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NASA pictures of all the space shuttles
Cape Canaveral, FL (Florida Today) -- NASA longs to explore liquid planets but will first have to fend off our own watery world.
That could take upwards of $45 million.
the ocean closes in on two historic launch pads, Kennedy Space Center
officials have yet to hear how much they'll see of the $15 million
Congress just allocated for NASA as part of the $51 billion Hurricane
Sandy relief bill.
hopes for at least $4 million to fix 1.2 miles of eroding dunes that
stand between the Atlantic Ocean and the two former space shuttle launch
pads - 39A and 39B.
Those pads hold the future of human spaceflight, but an ever-encroaching ocean imperils their future.
we have a tropical storm and we have our dune breached, there could be
impacts to the pad," said John Shaffer, a physical scientist at KSC. "If
we don't do something now, the infrastructure is going to be
irreparably damaged."
Fox News, the New York Post
and the blogosphere blasted the $4 million for NASA beach repairs that
President Barack Obama included in his request to Congress for Hurricane
Sandy relief. After all, the storm's center passed far off Florida,
they noted, some 220 miles off Cape Canaveral.
Last month, "Fox & Friends" aired a graphic titled "Sandy Scam," listing the $4 million for KSC among six spending items.
though, was the fact that Sandy still sent pounding waves ashore on the
Space Coast, causing erosion - in some spots severe - along Brevard
County's 72-mile shoreline. Brevard County estimated $25 million in
damages to its beach areas.
the criticism that Obama's request was "pork," Congress increased the
amount of NASA emergency aid to $15 million. And KSC officials defended
their planned dune repair as only a Band-Aid fix for a much larger
erosion problem that's crept inland for years.
is just to restore our primary dune and get some of our railroad track
out of the way," Shaffer said. "We get impacted by high tides now."
plans to remove and possibly move back now-unusable railroad tracks
that once hauled liquid hydrogen fuel to the space shuttle. The tracks,
built in the 1960s, now teeter on the dune's edge.
Since 1943, the ocean has thinned KSC's beach width by up to 66 yards
between the pads, NASA officials say. Sandy's October surprise put an
exclamation point on that damage.
almost two miles of beach, dunes retreated seven feet landward. The
ocean undercut the railroad track along a 218-yard stretch near Pad 39A,
where waves topped the tracks, flooding a nearby lagoon and partially
washing away some of the railway base.
the dune repair, NASA would mine new sand from inland, possibly
Canaveral Air Force Station, but specific sources have yet to be
identified. Trucks would haul the sand to the dune. The project would
include a drift fence to capture windblown sand and native plants to
secure the dune.
officials say the dune project would restore habitat for the threatened
southeastern beach mouse and endangered sea turtles. By blocking launch
pad lighting, the new dune also would reduce the number of sea turtle
hatchlings that get disoriented by the lights and crawl toward the pads
instead of the sea.
As the ocean laps ever closer, the pads lie in limbo, awaiting NASA's next milestones.
space agency is preparing Pad 39B for launches of crews on deep space
missions aboard its heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket and Orion
But the
first, unmanned test launch of the heavy lift rocket won't happen until
late 2017, followed by a first crewed flight in 2021.
NASA mothballed Pad 39A after the shuttle program ended but has offered it up to any interested commercial takers.
None has stepped forward so far.
recently declined Florida's initial request for 150 acres well north of
the existing pads, where the state hopes to build a new launch pad for
SpaceX. Negotiations continue.
wants to keep the company from locating its future commercial launch
operations in Texas, Georgia or Puerto Rico. SpaceX believes a pad
operated outside federal jurisdiction would offer more flexibility on
launches and reduced costs.
that debate continues, KSC will hash out a long-term plan for
protecting the old shuttle pads, which also were the launch sites of the
Apollo moon missions. The plan will include options for beach repair
and details about potential environmental impacts. "We're expecting our
environmental assessment complete and ready to circulate for public
comment within the next 45 to 60 days," said Don Dankert, a biological
scientist at KSC.
Beyond some patchwork to dunes, the space center has never conducted a full-scale sand-pumping beach renourishment project.
critically eroded dunes that KSC had repaired after storms between 2004
and 2010 thinned the shoreline. Then in 2010, KSC built a 15-foot high,
725-foot long secondary dune along the worst spot between the two
shuttle pads as proof a new dune could help protect launch
infrastructure. After Sandy, that was the only stretch of dune left
officials expect $11 million - almost three-quarters of the Sandy relief
allocated to the agency - will go to beach repairs at Wallops Flight
Facility on Wallops Island, Va.
year, an Illinois dredging company pumped 3.2 million cubic yards of
sand on beaches at Wallops for a $45 million project to protect over $1
billion in federal and state assets there.
long-term beach repair plan for KSC could prove just as costly and
involve roughly four miles of coastline from Playalinda Beach to south
of Pad 39A. "Ours would be similar to that if we did a pump system like
they did," Shaffer said.
anticipates having to do repeat sand pumping every three to seven
years, depending on need. Engineers designed similar beach projects from
Cape Canaveral to Melbourne Beach to require sand-pumping about every
six years. KSC would likely face a similar cycle.
could mine sand from the same shoals those projects tap about five
miles off Cape Canaveral. Federal funding must flow first, before a new
buffer for the old launch pads can bolster NASA's next big blast-offs.
But as every high tide reminds, the ocean's clockwork ticks with its own countdown of sorts.
"We're just fighting Mother Nature," Shaffer said.


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Flip is a 3 year old Hound mix, weighing in at just 45 lbs. He is a shy fellow when he first meets people, but once he warms up to you, he is your shadow. Flip loves to follow his foster mom around and "help" with the household chores! He is a great jogging partner. He would do well in a home with a moderately active owner, as well as another dog to take his cues from.
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Kelsey Parrish, 16, sets county jr. tourney record with 9.82-pound bass
Published: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 5:28 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 5:28 p.m.
The third annual Junior Bassmaster Challenge was a success last weekend on Lake Kerr with the largest fish ever caught in a Marion County junior event.
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Skies were clear for Saturday's event on the lake nestled in the northern part of the Ocala National Forest. Daniel Tillis, who ran the event, said there were upwards of 200 people in attendance, including 43 junior anglers ages 6 to 18 and 24 volunteer boat captains.
Thirty-one junior anglers brought fish to the scales when all was said and done. Kelsey Parrish, 16, reeled in the aforementioned largest lunker at a county junior event, according to Tillis. The 9.82-pounder earned her first place in the 15- to 18-year-old class and big bass honors for the tourney. Finishing second in the oldest age group was Mathew Gandler, who weighed in three fish for 2.32 pounds. Dane Hobbs was third (two fish weighing 2.22 pounds).
"If you're going to catch only one fish, you might as well get the biggest one," Tillis said about Parrish's event clincher.
In the 11- to 14-year-old division, Zachary Thompson took first place with three fish weighing 4.70 pounds. He also won big bass for the age group with a 3.10 pounder. Brett Pearson was second (three fish weighing 3.42 pounds) and Cory Norton finished third (three fish weighing 2.50 pounds).
Lastly, in the 6- to 10-year-old group, Isaac Dorland was first with three fish totaling 1.86 pounds, including the big bass of the class. It was .86 pounds. John O'Donnell caught two fish weighing .90 pounds to finish second, while Claude Loftin was third with one fish weighing .80 pounds.
Bassmaster Elite Series pro Shaw Grigsby, who lives in Gainesville, attended the event. Grigsby has nine wins on the sport's premiere circuit.
"The event went well," Tillis said. "We couldn't have done it without all the boat captains, sponsors and volunteers. We're looking forward to next year."
The money raised benefits the Junior Bassmasters of Marion County.
Meanwhile, the next junior event is on Lake Panasoffkee in Sumter County on Aug. 24. A meeting for both the juniors and adult Bassmasters is scheduled for Friday. However, it won't be at its usual spot — Gander Mountain — this month or in September. Check the club's website - www.marioncountybassmasters.com - or call 572-3148 for updates on the meeting spot.
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Many biopharmaceutical companies have replaced or are planning to replace traditional multi-use process equipment (fixed-in-place stainless-steel fermenters, tanks, downstream processing equipment, and associated piping) with single-use systems to improve flexibility, productivity, and cost (1–3). The use of disposable components reduces or eliminates the need for extensive cleaning and steam sterilization between batches. However, single-use process technologies can also have negative environmental impacts because they involve the use and disposal of consumable materials.
