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LONDON—Britain's Defense Secretary Philip Hammond says the U.K. has struck a deal with Uzbekistan to help bring back 4 billion pounds ($6.2 billion) of equipment from Afghanistan as operations drawn down.
Britain's government has said U.K. troop numbers in Afghanistan will fall from around 9,000 currently to about 5,200 by the end of 2013.
Hammond told lawmakers Wednesday that the U.K. has struck a deal with Uzbekistan because the only current transit route for equipment—through Pakistan—"would be hard pressed to meet the capacity demands" of the drawdown, which for Britain involves bringing home about 2,500 vehicles and 6,500 storage containers.
Under the arrangement, some 450,000 pounds ($699,700) of surplus equipment—Land Rover spare parts and Leyland DAF trucks—will be "gifted" to Uzbekistan.


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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. | The third day of the Gulf South Conference baseball tournament was canceled Saturday because of persistent rain.
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Congressman Says 'Lincoln' Got Connecticut's Slavery Vote Wrong
Rep. Joe Courtney of Connecticut says a key part of "Lincoln" is wrong and he wants the film fixed. The film shows two of three lawmakers from his state voting against the 13th Amendment, the landmark measure that prohibited slavery in the U.S.; but Courtney says that according to the Congressional Record, all four representatives from his state actually voted in favor of the 13th amendment (This is confirmed by historical records from the time). "I could not believe my own eyes and ears," Courtney wrote in a letter to "Lincoln" director Steven Spielberg. "How could Congressmen from Connecticut –a state that supported President Lincoln and lost thousands of her sons fighting against slavery on the Union side of the civil war– have been on the wrong side of history?" The congressman goes on to call accuracy "paramount," and asks that Spielberg acknowledge and correct the inaccuracies before "Lincoln" is released on DVD. A representative for "Lincoln" didn't return a request for comment.
Speakeasy found in a check of the historical record that one of Connecticut's representatives at the time, Augustus Brandegee of New London, was a fierce abolitionist, and according to an obituary in the Connecticut State Library database "He zealously supported the anti-slavery movement when its supporters met contumely and contempt." Another, James English of New Haven, considered slavery "a monstrous injustice" and left his sick wife to vote for the 13th amendment. "I suppose I am politically ruined, but that day was the happiest day of my life," English said afterwards. A third Connecticut representative, Henry Deming of Colchester, once railed against "the infamy of buying, selling and owning human beings." And the fourth, John Henry Hubbard of Salisbury, not only voted for the 13th amendment, he also supported funds to help freed slaves after the war saying "from the beginning to the present time they have been robbed of their wages, to say nothing of the scourgings they have received." Read the full text of Courtney's letter.


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Stockholm/Cologne – Researchers at the Swedish Karolinska Institute and the University of Cologne have identified a new protein-based defense mechanism against cancer (Struct. & Molec. Biology, doi: 10.1038/10.1038/nsmb.2188). According to the group headed by Clara Acs, a protein complex named VCP/p97 pulls the chromatin protein L3MBTL1 off of DNA double-strand breaks and thus paves the way for DNA repair by the 53BP1 protein.


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January 11, 2013
Up to 50,000 businesses that have failed to submit their VAT returns will be targeted by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), with warnings that their tax affairs will be closely scrutinised.
More than 600,000 businesses have to submit VAT returns every month and most do so on time. But, in a new campaign, some 50,000 businesses will be warned that, from 28 February, their tax affairs will attract greater attention.
The VAT Outstanding Returns campaign is aimed at businesses that have one or more VAT return outstanding, and have been told to submit their returns but have not done so. Some will have received an assessment of VAT for these periods.
These businesses are being given an opportunity to get up to date and pay the tax they owe by 28 February. After that, HMRC will target them and take a much closer look at their tax affairs. If business owners come forward voluntarily, HMRC says they could receive better terms, as any penalty they pay may be lower than if HMRC comes to them first.
Marian Wilson, head of HMRC campaigns, said: "If HMRC has sent you a VAT return and you have not yet taken any action, this campaign is a reminder to bring your tax affairs up to date. But time is running out. After 28 February, if you have not submitted your outstanding VAT returns and paid what you owe, HMRC will use its legal powers to pursue outstanding returns and any VAT that is unpaid. Penalties, or even criminal investigation, could follow."
HMRC is urging business owners to complete and pay any outstanding VAT returns immediately. They should also tell HMRC if they have stopped trading or have changed their business details. Businesses that need help can go to the HMRC website or call the VAT Helpline on 0845 010 9000.


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I've heard it so many times: "My chicken parm is so good, I think I'll open a restaurant so I can share my recipe with everyone," or "My mother's fried chicken is the best in the world. I need to open a restaurant so the rest of the world will know" or "I love to entertain. I want to have a dinner party every night with my patrons."
Sound familiar? The reality is that the restaurant business is brutally hard work, notoriously unpredictable, frequently unprofitable and more often than not a losing proposition.
Don't assume just because you're a good cook that you have the skills necessary to run a successful restaurant. There's a big difference between cooking a good meal for your family or maybe a family gathering, and serving an impatient mob of restaurant patrons who want everything all at once prepared to perfection, every time.
If you think that "mise en place" (Google it!) is a quaint square with a fountain in the south of France, then you should probably reconsider your aspirations!
As with any business, running a successful restaurant boils down (no pun intended) to the numbers. Firm control of food, beverage and overhead costs is critical in a business with slim margins and a heap of unpredictability. One week your place can be the talk of the town, and then a competitor opens up down the street, and all of a sudden you're turning your tables once instead of twice on Saturday night. A couple of negative reviews on Yelp or TripAdvisor can send your sales into the proverbial " -- well, you know!
Maintaining market share will be a function of establishing a regular clientele, satisfying their expectations, always keeping them interested and doing it profitably every day. Never lose sight of the fact that you are in the people business. It's not about you. It's all about them. It sounds like a clich�, but the customer is always right.
If I haven't talked you out of it yet, know that, on average, 80 percent of new restaurants fail within the first five years. Before you put on your chef's whites, adjust your toque (Google it!), sharpen your knives and start dicing, consider the real risks of the journey you are about to embark on.
And then there are the 20 percent who do survive!
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An Islamic novel by Bint al Huda. These letters deal with common ideological problems of young Muslims. Sisters Wafa and Raja and sisters Zahra and Asma exchange letters on their personal problems and seek each other's advice.
Islamic Thought Foundation Tehran, 1985
Language: English
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Published: 2012-11-09
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Does Shareholder Voting Curb CEO Pay?
