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Bipartisan Massachusetts Lawmakers Show Great Leadership In Pressing Pro-Solar Legislation
Following is a statement from Sean Gallagher, vice president of state affairs for the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), applauding 100 members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for writing House leadership supporting legislation to assure strong net energy metering policies.
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A new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) predicts substantially more solar generating capacity will get built in the United States, and a major industry downturn will be avoided, if the federal solar investment tax credit (ITC) is extended at its current level.
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Continuing on its record-breaking trajectory, the United States solar industry surpassed 20 gigawatts (GW) of total operational solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity during the second quarter of this year. According to GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association's (SEIA) Q2 2015 U.S. Solar Market Insight Report, the U.S. installed 1,393 megawatts[i] of PV last quarter, showcasing both annual and quarterly growth.
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Sunrun released its new app for iPhone and Android smart phones and tablets. The California solar installer released mySunrun as a new tool which integrates the power social media, along with analytics to give customers an engaging virtual experience. With mySunrun, customers can do many things. For starters, customers can check their solar electricity production on a weekly, monthly, or a yearly basis. This tool is especially handy if a client wants to check to see how much solar power they are producing at different periods of the year.
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Ohio's renewable energy initiative, set in 2008, has been an economic and clean energy driver, lowering prices, creating local jobs and spurring investment. But the state senate is considering a bill, SB 5hat would dramatically lower the renewable energy requirements and seems to make compliance virtually optional.
As the world's largest retailer and biggest private employer, Walmart commands attention from Wall Street to Main Street. But it's not what's happening inside Walmart stores making news this week – it's what's happening on top of them.
For the second year in a row, the Solar Means Business report ranks the top brands in the U.S. based on the amount of solar power installed at their warehouses, stores and facilities.
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As the world's largest retailer and biggest private employer, Walmart commands attention from Wall Street to Main Street. But it's not what's happening inside Walmart stores making news this week – it's what's happening on top of them.
Washington, D.C. – The countdown has begun. In just 10 days, Solar Power International 2013 (SPI '13), North America's premier business-to-business event for professionals in solar energy, will provide a platform for discussing a wide variety of trends, new product introductions and critically important issues.
With no end in sight to the federal government shutdown – and worries mounting by the minute about its impact on the U.S. economy – what can the private sector do to help spur job creation and economic growth in the future? Here's one good idea: The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has just released a comprehensive new report outlining ways to create 50,250 new American jobs and save more than $61 billion in future energy costs by expanding the use of innovative and cost-effective solar heating and cooling (SHC) systems across the nation.
As disappointed as some local fans of the Solar Decathlon may be, it turns out this might have been a good year for the event to move out of Washington, D.C. While budget dispute clouds loom over the federal government and the Capitol, the biannual Department of Energy event is casting its own sunshine in Irvine, California.
In China, 2013 is the year of the snake. But here in the United States, this may well go down as the year of the sun. A recent market analysis by GTM Research shows the U.S. market installed 832 megawatts (MW) of new photovoltaic (PV) installations in the second quarter of this year – a whopping 15 percent increase over the first three months of 2013.
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Heya friends, it seems that more and more these days the market for collectable gaming goods keeps growing. As Gen-Xers get older they are filling in the ranks of working professionals. They are starting families, paying off student loans and looking for ways to decorate their first homes. That means that the games and toys they grew up with are now part of a collector market. That also means that an entirely new market has opened up to cater to their wants. For example I'm certain that many of you heard about the limited-edition 14" tall sniper statue from Team Fortress 2 for $234.99. I was joking with my friend that this figure was not nearly as massive as the mixed media (clothing and resin) Heihachi statue from Triad Toys going for $239.99. The Sniper looks fantastic but is not as imposing as the 22" tall or 1/4 scale Heihachi.
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A USGS arctic survey released last year estimated that the polar region held 22% of the world's undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas including 90 billion bbls of undiscovered oil, 1670 trillion ft3 of gas and 44 billion bbls of NGLs. Over 30 billion bbls of that oil and 221 trillion ft3 of gas lay in Alaska's Arctic waters. Canada's potential is 6 billion bbls of oil and 118 trillion ft3 of gas. The rest is spread across Russia's Barents Sea and the basins that lie to the east and west of Greenland.
For such a vast area, relatively little exploration has occurred. Extensive seismic and drilling activity occurred in the Canadian Arctic during the 1970s and 1980s as the Canadian government gave extensive incentives to search in federal lands. Approximately 2 billion bbls of oil and 20 trillion ft3 of natural gas were found.
While current North American gas prices are depressed, they are still well above 1980 levels. In addition, advances in cold region production and transportation have reduced unit costs. Last December, BP paid C$ 1.18 billion to secure an exploration licence in the Beaufort Sea. Cairn, Husky and Exxon are all exploring in Greenland and Canada's Davis Strait.
In Canada, approximately 6 trillion ft3 of natural gas underlay the onshore Mackenzie Delta. Imperial Oil, ConocoPhillips, Shell, ExxonMobil and the Aboriginal Pipeline Group seek to build the Mackenzie Gas Project, a 30 in., 1220 km pipe running south to Alberta. Gazprom is also working in partnership with StatoilHydro and Total to develop the giant Shtokman oil and gas field located in the Barents Sea. Discovered in 1988, the field, which sits 555 km offshore in 350 m of water, is estimated to hold 113 trillion ft3 of gas and 200 million bbls of condensate. The region is subject to drifting icebergs of up to 1 million t, however. Development of the field will benefit from new seafloor technologies developed by StatoilHydro to handle production from the 6 trillion ft3 of gas at its Snohvit field in the Barents Sea. They have also developed a suite of remotely operated vehicles and autonomous underwater vehicles to survey the operation, as well as manipulator arms to perform repairs and operational tasks. The development of the Shtokman field has been estimated at up to US$ 25 billion.
