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Apple is holding its annual World Wide Developer Conference and the fan boys are out in force. Here's Darrell Etherington at TechCrunch under the headline: iOS 7 Changed iOS, But iOS 8 Changes Computing:
But where the metaphorical plates of iOS's programming pillars meet, there's a tectonic shift that could change entirely the way people think about their mobile devices – and computers in general, for that matter.
The mobile shift is going to be tremendous because of the new freedom afforded developers with the Extensions paradigm, which allows them to build hooks between apps that approximate desktop-level flexibility while keeping the simplicity of the mobile UX for the consumer. And notification widgets make a whole new playground for devs to explore (software in the Notification tray will become more than just add-on features for standalone apps, just you watch).
iOS 8, and OS X Yosemite, will change the way you use your smartphone, and it'll do so in non-trivial ways. That's more than can be said for any mobile OS update in recent memory, and something that we'll be feeling of the impact from not only this fall, but likely for years to come.
Sounds pretty awesome, huh? Programming pillars undergoing tectonic shifts, a new playground for devs and a notification tray thingy. Alright Apple shareholders out there. Admit it. You have no idea what has our nerd friend's joystick sproinging, do you? It's okay to admit it. Most people have no idea what the hell he's on about; they're just pretending and stringing together some phrases they heard on a conference call. It's just gibberish really. Own up to your ignorance; in fact, be proud of it because here's a little secret…it doesn't matter. Even if you could figure out exactly what Apple was up to, even if you had a wire tap on Tim Cook and a medium with a direct link to Steve Jobs, it wouldn't help you to decide whether you should buy, hold or sell. You would still have no idea whether the public would find the next new thing at Apple as cool or uncool or downright tragic as you do.
Technology has always to some degree been about branding, fashion and pop culture. Apple themselves admitted as much by hiring Angela Ahrendts from Burberry to run their retail operation. They proved it again by buying Beats and putting Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine on the payroll. What matters for Apple shareholders is how the public reacts to new products and that isn't just about the technology that we don't understand. So what you don't know what Apple announced today? Do you know who Dr. Dre is? It doesn't matter if you think rap is something one does with one's knuckles, you know who he is, don't you? If you're on the backside of 40 you probably know who Jimmy Iovine is too, don't you? That's more important than anything that gets announced at WWDC 2014.


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"Tennis folks mix and dineWhidbey Island Tennis Association invites all island tennis players to the first annual WITA Tennis Mixer and Potluck Social today, Sept. 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tennis will be played until noon on the high school courts followed by a potluck lunch at Playground in the Park. Just show up and bring a side dish. In case of rain, the event will be moved to Oct. 1.The free event is sponsored by the South Whidbey division of WITA. Interested players may join the association for a nominal fee at the event. Development of an indoor tennis facility will be discussed. For details call 341-2001 or write to WITA Box 62, Langley WA 98260.Soccer kids' skills challengedKids 14 and under can test their soccer skills in a fun, one-day event Saturday, Oct. 7 at South Whidbey Community Park, during the annual Children's Day celebration.There is no cost to enter. Competition will combine kicking skill and accuracy of kicks to determine South Whidbey's best. There is a variety of age divisions for ages 14 and under, so everyone has a chance to excel. Local winners of the Soccer Challenge for Youth will advance to compete regionally. For more information call 221-5484.Play Frisbee with a teamUltimate Frisbee for high school students is offered from 2:45 to 4:15 p.m. each Tuesday and Friday at the Parks & Rec fields.Teams are coed, and no experience is necessary to start, though experienced players will be challenged as well. Team and individual skills will be taught by seasoned adult players. This is a good opportunity to sign up for a sport without extensive time commitments. Registration is necessary. Call Parks at 221-5484, Mark Wahl, 221-8842, or Brandon Henry, 321-7257.Floats gone this morningThe floating docks next to the boat ramp at Possession Beach Waterfront Park will be removed early today, Sept. 30.Park caretaker Art Pratt told the Port of South Whidbey commissioners that the proper tide will occur at 5:30 a.m., and from then until 8:30 a.m. that day the boat ramp will be out of action because of the room it takes to get the docks out.The docks are removed every fall to spare them from the rough winter weather.Men, women play basketsOpen gym basketball for adult men and women runs Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. through Nov. 15 at South Whidbey High School.Cost is $10 for 10 visits, or $2 per visit. For more information call South Whidbey Parks, 221-5484.Golf lessons open to mostAlways wanted to learn golf or correct some of those bad habits? Sign up for golf lessons and learn etiquette, scoring, and a variety of club strokes. Anyone age 13 or older is invited to attend. Cost for eight lessons is $90; the price includes practice balls and greens fees. Lessons are Saturdays, 3-5 p.m., beginning Sept. 30. Call Parks & Rec, 221-5484. "
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Some thrive, some just get by -- Pearson
For Jean Pearson, its a challenge to stay put on an island steadily going upscale.
Years spent sliding along with the islands tides scuffed but never broke the old glass plate on Jean Pearsons windowsill.
Its like me a castaway, Pearson said.
She held up the Depression-era plate, where innumerable scrapes and scratches cast the sunlight in a hazy, green glow.
It has survived ups and downs and changing tides.
Pearson hit rough seas at birth: her adoptive parents took her in at a young age but abused her as she grew; her early marriage ended in divorce; she raised a disabled child on her own while attending graduate school and working.
Middle age failed to calm Pearsons waters. Her daughter, Sara, died at 20 after a long fight with an undiagnosed illness. At the same time, Pearsons own battle with epilepsy grew, preventing her from holding a job.
Now Im on disability, she said. Now I go to the Helpline House. For my daughter, I would have asked for the moon. But for me, I didnt feel entitled. I thought that I had failed at this point in my life, to have to ask for help.
Pearson moved from Seattle to Bainbridge Island six years ago seeking refuge from the high prices, high crime and vastness of the big city.
Here, I dont have to wonder after dark if Im going to get knocked over the head, she said. Its quiet, peaceful and I can go almost anywhere by walking.
She found a quiet home at a Finch Place apartment where the rent leaves enough of her monthly $700 government check to cover basic needs.
Pearson stays busy beachcombing with a friend, finding shards of pottery, polished glass and bits of driftwood. She combines these finds with flowers and scans them into her computer to produce gift cards.
People throw these things away, but I turn them into something beautiful, she said. Its a transformative process.
Pearson said shes grown connected to her home, and, especially to other residents in her building. Also on fixed-incomes, her 28 neighbors share meals while swapping stories.
Ive heard (about) the most amazing lives from residents ranging in age from 57 to 97.
But, as much as she has found a sense of calm and stability here on the island, Pearson fears changing tides may force her off the island.
Over the last six years, Ive seen the character of the island changing, she said. Its so much now about having the biggest car, the biggest house.
She points toward the growing stack of condos across a nearby street.
Where did the people go who lived there before? she asked, referring to the moderately priced apartment building torn down last year.
How long will this place I live be here? she asked. No one can tell me.
Pearson jokes that she could maybe scrape together enough money to buy one of the underground parking spots another new condo development plans to sell for $25,000 each.
Well, I can always save one slab of concrete and put up a tent, she said.
If its not swelling property values that push her out, Pearson may find that the rising cost of living gives her an early shove.
Its everywhere, even at the grocery store, she said. I recently had a friend drive me to Costco. I got my glasses there for $300. Here on the island, I couldnt find anything less than $600.
Pearson also crosses the sound for her dental work, where she pays about a fourth of what shed pay here.
Finding an island dentist presented other challenges as well.
They wouldnt take me when I told them I was epileptic, she said. I was a little surprised, but I wasnt shocked.
Despite the islands highly educated population, Pearson has found a general lack of understanding for her condition. Pearson suffers one to three seizures a day, which often leave her confused and exhausted.
