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It took an hour and a half to get through the lock. We had been told of a website where folks back home could watch our passage through the lock via a webcam. I had emailed this info to our kids but the time we entered the lock was about an hour later than we had been advised so nobody was watching when we went through. Then it was on to the Gatun lake where we spotted two crocs on the banks at different places. Finally, we went through the Gatun locks and emerged into the Caribbean at around 6.30 pm. It had taken all day to get through the canal but it was a day to remember.


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Caisse to Focus on 'Less Liquid' Assets, CEO Sabia Says
Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, Canada's second-largest pension-fund manager, will increase investments in assets such as real estate, infrastructure and private equity to reduce volatility in its returns, Chief Executive Officer Michael Sabia said.
"The markets are no longer a good gauge of value," Sabia told reporters today during a briefing in Montreal. "Markets are a source of volatility. We think this volatility will last quite some time."
The Caisse plans to add C$10 billion ($9.97 billion) to C$12 billion in what it calls less-liquid investments in the next two years, Sabia, 59, said. The Montreal-based fund manager seeks to have about 30 percent of its assets in private equity, real estate and infrastructure by the end of 2014, up from 25 percent.
"We have to find a replacement for the performance in fixed-income that will no longer be there," Sabia said. "We want to stabilize the performance of the organization."
The Caisse oversees pensions for retirees in the French- speaking province of Quebec, with a dual mandate to maximize returns and foster economic growth in the province. It had net assets of C$165.7 billion as of June 30, including about 37 percent each invested in publicly traded stocks and fixed income.
"Our objective is not to be spectacular," said Sabia, who has been running the Caisse since 2009. "We are a long-term investor and what matters is the performance over three, five or 10 years."
Alternative Assets
Canada's pension funds have been looking to invest more in alternative assets such as infrastructure and real estate, said Scott MacDonald, head of pensions, insurance and sovereign- wealth strategy for RBC Investor Services. (RY)
"Elite-sized plans in Canada have been investing a disproportionate amount of their assets in real estate and infrastructure," MacDonald said in an interview. "Those returns have been very high and that trend towards investing in those asset classes will continue."
The country's defined benefit pensions returned a median 9.4 percent in 2012, according to a survey by RBC Investor Services, a unit of Royal Bank of Canada.
Global Leaders
The Caisse also wants to build up a fund it started in January to buy stakes in companies it considers global leaders. It will add its holdings in Nestle SA (NESN), HJ Heinz Co. (HNZ) and Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) into the fund, said Roland Lescure, chief investment officer, also speaking at today's event.
The fund, which will account for about 10 percent of the fund manager's assets, will hold onto its investments for the long term, he said.
The shift will come as the Caisse pares investments in traditional index investing. "In two to three years we will have fewer traditional equity investments," Lescure said.
The Caisse plans to also increase investments in emerging markets, Lescure said. Emerging economies such as India and Brazil accounted for 5 percent of total assets at the end of 2011, according to the Caisse's most recent annual report.
About C$41.2 billion of the Caisse's assets are located in Quebec, according to the pension-fund manager's 2011 annual report. The Caisse has invested in more than 530 Quebec companies.
Sabia said the Caisse plans to stand behind its investment in SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. (SNC), the Montreal-based company embroiled in corruption and fraud probes in Canada and abroad.
"SNC-Lavalin is tarnished because of what happened, but it's a company worth building," Sabia said. "They face some challenges but we will be there because we're convinced of the potential."
Canada's largest engineering and construction company has been grappling with $56 million in incorrectly booked expenses and a former executive's arrest in Switzerland amid a probe of corruption in North Africa. Former chief executive officer Pierre Duhaime faces fraud charges related to a Quebec hospital contract.
"This is a time when a long-term investor like the Caisse needs to help the company build a bridge to a different future," Sabia said. "If we weren't convinced of that we would have already exited."
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is the country's biggest public pension manager, with net assets of C$170.1 billion as of Sept. 30.
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Philanthropist and Hawke's Bay property owner Julian Robertson has helped secure the future of the Rhodes Scholarships for New Zealand through a $14.4 million donation.
The funds would sustain the three existing New Zealand Scholarships now to be known as The Rhodes Scholarships for New Zealand; A Partnership between the Rhodes Trust and the Robertson Foundation.