When Robert Nardelli lost his job as CEO of Home Depot in January 2007, he walked away with cash, stock options and other benefits valued at $210 million — and left a trail of angry shareholders in his wake. Nardelli is one of many CEOs facing increased scrutiny as investors question ballooning executive compensation. "Shareholders today are concerned because executive compensation doesn't seem to reflect underlying performance," says Professor Sudhakar Balachandran.
One idea asserted repeatedly is that giving shareholders more power in determining a CEO's pay structure may rein in soaring salaries. Would Nardelli, for example, have gotten the same windfall if shareholders were able to vote on his compensation package? While it seems an obvious no, Balachandran's new research shows a more ambiguous conclusion.
To examine the effect of shareholder voting on executive compensation, sometimes called say on pay, Balachandran and coresearchers Fabrizio Ferri and David Maber of Harvard Business School turned to a 2003 UK regulation that required publicly traded firms to submit an executive remuneration report to a nonbinding shareholder vote at their annual meeting. The researchers aimed to find out how the regulation, called the Directors' Remuneration Report (DRR), affected the sensitivity (or correlation) of cash and total CEO pay to performance at UK companies.
The researchers examined average compensation and pay-to-performance sensitivity in a large sample of UK firms both before and after regulation (2000–02 and 2003–05, respectively), with mixed results. They found no overall change in pay-to-performance sensitivity, but when they examined differences depending on whether stock returns and return on assets were positive or negative, an interesting trend emerged. Compensation after the DRR became more sensitive to negative return on assets — good news for those unhappy about executives receiving high pay despite poor performance. In other words, after the rule, compensation decreased as performance became more negative, a pattern not found before the rule.
However, the researchers found weaker evidence of another effect. When a specific industry garnered positive stock returns, CEOs of individual companies within that industry received higher pay than they did before the DRR, even when their firms had not outperformed the industry overall. Therefore, executives may receive greater compensation during times of positive performance — when shareholders are likely less skeptical about compensation — even if the performance in question is the result of simply being lucky enough to be part of an industry trend.
These findings suggest that the DRR did not have the same effect in all firms but rather had different effects in different circumstances. Therefore, supporters of say on pay should not view it as a panacea for executive compensation problems, says Balachandran. The researchers further caution that a number of other variables — including the overall changes in financial disclosure requirements brought about by the DRR — may have come into play, clouding the true impact of the regulation.
To benchmark their findings, the researchers compared the UK data to executive compensation at U.S. companies of comparable size during the same time periods to see if parallel compensation dynamics occurred in a country that did not enact say on pay legislation. The data showed similar trends in total compensation in the two countries.
Factors other than say on pay — that were specific to U.S., but not UK, companies — may have caused similar effects on executive compensation in the United States as the DRR, notes Balachandran. "During the same time as the DRR in the UK, U.S. companies were faced with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and a more attentive mood overall by shareholders and directors," he says.
The issue of shareholder voting's influence on executive compensation is not likely to disappear anytime soon. A bill seeking to give shareholders the right to an annual advisory vote is working its way through Congress. In addition, many U.S. firms — including Verizon, Aflac and Blockbuster — have recently been subjects of shareholder proposals requesting the adoption of say on pay.
But shareholders who win the right to an advisory vote may get less than they hope for. "If shareholders vote no on a compensation package, it is a nonbinding vote; a company can still go ahead and do what it wants or needs to do," Balachandran says.
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Balachandran, Sudhakar, Fabrizio Ferri and David Maber. "Solving the Executive Compensation Problem Through Shareholder Votes? Evidence from the UK." Working paper, Columbia Business School, October 2007.
For a copy of this paper, please e-mail Professor Balachandran, svb34columbia.edu
Sudhakar Balachandran is assistant professor of accounting at Columbia Business School.
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Sudhakar Balachandran was a Columbia Business School faculty member from 2000 to 2016.


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January 19, 2011
Cup Race Series for Electric Vehicles Unveils Inaugural Season
A Think City EV will be among the vehicles competing in the EV Cup series for electric vehicles in 2011.
The world's first electric vehicle (EV) circuit race series, the EV Cup, will launch in summer 2011, with seven races, including one planned for the United States. Organizers announced on January 13 that the event will include two classes of racers: a city class of EVs for drivers in race-prepared Think cars, and a sport class with teams racing Westfield iRacers that can reach top speeds of 115 mph. A third category, the prototype class, will not feature races, but will hold time trials showcasing the latest non-production EVs on circuits through streets.
In addition to an as-yet to-be-determined U.S. site, the EV Cup is being planned for the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Spain. Confirmed race dates in England include August 6 at Silverstone, August 20 at Snetterton, September 10 at Rockingham, and October 23 at Brands Hatch. Each race day will include qualifying rounds, and all car batteries will be recharged at on-site facilities. Sprint races will be contested over 20 to 30 minutes of competitive laps. See the EV Cup press release and the EV Cup Web site.
On January 12, Think delivered four Indiana-assembled Think City cars to employees of Indianapolis Power & Light Company, making them among the first customers in the United States to own the EV. Their cars were among 17 Think City electric cars delivered to utility fleet customers and employees in Indiana. Think's plant in Elkhart has begun receiving partially assembled vehicles from contract manufacturer Valmet in Finland, which produces the vehicles for the European market. Workers in Indiana complete production of the cars, including installing electric drive trains with advanced lithium-ion batteries from manufacturer Ener1, Inc. in Indianapolis. See the Think City press release.


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If you drove Bobby Jones Expressway on Thursday, you may have noticed delays. A team from the Georgia State Patrol was gathering evidence. They're trying to find out what happened during Sunday night's crash that killed four.
Troopers and deputies spent the morning surveying the area and marking tire tracks across the median with flags. They say the sooner they gather the evidence, the more accurate it will be.
The lanes were closed off so the Georgia State Patrol could search for answers.
"The longer you let the evidence sit, the faster it disappears," said Cpl. James Warren.
They're recreating a real-life map at the site of the crash, hoping the information will tell them exactly what happened.
"We're plotting positions, we're mapping the roadway and the evidence such as skidmarks, tiremakrs, gougemarks, and the final resting place of the vehicles," Warren said.
The vehicles now sit at a body shop. Deputies say the truck flipped across the median. Twisted metal and broken glass are all that's left. A few memories of its driver, James Skinner, are left behind. Things like bug spray, an old parking pass and his keys still in the ignition are in the truck.
"We're doing inspections on the vehicles at the wrecker yard involved in the crash," Warren said.
The state troopers are also checking the other seven vehicles involved in the crash, like the small Chevy car where Gloria Lewis and her 12-year-old niece Tyroneesha died.
"There's an out of the ordinary number of fatalities for one crash and we're gonna have to exhaust every avenue," Warren said.
The Georgia State Patrol says they don't expect many more delays on Bobby Jones Expressway over the next couple of days. Their next job is interviewing witnesses. State troopers started interviewing witnesses this afternoon, and that will continue for about a week. They hope to have the complete report within 90 days.


