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MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Mitt Romney's campaign is putting some distance between the presidential candidate and his new running mate's controversial budget proposals today.
Romney's selection of Paul Ryan has injected some energy into Republicans as the two campaign together in battleground states this weekend. But with Democrats characterizing Ryan's ideas as outside the mainstream, campaign officials are emphasize it will be Romney's vision that will set the agenda.
Democrats have decried Ryan's budget proposals, saying they'd turn Medicare into a voucher system and gut education and other programs. Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod tells CNN that Ryan's selection "is meant to thrill the most strident voices in the Republican Party" but should trouble the middle class, seniors and students.
But senior Romney adviser Ed Gillespie says while Romney would have signed Ryan's budget if landed on his desk as president, he will "be putting forward his own budget" if elected.


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2013 CROSS COUNTRY (SOPHOMORE): Competed in three events during her sophomore campaign … Finished 7th at the Rio Grande Valley Classic in the 8-mile with partner Alexandria Rossi with a time of 49:17 … Finished 31st during the Islanders Splash.
2012 CROSS COUNTRY (FRESHMAN): Competed in four meets during the season … ran a time of 15:03 in the women's 4k at the Rice Invitational (9/14) … finished with a time of 21:01.3 in the 5k at the Islanders Splash (9/28).
HIGH SCHOOL: Ran for Billy Johnston at Montgomery High School in Montgomery, Texas ... regional qualified all four years in track ... regional qualifier in cross country during her junior and senior years ... helped the Bears qualify for regionals in 2011 ... guided the teams to a district championship in 2009 ... placed first in the two mile at the Lufkin Coke Classic on October, 15, 2011 ... posted a third-place finish in the two mile at the Montgomery Moonlight Madness as a junior with a personal-best time of 12:00.00 ... marked a personal record as a junior in the 3200m at the Region 3-4A Meet to place fourth with a time of 11:27.02 and placed third in the 1600m with a time of 5:16.43 ... clocked a time of 5:04.87 in the 1500m at the Rice University Victor Lopez Classic in 2011 and finished a with a personal-best time of 10.53.33 in the 3000m ... broke the school record in the mile with a time of 5:16.07 and the two mile with a time of 11:27 ... named Most Improved in track (2011), MVP in cross country (2010) and earned the Coach's Award in track (2011-2012).
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- Feb 24:
- Oscars 2013: Live coverage from the 85th annual Academy Awards
- Oscars 2013 predictions: Is it 'Argo' vs. 'Lincoln'?
- Oscars 2013: Critics from across the country make picks in major categories
- Feb 22:
- Oscars 2013: Ethan Hawke rips Academy Awards
- Oscars 2013: Five things we hope will happen Sunday night
- Around the Remote: Seth MacFarlane hosts Oscars bash; 'Duck Dynasty' returns
- Feb 21:
- Oscars 2013: A theater man casts his design eye on the Academy Awards
- Oscars 2013: Best picture contenders produce $2 billion box office bounty
- Oscars 2013 fashions: Dresses that changed the red carpet
- Best film sets and design elements from the movies of 2012
- Oscars 2013: A playlist of memorable 'Best Original Song' winners
- Oscars 2013: Can you pick the top winners? Cast your ballot and see how your vote stacks up
- Oscars 2013: Trivia quiz
- Feb 20:
- Oscars 2013: The categories we wish were real awards
- Want to Win an Oscar? Better set your film overseas
- Oscars 2013: An unsettling 'The Gatekeepers' in tight documentary race
- Oscars 2013: Oscar voting closes after fierce studio campaigns
- Oscars 2013: Will Kimmel hit another post-Oscar home run?
- Feb 19:
- Oscars 2013: Best Picture-inspired cocktails draw on mixologists creativity
- Oscars 2013: Why 'Argo' and Ben Affleck are going to win
- Oscars 2013: Five ways to fix the telecast
- Oscars 2013: Can Seth MacFarlane save the show?
As Mark Lisanti recently wrote on Grantland: "No mass cultural event has the capacity to infuriate like the Oscars." Much of the time the Oscar voters have brought in on themselves.
Over the years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has made some extraordinary blunders at Oscar time, mistakes that look even worse years later when film historians have had a real chance to put things in perspective.
And it's not like there have been just a couple boo-boos. In fact, the only problem with putting together this list was deciding which bungles to include. So, let's limit things to the 10 worst picks for best pictures:
1) "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952)
Cecil B. DeMille's circus extravaganza has gone down in history as the worst film ever to win best picture. (Except for a harrowing train crash scene, it's almost unwatchable.) To make matters worse, it beat out Fred Zinnemann's "High Noon" and John Ford's "The Quiet Man" (probably the best-remembered film of the year, "Singin' In the Rain" wasn't even nominated). Although the political climate of Hollywood at the time might have played a role -- "High Noon" producer Carl Foreman would soon be blacklisted -- it's more likely that the voters saw it as their last chance to honor the aging DeMille.
2) "Oliver!" (1968)
"Oliver" is a perfectly fine musical but when it was transferred to film by director Carol Reed, it became bloated and bombastic. Yet, the film managed to beat out not only "The Lion in Winter" and Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet" but Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," now considered one of the greatest and most influential movies ever made. Oh, and Reed won best director over Kubrick. Go figure.
3) "Crash" (2005)
It was a jaw-dropper when it was announced on Oscar night and it's even more of one now. How in the heck did a cinematic mess like "Crash" ever beat out Ang Lee's precedent-setting romantic drama, "Brokeback Mountain"? Especially since "Brokeback" won best director and best adapted screenplay? An absolute head-scratcher.
4) "Gandhi" (1982)
The Oscar voters have had a long love affair with epics -- for better and for worse. In hindsight, "Gandhi" is a pretentious snooze with absolutely no insight into the revered spiritual leader and precious little nuance. And yet it beat out Steven Spielberg's "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," which is as sweet and wondrous today as it was 30 years ago. Oh, and did we mention that "Gandhi's" director, Richard Attenborough, won best director over not only Spielberg but also Wolfgang Petersen ("Das Boot"), Sydney Pollack ("Tootsie") and Sidney Lumet ("The Verdict")? Highway robbery.
5) "Shakespeare in Love" (1998)
What do the Oscar voters have against Steven Spielberg? "Shakespeare in Love" was perfectly charming film with some nice performances. But Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" was a defining World War II epic that still grips audiences years later. (The Omaha Beach sequence is one of most extraordinary bits of filmmaking ever.) When "Shakespeare" was announced as the winner, it was such a huge upset that presenter Harrison Ford looked absolutely stunned.