A major concern is the environment. Preservation groups have resisted attempts to open up wilderness areas in Alaska for several decades, and petroleum companies can expect more of the same for new areas of exploration. This year, Shell had planned to drill a dozen wells in the Alaska Beaufort Sea at the Sivulliq prospect, on which it had spent US$ 803 million in licences. Last November, however, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Minerals Management Service (MMS) did not properly consider the risks of oil spills, disturbance to migrating whales and disruption to traditional hunting lifestyle of the Inupiat Eskimos. Although the decision was subsequently vacated, Shell has suspended plans for the Alaska Beaufort Sea this year. In the meantime, it will focus its attention on its US$ 2.1 billion licences in the Chuckhi basin, which lies between northwestern Alaska and Eastern Siberia. The MMS says the basin holds an estimated 15 billion bbls of recoverable oil and 77 trillion ft3 of recoverable gas.
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"Are you on?" Or are you a subscriber to "the best radio on radio?"
Next year, you may be both if the federal government approves a controversial merger of the nation's only two satellite radio providers: XM Satellite Radio, with its "Are you on?" tagline and Sirius Satellite Radio, which bills itself as "the best."
The merger would create a massive single provider offering a menu of 300 channels to its millions of subscribers. It also would free up the company to dictate pricing and programming policies without competitive pressures.
But what will this unprecedented multitude of radio content mean to you, the listener?
Maybe less than you think.
While backers of the deal say it will greatly enhance the listening opportunities for customers, an examination of the current XM and Sirius channel offerings shows that, with the exception of a few talk shows and some sports play-by-play, the two providers offer largely the same content.
Under their current plans, subscribers would be given the option of keeping their current content and adding the "best of" the other. Total net gain in channels: about a dozen.
Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin, who would head the combined venture, told Congress earlier this year that consumers would be given content from both companies for less than the cost of subscribing to both services.
"Today, you can get great music plus the NFL, NASCAR and Martha Stewart on Sirius; or, Major League Baseball, PGA Golf, Oprah and great music on XM. But if you want all of this, or the best of both, you need to subscribe to two services, buy two radios and pay two monthly fees," he said.
"If our merger is approved, we will offer consumers a much more attractive choice: the best of each service on one radio at a price below the cost of the two services today," Karmazin added.
But that does not mean the combined company will offer subscribers all 170 XM channels and all 130 Sirius channels. And even if it did, there is so much duplication of content that few consumers would want it.
The companies have not spelled out what specific channels will be available as part of their "best of" offerings.
They have said they will offer two "a la carte" options which will require new radios. The first would allow the selection of 50 channels from a menu of 100 channels from either XM or Sirius, but not both, for $6.95 per month. A second would allow the selection of 100 channels from an unspecified menu, with XM subscribers allowed to select some Sirius stations and vice versa, for $14.95 per month.
With existing radios, customers will be able to continue receiving their current service, plus "certain programming" from the other for $16.95 per month.
Chance Patterson, a spokesman for XM, acknowledged that there is duplication among the two providers' current offerings, though he said both offer unique programming.
"The best way to look at it is that if you're an existing XM subscriber, you would have access to the best of Sirius, which would include about a dozen channels. Sirius subscribers would get about a dozen of the best XM channels available," he said.
Dennis Wharton, executive vice president of the National Association of Broadcasters, which opposes the merger, said consumer visions of being able to pick and choose their favorite channels from a combined XM-Sirius menu are greatly exaggerated.
"They will be offering bundled packages of programming. It you go to a restaurant and order a la carte, you don't have to get 20 or 30 dishes before you get the single item you want from the menu. Calling it a la carte is a sham," he said.
Between them, XM and Sirius have a combined 14 million subscribers (that's something like 13 percent of all American households) who pay monthly fees of $12.95 for dozens of channels of music, news, sports, talk, comedy, weather and traffic.
Lay the two programming lists side by side and the similarities are startling, particularly in the music categories which make up the majority of the available channels. Here are some of the similarities:
Hits: Both offer pop hits by decade for the '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. XM has "Top 20 Hits" while Sirius has "Top 40 Hits." They both offer a station for love songs. And while Sirius has "Easy Listening," XM has "Lite Pop Hits."
Rock: XM offers "Deep Classic Rock," Sirius has "Deeper Classic Rock." Sirius has classic alternative and new alternative, XM has '70s and '80s alternative and new alternative. They both have channels for punk, heavy metal, grunge, reggae and more.
News: They both have CNN and CNN Headline News, the BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox News.
Sports might be the key area where there are substantial differences: XM offers Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League and big-time college football; Sirius has the National Football League, the National Basketball Association and NASCAR.
Sirius also has perhaps the biggest name in talk radio, Howard Stern, with two separate stations, while XM can offer only Opie and Anthony in the shock jock category.
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The Browns acted quickly in getting fourth-round draft choice Pierre Desir under contract.
It shouldn't be a surprise that the defensive back from Lindenwood College is the first of the team's six draft picks to sign. Having a wife and two daughters, Desir is very mature and obviously values the importance of financial security. That came across when he was introduced to reporters during the recent rookie camp.
Now that Desir has signed, there's really no reason why the Browns can't get the other five rookies under contract in short order. The rookie wage scale slots each player into a predetermined financial slot, removing agent-team bargaining from the equation.
For whatever reason, the Browns are usually among the last teams to sign all their picks. Many of the other teams act quickly, getting their picks signed long before the start of training camp. The Minnesota Vikings wasted no time this year in signing each of their picks.
You would think that agreeing to terms with quarterback Johnny Manziel would be easy. Considering the money Manziel is hauling in from non-football activities, a few hundred thousand dollars here or there wouldn't seem to make much of a difference.
