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The Crew Beta (console) Impressions
I've just come away from a few hours of playing The Crew, the new open-world racing game from Ubisoft/Ivory Tower and felt the need to share my first impressions of what I've experienced.
I'm playing it on the XBox One (insert appropriate cheering/booing), having gotten my beta key earlier in the day and had actually been a little excited to get home from work and give it a go. I had some mixed expectations of the game after first seeing the hyped up trailers from E3 for the game and then reading reviews of how it fared in reality, the news not being all that great, but trusting that time and development would improve the game before it reached my hands...and I have to say I'm not all that impressed from what I got now it is in my hands (sort of).
First off, let me say that I'm a pretty dedicated racing game fan, having recently poured a few dozen hours into Forza Horizon 2, another 'open world' racing title and have been enjoying it immensely. I've played other racing games such as Formula 1, the old Project Gotham Racing series, Burnout in many of its different iterations, as well as having been a loyal Need For Speed player, particularly enjoying the last couple of offerings EA has offered. So the prospect of The Crew offering up what is touted to be 'all of the US' to drive around in does seem to be quite the prospect, along with the gritty/campy storyline elements ripped from a Fast and Furious film (something about avenging your brother and taking down a state-wide street race gang) and social aspect of driving around with your friends in your own 'crew' got me interested.
Now, the game I'm experiencing is touted very much to be a 'Beta'. Something that was made very clear by the fact there's a watermark constantly present at the bottom of the screen, so we should expect that there is still stuff needing to be done before the devs let the game out into the wild proper. However, you'd expect a few things to be present at this stage that surprised me a little right off the bat. Screen alignment for example; that watermark I mentioned, is currently not fully shown on my screen, the first little bit of it cut off due to the fact the game seems to think my TV is bigger than it actually is and there is no option to adjust the screen boundaries, so a few HUD elements are either dangerously close to the edges of the screen or even slightly cut off.
However, that's just me nitpicking...I'll admit, the slow download of the file which would allow me to play the rest of the beta after I'd completed the opening tutorial section left me to ponder this nitpick for a while, but that was probably due to the amount of people trying to get the Beta downloaded at the same time as well.
The tutorial seemed to be well-structured for the kind of game it's trying to be, throwing me into a truck in a police chase right off the bat through some nondescript countryside outside Detroit before offering me a ride in a more souped up muscle car to take part in a race, some healthy doses of plot being offered up with it. I won't bore you with the details, but one thing in the story leads to another and eventually you get to pick one car out of four free ones and given a few more tasks to complete before going to your garage to plan your next step, where I was then stuck with having to wait for the rest of the beta to download.
That first half hour or so in this tutorial allowed me to tinker with a few of the settings and led me to wrinkle number two: as I mentioned, I'm a racing game fan and so I checked to see what kind of difficulty settings the game would offer and was pleasantly surprised to see that I could select a manual gearbox setting, having expected it to perhaps stick to a more Need For Speed 'things are gonna be way too quick for us to trust you to change gears' kind of outlook. However, this is where I found out that The Crew uses the rather unique setup of using the right thumbstick to shift up or down and then no way to change this. Any other racing game fans who don't own a wheel might also find this a little odd, most other franchises using face buttons as defaults for changing gears and then offering the choice to switch the control scheme if you wished.
The non-inclusion of an option to change control scheme is a bit grating considering the choice to use manual gears is offered, along with a host of choices to tune other things like steering sensitivity and brake pressure through the controller and will also limit the ability to use the right thumbstick as a way to look around your car if you want to or even if you need to look behind you, the left bumper instead being dedicated to the 'look back' role. I tried to get used to the thumbtsick-shift for a while, but after many years and many games of not using the stick that way, it felt very awkward and I eventually gave up, switching to an automatic setting after a while.
There's a couple of other odd choices with being able to choose an overall handling setting from 'all assists on' to 'sport' to 'hardcore', but no options to choose individual handling settings such as ABS or Traction Control. Considering I'm allowed to choose how sensitive the throttle can be, not being able to keep my ABS on but turn my traction control off for a bit of sideways mucking about seems a bit offputting and another point of frustration.
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Working In The Games Industry
Just wondered how many people out there in the RT community are currently or have worked in the games industry and if there were any stories you'd like to tell or projects you'd like to be associated with. Or perhaps you have questions about getting into the industry if you're so inclined to get into games.
(I'm aware there may be contracts that have been signed or NDA's to adhere to, so apologies if you can't talk about much...or anything at all)
I myself am a QA Engineer at a small mobile games company in Scotland called Outplay Entertainment. However, I'm lucky in the respect that I get some more responsibility in the games development process. I don't have to just log bugs, but also create and edit test plans for our games and get to talk to the designers and devs about our games and get some (hopefully) genuine input into the way our games play. Of course, I'm still only on the bottom rung, so my day does usually consist of running tests on our games when we update them, which is frequently, what with the changes we have to make to keep up with competition.
Compared to my previous forays in retail, I'm very happy with my job and satisfied with what I'm doing. Yes, I have heard the horror stories, but thankfully haven't had to deal with the hell that is crunch and lucky enough to be in a company that is financially stable and growing...for now.
I suppose one story I can talk about is before I got my QA gig, I did some play testing for a AAA game at another small company in Scotland, who were outsourced to develop the multiplayer DLC portion of the game. There was some extensive testing done with some really cool game types that spiced things up and that we testers were pretty pumped for, but were oddly surprised when it never arrived on the marketplace. I found out later that the outsource company I tested with had coded the entire pack incorrectly and had never checked if it worked with the retail copy of the game and when it was delivered to the parent company, it failed to pass the most basic checks, meaning a good few months of development and testing had gone down the drain.
Anyone else out there who makes the vidjya games?
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RWBY Episode 1 Thoughts
2 years ago
So, RWBY's finally dropped and we've been given a taste of what the latest offering RT can give us hungry, hungry fans.
Right off the bat, what I've seen so far has shown a lot of promise, but I'm reserving judgement until I've been allowed to see more.
When I saw the 'Red' trailer, I was hooked. Cute girl with a massive, awesome combi-weapon that saw her kick serious werewolf ass, Monty Oum style? Colour me intrigued, RT.
Though I'll admit that the rest of the buildup to this series did cause me to pause and wonder if this was such a good idea. After watching the Black and Yellow trailers, I had my doubts as to the way things were going. However, it was not for what I saw, but what I heard.
Yes, it is a topic that has most likely been argued to death, but the voice acting did jar me slightly. Call it shallow, but any animated or machinma series has to have a strong VA cast to carry it and breath life into the characters they portray. Were those just the first takes? Most likely. Was the final product going to have improved lines? Definitely. And yet it was something I was going to focus on more than anything else unfortunately.
