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|Board of Health bids farewell to two long-term members
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Staff from the Northeast Colorado Health Department, as well as board of health members, gathered during the Dec. 17 meeting to bid farewell to fellow board members Chuck Powell and Gene Meisner.
Powell, a Sedgwick County Commissioner, is not only leaving the board of health after 19 years of service, but also hanging up his hat as a commissioner—a post he has held since 1988.
Meisner, who served all of his eight years as a Logan County Commissioner on the board of health, was term-limited out of office this year. Neither Meisner's nor Powell's replacements on the board of health have been officially named, but their seats are expected to be filled when the new boards of county commissioners reorganize after the first of the year.
NCHD hosted a luncheon in honor of both men, and each was presented with an award by John Crosthwait, NCHD's district public health administrator, in recognition of their service to public health and the citizens of northeast Colorado.
Julie McCaleb, NCHD's environmental health director informed the board that as a part of a proposed fee bill, the state health department is proposing a 50 percent reduction in funding of the Housed Commercial Swine Feeding Operations (HCSFO) contract for the upcoming fiscal year due to budget cuts at the state level.
As a part of that cut, NCHD will only be expected to carry out one inspection per year, rather than the two inspections they currently do per facility, but according to McCaleb, that will only increase problems in the future.
"We have serious concerns about this cut because, even though the number of required inspections is decreasing, our work associated with the HCSFO facilities, particularly in dealing with odor complaints, will then most likely raise," said McCaleb. "We're experiencing our own funding crunch at the local level and this could hamper our ability to protect the public's health because we don't have the money or the manpower to do this either."
Board members agreed with McCaleb and asked NCHD to draft a letter to the state's Water Quality Control division indicating their concerns with the new fee bill and the impact it could have in rural Colorado.
In other business the board:
—approved the financial statements for November;
—voted to contract with Litjohn, Kaufman and Peterson to perform the 2008 audit;
—approved an employee compensation proposal for 2008, allowing up to two and one-half percent to be awarded as a one-time bonus, based on a proportion of each employee's salary. The bonus is a merit award based on employee performance.


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Container lines making daily adjustments to Japan service
March 21, 2011
Spokesmen for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) told LM that container lines are making daily adjustments to their deployment schedules to and from Japan.
"We are not aware of any ships being advised to cease service," said the London-based spokesman, who added that the IMO is providing daily updates.
In Copenhagen, meanwhile, spokesmen for Maersk are saying that operations "are running as normal with the exception of certain ports like Sendai, Onahama, and Hachinohe, which suffered severe damages."
Spokesmen added, however that this is subject to change:
"Depending on how the situation develops it may be decided to deviate vessels."
Similarly, NOL in Singapore, is telling its shippers that they are declining bookings to the same locations in Japan because operational facilities are inaccessible or unavailable due to earthquake or tsunami damage.
"We are currently unable to move or deliver cargo to many locations in Japan according to original delivery schedules. This is due to interrupted rail, road and barge networks in northeastern Japan," said NOL. "We are notifying customers in those circumstances."
NOL has also established new routings to ensure that their vessels at sea remain 200 nautical miles from the area near damaged nuclear reactors where increased radiation levels have been detected.
"We are not transporting cargo into the area near the reactors, nor are we taking cargo from that area," said spokesmen.
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Their highly accurate texts were created without seeing the scrolls and they shattered secrecy created by a cabal of scholars who for decades restricted other researchers' and translators' access to the ancient documents.
Steve Rosen's recent Page 1 story in the Enquirer got that right. The other scoop was my 1991 Enquirer story reporting Wacholder and Abegg's triumph. Our photo showed visually impaired Wacholder looking at a dramatically enlarged image on a Mac.
Their ordeal had its origin in a promise by then-HUC president Nelson Glueck in 1969. He agreed to house 1000-plus photographic images of the scrolls lest something happen to the originals. He also agreed with scholars controlling access to the scrolls that no one else would see the HUC negatives while the original scrolls existed.
That included Wacholder. To his frustration, HUC honored that promise even after Glueck's death and despite the growing international controversy over restricted scholarly access to many of the original scrolls.
Today's Biblical Archaeology Society website, biblicalarchaeology.org, recalled how Wacholder and Abegg got lucky in 1989. Chief editor of the scrolls John Strugnell sent a copy of a secret concordance of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Wacholder. It "consisted of photocopies of index cards on which every word in the unpublished scrolls was listed, including its location and the few words surrounding it." It was their Rosetta Stone.
Wacholder and Abegg programmed the Mac to apply their knowledge of ancient literature to the data in the concordance. "I'm sick and tired of all this waiting," he told me at the time.
In 1991, the society's Biblical Archaeology Review published the reconstructions, breaking the more-than-40-year-old monopoly on the scrolls.
And when jealous scholars challenged the accuracy of the reconstructions, Wacholder was dismissive. "I'll match my knowing of the . . . texts - even blind — any of them.
Wacholder died last year. Abegg became professor and co-director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia.
• I've described my fear that the Cleveland Plain Dealer — long Ohio's best daily — will follow other Advance Publications into print obscurity. PD journalists also heard the clatter of bean counters and created the Save The Plain Dealer campaign. Earlier this year, Advance — another name for Newhouse family publications — the New Orleans Times-Picayune as a traditional daily. It fired lots of journalists and now is printed three days a week to accommodate heavy advertising. Surviving journalists also work online every day. With that innovation, Newhouse made New Orleans America's largest city without a daily paper. Smaller Advance dailies suffered the same fate. Poynter.com quoted an email from PD science writer John Mangels earlier this month:
"The multimedia campaign will begin Sunday with a half-page ad in The Plain Dealer, to be followed by bus and billboard ads throughout the city. TV and radio ads will appear soon. There will be mass mailings and e mailings to elected officials, political and business leaders and other people of influence. We'll have a Facebook page with an abundance of content, a petition on Change.org, and a Twitter feed. We're also working to organize community forums where we'll discuss the future of journalism in Northeast Ohio, and the potential impact of the loss of the daily paper and much of its experienced newsgathering staff."
Later, reached by phone, Mangels told Poynter that PD management hasn't said anything about Advance's plans. "The only detail that we've been told by our bosses here is that major changes are coming, layoffs in some number are coming," Mangels said.
• Have you noticed how GOP aspirants for the 2016 presidential nomination are using long-reviled mainstream news media (MSM) to distance themselves from Romney and his disdain for retirees, veterans, Hispanics, African Americans, and young adults? I love the GOP's irony deficit. They've spent decades teaching True Believers that the MSM is an evil, liberal cabal, not to be trusted. Now, these same Republican 40-somethings want voters to believe what the mainstream news media tell them about their aspirations and sagacity. They're also fleeing Romney's transparent hypocrisy and its blowback; benefits to Democratic constituencies are meant to buy votes but benefits for GOP constituencies never, ever should be understood as a way to woo financial support or votes.
• Here's an angle I haven't encountered in post-election coverage: an almost inevitable GOP win in 2016. Not only is a second elected term unusual for modern Democratic presidents, but a third term for either party is rare. Since FDR in 1940, only popular Republican Ronald Reagan was succeeded by a Republican, George H. W. Bush. I'm not alone if my reading to liberal columnists is a fair indicator of grudging agreement. They want Obama to push through agendas they've advocated for the past four years and to find the cajones to fight for his nominations when they go before the Senate led by Kentucky Pride Mitch McConnell.