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There are only two verities worth mentioning, and you have violated one of them Chris, I am sad to report.
The two are (1) it's about oil, and (2) Bush is a moron.
You have fallen victim to the propaganda machine which promotes the idea that George W. Bush could actually BE the POTUS. Sorry, but he doesn't make decisions, he doesn't set policy, he doesn't even talk intelligibly or intelligently. This moron could NEVER in his miserable life ever have been able to decide anything beyond where to get drunk today, on the golf course or on the stream or in the fleshpots.
He was CHOSEN as the candidate because he COULDN'T in his wildest dreams ever actually BE preznit. He has to do what he is told because he is totally incompetent to do any other bleeping thing.
You blame him, but the real culprit is behind the scenes and may well get away scott free because no one wants to admit that such a monstrous practical joke has been played on the USA.
George Witless Botch is pitiful and pitiable, but he can't be logically blamed for what his masters dictate. You are helping to promote the mistaken idea that while Georgie might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, he is just a wee bit dim, not out completely. WRONG. If this moron has ever in his miserable life had ONE cogent thought, no one has ever reported it, and no one ever will because BUSH IS A MORON. Blame the wizard behind the earpiece who puts the words in the fool's mouth, or blame the secret cabal who give Cheney his marching orders in his "undisclosed location," but please stop elevating this moron by blaming him for things of which he is totally incapable, because they require thought and logic.
This man didn't use cunning to get to be President; THEY used his LACK of it to promote him into a position where they could shoehorn him into the White House over McCain who could have won it handily over Gore, but McCain was unacceptable, not because he couldn't win, but because he could, and would BE President. (I didn't say a GOOD one.)
I don't know if they let him THINK he is actually in charge of something or not, but rest assured that he isn't and could not be under any circumstances.


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Merck and Dr. Reddy seal biosimilar pact
07.06.2012 - German Merck Serono and India's Dr. Reddy's will co-develop copycat cancer antibody drugs that are losing patent protection.
Darmstadt/Hyberabad – German Merck has made its first step into the emerging biosimilars market while it restructures its business to cope with expected revenue losses for some of its biggest selling pharmaceutical products. On 6 June, Merck KGaA and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. announced plans to co-develop a portfolio of biosimilar monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in oncology. With the deal, Merck Serono, whose dual Geneva-based headquarters is to be shut down due to restructuring, expands its market presence to emerging markets. Dr. Reddy's can benefit from Merck's access to the European and US market and the company's know-how in antibody development.
According to the terms of the agreement, the companies will share their expertises to bring new cheaper formulations of approved antibodies to the market, which have lost patent protection. The Indian generic drug maker, who markets already four biosimilars in India and other emerging markets, brings in its expertise in making biosimilar versions of originator drugs and will lead early product development including Phase I studies. Merck-Serono, the biotech arm of German Merck KGaA, will contribute its know-how in developing, manufacturing, and commercialising biopharmaceuticals and will take responsibility for manufacturing and late clinical development. Commercially, Merck will hold the rights to market any co-developed in all markets outside the US with the exception of several unspecified emerging markets. In the US, where rules for biosimilar market approval are expected to be established this year, both Merck and Dr Reddy's will co-market co-developed mAbs and will share profits. Dr Reddy's will receive royalty payments from Merck. The companies said they will fully share R&D costs.
Just recently, the world's largest antibody contract manufacturing firm Boehringer Ingelheim announced to step into the biosimilar field. All major pharma players have already established biosimilar pipelines, because the copycat versions of antibody blockbusters such as Herceptin, Mabthera can be developed 30% cheaper than the originators. Experts say, however, that market uptake of biosimilars will depend on acceptance of the copycat drugs in the US.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/news/news/2012-02/merck-and-dr-reddy-seal-biosimilar-pact.html


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In this fast-paced dystopian thrill ride, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Legend, and Divergent, a seventeen-year-old girl returns from death as a Reboot and is trained as an elite crime-fighting soldier . . . until she is given an order she refuses to obey.
Wren Connolly died five years ago, only to Reboot after 178 minutes. Now she is one of the deadliest Reboots around . . . unlike her newest trainee, Callum 22, who is practically still human. As Wren tries to teach Callum how to be a soldier, his hopeful smile works its way past her defenses. Unfortunately, Callum's big heart also makes him a liability, and Wren is ordered to eliminate him. To save Callum, Wren will have to risk it all.
Wren's captivating voice and unlikely romance with Callum will keep readers glued to the page in Amy Tintera's high-stakes alternate reality.
Five years ago, Wren Connolly was shot three times in the chest. After 178 minutes, she came back as a Reboot: stronger, faster, able to heal, and less emotional. The longer Reboots are dead, the less human they are when they return. Wren 178 is the deadliest Reboot in the Republic of Texas. Now seventeen years old, she serves as a soldier for HARC (Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation).
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by Dude-Suit on Oct.02, 2012, under Blog
Haven't put up a new post in little while. Been gaming and nothing really going on other than adding new tracks to Dude Suit Radio see link at top of page or to the right.
Doing a bit of gaming, playing Guild Wars 2 mainly and some Borderlands 2. But the big news I guess would be I finally upgraded and got a new pc. A pretty sweet little system, that did cost a pretty penny, but should hopefully last for a little while at least.
My old gaming pc was a AMD dual core 4200 with 2 gigs of ram and a EVGA Geforce GTX+ 9800 video card running Windows XP. I decided that instead of upgrading the operating system I may as well upgrade the entire thing so decided to go with a new pc and turn my old gaming pc into a fileserver/torrent seed box/etc and just use VNC to remote control it. I still have a linux box and of course my laptop for other things.
So the specs on the new system, for those that are curious this is all the parts that make up my new computer.


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Definición de beard en inglés:
- They contain more blood than essence in men, and thus promote the growth of the beard and body hair.
- Euthenas giggled as the whiskery hairs of his beard tickled her cheeks.
- The two six-year-old boys described the man who approached them as white, aged about 40, with some beard growth on his chin.
- Most of them show an animal with cloven hoofs and a beard like a goat, or sometimes a mane like a horse.
- The small head is solid gold in colour, with a happy, playful expression, wide square jaw and a red beard.
- The tail is short and tipped with black; ears have long black tufts and cheeks have long pale ruffs which form a pointed beard at the throat.
- Turkey beards (likened to human scalps) were used for some of the vertical elements of traditional Osage hair roaches.
- The beard and whiskers are white or grey, the forehead band and mane are white to yellow-white.
- A bird shot by a 9-year-old of Lebanon set new Oregon state records for weight, beard length and overall score.
