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This is another installment in our occasional series, Things That are Not Drive-Ins. There are so many faux "drive-ins" that pop up every year that it requires something special to make it to a Carload post. The Community First village proposed for Austin TX is that kind of special project. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Texas
Brazos faces uncertain future
WFAA, Dallas's news leader, provided an excellent report about the funding problems of the Brazos Drive-In in Granbury TX. Not only did WFAA give us this embedded video, the web page with the story also includes some great photos and even linked to the Brazos web site, something that surprisingly … Continue reading
New drive-in coming to New Braunfels TX
There's a great story in Texas that's getting even better. Ryan Smith and his family built the Stars & Stripes Drive-In Theatre (Lubbock) in 2003, and now they're going to build the second Stars & Stripes in New Braunfels, a fun town between Austin and San Antonio on I-35. According to its … Continue reading
Drive-in author tells USA Today his top ten
At one level, I look at USA Today's story, posted late last night, as pure link bait. Any top ten list is designed to pull in visitors from all over just because its title is intriguing and its slide show is eye candy. On the other hand, they used my … Continue reading
Project Drive-In roundup 4: The list that wouldn't die
In the third installment of our roundup of candidates for Honda's Project Drive-In, I predicted that Honda would choose more than five lucky recipients of digital projectors. What I really didn't anticipate was that Honda would reopen voting for the second set of winners. With another round of voting comes … Continue reading
Graham is third winner from Project Drive-In
The Graham Drive-In (Graham TX) was announced today as the third winner in Honda's Project Drive-In. By finishing among the top five candidates as voted on by Project Drive-In visitors, the Graham will receive a digital projector to help keep the drive-in experience alive. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram picked up … Continue reading
Project Drive-In roundup
I'll admit it. I've been so overwhelmed by the local media coverage of Honda's Project Drive-In that it's been hard to write. On one hand, I don't especially want you to vote for some Florida drive-in over one on Ohio or vice versa. Heck, I've even noticed that Honda has … Continue reading
The Tyler TX drive-in that no one talks about
View Larger Map There's a drive-in east of Tyler TX that doesn't seem to engender much civic pride. It's one drive-in that doesn't need to worry about converting to digital projection because it apparently dumped film a long time ago. I've never been there, but according to two reports, the … Continue reading
Tyler drive-in asks for conversion help
KLTV.com-Tyler, Longview, Jacksonville, Texas | ETX News According to KLTV, Tyler TX's news leader, the Sky Vue Drive-In there is asking for help in converting from its vintage film projector to new digital equipment. Skyvue is offering future advertising space and long-term passes to earn the remaining $64,000 it needs … Continue reading
Blue Starlite concept about to spead
A few months ago, I had to admit that I wasn't sure whether the Blue Starlite in Austin TX is a real drive-in. I'm still sure that "drive-in nights" in the park with temporary screens and no cars definitely aren't drive-ins. The Blue Starlite's screen still looks pretty temporary, but … Continue reading


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Experts Debate Impact of Northwestern Ruling
"Stunning," "historic," "revolutionary," and "groundbreaking" are some of the words being used to describe Wednesday's ruling by the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago that Northwestern University scholarship football players are employees and eligible to form the nation's first college athletes' union.
But just how far-reaching the ruling by NLRB regional director Peter Ohr will prove to be is far from clear.
Here's what experts from the world of law, sports and organized labor are saying about the decision:
"The NLRB ruling further makes abundantly clear that playing college football at Northwestern is not a leisure activity, but rather a full-time job," writes Marc Edelman, a City University of New York business law professor, in a column for Forbes. He points to the part of the ruling that states that players during the football season "devote 40 to 50 hours per week to football-related activities, including travel to and from their scheduled games."
Michael LeRoy, a University of Illinois law professor, says that time commitment was a huge factor in the NLRB decision. "Players are involved over 40 hours a week during the season," he told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "That looks like a job, not like a student-athlete activity."
The ruling is "revolutionary for college sports," Robert McCormick, a professor emeritus at the Michigan State University College of Law, told the Chicago Tribune, saying its impact could reach far beyond Northwestern. "For example, McCormick said that if college players demand compensation for injuries suffered during training or a game, Ohr's opinion could raise the question of whether they should be treated as employees under the state Workers' Compensation Act," says the Tribune.
Filip Bondy, a New York Daily News sports columnist, thinks the "whole ugly mess called NCAA sports would grow even more tangled" if college athletes get paid salaries above the scholarships they already receive for tuition, fees and lodging.
ESPN's Ivan Maisel wonders whether players in non-revenue sports, who have the same time commitments but don't generate revenue for the school, would also qualify as employees. "Do the men's and women's tennis teams demand the same benefits that the football team gets? Do the non-revenue athletes, who are superior in numbers, take over the union? Will the athletic department have to deal with a different union in each sport?" he writes.
Some labor experts, though, said they were skeptical that players would organize. "I'll be surprised if the movement gets off the ground," Michael O. Smith, a labor relations expert at Wayne State University, told the Detroit News. "It just does not have the normal attributes of a work environment that begs for unionization."
Harley Shaiken, a labor expert at the University of California Berkeley, told the Detroit News that the ruling affirms that "college sports have become a multimillion-dollar business that is lucrative for everyone involved except for the players."
While the ruling has "vast implications for the structure of the sport, if upheld," New York University law professor Richard Epstein told CNN, he said an appeal could take years to resolve.


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ASA Newsroom > Which Industries Employ Statisticians?
Engineers work in a range of industries, such as electronics, chemicals, aerospace, pollution abatement, and construction. They may be responsible for leading large projects with significant costs, technical complexity, and responsibility. Statistical methods are 'power tools' for engineers.
- Make a consistent product when raw material quality varies: Engineers in the electronics industry needed to modify a process to make a new polishing pad product. They had to get to market rapidly, but raw material quality was not consistent. Statistical robust process design techniques allowed them to optimize the new process in just four weeks. The modified process yields high-quality pads despite variations in the raw materials.
- Detect problems early and avoid false alarms: Engineers working with high-risk processes needed highly sensitive decisionmaking tools to tell them when conditions were significantly different from the normal operating state. Statistical process control techniques provide them with early warning fault detection of equipment failure or process disturbances. Identifying impending failures early prevents safety problems and system damage.
- Minimize a chemical waste stream: Engineers in a chemical plant needed to minimize the amount of waste solvent from a biocide production line. Statistically designed experiments, completed in just two weeks, led them to discover that the process could be run with 100% recycled solvent. The environment near the plant is much improved, and the process is considerably less expensive to run.
- Predict product life: Engineers in the semiconductor industry needed to predict the failure times of printed circuit boards. Statistical reliability methods enabled them to predict the product life in actual use, based on experiments lasting for fewer than five weeks, with acceleration factors such as temperature and humidity.
As the pace of product development and quality improvement accelerates, statistical techniques become essential to the practicing engineer.
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Angie Lynn Daley will be laid to rest Thursday, almost 18 years after she was murdered and three years after her remains were discovered at a farm in Waynecastle.
The 17-year-old daughter of Clarence E. Daley Jr. of Chambersburg and Sunday S. (Mohn) Gossert of Waynesboro, she was last seen in August 1995 in Waynesboro.
Jeffrey Eldon Miles Sr. has been charged with criminal homicide in her death and her remains had previously been held as evidence in the case.
Private graveside services for family and close friends will be held Thursday afternoon in Quincy Cemetery with the Pastor Randy Davis of Jesus Alive Ministries officiating. Arrangements were made by Lochstampfor Funeral Home Inc.
Daley also was remembered at a funeral service June 30, 2012.
Faces death penalty
Miles is being held without bond in Franklin County Jails, awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge in the 2010 stabbing death of Kristy Dawn Hoke of Hagerstown, whose body was found in a wooded area off Ninth Street in Waynesboro. Miles reportedly led police to Daley's remains the same day Hoke's body was found.
He has pleaded not guilty to both homicides.
Jury selection in the Hoke case has been tentatively rescheduled for July 29. If convicted of the first-degree murder charge, Miles faces the death penalty.
