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Pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (Commission or CPSC) announces that it has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for extension of approval of a collection of information associated with the Commission's safety standard for walk-behind power lawn mowers.
Written comments on this request for extension of approval of information collection requirements should be submitted by January 25, 2013.
To ensure that comments on the information collection are received, the OMB recommends that written comments be faxed to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attn: CPSC Desk Officer, FAX: 202-395-6974, or emailed to email@example.com. All comments should be identified by Docket No. CPSC-2012-0058. In addition, written comments also should be submitted at http://www.regulations.gov, under Docket No. CPSC-2012-0058, or by mail/hand delivery/courier (for paper, disk, or CD-ROM submissions), preferably in five copies, to: Office of the Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Room 820, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301) 504-7923. For access to the docket to read background documents or comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov.
Robert H. Squibb, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone: 301-504-7923 or by email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
In the Federal Register of October 4, 2012, and October 17, 2012 (77 FR 60683, 77 FR 63800), the Consumer Product Safety Commission published a notice in accordance with provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) to announce the agency's intention to seek extension of approval of the collection of information required in the Safety Standard for Walk-Behind Power Lawn Mowers (16 CFR Part 1205). Three comments were received in response to that notice. Two commenters questioned the need to collect any information. One commenter stated that lawn mowers should not be imported from China and Korea. This comment is outside the scope of the proposed collection of information which concerns only issues related to the collection of information. The Safety Standard for Walk-Behind Power Lawn Mowers establishes performance and labeling requirements for mowers to reduce unreasonable risks of injury resulting from accidental contact with the moving blades of mowers. Certification regulations implementing the standard require manufacturers, importers, and private labelers of mowers subject to the standard to test mowers for compliance with the standard and to maintain records of that testing. The records of testing and other information required by the certification regulations allow the Commission to determine that walk-behind power mowers subject to the standard comply with its requirements. This information also enables the Commission to obtain corrective actions if mowers fail to comply with the standard in a manner that creates a substantial risk of injury to the public.
We estimate that about 34 firms are subject to the testing and recordkeeping requirements of the certification regulations. We estimate further that the annual testing and recordkeeping burden imposed by the regulations on each of these firms on average is approximately 390 hours. Thus, the total annual burden imposed by the certification regulations on all manufacturers and importers of walk-behind power mowers is about 13,260 hours (34 firms x 390 hours).
In addition, manufacturers are expected to spend an additional hour, per production day, to collect the information for labeling. Accordingly, an additional 130 hours per firm are added to the total burden. For the 34 firms involved, the total estimated burden related to labeling is 4,420 hours. Aggregate annual burden hours related to testing, recordkeeping, and labeling are estimated to be 520 hours per firm and 17,680 hours for the industry.
The hourly wage for the time required to perform the required testing and recordkeeping is approximately $61.75 (Bureau of Labor Statistics: total compensation for management, professional, and related workers in goods-producing private industries: http://www.bls.gov/ncs), and the hourly wage for the time required to maintain the labeling requirements is approximately $27.64 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, total compensation for all sales and office workers in goods-producing, private industries: http://www.bls.gov/ncs). The annualized total cost to the industry for annual testing and recordkeeping is estimated to be $818,805, based on 13,260 hours x $61.75. The annualized cost burden related to labeling is estimated to be $122,169, based on 4,420 hours x $27.64. Aggregate burden costs related to testing, recordkeeping, and labeling are estimated to be $940,972 for the industry.
Dated: December 20, 2012.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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Clogged Drainage Ditches Cause Concern
Flash flooding is at the tops of Colorado Springs residents' minds as storms developed Wednesday afternoon.
Frank Sanders said he suffered flooding at his home near the 31st Street Drainage Ditch in 1999, and he told KRDO Newschannel 13 he is worried it will happen again.
He said the city of Colorado Springs has done an efficient job in clearing the drainage ditch along 31st Street, but said the portion of the ditch that extends toward Garden of the Gods Park is overgrown with trees and brush.
"If you go look at it, there's no way the water's going to get under the culvert. It's full of trees," said Sanders.
Sanders said he has been alerting the city and his city councilmen about the issue.
"I'd like to see them cut all those trees out of there and cut all the brush out and open the channel up," he said.
Sanders wishes were granted Wednesday afternoon.
Crews were working on a portion of Camp Creek, eliminating trees and vegetation obstructing the culverts.
According to Kurt Schroeder, Colorado Springs parks, trails and open space manager, overgrowth in drainage ditches has been identified as an issue, and he said the city is working diligently to mitigate this threat.
"Should it rain a significant amount, the concern is the vegetation that may be right in the creek is it could create maybe a damming effect," said Schroeder.
Schroeder said they are implementing plans to mitigate flash flooding and will continue to do so.
"To clean up the entire Camp Creek area, we're going to be working on that for a while," he said.
"Over the years I've called many times. You can see from the size of the tree trunks there and they have done nothing. So, yes, this is satisfaction, to see them doing it," said Sanders.
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Butler County sheriff's deputies are investigating a fiery Wednesday morning crash.
Deputies said Mary Tumbleson,42, of Darrtown Road, was driving a pickup northbound in the 1900 block of Darrtown Road shortly before 6:30 a.m when she apparently lost control after cresting a small hill, went off the right side of the roadway and struck a tree.
The vehicle spun around, striking another tree and then burst into flames, deputies said.
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Background Checks, Taxes
Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 11:43 p.m.
Two things that just won't work are mandatory criminal background checks on private gun sales and collecting sales tax on all Internet sales. Any free-thinking person should realize this. Here are a couple of for instances:
I sell you a gun, or you sell me a gun. By mutual agreement, that's it, period. If we happen to meet at a gun show, we'll just leave the premises to conduct the sale.
Who would pay for the background checks and who would see them? If I pay, I should see. Suppose for kicks I contemplate a gun sale to someone just to see that person's criminal background. Incidentally, isn't the criminal background of the seller just as important as the criminal background of the buyer?
Sales tax is normally collected (by the seller) for the state in which the sale is made unless the item is shipped out of state. Consider the many thousands of sellers on sites such as eBay on which most of the items sold are shipped out of state. Many of the sellers are low (dollar) volume operations. There is no practical way that each of these vendors can afford to collect the sales tax for every state to which they ship an item.
A federal sales tax on every item sold on the Internet might work. But who wants that and the bureaucracy that would accompany it.
If Florida needs more tax revenue, a state income tax would work, and it would be easy to enforce.
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Eagle Police were called to City Market June 17 in response to a shoplifting incident.
When an officer arrived, he spoke with the store's Loss Prevention employee who reported he saw a woman select a pair of tweezers, remove them from the package, place the empty container back on the shelf and hide item in her shirt top. The employee said the woman then selected four greeting cards before going to the store pharmacy to pick up a prescription. She paid for the prescription and then walked out of the store without paying for the tweezers or the cards.
