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Who: Middlesex County Utilities Authority, N.J.
How: Design-bid-build
Design: Hatch Mott MacDonald, Freehold, N.J.
General contractor: Kenny Construction Co., Northbrook, Ill.
Tunnel subcontractor: Bencor Corp. of America, Dallas
Cost: $75 million
Funding: New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust, which leverages state revolving funds to provide low-interest loans to local governments
A recent project undertaken by New Jersey's Middlesex County Utilities Authority (MCUA) was designed to provide a redundant means for sewage conveyance from its 85-mgd Edison pump station to its 400-mgd central wastewater treatment plant.
MCUA was founded in 1950 in part to protect and enhance the marine habitat in the Raritan River and Bay by collecting and treating wastewater from nearly 800,000 people. Similar to many utilities, MCUA is charged with the maintenance of its aging infrastructure with dwindling dollars.
A 3,940-linear-foot tunnel was constructed under the 3,000-foot-wide river. The 15-foot, 6-inch tunnel has several uses, namely to connect the Edison pump station — one of five contributing pump stations — to the central wastewater treatment plant. Within the primary tunnel are two parallel force mains that will replace MCUA's existing 60-inch Arsenal force main, which was installed in 1969.
The existing line, made of prestressed concete cylinder pipe, is supported on piles and is located several feet below the river-bed. The Arsenal force main accepts continuous flow of wastewater from the northern part of the county serving more than 200,000 people. Since the pipeline has been in continuous service for 40 years with no ability to be inspected internally or externally, there was concern that the prestressing wire could fail, causing a catstrophic pipe failure and an uncontrolled discharge of raw sewage into the river.
To avoid the risk of a system failure, the NJDEP, through an administrative consent order, required MCUA to construct a new redundant pipeline under the river.
The first design concept was to build an 8-foot-diameter tunnel in lieu of open-cutting below the water surface and installing a second 60-inch pipe and then rehabilitate the existing pipeline. This would create a dual-pipeline system allowing operators to shut down one line for inspection or repair without disrupting flows. The projected cost would be about $29 million if the old pipe couldn't be rehabilitated; a replacement tunnel and new force main would cost an estimated $30 million to $35 million.
But after researching techniques and the costs and risks associated with rehabilitating 40-year-old pipe, engineers decided the most practical and economical solution was to enlarge the tunnel diameter and install two new pipelines instead. In the end, enlarging the tunnel represented potential savings of more than $20 million.
The authority was concerned about the installation and long-term performance of the new pipelines. Because they were being assembled belowground within a confined space, they had to be light enough to be transported and lifted to be set to grade. And they must resist sulfuric acid, the byproduct of hydrogen sulfide gas generated by sewage.
"They wanted a pipe that was corrosion-resistant both inside and out," says Angelo Bufaino, senior project engineer for Hatch Mott MacDonald, the firm that designed the new force main. "The pipe also was to be installed within a damp tunnel and partially encased in concrete, and there would be no way to perform external repairs if external corrosion occurred."
Centrifugally cast, fiberglass-reinforced, polymer mortar (CCFRPM) and high-density polyethylene (HDPE) were the only materials that met the criteria. Ultimately, HDPE's tendency to expand and contract with varying wastewater temperatures led authority managers to specify CCFRPM.
"It was 15% lighter (211 pounds/foot) than HDPE (244 pounds/foot) and jointed, making installation easier," Bufaino says.
General contractor Kenny Construction Co. brought in deep-foundation specialists Bencor Corp. of America to build access shafts on each side of the river. Bencor used slurry wall construction methods to create the 36-foot-diameter, 87-foot-deep launch shaft and the 28-foot-diameter receiving shaft.
To prevent soil heaving at the receiving shaft, Kenny Construction chose to excavate the final 15 feet of the southeast shaft underwater instead of using the specified jet-grouted plug below the base slab. Upon reaching an excavation depth of 70 feet, the shaft was flooded and the remaining 15 feet of soil excavated underwater. Divers then verified the depth, set the final rebar mat, and placed the tremie concrete slab.
Authority managers decided to leave the tunnel partially open to permit inspection and allow utilities to use it. In the final construction phase, two 16-inch HDPE pipelines were installed to convey methane from the county's landfill, which is also operated by the authority, to power the wastewater treatment plant 7 miles away. The existing gas pipeline has leaked in recent years, so the authority decided to augment it with a second pipeline using the tunnel.
Once the shafts were in place, a Lovat Inc. earth-pressure-balance tunnel-boring machine mined through clay, sand, silt, and gravel. Crews followed behind, placing the 9-inch-thick precast gasketed concrete segments. The annulus void of approximately 3 5/8 inches was grouted as the machine moved forward.
"The contract documents specified the use of a pressurized-face tunnel-boring machine due to the presence of soft ground deposits and potential flowing soils under atmospheric conditions," says Julian Prada, resident engineer for Hatch Mott Mac-Donald. But because of the soft ground conditions, Kenny Construction used an earth-pressure-balance tunnel-boring machine. Soil was mined with a rotating cutter head, and a screw conveyor allowed the company to control the volume of soil excavated. The machine supported the ground during excavation, which helped to balance the earth pressure.
Preserving the in situ soil was especially critical because the existing force main alignment was within 15 feet at one point. "The 3,940-foot tunnel hit its target for both line and grade," Prada says.
Once the primary liner was in place, installation of the carrier pipe began.
"The entire line [twin force mains] was installed from the southeast shaft," says Bob Rautenberg, project manager for Kenny Construction. "The pipe was installed on two shifts; on our best day we installed 20 pipes."
The next phase included grouting the dual pipelines into place. A blocking scheme was designed and installed to anchor the pipe and resist uplift.
"With the blocking in place, the backfill plan called for the first lift of material to be a lightweight cellular grout with a density of 35 pcf," Rautenberg says. "The cellular grout encased the pipe to 8 inches below the spring line. Once the cellular grout was in place, both of the pipes were filled with water for ballast and then encased to a point approximately 4 inches below the outside crown of the pipe with 4,000-psi structural concrete."
This design allowed for a 6-foot-high walkway along the center of the tunnel.
The pipe within the tunnel is connected to 60-inch ductile iron pipe risers, which are in turn connected to the surface piping at the northwest and southeast shafts.
— Kocsik (email@example.com) is vice president of Hatch Mott MacDonald; Boudreaux (email@example.com) is a marketing assistant for Hobas Pipe USA.


