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New Delhi: South-South Cooperation has proven to be particularly useful in the efforts to promote decent work and an important tool to establish development partnerships for the promotion of sustainable growth and social development. Even though it is not entirely new, South-South cooperation has become more visible in recent years thanks to the intensification of technical, cultural, economic and political exchanges between Southern countries especially within different UN agencies.
The India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) trilateral development initiative has been a major driver of South-South cooperation and exchange. The bridges between IBSA and the ILO were paved in the 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government, on 15 April 2010, when IBSA Leaders reiterated the need to promote a job-intensive recovery from the downturn and create a framework for sustainable growth. Similarly, in November 2010, as an outcome of the G20 Seoul Summit, G20 Leaders requested the ILO to work together with other international organizations, in the framework of the Seoul Development Plan, in supporting low income countries to strengthen their social protection systems and their skills development policies and institutions.
In the above context, the Government of India in technical support with the ILO is planning to organise an International Workshop on "Public Employment Programmes (PEP) & Sustainable Inclusive Growth" during 01-03 March 2012 at New Delhi, India.
- The objectives of the Workshop are:
* To build capacity and to share knowledge between countries on the innovations around convergent holistic frameworks and to assess the strategic entry points for different contexts which can lead to an overall better cohesion for inclusive growth with equity, linking employment and social protection to productive works.
* To use the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) as a case study for public policy to share insights on the linkages and convergence, as one of the internationally recognized large scale public employment programmes – highlighting the innovations, but also the challenges faced in supporting sustainable development
* To better appreciate the range of policy issues relevant to public work programmes / employment guarantee schemes and to obtain guidance on the design of effective public employment programmes.
* To highlight how public work programmes / employment guarantee schemes can be effective and efficient active labour market programmes.
Sharing of India's Experience - Employment Promotion and Social Protection
Over the past decade, India has launched some innovative employment generation and sustainable livelihood poverty alleviation initiatives such as employment guarantee scheme, national health insurance scheme (RSBY), skills development initiative (SDI) and the national rural livelihood mission (NRLM).
India's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Rural Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) launched in 2006 links two of the most critical problems namely, extreme poverty and climate change. The linkage is forged through creating accessibility to economic, social and environmental assets and services which are provided by rural households when they engage in works under MGNREGA. While the primary objective of the Act is poverty alleviation / employment generation, a further objective is stated "...as creation of durable assets and strengthening the livelihoods base of the rural poor..."
MGNREGA is designed to provide employment and income to the rural household, contributing directly to livelihoods security, adversely affected by climate change. In 2009-10, fully backed by political will and adequate budget resources (US$ 8.4 billion) from the Government of India, the implementation of the Act has provided wage employment support to 53 million households in 615 districts and yielded encouraging results.
The most significant features of the MGNREGA are that it creates a rights-based legal framework for 100 days of unskilled employment in a year to every rural household in the country. Various studies indicate its effect in augmenting employment, increasing wage earnings, stemming distress migration, enhancing productivity and promoting equity, especially gender equity.
- Some of the unique features of this wage employment programme are:
* Policy innovation introduced through renewed focus within policy of inclusive growth, based on legal guarantee and a right-based approach;
* Cushioned the rural poor in India during recent economic crisis;
* Dynamic and responsive to challenges-and increased analysis through case studies of innovative processes
* New paradigm shift for social protection through rights-based guaranteed employment illustrating how a social protection programme can also trigger green growth and adaptation.
The largest employment guarantee scheme in India has brought a new definition to public employment programmes around the world highlighting the importance of a rights-based approach, very much in line with the ILO's Convention 122 on Full Employment. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 2005, could be considered as a well conceived, rights based, pro poor, job oriented way to inclusive growth, guaranteeing a minimum of 100 days of employment to any rural household applying to undertake unskilled manual labour, at the prescribed minimum wage rates.
MGNREGA's immediate objective could be viewed as assuring a minimum safety net through meeting the demand of unskilled labour, as a positive first step towards the longer term goal of generating sustainable and improved livelihood options. Hence the minimum floor of livelihood security provided by the MGNREGA needs to be complemented by skills for alternative means of livelihoods, innovative ways to increase productivity at work, access to social security coverage and empowerment / voice representation of workers. Some of this could be carried out in the framework of convergence/dovetailing with other programmes and will contribute towards integrating the short term income security objective to the long-term development objective of the MGNREGA. Since a large majority of those working on the sites are women, MGNREGA also supports the empowering and skilling of rural women.
The choice of employment intensive works executed under MGNREGA fits well into Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change work. The majority of MGNREGA works contribute to development / regeneration of water bodies, bio-mass. The livelihoods of the rural poor are directly dependent on environmental resources such as land, water, forests and are vulnerable to weather and climate variability. With increased growth, water stress increases, groundwater levels reduction soil fertility declines and forest habitats disappearance, climate change will only exacerbate the vulnerabilities of the rural poor. As climate-sensitive, natural ecosystems deteriorate, rural poor who have least contributed to its deterioration are disproportionately affected due to the direct consequences of the climate change on their livelihood. Understanding the dynamics, risks, and opportunities that climate change brings, and how to respond to these is in many ways a new challenge facing all the developmental partners.
MGNREGA works, not only provide local environmental services, they have the potential to yield co-benefits of adaptation and mitigation to global climate change; the former through rejuvenation of the livelihood base and thereby strengthening resilience of rural communities, the latter through enhanced carbon sequestration in agricultural soils, pasturelands and forest areas.
ILO - Sharing of Global Experiences on Employment Guarantee Schemes and Public Employment Programmes
Based on ILO's experience in countries such as India, South Africa and Ethiopia, many countries have established or are in the process of establishing new PEPs / Employment Guarantee Schemes (EGS). Various countries are already proposing some aspects of an employment guarantee: Honduras, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines and South Africa to name a few If we take the example of labour standards, which has been a key source of debate over the years, India's first-of-its-kind 'employment 'guarantee' has actually helped shift this debate. If an employment guarantee offers work at the minimum conditions at which it would considered 'acceptable' to offer work – and displaces work below this level – then a social goal has been achieved – reducing vulnerability and overall poverty, providing regular and predictable work, and enhancing human dignity – all central to the mandate of the ILO. Also, UNDP global mandate is "to help countries in their efforts to achieve sustainable human development by helping them to build capacity giving first priority to human alleviation".
The Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP) in the ILO promotes the orientation of infrastructure investments towards the creation of higher levels of productive employment and improved access to basic goods and services for the poor. The EIIP is also working closely with practitioners from MGNREGA to highlight the innovations in designing and implementing large scale public employment programmes. Some of the key features of ILO collaborative work have been:
The continued debate on productive and full employment amongst key practitioners and the many ways to achieve this, especially after a crisis, but mainly with a long-term vision for creating the needed fiscal space.
The capacity development of national practitioners and decision-makers involved in policy development in different ministries (labour & employment rural development, public works, planning, local government, gender, youth, etc.) since these initiatives had an impact on changing the ways of working, by encouraging more inter-ministerial work needed to have a larger impact on employment and on the economy as a whole
The creation of networks of key people involved in international policy development, including academics, country-level experts, UN research and policy developers, and International financing institutions.
Contributing to the debate on MDG acceleration and joint collaboration between various partner agencies.
Over the past few years, the need for collaborative partnership for a wide range of national / international experiences and best practices and taking these discussions to a more practical level has been discussed among various members of the international networks. Following informal discussions between a few key members, ILO undertook to develop the Policy Paper and a South-South Learning Package with the idea of allowing the solution developers (India, South Africa and Ethiopia) to showcase their public employment programmes for the benefit of other countries currently in the process of designing their own public employment programmes - contributing to south-south capacity development and focusing on the particularities of each country. The Innovations in Public Employment Programmes (IPEP) places full and productive employment and decent work at the centre of economic and social policies which are most adequate for each country, also pursuing to strengthen partnerships with relevant national experts / practitioners in this field and expanding dialogue with relevant international organizations and development banks to facilitate their implementation.