The store employee confronted the woman in the parking lot and she reportedly admitted to taking the items. She returned to the store with the employee and waited while he contacted the police.
When the officer spoke to the woman, she said she was currently on pain medication. The total value of the items she had taken was $12.25.
The women received a municipal court summons for petty theft.
Eagle police were called to a home in town on June 15 at 10:45 p.m. by a man who said he was assaulted while trying to break up a fight between two women.
When the officers arrived, no one initially answered the door at the address although they could see a woman walking around inside the home. Eventually the woman came to the door and the officers noted she smelled strongly of alcohol. One officer stayed to speak with her while the other went inside the home to speak with the man who called 911.
According to the police report, the woman was evasive when it came to answering questions about what had happened that night, but she repeatedly apologized for wasting the officer's time. Eventually she said she had been involved in a fight with her sister earlier and her boyfriend attempted to break up the scuffle.
The boyfriend would only speak with officers through a closed door and eventually the Eagle officers called for assistance from the Eagle County Sheriff's Office. After about 20 minutes, the man emerged to talk to officers. While he was being interviewed, his girlfriend's sister arrived and told officers she wanted to collect her belongings from inside the house.
The sister said she was visiting Eagle from Denver and had been out drinking with her sister and her boyfriend earlier that night. She said the argument started when her sister wanted to continue partying and she and the boyfriend attempted to talk her out of that idea. She said her sister assaulted her and her sister's boyfriend attempted to break up the fight.
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Hypertension - diet
Making changes to your diet is a proven way to help control high blood pressure. These changes can also help you lose weight and lower your chance of heart disease and stroke.
Your doctor can refer you to a dietitian who can help you create a healthy meal plan. Ask your doctor what your blood pressure target is. Your target will be based on your risk factors and other medical problems.
Eat foods that are naturally low in fat. These include whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.
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The low-salt Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet is proven to help lower blood pressure. Its effects on blood pressure are sometimes seen within a few weeks.
This diet is rich in important nutrients and fiber. It also includes foods that are higher in potassium, calcium, and magnesium lower in sodium (salt) than the typical American diet.
The goals of the DASH diet are:
Other daily nutrient goals in the DASH diet include limiting carbohydrates to 55% of daily calories and dietary cholesterol to 150 mg. Try to get at least 30 grams (g) of daily fiber.
Check with your doctor before you increase the potassium in your diet or use salt substitutes (which often contain potassium). People who have kidney problems or who take certain medicines must be careful about how much potassium they consume.
Goldstein LB, Bushnell CD, Adams RJ, Appel LJ, Braun LT, Chaturvedi S, et al. Guidelines for the primary prevention of stroke: a guideline for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.Stroke. 2011;42:517-84.
Kaplan NM. Systemic hypertension: Treatment. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 46.
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Macquarie, Maeda to Form Japan Infrastructure Joint Venture
Macquarie Capital, the corporate advisory and capital markets arm of Macquarie Group Ltd., and Maeda said they'll form a joint venture to invest in infrastructure and renewable energy.
The venture will initially focus on solar power projects in Japan, as the nation ramps up its demand for more clean energy. In the 12 months to June 30, since Japan introduced feed-in tariffs–an incentive program to reduce dependence on nuclear energy in the wake of the Fukushima disaster–the nation added almost 3,700 megawatts of capacity from renewable sources, its Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said earlier this month.
The duo intend to launch the joint venture by the end of 2013, and for every project will invest in separate special-purpose vehicles which will raise project finance from lenders. By the end of 2016, the joint venture hopes to have exposure to projects with 300 megawatts of generation capacity, with combined projects worth 100 billion Japanese yen (US$1.02 billion).
As the joint venture matures, Macquarie and Maeda will seek investments in infrastructure projects in sectors including wind power, tollroads and airports. Tokyo-based building and engineering firm Maeda is already active in Japan's renewable sector, developing projects including the Yasuoka Offshore Wind Farm in Shimonoseki City and Goyozan Solar Power Generation Project in Ofunato City.
The agreement comes as billionaire Masayoshi Son, Japan's third-richest man according to Forbes Magazine with net wealth of US$9.1 billion, and his company Softbank continue to act as an advocate for renewable energy — he proposed last year that all of Japan's nuclear generation should be replaced by renewable energy sources.


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Published: Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 1:00 a.m.
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Sage, what did you think of his/her interpretation of your words? Well-represented?
How weird it must be to have a college student write, arguably the most important paper of their college career on something you've written.
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I continue to be completely weirded out by those things.
Especially since I faked all of my school papers.
30 page papers....all material and all references faked.
come take the diploma away...I can't live with myself.
oh, and give me my $60,000 back too
Tue Sep 16, 2003 7:30 pm
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thats why papers are so hard for me to write... i'm not good at bullshitting.
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Aside from being weirded out were you happy with what was said?
This is such a great example of how the underground hip-hop culture is different than the mainstream rap culture. Could you imagine a thesis being written on "Up in Here", yikes.
I received business degree(s) so I know a thing or two about bullshit, though I didn't make up 30 pages worth (pretty impressive) I'd feel better about going to college if I walked away with something other than a little piece of fancy paper and a fatty monthly loan payment.
Wed Sep 17, 2003 3:34 pm
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I do believe many college thesis papers are written on the exact kinds of songs you just referenced.
I was honored by the time and energy he spent in breaking down the symbolism.
It appears that he spent much more time thinking about it than I did.
But with art...the more you think the more you stink. That's what my friend Neil thinks anyway.
Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:01 pm
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I'm on a quest to find an intellectual take on songs like that, maybe i'll learn something, like an appreciation for shitty music :)
Beautiful things are often distorted when our insecurities influence our scrutiny of them. If the process of creating one's art was that intense it would be impossible to release it on the world, insomanywords, you'd be giving them too much of yourself (pronouns = hypothetical)
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Wow, very well written, took me nearly an hour :( Damn... but it was cool because I listened to most of Personal Journals while I went through it.
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Agreed to terms with HV71 Jonkoping of the Swedish Elite League on July 1, 2011.
Scored 29 points (13g/16a) in 50 games with HV71 Jonkoping during his first season in the Swedish Elite League, after playing the previous three seasons in North America...Finished third on the team in goals, fifth in points and fifth in penalty minutes (58).
2010-11: Split his third season in North America between the Islanders and Bridgeport Sound Tigers, tallying 24 points (8g/16a) in 35 American Hockey League games as well as nine points (6g/3a) in a career-high 42 NHL games…Was recalled from Bridgeport on Nov. 18. At the time of the recall, he was leading Bridgeport in scoring with 11 points (4g/7a)…Scored his first NHL goal/point of the season on Nov. 26 vs. New Jersey…Had a two-point game (1g/1a) on Dec. 18 vs. Phoenix…Was returned on loan to Bridgeport on Dec. 25 and recalled from Bridgeport on Dec. 30…Was returned on loan to Bridgeport on Jan. 18…With Bridgeport, had a five-game point-scoring streak (3g/4a) from Jan. 22–29…Recalled from Bridgeport on emergency basis on Feb. 9…Returned on loan to Bridgeport on Feb. 24…Recalled from Bridgeport on Mar. 17…Had a two-game goal-scoring streak from Mar. 31 - Apr. 2.