Several previous studies have looked at environmental impacts of single use biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies (4–7). To further understand the balance of environmental impacts, GE Healthcare in collaboration with GE's Ecoassessment Center of Excellence has completed an extensive study of the life-cycle environmental impacts of the full process train required to produce monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). The study compares the use of single-use versus traditional durable process technologies at 100-L, 500-L, and 2000-L scales. The scales were chosen to reflect the clinical phase, the scale-up phase, and the final production phase. Process data were derived in collaboration with BioPharm Services, developer of BioSolve, an industry-standard bioprocess model that can be used to build any process including those for manufacture of mAbs, vaccines, and bacterial-based products.
This comprehensive environmental study of single-use process technology is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of environmental impacts across the full process train using life cycle assessment (LCA). LCA is an internationally recognized discipline that can be used to examine products and processes from an environmental perspective across the full lifecycle of a product or process, from raw-material extraction and refining through manufacturing, use, and end-of-life disposal or recycling. The methods involve analyzing material and energy flows from cradle-to-grave to calculate potential environmental impacts. This study was performed in accordance with the International Standards Organization ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 (8, 9). The details and quality of the study were evaluated by a third-party critical review panel as per ISO 14044 because the study involved comparative assertions. The critical review panel consisted of an independent LCA expert and two domain experts from the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry (10).The results reported here focus on global warming potential (i.e., greenhouse gas emissions), cumulative energy demand (i.e., embodied energy), and water usage. The study also examined a range of additional environmental impact categories, such as ozone depletion, acidification, eutrophication, resource depletion, particulate matter formation, photochemical oxidant formation, as well as others. A companion article describing the results of the more comprehensive set of environmental impact categories is in preparation and will be published separately.


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As we open WISENET, I am pleased to welcome everyone to this experimental site designed to bring women in ICT together to share their professional experiences. As I have described the site to women all over the world, the response has been overwhelmingly positive and enthusiastic. When I wrote to Minister Jasna Matic from Serbia, she was delighted that we were starting WISENET as she sees it as a complement to her program to promote careers for young women in ICT, an international "Girls's Day/Girls in ICT" program to give girls an opportunity to explore ICT professions. This was the first time I had heard of this program and it is exactly the kind of "networking" and "information sharing" that we hope WISENET will engender. Clearly, given the response to the pre-launch of WISENET, there is a need for just such a site. This is an opportunity for all of us to make it as successful as we can, so please do join us and participate. And thanks so much to those of you who have already responded with your ideas for WISENET. I'm at the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, and I'm looking forward to introducing WISENET to an even broader audience. I'll send an update from the Plenipot.


text: Through my experience the scent elimination products work for the first part of a hunt, but as soon as you hit the mountains and start to hike there is not much that is going to keep you "scent free". I think there are things you can do to help mitigate your scent such as the things that the previous posts mentioned. If you are truely wanting to pack something in with you on your hunt I would go with one of the scent powders that you can just mix with water once you get to your destination, so you don't have to pack the weight of the extra H2O with you. Good luck!


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In Wilbur, try File>>Save As and select "PNG Texture" as the type instead of "PNG Surface". You'll get the exact image that Wilbur shows on the screen.
Is there a way to import the wilbur file into gimp?
For example, i want to use wilbur to dig my lakes so i can better control my depth rather then using gimp to try and make it look right. Would there be a way to get what i see on wilbur into gimp so i can place it on my world map? I tried to save it as a png and load that but it just loaded up a black and white flat image. (I assume that's what wilbur uses to show its height and depth.)
I know i could just take a screen capture of the lake in wilbur and then copy that over but then it wouldn't be very high quality. If there is no other way, i may use that though.
In Wilbur, try File>>Save As and select "PNG Texture" as the type instead of "PNG Surface". You'll get the exact image that Wilbur shows on the screen.
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Awesome, thanks. Do you happen to know what the ddi (or ppi in gimps case) would be for the texture?
Wilbur has no concept of dpi or ppi. It is purely a number of pixels across and number of pixels high.
That should work then, now i just have to figure out what all your different filters do. I dug the lake (carved out by glaciers) and ran a noise filter and i like the result. Good smoothish bottom. But there are so many other little toys to tinker with, going to spend up hours playing with it I'm sure.
like the rest of us
Photoshop, CC3, ArcGIS, Bryce, Illustrator, Maptool
Is there a tutorial for wilbur that explains what everything does? I saw a couple on the main page but they don't really go into detail on what the different settings mean.
I would like to use it for doing height and depth with the oceans and the land if i can figure out how to do it. A full height map would be neat to make.
Try use a image like wut i am uploading here. Make it Back and White, where reds go to white and blues to black.
Select the now black collor and add some blur (i like to use the Blur box, really easy to see the smooth in the collor borders).
I like to use Erosion (few passes) before use my preciption, it make the rivers and hills with a smooth touch.
This tuto is amazing: http://www.cartographersguild.com/at...ing-wilbur.pdf
Neat tutorial, i will have to try that on some of my islands.
Im sure it would work for the larger continent too. Just have to try it a bunch.
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An excellent use of that tutorial is to generate bump maps for your mountains and then paste them together in Photoshop. The islnads it generates tend to be much more reminiscent of volcanic islands than anything else (which also work fairly well for mountains ranges on larger blocks).


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July 15, 2010
In the earlier stages of the downward economic trend of the past two years, analysts were initially reluctant to use the dreaded "R-word." But now it seems as if they're equally wary about using another "R-word," but this time it's "recovery."
"The job growth is largely in temp work and there has even been a slowing of this as we approached the middle of the year."
Jacoby adds that corporate investment is also lagging as companies are conservatively hedging their bets since many don't see this as a sustainable growth situation—at least not yet. "This is not necessarily a dangerous scenario, but it's a disappointing one," he says.
Forecasts of GDP growth are hesitant and cautionary as well, according to Paul Bingham, managing director of trade and transportation at IHS Global Insight.
According to Bingham, real growth is forecast to be up 3.4 percent this year in contrast to the negative 2.4 percent of 2009, but the pace is expected to slow back to 2.8 percent in 2011.
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May 25, 2016
OCALA, Fla. -- December 9, 2012
A central Florida man accused of stealing and snorting the cremated remains of a man and two dogs has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for a string of burglaries.
Authorities say Jose David Diaz-Marrero and two other men stole the urns containing Holli Tencza's father and two Great Danes in 2010, along with jewelry and electronics.
Detectives said the men told investigators that they thought the urns contained crushed pills. They realized they were wrong when they saw an article about the theft published in the Ocala Star-Banner.
Diaz-Marrero pleaded guilty in June to four burglaries, including the one at Tencza's home.
The Star-Banner reports that Diaz-Marrero apologized in court Friday. One of the other men has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
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Spender's is a large department store in Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV and its episodes. It is also featured on Peepthatshit.com. Its name is a likely parody of Spencer's Gifts (also known as "Spencer's") although the department store style and logo generally resemble Macy's. The Spender's building in The Triangle, Algonquin seems to emulate Macy's flagship department store in Manhattan.
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Cincinnatians don't like their city to be pigeonholed. At least not in a manner they perceive to be off target.That's so Cincinnati.
BuzzFeed's "BuzzFeed Community" site helps the list-empire target specific cities and regions, resulting in one of the more shared links of the week, at least locally — "31 Ways to Tell You're From Cincinnati."
At first, many seemed to celebrate more attention for our fair city. Then they read the list. It has proven to be far more controversial than BuzzFeed's "11 Cincinnati Foods That Are Better Than Yours" from earlier this year, likely because that list actually reflected contemporary Cincinnati. As far as I know, all those "Cincinnati foods" still exist.
It was clear to many that the "community contributor" who wrote the piece either hadn't been to Cincinnati for a while or was simply parroting one of the Enquirer's old "Cincinnati is so crazy and distinct — we say 'Pop' and 'Please' " articles from the past.