Ive been asked by people here why I dont work, she said. Thats hurtful, being criticized for not working. People dont understand how it affects me and how it would be for me in the workplace. When Im challenged by people for not working I want to show them my resume.
Look what Ive accomplished despite the rocks that have been dropped on my head.
Pearson said islanders are becoming disconnected or insensitive toward people who do not share common experiences, challenges and incomes.
Look down at Eagle Harbor at the ferry yard, she said. Some people call that an eyesore. But people work there.
Theyre putting food on the table and a roof over their childrens heads.
Rather than craft new city ordinances that preserve the islands diversity and help those most in need, Pearson believes a general values shift is in order.
You cant stop progress, but maybe you can redefine it, she said.
This, she said, means more than designating a few parcels for affordable housing among mansions and condos.
I dont believe in artificial planning, she said, of putting poor people on a reservation surrounded by rich people.
Rather, Pearsons definition of island progress includes more people living simply with less buying, less accumulation and more acceptance.
Theres more to life than competition and speed, she said. Theres stillness, love, peace.
Maybe its a tall order, but Pearson said that her daughter, who spent much of her life confined to a bed, lived by these values.
She had a different mindset about progress, Pearson said. She acknowledged her illness and had a strong sense of identity while not denying her limitations. She said, What I do best is be Sara. She gives me courage to forge ahead.
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Metairie Country Club was the setting for the 11th annual Willwoods Community Gala. During the festivities, Peter and Marilyn Quirk, parishioners at St. Francis Xavier Church, were honored with the 2012 Servus Fidelis Award for their outstanding contributions to the community.
The Willwoods Community supports the Roman Catholic church and the community through prayers and service ministries, including marriage enrichment and affordable housing.
Congratulations to this outstanding couple.
For more information on the Willwoods Community, headquartered at 3330 N. Causeway Blvd., Metairie, call 504.830.3700.
Auditions planned
Auditions for the Jefferson Players' summer production of "Once Upon A Mattress" are scheduled for May 5 at 2 p.m. at Jefferson Presbyterian Church, 4450 Jefferson Highway, Old Jefferson.
Adults, teenagers and children 10 and older are needed for roles in the production.
Anyone auditioning for a principal role is asked to prepare a song. All who audition also will be taught a song from the show. An accompanist will be provided.
Performance dates are June 14-17 and June 21-24 at Jefferson Presbyterian.
For more information, call 504.296.8550.
Guess who's coming to town?
The Deedle Deedle Dees are coming to Old Metairie for one performance.
Who are the Deedle Deedle Dees? They are four singers and songwriters who write and perform sing-along songs about our country's history and culture.
They will perform April 29 at 2 p.m. in the sanctuary at Metairie Ridge Presbyterian Church, 215 Codifer Blvd..
Admission is $10 per family with light refreshments included.
This will be a fun event for the entire family, and audience participation will be encouraged.
New trees planted
Thanks to the Friends of Jefferson the Beautiful, two new trees were planted in Old Metairie.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Four Alabama mayors have agreed to support T. Boone Pickens energy plan.
The Texas oilman has spent million of dollars in recent month promoting wind power for electricity production and natural gas powered cars. 168 mayors across the nation have signed a pledge to support the proposal.
They include Mayors Charles Penhale of Helena; Leon Smith in Oxford and Charles Murphy in Robertsdale; and Don Kyle, the former mayor of Decatur.
Pickens said his plan is framed as a blueprint to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. He wants to present his plans to President-elect Barack Obama after he takes office in January.
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It seems lately the NFL stands for the No Fun League as opposed to the National Football League.
For the past decade or so, it seems as if the league constantly passes new rules to outlaw almost any form of celebration.
I've never been one who was a big fan of showing up your opponent via taunting or anything like that, but most end-zone celebrations are pretty harmless and fun.
Heck, the player who scored that touchdown has been taking a beating all game—let him release some emotion, for goodness' sake.
If the league wants emotionless robots after a big play or a touchdown, they better start investing money in Honda's robot division because you'll never get that from a human.
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When Democrats and Republicans agree quickly on something, it's usually either a meaningless gesture or a raid on the federal treasury. The economic stimulus package agreed to by President Bush and congressional leaders will be more beneficial to politicians than it will be to our economy.
The deal -- the principal element of which is to give income tax rebates to people who pay little or no federal income tax -- is driven by fear our economy may be going into recession. Since the definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth, we're not in one yet, and neither the Congressional Budget Office nor the Federal Reserve thinks we'll go into one this year. But the economy is weakening, for two principal reasons.
The first is the subprime mortgage crisis. It is a product of greed and stupidity. People bought houses they couldn't afford and lending institutions made loans to bad credit risks. Now lenders are stuck with billions of dollars of mortgages borrowers can't afford to pay and thousands of families might lose their homes.
The subprime crisis, alas, affects far more than those whose bad judgment caused it. Because financial institutions made so many bad loans, they have less money to lend to good credit risks. The decline in home prices causes layoffs in the construction industry, which ripples throughout the economy. Sales of single-family homes declined 13 percent last year, the biggest drop since 1982, the National Association of Realtors announced Thursday. The median price for a single-family home dropped 1.8 percent.
The housing bubble eventually will work itself out, as the dot.com bubble did after it burst in 2000. But there is no end in sight to the other cause of our softening economy, the ghastly sums we've been paying for imported oil.
Because oil prices have been bouncing around $100 a barrel, we saw in the last year a vast transfer of wealth from Americans to people overseas, many of them rulers of countries who wish us ill. It's no accident that the size of the stimulus package the president and Congress agreed upon is nearly identical to the amount transferred from our pockets to the coffers of the oil sheikhs.
The idea behind the stimulus package is that if people -- especially those at the lower end of the socio-economic scale -- get rebate checks, they'll spend them, propping up the economy. The idea unquestionably will be popular with voters.
The problem, as noted by economics writer Robert Samuelson, is that the rebate checks either will come too late to do much good, or won't be needed at all. Because this is income tax season it will be May or June before the IRS can cut rebate checks, and autumn before whatever boost they give to the economy can be felt.
There are also inherent problems with short-term stimulus packages and with giving away money to people who have not earned it, problems which only three presidential candidates -- Arizona Sen. John McCain, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee -- seem to have noticed.
A McCain adviser likened the stimulus package to "borrowing money from the Chinese and dropping it from helicopters."
Mr. Huckabee said it is the Chinese economy that will be stimulated because we'll borrow money from China so American consumers can buy more Chinese products.
Only long-term measures which promote the growth of businesses in America can keep the economy strong, Mr. Giuliani said.
The most effective short-term measure to stimulate the economy already has been taken. That was the decision of the Federal Reserve to lower a key interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point.
Additional short-term measures should be designed to ease long-term problems. One would be to suspend the 18.4 cents a gallon federal gasoline tax for a year. That would provide immediate relief to consumers, whether or not they pay income taxes. Another would be to triple for a year the tax credits for making energy-saving improvements to their homes, and for purchasing fuel efficient and alternative fuel vehicles.
But the single biggest step Congress could take to stimulate the economy in both the short and long term is to eliminate the depreciation schedule.
"We're about the only country in the world that forces companies to write off the cost of their capital assets over years, sometimes decades, instead of letting them be expensed," noted political analyst Jack Wheeler. "That's why Intel will build a chip plant in China instead of here, because in China they can write off the entire cost right away."


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In a culture where human sperm selling, egg buying and embryo freezing are so widely practiced, it is odd that there is so much righteous indignation regarding steroid users in baseball ("Hall of Fame: It's a shame Bonds, Clemens will have to wait," Jan. 10).
Only a culture that has lost its way wantonly commodifies life but holds the home run sacred.