Miles does not face the death penalty in Daley's murder.
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text: On my weekly trip to Lower Salem, I become upset by the signs about coal and the lies that President Obama is against coal. He is for clean coal if there is such a thing. The coal burning power plants were to have installed scrubbers many years ago to reduce pollutants. Instead many of them continued to pay the fines and send dirty air into our world. Representative Bill Johnson and David Mckinley voted to get rid of regulations on coal.


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STOCKTON - A 37-year-old man wounded by gunfire nearly one month ago in south Stockton died Friday of his injuries, the Stockton Police Department reported Monday. Detectives also are investigating the homicide of a 20-year-old man reported early Monday just north of the Calaveras River.
Curniee Howell III, 37, of Stockton was one of two men struck by gunfire about 8:30 p.m. Sept. 4 in the 2400 block of Ophir Street, a block west of Airport Way in southeast Stockton. The other victim, a 30-year-old man, suffered non-life-threatening injuries. At the time, the two wounded men were unable to provide descriptions of the shooter immediately following the attack.
Howell succumbed to his injuries Friday. His identity was released by authorities Monday.
About 12:53 a.m. Monday, police received a report of shots fired in the 100 block of Gateway Court about a block north of Weberstown Park. They discovered DeAndre Marquis Sargent, 20, of Stockton suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries, police reported.
No further information was provided by police in either case, the 21st and 22nd homicides being investigated by the department this year.
Police are asking citizens to share information (it can be anonymous) by calling (209) 937-8377 or (209) 937-8323. Citizens also can text information from their cellphones to "CRIMES" (274637) and type the keyword TIPSPD and then their tip, or log on to the Stockton Police Department's Facebook page and click "Submit A Tip."
If you have any information that might lead to an arrest, you can contact Crime Stoppers at (209) 946-0600. Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards up to $10,000.
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Coltaine79 wrote:ExSport, the problem that you talk about - is it happening on ALL of your MKVs or just some of them?
Also do you have Alternate AV Synch on?
Not for all mkv files. And A/V Sync I have always unticked.
It is because newer versions skips many frames so audio/video gets out of sync/jerky.
Older buids[-25] are not affected like new ones [26-] (SubJunk said it seems root cause is new FFMpeg):
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Hi all,
Don't know if it's been brought up before (I've searched, but couldn't find anything about it).
The problem is that whenever I'm adding subtitle's to an episode of a serie (srt file), I'll have to shut down and start PMS again before it shows up.
I'm not using the media library option from PMS, just the few local file shares on my server.
Another side effect (don't know if they're linked) is that it takes really long to shut down PMS (a javaw.exe proces stays running) when I've been watching anything on PMS on the last couple of minutes.
If I didn't watch anything, it just shuts down normally.
I'm running SubJunk build SB13 with java 6 update 23 (build 1.6.0_23-b05).
The OS it's running on is a Windows 2008 R2 machine (64 bits).
And I've tried switching between 32 bit and 64 bit java versions.
I'm wondering if I'm the only one with these "problems" (well more annoyances actually).
And more important, if there's anything I can do about it?
Thanx for reading this.


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Best Dressed: The 66th Annual Cannes International Film Festival
After finding out that a photographer friend of hers has started offering boudoir, Stacey O., 28, was instantly interested. "My desire to do the shoot was simple: I was feeling really great about myself," she says. "My career was taking off, I was in great shape—all the stars were aligned. I did it as a gift to myself for all the hard work I've done."
When she saw the pics a few weeks later, she says the result was better than she could have imagined. "The viewing was amazing. I didn't recognize myself," she says. "Every now and then I'll go back and look at the pictures and smile. I just love them."
Photographer: Ashleigh Taylor-Henning
After coming out of a terrible breakup—and taking up pole-dancing classes— Kelly H., 26, started to be confident in her own skin, which is what attracted her to boudoir.
Seeing the photos post-shoot, was "amazing," she says. "It's hard to believe what a little hair, makeup, and good lighting can do. Seeing your own beauty reflected in that way and being able to hold onto that is something you can't put a price on."
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Definition of vocabulary in English:
noun (plural vocabularies)
- Just as the vocabulary of a language changes from age to age, so the vocabularies of different languages are distinct in their systems, uses, and references.
- It involves comparison to reconstruct, if you like, the ancient vocabularies that present-day languages are derived from.
- It is often said that the vocabulary of a language is an inventory of the items a culture talks about and has categorized in order to make sense of the world.
- As an added bonus, I realised, new falconers get to learn a vocabulary of Medieval English for free.
- On some occasions, the vocabulary that she employs in her response to Derrida is recriminatory.
- Prior to entering, she studied concepts such as defining her business and its services, learning basic business vocabulary, and marketing and management.
- Of all writers, he discovers, Shakespeare has the widest vocabulary relating to the varieties of weeds found in rural Warwickshire.
- Standards in English could be higher if children used a wider vocabulary and more complex sentences in their oral and written work.
- This was the day that the word contemplative entered my vocabulary, giving shape to the way I wanted to live my life.
- It was right there, the third word in the weekly vocabulary list our teacher had just handed out.
- It includes sample text, grammar and vocabulary lists and more for 1,445 languages.
- He compiled the vocabulary by taking words from English, French, German and Latin.
- Like his Judson colleagues, his choreography eschewed an advanced dance technique, and he incorporated everyday movements into his vocabulary.
- A visionary, she developed a new and wholly unique dance technique and vocabulary of steps and movements.
- And though the movement vocabulary was unmistakably balletic, the visual appeal of the work may more often be associated with rock music videos.
Mid 16th century (denoting a list of words with definitions or translations): from medieval Latin vocabularius, from Latin vocabulum (see vocable).
voice from Middle English:
A word derived from Latin vox 'voice' and is related to vocabulary (mid 16th century), vocal (Middle English), vocation (Late Middle English), and vociferous (early 17th century), while the verb vocare 'to call' appears in convoke (late 16th century) 'call together'; equivocate (Late Middle English) literally 'call by the same name'; evoke (early 17th century) 'call out'; invoke (Late Middle English) 'call upon'; provoke (Late Middle English) 'call forth'; revoke (Late Middle English) 'call back'; and vouch (Middle English) and voucher (early 16th century). Vowel (Middle English) is from Old French vouel, from Latin vocalis (littera) 'vocal (letter)'. The Latin root survives in vox pop, 'an informal survey of people's opinion', which is short for Latin vox populi or 'voice of the people'. When people refer to an ignored advocate of reform as a voice in the wilderness they are echoing the words of John the Baptist proclaiming the coming of the Messiah: 'I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.'
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A state agency recently criticized for weak investigations and soft penalties has quietly slashed by 75 percent its fine against a limousine company whose car burned on the San Mateo Bridge last year, killing five women on their way to a wedding party.
That company, Limo Stop, will only pay $5,000 of the $20,000 fine originally imposed by the California Public Utilities Commission, newly released documents reveal.
"It was absolutely too light to start with," said state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, a PUC critic. "Those fines should have been much higher. There is a culture of complacency at the PUC. It's just too cozy with business."
First, the PUC agreed to cut the fine in half if Limo Stop didn't violate safety regulations for three years. When the company continued to appeal, the PUC agreed to lower the fine again as part of a settlement reached in April.
A state audit released last month of the PUC's Transportation Enforcement Branch sharply criticized it for failing to issue tough fines.
"When (passenger) carriers face limited consequences for operating outside of the law, such as receiving small fines, they have little incentive to cease illegal operations," the audit stated. "This increases the likelihood that they will employ drivers without drug testing, operate without liability insurance, and ignore vehicle safety inspections, leaving their passengers and the public at greater risk."
"That's exactly the same problem here," Hill said. "They don't penalize people and they don't enforce the law."
The PUC found that the Limo Stop's converted Lincoln Town car was carrying nine passengers on May -- two above its legal limit. Five died when the vehicle burned after a what the Highway Patrol called "catastrophic failure" of the limo's suspension system ignited carpeting in the passenger compartment.