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Doesn't the federal government have anything better to do than to harass Phil Mickelson. He pays millions of dollars a year in taxes, but just because he has the gall to complain about his outrageously high tax bracket, that justifies the feds to ambush him at a golf tournament to try to intimidate him? That tactic might work with Martha Stewart, but Phil's too smart for that. I'm more concerned with the hundreds of millions of dollars that taxpayers are paying so billionaire sports team owners can have luxurious playgrounds for their teams to play in.
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No Country for Old Men, Ethan and Joel Coen's unsparing account of blood, drugs and money in Texas, a film as blunt as a cattle stun-gun, swept the top awards last night at the 80th annual Academy Awards. It won four Oscars, for best picture, director, adapted screenplay and supporting actor.
In an evening where studio movies and American stars were largely overlooked, the Academy honored a United Nations of performers. It was the first time since 1965 that foreigners swept the acting categories.


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by Danielle Steel
It is the misguided reader who skips a single page of this novel. This warning has a lot less to do with the quality of the writing than with the thickness of the action. To be anything short of raptly attentive is to risk missing a death, a birth, a love affair, a marriage. Zoya is 17, a beautiful, mischievous Russian countess, cousin to Tsar Nicholas. But the Russian Revolution, which has just begun as the novel opens, changes everything. Zoya's beloved father and brother are killed, her mother commits suicide, and Zoya herself flees with her grandmother Evgenia, ending up in Paris. There she joins the Ballet Russe and meets Captain Clayton Andrews, "a tall, attractive man with gray hair and brilliant blue eyes," with whom (of course) she falls madly in love. Zoya, like all Steel heroines, leads a full life. She loses her parents and brother and grandmother, almost loses her children to a tenement fire, is impoverished by the crash of '29, buries two husbands and a daughter, opens a wildly successful clothing store and has a perfume named after her. Steel is her own worst enemy. The novel is genuinely touching as Zoya and her frail but indomitable grandmother cope with grievously reduced circumstances in Paris. It is difficult to remain unaffected by the image of Evgenia selling off family treasures to pay the rent, difficult not to share Zoya's pain when she learns that her Romanov cousins were murdered by the Bolsheviks. But by the end of the novel, the piling on of tragedy becomes almost comical. A reader learns not to grow fond of characters; they're not likely to last out the chapter. Steel also acts as if anything said once is worth saying at least a second time. The reader is reminded again and again of Zoya's red hair and emerald eyes and translucent skin. "The Ballet Russe was the happiest thing in her life," Steel writes at one point. Three pages later: "Dancing with the Ballet Russe made her feel alive again." And if Steel can't help repeating herself, neither can she resist dropping names. On a single page, one hears about Cole Porter, Condé Nast, Calvin Coolidge, the Roosevelts, the Whitneys and Tallulah Bankhead, who "scolded Zoya more than once, telling her that she didn't use enough lip rouge." Yes, and while it's probably not something Tallulah would have said, Danielle doesn't use enough restraint. (Delacorte; $21.95)
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Onondaga County 911 got a call of a suspicious incident at Grant Middle School at about 7:49 a.m. The school was briefly placed on lock down.
Police officers took a 14-year-old boy into custody. He was charged with possession of a weapon under the age of 16. He was not identified by police because of his age.
No injuries were reported and Grant Middle School was taken off lock down just before 8:30 a.m.
The 14-year-old was taken to Hillbrook Detention Facility.
After the incident Wednesday, Syracuse City School District Superintendent Sharon Contreras held a news conference where she said she is satisfied that school security measures worked in three recent incidents involving weapons in the schools. She also called the incidents "frightening and upsetting."
Contreras was referring to the incident at Grant Middle School as well as an incident Friday when the sister of a student brought a knife into Nottingham High School and lunged toward another student before being subdued.
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> I have a SUSE system Factory version.
> I have installed KDE 3 and KDE 4.
> I had both versions running ok then I got fancy.
> I upgraded my ATI driver to the proprietary version and things went
> kaplooie.
> KDE 3 still works but KDE 4 does not. In KDE 4 the splash screen comes
> up then disappears. I get some system sounds so I know it is still
> going. Additionally, I get the mouse arrow and it seems to work Ok,
> except there is just a black screen. Sometimes when I restart X I get
> a quick flash where I can see the KDE 4 desktop picture I was using.
> I edited the xorg.conf file to change the driver back to the old
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> Thanks,
> Steve
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Research estimates that about 2 percent of all children or adolescents who participate in sports eventually will suffer a facial injury severe enough to require medical attention.
"A properly fitted mouth guard is an essential piece of any athlete's protective equipment," says Paul Nativi, past president of ASD. "Mouth guards protect the teeth from being knocked out, broken and displaced. Mouth guards prevent injuries to the bone and tissues around the teeth. They also help prevent injuries to the mandible (lower jaw) and temporomandibular joint in the jaw. Tooth loss incurs a tremendous financial, emotional, and psychological expense. Protect what you have - wear a properly fitted mouth guard."
According to the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's Policy on Prevention of Sports-related Orofacial Injuries, sports accidents reportedly account for 10-39 percent of all dental injuries in children and are most often caused by direct hits with a hard object, such as a puck or ball, and player-to-player contact.
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Papoulias' office announced Saturday that the president would meet initially with the heads of the three parties that won the most votes in Sunday's inconclusive elections - the conservative New Democracy, radical left-wing Syriza and socialist PASOK. He will then meet individually with the leaders of the other four parties that won enough votes for parliamentary seats.
In theory, the president's talks with the party leaders could drag until the scheduled date for the opening of the new parliament, on May 17th. In practice, precedent shows that talks could take two or three days, George Katrougalos, a professor of constitutional law, told the Associated Press. It is also possible that an impasse could be reached Sunday.
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With his time in Washington having come to a close – Arenas was dealt to Orlando in 2011 and was later amnestied by the Magic – the former NBA All-Star, who last played for the Memphis Grizzlies, is apparently ready bid adieu to the DC area, listing his impressively Gilbert Arenas-esque manse in recent days for $3.5 million.