• Propaganda-laden cable news and TV/radio talk shows can lull angry, fearful partisans and voters into believing what facts refute. And I mean refute not rebut. Anything out of sync with those GOP media was rejected as MSM bias. Whether it was a Pavlovian response, delusional thinking or magical realism, the result was Republican candidates, consultants, strategists, voters and Fox News were stunned when state after state went for Obama. Carl Rove went into a spin of denial on Fox News as election returns came in; he believed what Fox News had been telling him for months: Romney in a walk. What was that cliche, something about drinking the Kool-aid?
• This from Eric Alterman in his What Liberal Media? column in The Nation: "They watched Fox News, read The Wall Street Journal, clicked on Drudge and the Daily Caller, and listened to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, Karl Rove, Dick Morris and Peggy Noonan promise them that their Kenyan/Muslim/socialist/terrorist nightmare was nearly over. One election was all that stood between them and a country without capital gains taxes, pollution regulation, healthcare mandates, gay marriage and abortions for rape victims."
Alterman continued: "The less wonderful irony involves the supporting role the mainstream media played in this un-reality show. Post-truth politics reached a new pinnacle this year as major MSM machers admitted to a lack of concern with the veracity of the news their institutions reported. 'It's not our job to litigate [the facts] in the paper,' New York Times national editor Sam Sifton told the paper's public editor, Margaret Sullivan, regarding phony Republican 'voter fraud' allegations. 'We need to state what each side says.' 'The truth? C'mon, this is a political convention' was the headline over a column by Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post 'fact-checker.' Yes, you read that right."
How bad was it? Alterman quoted Steve Benen, a blogger and Rachel Maddow Show producer. He "counted fully 917 false statements made by Mitt Romney during 2012. Just about the truest words to come out of the campaign were those of the Romney pollster who explained, 'We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.' But not only did many members of the MSM give Romney a pass on his serial lying; they actually endorsed his candidacy on the assumption that we need not take seriously any of those statements the candidate had felt compelled to make in order to win the nomination of his party."
• In the expanding universe of online calumny, few American public officials or public figures strike back big time in part because of broad First Amendment protections available to defamers. British libel law makes it much easier for the victim to win. The latest target of false online vilification is Lord Alistair McAlpine. BBC implicated but didn't name him in its spreading child abuse scandal. However, so little was left to the imagination that in Britain's media/politics hothouse that McAlpine was named in myriad tweets.
BBC quickly admitted error and paid him almost $300,000 to salve his bruised feelings. ITV — Britain's Independent Television — followed BBC with apology and more than $200,000 for inadvertently accusing McAlpine of abusing children.
McAlpine is offering to accept a tweeted apology and modest payment from most of the tweeters. He's less forgiving of 20 members of Parliament, journalists and other public officials and figures. They probably face costly libel actions in a country where it's almost impossible for a defendant to win.
• Assume every microphone in front of you is "on." You don't warm up with "There once was a man from Nantucket . . . " on the assumption that mic is dead. Myriad public figures have ignored that Law of the Jungle to their pain. The latest is Jonathan Sacks, Orthodox chief rabbi of Great Britain, who delivers a "Thought for the Day" regularly on BBC radio's Today program.
Here's the Telegraph report and another statement from the overworked BBC apology machine. After Sacks finished and apparently assumed his mic was turned off, host Evan Davis asked, "Jonathan, before you go, you know, any thoughts on what's going on over in Israel and Gaza at the moment?"
Lord Sacks sighed, before replying: "I think it has got to do with Iran, actually."
Cohost Sarah Montague realized Sacks did not seem to know his remarks were being broadcast and she could be heard to whisper: "We, we're live."
Lord Sacks adopted a more formal broadcasting manner and suggested the crisis demanded "a continued prayer for peace, not only in Gaza but for the whole region. No-one gains from violence. Not the Palestinians, not the Israelis. This is an issue here where we must all pray for peace and work for it."
Later, BBC apologized for catching Sacks off-guard. A spokesman said: "The Chief Rabbi hadn't realized he was still on-air and as soon as this became apparent, we interjected. (Host) Evan likes to be spontaneous with guests but he accepts that in this case it was inappropriate and he has apologized to Lord Sacks. The BBC would reiterate that apology."
• So far, I haven't found a news angle beyond prurience in the Petraeus resignation. Yes, there could have been a national security issue, but once then-spymaster Petraeus went public about his extramarital affair, he couldn't be blackmailed. We'll never know how well the CIA would have run under Petraeus, but turning it further into an almost unaccountable paramilitary force with its fleet of deadly drones killing Americans abroad and others would not have been in the national interest. We need a good spy agency. Killing people you're trying to subvert and convert is a lousy game plan.
• Admiring and available women are no stranger to powerful public and corporate leaders. Generals are no exception. Neither are social climbers hoping to use them. All that's missing from the Petraeus soap opera is for some just-married junior officer to claim his general exercised droit du seigneur.
• We can wonder what their frequently mentioned Lebanese origins have to do with the Tampa twins' roles in the Petraeus soap opera, or whether Paula's arms are fitter and better displayed than Michele's. After that, let's get to the fun stuff: the ease with which law enforcement obtains our emails.
• And
a belated Thanksgiving note. Somehow, I found a turkey on the
Copperbelt in Central Africa where I was editing the new daily Zambia
Times. I did my best to explain how to roast it with stuffing to the
cook in the house I was caring for. He served it that evening with
obvious pride. It was brown, roasted over open coal on a spit he'd
tended for hours. The stuffing was special beyond my dreams: the
sonofabitch had used the kosher salami I'd hoarded for months for
stuffing. I thanked and praised him through clenched teeth and dug in.
It was memorable. And awful.
Meanwhile unemployment in Cincinnati dropped to 7.5 percent in August, down from 8.2 percent in July. Unemployment in Hamilton County dropped to 6.8 percent in August, down from 7.3 percent. The Greater Cincinnati's jobless rate for the month was 6.7 percent, putting it below that of the state (7.2 percent) and the nation (8.1 percent).
Speaking of numbers, a new poll released today shows Obama leading Romney in Ohio – the third such poll in the last four days. The Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times Swing State Poll shows Obama leading Romney 53 to 43 percent in Ohio, and by similar large margins in the battlegrounds of Florida and Pennsylvania.
The typically media-shy Republican Ohio Treasurer and Senate candidate Josh Mandel proposed three new rules for members of the U.S. Congress in a rare Tuesday news conference. He said he wants members of Congress to lose their pensions if they became lobbyists, be limited to 12 years in the House and Senate and not be paid if they failed to pass a budget. Mandel says his opponent, sitting Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, broke his promise to voters that he would only serve 12 years in Congress. Mandel himself promised to fill his entire term as state treasurer, but would leave halfway through if he wins the Senate race.
The governors of Ohio and Kentucky continue to move toward jointly supporting a financing study for a replacement of the functionally-obsolete Brent Spence Bridge, and both governors favor a bridge toll to fund construction. The Kentucky Legislature would have to approve a measure to allow tolling on the bridge.
Forty percent of Hamilton County's septic systems are failing, and homeowners and utilities are arguing over who should foot the $242 million bill. The Enquirer has an analysis of the ongoing battle.
The Associated Press reports that Andy Williams, Emmy-winning TV host and "Moon River" crooner, has died.
The Enquirer is still doing all it can to keep the Lacheys relevant instead of letting them die off like all bad 90s trends like Furby and Hammer pants. The paper blogged that Lachey finished in the bottom three in the first week of the new Dancing with the Stars: All Stars.
Speaking of those replacement NFL refs, apparently some of them were fired by the Lingerie Football League for incompetence. Yes, there are totally unrelated pictures of women playing football.
An organization of retired labor union workers is praising the failure of Congress' so-called "super committee" to agree on a deficit reduction deal as a good development for elderly Americans.