Four women escaped, crawling thorough a small hole in a partition to the driver's compartment. The dead were found crowded around that passage, overcome by smoke before they could get through.
Lives might "have been saved if the vehicle had carried only (seven people) by making exit from the vehicle easier," PUC staff wrote.
Investigators also found that Limo Stop had hired three drivers without having them undergo mandatory drug and alcohol testing and also did not maintain proper paperwork about its trips. The five violations were lumped into one citation, which had a maximum fine of $20,000.
But even when half that amount was administratively set aside, Limo Stop appealed ,claiming PUC investigators had reached improper conclusions and offered no evidence that carrying two extra passengers contributed in any way to the cause of the fire. That overcrowding contributed to the deaths "is nothing more than conjecture," Limo Stop's lawyer, Douglas Sears, wrote in a response.
At an April administrate hearing, a judge ordered the sides to try to strike a deal. They did, with PUC agreeing to lower the fine of just $5,000.
"The settlement allowed for the charges to be kept intact," a PUC spokeswoman, Terrie Prosper, wrote in an email.
Hill said it was obvious that the agency "just settled this for its own convenience. It's shameful."
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Peeking into a fresh batch of Golden Globe nominations is sort of like participating in the white elephant gift exchange at your holiday office party: You never really know what you're going to get. It could be some kind of odd offering straight out of crazytown. Or it could be something that makes you take notice and admire the thought that went into it.
And this year is no different when it comes to the TV choices made by the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Some of the main head-scratchers? Start with the nominations for "Smash" in the best musical or comedy series category, and for "The Newsroom" in the best drama division, where the critically adored "Mad Men" was shockingly dissed.
"Smash," which has essentially replaced "Glee" in the eyes of Globe voters, was a wildly uneven Broadway saga that drew more scorn than viewers -- so much so that it underwent massive retooling for its upcoming second season. Oh those silly Globe voters, always seduced by glitz and glamor.
But what's their excuse for "The Newsroom"? Aaron Sorkin's ambitious take on the world of cable news did, indeed, have its moments of glory, but it was also thoroughly pummeled by critics for its self-indulgent and bombastic tendencies. You won't find "The Newsroom" on many year-ending Top 10 lists, but somehow the HFPA thinks it's bettrer than "Mad Men."
The Golden Globes also continued its inexplicable habit of lumping wildly different genres into the supporting acting competition. That's why we have the laughable face-off between Maggie Smith of "Downton Abbey" and Sofia Vergara of "Modern Family." How much ssense does that one make?
But let's give the Globe voters some credit, too. They traditionally have been ahead of the curve when it comes to recognizing the standout work being done in new shows. Hence the love for HBO's groundbreaking series, "Girls" in the best comedy or musical race, and for its young star (and creator) Lena Dunham.
Also, kudos to the voters for seeing the comedic brilliance of Max Greenfield in "New Girl."
And the Globes justifiably honored the performances of several acting veterans appearing in new projects, including the terrific Connie Britton ("Nashville"), Don Cheadle ("House of Lies"), Julia Louis-Dreyfus ("Veep") and Jeff Daniels ("The Newsroom").
But the Globes can be late to the party, as well. Thursday's nominations included a long overdue nod for "Breaking Bad," which, for years, has been widely regarded as one of prime time's top dramas. Until now, lead actor Bryan Cranston was the show's only nominee.
Like the Emmys in recent years, the Globes resoundingly prefer cable over broadcast network fare. The best drama category, for example, is made up entirely of cable shows, except for "Downton Abbey," which airs on public television.
The cable love can go overboard, though, as evidenced by the nod in the best comedy nomination for Showtime's "Episodes," which simply doesn't belong. Then again, Hollywood loves shows about itself.
The 70th Golden Globes are scheduled to air at 8 p.m. Jan. 13 on NBC. They'll be hosted for the first time by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, both of whom garnered nominations on Thursday.


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5 with Appeal for July 19
Published: Friday, July 19, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 9:20 a.m.
1. See Broadway veteran Rob Evan in the blockbuster musical "Les Miserables" at Flat Rock Playhouse Mainstage, 2661 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock. Performances are 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays through Aug. 18. Admission is $40. For details, call 828-693-0731 or 866-732-8008 or visit www.flatrockplayhouse.org.
2. Enjoy '60s harmonies and see the gritty story of the Four Seasons' rise to fame in "Jersey Boys" at the Peace Center for the Performing Arts, 300 S. Main St., Greenville, S.C. The Broadway touring company wraps up its Greenville run this weekend with performances at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. today, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $55, $65 and $85. Call 800-888-7768 or visit www.peacecenter.org.
3. Los Angeles entertainer Alfred Jackson performs "A Tribute to Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5" through July 26 at Playhouse Downtown, 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville. The Music on the Rock concerts begin at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Tickets are $24. Call 828-693-0731 or 866-732 8008 or visit www.flatrockplayhouse.org for more information.
4. Gigi Dover and The Big Love will take the stage at 7 tonight in Tryon's Rogers Park for the fourth concert in the Summer Tracks series. The Big Love sound is a blend of gypsy, jazzy and funky Southern soul. All Summer Tracks concerts are free, though a voluntary donation at the gate is encouraged. JR's wood-fired pizzas, water and soft drinks will be for sale. Call 828-894-2324 or visit www.firstpeaknc.com for more information.
5. Hendersonville's annual Harambee Festival kicks off at 6 tonight with food and music at the train depot in the Historic Seventh Avenue District. The festival will continue Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. with family fun, including face painting and bounce houses, along with entertainment and arts and crafts displays. The celebration concludes Sunday with a Gospel music fest in Sullivan's Park in the Green Meadows community from 2 to 6 p.m.
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RICHMOND -- While Monday's massive fire at Chevron's Richmond refinery blackened skies, scared residents and renewed calls for stricter regulation and oversight, the frequency and severity of such accidents at Contra Costa County's four oil refineries have declined significantly since beefed-up industrial safety regulations were put in place 13 years ago.
In fact, Monday's blaze is the first refinery accident to receive the county's most severe designation -- Level 3 -- since a similar fire struck the same facility in 1999.
From 1992 to 1999, Contra Costa's heavy-industry facilities endured 11 Level 3 incidents, killing six workers, injuring almost 50 others and sending more than 23,000 residents to hospitals for treatment.
Industry experts and elected officials say the industrial safety ordinance appears to have played a major role in making accidents such as Monday's much more rare. In three of the past four years, no industrial accidents occurred within the county that generated a severity alert of any level.
Nevertheless, some officials say more must be done to prevent a repeat of Monday's fire that sent noxious smoke billowing over surrounding communities and prompted more than 1,000 people -- including five Chevron emergency responders with minor burns -- to seek medical treatment.
The city of Richmond passed an identical ordinance three years later to cover Chevron, the only such facility in Contra Costa not on county land. However, the county passed additional safety amendments in 2006, and now Richmond's mayor and supervisor and the county's hazardous materials chief are recommending the city add those stricter guidelines.
"We certainly would want to adopt those and possibly go further," Mayor Gayle McLaughlin said. "It's not good enough to say refineries have inherent problems and every five years this will happen. That's not OK."
Supervisor John Gioia, a Richmond resident, said the industrial safety ordinance has served the county well.
"There's been a dramatic decrease in industrial accidents since its implementation," Gioia said. "It's considered the strongest local ordinance in the country. ... This (week's) incident bucks that trend."
The Richmond refinery is governed by some of the most stringent environmental laws in the world, said Chevron spokeswoman Melissa Ritchie.
"Chevron is proud of its overall safety record and remains committed to working safely at all times and all locations," she wrote by email.
The 1990s
On Feb. 23, 1999, before the new regulations had been implemented, Contra Costa hit an industrial-safety low point when workers at the Tosco refinery at Avon, north of Concord, attempted a risky operation to replace piping around a crude-processing unit while it was still operating. Employees cut out part of the pipe, and hot petroleum spewed out and ignited, killing four workers and severely burning a fifth. Two mergers later, Tesoro now operates the Avon refinery.
