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Here is a one-month view of the performance of Oilgear's cell. Each vertical column represents 24 hours. The green regions indicate time spent making parts.
Operators log their comments using PCs near the machines. Their input is vital for explaining production-related events to the rest of the organization. The same operator-comments feature has made it easier to communicate across shifts.
AMT—the Association for Manufacturing Technology—has established a standard terminology for describing productive time on manufacturing equipment, as well as the losses that affect that time. As this illustration shows, "in-cycle time" is more specific than just production time or operating time. Oilgear's cell maintains an average in-cycle time of 85.7 percent.
Manual production lines are now used more effectively, because the support of the CNC cell allows time-consuming setups for this older equipment to remain in place.
Within the 30-day view of June 2005 that was shown earlier, one of the dates showing significant repair time was June 17. A view of the five machining centers for June 17 (left) shows that most of the repair time went to machine #2. A view of that machine alone (middle) shows two repair events—one identifying the problem and one for making the repair. That same 1-day view for machine #2 on the next day, June 18 (right), shows the improved performance.
At the manufacturing facility for the Oilgear Company in Fremont, Nebraska, plant manager Tony Goff is frank in describing the plant's long lines of manually operated drilling machines. "These lines are 1960s technology," he says.
However, that technology is more productive now than ever before, and the reason has nothing to do with any attention the drilling machines have received. The reason has to do with modernization occurring elsewhere in the plant. Today, a flexible cell with five horizontal machining centers linked by an automated pallet system shares the workload with the older lines. The key to getting the most value out of this cell has been a software utility that lets decision-makers throughout the plant react to the cell's performance in real time. Because the software makes the flexible cell even more effective for small- and medium-size runs, the older lines can remain set up for the simpler and higher-volume parts that they do best—meaning the hours once spent on change-over can now be devoted to pure production. As a result, the software for managing a flexible cell has found new capacity on even the manual machines.
Strong All Week
The "Cincron" flexible cell and its associated software come from Cincinnati Lamb (Hebron, Kentucky). The software, "Freedom E-Log," has been critical to both the success of this cell and the continued success of the Fremont plant.
The software marshals the information pouring out of any collection of CNC machines. That information can include maintenance alarms, spindle loads, cycle times, tool lives, operator reports and more. By formatting all of the data into easily understandable graphical displays that are tailored to the different needs of different users, the software unlocks a variety of practical uses for the data. Achieving greater productive time is perhaps the most significant of these uses. By allowing users to quickly comprehend the needs of the machines, it empowers them to quickly address those needs as well.
The quick response is essential. For the Fremont plant to remain cost-effective to the Oilgear Company (headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), this plant had to be able to produce both around the clock and throughout the week.
The "throughout the week" part of that requirement is different. Most plants that run around the clock don't do this. Instead of 24/7, they run 24/5. Running 24/7 is an altogether different challenge, says Mr. Goff, because there is no cushion in the form of weekend overtime with which to recover from delays. At 24/7, lost time is lost forever, so the pressure falls to plant personnel to ensure that all productivity losses are kept tightly controlled. Their success at doing this can be measured in the in-cycle time for the five machining centers, a measure that currently averages 85.7 percent. This "in-cycle" figure takes account of all non-productive time, including even repairs and shut-downs for planned holidays. (See the illustration above.) The percentage means that out of 168 hours in a week, this plant routinely captures 144 for producing parts.
From Viewing To Doing
The plant makes axial piston pumps for large vehicles such as trucks and excavators. It ships 30,000 pumps per year, in various designs, often in lot sizes of one or two. Average order quantity is less than four. The Cincron cell, with its 41 pallets, handles about 300 different part numbers.
This cell began with just two machines. Back then, production managers used spreadsheets to track the cell's output—primarily just to confirm that the aggressive targets for these machines were being met. Later, when the plant assisted Cincinnati Lamb in the development of the Freedom E-Log software, the plant's hope for this software was simply that it would make the tracking more automatic. Once viewing the data became easy, however, acting on the data was just a short leap away.
The software organizes machine-tool events into bar charts or pie charts that are viewable throughout the plant's network. Clicking on any element of a chart reveals specific detail about the events that produced that particular element, and clicking on one of those events can reveal still more detail. The software's intuitive structure thus makes it easy for users to mine down to whatever level of specificity they need. Not just limited to flexible cells, the software can also serve collections of machines that are not linked in this way. It can even be used with collections of machine tools that come from various builders.
The software addresses different needs in different time windows. Sid Ellis, manufacturing and maintenance manager for the Fremont plant, typically looks at a daily view. A color-coded display of the past 24 hours of performance shows him any problems that may need attention at once. If he sees a maintenance alarm, he may check with the maintenance technician to determine how the problem will be addressed. If there is a problem that relates to a particular tool, he may have a similar conversation with a member of the manufacturing engineering group.
Mr. Goff is more likely to look at a yearly view. As plant manager, he develops projections and justifies investments, so the longer-term perspective is useful.
Meanwhile, on the production floor, operators see production events as they occur, and they provide the input that is vital to help others in the organization make sense of the information. An "operator comments" function allows operators to attach explanatory notes to any data item. As straightforward as the capability may sound, Mr. Ellis and Mr. Goff both agree that this feature has been particularly significant for the plant. Using this feature, the operators—who are on the front lines of the plant's production—can easily convey to the plant and the company what challenges they are facing and how they are addressing them. They can also communicate easily between shifts, meaning that a member of the weekend crew now has access to as much current production-related intelligence as any weekday employee.
Not all events demand operator comments. In fact, most events do not, because the software also allows the plant to compose its own codes for regular events that don't require explanation. When Mr. Ellis is not looking at a daily view, he is looking at a view that spans many days or many weeks, in search of trends or patterns in regular events such as these.