- Details on the workshop can be obtained here.


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|Total population
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|Peru, Brazil
The Asháninka or Asháninca (also known by the exonym "Campa" or "Kampa", which is considered derogatory[1]) are an indigenous people living in the rainforests of Peru and in the State of Acre, Brazil. Their ancestral lands are in the forests of Junín, Pasco, Huánuco and part of Ucayali in Peru.
The Asháninka (their name means: our kinsmen) are estimated between 25,000 and 45,000. Only a few hundred of these live on the Brazilian side of the border. That means that among the 300,000 native people from 65 different ethnic groups in the Peruvian Amazon, the Asháninka are the second largest indigenous group, the Quechua being the largest. The Ashaninka communities are scattered throughout the central rainforests of Peru in the Provinces of Junin, Pasco, Huanuco and a part of Ucayali, and the state of Acre in Brazil. After Brazil and New Guinea, Peru is believed to have the highest number of uncontacted tribes in the world.[2]
See: Asháninka language.
The Asháninka are mostly dependent on subsistence agriculture. They use the slash-and-burn method to clear lands and to plant yucca roots, sweet potato, corn, bananas, rice, coffee, cacao and sugar cane in biodiversity-friendly techniques. They live from hunting and fishing, primarily using bows and arrows or spears, as well as from collecting fruit and vegetables in the jungle.
The Asháninka were known by the Incas as Anti or Campa. The Antis, who gave their name to the Inca province of Antisuyu, were notorious for their fierce independence,[3] and their warlike skills in successfully protecting their land and culture against intrusion from outsiders.
Ashanínka tribal societies have faced overwhelming obstacles in disputes over territory and culture against the immigrating Spanish culture and neighboring tribal societies culture. Among 12,000 – 17,000 BP the first official tribal settlers, hunters, and foragers following the post-glacial climate change settled into the Peruvian section of the Tropical Andes.[4] The Tropical Andes is one of the three major Biodiversity Hotspots in the entire Peruvian Amazon. "Until about 10,000 years ago everyone in South America apparently lived by hunting, fishing, and collecting wild foods in a continent-wide tribal world."[4] Biodiversity is the establishment of the Ashanínka way of life, so they treat this biodiversity hotspot as their 'natural capital.'[4] In AD 1542 the European invasion began breaking apart native Amazonian cultures like the Ashanínka, and the Matsigenka tribal societies. The invasion of the Europeans caused a mass destruction of numerous tribal societies cultures since they did not have natural immunity to the foreign illnesses brought along with the Europeans. The European settlers pushed to overtake the natural territories of the Ashanínka due to the "vast aquatic river system as well as large areas of savanna or scrublands."[4] This invasion of foreigners caused chaos for a short amount of time, forced migrations from the traditional ashaninka territories to new ones, eventually some ashaninka people reached Brazil. Repeated encroachments on their lands have long threatened the survival of the Ashanínka as a people. Yet theirs is a history of resistance, and despite their suffering, this recent victory[which?] demonstrates that they are still opposing the many external forces that threaten them.
In more relevance to today's time in 1752 Ashanínka, their former indigenous inhabitants had reclaimed Amuesha and Piro territories.[5] The Gran Pajonal region now remained beyond the reach of colonial and republican state presence until the 1868 establishment of the city of La Merced, which marked the eventual incorporation of the region into the national and global economies.[5] In the most relevant time frame of historical events for the Ashanínka, between the 1980s and 2000s, the Ashanínka home is in the Peruvian section of the Tropical Andes are now swathed by newly created national parks, protected areas, and communal reserve juxtaposing to a biodiversity hotspot or their "natural capital". "In 2003, the Ashanínka of the Ene River valley in Peru were granted Communal Reserve rights to a portion of their ancestral lands, in the form of Otishi National Park. In June 2010, however, the Brazilian and Peruvian governments signed an energy agreement that allows Brazilian companies to build a series of large dams in the Brazilian, Peruvian, and Bolivian Amazon."[5] The problem with the 2,000-megawatt Pakitzapango Dam is that it has a permanent location that is proposed to be located in the heart of Peru's Ene valley could displace as many as 10,000 Ashanínka. These encroaching problems have not only extremely changed the generational culture of the Ashanínka tribal societies, but has also changed landscape of what we call modern-day Peru.
Traditional dress[edit]
They are of fine physique and generally good-looking. Their dress is a robe with holes for the head and arms. Their long hair hangs down over the shoulders, and round their necks a toucan beak or a bunch of feathers is worn as an ornament.
The Asháninka traditional dress, commonly known as a kushma (a word from Quechua), is a robe made from cotton that is collected, spun, dyed and woven by women on looms. Typically the robes are dyed either brown or a bright royal blue. The shoulders of the garments are ornamented with seeds. A full length robe can take up to three months to complete.
Traditionally, women wear their hair long, and over the shoulder, While typically men wear their hair short or in "bowl" cuts below the ear. Around their necks they wear a large variety of necklaces and bracelets made with seeds, the teeth of tapir, peccary and monkeys, and brightly colored feathers.
Traditionally the Asháninka men, women and children paint their faces in a variety of designs using the bright red crushed seeds of Achiote (Bixa orellana) (annatto) fruits. For ceremonial purposes, the men also wear woven circles of palm leaves decorated with feathers on their heads, and the women wear a woven cotton head dress.
It is increasingly common to see Asháninka—men more than women—wearing castoff western clothes, particularly in areas where western Christian missionaries have been able to exert influence.
The Asháninka are known historically to be fiercely independent, and were noted for their "bravery and independence" by the Spanish conquistadors. During the rubber boom (1839–1913), the Asháninka were enslaved by rubber tappers and an estimated 80% of the Asháninka population was killed.
For over a century, there has been encroachment onto Asháninka land from rubber tappers, loggers, Maoist guerrillas, drug traffickers, colonisers, and oil companies. For much of their history, they resisted acculturation and outside influence. Since the 1950s, Asháninka territories have been reduced and their settlements have been systematically destroyed, resulting in a retreat by Asháninka people into the jungle. Some Asháninka fled to Brazil, and now a small community of 600 or so have land rights in the state of Acre.
During the 1980s and 1990s, internal conflict in Peru caused massive displacement, disappearance, and death among the Asháninka communities located in the Ene, Tambo and Perene valleys in the Vilcabamba Mountain range. In this period Ashaninka chacres (garden plots) were burned, Asháninka legal papers were destroyed, some Asháninka were forced on pain of death to join the Shining Path, and others were enslaved. Many fled into the interior and others gathered in the thousands in small areas for protection. Because Asháninka communities are usually very small, this caused great disturbance. They could neither hunt nor fish effectively due to the danger posed by armed groups in the forest, thus malnutrition became increasingly threatening. According to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 10,000 Asháninka were displaced, 6,000 Asháninka died, and 5,000 Asháninka were taken captive by the Shining Path during this time, and thirty to forty Asháninka communities disappeared.
Malaria is on the rise in Asháninka communities due to logging and the illegal clearing of tracts of lands by loggers and colonists, as are other diseases brought in by "outsiders".
In the mid-2000s, the Asháninka gained legal title to a portion of their lands which they had mapped using GPS technology; these lands are now a National Park and a Reserved Zone, Otishi National Park. To date most Asháninka have returned to their ancestral lands, some from as far afield as the Urubamba river. The Asháninka are involved in new capacity building projects and projects that seek to support the Asháninka in their quest to record, maintain and strengthen their culture for future generations and address the problems and threats from the "outside".
Current threats (either directly or indirectly) are from oil companies, drug traffickers, colonists, illegal lumberers, illegal roads, conservation groups, missionary groups, and diseases brought by outsiders. Roads are being built into the forest to extract mahogany and cedar trees for export to markets in the United States and Europe despite an international embargo.