The three scholars-elect, which this year included former Havelock North High School student Louis Chambers, who studies at the University of Otago, will continue to be known as Rhodes Scholars.
The donation was the largest philanthropic gift that the Rhodes Trust had received since fundraising efforts started in 2010.
The Robertson Foundation is a New York-based private foundation established in 1996 by Tiger Management founder Julian H. Robertson, junior, his late wife, Josie, and their family. It makes high-impact grants in three principal areas: education; environment; and medical research. Leadership development is central to the foundation's grant-making strategy. Mr Robertson has a deep commitment to New Zealand and, in 2010, was appointed Honorary Knight Companion of the NZ Order of Merit for services to business and philanthropy.
The owner of The Farm at Cape Kidnappers, who recently sold Te Awa Winery to Villa Maria, said the partnership reflected a shared focus on nurturing the next generation of leaders. "It is important to me that exceptionally talented young New Zealanders will continue to benefit from the transformative experience of a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford," Mr Robertson said. "The foundation is delighted to help secure that opportunity for them.'


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"Spectacle of Death" – RIC Student Takes First Prize at Newport Museum
RIC art student Emily Sorlien
Rhode Island College senior Emily Sorlien's painting of a dead chicken as a symbolic representation of the contradictory nature of human morality won first prize at the Newport Annual Members' Juried Exhibition at the Newport Art Museum.
Her 22-by-44 still life depicts a chicken spread eagle and bound by string around its limbs and throat. The work is titled "Deposition" and is part of her departmental honors project at Rhode Island College. It will be on exhibit through May 19. As a member of the Newport Art Museum, Sorlien was allowed to enter the show.
In her artist's statement, she writes:
"My work seeks to force the viewer(s) to reconsider their relationship to both the chicken's body depicted before them, and to their own flesh. . . . I am interested in the way in which chickens can simultaneously be viewed as animal 'other' and as anthropomorphically human. Their bound, flayed and naked bodies serve to remind us of our own flesh. . . . The idea of manipulation, and the connotations of shame, humiliation and bondage that accompany it, play an important role in the work."
Sorlien's painting was inspired by her early childhood in rural South Kingstown, R.I., where her family kept miniature horses, cats, dogs and chickens. The chickens, she said, were mostly pets, and she remembers sitting for hours observing them.
"I had a rooster that I raised from a chick when I was about nine," she said. "I named him Chanticleer. He knew when the school bus was coming and would come down and wait for me. He'd jump in my arms, and let me pet him. He followed me around everywhere. My bond with him was really strong. He was my best friend."
Yet eating chicken at the dinner table did not disconcert her. "There was a disconnect for me between having a chicken for a pet and eating chicken," she said.
But by the time she began her honors project as an art major at Rhode Island College, the connection had been made, and she had become an avid vegetarian.
In selecting her project, she decided upon chickens, she said, because, "Chickens have had an integral role to play in my development as both a person and as an artist. I learned to draw by drawing animals, and my beloved pet chickens imparted numerous lessons through their simultaneously fascinating and mundane lives, and through their sometimes tragic, sometimes humorous, often untimely deaths."
Sorlien's project would also address the morality of killing chickens.
"Today, thanks to the rise of the factory farm, chicken is now the most widely consumed animal on the planet," she said, "with over eight billion chickens slaughtered annually for human consumption."
She said she wants people who eat chicken to think about how their meals were acquired.
To begin her art project, Sorlien searched the Web for photos of slaughtered chickens to draw. Unfortunately the lighting of the photos was poor. So Sorlien resorted to attending a turkey slaughter down the road from her house, camera in hand.
"This woman raises turkeys from chicks and she slaughters them for Thanksgiving. I asked her if I could photograph the slaughter, and use it as source material," she said.
After that experience, Sorlien's focus changed. Her project became less a protest against eating meat and more an exploration of the chicken's body and how it relates to the human body.
"You see this plucked and naked flesh before you and it appears so human," she said, "but it's not, and so there's this weird familiarity and yet otherness to the image."
She also became interested in what she called "the spectacle of death." She examined the baroque art of martyred saints and noted:
"They're mostly nude figures being violently murdered, yet there's this ecstasy in their expressions of finally being with their God," she said. "There's also an interesting element of sexuality in the images." Sorlien would add that element of sexuality to her drawings.