Others in the organization look at the data in this same way. They ask, for example: Does a particular tool break repeatedly or wear out too quickly? Should a certain maintenance item be performed more often? Do patterns in spindle performance suggest when a spindle should be replaced? Does a particular part number consistently fail to meet its cycle time goal, and if so, why? While the daily view shows the problems that are current or emerging, the longer view can be used to anticipate the problems that might be avoided before they ever become costly.
Allocating Work
The plant will add more machining centers, Mr. Goff says. He is confident of this, because the 87.5 percent in-cycle time makes additional machines well worth the price. For now, however, plant personnel apply the capacity of the five existing machining centers thoughtfully, looking to maximize both the value of this capacity and the value of the capacity of the drilling lines.
It is not just volume that determines which jobs go where, says Mr. Ellis. Relative backlog is also a consideration, with many part numbers routinely being run on either type of machine, depending on where capacity is available at that moment.
Scrap rate is an indicator, too. The non-CNC lines do not benefit from the software's ability to reveal subtle trends, but scrap rates provide a measure of less subtle feedback that the plant watches closely. Does a particular part show a scrap rate that is unusually high? If so, perhaps that part's complexity makes the part difficult to error-proof on manual equipment. When this is the case, the complexity may offer yet another reason—entirely unrelated to volume—for why the part should be sent to the CNC cell.


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- June 27, 1977
- Vol. 7
- No. 25
The Road Is Paved with Glory and Cash, and Stock Car Champ Richard Petty Is Its King
Nobody in the immensely popular sport of stock car racing handles that turn better than Richard Petty, 39. In his 19-year career, Petty has driven in 726 races and won an astonishing 182 of them. In the World 600, he is aiming for 183. Petty—who is called "King Richard"—says, "In the long run I don't care about being known as a good driver, or the best driver, or the worst driver. All I want to be known as is the winner."
The race this year attracts more than 115,000 paying customers. They pour into the Charlotte, N.C. Motor Speedway parking lots and infield in pickup trucks, campers, Winnebagos and Air-streams. There is cold beer, oceans of cold beer, cold cuts and Miracle Whip for sandwiches. The temptation is to see these fans as caricatures, subjects for the pen of an artist like Ronald Searle. All red-necks? Not by a long shot. The President of the United States, for one, is a stock car enthusiast. They come from all parts of the nation, a great American brotherhood of the internal-combustion engine.
After two days of rain and worry about the weather, race day turns out fine and hot, the kind of Carolina day that was made for stock car racing. Elizabeth Taylor is the grand marshal. She and her husband, John Warner, roll around the track in a gold Cadillac convertible—just folks. Bands play, speeches are made. The swelling crowd waits, cheerfully impatient.
Then, finally, growling and snarling like angry dogs, the 40 cars form up for the start. They get the green flag at 12:30 p.m.
The depth of Petty's fame in the Southeastern United States is awe-inspiring. He is rated by many as the best racing driver in the world. (The versatile A.J. Foyt, who races Indy cars, stocks, midgets, sprints and practically anything else with wheels—and who recently won his fourth Indy 500—is Petty's only real competitor for that title.) Petty has logged more than 155,000 racing miles—he believes it's the world record. Much of that mileage has recently been chronicled in the kind of worshipful autobiography usually reserved for movie stars and rock celebrities. Published by Macmillan, it's called King of the Road.
Petty seems to fit perfectly into the frame Southerners like to place around their heroes. He is a good ole boy who doesn't put on airs. He has won the Daytona 500 five times and the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) championship six times, and yet his attitude toward fame is reassuring. "I never had the problem that a guy like Catfish Hunter had. Nothing like that was ever dumped on me all at once," he says, explaining that any success that has come his way traveled slowly. Petty doesn't get ahead of himself either on the track or in life. He takes it one race, one day, at a time.
With lifetime winnings of $2,646,598, he is hardly complaining about the financial side of his life. Though close-mouthed about arrangements with his STP sponsor, he says he needs to earn two or three times his winnings to keep the family business, Petty Enterprises, running. A workshop in a semi, which goes with him to the tracks, cost more than $100,000 to equip. He competes almost every week during NASCAR's 30-race season to keep himself and his crew sharp. After the considerable overhead is paid each year, Petty, his father and his brother divide what is left. "I make a good living," Petty says, "and I have some outside investments, but I'm no multimillionaire." The three Pettys run the business, but Richard is head honcho. "My daddy and my brother and me, we holler at each other a good bit, but we generally manage to agree sooner or later."
Petty Enterprises is located in Level Cross, N.C., a stoplight on a Route 220 road crossing about 15 miles south of Greensboro. Counting cousins, there are about 50 Petty relatives living in the area. "I grew up thinking that Level Cross must be the best place in the world," Richard says, "and nothing I've seen since has changed my mind." The Petty company occupies several buildings on the old home place, a shady expanse of greensward surrounding a large house built by Richard's grandfather. Lee and Elizabeth Petty, Richard's parents, still live there.
"Family" is the key word in this world—a cousin, Dale Inman, is Richard's crew chief, and brother Maurice builds the engines for the Petty cars. Other kin, both kissin' and more distant, fill out the Petty staff of 33.
A cousin, Brenda Williams, takes a visitor on a tour of the Petty complex. There is a feeling of visiting a shrine. Every year thousands of car buffs drop by. Many of them are young couples, some on wedding trips. They stand enthralled, gazing at the shelves filled with glittering trophies and other Petty memorabilia. If sufficiently aroused by it all, they can make a purchase of Petty-related merchandise: T-shirts, souvenir racing jackets, hats, books.
Within these buildings, the cars that Petty drives and sells are assembled from the ground up. Each costs $40,000. The technological sophistication of the shop is impressive. So is the friendliness of the people who work there.
At the end of the tour, Brenda points out a spanking new motorboat. "It's something Richard won somewheres. They're always giving him something. He lets any of us use it when we want to." Fringe benefit.