As commenters immediately pointed out, BuzzFeed's list was great … for anyone taking a time machine back to Cincinnati circa 2001 or earlier. While the list was mildly accurate, it reinforced some old stereotypes, like "You will die if you step foot in Over-the-Rhine" and how we can't shut up about George Clooney's Cincinnati roots (he's not from Cincinnati, he's from Kentucky). Elsewhere, items like "You hung in there with Reds' pitcher 'Cool Hand Leake' even after he was booked for shoplifting" suggest the writer found an old sports page from 2011. That was hardly a big deal when it happened; I would wager most but the die-hardest of Reds fans have forgotten it even occurred. And things like Cincinnatians saying "Please" instead of "What did you say?" or calling Coke and Pepsi "pop" are local quirks that seem to be dying a little more with each more-widely-connected-to-the-world generation.
But what does it matter what Cincinnatians think? BuzzFeed got their big hits surge from Cincy residents and ex-pats. All for something that appeared to take about 10 minutes to put together. "List bait" works.
Yesterday, the folks at the site Cincy Whimsy responded with an "answer list" (oh, if only rap feuds were solved this way). Their "31 Ways to Tell You're From Cincinnati List: An Improved Version" list rang a lot more true to a lot people. The first item set the tone, calling out BuzzFeed for not correctly spelling Servatii and Procter & Gamble. Check it out here.
Last week, the local web buzz was all about the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber's "hip" ad for "Cincinnati USA," featuring a dude in capri pants and sandals talking about how Cincinnatians "do what we love." Unlike people from Pittsburgh, who strictly do things that they hate?
The video was also widely shared and, though well-intentioned, widely mocked.
Enter local comedienne Kristen Lundberg (aka Mammyspanx), whose equally-giddy response video is pretty pitch perfect.
When journalists interview people, it's more often than not about something very specific. When we interview the governor, his press person would definitely give us a dirty look if we threw in questions like, "What's your favorite '90s boy band?" or, "Did OJ do it?" We're there to discuss something specific, and straying too far outside that topic is viewed as either a waste of the interviewee's time or an invasion of privacy.
The reality is that there are more facets to the people we interview than we'll ever know. What was Senate Chef Daniel Wright's favorite toy when he was a kid? What does CityBeat editor-in-chief Danny Cross order at Taco Bell?
The answers to questions like these don't define a person, but neither do their jobs, possessions, political leanings, philanthropic efforts or social status. It's a little bit of everything. In this blog series, I'll be picking random Cincinnatians who are doing something interesting, call them on the phone/harass them on the street and ask five or six weird questions and hope I don't get yelled at. Feel free to comment if there's someone you'd like to suggest.
As a practice go, I'm first interviewing my cubicle mate and reporter extraordinaire, German Lopez. If you don't recognize the name German Lopez, it's because you probably never read CityBeat, so shame on you. Around the office, he's known for his dry sense of humor, really liking donuts, ditching all of our happy hours and one time writing almost an entire issue by himself. He's the one we all go to when we need him to explain in plebeian language the meaning of complicated political and economic data.
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BOSTON Testimony began Thursday in the trial of a Boston man charged with killing his ex-girlfriend 25 years ago.
Michael Coker is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Janet Phinney, 20, in March 1988. Prosecutors say Coker strangled Phinney, who was trying to break up with him.
Phinney's remains were discovered by a neighbor in a wooded area behind her home three days after she went missing.
Coker had long been a suspect, but wasn't charged until 2011 after renewed forensic testing was done with the benefit of DNA technology unavailable at the time of Phinney's death.
During opening statements Thursday, Assistant District Attorney Mark Hallal said Coker, now 50, was obsessed with Phinney after she ended their volatile relationship.
Investigators said that when Coker was first questioned after Phinney's death, he said he hadn't seen her in more than a week. But in 2004, Boston police matched semen recovered from Phinney's body to Coker's DNA, taken from him during an earlier conviction. In 2010, forensic scientists determined the sperm had been left within 24 hours of Phinney's death.
Coker's lawyer, Norman Zalkind, told the jury that a defense expert would challenge the prosecution's claim that Phinney and Coker had sex shortly before Phinney was killed.


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U.S. at 'Cliff's' Edge
Pact proves elusive as deadline on taxes nears
December 31, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Capitol Hill deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" was proving elusive Sunday as a deadline to avert tax hikes on virtually every American worker and block sweeping spending cuts set......
Romney lost because Obama beat him to death over this tax the rich bull. And after that they cave in and let it happen any way. You idiots should have said it was OK and took that off Obama because that's all he had. You should have to take an IQ test
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promised future good behavior doesn't excuse poor past behavior. term limits and pre campaign mental stability testing.
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we sure do feel sorry for those poor basta#ds.one day out of the year that they actually HAD to do something.have to justify their big pay raises coming.
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The House of Representatives ADJOURNED this evening after the legislative BODY COLLAPSED from exhaustion BROUGHT ON by HOURS of DOING its JOB.. *Hundreds of CONGRESSMEN complained of headaches, dizzy spells, and extreme FATIGUE AFTER putting in what sources called "a SIX, maybe SEVEN-HOUR DAY.." *With the nation headed OVER the FISCAL cliff, there was NO INDICATION WHEN Congress might RECONVENE, since many of its members had to be hospitalized after what was described as their NEAR-TOTAL physical MELTDOWN.. *According to Dr. Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota Medical School, "Being FORCED to listen,COMPROMISE, and ACT like ADULTS for minutes at a time was more PUNISHING than these people could bear..." *Dr. Logsdon said that the gruelling ORDEAL of doing THEIR JOBS would likely keep members of Congress in the hospital for weeks... *"I don't see these people getting BACK to WORK until February at the earliest...
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just won a second term. Often is the case in contests with close call or split decision the title is awarded the competitor most likely to wear the crown without being discovered a total unqualified jerk jerk. The power comes from being the crown wearer who doesn't have to take it off until judges decide you are less than next bidder. Like trying to enter a locked door faster than another person who has the door key. Too close to call relies on the valet parking attendants telling the judges where the folks with the luxuary cars are and how they placed their bets.
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again. they refuse to post a final score. Neither team was required to carry the ball. The problem is still there and growing bigger. All they did was put and different wrapper and bow on it and believe the people got a present.
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bloviator1758 look at your window.
Note your plight, stuck in purgatory 26003.
60 million voted against the Ghetto Santa Claus.
Sorry you sold out your vote, hope it was worth the price of an Obamaphone, LUZER.
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@wRAT: He is the GHETTO PRESIDENT...
He won. He is YOUR massah!
You big ghetto loser! Pretending you're 'a player'....yet here you are 24/7/365 with the same pathetic lies and drivel. You have zero life!
Get down on your knees and grovel before your betters (by a thousand fold!) OBAMA !!!!
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Nearly two months after homes in Staten Island, NY were devastated by Hurricane Sandy, residents say they're still struggling with red tape as they try to get the government to help.
FEMA "really hasn't done much, if anything, and they're making people go through a whole bunch of bureaucratic tape," one resident told MRCTV.
'They need all the help they can get, and the red tape doesn't help anyone. It only hurts and hinders and grows the problem," another said. Victims are shuffled from one desk to another for registration, an identification check, and one-on-one interviews – then referred to something called a "Mitigation Desk," a FEMA official at a local Disaster Recovery Center explained to MRCTV.
BUSH BUSH BUSH Hurricane Katrina waaaaah!
Funny when the shoe is on the other foot, the story is BURIED.
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Imphat, correction Obama BOUGHT a second time with free giveaways to the 47% who don't pay taxes like you.
He is the GHETTO PRESIDENT, not of the 85% land mass of America that isn't in the urban welfare state.
I hope your vote is worth what you got paid for it, you pathetic sellout.
Jesus Christ couldn't beat Santa Claus in an election.
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Don't worry about any tax increase of 50-80 billion, the boyz club just passed a 60 billion spending bill for Hurricane Sandy! One of the amendments for the Sandy bill would have "required" competitive bidding for the contracts for the 60 billion tax payer dollars! The amendment was DEFEATED! So it's a "free for all" for the political donors....pay back time at 1000 times the original political donation! "Greatest Political System on Earth"
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Wrat, you love to call this administration a failure, but he just won a second term. Waybe its you that's WRONG! You were WRONG in 2008, you were WRONG in 2012. Maybe its your brain that has FAILED. But you can be right about the 2016 election, because its impossible for Obama to be elected then.