-- Mark Oshinskie, J.D.,
New Brunswick
Something's amiss
In The Times' next "Hits and misses" editorial, it should add: "MISS: New Jersey U.S. Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Bob Menendez, for allowing billions of dollars in unrelated spending to be added to the Sandy aid bill" ("Congress OKs $9.7 billion to help pay Sandy claims," Jan. 5).
-- Edward W. Muench,
Columnist writes about what else is new
I write in reference to Times writer Sharon Schlegel and her column. As a senior citizen who has read The Times of Trenton for many years, I find it is interesting to read about something other than shootings, fires, rapes, etc., that is the news in our area.
Ms. Schlegel's column on arthritis, "A new season — and a new knee" (March 24, 2012), was informative, and so are her columns on other subjects. She wrote a column about vacationing in Dunedin, Fla., a while back ("Watching the Phillies, hopeful-Lee — Peanuts, Cracker Jacks and injuries at the ole' ballgame," March 19, 2011). I visited there several times with my sister and recognized several sites Ms. Schlegel recommended.
After all, the senior citizens still read the local newspapers and we like to see items that remind us of happenings in the area through the years.
I hope she continues to write interesting columns.
-- Tommie Cardone,
Not everyone should have access to guns
We pay a fine if we are caught driving a car or a bicycle with no license; fishing in many states requires a license, as does the sale of alcohol. But in many jurisdictions and the internet, guns are obtainable without a fee, a license or a test of competency or sanity.
The ease with which our society allows gun ownership encourages unstable people to think a gun solves a problem. While in the U.S. there are more than 49,000 retailers, 7,000 pawnbrokers and 5,000 gun shows selling guns, the states reduced support for mental health centers by $1.6 billion from 2009 to 2011.
We do successfully restrict the availability of some deadly agents, such as lethal gases, explosives and machine guns. If we sincerely wanted to stop unreasonable killings, we would do so. We would limit the use of guns to people of sound mind who are registered hunters, target shooters, and, of course, to the police and the military, who are competent in the use of guns. (When the Second Amendment was written, the common weapon was the musket, a gun incapable of mass killing).
With these limitations, a person who decided to kill would have to use, for example, a baseball bat; it's more labor-intensive but less deadly.
The profits of gun makers and sellers, the grim zealotry of the National Rifle Association and craven politicians who pander to the NRA stand united against any amelioration of the daily carnage by guns.
An empty gun can be refilled, but not an empty chair.
-- Beston Jack Abrams,
Plan for the world we'll leave our children
I write in reference to Thomas Friedman's column "The market and Mother Nature" and the letter by New Jersey Assemblywoman L. Grace Spencer, "Consider climate's effects on generations to come," both published Jan. 11.
Mr. Friedman's column and Ms. Spencer's letter spoke both to my head and my heart. Tom Friedman is right: We need a fiscal policy that will curb carbon dioxide emissions. Congress should enact a gradually rising fee on the carbon content of fuels, beginning immediately. I urge all New Jersey readers to press their representatives for this measure.
Letter writer Grace Spencer makes a point that touches my heart: We must take this action for the sake of our children and grandchildren. We must leave them a livable world, because we love them.
-- Ellie Whitney,
East Windsor
Prosecute criminals, don't persecute gun owners
As a father and grandfather, no one grieves more for the children and teachers who were victims of the Dec. 14 Newtown, Conn., shooting, than I do.
That said, with all the hype since the tragedy, not one new bit of evidence has come forward that more gun controls will stop the senseless killings — neither banning the so-called assault weapons or high-capacity magazines, nor marking ammunition (which only works after a crime has been committed). For the 10 years the assault weapons ban was in effect, I believe it did not one bit of good or save one life.
Try to picture this: If the principal or the school psychiatrist or the young teacher who shielded her class with her body had been able to confront the shooter as a person trained, certified and proficient with a handgun, which could be kept in a desk-drawer fingerprint-operated gun safe, the rampage could have ended right then without losing all those young lives.
I am a "Benefactor" life member of the National Rifle Association. I've been a hunter and shooter for 63 years. I have never broken any laws and I'm not a "gun nut." What I or other law-abiding citizens don't need are more of the senseless laws that make it harder to go hunting or target shooting. Furthermore, the laws would not be effective in stopping the illegal drugs or guns that come into the country.
It's time to prosecute the bad guys — under existing federal gun laws —instead of plea-bargaining them back to the streets to continue their life of crime.
We must refuse to be victims. God bless America.
-- Lou Raymond,
Tackle state's problems the way we faced Sandy
Unsurprisingly, the governor's State of the State address ("Christie: N.J. will be back 'stronger than ever,'" Jan. 9) was lacking in scope and detail this year.
The governor's response to Hurricane Sandy was well-received, because he put the divisive politics of the past aside and worked together on a bipartisan basis to help our state respond to the storm. In order to get our state firmly back on track, he needs to take the same approach in his economic, fiscal and social policies.
For three years, middle-class families and senior citizens have seen rising costs, stagnating wages, escalating property taxes and disappearing job opportunities. As leaders on both sides of the political aisle can surely agree, we need to reverse this course.
Rebuilding our storm-ravaged communities is of paramount concern, but we cannot ignore the problems we faced before Sandy and permit them to worsen. Rising property taxes and a continuing unemployment crisis are problems we must address, and I am hopeful the governor will join with Democrats, in bipartisan spirit, to do so.
We need a broad approach that addresses our underlying economic crisis so that we will be better positioned to help all our citizens, whether they are residents of our shore towns, our struggling middle-class families or our senior citizens.
I hope the kinder, gentler Chris Christie who emerged after Sandy will be the one that remains as we move forward and address these challenges.
-- Louis D. Greenwald,
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MINNETONKA - Services for Katherine "Kathy" E. (Hochuli) Hengel, 64, of Minnetonka, are at 2 p.m. Saturday at Messiah United Methodist Church, 17805 Co. Rd. 6, Plymouth, MN 55447. Visitation is 1 p.m. Saturday. In lieu of flowers, memorials preferred to American Cancer Society or Messiah United Methodist Church. Cremation Society of MN Edina Chapel (952-924-4100).
Beloved wife of James "Jim" Hengel; mother of Kristen and John "Jay." Also survived by sisters, Julia Andersen, Appleton, Wis., and Laura Hochuli (and Philip Hamp), Chicago; and brother, Ned Hochuli (and Karen), Rubicon, Wis.
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(Redlands, CA) – Choice wild horses and burros from the rangelands of the American West are available for adoption this weekend at the Sundance Ranch in Redlands through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Adopt-A-Horse or Burro Program. Sundance Ranch in Redlands is located at 27273 Pilgrim Road (off San Timoteo Canyon Road). The mustangs and burros were gathered from public lands in California and Nevada, have been dewormed and vaccinated, and are in excellent health.
Animals available for adoption may be previewed from 1 to 5 p.m. on Friday, August 13. Approved adopters will receive a lottery number, which is required to participate in the lottery adoption Saturday morning starting at 9 a.m. The lottery adoption provides all adopters an equal opportunity to adopt the animal of their choice. BLM staff will approve adoption applications Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The adoption fee is $125 per animal. Animals not selected during the lottery adoption will be available for adoption on a first-come, first-served basis for the remainder of Saturday. Adoption fees may be paid by cash, check or credit card.
The process is called an "adoption" because BLM retains title to the animal for one year after the adoption. During the year, a BLM compliance officer or designated representative will visit each adopter to ensure the animal is being cared for and has a good home. During this time adopters cannot sell their adopted animal. Adopters must notify BLM if the animal is moved.
After the first year, adopters may apply for title. BLM will pass title of the animal if all the stipulations of the adoption agreement have been met. The animal becomes the private property of the adopter only after BLM transfers title, which completes the adoption process. For more information about the adoptions, or the Bureau's Adopt-A-Horse or Burro Program, contact BLM toll free at (800) 951-8720, or visit www.wildhorseandburro.blm.gov.