And so I'm very glad to say that the first episode was able to cast the doubts I had about the VA's aside. Barbara already proved herself that she and Yang are pretty much the same and thank goodness Lindsay isn't as squeaky anymore. The rest of the cast I've heard so far have also been up to scratch with what we can expect from RT with a lovely unexpected cameo by Jen Taylor to get us going.
And so that allowed me to take in the rest of what was offered. Of course there was the initial fight to help set the scene and help introduce our shadowy antagonists, giving us enough info about the world lore and 'dust' to give us a brief idea without drowning us in exposition and some much-needed character interaction, setting up the plot nicely.
Stuff I can nit-pick? The drawn-animated section in the airship was a little jarring to see, I suppose...
Awesome Monty-driven fight scenes aside, I do want to see how well this series is able to carry the story based on what happens in between the gun-scyth stuff. With Miles at the writers helm and with his track record in RvB, I'm sure we're in for a good ride, but again we need to wait and see.
I'm pleased RT has decided to do something so different to what so many of us have come to expect, but worried that it may not be as dazzling as many may hope it to be.
However, it is very early days and we've yet to get into the nitty-gritty. A few more episodes and we'll see what Monty, Miles and co. have in store for all of us.
tl;dr - First I was like then I was all like but gotta wait for when I can be like or
Good gracious me...
4 years ago
...it has been a while, hasn't it?
So it seems my long, long period of being dead has continued unabated. Much of what I was planning to do seems to have not really come about, what with my need to find work and money having taken up far too much of my time.
Not sure even if anyone's going to even be reading this, but hey ho.
So hopefully this will be another 'new leaf turned' as I get back into trying to type witty things to make people laugh. Who knows? Instead of simply passing the time, it could be fun.
Of course, I've been wrong before...
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What do YOU want for Christmas
After another phonecall from my dad demanding I send my Xmas list to him today and then composing a hasty head-scratching e-mail trying to think up various gift or stocking filler-ideas, I ask the RT Forum:
What is top of your Christmas list?
Whether it be something real, or something that lets you stretch your imagination, what could you possibly want?
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Simon Cowell. Discuss.
A question has popped into my head, and it is one that I would like to pose to the RT forum:
Is there anything that can be found in or about Simon Cowell that is good or moralistically right? Is there anything about the man that could be viewed as 'good'?
And any answers that go along the lines of 'he shows us that we can never be as big a c**t as him' don't count.
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Your first word
...or what you would have wanted your first word to be.
My first word was 'car'.
But I really wanted it to be 'Alfa Romeo' to prove what a true petrol head I was even back in diapers.
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Games Narrative Survey
Hey guys, need your help with something.
I'm going through my 4th year of Games Production Management at University and I'm writing a dissertation that is focussing upon the need for good narrative within games today. I have written up a survey and I was wondering if it would be at all possible to get a few responses.
Ideally, I'm looking for anyone who has some experience with the games industry or has some sort of development background. Even if you've thought about making a small i-Phone game or app, your opinion would be highly valued.
I appreciate that other activities may take priority over something like this, but if you have about 10 free minutes to take part, please do so. And please, no joke answers or trolling please (as much as that request will probably attract the trolls).
Thanks in advance guys.
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I'm not dead...
6 years ago
...just resting.
It's been a turbulent couple of weeks for me, trying to retain the lease on my apartment and trying to keep my bank off my back and out of my room to repossess the stuff I'm still paying off. Then there's the job I have that seems to be sapping my soul, and finally the holiday in Geneva, Switzerland that wasn't as relaxing as I'd hoped it would have been with my friends not so much wanting to relax, unless their definition of 'relaxation' involved going out every night to do something, whether it was seeing an air show, a fireworks display or terrify me as they drove up the mountain roads...in the dark.
And then my laptop broke.
I've been meaning to get around to becoming a more 'giving' member of the RT community, particularly amongst the 'Freelancer Program' people by posting another fanfic large enough to choke a horse, but as I just said, my lappy broke and I've been forced to pull out my old, crappy desktop that doesn't even have a word processing program.
So for those for you who think I may have just been slacking off, next week I should have something up.
...unless I slack off.
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I'm not exactly sure where to post this, seeing as it could be defined as a 'movie' of sorts, but is based online, I thought it would be correct of me to bring the RT community's attention to a project that started in about 2004, something written by Doug TenNapel, a man better known for Earthworm Jim. A series that has attracted the talent of the brothers Dan and Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) and Doug Jones (Hellboy).
I am talking about 'Sockbaby'.
Now, I may seem to be biased when I start taking/ranting./spewing nonsense about this little webseries he created, but instead of me laying praise in this thread, I believe a better method of allowing unbiased opinion is to simply provide the good RT community with a way in which to view said webseries.
So, without further ado or waffling on my part, if you think you have the time to be entertained; sockbaby.com
(I do suggest though that you begin with Part 1, rather than the more attractively advertised Part 4.)
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3 years ago
In reply to Muse, #56201: (from greatest internet images thread)
In reply to Jcach, #56191:
I post a comic that hasn't been posted here before and I get -3 Noob'd. Another comic by the same author is posted that I was planning to post before I saw it doesn't get noob'd.
I don't know what to say besides that I'm laughing at the cruel irony. Sorry
3 years ago
I replied to you here to avoid disturbing the thread. GII can easily become an angry bull.
Onward and upward and twirling, ever twirling!
3 years ago
I think getting noob'd like that is the thread's way of beating anyone down who gets too uppity.
Plus I've never bitched about people posting comics or stuff I've posted before.
Anyways. Onwards and upwards.
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6 years ago
Let me put it this way; I'm literally vibrating with excitement.
6 years ago
You looking forward to The Resistance?
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No problem. NOW DRAW MORE FOR OUR AMUSEMENT.
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6 years ago
thank you. it's comments like that, that really brighten my day.
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Manure Nutrient Availability
Table: "Average daily production and total content of manure" (or better yet, your manure analysis) will tell you the total amounts of these major nutrients on either a per-gallon or a per-ton basis. With N, however, the total amount is not the amount available to the crop in the year of application. The proportion of the manure N available to the crop in the year of application depends on how the manure is managed.
Surface-applied manure potentially can lose large amounts of N if it is not incorporated mechanically or by rain. The fraction of the total manure N available to the crop (the availability factor), in relation to when and how the manure is applied, is given in Table: "Manure nitrogen availability factors for use in determining manure application rates based on planning condition", part A. To determine manure N availability you need to answer several questions:
- When will the manure be applied?