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Those of you who have seen the David Fincher version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo very likely recall the slick opening title sequence at the start of the film. Those of you who have yet to see the film (um, what are you waiting for, go see this film NOW, people) are in for a treat because right now we not only get to learn some info on how the opening title sequence was made but we get to see the opening title sequence video in full below. AND, as a bit of bonus GREAT NEWS, it is also with great pleasure that I pass along the news that Sony has announced that the sequel film The Girl Who Played with Fire will go into production later this year. Woot!!
The oil-drenched title sequence that opens David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo includes mesmerizing details from all three of Stieg Larsson's books about hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander, not just the one upon which the movie is based. That might seem like an odd choice, but it was intentional. Blur Studio, the creator of the vivid opening, was given a mandate by Fincher to make the two-and-a-half-minute sequence a conceptual re-creation of Larsson's full Millennium trilogy — and to completely turn the idea of title sequences on its head. "I got a call from him, it was the middle of the night in Sweden and he was on some shoot that was going really bad," Tim Miller, Blur's co-founder and the creative director behind the sequence, said in a phone interview with Wired.com. "And he calls me and he says, 'Look, you're going to do this thing and it's going to redefine titles for our generation the way Se7en did and that's all there is to it.'" So, as happened with Se7en's title sequence, a song produced by Trent Reznor (in this case a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" with Karen O and Atticus Ross) became an eerie opening soundtrack, and Blur set about bringing Fincher's primordial-ooze fever dream to life. To get what Fincher wanted, Blur worked with the director to pick out general and specific moments in the trilogy that could be demonstrated visually — a pressed flower, wasps, the instruments of hacking, Lisbeth Salander's father being set on fire, and, of course, the dragon alluded to in the title. Blur ended up with 26 moments approved by Fincher, then composed them into 252 shots of 24 frames or fewer …
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an amazing film to watch visually … and this opening title sequence not only sets the tone of Dragon Tattoo, but its allusions to the coming sequels (The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest) also set the tone for the overall trilogy of films. There is a "cool factor" that, from the start, really informs the audience as to what kind of film(s) they are about to see. I really love this title sequence … I've already rewatched the video I posted above over and over and over again.
AND AS FOR THOSE SEQUEL FILMS, Sony has announced today that YES, the sequel films are going into production … The Girl Who Played with Fire is set to begin filming later this year:
Despite the weak box-office performance of the U.S. remake of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" so far, the sequel, "The Girl Who Played With Fire," is moving forward, a Sony spokesperson has confirmed to TheWrap. Steven Zaillian, who also wrote and executive produced "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," is writing the screenplay for the next U.S. film based on Swedish author Stieg Larsson's "Millennium" series. Stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara are contractually obligated for the two sequels. While David Fincher has not signed on for "Fire," the Sony representative said the company wants him to direct the sequel. Fincher previously said that he would want to shoot the sequels — "Fire" and "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" — back to back, if he were to sign on for the final two installments. A representative for Anonymous Content, the management company that represents Fincher, did not respond to a request for comment. Ole Søndberg, one of the producers of "Dragon Tattoo," declined comment on the project.
I really hate all the emphasis on the "poor" box office performance of Dragon Tattoo … but I cannot see how Sony can't not make the sequel films. I would LOVE for David Fincher to direct the next two films but I don't think I'd be too opposed to having different directors for the sequels. Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig will remain as Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist … and that is the best news of all.
So … what do y'all think of all of this? Don't you love this opening tile sequence? Aren't you excited that the sequel films are on the way? Am I asking too many questions??
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The big events that finished up N.Y. are: Dinner at my cousin Mel's house for Rosh Hashanah. Here Casey got to meet my family for the second time, dinner was more tasty Jewish soul food for Casey. With brisket, kasha Varnishkes, Mazto Ball soup, and some Babka for dessert. It was great seeing my aunt and uncle and cousins again, I don't get home all that often. The next day we started out on the beach again, until my mom's side of the family came over for brunch. This consisted of the best bagels on earth and egg and tuna salad. This was also a celebration for my Aunt Bunny's birthday. We all then went to visit my grandmother (nanny). This was an interesting visit as it always is. But she actually remembered Casey which was pretty cool. Our Final meal in the Big Apple was at the Outback Steak house, I know this is not really a NY food or special, but it is me and my dads favorite steak dinner
Now to the title of this story. Early and I mean early yesterday morning my parents woke us up and drove us to the train station in Longbeach with a stop for bagels and coffee. We took the train into the city were we got on the subway to the bus terminal, we took the bus to Washington DC where we walked a few blocks to get the metro(subway/train). We took the metro to the end of the line where my buddy Phil picked us up to drive back to his house. Casey and I meet his 2 month old baby Lindsay for the first time. This is why we are here at Phil and Kemps house. Lindsay is so cute and has the fullest head of hair I have ever seen on a 2 month old. It is also very weird and awesome to see Phil who I have know since the 5th grade or so in the role of Daddy. He is not my first friend to have a kid but it still seems weird and I'm not sure I will get used to the idea of all my friends having babies. While visiting we have been mainly chilling and watching Lindsay, we have played some cards and shoveled dirt. Yeah he made us do some manual labor for room and board. It has been great seeing Phil, Kemp and Lindsy again!
Our trip is starting to feel real now, I guess that is because we leave in the morning. Phil is dropping us off at the airport tonight and we are going to spend the night sleeping(I hope) in the airport and then we fly out around 7:30am. If you read this before we fly wish us luck on our $47 tickets with USA3000, If you read this after we fly keep looking for an update to make sure we made it down there, and aren't stuck on some weird bus or cargo flight.
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Springs man uses Old Glory to protest the state of our nation
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - It's perhaps the most recognized symbol in America, our flag. Now one Springs man is using Old Glory to protest the state of our nation.
Dave West said our country is in distress and he isn't afraid to show it. Since the election, his American flag is flying high, upside down.
"I'm sure some don't care for it," he said.
But West said it is by no means meant to be disrespectful. He points out that an upside-down flag is a signal of distress.
"Our country, I feel, is pretty heavily distressed right now," he said.
West said he is fed up with Washington. "We have the most corrupt regime running the country in history," he said.
West said he's heavily involved in politics. During the election, West worked to convince voters to head to the polls and has spent a lot of time writing his congressman.
KRDO News Channel posted his position on its Facebook page. More than 100 comments came in, most supporting West's choice.
But some disagreed. Sherri Pacheco wrote, "It shows his disrespect."
West said he doesn't plan on flying his flag right side up anytime soon.


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nice fabrics.... they are all so cute.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
nice fabrics.... they are all so cute.
She who dies with the most fabric, didn't sew fast enough!
Beautiful work. Love the table runners. BrendaK
Be kind to yourself, by being kind to others. When you help others you help yourself.
Very cute quilts! I love Halloween too!
that fall table runner is just beautiful! fall colors i think are my favorite...until i see spring colors...and then americana colors....oh boy......they all look great and ty for posting them!
A rolling stone gathers no moss
Please share the patterns for the Itty Bitty Ghosts , Happy Jack , and the table runner with Sloan fabric. These look like something I could accomplish . : )
Great Halloween decorations and great pictures!
Can't decide whichi I like best they all look good. Thank you for sharing your creations.
Love them all,and Halloween is one of my favorite times of year too. Thanks for sharing.
Treat people the way you want to be treated!!
I like each one more than the next. They are all beautiful. you did a great job.
Wow... I can't pick a favorite either! What size squares did you use for the Jack O Lantern quilt?


