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The Department of Veterans Affairs' pattern of selective responsiveness – and sometimes total unresponsiveness – to oversight inquiries from the House Veterans Affairs Committee has continued into 2014.
VA has 111 outstanding requests for information from the panel dating back to June 2012, including a series of eight inquiries delivered to VA in late October and into November concerning information technology security in the wake of multiple data breaches compromising VA networks since 2010.
Those inquiries, a high priority for the committee because of the potential seriousness of the data breaches, were due in early November, are now two months overdue, with only a preliminary letter authored by VA CIO Stephen Warren sent to Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.
"The leisurely pace with which VA is returning requests – and in some cases not returning them – is a major impediment to the basic oversight responsibilities of the committee," a Capitol Hill official with knowledge of the inquiries told FCW.
The source said VA's unanswered questions have "created mounting frustration" for committee members, prompting Chairman Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) to "take the unprecedented step" of writing weekly letters to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki detailing the number of outstanding requests and calling for "accurate information in satisfaction of these requests."
In Warren's response to the committee on Nov. 22, he wrote that "VA will continue to work to provide information that is responsive to the subcommittee's requests." In November, sources within VA's Office of Information Technology, where most of the questions were directed, told FCW that the congressional probing had caused a "stressed environment."
The VA sources said only 20 of its 8,000 OIT employees were compiling responses, with one telling FCW it was like "another full-time job for a lot of folks," though Congress has insisted the questions should be rudimentary for any large IT organization.
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The VA is a joke.. they have cancelled and rescheduled my appt twice now and then cancelled with a letter stating if this appt was important to call back and reschedule. I called several times and was told that they would contact me back. That was October last year.. I just received a call to schedule an appt but then now they wont answer or call me back to make that appt. I have been diagnosed with and being treated for PTSD and this is how important it is for them to continue treatment... what a joke.. you serve and go through what some of us have gone through and this is the thanks we get for our sacrifice and service...
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The VA needs to be managed privately. They obviously cannot handle the volume of veterans. There are accountability and responsibility loop holes. Bonuses to the upper management should cease.
No surprise the VA won't answer congressional oversight comittee, they won't answer veterans eithir or correct their lies and mistakes. Example, I have a foi request in since 2006 with the R/O cleveland, Ohio, still no response. The only time I get any response is when I file an email telling the VA I'm filing criminal charges against them. 18 USC 241 and 42 USC 199d.
The vA retaliates by dening me services and tries again to dirty up my name, I've even had the VA HQ through their website email apologise for the wrong doings of the VA Hospital, but he VAH keeps messing with me. The VA has and always will be the enemy of veterans.
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Where: Folk Art Center, milepost 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, near Highway 70, Asheville
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The Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle Competition is the central event at the 32nd annual Heritage Weekend that takes place Saturday and Sept. 16, at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville.
"The judges have to be super vigilant," says April Nance, public relations manager for the Southern Highland Craft Guild. "It's not an exact science."
The Heritage Weekend festival, organized by the Southern Highland Craft Guild, celebrates mountain culture at the Folk Art Center with performances of traditional music, clogging and a variety of heritage craft demonstrations.
It's basically a celebration of all things Southern Appalachian, for example, the deceptively simple traditional toy composed of two sticks and a tiny propeller.
The Whimmy Diddle Competition, now also in its 32nd year, will pit newcomers and veterans of the whimmy diddle on Saturday.
"It's always been the main element of the Heritage Weekend," Nance says. "It's a fun way to incorporate tradition and community."
There are three categories of competition: children up to age 12, adult and a "professional" level for those who have won an adult competition.
Joe "Col. Buncombe" Bly will be master of ceremonies for the competition, which will start at 2 p.m. and last for an hour.
Bly "ad libs really well; he brings everyone in," Nance says.
Anyone interested can sign up to be a contestant, up to the start of the competition.
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A kinetic, homemade toy that is somewhat akin to the whirly gig, the whimmy diddle is a traditional Appalachian toy commonly made from two sticks of rhododendron or mountain laurel.
A propeller is attached to the end of one of the sticks, onto which notches are also carved.
Once the second stick is rubbed against the notches, the propeller will spin either gee (to the right) or haw (to the left).
Depending on the stick in motion, the propeller will move back and forth to the left and the right, caused by vibrations within the wood, says Will Hines, a whimmy diddle champion.
The skill comes down to the number of rotations between gee and haw they can complete in 12 seconds, he says.
"Gee" and "haw," adds Hines, derive from commands once commonly used for driving horses and other beasts of burden.
Hines, the record holder for number of whimmy diddle rotations in 12 seconds (56), also handcrafts whimmy diddles at his home in Greenville, Tenn.
He and Lyle Wheeler, who has achieved 54 rotations in 12 seconds, are in a bit of a heated rivalry, he says.
"It took the art of whimmy diddle to a new level," Hines says of the competition between himself and Wheeler, who also makes whimmy diddles.
For the child and adult levels of competition, the contest also involves contestants making rotations after switching from the dominant hand as well as operating the whimmy diddle behind their backs.
Since rotations on the little propellers happen so quickly, Hines says a judge will be assigned to each contestant, so eyes can focus better.
"It's difficult to watch and judge the revolutions, especially when you get above 25 per second," he says.
For the professional category, four to five judges will count the revolutions for each contestant and then average the results, in the interest of fairness.
Winners in the three categories will receive trophies, Heritage Weekend posters designed by Hand-Cranked Letterpress, T-shirts, Moon Pies and "bragging rights."
When he is not competing on the whimmy diddle at the festival, Hines will demonstrate coopering.
"I mainly do 'white' coopering — buckets and butter churns," he says.