2009-10: Scored a career-high 48 points (14g/34a) in 70 games during his second season in Bridgeport...Also skated in 11 games with the Islanders, making his second-career NHL appearance and scoring one goal.
2008-09: In his first season with Bridgeport, posted 20 goals and 19 assists in 71 games...Also appeared in five Calder Cup Playoff games, tallying three points (2g/1a)...Scored a goal on his first-career shot in his NHL debut on Mar. 2 vs. Colorado...Recorded his first NHL assist and earned his first multi-point game (2a) on Mar. 4 vs. Tampa Bay...Appeared in seven total NHL games with the Islanders.
2007-08: Established SM-Liiga career-highs in goals (17), assists (18) and points (35) in his fourth and final season with Assat Pori in Finland...Made his North American debut in Bridgeport's final game of the season.
2006-07: In his third season with Pori, finished tied for fifth in goals (9), sixth in assists (17) and tied for fifth in points (26) in 52 games.
2005-06: Played in 51 games for Pori and totaled 12 points (4g/8a), while compiling 57 penalty minutes...Recorded two assists and 12 penalty minutes in 14 playoff contests to help Pori win a silver medal.
2004-05: Played his first full season in the SM Liiga with Pori at the age of 17, recording one goal and one assist in 39 games.


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hi there, I am new to running and finally enrolled for my first 5K, on february 11,2012. this question is for the avid runners, can you share with me some tips for my first race.
thank you in advance,
Before I ran my first race, I had found this article on Active.com: http://www.active.com/running/Articles/8_Answers_to_Common_5K_Questions.htm
It eased a lot of my worries, I think you'll find it helpful too.
Best of luck in your race!
New Year's Color Run (5k) - 01/01/13
Oshkosh Half-Marathon - 04/21/13
The biggest thing without know anything else, is to know what kinda of shape you are in and know your personal limits. Make sure that you consult with a physican prior to any new training, and continually train for your event. If you have never run before there are programs called "Couch to 5k" designed for new runners, but your 5k is in 5 days, which isn't enough time. Actually with the amount of time you have, I would do the run and enjoy it and then work hard to get better on you next 5k. Good luck on your run.
Chicago Shamrock Shuffle 8k 57:02 4/10/11
Chicago Run for the Zoo 10k 1:06:51 6/05/11
Chicago Half Marathon 2:33:49 9/11/11
Chicago Hot Chocolate 15k 1:34:20 11/05/11
Chicago Polar Dash 1/2 Marathon 2:21:11 (PR) 1/21/12
Chicago Shamrock Shuffle 8k 48:48 (PR) 3/25/12
thank you for your answer, i have been training for 5 months, i will surely have fun that day!!!;-)
I would say just do your best and do not push too hard on your first 5k. It is okay to walk/slow jog or whatever is comfortable. Most likely, you will have a wonderful experience and become addicted to races...looking forward to the next opportunity. A lot of events are for charity, so you will be improving your health and making a difference. Also, you will probably meet some wonderful and encouraging people to inspire you on forward. I would encourage you to talk with other runners before and after the race. The overwhelming majority are kind, generous and helpful advocates, willing to share insights and advice.
Wishing you a memorable experience and many more in future!
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hi there, I am new to running and finally enrolled for my first 5K, on february 11,2012. this question is for the avid runners, can you share with me some tips for my first race.
thank you in advance,
Do not over think this race. Do not make it complicated. Show up an hour a head of time, get your number, warm up a little, and run the race.
thank you Jasko, i will have fun and try not to be intimidate by the pro runners, my strategy is to start slow and end strong.
Have fun. Your start slow strategy is good for your first one. Remember to go through the chute. Funny, when I ran my first race, the chute was a little bit back from the finish (there were no chips, just someone writing times down), I just crossed the line and started walking off, until someone yelled at me to go through the chute. I thinked I messed them up a little bit. But don't worry about it, it's usually very clear where it is, if they even have one. Just follow everyone else.
I hope you have as much fun as I did in my first race.
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SANTA CLARA -- The 49ers and Seahawks don't seem to like each other. Could it be because they are so similar?
"We're trying to play as tough as we can play every time we come out," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said on a conference call Wednesday. "I think they kind of think the same way. I think you're going to get a matchup of a pretty good approach from both sides."
Both coaches are downplaying Sunday night's matchup in Seattle and personal rivalry that dates to their days at Stanford and USC.
Asked about having two of Harbaugh's former Stanford players (wide receiver Doug Baldwin and cornerback Richard Sherman), Carroll retorted that he also had two Cal players, running back Marshawn Lynch and defensive tackle Brandon Mebane.
"The Bay Area is represented here somewhat evenly," he said.
In terms of placing extra importance on this game, the coaches nearly echoed each other.
"We try to treat every game like it's the biggest one in the world," Carroll said.
Said Harbaugh: "Your next game is the most important game of the season."
As for the physical nature of recent 49ers-Seahawks matchups, Carroll again pointed to the teams' similarities.
"I think it's part of the division we're in, it's part of the style," Carroll said. "It's really just the makeup of the programs. We're very similar in the way we like to go after it on defense, the running game and special teams and so you see two like philosophies go at it."
Does that mean the short-spoken, but intense Harbaugh and the outspoken, energetic Carroll are similar?
"What do you think?," Carroll said when asked. "You guys can figure that one out."
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Marlo, a German shepherd who suffered horrific abuse before being left at the Oakland animal shelter in late May, died more than a month ago, but the search for her abuser continues as those who were touched by her story continue to rally in her name.
Marlo was by far the worst case of abuse and neglect that seasoned animal control officers and volunteers had ever seen. She could barely stand, had deep gouges where her chain had cut into her, and she was so emaciated that her ribs had broken through her fragile skin.
Her condition was so severe that the veterinarian working with Oakland's Animal Services recommended she be euthanized, providing a sad but peaceful ending to what had been a tortured existence. A necropsy showed that Marlo had been eating dirt, sticks and pebbles to survive.
Finding Marlo's abuser was going to be a long shot under any circumstances, but Animal Services had one thing on its side. Marlo had been left at the animal shelter and it was captured on video. The grainy, nighttime video showed an Asian man leaving Marlo at the door in a brand-new crate.
David Cronin, Animal Services director, says officials thought the crate might be the best clue they had. After doing research, they learned that the crate is one specifically made for Walmart. The chain agreed to help the investigation.