- What is the target crop for manure nutrient utilization?
- How will the manure be applied?
- What type of manure is being applied?
Note that even under the best of conditions only about one-half to three-quarters of the nitrogen in the manure is available to the crop in the year it is spread. The remaining nitrogen will become available slowly over a period of years. The availability of this residual nitrogen can be estimated from the manure history of a field. Adjustments for residual nitrogen are given in Table: "Manure nitrogen availability factors for use in determining manure application rates based on planning condition", part B. The example given later in this section illustrates how to use these factors in application rate calculations.
If, in addition to total N analysis, the manure also is analyzed for NH4-N, an even better estimate of available N can be made using the factors in Table: "Factors for calculating manure nitrogen availability based on time of application, incorporation, field history, and manure analysis with ammonium and organic N fractions. Recommended for all manures, but required for atypical or treated manures". This approach also is illustrated in the example and should be used any time the manure has been treated in any way. Examples of treatment that might influence N availability include composting; digestion for methane production; separation, either mechanically or by settling; and aerobic or anaerobic treatment lagoons. Similar information is required to determine the manure N availability as with the previous table.
The phosphorus (P) in manure is available only slowly to a crop; however, manure P is not fixed readily into unavailable forms in soil like highly soluble P fertilizers are. The net result is that the P in manure is very similar to the P in fertilizer for building soil P levels and supplying crop needs. Thus, in most cases, manure P can be substituted for P in fertilizer on a one-to-one basis.
There is one exception to this rule: manure P cannot be substituted for starter fertilizer P. Thus, even if manure P is applied in amounts adequate to meet the needs of a crop, there still may be some benefit in using a starter fertilizer, especially if soil test levels were marginal or low. Manure P will accumulate in the soil. Therefore, P in manure, applied in excess of one crop's needs, can be used by a later crop in the rotation.
The potassium (K) in manure occurs mostly in a soluble form similar to the K in fertilizer. Thus the K in manure can be substituted one-to-one for fertilizer K. This high solubility of manure K can result in excessive levels of soluble salts if large applications of manure are made, particularly on lighter-textured soils. This is a problem especially when poultry manure is applied at high rates immediately before the crop is planted. Like P, K accumulates in soil and thus can be built up in one part of the rotation so that it may be used later in another.
The nutrients in manure have no immediate value if the crop does not need them, since there already is more than enough in the soil. As with fertilizer, you get the greatest return from manure by applying it to crops that require N and that are grown in fields testing the lowest in P and K. Your first step in developing a manure management plan should be to prioritize farm fields on this basis, with an additional consideration of the fields' relative environmental sensitivity. Then, allocate the manure to the high-priority fields at a rate that meets crop nutrient requirements, but at a rate no greater than that which meets the need for manure's most vulnerable nutrient, N. If there is a potential for P transport to water, the manure application rate should be limited to P crop removal. In this case, significant supplemental fertilizer N will usually be needed to meet the crop N requirement. The Phosphorus Index can be used to determine the risk of P loss to water and to guide appropriate management to minimize this risk.
Available N is less likely to be present the following year if not removed by the crop. As mentioned above, P and K applied in excess of crop uptake will build soil levels and generally are available to succeeding crops. In fact, with advance planning, excess manure P and K applied during the corn years of a rotation will supply the high P and K requirements of a following hay crop. A good approach is to balance the nitrogen in the manure with the needs of the current crop and to balance the P and K in the manure with the needs of the crop rotation (see "Changes in Soil Test Levels Over Time" [right] Reference: Figure 1.2-7, the Agronomy Guide).
Applying manure to legumes generally is not recommended. If properly inoculated, legumes do not need supplemental nitrogen for best growth. Thus, unlike a nonlegume such as corn, for which potential returns from the nitrogen in the manure are great, there will be no economic return from the nitrogen in manure applied to a legume. Legumes, however, will take up nitrogen applied in manure even though they don't need it; thus, legumes may serve as a place to dispose of excess nitrogen. The uptake of nitrogen by legumes is indicated in Table: "Nitrogen removed by legumes".
Several other considerations exist when applying manure to legumes. If manure is applied to a legume to use excess nitrogen on the farm, because of the relative proportions of nitrogen and phosphorus in manure, phosphorus likely will be applied in excess of crop needs; thus, the goal of balancing the P throughout the crop rotation as discussed earlier cannot be met.
Applying manure to legume stands can encourage competition from weeds and grasses. Manure also may introduce additional weed seed to the fields. Both effects will result in lower-quality forage and in reduced stand life for the legume. Manure can be used effectively, however, on an old legume stand that is to be rotated, not only to increase productivity for one more year but also to build up soil nutrient levels to prepare for the following crop.


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You might find some info here: Firearms Forum Article - Making Steel Targets - From: Mark Freburg
This is a discussion on Help. How to make steel targets? within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; I would like to know if anyone can tell me how to create steel targets for feedback while shooting on my family's personal 60 acres? ...
I would like to know if anyone can tell me how to create steel targets for feedback while shooting on my family's personal 60 acres?
I would like to build a target that provides audible and/or visual feedback.
It can be sqaure a 1' x 1' or so and I was thinking a rebar(spelling?) spike in ground or welded 4 leg style stand.
I have a wire welder so I can fuse metal. I am not sure what kind of steel type, where the best place to source it, the thickness, and or the caliber it could handle.
I guess I would like to be able to lob .40 and .45 cal at them all day long but can they withstand .223 or MUST i use frangible?
"I believe that the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms must not be infringed if liberty in America is to survive." - Ronald Reagan
When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
"Don't forget, incoming fire has the right of way."
I used deformed( could have used threaded galvanized bar) bar for the spindle 1/4 inch plate cut into circles and 2x2 angle iron attached to 4x4 post all. I don't think it would have handled a 223 but did just fine with a 38's and 22's. That's been more than a few years back but, it lasted until the tractor took it out. Wish I had a pic to post it pretty simple though. Dig out the holes for the 4x4 fence post and concrete in to place. Then I drilled holes in the angle iron 1 at the top, 1 about 1/3 of the way down and 2 at the bottom. ran the deformed bar through the top holes and welded into place and lag bolts in the other holes to attach it to the post. I think the whole thing took a day and a half most of the 1st day was letting the concrete cure. I used some galvanized fence couplings to attach the plates to the bar. It was not pretty but for (then) a kid it was a work of art. My dad wasn't happy at time; seems I used some of his to do project supplies. If your farm looks like ours did you probably already have most of what you will need to build one.
it order to withstand rifle fire, you will need AR500 steel.and should be 3/8 to 1/2 thick


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My client is a medium-sized Pharmaceutical Company based in Germany and is currently seeking three experienced SAS Programmers to work on a lucrative 12 month contract and can offer 100% remote working (Europe). Two of these positions will be 1 FTE but for the other one, 0.6-0.8 FTE is acceptable.
|Senior Statistical SAS Programmers X 5
|May 13
Do you work in the clinical trials industry and program using SAS.Unique opportunities to be part of a highly experienced and international biostatistics and statistical programming team have become available with one of the leading innovation driven pharmaceutical companies. With a larger number of on-going projects and several products in the pipeline, this would be an ideal time to join a world-class drug development company. ...