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And like salt in the wound, Obama approves pay raises for Federal employees including the buffoons in Congress. There will be NO debt reduction whatever happens. Any increased revenues will be spent and whatever smoke and mirrors number is attached will only slow increases in projected spending rates. Instead of going $8 trillion farther in debt the next ten years, we may only go $6.8 Trillion further in the hole. Our overall debt will still be well over $20 Trillion and we will be paying approx $1 trillion in interest payments alone w/ no clue on how to pay of balance down.
Yes, raises all around!!!!
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"Republicans refuse to give 98% of AMERICA tax cuts because millionaires and billionaires taxes would go up tiny bit."
<----- This statement sums up why were are screwed as a country. There are NO tax rate cuts being discussed, only maintaining rates that have been in effect since 2003. Also despite the obvious flaw on its face, you are now deemed a millionaire/billionaire if you make over $250,000/ year. Obama creates a make believe world based on deception to fit his agenda and the true believers parrot the fiction like some messianic choir!
Finally, the rate increases being discussed bring in an estimated revenue of $50-80 billion when we have $1000 billion plus deficits each year!
This drama is fruitless!!
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Someone please tell me exacty what the Dems have given in this deal, tell me something even if it's wrong.
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2 years of Complete DEM control of HOUSSE and NO BUDGET!
Senate rejects Obama budget 97 to Zero.
WTF does a Tea Party have to do with the FAILED administration that can't lead.
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OH NO...the EDGE, the EDGE!
25 teapublicans could end the EDGE, the EDGE!
Media made crisis.
Republicans refuse to give 98% of AMERICA tax cuts because millionaires and billionaires taxes would go up tiny bit. THATS THE NEWS YOU SHOULD BE REPORTING.
Teapublicans will cave. Teapublicans will be gone in 2014.
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note to all politicians:put head into noose and jump.
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' Biden assumed the lead role for Democrats, "
Now THAT is a scary picture!
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CONNORVILLE -Two years ago, Phil Pest was called to the sidelines to lead the Buckeye Local Panthers while their head coach was sidelined with some health issues. It's not that Pest had not spent time on the sidelines as a coach, but this time he was in charge.
Apparently, the thrill of being in charge provided a spark and now Pest is embarking on his first season as a head coach. He will be leading the Panthers into the 2012 season not as a rookie, but as a coach with plenty of experience.
"It's been a very easy transition," Pest said regard his move into the head coaching spot. "I've been around some very good coaches my whole career - Jim Thomas and Ron Pobolish - and I learned a lot of football and I learned a lot of coaching.
"They've been a big help to me and the transition has been easy because I was always able to coach with these guys. It hasn't been stressful at all."
Anthony Barsch took over the Panther reins in 2010 and step down after his second season. Pest, a long-time assistant at the school as well as at Wheeling Central, was a quick choice by the Buckeye Local school board.
Buckeye is coming off a good turnaround season in 2011. The Panthers finished at 6-4 after opening with four straight victories. The prior season saw the same team drop its first six before winning three of four to close 2010 at 3-7.
Fact Box
Aug. 24: Utica7 p.m.
Sept. 1: Westinghouse7 p.m.
Sept. 7: John Marshall7 p.m.
Sept. 15: at Bellaire12:30 p.m.
Sept. 21: Edison7 p.m.
Sept. 28: Martins Ferry7 p.m.
Oct. 5: at Union Local7 p.m.
Oct. 12: at St. Clairsville7:30 p.m.
Oct. 19: Indian Creek7 p.m.
Oct. 26: at Harrison Central7:30 p.m.
Win 5, Lose 5
Of course, Pest will be opening the 2012 season without one of the school's all-time great running backs, Josten Dear, and one of the valley's most respected defensive linemen, Greg Ring.
Dear, Ring and Jordan Piergallini all participated in the OVAC All-Star game last month and played key roles in the game. Dear rushed for 1,212 yards last season and finished as the school's second all-time leading rusher behind Billy West with 3,709 yards. Twice he rushed for more than 200 yards a game.
Piergallini, one of the top sprinters in the state last season, finished his lone season at Buckeye with 510 rushing yards on 91 carries and 147 yards on 14 receptions. Ring's senior season saw him record four sacks, 39 tackles, seven tackles for a loss, and six blocked kicks.
Graduation also took QB A.J. Barsch, talented receiver Justin Isinghood, Alex Vanezalos, Chad Wiltshire, Ryan Durbin, Corey Slaga, Tony Marques, David Mains, Dustin Marchbank, Matt Marko, Nathan Kujawa, Tyler Gullo and placekicker Josiah Hannen.
"We're young at the offensive line. We need a couple on the defensive line. We need to replace Josten at defensive end, but probably my biggest concern right now is the offensive line. And I haven't made a decision at quarterback yet," Pest said.
While graduation took its toll, the cupboard certainly isn't empty. The Panthers return 16 letterwinners, thirteen in a talented senior class. The Buckeye roster includes 19 seniors, 11 juniors, 10 sophomores and 16 freshmen.
"I feel good about the senior bunch we have," Pest said. "We have 19 seniors. We lost Josten Dear and that leaves us some big shoes to fill, but we've got some good young linemen that are coming around. We had a good offseason camp.
"I want our kids to be aggressive and physical, but I feel good about this senior group. Good leadership, athletic, quick."
Despite some big names, the Panthers return some senior lettermen who certainly didn't go unnoticed last season. Austin Marshall (5-foot-9, 155), is a speedy running back/defensive back who carried 62 times for 312 yards and five TDs, returned 16 kickoffs for 336 yards and he had three interceptions. Leading receiver Shane Duncan (5-11, 165) is a split end and linebacker that hauled in 11 passes for 228 yards and three scores and finished with 35 tackles.
In addition, seniors Caleb Agnew (5-7, 160), Andy Stock (5-11, 160), Brian Zeroski (5-10, 180) and Nathan Kirk (5-11, 160) were major contributors. Agnew spent some time in the backfield and returned 11 punts for 81 yards and 12 kickoffs for 181. Stock, in an injury-shortened season, carried 20 times for 148 yards and two scores. Zeroski, a tight end-linebacker, was a force on defense with 44 tackles and 18 assists. Kirk, one of the top QB candidates this season and a standout at safety on defense, had 31 tackles last season.
"Andy Stock has really had a great camp,'' Pest said. ''He had that ACL reconstructive surgery and he is doing well. He runs well and has no problem with the knee. I feel real good about Andy being back."
Eight other seniors are returning lettermen that played a big part in last season's success. That talented group includes linebacker-fullback Eric Bell (5-9, 165), running back-linebacker Cody Crawford (5-10, 155), fullback-defensive back Dakota Flaherty (5-9, 160), two-way tackle Lucas Hoahlund (6-1, 195), kicker-defensive end Christian Hopkins (6-4, 185), guard-defensive tackle Lucas Ostijich (5-11, 215), and two-way tackle Michael Telek (5-8, 245).
Rounding out the senior contingent is guard-defensive tackle Chad Durbin (5-11, 200), split end-DB Tre' McGee (6-0, 180), tackle Landon Partelli (5-11, 264), guard-tackle Jonathan Roth (5-9, 180), running back-linebacker Trevor Sebring (5-11, 160), guard-defensive tackle JP Solomon (5-11, 195) and split end-defensive back Logan Hall (6-3, 160).
Three talented juniors return after lettering last season. The trio includes two-way linemen Austin Flaherty (5-8, 165), fullback-defensive end Devan Pyciak (6-1, 215) and guard-defensive end Dominic Rose (5-8, 200).
"There are a couple freshmen that we expect to play at the varsity level before the season is over. We have a good group of sophomores and we have a couple juniors that we expect to continue to be big contributors."
Nine other juniors will be counted on to help the Panthers attack including guard-defensive ends Andrew Cammer (5-1, 161) and DJ Czuchran (5-9, 178), center-defensive end Josh Figurski (6-0, 205), two-way tackle James Glasgow (5-10, 260), quarterback-safety Chase Hopkins (6-0, 170), running back-linebacker Corey Marques (5-7, 120), center-defensive end DJ Rusnak (6-1, 190) and tackle-defensive end Derek Sebring (6-1, 190).