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We will be so happy to welcome you in our cosy, modern and comfortable Apartment that consists of living room with TV, double bed and fully equipped kitchenette.Welcome home!
Apartments are located just in few steps from subway station (metro) I.P.Pavlova, and only 5-7 minutes' walk from the Wenceslas Square. In this central and at the same time lovely district you will find a lot of delicious restaurants with international cuisine: Czech, Italian, Korean, Vegetarian, Indian and others. Also there are two grocery stores near by - Tesco and Zabka, where you can buy all the necessities for cooking and bath.
STARBUCKS - 100 meters
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PAUL - 80 meters
McDONALDS - 115 meters
SUBWAY - 100 meters
Our receptionists will be glad to help you with a good choice of excursions, best city attractions and the best shopping centers. They will suggest how to plan your vacation best, in which club to go, where to listen to jazz or where to drink cocktails enjoying a beautiful view over Prague. They will order a taxi for you and make a table reservation in a restaurant or pub. There you can also absolutely for free print your airline tickets or book new tickets to get to the nearest towns of the Czech Republic.
Cleanliness of the apartments is one of our first priorities! For your convenience light cleaning is made every day ABSOLUTELLY FREE OF CHARGE, bed linen and towels are changed once in 3 days.
Parking for middle-sized cars costs 15-25 euro/day (at the building near apartments). The price depends on the size of your car.
We know how travelling with your four-legged friends can be problematic. At our Apartments we accommodate small pets for just 10 euro/night!
If you have any questions, feel free to ask us!\
We will try to organize a memorable stay in our fabulous city for you!
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The apartment is really really nice, just exactly how it's shown on the pictures. We were really happy to stay there...very clean, very spacious and totally not far from the center (old town). I'd definitely recommend staying there. :)
Everything was clean, organized, and functional. I enjoyed my stay at the apartment and it was for a great price too. Also, the bathroom floor was heated! Thumbs up!
Very nice accommodation! Rooms are very clean and are nicely decorated. It is different than on the pictures though. Personnel is very helpful and friendly! definitely recommend staying here!City center is on walking distance (10-15 minutes) and supermarket, restaurants and public transport directly in neighborhood
(Late review, sorry!) Very lovely apartment, close by to all public transport needed. We would definitely recommend :) The area wasn't too busy, and is very near a little Tesco should you need to pick up any supplies. Thank you, Joe and Jess :)
There was some problem with the apartment and we were taken to a hotel 10 minutes further from the center instead... There, the bed was very unconfortable and small, the room old, tv not working, a heater not working, and way far on quality and standars compared with what we were supposed to have in the appartment, according to the price paid and the pictures.
overall, this accommodation experience would have deserved a 2/10, as I spent my time looking for something very specific that didn't finally get, but I have rated 7 because Natalia, in charge of the apartments, was super nice and sweet and did all she could to compensate us.
It was a very nice appartment. Everything you could need was present.
Friendly people at the reception.
Just a little out of the center but not too far
The apartment is comfortable, not far from the historic center (two stops by metro), clean well taken care of. Legerova street is a bit chaotic, but with the double windows the room is well insulated. Also recommended for families. Fabio
What an amazing deal for the apartment we had. Nicely furnished, cute decor, and spacious. We forgot what apartment we were getting when we rented at first, but the pictures didn't do it justice. My boyfriend and I stayed there for a very, very reasonable price and it was the perfect place to spend our two days.
The apartment was about a 10-15 minute walk to the city center and about a 10-15 minute walk to the train station. Good location, great price, and good customer service!
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Electroplating: How the U.S. Mint Makes a Penny
Edmund Dickinson April 17, 2014
What's a penny made of? Though they appear to be solid copper coins, they actually don't contain much copper at all these days. Instead, the U.S. Mint saves money by applying only a veneer of valuable metal onto a less expensive one. Have you ever thought about the manufacturing process by which this is achieved? Let's find out.Read More
Lorant Olasz April 16, 2014
The geometric kernel is the software component responsible for handling geometry in COMSOL Multiphysics®. You may be wondering what this means or how and why you would use it when modeling. Let's find out.Read More
Fanny Littmarck April 15, 2014
There are two main resources for finding COMSOL Multiphysics tutorial models: our online Model Gallery and the Model Library within the software. We also continuously push out model updates that you can download to your Model Library. Here's your guide to what these resources are and how to use them.Read More
Walter Frei April 14, 2014
One of the questions we get asked all the time is: "Can I use COMSOL Multiphysics for solving my fluid-structure interactions problems?" Of course the answer is yes, so let's talk a little about the various fluid-structure interaction (FSI) modeling techniques. Along the way, we will introduce the add-on modules you will need for these various types of analyses.Read More
Pär Persson Mattsson April 11, 2014
Many of us need up-to-date software and hardware in order to work efficiently. Therefore, we need to follow the pace of technological development. But, what should we do with the outdated hardware? It feels wasteful to send the old hardware to its grave or to just put it in a corner. Another, more productive, solution is to use the old hardware to build a Beowulf cluster and use it to speed up computations.Read More
Eyal Spier April 10, 2014
The last two blog posts in the Chemical Kinetics series were concerned with modeling chemical reactions based on a particular set of parameters. While this is important and of great academic and industrial interest, the relevant parameters were assumed. Now, let's find out how to estimate the chemical parameters using COMSOL Multiphysics.Read More
Walter Frei April 9, 2014
In a previous posting, we looked at computing and controlling the volume of a cavity filled with an incompressible fluid, which solved for the static deformation of a fluid-filled rubber seal. In that example, we did not explicitly model the fluid, but added an equation to solve for the pressure, assuming incompressibility of the fluid. Here, we will extend this approach and include the hydrostatic pressure of the fluid in the deforming container.Read More
Fanny Littmarck April 8, 2014
The Mach-Zehnder modulator is a type of optical modulator used for communication applications. To understand how it works and how to optimize its design, you can use the COMSOL simulation software.Read More
Nancy Bannach April 7, 2014
Fluid flow is involved in many engineering applications. In addition to typical CFD simulations, which replace experiments in wind tunnels, flow must also be considered in the cooling of electronic devices or in the chemical industry, where reacting species are transported by a fluid. COMSOL Multiphysics offers dedicated interfaces for various flow types. When should we use the Laminar Flow or Turbulent Flow interface?Read More
Supratik Datta April 4, 2014
Previously, you saw how to compute stiffness of linear elastic structures in 0D and 1D. Today, we will expand on that and show you how to model this in 2D and 3D. We will also show you an alternate method to compute stiffness.Read More
Supratik Datta April 3, 2014
Today, we will introduce the concept of structural stiffness and find out how we can compute the stiffness of a linear elastic structure subjected only to mechanical loading. In particular, we will explore how it can be computed and interpreted in different modeling space dimensions (0D and 1D) and which factors affect the stiffness of a structure.Read More


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Anyone wonder whats going on*in Mark Sanchez mind these last 24 hours? []</P>
Can you spell "pissed"? I would be. This whole Peyton move really created some hard feelings among QB's and between QB's and their teams. The Jets also 'promised' Stanton (Correct??) they wouldn't bring in another QB.
What a horrible move for the Jets.
One thing I guarantee from my crystal ball... we are going to see Tebow lining up in the backfield behind Sanchez. They'll have Tebow running, passing, and receiving out of that position 6-10 plays a game. Sanchez won't be in the backfield with TB under center. First time Sanchez brings them into the Red zone, down inside the 20, you'll see Tebow come in as a back and the defense won't know whether to **** or go blind.
At least, if I were the O Corrdinator, I'd have several plays off of that formation..
I thi nk they'll work on those kind of packages and work Tebow in that way, and give Sanchez more of an initial a feeling of security, and see sfter Tebow has had more time getting to know their team and Offense if he would be better at QB. They won't know that after one training camp and 4 preseason games. I think it would be a disaster if they announce Tebow as the starter for game 1.
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Tebow is coming off more and more as a bit of a fake when it comes to certain areas...He could have gone home and played in Jacksonville for more money and a much easier player to beat out imo...he has been controlling this deal. I think a lot of him coming to NY has to do with him seeing the marketing angle of things...big city and all, you know he will love of having such a large population to preach too.


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What has been Brady's excuse for not winning a championship in the last decade and being 7-7 in the playoffs before this year in his last 14 games? Very average if you ask me. The Pats division is ABYSMAL year after year allowing for the Pats to win the division year after year.
Obviously both QBs are great, and the pro Peyton guys will never agree with the anti Peyton guys, and usually it has to do with them being a Patriots or Gator fan.
I dont like Tom Brady, but I appriciate what he does to a certain extent. What he did this year was great. What he done in the past was great. He is a great QB. But he isnt the greatest IMO. If I could have one QB over the other, give me Peyton who has proved to win regardless of the system or team or coaches. Peyton is the system. Brady is playing in Belichicks system.


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REBETRON™ (rebetol and intron a combination therapy)
Combination Therapy containing
REBETOL® (ribavirin, USP) Capsules and INTRON® A (interferon alfa-2b, recombinant) Injection
Combination REBETOL/INTRON A therapy is contraindicated in females who are pregnant and in the male partners of females who are pregnant. Extreme care must be taken to avoid pregnancy during therapy and for 6 months after completion of treatment in female patients, and in female partners of male patients who are taking combination REBETOL/INTRON A therapy. Females of childbearing potential and males must use two reliable forms of effective contraception during treatment and during the 6-month posttreatment follow-up period. Significant teratogenic and/or embryocidal effects have been demonstrated for ribavirin in all animal species studied. See CONTRAINDICATIONS and WARNINGS. REBETOL monotherapy is not effective for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C and should not be used for this indication. See WARNINGS.
Alpha interferons, including INTRON® A, cause or aggravate fatal or life-threatening neuropsychiatric, autoimmune, ischemic, and infectious disorders. Patients should be monitored closely with periodic clinical and laboratory evaluations. Patients with persistently severe or worsening signs or symptoms of these conditions should be withdrawn from therapy. In many but not all cases these disorders resolve after stopping INTRON A therapy. See WARNINGS, and ADVERSE REACTIONS.
REBETOL is Schering Corporation's brand name for ribavirin, a nucleoside analog with antiviral activity. The chemical name of ribavirin is 1-β-D-ribofuranosyl-1H-1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxamide and has the following structural formula:
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Equities in Europe fell as European Central Bank President Mario Draghi warned of "further weakness" in the region's economy.
Data released last week showed that the EU economy contracted more than expected in the fourth quarter, shrinking 0.6 per cent from the previous three months.
"Available indicators signal further weakness at the beginning of 2013, with domestic demand remaining dampened," Draghi told EU lawmakers in Brussels today.
Europe's Stoxx 600 Index declined 0.2 per cent. The UK's FTSE 100 also fell, closing down 0.2 per cent. France's CAC 40 gained 0.2 per cent, while Germany's DAX strengthened 0.5 per cent.
Wall Street was closed for the President's Day holiday on Monday.
Draghi also sought to play down any talk of currency wars as central banks provide cheap money to help revive their economies. The euro fell 0.2 per cent against the US dollar.
"Most of the exchange rate movements that we have seen were not explicitly targeted, they were the result of domestic macro-economic policies meant to boost the economy," Draghi said. "In this sense, I find really excessive any language referring to currency wars."
The Japanese yen slid fell 0.5 per cent against the US dollar, and weakened 0.4 per cent against the euro, after Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors refrained from asking countries to avoid targeting exchange rates.
"There's renewed selling pressure on the yen and it's a reaction to the G-20 statement," Adam Myers, head of foreign-exchange strategy at Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank in London, told Bloomberg. "Everyone has woken up to the realisation that the G-20 couldn't criticise Japan when many other countries are manipulating their own currency."
One development that could help the yen is the naming of a new governor for the Bank of Japan. Reuters says that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may nominate former financial bureaucrat Toshiro Muto as early as this week. Masaaki Shirakawa will give up the post on March 19.
Commodities including nickel, copper and aluminium weakened amid concern about the pace of growth in China, following a report showing disappointing retail sales.
Nickel for delivery in three months was last down 2.7 per cent to US$17,890 a metric ton on the London Metal Exchange, after earlier sliding as much as 3.1 per cent, the most since October 12, and dropping below the 34-day moving average at about US$17,837, according to Bloomberg.