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|May 13
A head for figures can save lives. At this company your programming skills could benefit millions of people across the globe. The Programmer Analyst serves as a programmer on selected multiple projects, and coordinating all programming aspects of the project. ...
|SAS Programmierer (m/w)
|May 13
SAS Programmierer (m/w)Office-based in NRWAufgaben:• Als Programmierer sind Sie neben der Auswertung von klinischen Studien auch für die Review/Validierung von Ergebnissen/TLFs verantwortlich• In internationalen Projektteams arbeiten Sie an verschiedenen spannenden klinischen Studien in der Phase 1-4• Je nach Berufserfahrung stehen Sie im engen Kundenkontakt und präsentieren Ergebnisse und BerichteAnforderung:• Idealerweise haben Sie eine mathematische oder statistische Ausbildung oder Studi ...
|SAS Programmer (m/f)
|May 13
SAS Programmer (m/f)Office-based in NRW, GermanyTasks:• As SAS Programmer you are responsible for the evaluation and analysis of clinical trials as well as the review and validation of results /TLFs• You will work on exciting clinical trials in phase 1-4 in international project teams • Depending on your working experience you will work client face and be responsible for presenting resultsRequirements:• You have a degree or a vocational training in mathematics, statistics or medical document ...
|Senior SAS Programmer (Home-based Europe)
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SEC/JLP/SAS/EU/1205Senior SAS Programmer - UK Office Salary in line with the marketUK/SP/FR/EU Permanent - CROA new opportunity has just arisen for a Senior SAS Programmer. My client (top CRO) is now looking to reinforce the programming side working on international projects. This opportunity will allow you to work in an international environment, providing the flexibility to work fully home-based.
|SAS Programmer II required for innovative company
|May 12
Due to company growth, an opening has arisen with a leading company in the Pharmaceutical market. Industry experience not essential.
|Statistical / SAS Programmer (graduate) - Leeds
|May 12
We are recruiting for our Statistical Programming team in our Early Clinical Development group in Leeds and are currently seeking to hire several Graduate SAS Programmers to help support the team with the creation and production of Datasets, Tables, Figures and Listings in line with the required Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic reports.
|Lead / Principal SAS Programmer required for global Pharmaceutical Company
|May 11
A fantastic opportunity to lead statistical programming activities on multiple therapeutic areas across Europe.
|Senior Statistical SAS Programmer
|May 11
In Your position as a statistical programmer you will be required to work to and maintain high standards within a clinical trial environment while coherently working alongside Biostatisticians. Your main focus will be within Oncology and you can be expected to produce and validate high quality statistical programming deliverables.
|SAS Programmer required for global Pharmaceutical company - Excellent pay and benefits
|May 11
A great chance to work on global trials across multiple therapies for a forward thinking, global Pharmaceutical company.
|SAS Programmer – Belgium
|May 7
SEC/LYB/SAS/BE/0516SAS ProgrammerLocation: BelgiumSalary: competitive basic + benefitsOur client is an international company located in Brussels which is now looking for a SAS Programmer to join a dynamic growing team. As a SAS Programmer, you will be in charge of coordinating all programming aspects of the project and you will cover multiple projects.
|Programmeurs SAS - Europe entière (en télétravail)
|May 6
SEC/LYB/SEC/SAS/0516Programmeurs SASEurope entière (en télétravail)EUR 45,000 - EUR 55,000 + avantagesUne société internationale qui doit son succès et sa croissance à des partenariats de longues durées avec les acteurs les plus importants de l'industrie pharmaceutique recherche aujourd'hui pour rejoindre son équipe internationale une Programmeur SAS en télétravail.
|SAS Programmer - France
|May 6
SEC/SAS/FR/LYB/0516Programmeur SASFranceEUR 55,000 - EUR 60,000 + avantagesNotre client est un laboratoire international qui recherche aujourd'hui un Principal Programmeur SAS pour rejoindre l'équipe de biométrie basée en France. Le poste est ouvert en CDI.En tant que programmeur SAS interne, vous serez amené à collaborer avec les statisticiens désignés sur les projets qui vous seront confiés.
|SAS Programmer III
Bangalore, India
|May 6
Summary: To help design analysis data set specifications. Manage and manipulate multiple large SAS data sets, including defining populations and variables, performing calculations and summarizations. Prepare specific analytic deliverables, combining multiple programming outputs to create cohesive reports.
|SAS Programmer
|May 4
We are looking for a SAS Programmer to join our growing team in Geneva.
|Principal SAS Statistical Programmer – UK
|May 3
SEC/LYB/SAS/UK/0516Principal SAS Statistical ProgrammerLocation: EnglandSalary: GBP 55,000 - GBP 65,000 + benefitsA great opportunity within a global pharmaceutical company based in the UK has arisen for a Principal SAS Statistical Programmer. This role is an occasion to join an established company and be at the forefront of the development of a new team.
|SAS Programmer - Cambridgeshire
|Apr 25
Fantastic opportunity for a SAS Programmer or Senior SAS Programmer to work for a growing CRO. Excellent salary + bonus + benefits.
|SAS Programmer (Data Manager)
|Apr 22
The Data Manager (SAS Programmer) is part of the Data Reporting and Analysis department. The DM is responsible for providing advice both internally and externally to help PI deliver a service that matches, and where possible exceeds, client expectations.