6) "Ordinary People" (1980)
Boy, talk about a film that didn't age well. The Robert Redford film was very much of its time, an angst-ridden look at a family coping with tragedy. Now it seems clumsy and unconvincing. To make matters worse, it won out over "Raging Bull," the Martin Scorsese boxing film that has come to be admired as a true classic and makes many lists of the top 10 American films ever made. This one really leaves movie historians shaking their heads.
7) "How Green Is My Valley" (1941)
This was one case where John Ford let his sentimental side get the better of him and the result was a fairly mawkish tale of Welsh mining family at the turn of the century. Also in the running that year: "Citizen Kane." You know, the Orson Welles film, right? The one that is generally considered the best American film ever? The Oscar voters didn't see it that way at the time, perhaps because merely nominating it didn't endear the Academy to the powerful William Randolph Hearst, the model for newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane.
8) "Rocky" (1977)
I'm as fond of "Rocky," the ultimate underdog story, as anyone. But should it have won best picture in a year where the nominees also included "All the President's Men," "Network" and "Taxi Driver"? Don't think so.
9) "Forrest Gump" (1994)
This another film that hasn't aged well. What seemed rather sweet and engaging two decades ago now comes off as contrived and silly -- and Tom Hanks' performance (which won best actor) really seems strained after all these years. On the other hand, Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" and Frank Darabont's "Shawshank Redemption" are as fresh today as they did back then. Not the worst mistake the Oscar voters ever made but not their finest moment either.
10) "Dances With Wolves" (1990)
Man, you want to talk about a butt-numbing film? Kevin Costner's revisionist western seems to go on forever (get that man an editor!) even if a few of the battle sequences are pretty spectacular. Another nominee that year: Scorcese's "Goodfellas," one of the greatest crime dramas of all time. Recount!
For the latest on the Oscars, film news and more, follow Charlie McCollum on Twitter at Twitter.com/charlie_mccollu.


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Dam releases may be boaters' saviors in this year of low snowpack, which is currently 13 percent of average in the Colorado River Basin.
Water manager are working together to find available flows for the Arkansas River's upcoming whitewater season.
"Water groups are coming together to make this season work," said Rob White, Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area park manager.
Though some are concerned that water is flowing out of the mountains two to three months ahead of schedule - and not much of it at that, two Frisco business owners reported to CBS News that they aren't nervous quite yet.
"They are going to be moving some water because people downstream are always going to need it," KODI Rafting's Campy Campton said to CBS. "That just benefits the rafting industry because we get to float on it as they're moving it down."
The low flows could also benefit the boating industry because so many clients stayed home during high water seasons, which was often deemed dangerous.
"We're not going to get those high flows we got last year, but we'll get flows, consistent, that will be runnable pretty much for the whole summer," said Matt Wade, owner of Ten Mile Creek Kayaks in Frisco.
He previously told the Daily it could be a good year for beginners to learn how to kayak, and he's already started teaching lessons.
Finding flows on the Arkansas River is happening through the Voluntary Flow Management Program, crafted in the 1990s by what is now Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Colorado Trout Unlimited, the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District and the Arkansas River Outfitters Association.
The program is administered by the Bureau of Reclamation. Its guidelines benefit the fishery and provide for whitewater flows in the Arkansas River for recreation users, including commercial outfitters and private boaters, in the spring and summer months.
"Even in years like this, when snowpack is low, the flow program helps supplement flows for exciting whitewater experiences on the Arkansas," said White. Meetings throughout the month of May will help determine how much water municipalities and other water managers will be able to contribute to this year's program.
"We have fun, whitewater recreational opportunities available the entire season this year for families and everyone who loves river adventures," said Bob Hamel of Arkansas River Tours, an outfitting company.


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- MSU-IIT student wins IBM Linux Scholar Challenge 09:58
- Geek hanging out 18:20
- Difficult choices 20:38
- Edwin's comment on financial literacy 21:09
Japanese example of the day: 「はい、でも私は、ただのみっともないねこでございます」と、こねこは言いました。「だから、あなたが、どのねこが一番きれいかと、お聞きになったとき、私は何も言えませんでした。」 Oh, I'm just a very homely little cat, said the kitten, so when you asked who was the prettiest, I didn't say anything.
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1. MSU-IIT student wins IBM Linux Scholar Challenge
Filipino software developer wins IBM Linux Scholar tilt
Posted 00:33am (Mla time) Mar 24, 2005 By Erwin Lemuel Oliva INQ7.net
FILIPINO software development talent shines once again.
Jan Stevens Ancajas, a student of the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, was among the grand prizewinners of the 2004 IBM Linux Scholars Challenge, INQ7.net learned Wednesday.
Ancajas was among 20 winners from all over the world in the yearly challenge hosted by the computer giant IBM.
The Filipino developer's program entry described as "Dynamic DNS solution for a campus network" was cited as one of the best software programs developed by a student.
This IBM-hosted contest solicits entries from students all over the world. Each winner will receive an IBM
ThinkPad T-Series with Linux and will also have the opportunity to qualify for one of the three Summer 2005 internships at the IBM Linux Technology Center.
Wow! =D Congrats!
(Oooooh, envious...)
E-Mail from Miguel A. Paraz
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2. Geek hanging out
Clair wrote a very nice blog entry about our fantastically geeky Tuesday and our watermelon Wednesday, so I won't repeat the details here. Incidentally, I also showed Mario and Marcelle the socks and killer boots I brought home from Japan. They went into fanboy mode. No pictures: you're going to have to meet me in person to see them!
I really, really, really, really, really enjoyed hanging out with Clair and the others these past two days. I'm glad she introduced me to Head Geekette; we had so much fun chatting about all the strangest things. Just because we're geeks doesn't mean we shouldn't have social lives. In fact, it's tons of fun hanging out with other geeks! =) I learned a lot from our discussions, and I'm looking forward to having chocolate with people again. Unfortunately, everyone's out of town right now... =(
A watermelon toast to good friends! It's fun to geek out with other people. I tweaked Clair's ~/.emacs a lot yesterday afternoon, and between fits of laughter we managed to hack in some pretty cool stuff. I'm going to steal her random tagline idea.
Here's my code:
(defun sacha/random-tagline () "Return a random tagline and put it in the kill ring." (interactive) (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect "~/.taglines") (goto-char (random (point-max))) (let ((line (buffer-substring (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position)))) (kill-new line) (message line) line))) (eval-after-load 'remember '(progn (defadvice remember (after sacha-tagline activate) "Add random tagline." (save-excursion (goto-char (point-max)) (insert "\n\n" (sacha/random-tagline) "\n\n")))))
Next step: daily fortune...
(defun sacha/fortune (&optional file)
"Return a fortune as a string." (interactive) (let ((line (shell-command-to-string (concat sacha/fortune-command " " (or file sacha/fortune-file))))) (kill-new line) (message line) line))
(setq planner-day-page-template
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Japanese example of the day: " (sacha/random-tagline)))) "
3. Difficult choices
UToronto is offering me admission. An interesting startup is recruiting me. Choices are always difficult.