An initial search of sales receipts revealed that 290 crates had been sold in California in the weeks before Marlo was abandoned. They then looked at the five stores nearest to the shelter, Cronin says, and shortened the list to 40.
Walmart then allowed Cronin and authorities to view videos, trying to pinpoint the purchase and see if they found someone who resembled the man in the animal shelter's video.
"Walmart was very helpful," Cronin says, "and we appreciate their efforts. We were hoping to find the man buying the crate and, in a perfect world, have video of him putting it in his car and a shot of his license plate, but it just didn't work out."
Marlo's case continues to be investigated. Cronin says people have been forthcoming with tips. None have panned out, but you never know, Cronin says, when one might yield results.
"We aren't giving up," Cronin says. And if he sounds like it's a bit personal for him, it is -- for him and all of the employees at Animal Services.
Times are difficult at the shelter, even without Marlo's case. The shelter is operating with less money and fewer people, yet the demands have increased rather than lessened.
Volunteers at the shelter, and at every other public shelter, deal with the aftermath of deliberate and unintentional abuse every day, and witness animals paying the ultimate price.
Yet, there was something different about Marlo. All of the employees were affected by the dog, what she had endured and by her death.
Cronin felt the need to call a staff meeting to talk about Marlo and what folks were feeling. Everyone was reminded they could seek outside counseling if they needed it.
Cronin, who previously worked as an Oakland police officer and has seen all measure of human cruelty, was shaken by the level of abuse Marlo had suffered.
If there is a bright spot in a story that so needs one, it is that it has made people more aware of animal neglect, Cronin says, and they have found the courage to report it. The department has investigated several cases, saving animals before they became like Marlo.
I'll continue to follow the case and, I hope, it's resolution.
An $18,000 reward is offered for information leading to an arrest. Call the Oakland Police Department at 510-777-3333.
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I was window shopping in a high street electronics store a few days ago. I was delighted to see a shelf display full of netbooks from vendors like Samsung, Acer, Dell, Advent and Asus (of course), to name a few. It looked like the Asus EeePC had launched an idea whose time had come and in the process possibly heralded the long withdrawing roar of the live CD. I now knew how General Adolf Galland felt during the Battle of Berlin when he recorded that when he saw Allied fighters escorting the bombers all the way to the target and back he knew the war was over. Like Mark Twain, predictions of the death of live CDs may be premature but here's why I think that device convergence and software development may, like those escorting fighters, mark the end of the line for live CDs.
Electronic endless forms most beautiful
survival of the fittest was not about two Cro Magnon men clubbing each other in a last man standing contest
We are barely into 2009 but keen biologists will be aware that it is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species. Evolution is a complex subject but most lay people will doubtless associate Darwin (however simplified) with the phrase "survival of the fittest". Contrary to the scientifically illiterate social Darwinism of the Nazis and nineteenth-century Fabian Eugenics, survival of the fittest was not about two Cro Magnon men clubbing each other in a last man standing contest, but rather about life forms surviving when best adapted to their environment. Technology evolves too. Anyone who has followed the history of computers knows how they have evolved from huge machines occupying whole rooms and having less computing power than a calculator given away free with a breakfast cereal. Removable storage was in the form of large tape reels and later, when the first desktops started to appear, floppy disks. As storage needs expanded the first (rewritable) CD and then DVD disks started to appear.
Compared to CDs and DVDs, megabyte for megabyte, floppies were poor value, and with USB-powered external hard drives heading towards to the Terabyte storage capacity the outcome was inevitable. Floppies, like the Dinosaurs, became the victims of a series of extinction events. Dell stopped putting floppy drives in their machines and Apple dropped floppy drives from the iMac in 1998 although, ironically, you still needed a boot floppy image to make the CD bootable. You will be hard pressed to find any computer stores actually stocking them. You can buy external models but frankly, why would you bother anymore? Well, you might if--you've guessed it--you are using Windows. I have come across cries of anguish as recently as the last quarter of 2007 from Windows users who were trying to install Windows XP and required SATA to be installed from a floppy! Older machines with floppy/CD/DVD drives will be thankful for them as the BIOS probably doesn't support booting from USB devices. However, backwards compatibility will become a non issue as the older computers migrate to the great electronic recycling centre in the sky.
Klaus was the kiddie
that little CD tray was a digital Narnia to GNU/Linux enthusiasts and geeks
Most Windows users were using CDs and DVDs to store data or reinstall Windows (mind you, hardly necessary when you remember how enviably stable it is) but it was Klaus Knopper who made the next evolutionary leap forward when he popularized the GNU/Linux live CD with Knoppix (though the first live CD was Yggdrasil). It is a measure of its success and ubiquity that there can scarcely be a user of GNU/Linux this side of a boot floppy who hasn't either heard of live CDs or actually used them. We all owe Klaus a huge debt of thanks, but of course he was able to to achieve so much because of the evolutionary fork afforded to him by the free and open nature of the software he used (a fork of Debian). Knoppix precipitated hundreds of imitators and it is possible to get a live version of all the main distros and many of their smaller forks and customizations.
At the last count FrozenTech listed no less than three hundred live CDs classified according to twenty-six categories. The feature range of live CDs is impressive including the ability to run directly from RAM and save settings and files to a machine's hard drive (Knoppix and Puppy linux for example). That was progress but persistence meant that you were restricted to the machine(s) were that feature was stored.
Of course live CDs had other drawbacks: they were slower than hard drives, on laptops they drained batteries faster and they required an internal drive or an external drive which also drew power away from the battery via the USB connection. Vendors included them as standard--which was just as well, not just for playing multimedia but for those extremely rare occasions when users were forced to use a factory install image of Windows. (Yes, I'm being ironic.) But that little CD tray was a digital Narnia to GNU/Linux enthusiasts and geeks.
All paths lead to netbooks
The next evolutionary development was Virtualization. Initially, it was not exactly user friendly but with the appearance of VMPlayer and VirtualBox in userspace things suddenly became GUI easy. At a stroke the ability to test a distro (and a full distro, not just a live distro) meant that you didn't need a box of blank CDs or even a CD/DVD burner--unless you needed to make a "hard copy" for friends or for trying out on other machines.
Whilst all this was happening a revolution was also taking place in solid state disks (SSD). Initially, they were external and small in capacity and relatively costly. Today it is possible to buy a 16GB flash drive for the price of a 1GB version less than two years ago; 64GB drives are available now too. It is only a matter of time before they can be had for the current price of 16GB. Additionally, the imminent arrival of the Ext4 file system may get round the absence of wear levelling technology on external flash devices by eliminating the need for fragmentation by utilizing concepts like extents, pre-allocation and delayed allocation all of which help to make drives more efficient and longer lasting.
Can you see where this is going? All evolutionary paths lead to netbooks.