|Clinical SAS Programmer - Ongoing Contract
Copenhagen, Denmark
|Apr 19
Our client are looking for a Contract SAS Programmer to join their existing team. This hard working and passionate team are focused on delivering innovation and seeking out opportunity. This small, dynamic group allows programmers to get involved in developing multiple activities and initiatives
|UK HOMEBASED SAS PROGRAMMER - Project Lead with International CRO
|Mar 24
An industry renowned, world leading CRO, who are currently expanding their Statistical Programming team at various levels, are looking to a Senior Project level Statistical Programmer to join their Biometrics function either in the Office (South East) or Remotely (anywhere in the UK)
|Contract SAS Programmer
|Mar 21
Contract SAS Programmer Location: Various locations across; London, Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Salary: Competitive day rate offered, Employment Type: Contract/Freelance, Home-Based
|Senior SAS Programmer
|Mar 18
Senior SAS Programmer Location: Various locations across; London, Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, South East, UK. Employment Type: Contract/Freelance, home-based
|Statistical SAS Programmer (f/m) - (office based; Munich/Germany)
Munich, Germany
|Mar 18
Statistical SAS Programmer (f/m) (Munich- Germany) SynteractHCR is an international CRO located in EU, RUS, US and South America. We are looking for a dedicated Statistical SAS Programmer to join our growing EU Biometrics Team in Munich . We offer you a challenging and rewarding job opportunity in a fast moving, flexible environment and a highly motivated team. Tasks and responsibilities Biometrical planning of studies SAS programming and validation/ QC of...
|Senior SAS Programmer, office based - Excellent Career Opportunity
|Mar 11
Our client are looking for a Senior SAS Programmer to join their existing team. This hard working and passionate team are focused on delivering innovation and seeking out opportunity.
|Principal SAS Programmer, office based - Excellent Career Opportunity
|Mar 11
Our client are looking for a Principal Statistician to join their existing team. This hard working and passionate team are focused on delivering statistical innovation in clinical design, delivering the development strategy and quantitative decision making in Clinical Development.
|Senior \ Principal SAS Programmer
|Feb 26
Senior \ Principal SAS Programmer Clinical Professionals has registered a new office based Statistical Programming opportunity with a Pharmaceutical company in West Germany. The client is a medium sized Pharma.
|6 MONTH CONTRACT - SAS PROGRAMMER - EU Office Based - Nordics Pharma
|Feb 23
An international Biometrics CRO are operating an FSP model for a world renowned Pharmaceutical drug development and medical device company. This role is an initial 6 months, but has the project work to potentially last 2.5/3 years. Working in this FSP model you will have the flexibility of the working conditions from a CRO, but also the exposure of working for a Pharma Company.
|SAS Programmer - Statistical Analyst
|Feb 2
Excellent opportunity to join this world leading pharmaceutical company
|Statistical Programmer (SAS)
|Oct 23
Statistical Programmers (SAS) required in Russia
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The Kenosha Art Association proudly announces the 41st annual Good Old Summertime Art Fair. You will find exhibitors of fine arts and crafts, great food, and a whole lot of good old summertime fun. The art fair typically features live music, food vendors, children's activities, and art demonstrations. Civic Center Park is located on Sheridan Road between 56th and 57th Streets. Held rain or shine! The Kenosha Art Association's mission is to promote art, art education, and art appreciation in the greater Kenosha area!
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EmeraChem is a leader in nanophase chemistry and catalysis for the control of air emissions and Green House Gases (GHG) from power generating facilities, natural gas compression stations and mobile vehicles. As both a developer and manufacturer of catalytic technologies and related systems, EmeraChem has a diverse portfolio of products supported by best-in-class ...
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PURItech GmbH develops and manufactures self-regenerating diesel particulate filter (DPF) systems for nearly all diesel applications. PURItech is specialized in designing, manufacturing and servicing systems for the after-treatment of exhaust gases of diesel engines in order to comply with latest emission regulations. Emission control technologies include systems to ...
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STEAG Energy Services provides a full scope of environmental engineering and consulting service to the North American energy industry including SCR/SNCR system design and review, SCR catalyst management services including catalyst data interpretation, catalyst exchange strategies, catalyst cleaning, rejuvenation and regeneration, STEAG's patented/ pleated large particle ...
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Our company is a privately high-tech joint-stock enterprise, founded in 2007, and is located in Luxi County, Pingxiang City of Jiangxi Province. Our company covers an area of more than 230 acres. Our company specializes in producing ceramic honeycomb regenerators, honeycomb ceramic catalyst supports, environmentally protective ceramics, foam ceramics, wear-resistant ...
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ERG (Air Pollution Control) Ltd is a leading supplier of air pollution control systems with a successful 30+ year history. We provide turn-key systems to give the best technical solution for the lowest capital and running costs. We have installed over 600 systems globally. To help you comply with emission regulations, we can draw on an unrivalled range of solutions. ...
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Whether a full-time mom, a young business person or simply someone looking to build a growing and viable business, an errand service is ideal for those with an entrepreneurial spirit. Small upstart dollars, flexibility and a growing industry are just some of the benefits to this business.
This course will help you to get the upstart information under your belt necessary for starting your own personal concierge service. You will gain practical business knowledge, insights into what is driving this new industry, information on how to best position yourself within it, how to market yourself and much more. You will learn what to do to make yourself stand out in the crowd and how to grow your new business.The business is ideal for stay at home mothers, part-time artists and others who want a different pace to their livelihood. A personal errand service can be started with relatively small capital and can be expanded to your personal comfort level and in your timing. And remember, if you run your service as a business, then you will eventually expand it, eventually hire others to do the daily errands that you begin doing, and eventually become truly an executive of your own business.
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Lesson 1 : The Growing Need for Your ServicesIn the United States today there is a growing need for personal errand services. What would have in some circles been considered simple laziness a generation ago is now considered a necessity in many instances.
Lesson 2 : Knowing and Understanding Your Target MarketTo create or build any business you must first know and understand your target market. Before starting your particular errand service you will want to identify what segment of the population you want to serve.
Lesson 3 : Professionalism and Good MannersProfessionalism and good manners are essentials for the errand services industry. Both your client and the client he asks you to visit on his behalf, expect and need top notch professionalism and manners from your staff.
Lesson 4 : Business PhilosophyThere is no other intangible or attitude that will have a greater impact on your errand service business and its success than your personal belief system and business philosophy.
Lesson 5 : Upstart CostsA lot of your initial success in business is dictated by your upstart costs and your ability to handle those costs effectively.
Lesson 6 : Pricing Your ServicesHow you price your company's services is one of the most important decisions you will make from a logistical concern.
Lesson 7 : Packaging Related Business ServicesPackaging or bundling related business services is one of the most effective ways to make your services indispensable to a particular company or industry. The more effective you are in doing this, the more you will have their undivided attention.
Lesson 8 : Marketing Your ServicesHow you market your services to your community or target market will largely depend upon your personality and demeanor.
Lesson 9 : Growing Your Business/Expanding Your ServicesTo grow your business or expand your company's services, you must first learn to let go of you, your pride, your need to control everything and your worries.
Lesson 10 : Time Management & MisconceptionsIn every type of business in the world there are always issues of time management and client misconceptions. What makes one business more favorable to clients than another is the finesse with which these issues are handled.