In the beginning the source material she used had been killed by others. But later she began buying chickens live from county fairs and killing them herself. She'd pluck them, bind them with string and pose them before photographing them.
"I really felt like I needed to immerse myself in the experience of the death of the animal, and I also wanted to have more control over the way the animal appeared in death. I purposely positioned the body in a way that made it appear human."
The project became "very personal," said Sorlien. When she started the project, she was a vegetarian. But she said she saw her own hypocrisy – her ability to care for an animal, kill it and eat it. She is no longer a vegetarian.
"We talk about morality in such black-and-white terms, yet we eat chicken that live in horrific conditions," she said. "The average life of a chicken on a factory farm is six weeks or so. We eat them, yet we're separated from their reality."
"Deposition" forces the viewers to think about what they're eating and if their actions fit in with their moral code, she said. It's one of two finished still lifes. Sorlien is working on a third. She said she is only at the beginning of her exploration, and she'd like to take the series much further.
In April she will present a lecture of her work as part of her honor's project at the 2013 Northeast Regional Honors Council Conference in Philadelphia.
Once her project is completed in the spring of 2014, RIC's Bannister Gallery will exhibit her paintings, as well as the work of other honors students.
"It'll be nice to have the paintings up at the college," she said. "My foundations classes at RIC have been very instrumental in helping me push my talent and improve my draftsmanship. I also learned to paint with oils for the first time at RIC. There's something about oil paint and its ability to depict flesh and become flesh that is stunning."
Sorlien said she will continue "offering up death to the viewer as a perverse sort of gift, like a cat who brings home a dead bird to its owner . . . A death cloaked in the guise of 'art' . . . A beautiful death, so I hope."


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dayum ike...
This is a discussion on I got owned! within the Comparison: WRX vs World forums, part of the Community - Meet other Enthusiasts category; dayum ike......
bah! more idiot RSX owners making us look bad
03 Artic Blue Pearl Acura RSX Type S:
Originally posted by EIonJess
Busted! There is a Troll among us! Some nice detective work there Ike!
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to prosper." Ben Franklin
turbo'd hondas are definitely something to take seriously...i ran one that claimed he was doin 13.4's ..it was a turbo gsr...went from a 5mph roll...about 3 cars to 70 and he wasnt pullin...if i was stock he would have killed me tho...
idiot! I don't understand why some RSX owners give us a bad rep.Originally posted by Ike
I'm pretty damn sure this is a story from a RSX troll or someone that doesn't even own a car and likes to pose on car forums as something he's not.
Check out this story from clubRSX
"anyways like anyother day i was driving and i see a evo at a gas staion..and i kinda needed some gas aswell..so i stoped by i talked to him a little bit and he asked me if i wanted to have a quick run im like your kidding me wright? your going to beat me he's like ok then nvm im like no no no ill race lol so we go on the free way ( 12:30 AM ) and we role are widows down and we say till the end of the next 2 exit he says im like ok so after we pass the 1st exit We Punch it i have to admit he had me by like 3 cars then after i shifted to 5th i starting pulling in and he was already in topgear from 5th i hit 6th BOOM ass soon as that **** hit 6th i was catching him about 7.500 rpms in 6th i had him bye like then 3 cars lol"
Same amazing grasp of the english language, same penchants for varying his upper and lower case letters, similar names if you look at his AIM address on RSXclub (BloOdRusHeR21 vs. NighTMarE21), same town, same foul mouth (look at some of his clubRSX posts), the odd meaningless info he includes also seems to suggest he's lying (note the use of the time in both posts).
Check out the use of the word dint
He even used dint and belive in the same post...
I should be a freaking detective, can I get a pwned, or maybe a get a life at the very least
Whoops, almost forgot the kicker
RSX type-s
60-1hifi / Deltagate WG @ 10psi
Turbo XS BOV / Spearco IC
Custom manifold & Downpipe
Exedy fly & 3puck clutch / Greddy Evo
No one noticed that the troll's signature was a picture of "his" STi!
STi vs. Rsx-S .... and the STi lost? even in the beginning...
Good work Ike!
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I know what those supped up Acura's and Honda's are like man, I live in Orange County and they are a dime a dozen out here. I can't count how many supped up Civics and Accords I have dusted off in my stock Evo, I only had a close call with 2 Acura's but still won by a good car length, how did you lose in an STi?