- I've named it after Henri Becquerel in honour of the plant's peculiar beard.
- Decorate each 'ear' with two leaves and spun sugar to resemble corn beards.
- The beard and branches are cut off to leave only the best part of the ginseng, however the head is left on for consumers to better assess the quality of the herb.
- When a betable edge between their results and the line is seen, their movers or beards pound the books.
- So beards, carrying their myriad associations with dissent and disorder, shiftiness and oddness, are considered dangerous vote - losers.
- Beards can be anyone and can be found in casino-based sportsbooks and even online books.
- So they decided to obscure their relationship, taking a female pal along as Sie's de facto beard.
- One of her very gay friends has a Hampton wedding to his very female beard.
- True, their female beard friend is over in the isolation booth but there's nothing really gay about the "altered" photo.
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- I missed my daily dose of Prof. Quiggin for a week or so, due to his spam crisis, so I didn't notice that the Professor's commenters were already bearding this interesting question…
- Cue Albertz on Friday, bursting into the Sunday assembly and bearding my colleague, the sepulchral Hugh Keevins, accusing him of invention, hyperbole and all manner of crimes against the natural order.
- But at least by bearding MacDiarmid, Muir drew out into the open the issue of language which continues to occupy - if not preoccupy - Scottish poets today.
beard the lion in his den (or lair)
- Confront or challenge someone on their own ground.Oraciones de ejemplo
- So, to put it in a nutshell, you must grab the bull by the horns and beard the lion in his den.
- And so might I, with profit to us all, beard the lion in his den, and failing if fail I must, succeed.
- She would meet Julius, persuade him to her point of view, and they would beard the lion in his den.
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- His face was smooth and beardless, a testament to his youth, with high cheekbones and a delicate looking nose and mouth.
- The Santa Claus at Southgate Mall does wear a red-and-white suit, but otherwise he's tall, young, thin, beardless - and white.
- It suggests a sense of humour, a willingness to make an effort, an aspiration towards the airy, healthy, beardless Scandinavian lifestyle.
Old English; related to Dutch baard and German Bart.
As well as referring to a man's facial hair, beard, which is related to Latin barba 'beard', is used of the chin tuft of certain animals, such as a lion and a goat. These uses come together in the phrase to beard the lion in his den or lair, 'to confront or challenge someone on their own ground'. To invade someone's personal space enough to be able to touch or pull their beard was always an aggressive or provocative act—in 1587 the English sailor and explorer Francis Drake (c.1540–96) described his expedition to Cadiz as 'the singeing of the King of Spain's Beard'. In the Middle Ages to run in someone's beard was to defy him, and by the 16th century you could simply 'beard someone'. Clearly this stopped being fearsome enough, and lions were introduced in the 18th century.
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS - Explosions at the finish line of the 117th running of the Boston Marathon last week quickly caught Scott Grosscup's attention, but it wasn't long before the 40-year-old Glenwood Springs man shifted his attention elsewhere.
"Everyone was in a panic, saying things like, 'You've gotta get out of here,'" said Grosscup, who recalled the chaotic events on Monday. "At that point, we had no idea where our father was."
The bombs, made from pressure cookers and placed at the finish line on Boylston Street in Boston, killed three and injured more than 170. Grosscup's initial fear after hearing the bombs go off was the safety of his father, 65-year-old Jeff, who had not crossed the finish line at the time the bombs went off.
Grosscup had come to Boston with his brother, 28-year-old Neil, and his father, to run the race with his family after qualifying for it in 2011. Grosscup's brother and father had flown in from different parts of the country and met up with Scott in Boston.
None of them could have foreseen the events that took place at the finish line. And memories, even after the bombing suspects have been identified and one of them captured, still linger in Grosscup's mind.
"The impact from the explosions that seemed so distant at first have become more significant," he wrote in an e-mail to the Post Independent last week. "This is indeed a tragedy to the nation and to sport. We must recognize that, although this is an isolated incident, the violence does have a lasting impact that requires collective effort to resolve."
Grosscup, in the week following the bombing, expressed sadness and anger for the events of April 15 in Boston. The sadness is based on reports about the bombing victims. The anger followed because of how the bombing affected his father.
The half-hour check-in period occupied much of Grosscup's time after he had finished the race. He then met with his brother and found a place to rest and recover on Commonwealth Avenue, two blocks from the finish line.
Not long afterward, while he was reveling in a personal-best time of 3 hours, 5 minutes and 28 seconds, the bombs went off.
The reaction around where Grosscup and his brother sat wasn't immediate since nobody knew what had happened. When they found out, Scott and Neil's immediate thoughts went to their father who, based on his qualifying time, should have been crossing the finish line right around the time the bombs went off.
"They went off at what was roughly his qualifying time," Grosscup said. "So had he made that, he could have been there at that time. But he was slower and had actually been put into a different wave of runners, so he actually started later.
"So he was nowhere near the bombs when they went off," he continued. "But we didn't know that."
Jeff Grosscup, as it turned out, was stopped at the 25-mile point of the marathon, just a little more than one mile away from the finish line. He was, however, able to walk back to the finish line and find his personal items with the help of a race volunteer, many of whom still remained among the chaos to help runners come in from the race.
"He was certainly worried about us," Scott said. "He knew that the bombs went off, but he had no idea where we were. He knew that we had finished, but he didn't know if we'd come back to the finish line or not. He just didn't know."
It wasn't long afterward when Scott got a phone call from his father, and Scott, Neil and Jeff quickly reunited and left the race scene. Many people followed suit, and the only people who remained at the scene stayed to look for family, friends or loved ones.
"It just didn't seem like the safest place to be at that point," Scott said.
The anger Grosscup experienced took hold after the reunion, knowing his father wasn't able to cross the finish line after coming all that way to run the race.
"This was the guy who inspired us and got us to join him," Grosscup said. "And he didn't get to finish."
Still, Grosscup is grateful for the phone calls he received from friends and family concerned for his well-being. And even though he admits how much fun the race was, once was enough.
"No. We'll do something different," Grosscup said when asked if he'll run the Boston Marathon again. "It was a lot of fun. Maybe we'll do London or Paris next time."


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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Local people living in the direct path of a major construction project are calling it a "nightmare come true." They sent a letter to the Augusta Commission. On Tuesday, the city responded.
"What can you say? It is just unreal," said Herman Thacker. "And we are just devastated by it."
The Thackers wrote a letter to commissioners telling them how the project would take up 25 feet or more of their front yard.
Mr. Thacker says they've only heard back from Mayor Pro Tem Joe Bowles.
"I will help them fight the city and whoever tries to take their land to pay them that fair value," Bowles said.
Bowles notes the project could devour part of the Thackers' yard and even force the city to condemn their entire neighboring property.