Lesson 11 : Client ContractsIf you are young, new into business, or have never owned your own company, then you may have a somewhat naive set of ideas about client contracts. Some folks hold to an idealism that simply doesn't work when it comes time to do business.
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Course Title: Concierge 101: How to Run a Personal Service BusinessCourse Number: 7550099Languages: English - United States, Canada and other English speaking countriesCategory:Course Type: How ToCEU Value: 1.1 IACET CEUs (Continuing Education Units)CE Accreditation: Universal Class, Inc. has been accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).Grading Policy: Earn a final grade of 70% or higher to receive an online/downloadable CEU Certification documenting CEUs earnedAssessment Method: Lesson assignments and review examsInstructor: UniversalClass Staff InstructorSyllabus: View SyllabusDuration: Continuous: Enroll anytime!Requirements: View Technical RequirementsCourse Fee: $50.00 (no CEU Certification) || with CEU Certification: $75.00
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- Summarize skills needed to retain clients.
- Summarize the business philosophy behind a personal service.
- Describe upstart costs.
- Define the appropriate price for your services.
- Describe how to package related services with your business.
- Describe methods of marketing your business.
- Describe method for expanding your business.
- Utilize client contracts, and
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
An Introduction Assignment 1 Lesson 1: Emerging Needs for Your Services Assignment 25 Lesson 1:The Growing Need for Your Services Exam 10 Lesson 2: Identify and Know Your Market Assignment 25 Lesson 2: Knowing and Understanding Your Target Market Exam 10 Lesson 3: Standards of Professionalism Assignment 20 Lesson 3:Professionalism and Good Manners Exam 8 Lesson 4: Emergency in Errand Service Business Assignment 25 Lesson 4:Business Philosophy Exam 10 Lesson 5: Starting Errand Service Business Assignment 25 Lesson 5:Upstart Costs Exam 9 Lesson 6: Individual Task Pricing Assignment 20 Lesson 6:Pricing Your Services Exam 10 Lesson 7: Personal and Business Needs Assignment 25 Lesson 7:Packaging Related Business Services Exam 8 Lesson 8: Approaches to Market Service Assignment 20 Lesson 8:Marketing Your Services Exam 10 Lesson 9: Virtual Offices in New Cities Assignment 25 Lesson 9:Growing Your Business/Expanding Your Services Exam 10 Lesson 10: Time Management Issues Assignment 20 Lesson 10:Time Management & Misconceptions Exam 10 Lesson 11: Important Elements of Client Contracts Assignment 25 Lesson 11:Client Contracts Exam 10 The Final Exam Exam 50 Total Points: 411
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Naturally when you read about a product that clears blemishes you build up a fantasy about it. When the product is all natural it fills you with a little more hope. This product is good- it's not harsh, it smells good, it's easy to apply. But it's not great - I've only been using it a couple weeks and I can't decide if its shrinking my blemishes faster or if it's just my cleanser doing that ....3
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This product works fairly well over a long period I've found. If you use it regularly to treat problem areas it is a good natural product. I don't think it does much for areas where there are already existing blemishes though. Problem skin is hit or miss though and what works for some won't work for others. This has been an iffy product for me and right now I can only give it 3 stars but it still seems decent.3
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City Backlog Will Be Seen On Tax Bills
Due to a backlog in verifying whether New York City homeowners are legally entitled to a wide range of property-tax exemptions, thousands will receive bills next month that are higher than they should be.
For years, city homeowners who applied for property-tax exemptions received them even if they didn't submit documentation to prove that they were eligible for the tax relief. Finance Commissioner David Frankel has stepped up enforcement this year, requiring applicants to demonstrate that they're qualified by providing the city with documentation.
As a result, a backlog has developed.
According to the Finance Department, the city receives more than 27,000 new personal-exemption applications each year. Homeowners can receive tax exemptions for many reasons, such as if they're a senior citizen, a veteran, a member of the clergy or if they're disabled; there are also exemptions for school tax relief.
This year, there are roughly 2,000 property owners whose exemption applications have been approved but who won't see the exemptions reflected on their July bills. Another 1,500 applicants are still being processed; in most of these cases, the applicant had to submit additional information to prove eligibility.
All 3,500 property owners will receive notices on their July property-tax bills explaining that their exemptions, should they qualify, will be posted on their next tax bills. Officials confirmed that all of these homeowners will ultimately receive the exemptions they're due.
'Officials confirmed that all will ultimately receive the exemptions they're due.'
On Wednesday, the City Council is slated to approve legislation that would legally require the city to conduct this verification process, ensuring that only those homeowners who are eligible for exemptions receive them. Council members said they wanted to codify the verification process into law because the city had previously not been requiring documentation.
Council Member Vincent Ignizio, the bill's chief sponsor, said he's concerned that some homeowners' initial bills won't reflect the exemptions.
"The goal here is to root out fraud and have a better system for verifying that people are receiving exemptions that they deserve," said Mr. Ignizio, a Republican from Staten Island. "If the Department of Finance can't do that with the current staffing levels, then we need to seek alternatives."
The Department of Finance also increased scrutiny of exemptions for not-for-profit organizations. These organizations account for about 13,000 properties that are awarded nearly $2 billion in tax benefits.
Debra Feinberg, director of government affairs for the Department of Finance, said, "All homeowners who are eligible for the exemption will be credited the full amount of the exemption for the entire tax year."
When asked if the department lacks the proper staffing, Ms. Feinberg said the city allowed homeowners "every possible opportunity" to qualify for the tax benefit by allowing documentation to be submitted after a March 15 deadline. Ms. Feinberg pointed to that leniency as the cause of this year's delay in processing applications.
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In Carapeguá a common activity is making crafts such as ponchos, hammocks, wool blankets, and other types of woven products. Many of the members are crafts people, such as Sra. Luciana, who is an artisan. She spends most of her time in this activity and her family helps with making her products. Luciana is requesting a loan to buy thread, cloth, dyes, and other materials that she uses in making her handicrafts.
Cada una de las integrantes son mujeres muy activas que desean trabajar para salir delante de la mejor manera posible.
En Carapeguá una actividad muy común es la artesanía como la preparación de ponchos, hamacas, frazadas de lanas y de otros tipos de hilos, así muchas a de las integrantes se dedican a la artesanía como la señora Luciana quien es artesa.
Ella trabaja en esta actividad hace mucho tiempo, y fabrica los productos con la ayuda de su familia.
Solicita el préstamo para la compra de hilos, trapos, colorantes y otros materiales que ella utiliza para la fabricación de sus artesanías.