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Reservoir engineers are specialists in locating - and helping petroleum companies effectively use - underground reservoirs of fossil fuels. Using geological expertise, knowledge of fluid mechanics, and various forms of technology, the reservoir engineer determines the location of underground fuel reservoirs and their reserve capacities, as well as whether their long-term viability makes them suitable for investment. The reservoir engineer works with geologists to monitor the reserves as fuels are extracted and makes adjustments to extraction processes as geological changes occur with the depletion of the fuel. As easier-to-reach fuel reservoirs are depleted internationally, reservoir engineering increasingly explores new techniques to locate viable drilling spots, and developing and modifying machinery to tap into these spots.Read More...
Employers typically require at least a bachelor's degree in an accredited engineering program for entry-level positions, and state licensing is a requirement for all public-sector reservoir engineering jobs. Often, specialized coursework is desired for certain industries such as drilling mechanics, reservoir rock properties, and petroleum economics.
Most reservoir engineering jobs are in the petroleum industry, though there are opportunities available as consultants and in academic positions. A reservoir engineer employed in the petroleum industry divides their time among offices, laboratories, and in the field, locating and maintaining drilling sites (which may require extensive, worldwide travel). Engineers are typically full-time employees who work in shifts of varying length. Often, they work three days and then take three days off.
Chevron Corporation, British Petroleum (BP), Occidental Petroleum Corporation, Schlumberger, and ExxonMobil Corporation are leaders in the field that employ a large number of Reservoir Engineers. Heading up the field in terms of compensation, Occidental Petroleum Corporation offers the most; Reservoir Engineers earn $149K on average there.
Reservoir Engineers report using a diverse set of skills on the job. Most notably, skills in Business Development, Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategic Planning, and Well Production Engineering are correlated to pay that is above average. Skills that are correlated to lower pay, on the other hand, include Microsoft Office. Most people experienced in Reservoir Engineering also know Well Production Engineering.
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Workshops and Working Groups
Freshwater Mussels and Snails
A workshop on freshwater mussels and snails of the metropolitan area and New Jersey was held in September, 2000 at the American Museum and at two field sites near Port Jervis, NY.
Environmental Summit
2001 — A meeting of members of New York's community-based environmental organizations, concerned individuals, and key New York State legislators.
Bees of the New England and the Mid-Atlantic
In June, 2002 local and regional biologists, resource managers, consultants and naturalists met at the AMNH for a workshop to learn about the regional bee fauna and its role in local ecosystems.
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Harmless orange tide returns to harbor
An annual orange algae bloom in Holmes Harbor caught the eye of many last weekend.
Kathleen Parvin, an environmental health specialist for the Island County Health Department, said the orange bloom is composed of the species dinoflagellate, a single-celled algae common in Holmes Harbor and Penn Cove. The reddish-orange water is a bloom of non-toxic algae variety noctiluca scintillans, also known as seasparkle. The Noctiluca glows phosphorescent on the water at night.
Parvin said it is likely some islanders might assume that the bloom is red tide, also known as paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP). Noctiluca is not toxic, Parvin said, but noctiluca and the red blooms that carry PSP can occur at the same time. Parvin said shellfish harvesters should use caution when harvesting during an algae bloom.
The orange tide is prompted by warming weather and the salinity of the water. The algae which can also bloom green or brown is always present in the water, typically blooming twice a year.
We usually see it in May and September, Parvin said. The spores are always there, when conditions are right it blooms.
The bloom brought murky water and a distinctive fishy smell with it. The algae spores are gelatinous kernels which can accumulate up to 18 inches deep, making the water appear thick, like tomato soup.
Before harvesting shellfish, Parvin said, harvesters should check the Washington state Marine Toxin Hotline to determine whether shellfish are safe to eat. Parvin also noted water color is not an indicator of whether shellfish are safe to eat.
PSP can accumulate into unsafe levels in clams, mussels, oysters, geoduck and scallops, and can cause serious illness in those who eat them. A crabs meat is considered edible during a PSP outbreak.
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In honor of Mother's Day this Sunday, Jimmy Kimmel set out to show that moms are people too.
"People have weird, unrealistic views of their mothers," Kimmel said on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Tuesday night. "A lot of people operate under the delusion that their mothers were never young, but the fact of the matter is moms are just people...mothers do un-motherly things."
To prove it, a Kimmel staffer went out on Hollywood Boulevard to ask mothers to tell them one shocking thing their kids don't know about them.
Just when you think their answers aren't too shocking -- a "hot legs" contest here, a little bit of dope there -- the moms start laying down some heavy truths.
Brace yourselves, kids.
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Perspective is one of my favorite words. Maybe because perspective is one the most important things in life. A lack of it will make you look like a fool. A healthy dose of it can make you look like a genius.
One of my favorite examples of perspective is when you put two bottles on a table and line them up… from a certain perspective, it looks like there's just one bottle there. Anyone looking from that one, unwavering perspective would argue to the death that there's only one bottle… when the ability to look at a situation even just slightly differently will show you you're wrong.
It's important in everything. From the most serious problems in life, to the fundamentals of basketball. For Avery Bradley, who is coming off his two shoulder surgeries, that change in perspective has already changed his game.
"I ask Rondo so many questions now," he said. "I watch a lot of film because of him. It's funny because it seems like I was just a rookie yesterday and now I'm helping the rookies and sometimes I'm helping the older guys because I look at the game differently."
Changes in perspective can be so powerful, that they produce epiphanies. After a lifetime of seeing the game a certain way, suddenly, Bradley has been exposed to something entirely new.
"There were some of those things (head coach) Doc (Rivers) would yell at us about," Bradley said. "[He would] look at us like, 'Are you serious? You don't see that? You don't see what I see?' We'd be like, 'No, we don't.'
"Now I see those things and I look at people that way, like, 'Why aren't you doing things that way?' I look at the game completely different, it's weird. It's like once you know the plays and you feel comfortable, you know all the other teams' sets, it's like you know everything and it's just easier. I know Paul (Pierce) and them can say the same thing, too."
Advantages in the NBA, or any other professional sport, are slim. Avery Bradley (who only just turned 22, by the way) is fast, but so are a lot of guys. Mental preparation in the NBA can be the difference between getting to the right spot on the floor and getting beat or fouling a guy. Avery Bradley is quick, has great footwork, and can play tremendous on-ball defense just based on physical skill. If the mental part of this game matches the physical… then Bradley's return (which is getting closer) will be a game-changer for the Celtics.


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Plainfield Elementary School students will bid their school building farewell next month.
Big Spring School Board voted to close the building and spread current students among the remaining three elementary schools in the district, which is in western Cumberland County.
The need to close was determined in July as enrollment dipped to 184, 100 fewer than the facility can accommodate.


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Jason Castro's "Hallelujah" defines "American Idol" for me. Remember him, the guy with the long dreadlocks that turned the stage into a coffeehouse last season?
He sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," too, with ukelele in hand. Can't you imagine sitting back and soaking it all up at the White Crow? Pure heaven.
But Castro has some serious competition for my attention this season in Adam Lambert, especially after the Fox competition's recent Motown night. His version of Smokey Robinson's "Tracks of My Tears" is constantly running through my head.
I call it up on YouTube, and watch it right to the end, when Robinson himself leads the standing ovation. Lambert's voice trembles with emotion, so overwhelming that he can't even quite get the last word of the song out.
That's when my sister Kathy started shouting "You! You!" as if he'd forgotten it. Everyone else got it; he was just giving "Tracks" the Lambert spin. And as vulnerable as he sounds singing, you know that man has some brass somewhere, choosing to perform Robinson's signature song in front of the Motown master.
To put Lambert in perspective, I revisited Castro on YouTube, first for "Hallelujah" and then coming back for more. He's still my favorite.