Richard Petty's father also raced cars for a living. Lee Petty, now 63, won the first Daytona 500 in 1959, was NASCAR champ three times and is still active in Petty Enterprises. "You got to remember," Richard says of his youth, "none of it was strange to me. My daddy was driving then, and at home they was always working on a car. Just like farm kids have their chores, I was expected to work on the cars after school." Richard spent eight months at a business school after high school graduation, but the race cars finally drew him back home. "I was a pretty good mechanic, and I thought that's what I'd be," he says, grinning. "Then I took a notion to do some driving myself. But my daddy, he made me wait till I was 21. That's when I broke in—in 1958."
Cale Yarborough, a friend and colleague of Petty's and winner of more than 46 NASCAR events, says, "Richard's a fine competitor. You always know he's gonna be coming on." Yarborough pauses to think. "Now, one thing—and this don't put no bad on Richard, you know—but people kind of forget Richard got a lot of those wins of his when he was running on them old short tracks." (There were many more races then, sometimes two or three a weekend.)
Stock car racing has, of course, changed drastically since Petty began. Before 1969, 40 races each year were run on short tracks, many of them dirt. Of the 30 events these days, only five are on the half-mile tracks, all modern, banked and paved.
Petty and his wife, Lynda, have built their own home a couple of miles down the road from his parents in Randleman (pop. 2,500), where Richard went to high school. He finished five years ahead of Lynda and they were married before she graduated. She once described their courtship: "Richard would pick me up for a date and half the time we'd just cruise around with no particular place to go until he saw a bunch of guys hanging around a gas station. He'd leave me in the car, and sometimes I'd sit there for an hour. It was humiliating!"
Today Lynda Petty is a bright, rather motherly lady with her head screwed on right. She and Richard have four children: Kyle, 17, Sharon, 16, Lisa, 12, and Rebecca, 4. She says of marriage and raising children, "You aren't going to be able to give love to your children unless you give it to each other." The whole family goes along to the races whenever possible, living in motels, picnicking at the tracks. Lynda is active in the Mount Lebanon Methodist Church, where she and her husband are members.
Richard sizes up their marriage with affection and insight. "Generally I'm home for three or four days at a time, and when it starts getting on Lynda's nerves to have me around, I'll be gone for three or four days at a race. If she's not with me, it makes me want to get home. If we were never apart we might go berserk."
At the World 600, Petty once again makes winning look easy. He starts next to the pole position and takes the lead after only a few laps. His 1974 Dodge (No. 43) runs beautifully.
The crew is cool and unworried, thorough professionals. During pit stops, Petty usually drinks milk. He has ulcers. He's also hard of hearing, an occupational hazard. Because of the intense heat in the cockpit, he wears a skullcap that circulates cool water over his head. He says it keeps him alert.
For the spectators, there is the noise, the color, the exhaust-polluted air to inhale and the blazing speeds. Most of all, there is the possibility that the afternoon will bring a spectacular accident. The cars run six inches apart, drivers jockeying for position, at more than 150 mph. Although Petty himself has survived some terrifying crashes (at Darlington in 1970 he flipped 12 times and dislocated a shoulder), fatalities on stock car tracks are rare. (The sturdy vehicle surrounds the driver, absorbing the shock of an accident, and he is strapped in and padded.) In 1975, however, Randy Owens, Lynda's brother and a member of Petty's pit crew, was killed when a faulty air-pressure tank exploded. The dangers are there. (Petty claims his only fear is of heights. "Why, I can't work on my roof without hanging onto the chimney.")
It is 4:51 at the Charlotte speedway when Petty gets the checkered flag. He has given up the lead only rarely during the afternoon, and at the finish he is running 31 seconds ahead of David Pearson, a friend and one of Petty's chief rivals for the last 18 years.
After Richard collects a kiss from Elizabeth Taylor, some silver hardware from the management and a magnum of champagne, a voice comes on the public-address system to announce Petty's winnings for the day: $69,300, a new record for a single race.
Petty loads his wife and children in the family Dodge van for the hour-and-a-half drive back home to Randleman. He talks about his trade. "I can't say as I concentrate all the time out there. Matter of fact, I set pretty easy most of the time. When you've been doing something as long as I've been doing this, your experience just lets you know whatever needs doing—and you do it."
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LISBON - In Columbiana County Municipal Court, Charity A. Riggs, 19, Oak Street, Salem, was bound over to the Columbiana County Common Pleas Court grand jury on a theft charge. Court documents allege Riggs stole a check from the checkbook of Rebecca Simpson, writing the check to herself before cashing it for $175 on Feb. 26.
A May 9 preliminary hearing was set for Matthew P. Stouffer, 26, North Cross Street, Columbiana, charged with theft for allegedly taking utility rated electric wire from the city of Columbiana's electrical utilities department. The 260 pounds of wire was reportedly sold as scrap at Metalico on April 26. The wire is reportedly valued at $2,720. Stouffer is also charged with a misdemeanor criminal trespassing charge for going onto city property and a May 9 pretrial was set on that charge.
Taylor Scott Snyder, 22, North Market Street, East Palestine, was fined $725, had his license suspended for six months and was sentenced to three days in jail for OVI first offense and failure to control.
Ronald O. Baker, 40, Scotts Mill Road, Rogers, was fined $200, credited with five days served in jail, and required 30 hours community service for assault amended from domestic violence for choking Starlynn Reed on April 27, slamming her to the ground and causing her to lose consciousness at one point.
John D. Carrion, 33, West Sixth Street, Salem, was fined $300 and had his license suspended for 180 days for drug paraphernalia and marijuana possession.
Cody W. Landsberger, 19, Fairfield School Road, Columbiana, was fined $200 and required 30 hours community service for hit skip and assured clear distance.