I would like to defer my U of T admission a few months--a sem at most--and try out the startup. Having my cake and eating it too. I'm excited about the opportunities. I want to learn about the business side of things. I want to see a startup try to get all the way to shipping a product. I'm looking forward to picking their brains. Lawrence and Luis have worked on other startups before, and they've been quite successful. I want to learn why. I also want to put together a little investment kitty I can use for myself in the future. I think the business experience will enrich my research work and make me even more valuable to the department.
I was going to post a long entry thinking through some other factors, but posting it as I had originally written it would be doing a grave disservice to my mother. Initially I was frustrated by her lack of enthusiasm and her skepticism (although not straight disapproval). Silly me, of course! Not only is my mom a very savvy business person who's just reminding me to do due diligence (and indeed I will e-mail the former companies of the guys heading the startup), but she's also my mom, and although she's not entirely keen on the idea of my being away, she knows it's a selfish feeling and won't let that stop me from going.
Conclusion: I have an ubercool mom who is handling all of these things far, far better than other moms can be expected to.
I really, really love her.
So I'll check this thing out. If the guys pass whatever tests I can think of _and_ the UToronto people say OK, then I'll sign up with them for a stint. If not, I'll head over to Canada so that I can get started right away and come home soon.
I lurv my mom.
1匹の猫を別とすれば家は空っぽだった。 The house was empty except for a cat.
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4. Edwin's comment on financial literacy
edwin of technobiography said:
Hi Sacha,
Many of us, like me, have a lot to learn about financial literacy. I'm reading up on financial literacy through Francisco Colayco's book (Pera mo Palaguin mo) and Larry Gamboa's book (Think Rich, Pinoy!). Good read, very applicable to us Filipinos.
Gabby and I had a little discussion in January. Take a look: Cashflow! - Edutainment in a box
Yeah, I heard about Cashflow! I'd like to play it. Anyone have one of those and a free afternoon? We could also have a Monopoly party. I was never very good at Monopoly (and in fact usually found games a drag), but that doesn't mean I can't learn to be good at it. =D
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VAIL, Colorado - Vail Mountain is scheduled to open One , the new gondola, for foot passenger access beginning today.
Skiers and snowboarders currently have access to the Born Free Express Lift (No. 8) and terrain on the Born Free and lower Columbine trails - including a terrain park experience including 11 features - as well as an egress back to Vail Village. The Eagle Bahn Gondola (No. 19) is also be open to allow skiers and snowboarders access to the Little Eagle Lift (No. 15) and beginner terrain in the Eagle's Nest area. Guests will download the gondola from Eagle's Nest to return to Lionshead. Additional terrain and lifts will open to the public as soon as conditions and weather permit.
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With the grid set on 'Auto', it takes thirteen (!) steps of zoom (either in or out) for the dots to change, while at the eighth step the grid already lost its usefullness.
Can this not be parameterized?
Like specifying the number of zoom steps it takes for the grid to change?
Or a minimum and maximum number of pixels between grid dots?
Or introducing a 1-2-5 sequence to 'bridge the gap'?
I noticed the same kind of behaviour in QCAD 2.2, but iirc that was not as bad as this...


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Moody's downgrades Manchester Airport bond rating
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded to Baa1 from A3 the rating of the Manchester (N.H.) Airport Enterprise's $174.2 million outstanding general airport revenue bonds. The rating outlook has been revised to stable from negative.
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Obama: Pro-choice. He strongly supports Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision establishing a woman's constitutional right to an abortion, and says he'll continue federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
Romney: Pro-life. Despite recent remarks that he has "no legislation with regards to abortion...that would become part of my agenda," Romney has called Roe v. Wade "one of the darkest moments in Supreme Court history" and believes abortion access should be decided by each state. (BTW, He later back-tracked on his most recent comments, saying that he would govern as a "pro-life president.") He also wants to stop federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
Obama: Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, which ended the 180-day statute of limitations for filing unequal-pay lawsuits. Supported the Paycheck Fairness Act to make it easier to sue for punitive damages (but it failed in the Senate in June).
Romney: Says he won't repeal the Lilly Ledbetter Act. Has never weighed in on the Paycheck Fairness Act.
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The Impact of Jury Instructions on the Fusion of Liability and Compensatory Damages
Roselle Wissler
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University of Iowa - Department of Psychology
Law & Human Behavior, Vol. 25, No. 2, p. 125, 2001
This empirical study examined whether special jury instructions or the bifurcation of liability and compensation decisions would counter the tendency for evidence concerning the defendant's liability to affect damages awards. Mock jurors made liability and award decisions in response to a case description in which the level of defendant responsibility for the plaintiff's injuries and the type or timing of damages instructions were systematically varied. Instructions not to discount awards for uncertainty about the defendant's fault and instructions not to increase awards to punish the defendant's carelessness reduced the impact of the defendant's conduct on awards, while bifurcation did not. Additional findings suggest, at least in the context of the present study, that discounting may be a somewhat more potent process than surcharging. Possible explanations for these effects are discussed.
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Career Center > Careers in Statistics > Which Industries Employ Statisticians
Never a Dull Day: The Life of an Industrial Statistician
Gerry Hahn, GE Corporate Research and Development
Looking for a career with an exciting new challenge each day? Then consider becoming an industrial statistician. Today's industrial statisticians are in the thick of their companies' initiatives to build products or deliver services that delight customers-and increase market share and profitability. Their involvement is holistic and runs from product conception to field deployment.
It has not always been that way. I have had the good fortune of working for the same company (GE) for more than 45 years, first as an applied statistician, and then-for almost three decades-as the leader of a corporate statistics group serving the entire company.
For much of my career, the major emphasis was on crisis mitigation. We quantified the magnitude of unanticipated field failures and evaluated alternative ways of minimizing the damage. In contrast, our goal today is to build products or provide services that eliminate such surprises by proactive avoidance-although, admittedly, once in a while a few problems still slip through.
So what is the statistician's role in product development? It is to help ensure we obtain the most meaningful data for driving improvement, that we squeeze the maximum useful information out of such data, and that we make the best possible business decisions in the face of uncertainty. In short, it's our job to help avoid unpleasant surprises-no matter whether the product is an appliance, a power generation system, an engineering plastic, a jet engine, a lighting system, a locomotive, or a medical scanning device.