Can you see where this is going? All evolutionary paths lead to netbooks
Netbooks represent a kind of evolutionary convergence of all these trends. These miniature marvels have many features but the defining one is surely the most obvious one. Size. When weight, size and cost are at a premium, fitting optical drives becomes problematical (especially if a conventional hard drive has been fitted in preference to SSDs, reducing space further). That means, to state the obvious, that installing other distros on these machines will require the purloining of an external optical drive. The final leap has now been made with the arrival of bootable USB sticks with persistence thanks to the tools bundled with Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and Fedora 9 and stand-alone applications like Unetbootin--all of which I touched on in my last article on Ubuntu. Prior to these GUIs, getting a flash to run as a bootable device was not for complete novices or the faint of heart with a phobia about the command line, but if you were bold Pendrivelinux was always there to hold your hand.
This technical dream ticket is wonderful and it could render the Live CD as obsolete as the floppy disk, but what about rescue CDs? No problem, a bootable flash drive can handle that too. Minimalist distros are frequently touted as the solution to old computers deemed "underpowered" by the standards of modern gas guzzlers. With the right one (like Damn Small Linux (DSL), SliTaz or Puppy Linux) a tortoise can be transformed into a hare. By the same token, in a happy confluence of circumstances, the bootable flash drive running these kinds of distros gets round the problem of absent optical drives, low memory and small processors and makes rescuing old machines an easily affordable no brainer. Portability and self-righteous recycling in one feel swoop. Result.
For the average user I'm inclined to predict that the OS bootable flash drive will be more than sufficient while power users might keep a CD wallet in their pockets to exploit the marginal advantages of the shiny coasters (CDs don't use swap, use RAM more, and have boot options to run entirely in RAM allowing the disk to be ejected freeing up the optical drive for other stuff, though this last option is inapplicable for virtually all netbooks). Computer magazines will still cover mount them as the unit cost is negligible in contrast to the cost of bundling a flash drive.
We hate to see you go but we think you ought to
If it is not the end for live CDs , nor even the beginning of the end, perhaps then it is the end of the beginning
Software developers, programmers and hardware vendors often collaborate in co-operative ventures but they also frequently work in isolation from one another developing their own products. Then there are the times, wholly unpredictable, when ideas and technologies emerge in parallel and people see the combinatorial possibilities. Netbooks plus flash drives plus persistence and effortlessly simple GUIs to make them bootable bring everything together in one seamless, portable experience.
If it is not the end for live CDs , nor even the beginning of the end, perhaps then it is the end of the beginning. They braced themselves and did their duty, introducing a new generation of users to the genius of GNU/Linux and extracting impetuous users from bricked machines--especially me. When they eventually recede into the mists of fond memory we will remember them. Hail Klaus. Bless you.
In a word, no.
You use the time-honored tradition of giving the strongest rebuttal argument, then simply ignoring it:
"the unit cost is negligible in contrast to the cost of bundling a flash drive."
I can lend my best friend my Live USB, but I can give 10 strangers Live CDs without any expectation that they be returned (in fact, the hassle of going to get back the CD exceeds the cost of the media).
The vast majority of computers still have optical media. You are making the mistake of noting a trend, and immediately exaggerating it /past/ its logical conclusion. There will come a time when /many/ computers lack optical media, but I think there will always be enough to justify new and innovative LiveCDs, or LiveDVDs, or LiveBDs (you get the idea).
My recently purchased laptop
My recently purchased laptop has no optical drive, so the easiest way to boot
it (other than from the hard disk) is to set up PXE to load Linux over the
network from another machine. Some live CD distributions support this
directly. Optical media appear to be on the way out, at least for this
application, but the distributions themselves will live on as bootable flash
storage, as images that can be run on virtualized systems, and as images that
can be nfs mounted over the network during a network boot process, as in the
above example.
Cds are dying
I think it is the end of live CDs, the middle road for live DVDs and the beggining of a Linux live Blu Ray.
Live USB keys should still survive for a long time to come.
I still like CDs a lot
I like CDs a lot, and the main reason is reliability.
I have so many problems with DVD incompatibility and/or unreliability, that I just don't trust DVD as a medium. I could speculate on why this is, but I don't really know. As an empirical fact, though, I have compatibility and/or reliability problems with DVDs much more often than with CDs.
This is particularly prominent with recordable media, of course -- but for private data storage and even for small GNU/Linux distributions, this is the only kind that matters (because the runs are typically too small to make conventional DVD "pressing" cost-effective).
Especially when it comes to my own original data archives, I exclusively use CD-ROMs, because I have a high level of confidence that I will be able to read them back in five years! Even so, I usually make two copies of the important stuff.
Considering how cheap CDs are, and how much data they will hold, this is very cost-effective, and doesn't really consume that much space.
I hope Blu-Ray turns out to be a better standard, but considering who's developed it (i.e. the same people who brought us DVDs), I don't have any confidence that it will be. I think part of the problem is that when the entertainment industry creates a data medium, they really want it to be read-only, and even then, only well enough to watch, for fear that easier access might make it easier to copy. This is antithetical to the needs of data archiving!


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Tools of Science opens gates
Brussels – A European gateway to life science capacities has been launched (www.toolsofscience.eu) that is aimed at providing a novel resource for identifying the best facilities and service companies from among 13 bioregions across Europe. National and regional financing opportunities to support R&D projects in life science companies are featured, as well as guidelines and useful links to collaboration tools. Tools of Science provides an easy way to identify the right partner for scientific services. It currently displays around 200 entries, with a number of bioregions on the waiting list. Researchers and entrepreneurs can navigate in the database structure using keywords or categories such as region, development phase or specific field of science. There are also guidelines and templates for facility-sharing and information on funding opportunities available as downloads at the portal. The gateway was developed within the scope of the EU-funded ABC Europe project (2009-2012), which brings together 13 life science clusters in Europe – amongst them Wallonia's BIOWIN, Britain's One Nucleus and French clusters Medicen and Alsace Biovalley. Supported by the Council of European Bioregions, the overall aim of ABC Europe is to internationalise life science SMEs, bringing together clusters across the continent.


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OAKLAND -- Steve Blake has played on six playoff teams, and since coming to the Warriors in a trade last month, he has noticed his new teammates have the right mentality to succeed.
"Guys are locked in, always holding each other accountable to stay ready whether it's a nationally televised game or not," Blake said Saturday. "That mentality of really wanting to be successful, they definitely have it, so it's nice to be a part of that."
True to form, when asked about facing Western Conference playoff contenders Phoenix and Dallas in the next two games, Blake and Andrew Bogut would only discuss the Suns game Sunday.
The Warriors, who have won eight of 10 games since the All-Star break and are a season-high 15 games over .500, have the No. 6 seed in the conference and stand two games ahead of both Phoenix and Dallas for the final three playoff spots.
"I don't really think about the next couple of games," Bogut said. "I think the focus for us is the next game. I'm not focused on the standings right now."