Connie R. Dattilio, 48, state Route 334, Columbiana, was fined $100 and credited with 14 days in jail served for obstruction of official business and disorderly conduct. Court documents state Dattilio refused to obey commands by deputies to calm down and stop being aggressive when they were called to her home on April 18. She also reportedly refused to provide deputies with her name and other information.
Daniel Barcey, 19, West Perry Street, Salem, was fined $150, credited with one day in jail served and required 20 hours community service for disorderly conduct amended from assault for running up behind another student at Salem High School and hitting him in the back of the head with a closed fist. He was further ordered to have no further contact with the 16-year-old victim.
Charles L. Butcher, 48, Maple Street, Lisbon, was fined $150 and sentenced to 180 days in jail for domestic violence for striking Teresa Howard in the face, causing a cut on her tongue and a bruise on her right arm when she attempted to stop him from hitting her.
Douglas L. Coy, 52, Lexington Street, Salem, was fined $150, credited with a day served in jail and required 40 hours community service for theft for caffiene pills and a rifle scope he placed in his pockets at Wal-Mart in Salem on Feb. 10.
Michael Gary Snyder III, 19, Youngstown, was fined $150 for no license amended from driving under FRA suspension.
A May 9 pretrial was set for Robert L. Walters, 37, U.S. Route 62, Salem, charged with domestic violence for allegedly hitting the mother of his child in the face, punching her in the head and arms and striking her vehicle with his while she was driving, but sitting stationary.
A May 21 pretrial was set for Trevor T. Baulo, 27, Struthers, cited with speeding.
A May 30 pretrial was set for Marcia A. Wood, 63, Miller Street, Kensington, cited with criminal trespassing for allegedly going uninvited onto the property of Kelly E. Wood, Kennedy Drive, Salem, and refusing to leave on Monday.
A June 3 pretrial was set for Nancy J. Ruppel, 62, Beaver Falls, Pa., cited with a stop sign violation.
A June 6 pretrial was set for Tracy L. McCoy, 41, Yeager Drive, Wellsville, charged with OVI first offense and failure to control.
A June 6 pretrial was set for Courtney L. Troyer, 21, Gavers Road, Hanoverton, cited with failure to reinstate a license and hit skip.
A June 18 pretrial was set for Elena D. Ionese, 57, New Buffalo Road, Columbiana, cited with malfunctioning traffic signals.
A June 20 pretrial was set for Charles R. Courtney III, 28, South Broadway, Salem, charged with possession of marijuana and theft for allegedly helping another man take tractor wheel weights and some scrap from the rear of a Franklin Avenue garage and scrap the items at Quaker City Auto Parts for $65.
A June 20 pretrial was set for Roger D. Kasler, 48, Canton, cited with speeding.
A July 2 pretrial was set for David J. Mathes, 21, Salem-Unity Road, Salem, charged with driving under suspension and speeding.


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WCF 4.0 incorporates the features previously only obtainable via the REST Starter kit for .NET 3.5. Among the features included is the ability to cache REST requests using a similar technique to caching ASP.NET pages.
The 4.0 version of the System.ServiceModel.Web assembly includes an attribute called AspNetCacheProfile which takes a string as an argument. The attribute is to be used on a service contract operation as follows:
[WebGet(UriTemplate = "/{name}/getGreeting.xml",
BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare,
RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Xml,
ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Xml)]
string GetGreetingXml(string name);
The string points to a cache profile to be defined in the config section as follows:
As you can see, this is pretty much identical to setting up cache profiles for ASPX pages. The effect is pretty much what you would expect, the caching of a REST request. This can be proven and tested by implementing the above contract as such:
public string GetGreetingXml(string name)
return string.Format("Hello {0}. The time is {1}", name, DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString());
Now you can refresh the request and you'll see the same time for 10 seconds before it changes; once again, the same effect as in caching an ASPX page.
So what did I learn the hard way you ask? Well, common sense dictates that the request go through ASP.NET in order to use its caching capability. This not only means that you have to host in IIS or WAS, but also that you need to turn on ASP.NET compatibility mode. This shifts the processing of the REST request over to an HTTP handler that also sets an HTTP Context for you, something not normally done with conventional IIS hosting for REST services. To turn this on, you must enable it in the section under the section using the aspNetCompatibilityEnabled attribute. Not only that, but you have to "allow" it on the service using the AspNetCompatibilityRequirements attribute.
This part was not a surprise for me since I was already familiar with this technique and the added scope your service receives because it. I'm referring to the entire HTTP Context including session, application, cache, etc. Keep in mind that this is not for everything and should be used in very specific scenarios as it ties the service to the hosting style quite tightly.
What drove me crazy is something I'm surprised I did not notice in the past and that is the fact that your REST requests will not work while using the Visual Studio development server. Meaning you need to create an application in IIS and run it that way. No big deal but it drove me a little crazy since the meta data exposure worked fine, and so did the new HTML Help pages (another new feature in WCF 4.0 For REST). But the second I tried to request one of my URLs, it bombed out. Once I set up my application under IIS, everything was fine.
I have to give credit where it's due and thank Jon Flanders. I found the answer in his book Restful .NET from O'Reilly press.
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Solutions for Chapter 5.2
Let be a compact regular surface and fix a point . Let be the differentiable function defined by . Since S is compact, there exist such that for all .
Since S is compact, S is bounded. Therefore, there are spheres of centered in a fixed point , such that S is contained in the interior of the region bounded by any of them.
Consider the set of all such spheres. Let r be the infimum of their radii and let be a sphere of radius r centered in O. It is clear that and S have at least one common point, say p. The tangent plane to has only the common point p with S, in a neighborhood of p. Therefore and S are tangent at p. By observing the normal sections at p, it is easy to conclude that any normal curvature of S at p is greater than or equal to the corresponding curvature of at p. Therefore, and p is an elliptic point.