The Ohio chapter of the Alliance for Retired Americans said many politicians, especially Republicans, are unfairly blaming the deficit on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. They are using the budget battle as an excuse to dismantle programs they dislike, the group added.
• Court rulings allow the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s heir to own and control his "I Have a Dream" speech to the 1963 march. Anyone wanting to use more than a few words must pay. My first reaction was "WTF? It was a public event in a public place and a public speech to the public. That can be 'owned'? Yup.
• Stenographic reporting of the so-called debate over whether to bomb Syria back into the Stone Age helps build acceptance for a new war. Similarly, assertions that Assad's forces gassed civilians are repeatedly reported as evidence or proof.
As of this writing, reporters have quoted no top Obama administration official willing to offer evidence or proof. Instead, as evidence, we have unverified videos online and interpretations of what the images show. Reporters don't tell us who provided death figures or who provided information that White House is using the claim Sarin gas was used.
• Meanwhile, the constitutional expectation that only Congress can declare war has suffered the same fate as the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable seizures and searches; dying if not dead.
Germany and Japan attacked us. Congress responded for the most recent time: 1942. Russia's surrogate attacked our dictator across the 38th Parallel in 1950 and triggered the still-unresolved Korean police action. LBJ was conned or knowingly lied about reported 1964 attacks on American warships in the Tonkin Gulf and moved us into the undeclared Vietnam War. Luckily, Saddam Hussein attacked Kuwait in1990 and started Gulf War I. The CIA's totally mistaken 2002 "slam dunk" assurance about Weapons of Mass Destruction was used by Bush to justify undeclared Gulf War II. After 9/11, Afghans sheltered Osama bin Laden before our allies in Pakistan sheltered him and that was used to justify our unfinished and undeclared war against the Taliban in both countries although the Taliban never attacked us. Let's not even get into the invasion of Panama or Grenada or fiasco in Somalia. All that's missing in this latest rush to bash a hornets nest is a repeat of the New York Times sycophantic reporting that Saddam Hussein had and would use weapons of mass destruction.
• If you want a weapon of mass destruction, how about the AK-47, the totemic Soviet assault rifle that is ubiquitous on every continent or the simple machete/panga with which millions have been and are being murdered and/or mutilated. No chemical, biological or nuclear weapon has killed so many people.
• When will some national reporter ask, "What's surgical about a surgical strike?" Nothing unless we're comparing it to carpet bombing a la Germany, Japan, Laos or Vietnam.
Other than assassinating Assad with a drone-launched guided missile — good enough for Americans in Yemen — any attack on Syria will create "collateral" damage. They used to be called innocent victims, sort of like French civilians killed by Allies' D-Day bombing.
"Surgical strike" is a debasement of the language. I'm surprised that surgeons — whose marketing mavens constantly promote ever-smaller and more precise bodily invasions — don't ask the Pentagon to abandon the phrase, "surgical strike."
However, it's no mystery why news media are willing, even eager to echo this desensitizing insider language. It recalls "RPG," "IED," "smart bombs," "boots on the ground" and similar military language embraced by civilian reporters for their civilian audiences. Except those buzz words weren't for civilian audiences; it was how reporters assured military sources that journalists were savvy and sympathetic listeners.
"Surgical strikes" serves us as badly as reporting unsupported assertions and assumptions as fact. Accurately reported bullshit is still bullshit.
• Accurate reporting requires context. Why is gassing hundreds of Syrian civilians in Damascus worse than shooting and killing as many or more civilians about in and around Cairo? Why is the killing and wounding of thousands in Cairo worse than endlessly raping, wounding, mutilating and killing millions of civilians in the horribly misnamed Democratic Republic of Congo?
• Our selective condemnation of poison gas recalls the 11th-century papal ban of the cross bow; peasant crossbowmen could kill armored knights from an unmanly and impersonal distance. That also was bad for the social order. Welsh bowmen faced no such opprobrium although their arrows killed far more mounted knights.
Jump ahead almost a millennium. There is debate on what is a chemical weapon and not all gasses — think tear gas — are poisonous. Poison gas was used infrequently but without sanction during the past 100 years.
Germans and the British gassed each other during World War I. Communists were accused of using poison gas during Russian Civil War. Italians gassed native troops in Ethiopia in the 1930s in years when colonial powers were suspected/accused of gassing rebellious native troops. Japanese gassed Chinese during early World War II. Egyptians gassed Yemeni forces in the 1960s but Americans denied using toxic/blister gasses in Vietnam and Laos. Iraq deployed lethal gas against its own people and Iranian forces in the insane Iraq-Iran 1980s war. Politicians and UN officials fulminate against gassing civilians but they only remind us how selective agony and journalism can be.
• No less authority than President Obama relegated the comparative to the dustbin of grammar. His speech at the Lincoln Memorial last week praised King and other civil rights activists, saying "Because they marched, America became more free and more fair." True, but I'll bet King would have said, "freer and fairer."
• Everyone's lauding David Frost's evocative interviews with disgraced Richard Nixon after he resigned the presidency. He died after a heart attack on Saturday.
My memory of Frost is different: TW3, the original That Was the Week that Was on BBC TV. It was as irreverent as posh Brits from Oxbridge could be and Frost was a central figure in its creation in 1962 and weekly broadcasts until it was cancelled to avoid criticism as the 1964 general election neared. Two skits stand out in my memory, in part because my Saturday night duties at UPI included watching and filing a story on anything newsworthy that TW3 did/said.
The first showed an otherwise empty set with seemingly naked Millicent Martin, then young and drop-dead lovely, astride and leaning over the back of a curvy, modern Arne Jacobsen chair. It was the same pose call girl Christine Keeler used when photographed during the scandal over her affair with government minister John Profumo. You can see the original Keeler image at www.vam.ac.uk. Martin resembled Keeler just as Tina Fey looked like Sarah Palin. Martin looked straight at the camera and said something like, "John told me I was sitting on a fortune." That was it. Perfect lampoon but there was no way to use that skit on UPI's wire.
The second memorable skit followed the apparent TW3 and BBC late night sign-off. A De Gaulle look alike, right down the uniform and kepi on his head, addressed the Brits contemptuously over some strategic or diplomatic blunder. Then the broadcast ended. That skit was newsworthy. BBC said its switchboard operators — remember, this was the early 1960s — were overwhelmed. Seemed the perfect jab at the Establishment by its children fooled a lot of Brits; they thought BBC really had broadcast a De Gaulle speech.
• On a celebratory note, authorities dropped charges against Tim Funk, religion reporter for the Charlotte Observer, who arrested while he interviewed "Moral Monday" demonstrators at the Statehouse in Raleigh, NC. He was charged with second-degree trespass and failure to disperse.
Tim's a Northern Kentuckian and among the ablest of decades of my undergraduate students. After the local prosecutor came to his senses, Tim told the AP, "It was clear to everyone there that I was a news reporter just doing my job interviewing Charlotte-area clergy about how they felt about being arrested. The reporter's job is to be the eyes and ears of the public who can't be present at important public events like this protest. That's all I was doing."
When his June 10 arrest was reported, at least one respondent noted that Tim was among the first detained, stopping him from seeing how police handled demonstrators.
His editor, Rick Thames, told AP, "This is clearly the right result, and we congratulate the district attorney for making the right decision. Tim Funk was working as a journalist inside the most obvious public building in our state. The videotape of Tim's arrest demonstrates clearly that his only purpose in being there was to provide our readers a vivid firsthand account. He was clearly not obstructing the police. It's hard to understand why he was arrested in the first place."