In particular, we become involved in the following:
- Helping design the best possible product
- Guiding the transition from design to manufacturing
- Ensuring we build a consistently excellent product
- Evolving an optimum servicing and problem-avoidance strategy
- Leveraging the information on past failures to avoid future ones
Designing the Best Product
The goal of all commercial enterprises is to make money. Key to this is providing customers the right product at the right time. However, a product is only as good as its design. Thus, we need to understand up front what our customers seek (and are willing to pay for). Statisticians become involved in this by developing statistically valid studies of customer needs.
Given this information, we help ensure the product that is eventually designed meets or exceeds the customer's wants. One important criterion for most products is reliability, or performance over time in the customer's hands. Thus, statisticians are involved in making sure the product will provide close to flawless performance over its designated lifetime.
This may involve participating in a critical assessment of product performance (such as in a so-called "failure mode and effects analysis"), conducting probabilistic analyses of the system and simulation studies, and designing and analyzing accelerated life tests that provide early identification and removal of failure modes.
Particular attention is given to making the design robust to variability in the environment in which the product will be used. For example, we want our refrigerators to operate successfully in parts of the country with vastly different climates, and for our washing machines to perform flawlessly for customers with widely different laundry loads.
Eventually, statisticians help demonstrate that the product meets or exceeds the customer's requirements. For a washing machine, this might mean proposing an accelerated testing plan that demonstrates over an elapsed period of, say, three months-and with a high level of statistical confidence, say, at least 90%-that less than 5% of the resulting product will experience serious malfunctions during the first 10 years of life.
Transitioning the Product to Manufacturing
Designing a good product and building prototype units that work is one thing. Successfully transferring this design to mass production is quite another. Today's statisticians work with their engineering counterparts, for example, to establish supplier specifications and test requirements, set parts specification limits that help ensure system requirements are met with a high probability, and establish in-line and end-of-line quality checks. In summary, we need to make sure the proven performance of the designed product is preserved in the ramp-up to high-volume production.
The initial metric of success is keeping scrap and rework at a minimum. However, the ultimate goal is for the product to perform flawlessly during its intended lifetime in the hands of the consumer.
Ensuring a Consistently Excellent Product
Okay, so we have designed a superior product and learned how to build it successfully in large quantities. Our next challenge is to make sure we continue to do so. This is often harder than it sounds, especially when we and our suppliers are faced with ever-increasing pressure to make changes that reduce costs. Fortunately, statisticians have worked in this area for decades, giving birth to the field of statistical quality assurance. More recently, this has been extended to helping ensure not only consistently high end-of-the-line quality, but also equally high field reliability.
Evolving an Optimum Servicing and Problem Avoidance Strategy
We are all aware of the need for routine automobile maintenance. Periodic oil changes and lubrications help extend the life of our cars and keep them in good running order. Sometimes, routine maintenance also identifies impending problems that, when properly addressed, avoid later costlier-and often inconvenient-interruptions of service.
Individually, we take periodic medical check-ups and routine diagnostic tests. And we increase their frequency with advancing age to address or mitigate the impact of previously undetected health problems.
Similar periodic maintenance checks are required for many products, and especially those that require consistently safe operation, such as aircraft engines, locomotives, and power generation equipment. But how frequently should such checks occur and what in-shop maintenance strategy will lead to maximum life?
For example, when should we be replacing a $100 part to avoid a $100,000 field problem due to, say, unplanned future shutdowns and expensive product tear-downs? Again, industrial statisticians play a key role in providing the answers.
And what is even more exciting is advanced technology allows us to remotely monitor the field performance of systems such as locomotives and medical scanning devices and provide early warning of potentially impending field failures.
One may only wonder how long it will be until we are wired with devices that automatically dial 911 and bring care our way-before we even realize we have a problem. But how do we develop a system that uses past data to maximize the probability of detecting a forthcoming breakdown, say, a minute, an hour, or even a day before it happens while keeping the number of false alarms to a minimum? Well, just ask your friendly industrial statistician.
Leveraging Information on Past Failures
When we fully succeed in each of the preceding endeavors, we rarely experience failures during the expected lifetime of a product, and that, of course, is our goal. However, in the meantime, appropriately leveraging field failure data provides our last line of defense. We use information about past failures to avoid failures for both the current and future designs.
In fact, as I suggested earlier, the identification of field problems and their quantification and future prediction has been the major occupation of many industrial statisticians. A frequently encountered question has been, "Is the worst behind us, or does what we have seen to date represent only the proverbial tip of the iceberg, suggesting, perhaps, that an expensive product recall need be considered?" This so-called "coroner's role" (terminology suggested by Herb Ginsburg) has, in recent years, happily been replaced by the much more proactive tasks described above.
Much More!
We have described only a few of the areas in which today's industrial statisticians are involved, focusing on those that relate mainly to the successful introduction of a new product. There is much, much more. For example, our gang of corporate statisticians is participating in the following:
- Assessing the impact of a proposed programming change on TV viewing
- Helping determine how to price long-term service warranties on locomotives
- Understanding the root causes of variability in delivery times
- Determining the optimum line of credit to be granted to consumer credit card holders, based on past performance and ability to pay
- Planning a designed experiment to determine whether birds can tell the difference between jet engine noise and mating calls (my favorite example)
The Best Is Yet to Come
There have been tremendous changes in the industrial statistician's role during the course of my career. I have emphasized the critical switch from a reactive to a proactive role. The impact of computer technology has been mind-boggling. I started my career studying orthogonal polynomials-converting data into "orthogonal" to make least squares model fitting by hand less intractable. Today, statistical algorithms are at our customers' fingertips.
Moreover, the Six Sigma initiative in my company and elsewhere has provided management and technicians a basic appreciation of statistical tools and made such tools readily accessible. Data mining has become universal and the statistical design of experiments no longer requires a professional statistician. As a result, our role as data analysts is steadily decreasing and is focusing more on the taming of large data sets.
All of this provides great new opportunities for industrial statisticians to serve as statistical leaders-a term popularized by the late and great W. Edwards Deming. Statistical leaders engage principally in leveraging statistical concepts and thinking and focus their activities on mentoring and supporting the most business-vital and technically challenging problems dealing with getting the right data and converting such data into actionable information.


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The riders took off in a pack of clicking gear and churning muscles - but few were huffing just yet.
It wouldn't be until the finish line, yards from where they started their 4-mile, 9-mile, 14.5-mile or 18.5-mile ride that they'd be red-faced, but many smiling and excited to complete Wednesday's second race in the Summit Mountain Challenge mountain biking series.
"The course is loose, it's dry, it's classic Colorado mountain biking out there," event organizer Jeff Westcott said through the PA system.
Many took to the trail, racing for the first time this summer or in their lives. Like Dennis Flanagan, who's heart is in trail running, but he decided to sign up for the mountain biking series this year.
"I love trail running, but it's so great to get on two wheels," he said. "It's a party every Wednesday and I just wanted to be a part of it."