On the street, from a stop, you should have no problem with most boosted Honda's/Acura's because they have terrible traction. But the K20A2 takes very well to boost and there are a few out there that would scare the hell out of you - especially from a roll. But they are certainly NOT a "dime a dozen."Originally posted by EVOVIII
I know what those supped up Acura's and Honda's are like man, I live in Orange County and they are a dime a dozen out here. I can't count how many supped up Civics and Accords I have dusted off in my stock Evo, I only had a close call with 2 Acura's but still won by a good car length, how did you lose in an STi?
They just aren't that practical in terms of street cars. 350whp on a FWD car just doesn't do it for me personally.
2005 NBP Accord EX-V6 6MT
AEM CAI, HFP aerokit, Comptech SS
17" Enkei RS7s on YokoES100 tires
Turbo RSX-S=Own3D
Especially the ones that has a cybernation stage turbo kit...
13.7 at 98.74 MPH / Stock TD04 & No EM
In Import tuner magazine, they did a review on a ALL MOTOR integra GS-R. Dude, this thing was running 12.9's ALL MOTOR. no super chargers, turbos, nothing, ALL MOTOR
Hp and torque you ask? 202 horsepower and 158 torque, it was amazing, those things are faster than i thought. Anyways, pick up the import tuner if you don't believe me, (it's the one with the chick in the yellow shirt and the blue rx-7 on the front....... always remember the girl and the car, never the month for the mag)
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Now we are part of Auckland City are we also urban? We live at Karaka Lakes, one minute from the motorway in Papakura, in a built-up area and are paying rural courier rates. This adds $7 to any parcel. Interestingly, we are deemed urban by NZ Post but not courier companies. Who decides if we are urban or rural? Rosemary Smith, Karaka Lakes.
Even though you live within the Auckland Council area, it does not automatically make you an urban dweller. Michael Tull, media communications manager for NZ Post Group, has provided a map which shows streets covered by urban delivery and those deemed to be rural, even though they are within the council boundary. To see the map, visit this Ask Phoebe column online at nzherald.co.nz.
A spokesman for CourierPost said rural and urban definitions come to it from NZ Post.
Steve Wells, general manager of NZ Couriers, says the urban/rural criteria are a mix of distance and volume.
The distinction is predicated on volume, and changes in line with the population increase and thus a decrease in distance between dwellings.
The Waitakere Use of Roads and Parking Bylaw 2010 clause 8.3 seems to indicate that the rules restricting parking on broken yellow lines and in special vehicle areas don't apply on public holidays and outside the hours of 8am to 6pm. Andrew Grattan, West Auckland.
Broken yellow lines are a no-go for parking at all times.
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Soo i have been having a bit of trouble with my dub. It has definitely been a love/Hate relationship lately. We got in a fight recently and i have been riding my bicycle for the past 2 days.
Anyway, I was going to clean the throttle body just like the DIY post indicated and noticed oil in the throttle body. Not just burnt oil but fresh oil. Any ideas whats going on?
It has also been losing boost while on the highway. I am going to check it today!


text: Members of the class of 1957 celebrated their 50th reunion with a day on-campus. This class had the first woman student and first woman graduate from the college. They enjoyed an afternoon walking tour of the campus and hearing about current courses of a technical nature from Dean Phil White. Dinner at nearby Moscatiello's capped the evening. One of the members traveled from Texas to be here.


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The North Judson-San Pierre School Board may approve a policy regarding weapons on school property when they meet this evening.
A recent change in state law allows handgun owners with valid carry permits to keep weapons locked in their glove compartment, trunk or stored out of sight in a vehicle. The policy does not apply to students unless they are members of a shooting sports team. Individual school corporations still have the authority under the law to ban weapons inside buildings. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. CDT in the N.J.-S.P. Central Office Board Meeting Room.


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Going South with the Belair X 6-122012-12-11 2 5 Share Tweet
In the last holiday in Brazil I traveled to the south coast and in my bag was one of the prototypes of the Belair X 6-12. Check the beautiful views and photos that I had chance to see and shoot during this trip.
During the last holiday we had in November, I took the extra days I had and drove to the south of Brazil, more precisely to the region of Florianópolis.