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About Fundación ParaguayaFundación Paraguaya is a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurship in urban and rural areas through microfinance, education programs, and more. Its focus on agriculture has helped many farmers boost their crop yields. And a number of other borrowers have taken out loans to start and grow social businesses that have helped deliver eyeglasses, medicines and other helpful services in their local communities.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Obesity is officially a disease, American Medical Association rules - NY Daily News
Obesity. What will be the next new disease?
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dang, I'm infected
Now I can stuff my face till I explode without feeling guilty.
They say country music speaks to the heart. Unfortunately, it has to go through your ears to get there.
It's all about the ability to classify something in order to get benefits of some sort. Pure silliness.
I hope it's not contagious, but I better stop hooking up with fatties, just in case!!
OMG this is great. Can I get a handicap permit and quite my job?
The first story I read yesterday was that they were not ready to classify it as a disease, and then had a bunch of quotes supporting that conclusion. It sounds like those voices were overridden by the powers that be. I'm very curious about all the angles here, and who benefits from this conclusion, and how.
Originally Posted by Cyclonepride
I'm very curious about all the angles here, and who benefits from this conclusion, and how.
You mean besides fatties?
Well, I don't agree with this, but I'm sorry, if alcoholism can be considered a disease, why not obesity? My argument for that is that you can choose to not drink and it won't harm you. No matter what though, even for people with an addiction to food, you can't just quit eating cold turkey. I know people love to make fun of fatties, I know I sure did after a trip to Disney and saw all of them riding around on their scooters, but you have to admit, it would be a hell of a lot harder to stop eating than stop drinking.
So can I call in too fat to work today?
Where do i pick up my handicap permit?
No its not. Its called fat butt disease.
IMO anything that can be controlled by stopping the consumption of something should be considered a disease. There is a difference between addiction or lack of will and having an uncontrollable ailment. This is just purely so these people can victimize themselves from something they can actually control. (In most situations)
Originally Posted by 2020cy
Dumb Assery, I predict.
LOL, yep. Stupidity followed by laziness will be the new diseases. Eventually, everyone will be a victim of some affliction and want benefits.
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Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Laboratory was on the frontlines of the Cold War. Now some who lived near "The Hill" say they share two distinctions: chronic illness and the unswerving belief that the lab caused it
By Michael Collins
Los Angeles magazine – June 1998
ON A HOT JULY NIGHT IN 1959, on flickering RCAs and Philcos and DuMonts, the residents of Simi Valley watched as Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon toured a Moscow exposition's exhibit of a model American home. When the Soviet premier and the vice president paused in the kitchen, the televisions suddenly erupted with belligerent voices. "We have means at our disposal which can have very bad consequences," Khrushchev bellowed through an interpreter. "We have too," Nixon shot back. "Ours are better," Khrushchev retorted.
The occupants of hundreds of tract house living rooms shifted uncomfortably in their BarcaLoungers. The image of Nixon and Khrushchev rattling nuclear sabers against a backdrop of American-made appliances—the fabled Kitchen Debate—brought home the Cold War with unnerving intimacy. But events unfolding on a hilltop five miles from town brought it even closer. On a 2,668-acre expanse littered with boulders and blanketed by chaparral lay Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a sprawling, semisecret complex of concrete bunkers, rocket test pads and nuclear reactors. The Rocketdyne lab was a key supplier of America's rapidly expanding arsenal of nuclear weapons and rocket engines for the coming space race. The work going on at the facility was one of the reasons Nixon could return Khrushchev's salvos with impunity.
What almost nobody in Simi Valley knew that night was this: A primitive nuclear reactor at the lab was in the throes of a meltdown. The accident, which was not acknowledged until five weeks later, would presage the continuing problems the lab was to have handling radioactive and toxic materials. And 30 years later, those incidents would become a rallying point for San Fernando Valley and Simi Valley residents with little in common except for the fact that they had all lived near the lab and had all become very ill.
When Jim Garner was growing up in Simi Valley, he marveled at the huge clouds of gas that would occasionally drift down from the lab and at how his house trembled when the rockets were tested. It was an era – soon to end – when Americans still possessed something close to blind faith in institutions, especially those doing work perceived to be keeping the Soviets at bay. If Rocketdyne's lab posed a threat, surely somebody, some "official," would sound the warning. Children growing up near the site swam and fished in streams and played in the dry wash. And one day, Garner rode the red J.C. Higgins bike he got for Christmas right through effluent flowing from the lab.
Garner, now 44, still lives in Simi Valley. An ironworker, he's done contract jobs at the lab over the years. In October 1996, he was diagnosed with lymphoma. His wife Leslie had her uterus removed because of cervical cancers. His father – like Garner an ironworker employed occasionally at the lab – has skin cancer and heart problems and is near death. His sister Vickie, 46, has heart and thyroid problems. On one side of a single block of Ramara Avenue in Woodland Hills, five miles from the plant, cancer has been diagnosed in 9 out of 10 houses. Garner believes – as hundreds of residents who live near the lab believe – that irregularities and outright catastrophes in Rocketdyne's handling of hazardous materials poisoned the air, water and soil around them and made them gravely ill. "If I had taken a handgun or a knife and attacked someone and killed them," he says, "I would be in jail. These people did that very thing to me, only they didn't use a weapon. They used chemicals."
"Every person on our street has had cancer," says Kathy Hecker, who grew up on Ramara Avenue and has thyroid cancer. "I think there was actually three houses out of thirty that didn't. Just next door, three women had cancer in that house; the mother died, the daughter has thyroid cancer like me, and the aunt has cancer. I mean, three in one house? What are the odds?"
Says Bob Grandinetti, a 55-year-old Chatsworth resident who blames his stomach cancer on pollution from the lab: "I lived in the west side of the Valley since 1956. When I moved over to Chatsworth, I saw the testing up on the hill—the lights and fire and smoke and rockets. I assumed the government was protecting us, but evidently they weren't."
Rocketdyne denies the Santa Susana facility caused the illnesses. "There are special-interest groups that have put out a rash of lies," says Steve Lafflam, Rocketdyne's division director for safety, health and environmental affairs. "They've gone forward with a lot of litigation that's going to cost an awful lot of people a lot of money. And there's no merit to it at all."
"Rocketdyne is our Chernobyl," counters Jonathan Parfrey executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility, an anti-nuclear activist group. "People have died, others are chronically ill. But because it's so damn hard to link a hypothetical incident of exposure to the onset of a specific disease, I bet Rocketdyne will never be accountable for their acts."