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if you split a hive , an even split , and you couldn't find the queen , how can you tell which hive to add the new queen to ?
if you split a hive , an even split , and you couldn't find the queen , how can you tell which hive to add the new queen to ?
wait 3 days and look for the hive that still has eggs in it. All the eggs will have hatched already.
Also within a few hours the hives will sonud different. The queenless split will start to sound annoyed.
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I just did my first split last Saturday. I did spend the time to find the queen but I understand what you are asking.
I have a hard time seeing eggs. Most of the wax I have is still pretty white.
The queenless hive does sound different.
In my case I tried to make sure that both splits had very young brood hoping that I could identify (verify, actually) the queenless hive by finding queen cells.
JohnF INTP
The queenless hive will have queen cells started that are noticable in 48 hours, maybe sooner if you look carefully. The queenless hive will have a dissonance to the hum.
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LA prosecutor and radio show host: Steve Wagstaffe tried to retaliate against me for writing a piece that was critical of Ayres prosecutor
Original post made by Lurker, another community, on Sep 5, 2013
The guest hosts for the Labor Day show were Leo Terrell and Robin Sax. Journalist Victoria Balfour, who brought the Ayres case to the San Mateo PD, was a guest on the show. You can hear the 10 minute segment here:
Web Link
Robin Sax , one of the hosts, is a former prosecutor in Los Angeles and currently works as a legal analyst for the Today Show.
Sax actually has some prior experience with the Ayres case, as she wrote an article in the Huffington Post in 2009 about Balfour being barred from access to the courtroom in the first Ayres criminal trial.
Sax recounted on this week's radio show about how bizarrely, San Mateo DA Steve Wagstaffe tried to retaliate against her for writing the opinion piece by calling up her then- boss, Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley to try to get her disciplined for speaking out about the matter.
Sax was not disciplined for her opinion piece.
Sax talks about how odd it was that Wagstaffe would try to retaliate against her.
Comments (11)
a resident of another community
on Sep 5, 2013 at 7:22 am
The question is: will Wagstaffe call up Robin Sax's boss at KABC in Los Angeles and try to get her into trouble for talking about how he tried to retaliate against her?
a resident of another community
on Sep 5, 2013 at 7:43 am
Wagstaffe has long tried to retaliate against anyone who has complained about any form of mistreatment.
Rumor is some deep pockets will be financing a real candidate to run against him this time.
There's also another bar complaint being investigated against Wagstaffe and McKowan now for violating prior orders of discipline. Expect much more serious discipline to get meted out this time, including against Wagstaffe directly.
a resident of another community
on Sep 5, 2013 at 8:08 am
Here's the piece that Robin Sax wrote for the Huffington Post that was critical of the San Mateo DA's office in the Ayres case.
Web Link
Pretty mild stuff. Truly bizarre that Wagstaffe would go to such great lengths to try to punish Sax for this.
Also given that a year earlier, Wagstaffe had permitted one of his prosecutors, Morris Maya, to write a very sharply critical opinion piece for the San Mateo Daily Journal about Senator Leland Yee's domestic violence bill, it seems hypocritical and thin-skinned of Wagstaffe to retaliate against Sax.
a resident of another community
on Sep 6, 2013 at 2:01 pm
In June 2009, a San Mateo resident sent San Mateo District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe a copy of Robin Sax's Huffington Post story about Mckowan barring Balfour from the courtroom and then told him she wouldn't be voting for him in the next election.
Here's a small portion of Wagstaffe's very lengthy and VERY defensive, ill-advised response to the San Mateo citizen about Robin Sax from June 27, 2009:
"Finally, I have read the words written by Los Angeles prosecutor Robin Sax. I do not know and have not heard of this attorney before, but it is my view she has a very basic misunderstanding of the legal and ethical boundaries of the role of a prosecutor in court. I have been a prosecutor for 32 years and a member of the Board of Directors of the California District Attorney's Association; District Attorney James Fox has been a prosecutor for 39 years and the President of both the California District Attorney's Association and the National District Attorney's Association. We are both amazed at the statements of Ms. Sax. Beyond that, I will not speak ill of her."
Wagstaffe says he won't speak ill of Sax and then proceeds to trash her. What a misogynist. And for the record, while he says he's never heard of Sax, a lot more people have heard of Sax around the country than they've heard of Wagstaffe. Sax is a legal analyst on the Today Show. Is Wagstaffe?
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Sep 6, 2013 at 7:54 pm
Wagstaffe is just another in a long line of corrupt San Mateo county politicians. We can only hope that someone legitimate will run against him and beat him in the next election. I'm not holding my breath.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Sep 6, 2013 at 9:26 pm
Kirsten Keith would be a great San Mateo County District Attorney
a resident of another community
on Sep 8, 2013 at 6:59 am
Thanks for your suggestions, Menlo Observer and Fan of ACLU, concerning possible candidates to run against Steve Wagstaffe. Anyone else have any thoughts on other candidates? Whoever runs against Wagstaffe needs to have deep pockets and be endorsed by current San Mateo elected officials.
Concerning Robin Sax's KABC show on Labor Day about the problematic prosecutor in Steve Wagstaffe's office: back on June 4/2013, at a San Mateo Supervisors' meeting, Atherton resident Jon Buckheit spoke on this same topic and asked the Supervisors to take action:
Web Link
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Sep 8, 2013 at 8:57 am
Hard to find an uncorrupt politician in San Mateo county that would be endorsed or have the support of the current crop of corrupt county politicians. Therein lies the rub.
a resident of another community
on Nov 9, 2013 at 5:15 am
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a resident of another community
on Dec 20, 2013 at 2:10 pm
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Wagstaffe and McGowan care nothing about the elderly or disabled. They refused to prosecute a paid caregiver who stole more than $200K from a brain injured quadriplegic when we discovered financial abuse after he died. We have bank records proving on line transfers to the paid caregivers bank accounts! I will donate and mobilize the elderly and disabled for anyone willing to run against him! California has elder abuse laws but and Wagstaffe refuses to use them! Please let me know when someone stands up to run against him.
a resident of Menlo Park: Linfield Oaks
on Mar 10, 2014 at 7:16 am
Holly L. is a registered user.
The person who runs the Ayres blog would be interested in hearing more about this case and your complaint. He just wrote a post urging someone with integrity to run against Wagstaffe. Deep Sounding's contact info is on the website.
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Shoreditch Room + Breakfast & Wi-Fi (HF3)
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- Breakfast
- Lockable room
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|Hereford St, E2 6EX London, United Kingdom
|Property type
|Private room
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The private bedroom includes a double bed, a stylish seating area and plenty of storage space. The apartment is shared with other guests and includes a communal kitchen with a breakfast bar, modern appliances and laundry facilities. Toiletries are provided in the shared bathroom.
The famous Brick Lane Market and Bethnal Green Train Station are just a 5-minute walk away. Liverpool Street Train Station can be reached within 5 minutes' journey by train. Numerous 24-hour bus routes provides easy access to the West End and the City.
This lively area of London boasts a wide variety of cultural attractions as well as a fashionable nightlife. Guests will find trendy bars, international restaurants and fashionable boutiques within walking distance.
House rulesBasic breakfast including hot drinks and cereals.
Guests should clean up after themselves especially in the communal areas.
Please treat the apartment as you would your own home.
Guests should leave the apartment in a clean state.
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Reviews of this property
10 min from subway, room was nice. bathroom was small. no internet(wlan router did not work)
Nice place,good price and good comunication,I was happy from this accomodation,thank you
Small, but very nice room in a nice, clean flat. Whitechapel station is quite near, around it are a couple of supermarkets as well, so shopping can just be done on the way back, no longer walks required for that.
There is no internet connection.. wifi works perfectly but the router is not connected.
I ask politely Kazzos to find a solution, he told me he'd have sent somebody to fix it but nobody came. He totally ignored me probably why he know there is nothing to be fixed, just BILLS TO BE PAID!!! I was supposed to be working a few hours a day during my holidays but i couldnt. I wouldnt book again a room with him.
Check-in went smoothly with a key box. The room itself was very neat, but smelled strongly of fire upon entering. The room key must always insert something oblique, because otherwise it can not be turn, this is very annoying in the long run. The door made noises often because this was not really maintained properly in the anchorage.
The first two days was the bathroom relatively dirty and the water did not drain, so we had to shower in the mud of the other residents. After an e-mail to the gas Teber the issue is resolved.
Der Check-In lief problemlos über einen Schlüsselkasten. Das Zimmer selbst war sehr ordentlich, roch jedoch bei Betreten stark nach Feuer. Den Zimmerschlüssel muss man immer etwas Schräg einstecken, da er sich ansonsten nicht drehen lässt, dies ist auf Dauer sehr nervig. Auch machte die Tür öfter Geräusche, da diese nicht wirklich richtig in der Verankerung gehalten wurde.
Die ersten beiden Tage war das Badezimmer relativ dreckig und das Wasser floss nicht ab, wodurch man im Dreck der anderen Bewohner duschen musste. Nach einer E-Mail an den Gasteber wurde das Problem behoben.
The apartment is in a well connected area of London, close to both train and underground stations within 10 minutes walking distance. When we arrived we had a very difficult time retrieving the keys from the safe-lockbox located outside the door - as it turned out, the owner had given us the incorrect combination. Although it was frustrating, we were able to get into contact with him via telephone right away. When we opened the lock box, our room keys weren't inside even though it was after 3, the designated check in time. We decided to just leave the bags and go to the center. After we returned later that evening, the keys were in the lock box and so we could enter into the room. The room was clean and was as advertised. The bed was what you'd expect from paying this price, and the pillows were flat (I recommend that you bring your own). Our individual room locked just fine, but we had issues locking the front door, most of the time we had to just leave it unlocked because the bolt was stuck. The bathroom was alright, the toilet and shower are in separate rooms, both rooms barely big enough to fit a person and the appliances. However everything functioned properly and was clean. My boyfriend was too tall for the shower, he's about 188cm - but there was always hot water even though there was an entire apartment full of people showering one right after the other. Also ladies, there are no outlets in the bathroom, so any hairstyling had to happen in the bedroom. The kitchen was modest, but included everything we needed on a basic level. We just bought our own breakfast, but the apartment had some cereals, coffee, and tea. There is only one small pot and one small pan in the kitchen. That's all the useful information I can give - it was a good place to stay on our budget, I don't have any major complaints - it was no Ritz Carlton, but you get what you pay for.
Among the advantages:
+ Very central, most bus stops for bus and train can be reached in 5-15 minutes on foot
+ Very cheap
+ Wi-Fi
+ Cleanliness is good (not piccobello but already fits)
+ Tesco (supermarket) in less walking minutes
+ 5-minute walk away from Brick Lane
Now the cons:
- Breakfast consists of coffee, tea and cornflakes; but lack the milk! The you have to buy yourself, luckily the nearest supermarket is not far away
- Apartment is older, you can see that unfortunately (cracks in the walls, old windows and doors, older furniture
- Very noisy
Conclusion: ideal for a short stay in London, if you value a central location.
Zu den Vorteilen:
+ sehr zentral gelegen, die meisten Haltestellen für Bus und Bahn sind in 5-15 Min zu Fuß erreichbar
+ sehr günstig
+ Sauberkeit ist gut (nicht piccobello, aber passt schon)
+ Tesco (Supermarkt) in weniger Gehminuten erreichbar
+ 5 Gehminuten von Brick Lane entfernt
Nun die Nachteile:
- Frühstück besteht aus Kaffee, Tee und Cornflakes; jedoch fehlt die Milch! Die muss man sich selbst kaufen, zum Glück ist der nächste Supermarkt nicht weit entfernt
- Apartment ist schon älter, das sieht man leider (Risse in den Wänden, alte Fenster und Türen, ältere Möbel
- sehr hellhörig
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We offer juniors between the ages of 6-14 a variety of coaching courses using the professional facilities at the Aerotron Indoor School.
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Bring whatever cricket equipment you have each day, it may or may not get used but there is no harm in having it.
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Coyotes dying from rodent poisonings
SANTA YNEZ, Calif. - A three month old pup died Thursday night. She was emaciated, skin and bones, and spent the last four days of her life fighting for one more breath.
She certainly died with more dignity than most coyotes; she was being cared for by the Animal Rescue Team in Santa Ynez.
Director Julia Di Sieno said this was the third coyote in the past month to die from rodent poisoning. The feral dog was spotted last weekend near Shepherd Mesa in Carpinteria, the same area where the others were found.
NewsChannel 3 spent Thursday morning at the rescue center while Di Sieno cared for the dying pup.
"On a humane level, wouldn't it make sense to put it down?" I asked. "She's fighting the fight," Di Sieno said. "We've done it before with others, but not as severe. She deserves a second chance. She didn't ask for this."
You could count what hairs were left covering her small body. She'd contracted a horrific case of mange -- one of the first symptoms of rodent poisoning, according to Di Sieno.
"It's those Tom Cats and Decons that are so deadly to wildlife," Di Sieno said. "And it keeps on going; the coyote eat the squirrel, then the mountain lion goes after the coyote."
Suspicious cases that come through her center are stored in a freezer, then sent off to a Fish and Wildlife lab at U.C. Davis for necropsies. Di Sieno said 60% come back positive for rodenticide or pesticide poisoning.
One grower in Carpinteria, who was unavailable for an interview, said farmers use what's available in their "tool box" to keep their crops alive, and they don't go for the "big hammer" first.
Still, Di Sieno would like to see all poisons outlawed.
Her eco-friendly solutions include owl boxes and deer fencing. She claims the natural predators will take care of the rest.
For more information about the Animal Rescue Team, or to make a donation, contact the non-profit at animalrescueteam.net