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The Folk Art Center has free parking, access to hiking trails, and grassy areas for picnic lunches.
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The government has already distributed nearly $1.7 million among the families of the victims of the Sewol ferry sinking, which left more than 300 people–most of them students–dead or missing. The total amount is likely to rise.
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Roger booked a spot in the final in Halle after beating defending champion Tommy Haas 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 today.
Roger made far too many errors in the opening set, but surged to a 3-0 lead in the second set thanks to a series of forehand and volley winners. From then on, our champ looked sharp on the grass court, remaining solid on his serve and keeping up the pressure in the rematch of last year's final. He converted his second match point after 1 hour and 38 minutes of play.
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Roofers injured on Portland work site
Men taken to hospital
UPDATED 3:42 PM EST Nov 27, 2012
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating an accident in Portland.
Two men were hurt Tuesday morning when the scaffolding they were on came into contact with a live electrical wire.
The accident happened at the intersection of Brackett and Danforth streets in Portland.
The two roofers from Superior Roofing were working on the building at the time.
City officials said they were both conscious when they were taken to the hospital.
Their names and conditions have not been released.
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I posted this in JF earlier today, but no responses, so I thought I'd try here too. Sorry to be redundant:
Ok, so I've been on this kick to replace my open D44A axles and differential with the Quadradrive setup (Dana Hydra Lok or Jeep Vari Lok differential). Rear only, as I have a Detroit True Trac in front which is awesome. Anyways, I don't want a locker for various reasons, but seems like most opinions on QD are positive. New the units are about $900, used cheaper but hard to find as I don't have an JY around. I've found some cheaper Hydra Lok diffs for the D44A made by Crown and by Omix-Ada. It seems unlikely to me that these companies could/would actually manufacture this complex limited slip device.
My questions are:
1. Are these Dana Spicer units just rebranded for Omix and Crown? If so, then I'd get one.
2. If they are actually made by these aftermarket companies, does anyone have an opinion on whether they're as good as the original Dana ones?
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The Islamic Republic of Iran remains fully committed to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) even as it objects to the deadline given to Tehran to prove it is not developing nuclear weapons, Iranian Vice President and Atomic Energy Agency Chief Gholamreza Aghazadeh was quoted by IRIB news network as saying on Monday.
"Iran is fully committed to its NPT responsibilities, not only because of its contractual obligation but also because of its religious and ethical considerations," Aghazadeh explained.
On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) governing board passed a resolution setting Iran an October 31 deadline to prove it had no secret atomic weapons program. (Albawaba.com)
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*Posted by Winston Hottman
If you haven't seen Ross Douthat's latest column at the NY Times, entitled Washington Versus America, it's worth a read. He exposes the alarming discrepancy between Washington D.C.'s economic boom and the economic condition of the rest of the country. The obvious question is how something like this can happen:
Whence comes this wealth? Mostly from Washington's one major industry: the federal government. Not from direct federal employment, which has risen only modestly of late, but from the growing armies of lobbyists and lawyers, contractors and consultants, who make their living advising and influencing and facilitating the public sector's work.
In reality, our government isn't running trillion-dollar deficits because we're letting the working class get away with not paying its fair share. We're running those deficits because too many powerful interest groups have a stake in making sure the party doesn't stop.
When you look around the richest precincts of today's Washington, you don't see a city running on paternalism or dependency. You see a city running on exploitation.
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on September 26, 2010 - 12:01 AM
Chilly weather always seems to trigger that grizzly bear "time to eat up before winter" impulse in many of us.
Pick your poison -- stews, soups, roasts and on the sweeter side, apples and cider.
Apple pie, caramel apples, apple crisp, applesauce, cider and doughnuts -- these are the real reasons apples are considered the "forbidden fruit." All this lusciousness starts with fresh homegrown fruit, of course, and now is the time of year to hit the Northeast apple trail.
While Niagara County has fabulous apple opportunities, we headed east to find places near Letchworth Park, so those aiming for a fall foliage tour or attending the park's arts and craft show (Oct. 9-11) could combine their trips with some apple and cider gathering.
Today is the final day of the AppleUmpkin Fall Arts & Crafts Festival (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; www.appleumpkin.com) in the Village of Wyoming (about 50 miles from Buffalo).
We headed out route 20A from East Aurora, kind of in the middle of our two destinations -- the Roanoke Apple Farm in Stafford and the Castile cider mill. There is some backtracking involved, but it is a beautiful drive through Western New York farmland.
Changing leaves are a perfect backdrop for the ride. We made several stops at roadside stands to buy some late summer crops and pumpkins. Here's what else you can do on a journey down apple lane:
*Roanoke Apple Farm, 6370 East Bethany Leroy Road, Stafford, in Genesee County; (585) 768-2042: Picking your own apples is the main attraction the Roanoke Apple Farm. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., the farm provides bags (peck), half bushels and bushels visitors can use to head out to the orchard. Pull wagons make it easy to haul apples, kids and a picnic if you bring one.
Throughout the orchard there are benches for the young (and old) to rest, but compared with the back-breaking bending of strawberry picking or tedious blueberry gathering, apple picking is a piece of pie.
Trees are short and apples hang low, so even the tiniest little farmers can grab big pieces of fruit. And filling your container takes no time at all (perfect for those wee ones with short attention spans). Kids can romp around the orchard, which is mazelike with its many rows. The little ones we saw were rosy-cheeked, running around squealing and munching tart apples.
The farm grows a variety of apples. We were told everything is two weeks early this season, and some are almost done, so if you are planning to pick, don't wait too long.
Macoun, Empire, Jonagold, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious and Crispin are available and varieties are marked. The best part is you can mix and match your apples. A bag (peck) cost $7 and a half-bushel was $11.