For him, the hardest part is staying in control on the downhills, though he likes cruising the steeps.
On the flip side, the hardest part for second-place finisher Nate Vacura in the men's beginner class was the last hill, known as Heinous Hill. He didn't carry his bike, even though he started mountain biking two years ago and his friends only just convinced him to join the race this year.
For women's beginner class fourth-place finisher Suzy Baver, the feat of merely finishing was her drive.
"It was tough. It wasn't that long of a distance, but there's some steep climbs and some ballsy downhills," she said of the 9-mile beginner course. "There's some great athletes in this area to be competing with as a hobbyist. It's pretty cool."
She'd been trying to get up the courage to race for several years, and this year she opted in with the mentality that all she needed to do was finish. She beat out five other women in the same class in her first race.
On the opposite end of the spectrum from these beginners are the men who are upper-level gear bike racers and opt to use one speed throughout the race. They select the gear, set up their bike and are limited to that speed for the 14.5 miles they're racing.
"I'm always second-guessing myself," winner Jesse Swift said, explaining that he chose a different gear than second-place finisher Kristofer Carlsted.
Out of the gates, Carlsted left Swift in the dust, but once they reached the first hill, Swift pulled ahead. He thinks he had the advantage by a mere gear tooth, though both hiked Heinous Hill.
"It's a unique challenge," said Dan Teodoru, an attorney in Breckenridge who sometimes races in the series and occasionally takes to single-speed biking, but wasn't geared up on Wednesday. "It's simple. You grind along as best you can and when you can't, you throw your bike on your back."


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Sex offender in jail on $100,000 bond after using Facebook, detectives say
Published: Monday, April 29, 2013 at 11:55 a.m.
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A convicted sex offender is charged with having a Facebook account and remains in the Terrebonne Parish jail on a $100,000 bond.
Tony Clayton Molliere, 27, 225 Ashland Drive, Houma, was arrested April 11 on the Facebook charge, records show.
It's illegal for sex offenders to use any social networking websites. Terrebonne sheriff's detectives said they heard he had a Facebook account April 2 and told him to delete it. Molliere allegedly refused.
Also, Molliere completed his annual registration in January and was informed that it is illegal to use websites such as Facebook, Twitter or MySpace, detectives said.
Molliere was convicted of carnal knowledge of a juvenile in 2006. He would have been 21 or younger at the time of the crime. He was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old, sheriff's Capt. Dawn Foret said. He did not use social media in a way that contributed to that crime.
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Store the data on your computer, along with photos and videos taken with your smartphone and camera in LinkStation™ Live while sharing them with family wherever they are. Not only sharing data but also you can enjoy watching videos saved on the NAS on networked TV at home. When you are out, it is possible to upload photos taken with your smartphone meaning you can share photos immediately with family. This NAS is sure to become the family's central home appliance.
Buffalo™ WebAccess gives you to access to your NAS via the Internet, with your smartphone, tablet or laptop. WebAccess is highly useful for downloading and uploading data from remote locations.
This NAS includes a Timer ON/OFF function that powers the drive only during programmed time periods. This prevents wasting electricity when the user forgets to turn off the NAS, You can program up to three timer settings. This cuts down on energy waste that results from leaving the power is on after office hours, on days of, or anytime the drive isn't needed.
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- Data Transfer Rates 1000/100/10Mbps
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- OS Support Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, Windows® XP, Windows® 2000, Windows® Server 2008(R2),Windows® Server 2003(R2), Mac OS 10.7, 10.6, 10.5, 10.4, 10.3.9
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Reviewed by Mr G. Review Posted 31/01/2014
I bought this to use as a cheap network attached backup drive while I reconfigured my main NAS. For that purpose it worked just fine and you certainly cannot knock it for the price.
I haven't used any of the advanced features so I can't speak for them, but as a backup drive it performed perfectly adequately, albeit extremely slowly.
1. No power on/off function
2. The drive never spins down (so noisy and power consuming)
3. Very, very slow (took 36 hours to copy 750GB of data onto it, with both source and target directly connected to the router over 1m of cat5e ethernet cable)
Overall: if you want 2TB of network attached storage space to use as a temporary repository you would hard pushed to beat this on price. As your main NAS, I'd probably look to spend a little more.
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No reset button, no power down switch.
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Two months in and it did not read the default password which I didn't change yet.
I can still get at the apps and files but not any settings. So it took a few months before I get time to see to it properly
The technical phone team are very helpful but it took me three phone calls to successfully receive the instructions via email to reset user profiles. That didn't work so they ran me through everything on the phone I am back now for another 2TB hard drive to back all the 68% of used data before I can go ahead with a full factory reset.
You cannot shut the unit down without the password so I fear doing damage to the unit while its like this.
- Overall
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Many modern features, can be slow
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Bevin accuses McConnell of mudslinging in new ad
Republican Matt Bevin is criticizing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of slinging mud in his latest TV ad that began running Wednesday.
Bevin is challenging McConnell in next year's GOP primary. The two have been trading political punches on Kentucky television stations for weeks already.
In the new ad, Bevin points to McConnell's support in the past for private-sector bailouts. That was in response to a McConnell ad that has been up for several days accusing Bevin of a history of tax delinquency, a charge Bevin denies.
McConnell, Kentucky's longest-serving U.S. senator ever, is facing a barrage of attacks from outside groups supportive of Democratic front-runner Alison Lundergan Grimes.
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rigger 1
1A person who rigs or attends to the rigging of a sailing ship, aircraft, or parachute.
Example sentences
- They also filled nontraditional billets as air traffic controllers, link trainers, mechanics, and parachute riggers.
- In addition to clerical work, they also filled positions as parachute riggers, mechanics, radio operators, mapmakers, and welders.
- Parachute riggers from the 82nd Airborne Division in February conducted the first airdrop of fuel to support Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
1.1A person who erects and maintains scaffolding, lifting tackle, cranes, etc.
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- The masking tape of the riggers had been a master-stroke.
- A rigger tells the crane operator where to put the hook, when to lift, what to do.
- Once the braces are secure and the panel is plumb, the crane slackens the cables, and the riggers disconnect the lifting hardware from the panels.
1.2A person who works on or helps construct an oil rig.
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- Men dominate as artisans, mechanics, and oilfield riggers.
- Cape Fear aside, for an accurate view of a 1970s art director that seems to ring as true for me as the oil riggers in Five Easy Pieces, check out Dustin Hoffman in Kramer Versus Kramer.
- Oil riggers returning to Aberdeen can avoid the lengthy drive or train journey.
2 (also rigger brush) An artist's long-haired sable brush.
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- I was reasonably restrained, confining myself to four new brushes - three sable and one synthetic, and the synthetic only because they don't seem to make riggers from sable anymore.