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Abler-Minded: War and culture
The history of the world is most often reflected in the history of armed conflicts and wars between and among nations and, not more than a few times, within nations. If one looks at the United States alone, there are some interesting things worthy of analysis in the number of major wars within and outside our country.
The first example is the American Revolution, which had aspects of a war between nations — albeit one was a wannabe country and the other was the long-established monarchy in England. But at the same time, there were also aspects of a civil and a cultural war as many people in the colonies wanted to remain loyal to the monarchy, King George and England, and fighting and reprisals among American colonists were more prevalent than we probably realize.
If one accepts that the War of 1812 was just an extension and final chapter of the Revolutionary War, the next major conflict in the United States was the Civil War — still the bloodiest conflict in our history. The principal ideological basis of the Revolutionary War was freedom from an oppressive government far removed from the colonies. The principal ideological basis of the Civil War was federal versus states' rights, with slavery as the major underpinning of the states' rights argument.
The Civil War was also a clash of cultures pitting a mostly agrarian economic system that relied on slavery in the South against the more industrialized, anti-slavery North.
In the 19th century, the United States struggled between strong isolationist tendencies and participation in two world wars. While many Americans died or were casualties in one or both wars, the public generally supported the wars and there is little doubt that besides the "greatest generation" of military personnel, the mobilization and industrial output of the United States was a key to success on many fronts in World War II.
The political and cultural clashes over the war in Vietnam were probably the greatest internal struggle in our country since the Civil War, and I can honestly say that internal cultural struggle is not over. Actually, in looking back, I believe that struggle really began in the early 1950s and reached its adolescence during the 1960s and '70s in consonance with the war in Vietnam.
It was at that point that I believe the American public began a cultural distancing from the U.S. military — not the individual soldier, but the military as an institution.
Many of us, including yours truly, were neck deep in that cultural conflict. None of the "in your face" types on the Minneapolis Campus of the University of Minnesota was interested in anything approaching an intellectual discussion with the folks wearing their services' uniform while in ROTC.
It wasn't until after I returned from Southeast Asia that my wife shared with me the phone calls labeling me as a baby killer and so on. The adolescents of that movement became the teachers and professors of the generations since then and many have continued to spread their messages of dissension.
In his last column, my left-handed counterpart lamented what he saw as the politicization of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars organizations as aligning themselves more with the Republicans than the Democrats. It doesn't take a genius to figure that one out. The Democrats of today bear little resemblance to their predecessors in the middle of the last century. The Democrats are so tied to their fringe elements they have all but abandoned any ties to things like rewards for achievement, personal responsibility, basic morality and self-discipline.
In my mind, we are truly in a cultural civil war that is being waged in a most uncivilized manner by the liberal secular progressives in our society. When I spoke of their trash can in my last column, I meant it with every fiber of my being. They cannot win an intellectual argument on their initiatives, so they must resort to courts, emotionalism, rumor, innuendo, character assassination and misinformation in a manner fully worthy of their leader in the White House in order to advance their societal agenda. They only won the gay marriage debate in Minnesota because of the money and people that came from outside the state.
It was contended last week that patriotism is not partisan, but to a political party that makes everything partisan, it's a logical fit to my way of thinking. It isn't the Republican Party who is leading the systematic gutting of the military — in terms of weapons, forces, equipment and its social fabric — in order to pay for unbounded social largesse.
We are well on our way to building a society where "you" must change your attitudes and behavior to make "me" happy. And "we" will use the full force of the legislative process and the rest of the legal system to make certain you do what "we" have deemed as acceptable and politically correct. Individualism is reserved for those who are individual in the proper way.
In an interview a few weeks ago, Sen. Bob Dole opined that the Republican Party was broken, which is at least partially true. The primary source of the party's problems is its fear of being labeled as racist, sexist, bigoted and/or homophobes by the left. An independent press would blow those arguments out of the water in rather short order. But since the major media outlets are the equivalent of the administration's scantily clad cheerleaders, we never get the real story. They are only now grudgingly covering the unfolding stories about the IRS targeting conservative people and organizations, the Justice Department's investigation of conservative journalists and the Benghazi tragedy.
Our nation has been drawn into a truly major armed conflict every century since the founding of our country. And that armed conflict brought out a significant cultural element that contributed to our successes and failures.
I truly fear that because of the negative impacts of the "me, me, me" crowd, we will have neither the capability nor the will to prevail in the one to come this century.
Well, that's what's been on my mind.