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WITH ONE player's misfortune comes another's opportunity.
While Thaddeus Young stiff-legs his way around the 76ers' bench for the next few weeks, rookie Arnett Moultrie should get an ample amount of playing time and give Sixers fans a look into what he might be able to bring in the future.
Young will be out at least 3 weeks with a Grade 1 left hamstring strain suffered in Monday's win over the Orlando Magic. So, while the Sixers were already shorthanded in the low post with Andrew Bynum's season-long knee injuries, losing Young is that much more devastating. And while Moultrie isn't expected to replace Young's 15 points and team-leading 7.5 rebounds, he will be counted on to contribute other variables his injured teammate supplies.


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Paul Thompson wrote:
> A friend installed 8.04 and eth0 worked fine. After trying several
> experiments to get wireless working the system is now in a state where
> "ifconfig -a' does not report eth0. Perhaps drivers have been
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Might want to look over and/or post to the newsgroup, the output of the
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Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior AlaskaTHIS volume deals with a series of journeys taken with a dog team over the winter trails in the interior of Alaska. The title might have claimed fourteen or fifteen thousand miles instead of ten, for the book was projected and the title adopted some years ago, and the journeys have continued. But ten thousand is a good round titular number, and is none the worse for being well within the mark.
The Ice Cave: A Woman¿s Adventures from the Mojave to the AntarcticFor Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a source of peace. But during one disastrous solo trip in the wintry High Sierra she came face to face with a crisis: the wilderness no longer felt like home. The Ice Cave recounts Bledsoes wilderness journeys as she recovers her connection with the wild and discovers the meanings of fear and grace. These are Bledsoes gripping tales of fending off
So, How Long Have You Been Native?
Life as an Alaska Native Tour GuideSo, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten's firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An Alaska Native and anthropologist, she spent two seasons working for a tribally owned tourism business that markets the Tlingit culture in Sitka. Bunten's narrative takes readers through the summer tour season as she is hired and trained and eventually


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Addie and Her Cloth Diapers… That Don't Fit!Danielle
I love cloth diapers. Last summer we switched our middle son over to cloth completely, and my oldest uses them part time. Well, used to… since he is potty trained FINALLY!
So when it came to diapering our daughter, I really wanted to go the cloth route also. I got her a full stash of AppleCheeks cloth diapers, and a couple other kinds here and there. I think all total she has 2 FuzziBunz and 2 Charlie Bananas also. Besides the point…
Seeing as she was less than 6 pounds when she was born, she has been a little small for the cloth diapers we have. When she hit the 7 pound mark, which is the size one set of the diapers starts at, I figured she would fit right into them. Ha! Not so much!
So we did a little photo shoot with the diapers and it actually was pretty comical.
Addie & Cloth size 1 of 6Not very happy
Calming down… slightly 2 of 6The diaper is basically she size of her
And a little bit more calm… 3 of 6Another size example
Not for long! 4 of 6And cue the hysterics!
AppleCheeks 5 of 6A butt view
Does this thing fit? 6 of 6And how she looks giant with it on...
Needless to say, they don't fit all that well… and we will be waiting another couple weeks till we switch her over fully from the current disposables we are using.
I wasn't planning on having her in pampers this long, but then again… I wasn't really planning on having a tiny little munchkin either!
My Cloth Diaper Dilemma: Is it worth the trouble?


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MANY religious groups believe at least one of their religious holidays should be declared a public holiday and that the existing public holidays are overly skewed towards Christianity - a faith held by more than 70% of South Africans who consider themselves Christian.
This emerged yesterday from a public hearing in Durban - held by the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities - on the subject of religious holidays.
Business organisations have long argued that production suffers from too many political and religious holidays, while many South Africans who are not Christians are forced to take leave, often unpaid leave, so they can observe their religious holidays.
The commission has held hearings in Gauteng and the Free State, and is scheduled to hold another hearing in the Western Cape before making recommendations to Parliament.
The commission's advocate Kgositoi Sedupane said the Department of Home Affairs had failed to take into account the constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights when declaring public holidays.
"Given the superficial argument of the department, and the complaints it received from the public, the commission deems it appropriate that it conduct the consultative process," he said.
Other complaints included that some people were forced to write exams on days holy to them, that the Basic Conditions of Employment Act only recognised Christian religious holidays, and that indigenous African religions had no public holidays.
Ashwin Trikamjee, who spoke on behalf of Hindu s, said they had been asking the government to make Diwali a public holiday for some time, but were told if every religion's important days were accommodated, it would affect economic production.
Mr Trikamjee said one religion should not be given three or four holidays, and others no ne. He said it was not up to Hindus to decide which holidays should be scrapped, but the Hindu community should decide which holy day was most important to them, and this day should be made a public holiday.


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Titles of Nobility: Property, Poverty, and Immigration in a Free and Democratic Society
Joseph William Singer
Harvard Law School
June 12, 2013
Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 13-32
This keynote address was delivered at the AALS conference on Property, Poverty, and Immigration in June 2013.
Both property and immigration are premised on exclusion yet both human rights and democratic norms require us to treat every human being with equal concern and respect. While neither sovereigns nor owners can have completely open borders, they have obligations to respect the human dignity of "the stranger." Biblical sources link the stranger with the poor and develop a version of the Golden Rule that requires both to be accorded "love." The related secular principle of equal concern and respect means that poverty is, in principle, incompatible with the norms of a free and democratic society. That principle is embodied in the constitutional prohibition on titles of nobility which mandates treating every human being as of equal value and importance. While the nobility clauses do not mandate particular policies, they do outlaw treatment that places some as occupying a lower status than others.This has consequences for both immigration and property law, as well as laws and policies designed to alleviate and prevent poverty.