Ten sophomores will be vying for playing time this season. The group features slotback-d-back Eric Banal (5-6, 140), fullback-defensive end Damion Beal (5-9, 160), tight end-linebacker Logan Dehnart (6-0, 160), two-way tackle Billy Glover (6-0, 191), guard-defensive tackle Brent Kandrach (5-10, 216), wide receiver-defensive back Devan Marques (5-6, 125), quarterback-safety Tyler Miller (5-9, 130), wide receiver-defensive back Brandon Panepucci (5-10, 130), fullback-linebacker Nick Pielech (5-9, 230) and tailback-defensive back Shawn Tustin (5-4, 125).
Pest has a large freshmen contingent to help build for the future and a few may find their way onto the field on Friday nights this season.
The frosh group has Nathan Bloom (5-3, 110), Brandon Bake, Tyler Boyd (5-9, 145); Trevor Clark (5- 5, 140), Herbie Devore (5-6, 180), Dylan Dokes (5-10, 175), Ryan Emery (5-4, 160), Tristan Jones (5-11, 185), Zac Merkel (5-8, 175), Ryan Moffo (5-11, 145), Ryan Morrow (5-6, 170), Austin Mosser (5-11, 175), Mason Patterson (5-7, 155), Simeon Smith (6-3, 320), Mike Weaver (5-3, 110), Zach Fair (5-8, 185), Zach Moore (5-6, 150), Kevin Belon (5-9, 110) and Christian Ingram (5-3, 110).
"We're a little smaller than those guys (Dear and Piergallini), but they are quick and savvy," Pest said in praising his incoming running backs. "They have probably been around the game a little longer. I think we should fill all the holes. We should be OK.
"I think we're pretty solid on defense. We just have to find out where everyone fits and plug them in."
Pest's overall view of his 2012 Panthers shows his confidence in his defense and his skilled personnel. While he is looking to fill some holes on the offensive line, one area that was decimated by graduation was the kicking game. Ring handled the kickoffs and Hannen was the punter and placekicker. With both gone, Pest is working on building that aspect of the Panthers attack and is hopeful to have it in place for the opener.
Assisting Pest this season are a bunch of familiar faces, as it contains a mix of former players and coaches with Buckeye experience.
Nate Skrzypek is the offensive coordinator, Tom O'Connell will coach the receivers and running backs, Blair Closser will handle the secondary and inside backers, Mason Boyce, the offensive line and defensive tackles and ends; Caleb Myers, the offensive line and defensive tackles; C. J. Besece, the secondary and special teams. Chris Heaton and Greg Haberfield will coach the freshmen and work with the varsity as well.
With Buckeye 8 teams again filling the last seven dates in the Panthers schedule, Buckeye will open on the road to face Utica in the lidlifter tonight. Pittsburgh Westinghouse comes to Memorial Stadium in Yorkville the following week and John Marshall visits in Week 3.


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Found out tonight that my son and I cant make it to the game vs. tech. Where can we go to watch a cyclone victory? We have Dish that does not have FCS.:(
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Friday, August 29, 2008
Switching on the LHC
The biggest physics experiment ever — the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — is due to start on September the 10th. The LHC is a particle accelerator. It's a 27km underground tunnel located near Geneva at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). Protons will be sent racing through the tunnel on collision course with each other, and scientists hope that the remains of these collisions will answer some of the biggest secrets of the Universe.
Watch this space for more information. Meanwhile, you can find out more in the Plus articles
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August 22, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Want to be the new Carol Vorderman ?
The Channel 4 programme Countdown has started the search to find an arithmetician for the new series in 2009.
If you are a number-cruncher yourself, you could be just what they're looking for. Find out how to apply on their website. You don't have to be female and you don't have to have been on telly before, but you do need to have a way with numbers and lots of charisma. The closing date for applications is the 19th of September.
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August 21, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Zipf's law arose out of an analysis of language by linguist George Kingsley Zipf, who theorised that given a large body of language (that is, a long book — or every word uttered by Plus employees during the day), the frequency of each word is close to inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. We thought we would test this out on Plus. What does this imply about how we use language and how it evolved?
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August 12, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Mathematics is often used to study evolution, whether that be the evolution of animal species, the evolution of viruses or the evolution of language. A recent study has taken this one step further by modelling the evolution of national cuisine, and it was found that even though there are wall-to-wall celebrity chefs on television these days trying to broaden our culinary horizons, our cultural cuisines are largely the same as they were almost 100 years ago.
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August 7, 2008
Thursday, August 07, 2008
After every Olympics, there is speculation about which country performed best. Should we really be surprised when China, with its huge population, and the US, with its combination of high GDP and population, top the medal table? Can we take a look at the medal tables and see which countries did indeed perform better than expected?
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July 28, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Disney Pixar have just released the movie, WALL-E. A bleak, post-apocalyptic tour-de-force, the movie depicts the gentle romance between two robots of the future: WALL-E, the not-so-bright and not-so-attractive "guy" with the big heart and sweet personality, and EVE, the sleek, sexy, totally out-of-his-league babe.
Pixar designed these robots so that we see them as human. But what exactly is WALL-E? Is he pure fantasy and speculative fiction? Or is he — is artificial intelligence — simply the way of the future?
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Montgomery, Ala. Nearly 600 Alabama businesses and individuals are getting state tax credits by contributing to private school scholarship programs.
The tax credits were included in the Alabama Accountability Act that the Legislature passed in February. State Revenue Department spokeswoman Carla Snellgrove told al.com that 582 donors have given $19.5 million to organizations set up under the new law to provide scholarships to students who move from failing public schools to participating private schools.
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State education officials say 52 students used the new law to transfer to private schools for the fall term.
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Spring straps are everything people say they are. Fuss-free and immediate donning and removal of fins. However, the pull-loop on these particular straps does not look like its going to last very long. For the price, absolutely worth it though, and I already plan to replace them with strong nylon parachute cord and a soft plastic hose protector the moment they rip. Get these and be happy.
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A simple, durable, attractive-looking tool to get the job done. Some problems getting the base of the shaft to lock in its track above the trigger housing, but somehow became effortless when actually in the water. Spectra wishbones are durable, but make stretching the bands that extra inch to catch the sharkfin a real muscle-smoker. Fairly quiet underwater, and easy to maneuver. 63" gun needs only one band for solid point-of-aim, point-of-impact hits out to about 12 feet.
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A tough bag with decent water repellency. Could be a little larger so that you dont have to coil your hoses so tightly to get it to fit. Side pocket good for keeping your documents dry.
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Sixth century B.C. philosopher Lao Tzu said, "To lead people, walk beside
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Ideal situation: Pikachu defeats Lucario. Fast-forward the Virgil battle to both trainers having one Pokemon each. Krookodile fights an intense battle against an XY Eevee evolution (Draconeon?) and loses.
I hope the writers surprise us (like Latios in Sinnoh), and don't just end it with Pikachu vs. Lucario. That's all I can ask for.
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I am very glad to say that were finally getting past the league. This has been such a disappointing League and the pointless Axew Plot with the 21 day break made it even more worse. Does having TRio not around do this to the Anime? I find it weird how the second TRio have been skipping out on episodes which happened way more frequently after returning to the "White" uniforms(BW023-Present) that the series went downhill.
Deep inside, secretly, I have wanted a Pikachu VS Lucario battle when I saw it in The Greatest Everyday, so at least I'll get that, here's to Episode N.... Which judging by how BWS1 & BWS2 went, it will blow.
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Thank jeebus this is finally airing -_-. N arc here we come!! I do wonder how they will play the ending of this episode though.
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Probably not, but what if Ash wins and is cheered up by Prof. Juniper because he doesn't know what to do next. Then something happens, Ash tries to find out the problem, and then when he comes back, the Prof. would be like oh maybe you should go to the (blank-we werent told the region name right?) region off in some distant land
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Cooperative Education Program. The Cooperative Education Program is a University-wide educational plan in which students alternate periods of full-time study on campus with full-time employment in industry. Work assignments are arranged to relate to each student's academic program and career goals. For more information, see p. 58 of this catalog or contact The University of Alabama, Director of the Cooperative Education Program, Box 870200, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0200; (205) 348-6422; http://coop.eng.ua.edu.