In May 1999, a blown valve stem sparked a major fire at Chevron's Richmond refinery that shut down most of the plant, left two people with minor injuries and sent smoke over much of the northern Bay Area.
Earlier that year, on Jan. 15, county supervisors narrowly passed the landmark safety ordinance, which refineries fought tooth and nail. After two Level 3 incidents shortly following its passage, the legislation began changing the safety landscape in Contra Costa, a county hosting more industrial hazardous materials per capita and per square mile than any other in the state.
The county program, which augments state regulations, requires companies to have a risk-management plan, safety audits every three years, simplified operating procedures and unannounced inspections. Facilities must respond to safety recommendations and provide three reports (72-hour, 30-day and root-cause) after an incident.
The ordinance also allows the county to levy minor fines and arrest refinery workers on misdemeanor violations -- and sentence them up to six months in jail -- if evidence determines misconduct led to injuries.
In 2006, the county amended the ordinance to require creating a stronger safety culture, security vulnerability assessments and adjustments to the human factor section.
72-hour report
Late Thursday, Chevron sent its mandated 72-hour incident report to the county, offering a brief snapshot at the pollution it caused but few revelations about what caused the leak and fire. The report said operations personnel were evaluating a reported leak in the No. 4 crude unit involving equipment associated with the 8-inch atmospheric distillation pipe before it burst.
In its summary of flare emissions, Chevron noted that more than 2 million standard cubic feet of vent gas was released, in addition to 739 pounds of sulfur dioxide. The company said it was unknown how much hydrocarbon was combusted, adding that no adverse air quality impacts were associated with the fire.
The 2007 fire in the same No. 4 crude unit was sparked when a corroded pipe that should have been removed 20 years earlier was left attached to equipment. The industrial safety ordinance required Chevron to replace dozens of similar pipes from the crude oil processing unit to stave off censure and fines.
Good Neighbor
Strengthening refinery oversight in the county has long been messy.
Triggered by the 1993 General Chemical release that sent a sulfuric acid cloud through Richmond and sent more than 22,000 people to the hospital, the county passed the short-lived Good Neighbor Ordinance. Approved in 1996, the union-sponsored legislation was quickly challenged by refinery and chemical plant operators in court amid concerns it would force them to build new plants.
As the Good Neighbor Ordinance stalled, then-Supervisors Mark DeSaulnier and Joe Canciamilla brought industry executives, union leaders, environmental groups and residents together to develop the new Industrial Safety Ordinance. Environmentalists felt it did not go far enough, but shortly after a court struck down the Good Neighbor Ordinance, the Industrial Safety Ordinance passed.
Now, environmentalists agree that Contra Costa County's four refineries have improved safety records since the county adopted the safety ordinance.
"The frequency and magnitude of serious events has decreased," said Greg Karras, senior scientist with the Communities for a Better Environment.
It's been recognized nationally as the plan to follow, said Contra Costa Hazardous Materials Program Director Randy Sawyer.
"I think the ordinance is still effective," he said. "No matter what you put in place the potential is there for an incident."
Staff writer Denis Cuff contributed to this report. Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.
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MARTINEZ, Ga. (WRDW) -- The National Chicken Council projected more than 1.25 billion wings would be eaten this weekend.
While that means more customers for businesses, that's not the only number that's rising.
"Usually chicken prices are $80 to $85 a case, and when we got the deliveries this week, they were by average, $15 per case higher," said owner and operator of Wingstop Joviane Branker.
That's a substantial increase for businesses right before the big game.
"Yes, drastically, just within the last week," Branker said.
But the owners of Wingstop didn't alter their prices to make up for the hike.
That means even though the store has a line out the door, all those customers won't offset the new price for this Sunday's favorite treat.
"As a business owner you don't want to pass every last cost of your business on to your customer," Branker said.
A case of bone-in chicken wings used to cost $83, but in the past week, it rose $10 more.
While fans are eating their wings, this business is eating the cost. But that's a sacrifice this shop is willing to make, and this is why.
"Got to have the wings. Can't do a Super Bowl without the wings," said customer Paul Gilmore.
"Wings are either one or one-a behind the TV, you gotta have them. Super Bowl, then wings," said customers Adam Brown and Mike Raftenvold.
On a normal day, this restaurant sells about 2,000 wings, but Sunday is a different story.
"We had an order for 2,000 wings before we even opened the door. More like 20,000," Branker said.
Gilmore ordered 60 wings today but said he's contemplating coming back for more.
While the store decided not to spike their prices with the cost of chicken, customers say a dollar or two more wouldn't have mattered.
"We'd still be getting them probably from here, the same amount. Wouldn't change anything," Brown said.
No matter which team you were cheering for tonight, customers say wings are always an easy win.
"Dare I say, 'Winner, winner chicken dinner,'" said Brown, laughing.
The Wingstop on Washington Road was making 800 wings every 15 minutes.
This is the 13th straight year they've broken their own store record on a Super Bowl Sunday.


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Akabane / Itabashi
In Akabane and Itabashi, visitors can get a glimpse of the ordinary day-to-day life of Tokyo. On the east side of Akabane station, there are many traditional shopping districts and small izakayas, while on the west side, there's a modern shopping mall. Itabashi is currently being developed as a residential area with a huge 1.1km long shopping street that extends from east to west. Rows of shops and izakayas target the down to earth everyday needs of locals. Both Akabane and Itabashi are notable for their easy access to the city center as well as their proximity to Ikebukuro.
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Greg Moore: Sabbaticals inflating USNH costs
If you were running a business, how much would you pay your employees not to show up for work? When the employer in question is the University System of New Hampshire (USNH), the answer is almost $65 million over the past 10 years.
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'Homeland,' Season 2, Episode 7, 'The Clearing': TV Recap
On this week's episode of "Homeland," Roya's looking nervous. Abu Nazir's about to strike and it's all hands on deck. She instructs Brody to keep Vice President Walden happy.
Kids Finn and Dana confess to their moms that they accidentally killed a woman in a hit-and-run. The shocking news nearly drives a wedge between the Brodys and the Waldens – the latter want to "take care of it" but the former want to deal with it through the proper channels of authority, even if they're running for office.
Brody brings Dana to the police station and what do you know, "that crazy CIA woman" is there. And here we have the best line of the episode, perhaps of the season so far: "Hi Dana, I'm Carrie!"
Brody's stuck – if he reports the incident and alienates Walden, then his deal with the CIA is off. His family and his colleagues will find out about his ties to Abu Nazir. He tells Dana that now isn't the time to report the hit-and-run, so she runs off in anger. What's Jessica going to say when she finds out Carrie put a stop to their plan?
Earlier in the episode, when Brody and Carrie meet in a clearing surrounded by trees, they can't keep their hands off each other. Last time, they had that special weekend in the woods. Is it the leaves and all that oxygen? She tells him she's met with pesky Mike and told him again to cease and desist with his investigation.
After Carrie makes him feel good in all the right places, Brody goes for a swim in a pool owned by a wealthy supporter who says he vouches for a Walden-Brody ticket. Estes is at the house too, supposedly as Brody's minder, but doesn't it strike him as odd that Nazir's agent turned CIA double agent is now close to becoming the Vice Presidential nominee? Isn't there a handbook somewhere that forbids that kind of triple-dipping?
Meanwhile, Saul and Quinn (who discharges himself from the hospital and self-medicates with pills) try to track down the mysterious Nazir contact who gunned down the Gettysburg team. Galvez, meanwhile, is still alive for now, but dying.
Saul pays a visit to Eileen in prison. She's the American who identified Tom Walker in season one and conspired with her late husband, Rakim, to aid Abu Nazir. Eileen's been in solitary confinement and asks to speak to Saul in a room upstairs, with light. He shows her the photograph of Nazir's contact and she claims to know him but wants a guarantee of a cell with a window before she'll talk. Saul speaks to the warden, who amusingly insults his grooming instead (apparently there's bad blood between his penitentiary and Homeland Security) so Saul waits for the Attorney General to override the decision.