Coach Mark Jackson, who already considers the Warriors a playoff team, said the game against Phoenix was both "big-time" and "huge."
After all, Golden State would like to extend that lead on Phoenix in hopes of maintaining an eventual playoff seed that would enable the Warriors to avoid Oklahoma City and San Antonio in the first round of the postseason.
"Good teams will be going home in the first round, and it won't be a disappointment," Jackson said of the general playoff picture. "It's going to be the result of a loaded Western Conference."
Said Blake: "It's going to be important for us to get this win. They're a team that's right there neck-and-neck with us, so it means a lot."
The surprising Suns, who have won three of their past four games after knocking off the Thunder at home Thursday, present a difficult matchup for the Warriors having already beaten them twice in three meetings this season.
Guard Goran Dragic scored a career-high 34 points a month ago in the Suns' 122-109 win over the Warriors in Phoenix, and since then, he has notched a 35-point game against Houston and a 40-point game against New Orleans.
"We're not going to surrender anything to Dragic," Jackson said when asked about his defense possibly focusing on Dragic's teammates instead. "He's a heck of a basketball player, and he creates a lot of problems. We want to make life tough for him, and we want to be able to defend the other guys.
"The best defensive teams have been embarrassed trying to defend them."
Phoenix guard Gerald Green scored a career-high 41 points against Oklahoma City, and the Suns also expect to get guard Eric Bledsoe back from injury after facing the Warriors to further help their transition attack.
Bogut said he sensed opponents now enter games having respect for the Warriors defense, which is holding opponents to 41.5 percent from the field since the All-Star break for the second-best mark in the NBA.
"Hopefully, they don't," Bogut said. "It's better for us. Hopefully they come in and think it's going to be a high-scoring game because a lot of times it's not."
Phoenix has a brutal schedule down the stretch, with 14 of its final 21 games coming on the road.
The Warriors' schedule is more favorable, but they will face four Western Conference playoff contenders in five of their games over the next eight days. After taking on Phoenix, there's a back-to-back against Dallas and at the Los Angeles Clippers before a home game against Cleveland and a road game at Portland.
"Just the next game is what's most important, not even looking past that," Blake said.
Said Jackson: "Our mindset is to continue to win ballgames and let the chips fall where they may.
"We're at a place where we're attempting to turn the corner and continue to get better. We're not a team figuring out what it takes to finish out a season. We know now."
Thompson, who missed the second half for precautionary reasons, has never missed a game in his three-year NBA career and will have his availability confirmed by Jackson on Sunday.
"I think he just had a bit of a back spasm when he landed on his back," Bogut said. "I think he's going to be fine. I think it's nothing too serious."
For more on the Warriors, see the Inside the Warriors blog at ibabuzz.com/warriors. Follow Diamond Leung on Twitter at twitter.com/diamond83.
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For the seventh year in a row, Pancheros Mexican Grill teamed up with University of Iowa for their annual Dance Marathon, donating over 1,800 burritos to the event.
Benefiting the pediatric cancer unit of the University of Iowa Children's Hospital, Pancheros fueled hungry dancers with their legendary burrito creations.
Famous for their signature fresh-pressed tortillas and burritos, Pancheros provides a distinctive Mexican dining experience for its customers. Fan favorites include: quesadillas, tacos, burrito bowls, and salads, all of which are made with freshly grilled meats and vegetables.
"Pancheros is honored to be able to work with the University of Iowa again to feed hungry dancers and motivate them to raise even more money for such a worthy cause," says Rodney Anderson, president of Pancheros Mexican Grill. "Having such strong ties to Iowa, we could not be happier to give back to a community, which has some of our biggest burrito supporters."
"Pancheros has been a dedicated and charitable sponsor to Dance Marathon for the past seven years, feeding 2,000 dancers annually," says Sarah Brumwell, associate director of Children's Miracle Network. "We are so thankful for their partnership."
Since 1994, The University of Iowa Dance Marathon has been committed to raising money to benefit children battling pediatric cancer at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital. Last year the event raised a record-breaking $1,220,146.17, with plans of only surpassing that number this year. Recently, the University of Iowa Dance Marathon pledged to donate five million dollars over a ten-year period to help fund a new building for the hospital.


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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Friday, Nov. 9, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver and the local development authority insist they are following a playbook that could stop a planned Proctor and Gamble "downsizing" from being a total loss for the city.
"We are downsizing and restructuring," said plant manager Marian Futrell.
The announcement comes just a few years after the launch of two new brands -- the Bounce Bar and Gain in a Bag.
"The morale is high, the energy is wonderful, life is good at P&G Augusta," proclaimed Futrell back in 2009.
Sources have confirmed to News 12 that Procter and Gamble will be phasing out its current plant operations during the next 12 to 18 months. This will impact about 200 employees.
About 40 current employees will stay at the Augusta plant. Fifty more will be offered positions at plants in Alexandria, La. Manufacturing of the plant's dry products will go to the facility in Louisiana.
"It's a huge loss," Copenhaver said. "It is business, though. We are still dealing with a difficult economy."
"Everything now is trying to be lean and mean," said Henry Ingram, chairman of the Richmond County Development Authority. "Obviously, we don't want to lose any jobs. Our jobs is to bring jobs not to lose them."
Ingram says all is not lost. He points to $400 million of new investment in the area over the last year.
"$400 million translates to new jobs," Ingram said.
That jobs will come from new companies like Starbucks. The company is set to open in the same 12 to 18 month time period Proctor and Gamble expects to phase out jobs.
"My hope would be that if that is the case that with Starbucks coming online," said Copenhaver, "with Rockwood coming on line that, some of those jobs available will help absorb some of those employees."
The development authority is promising aggressive recruitment.
"So the ballgame is not over yet," Ingram said. "We had the same situation when Electrolux left, but our relationship was such that we were able to engage to bring a new division back to Augusta."
The full parking lot at the new call center completes that story, but only time will tell how this story ends.
"You are not going to have all wins," Copenhaver said. "You are going to have some losses, too."
Starbucks is promising 200 new jobs. The plant is expected to open late next year. The new chemical company, Rockwood Pigments, is also coming to the area. It will also open late next year. They are promising 140 new jobs.
We have also learned transfer opportunities will be offered to every employee. There are 39 different North America locations to choose from. If employees decide not to transfer, they will be given a severance package.
The severance package would include retraining, an allowance based on the number of years worked and benefits.
If employees decide to relocate, Procter and Gamble will pay for moving and housing expenses.
Once the transition is complete, 40 employees will continue working at the Augusta plant creating new technology and business practices that can be implemented at the Procter and Gamble's plants.
Employees have been given the weekend off to discuss this with their families.