Engineering Career Services. The College of Engineering maintains a multi-service career office visited or contacted each year by recruiters from many companies and facilities (private and government) for the purpose of interviewing and recruiting qualified students. Individual career and job search assistance is available to College of Engineering students at all levels seeking permanent, part-time, or summer employment. Students who register with the office, and provide their employment qualifications and interests, may take part in many programs, including on-campus recruiting, résumé referral, job postings, résumé writing assistance, interview skills assistance, employer information, job search skills assistance, and career guidance. For more information, contact The University of Alabama, College of Engineering, Director of Engineering Career Services, Box 870200, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0200; (205) 348-6382; http://www.eng.ua.edu/career.
Engineering Honors Program. Engineering honors sections may be offered within the traditional engineering curriculum. The departments offering these courses will determine the extent of honors effort and which sections of the respective courses (separate numbers, names of instructors, etc.) to schedule. Details can be obtained from the University Honors Program office. Engineering courses may also include provisions to teach "honors by contract." This is an agreement among the instructor, the student, and the University Honors Program oversight committee that prearranges credit for honors-level work in the course.
Freshman Year Experience. The College of Engineering Freshman Year Experience is the designated engineering program for all incoming freshman engineering and computer science students. The Freshman Year Experience utilizes a curriculum centered on teaming, integration, design, and engineering. Entry-level engineering and computer science students work in conjunction with other engineering students, teaching assistants, and faculty in core subjects—mathematics, chemistry, physics, English, and engineering—during their initial semesters at the University.
High-school and junior-college relations. The College's Office of Student Recruitment serves prospective freshman and transfer students. In addition to providing information about engineering programs, the office provides information and consultation to high-school and junior-college counselors; arranges interviews and tours of the College's facilities for prospective students; arranges visits by College of Engineering staff to other institutions for the purpose of counseling or lecturing; and plans programs for Engineers' Day (E-Day) and numerous other on-campus events. For more information on the services offered by this office, contact The University of Alabama, College of Engineering, Coordinator of Engineering Student Recruitment, Box 870200, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0200; (205) 348-2547 or toll-free 1-800-369-ENGR.
Multicultural Engineering Program. The Multicultural Engineering Program (MEP) assists minority students who want to pursue careers in engineering or computer science. MEP services include pre-college counseling; enrollment counseling; tutorial assistance and counseling for enrolled students; and assistance with the Cooperative Education Program, internship programs, and job placement upon graduation. MEP also assists undergraduate students applying for scholarships and other financial aid, and provide information about scholarships and fellowships for graduate students. For more information, contact The University of Alabama, Multicultural Engineering Program Coordinator, Box 870200, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0200; (205) 348-4267.
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Undergraduate counseling. From the first semester of enrollment, each engineering student has an academic advisor who is a faculty member in the College. Additional counseling services are also available to all undergraduate engineering students through the College's Engineering Student Services office.
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The first general order was issued from VMI Headquarters on November 11, 1839. The early order books are a particularly rich resource for understanding Institute history and the details of daily cadet life; in addition they contain official information about individual cadets and faculty members. Orders for the Civil War years provide insight into VMI's operation during the conflict and document the impact of war on cadets and faculty. The Institute's academic routine was disrupted throughout the war, as military training took precedence, many cadets left to join the CSA, and the remaining cadets were called upon to assist Confederate forces on several occasions, most notably at the Battle of New Market on May 15, 1864.


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There's so much out there to read. This month we recommend trying one of the titles below.
The Human Body
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet. I have been looking forward to reading this book since I heard the author speak on NPR. She mentioned our current attempt to "fix" everything that is wrong with the human body, as if we are a car and can replace parts and how much she learned by working with patients who can't be "fixed".
Deliciously Paris
Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate) by Amy Thomas.
It's about two of my favorite topics: Paris, and sweets! What's not to like?
On the Cutting-Edge of Science
The Best American Science Writing 2011, edited by Rebecca Skloot and Floyd Skloot. Commitment is low with a collection, there's a good chance you'll learn something useful, and this year the work includes the essay "Gut bacteria in Japanese people borrowed sushi-digesting gene from ocean bacteria." How can that not be interesting?
Back to Nature
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. For those who want to know what it's like to spend a summer hiking a thousand miles through the Sierra Nevada and Cascades, but don't want to actually do the hiking.
Fiction Set in Buenos Aires
Perla by Carlina De Robertis: The author brings a passionate and compelling story that is guaranteed to keep you from putting the book down.
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Donovan is also one of 10 executives who were among the 30 highest-paid human resources executives in both 2003 and 2004, according to a list compiled for Workforce Management by Aon Consulting's eComp Database. The list, which is based on companies' proxy filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, shows that eight of these 10 executives saw increases in their total compensation in 2004.
"The good news for human resources practitioners is that in every discipline their pay is moving up," says Joe Vocino, principal consultant in Mercer Human Resource Consulting's performance measurement and rewards practice. Particularly given the added burden of Sarbanes-Oxley, human resources executives are crucial to making sure that companies are staying in compliance, he says.
In a recent study conducted with the Society for Human Resource Management, Mercer found that the top HR management executives with responsibilities for labor relations saw their compensation jump 12 percent last year to $240,000. "Human resources skills are definitely becoming more of a needed commodity," Vocino says.
The majority of the companies on the Workforce Management list are in the technology or retail industries. It makes sense that these firms are the ones that pay top dollar to their HR executives because these sectors place a strong emphasis on the importance of people and their knowledge, says Doug Friske, managing principal at Towers Perrin.
"In both retail and technology, people are a big cost or a big part of the revenue equation," he says. Also, many of the executives on the list have titles that include communications and compliance, which shows the direction in which human resources jobs are moving, he says.
Human resources executives, like CEOs, are receiving more restricted stock instead of just stock options. With the recent corporate scandals and changes in accounting rules that require firms to expense their stock options as income, more companies are moving toward offering restricted stock to their top executives, says Charles Peck, compensation specialist at the Conference Board.
"This trend toward offering more restricted stock and paring down the number of options granted to executives will continue in coming years as more companies understand that there is no risk involved with offering restricted stock," says Jack Dolmat-Connell, president and CEO at DolmatConnell & Partners, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based compensation consulting firm.
One trend that is unique to human resources is that the number of women among the top-paid executives has increased. Unlike in other top executive positions, the number of women among the 30 highest-paid human resources executives doubled in 2004, from three to six. "Given the high representation of women in the human resources space, this is not surprising," says Peter Lupo, national compensation practice leader at Aon Consulting.
Although human resources departments have taken a greater role in setting a strategic course for their companies, analysts do not expect to see the number of HR executives that are named among the five highest-paid executives at the company to increase dramatically in coming years. Out of 5,573 proxies compiled by Aon, only 195, or 3.5 percent, named human resources executives among their top five highest-paid employees. Similarly, in 2003 only 3.3 percent did so.
With stricter regulation, general counsel and compliance executives will often take one of those top five slots, Peck says. Friske, however, believes that as more regulations are imposed on companies, the number that list their human resources executives among their top five will increase. "There are a lot of hot-button issues that human resources executives will be relied on to deal with in coming years," he says.
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1956 Ford F100 - A Class Of Its OwnWritten by on July 1, 2008 Jim Brubaker's '56 Ford F-100
We have no doubt that street truck enthusiast Jim Brubaker's orange pearl, ghost-flamed '56 Ford F-100 big-window pickup is destined to win its fair share of Oscars on the car show circ, er, make that, truck show circuit. It's got "star quality" written all over it!
You see, Brubaker is used to dealing with class acts. As President of Physical Production for Universal Pictures, "Big Jim" demands nothing less than perfection from all those around him, so it should come as no surprise that the movie mogul expects the same when it comes to his hobby.
Transportation industry veteran Dennis De Waay gets the credit for spearheading the actual build on the F-100, which due to the constant state of flux, has oftentimes been described as a "work in progress." For example, the chassis beneath Brubaker's big-window features a fully chromed and polished, Tri-C Engineering-prepared Kugel Komponents IRS outfitted with Air Ride Technologies ShockWaves, and a pair of highly detailed Wilwood Engineering disc brakes all proudly displayed beneath a 1-inch thick laminated safety glass pickup bed floor. If it's hard reading that, imagine being responsible for putting it together! Up front, the Effie features another Tri-C/Kugel Kollaboration: a polished and chrome-plated IFS, again sporting Air Ride's ShockWaves, a set of Wilwood disc brakes, and a polished Kugel-prepared Mustang II rack-and-pinion steering unit. Wheels and tires on the '56 come in the form of 18- and 20-inch Rallys from Intro, wrapped with Toyo low-pro radial rubber.