In the meantime, Saul brings Eileen wine, cheese and bread. She says she still thinks about their drive from Mexico, and asks Saul about his wife. Mira, he says, is living in Mumbai. He tried being closer to her by moving to Lebanon (closer how?), but that didn't work out. (He also rented out their house while he was away, so where has Saul been living all this time?)
The Attorney General's order comes through and Eileen gives a name, sending Saul and Quinn on a merry chase through Newark. Turns out it's the wrong guy. Why would she lie, what does that buy her, Saul asks? Turns out, it buys her time to kill herself with Saul's reading glasses. Saul becomes emotional as he attends to her in her last moments. She says her last day spent with him has been good.
It's not clear why "Homeland" writers chose to revisit Eileen, since she didn't add to the search for Nazir's man. She did remind us of Saul's affection for Mira, and perhaps he and Eileen will end up having more in common than we think.
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VAIL, Colorado - The very heart of Vail's target market is in town this week, and they seem ready to spend.
One of the windows in Ron Byrne's Vail Village real estate office looks out over Bridge Street. Byrne said he's seen a lot of people this week, and many of those people are carrying shopping bags.
"It's a buying crowd this year," Byrne said.
Most of that buying is being done in the shops in the resort villages. But some buying is being done in homes and offices, too.
Byrne, who's primary business in high-end real estate in Vail and Beaver Creek, said his company will hold open houses virtually every day during the highest of the high seasons. Those efforts, along with a lot of marketing, can bring some significant offers on property.
"These are very well qualified buyers," Byrne said. And those buyers act when they see what they want. Byrne's company recently put a Forest Road home under contract for $13.5 million.
But those big sales don't happen every day.
Taz Akkad runs Lamina, a jewelry store in Vail Village. Akkad said this is a good time to be in his business. On the other hand, he said, no merchant is ever sure when a customer who wants a big-ticket item will walk through the door.
"That's why we stay open in the off season," Akkad said. "We could make a sale in May."
Akkad's store has a case filled with items from a ring that looks like the diamonds are floating in liquid and a ring that can turn into a bracelet. He calls it the "Oh my God" case.
Even in Vail, there are weeks when a couple of those items will leave the store, then weeks when nothing does.
There are cases like Akkad's "holy cow" collection in Karats, a longtime Vail Village jewelry store. There, Kaitlin McNany said when people see those items and don't say "holy cow," she knows she has a prospective buyer.
"People come in and if they see something and like it, they'll buy it," McNany said.
Masters Gallery owner Rayla Kundolf said that's because people shopping for just about anything know what they want.
"It's a more sophisticated customer," Kundolf said. "Whether it's film, or great food or art, they like quality."
Clients like that are "what Vail's all about," Kundolf said. While Kundolf said sophisticated clients aren't necessarily big spenders, she added that they're willing to buy when they see what they like.
Rob DeLuca and his wife, Barb, came to Vail in 1977. Their store, Currents, has been in the same Bridge Street location since 1985. Rob DeLuca agreed that this is one of the weeks where his store and the bulk of Vail's visitors are a good match.
"I wish we had more weeks like this during the season," he said. "We're very thankful for this week."
DeLuca said business this year has been better than any since before the national economic slump hit in 2008, but said seasons earlier in the last decade may have been better.
DeLuca agreed with Kundolf's belief that Vail shoppers are more accustomed to seeing remarkable items.
"If you look at the rates people are paying, and the distances they travel, that's a pretty significant outlay," DeLuca said. "These are people who travel and shop in a lot of luxury markets, so they're conditioned to a certain level of quality."
The secret, if there is one, is to have items that appeal to those tastes. And, Kundolf said, that discerning eye often runs in families.
"One year there might be someone who will buy something, and the next year we'll sell something to his uncle, and the next year to his son or grandson," Kundolf said.
Those return customers are what makes Vail's destination crowds tick, and those crowds are in Vail now.
"It's just a good time to be in business, in Vail," Kundolf said.
Business Editor Scott N. Miller can be reached at 970-748-2930 or email@example.com.


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United States Department of Agriculture
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1a.Objectives (from AD-416)
This project has an objective to study how ARS-manufactured carbons can be used to adsorb heavy metals and chlorinated organics in contaminated sediments. This adsorption may cause the contaminants to be less available to biota.
1b.Approach (from AD-416)
ARS will test ARS-manufactured activated carbons on surrogate wastewaters. The "best" carbons will be forwarded to the collaborator at University of Maryland.
The collaborator will test the activated carbons in a sediment matrix for adsorption capabilities and for reduced contaminant bioavailability.
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August 1st was the first day that Pizza Hut began capitalizing on EBT. With two participating locations in Oakland and seven more throughout the East Bay, Pizza Hut should see an increase in sales.
But those increases in sales could also lead to an increase in the obesity rate as well as the rate of diabetes in the inner city. Dr. Kenneth Matsamura of the West Oakland Health Center said, "a lot of my overweight patients got that way by eating comfort foods like pizza in excess."
The Mayo Clinic's "Living with diabetes blog" published a very unfavorable report on the relationship between pizza and diabetes in 2009. Although pizza can at times be rich in protein, vegetables, and complex carbohydrates, it has also been linked to obesity and bad cholesterol. The best things that Pizza Hut have to offer are hot wings, deep dish pizza, and sodas galore. Not good.
Dorsey's Locker has been in business since 1941. Their menu is comprised of soul food with a New Orleans theme. The food is delicious. It is also very fried and very sweet - rich in sodium, sugar, and fat.
I personally grew up eating soul food. Today, I am slightly overweight and I am also a diabetic. I attribute my diabetes to the diet I grew up on - soul food.
The food at Dorsey's Locker is also slightly overpriced for someone trying to survive off of the meager allotment of food stamps they receive. The average meal and drink at Dorsey's runs about twenty dollars. At those prices, a recipient can only afford to eat for maybe a week.
The benefit amount varies, but according to the Alameda County Social Services website, the average applicant receives $73 a month in food stamps. If the person is head of a household the size of one they can receive up to $200.
In the 1990s, Subway sandwich shops accepted food stamps in Oakland. They no longer do. Subway might be at least a slightly healthier option than pizza or soul food (although some of their food is also high in sodium ad fat). But health has nothing to do with the bottom line. Pizza Hut and Dorsey's Locker did not start accepting food stamps to promote health. It seems to me like they accept stamps now to increase profit. That unhealthy food isn't helping anyone but themselves.
Programs like CalFresh (once officially, and sometimes still, known as Food Stamps), and General Assistance were put in place to help those in need feed themselves until they get on their feet. If those in need are eventually diagnosed with diabetes, heart disease or other illnesses as a result of poor diets, state and federal governments may find themselves spending heavily on healthcare in the near future.
Fast food and soul food are parts of American culture. Knowing that, these two establishments have made a choice to capitalize on the EBT market.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Inspired by explorers from Magellan to Neil Armstrong, attendees of Silicon Valley's first adult space camp are teaming up to navigate the next frontier: citizens in space.
Sure, humans have been blasting into outer space for half a century, but the privilege has thus far been reserved for highly trained astronauts. This weekend's Citizen Astronaut and Space Hacker Workshop of more than 100 space experts -- and aspiring space experts -- was focused on shooting the common man and his gadgets into orbit in hopes of going beyond the discoveries of NASA and other government programs.
"I grew up getting excited by astronauts, and I thought, 'how could I do this myself?' " said Manu Sharma, co-founder of Infinity Aerospace, a startup at Mountain View's Moffett Field, who spoke at the citizen science event. "Instinctively, we're all explorers. There's nothing left to explore on this planet."
Space customers
The event at the Hacker Dojo, appropriately across Highway 101 from NASA's Ames Research Center, featured speakers preaching way-out-there ideas such as colonizing Mars or building intergalactic gas stations to fuel rocket ships. And there were plans that entrepreneurs insist are only a year away, namely sending the first paying customer into space aboard a passenger rocket ship, at a cost of at least $95,000 per space tourist.
The rock star organization of the event was XCOR Aerospace, a Southern California company competing with Virgin Galactic to send the first space tourist into flight. Virgin last week completed further testing on its spacecraft, breaking the sound barrier on Earth, while XCOR is still testing its engines.