I was very curious to test the Belair X 6-12 so I took with me a lot of rolls of 120 film. Before using the camera, I read the instructions that I had, but I was in a place with beautiful landscapes all around so I decided not to worry too much about any rules or photo formats.
Thanks to this "Let Loose" way I got some crazy photos with multiple exposures using the panoramic format 6×12.
To be honest I really liked the result as this random way of shooting yielded good compositions, the main difficulty was decide which part of the roll I would cut before scanning the images.
In general I enjoyed the camera a lot, she has a good definition associated with great color balance and saturation. During the trip I visited several beaches of Floripa and also went to Guarda do Embaú, one of the places I most like in the Brazilian coast.
I returned from the trip with 2 photos to finish a roll as I was anxious to see the images. As soon as I woke up in the next day I took the camera to the street market and shot the last two photos.
Then it was just going to the lab, to develop the films, take a few days later the negatives and scan them. As I saw the results I was certain that the Belair X 6-12 is a true Lomographic camera!
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Wilkinsons are to open a new store by converting the former Woolworth's store on Deansgate, Bolton, Lancashire which will create about 40 job vacancies.
The company say that the new Wilkinsons will open in 2012. Wilkinson has over 500 stores across the UK and its growing constantly. Every other month another Wilkinsons store opening somewhere in the UK and creating job vacancies for jobseekers.
If you want to apply for thos positions then why not visit them and ask for an application form?
What type of jobs will be available?
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As former public works director for several Pennsylvania municipalities, Alan Gesford, P.E., has often said, "Give me the authority and the resources, and I will provide the public works service in-house at the least cost." Here, he shares experiences that informed his view.
Example 1: Before my tenure, a study revealed my municipality could save money by contracting for solid waste collection with a private vendor. The city awarded the contract for substantially less than in-house operations, then sold its trucks and gave the contract oversight responsibilities to the public works director.
Given this information, you could argue that privatizing solid waste collection is the way to go. But you need to analyze the whole situation.
Over the years, the union had gained advantages over the city regarding collection—namely, each truck was manned by four workers. The contractor did the same collection with two workers per truck, cutting personnel costs almost in half. Even with their overhead and profit, they could bid the project way under our budget.
Problems I had with the contract operations (responsiveness, ill-written contract specifications, etc.) notwithstanding, this was probably still a money saver for the city. In retrospect, however, the city should never have let the union dictate the number of workers on each truck. With two, we could have kept the operation in-house for less than contracting out and had much more control.
Example 2: Discussions on how to handle work on numerous new curbs and sidewalks were leading to contracts. At my request, we took the work in-house.
Using a federally funded program, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), I hired a retired concrete man as crew supervisor, then workers for him to train. This was what the CETAprogram was all about—training people with new skills to provide them with a future vocation. I received a state award for this program under a Government Innovations award program.
Example 3: After receiving final plans for a major stormwater project from a consulting firm under contract, the city ran into required federal and state environmental approvals.
The project and design had started before my becoming public works director. My city engineer and I agreed that with two additional engineering personnel, we could redesign the project in-house, address the environmental aspects, and end up with a much better project. We "disengaged" the consultant and took it in-house to a successful completion.
Example 4: We needed to complete an infiltration-inflow project for all city sewers to meet federal regulations and mandates. After much discussion and research, we decided to purchase a sewer TV and grout unit vehicle. We handle system inspections and repairs in-house.
We wrote equipment bid specs, including required equipment training, and set up a two-year program for project completion. We ended up renting the equipment and crew to surrounding municipalities as needed; this generated some revenue for us and also helped save them some money, too.
I really should say, "Give me the authority and resources, and I will get the job done in-house at less cost, better quality, and better control—all advantages toward better government and satisfied citizens."
— Gesford is technology transfer specialist with the Institute of State and Regional Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg.