3An outrigger carrying a rowlock on a racing rowboat.
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- Gearoid Towey has handed in his pair riggers and joined single sculling champion, Sam Lynch of Ireland in the double and today they demonstrated that time in the boat is helping their speed.
- Leander Rowing club president Mark Lindstrom inspects the smashed and mangled riggers stolen from rowing boats recently after a regatta on the Buffalo River.
- A hole was also put in the boys' eight and somewhere on the drive one of the custom-made riggers for the girls' eight was lost.
Words that rhyme with riggerchigger, configure, figure, Frigga, jigger, ligger, rigor, rigour, snigger, swigger, transfigure, trigger, vigour (US vigor)
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A person who fraudulently manipulates something so as to produce a result or situation to their advantage.
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- The close on the market indicates everything is getting away from the riggers.
- Vote riggers would simply give people pre-marked ballots and watch as they deposited them into the voting box.
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The Village of Sunrise Beach is constructing a wastewater treatment system along Highway 5 from Spring Cove Road (formerly Lake Rd. 5-39) to the Hurricane Deck Bridge. The overall cost of the project is estimated at $2,250,000.
What's new
The Department of Natural Resources has signed off on the proposed sewer project in the Village of Sunrise Beach. At the April 8 meeting, the board of trustees opened the 30-day bid period for one general contract to install the treatment plant and pipe. Once the contract is awarded, according to village planner Roger Corbin, the first section of pipe will be laid from Route F to the bridge as pieces of the plant are constructed off site. The intent is to get the new Woods Supermarket on the system as soon as possible. Anticipated to open later this spring, the store will have temporary wastewater removal in place until the city's sewer goes on-line. Once the first section is in place, the contractor will pick up at Route F and work back north to Spring Cove Road.
Considered the first phase of sewer along the Highway 5 corridor through town, the project required a total of 74 easements, all of which have now been obtained by the city. It will initially serve approximately 25 residential and 40 commercial customers. The treatment plant will be located near the Hurricane Deck Bridge on property formerly owned by Dave Buehler. The extended-aeration treatment plant will have a capacity of 50,000 gallons per day with the potential to add another 25,000 gallons per day. The plant will discharge into a nearby losing stream.
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IEA Wind 2012 Annual Report Released
September 25, 2013
World wind capacity now generates enough electricity to meet more than 3% of the world's electricity demand. In 2012, nearly 85% of the world's wind generating capacity resided in the member countries of the International Energy Agency Wind Implementing Agreement (IEA Wind). During that year, these countries added nearly 37 GW (36,957,000,000 Watts) of wind generation for a total of about 240 GW of wind generating capacity.
The IEA Wind 2012 Annual Report, just released, presents information on wind energy in the participating countries—generation capacity, progress toward national objectives, benefits to national economies, issues affecting growth, costs of projects and turbines, national incentive programs, and research and development results. In 2012, every IEA Wind member country added wind capacity, and nine countries reported record increases: Australia, Austria, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States. Six countries added more than 1 GW: the United States (13.13 GW), China (12.96 GW), Germany (2.44 GW), the United Kingdom (1.82 GW), Italy (1.27 GW), and Spain (1.11 GW).
The annual report's first chapter, the Executive Summary, synthesizes from the co-operative research tasks and the 20 member countries, the Chinese Wind Energy Association, the European Commission, and the European Wind Energy Association. Data on capacity and generation since 1995 are also included in the Executive Summary.
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Diabetic Home Care and Monitoring Center - Corpus Christi, TX
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Type of Physician: Endocrinologist
What is a Endocrinologist? A subspecialty certification by the Board of Internal Medicine; practitioners treat disorders of the internal (endocrine) glands such as the thyroid and adrenal glands. Endocrinology also deals with disorders such as diabetes, metabolic and nutritional disorders, pituitary diseases, and menstrual and sexual problems.
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Moinuddin H. Mokhashi
Driscoll Childrens Specialty Clinic
115 Medical Dr Ste 201
Victoria, TX 77904
(361) 572-1000
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Egbert Miranda
Coastal Endocrine
5934 S Staples St Ste 205
Corpus Christi, TX 78413
(361) 991-5520
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5814 Esplanade Dr
Corpus Christi, TX 78414
(361) 885-0448
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Jennifer M. Amaral Ramos
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5920 Saratoga Blvd Ste 300
Corpus Christi, TX 78414
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Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas. The county seat of Nueces County, it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio counties. It is the principal city of the three-county Corpus Christi Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger Corpus Christi-Kingsville Combined Statistical Area. The translation from Latin of the city's name is Body of Christ, given to the settlement by the Spanish, in honor of the Blessed Sacrament (Eucharist). The city has been nicknamed The Sparkling City by the Sea, particularly in literature promoting tourism.
The city is home to the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi and is served by the Corpus Christi International Airport.
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- 1Corpus Christi Specialty Hosp
1310 3rd St
Corpus Christi, Texas 78404
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Corpus Christi, Texas 78404
(361) 881-300
- 3Christus Spohn Memorial Hosp
2606 Hospital Blvd
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The current flurry of retrospectives on John F. Kennedy will build to a crescendo as next week's 50th anniversary of his assassination draws near. And amid all these remembrances, there will inevitably be some historical revisionism (which is not necessarily a bad thing; solid revisionism helps clarify history).
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On that score, David Greenberg , a contributing editor at The New Republic and professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University, SAYS Kennedy's continued popularity owes largely to his liberalism.