Arenas began construction on the Great Falls, VA estate shortly after becoming the Washington Wizards' $111 million man, and NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas did not disappoint his design debut, literally throwing millions into amenities such as a world-class grotto and a shark tank (no word yet on whether his hyperbaric chamber can be negotiated into the deal). Beyond its more unique, "fantasy playground" features, the brick-lined property offers a whopping 9,042-square-feet of living space, with seven bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. Luxury finishes can be found throughout, including, but not limited to, cherry floors, vaulted ceilings and custom molding, while various parts of the home (grotto included) feature high-end entertainment centers.
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VOLKSWAGEN South Africa is arguably one of the biggest players in the vehicle manufacturing landscape with a factory based in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, which builds both the new Polo and Polo Vivo ranges that are sales leaders in their segments.
Profitability is one thing, but sustainability and the ultimate goal of constant reduction in waste emissions is another, and it remains at the forefront of manufacturer's minds.
In its quest to achieve this somewhat elusive objective, what with water and electricity remaining at the core of the factory's resources, the company has adopted its Think Blue strategy, which encompasses three pillars in the form of BlueFactory, BlueMotion and BlueEnvironment.
In the instance of the BlueFactory, the company has placed emphasis on reducing the plant's waste, water, energy, carbon and solvent emissions by as much as 25% by 2018.
BlueMotion, meanwhile, is mainly based on vehicle technology that includes stop/start function, low roll resistance tyres, aerodynamic efficiency and gear shift indicators as seen on the Golf and Polo BlueMotion models to further improve on their overall efficiency.
VWSA MD David Powels says the holistic view of the Think Blue strategy was chosen over the generic green colour as blue symbolises innovation, future and, of course, the company's corporate logo.
He also reiterated the words of the company's chairman, Martin Winterkorn, that the company accepts environmental responsibility and as such will strive to become the most energy and environmentally efficient company by 2018.
One of the factory's most prominent changes includes a new press shop replete with wavelength technology where excess energy from one pressing operation is recuperated and utilised to power another operation in sequence, which allows for an up to 30% saving in energy compared to its predecessor.
"Nothing is too large or too small to escape the attention of the Think Blue initiative," says Nico Serfontein, Think Blue Project Leader at VWSA. "The wavelength technology is like perpetual motion; imagine waves washing up on a beach, with little going to waste."
The company is also involved in nature conservation projects including the South African Marine Rehabilitation and Education Centre (SAMREC), the Dyer Island Trust and the Wilderness Foundation.
Collectively these include preservation of healthy breeding numbers of the African Penguins, education and the rehabilitation of Great White Sharks, which are said to have received unwarranted coverage for attacking humans — when the contrary is in fact the case — and anti-rhino poaching.
While I personally appreciate these giant sea predators, being subjected to Steven Spielberg's 1975 Jaws movie as a child, I thoroughly comprehend why the public is terrified of these predators.
So then the education about these animals should go a long way to address such perceptions.
Nevertheless, there are some interesting facts regarding the animals, such as the great white shark that swam from the east coast of South Africa to the west coast of Australia, a distance of 22,000km in 110 days, and back again the next year was truly mind boggling.
"Environmental awareness has been a topical issue in Europe for many years, but it is only in the last few years that it has become such an important topic in South Africa.
With Think Blue, VW aims to inspire people and heighten their awareness to engage in environmentally-friendly and sustainable actions. We will initiate an open, understandable dialogue, inviting people to share ideas about Think Blue.
We want to show people that ecologically sustainable behaviour is not only possible, but fun too," says Mike Glendinning, sales and marketing director at VWSA.
To further demonstrate the company's BlueMotion technology, we drove various models of its range under this banner, including the Golf and Polo BlueMotion models, the CC, the Tiguan and the Touareg.
With two teams comprising of 20 couples and 10 vehicles, we embarked on an eco-challenge that involved driving from the company's plant in Port Elizabeth to Gansbaai in the Western Cape, with an overnight stop in George.
Our team managed to achieve a figure of 7.8l /100km in the Touareg, while both the Golf and Polo BlueMotion models beamed a figure of 5.8l /100km and 6.0l /100km respectively over the 600km-odd trip.
Once in Gansbaai, scores were tallied and our team of five vehicles averaged a fleet total fuel consumption of 7.8l /100km, which is impressive considering the various drivers involved and their different driving styles.
In the greater scheme of things, VW says it is its holistic approach to overall efficiency in the factory that includes various technological advancements as the new press shop, the reduction in the base paint load, to energy marshals that constantly monitor and record the utilisation of energy within the factory.
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When news of President Barack Obama winning re-election on Tuesday broke more than ten thousand supporters who gathered in Chicago began cheering. Many of the supporters had expected to be in for a long night and while they were surprised but the speed of the poll decision they were not surprised by the result. "It was wonderful. It was absolutely wonderful. I mean, it was a really really hard fight but at the end we came out winning. We came out the victors," she said. "It was everything, absolutely everything. It was either we weren't going to have health care and not care about woman. They wanted small government but government that didn't care about which didn't care about your personal life which was crazy," "When he came out was nice but when he came back on stage and it was everybody. The vice president, members of his cabinet and such. And then he had a moment when everybody was off the stage and he came back out and I saw tears in his eyes and it gave me goose bumps and it made feel proud and connected." President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House on Tuesday, overcoming deep doubts among voters about his handling of the U.S. economy to score a clear victory over Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
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Bathtime for baby is a slippery ordeal, so to help make it easier there is the 4-in-1 Sling'n Seat Tub. This is a baby bathtub that will grow with your baby from birth up to 25 pounds. For newborns, this entire tub can be placed in most kitchen sinks. If you have a double sink, there is a convenient indent in this tub that allows it to rest safely on the middle barrier of your double sink. The sling inside the tub gently cradles your newborn. As your child grows, the sling can be removed, and your baby can be placed in the tub. The cushioned headrest makes sure your baby has someplace to rest his head, while the green insert gives much-needed support for your baby who is sitting up. You can also remove all inserts and use this as a toddler tub for your child 9 months and up. A hook allows you to hang this tub in the shower to dry. It includes two accessories: a play toy and a water sprayer.