• Cincinnati taxpayers need to know more about competing — and inescapably costly — plans to overcome years of city council shortchanging the city pension fund. The news isn't good. As the Enquirer's James Pilcher put it Sunday, "if every man,woman and child living in the city of Cincinnati contributed $2,000 apiece, it still wouldn't be enough to fill the plan's current $870 million gap."
There's a timeline with his explanatory story that screams for elaboration: What, if any, roles did mayoral candidates Roxanne Qualls and John Cranley play in council decisions to deepen the pension debt?
And I howled at the quote from state auditor Dave Yost: " . . . the city is in a fork in the road . . . And I'm concerned Cincinnati is not doing enough to avoid going down that fork in the road."
Don't try this at home. Sort of like standing with a foot on each side of a barbed wire fence. Reminds me of a friend who'd look right, point left and say, "Go this way."
Maybe with Yost's sense of direction, Cincinnati should consider the road not taken.
Ten thousand Pacific walruses have beached themselves on a remote island off Alaska's northwest coast, unable to find sea ice as the result of climate change.
Fox News is being sued for broadcasting footage of an Arizona man shoot himself in the head on live air at the end of a car case on Sept. 28, 2012.
Dusty Baker has been canned from his position as Reds manager three days after his team lost the National League Wild Card game to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Mariam Carey, the dental hygienist from Stamford, Conn., who was killed outside the Capitol building yesterday in a high-speed police car chase after she allegedly tried to ram the White House gates, suffered from post-partum depression.
Here are the six best science lessons we've learned from Walter White.
Have any questions for City Council candidates? It's your last chance to submit them here and we may choose your questions at tomorrow's candidate forum at 7 p.m. at the Greenwich in Walnut Hills.
Early voting for the 2013 City Council and mayoral elections is now underway. Find your voting location here. Normal voting hours will be 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., although some days will be extended.


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Saw III
|Release Date: October 27, 2006
|Running Time: 107 mins.
|MPAA Rating: R
|Box Office: $80,150,343.00
|Genre: Horror, Sequel, Thriller
Tobin Bell
Shawnee Smith
Bahar Soomekh
Angus MacFadyen
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Summary:Jigsaw has disappeared; and with his new apprentice Amanda--the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police--he has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Lynn Denlon is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious chessboard. One night, after finishing a shift at her hospital, Lynn is kidnapped and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she meets Jigsaw, bedridden and on the verge of death. She is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes another one of his victims, Jeff, to complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of Jigsa... Full Summary >>


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Hello everyone.
I have this problem, I can not sync my zimbra account personal distribution lists on my mobile, with iphone, with android or symbian mobile.
If I can sync my contacts, but no distribution lists, distribution lists that are in the GAL no problems.
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Jordan Sonnenblick is on tour from his very own kitchen!
As part of his 5th-Grade World Tour to promote his Dodger and Me series, Jordan is conducting a virtual tour with elementary school classrooms from all over the country. Check out this write-up of one school's event in Wyoming, Ohio.
And don't forget to check out all the books about Willie, and his imaginary blue chimp friend, Dodger: Dodger and Me, Dodger for President, and coming this month, Dodger for Sale.


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Buick Performance Cars - Junkyard CrawlWritten by on August 3, 2009 Bounty Of Buicks
Buick may not have the same go-for-the-throat, high-performance reputation as other carmakers, but there's no shortage of classy machinery from the men in Flint. Here's a rare pair that illustrates Buick's effort to appeal to opposite ends of the market spectrum.
A budget-oriented performance offering, don't confuse this '69 California GS with a GS350 or GS400. The full doorframe and fixed B-pillar give it away. Regular GS350 and GS400 Skylarks were only built on the pillarless hardtop body shell, while the California GS is based on the el cheapo Special Deluxe thin pillar coupe. These things weren't sold nationally, so don't be surprised if you've never seen one.
All '68 and '69 California GSs were built with bench seats and had automatic transmissions, though '69s like this one came with superior three-speed Turbo 350 transmissions in place of the two-speed Super Turbine 300 used in '68 California GS cars. Happily, the California GS shared its 280hp 350 with the GS350. Buick built 3,574 California GS models in 1969, compared with 6,305 GS350s and 9,387 GS400s.
The Riviera has always been Buick's flagship offering. This one lacks the supercool '65-only clamshell headlamp doors, so we know it's a '63 or '64-which have their horizontally positioned quad headlamps exposed over the egg crate grille. We'd scrounge up a GS-only dual-quad setup for the nailhead mill, adapt a T56 manual transmission, and give it a slight nose-up Super Stock stance.
Buick's fabled aluminum front brake drums are finned to dissipate heat. Their integrally cast iron friction linings are not rebuildable but are amazingly durable. You'd have to run the shoes down to bare metal to cause harm. Pontiac's eight-lug wheels of the same time period use a similar bimetal brake drum strategy. Unlike Pontiac, Buick only mounted aluminum drums up front; the rear drums were conventional cast iron.
Groovy Factoids
* In 1908, Buick was America's number-two carmaker, producing 8,820 units. The number-one spot was held by Ford with 10,202 cars built.
* Twenty-one years before Kenny Bernstein's Buick Reatta-bodied Funny Car hit the scene in 1988, Ron Pellegrini's Super Bird was blazing the quarter-mile. It's blown 392 Chrysler was cloaked under a Fiberglass Ltd. '67 Skylark body shell.


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Boston, MA (Sports Network) - New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez
was reportedly tied to a man who was found dead Monday night.
The body of Odin Lloyd was found near Hernandez's home in North Attleboro,
Mass. on Monday night. Police have begun the investigation as a homicide and
met with Hernandez at his home on Tuesday and Wednesday.
FOX-25 in Boston cited a law enforcement source as saying that Hernandez and
Lloyd were with two other men at a bar in Boston on the night of the homicide
and left together in a vehicle driven by Hernandez. The report said it is
still unclear as to what happened afterward.
Sports Illustrated first broke the story on Tuesday, saying Hernandez was
questioned by Massachusetts state police in its investigation. According to
SI.com, police have connected a 2013 Chevrolet Suburban rented in Hernandez's
name with the homicide of Lloyd.
Hernandez has spent three seasons with the Patriots. He set career highs of 79
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of 2011, then played in just 10 games due to injuries last year and finished
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KC shows its colors on both sides of the state
It was a full house at Busch Stadium in St. Louis last night and, across the state, many packed into the KC Live District. The Royals pulled out a late-inning squeaker and hero Mike Aviles got the customary 'Pie in the face of the rookie during the post-game interview' courtesy of Jose Guillen.
Yep, it was a great night to be wearing blue here in the Show-Me state or anywhere else in the world Royals fans reside. Let's go around the horn…
The Royals watch party in the KC Live block was a resounding success. KC Live officials estimated 1,200 people were in the one-block area at first pitch.
Royals fans were treated to most of the excitement of a regular home game and were entertained by several contests, games and performances before David DeJesus even stepped into the batter's box in St. Louis..
This lucky fan won a game used autographed Mark Grudzielanek bat during the raffle.
In-game host Tim Scott talks to the winner of the John Deere lawnmower race.
Royals fans and a few Cardinals supporters turned out for the Royals watch party under the roof of the KC Live Block in the Power & Light District.
Members of K Crew sing Garth Brooks "Friends In Low Places" on stage during a commercial break.
Mike Aviles had the biggest hit last night – not to overshadow Kyle Davies seven innings of one-run ball or the contributions from the rest of the clubhouse. The rookie shortstop has now hit three homers in his short Major League career. Last night's homer was lined into the Royals bullpen as Ron Mahay was warming to pitch the bottom half of the eighth.