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Court Says Tax Not Legal Allard Robbed The United States Supreme Court has handed down their opinion, which upholds a lower District Court decision concerning personal property taxes and cigarette sales taxes imposed bythe State of Montana on Indians residing on the Flathead reservation. The Court's opinion contains good news for the average Indian, however, Tribal smoke shop operators are still left in the dark concerning sales of cigarettes to non-Indians. A letter from Tribal Attorneys Wilkenson, Cragun& Barker notified the Tribe of the Supreme Court decision April 29. Their letter accompanied a copy of the opinion issued by the Supreme Court on April 27. The opinion was handed down almost four years to the day that smoke shop operator Joe Wheeler was arrested at his Evaro business. He had been arrested April 13, 1972, for posession of untaxed cigarettes. In briefly summarizing the Court's decision, Tribal attorney stated......... "That the State of Montana may not impose its personal property tax on personal property located within the Reservation and owned by Tribal members." Hopefully this will end the hassle for Tribal members with County Administration every year over the personal property exemp-tion on automobiles and other personal property owned by Tribal mem bers. continued on page % Talk about adding insult to injury! Doug Allard reported to Tribal Police that thieves broke into his Indian Museum and stole not only several thousand dollars worth of Indian handicrafts, but also disarmed and stole his burglar alarm. Police speculate the thieves may have worn gloves, since no finger prints were found. The robbery was evidently "smooth"work according to the police incident report. Items reported missing from the St. Ignatius store included 1200-1500 rings, 400-500 bracelets, beadwork, an elkhorn bow, blankets, a nugget necklace, mocassins, leather gloves, and the burglar alarm, a vehicle and several occupants had been sighted at the scene earlier. Investigation is continuing. NEWSPAPER OF THE SALISH, PEND D'ORIELLES AND KOOTENAI TRIBES [OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION VOLUME 6 NUMBER 2 FULL MOON OF THE BITTERROOT MAY 15, 1976 ADAMS JOINS COUNCIL No Charges in Mitchell Shooting Louie Adams, tribal member and BIA forestry employee of 13 years, literally ran away with the Arlee Councilman position in the May 1st election. Adams ran on a platform of better understanding between the Council and our Tribal forestry program. Having been employed in the forestry business for some 22 years, Adams will bring a vast amount of knowledge and experience to the Council table. This type of experience is greatly needed now that the forestry program and logging sales have come under heavy fire. Adams also stressed a greater representation of the people's wishes and retention of our Tribal Culture, whether it be Kootenai, Flathead, Pend d' Orielle 4 Adams received 237 of the 544 certified votes. Virginia Brazill was second with 107; Joe Hawkins 77; Dib Espinoza 33; Josephine Steele 28; Clarice Sanchez 24; Skip Wheeler 17; Joe Santos 12; Bea Noble 8; and one write in vote for Satch McDonald. Poison: According to Lake County Attorney Richard Heinz, no charges have been filed in a shooting incident involving Tribal Chairman Harold Mitchell, Jr., and his brother Leo Mitchell. The alleged shooting of Leo Mitchell took place in the early morning hours of Sunday, April 25, at the Leo Mitchell residence. Chairman Mitchell contends he fired in self defense after being threatened with a shovel, by his younger brother. Leo Mitchell has stated that he had not threatened his brother with the implement. Leo was released from Holy Family Hospital after receiving treatment for wounds received in both feet. The hospital reports that the bullet from a big game rifle creased one toe, causing damage to the bone in one foot, and either fragments from the bullet or gravel riddled the other foot. Heinz stated that the matter is still under investigation at this time. Two witnesses, Bob Hammond, of St. Ignatius, and Joann Roske, also of St. Ignatius, had given statements to the officials.
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Wednesday's letters: Sound familiar?
Published: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 4:54 p.m.
To the editor: Aint it awful! There have been many recent opinionated letters regarding the Main Street fountain, ranging from awful to wonderful. Its not my purpose here to give my opinion but to provide a historical perspective related to the issue.
Most are familiar with the Eiffel Tower. Built in 1889, it is an icon for Paris, France, and all of Europe. It is a must-see. I visited it decades ago. My granddaughter sent photos of her recent visit there. But when it was completed in 1889, people hated it and wanted it taken down.
Eminent artists, including Guy de Maupassant and Alexandre Dumas, signed an angry letter to the minister of public works. We protest with all our strength the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower is without doubt the dishonour of Paris. Everyone feels it, everyone says it, everyone is profoundly saddened by it. Sound familiar?
When it was constructed, our own Washington Monument suffered similar responses, like a stalk of asparagus. Mark Twain described it as a memorial chimney.
I believe in years to come there will be numerous photos sent home our fountain in the background, with the description, Here we are when we visited Hendersonville.
Robert H. Andersen
Laurel Park
Poor portrayal
To the editor: As a Moral Monday supporter, I am writing to protest letter writer Raymond Dyers portrayal of us as a group of malcontents whose self-serving, anti-Republican, anti-Christian, anti-life and anti-traditional marriage beliefs exemplify what is wrong with America today.
Where does he get this stuff? Favoring marriage equality does not make me anti-traditional marriage I have been in a traditional marriage for 46 years.
And that anti-Christian thing? How is it Christian to be so judgmental of others and engage in this name-calling?
He refers to the voter ID law but neglects to mention all the provisions that have nothing to do with voter fraud (which, by the way, is virtually nonexistent in North Carolina), but whose only purpose can be to suppress voting. The law disallows college student IDs obtained only after a student has applied to college, been accepted and paid tuition. How many students have been even charged with voter fraud? How many instances has North Carolina had of dead people trying to vote?
He cites an increase in the public education budget. How then to explain no raise for teachers or such a cut in maintenance money that parents are being asked to provide cleaning supplies?
Isabel Cutler
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To the editor: After reading in the Times News about the Mountain Memory description set for a plaque on the controversial fountain sculpture downtown, my husband and I went to see the fountain firsthand, taking the description with us.
We walked around the fountain while we read the description. We were impressed with the concept Ms. Berry Bate, the artist, created on the fountain.
For a while this summer, we agreed with many who criticized the fountains look, but now that it has been finished and the copper is beginning to mellow, we think it is a sculpture worth re-examining. The plantings have also softened its look.
We encourage the critics to take another look.
Mary Highberger
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Sorry This Took Me A Few Days
Y'all know I have to go get some rest after these crazy press tours.
Well, let me first say "thank you" to those of you who went to see The Single Moms Club. I don't take that for granted. Trust me. Thank you for going.
This was my 17th movie in 10 years. I wanted to mark this anniversary by saluting single moms everywhere. Thank you for allowing me to do that, and thank you to all the single moms for all you do. You're my heroes. And to all my diehard folks, to all of you, thank you for these past ten years of huge movie successes. You have been a blessing to me and to all the people who work for me, and with me. I thank you.
By the way, this is the first time in 10 years that I don't already have my next movie written or shot and ready to come out. That is because my focus for this past year has been on my TV shows on OWN. Just so you know, that's where you'll find me until I do another movie.
God bless you big time for all you've done for me and for the folks that work for me. We so appreciate it.
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PARKERSBURG - Due to Saturday's relatively mild weather, the 2013 Kid's Fest at City Park drew a record crowd of children for a day of fun and games.
Nancy Harrell, one of the organizers, said Saturday's attendance was a record-setter for the event.
"By noon we had 1,047 (children) registered," she said. "Last year when it was 104 degrees in the park we had a little more than 1,000 for the entire day.
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Jahzarra Ward picks up a rubber ducky during the Kid's Fest at City Park on Saturday in Parkersburg. (Photo by Jeffrey Saulton)
Ian Sears, of Charleston, left, aims an Angry Birds ball at a target with the help of Nick Keiser, right, of Parkersburg. (Photo by Jeffrey Saulton)
Maykayla Moore, of Elizabeth, tries her hand at miniature golf during the Kid's Fest at City Park on Saturday in Parkersburg. (Photo by Jeffrey Saulton)
"This is huge, we have never had that many."