While this tub does grow with your child, we found it to be a bit rough. The material on the sling is not very soft, and the green insert is scratchy and made of a hard plastic. While the headrest is made from foam, it's a very thin layer, and the rest of the tub is pretty slippery when wet, which makes it tough to bath a squirmy baby. Additionally, as a toddler tub, the drain is raised and again made of a hard plastic that can be uncomfortable for your child to sit in.
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Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream
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The Washington D.C.-based
Federation for American Immigration Reform
(FAIR) founded in 1979, claims to work to "improve border security, to stop illegal immigration, and to promote immigration levels consistent with the national interest." Headquartered in the "heart of Capitol Hill," FAIR tempers its language so as to appear as a mainstream group in front of the media and government agencies. Possibly due to its large size (it claims over 250,000 members and supporters), D.C. location, and exposure, elected officials look to the organization for input. To that end, FAIR boasts that it "has been called to testify on immigration bills before Congress more than any organization in America."
Nuanced in its approach
Like many other anti-immigrant groups, FAIR opposes legal immigration as well as illegal immigration. Unlike many other anti-immigrant groups, however, FAIR is much more explicit about this opposition. It has consistently supported a moratorium on legal immigration to the United States, suggesting that only spouses and young children of U.S. citizens and "some" legitimate refugees should be allowed into the country.
FAIR is more nuanced in its use of language than other anti-immigrant groups and it has been used as a resource by officials, the media and within anti-immigration policy circles. However, a close look reveals a pattern of extremist affiliations and a strategy of founding and empowering smaller groups that promote xenophobia.
History of extremist ties
Controversy over FAIR's extremist ties dates back to its founder, John Tanton, a pioneer of the anti-immigrant movement. In 1997, he told the
Detroit Free Press
that if the borders are not secured, America will be overrun by people "defecating and creating garbage and looking for jobs."
Tanton founded several other organizations, including U.S. English, a group that seeks to make English the official language of the United States. He also publishes
The Social Contract
, an anti-immigration journal whose Website links to a number of extremist sites, including VDare, a Website that publishes racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant articles. In fact, the Spring 2008 issue of
The Social Contract
is devoted entirely to reprinting material that originally appeared on VDare. An article in the Spring 2007 issue of the journal lauds Sam Francis, a deceased white supremacist, as a "formidable and articulate champion."
The Social Contract
also links to
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the virulently anti-Hispanic border vigilante group whose leader,
Glenn Spencer
claimed that the Mexican government is "sponsoring the invasion of the United States with hostile intent," and the
, a loose network of local chapters around the country, whose primary goal is to keep undocumented immigrants from Mexico out of the United States. The more extreme Minutemen chapters advocate patrols of the Mexican-American border by armed volunteers.
Despite these extremist ties, Tanton remains on the FAIR Board of Directors. Furthermore, FAIR reportedly accepted over $1 million in the 1980s and 1990s from The Pioneer Fund, a foundation that promotes the study of eugenics. Racist scholar J. Philippe Rushton, The Pioneer Fund's current president, spoke at a 2006 conference organized by American Renaissance, a white supremacist publication and Website.
Anti-immigrant activism
In June 2008, as part of its strategy to create a larger movement and to mainstream its anti-immigrant views to a wider audience, FAIR joined with four other anti-immigrant groups to found America's Leadership Team for Long Range Population-Immigration-Resource Planning ("Leadership Team"). In August 2008, the Leadership Team sponsored a national ad campaign "to raise America's awareness of the role population growth plays in the demand for energy." As part of the campaign, the Leadership Team took out an ad in the
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which argued that the use of alternative energy sources, combined with a reduction of immigration into the United States, will "reduce the threat" of rising prices of fuel and other resources. Another ad published in September 2008 warned America's "progressive thinkers" that the natural resources and future of the United States are in jeopardy if the country allows continued immigration.
In June 2008, the Leadership Team sponsored a similar campaign, which included ads that appeared in the
New York Times
The Nation
that month. The ads, which pictured a bulldozer knocking down trees and heavy traffic congestion, argued that high immigration levels will cause environmental damage, traffic congestion, higher taxes, and severe strains on schools, emergency rooms, and public infrastructure.
In addition to having a direct role in an anti-immigrant coalition, FAIR employs and empowers other anti-immigrant activists. For example, in March 2008, FAIR announced that Rosanna Pulido, an Illinois-based anti-immigrant activist would be one of its newest field representatives. FAIR's announcement omitted any references to Pulido's former position as the state director of the Illinois Minuteman Project, which, at one point, existed as a subgroup of Chris Simcox's Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a border vigilante group. Pulido was, in her words, "one of the original Minutemen on the border in April 2005." She has also served as the Illinois spokesperson for You Don't Speak for Me, a FAIR offshoot created to promote an anti-immigrant message from within the Hispanic community. Joe Turner, another anti-immigrant activist and leader of the California group Save Our State, briefly served as FAIR's Western Field Representative in 2007.
Rick Oltman, while acting as FAIR's Western Field Director, spoke at a Minuteman rally in Arizona in April 2006; he also presented the Minuteman group with a lantern to signify that the immigrants are coming "by land." A May 2006
Los Angeles Times
article discussed a meeting between Oltman, Mothers Against Illegal Aliens president Michelle Dallacroce, and Rusty Childress, leader of United for Sovereign America, an anti-immigrant group that attracts extremists to its events.
Attracting media attention
FAIR also attempts to bring together various strands of the anti-immigrant movement in events that are geared to attract media attention and broadcast an anti-immigrant message. From December 27-28, 2007, FAIR's Congressional Task Force hosted a "Talk Radio Row" at a Des Moines, Iowa hotel.