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I was up bright and early as wanted to get to the Reversing Rapids at high tide to see the water flow backwards. This phenomenon caused by the tremendous tide in the Bay of Fundy - the highest tides in the world. The bay's tidal action is affected by the funnel shape of the bay and by the moon's phases.
At low tide, the St. John River, empties into the bay through a narrow rocky gorge. The rising tide slows the river current to a stop and for 20 minutes a rest period , low slack tide, allows boats to navigate the Falls. Once the tide is higher than the river, the reversal of the current occurs and continues until high tide. The water rises up to 14 1/2 feet above sea level in the gorge.
It was a bit foggy but I could definitely see the water flowing backwards
Next I drove downtown and found a parkade under the Market Square Mall. There are a bunch of pedestrian walkways which connect the mall, city hall, the market, etc. The mall wasn't quite fully open yet (yes, it was early!) so I wondered around to get my bearings - it's hard to get the layout of the city with all the fog.
I came across the City Market which has been operating since 1876. The building has a roof which resembles an inverted ship's keel. Made of wooden trusses, the structure was reportedly built by unemployed ship carpenters. Also, the floor slopes with the natural grade of the land. Some of the businesses in the market have been operating continuously there for more than 100 years!
I had a brochure for a self guided walking tour so tried to follow that. Unfortunately, the map didn't show all the street names so I did quite a bit of wandering (code for having no idea where I was or what I was doing!).
I started downtown and a lot of the building were built immediately after the Great Fire of 1877
There was a park around the Loyalist Burial Grounds. The earliest gravestone is that of Coonradt Hendricks, dated July 13, 1784. Having reached a state of disrepair in the late 1990s, the Old Burial Ground was restored by the Irving family in 1995 in memory of the late KC Irving (1899-1992), founder of the Irving empire of companies. ** you haven't heard the last of the Irving family yet - they own a lot in this province **
I looked everywhere for the oldest gravestone, even had some people helping, but no such luck! I think the oldest one I found was from 1795.
Headed back towards the mall (where the library is) as needed to find a cottage to stay at for the week of my b-day. Stopped at an outdoor craft market on the way and met a really nice lady, Tammy, who makes jewellery with sea glass, Serendipity Seaglass. Very generous and it was a pleasure chatting with her.
Was in the library for a while - the internet was sooo slow. Stopped for a bit, fish & chips, then back to the library which was closing at 5pm. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to go to the museum. Que sera.
Back on the road and drove to St. Martins. Tomorrow is the sea caves!


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A lot has happened in the past year since we named our first 50 Trendsetters. The transportation bill passed (finally!). The Department of Homeland Security saw a changing of the guard. The standoff in Iraq continued. And 50 more people made a huge impact on the public works industry.
The 2005 Trendsetters recognized here are heralded—and occasionally chastised—for significantly affecting our industry over the past year. These 50 "superheroes" have risen to the top by showing leadership in the public works community, defining public policy or signing a new law, bringing their community or an important issue into the spotlight, developing a unique product, or setting an industry standard.
Some on this list are being recognized for the good that they do in their community. Mark Buscaino, for example, has hammered home the importance of managing the urban forest better. The reuse group Freecycle is heralded for decreasing the amount placed in landfills by setting up an Internet swap for unwanted junk. Gov. Christine Gregoire now is requiring many new and renovated public buildings in her state of Washington to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) requirements
And some that we've recognized as Trendsetters stand out because of the negative impact they've had on our lives. For example, the city of Chicago has seen some major upsets at the top of its public service departments, namely due to poor—and possibly corrupt—business practices. Other negative nominations didn't make it on this list. We originally had listed hurricanes Katrina and Rita, but realized that some incredible people (such as those on the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans) really had set a trend for a cool head in a time of crisis, so we kept a positive spin on it.
These 50 Trendsetters are listed alphabetically once again, since we couldn't possibly rank them. Whether good or bad, you'll learn a lot about those who truly are impacting our industry and our daily lives. If you know of a public works superhero you think we've overlooked, send us a note and we'll consider them for next year.


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For Immediate Release: June 16, 2010
Contact: Jennifer Lawson (406) 444-5228
Helena, MT – The Governor's Office of Community Service (http://serve.mt.gov/) announced today that Montana ranks 9th in the nation for volunteerism, according to a Volunteering in America 2010 report just released by the Corporation for National and Community Service in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"We should all be proud of our state's volunteer spirit," said Governor Brian Schweitzer. "I congratulate our volunteers who are often the unsung heroes, dedicated to upholding our state's longstanding tradition of neighbor helping neighbor."
The data shows that in 2009, approximately 268,000 volunteers in Montana contributed 38.8 million hours of service, equaling a volunteer rate of 34.8%. The top volunteer areas include; religious, educational, social services, civic, sports/arts and hospitals.
"In Montana, we like to volunteer and this report shows it," said Jan Lombardi, Executive Director of the Governor's Office of Community Service. "So many Montanans are giving their time and talents to tackle our communities toughest challenges. I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to our volunteers."
The Volunteering in America report shows the largest national increase in volunteering since 2003, with 63.4 million Americans (age 16 and older) volunteering across the nation in 2009, an increase of almost 1.6 million since 2008. This research shows that in the midst of the national recession, Americans are turning toward problems and serving their communities.
Volunteering in America (VIA) is the most comprehensive data ever assembled on volunteer trends and demographics.
"Volunteering in America 2010" is based on data obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics through a "volunteering supplement" to the Current Population Survey from 2002 to 2008. Volunteers are defined as persons who did unpaid work through or for an organization. The report includes information for all 50 states, Washington, DC, and 198 cities, including 51 large cities, 75 mid-size cities, and 72 additional cities, based on Metropolitan Statistical Areas.
For more information about the report, visit: www.volunteeringinamerica.gov.
The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that each year engages more than five million Americans of all ages and backgrounds through its Senior Corps, AmeriCorps and Learn and Serve America programs. For more information, visit: www.NationalService.gov
The Governor's Office of Community Service (http://serve.mt.gov/) was created in 1993 to expand national service and volunteerism in Montana.
Jennifer Lawson
Press Contact, Governor's Office of Community Service
406-444-5228 / cell: (406) 459-3483