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Although the evidence is little more than circumstantial, there appears to be merit to debating the true identification of the hunter and the hunted along Hudson Bay's rocky coast. Man is the minority in the northern Manitoba outback, being far outnumbered by various four-legged residents. Some of which are quite large. Take polar bears. Please.
Guide Terry Neepin, a native Canadian Cree, raises his binoculars for the umpteenth time on a sunny, late August afternoon. He is multitasking: glassing for both snow geese and the huge, dishwater blonde male polar bear that has been camped for four hours about 400 yards over his left shoulder. The bruin, which is built like a Buick, has found a soft patch of lush green grass to its liking and is currently parked, enjoying a nap.
"I like to know where he is at all times," Neepin says. "If we lose track of him, we could be surprised on our way back to camp."
Surprises are not necessarily a good thing in the Canadian bush. We are 145 air miles from the closest town. There are no roads in or out of here. Emergency help is a plane ride away. And a few years ago, before the Nanuk Lodge staff erected an 8-foot-tall wire fence around the camp to keep the polar bears on the outside looking in, there was what some refer to in hushed tones as what we will call the Kitchen Incident—which ranks among the ultimate of horrors in terms of uninvited guests.
As the story goes, camp owner Stewart Webber was drinking coffee with two of his clients late one evening in the lodge. The chit-chat was interrupted when the kitchen door suddenly exploded off its hinges and crashed to the floor. Webber instinctively reached for a rifle, took quick aim, snapped off a single shot, and stopped a rogue polar bear dead in its tracks. Manitoba resources officials were notified and airlifted the bear out of the camp by helicopter the next day.
"When we first came up here and took over the camp," Webber says, "there were bears living in the kitchen."
Those former occupants have since moved on to another pantry, but the neighborhood remains a walk on the wild side. Polar bears routinely migrate along the coast—which is in Nanuk's backyard–-in summer and fall, wandering north to wait for the Bay to freeze. They will spend the winter out on the ice, hunting seals.
"The bears really don't bother us," Webber says. "And our guides know how to handle them if a hunting party is confronted. Most people enjoy seeing the bears. They're part of the experience. But you do have to be careful."
Care must also be taken when selecting shots during this ultra-early hunt. Snow geese are the only birds in season during our brief stay, but Ross's geese, Canada geese, and a variety of ducks are everywhere. Pintails are conspicuous. We are a week early if mixed bags are a consideration, but the snows, whose primary breeding grounds are located relatively nearby, are more than a little entertaining. New birds arrive daily, with the biggest push, of course, occurring the day before we break camp. For those with a passion for hunting white geese, the odds of success are multiplied several-fold in these parts. This is where snow geese come from. Bare spots on the tundra, where the snows have pulled the grasses up by the roots, are stark testimony. The Cape Tatnam region is situated within a prime staging area.
"The geese will eat anything that's green," Neepin says. "Anything that's green. You can tell where they've been feeding. Sometimes they don't leave much."
One such place favored by the snows is a gorgeous meadow ringed by a willow thicket. The sky is heavy, a stiff north wind is shaking the trees, and this location provides a modicum of shelter for the geese. Neepin has done his scouting homework. A scattering of white feathers tells us that the birds have indeed been here. Tracks in the damp sand reveal another visitor.
"Black bear," Neepin says. "But not too big."
Neepin, a licensed guide beginning his second season at Nanuk Lodge, turns away and continues to deploy windsock snow goose decoys. I immediately scan the willow fringes, looking for . . . something. Edgy? A little. Knowing that the black bear walked right by where we are setting up triggers an internal alarm. Not knowing where that black bear is at this instant keeps that alarm ticking. Two hours go by, and, without firing a single shot, or seeing a single bear, we exhale, depart, and begin looking for an alternative setup.
Twenty minutes later, marking our third move of the day, we settle into a tiny driftwood and willow blind at the end of a gravel bank that protrudes from the tidal flats. At high tide, our bunker is about 200 yards off the water's edge. A flock of at least a thousand snow geese is feeding less than a quarter mile to the east. Other birds trade back and forth between the grass smorgasbord and the bay. Sixty decoys are randomly scattered. But pass- shooting seems our most likely hope.
"They'll look at the decoys some, but you can't count on that, and we like to get under them," Neepin says. "What we try to do is set up in places where the birds are flying back and forth from food to water or to their roost. That's where all the shooting is. The most shooting, anyway."
Flight lanes vary daily, depending upon conditions. Some, however, are much more consistent than others. Problem is, the natural vegetation is sparse along the coast. Becoming sufficiently hidden is a demanding task. And the birds learn quickly to fly high over or around the gunners—camouflage pattern be darned. The season is little more than a week old, and the snows that have already run the gauntlet take a wide berth when they see anything out of the ordinary on the tundra—like gun barrels, hip boots, and sunglasses.
Less discriminating flock youngsters, being stubborn, hard-headed, adventurous, or simply ignorant of the danger, fall victim to curiosity and the combination of Neepin's "come-on-over-and-check-us-out" calling and the treacherous windsocks. Snows, blues, it does not matter. My 12-gauge semiautomatic roars once, twice, three times. Then I start over again. Unfortunately, now, six hours after cycling this season's first shell, the shotgun is transformed into a single-shot. Expletive deleted. A combination of fine sand and mud have taken their toll.
No problem. My cabin-mate, John Lillibridge, a Pennsylvania native who has made arrangements to spend the entire season at Nanuk, has had the same issues with his shotgun, a like model, in the past. The collaborative cleaning process takes all of 10 minutes. Lillibridge, a civil engineer who spent 25 years in the U.S. Army before retiring as a colonel, could complete this exercise in the dark.
Lillibridge has hunted at Nanuk the past six seasons, ever since Webber took over the camp's operation. This says much about the quality of the shooting, if only because Lillibridge has plenty of insight, having chased geese for more than 30 years, including numerous trips to Texas, North Dakota, and Argentina.
"This is the end of the world, and the logistics can be a nightmare, but the hunting's good," Lillibridge says. "I think that the snow goose hunting here is the best there is in the fall. You see more birds here, and have more opportunities.
"The birds decoy better here than anywhere to the south. This is the first time a lot of them have seen a decoy or heard a gun. But they pick it up fast," Lillibridge adds.
Nanuk Lodge has been a hard-core goose hunting camp off and on since 1977. Ownership has changed hands a couple of times. Before Webber brought in his crew, the camp had sat empty—except for the polar bear transients—for six years.
"Everything we bring in here, like groceries and gas, has to be flown in," Webber says. "We were lucky, because some of the things we needed, like those wooden tables, were already here. We just had to clean things up. But when those bears were in the kitchen, they would just come and go as they pleased. It was a mess."