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2009 News Releases
12/17/09 | Sutter Health's www.MyLifeStages.org Wins Gold for Putting Quality Health Care at Your Fingertips
12/15/09 | Memorial Medical Center recognized with BD Safety Recognition Award
12/10/09 | Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Mills-Peninsula Medical Group Form New Multispecialty Physician Group and Physician Network in San Mateo County
12/7/09 | Sutter Health Welcomes New Board Member
12/3/09 | CPMC Named Top Hospital By Leapfrog Group
11/24/09 | Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center Receives Press Ganey Summit Award
11/23/09 | Special Delivery Required a Village of Specialists for Mother with Heart Disease
11/16/09 | National Spotlight Showcases Sutter Health Program
11/9/09 | Sutter Health Donates $255,000 to Help the Hungry this Holiday Season
10/30/09 | Sutter Health Donates $1 Million to Community Clinic in Sacramento
10/21/09 | 10 Sutter Health Hospitals Honored by State Quality Report Card
10/7/09 | Memorial Presents Cancer Services Art Exhibit
9/29/09 | Samuel Merritt University Offers Free Occupational Therapy Pediatric Clinic
9/24/09 | Want Doctors Committed to Quality Patient Care? Look for Physician Organizations with Sutter Health
9/15/09 | Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center Receives Best Places to Work Award
9/10/09 | Sutter Davis Hospital Named a Best Place to Work in Health Care
9/9/09 | Memorial Medical Center Team Selected for HFM Culinary Competition Finals
8/31/09 | Physician Foundation at California Pacific Medical Center and Sutter Medical Foundation North Bay Combine to Form Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation
8/12/09 | 600 local children get health care and insurance thanks to grant from PAMF
7/30/09 | More Strength and Better Physical Function Could Reduce Risk of Hospitalization in the Elderly
7/28/09 | Mills-Peninsula Five-Star Rated for Bariatric Surgery
7/23/09 | California Pacific's Citywide Health Care Development Plan Receives Unanimous Vote
7/22/09 | Podiatrist travels to Mexico to care for patients
7/13/09 | Palo Alto Medical Foundation Fremont Center Celebrates 25th Anniversary
7/1/09 | Construction Begins on New Sutter Medical Center in Castro Valley
6/29/09 | Quit Smoking with Sutter Express Care's Help
6/29/09 | Novato Care Center Offers Primary and Specialty Medical Care
6/25/09 | Galloping Ahead After Double Hip Replacement
6/25/09 | Introduction to Acupuncture Through Community Sessions at Sutter Lakeside Hospital Integrative Healing House
6/24/09 | Sunnyvale City Council Approves Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Medical Center on Old San Francisco Road
6/19/09 | Decade of Improving Quality Health Care for Patients
6/17/09 | Sutter Roseville Medical Center Provides Bariatric Sensitivity
6/17/09 | Bike Trekking After Bariatric Surgery
6/17/09 | Top Four Facts about Sunscreen
6/10/09 | Partners in Care/Visiting Nurse Association Continuous Care (VNA/CC) Receives Prestigious Certification
6/5/09 | Pat Fry Elected to VHA Board of Directors
6/3/09 | Sutter Roseville Medical Center Foundation Celebrates 25 Years!
6/3/09 | Stanford, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Launch Comprehensive Breast Cancer Study
6/1/09 | Physician Foundation Brings Primary Care Doctors to Marin
5/29/09 | Physician Creates Podcasts for Patients
5/26/09 | Sutter Lakeside Hospital Welcomes New CAO – Ms. Siri Nelson
5/18/09 | Continued Economic Downturn Forces Sutter Health to Adjust Information Services Staffing Levels
5/15/09 | Sutter Roseville Gears Up for Another Record Year for Babies
5/04/09 | Design Award for Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley
5/01/09 | Flu Blog Connects Doctors with Community
5/1/09 | Sutter Davis Hospital Wins Workplace Excellence Award
4/28/09 | The Passionate People Who Work at Our Hospitals
4/27/09 | Major appointment for PAMF physician
4/27/09 | Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital Upgrades Surgical Equipment
4/23/09 | Memorial Presents Cancer Services Clinical Trials Recognition and Awareness Reception
4/20/09 | Eureka Award Presented to Sutter Davis Hospital at Statewide Conference
4/20/09 | Palo Alto Medical Foundation Reveals Modified Size, Design for Sunnyvale Medical Center
4/9/09 | Sutter Health Announces 2008 Financial Performance
4/8/09 | PAMF Santa Cruz Opens New Capitola Office
4/7/09 | Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, Sutter Cancer Center Win Outstanding Achievement Award
4/7/09 | Marin Resident to Climb Mt. Shasta to Benefit Breast Cancer Research
3/31/09 | James E. Conforti Named Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Medical Center
3/31/09 | Sutter Health Ranks Tops in California for Quality Health Care
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Central government has failed to tackle climate change. The nuclear option is firmly back on the agenda, the environmental lobby is in collective shock, and still voters do not seem to care. With the Conservative leader David Cameron chasing the environmental bandwagon, the issue might flash brighter on the political radar in the run-up to the next general election. But only maybe. Are there any reasons to be cheerful?