But I'm watching Lambert closely now, to see if this was a fluke. Some people can't understand my fascination with "American Idol," and others who do disagree with my favorites. "He's too weird," said one co-worker of Lambert, who often wears black nail polish.
But when the right moment comes along, when you see that well of talent tapped, oh, yeah! That's when "American Idol" rocks.


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Welcome to the lovely world of journalism. Due to space restrictions, I was only allowed to write 15 inches on Easton Area High School swim coach Earl Page -- the 2009 Express-Times Coach of the Year.
With all the information the 66-year-old Page gave me about himself in an extensive interview, I probably could have written 40 inches.
Luckily, Al Gore invented the Internet with its unlimited space so people like me can babble on about things, but the following is totally warranted.
Page was a celebrated multi-sport athlete before suffering a traumatic cycling injury eight years ago.
"I wear a hat because my head's ugly," Page admitted. "I suffered spinal cord damage. If I was to fall again, I'd probably die. I used to be 5-9, I'm about 5-4 now."
He said he's "not trying to be weird" in his dressing.
Page, who has bounced around between different states, sports and professions currently teaches European history, sociology and human behavior at Northampton Community College.
"When you're 66, you can bounce around," he said.
I'm sure if you ask him, he'll be more than happy to talk to you about his past and show you his medals and accolades -- even though he doesn't want to be defined by his past.
Better ask soon since he and his wife Terri are expecting a baby boy in July and he'll be focused on baby Buster.


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MORRISTOWN-- The jury is still out on the identity of the first newborn of the new year in New Jersey, but there already are a few contenders.
It wasn't at the stroke of midnight beginning the new decade, but baby Amalia Kay Walsh came pretty close to it. She was born at 12:01 a.m. today at Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown.
Amalia, the first child of Karen and Nick Walsh, was born by vaginal delivery, said hospital spokeswoman Pam Garretson. The Walshes' new baby tipped the scales at 7 pounds, 2 ounces and is 20 inches long.
The parents, who will call their new daughter Molly, are former residents of Morristown and eventually plan to return to the Morris County community, Garretson said. Nick Walsh works in real estate for a resort on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, she said.
A baby girl was born 5 minutes later, at 12:06 a.m., at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, said hospital spokesman Rob Cavanaugh.
Garretson said Overlook Hospital in Summit, a sister-facility to Morristown Memorial, had its first baby of the new year born at 12:32 a.m.
A baby boy, named Xaiden Ormsby, was born to Charelle Pereira of Ridgefield Park at 1:19 a.m. at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, said hospital spokeswoman Katherine Emmanouilidi. Xaiden weighs 6 pounds, 12 ounces and is 19 3/4 inches long.


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SYLACAUGA, Alabama - A 52-year-old Sylacauga man died when his car flipped and hit a tree early Tuesday, according to The Talladega Daily Home.
Hugh Gravette Jr. was driving a 2000 Toyota on New County Line Road when the vehicle left the road, flipped several times and hit a tree. Gravette was ejected from the car and pronounced dead at the scene.
The crash happened just after 6 a.m., the newspaper reported.
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The Chinese calendar of astrology is a twelve-year, cyclical, calendar represented by twelve animals.
Moon cycles dictated where the divisions occur in Chinese astrology. These are: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. To determine the animal of birth read the Chinese calendar that lists the animals individually.
Each animal of the Chinese calendar represents a year of the twelve-year cycle. Each animal has a different influence over the year it governs. The year of the rat has an entirely different affect on the world than the year of the pig. Rat years signify new work; lean times and much effort are needed to building for the future. During the year of the pig, which is the last animal in the Chinese calendar of astrology, luck and harvests are prevalent. Where the Rat year is the beginning, the year of the pig is the finale.
The Chinese calendar of astrology is sometimes referred to as the Chinese zodiac. This referral can be misleading and should not be confused with western astrology. While the twelve animals of the Chinese calendar represent individuals born during that cycle, they are not labeled the same as western astrological signs. The Chinese calendar of astrology uses a vastly different technique in it astrological predictions. Not only is an individual influenced by what animal they represent, but the element they were born under is significant.
The five elements use the balance of Yin-Yang. All of the elements in Chinese astrology have an effect on the other and all have equal strength. Metal generates water, water generated wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth and earth generates metal.
Each element bestows on an individual its own brand. Metal elements represent people that are self-reliant and need a lot of space. Fire elements represent people that are adventurous and competitive. Wood elements represent people that are compassionate and rigid. Water elements represent people that are charming and manipulative. Earth elements represent people that are ambitious and controlling.
In Chinese astrology a person that was born a Tiger, element wood, will have an entirely different personality as a Tiger, element fire. In Chinese calendar astrology the elements also affect world events since an element is represented along with the animal during that year. This elemental occurrence recycles every five years.
Chinese astrology can be complicated in interpretation. Maintaining balance in all things is a strong force in Chinese astrology. For this reason, Chinese astrology considers its many forces of influence on an individual as building blocks toward prosperity.
Yin-Yang, the elements and the animal a person represents are all present at the time of birth and present limitations on them. This is not necessarily a negative occurrence. In Chinese astrology a person's fate is not predetermined at birth. It is believed that individuals have the capacity to direct the course of their own lives and determine their own successes. Chinese calendar astrology provides the individual with the tools to make certain this happens.
In valleys of Tibet and Mongolia there is a special berry that the locals use and cherish so much that they honor it in special celebrations that last two weeks each year. It is well documented that many people in those areas live free of common diseases and for well over a hundred years. Click here to learn more.


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In a little over a month, Sixers general manager Sam Hinkie will find out exactly where his team that tanked away this last season will draft.
If things don't change, and the Sixers hold onto the No. 2 overall pick, the outcome -- at least according to ESPN's Chad Ford -- appears to be well worth the losing.
In the fourth installment of his NBA Mock Draft, Ford has the Sixers taking Duke forward Jabari Parker with their first-round pick.
The pick of Parker for the Sixers would likely be an easy one, as Ford has Kansas star Andrew Wiggins going No. 1 overall to the Milwaukee Bucks.
Why Parker?
Analysis: Ownership deemed this season a success after finishing with the second-worst record in the league. That should be all you need to know about whether they were really tanking. If they end up with the No. 2 overall pick, forgive them for being a little bummed if Wiggins is off the board. However, Parker would be a nice consolation prize. He'd give the Sixers a guy who could score 20 points a night right out of the gate. And the Sixers have the length and athleticism to protect Parker on defense with Michael Carter-Williams in the backcourt and Nerlens Noel in the middle. Embiid is a dark horse here, though. He's not a perfect fit up front with Noel -- they are different players, and both are pretty raw -- but it would be an intriguing teaming nonetheless.
Ford is correct -- the Sixers do need a scorer, which is why in some ways, the Bucks taking Wiggins over Parker ahead of the Sixers could be a blessing in disguise.
There is no denying that Wiggins has all of the potential in the world, and is a far superior athlete to Parker. Even with an up-and-down season at Duke, Wiggins still averaged almost as many points (17.1) as Parker did (19.1).
Even with that being the case, however, Wiggins still has a lower floor than Parker does, who -- as Ford notes -- could come into an NBA game tomorrow and score 20 points. That, more than anything, is what the Sixers need. They need a guy who can be a go-to-scorer on offense. Parker is already that guy, with the obvious potential to be one of the best scorers in the league.
Wiggins has that potential, but he also showed at Kansas he has the ability to disappear for long stretches at a time. Every player has a bad game, and both Parker and Wiggins had their fair share last season.
When it came to scoring the basketball, however, Parker was far more consistent. Last season, Parker had over 20 points 17 times, and under 10 points just twice. Wiggins, on the other hand, landed over 20 points only 11 times, and finished with single-digits six times.
