love, it feels a bit like knowing the date of your imminent execution. After a thorough examination of the films which are expiring at the end of the month I discovered several and, armed with this information, made a decision that speaks volumes as to what is wrong with me as a person. Here are the films that I found out are to go away sooner, rather than later:
Stanley Kubrick's final true masterpiece, the unfathomably brilliant "A Clockwork Orange".
Peter Jackson's haunting and accomplished "Heavenly Creatures".
William Friedkin's masterful and authentically horrifying standard-setter "The Exorcist".
Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Studio's "Toxic Avenger 4: Citizen Toxie". A movie that features Ron Jeremy as "Mayor Goldberg" and Al Goldstein in the role of "Mayor's Press Secretary".
Guess which one of these four films I voluntarily decided to watch?
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Copper Thefts Reach Epidemic Levels Locally
April 8, 2013
A dramatic increase in copper wire thefts from company facilities has American Electric Power officials concerned....
The solution to stopping the thefts is simple: Pass very strict laws governing scrap yards & recyclers! For some reason defying explanation, state legislatures in both PA and WV refuse to do it. The yards and recyclers are aiding and abetting the criminals. Where do they think the copper wire is coming from?
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