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Games are a huge part of culture. Who we are and where we're from influence the games we play. As this is an Asian group, we should play Asian games. This time we will be playing Chinese games such as xiangqi (Chinese Chess), weiqi (go), mahjong and card games such as Big 2. Don't worry- we have people willing to teach members how to play. And no gambling will be allowed. This is just for fun and this is a FREE meetup. When you RSVP, please indicate which game you can bring. We'll be there from 2pm to 5pm. Drop in whenever you can. The closest metro stops are Metro Center and Gallery Place/Chinatown. After we're done playing, we'll head out to a nearby restaurant for dinner and conversation.
We'll be at Martin Luther King Library near Chinatown in Meeting Room A-9. When you enter from G Street, immediately make a right and go down one flight of steps. I'll post signs on the walls showing where to go.
Playing chinese games was so much fun and it was great meeting so many awesome new people! I can't wait for the next event! Thanks Joe for making it all happen, you sir, are a true scholar and a gentleman!
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It was really great! Met wonderful people, brushed up on my mahjong skills, all around fun. Thanks Joe for organizing this!
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Enjoyed it a lot... great group of people and Joe was an excellent host making sure everyone got integrated into the group. Thanks Joe!
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Joe, I got a chinese chess set that I will bring.
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Hey Joe,
I have a xiangqi set. It's kind of cheap, but I'll be happy to bring it on Saturday.
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A 7-MONTH-OLD boy was admitted to the hospital with respiratory distress secondary to upper airway obstruction. The patient had previously been diagnosed with VATER complex in the neonatal period. Associated anomalies included agenesis of the left kidney, hypoplastic left thumb, cystic right kidney, and a tracheoesophageal fistula, which was repaired. The patient had also undergone a pyloromyotomy for pyloric stenosis and a Nissen fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux.
Findings from a clinical examination of the heart were normal. Cardiac ultrasonographic examination showed normal cardiac anatomy, normal myocardial contractility, no patent ductus arteriosus, or coarctation of the aorta. Color-flow Doppler (Figure 1) and 2-dimensional echocardiograms (Figure 2) were obtained.
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ABC News/Washington Post Poll of Public Opinion on Current Social and Political Issues, June 1983 (ICPSR 8176)
Principal Investigator(s): ABC News; The Washington Post
This poll is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. This poll evaluated the impact of President Ronald Reagan's administration and examined respondents' awareness of AIDS. Demographic information on respondents includes race, sex, age, level of income and education, religion, marital status, and political party affiliation.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Lauren Chamberlain hit a two-run home run and Keilani Ricketts struck out 11 to lead Oklahoma past South Florida 5-1 Thursday in the opener of the Women's College World Series.
Hart High graduate and Oklahoma catcher Jessica Shults was 1-for-1 in the game with two walks — including one after an 11-pitch at-bat.
Canyon graduate Brittany Williams picked up an RBI with a bases-loaded, pinch-hit walk.
Oklahoma (51-8) next plays Friday night against the winner of Thursday's LSU-California game. The Bulls (50-13) play the loser of LSU-California on Saturday in the first elimination game.
Ricketts, the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, struck out 10 or more for the 23rd time this season.
South Florida, playing in the WCWS for the first time, took a 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth inning on an RBI double by Kourtney Salvarola.
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Apple MacBook 2010-05
Average of 7 scores (from 9 reviews)
Reviews for the Apple MacBook 2010-05
Updated graphics. After its latest refresh the white MacBook has caught up again with the MacBook Pro 13. Its GeForce 320M provides markedly improved graphics performance, but does the package as a whole justify the relatively high price tag?
Source: Reg Hardware
You can sniff at the benchmark results, frown at the 250GB hard drive and rub your chin at the 2GB Ram, but none of this tells you what its really like to play with an Apple MacBook. It is a terrific notebook computer that is great to use for pleasure and everyday work, and looks lovely being slid in and out of a students shoulder bag. Its expensive, but I dont care: if you want cheap, go buy a tombstone. What I do care about, however, is the limited range of I/O ports. Please, sir, I want some more.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/13/2010
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: PC Advisor
There's a very slight performance increase introduced by the 2.4GHz processor, but where the Apple MacBook really scores is in increased battery life, and a graphics controller that usefully expands the gaming possibilities of this laptop. As a complete package, with its safer and more stable OS X operating system, and huge multi-touch trackpad unmatched in the Windows world, the Apple MacBook earns a worthy recommendation for anyone looking for a reliable, easy-to-use portable. It remains a fast and enjoyable-to-use laptop and we'd argue it's the best value notebook under £1000.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/06/2010
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 90% features: 80% workmanship: 90%
Source: PC World
If you own a MacBook that's over a year old, switching to the new Apple MacBook will offer you improved overall performance and very good battery life. If you are someone who's aspiring to buy a MacBook at the lowest price point, the white polycarbonate Apple MacBook is just for you. Highly recommended for students and professionals who need a fully-functional 13-inch laptop with very long battery life for use while on the go, but you can also buy this one for predominant home usage.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/16/2010
Rating: Total score: 81%
Source: PC Mag
The gap between what the Apple MacBook offers versus its pricier counterpart, the MacBook Pro 13-inch ($1,199 direct, ) is narrowing. The 13-inch Apple MacBook (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz) ($999 direct) has updated its core components while keeping its design and features the same. While you get the expected processor bump (to the 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU), the better 3D graphics system (with the Nvidia GeForce 320M) and better battery life (with a bigger 63.5WH battery) are the more compelling upgrades. The MacBook doesn't have the MacBook Pro's SD card slot, backlit keyboard, or aluminum design, but for $200 less, it's a nice value play for Mac-loving students and homebodies alike.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/11/2010
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Techradar
Overall, the mid-2010 refresh is a useful update for the MacBook. An incremental processor boost and a significantly better graphics chipset makes it good value for money, despite the small price increase.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/07/2010
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Computer Shopper
In its previous upgrade, the MacBook, Apple's least-expensive laptop, got a pretty dramatic overhaul. At that time, it was given many of the features of its more advanced sibling, the 13-inch MacBook Pro. Budget-minded shoppers will get much of the experience of the excellent MacBook Pro line in this less-expensive Apple laptop, but weigh the trade-offs carefully.