There will be plenty of time to debate who is a better player. If the Sixers don't land the top pick and Wiggins, however, netting Parker with the No. 2 pick is a great consolation prize -- and could prove to be the better pick.
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Well, thought i'd jump on the bandwagon too....
Anyone know of any thick head gaskets availiable for the X14XE?
Will 3mm be too much? That should bring it down below 9:1. Obviously cam timing would need to be addressed.
Anyone know standard fuel pressure on these? Hopefully an LET FPR will fit as that should sort on boost fuel pressure.
Anyone know of a supplier for stainless mandrel bends and bits to make up a manifold? It would have to be TIG welded I guess.
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Sylvia Jean Ryon, 64, of Bellevue, died Tuesday, Sept. 30 after a 26-year battle with Parkinson's disease.
Born Dec. 29, 1943, in Inglewood, Calif., she earned a pilot's license at age 14 and co-piloted a flight from California to Florida. As a young adult, she drafted designs for California freeway exits, helped the TRW firm develop a power packet for the Mariner satellite that orbited Mars, and used early computers and demographics to locate sites for Taco Bell restaurants.
She married retailer Dick Ryon in 1968. When he switched to forest management, the two moved to the Seattle area, where she worked for Boeing as a data reductionist for military aircraft.
In 1978, the couple moved to Coos Bay, where she worked as a grocery and tax accountant, joined a multi-family housing association and created a database to track the area's vacancy rate. She also volunteered with library book sales and a music festival.
The two returned to Bellevue in 1984. Stemming from Dick's work for Weyerhaeuser in Snoqualmie, the two became among the largest contributors of time and resources to Children's Services of Snoqualmie Valley, now Encompass.
As Sylvia's disease progressed, she persevered with computing and supplemented associate degrees in anthropology and physics with a bachelor's degree in computer management in 1993 from City University.
Her husband became her full-time caregiver in 1996. She chose removal from life support in early September. At her request, no service will be held. A memorial for her has been established at Encompass. She will be honored Nov. 1 at the organization's Autumn Gala.
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So often we only hear about the trouble that our young people find themselves in.
Let me tell you about some very special young men in Louisbourg.
On Dec. 26 my 26-year-old nephew, James Hanley-Campbell, passed away after a lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis.
Following his death James's friends organized a floor hockey tournament in his memory. Dalton Lahey and Jared Organ have to be commended for the amazing job they did.
Players came from all around, ranging in age from 18 to 40 and older.
The championship game resulted in Team James as the winner, with Bryden and Andrew Burke's team taking the second-place slot.
Team James players were Dalton Lahey, Jared Organ, Jeremy Steylen, Mitchell Carter, Mitchell Campbell and Harvey Morash — just a few of James's closest friends.
This tournament proved to be very successful, with more than $1,400 raised for the Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation's Pediatrics TLC Fund.
The money will help other families with children who suffer from cystic fibrosis and need financial support.
James's family was overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of these young people and all those who came out to support this memorial tournament.
Too many people were involved to mention everyone, but special thanks go out to Robert Steylen who spent the entire day at the gym photographing the event.
Plans are already being made for next year's event.
Once again, thank you to all of these fine young men. You did your community proud.
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To all my single guys out there:
Love Jesus, do something constructive, and grow a beard.
'Nough said.
Jenny and I were looking at this family pic that made second cut from a shoot we did earlier this fall. It was just a test shot as Jenny was getting the timer settings right. But we kept it because the kids were so darn cute.
As we stared at it, little thought-bubble lines began jumping out at us. And the more we verbalized what we thought each kid might be saying, the funnier it got. And the more we laughed.
Then we opened Photoshop and couldn't stop laughing. The end result is above.
Humor likes to hide. The deeper it lurks, the funnier it tends to be. Anyone can laugh at the superficial; but finding the truly ingenious, witty aspects of life not only brings us joy, but appreciation. Which enriches who we are as people.
Add value to the lives of those around you by discovering humor hidden in every day moments of life. It's work, but it's worth it.
Last night I had an amazing summer conversation with my daughter, Eva, outside under the pines.
Correction: it was a listening session. A single, unending stream of thought (less one addition from me) where I realized my baby girl is much less baby and far more girl.
But I'm sure in both our minds it will be remembered as a conversation, because we experienced it together.
We were playing a game my Daddy and I made up when I was little called It's Like When, in which one person says a word and the second person has to give a real life application of that word without using the word specifically.
Her word was "forest."
Apparently my answer of, "It's like when you're surrounded by trees," wasn't good enough.
"No, Dad," she corrected.
"It's like animals everywhere. Rabbits and deer. But we don't shoot them. Only Popop shoots deer because he likes to eat them. We only eat animals when we eat Cheeseburgers."
"Those are cows." (My one addition).
"Ew. Gross. Yeah, and we don't shoot cows too much. If there are no cows, then there's no milk. And if there's no milk, there's no cereal. And can you imagine life without cereal? I can't. I mean, what would we even eat?"
I have no idea.
So there you have it, a true Dwight Schrute-ism á la Evangeline Hopper:
Forest equals cereal.
You're welcome.
I was recently included in a Color of the Year Instragram mashup by Mike Kim (@mikekimtv).
I actually made the montage/collage twice. Once for my metaphorical face, the other for my actual face. (Some might even argue I'm the sock, too).
The honor is quite overwhelming.
But the presentation does beg the question: how did white people ever get stuck with the white color stigma? We're much more pink than we are white. I mean, look at my cranium. It's more like under-cooked chicken, or maybe pork ribs.
I've met a few albinos in my life. Now they're white. Some are even translucent.
Black people aren't actually black at all. Some are cocoa, and some are coffee (both preferred food beverages).
Asian people, like Mike, are olivey, much like Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and Native American folks.
True Indians are like dark cinnamon buns. Probably from all the curry and chai tea they consume. That's my theory.
Anyone else notice the food theme?
Humans have forever tried to classify things. Science. Emotions. Music. It's part of how we're wired. But sometimes we try and classify things based on fear, insecurity, and sheer ignorance.
Like race and skin-tone.
Like my wife, I was raised in a "colorless" home by parents who never differentiated between skin color or race. They had Christian convictions about such biases. And also like her, it wasn't until I was an early teen that I discovered racism was still rampant in the United States – and the rest of the world for that matter.
Yet this spirit of racism is easily identified as a fraud, and something we as Christians must be the first to exterminate.
For one, the spirit of racism fails to take into account that all humans are made in God's image. To prefer one over the other is to alienate and shun the likeness of God himself. Doing so is anti-human, anti-Christian, and anti-God. It was God's fail-safe and the genius of making us after himself. To say you accept Jesus but you can't accept all men is tantamount to not accepting Jesus. Be careful.
If you have a basis, fear, frustration or vendetta toward a race, you need to repent and ask for Jesus' heart for that people group – because they're his people group made in his image.
And secondly, this spirit of racism didn't even get its color assignments right.
I'm pink, people.
What a scam.
One of the things you learn early on about communicating in other countries – especially as a keynote speaker – it's many anecdotes just don't translate.
Especially your clever acronyms or Christianese scriptural devices.
Likewise, some marketing ideas ought to be left in their country of origin.
Jenny texted me this pic with a caption left to the imagination. (Keep in mind she just gave birth).
Before you go announcing your next big idea, or spouting of your new opinion, do everyone a favor and remember who you're speaking to. Effective communication begins with intentionally acknowledging your audience.