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NEW LONDON, NC. - The North Carolina men's golf finished seventh at the ACC Golf Championship after shooting a 1-over-par 289. The Tar Heels had a three round score of 5-over-par 869. North Carolina was led Sunday by sophomore Brandon Dalinka and senior Michael McGowan, both of whom shot under-par in the final round.
Dalinka, from Newtown, Pa., had his best round of the tournament after shooting a 2-under 70. Dalinka finished the tournament tied for 19th at 1-under-par 215. McGowan, from Southern Pines, N.C., ended the day at 1-under-par 71. McGowan finished with three birdies and two bogeys to take tenth place with a 4-under 212. Junior Andy Sajevic and sophomore Bailey Patrick both recorded a 2-over 74 in the final round. Patrick, a native of Charlotte, N.C., carded four consecutive bogeys on holes 4-7 but notched two birdies afterwards. Patrick finished the tournament tied for 39th at 5-over-par 221. Sajevic, from Fremont, Neb., recorded two birdies and four bogeys. Sajevic ended the tournament at 8-over-par 224 and tied for 42nd. Freshman Keagan Cummings, from Dublin Ireland, penciled one birdie and four bogeys for a 3-over 75. Cummings tied for 44th at 9-over-par 225.
North Carolina Head Coach Andrew Sapp reflected on the weekend and the team's performance on Sunday, "I am proud of the way the guys hung in with some tough conditions down the stretch. Michael and Brandon played well all week. We made a lot of birdies, but we just made too many bogies. We played pretty average as a team. Coming in we were the 8th seeded team and we finished 7th. The good news is that after a good season, we should be heading to NCAAs next month. We are very excited to continue playing in May."
Duke captured the ACC Championship in men's golf by finishing the tournament at 25-under-par 839. After leading for the entire tournament Florida State shot 2-over-par on Sunday and tied for second with Virginia Tech at 22-under-par 842. Georgia Tech fell to fourth place after posting a 7-over round and finished at 13-under-par 851. Clemson took fifth place at 5-under 859 while Virginia took sixth at 2-under-par 862. North Carolina moved into seventh place by shooting a 1-over-par and finished 5-over 869 for the tournament. Wake Forest and North Carolina State both struggled in the final round. Wake Forest finished eighth at 8-over 872 with a 12-over-par round and North Carolina State took ninth at 17-over-par 881 with a 13-over-par round on Sunday. Maryland finished tenth at 19-over 883 and Boston College finished eleventh at 32-over-par 896.
Taking the tournament individual title was Anders Albertson from Georgia Tech after firing a 15-under-par 201 tournament score. Florida State's Chase Seiffert and Virginia Tech's Mikey Moyers tied for second place at 10-under-par 206. Florida State's Daniel Berger took fourth place at 9-under 207. Adam Sumrall from Duke rounds out the top-five at 8-under-par 208. Virginia Tech's Scott Vincent finished sixth with a 6-under 2_ tournament score. Teammates Brinson Paolini and Julian Suri from Duke tied for seventh at 5-under-par 211. North Carolina's Michael McGowan took ninth at 4-under-par 212. Five different players tied for tenth.
The 54-hole event was played at the Old North State Club, which features a par 72, 7,102-yard layout. The North Carolina Tar Heels are currently awaiting a bid for the NCAA regionals that will be played May 16-18.


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Heavy rain wallops Pueblo
PUEBLO, Colo. - The cleanup continued Thursday after heavy rains and flash flooding walloped parts of Pueblo County on Wednesday.
The central and southern parts of the city, and Pueblo West were hit especially hard.
Northbound I-25 was closed at Mile Marker 97 and Highway 50 was closed at 62nd Lane because of the flash flooding. Both roads have since reopened.
In eastern Pueblo County, the Highline and Oxford canals overflowed near Highway 50 and Nepesta Hills Road.
The Rock Canyon Day-Use Area swim beach at Lake Pueblo State Park will be closed through the weekend because of flood damage. The beach could reopen on Monday, depending on how long the repairs take.
The Nature and Raptor Center of Pueblo and Coyote Grill Restaurant were also closed Thursday because of flood damage.
The amphitheater at Pueblo Community College was flooded by the storm. A college spokesman says it took two hours to pump the water out of the amphitheater. The water also got into the hallway of the Davis Academic Building and the Hoag Theater. The damage is still being assessed.
Chief Meteorologist Matt Meister says that between one and two inches of rain fell as the storms passed through the city, overwhelming the city's drainage systems.
Gusty winds also accompanied Wednesday's storm. At least one viewer submitted photo showed a large tree was uprooted by the storm.


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The official French for "hashtag"
posted at 5:07 pm on January 25, 2013 by Erika Johnsen
There are plenty of things that really get my goat when it comes to the French (that whole "Socialism"-with-a-capital-S thing figuring pretty largely among them), but I must say — when it comes to their proud and robust we-do-what-we-want insistence on French being the one official language… I kind of have total respect for them. Via the AP:
The French government is redefining hashtag with a Gallic touch. The country that has an academy devoted solely to the use of the French language has given its official seal of approval to a new word for the Twittersphere: mot-diese.
Pronounced 'Mo-Dee-YEZ', it doesn't exactly trip off the tongue. But that's not the point. French law requires that government agencies use French terms — and teachers are required to spread the word. New words are approved by the Academie Francaise and written into the lawbooks.