Trey Hillman said after the game he was hoping for someone to "go boom" and Aviles did just that. Aviles has been sensational since being purchased from Omaha at the end of May and given the Royals offense a real boost. He's hitting .333 with a .689 slugging percentage. Subtract his Major League debut (0-for-3 on May 29), and those numbers jump to .357 and .738. To further illustrate just what Aviles has done so far, he's got nine extra base hits out of his 15 hits. As broadcaster Ryan Lefebvre pointed out last night on FSN-KC, 60 percent of his hits have gone for more than one base. The Cardinals Albert Pujols is currently at 44 percent with a career .621 slugging percentage and one of the greatest power hitters of all-time, Barry Bonds sits at 49 percent with a career .607 slugging percentage. Granted, Aviles' numbers have come in just 12 Major League games while Bonds has played 2,986 contests. But it's a start.
Jose Guillen tied a career high by picking up a hit in his 11th straight game last night, going 2-for-4 with his Major League-leading 26th double…David DeJesus collected another RBI tying the game in the fifth, and is now hitting an even .400 with runners in scoring position, which is good for second in the Majors…DeJesus' average has now climbed to .307 which is seventh in the American League.
Last night marked the professional debut for several new Royals players as two of the organization's four Rookie League teams began their seasons. Both the Idaho Falls Chukars and the Burlington Royals fell 5-3 in their home openers against the Casper Ghosts and the Danville Braves, respectively. The Surprise (Ariz.) Royals will start up on Sunday in what promises to be hot conditions in the desert.
You can get daily box scores for all the Royals minor league teams here. And you can keep tabs on the Royals 2008 draft here. Tomorrow we'll talk a little bit about all the draft picks who have signed already.
With all the talk about minor league teams, we'd like to pose a question to you. Forgetting about affiliations, what's the most creative minor league team name in your opinion? Of course in our system, we've got the Naturals, the Blue Rocks, the Bees and the Chukars, not to mention the Royals at three different affilates…But the Chukars opponent yesterday, the Casper Ghosts, is a pretty good one. What about the Albuquerque Isotopes? Or the Batavia Muckdogs? What do you guys say?
Look for tonight's starting lineup later today, until then here's the Royals official game notes.
Let's make it 2-0 against the Cards and four straight overall.


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My install (Fedora 4, stock) hangs without starting services... seems to end with starting services, and, looking at Zimbra.log, stops at starting the LDAP module. Is it true that I have to DISABLE my firewall during install?
I had an earlier botched install, but read that mySQL should be stopped during install. I've done that, and am hung up here instead.


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Includes two 1/2" (12.7mm) tall M5 spacers and two M5x30mm lenshead screws. Used to level out the tank bag on certain Quick-Lock tank bags when used on particular bikes.
May be inserted between the front or rear mounting points of a Quick-Lock top ring and the tankbag to alter the angle at which the tankbag is attached to the bike.
This kit is necessary for proper function of the Quick-Lock tankbag system on certain bikes, as follows:
Honda Varadero - insert under rear mount points for the CITY tankbag
Honda ST1300 - insert under rear mount points for CITY or GS tankbag
Kawasaki GTR1400 Concours - insert under the front mount points to allow the front end of the tankbag clear the "hump" on the gas tank
Confirmed used with the GS to fit on the '10- Ducati Multistrada 1200 - insert under rear mount points.
The kit is also useful on many BMW, Triumph, and Suzuki models or any motorcycle with heavily curved tanks.


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49th Golden Horse Film Awards
Stars deck out with Piaget to rein to Golden Horse.
A huge night of the Chinese filming industry, "The 49th Golden Horse Film Awards ceremony", took place at the Luodong...
Limelight Garden Party in Taiwan
Sonia SUI and Chun WU unfold the dazzling mystery of Piaget.
Piaget, delicately built a luxurious garden for the launch of Limelight Garden Party high jewellery and watch collection...
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Linden Tree hosts 'Let's Do This!' event
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- Published on Wednesday, 08 January 2014 00:06
- Written by Los Altos Town Crier Staff - Town Crier Report
Linden Tree Books has scheduled readings and creative activities for families with children ages 4-12 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the bookstore, 265 State St., Los Altos.
Inspired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's "Project Los Altos: SFMOMA in Silicon Valley," the "Let's Do This!" project encourages local residents to respond to art actions prompted by artists participating in "Project Los Altos." New art challenges are scheduled for publication in the pages of the Town Crier every Wednesday in January. A selection of the best responses will be published in print and online at the "Let's Do This!" website at sfmomalive.tumblr.com.
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I want to help. How many times is this phrase heard in the kitchen? Unfortunately the kitchen is not usually the most kid friendly room in the house. This week's cook column is providing some recipes that are made especially with little helping hands in mind. The recipes in this column are taken from the website: momswhothink.com. So to the new generation of cooks, here are some recipes just for you.
Apple Smiles
Peanut butter
1 Red medium apple; cored and
sliced about 1/3" wide, not
Tiny marshmallows.
Spread one side of each apple slice with peanut butter. Place three or four tiny marshmallows on top of the peanut butter on one apple slice. Top with another apple slice, peanut butter side down. Squeeze gently.
After School Mix
1 cup Semi-sweet chocolate
9 cups Chex cereal (Wheat, Rice
and Corn)
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) margarine or
1/2 cup peanut butter
1-1/2 cups powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Place cereal in large bowl; set aside.
In a 1-quart microwave-safe bowl, combine peanut butter, chocolate pieces, and margarine. Microwave on high 1 to 1-1/2 minutes or until smooth, stirring after 1 minute.
Stir in vanilla. Pour over cereal, stirring until all pieces are evenly coated.
Place cereal mixture and sugar in a large resealable plastic bag. Shake until all pieces are well coated. Spread on waxed paper to cool.
Bunny Salad
1 chilled pear half
2 raisins
1 red cinnamon candy
2 blanched almonds
Cottage cheese ball
Lettuce leaf
Place the lettuce leaf on a plate. Place the pear upside down on top of it.
Using narrow end of the pear for the bunny's face, place 2 raisins for the eyes, 1 red candy for the nose and 2 blanched almonds for the ears. The cottage cheese ball makes the tail.
Banana Hot Dog Sandwich
1 hot dog bun
2 tablespoons peanut butter
1/2 banana
Toast bun. Spread peanut butter on bun then add the banana.
Bugs On A Log
Peanut butter
Celery stalks
Chocolate chips
Take a stalk of celery and fill center with peanut butter. Place pieces of chocolate chips on top of peanut butter filled celery stalk.
Daisy Apple
2 tablespoons raisins
1 McIntosh apple
2 tablespoons crunchy or
creamy peanut butter
Set aside a few raisins for face. Stir remaining raisins into peanut butter.
With apple corer or paring knife, remove core and seeds from apple.
Using a small knife, push peanut butter mixture into center of apple. Make a happy face on top of peanut butter using reserved raisins. Chill before serving.
Dirt Cups
1 package chocolate pudding,
2 cups milk
16 ounces Oreos
3-1/2 cups Cool Whip
8 Gummy Worms (optional)
8 plastic flowers (optional)
Pour milk into medium bowl, add pudding mix. Beat until well blended, 1 -2 minutes.
Crush Oreos and set aside. Let pudding stand 5 minutes. Stir in Cool Whip and half of cookies.
To assemble: place 1 tablespoon crushed cookies in bottom of 8 oz. cup. Fill cups about 3/4 full with pudding mixture. Top with remaining crumbs.
Place Gummy Worms in "dirt," and a plastic flower in each cup to resemble a flower pot.
Diabetic Kids Snakin' Corn
9 cups popcorn, popped
1/3 cup peanut butter
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
Pop the corn. Over low heat melt the butter or margarine with peanut butter until runny.