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Northland pulls the plug on news program
"The cable will soon be cut on the islands televised news-and-sports broadcasts.Northland Cable Television, which produced the five-minute segments airing during CNN Headline News broadcasts from its High School Road headquarters since 1993, will tape its last show Jan. 28.Marit Saltrones, Northland Cables business manager, cited the lack of local advertising support as the reason for the news programs demise.We provide news to 5,400 subscribers, Saltrones said. The numbers just dont work out to support a news department until youve got at least 10,000. Local advertisers, by and large, have not united to invest their advertising dollars in the news. It just hasnt been able to pay for itself.The dissolution of the department also means the deletion of three Northland jobs. News director Jon Rauch will move full-time into commercial advertising production with the company, while sports anchor Blair Johnson had already resigned to take join KCPQ-TV in Tacoma. News anchor Krista Carlsons job was also cut.It wasnt really a surprise, said Johnson, who has covered sports for the company since 1997. It was mentioned to us in early December that the possibility was out there. This is part of the business, and the TV industry is a fickle business.The show, which has seen its costs subsidized by the company by increasing degrees each year, began as a labor of love for the islands cable provider.The first broadcasts began in July 1993, with anchor Megan Snow and sportscaster Shannon Carr initially taping reports on the island and producing them for broadcast at Northlands Port Angeles studio. Since then, the program has evolved into a fully local product, serving as a launching pad for young broadcasting talents fresh out of college to network-affiliate jobs higher in the TV industry hierarchy.Bainbridge has proven to be a fertile proving ground, Saltrones said.Its highly unusual to have news programs for cable systems of this size, she said, noting that there are fewer than 100 locally produced cablecasts out of thousands of systems nationwide. Northland (originally) saw the Bainbridge system as a showplace cable system. They wanted to offer everything here.For a time, it was okay to underwrite that cost, although it wasnt the normal practice of the business.Saltrones, who declined to offer specifics about the cost of producing the news broadcasts, said the move should not be interpreted as any sign that Northland is not fully committed to continue as Bainbridges cable purveyor. The money saved will be put into expanding Northlands cable and Internet offerings.Northland, with a franchise area that also includes Suquamish and Indianola, has completed about 65 percent of a service upgrade that has been in the works for years, Saltrones said. A Winslow upgrade was just completed, and the Manzanita and Battle Point neighborhoods are next.A fee hike also was recently announced for subscribers, to go with the addition of several new programming channels.Northland advertisers said theyll miss the news program strictly as viewers.The local news is but a fraction of what were on, said Judy Lindsley, co-owner of Lindsleys Classic Clothing For Bainbridge on Winslow Way. The other segments were just as important, if not more so. Thats where people were watching us.The local broadcast being eliminated doesnt concern me one way or the other, other than it was good news.That latter, many say, is what will most be missed about Northland Cable News.Its been fun for us, said Kim Beemer, a leading player on the Bainbridge High School girls basketball team. We all have grandparents and aunts and uncles who come up to us and say they saw us on TV. It was a way for people who cant come to our games to follow us. It adds up to something nice for the community."
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New "Planet Mancow" Fox Show Features Infowars Team Member
Kevin Smith debates 9/11 fireman in expected hit piece
Prison Planet | November 17, 2006
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Popular radio personality Erich Mancow Muller talks with William Shatner about the influence of Star Trek; 9/11-conspiracy theories with Kevin Smith and New York City firefighter Brian Harvey, who was at Ground Zero. Also: Youtube.com stars Lazydork and Triviagirl are featured.
The above blurb was taken the Fox News Channel website.
As listeners, readers, and viewers of The Alex Jones Show and www.infowars.com, many of you have heard Alex speak of his appearances on the Mancow radio show from time to time, as well as an in studio when Alex and the Infowars crew were at the Chicago 9/11 Conference. Mancow is known for over the top, in your face radio, so when the opportunity arose for a new series on Fox, he immediately thought of Alex for the pilot episode.
This is where I come in, due to family commitments Alex was unable to attend the filming in NYC, so he asked me to help the producers find a suitable replacement. The set-up was this; debate the merits of 9/11 being an inside job against a disabled and dying member of the New York Fire Department, named Brian Harvey.
Not exactly the most inviting of scenarios, but I did my best to give them the best possible person to debate Mr. Harvey. I offered William Rodriquez, Kevin Ryan, Prof. Steven Jones, etc., none of which they wanted. I told the producers I know what you're trying to do; you don't want other victims or degreed experts, you want some sort of low-brow shouting match. I related to Mancow's people that I didn't feel right putting our friends into this situation, that's when they said, how about you? You know the topic, you've got a bit of an edge to you, what do you think? I told them that it was up to Alex, so the next morning Alex agreed and the following day I was on my way to the Big Apple.
My plan was to show-up with dying 9/11 hero Major Mike McCormack from Homeland Security's Disaster Relief Command, as you might remember Mike was the gentleman who spoke at Community Church in NYC on September 9, 2006, and subsequently SWAT teamed on Tuesday September 12, 2006. Unfortunately Mike's health is deteriorating so rapidly that he was unable to leave his oxygen machine that day.
The driver picked me up from the hotel and delivered me to a Fox production studio at noon for make-up, they actually used an airbrush to lay down a couple of coats. The first segment taped was a piece on William Shatner, although he wasn't there. So the first actual segment to be filmed was of NYFD Brian Harvey vs. me. Since this was the first episode, they we're trying many different shooting angles, intros, and outros. But it became quickly apparent that they weren't getting what they wanted out of me. I started out with my best Alex Jones styled rant looking right into the same camera that Mancow was reading the teleprompter from, after I laid out the inside job facts in bullet point fashion, came the first of many in the next hour and a half, CUT.
They then asked Mancow to put on a headset and talk to the control room, and later actually leaving the set altogether to discuss how to best to get me. Each time Mancow did the lead-in he did the same thing over and over again, when it came time to introduce me he would swallow, roll his eyes, and make a comment about the grassy knoll', the fact that I had to hear myself being mocked and knew it was coming each time did start to bother me. We went through many different scenarios on how the questions were posed to each of us, and of course I dominated the debate and wouldn't follow Mancow down his rabbit holes. The solution was to ask Mr. Harvey the leading questions and then have me respond to him. The order of taping was disjointed, filming the closing comments before middle segments, filming the intro over and over again. For example, after my first scene when I looked directly into the camera and started the info-drive-by, I was stopped. Then it was decided that I should look at Mancow and direct my comments towards him, due to the fact that Mancow was a foot away from me, it made it a little harder to keep up the intensity, it would've looked like I was a crazy person yelling in his face. The next tactic was the most successful, I was to look into the eyes of this misguided brave fireman and read him the riot act, and this would be the clip I'd expect them to use.
During the interview while Mancow was attempting to put words in my mouth, he started saying so Hillary huh, standing on the grassy knoll, I just gave him a blank look and said who said anything about Hillary, I said if you want to know about Hillary, why don't you ask Roger Ailes or Rupert Murdoch they eat dinner with her every week, then came the expected CUT. At one point when Mancow was asking Mr. Harvey if he had it all to do it over again, would he, that's when I jumped in and said of course he would, he's a hero, he's a fireman, he was a hero before 9/11, that's why we love firemen and are trying to get them treatment. This is the way it went for over an hour, I was told the segment would be between 6 and 8 minutes, the last event of note was Mancow telling Mr. Harvey to look into my eyes and tell me I'm crazy! He wouldn't do it! He said look he's very passionate about what he believes and I don't agree with him, but I don't think he's crazy.
After we we're done taping, back in the green room, I had a chance to speak calmly to Brian. Before we parted company, I gave him TerrorStorm' and 9/11 Mysteries: Part 1 Demolitions. I also gave him contact information for other victims of 9/11 who live in the area, so that when the truth hits him square in the face, he'll have the support that he needs.
I only hope that through the magic of editing, I didn't do anything to harm the 9/11 truth movement, at best we we're able to get the websites more attention, at worst it might be similar to the Southpark 9/11 episode where we debate whether the beating we took was worth it, just to get some of our evidence out to a new audience.