Happily, there are. Genuine progress has come as a result of local action. The hitherto esoteric, national debate about how best to tackle climate change is being supplanted by wide-ranging local debates that have direct impact on voters' everyday lives.
Southampton city council has harnessed a geothermal well to produce electricity and hot water for local businesses and residents. Woking borough council has extensively used micro-generation methods - solar panels, small wind turbines, and a static fuel cell - together with energy efficiency measures. Both have cut carbon emissions.
Despite there being no real targets for local authorities to meet for sustainable energy, these councils have married long-term environmental considerations with practical, quantifiable gains. As they control energy generation, they can adjust energy prices, balancing commercial and social considerations with a discernable impact on fuel poverty. In Woking, energy prices for citizens have fallen every year since 1991 and the council has released £4.7m in energy savings in the past decade.
For voters, the effects of these policies are not predominately about climate change. The problem for environmental policy is that it is long term. Voters have consistently chosen to vote on issues that directly affect things in the here and now. This is not to say that voters are not sophisticated, compassionate people. Rather that human nature tends to emphasise the immediate.
The landscape, however, is changing. As more voters rightly or wrongly connect extreme weather events with climate change, the pressure for sustainability will force the government to respond in demonstrably effective ways.
Energy security is also a popular issue. The seemingly inexorable rise in energy prices has been brought into sharp public focus. The gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine, which threatened a Europe-wide freeze, should act as a warning. When a real crisis emerges - and it will - politicians must be able to demonstrate that they can have an effect. Local leadership of sustainable micro-generation is the best way to do it.
The new London Climate Change Agency is to apply more widely the lessons learned from Woking, Southampton and other local authorities. Good practice has also been set by the London borough of Merton, with its 10% target for carbon emission reduction, and Easington district council, which is drawing up an action plan with the Centre for Sustainable Energy.
Environmental policy is an area in which local government can demonstrate real local results. While sustainable energy policies alone might not grab the electorate's imagination, lower energy prices, tackling fuel poverty, energy security and pride in forward-thinking will. It is up to councils to show that local sustainable options can pre-empt the nuclear option and can deliver politically relevant results.
· James MacGregor is a researcher at the New Local Government Network thinktank.


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John Duffy (Liberal): Horwath will be under pressure to provide greater clarity regarding her statement about the need for "consensus" in the event of a minority government. I'd imagine she'd rather not leave NDP voters with the impression that she's planning on supporting a Tim Hudak administration.
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In a large system you may be faced with either a multitude of clients or a menagerie of them; in either case you have to stop serializing objects and start exchanging documents.
Update: Added a more detailed section on self-descriptive messages.
Update 2: Moved large chunks of the document around based on feedback. I moved the 'self-describing' section earlier in the document and tried to improve the transitions between the sections. I also added a TOC.
Before comparing REST and WS-* and outlining where each of them are best used, I need to first define some terms. There is substantial technical and marketing literature available that I believe WS-* is self-apparent.
Defining REST will take some more work since there is substantial hype and many things on the web called REST are not RESTful at all. The problem is that REST is not a specific piece of technology but an Architectural Style that was abstracted from HTTP during the transition from HTTP 1.0 to HTTP 1.1. At the time there were major performance issues being grappled with and HTTP 1.1 was designed with this model as a helper to address those performance and scaling concerns. The upshot is that HTTP does not have everything that REST indicates should be present, and there is the additional problem that while HTTP is the first, and best, implementation of REST, the two are not the same and yet are often confused. While REST is best thought of as a guide and not a law, you have to remember that so is, "Don't run with scissors".
For the remainder of this paper when I refer to REST I'll be talking about HTTP used as RESTfully as possible.
REST and WS-* are two different tools whose strengths shine at different scales. The easiest way to think about this is an example from nature: at the scale of the atom the forces responsible for most of the action are different from the forces at the scale of a cell. Quantum effects and the strong nuclear force determine the structure and operation of an atom, while the operation of a cell is dominated by molecular reactions and Van der Waals' forces.