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Ok I've been listening to more stuff and I have to say that now I actually prefer the sound of the x-fi over my previous audigy2. When listening to music, especially when listening to the song "Lifting Shadows Off A Dream" by Dream Theater I can hear instruments that were not audible before and I'm really liking it now. As for the turtle beach headphones well I do like them but they don't have the channel separation that I was hoping for. The subs vibrating my head is an interesting sensation but it's still not on par with a good 5.1 speaker setup.
Wow. You guys sound REALLY pleased with your cards. I was contemplating dropping down $400 for this guy:
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Now you guys have cemented that decision. ;-) All I need now is the $400. :(
Wasn't Audigy2 known for having poor music and DVD sound quality? I thought it was basically only really good for gaming.
Unless you've got a klipsch speaker system which is on another level. They sound better than many dedicated stereo systems. No other pc speaker system offers dual subs with the wattage and clarity that klipsch does.
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The Mother of All Momentum Stocks Keeps Surging
No, we're not referring to Tesla Motors
Instead, take a look at Intercept Pharmaceuticals The little-known biotech company hit the scene last month when its stock price surged more than 500% in two days on positive news related to its liver-disease therapy. Shares went from the low $70s to as high as $497. After immediately giving back a chunk of those gains, the stock has marched higher over the past several weeks.
Intercept is this year's poster child for what traders have dubbed as momentum stocks. Rallies in names such as Facebook, Netflix and Tesla have been driven by more than fundamentals, as investors have piled into these stocks and helped push their prices significantly higher. As we highlighted in today's Morning MoneyBeat, Facebook rose 27% this year through Wednesday's close, Netflix jumped 22% and Tesla surged 68%.
But Intercept is in a class of its own in 2014.
The stock came back to earth immediately after its parabolic run in early January, but has continued climbing higher in recent weeks. Shares jumped back above $400 on Wednesday for the first time since that massive two-day move early last month. And the rally has continued Thursday, with the stock jumping another 6%.
Shares are up 531% this year, by far the top performing component in the Russell 2000 index of small-capitalization stocks. The second biggest gainer is Furiex Pharmaceuticals, up 132%.
The rally comes after news last month of a clinical trial of the company's experimental liver-disease therapy being stopped early because patients showed significant improvement.
New York-based Intercept, which has 45 employees and no products on the market, operates out of offices in Manhattan's Meatpacking District. The Nasdaq-listed company hasn't turned a profit to date. It was founded in 2002 by an Italian professor and an American venture capitalist, and had an initial public offering in 2012.
Intercept sports a market capitalization of $7.8 billion, according to FactSet.


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Rumpke gets Barlow Twp. trash contract
February 12, 2013
BARLOW TWP.—For residents and businesses in Barlow Township, it will soon be Rumpke or nothing as far as their trash pickup is concerne....
You take my post off when I name no names.....but you leave posts on that name people specifically. Interesting. No wonder you work for Marietta Times.
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I think your trustees are doing their job. They are working for the people which is what they were elected to do. My only concern is that in 3 years the rate will go up and there will not be anyone to bid against Rumpke. Hopefully WV management or Offenberger can hold on to some areas so they will be in a position to rebid in a 3 years
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Should be interesting watching the fall out of this. But who am I that right just a nobody.
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take your recycables where ever, make bird food and compost from the rest.
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hahaha- you don't have to participate? Guess we can use Rumpke or burn our trash. Sure hope we get some new trustees next time....please someone- run
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SO what's next only one cellphone company can be used to reduce the signals going through the air! AND MY TRASH IS CHEAPER WITH WHO I HAVE!!!! Another epic fail for BARLOW and you wonder why people are moving out of this district!
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IF YOU READ WHAT IS RECYCLABLE MATERIAL WE HAVE VERY LITTLE TRASH. rumpkke pays mie $30 a ton to bale recyclables, just built 2 buildings at a cost of 55million each to handle recyclables. we are paying for them to haul it away. now they want to run everyone else out of trash hauling.
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How can a trustee say you are not forced to use rumpkee trash pick up when no other company is allowed to pick up trash in barlow twp but rumpkee you may think it a good deal now but wait a while it will change and not to your favor if I were you people I would vote these trustee's out and send them to the city
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what do folks do with their trash if they do not sign up for the service? Everyone has trash. What is done with it when not picked up by a trash hauler?
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Wow! It seems like a win/win situation for the Barlow are. Trash pick up is $35.00 in Devola! I guess someone is going to complain about change no matter what!
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Wow…blaming Communism on elderly ladies. More of that "Barlow Bully" class coming out.
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Hey Darren…How about we mandate one Barber in the township and your not it!!!!
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I wonder what will be next for county residents, now that manditory trash pickup is in place.
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Since they can't pass a school levy, the "Bullies of Barlow" play paybacks!
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I have sat through these meetings and watch the same bunch of people attack these trustees...shame on all of you. They are trying to do what is best for the community by saving wear and tear on the township roads and save the community money. This is the same group that always opposes the levy. Move it you don't like your community! You have nothing better to do than to keep it stirring. And as far as John Hanna goes, you should be ashamed of yourself referring to your employees as "dumb and dumber". You are the one that went door to door and spread misguided information about this trash service to keep these individuals stirred up. You are the one that is always going behind your other trustee to back stab them. If anyone should feel shameful...it should be you. I don't know how you sleep at night as many people as you have stabbed in the back. If our comminity is smart, they will not vote you back in office.
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It is hard to imagine anyone whining about paying lower rates. And, less truck traffic. How are these two items a bad thing?
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The Rumpke crooks are in Marietta also, but the pickup rate is $15 a month for one garbage can. A few years ago they jumped the rate up from $10 a month for the same size can, 50% increase. Barlow Twp. they will do the same to you in 3 years.
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Making a Cronut Outside of New York City? Better Use a Different Name
It might be a croissant and donut hybrid, but don't call it a Cronut.
Little Bigs Bakery in Maine was hit by a cease and desist order from Dominique Ansel, the New York City-based creator of the croissant/donut hybrid, who trademarked the name of the trendy dessert.
According to WMTW, the owners asked patrons to help them come up with a new name on Facebook. The winner? C&D, a nod to the cease and desist order that prompted the name change in the first place.
"We kind of looked at it as a badge of honor. We felt like we got, a guy in New York City recognized that a tiny little operation like Little Bigs here is South Portland, so it was kind of fun. We took it as a moment of pride," said owner James Plunkett.
The SoHo bakery where the treat was created has had to protect itself from knockoffs and scalpers. The demand for the desserts leads to long lines even in winter, leading to a black market of sorts that The Journal wrote about in July:
The going rate for a single black-market Cronut is currently $35, but scalper Matt Schulman, a freshman at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School who's currently interning at a local tech startup, demands $45. His pitch? He's the singing Cronut scalper. This weekend, he'll deliver a Cronut and croon happy birthday to a customer's boyfriend in Midtown.