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No crisis can last forever, and the main lesson I'm taking from the 2014 World Economic Forum is that, at least as far as the world's elite are concerned, we've finally put the financial crisis behind us. There are still a lot of things to worry about, of course, both political and economic. But this was by far the least economically interesting Economic Forum I've been to.
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Davos FOMO
Andrew Ross Sorkin is a very old Davos hand — he's been coming for years, he knows the ropes, he knows what happens and what doesn't. Which is why his column this week is so very odd.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
This year's Davos was all about tail risk — or, more to the point, the absence thereof. The ECB's Mario Draghi said — more than once — that he had "removed the tail risk from the euro". His colleague Ignazio Visco went almost as far, saying that only a few tail risks remain. The EU's Olli Rehn talked about how there's "no tail risk" any more. The IMF's Zhu Min said that "In Europe, the tail risk has been moved off the table", which was exactly the same language also used by Ray Dalio. Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said that "euro tail risk is now sorted". The FT editorialized about the best policy response when "the tail risk of renewed financial chaos is reduced". Even Nouriel Roubini declared that tail risks have declined in the past six months, although they haven't gone away. And that was just the on-the-record comments: off the record, many more people, including at least one official US representative, were saying the same thing.
Branding and anti-branding, Davos edition
Frank Tantillo has a good overview of the inescapable country-branding exercises that happen in Davos every year; this year Azerbaijan was rivaling India in the ubiquity stakes, while countries like Peru and Japan made do with events.
The downswing in Davos parties
Andrew Ross Sorkin has placed himself on the party beat at Davos: since nothing has happened yet, the main thing to report is that everybody's Friday-night dance card is looking pretty forlorn. The Google party being canceled we could live with, but the cancellation of the Accel party is bigger news — people really loved that one. Yahoo's cocktail party early in the evening isn't going to make up the difference, and Sean Parker's nightclub event, while surely hard to get in to, is certainly going to turn into the kind of loud and overcrowded sausage party that makes you wonder why you even wanted to go there in the first place.
Davos: Google grows up
Bloomberg has just found out that the big Friday-night Google party, one of the hottest and loudest and most gruesome events in the annual Davos calendar, is not happening this year; no one is going to miss it. No reason was given for the decision to cancel the party, but the message is a clear one: Google has matured, now, and is going to be a lot smarter about the way it schmoozes Davos.
The relational aesthetics of Davos
Nick Paumgarten was told repeatedly, both before and during his first trip to Davos, that he couldn't possibly get it right after going only once. But he had to try, and he ended up delivering what might be the best description of Davos yet: accurate, well-written, keenly observed.
Why Davos is ignoring Occupy
If you're Europe, and your struggling people are called "Greeks", and your rich people are called "Germans", then the World Economic Forum will spend pretty much limitless amounts of time and effort on attempts to understand the dynamics between the two and (doomed) plans to try to prevent it from turning into a fully-blown crisis.
Why Europe's crisis can't be averted
I got a glimpse this morning of what Lance Knobel calls Davos's "class distinctions, even if you have a white badge" — I was invited to a breakfast meeting under the auspices of something called the Industry Partnership Meeting for Financial Services. Which reminds me of that great line from In the Loop :


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As part of its 2014 Oregon high school football preview, The Oregonian is highlighting 15 of the state's top football players. Today, meet:
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Defensive back, 6-foot-2.5, 190 pounds
Recruiting rundown: Holmes, thought to be one of the best corners in Oregon, has several offers sitting on the table to play college football, but North Medford coach Mike Mitchell declined to reveal which schools had offered. Mitchell said Holmes will wait to make a decision, and did say Oregon State and Oregon have showed some interest in him. "Most everybody is interested in him," Mitchell said. Northwest Elite Index reported University of Idaho offered Holmes a scholarship this summer.
Scouting report: Mitchell said Holmes, his shutdown corner, has worked on building his strength this summer. Holmes is capable of running a 4.61 40-yard dash, but perhaps more importantly than his measurables, Mitchell said, is Holmes' defensive presence, which steers opposing offensives away from him.
"He's kind of established a reputation as he's not getting as much action toward him, and that's fine," Mitchell said during a phone interview last week. "People just stay away from him. He's a real dominant corner for a high school kid."
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"Elizabeth: the Golden Age"
By Rick Sherman, 53, Mexico
OK, now admit it. When you go to see a historical drama it's a little like eating steamed broccoli.
You really would love to dive into those Buffalo wings sitting there, but you eat the broccoli because it's good for you. If you're lucky, maybe there's a little cheese sauce to go with it. So I have to admit, when I entered "Elizabeth: the Golden Age" a part of me longed for a big ol' heaping bowl of "We Own the Night."
The good news is "ETGA" contains a good dollop of cheese sauce. The bad news is a fair portion of the film is just plain, well, cheesy.
Protestant Queen Elizabeth, considered a usurper and heretic by some, must negotiate some tricky political waters as assassination plots swirl; and King Phillip II of Spain, intent on invading England for Pope and country, mounts his infamous Armada.
Apparently of equal importance is the fact that Walter Raleigh is a hunk.
The early scenes do a nice job of setting Elizabeth up as an intelligent, just ruler with a quick wit who will not be intimidated by her male advisors.
When she says, "Fear creates fear...I will not punish my people for their beliefs" there is a strong echo of our current political climate.
Unfortunately clever dialogue is soon replaced with ponderous speechifying, and by the time the queen is riding around in form-fitting armor rallying the troops on the battlefield ala "Braveheart," credibility has taken a decided nose dive. The film overall would have benefited from a lighter touch; a little subtlety in place of cliched histrionics.
Having said all that, I must admit that I enjoyed the film for the most part. Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush are terrific. Clive Owens plays Raleigh like a cross between James Bond and Errol Flynn.
It may not have been Buffalo wings, but it was better than a plate of steamed broccoli.


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Scam targets child tax credit recipients
SNOQUALMIE VALLEY - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a consumer alert on June 18 warning taxpayers about a new scam targeting potential recipients of the Advance Child Tax Credit.
The IRS has seen isolated instances of this new scheme. A taxpayer receives a telephone call from a person who promises to speed up the payment of the tax credit check. The catch is the taxpayer must agree to a $39.99 charge to a credit card.
About 25 million taxpayers may be eligible for an advance payment of an increase to the Child Tax Credit. The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 raised the Child Tax Credit to a maximum of $1,000 per child from $600 per child, beginning in 2003. The Act also provided for immediate tax relief by directing the Treasury to send this increase to taxpayers this year. Eligible taxpayers could receive up to $400 for each child claimed on their 2002 returns as an advance payment of their 2003 Child Tax Credit.
The IRS reminds taxpayers that no person or organization can "speed up" the payment of tax benefits. In reality, taxpayers do not have to take any action to get the new benefit. The Treasury Department and IRS will perform all the calculations and automatically mail a notice and a check to each eligible taxpayer, beginning the week of July 25.
"The only thing the taxpayer needs to do is cash the check," said Mark W. Everson, IRS commissioner. "If you qualify, we will send you a notice. There's no need to call, no need to apply, no need to fill out another form. The IRS will do all the work. A few days after the notice, you will get the check."
Under the new scam, the IRS is seeing the continuation of a trend that emerged earlier this year when the families of those serving in the armed forces were targeted. In both of these schemes, scam artists use current events to prey on unsuspecting victims. The scams also feature callers seeking credit card information to get taxpayers to pay for special benefits.
If the taxpayer agrees to the charge and provides a credit card number or other sensitive personal information, they could find a much larger charge to their account. By the time the taxpayer realizes something is wrong, the scam operator is long gone, possibly victimizing others.
Those who may encounter this latest tax scam or suspect tax fraud or abuse in some other situation can report to their nearest IRS office. When in doubt, seek help from the IRS or a tax professional. Call the IRS tax fraud hotline at (800) 829-0433.
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