Drizzle over the
popcorn and mix well. Spread in shallow baking pans and bake in a 375 degree F. oven for 10 minutes, stirring 2 or 3 times. The corn will crisp and topping will set.
Eyeballs On Ritz
Eggs; hard boiled
Ritz crackers
Black olives
Red food coloring
Cut hardboiled eggs in half lengthwise. Remove yolks and make filling for deviled eggs.
Cut out small hole from bottom center of each egg (about 5/8" diameter.) Poke a black olive partway through each hole and hold in place by filling eggs with yolk filling.
Place each egg, olive side up, on a Ritz cracker.
Paint red lines, resembling blood veins, with a toothpick on the eye.
English Muffin Pizza
6 ounces tomato paste or pizza
6 English muffins; split
Garlic powder
Basil (optional)
Mozzarella cheese
Green peppers
Place English muffin halves on an ungreased baking sheet and spread each half with tomato paste.
Sprinkle with oregano, basil and garlic powder.
Arrange toppings; sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 450 degrees F. for 5 minutes or until cheese melts.
Trail Mix
4 cups Chex cereal
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup dried fruit bits
1/2 cup Reeces Pieces
1/2 cup Yogurt covered peanuts
Put into a large Ziploc bag and shake to mix.
Monster Munch
3 cups puffed rice cereal
1 cup dry-roasted unsalted
1 cup raisins
1 cup dried apricots; chopped
1/3 cup margarine
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 pound marshmallows; large
In a large bowl, combine cereal, apricots, raisins and peanuts.
In microwave safe 13x9 inch baking dish, melt margarine and marshmallows on high 2 minutes. Stir.
Add peanut butter. Cook on high 2 minutes longer.
Stir until blended. Add cereal mixture to dish. Toss until well coated.
Working quickly, with greased hands, form into balls, using about 1/2 cup mixture per ball. If mixture begins to cool and harden, cook on high 30 seconds or until softened.
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Cedar Falls, IA (Sports Network) - Paced by 15 points from Davion Berry, the
Weber State Wildcats held off the Northern Iowa Panthers, 59-56, in the
semifinal round of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament at the McLeod
Scott Bamforth shot 4-of-7 from 3-point range for 14 points, while Frank Otis
tallied a double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds for Weber State (30-6),
which has won 17 of its last 18 games and will host East Carolina in the
championship game on Tuesday.
For UNI (21-15), Seth Tuttle led all scorers with 16 points to go with 10
rebounds. Deon Mitchell netted 11 points for the home team, while Marc Sonnen
chipped in 10 points.
Weber State started the game off red-hot, as it led 14-2 less than seven
minutes in. It shot 53.6 percent from the field in the opening 20 minutes and
eventually took a 38-31 advantage into the break.
The Wildcats found themselves up nine early in the second half before the
Panthers ripped off an 11-1 run to take their first lead of the game, 44-43
with 14:01 to play. The contest remained tight until Berry snapped a 55-55 tie
with a jumper at the 4:12 mark to give Weber State the lead for good. UNI
managed to score just one point in the final five and a half minutes of the
Neither team shot greater than 40 percent from the field, but Weber State
managed to drain seven 3-pointers, compared to only three for UNI.
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Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell shed some light on the band's recent sessions and rehearsals for their rumored 50th anniversary dates. As it stands now, the Stones are heavily rumored to be playing four shows before years end -- two at London's O2 Arena and two at Brooklyn's new Barclays Center -- although nothing official has been announced. Leavell, who joined the band on the road in 1982, spoke to The Atlanta Journal Constitution and was pressed for the scoop regarding the shows -- but remained tight-lipped, explaining, "They have not made any announcements, so there's no official news to report. (The rumored Brooklyn and London dates) will remain rumors until the band confirms, but we recently had sessions in Paris and worked on two great songs."
He went on to talk about the two new studio tracks to be featured on the Stones' upcoming greatest hits collection, titled, Grrr!, coming on November 13th: "One, Keith (Richards) brought in called 'One More Shot.' It's really cool, great guitar riff. And Mick (Jagger) has one called 'Doom And Gloom.' The song sounds a lot different than the title. The theme is that he's talking to a girl saying all I hear from you is doom and gloom -- let's go party, let's go dance. It's an up-tempo tune. They'll be on the 50th anniversary set coming in November."


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Last sunday we have successfully upgraded our production Zimbra OSE from 5.0.22 to 6.0.10 on a Virtual Machine with Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit.
The upgrade was smooth. For safety we tested it before on another VM restored from backup.
The system manages about 70 mailboxes with a quite slow daily traffic (2000 messages/day) and 15 GB of store, and runs on a ESX 3.5 VM with 3GB of RAM and 2 CPU.
May be interesting for you to observe the change in the CPU usage trend grabbed from Virtual Center (see attached screenshot). The black square box is the upgrade time. It is interesting to note that now with 6.0 the CPU is always loaded at 25%, while with 5.0 it was more moderate.
Other minor glitch to report:
- automatic update check generates Java Null pointer exception (may be there is already some opened bugs)
- the image insertion in the signature has an erratic behaviour (errors with IE8); i'll file a bug for this
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I use Zimbra Desktop on my laptop. When running zdesktop server, which I'd really like to do all of the time, my CPU about 200 types a second. 49% of those wakeups are:
42.8% (120.5) java : futex_wait (hrtimer_wakeup)
It doesn't sound like much, but I've lost a bit of battery life. Is there a wake to keep the wakeups a bit lower?
ps: I use powertop to test my wakeups and estimated battery usage.


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Feb 16 2011
7 Uses for Bonus Rooms
Do you ever find yourself wishing for a flexible space in your house that can be a sewing room today and a guest suite tomorrow? House plans with bonus rooms offer tremendous flexibility when it comes to changing needs. Weather your needs change day-by-day, week- to-week or every 10 years, a home plan with a bonus room is sure to accommodate you.
Usually bonus rooms are found on the upper level of the home or above the garage and most are designed to be finished when the home is built or years down the road. That's their first sign of flexibility. Maybe you don't have the need for extra living space when you first build the home or maybe it is not in your budget to finish another room right away. Just wait until you're ready and finish the bonus room when the time is right for you. Or if you have an immediate need for the bonus room, finish it right away and get maximum use out of it.
So what can you do with a bonus room? How you use your bonus room will be completely influenced by your lifestyle and changing needs. Here are a few ideas:
Guest Room/Suite: If you have frequent overnight visitors, finish the bonus room as an extra bedroom. Add a full bath to completely accommodate your guests.
Game/Recreation Room: For all the entertainers out there, a game or recreation room offers a great place to kick back and relax with friends and family weather you are enjoying a billiards game, playing cards with the guys, Bunco with your girlfriends, or your teenagers need a space to hang out and visit with friends. A game/recreation space encourages conversation and relaxation.
Home Office: Perhaps you own a home-based business or just work from home on a regular basis. An upstairs office provides a private workspace and you'll never even have to leave home! Plus, because it is secluded, you'll never have to worry about the kids or guests seeing important documents or interfering with the big project you've been working on for weeks.
Homework Station: While the kids are still in school, your family might find it necessary to have a dedicated space for homework furnished with decks, a computer and good lighting ensuring a good place to study and complete homework assignments and school projects. This is a place where students can focus on the tasks at hand without being disturbed by other happenings in the home.
Craft/Hobby Room: If you enjoy crafts, scrap booking, sewing and other indoor hobbies, a bonus room offers the perfect place to work on your projects and store supplies. Plus you won't have to clean up a project you're working on until it is complete.