Religious missionary groups are intent on changing Asháninka culture and belief systems, and some other groups who are exploiting problems within the communities became worse as a direct result of the violent upheavals of the communities over a decade ago. Some Conservation programs in the area have also been less than fair to the Asháninka in their move to create Conservation zones in this "important ecologically diverse area", choosing plants and animals over the Indigenous rights, and it remains to be seen if this will pose a threat to their lives and land in the future.
Other Asháninka have moved further into the interior, choosing voluntary isolation rather than have any more contact with the world beyond their lands.
See also[edit]
- Mariano Gagnon, and the Asháninka of Cutivereni, Peru
|This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. (May 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
- ^ Jeremy Narby, The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, London, Phoenix, 1999, pp. 25, 169
- ^ " 'Uncontacted' Tribes Fled Peru Logging, Arrows Suggest", National Geographic News, 6 Oct 2008.
- ^ a b This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Anti". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ a b c d Bodley, John (1994). Cultural Anthropology. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield. pp. 1–75.
- ^ a b c Bartholomew, Dean. "Salt of the Mountain:Campa Ashaninka History and Resistance in the Peruvian Jungle". University of Kansas. Retrieved 27 Sep 2013.
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
- Gagnon, O.F.M., Friar Mariano, with Hoffer, William and Marilyn. (1993). Warriors in Eden. New York: William Morrow and Company. ISBN 0-688-11796-1.
- Narby, Jeremy. (1999). The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. London: Phoenix. ISBN 9780753808511
- Solís Fonseca, Gustavo. (2003). Lenguas en la amazonía peruana. Lima: edición por demanda.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Asháninka.
- Photographs and video
- Asháninka Photo Essay
- Asháninka Photo Gallery
- Brazilian Foundation teaching Video to Indigenous people – Includes award winning videos from the Asháninka of Brazil
- The Ashaninka Photography Project – photography as a tool for education and conservation
- Subjects
- Asociacion Cutivireni working with the Asháninka for nearly two decades
- Project collaboration with the Ashaninka
- The Truth & Reconciliation Commission 2.8. LOS PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS Y EL CASO DE LOS ASHÁNINKAS P.24
- Asociacion Central Ashaninka del Rio Ene
- Asháninka art, National Museum of the American Indian
- Related topics

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typedef std::map<std::string,std::string> StringMap;
Later I create a function template declared as:
template<typename K, typename V> void function_name(std::map<K,V> *map_object);
I go to use the function_name as so:
The compiler complains with:
error: no matching function for call to 'function_name(StringMap*)'
When I supply both types to the template arguments (std::string,std::string) in this case, everything is fine. I would have thought that the compiler might be able to infer that StringMap = std::string,std::string but it looks like I'm wrong.
Is this mainly because the compiler cannot mismatch on number of type arguments supplied in a template?
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On 16 Nov 09 Elizabeth Langsdorf, age 48,
1695 State Route 260, New Matamoras, reported her seventy year
old mother lives in a trailer near her property and at some
point in the past two weeks $24 and an unknown quantity of
medication from her mother's residence. This case remains
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On 16 Nov 09 Alexander Goodman, age 18, 100
Holly Street, Marietta, reported at lunch when he checked on
his Chevy S-10 in the parking lot of the Career Center he noticed
a puddle of oil underneath the vehicle. Further checking revealed
the oil plug, which was tightened when maintenance was performed
on the vehicle, was loose and could be turned by hand. This
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Philip Gene Covey, age 32, 26934 State Route
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possession of drug paraphernalia, all misdemeanors. Covey was
arrested on Harmar Street by Patrolman Newell of the Marietta
City Police Department and processed into the Washington County
Jail on 16 Nov 09 at 1:25 am.
Michael Thomas Powell, age 21, 1710 Park Street,
Parkersburg, for a felony charge of aggravated burglary and
for four counts of felonious assault. Powell was picked up
at the North Central Regional Jail by Deputy Sheriff Malone
and processed into the Washington County Jail on 16 Nov 09
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Benjamin Kent Roberts, age 44, 7 Lawnsdale View, Vienna, for
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Ohio State Highway Patrol and processed into the Washington
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Caleb Josiah Jones, age 20, 4714 Sixth Avenue, Vienna, for
violating the terms of his probation, a misdemeanor. Jones
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The largest construction project in Sooke is now in receivership.
Mariner's Village came with high hopes; to transform Sooke and its waterfront.
Now the project's future is unclear.
"Really, the biggest selling feature is these gorgeous views."
In this video from 2011, developer Mike Barrie shows off a condo still under construction in Phase One of the three stage project.
He's the second Barrie to enter high level development on the south island.
His brother, Len Barrie, spearheaded the Bear Mountain development.
It fell into bankruptcy, taken over by the bank, resulting in losses of more than 100-million dollars to investors and creditors.
Gerald and Lois Meyer love their condo, moving here just 18 months ago from Medicine Hat.
"When we moved here a year ago, I said this is our forever home.
I don't want to move again.
All I wanted was water and trees."
But Mariner's Village development is now in debt to the tune of more than 20-million dollars.
As a result, a court-ordered receiver issued eviction notices to the Meyers and other renters as it attempts to restructure financing and sell all 27-unsold units .
Chris Bowra of The Bowra Group says a number of the units need to be repaired before they can be sold.
"In order to clean up the units and market them and realize as much as we can on them.
It's best to have the units vacated and in the most presentable state possible."
That leaves Meyers scrambling to find something over Christmas, and something affordable.
"It's a bit tough.
We'll be OK.
We'll find something and settle into it.
Be OK."
"That move from Medicine Hat a year and a half ago was really hard on us.
I said I never want to see another moving box again.
Here we go again, right?"
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This is the official title and once I checked it wasn't retina display, I had to return and I contacted their customer service right away, meanwhile the order is still processing, it's out of stock, they only answered next day and explained that 2 hour window to return it was expired(which is bullshit, was never noted on original listing) and even though it was still processing I had to get this order and return back later on, there was no other way around. I know they are famous for their negligance to their customers, I'm talking about delayed shippings, refunds,crappy services advertised, but this is just unbelievable, they basically telling me that black is white and white is black. I just disputed that transaction with my credit card and trying to get my money back.
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49ers vs Seahawks Line 2013 NFL Week 2
Playing in the same division always creates a rivalry between teams, but the growing animosity between the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seattle exceeds even divisional bounds. A great deal of current friction has to do with head coaches Jim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll, who never really got along when they were roaming the sidelines of Stanford and USC, respectively. And, of course, both squads are really good, which means they are fighting for all the same things. Thankfully fans will not have to wait long for these two juggernauts to butt heads on the gridiron as they are scheduled to meet at CenturyLink Field in Seattle on Sunday, September 15th. Sportsbook.ag has made the 2013 NFL Week 2 clash one of its NFL Games of the Year; the early 49ers vs Seahawks line at the offshore bookmaker has Seattle listed as a -2.5 against the spread home favorite.
San Francisco registered its second consecutive division title last year, but it did so by the skin of its teeth. The Niners finished up the year with an 11-4-1 record, giving them a half game edge on the Seahawks, who tallied 11 wins and five losses. The difference proved to be a week ten 24-24 tie between San Francisco and St. Louis as the 49ers and Seahawks split their two head to head meetings.
San Francisco won its fourth straight game over Seattle in week seven, beating the Seahawks 13-6 at Candlestick Park. The Niners defense limited Russell Wilson and company to 13 first downs and 251 total yards in the win. The Seahawks exacted some revenge in the second meeting between the two teams, though.
Seattle pounded San Francisco 42-13 when the two rivals hooked up at CenturyLink Field, forcing two turnovers (scored on a blocked field goal) and rushing for 176 yards on 39 carries. Wilson also out-dueled his San Francisco counterpart, Colin Kaepernick, in the lopsided affair, completing 15-of-21 passes for 171 yards and four touchdowns (115.3 passer rating).