The mainstream media covered the Talk Radio Row and a number of politicians attended and participated in the event. Participants and attendees included Minuteman Project leader Jim Gilchrist and Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. Arpaio has gained national publicity by engaging in divisive anti-immigrant practices, including implementing 'crime suppression sweeps,' which allegedly resulted in discrimination and profiling in areas populated mainly by Latinos.
FAIR also received a lot of mainstream media coverage in April 2007 by co-sponsoring "Hold Their Feet to the Fire," a series of anti-immigrant events in Washington, D.C., that brought together several members of Congress, anti-immigration groups, media figures, border vigilante groups, and citizen activists from around the country. Through press conferences, continuous radio broadcasting from over 35 hosts, lobbying training and demonstrations, participants voiced their opposition to then pending immigration legislation in the 110th Congress and heard from many of the figures who have injected ugly stereotypes into the national immigration debate.
Testifying before government committees
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World Cup 2010...what more is there to say
LAX-CPT was approaching 4,000 return. Ethiopian Airlines has had (and continues to have) a longtime deal in place where you fly them Trans-Atlantic to Addis Ababa, and for $100, you can fly onward to any destination they operate to in the Middle East & Africa. So we built this trip using Expedia, and for just over $2000, we were going to the World Cup!
United check-in at terminal 7 was simply a mess. United outsources their check-in agents to a third-party company. Since we had excess baggage, and were traveling on an international itinerary, that required an actual UA agent to process us. All told and done, the check-in process took over an hour once we reached the front of the line.
The situation improved drastically airside.
16 June 2010
United Airlines #324
Los Angeles - Washington Dulles
Departure: 8:45AM - Arrival: 4:51PM
Airbus A320
typical LA summer overcast
typical basic UA flight with crackers and fountain drinks. Departed & arrived on time.
caught this while taxiing to the gate
new Dulles people-mover...really slick, and enormously great addition to the airport
Dulles FIDS
16 June 2010
Ethiopian Airlines #501
Washington Dulles - Addis Ababa (Stop in Rome FCO)
Departure: 8:30PM - Arrival: 7:00PM + 1 day
Boeing 767-300
Checking in at the gate, Ethiopian issued boarding passes for both IAD-ADD & ADD-JNB. Seated in row 12, it ended up being a sort of a mini-cabin, directly in front of the cabin doors, but behind Cloud Nine (ET Business Class). With only 2 rows, I'd go so far as to consider it premium economy
Dinner was served shortly after departure, and comprised of chicken, fish, or beef, plus salad, dinner roll, sweet pastry, and unlimited liquor IMHO, food was pleasantly acceptable...standard airline food nonetheless...
Breakfast was served, and approximately 9 hours later, we arrived in Rome FCO for a fuel stop/crew change/airplane service.
It's awkward to be sitting in the plane while it's being serviced. Regardless, it's nice to break the 16 hour journey into two parts, even if you never get to leave the plane. And I get to claim that I've been in Rome!
Rome FCO
Ethiopian has a rather large operation in FCO...several of their European flights come thru Rome + their DC flight
Never seen this in the States
Italian Coast
African Coast
Ethiopian FA
One more meal service was performed before arrival in Addis Ababa.
Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa
proceeding to immigration
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luggage claim
Addis Ababa FIDS
public area
We checked our luggage back in for our onward flight to JNB/CPT before departing the airport. United only tagged it to Addis.
Bole exterior
Ethiopian offered complimentary hotel accommodations, but we decided to splurge and stay the night at the Sheraton Addis. Don't be assuaged by the name, it isn't your normal Sheraton, but part of the Luxury Collection, and quite simply, rivals even the most discriminating hotels in the US or Europe. Addis Ababa, the diplomatic capital of Africa, hosts the African Union, United Nations, and numerous embassies and international NGO's. The diplomats all need somewhere to stay, and they stay at the Sheraton Addis.
Overnight @ the Sheraton, and back at Bole the next morning to go to JNB
Departure immigration took no more than 2 minutes, then we were airside
18 June 2010
Ethiopian Airlines #501
Washington Dulles - Addis Ababa (Stop in Rome FCO)
Departure: 8:50AM - Arrival: 1:15PM
Boeing 767-300
as you can see, the departure time was delayed by 1 hour. no explanation given. the worries began to start about our connection in JNB
if I'm not mistaken, that is Ethiopian's brand new Q400?
ET cargo operations
Sprawling capital of Addis Ababa
Although this was a 767, it did not match the quality of the DC flight. Albeit clean, it was looking much older. no PTV, but old style overhead projector. Service still was of a high quality nevertheless.
Arrival @ JNB
luggage claim transformed by FIFA
Late arrival from ADD
We emerged from JNB customs into the public area at 3:30PM, connecting flight departing at 4. I thought for sure we missed our connection. 2 porters came up to us and inquired if we needed assistance. We explained our dilemma, and they said, "we got it." They took our 2 carts, with 4 50lb bags each, and FLEW to BA...which happened to be in the next terminal. We were sprinting, trying to catch up with them as they maneuvered through all the various vuvuzuela blowing tourists sprawled throughout the terminal. We checked in with BA at 3:40, and surprisingly, they accepted us. He re-tagged our suitcases, issued us our boarding passes, and told us to run...which we obliged. JNB security check was quick, and before we knew it, we made it to the gate. 3:55pm...for an on-time departure at 4
Our gate was a bus gate, which gave us a nice tour of the airport.