The farm store also has apples already picked and for sale along with other treats, including cookbooks, cider, cider slush, mulling spices, doughnuts and apple walnut muffins. We snagged a few free apple recipe cards (Macintosh apple and Vidalia onion slaw; cider baked apples; apple smoothie) before heading out.
*Castile Cider Mill, 29 Park Road, Castile (www.castilecidermill.com; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday, until 5 p.m. on Sundays through November): The Castile mill (established in 1945) is operated by Dan and Pam Chasey. A mural on the outside depicts Chasey's family (including his father and grandfather) and a local fruit farmer, Lawrence Kelly, who still provides apples.
Chasey says this year the cider is fantastic thanks to the wonderful growing season. Apples are sweet, and he uses a variety of them in his cider.
While he won't give out his ratio of sweet to "neutral" apples (like Macintosh), Chasey says making cider is an art and one bad apple variety can really spoil the lot.
Between 15 and 18 bushels of apples are used for one "squeeze" in the giant, vice-grip looking cider press. A stack of apples is squeezed to half its original size, yielding about 50 to 60 gallons of cider. The cider is put through the pasteurizer, then into jugs.
Visitors can sample the cider inside the small shop attached to the mill. We purchased delicious cider slushies to drink as we checked out local culinary delights that fill the shelves. Hot cider is also available.
Chasey operates an apiary (he keeps bees) and sells the honey along with Nunda Mustard (nundamustard.com), homemade fudge, jam and, of course, doughnuts. But wait -- we soon discovered these weren't ordinary doughnuts. The pumpkin-flavored ones are delightful, but the apple cider-flavored doughnuts are heavenly. We never dreamed a simple doughnut with granulated sugar could be so delicious. Missing was the heavy, lard taste (and the need to wash them down). Instead, they are substantial, yet light and full of flavor. (Is it legal to wolf down doughnuts while driving?) The label credits Max's Bakery (585-689-5702) in Fillmore, but we secretly wondered if Max isn't a burned-out New York City pastry chef hiding out in the rural town. Fabulous!
To learn more about apples and get recipes, visit www.nyapplecountry.com.
More to do
At the corner near the cider mill is the Clunky But Funky Antique and Thrift Store (585-493-9420). It may only be open Saturdays, but it's hard to tell in this shop, which looks like a cross between "Hoarders" and "American Pickers." Still, if you can get in, it is an interesting place to poke around.
Just outside the Town of Castile is the Stonewall Craftique gift shop, 4286 Route 39 (www.stonewallcraftique.com; 585-237-5835). Open Wednesdays through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. this nifty shop has a little of everything, from home decor and candles to gourmet food, jewelry and purses. We found a fun spider hat to use for our Halloween costume.
Lorraine's Place Restaurant, 55 N. Main, Castile, is just what a family diner should be -- heavy on the charm rather than gourmet selections. It serves good old stick-to-your-ribs food and great homemade pies. Crusts are hard to do well, but Lorraine's nails them. Open Monday through Saturday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, with chicken barbecue on the weekends.


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BRENTWOOD -- Police are investigating two hate crimes that shook the city Thursday, and are asking the public's help in finding those responsible.
A home on Lexington Court and the basketball courts at a park on Carnegie Lane were vandalized with spray-painted racial slurs and other racist symbols, Brentwood police Sgt. Walter O'Grodnick said.
The crimes, which police say appear to be the work of the same person or people, appear to have targeted an African-American family, O'Grodnick said.
"This is the first crime like this that we've had in a few years," O'Grodnick said. "We're not going to tolerate it."
Graffiti of a swastika, and the words "monkeys," "KKK," and the written out N-word were sprayed on the garage door and driveway of the home on Lexington Drive when the family was not there. Police were called to the home about 10:15 a.m. and also found that some small shrubs along the sidewalk in the front of the home were burned, O'Grodnick said.
Police were dispatched again at 4:41 p.m. after similar graffiti was discovered on the basketball court and a park bench at Walnut Park, O'Grodnick said. The park on Carnegie Lane is about three-tenths of a mile from Lexington Court.
O'Grodnick said police have recovered physical evidence that will be evaluated by the Contra Costa County crime lab, and that the evidence suggested the same person or people are responsible for both acts,
Anyone with information is urged to call Brentwood police Det. George Aguirre at 925-809-7726.
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Mark your calendars for Oct. 24 when the downtown will be alive with little ghouls and goblins. Trick or Treat on Main Street will be 5:30 to 7 pm. Parents are encouraged to start anywhere they choose on Main Street and make the rounds. Any business not located on Main Street is invited to participate as well by setting up on the Plaza at Main and Marlin, or in front of an empty space or in front of the Main Street office.
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Ferry Across the Canal
The Burlington Canal was officially opened July 1, 1826 although not fully completed until 1832. It was welcomed by lake vessels wishing to enter Hamilton Harbor from Lake Ontario, but what about overland traffic along the Beach Strip?
The solution ? A ferry, more like a scow, was put in place to carry horse and wagons, and foot travelers across the canal's width. The lighthouse keeper, Captain Campbell, was given the job of managing ferry operations.
View from 1890's or so showing the ferry – probably taken from the railway swing bridge.
The ferry reaching its crossing destination.
Reproduced from a newspaper, the photograph, dated 1893, reportedly shows Captain Campbell – my guess is that he is the man with the crooked leg, leaning on a railing outside of where the horses and wagons were placed. The photo also shows that the ferry was pulled by a rope, no motor on board. The ferry ceased operations about 1896.
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Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012
AIKEN COUNTY, S.C. -- More arrests have been made in the aftermath last week's "Valley Crackdown" on narcotics.