While the Niners are favored to win the NFC West (+100 odds) and the 2014 NFC Championship (+350 odds), they are not favored in Seattle, and for good reason. The Seahawks are 10-1 in their last 11 home games, and they were a perfect 8-0 at CenturyLink Field last season, beating visiting opposition by an average of 18.5 points per game.
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June 1, 2007 By Indrajit Basu, International Correspondent
The fact that Djurslands.net is considered one of the biggest -- if not the biggest -- non-commercial rural wireless Internet network in the world is not its most notable feature. Neither is the fact that it runs at about a third of the cost it takes to run a similar project in the urban areas. Nor is the fact that it is run solely by volunteers in the several hundred villages across Djursland. No, by far the most interesting feature of this rural wireless project in Djursland (a region in the middle of Denmark) is its volunteers' fierce passion to share their experience and knowledge. They sincerely want to us "good old Wi-Fi" to form more self-help groups so that all the rural districts around the world can build their own wireless network and bridge the growing digital divide.
"Cities are an exception on earth," says Bjarke Nielsen, the maverick founder of this project who remains the main driving force of what many are now calling a movement. "Most of the surface of the earth is rural districts. And among the things they have in common is that it is often too expensive to deploy enough broadband infrastructure coverage so that everyone living on Earth can be part of the global ICT society. Thus the divide between life in cities and countryside is widening with catastrophic ramifications."
To believe that market forces -- commercial telecom companies -- will expand to bridge a digital divide of this magnitude would be sheer naivety. Amongst many other things then, adds Neilsen, DjurslandS.net most importantly serves as a showcase of how all local societies in rural or poor areas around the world can establishment of their own free (or cheap) high-speed wireless community network to access the global information society.
To this end Nielsen and his team of volunteers have also set up the Djursland International Institute of Rural Wireless Broadband" (DIIRWB) that teaches the lessons learned during the establishing, building and running of the DjurslandS.net -- what he describes as all the pre-requisites lessons for success for a rural wireless community network.
The significance of Djurslands.Net as a project is only fully understood with some inkling of the topography of area. Djursland is a rural countryside in Jutland, the western mainland of Denmark, a peninsula which is connected to the continent in the south. Djursland is about 40 miles long and 30 miles wide, but as the peninsula is surrounded by ocean towards north, east and south, Djursland is a lot of water and just 600 square miles of land.
In terms of deploying Wi-Fi, its biggest problem is the sparseness of its population. Compared to the density of about 320 residents per square miles in the rest of Denmark, Djursland's has just about 82000 residents living in about 36000 households -- a density of about 143 people per square mile.
This sparseness of population, says Nielsen, makes this region attractive and difficult for commercial telecom operators to provide broadband connectivity. For instance Tele Denmark Company (TDC), the only telecom company that owns copper-line infrastructure in that country, can connect 95% of all households (with a 2-megabit ADSL broadband access) through just 1600 central hubs. But if TDC were to give the same connectivity to Djursland residents -- who constitute the remaining 5% of Denmark's population -- the company would have to install another 4600 ADSL centrals.
"Consequently," says Nielsen. "The economy of this region was facing collective collapse. And to reverse this situation we really needed a functional, self-sufficient IT-society. And that's how DjurslandS.net was born."
DjurslandS.net is based on an Internet connected optical fiber ring all around Djursland, bandwidth rented from commercial Internet Service Providers. Each of the now ten community networks on Djursland has access to this optical fiber ring in their biggest village, but as a cabled
What a wonderful incentive and action. Congratulations. Would it be possible to be put in contact with Bjarke Nielsen?
What a wonderful incentive and action. Congratulations. Would it be possible to be put in contact with Bjarke Nielsen?


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Archive for May 23, 2011
Who is Rachel Maddow?
Heard on the Rachel Maddow show tonight:
Maddow: I "couldn't be happier" that Michael Steele signed on to MSNBC today.
Rachel: Do you think adding yet another wingnut to our pundotocracy is a good thing?
Are you bought?
David Sirota — Ratings Whore?
Hey, believe me, I love progressive radio — love, love it, listen to it all day — but when something like this happens I can't help but be suspicious:
On Thursday, May 19, AM760 (Denver) "progressive radio talk" show host David Sirota — a very popular guy around here and a rising star — sent out this Tweet:
On Friday, May 20 he upped the tease:
At roughly 8:06 AM today Sirota said he'd make the announcement in a minute or two. Come 8:25-ish, Sirota said he had to put the announcement off until tomorrow but sorry, sorry, sorry.
David Sirota is 36-years-old; old enough to know that when you say you're going to make an announcement ah, you make it. Especially when you give two day's notice.
But no.
So I can't help but wonder — and be suspicious — as to what's going on.
Has David Sirota sold his $oul to the rating$ god$?
My Thoughts Are With the People of Joplin, Missouri
116 dead (and counting) due to the tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri yesterday.
Judging from the video I've seen, the destruction is horrific.
What a terrifying event.
My thoughts are with you.
Darling Little Chicks
Break time!
Checkout this video of three darling little chicks squabbling over a worm:
Man. They can move.
I hope the woman who filmed this cut the worm in three pieces and gave one to each of those little gaffers.
Sarah Palin's "Prayer Shield"
This would be Sarah Palin on Greta Van Sustern's show on Fox last Thursday:
And I'm at that point of saying, yes, you know, whatever. It's going to keep on coming, and you know, I feel like I have a prayer shield in front of me that deflects a lot of that. I just want to make sure that for my loved ones, for my parents, for my spouse and my children and those close to me, that they have that tool to deflect also so that they're not adversely affected.
Shorter: I keep saying incoherent, ignorant things and waaaaaaah, the media hurts my feewings and my family's feewings when they call me on it. Not that I'm a crybaby or a professional victim or anything.
Hey, Let's Privatize Everything
Check out how defense spending has skyrocketed since 2001 when Donald Rumsfeld began moving defense contracts to the "more efficient" private sector:
Michael Steele Joins MSNBC
Michael Steele, the outspoken and unguarded former Republican National Committee chairman, has inked a deal for the job he was born for: talking head on cable news.
MSNBC announced Monday morning in POLITICO's Playbook that Steele will join the network as a political analyst, contributing regularly to its programming.


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Ticket #7801 (closed Bugs: fixed)
Access violation using edge function and stored_ra_edge_iter
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|Geoff Hammerle <geoff.hammerle@…>
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|Boost 1.52.0
I declare an adjacency_list as follows:
struct MYvecS { }; template <class ValueType> struct container_gen<MYvecS, ValueType> { typedef std::vector < ValueType, MyAllocator< ValueType > > type; }; template <> struct parallel_edge_traits<MYvecS> { typedef allow_parallel_edge_tag type; }; namespace detail { // allow random access to NXvecS stored elements template <> struct is_random_access<MYvecS> { enum { value = true }; typedef mpl::true_ type; }; }
typedef boost::adjacency_list < MYvecS, MYvecS, boost::undirectedS, MYVertexType, MYEdgeType, no_property, MYvecS > MyGraphType;
I begin populating the graph with vertices and edges. If I use the edge function, passing in two valid vertices that are in the graph, the call to StoredEdge?(v) crashes.
Referencing lines 312 thru 314 of detail\adjacency_list.hpp, you'll see that when a single argument is passed to this method, the other two arguments assume default values. In this case edge_vec = 0 and during this method call, it dereferences edge_vec which is set to NULL, and hence the access violation.
Change History
comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by jewillco
Does the implementation of edge_range that's there work with your allocator? If so, I'll change edge to match that implementation.