18 June 2010
British Airways #6427
Johannesburg - Cape Town
Departure: 4:00PM - Arrival: 6:10PM
Boeing 737-300
service consisted of a sandwich and drink. Sorry, no in-flight pictures
Approach into CPT
Cape Town
Some scenes from the World Cup
Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
Dutch National Team (you're bound to run into a team or two while touring the cities)
Cameroon v. Netherlands
Spain v. Portugal
BA Checkin
CPT Airside
30 June 2010
British Airways #6410
Cape Town - Johannesburg
Departure: 10:10AM - Arrival: 12:10PM
Boeing 737-400
Arrival @ JNB
I just had to note, that we touched down, on the dot at 12:10.
BA gate checked our hand luggage, so we had to collect that in the luggage claim, but the rest of our luggage was through-checked to ADD
JNB overview
ET Check-In
Caught our ET Cabin Crew on the way to the gate
Bird just arriving
30 June 2010
Ethiopian Airlines #808
Johannesburg - Addis Ababa
Departure: 2:05PM - Arrival: 8:40PM
Boeing 767
Definitely not the same plane. No Overhead projector, but no in seat PTV...just tv screens in the aisle. That's what my laptop is for, so doesn't bother me. Service was the same, fair quality.
Tarmac Arrival
10 July 2010
Ethiopian Airlines #500
Addis Ababa - Washington (Stop in Rome)
Departure: 10:15AM - Arrival: 7:55AM
Boeing 767
Ethiopian thoroughly, thoroughly, thoroughly inspects your immigration documents. Of the 4 ET flights, they did a full passport/visa inspection at least 3 times before boarding. I guess it makes sense since this plane is going to DC, but, it was lil bit much IMO.
Terminal more crowded...Bole is without a doubt, a nocturnal airport.
Gate Area
Glass Jetway
Lufthansa bird departing shortly to FRA
a combination of sleeping pills and wine made this flight fly by, and before I knew it, we were in Dulles. The Dulles International arrivals area improved DRAMATICALLY from before. Clean, airy, and well-posted signs.
After traveling this far and long, your body is at the point where it just wants to get home now. United tried to tempt me by offering a $400 voucher for someone to give up their seat on the DC-LAX flight due to overbooking. I almost took it, but declined.
11 July 2010
United Airlines #49
Washington Dulles - Los Angeles
Departure: 12:36PM - Arrival: 2:56PM
Boeing 757
We began to taxi, then the pilot announced that there were thunderstorms on our departure route, so we had to sit and wait. Engines shut off. In my mind, I said Sh*t, I should have taken that voucher!
UA planes begin to accumulate, due to the thunderstorms
approximately 20 min later, we were cleared for take off. Of course, I knew before everyone on the plane because of Channel 9
descending into LA, is this Ontario Airport?
Downtown LA
Great Western Forum, former home of the WORLD CHAMPION Los Angeles Lakers
the 405
collection of heavies at TBIT
In conclusion, this was the trip of a lifetime. Ethiopian got us there reliably, and for nearly half the price. Based on that alone, they get 2 thumbs up! United & British Airways also deserve commendation for a job well done.
I appreciate all comments, and will be more than happy to answer questions.


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Wiki And Illegal Material
I have been thinking quite extensively about the
s for the past couple of days, and something occurred to me:
What is the deal with
Would Ward take the rap if someone were to post something against the laws of the country in which the server is housed? Or is there some security mechanism similar to that of Television and Newspaper Media, whereby they take no responsibility for the actual content itself, merely as a means to transfer.
I seem to remember a case a little back when someone complained that illegal content was being housed on AOL's servers. AOL of course stated that they had no control over the actual content.
I am wondering whether something similar would happen here, or whether one would just have to wait and see. In fact, have there been any cases like this on other mediums such as
Slashdot once had to remove a user comment after being threatened with legal action by the Church of Scientology. More details at
People would naturally delete the material, but I wonder what would happen if it went unnoticed until it was too late.
I wonder because Wiki is a medium based (largely) on trust. It is, of course, possible for anyone to abuse that trust. Would Ward be held responsible for that abuse?
I assume that he keeps logs and thus could point to the real culprit; still, what would the authorities say?
To the crux, therefore: does anyone actually know?
An interesting theoretical question. For all practical purposes, though, the material would last about 5 minutes before a
found it and got rid of it.
Yes, it's worth noting that this is a real strength of Wiki and the
, compared to other media and communities. The weaknesses are perhaps more with knowing what to do with legal but boring, duplicate, badly expressed or
material. And most other net media do worse on each of these.
Wiki is self-policing. I've removed risky material in the past, and have known others do so. --
I've thought of setting up my own Wiki to email each page-edit to me and other willing "moderators", who would normally take no action but would notice anything profane, etc., and remove it.
This idea seems inferior to simply checking
on a regular basis.
I'm sorry - I still don't really understand all this. I'm very new to wiki, but I have to admit to entering a wiki site and changing stuff because I did not know what I was doing, and also because I could not see a lot of the material because it was written in Japanese, and my browser did not show it properly. I left a note that they should revert to previous versions if they wanted, but I don't know if they (who are "they" - is there some kind of supergod Wiki administrator?) can actually recover previous text. My intent was not to be a
, but my behaviour probably had the same effect. How can this be avoided?
Also, it'd be a good idea for non English wikis to have warnings for English readers, in case anyone else makes the same mistake as I did.
As an individual intending to start his own wiki, the original question does cause me serious concern... My wiki is likely to be low usage - I don't expect large numbers of friendly people to constantly review the change logs and I would like to avoid the overhead of me having to keep my beady eye on everything. But the topic area I am considering is fertile ground for people to begin mouthing off in nasty ways about certain topics. If material posted is defamatory or otherwise illegal, there are two questions:
Exactly what type of text (I won't be allowing images) could be the basis of a complaint?
Exactly what type of liability / legal implications would be held by the administrator of the site if a complaint were to be upheld?
I've no idea if these are the only categories or the best way to split things, but I think that text could arouse complaints for any of the following reasons:
defamation / slander
disclosure of personal information by a third party (simple example Mr A puts Mr B's credit card details on a page).