The Aiken County Sheriff's Office, in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies, made controlled buys at several target areas of the county. Warrants were served last week.
Investigators bought in North Augusta on Seymour Drive, which is walking distance from North Augusta Middle School. They also bought throughout Midland Valley on Avalon Drive in Clearwater near Midland Valley Park and at the Rainbow Motel, also in Clearwater. They bought multiple times in Burnettown, including a spot on Breeze Hill Road, which is close to the Burnettown Police Department and the park behind it. They also bough on Carline Road near the Willie Whaley Park. In Langely, they bought near Langely Pond Park. They even bought drugs near Aiken Technical College in Warrenville. The operatives bought drugs on Kneece Street in Gloverville. They bought on Old Cherokee Indian Road in Graniteville, too.
As of Wednesday afternoon, 22 had been arrested. Four are still on the loose, including Ricardo Quantin Dunbar, George O. Folk, Richard Horace Maroney and Jerry J. Reed. They are considered to be armed and dangerous.
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The Aiken County Sheriff's Office led the investigation, but the Aiken Department of Public Safety, the North Augusta Department of Public Safety, and the local ATF Task Force helped out, too.


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BP Report Sees High But Slowing Growth in World Energy Use
For the second year in a row, 2006 was a year of slowing growth in world energy use, according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2007, which was released on June 12th. World energy use grew by 2.4%, down from 3.2% in 2005, but still above the 10-year average, according to the report. Petroleum consumption actually fell among developed countries, due in part to prices peaking at $78 per barrel in August, while the global demand for oil grew only 0.7%. As has been the trend in recent years, slow increases in energy demand in developed countries was offset by rapid growth in the Asia Pacific region, particularly in China. China's energy consumption rose by more than 8%, and as a result, China now consumes 15% of the world's energy. See the BP press release and the online report.


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DARTMOUTH — New Select Board Chairman Michael Watson said Monday night that the board is still considering its options for appeals or possible legal action to try to stop the DEP'S approved plans for the clean-up and capping the Cecil Smith landfill off Old Fall River Road from moving forward.
A "legal review" of the Administrative Consent Orders (ACOs) issued by the Solid Waste Division of the state Dept. of Environmental Protection by town officials was on the agenda for the lengthy executive session the board held before a late-starting public session, Mr. Watson said.
"The board continues our debate on this issue. Further discussions are needed" before a decision is made on litigation, was all the chairman would say on the matter.
Earlier in the April 7 meeting, town counsel Attorney Anthony Savastano noted that "additional approvals" needed to be obtained by clean-up contractor Boston Environmental Corp. (BEC) before any work gets under way.
As for possible legal action, he said, "I have no idea what the board is going to do" in terms of legal action. "We can't discuss litigation strategy" or other options for challenging the plans in public session, Atty. Savastano reminded selectmen.
He did urge residents likely to be impacted to consider lawsuits for damages if problems develop. "They may have courses of action available which are not available to the town, and more rights to seek damages," the attorney suggested.
Despite the town's last-minute call for a delay in the approval, DEP gave the go-ahead to a revised BEC capping plan for a 23-acre portion of the old demolition landfill located at 452 Old Fall River Road last week. That $16 million three-year proposal will bring approximately 962,000 cubic yards of COMM-97 soils — slightly contaminated, DEP-approved material — to Dartmouth to shape the 57-foot high mound to be capped in the fourth year of work.
Up to 11 percent of the material brought in may consist of C&D "fines" from MassDEP approved processors, according to the ACOs.
The lowering of the height of the proposed cap to 57 feet, a 26 percent drop in maximum elevation, appeared in the final document as a concession to the Select Board's last-minute appeal to the state agency.
The approved "final maximum peak elevation" is set at 57 feet above existing grade level, 135 feet above mean sea level.
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WATSONVILLE - The tarmac of the Watsonville Municipal Airport on Saturday was filled with the excited chatter of kids ready for take off.
For many, it would be their first time in an airplane.
The Watsonville chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association offers free plane rides to kids 8-17 on the first Saturday of each month from May to November.
Over the years, several thousand children have flown over the Monterey Bay through the Young Eagles program.
The national program is designed to introduce youngsters to the joy of flying and possibly lead some to a career in aviation, either as a pilot or mechanic.
Each youngster is given a 20-minute ride in a single-engine plane.
More than 33 youths participated in the flights on Saturday, organizers said.
"We're showing them what you can do if you work hard and stay focused," said pilot Richard Yee, a Santa Cruz resident who has been flying as a hobby for 25 years. "They learn about how the plane works, how the plane turns. I enjoy seeing the kids get excited about flying. I like to spread that around."
Antonio Hernandez, a student at Ceiba Middle School in Watsonville, said he was thrilled to ride in the small plane's cockpit despite flying through a little turbulence.
"It was fun to see all the houses, lakes and land," Antonio, 13, said. "I want to try it again."
Keili Onstott, 10, was all smiles as she greeted her dad after returning from the sky.
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We've made a big deal out of Emirates Airline's plans to operate an Airbus A380 — the big boy of commercial aviation — on its Dubai-Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport route beginning Oct. 1.
But it appears there's perhaps another A380 in D/FW's future.
We moderated a luncheon discussion Thursday at the University of Texas at Arlington about the past, present and future of the airport, celebrating its 40th anniversary. Our panel included Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price, Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins and airport CEO Sean Donohue.
We've recently heard that another carrier may be thinking about putting an A380 on its international route into D/FW Airport. We don't know which one, though.
Donohue didn't tell us which one, either. But in answer to a question from us, he acknowledged that some airline is kicking the idea around.
Shall we start the speculation game again?
We know it's not American Airlines because American doesn't have A380s. But it could be Lufthansa, British Airways, Qantas Airways or Korean Air.
Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways don't fly to D/FW or fly Airbus A380s, but they both will have their first A380s and a D/FW route by year's end.
Perhaps we'll have a new A380 operator enter the market like Air France or Asiana Airlines. But one would assume that it would be a carrier upsizes its equipment rather than entering the market with the need of attracting 400-plus passengers each way every day.


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And the first question I get when I say that is: "What's an Info Pro?"
I am, at heart, a lover of knowledge. A seeker of information. A receptacle for all things documented.
Yes, I'm the person at the party that spews random trivia. That inserts obscure references to support a point – but, hey! they also encourage additional conversation!
As a kid I loved the library. I dreamed of living in a house that didn't have pictures on the walls, but instead had floor to ceiling bookshelves that were filled with every imaginable text.
My family moved quite a bit – about every 18 to 24 months – because of Dad's job. The movers really didn't like hauling the boxes of books out of my bedroom…and back into a bedroom at the next house. When my husband and I moved the first time he had a hissy fit over the boxes of books that I insisted would be moved to the next apartment. Okay, his hissy fit wasn't about the books, per se. More about the weight of the boxes because I tended to think if "one box, fill it up" worked for clothing it worked for books, too.
Yes…I could live here!
I love the smell of the paper, the feel of a well worn binder, the experience of reading quality typeset on linen, oh my.
And then we get into the organization/indexing of content.
I can walk into a library and swoon when I see rows upon rows of organized content. Combine that with the different colored bindings ranging from leather to linen, from fabric to paper.
Wow – I haven't even gotten to the knowledge part and I'm looking forward to my next trip to the library!
It's not JUST the experience, it's the reading and knowing that I love, too. It's finding a piece of information in a magazine, say a table of statistics, then finding a page or two of text in a book and putting the two together so the information makes sense. It's scouring the internet for a database that has aggregated content from many sources about a topic, then making the connection between that content and a business situation in a company (loss of sales, increased sales, no applications for a position, sudden drop in telephone calls, etc.).
So, what ends up happening is that I get a head full of interesting facts and tend to share them during a conversation, when it seems appropriate. The problem comes in when others don't see the appropriateness. *sigh* My social skills are for another post.
I should have been a Librarian. Had I known that it was a viable career opportunity, with specialized training and education, I would have studied it in college. Instead, I was led to study business and marketing. And once I was done with that, in my mid-30's I went back to school and got a AA in Electronic Engineering and a BS in Automation/Robotics.
It wasn't until I was in my early 40's that I saw my ability to research and discern information as a skill that could be turned in to a business.
My husband's nickname for me is Johnny 5. You know, the robot from the fun movie of the '80s Short Circuit. When I read the back of a cereal box, read every paragraph of a newspaper or magazine, point out bits of information gleaned from a random advertising piece, he always responds or remarks with "Ah, you're in input mode!"
Yeah, that's me.
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Oscar Picks: Chris Vognar's predictions for who will win (and who should win) the Academy Awards
Photo: Claire Folger/Warner Bros.
The weirdest Oscar year in ages is headed for an appropriately bizarre statistical anomaly: Ben Affleck, who wasn't even nominated for best director, will have to settle for his movie winning the biggest prize of all.
Of course, there's no guarantee that Argo will emerge in triumph, but its winning streak at all of the important guild awards certainly bodes well. If it maintains momentum, then Affleck will become the first filmmaker since Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, 1989) to win best picture without being nominated for direction.
What else can you expect come Sunday night? Here's our annual will-win, should-win breakdown for the major categories.
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Liverpool and Manchester
The problem with such a large and diverse region is where to begin. It would seem sensible to start with the major conurbations and - just to avoid recriminations from the inhabitants! - we'll deal with them in alphabetical order.
World-famous for, above all, the Mersey Sound of the sixties, and in particular, of course, for the Beatles, Liverpool can be regarded as the capital of England's north west coast (I remember it also being described by a Belfast landlady I once knew as the capital of Ireland!). As you would expect, it is well provided with theatres of all sizes, from the huge to the tiny. The biggest is the Empire, which, like all of the biggest theatres in the provinces, is a receiving house. A 2348-seater, it takes national tours. Originally built - as all the biggest were - as a lyric theatre, it is well suited to the big touring shows.
Next in size is the Royal Court, which is not to be confused with the theatre of the same name in London, for it is very different, being both theatre and concert hall, and seats 1525.
After the Royal Court, there is a major drop in size, with the next in line, the Neptune, having 445 seats. The Neptune is also a receiving house, taking middle-scale tours, whilst the Everyman, not dissimilar in size at 402 seats, is both a producing and a receiving house. The Everyman has now a sister theatre in the newly re-opened Playhouse, one of the oldest rep theatres in Britain. It has just undergone a £1.5m refurbishment and is run by a new trust which also has responsibility for the Everyman.
Finally in the "pure" theatre category there is the Unity Theatre, a small studio-style venue which provides a mixture of small-scale professional, aspiring professional and local theatre. It has two houses: Unity I seats between 150 and 182 depending upon the configuration chosen, whilst Unity II seats just 88 people.
Liverpool is also well provided with arts centres, two of which warrant a mention here because of their theatre programming. The Blackie has two performance spaces, seating respectively 200 and 250 people, but as they are essentially the same room with a thin dividing wall, only one can be used at a time. Finally there is the Bluecoat Arts Centre which can seat 170.
We cannot, however, leave Liverpool without mentioning LIPA, the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts. Set up with massive funding from ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, LIPA aims to give first class training in all aspects of the performing arts, including courses and qualifications in arts administration.