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by jewillco
(In [82052]) Trying to fix defaults for StoredEdge?; refs #7801
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by Geoff Hammerle <geoff.hammerle@…>
I don't think I can use the edge_range because my container for the edges is not associative. I get the error:
container_traits.hpp(550): error C2664: 'boost::graph_detail::equal_range_dispatch' : cannot convert parameter 3 from 'boost::graph_detail::vector_tag' to 'boost::graph_detail::associative_container_tag'
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by jewillco
Does the version of edge currently in the trunk work for you?
comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by Geoff Hammerle <geoff.hammerle@…>
Initial testing of the trunk version works for me just fine. I will do more extensive testing and report here either way success or failure.


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Installed once, never driven on.
Imported from Europe
PM me plz
$500 CDN + shipping
Installed once, never driven on.
Imported from Europe
PM me plz
$500 CDN + shipping
Just the last part I need to finish and can not find anyone that can help come up with one?
Just like the title says I need the bushings or the part number so I can order them. I can barely read the part number on the bushing that I already have.
hi all i have a complete new dutchbuild rear beam kit
not using as ended up using the complete audi quattro rear subframe
cost me 265 euros plus shipping ($354.00)
$150.00 for 02m gearbox mount
$280.00 for Above haldex rear mount kit
Prices in US Dollars
$48.00 to ship both parts by FEDEX to Canada
$60.00 to ship both parts by FEDEX to USA
please contact for further details
i also have a
golf rallye rear beam
mk3 syncro rear beam
wishbones for above beams
sway bar
rear beam either
$314.00 for beam
$110.62 shipping by FEDEX
rear wishbones been shot blasted and painted ready for new bearings
$360.00 for pair
$79.44 shipping by FEDEX
i can always weld the dutchbuild mount to rear beam for a price as i have the jig
from when i was going to do mine
and be bit cheaper on shipping
please contact for details
many thanks
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Shot in the dark..but I am looking for mk2/mk3 rear crossmember, gas tank, potentially floorpan.
hi i have new vw rallye intank sender and pump and vw rallye petrol tank
also tried to send you pm but your inbox is full thanks
I have the trans but it did not come with the differential. Please Im me a price.
I have a full parts car, nothing pulled 2000 Audi A6 2.8 30v Quattro.
Asking 1900.00, car has brand new ST Coilovers, Tires, Brakes, ETC....
WTB REAR SYNCRO SUNSENSION and fuel tank TO SWAP ON MY GOLF MK3 ANY SELLERS PLEASE SEND EMAIL email@example.com directly to my phone
looking for a passat/golf viscous coupler. anyone parting anything?
looking for a golf syncro or rallye gas tank!!! one that doesnt leak lol
IM ME if u have one!!
Syncro rear differential for sale. $100 plus shipping from Saskatchewan Canada.
Not mine, Syncro Wagon, no engine, I just hate to see it crushed...
Last edited by lowburb; 10-12-2012 at 10:49 PM. Reason: updated link
Looking for the rear syncro brake carriers, if you have some just I'm me what you are looking to get for them
Got them thanks VRT
Last edited by raddo; 10-09-2012 at 08:22 PM.
looking for a set of body mounting brackets for the rear end, off of a golf ... or something I can use on a golf MK3
Last edited by eatsVetspoopsCivics; 10-05-2012 at 12:17 AM.
Looking to buy a complete swap. I would also like a floor pan and fuel tank.
All will be going into a MK3 Golf.
Cleary Coachworks
I hate red cars
I also am looking for an mk3 rear floor pan and fuel tank for a golf
hello everybody, i am looking for rear driveshaft for mk2 haldex swap.


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The employees of Aadhaar enrolment went on strike after not receiving any payment for the past 3 months in Ghumarwin, Himachal Pradesh. After not getting the salary and false promises of company the employees completely halt the work by locking out at the Ghumarwin office. They announced that they will keep the work at halt until they get paid their full salary. This resulted in trouble for dozens of people who came for enrolment.
The employees said that they have not got any payment from the last 3 months because f which they are finding themselves in serious difficulty. They said that they were told on 10th January 2013 that they would be paid by 15th January 2013 but even after 1 month they have not received any payment as a result of which they will continue their strike until they are paid all their money. While the people who came there for Aadhar card enrolment said that they have left their work for this but even after so much wastage of time and money, they cannot enrol for Aadhar card. On the other hand, Naveen Kumar, State Head, UID Company said that employees have gone on strike on their will. He had assured that the employees will be paid by 10th February 2013 but they began the strike before that. The work will begin soon after paying the employees.


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Station Wagon Interior Redo
I have a 1964 Pontiac Safari Station Wagon. I am almost finished with all of the mechanical rebuilding, at least that I will be doing at this time.
I am getting ready for the interior. I pulled the carpet out, something must have died in there. It smelled so bad and the padding and glue underneath smelled even worse. I got it pretty cleaned up and will probably be laying down some Dynamat. I really want the sound levels down as this is my wife's car and our kids hate loud noises.
First questions begin with carpets.
I know a couple of places that I can order replacement molded carpet, but the colors are limited. I bring that up because the color doesn't match the darker blue of our interior, but the lighter blue which we want to get rid of.
Second, the transmission hump will be shaped a little differently because we had to cut it out to fit the new transmission in. I will be welding the hole shut. But the hump will be a bit larger. Will this drastically affect the carpet install? I imagine it will. I plan on getting cut pile and not looped if that makes any difference.
Now onto seats. I have looked at a ton of seats on the net with my wife. We finally settled on the looks of the one Dan has done. They are the seats in the car that he did the door panel tutorial, only we want that lighter blue to be a repeat of the darker blue.
This is our current front bench. She hates that light blue and the missing foam dips so much she had to stack pillows to see. Currently the back of the seat connects all the way down. I want to actually have this separate to allow seat belts to move through easier. I have kids and I know stuff will get stuck down there. Hopefully, this is possible.
The rear seat did not have foam underneath only cotton. Would this be a problem in putting foam in? I will have pictures of the rear seat later.
As far as material I like the look of the Spradling Reflex Sapphire. I know Dan mentioned in the Door Panel Tutorial that he was using UltraLeather? I hope that is right. The only price I saw for Reflex was 26.79 yd. I will probably keep looking. I don't know that I want to spend that much on material that I may need to buy a lot extra of.
For sewing I found a local Consew 206 for $475 with a table. It is a silver one , but the pulleys are white. Every picture I found of the 206 in silver had black pulleys. It is supposedly working. Is that a good deal and will I be able to resell it for a similar price if I completely fail at the interior?
Next the door panel.
There is water damage to the board underneath. I will definitely be using the door panel tutorial, but the design will be a little different than original. I wont be using that silver material or the light blue. I will be using the colors that I will use on the seats. A dark blue and white. I might have to look for some chrome trim that I can accent the door with. Just a strip of it or something. A lot of thinking to do.
This will all be a new experience for me. I appreciate any corrections or advice on any part of the process I am all ears.
There are a couple of reasons why I am choosing to do the interior myself.
1) Time and Attitude
I have called a lot of local places for interior and most seemed uninterested in working on an old car. The earliest any shop would be able to even look at the car would be 3 weeks. I don't really want to convince someone to take my business.
2) Money
The best I can gather is that the seats will cost around $350 each, on the low end and $150 for the door panels each. I have a third row.
3) Trust
I have little trust for people right now. I was taken advantage of on mechanical work and I had to redo things that were supposedly done. I have decided that I will be doing anything I have the ability to on my car.
Sorry for this long post, but I wanted to post as much info as I could think of for this project. I have been searching through this forum a lot and I will be saving some links to sites for different materials.
Thanks everyone.
The only real questions I got out of your post are about the carpet and padding the seats. Padding the seats with foam is a better way to go. The only thing to keep in mind is that whatever thickness the old seat had duplicate that thickness with the deck pad and foam. Here's a link to a thread that will help you with that. Re-padding an old car seat.
The carpet will be best done by fitting the transmission tunnel with a separate piece of carpet and then laying other carpet on either side of the tunnel.
No one lives forever, the trick is creating something that will.
Dan thanks for your quick reply. Great link.
You mention that you use "laminated deck skin", which seems to be a generic product.