The Santa Susana lab has had a well-documented history of problems since it opened in 1948. It is now in the midst of a $55 million cleanup, funded by Rocketdyne and supervised by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered after a 1989 Department of Energy study found radioactive contamination in soil and water near the nuclear-research portion of the lab. Several accidents involving nuclear reactors, including the partial meltdown the night the Nixon-Khrushchev debate was broadcast, have released radioactive gases into the atmosphere. In 1959, a fuel rod exploded at the lab while being washed with water, flooding the reactor with radioactivity that was vented outside; in 1960, a reactor pipe being moved outdoors for decontamination exploded and sailed across a ravine. Last year, Rocketdyne settled out of court with Brandeis-Bardin Institute, in eastern Simi Valley, over charges the company had polluted the institute's groundwater and devalued its property. Two Rocketdyne physicists were killed in 1994 when the chemicals they were incinerating exploded. Following a federal grand jury investigation, Rocketdyne's former parent company Rockwell International, pleaded guilty to felony counts of improper storage and disposal of hazardous materials and was fined $6.5 million.
Two class action lawsuits filed late last year charge that 84 claimants were made sick or put at risk because of substances released at Santa Susana and other Rocketdyne facilities. Attorney Edward L. Masry, whose firm helped win a $333 million settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric over cancers in Hinkley, California, has been doing extensive water and soil testing around Rocketdyne. Masry's suit contends that approximately one million gallons of trichloroethylene, or TCE, a carcinogenic solvent used to clean rocket engine hardware, was deposited in unlined ponds during the '50s and early '60s and subsequently found its way into groundwater outside the facility. Rocketdyne is vigorously contesting the suits and insists its own tests prove that no hazardous levels of pollution migrated offsite. "The farthest we have found is about 800 feet off our property," says Lafflam.
A team of epidemiologists from the UCLA School of Public Health studied the effects of radiation on 4,563 past and present Rocketdyne workers. Released last September, the study found that, while the overall cancer death rate at Rocketdyne is lower than that of the U.S. population as a whole (due to the "healthy worker" effect, which says that people who have jobs are generally healthier than those who do not), exposure to radiation create health risks at levels much lower than previously believed.
Members of a state-appointed panel of scientists and community members endorsed the study, and residents said that it demonstrated the need to examine people in surrounding neighborhood: (A 1990 state health department survey of cancer records found elevated levels of bladder cancer in the census tracts nearest the facility, although a review of the data in 1992 concluded there was no definitive link between the additional cancers and operations at the lab.) "What the UCLA study examined was the effect that the aggregate of radiation exposures had on the workforce," says Dan Hirsch, founder of Committee to Bridge the Gap, a Los Angeles – based antinuclear group. "The $64 million question is whether or not the general public was also affected."
Rocketdyne criticized the results of the employee study for the relatively small sample size used. Company officials pointed out that the study did not take into account other cancer-causing factors like smoking and the employees' previous exposure to radiation and asbestos. Both the California Department of Health Services id the federal EPA determined that the radiation pollution at Santa Susana posed no health risk to the surrounding community, Rocketdyne officials add that no nuclear research has been conducted at the site since 1988.
The studies, conclusions and counterconclusions have done little to mollify the anger felt by some who grew up around the facility. "Over the years we lived there, we could hear the rocket engines going off, but we always assumed that [Rocketdyne] would look out for the safety of the surrounding community," says Hecker. I never thought that there actually could be any danger. A stupid assumption, but you think a company like that would consider the health risks they are putting into the area. We always assumed they would take care of it."
Barbara Johnson moved to Simi Valley in 1970. In 1990, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She has since filed suit against Rocketdyne and was a member of an oversight committee that worked with UCLA researchers on the study of the Santa Susana facility's employees. "I had a call today from some people whose children are going to nursery school in Simi Valley and did I think it was safe," she says. Johnson says she could empathize. "When I moved here, I had no idea they were carting plutonium through our neighborhoods. No idea." Holly Huff's family moved to the Santa Susana section of Simi Valley, four miles from the lab, in June 1959. "The meltdown was in July," Huff says. "You can't help thinking about it."
Dan Beck, Rocketdyne's public relations chief, strongly disputes that the company withheld information. "Back during the Cold War years, when KGB agents were working the San Fernando Valley, we were required to maintain a degree of secrecy. But we have never engaged in activities related to the environment that were secret. There have been times in the distant past where, perhaps, the company wasn't as forthcoming in sharing information with the public as to the things that were going on, but we put that era behind us years ago. Since the '80s, we've been very open, very responsive to the community. The idea of Rocketdyne being super secretive and hiding things just isn't true."
TODAY, THE ONCE STATE-OF-THE-ART Santa Susana field lab looks like it's losing a battle -with nature. The rains of El Nino have given the usually sparse brown vegetation the strength to poke through the cracked asphalt of the roads connecting the ramshackle structures. The facility employs only 600, down from 6,000 in the Cold War go-go years of the 1960s, and is primarily devoted to rocket development and testing. The work to decontaminate and decommission the polluted areas is apparent at every turn. The remnants of long-dormant reactor housings dot the site, surrounded by piles of concrete that have already been cleaned. Workers chop up the last slabs of the old "hot lab" where the company used to strip the uranium off spent fuel rods. In the Radioactive Materials Handling Facility, stacks of bright yellow boxes filled with waste await transport to DOE disposal sites in Nevada and Washington State.
The reactor housing where the meltdown occurred in 1959 sits abandoned in an isolated canyon. Phil Rutherford, Rocketdyne's manager of environmental remediation, walks through the lime green structure and waves a tan, football-size gamma Geiger counter. It registers lower than average background radiation. "We've made amazing progress over the years," Rutherford says. "We had over two dozen buildings involved in nuclear research. Of those, 22 have been cleaned up and 17 have been released for other uses as clean. We'll be finished by 2006."
Rocketdyne complains that the antinuclear activists, far from being effective advocates for rehabilitating the contaminated spots at Santa Susana, are actually slowing down the process. "As long as they can point and say, 'Look how bad this stuff is, look how contaminated it is,'" says Lafflam, "it'll never be cleaned up." Even though the cleanup work is supervised by government agencies, he says, the activists still question their results. "They try to poke holes in it continually: 'You're not doing enough. How clean is clean? Are you doing it the right way?"
"Why would we spend 19 years of our lives to get that facility cleaned up if they would do it without our pestering?" says Joe Lyou of Committee to Bridge the Gap. His colleague Dan Hirsch has dogged the cleanup efforts since 1979, when he was a lecturer at UCLA and one of his students showed him an instructional film obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that depicted workers at the facility cleaning up after the 1959 reactor meltdown.