For 2013, Harrell said the festival had more blow-up games that were bigger than last year, but everything else was pretty much unchanged from before.
"For entertainment we had bands, Mr. Mike, a former Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus clown who is the D.A.R.E. officer with the Clarksburg Police Department," she said. "He was with us a little bit last year and we will have him for a longer period this year. He is great, we want to do more with him next year."
Harrell said G-Force Strength Unit was also making a return engagement to the festival, which incorporates feats of strength with Christian messages.
"They really hit home with the gospel," she said. "They are powerful with their message; they draw their own crowd."
Harrell said there was a call Friday to Liberty Street Church of God from a lady in North Carolina who wanted to know if G-Force would appear.
"Her son is a big fan and they make the trip up here every year to see them."
Harrell said the festival was started by Liberty Street Church of God a decade ago and this year the church partnered with Baptist Temple and Bethel A.M.E. Church. There are also many individuals from the community at large who volunteer at the event, she added.
"We have a new excitement and we learned from the year before," she said. "Our volunteers all have a new excitement, they are more committed and excited. This is the biggest thing we do and the community gets behind it. There is a bigger energy this year."
Kristian Burge, of Belpre, said her son Lian liked the duck pond.
"He seemed to enjoy the duck pond but he didn't want to play with the ducks," she said. "He tried to get in the water and he's soaked up to his knees."
Jessica Arkinson said her son Bobby enjoyed the day at City Park.
"He liked the bottle rocket, the face painting and Angry Birds sling shot," she aid.
"I like all of them," Bobby agreed.
The Rev. Brian Harrell, with Liberty Street Street Church of God, said the change in the weather from last year was a contributor to the larger crowd at the event.
"Last year it was 104 degrees, so this is very nice, but it is a little muddy in places," he said.
Brian Harrell said the heat and the fact the festival was so soon after the June 30, 2012, derecho may have kept so many away from the event last year. The festival volunteers cleaned up debris and downed tree limbs prior to last year's event.
Brian Harrell had praise for the city's crew at the park.
"They have bent over backward for us, they have been absolutely awesome," he said. "They have done all they can for us."


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We often forget how brutal the links between cities, towns and villages were to make and how heavily they impacted on those who made them.
I was reminded of this very sharply recently when one of the trees I was working on unearthed four generations of railway excavators, or 'navvies' as they used to be called.
It started with a family that had very strong ties in the Mansfield/Pleasley Hill area of Nottinghamshire. Rooted there for hundreds of years, Frederick Powell was a noticeable outsider when he married into the family in 1886 at the age of 21. In the 1891 census he lists his place of birth as 'Not Known' – something that really caught my eye in this small town community. Later, on the 1901 census, he gives it as Melling Moor, Lancashire which again is intriguing as he's miles away from home.
While I researched the rest of the family I couldn't help but be intrigued by Frederick and want to know more about where he came from. I had no luck tracking down a birth record for him but struck gold with the 1881 census. Taken five years before his marriage it revealed just how he'd come to the Pleasley Hill area, he was working as a railway labourer. And not just working on the railways, living on them too with an address that clearly said 'Railway Hut'. And there with him, a large number of siblings all listed as being born in Hartlepool and his widower father, William, who gives his place of birth as Huntingdonshire. All the adult men in the family were railway labourers.
Navvies near Sheffield, Yorkshire
This was the key I needed to piece the story together and follow the Powell line back further.
Frederick was born to William and Elizabeth in Lancashire in 1865 but the family lived a very transient lifestyle. Elizabeth was from South Shields, Durham and William had met her while working on a railway line nearby, they married in 1856. Within two years their first child had been born and they were on the move. Over the next twenty years their nine children are recorded as born at Falstone in Northumberland, Chapel Frith in Derbyshire, Melling Moor and Backbarrow in Lancashire and, for one child, simply 'Westmoreland'. In between the children's births the family are recording on the census at Kielder in Northumberland and Dent in Yorkshire.
Dent – Highest Railway Station in England
To give a snapshot of this lifestyle, these are all remote and bleak places to live and work. Pay was poor, the huts were temporary, alcohol flowed freely, local presses record fights and tragic accidents and there would have been a outlawish feel to the navvies' camps. The family are recorded on the census returns as living in huts with several lodgers, all other men working on the line. Dent station sits on the Settle-Carlisle line, and is now the highest mainline station in England. There would be no shelter from the wind and rain outside the hut and it's four miles to the nearest village. There are long tunnels here cutting through the moors and hills, some of the last to be hand dug. This was hard labour.
Frederick though, appears to have been a runaway. His mother Elizabeth died between 1875-1881, the oldest she could have been is about 40 years old. The family moved onto Nottinghamshire, living in railway huts at Pleasley Hill in 1881 where Frederick was now a 16 year old railway labourer like his father and two brothers. Frederick appears to have opted out of the lifestyle though, while the rest of his family moved onto Carlton he stayed in Pleasley Hill, married and settled as a coal miner. Presumably he was used to hard work and working in the mines at least meant the roof over his head was a bit more solid and food was marginally better.
Frederick's oldest sister, Elizabeth, married another railway man and continued the lifestyle for another generation.
But at the beginning of the post, I said four generations and William, his children (including Frederick) and Elizabeth's children only make three. To find the fourth we must look back to William's father.
1841 census – William Powells, senior and junior
William was born in 1834 and on the earliest available census of 1841 his father, William senior, is also recorded as an excavator – in fact the family are living at a navvies camp at Padam's Green in Essex. During his lifetime William worked in at least eight counties across the country. He didn't know any other lifestyle – he was born, bred and buried alongside the tracks.
It should also be noted 1841 is very early for this work as railway excavators which gives rise to the tantalising possibility that William senior had worked as a canal navvie before and just switched what he was digging for…
Sixty years of rain, mud, blood, sweat and poor quality beer. And one hell of an adventure for a genealogist tracking the paper trail across the counties and years.
It's not the story the client was expecting but I think it will give them something to think about next time they're out walking in the Yorkshire Dales.


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Va. senate panel to consider tougher texting while driving penalties
Bills to crack down on texting while driving are coming up for a vote in a Senate committee.
The Courts of Justice Committee is scheduled to consider the legislation Friday as the General Assembly faces a Tuesday deadline for each chamber to act on its own bills.
Texting while driving is already punishable by a $20 fine, but it's a secondary offense. That means police can only write a ticket if they stopped the motorist for another violation.
One of the bills would increase the fine to $250 and make it a primary offense, allowing police to stop and ticket anyone they spot texting behind the wheel. Others would make texting while driving punishable as reckless driving, which can result in up to a year in jail.
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