Aboard XCOR's reusable Lynx vehicle, a professional astronaut would take one person at a time to view Earth from space for a few minutes before returning to solid ground. The Lynx looks like a plane with vertical wings that can zip down a 7,500-foot runway and then shoot straight up by burning a laser of fire behind it.
"This is imminent," said Khaki Rodway, XCOR's director of payload sales and operations. "Science fiction is becoming science reality."
But many of the attendees urged Silicon Valley engineers to develop the tools that can be launched into space with the capability of gathering pivotal data as an alternative way to leave their mark on intergalactic exploration. That's a particularly appealing option in a region packed with engineers and programmers who in many cases have the knowledge and passion to develop the instruments that are furthering space research. It's also a cheaper option than buying a ticket on a commercial space flight.
Not complete nerds
It may sound intimidating to anyone who hasn't earned a science degree from Stanford or spent an overnight hacking session at the Facebook campus, but there are plenty of ways to get involved -- from doing fashion design, working on astronauts' infamous pressure suits to imagining what kinds of food can be produced in space.
"We're trying to get away from being complete nerds," said Oana Marcu, principal investigator for the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute in Mountain View. "Science is accessible. There's no reason for you not to do it."
Sean Casey, managing director of Silicon Valley Space Center, one of the organizers of the two-day, sold-out event, calls the movement to give the Average Joe access to the solar system "the democratization of space." And it didn't hurt that the event opened on May 4 -- unofficial Star Wars Day, honoring the movie that inspired many of today's scientists to delve into the space field.
"There's a lot of pent-up demand for access to space," Casey said, noting he hoped the region's venture capitalists could help fund some of the local startups pushing the burgeoning field. "Space entrepreneurship belongs to Silicon Valley."
Contact Mike Rosenberg at 408-920-5705. Follow him at twitter.com/RosenbergMerc.


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- Jul 5:
- BART service resumes; August strike threat remains
- BART to resume service, no deal reached with union
- Jul 4:
- BART strike ends; trains to begin running Friday afternoon
- Jul 3:
- BART strike talks stretch toward holiday
- BART strike hits Day 3 as overnight negotiations yield no deal; talks to resume this afternoon
- Negotiations ongoing, but BART strike likely to continue Wednesday
- Jul 2:
- BART strike talks resume as attention turns to Fourth of July travel
- Data Center: Current and projected average BART wages
- Director says his team must hold the line in BART negotiations
- BART strike: San Francisco garages raising rates over parking crunch
- With no BART, 4th of July plans shift
- BART strike: What can be done to get trains running?
- Contra Costa Times editorial: Overlap of AC Transit, BART contract expirations leaves East Bay vulnerable
- With BART on strike, A's encourage fans to carpool to games against Cubs
- BART strike: Labor talks set to resume after 36-hour break since shutdown
- Jul 1:
- BART strike leaves commuters weary, wiser for Day 2
- BART strike costing Bay Area economy more than $73 million a day
- Herhold: Time and geography will shape the BART strike
- Contra Costa Times editorial: Striking BART workers out of touch with financial reality.
- The Great BART Strike Race of 2013: A recap
- BART strike: Commute chaos rages on as strike begins with no end in sight
- Bart Strike Raw Video: What commuters have to say about transit strike
- Jerry Brown's office asks that BART talks continue
- Jun 30:
- Bay Area commuters scramble for alternatives on Day 1 of BART strike
- BART strike: With a day left, labor talks fail again Saturday but pay proposal doubled
- Roadshow: Getting ready for BART-ageddon
- Jun 29:
- BART's top-level employees' vacation bank tops 69 years of unused time off
- BART strike: Guide to getting around the Bay Area during shutdown
- Jun 28:
- BART riders worry strike could make travel miserable
SAN FRANCISCO -- The BART strike that unleashed chaos on Bay Area highways Monday has become a business opportunity for ride-sharing and carpooling services and taxi-hailing apps, which have stepped in to help stranded commuters get to work.
Bay Area ride services Uber, Lyft and Sidecar jumped on social media networks over the weekend, as a strike began to look imminent, to recruit commuters who needed to get to work. Early Monday morning they filled the roads with their drivers, and the calls came in. By 9:30 a.m. Monday, Sidecar had seen a 40 percent increase in rides over the previous Monday, and had increased the number of drivers on the road by 50 percent to keep up with growing demand, said Margaret Ryan, vice president of communications.
Public transit strikes are a marketing opportunity for these ride-sharing companies. Uber, which uses an app to dispatch black town cars, taxis and low-cost rides in hybrids or small cars, said it planned to visit some BART stations during the strike to recruit commuters without a ride. The company offered free rides in Boston when one of the city's mostly highly used rail lines shut down for several weekends in late 2011 and early 2012.
The three startups said the strike proves that the congested Bay Area needs more transportation options, and ride-sharing services will help to mitigate the economic blow of the strike by helping commuters get to work and keep businesses open.
"In times of crisis, this is when alternative transportation services like Sidecar are at their best," Rachael King, national social media manager for Sidecar, wrote in a blog post on the company website.
Despite their growing popularity among commuters, ride-sharing and car service apps continue their battle with state and local regulators, who say the companies violate public safety rules and should be licensed like city taxi cabs. The state Public Utilities Commission last year fined Uber, Sidecar and Lyft's parent company, Zimride, and last month the Los Angeles Department of Transportation sent the three companies a cease and desist order, which the companies rejected.
Sidecar, which makes money by taking a cut of the fees that riders pay to drivers, is letting all drivers keep those fees between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays.
Companies with taxi-hailing apps are also cashing in. Flywheel, an app that lets riders hail and pay for taxis on their smartphone, expected to see a surge in demand from riders who typically take BART from outlying neighborhoods in San Francisco to the city center, said Brogan Keane, chief marketing officer. The company, based in Redwood City, works with about 900 cabs in the Bay Area and makes about 60 cents off each passenger those cabs pick up using the Flywheel app.
Demand for taxi-hailing app Taxi Magic was "very heavy, but not insane" Monday morning, said Matt Carrington, marketing director for the company, which serves San Francisco and San Jose. If the afternoon commute picks up, Taxi Magic will roll out a premium service that requires passengers to pay $5 or $10 more but guarantees that the cab would show up when called to a home or business, Carrington said.
"When there is a lot of demand out there, especially on the street, (cabs) will pick up the street hail and they're not as likely to go pick up someone five miles down the road," he said.
Some San Francisco residents said they had to take a cab to work because the buses, which are operated by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, or Muni, were too full to stop at all bus stops.
Other commuters turned to carpooling as a cheaper alternative. Avego, a website and smartphone app that helps Bay Area commuters set up carpools, added about 700 drivers between midnight and 7 a.m. Monday, said CEO Sean O'Sullivan. Those drivers picked up commuters who work nearby, lessening the number of cars on the road, although it may not have been noticeable Monday. In some places, a 40-minute commute grew to two hours.
"Today was a horrific day for drivers," O'Sullivan said. "It's been hellacious."
The crawling commute home won't be agonizing just for drivers, it could also snarl reservations at car rental sites during the peak of summer vacation travel. Employees at the Avis and Budget rental sites in San Francisco's Soma neighborhood said they were worried that heavy traffic would delay car returns. That would mean cars may not be ready for customers with reservations Monday evening or Tuesday morning who are trying to get away for the Fourth of July weekend.
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- On November 8, 2006, Westcoast Energy Inc. declared the following quarterly dividends:
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Clemson, South Carolina football finish in USA Today top 10
Published: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 12:26 a.m.
The South Carolina and Clemson football teams both finished in the top 10 of the USA Today Top 25 poll released on Tuesday morning after the completion of the BCS Championship game.
South Carolina was seventh and Clemson ninth. Clemson's ranking marked the first time the Tigers (11-2) placed in the top 10 of a football poll since 1990.
The Gamecocks (11-2) were eighth in the final Associated Press poll, while the Tigers were 11th. South Carolina's rankings were the highest in program history, beating last year's placements in both polls by one spot.