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Tuesday 30th May 2017
A Tower lunch-time talk on the Battle of Lincoln 1217
Thursday 1st June 2017
Talk by Bob Woosnam-Savage (Curator of European Edged Weapons, Royal Armouries) on the reality of fifteenth-century warfare.
Saturday 3rd June 2017
A Marston Grange Marston Moor battlefield history day in association with the National Civil War Centre and Royal Armouries
Sunday 4th June 2017
Explore the battlefield of Adwalton Moor with well known Civil War historian David Cooke
A Naseby Battlefield Project walking and driving tour of the most important battle of the Civil War
Thursday 8th June 2017
Join the Tewkesbury Battlefield Society for a two-hour guided tour of the battlefield.
Saturday 10th to Sunday 11th June 2017
As part of the Battle of Barnet Project, Barnet Museum will be hosting a medieval festival over the weekend.
Tuesday 13th June 2017
The Naseby Battlefield Project monthly Civil War 'get-together' to talk about Civil War matters.
Friday 16th June to Sunday 18th June 2017
Details of the Battlefields Trust 2017 AGM and Conference in Newark and how to book.
Wednesday 21st June 2017
Lunch-time talk at the Fusiliers Museum, Tower of London, 12.30 p.m.–2.00 p.m
Thursday 29th June 2017
Join the Northampton Battlefields Society (NBS) for a talk by Andy Chapman on Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age Northamptonshire.
Saturday 1st July 2017
A series of talks about some of the social issues of Civil War England and an evening play about the battle
Sunday 2nd July 2017
A walk across the battlefield of Cropredy Bridge led by Anthony Rich
Mike Elliott will be leading a walk round the Street Memorials of the Abbey Parish in St Albans.
Wednesday 5th July 2017
Commemorate the 332nd anniversary of the Battle of Sedgemoor with a night walk across the battlefield.
Thursday 6th July 2017
Clare Mulley, the Battlefields Trust Poet in Residence, will speak about writing battlefield poetry and read some of her poetry
Join the Tewkesbury Battlefield Society for a two-hour guided tour of the battlefield
Friday 7th July to Sunday 9th July
Details about the British Commission for Military History's summer conference, which will be focused on the British Civil Wars.
Saturday 8th to Sunday 9th July 2017
This July, thousands of re-enactors, entertainers and traders from all over Europe will gather in Tewkesbury for Europe's largest annual medieval re-enactment.
Tuesday 11th July 2017
Lunch-time talk at the Fusiliers Museum, Tower of London, 12.30 p.m.–2.00 p.m.
The Naseby Battlefield Project monthly Civil War 'get-together' to talk about Civil War matters at the Royal Oak, Church Street, Naseby, NN6 6DA at 7.30 p.m.
Thursday 13th July 2017
Join the Tewkesbury Battlefield Society for a two-hour guided tour of the battlefield.
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Saturday 15th to Sunday 16th July 2017
A two-day event exploring the battle, involving re-enactments and guided walks of the battlefield.
Sunday 16th July 2017
Join Dr Chris Scott for a guide walk around the site of the Battle of Bridport
Thursday 3rd to Monday 7th August 2017
A five-day overview of the Western Front's key events led by Dr Bruce Cherry, who will provide an introduction to the battle grounds from Mons, the Ypres Salient, The Somme and Arras, highlighting different aspects and the evolutions of warfare.
Thursday 3rd August 2017
Saturday 5th August 2017
Join the Simon de Montfort Society for their annual wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial in Abbey Park, Evesham (near the Bell Tower) at 10.30 a.m.
Thursday 7 September 2017
Saturday 16th to Sunday 17th September 2017
Join the Scottish Battlefields Trust for a spectacular weekend of battles and living history.
Sunday 17th September 2017
Dave Stubbs will be leading a walk over Wash Common following the events of the first battle of Newbury.
Wednesday 20th September 2017
Lunch-time talk at the Fusiliers Museum, Tower of London, 12.30 p.m.–2.00 p.m. Dr John Richardson will talk about the events of the Indian Mutiny in 1857.
Saturday 23rd September 2017
Helion & Company presents its 2017 Century of the Soldier Conference in Shrewsbury, this year focused on 'Home and Away: the British Experience of War 1618-1721'
Thursday 28th September 2017
Join the Northampton Battlefields Society (NBS) for a talk by Peter Brearley on the story of archery at the Marriott Hotel, Eagle Drive, Northampton, NN4 7HW,
29th September – 2nd October 2017
Napoleonic historians Maj.-Gen. Ashley Truluck and Alan Rooney present a unique interpretation of the Waterloo Campaign from the perspectives of Wellington, Blucher and Napoleon respectively as they walk you around the battlefields of Ligny, Quatre Bras and Waterloo.
30th September – 12th October 2017
Leading Civil War expert Fred Hawthorne leads the Classic American Civil War tour which features the iconic battles of Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, around Richmond, Appomattox, the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, Antietam and Gettysburg.
Saturday 30th September 2017
Dominic Smee, the Channel 4 'body-double' for Richard III, will be talking on the armour that was made for the programme and his experience in wearing it.
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Thursday 26th October 2017
Join the Northampton Battlefields Society (NBS) for their AGM at 7.00 p.m. followed by a talk at 7.30 p.m. by Matthew Lewis on Henry III at the Marriott Hotel, Eagle Drive, Northampton, NN4 7HW
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Thursday 30th November 2017
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Java Data Objects revolutionizes the way Java developers interact with databases and other datastores. JDO allows you to store and retrieve objects in a way that's natural to Java programmers. Instead of working with JDBC or EJB's container-managed persistence, you work directly with your Java objects. You don't have to copy data to and from database tables or issue SELECTs to perform queries: your JDO implementation takes care of persistence behind-the-scenes, and you make queries based on the fields of your Java objects, using normal Java syntax.
The result is software that is truly object-oriented: not code that is partially object-oriented, with a large database-shaped lump on the back end. JDO lets you save plain, ordinary Java objects, and does not force you to use different data models and types for dealing with storage. As a result, your code becomes easier to maintain, easier to re-use, and easier to test. And you're not tied to a specific database vendor: your JDO code is entirely database-independent. You don't even need to know whether the datastore is a relational database, an object database, or just a set of files.
This book, written by the JDO Specification Lead and one of the key contributors to the JDO Specification, is the definitive work on the JDO API. It gives you a thorough introduction to JDO, starting with a simple application that demonstrates many of JDO's capabilities. It shows you how to make classes persistent, how JDO maps persistent classes to the database, how to configure JDO at runtime, how to perform transactions, and how to make queries. More advanced chapters cover optional features such as nontransactional access and optimistic transactions. The book concludes by discussing the use of JDO in web applications and J2EE environments.
Whether you only want to read up on an interesting new technology, or are seriously considering an alternative to JDBC or EJB CMP, you'll find that this book is essential. It provides by far the most authoritative and complete coverage available.
David Jordan founded Object Identity, Inc. in 2001 to provide JDO consulting services. He became interested in the integration of object type systems and databases while earning his M.S. in Computer Science in the early 1980s. At Bell Labs in 1985, he initiated the development of the first C++ object database. He has developed a variety of applications using C++ object models on top of network, relational, and object database systems. Bell Labs appointed him a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 1990 for his contributions in object and database technologies. The Object Data Management Group (ODMG) asked him to serve as their C++ editor in 1993. He served in that role until 2000 and was appointed their Java editor in 1998. He coedited four books published by the ODMG. David served as a C++ Report columnist describing the ODMG standard from 1994 to 1996, at which point he stopped to write his first book, C++ Object Databases. David started using Java in late 1995. Upon his selection as ODMG's Java editor, he became a columnist for Java Report, initially covering ODMG and then JDO. David was part of the small group that initiated JSR-12, and he became one of the initial members of the JDO expert group. The JDO specification has a special acknowledgment of David's contributions to the JDO standard. When the JDOcentral.com community web site was formed, David was selected to serve as its moderator. David can be reached at email@example.com
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Craig Russell studied applied mathematics at Harvard University (B.A. '70 - '71) and acquired practical experience working as a technician repairing mainframes with the computing power of a 1997 model laptop. His early experiences in distributed computing included building applications with CICS and DL/I and designing heterogeneous network server implementations for file, print, and communications sharing among personal computers. Craig later dealt with issues of persistent object interoperability among Smalltalk, C++, and Java and integrating object and relational databases using X/OPEN XA protocols and commercial transaction processing systems. Craig served as the Java Chair of the Object Data Management Group and played a key role in the development of the ODMG 3.0 Java binding. For the next standard for database access from Java, the ODMG decided to support the Java Community Process as the delivery vehicle. With support from all major relational database and middleware vendors, Java Specification Request 12, Java Data Objects, was proposed in May 1999 and released in April 2002. Concurrent with the development of the JDO standard, Craig's primary responsibility was to lead the implementation of the object-relational database engine for several Sun products, including Java Blend and Forte for Java Transparent Persistence. Craig currently is the architect for the Container Managed Persistence implementation of Sun ONE Application Server, where he deals with the reality of implementing the high-performance, specification-compliant version of the object-relational database component of the J2EE application server.
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Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal on the cover of Java Data Objects is a bilby (Macrotis lagotis), also known as a ninu, dalgyte, pinky, or rabbit-eared bandicoot. Bilbies are rabbit-sized marsupials with silky, blue-gray fur; long, pointed snouts; large, rabbit-like ears; and long, black tails with white tips. This strange combination of traits may appear awkward, but its delicate and cute features have actually made the bilby one of Australia's most attractive and celebrated mammals. For many Australians, the Easter Bilby has even replaced the rabbit as the popular Easter icon.Bilbies have adapted well to the hot, arid climates they now habitate. Their long, slender tongues help them eat a diet of seeds, insects, bulbs, fruit, and fungi. Bilbies have well-developed forearms and long claws, which they use to dig the deep, spiralling burrows in which they live. Bilbies are strictly nocturnal, and during the day they plug the entrances to their holes with soil to protect them from extreme temperatures. Because bilbies are solitary animals, burrows usually have a single opening and a single occupant, though females often live with their young. Like other marsupials, females have a backward-opening pouch with eight teats, used to carry and protect their young for about 80 days. Bilbies usually have no more than two young at a time.Once common throughout Australia, disease, agriculture clearing, spreading of the fox and feral cat, and the control campaign against the destructive rabbit (which was often unfairly grouped with the innocent bilby it resembles) have limited bilbies' habitats to isolated populations in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and southwestern Queensland. Bilbies are now listed as endangered species by many Australian and international conservation groups. Brian Sawyer was the production editor and copyeditor for Java Data Objects. Colleen Gorman was the proofreader. Genevieve d'Entremont and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. David Jordan and Craig Russell wrote the index, with the assistance of Reg Aubry.Hanna Dyer designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from Animate Creation, Vol. II. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.David Futato designed the interior layout. Andrew Savikas prepared this book in FrameMaker 5.5.6. The text font is Linotype Birka, and the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed. The code font is a modified version of LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed, designed by Luc(as) de Groot with modifications suggested by David Jordan. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Brian Sawyer.
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This is an excellent book about Java Data Objects(JDO)!Java Data Objects by David Jordan and Craig Russell succeeds in giving a good introduction to JDO and providing a very good overview of the standard. The book covers all the relevant aspects of managing persistent Java objects, such as creating and deleting persistent objects, identity, queries, and transaction handling.More importantly, the authors describe how to use JDO in practice, meaning how to use JDO to write a Java application that accesses persistent data transparently. There are lots of detailed, but easy to understand code examples explaining the concepts of JDO. I like the idea that the entire book uses a single application scenario. The source code is included in the appendix.The descriptions do not depend on a particular JDO implementation. Instead, it focuses on how to write an application in a manner that is portable among different JDO implementations. Where necessary, it explains JDO's optional features and areas where JDO implementations may differ. JDO does not specify a standard for the mapping of persistent classes to specific datastores; but this is an important aspect of developing an application with JDO. There is a chapter about datastore mappings, with the focus on relational databases.There are chapters about defining persistent classes, enhancing them, and setting up the JDO runtime environment. It is easy to transfer the provided examples to your own application environment. I like the chapter on JDOQL; it provides a good and in-depth description of the JDO query language. There are extra chapters about the identity and lifecycle of persistent instances, as well as nontransactional access of persistent data. The last two chapters describe how JDO integrates into web- and application-server environment, especially J2EE application servers.
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Last Modified: Monday, October 08, 2012 4:50 PM
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal has issued a partial freeze on state agencies buying or leasing cars, trucks and other vehicles.
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It requires that any agency in the executive branch get written approval from the governor's commissioner of administration before spending money to buy or lease a vehicle.
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