Manchester, of course, is at the southern end of the region and has its fair share of receiving houses. The biggest is Labatt's Apollo, with a capacity of 2634, but it tends to be more of a music venue, specialising in big rock concerts, although it does present the occasional drama or opera.
The Palace is the biggest - just! - of the purely theatre receiving houses. It seats 2000 whilst the Opera House has a capacity of 1920.
Ashton-under-Lyne, once a separate town but now part of the Greater Manchester conurbation, also houses a large receiving house, the Tameside Hippodrome, with a seating capacity of 1262.
Small-scale touring productions are catered for by the Dancehouse Theatre, a new(ish) venue, which seats 430. However, as its name suggests, it does concentrate on dance. Although built in 1930 (as two meeting halls, which were later converted into cinemas), it did not become a theatre until 1994, when one of the cinemas became the theatre and the other dance studios. Drama productions have to be content with the Green Room Arts Centre (seating 166) or the Abraham Moss Centre in Crumpsall, which seats 230 in its main house and 75 in the studio. It is also used for community theatre productions.
Manchester is also well provided with producing houses with a national - and, in some cases, international - reputation. The best known is probably the Royal Exchange, damaged by an IRA bomb some years ago but now back in business after what amounted to a total rebuilding. It has what is claimed to be the laregst theatre-in-the-round space in the UK and presents productions by the Royal Exchange Theatre Company for 48 weeks of the year. Is main house seats 750 and its studio 120.
The Forum Theatre is a 488-seater and the Library has a capacity of 308. And then there is Contact Theatre which has two performance spaces: Space 1 seats 360 and Space 2 100. Contact provides theatre for children and young people and is the only specialist building-based young people's theatre outside of London.
The Surrounding Areas
The surrounding areas of both Liverpool and Manchester also have their own theatre provision, sometimes, beause of their closeness to the cities, regarded as part of their theatre scene, but we will deal with them on the next page.
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Skip to comments.Britney's UPN Reality Show Faces the Axe (Singer in Counselling Sessions Over News)
Posted on 05/26/2005 9:00:59 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
Britney Spears has been told that her new UPN network reality TV show faces the axe unless it attracts more viewers.
The pop diva is said to be so distraught by the news that she is now undergoing counselling sessions to 'come to terms' with her waning popularity reports the London Daily Star.
'The worst thing is that the viewing figures are so low, she's upset that her fans don't seem to care any more. It's painful for her that her fans have stopped listening to what she has to say,' a source was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, the 'Toxic' singer, age 23, has been rapped by her mother for revealing a series of intimate sex secrets on her show.
Her mother, Lynne Spears, called her daughter immediately after the show aired to protest the personal relevations as they set a bad example to Britney's teenage sister, Jamie Lynne.
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Ya know,I've defended Britney on here for a while. But I have to say, she has just gone around the bend.
Aaaaaahhhhhh. I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.
She is an airheaded skank. That is why we do nto care to listen to her.
Being a has-been at 23, can't be easy. That's why I'm glad I'm a never-was! ;)
Britney... my watch shows that your 15 minutes are officially up.
Boo F'n Hoo
It's tough being a "has-been" at 23.
Yeah but...Paris Hilton said she watches....
She has a reality show?
Yes but who's reality we are still trying to fiqure out.
Should "Britney Spears" and "reality" properly be used in the same sentence?
I was going to say the same thing. I was pretty clueless on that one. Then again I usually don't bother with UPN. Actually I don't bother with TV much any more.
She has(d) a reality show? News to me.
"she's upset that her fans don't seem to care any more"
She debases herself to appeal to the lowest common denominator of society, then complains because they're shallow and fickle.
she wasn't even worth 15 minutes as far as I'm concerned.
Ahhhh....you know, I wish I had her problems, well, some of them anyway.
If she hadnt married that skeeze...and, let's say, married a banker, lawyer, doctor, military guy. And then said, I am going to go back to college (because she married someone that actually told her she could better herself...taken a classier path, etc.) Had a reality show on that, things would have been a lot different. Still...she lived life like a star...few get that opportunity.
The day I stop getting fan mail for my inspired, sardonic and oh-so-witty posts on FR is the day that I decide that life is no longer worth living.
So keep those cards and letters coming, folks. It's the ONLY thing keeping me alive!
The day I stop getting fan mail for my inspired, sardonic and oh-so-witty posts on FR is the day that I decide that life is no longer worth living.
So keep those cards and letters coming, folks. It's the ONLY thing keeping me alive!
I'm stuned; this is series!
that she is a skank was pretty much a given....
After many of her associates looked at her in disbelief and chose NOT to answer this asonine question in front of the handful of national viewers, the camera was turned on the trailer princess where she said... "Oh my gawd... mom don't watch theeis, (she probably wasn't from the ratings) then decided to not answer that question herself. 5 valuable minutes of my life wasted on this. Good riddance!
Oops, she did it again! (but this time nobody cares!)
Has the Playboy timetable been moved up 4-5 years now?
I tell you what, there is nothing worse than white trash putting their studip antics on display for everyone to see.
sorry. I couldn't resist. That misspelling really cracked me up . . .
How sad people still don't care much for a homewrecker.
The ratings must have been terrible this week, I didn't watch for one...
Ah well, back to pimple popping.....
Give it a year from when she and the skeez get divorced. Probably a few days after the kid hits the floor
Hustler may be too good for her 5 years down the line. I would bet on something a little rougher say Cherry or some other really washed up mag...
I think you're giving Kevin to much credit with that statement.
Well, OK. Anything to keep you out of counseling.
She is almost a model of that old image about fame corrupting one's morals. She was probably a nice girl at one time, but hanging around that crowd turned her into a slut then finally a skank as others have said.