Also, USC defensive end Jadeveon Clowney was selected as college football's All-America Player of the Year presented by AT&T. The award is decided solely by a fan vote.
The 6-foot-6, 256-pound sophomore from Rock Hill finished the season with 54 tackles, including 40 solo stops and a school-record 13 sacks. Last year's recipient of the award was Baylor Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III.
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Professor to Try to Salvage Troubled "Do Not Track" Deal
Ohio State Law professor Peter Swire has agreed to step in to try to salvage contentious negotiations between privacy advocates and the online advertising industry over how to block unwanted online tracking.
However, the appointment of Mr. Swire, who served as chief counselor for privacy in the Clinton Administration, is unlikely to result in a do-not-track deal by the end of this year, as previously promised.
Earlier this year, a coalition of Internet giants agreed to support a do-not-track button that would let Web users block tracking with a single privacy setting in their Web browser. Currently, Web users who want to turn off tracking must install tracking files from more than 100 companies, alerting those companies that they do not want to be tracked.
In the fall, negotiations between the online ad industry – which conducts most of the online tracking — and privacy advocates over how to implement the agreement ran aground.
Both sides said the appointment of Mr. Swire as co-chair of World Wide Web Consortiums' Tracking Protection Working Group was unlikely to be enough to save the effort.
"It's a sinking ship," said Jeffrey Chester, a privacy advocate and executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy. "The lifeboats are in the water. And whether or not Peter can rescue a few survivors remains to be seen."
Stuart P. Ingis, counsel for the industry group, the Digital Advertising Alliance agreed that the process was broken. "Just changing the quarterback isn't going to change things, the playbook needs to be changed," he said.
For his part, Mr. Swire held out hope. He said his goal is to promote a deal that would "foster an Internet that users can trust." However, he conceded that the group is unlikely to meet its goal of completing work by the end of this year. "We're starting immediately and working intensively during the next couple months," Mr. Swire said.
The Federal Trade Commission first called for the creation of a do-not-track mechanism about two years ago. At first, the ad industry resisted and developed a system of placing privacy notices inside online advertisements.
But in February, under pressure from Congress and the FTC, a coalition of Internet giants announced at White House ceremony that they would agree to support a do-not-track button to be embedded in most Web browsers.
However, the advertising industry said it would only implement do-not-track when Web browsers met certain demands, which include exemptions for certain types of tracking and for the do-not-track setting to be turned 'off' by default in Web browsers.
At the same time, the World Wide Web Consortium – an international standards-setting body – was developing a technical standard for the implementation of do-not-track using a consensus-based approach.
In the past year, the W3C's meetings have become the setting for debates between the privacy community and the industry over what do-not-track should mean.
For example, the industry's definition of do-not-track includes an exception for tracking related to market research and product development. Privacy advocates have pushed for limits on how long the industry can keep data for such purposes, and requirements that the data be anonymized after a certain date.
Mr. Ingis, said the technical consortium was the wrong forum for those types of policy negotiations. He said the policy discussions should be left to the "professionals" and that he hopes that Mr. Swire could "serve as a bridge to the policy discussions."
Ian Jacobs, a spokesman for the consortium said that the privacy discussions are part of the organization's work. "W3C is the organization the community comes to for Web standards," he said.


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nothing left to say
By cherelle jardine on November 5, 2008 - 9:36pm
Cherelle Jardine's
Video Premiere Screening
"Nothing Left to Say"
Directed by
Murray Wasylnuk
Sunday November 30th
8 pm
The Media Club
695 Cambie St
Vancouver BC
604 608 2871
Live performances by
Cherelle Jardine
Doug Smith
Arlen Park
Tickets $10.00
at the door
All proceeds go to
the Kids Help Phone
For more information or interviews
604 306 0632
Local singer songwriter Cherelle Jardine teamed up with Producer Murray Wasylnuk to film a video for her song "Nothing left to Say" recorded in Blue Rodeo's studio "The Woodshed" in Toronto.
The song and video is a snapshot of what may happen to a young teen, that is abused and sent out on the street to fend for themselves. Jardine and Wasylnuk contacted Kids Help Phone to offer the release event as a fundraiser for the National organization. Cherelle feels it is so important that today's youth have somewhere they can call when they need help, wishing she had that service when she was growing up. Kids Help Phone, professional counsellors available for kids in Canada has a local office in Vancouver.
Sunday November 30th 8 pm The Media Club 695 Cambie St Vancouver BC


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Editor's note: Director's Chair is a column where Kris Sabel, who is in charge of cultural programming for the Vail Valley Foundation, gives his expert take on shows not to be missed at the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek.
Friends, it's an exciting time to be in this valley. Those who know me know that I get extremely passionate about and stand 100 percent behind every show that we host at the Vilar Performing Arts Center because I know that it will be a great show, but in the coming couple of weeks we truly have some spectacular things happening down here under the ice rink in Beaver Creek.
First on the list is this Sunday: Jonas Kaufmann.
I've dedicated an entire Director's Chair column to this famed operatic tenor and I won't dive in again, except to say that his voice and the experience you will receive if you come to his recital on Sunday are something quite exceptional. Mr. Kaufmann joins us for one of very few solo performances in the U.S. this year, and we have guests from all over the world coming to our hall to hear him sing. It's going to be a magical evening and even if you're not traditionally an opera enthusiast, we hope you'll consider this opportunity.
With one international star on Sunday comes two more just a few days after. Robin Williams - arguably one of the brightest imaginations on the planet - will be joined on stage with David Steinberg for an evening of comedy in sit down format on Thursday. Though Steinberg's name is less recognizable, he's the visionary behind many of the most successful projects and sitcoms on television.
I've received a few calls and comments from community members balking at the sticker price for Robin Williams, and my response has been this: First, I recognize that a ticket at this price does not cater to everyone in our community, and we've worked hard to bring a great variety of shows to our venue that serve various tastes and price levels. And second, never in our wildest dreams could we book Robin Williams (nor did we expect to, until very recently) without the extremely generous support of our donors. Even with the contributions we've received, the Vilar Center will not profit from this show. We brought it to the valley because a big name is a huge win for this community in so many ways.
The last show that I want to get on your radar (and I wish I had room to mention more) is Marc Cohn. This is his third appearance at the Vilar Center and each of his previous concerts stand out as audience favorites. I sometimes receive a blank stare when I mention his name, until I mention his legendary hit "Walking in Memphis." And suddenly, eyes light up and his famed soulful croon floods back into memory.
Cohn will be featuring his latest project, titled "Listening Booth: 1970" with a series of transformed songs from Cat Stevens, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Smokey Robinson, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Bread. It will be a legendary evening of a very successful era of rock, and it will feature one of the few voices that has the right and the talent to take it on. Cohn takes our stage Wednesday.
I'll see you at the show!


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AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to completely and properly uninstall unwanted apps.
It isn't, in fact, sufficient to just delete an application. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily.
AppCleaner can find all these small files and safely delete them.
The toolbar has the following useful features.
Drop an application onto the AppCleaner icon and AppCleaner searches for the related files and then by clicking the red cross it deletes them.
If you change your mind, just click on the green arrow back button.
The "Applications" button shows all the applications installed on your system. You can select them and then click on the magnifying glass search button. AppCleaner will search for the related files of the selected applications and delete them, too.
The "Widgets" button shows all the installed widgets and the "Others" button displays all the installed Preference Panes, Plugins and Screen Savers.
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Tags: uninstall , delete , trash
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Great app, and does perform clean deletes of caches, hidden files etc.
This software, this free software is one of the most useful in the all day life...
Everyone should have it! AppCleaner asks my approbation before throwing the files into the trash, a great security, although I never saw mistakes happen with it !
@ ruahine:
You may try a replacement icon for AppCleaner. I'm using this one:
This does the job well, but the icon is horrible. Sticks out badly on my dock.
I have to agree with the previous poster, on one point. The 'Search' is somewhat counter-intuitive, and I believe it should be replaced with an 'Uninstall' button (or some other similar string).