The past summer was not kind to northern Manitoba. The weather was hot and dry, with any number of fires scorching vast stretches of forest. The temperature was in the upper 70s two days before our arrival, then tumbled quickly. The thermometer reads 42 degrees when Neepin and I throw together a willow-branch blind on a high spot adjacent to a creek bed. There is only a trickle of water in the stream.
The snows are flying early. I've got one hand on my gun and the other in my blind bag when a dozen or so descend on our decoys. They hover. Two birds fall from the startled flock, but a triple should not have been surprising. Honest. Yes, the birds were that close. Neepin is back in the willows, trimming more cover for our hide. Another small group approaches. Fast and furious.
"That all?" Neepin asks upon returning from his mission and looking at a pile of what now amounts to four snows. "I heard a lot of shooting."
My bubble having been burst, I proceed to strike out during the next three opportunities. Back to reality, perhaps. Shortly thereafter, we pack up the decoys and move. That's part of the program here. Mobility is key.
"When it's warm like this, the geese will go to the flats, like that," Neepin says, motioning to a line of quivering white geese along the coast. "Sometimes it's hard to hunt here because there are so many places to go. We watch what the geese are doing, and then move to where the geese want to be."
We spent the final morning hop-scotching from one likely site to another. As the sun climbs higher, Neepin keeps a sharp eye on where the birds are trading. That would be behind us, along a tree line located at the distant edge of a huge sedge meadow. This would be our last stop.
We spend nearly two fruitless hours lounging in a willow tangle. And then all things goose broke loose. Three birds fall to one barrage. Two more are downed during another volley. The wind picks up, if only by a trace. And the sky begins to fill with wave after wave of snow and Ross's geese.
"Where'd those come from?" Neepin asks after four blues strafe our post and fly away unscathed.
"Your end, this time," is the reply. Gotcha.
But that's OK. For whatever reason—the sedge and grass patches are likely the primary attraction—more and more birds are drawn to this meadow. Right to left. Left to right. Front to back. This was a spectacle. Ross's by the swarm. Guns remain silent as those birds literally hang over the pulsating windsocks. Snows arrive in family groups of six and eight and ten. They receive much attention—and steel.
Better yet, there are no polar bears in the gallery. But there is news when we return to camp. Seems that earlier this morning one lonely bruin had become somewhat smitten with Webber's yellow Labrador retriever, Hank. The bear had walked up and shook the fence a couple of times, presumably to see if the dog could come out to play.
"We've been here a month," Stewart says. "And in that time, we have seen 65 to 70 bears walk by the camp. The one this morning was just a little bit more curious."
Not one's typical day at the office. Unless you work at Nanuk. The camp kitchen may now be human domain. But local traffic jams might also involve wolves, moose, black bears, and similar residents. Wilderness begins just outside the front gate.
(If you want to learn more, Stewart Webber of Mistikokan Outfitters and Nanuk Lodge can be reached by phoning 306-296-4405. Hunting package fees include airfare from Winnipeg to Thompson, Manitoba. Besides the regular fall hunting season, Nanuk also offers a limited spring snow goose hunt. Additional information may be obtained by viewing the company's Web site at www.nanuk1.com.)


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Bus ridership in the Grand Forks area is on track to set a record, and officials aren't really sure why.
The Grand Forks Herald reports (http://bit.ly/11pUA1Q) that there have been more than 300,000 riders on buses in Grand Forks and neighboring East Grand Forks, Minn., so far this year. Ridership is expected to reach 375,000 by the end of the year, eclipsing last year's mark of just under 329,000.
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Fortune magazine has named Chesapeake Energy one of the 100 best companies for which to work.
The Oklahoma City-based natural gas and oil company is the biggest driller in Ohio's Utica Shale and is active locally. It made the list at No. 51.
Chesapeake cut hundreds of staff last year during corporate restructuring. Its previous rank on the Fortune list was 26.
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California has more breweries than any other state and not just by a few. We have twice as many as No. 2-ranked Washington. It's not just quantity, of course. What really matters is quality. California breweries do extremely well at the Great American Beer Festival and international competitions, such as the World Beer Cup.
For many years, the California State Fair included a commercial beer competition. Unfortunately, there were issues with the judging management of the contest. Over time, the event's reputation sank and so did the number of entries. Breweries simply stopped entering their beers -- until now.
The Northern California Brewers Guild took over the judging last year, recognizing the need for a statewide competition. (Full disclosure: I judged the state beer competition in both 2013 and 2014.) This year, 859 different California-made beers were entered in the competition, which included one cider and 25 beer categories. To put that in context, that's nearly 20 percent of the total competing at the nationwide Great American Beer Festival.
Dozens of certified beer judges, cicerones, homebrewers and beer experts spent four days in late June sipping and judging to determine the best beers in California, launching a series of events that is about to include you.
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There were medals and ribbons aplenty, but the top honors included brewery of the year, an honor accorded the brewery with the six best beers. This year, that was Antioch's Schooner's Grille and Brewery and brewmaster Craig Cauwels.
Gold, silver and bronze medals -- and a few honorable mentions -- were awarded in each of the 25 beer categories. You'll find many familiar names on the list, which can be found on Eat, Drink, Play at http://blogs.mercurynews.com/eat-drink-play/.
Each gold medal was judged in a separate flight, then the category winners go up against one another to determine the "best of show" beers. These are some of the hardest awards to judge, because every entry is a great beer, but they're all different. So you have to determine which is best on more hedonistic grounds: Which do you like best, or think best exemplifies a particular type of beer? We all like different things, but in the end, three beers emerged as the favorites:
Best of show was awarded to Panic IPA from Sacramento's Track 7 Brewing Co. in the American IPA category. Second place went to Ol' Republic Brewery's California Common in the California Common Beer category, and third went to San Pedro Brewing's Bruin Blonde in the Blonde Ale segment. In addition, a media panel awarded Nevada City's Ol' Republic Brewery best of show for its E.S. B.
It's not over yet. You can try many of the winning beers at this year's California State Fair Brewer's Festival, which will run from 3 to 6 p.m. July 19 at the Miller Lite Grandstands at Sacramento's Cal Expo. Tickets are $15 in advance, or $20 the day of the event. Find details at http://bit.ly/CalStateFair14.
South Bay celebration
Another way to celebrate beer in the Golden State takes place later this month. From July 25 to Aug. 2, Silicon Valley Beer Week will celebrate all the brewpubs, breweries and beer-cuisine that the Silicon Valley has to offer. Last year's inaugural beer week saw 185 events at 80 different venues. This year looks to showcase even more beer-themed events throughout the South Bay, culminating with the Kraftbrew Beer Fest on Aug. 2 at the Gordon Biersch Brewery in downtown San Jose. Find details and a schedule of events at www.svbeerweek.com.