I suggest that she should put on 40 pounds and grow a beard. It helped Algore to deal with his rejection.
and rememebr, she redues to do a pre-nup.so she'll be paying him big $$..in about 1o years, she'll be playig at car dealerships and bowling alleys in Dubuque..
You can't choose your family but you can choose your friends. This poor child went straight downhill when she started hanging out with and emulating that Madonna creature.
Is that someone asking for her autograph as she enters the bathroom! Yuck!!!! I suppose that IS her fan base - the guy probably went and checked out the toilet after she left to see what he could sell on E-bay!
These are people who have a job. That job is one that has a bunch of psychophants running around for one reason or another, and all these people do is tell the "celebrity" how wonderful they are, or how important they are. Eventually, these people begin to believe it. That's when bad things happen. I really liked the Dixie Chicks, and still listen to their music occasionally. But the only reason that I noticed them was their music (well, OK, the two sisters are cute too), and if I wanted political opinions, I'd go to FR or CSPAN. As soon as they started talking about politics, I just tuned them out. For some reason, they started believing that their opinions mattered more than their music, and while their opinions DO matter, they really only matter to them, and the people to whom they're close.
Ms Spears seems to have thought that since her life seems so amazing to her, it would to everyone else too. Especially given the "success" of that show by Paris and Nichole. What I don't think that she counted on was that (I believe) most of the people watching "The Simple Life" were watching it for the same reason people watch auto and train accidents. They just can't believe what they're seeing. And most people have a level of tolerance that's reached pretty quickly in these cases. How many times can you watch Paris Hilton be a skank? Unfortunately, however interesting her life seems to her, nobody else really gives a rat's rear end. And it seems that nobody ever really told her that while she may be talented and quite a special entertainer, that's how she should have left the relationship with her audience. And it seems that she's crushed by it.
I would watch Jessica simpson read the phone book for an hour ...
Wouldn't matter to Dick Morris.
I think Britney just picked the wrong network. UPN is terrible, she should have stuck with MTV.
Magazines are so 20th Century!
I predicted last October she would have a subscription porn website within 18 months, and I stand by that.
It must be tough to have a show worse than Anna Nichole Smith's. Brit's appeal was her sport-f*** potential. Since she put her complete white-trash stupidity on display, got knocked up and married some redneck trailer trash, her sex appeal is greatly reduced.
You were never a "never was." You are a normal, everyday, ordinary person and believe me...that makes you not only A REAL STAR but...also VERY SPECIAL. The entertainment field is way to overrated!
That is a pop up add I am really not looking forward to. Maybe I should start a Brittney popup blocker...I could be a zillionaire.
Who said it was a misspelling?
Oh my gosh, isn't that George Michael's hand trying to keep that door closed??? Run Brittany, run!
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An Aug. 2, 2014 story in The Standard-Times reported on the unspecified allegations of child exploitation made against Dartmouth Police Chief Timothy M. Lee by a member of his department, Sgt. Frank Condez. The article's lead paragraphs quoted a spokesman from the Bristol County District Attorney's Office as saying that the office's investigation of the charges proved them to be "completely unfounded and without merit."
In the story by S-T crime beat reporter Curt Brown, Lee identified his accuser as Condez, a 15-year veteran of the force who is also president of the Dartmouth police officers' union.
Condez met with the Dartmouth Select Board last Thursday in executive session regarding an unspecified disciplinary matter which all parties have refused to comment on. He has been on paid administrative leave since October 2013, and is the subject of an ongoing investigation.
Lee told the newspaper that allegations were "a disgraceful attempt on the part of Frank Condez to use my wife and 8-year-old son as leverage against me in retaliation for this internal investigation."
Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for Bristol County District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter, told The Standard-Times that two state police investigators and a prosecutor conducted a lengthy investigation into the allegations, as requested by Chief Lee.
"And after reviewing all the information, statements and evidence, it is clear that the allegations are completely unfounded and without merit," Miliote said in a statement to The Standard-Times. "We consider this matter closed."
Lee said the DA's investigation, the town's own investigation, and another by the state Department of Children and Families all found the allegations against him to be "baseless."
For the full story, visit the Dartmouth page of SouthCoastToday.com.
Westport Town Administrator Timothy King advised the Board of Selectmen last week that state and federal officials have tentatively agreed to spend about $900,000 for dredging the waters around Hix Bridge, pending completion of a feasibility study and a cost-sharing agreement between the town and all involved parties.
King told the board that a potential timeline for the multi-year project was discussed during a recent conference call involving the Army Corps of Engineers, the Mass. Dept. of Transportation, and the Westport River Watershed Alliance. Under the proposal, MassDOT would reimburse the town for the feasibility study, which could take more than a year to complete.
The federal government would provide $585,000 in funding for the dredging work, and another $315,000 in non-federal funding would be needed to undertake the project. The cost-sharing agreement should be in place by the beginning of next year, the town administrator said, indicating the work would benefit shellfishing in the East Branch around the bridge.
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Autodesk Maya is one of the biggest guns in the Autodesk media and entertainment arsenal. It's used on almost every feature film and most TV series to create visual effects and animation.
Compared to the raft of new additions in Maya 2009, this Autodesk Maya 2010 might seem rather light in terms of groundbreaking features in the main package itself. What is new is the amalgamation of Maya Unlimited and Maya Complete into one unified product.
This is good news, in that previously many of Maya's coolest features were reserved for the much more expensive Unlimited version. The downside for entry-level users is that pricing is now around £3,000 for the standalone product (more than the equivalent US dollar price).
This seems steep, until you consider that this buys you an advanced motion-tracking and matchmoving package, an advanced built-in compositing system, and the Backburner network render queue manager, bundled up in a single package.