I did a search for it and the only real results point back to posts on this site. Would JoAnn's carry something comparable? Or is there a way a DIYer could get their hands on it. I notice you were willing to sell it to another member. How much does that stuff run?
Also, I just looked up Ultraleather and found its price at $60 yd. Wow. I wont be swinging that this time around.
Any recommendations on something more in the price range of $20 yd or is that ridiculous?
When you talk about fitting the tunnel of the transmission with a separate piece of carpet, will it be overlapping the side pieces or will I need to match them up so there is no seam? Would I be purchasing the molded carpet and cutting out the tunnel or is this something I will have to do from scratch?
I can sell you a piece of the laminated deck skin for $1.00 a foot. $6.00 for six feet, plus shipping. Send me a PM with your address.
Check out this place on line for marine or automotive vinyl: "BoltaSoft" Automotive Vinyls any of these vinyls or any of their marine vinyls will work for you.
As far as the carpet goes, you would need to buy cut yardage to do the floor, not a molded carpet. Check out this place, they supply everybody else, so you'll avoid the middle man. Their web site is very confusing, so call them to place an order: Auto Custom Carpets, Inc - Search They have midnight blue cut pile if that's what you want.
No one lives forever, the trick is creating something that will.
Okay, a lot more research. I am going to be buying some of the sample cards from "Your Auto Trim."
I have narrowed it down to 4 cards I would like to sample. I will tell you which ones and if you know of any issues with them I would love to know too.
Monticello, Corinthian, and All Star. The All-Star one is labeled as Contract Vinyl. Does that make a huge difference? Lastly, I saw one titled Symphony Classic. I don't think it is a BoltaFlex brand though. Have you used this before?
I called ACC. $29.73 / yd for Cut Pile and $47.55 / yd for Essex (extra plush cut pile). These come in 72" wide. I need to call back. I forgot to ask about the backing and pad that goes underneath. Is there a benefit to the "mass back" if I am going to use Dynamat?
Sorry for posting all of that info, but just in case someone is interested in prices as well they wont have to ask.
Regarding the laminated deck skin. What is the width of that product? I measured around 55" wide on those seats. Except for the rear. I notice you say that it isn't necessary to use on the back of the seat, but would that be acceptable? If it was at least 55-56" wide, then I would need approximately 12 feet. 20" approximate depth on the seats and slightly more on the back, but I don't have the back of a seat open yet. That should leave me a little extra to spare.
Lastly, when you mention trying to duplicate the depth of your old material, how is this done when it seems that the old material is compressed? On the cotton pad ( no foam on the rear seat) I got about 1 1/4". (even though the picture looks like a lot more.
Even more lastly, is the $475 a good price for a working Consew 206? I have to drive a bit to get it.
Yes, the price for the Consew 206 is fair if it's in decent shape, has a motor, and comes with a table.
Any of the Boltaflex vinyls would be fine, but I'd steer clear of the contract vinyl, it's going to be really stiff and harder to work with. Symphony is a very nice vinyl, but has a flat finish to it. Did you mean All Sport? All Sport is a 4 way stretch vinyl that I wouldn't use for car seats.
If you use the deck skin, that's about 1/2" thick and then used 1" firm foam over the deck skin you would have what it was before. Deck skin comes 24" wide and as long as you want. 24" should cover the seat frame from front to back.
As far as the carpet goes, I'd go with the thinnest backing they have so it will form easily for you, and use good padding over the Dynamat.
No one lives forever, the trick is creating something that will.
Thanks I will steer clear of contract vinyl.
All Star "Imperial Blue"
That is a link to the All-Star line from BoltaFlex. It says Marine and Contract at the top, but if you read the description it doesn't mention marine. Just that it is part of their contract vinyl line. Good to know.
Also, I saw a post of yours earlier regarding 4 way stretch and I am trying to avoid it. But I don't see where it mentions stretch.
That is contract vinyl, and Symphony has a pebble grain to it just like that and is softer and easier to work with. Symphony is probably more expensive, though.
No one lives forever, the trick is creating something that will.
Thanks Dan. My wife thinks the Symphony might look too busy with the texture. I will still get a sample card because you never know until you see it in person.
The Consew 206 might not be available anymore. I was going to get it today, but the guy notified me that someone would be looking at it last night.
I found a Consew 200 which the guy says is walking foot, forward reverse, and auto oiler. This is with a table and motor for 195.00 obo. Is that machine satisfactory and at that price?
I will probably be posting machine inquiries until I can get my hands on one.
Never heard of a 200, there is a 201 that I know of. The 201 is a walking foot with reverse, but it is very old. I don't know if the machine would be worth buying or not.
No one lives forever, the trick is creating something that will.
Thanks. I will stay away from that one then. Geez, it is a pain trying to find an affordable sewing machine. A lot of people want close to new pricing on their machines. But as they say pick two:
I need 1 and 3, which means patience.
I got the material samples in the mail today.
After looking at the colors in person I am leaning towards the Spradling Whisper series.
I would have gone with Symphony, but their blues aren't the right tones. I am going to try and hold them up to the car paint just to double check.
My dad is saying that I shouldn't use white on the seats, because I will be cleaning it all the time. Aren't these materials very stain resistant? They kept telling me that my sister had a lighter color material and her blue jeans kept staining the seats.
I want to try to order the material today so that I can get started soon.
Color choices either Whisper Cerulean or Navy and Whisper Brilliant White.
Brilliant white is not a good choice for the interior of a daily driver. I would recommend a lighter blue, lighter gray, or an off white to go along with the Navy. Whisper is a very good vinyl, but there is no light gray, light blue, or off white to choose from.
No one lives forever, the trick is creating something that will.
The material is stain resistant but the white shows dirt so you will be cleaning a lot..
I have tried most all of it and now do what is known to work..
Thanks for the tip guys. I will be avoiding white.
I am not really a fan of the blue with any of the greys. I might just do a Dark Grey and Light Gray or something. Would that clash with the dark blue paint of the car?
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The concrete dam that created Dix Reservoir in Barre, Vt., was constructed in 1950. Over decades of service, erosion and deterioration became increasingly apparent on the dam's spillway and training walls. Water began seeping through fine cracks and other damaged areas. In 1978, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers first conducted a condition survey of the training walls and spillway, they discovered a loss of concrete section and exposed reinforcing steel.
Years later, in conjunction with the building of a new water filtration plant in 1995, the city set out to repair and resurface the spillway and training walls. As city engineer and director of public works, I was tasked with hiring an engineering consultant to design and specify the repairs, and to oversee and inspect the construction. Unfortunately, we hired a consultant who had limited experience and expertise with the specific materials planned for this project. As a result, we paid for a generally ineffective repair project and endured a lengthy process to reach a financial settlement. Along the way, however, we learned valuable lessons about hiring a consultant, ensuring quality construction, and repairing concrete.
The original repair design called for removing the outer 4 inches of concrete from the spillway and training walls, then cleaning out and pressure-grouting visible cracks. The contract called for the application of a bonding agent to the sealed surface of existing concrete, and the installation of horizontal and vertical steel reinforcing bars spaced at about 16 inches. The spillway and training walls were then to be refaced with a shotcrete overlay approximately 4 inches thick. The shotcrete specifications called for a prebagged concrete mix, which would be applied in layers to reach the desired thickness. A natural gun finish was specified for the shotcrete overlay.
Within days of shotcrete application, new seepage was noticeable on the surface. The contractor suggested and tried a series of remedies, but without success. At one point, for example, a number of weep holes were drilled through the shotcrete layer in an effort to help direct water out.
By August 1995, when the shotcrete project was substantially complete, various defects were visible in the overlay. These included surface cracks in a pattern that followed the location of reinforcement, discoloration at the cracks, and water leakage through the cracks. The overlay's condition continued to deteriorate over the next four years, as the city, design engineer, and contractor disputed the causes of and liability for the problems.