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The Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier runs both the District of Columbia and Virginia We the People programs. Both the DC and Virginia teams competed at the recent 2012 We the People National Finals, which tests students on their knowledge of the Constitution.
The Archaeology team has begun its excavations at the quarters for field slaves, located just below the visitor center. We are searching for the remains of the homes for farm slaves who lived in this area from the late 1700s-1844. Back in 2002, when we were planning for the construction of the visitor center, we located a very well preserved farm complex dating back to the Madison era.
April 21-28, Montpelier will celebrate the Garden Club of Virginia's Historic Garden Week along with sister historic sites and landmarks across the commonwealth. The Orange County Tour, entitled "Mr. Madison's Neighborhood," includes stops at James Madison's Montpelier, Somerset Plantation, Mayhurst Inn, and Woodley.
In honor of the 74th anniversary of Battleship's victory at Aintree and the long legacy of the duPont family at Montpelier, a collection of additional notable duPont objects are now on display in the William duPont Gallery at the Montpelier Visitor Center.
The vision of forest sustainability, as imagined by James Madison at Montpelier, stood in contrast to the wanton resource extraction he observed in the early 1800s. Today, those same forests have not only recovered, they are sustainably managed and boast the Commonwealth of Virginia's first smartphone tree ID trail.
One of the most oft-repeated yet ill-cited pieces of Madison lore suggests Dolley Madison instituted the famous Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. When the tale appeared in published monograph, it was often paired with such qualifying phrases as "according to tradition" or "as the story goes."
On March 16, we celebrated a very special birthday at the home of the Father of the Constitution! Montpelier welcomed friends from all over to celebrate James Madison's 261st birthday!
This past week twelve metal detector experts from Minelab Americas attended a week-long metal detecting program to help archaeologists search for plantation sites across the property. The program also provided the participants an opportunity to learn about how archaeologists use metal detectors to discover and define archaeological sites.
In September 1821, Albert Picket Sr., Albert Picket Jr., and John W. Picket wrote James Madison requesting his opinion of female education, particularly in light of a planned female college in Maryland. The Pickets asserted, "If it be worthy of national concern, to educate young men well, in all that pertains to their morals & intellect, it is no less necessary to educate females in an equally solid, if not splendid degree."1
James Madison is having a birthday commemoration and you're invited! March 16 marks the 261st anniversary of the fourth president's birthday. We will have several opportunities for our visitors to mark the occasion.
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Fans Can Enjoy All LORD OF THE RINGS Movies on December 8 and 9, For One Low Price
Plano, Texas - Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK), one of the world's largest motion picture exhibitors, announced that tickets are on sale for The Lord of the Rings Movie Marathon, in which over 185 Cinemark locations will feature the three Lord of the Rings films back-to-back. For one low price of $30 for Cinemark XD locations, and $25 for non-XD theaters, movie-goers can see all three films back to back on either December 8th or 9th. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens on Friday, December 14, 2012.
"The Lord of the Rings Movie Marathonis the perfect way for fans of Peter Jackson and the J. R. R. Tolkien books to get ready for the new movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," states James Meredith, Vice President of Marketing & Communications. "Cinemark will make these films available in our Cinemark XD Extreme Digital Cinema auditoriums wherever possible to ensure the best presentation of these award-winning films."
Starting on Saturday, December 8th at 11:00 AM and playing chronologically, The Lord of the Rings Movie Marathon will feature:
The Fellowship of the Ring 11:00 AM
The Two Towers 3:10 PM
The Return of the King 7:25 PM
All three films will be played in the same order and times on Sunday, December 9, 2012.
As a special keepsake of The Lord of the Rings Movie Marathon, customers at each theatre will receive a commemorative lanyard and event pass from Cinemark Theatres. There will also be discounts for Marathon customers at the concession stand. Tickets for Cinemark's The Lord of the Rings Movie Marathon are on sale now at participating theatres and http://www.cinemark.com.
Customers who wish to see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journeycan purchase advance tickets at http://www.cinemark.com. A full list of participating The Lord of the Rings Movie Marathon theatres is also available on the Cinemark web site.
About Cinemark Holdings, Inc.
Cinemark is a leading domestic and international motion picture exhibitor, operating 461 theatres with 5,207 screens in 39 U.S. states, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and 10 other Latin American countries as of September 30, 2012. For more information go to cinemark.com.


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I'm having some trouble streaming 1080P Video's from my laptop to my PS3. Both the laptop and PS3 are connected via Cat5e cable. Due to the limitation of my switch, its a 10/100mbs connection (100mbs, full duplex). All power settings on the laptop are set to full/high performance, wireless is disabled and it has the following specs.
Laptop: Intel Core2Duo P8700 2.53Ghz, Windows 7 64bit, 2Gbs of RAM.
**Latest build for PMS and Java**
PMS Settings:
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Forced Network on Interface: Physical NIC
Maximum Bandwidth: 0 (no limit)
HTTP Endgine V2: [Checked]
Prevent OS from Sleeping: [Checked] (disabled on OS anyway)
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**Note I have tried both 400 and 600 on the Maximum buffer size**
**Note as per just reading a FAQ on the forums, i have moved the tsMuxeR to the top of the video file engines. It was previously set to MEncoder then tsMuxeR. I have not tested with these settings yet.
When I try to steam movies, the memory of my system is fine, about 3/4 used but my CPU ramps up to 100 from the Java app... I'm not sure if my system is underpowered or not. I believe I use to the same setup when I was in my old Apt. I've ran new cabled and verified connection speeds.
I have also tried the same setup using my new laptop which has an i5 processor and the movies steam better but still get a little choppy here and there. The CPU still ramps up to 100%. Is there any way to throttle this so it sits at 80% or so? Does anyone have any suggestions? Could it possible be my network? I thought about switch out my 24 port linksys switch with a newer gigabit switch but can't see to much of a change. The PS3 only has a 10/100 NIC installed so the top speeds would still be 100mbs. I know the PMS would be able to run at 1Gb but it would be throttled to 100mbs by the PS3.
**Note I have ran the cables personally and tested link speeds. They get between 85 and 90 mbs. I've use the following tool to test**
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June 12, 2012
Energy Department Announces New Investments in Innovative Manufacturing Technologies
As part of the Obama Administration's blueprint for an American economy built to last, the Energy Department today announced new investments that support American leadership and global competiveness in manufacturing. The Energy Department awarded more than $54 million—leveraging approximately an additional $17 million in cost share from the private sector—for 13 projects across the country to advance transformational technologies and materials that can help American manufacturers dramatically increase the energy efficiency of their operations and reduce costs. These projects will develop cutting-edge manufacturing tools, techniques, and processes that will be able to save companies money by reducing the energy needed to power their facilities. These projects are a part of the Administration's strategy for investing in emerging technologies that create high-quality domestic manufacturing jobs and enhance the competitiveness of U.S. companies in today's global markets.