Also included in the more expensive NLM version are five mental ray for Maya batch rendering nodes. The result is a fairly complete CG pipeline system in your Maya box.
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Stereoscopic 3D imaging – the creation of films and other projects that appear 3D when viewed through special glasses – is the hottest topic in film post-production at the moment, so it's no wonder that Autodesk has updated the support in Maya.
Maya really does makes short work of setting up in stereo – you just take a collection of objects arranged in a suitable layout (such as near, middle and far positions from the viewpoint) and Select Create > Cameras > Stereo Camera. This creates a camera with three fixed heads and opens some more options in the Panels menu.
You can switch between different viewing modes, such as Horizontal Interlace or Anaglyph by selecting the Stereo viewing mode and adjust the attributes of the cameras to fine-tune the stereo effect. For example, you can increase the 3D effect by decreasing the Zero Parallax setting. This moves objects closer to the camera and lets you see more depth.
The stereoscopic effect is most realistic when the Zero Parallax Plane is exactly situated between near and far objects in your scene.
Autodesk Maya is one of the biggest guns in the Autodesk media and entertainment arsenal. It's used on almost every feature film and most TV series to create visual effects and animation.
One of the benefits of the unified version of Maya is that the nParticles system is now available to all users. Based on Autodesk's Nucleus technology, these make creating and tweaking realistic simulations of physical objects a breeze, quickly boosting the realism of your scene and minimising manual tweaking.
Maya 2010 offers more nParticles presets in the Visor, including interactions such as an egg cracking into a frying pan, a gas flame, jet exhaust trail, nParticle rain, nParticle and fluids interaction, and others that you can manipulate to fit your scene.
It's a useful learning resource too, as descriptions in the Notes sections of the nParticles Attribute Editor tabs help you better understand how the effects in the example files were achieved.
The highly useful Visor window also features a new set of motion-capture example files. Switching to the Mocap Examples tab lets you import from the list directly onto a rigged character in Maya.
Another addition is an online library of plant models. If you click Help > Download Vegetation, the Autodesk Seek web page launches on your default web browser. This provides a collection of vegetation scene files that you can download for free.
With content from xfrog, this is Autodesk's answer to the plant-generation might of packages like e-on's Vue. While it's not a patch on the more specialised tools, Maya also offers plant brushes to create customised vegetation.
Animation Layers were a new addition for Maya 2009. These allow you to create and blend multiple types of animation onto a model – for example 'mixing' a walk with limb twists to create a dance – or create layers to organise new keyframe animation, or to keyframe on top of existing animation without overwriting the original curves.
Maya 2010 allows you to add constraints and expressions to animation layers – so you could use a sine wave to make limb twists move in time with a beat without the need for manual keyframing, for example.
You use the Animation Layer Editor to drill down through the Hypergraph to identify the nodes that control the animation. Then you use the Expression editor to write an expression and connect it to the node you want to drive. It's a complex process, but once you've mastered it you can use expressions to drive sophisticated layered animation.
Autodesk Maya is one of the biggest guns in the Autodesk media and entertainment arsenal. It's used on almost every feature film and most TV series to create visual effects and animation.
Maya is one of the few high-end 3D tools available on the Mac. We tested Maya 2010 on a multiprocessor Vista workstation and an Intel MacBook Pro – apart from rendering speeds there wasn't much in it.
Maya takes advantage of multiprocessor systems such as these, with the ability to write multithreading plugins within
the Maya API to take advantage of parallel processing.
Although Maya already has a matchmoving component – Maya Live – the bundled MatchMover, formed out of the Autodesk purchase of Realviz's products last year, is more advanced. For example, we used automatic tracking to let MatchMover select the best location to place track points in the image sequence.
It displayed these as an array of crosshairs superimposed on the footage.
A 3D view option displays the tracking points as a cloud of 3D cones – all the better for checking the quality of the tracking before exporting into Maya. It's fast and straightforward to use – and there's also a motion-capture module allowing you to capture data from a non-rigid bodies, such as humans, or cloth objects.
Compositing comes to Maya in the shape of the bundled Toxik application, which has been killed off as a standalone product and renamed Maya Composite. The new integration adds the ability to export render passes as a pre-comp file from Maya then generate and pre-visualise compositions in Maya Composite. Maya Composite also provides support for stereoscopic content creation and can import geometry using the FBX file format.
Autodesk needs to add a 'minimise' button, though – Maya Composite currently takes over the whole screen space when running.
Autodesk Maya 2010: Specs
- Mac OS X 10.5/6, Windows XP/Vista
- Mac OS X 10.5/6, Windows XP/Vista
Maya 2010 has more than a whiff of a rebranding release, but this version signals that Maya is heading in a film and VFX direction. Let's hope Autodesk doesn't price it out of the reach of UK users who don't own studios.


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At times the Lady Bulldogs went on a couple scoring runs that was aided by a few errors by the Lady Bearcats, but head coach Steve Beydler said that lack of consistency was the downfall of this match.
"We have to find some kind of a way to stay consistent," Sikeston head coach Steve Beydler said. "That's what we're lacking right now. We have to be good consistent, not bad consistent."
Keyarra Blissett had three kills and five digs, while Casey Palmer added three kills and five digs. Tyanne Townsend chipped in with two kills and Madeline Davis and Mandy Moore had one ace.
The Lady Bearcats stayed consistent throughout the match with the help of Cathryn Heil, Jessica Satterfield and Abbie Warren.
Kayla Joyner added one kill, three aces, two digs and one assist. Elisha Flanigan had one kill and four aces.
"I am proud of the girls for working hard tonight," Dexter head coach Kris Vandeven said. "It's good to see the girls using skills that we've been working on in practice."


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