Very questionable usability. Dragging apps onto the "uninstall" area works like a breeze, but clicking to "Applications" or "Widgets" is a confusing experience. One can select a bunch of things to delete, but then there's no obvious "uninstall" button, except for the one in the toolbar which switches to the Uninstall pane and loses the current selection.
It would be much clearer if the "Search" button at bottom was instead labeled "Uninstall selected" or something similar.
shiste, with this release, pretty much every bug i have seen is fixed. this "uninstaller" is now perfect. functional, thorough & visually appealing... bravo! feature-wise it's like a combination of uApp & AppTrap (because of the optional smart delete feature). brilliant work.
side note on my previous comment: i deleted the plist file from a previous version of appcleaner and now all the features seem to work just fine on leopard.
i have been using the leopard beta of appcleaner and aside from two apparent bugs; one which seems to prevent it from displaying widgets in the widgets panel and the other, which is that the history window is non-functional, i have to say that the rest of the application's features work fantastically.
i wouldn't call the interface obnoxious. maybe a little needlessly flashy! I suppose some people might like that.
Its just a 3d spinning cude that spins/changes sides one you click an option... a drag and drop interface as you'd expect but also has a list of all apps, widgets and plugins found on the system too.
Sure it might miss out the odd file but i suppose without a decent test know one will know which is the better this appzapper or appdelete! any one willing to give it a go
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A 6-foot-5, 275-pound offensive lineman from Trinity Christian Academy in Jacksonville, Harkless is one of Florida's nine early enrollees.
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I have been streaming mp4 (x.264 AVC / ac3 audio) files for several years without any issue until I started processing TV recordings where I had to adjust the audio synchronization. I normally process my videos primarily with ffmpeg, and I found two issues:
(1) Regarding the video sync adjustment, many typical methods using ffmpeg or virtualdub seem to work as long as you test the result with players like VLC, Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, etc., but the PS3 ignores these corrections. The only method I found was to demux the audio, apply the delay using beSweet, and remux it with the video (in the mp4 container). The process is very fast, and seems to work, but a new issue appears:
(2) Typically, my mp4 files are streamed by the PMS without any issue, and they are not transcoded, so that navigating inside the file, from 'chapter' to 'chapter' is very fast. However, the new mp4 files obtained by remultiplexing the audio and video streams via ffmpeg seem to require transcoding, and the video then plays slowly, with a stuttering effect, like one frame every 20 seconds (audio plays fine).
The only difference I can see between the mp4 that plays well without transcoding, and the one that doesn't, using MediaInfo, is that the first one seems to keep the encoding information, for example:
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Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x111 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=21.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Is there a workaround for that situation?
Note: I'm using PMS 1.52.1 on XP, and a more recent version on Vista. Same behavior.
On the PS3, Information on the file not playing correctly (transcoding) shows MPEG-2, information on the file playing well (no transcoding) shows MPEG-4.


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Benefit No. 1: Driving a New Car
Leasing lets consumers always have a new or late-model car in the driveway. This has some obvious benefits, including the ability to keep up with the industry's hottest cars and trends. This may not be the most prudent reason, but leasing is often a lifestyle or business choice, rather than a financial one.
These same drivers benefit from having the latest safety technology. Plus, newer cars have the latest creature comforts; technology advances faster than the length of a typical car-loan term.
Another benefit of driving a late-model car is fewer repair bills. If you're leasing to avoid future haggling with your mechanic, make sure the lease term is shorter than or equal to the car's bumper-to-bumper warranty.
Benefit No. 2: Cash Flow
Leases are attractive to many car buyers because they can get more car for a lower monthly payment. How is that possible? Lessees only pay for the depreciation on the car, not the entire vehicle. In effect, they're renting the car for the length of the lease.
Leasing can reduce your initial cash outlay. This allows for a more intelligent use of cash rather than putting it toward the questionable investment of car ownership since cars are depreciating assets.
There are other financial advantages in leasing. If you use your car for your job, leasing payments can be written off as a business expense on your tax returns. Additionally, lease obligations don't show up as debt on a credit report, which may be important to companies that buy multiple cars for business use.
Benefit No. 3: Subvented Lease Deals
Automakers offer incentives on leasing as well as big cash-back offers to those who buy. Such leasing incentives are called lease subvention.
Subvention is when an automaker subsidizes a consumer in an effort to move slow-selling cars. Automakers offer subvention deals because they're in the business of putting cars on the street. That philosophy of "move units now, pay later" is directly to the consumer's benefit, experts say.


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Probably been said before but Dishonoured is a lot like a fusion of Half Life 2 & Bioshock.
One example - When you run out of mana & activate magic in Dishonored it automatically uses any obtained potions to fill the bar...like Bioshock.
Anyway I'm nearly finished the game. I definately needed some alone time with games to get into this, instead of playing it in small bursts. I've gone from liking it, but not being that fussed to wanting to replay it without any killing soon as I complete it.
Yeah, that totally makes up for the gameplay being completely different and barely going into shooter territory at all.
I don't think it's like Bioshock in any meaningful way, is what I mean. Sorry, I'm kinda grumpy today. Didn't get much sleep.
It doesn't go into shooter territory because it's not really a shooter, albeit affording you all manner of killery. Its lead designers come from games like Deus Ex and Thief, which is why it's a lot like Deus Ex and Thief (stealth oriented and relatively open). Aesthetically it has a similar consistency and idiosyncratic style to Bioshock.
Never played Half-Life so don't know about that comparison
Frankly, the only real similarities to Bioshock are in the basic format of the power presentation and the two separate player buffs in the form of powers and charms. The rest is solidly Thief and Deus Ex, while somehow feeling unlike either of those games at the same time. Some visual comparisons, and not much else, could be made to Half-life 2, because the city design is from the same dude.
Um so yeah completed the game yesterday. Started a new game so I could get the Clean Hands achievement (which I think I accidentally fucked up as I poisoned High Overseer Campbell & have no saves to really go back and sort that out). But I decided to get some other achievements and went to the mission select screen. They're all locked or to be more precise I can only select the mission I'm on. What's the about?
When you complete a game like that you should be able to reply any mission at will. But by starting a new mission it's eradicated all saves and acting as if I've never finished the game and therefore access the ability to now pick and choose levels. AM I MAD?
Spoiler!The only way to get clean hands is to steal the key from granny rags and run away without fighting her or not starting her questline at all(or something like that, it's kinda complicated. In short, if you HAVE to face her, steal the key and run.
That's why I started a new game, so I can do a single run for those achievements.
But if you go into mission select, you automatically invalidate the achievements. Or so I heard. You can't, say, play all the way to mission 6, go back to 4, then continue to 7.
I actually can't verify that, but I do believe that every run that I did that ended in an achievement was in order. It took mye 4 player-throughs. I wasn't efficient about it because I find that trying to get all of the achievements in one or two runs results in an inferior experience, since you end up micromanaging all of that shit the whole time instead of enjoying the game. It would make sense if you couldn't use the level select to "touch up" a run for the achievement, though.
Ugh can I be bothered to start again for the Clean Hands achievement. I don't understand where Granny Rags comes into the killing of Overseer Campbell in the early missions? How do I get rid of him and not void the Clean Hands achievement? Do I just render him unconcious?
Spoiler!For Campbell, spill the drinks and wait for him and Curnow to get to his secret room. After Campbell draws his sword, sleep dart him and talk to Curnow. Take Campbell to the Interrogation Room and brand him. The brand is on the room overlooking the interrogation room, and you can enter it from the end of the corridor. If you do this, he'll be banished and you'll actually find him in the Flooded District if you recover your equipment.
Spoiler!By the time I got to them, the man I was supposed to save had a poisoned drink to his lips. Thought I was too late but putting an arrow in the other guy made him drop his glass just in time.
Which was still pretty cool, come to think of it.
Spoiler!First time I played, I just sleep-darted Curnow. Campbell ran but I knocked him out before he got to the door.
My favorite thing about Campbell is whenSpoiler!when he said, "I need scissors 61!" hyuk hyuk.
Spoiler!"I never liked you!!"
I'm restarting...again.