Indecent material - description of immoral acts
Publication of material liable to endanger the public or individuals
Incitement to violence (similar to above)
(anyone like to add some more?)
There's one more, and I came here to find answer to this case. What if someone put copyrighted material on a wiki? In fact everything you find on a wiki could already be copyrighted.
Then the second part of my question is what type of liability would there be in each case...
what type of liability could arise (financial liability in the case of slander / criminal charges in the case of certain others?)
who would take the rap?
I'd really appreciate any further info. While I like the thought of a Wiki being a self-policing community, I'm conscious of risks and would like to know what would happen if the actual police ever had to get involved.
One issue that has come up in other contexts is that if you do no editing based on objectionable content, you have some amount of defense - you can claim to be a "common carrier", and pass off the liability to the individuals who wrote the content. However, the moment you start editing for content, you lose that protection (the presumption is that you have the ability and will to remove illegal content, and fail to do so if the content remains). Wiki by its nature loses common carrier status, so I would think it's more open to this kind of problem.
I disagree with this statement that a wiki by its nature loses common carrier status - because it is freely editable by anyone. In this case, there is no "institutional editing" by the owner of the host site. Although anyone may edit the site - the owner of a wiki does not exercise editorial control over the content on the wiki. -- JimRobertson
OK... thanks. That's useful, but...
What I think you're saying is that since everyone has the ability to edit, administrator included, then running a wiki does not constitute running a "common carrier". So it sounds like there is no defence of common carrier.
But there may be other defences?
Surely most explicit is (putting it simply) "I'm not the author." Does this have any merit?
Or maybe to claim that the wiki is not "publishing" those views...
I know there is a lot of history about publishers being taken to task for publishing unwholesome material, but has anything yet established that a wiki is a "publisher" or indeed established that they are not. HTTP is a request response format. You ask for something, you get something. No-one throws it out hard-printed to the masses in print format, you have to come and get it, and what's more, with a wiki if you don't like it you can change it. Try getting the NY Times to change an article you don't like, it's too late, it's been distributed already by the time you read it. Isn't that the point?
Don't sue us, change it.
Surely by saying that: "don't sue us, change it" you have made clear that the wiki is not a publishing medium, that the forum is not for propagating views, hard-printed out to the masses, that the message changes potentially every time you read it (every time someone reads it).
Think about suing an atom for its activities, it would plead Heisenberg's
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as soon as it is created. Will the following approach work?
Calling the function ext2_direct_IO() with the appropriate parameters
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Throughout our communities and neighborhoods, people are offering their time, talents and knowledge to make this a better place to live. The Eastgate Regional Council of Governments' Citizens Advisory Board (CAB), for example, gains knowledge and takes action throughout our region. It meets on the first Thursday of each month at 7 p.m., usually at Eastgate's offices in the downtown Youngstown City Centre One building.
This diverse volunteer group reviews projects and funding requests, and stays informed about developments throughout our entire region. Membership is open to anyone from our three counties, willing to regularly attend these meetings and contribute their time to the betterment of our region.
The Eastgate Regional Council of Governments is an association of local governments in Mahoning, Trumbull, and Ashtabula counties. Founded in 1973 as the Eastgate Development and Transportation Agency (EDATA) this organization has been successfully working on regional collaboration for almost four decades.
When I first joined the EDATA citizens' board in 1977, it was divided into three committees, each focusing on a priority.
Comprehensive transportation and economic development planning was a major priority, especially with the demise of the big steel industries in the late 1970s. Human resources and workforce education were the focus of another committee. Coordinating a two-county sewage treatment plan, based upon natural gravity-fed watersheds, was another major task then; and we now have occasional updates to this program with 18 community systems cooperating. We saw some results from our work, but there were not the resources to make everything happen.
Since then, Eastgate has grown to become a leading Metropolitan Planning Organization, respected throughout Ohio and our nation. Its role has expanded beyond its original mission of highway improvements and environmental planning, to include funding communities' projects through the Ohio Public Works Commission and Appalachian Regional Commission. Each year, Eastgate works to bring millions of dollars into our valley for roads, bridges, waterlines, sewers, housing, public transit, recreation, environmental preservation, plus industrial site assessment and clean-up.
This is painstaking, detailed work, involving cooperation from local elected officials, engineers, department heads and private citizens. The Technical Advisory Committee and Citizens Advisory Board review every project, plan, and funding request, before any are adopted by the General Policy Board.
The Environmental Policy Advisory Committee works in depth on matters to keep our communities clean and promote new green technologies and businesses. The Trumbull-Mahoning Green Pact was developed by Eastgate, and was enthusiastically adopted by our cities, villages, townships and counties. Private citizens are welcomed to become informed, and contribute their knowledge to these decisions.
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Tom Angelo, director of the Warren Waste Water Treatment Plant, and Andrew Blocksom, President of Patriot Water, with a discussion about problems with injection well disposal of fracking wastewater from shale gas wells, and processes to treat this contaminated water.
Tom Nugen, director of transportation for the Western Reserve Transit Authority, discussed equipment and service improvements, including new bio-fuel buses, the rehabilitation of their downtown Youngstown station, and new service routes into Trumbull County.
Rose DeLeon, executive director of the Western Reserve Port Authority, discussed her growing role in economic development beyond the airport, including the V&M Star expansion, and redevelopment of old industrial brownfields.
Hunter Morrison, Executive Director of the Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium, explained its three-year project coordinating efforts of 12 counties to improve our regional economy by connecting business supply chains and communities.
Pennsylvania Sen. Allen Kukovich, discussed the Power of 32 organization, promoting collaboration in a four-state region.
We also had a tour of the YNG airport with Dan Dickten, Director of Aviation and Kevin Kern, Special Projects Coordinator for the Western Reserve Port Authority. The CAB initiated a resolution in support of the airport's application Appalachian funding to replace an aging, and chronically breaking, waterline to the airport.
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