When it came to selecting the right powertrain, Jim wisely elected to "put a Ford in a Ford." Underneath that forward tilting F-100 hood, you find a highly detailed and polished Joseph Granatelli-machined and assembled, 2002-vintage Ford 351W EFI engine. Internally, the 5.8L Ford medium-block features a set of 9.5:1 compression JE pistons along with a set of ARP-equipped 351W connecting rods, and a cast-iron 351W crank riding on Clevite engine bearings. Also along for the ride is a COMP Cams roller cam and kit along with a Melling high-volume oil pump. Topping off Jim's 351W short-block is a pair of Ford Racing Turbo Swirl big valve aluminum cylinder heads featuring 2.02-inch stainless steel intake, and 1.68-inch stainless steel exhaust valves with ARP rocker studs, COMP Cams 1.7-ratio roller rocker arms, and COMP Cams pushrods, valve springs, and retainers. A set of Billet Specialties valve covers not only looks good; they also protect the valvetrain hardware. Bolted in between the 351W's lifter valley, you'll find a chrome-plated Ford Racing/GT-40 intake sporting a K&N filtered Granatelli Performance 70mm electronic throttle body and a set of 42 lb/hr Ford Racing electronic fuel injectors. Ignition duties are handled by an MSD Pro-Billet 351W ignition system firing a set of Autolite spark plugs through MSD spark plug wires. Exhaust duties are handled by a set of thermal-coated Rewarder headers spinning the spent exhaust gases back through a pair of Flowmaster three-chamber mufflers. Backing up Jim's potent 351W is a BS Industries-prepared Ford E4OD.
Credit for the outstanding House of Kolor Ultra Orange Pearl basecoat with Ultra Orange Pearl and Egyptian Gold pearl flames goes to Jimmy Hartman from Oxnard, California's, Hog Wild Creations. Prior to paint, Hartman and co-workers Anthony Conchola, Eric Zatz, and Mike Maraga shaved the F-100's driprails, and removed its door handles. In the process, they also extended the Effie's rear fenders 3 1/2 inches as well as extending the running boards. Other modifications include the installation of an LED third brake light below the back window, along with adding a rolled rear pan (featuring slotted LED brake lights, and a clear glass floor), building a custom tailgate, and installing the aforementioned forward-tilting hood kit.
Jesse Calderon from Saticoy, California's, Jesse's Interiors covered the F-100's Glide Engineering seats, its sculpted door panels, custom console, and headliner in soft cream leather and suede accentuated, with Mercedes-Benz tan wool carpeting. Other creature comforts include a Vintage Air climate control, a Gennie shifter, a leather-wrapped Colorado Custom steering wheel, and a Sound Master's-installed Kenwood audio system.
Now you know why we at CLASSIC TRUCKS magazine say that Jim Brubaker's '56 Ford F-100 big-window is "IN A CLASS OF ITS OWN!"
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|stock / widened
|No Limit, tilt
|modified stock, see-through bed floor
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|Hog Wild Creations
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|House of Kolor, Egyptian Gold
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|Hagen / LED
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Leather jacket with armor or armored mesh jacket depending on weather. Kevlar draggin jeans, gloves, boots and full face helmet. Only time I will not have all the gear is if I am just running around town on my 50cc honda. But never in shorts or no jacket/gloves helmet. Hey, I have fallen off and walked away with out a scratch.
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...to a Mac. That's right - I have finally had enough.
We moved to Vegas about a month ago, and during the move the old PC died. Just up and freaking died. Not sure if it's the power source or the motherboard, but it won't fire up. So I decided to buy an HP Touchsmart, and it was a decent rig. Got it last Monday (the 21st). So I get it home and set up, and it starts to lock up on me. Constantly. During initial setup, and logging on, and logging off, and shutting down, and surfing the internet, and generally whenever it feels like it. So yesterday (the 26th) I spend 45 minutes on the phone with HP's tech support only to be told that the only option is to send it back so they can fix it. How long will that take, I ask. 4-6 weeks. Wait - I don't have another personal machine, and I have to wait 4-6 weeks to get the one I just bought fixed? Forget you. I told them I would just return it and they can refund my money (which they said they would seeing as how new it is).
So I'm trying to figure out what to do, and I decided I'd had enough. Time to switch to a Mac. Went to the apple store at Town Square in Vegas with $1500 and I walked out with an iMac. And I love it. 500 GB HD, 4 GB RAM, DVD Burner, 21.5 inch monitor. It's nice to have a machine that actually works for a change. I don't know why I didn't do this years ago.
Any other Mac converts out there? Anybody else get sick of owning a PC and went to a Mac?
We're more than capable of answering you, we're just not doing it because you're being a cunt, and it's you specifically we don't care about, we do care about the rest of the forums.
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The Quality by Design paradigm demands an enhanced understanding of processes and products. Biotech therapeutic products, being complex molecules, require a robust analytical platform to serve as the foundation for commercialization activities such as the definition of critical quality attributes. This platform is generally a combination of orthogonal, high-resolution techniques that together provide definition to the product and the process. This article presents recent developments in four analytical applications, namely disulfide linkage analysis, glycan analysis, analytical ultracentrifugation, and flow injection protein analysis.
Determining CQAs and developing methods suitable for their measurement is an intricate and evolving science. This stems from the inherent complexity of biological macromolecules. A perfectly pure biological product is in itself challenging to characterize, typically comprising a chain of hundreds of amino acids and associated glycan subunits. This chain is sometimes linked within itself or to other chains through disulfide bonds, and then folded into a discrete secondary and tertiary structure.3–6 Quaternery structures also exist, from dimerization up to potentially large numbers of noncovalently or covalently linked subunits. Furthermore, manufacturing processes never achieve 100% purity, resulting in the need to measure and control product-related variants and product- and process-related impurities.
Product-related variants closely resemble the desired product and have a potency and safety profile equivalent to those of the product itself.7 Typical examples include minor post-translational modifications such as C-terminal processing, N-terminal variants, and deamidation. Product-related impurities, however, do not resemble the desired product with respect to safety and efficacy. Examples include aggregates and highly truncated forms. Process-related impurities include host cell DNA, host cell proteins, and raw materials from the process. A complex array of analytical methods is necessary to adequately characterize both the product and process.8 These methods must be developed and then qualified and validated for their intended use.9
Regulatory agencies expect disulfide connectivity to be determined as part of product characterization.7 Contemporary methods for elucidating bonding patterns between closely-spaced cysteine residues include cyanylation-induced cleavage after limited reduction and limited reduction and alkylation followed by mass spectrometric analysis.10,11 The latter approach was successfully applied to a recombinant IgG2, revealing subspecies of disulfide variants.12 The main limitation of the reduction step inherent in both these approaches is the difficulty in finding conditions that allow for controlled reduction of specific disulfide bonds.
Recently, the analysis of mass spectral fragmentation patterns of disulfide-linked peptides has been used to elucidate disulfide linkages.13 However, the applicability of this approach has been limited to fairly simple systems, and not to the highly complex linkage patterns of the recently reported IgG2 variants.14
To overcome the above limitations, we have recently developed an innovative methodology that permits rapid determination of the connectivity between closely-spaced or adjacent cysteine residues in disulfide-linked molecules, and can be readily applied to complex monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) such as those in the IgG2 class. This methodology uses a unique combination of traditional Edman chemistry with mass spectrometric detection. Optimization of the sample processing for Edman chemistry played a crucial role and provided predictable structures for facile interpretation of mass data.
The characteristic residual and leaving species may be readily differentiated by mass spectrometry, and their identities may be confirmed by standard fragmentation analysis. If a mixture of disulfide structures for a given variant is present, it may not be possible to differentiate them from the observed leaving groups. However, the residual groups are diagnostic, and may even provide a means for a semiquantitative measure of their relative abundance, based on their relative signal in either the mass spectrometry (MS) or ultraviolet (UV) traces. Additional rounds of coupling, cleavage, and liquid chromatography–MS (LC–MS) analysis provide a further means for confirming structures to a greater level of detail, and also demonstrate the absence of scrambling during the chemical processing steps.