Exercise Room: For families with an eye on a healthy and fit lifestyle, create an exercise or workout room for everyone to use. This is the ideal place for the treadmill and weight bench keeping them out of sight in the main home, but still conveniently accessible, ensuring you're workout routine won't be disrupted.
Home Theater: This is an option the whole family is sure to love, not to mention friends and visitors. Turn your bonus room into a home theater so every night can be movie night. Furthermore, the kids can enjoy watching a movie upstairs without disturbing you while you might be reading or talking on the phone downstairs. This is a space people of all ages will enjoy.
Now, consider this. Perhaps you really needed that home office when you started that successful business in your younger years. But, now that you're retired, you'd prefer to use the bonus room as something else. So convert the home office you originally started with to something more fun like a rec room. Or maybe your family really needed the bonus room for a homework station years ago, but now the kids have homes and kids of their own. Maybe you need to convert the homework station into a playroom for the grandkids.
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Hello all,
I have problems with my zimbra email system on one of the specific email address, whenever the senders send an email to that address, the zimbra email system did not deliver the email but it sent an error message back to the senders saying "host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 554 5.4.0 Error: too many hops (in reply to end of DATA command)", it is only happening with one specific email address, all of the other email addresses are good to go. Please help. Thank you very much.


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Ocean Cargo: Containers and other equipment may be in short supply
July 18, 2011
After the critical shortages of containers of last year, production has picked up again, but high container prices and a tight ratio of containers to vessel slots will continue to constrain the availability of boxes.
According to the Container Census – Annual Survey and Forecast of Global Container Units, a new report from Drewry Maritime Research, shippers have another reason to be concerned.
At the end of 2010, the global fleet of containers exceeded $90 billion in replacement value for the first time, according to the report, also reflecting the increased unit prices of containers.??
?"If capacity is more tightly controlled by the container manufacturing sector than in the past, it will likely result in higher new container prices," said Andrew Foxcroft an analyst who contributed to the report.
He said that the dominant Chinese container manufacturing industry was restricted to operating at half its maximum twin-shift potential throughout 2010, largely because of problems associated with restarting factory lines – and particularly rehiring labor – after more than a year of idleness. ??
"If capacity is more tightly controlled by the container manufacturing sector than in the past, it will likely result in higher new container prices," Foxcroft said.
Material/production costs are also forecast to rise over the longer term, thereby providing a further inflationary stimulus.
?"It remains to be seen if continued high container prices will deter new investment, particularly from cash-strapped shipping lines who have found it harder to secure financing in recent years," he added.??
Drewry expects that the availability of containers will be tight during the forthcoming peak season, but that problems of shortages of boxes will not be as acute and as widespread as in 2010.
Logistics Management was told that some of these fears may be exagerated, however.
"The freight rate trends do not suggest that anybody – neither carriers nor shippers – really believe that there will be container shortages or capacity constraints," said Peter Freidmann, executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition. "It appears that the demand for ocean transportation services is declining, and in fact there may not even be a peak season this year."
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Remember when you saw your first non-polished aluminum crankarms? Back then shiny metal was de rigueur on every mountain bike. Not only do we see a lot more black or charcoal anodized parts, but composite crankarms are becoming increasingly popular as well. The Truvativ X0 Silver GXP 2.2 10-Speed Crankset is modern in every way with carbon fiber arms and a dedicated dual chainring configuration, but its polished aluminum spider and big ring cutouts give it enough old school bling to make any curmudgeon smile in appreciation.
This X0 Silver GXP 2.2 Crankset uses carbon fiber like the top shelf XX crank, but there are a few differences. Unlike the XX crank, there's no alloy spine connecting the threaded pedal insert and the crank/spindle connection. SRAM engineers figured out a way to eliminate it, instead using a stiff structural foam core inside the composite skin. Don't think for a second that it's weaker; part of SRAM's goal for XO was to make it burly enough to handle the rigors of all-mountain riding.
Another difference is that this XO crankset uses an aluminum spider where the XX spider is an integral part of the carbon crankarm assembly. While it's a few grams heavier, the XO system allows you to remove the spider if you want to change from two to three rings or vice versa. As is, this 2x10 setup has a bolt circle diameter of 80/120mm. Of course, it's an exclusive measurement, but for the chainring tooth combinations SRAM wanted to offer, it optimizes the stiffness of the rings. And stiffer chainrings mean quicker, more precise shifts.
Not only did they design their own optimized bolt circle diameters, but they re-engineered the shift ramps, pins, and cut outs on the outer chainring. On most chainrings these days, there are two sets of ramps and two drop points where the chain can get lifted or dropped quickly and under pressure. This means that twice each pedal revolution you'll hit these spots, so the shifting can be iffy if you shift at any other time. You've probably experienced this with the pause and clunk and sometimes smooth movement on other crank systems. SRAM's X0 outer ring allows perfect shifts just about all the way around the crank. They call this X-Glide. Another improvement stems from having only two rings. From the small ring, the chain can only go up, from the big ring, only down. With this in mind, each ring can be shaped specifically for its more focused purpose.
The Truvativ X0 Silver GXP 2.2 10-Speed Crankset has Clear Coated Carbon fiber arms with a polished and clear anodized 7075 T-6 aluminum spider. The chainrings are made from the same 7075 alloy and have polished accents. It's available with either 170 or 175mm crankarms and comes in two chainring options -- 26/39 or 28/42. It requires a Truvativ GXP bottom bracket (not included).


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Jefferson and Christianity
Religion | A history and political science professor at The Master's College offers a brief review of David Barton's claims in The Jefferson Lies—and Barton responds, and Frazer rebuts
Our online debate between history writer David Barton and his critics demanded a lot of attention from readers: thousands of words, numerous footnotes, complicated argumentation. That many of you read, pondered, and commented is a good indication that poor history teaching in many colleges hasn't killed among many of us the desire to learn what really happened.
The debate isn't over yet. One of Barton's critics, Gregg Frazer, a history and political science professor at The Master's College, had 1,200 words he wanted to get off his chest, and we said yes. Frazer is the author of The Religious Beliefs of America's Founders: Reason, Revelation, and Revolution, published last year by The University Press of Kansas.
After Frazer's message comes a brief response from David Barton. —Marvin Olasky
David Barton's fundamental claim in chapter 7 of The Jefferson Lies is that Jefferson was orthodox for the first 70 years of his life and only rejected the fundamental doctrines of Christianity in the final 15 years of his life. In support of this claim, Barton said that in his 1776 Notes on Religion, Jefferson "affirmed that Jesus was the Savior, the Scriptures were inspired, and that the Apostles' Creed 'contain[ed] all things necessary to salvation'" (p. 168). That is simply not true.
In his Notes on Religion, Jefferson wrote, "The Apostles creed was by them taken to contain all things necessary to salvation [emphasis mine]."[i] In the context, "by them" refers to "the people they were written to" (i.e., the early church). Jefferson did not say that he believed this. Of the original, Barton only quoted "contain[ed] all things necessary to salvation." Barton did not offer any other direct statement by Jefferson—doctored or not—in support of the fundamental doctrines of Christianity because there are none.
Jefferson never affirmed the core doctrines of Christianity, whether in his first 70 years or the last 15. For him, Christianity was simply the moral teachings of Jesus—not all of Jesus' teaching, only the morality. That, along with Jefferson's opinion of the Apostle Paul, is why Jefferson repeatedly dismissed the rest of the New Testament as a "dunghill."[ii]
It is also important to understand that Jefferson, in his Notes on Religion, noted for his own reference in encyclopedic fashion what various religious groups and individuals believed—not giving his own beliefs!