Finally, in July 1999, the city retained Skokie, Ill.-based Construction Technology Laboratories Inc. (now CTLGroup), to conduct a new investigation. The firm is known nationally for its technical knowledge of concrete and its breadth of services, encompassing structural engineering, field inspection, and materials testing on-site and in the laboratory.
Document Review
The investigation began with a review of pertinent documents, including the contract specifications and correspondence between the city, design engineer, and contractors involved with the overlay. This review alerted the investigators to several problems:
Field Inspection
On July 22, 1999, I accompanied CTLGroup investigator Steve Gebler as he examined the training walls and spillway face. We observed several forms of distress, namely delaminations, spalls, soft surfaces, and cracks. Gebler sounded the walls with a 2-pound hammer to detect delaminations near the surface. He also used a magnetic device (pachometer) to locate and measure the concrete cover over the steel reinforcement.
Both the east and west training walls exhibited cracks, some in a gridlike pattern that generally coincided with the embedded steel reinforcement. Delaminations about 1/2 inch thick were apparent in the upper section of the west training wall. Most cracks in both training walls had calcium carbonate exuding from them, indicating that moisture traversed the cracks.
The spillway face showed considerable spalling and delamination; in some areas, there were depressions as deep as 2 inches where the shotcrete was missing. In some areas, the spillway face was soft and crumbly; in others, the shotcrete was soft beneath the delaminated surface.
Lab Testing
During the field inspection, shards of delaminated shotcrete and core samples were removed from both training walls and the spillway, then sent to CTLGroup's laboratory for examination. Test reports stated most of the core samples containing steel reinforcement had voids or porous areas behind the steel. The voids weakened the concrete section in these areas, resulting in a crack between the steel and the shotcrete surface. Movement of the soft water seeping through cracks and through porous areas of the shotcrete leached calcium from the hardened shotcrete, leaving calcite deposits at the surface adjacent to the cracks.
The report also explained that porous areas between shotcrete layers would permit movement of water that would accelerate the leaching action. It stated further that the porous areas would be especially vulnerable to freeze-thaw damage. The conclusion was that the shotcrete overlay would continue to deteriorate over the course of a shortened service life.
CTLGroup's investigation offered authoritative evidence that the overlay project's problems stemmed from a combination of factors: flawed design and material specifications, poor workmanship, and inadequate inspection and quality control during construction. The firm's work helped us reach a financial settlement with the responsible parties and reminded us how important it is to verify the competence of individuals or companies that seek to work for the city of Barre.
It also taught us more about how to recognize and obtain quality concrete repairs. When performed by experts, field inspection, nondestructive testing, petrographic examination, and other lab testing of core samples provide information that can help determine what is acceptable, what is wrong, and who is responsible for problems.
— Reg Abare is the city engineer and director of public works in Barre, Vt.


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Are you a woman who has ditched the razor in favor of hairy legs? If so, you're not alone ... and we have a club to prove it!
An online blog called The Hairy Legs Club encourages women to tell their story of when and why they stopped shaving their legs. They're also encouraged to send photos. (Yahoo)


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We tackle four topics all centered around irrelevance in Boston Sports history.
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-- And now our silicon -- swollen painful rate Fuller report or ball for. Fun game. Mean -- -- -- Our 44 brought to you by CB on your technology ally you have a business to manage wanna let's see beyond manager technology Dan what we have that well in honor of the grammys and the Pro -- It's more for a team is irrelevance. Of so we'll start with the pro -- After the completely revamp the global rules in the way the teams are chosen this year as the global suddenly become relevant your mind they did have a 2221. Final score. And it seemed to be a more exciting competitive game but did it become relevant. I don't buy the premise. The Pro Bowl as irrelevant. I watched it capital for. What a football. On Sunday when there's no other football around it's all right you see the ratings. Probably pretty pretty good at what they were okay they are actually down from where they were last year approval -- 67 overnight rating. I just to give you some perspective of what that is equates to pick -- the NBA all star game last year did a eight or 959. Rocker are baseball's post all star game this year did a 881. Of so it is sort of in between the NBA and the baseball that's not bad toward the Democrat last year is about a 77. You know I may have thrown people off a little bit the creative -- creativity. Of the NFL on the Pro Bowl may have thrown people off because. You're tuning in to watch either -- you know AFC players in NC players and you're saying. Guys on the same team. In different conferences it's a little confused so maybe it was a fund draft with the trash talking between Deion Sanders Gary right right. But the result was a lot of teams you're not really sure yeah I was thinking. I think they just got I think that it was about would have the rating would have been the same as it was plastered it -- -- -- -- -- sure enough I -- the -- I know that there's people around. Do you want to -- Grammy commentary DJ -- all over it. You know DJ has his own blog separate from WEEI dot com. Where he blogs about the grammys are great I love it I mean like I read I didn't -- any of the audience he was talking about and you -- like all these bands that I see on Saturday Night Live and passport through like -- -- watch a minute that I think is terrible about sport that's who owns the grammys but -- like. He blogs about it very seriously he's weird as the nastiest music channels which is the mirror was this old are. I like that he doesn't it's not on the cheek and all he seriously breaks down every Grammy category. So I think that -- hurt the the F I want last night an end. For me the Pro Bowl is very simple if I'm not doing anything else and it's on fine but it is a low price it is zero -- I saw Logan Mankins blocking for him but he didn't -- -- -- is that what you re release that. It was a really blocking -- Count and extra point vote -- good form. Look at that excite you. The whole thing -- -- did not mean they look at my guys can take -- bad -- you know possibly hurt those guys pop out of surgery reform. Yes we are Michael Bud Selig was forced to change to MLB all star game rules. Because of the tie in his hometown of Milwaukee like this program. There are. Do you think MLB also gave -- more relevant and exciting now that the winner gets home field advantage in the World Series. I don't write I decide to -- almost bravest. But if you're on the phone hello. This is Ben Fong Torres certainly overlook it at. I don't think it is any more relevant now that they do it but I do like that they do and I know everybody hates it I don't mind it at all. I don't see what the problem it's not like before they started allowing the all star game to decide who gets home field advantage that it was done by best record. Before it was the all star game it was just alternating it year after year there was never any thing that gave one team or another home field. Other than blind blocked it happened be your year or not your year according to weather was even or -- So I like the fact that the older theory does that it's a very serious talk you think the Red Sox put a win the World Series. -- Louis cardinals had home field advantage yes. Editor of but it took a minute I guess they DO. But I I just I don't know what's it it does why does that bother people. Who cares because it's better than having just -- well I know how to wipe out people because it's an exhibition you're trying to bring something serious to an exhibition it's either an exhibition -- -- -- We put in the -- what can be between if not immature but there may -- white candidate. That's what they're saying is it's it's in between it's a little bit more of an exhibition -- he used to be in obviously is still not. Can decide too much in the world but it's better than just allowing that that and its -- now he told me that the other idea was to allow the team with the best record in baseball hosts the all star game for host the -- have them have home field advantage. I -- that I would prefer that to to allowing the all star game to decide it but as long as your other option is even -- odd year. I greatly prefer decided by something of at least some tangible value. Dexter wants to know why would you watch the grammys the Celtics are playing. Which you could do was watch grammys in DVR the Celtics. We could do that what you just watched the Celtics or -- and he watched the like performances from the grammys later on on the Internet. You wanna -- doing things now into all the things in 2014 it's amazing. You just need an option -- you have time to do any of that. Two I have to write it out of Iran is -- you can say OK I'm gonna watch this DVR that and that. But the grammys like four hours long would you -- played a a block long enough we go without your kids crawling all over you and your wife one. What are you gonna do that. Well why does not crawl -- hope that it didn't MEI garage door and I thought about it that. How is -- certain fastball curve ball Celtics. And approval. Of two -- Three. Well hopefully now you missed out on the royal rumble. Question number three NHL has tried many gimmicks to get fans interested in the all star game weekend they do have a great skills competition but the game itself as lacking. Is the NHL all star game relevant. All. Know. It's not