There's other ways to capitalize on Cronut mania of course. Beyond the spate of bakeries around the globe selling their own versions, you can go online to find Cronut fan sites like Cronut.org, download DIY Cronut recipes or buy bootleg $21 baby onesies that say "Hands off my Cronuts."


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This week's election of a new House Majority Leader will be a testament to a big change in the way ambitious people accumulate power in Congress and rise in its leadership ranks.
What was once a long, gradual process of building trust through years of legislative work in House and Senate committees is now a much quicker march up the leadership ladder that builds more on political connections than legislative acumen.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) is the odds-on favorite to win Thursday's House GOP election to choose a successor to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) — his only long-shot opponent being second-term Rep. Raul Labrador (R., Idaho). Either way, the result will be a marked contrast to the kinds of senior, legislatively experienced people who used to be become party leaders.
Take Bob Dole. The Kansas Republican was in the Senate for 26 years and chairman of the Finance Committee before he became Senate Majority Leader in 1985. Rep. Thomas Foley (D., Wash.) was chairman of the Agriculture Committee before being House Democratic Whip, Leader and then, after nearly a quarter of a century in Congress, Speaker of the House. The current House Speaker, John Boehner, got the job after two decades in the House, including six years as chairman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
That kind of career path gave future leaders experience working across the aisle and moving legislation — in a fashion that rarely happens in today's more partisan, gridlocked Congress.
Mr. McCarthy, by contrast, is in just his fourth term in the House and hasn't even been chairman of a subcommittee. But he soon will likely be a political heartbeat away from serving as speaker.
Throughout the 20th century, the House was run mostly by speakers who came to the job with decades of experience in the House. The closest thing to a novice was J. Dennis Hastert (R., Ill.), who was plucked from obscurity with 12 years under his belt to succeed Speaker Newt Gingrich (R., Ga.) after he resigned under fire.
The old system, where power brokers rose through the ranks of legislative committees, has withered away in today's more partisan hierarchy, where committees have lost power to party leaders.
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"It reflects an institution with a crumbled committee system, so that avenue of advancement does not look so appealing to this generation of leaders," said Sarah Binder, an expert on Congress at the Brookings Institution. "These days, money is more important, connections are more important, so we shouldn't be too surprised to see someone like McCarthy ending up at this spot."
Mr. McCarthy quickly built his power base after he was assigned in 2010 the job of recruiting candidates for the House, which produced the big class of newcomers who allowed the GOP to take control of the chamber in 2011. That experience, as well as his role as House Majority Whip and the more than $2 million he has donated to colleagues over the last three election cycles, has given Mr. McCarthy knowledge of and political ties to a broad swath of the House Republican Conference.
It isn't clear how much longer Mr. Boehner will remain as speaker. People close to him say he entertained the idea of quitting and passing the gavel to Mr. Cantor after the 2014 election–an idea that was scrapped with Mr. Cantor's defeat in the Virginia primary. But if Mr. Boehner quits before 2018, and Mr. McCarthy succeeded him, Mr. McCarthy would be the least experienced speaker since the 19th century, according to historical data collected in The American Speakership by Ronald M. Peters Jr.
Seniority, of course, isn't everything. Even with all his years of experience, Mr. Boehner has had a hard time running the House.
"I don't think it makes much difference how long you've been there," said former Rep. Tony Coelho (D., Calif.), who was House Majority Whip before he resigned Congress in 1989. "I don't think the old system worked that well."
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First...thanks to the posters who pointed out how to download your original CoolRunning data
(by going to http://www.coolrunning.com/cgi-bin/log/display.cgi?u=userid;p=password).
I am also very disappointed in the Active migration. It's been 24 hours and as near as I can tell, none of my data has been transferred and I am losing hope.
I am looking at alternative sites for my online log. So far, RunningAhead.com looks to have features comparable to CR, and it's free.
Anyone have experience with RunningAhead?
FitnessJournal.com also looks full-featured, but it's a pay site.
Anyone else come across good alternatives?
Any coders out there that care to recreate the CR interface?
I tired following the link you included in your post, but I couldn't get to my old CR data. Just got some sort of error page.
I too have been looking at alternatives, the one at Runner's World seems okay, very similar to the Running Ahead one.
Replace "userid" and "password" in the URL with your own info.
the Running Ahead log was licensed by Runner's World earlier this year. If it's good enough for Runner's World, it's good enough for me. Eric helped me import my log to Running Ahead and everything looks great! At the risk of being ostracized, I think it maybe even better than the CR log.
They'll import your old coolrunning log.
For me it is almost the end of the year, so I don't know if I'm that worried about the past years running mileage and such. I will just start over once the New Year gets here. I use a running log on www.flocasts.org go to the flotrack link and then flotrackr and sign up. They keep pretty much the same information that coolrunning did. Also it is a site for watching running videos and interviews and such. Enjoy and have a great day.
I recommend www.fastrunningblog.com as an alternative if Active Trainer really doesn't fit your bill. Pretty good logging capabilities, but even better community of runners and great support group for runners of all abilities. There are runners on this website that range from new runners all the way to Olympic Marathon Trials runners to ask questions and encourage you. Go check it out.
yeah, if you go directly to http://www.active.com/page/coolrunning/login?referrerUrl=http://www.active.com/home.htm don't pay attention to the fact that is says use your email address at the top. That's only after your data is transferred. Once you get logged in, it makes you change your username to your email address. It's not too bad actually but it does depend on how much data you have to transfer over. Mine was very little so it didn't take long but if you have years of data it may take a couple days. Hard to say I guess.
Runner's World has a log as well. The RW log sems to have much of the functionality that we had with CR. I wish that there would have been a heads up to export our logs before they were trashed.
I like this log myself. You can import the CoolRunning format as well as other formats into it. Plus it lets you map your routes and other nifty stuff. Check it out.
Another kudos to www.running2win.com for their running log. Very easy to work with & similar to our old CR log but with some cool added features that are relevant to running & crosstraining. Mike at the site is quick to import your log and will take suggestions for improvements too. I am very excited to find a site where I feel like I am wanted and can easily access all of my info. Love all the cool graphs that are on my log home page as well.
As for getting a "heads up" for the change to our CR log... I thought Active & CR did a pretty good job of letting us know when they were going to be changing over. I received multiple emails warning of the transition and made sure I exported my log beforehand.
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I like www.therunninglog.com.
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The best site for logging your training is www.fetcheveryone.com
Brilliant site. check it out.
God Bless you. Thanks so much for the transfer information. I imported my log from Cool Running to Active.Com before I discovered what a tragic "merger" this was. Your post made it easy to understand how to retrieve information and I have successfully exported and imported into Running Ahead after doing some research on the log with the most similar features to Cool Running. I needed all the cross-training stuff, not a running log only. Many thanks. Running Ahead seems even more easy to use than Cool Running was and seems to have a great community.
Is this still possible? Just tried to get my log but it didn't work. I really want to switch out this new interface and go to runningahead
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