"By investing in breakthrough technologies that can drastically reduce the amount of energy consumed during manufacturing, the Energy Department is supporting President Obama's blueprint for an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, and skills for American workers," said U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu. "When it comes to clean energy, our motto should be: 'Invented in America, made in America, and sold around the world.' The projects announced today will improve the competitive position of U.S. industry and help manufacturers produce more while saving energy, saving money, and protecting our air and water."
As President Obama made clear in his State of the Union address, an economy built to last depends largely on American manufacturing and American energy. With sustained job growth for the first time since the 1990's and the addition of nearly 500,000 jobs over a little more than two years, the American manufacturing sector has begun to rebound. At the same time, the United States reclaimed the position as the world's leading investor in clean energy and has nearly doubled clean, renewable energy use in the country over the past few years. To continue this progress, President Obama has called on Congress to extend the clean energy manufacturing tax credits that have helped create jobs and maintain America's competitive edge in this multi-trillion dollar global industry.
Today's awards build on that foundation. Manufacturing is so central to the American economy that industrial processes consume about one-third of all energy produced in the United States, representing a huge opportunity to boost American competitiveness through advances in energy-saving technologies.
From improving manufacturing processes that reduce the energy needed to make components for aircraft and vehicles, to lowering the production costs of carbon fiber for a wide range of clean energy products, these projects represent a major investment in the solutions that will transform energy-intensive manufacturing technologies and materials used by industry here in the United States. The results of these projects could produce large improvements in energy productivity, reduce pollution, and boost product output, while creating jobs and helping American companies expand export opportunities globally.
Each project will advance technologies early enough in their development cycles to permit the full scope of their technical benefits to be shared across a broad cross-section of the domestic economy. Collectively, these projects are part of the Obama Administration's effort to support the creation of good jobs by helping U.S. manufacturers reduce costs, improve quality, and accelerate product development. By strengthening the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing, these projects will help lay a foundation for an American economy built to last.
The projects selected for awards include:
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.—Allentown, PA – $1,200,000
- American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI)—Salt Lake City, UT – $7,120,000
- Delphi Automotive Systems, LLC—Rochester, NY – $3,700,000
- General Motors LLC—Warren, MI – $2,672,124
- Lyondell Chemical Company—Newtown Square, PA – $4,500,000
- MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.—St. Peters, MO – $3,680,000
- MIT—Cambridge, MA – $1,000,000
- PolyPlus Battery Company—Berkeley, CA – $8,999,920
- Research Triangle Institute—Research Triangle Park, NC – $4,800,000
- Teledyne Scientific and Imaging—Thousand Oaks, CA – $2,110,000
- The Dow Chemical Company—Midland, MI – $9,000,000
- The University of Utah—Salt Lake City, Utah – $1,460,285
- Third Wave Systems, Inc.—Minneapolis, MN – $4,069,882
Read a full list of project descriptions, including project partners.


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These mouth-watering dishes are part of a healthy skin diet. Even better: You can make 'em in 15 minutes flat
6 large eggs
2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons mayonnaise
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder
Salt to taste
Paprika for garnish
Chopped fresh chives for garnish
Freshly cracked black pepper for garnish
1. Put the eggs in a medium pot and add enough water to cover. Bring the water to a boil over high heat and cook for 13 minutes. Drain the eggs and rinse with cold water.
2. Peel the eggs and cut them in half. Gently remove the yolks and put them in a medium bowl.
3. Mash the egg yolks and add the mayonnaise, mustard, and curry powder. Mix well and season with salt.
4. Fill a reusable pastry bag with the yolk mixture and use it to fill the egg white halves. (Alternatively, use a small spoon.)
5. Garnish each egg half with a sprinkling of paprika, chopped chive flowers, and freshly cracked pepper.
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The 2012 Suds n' Ski Tour ends with a stop in Vail Saturday night at the new Vail Ale House, formerly the Sandbar."After countless years of touring our full-length telemark ski movies around the globe, it has become apparent that ski towns love beer, music and skiing," said Telemark Skier CEO Josh Madsen. "So we are bringing the people what they want all wrapped up in one package!"Madsen first started skiing when he moved to Eagle at the age of 10. "I grew up cross-country skiing in Denver but it was when my family moved to Eagle County in the late '80s that I finally got my first taste of downhill skiing through the school ski program, and I never turned back." This year's tour will feature live music by outlaw country band Lorin Walker Madsen & The Hustlers along with Telemark Skier's latest freeheel flick "Let's Go!" "We combine old time country with a modern-style delivery," said lead singer Lorin Walker Madsen. "If you like that old-time feel of a pedal steel guitar and foot stomping tunes, you'll have a great time.""Let's Go!" introduces viewers to the "Telemark Skier Crew," a high-octane group of freeheel skiers in search of the perfect turn. The group itself is comprised of filmmakers, photographers and writers who have collaborated on all aspects of this film to bring it to life. They even serve as the ski talent in the film. The movie blends appearances from the crew, a first-of-its-kind athlete/content creation team, which includes the likes of JT Robinson and Kjell Ellefson, along with performances by innovative freeheelers like Kate Hourihan, Tony Gill and Andreas Sjobeck. "'Let's Go!' brings you into our world of living on the road and searching for the best telemark turns on the planet," Madsen said. "We found powder in Norway and filmed the first ever Double-Cork 1080 on telemark skis. It was an amazing year!" In scenes both on and off piste, the film showcases the sport's most avant-garde moves in the deep powder and in the park.
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Not in terms of how much older she was getting but in terms of living past an important number in her family.
So it was a huge milestone for my Mom to make it to 60 years old.
It is an age that she is very proud of and happy to reach.
You gotta be thankful for each year that the Good Lord gives you, right?
on our faces and gray hairs on our head. But we also have another year together and to be thankful.
Her mother used to make it, but sadly she did not have her Momma's recipe.
I even heard someone call it Aloha Cake, etc., etc. - you get the idea.
The flavors are basically the same but with small variations here and there.
The flavors are bright and fresh and the whipped cream topping gives it a light taste.
It needs to be stored in the fridge because of the whipped topping, which makes it even more
delightful after coming in from a hot day!
1 box (18.25 Oz. Box) Yellow Cake Mix
1 stick Margarine (softened)
1 can (14 Oz.) Mandarin Oranges, Drained, 1/2 Cup Juice Reserved
4 Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
For the topping:
Extra Mandarin Orange Slices, For Garnish
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Beat for four minutes on medium-high.
Basically you want the cake to be lightly golden brown and set.
Add powdered sugar and mix, then mix in whipped topping.
Stir in drained pineapple.
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