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Rating: performance: 75% display: 70% mobility: 90% emissions: 40%
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Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/26/2010
Rating: performance: 60% mobility: 70%
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Rating: Total score: 75%
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The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
Fast but still not overpriced dual core CPU. For most games and multimedia applications sufficient and due to the 25W TDP even for smaller notebooks useable.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
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Titusville locals canoeing down to Gulf of Mexico
To travel the country is one thing. To travel the country "Mark Twain style," as Cameron Nicols puts it, is another.
Nicols and Shawn Corey, of Titusville, are well on their way to paddling 2,100 miles down to the Gulf of Mexico by canoe.
The adventurous duo started their journey in Warren on June 4 on the Allegheny River. They eventually merged into the Ohio River and are now roughly 60 miles from the Mississippi River.
They still have another 900 miles before they reach the Gulf.
They're planning to average about 20 miles a day, with a goal of reaching their destination in early September.
Nicols, 23, and Corey, 32, have already gone through Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Louisville, Ky.
"We take our time and just fish a little bit and cruise and see stuff along the way," Corey said.
Their days begin at sunup.
They scarf down a quick coffee-and-eggs breakfast before loading up their separate canoes and heading into the water.
Corey and Nicols try to knock out some miles in the morning so they have time to explore during the day. Then they'll stop on the shore for lunch.
They don't want to spend too much money, so they limit their restaurant visits.
The guys often stop at convenience stores and buy canned food and snacks, or they chow down on Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) they received from Corey's brother-in-law at the start of the trip.
After lunch, they're back on the river, canoeing through historic sites along the way.
Nicols said one of his favorite parts of the trip has been seeing river towns, like Rabbit Hash, Ky., that are "frozen in time."
They've seen wildlife, too.
They saw a deer swim across the width of the Ohio River, which Corey said was a good quarter mile in length. He marveled at it.
They saw eight bald eagles swoop down into the water and catch fish, with two of the birds battling for the same breakfast.
Corey and Nicols have also had their own battles on their trek to the Gulf.
There have been days where they were blocked by the wind's stubborn push. "Headwinds will really screw your day up," Corey said.
When out of the water, the pair roughed it through rugged terrain, carrying 100 pounds of gear over the side of a mountain for a rest.
They bunkered down in a West Virginia forest during a set of thunderstorms that swept across Midwest and Atlantic Coast states on June 29 and 30, leaving 22 dead and millions without power.
"It was crazy," Nicols said. "Winds were ripping shingles off houses. We had to jump over things flying in the streets."
When times weren't so hectic, they covered 36 miles in a day.
A strenuous workout is often followed by a nice shower. Not for these guys. They've had only two traditional showers since the trip began. One was at a campground in Ohio, the other at a hotel in Kentucky.
Otherwise, they bathe in the river with a bar of soap.
At night, they sleep at campgrounds or cheap motels. Funding for their trip is bolstered by about $1,000 in donations from friends and family.
Before the journey began, Corey and Nicols were tied to their respective jobs. Corey was working as a contractor in Buffalo, N.Y., and had little down time. He needed a break.
He remembered something his father said while fishing on the Allegheny River when Corey was 8. "You can follow the river to the Gulf of Mexico," his dad told him.
Nicols was working a part-time job in Pittsburgh around the same time that Corey was looking for a partner to join him for the journey. Nicols returned home one weekend and heard Corey talking about the possible canoe voyage south.
"I got psyched on it," Nicols said.
Corey and Nicols saved enough money to pay their bills a few months ahead. They also left their jobs for the summer, with the full support of their employers.
"This is a good time to take a break from it all," Nicols said. "There's a lot of time to think."
But on the river, there's still a lot to learn.
"I'm not exactly Huck Finn yet," Nicols said.
There is no deadline to reach the Gulf of Mexico. It'll always be there for them. They remain relaxed as they travel down to the salt water.
They don't even know how they're coming back.
They know they're not paddling back, but they might fly home and mail their gear. Maybe it'll be a long bus ride.
For now, it's all about getting to the Gulf.
HERB SCRIBNER can be reached at 870-1676 or by e-mail.


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Upcoming events in the world of business:
Wednesday -- The Census Bureau reports on factory orders for January.
Thursday -- The Labor Department reports on first-time unemployment claims for the prior week; the Census Bureau reports on the trade balance for January; the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports on productivity for the second quarter.
Tuesday, March 19 -- Penn State Behrend will host the first of three spring information sessions for anyone interested in learning more about the college's MBA program.
MBA faculty members will be available from 5:30 to 6 p.m. to take questions. Following that session, faculty members will discuss the curriculum.
For more information, visit Behrend.psu.edu/mbainfo or call 898-6618.
Tuesday, March 19 -- Jeffrey Beach, a CPA and chief operating officer of the Erie office of the accounting firm of Malin Bergquist & Co. LLC, will discuss the impact of the fiscal cliff on taxpayers.
Beach will be the featured speaker at the monthly Eggs 'N' Issues forum sponsored by the Manufacturer & Business Association.
He will also discuss tax changes that went into effect at the beginning of 2013.
The event will begin at 7:45 a.m. in the association's conference center at 2171 W. 38th St. Cost is $30 for members and $60 for nonmembers.
To register, visit www.mbausa.org or call 833-3200.
Thursday, March 21 -- The Bel-Aire Clarion Hotel and Conference Center, 2800 W. Eighth St., will sponsor a St. Patrick's Day themed Business After Hours, a free networking event for members of the Erie Regional Chamber.