Notes starts with: "Sabellians," and then describes what they believed. The next paragraph starts "Socinians," and then describes what they believed. The section Barton quoted as being Jefferson's own view begins with: "Locke's system of Christianity is this:" and then goes on for a lengthy description of what Locke said about Christianity. The particular quote about the Apostles' Creed is a nearly verbatim transcription from Locke's A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity. There, Locke wrote, "The Apostles Creed was taken, in the first Ages of the Church, to contain all things necessary to Salvation."[iii] Barton's other claims about the Notes on Religion are also in the section on Locke's Christianity—not personal affirmations by Jefferson.
In support of his thesis that Jefferson was orthodox until sometime around 1810, Barton claimed that Jefferson "first expressed Anti-Trinitarian views in a letter to John Adams in 1813" (185). At another point, he quoted a letter that Jefferson wrote to Benjamin Rush "well before the Restoration movement" (1803, to be precise). As he regularly does, Barton omitted a critical part of the quote. In Barton's version, Jefferson said:
"To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus Himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense He wished any one to be; sincerely attached to His doctrines, in preference to all others" (189).
But in the actual letter, the sentence did not end there. Jefferson continued:
"ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other" [italics original; bold mine].[iv]
So, in a letter that Barton identified as being written before Jefferson's supposed change of heart, Jefferson clearly indicated that he did not believe in the deity of Christ and, by extension, the Trinity. It is also worth mentioning that the pronouns for Jesus are not capitalized in Jefferson's original, as he, unlike Barton, did not consider them to be pronouns for God.
Furthermore, Jefferson's reference to "the corruptions of Christianity" was a reference to Joseph Priestley's A History of the Corruptions of Christianity, as he indicated in a letter to Priestley 12 days before the Rush letter and to his daughters in letters four days after the Rush letter. He recommended it to them for "attentive perusal, because it establishes the groundwork of my view of this subject ['my religious creed']."[v]
In Priestley's book, the very first "corruption of Christianity" is the deity of Christ—there is a whole section devoted to debunking that doctrine. So, in stating that he was opposed to the corruptions of Christianity, he stated that he did not believe in the deity of Christ. The second section of Priestley's Corruptions attacks the atonement, and the third grace and original sin. In the aforementioned letter to Priestley, Jefferson urged Priestley to write a book on the character and doctrines of Jesus, saying, "You are the person who of all others would do it best."[vi]
So, according to Jefferson, a man who did not believe in the deity of Christ or the fundamental doctrines of Christianity would do the best job of writing about the character and doctrines of Jesus. That does not sound very orthodox. But it is not surprising because Jefferson identified the two primary influences on his religious views as Conyers Middleton and Joseph Priestley[vii]—not the Restorationists that Barton insisted were the cause of his spiritual demise. One should note that Barton never actually established a connection between them and Jefferson. On his part, Jefferson never reported a change in his own thinking.
To further understand what Jefferson meant by the "corruptions" of Christianity, one need only look at a statement by Jefferson that Barton included: that the Apostle Paul was the "first corruptor of the doctrines of Jesus" (180) and ask oneself: What doctrines did Paul teach?
Jefferson actually denied the inspiration of Scripture and the deity of Christ much earlier than these examples. As early as 1787, he told his nephew to "[r]ead the Bible, then, as you would read Livy or Tacitus" and to be wary of "the pretensions of the writer to inspiration from God" and that "these Pseudo-evangelists pretended to inspiration … you are to judge their pretensions by your own reason" (emphasis mine)—hardly affirmations of the inspiration of Scripture. He also described Jesus as one "who set out without pretensions to divinity, ended in believing them."
Jefferson concluded with the best concise summary of his approach to religious belief: "Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven."
A response to Gregg Frazer
By David Barton
Gregg Frazer disagrees with my interpretation of one document in one of The Jefferson Lies' nine chapters. I appreciate his position but remain convinced that, as I wrote in my response to Warren Throckmorton:
"Early in life Jefferson apparently was a typical Anglican gentleman, but later in life he embraced unorthodox beliefs. [In fact, I devoted 16 pages in my book to documenting Jefferson's heterodox beliefs.] But throughout all phases of his life he maintained an open respect and admiration for Jesus Christ and Christian values and morality, and he regularly promoted Christianity in ways that make today's secularists and separationists uncomfortable."
Throckmorton's original assault on my book managed to avoid its major points and instead criticize minor and even obscure facts, and this new attack by Frazer seems to suggest that this "debate" may become a never-ending discussion over less and less. With so many important cultural battles that desperately need our focused attention, it seems a misuse of time and energy to continue arguing over relatively inconsequential points with those who profess to hold the same common Christian values, so I will now resume my efforts attempting to beat back the secularist progressive movement that wrongly invokes Jefferson in their efforts to expunge any presence of faith from the public square.
I am grateful to WORLD for allowing this "debate" to occur, and consistent with my regular practice, if errors in my work are called to my attention I will continue to address them in subsequent editions.
I encourage those interested in this debate to read the revised version of The Jefferson Lies (available later this year from Mercury Ink and Simon & Schuster) and determine for themselves who is correct.
Frazer rebuts Barton's response
By Gregg Frazer
Those who read my short piece above will recognize that I disagreed with far more than David Barton's interpretation of one document. I did not even interpret documents; I simply recorded them accurately and in context, thereby eliminating the "evidence" for his thesis in one chapter. Furthermore, I disagree with much of Barton's book, but was limited by WORLD to just 1,000 words, so I focused on the core issue: Jefferson's religious beliefs
Besides, what has been in question all along is not Barton's standing as a cultural battler, but his standing as a historian. That is determined by how accurately one writes history, not how well one stems the progressive tide.


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Tooth decay is diagnosed over a period of time. This involves clinical examination as well as x-rays.
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Treatment for more severe decay includes:
When decay reaches the dentin, your dentist will treat it by:
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According to authorities, 44-year-old William S. Gazafi of Lusby, Maryland was charged with six counts of sexually exploiting a minor to produce child pornography on Wednesday. Gazafi is a non-commissioned U.S. Air Force officer working at Andrews Air Force Base.
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Saturday's nice weather made for another successful Meridian Mardi Gras event in downtown Meridian.
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Jelena Jankovic is back home after her disappointing run at Wimbledon where she lost in the fourth round to Tamarine Tanasugarn. The Serb is currently rehabilitating the knee she hyperextended in her match against Caroline Wozniacki but she isn't happy with the press reports questioning the injury:
For me, it was disappointing to lose but I was more saddened by some of the press reports after the match. I decided to play through the injury, through the pain instead of letting people down by pulling out. I don't expect credit for this but I read some negative reports about the legitimacy of the injury and that was tough to take. I would like to invite these reporters to look at my MRI. I feel frustrated because I think with some people; there is a lack of understanding of what it takes to be tennis professional. Unfortunately, I can't control everything that is written about me and I guess you have to take the good with the bad. I just hope that in the future, some people will try a little harder to find out the facts before jumping to conclusions. I know that there are many people out there supporting me and wishing me well so to those people I say a BIG thank you!I didn't think your injury was a bluff JJ - it seemed pretty legit to me. I just think you get injured way too much and need to figure out what's going on with your body (or your head).
It seems you're still paying the price for last season's scheduling ridiculousness - get more rest!
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Thursday, July 3, 2008
Jelena not feeling great, not feeling the press either
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I feel frustrated because I think with some people; there is a lack of understanding of what it takes to be tennis professional.ReplyDelete
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If you watch the match, it is quite clear when and how the injury occurred. It's painful to watch.ReplyDelete
She needs to improve her serve, then maybe.....ReplyDelete
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