We have successfully applied this approach to the well-characterized insulin molecule and to a MAb where we identified new substructures of IgG2 variants, including the presence of intra-chain disulfide linkages in the hinge region.5 Details of this approach will be the focus of upcoming publications.


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BOE Asked For Tax Break
Property values up by $577.2M
January 28, 2013
MOUNDSVILLE — Marshall County real and personal property values grew by half a billion dollars in the past year, prompting Assessor Chris Kessler to call on school officials to give taxpayers a break....
The BOE giving money back, thats the best joke of the day. Oh, if we whine long enough they might make some little gesture, type out a press release and the local media will read it to us and pretend its news. Tax break? C'mon stop it, my sides are hurting.
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taxpayers will never see a penny returned.this is why you shouldn't pass levies.the state pays to run these schools.levies are for new cars for the rich and powerful.and free lunches for the same.there isn't a BOE here that "needs" these levies.when was the last time that the air filters in your building were changed?try to get an honest answer out of them.they will lie to you.
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Sorry, THE BOE knew exactly what the values were because Mr. Kessler explained it at several meetings and the BOE was advised of this. It is funny that the Marshall County Schools said in the levy vote it needed 16+ million a year to run the schools now they need the extra 6+ million the levy will produce. Let them have the 16+ they levy requested and give the excess back to the taxpayers with lower levy rates.
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Property values went up due to mineral rights. When the BOE requested the Levy they went on a report of past property values because a crystal ball was not available. But now that there are excess funds the levy should be lowered.
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Could the local voters have an election to reduce the levy for the BOE or could they file suit that the BOE misrepresented the need and actual cost of the original levy. Sounds like someone was lying about the need of the levy.
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It is actually the County Assessor telling the BOE that they should lower their levy rate because the levy they just voted on is going to generate millions of more dollars than requested. They should drop it by 20% and they would still have more than enough taxpayer money to waste.
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I know that I am behind the times BUT! The BOE giving tax payers a break!!!!! Something wrong here.
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who wants to buy these properties at these bloated property values that these idiots come up with?show me the money.
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Joe Strummer, what a brilliant personality, his grip the thing and play like mad style will forever influence generations, so here my friends is a Fender Artist Series Telecaster that looks just as screwed up as his original electric guitar--ta-daa!. I wonder, is Joe "The Clash" Strummer laughing in his grave? Well Joe might feel a little exploited, yeah, but I'm sure he'd say if you're gonna buy it, enjoy it and make something worth listing to with it. Oh and P.S. Dear Gibson when will you make that Kim Gordon (Artist Series) "Snoopy" Guitar--you know you want to.


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(UPDATED) THE LOW DOWN: Suit claims Roger Federer involved in illegal betting
So says a lawsuit filed by Agate Printing, Inc. against Theodore Forstmann, owner of IMG and the home to the Swiss superstar's management.
The suit alleges a number of actions by Forstmann not only involving Fed but Tiger Woods as well. The item involving Fed, though, claims Forstmann raised his bet on the 2006 Roland Garros final from $10,000 to $40,000 after receiving "inside information" from the 16-time Grand Slammer. Fed lost that final to Rafael Nadal.
"The allegations in James Agate's complaint are beyond false, they are preposterous," said Michael Sitrick, rep for Forstmann. "Unfortunately, people like Agate look at people like Forstmann as the lottery." The printing company already has admitted to lying and spreading false rumors about the IMG head in a letter sent in April 2009.
Agate, who, according to TMZ, filed the claim due to a breach in contract by Forstmann and because he left tax liabilities on Agate brought on by gambling losses (how the hell does THAT happen?) seems to think they can really hurt Forstmann this time by dragging two of his biggest clients and two of the most recognizable athletes on the planet into the lawsuit. At the very least, they'll get the public's attention. But that's probably about it.
UPDATE: Fed responds to the allegations during his post-match presser in Shanghai today (around 6:10) saying "Since it involves my name, somewhere out there, I know it's 100% not true...":
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Maybe this suit has merit. I think that was the year Roger locked me in the shower with Rafa. ;)ReplyDelete
natch: I think you're getting confused with the year I locked you in the shower with both Rafa and Roger. And you let me watch. Happily, I might add.ReplyDelete
Oh, that's right. I am moving next week and I think I have left bits and pieces of my brain in each box I am frantically packing. I think I still owe you proceeds from the video sales. Or would you rather have the vid of me, Rafa, SpankMe Stefanki, Carlos Ramos, Ben Kingsley and lots of chocolate? ;)ReplyDelete
Oh! Good luck on the move. I hope all goes smoothly (like it EVAH does.)ReplyDelete
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Students face to face with dam development
On November 29-30, 2012, IUCN, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, organized two screenings of a 52-minute documentary on the winners and losers from hydropower development in the Mekong Region. The film was shown at the Vietnam National University (VNU) and Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST). … | Vietnamese
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New mangrove record confirmed for Vanuatu
A new mangrove species record has been confirmed for Vanuatu. The hybrid, Sonneratia X gulngai, was discovered during a field assessment on Santo Island and now brings the total national mangrove species record to 20. …
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Problems in enforcing environmental law and ensuring environmental rights for legal aid beneficiaries
Rights of legal aid beneficiaries and environmental rights: Article 34 of Decree No. 7/CP dated 12/1/2007 on guidelines for implementing 2006 Law on legal aid stipulates: poor people, policy supported groups and other marginalized groups are entitled to legal aid services in eight fields, including environmental law. … | French | Vietnamese
30 Dec 2012 | Article
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Policy barriers to cleaner environment in Viet Nam
Since 2008, IUCN has cooperated with the Vietnam Institute of Human Rights (VIHR), one of 10 or so institutions that make up the Ho Chi Minh Political Academy on a range of environmental governance projects. IUCN's interest in working with the VIHR lies primarily in the fact that every year it trains 500-700 government officials who need to pass in order to get promoted. In a one party state that regards independent action by non-state actors with suspicion, such cooperation offers the opportunity to broaden the knowledge and (hopefully) change the attitudes of Vietnam's future leaders. … | Vietnamese
29 Dec 2012 | Article
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Training journalists in the Mekong Delta
On December 5-7, IUCN Viet Nam organized a media training course the water resources management issues in Mekong Delta for 15 journalists. It was held in Dong Thap Province and included a field trip to Sa Rai Town, Tan Hong District, Dong Thap Province. The course was supported by the IUCN-coordinated Mekong Water Dialogues (MWD) and U.N. Democracy Fund (UNDEF). … | Vietnamese
28 Dec 2012 | Article
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Nature Based Ecological Civilization Education and Communications
On December 20, 2012, IUCN China organized a roundtable seminar on Nature Based Ecological Civilization Education and Communications. Members from the Government, NGO and private sector were invited to share their views and experiences, challenges facing communicating nature conservation, and priorities for educating nature to decision makers. … | Chinese
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Community Water Dialogues: Creating a platform for community participation in flood and water Management
Over the next year the Thailand National Working Group (NWG), Mekong Water Dialogues will be conducting Community Water Dialogues (CWD) throughout Thailand. CWD will establish a platform for local communities to contribute to flood and water management in Thailand. …
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Losing the Thai Water onion: A community's fight to stop dredging and protect their ecosystem
On the 12 of December 2012, the Thailand National Working Group, Mekong Water Dialogues, visited Ranong Province in the South of Thailand to talk to local communities and to witness, first hand, the impacts of dredging on the local ecosystem and communities. …
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Community Water Dialogues: the impacts of dredging in Ranong Province, Thailand
On the 13 of December 2012, IUCN and the Mekong Water Dialogues financially and technically supported the first Community Water Dialogues (CWD) in Ranong Province, Thailand. The CWD in Ranong focused on the impacts of dredging on local communities and environment. …
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IUCN Sri Lanka features the Marine Wonders of Sri Lanka
In association with the Mangroves for the Future Initiative and Karunaratne and Sons, IUCN Sri Lanka hosted a special exposition of 20 rarely seen images of Sri Lanka's marine wonders, photographed by Arjan Rajasooriya, Naren Gunasekeara, Nishan Perera and Riaz Cader. This exhibition was held at the Casa Serena Gallery in Colombo. Visitors were enriched with tales from our marine realm, by the photographers themselves. …
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