The event will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. and will food and beverages in Victor's Restaurant, poolside and in the terrace.
For more information, call 454-7191 Ext. 146.


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settlement & the acquisition of a regular there
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the ordinance of 1787 as to the existence of slavery with in the
the limits of that state
7- That if the jury shall be of opinion from the evidence that
VincentVincent the plaintiff constantly down to the of 1829 when
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from labor
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It is not a secret that one of the reasons we created CartoDB was the lack of alternatives for geospatial data visualizations. For several years we developed our own custom solutions to visualize large amounts of dynamic data, or to develop location aware applications. Many geospatial applications run on top of the fantastic PostgreSQL/PostGIS database, but most of the software built to use them on the web end up being slow or don't access the full potential of PostGIS. Also, a lot of them are proprietary and include very tough terms of service. We wanted to create a software that would explode the possibilities of PostGIS while keeping it Open Source, scalable, customizable and leaving you the owner of your own data.
So, one of the most common questions we get on conferences is: How does CartoDB compare to Fusion Tables. Today, we want to write about the comparisons and show you some examples. We will try to be as fact based as we can, but if you find any questionable items please let us know.
How are Fusion Tables and CartoDB similar
Both projects allow users to upload geospatial data and then use that data to create visualizations. If the data changes in the table, the maps automatically update on the website where they have been embedded. This is really powerful. Additionally, both products allow you to programmatically access data via a set of APIs.
How are Fusion Tables and CartoDB different
There is a lot to be said based on different licenses and different terms of use. For example, Google reserves the right to include advertisement in your maps, and obviously it is not Open Source. Also, according to the license, Fusion Tables probably can only be used with Google Maps API (need confirmation), and therefore make it very hard to use together with OpenStreetMap.
UPDATE: This is not entirely correct. You can use Fusion Tables via KML or API queries without a restriction on it being displayed along with a Google Map. The FusionTablesLayer, which is part of the Google Maps API, then applies the terms of the API of course.
But we want to focus more on the limits of both projects to help people understand the differences from a technical point of view.
Amount of data limits
Fusion Tables
You can use the Maps API to add up to five Fusion Tables layers to a map, one of which can be styled with up to five styling rules.
No limitation on the amount of layers you display or the amount of styles you apply.
Only the first 100,000 rows of data in a table are mapped or included in query results.
No limit on the amount of rows to query on the SQL API or to display on maps.
500 vertices per tile limit.
No limit.
250 MB size limit.
On dedicated servers you can go as much as 500GB of data (soft limit). That does not mean we have the capacity to display on a map 500GB of data, biggest limitation is RAM, which on dedicated instances is 32GB.
Fusion Tables layers are made available as part of the Google Maps API. We've seen that the cost of using the Maps API can quickly grow out of hand for businesses.
CartoDB comes for various prices from our free _Newbie server_ to our $300 fully dedicated instances.
The limitation on amount of data in Fusion Tables are described here. And this is how they compare to CartoDB.
Now, to see the implication of some of this limits we loaded the same dataset on Fusion Tables and CartoDB. A total of 100,851 points from our OldWeather project. These are within the limits of Fusion Tables, but because of the restrictions on the amount of vertices per tile, the data does not look the same.
On the left is Fusion Tables, on the Right CartoDB for the EXACT same dataset. You can see how Fusion Tables remove points at low zoom levels due to the 500 limit per tile.
Map customization limits
But this map in any case is wrong. You should not visualize on a map 100,000 points like this because the size of the marker is so big that does not allow you to really understand the data. In Fusion Tables you are very limited to how you want the marker to look like, it's just a circle in different colors, like in the example. But in CartoDB, because we support a full styling language like Carto CSS, you can do many more things, like changing the opacity, using a symbol, or more important, changing how it looks at different zoom levels. Compare that previous map with this one with a custom style in CartoDB, again, the same dataset.
Now you can really see the trends on the data, and the more you zoom in, the bigger the dots become.
The next example is a dump of all roads from Belarus in OpenStreetMap. It is an 18MB shapefile downloaded from Geofabrik. You can see straight away how Fusion Tables does not show all features. Unlike the last case it would almost never make sense to use dots to represent the roads. Zoom out one zoom level and you will see how Fusion Tables automatically turns the roads into points.
We have only covered a small subset of the differences between Fusion Tables and CartoDB. But essentially: CartoDB is Open Source, does not impose data size limits, you can use full SQL from PostGIS, usage of Carto CSS to style your map, are the main reasons why we created CartoDB and that differentiate it from Fusion Tables.
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The CIA Talks Middle East Geopolitics at the Library
Hundreds gathered at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on January 30 to get an intriguing and revealing insight into history with the Central Intelligence Agency.
The symposium entitled Nixon and the Role of Intelligence in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War highlighted the Agencys publication of more than 400 recently declassified documents including intelligence assessments, research papers, National Intelligence Estimates, high level memos, and briefing materials provided to the Nixon Administration.
The program was co-presented by the CIA Historical Collections Division, the Nixon Foundation and the National Archives.
Former CIA policymakers, intelligence analysts, and historians officials gave first-hand accounts of the events of the 1973 conflict, giving testament to the lessons learned from the unexpected attack on Israel 40 years ago.
President Nixons role in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War has been credited with saving Israel from an onslaught of potentially devastating attacks. Nixon overrode political and administrative objections to assist Israel with an American airlift to replace all of its lost munitions.
Speakers included Charles E. Allen (former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security); William Quandt (National Security Council staff member in the Nixon and Carter administrations between 19721974 and 1977-1979); Andy Liepman (former Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center); Richard Kovar (former chief of CIAs Middle East Task Force); and Emile A. Nakhleh, PhD (former Senior Intelligence Officer, Research Professor, University of New Mexico).
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