relevant but the battles. The NHL Australia why it is not on the watch I don't think there's. You know there really isn't such a thing as -- battles -- You're the best players in the world together having fun playing the sport in in some -- playing some form of the sport. Have fun just that alone I would describe it to you in my exaggerating anything that's players in the world. Together having fun playing some version of their sports how's that. It is that it's bad. It takes it could just be irrelevant. I I I mean -- the Indy Pro Bowl and they say what you will still football also get to 67 rating you know against the grammys last night fine. Baseball really looks like a baseball game -- the best all star game all of them for the most part the NBA game I don't doesn't look exactly like an NBA game. There's some similarity fine by the end of the game they definitely get -- the back and -- -- gets sick the NHL game just it it doesn't work it just for whatever reason it's not as much fun to watch those guys. Play in that environment -- right that's -- the skills competition might be the best that anybody house. But the actual game itself just for whatever reason does not work. A lot of promise you this -- great call -- NHL all star game is called the Olympics. Absolutely right now that's that's what. That's what an all star game it's what it can't be but it's what you wanted to do but that means something that means a lot more than heck aren't playing for their countries. You know you have bad yep -- better talent. -- not necessarily better caliber talent that is. That is picked to complement each other it's not just a random collection of talent to actually -- right. So I don't know if all star game what you practice not really all star practices are -- that's a -- and that's a joke all star practice. But practicing for the Olympics is actually real building. And and that brings us to the final of the major offs -- games the MBA all star game. It used to have the most exciting weekend festivities. And now it's just a big stinking pile of crap. Is the NBA all star weekend at all relevant or would you rather watch something like the grammys or another awards show -- lot depends are they still gonna do three ball they still do that. Though they called it. We had the MBA players the WNBA players in the anyway legend. Probably if they still. That I've been. Now. Remember I remember magic he was like 400 pounds he magic ever magic about things Matic respect. Yeah. He was huge he looked gigantic. It's gross -- and he just looked gigantic he was trying to he was trying to compete in the where you've got a three man remembered. -- order not to remember the election planning now Oscar Robertson without their actually playing I don't remember that -- like all of a basketball. -- -- they should be able to do that now could -- Opposite. 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The July 4 beach party on Beach 130 Street has become a media issue that has spread far beyond Rockaway and has grown as an issue far beyond the 10 or 11 summonses that were issued that day.
They say that "hindsight is 20-20," and they are right. Looking at the incident ten days later brings into focus the fact that the event and the reporting about the event raise more questions than answers.
Some of those who planned the party say that it was a fundraiser for the families of those who died on both September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center and for those who died in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 two months later.
Others say that it was a fundraiser for the new park being built across the street from St. Francis de Sales Church on Beach 129 Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard.
And yet, the on-line application submitted by the group to the NYPD lists the party as a "Social affair" and as a "July 4 party."
There was no mention of a memorial for either September 11 or for flight 587. There was no mention of a memorial at St. Francis.
When I called Father Martin Ger-aghty, the famed pastor of St. Francis, earlier this year to ask him about rumors that his new garden was a memorial to those who died in flight 587, he told me that it was simply a "prayer garden" and not a memorial to anything, although people will be allowed to buy memorial bricks in the prayer garden.
He wanted to make it clear that it was simply a place for religious people to go and meditate. He was obviously embarrassed by the implication that he and his church were building a community-based memorial on their own.
In the on-line application, which was turned down initially by the police and then granted for a "non-alcoholic" party, the event sponsors said that there would be no charge for entrance. How can anybody hold a fundraiser when there is no money coming in?
It seems as if the idea of slugging the party a fundraiser for the park or for the victims of the World Trade Center came after the police closed the party down, confiscated the coolers and issued its 10 or 11 summonses. It is possible, as some suggest, that the event's sponsors had a fundraiser in mind all along, but did not want to tell the police about it, but that would make little sense given the circumstances.
Those at the party told the daily press that "dozens of police officers, dressed in SWAT uniforms and riot gear descended on the party.
Pictures taken by participants at the party (one published in The Wave last week) bear out the police contention that no more than 20 officers were at the beach, some in plainclothes and some in regular uniforms, at the height of the altercation.
Police officials say that "seven or eight" approached the party at about 1 p.m. Police say that the event's coordinators were told that no beer or open fires would be allowed on the beach.
At 8 p.m., with the party at its height, about 20 officers went to the party and began to close it down.
All in all, official records show, only 11 "C" (Criminal Court) summonses were given out at the party. Seven were for consuming alcohol or having an open can of beer; one for possession of alcohol and one each for possession of fireworks, disorderly conduct and unreasonable noise.
Those at the party say that the police were "rude, disrespectful and condescending" to the partygoers.
Palmer Doyle, a retired firefighter who was at the World Trade Center that day in September, 2001, was quoted as saying, "The whole incident was disgraceful. It was inappropriate for 50 cops to stormtroop the beach during a memorial for 12 people."
Police, on the other hand, say that the officers at the scene were cursed by the partygoers, many of whom refused orders to refrain from drinking on the beach."
Captain Charles Talamo, the commanding officer of the 100 Precinct, who has become the target of many of those who decried the police action, said that one man challenged him to take off his badge and his gun so they could fight it out.
Other cops told The Wave that they were cursed at and told that there was nothing they could do about the drinking.
"Verbal abuse is one of the unfortunate hazards of police work," Talamo said. "My officers handled themselves in a restrained and professional manner."
As usual, the truth is probably somewhere between those two statements.
Partygoers also questioned whether the "raid" on this year's party was as a result of the problems that police had at the party last year, when many locals complained of the noise and the fights on the beach late on July 4 evening.
The partygoers say yes, the police say no.
"When we got the calls last year and responded to the party, we found 50 drunk, disorderly and combative people," Talamo says. "The group was ready to fight, making proper enforcement of the law nearly impossible."
The controversy might have stayed in Rockaway had not the daily press quickly picked up the story.
When they did, they got it mostly wrong.
They reported the story that dozens of cops in riot gear had descended on a "9/11" party to honor those who died. They widely reported that the rally that was held on the boardwalk last Wednesday night was in response to the July 4 controversy when, in fact, it had been planned weeks earlier to address the beach and boardwalk access rules.
It was a true media frenzy that led to a story that The Wave has been talking about for several months – the disparity in the way Rockaway is treated in relation to the rest of the city.
In June, we wrote about how the rules were enforced on Rockaway's beaches in relation to the beaches in Coney Island. Last week that became a huge media story.
The mayor chimed in with a ridiculous statement that Central Park (where parkgoers are regularly allowed to drink alcohol) is safer than Rockaway Beach. He talked about drownings in Rockaway without realizing that none of them in recent years were alcohol-related.
Adrian Benepe, the Parks Commissioner, chimed in, speaking about how the people on Beach 130 Street "have a history of disruptive behavior."
What was he thinking?
Probably that those beer-guzzling low-lifes in Rockaway don't deserve the same consideration as those fine, wine and champagne-drinking folk who go to concerts in Central Park or even those fine tourist-types who go to Coney Island.
All in all, Rockaway got the short end of the media stick once again.
Who is right? Who is wrong? That depends on your individual outlook and has little to do with truth.
Think about it. There are just too many questions without answers.


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Is Donald Sterling racist? Yes. Now what? Fine him? The team makes $15 million a year for him. I doubt a $2.5 million fine will really hurt his feelings all that much. This is deeper than punishing one man for the way he feels about a group of people. Racism is more than one person not liking another person because of the color of her skin. That's plain old prejudice or bigotry. Racism is bigotry with the power to do something about it. That's why people like Donald Sterling are so dangerous. Because when they don't like somebody or a group of people, they actually have the resources and power to affect their lives (e.g. housing and employment discrimination). You can dislike me all you want, but when your hate interferes with my community's well-being then we have a problem.
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