Another example closer to home; when programming and making calls into other functions and libraries, you pass along classes and types in the function call parameters. You expect those classes and types to be perfectly understood on the other side of that function call. Those are the rules at that scale; that type information can be counted on to survive and be useful over the function call boundary. As your scale grows, as you move outside the single executable, the same machine, or the same platform, that assumption begins to weaken, to the point that when you get to Internet scale services that assumption is actually harmful.
When working at the smaller scale the assumption that types can move across a boundary is powerful and allows many optimizations. Working in a homogeneous environment such as Java, WS-* has real advantages; you can very quickly create interfaces in your target programming language and expose those interfaces via WSDL and have them consumed just as easily on the calling side using the same WSDL. This is illustrated in Figure 1, where the focus is moving objects between homogeneous systems.
As you move to larger systems, either many more clients connecting, or a non-homogeneous pool of clients, this paradigm starts to break down. If there are many clients then the demands for caching semantics will be begin to dominate. In that case you need to abandon HTTP as just a simple transport and start using the application level semantics of HTTP to start leveraging the caching architecture already built into the Internet.
In the case of a non-homogeneous pool of clients you run into the fact that all those other languages aren't just Java-without-the-compile, they are very different systems with radically differing views on typing, classes and type-safety. As you move into such a world you cannot get your object "A" from system to system. Instead you have to switch your focus to the bits on the wire, and leave it up to each client system how to best interpret that data. That's illustrated in Figure 2, where the format "A" is defined and each client interprets that document in an optimal manner for that environment.
While defining formats and leveraging HTTP as your application protocol takes more time, and thus incurs a cost, you get benefits from paying that cost:
So far we've seen how switching from serializing objects to exchanging documents helps with platform neutrality, but where do the benefits of scalability and performance come from? For that we'll have to delve into the "self-descriptive" nature of RESTful messages.
At this point you may have the idea that RESTful has to do entirely with formats and serializations, which isn't true.
To explain, a bit more needs to be said about self-descriptive messages.
This is a rather fundamental principle and is the reason that RESTful systems can scale much easier. This has to do with the amount of information that each message carries and that is available to intermediaries without peeking into the body. That's a critical distinction since parsing and processing headers is something every intermediary has to do, while no intermediary is required to be able to parse any of the bodies that pass through it.
Here is a simple HTTP request. Note all the information present in the headers:
GET /text/12 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: SomeBloggingClient
Host: example.org
Accept: text/html
If-None-Match: "234902340932423432"
This message is self-descriptive, it uses a standard method with known semantics (GET, which is safe and idempotent), a well-known media-type (text/html), and it also declares how cached representations of this resource are to be handled (Revalidate with the origin server using the supplied entity tag.).
An intermediary can process these messages in a helpful way because the safety, idempotency, cacheability, and well-known media-types are all apparent from the message headers (and request-line and status line). The self-descriptive nature of the requests and responses are critical, for example, to accelerator intermediaries that keep a nearby cache, compress content, or down-sample images to make them smaller and thus faster to transfer. The intermediaries that down-sample images are possible because of a constrained set of media-types, i.e. there are only so many image formats widely used.
You may ask at this point if SOAP requests, which also pass over HTTP, are self-descriptive? You are correct in that a SOAP request and response are both self-descriptive, but if we go back and look at old POST-only SOAP we see that it is actually the least self-descriptive message you could construct, (Yes, later versions of SOAP allow GET, and I've already pointed out where WS-* has it's advantages, this is just a more detailed explaination of why RESTful messages scale, and hopefully by the end of this explaination you will see how just adding GET doesn't move the bar very far.)
Here is a sample SOAP request:
POST /examples HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Radio UserLand/7.0 (WinNT)
Host: localhost:81
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-length: 474
SOAPAction: "/examples"
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
<m:getStateName xmlns:m="http://www.soapware.org/">
<statenum xsi:type="xsd:int">41</statenum>
In a SOAP request everything is a POST, which in this case has the very generic meaning of "process this", so intermediaries lose the ability to distinguish safe and idempotent requests. In addition, using POST everywhere means that all cachability is lost. A very vanilla media-type of "text/xml" is also used, again reducing the chances of intermediaries being able to do any helpful processing. And finally many kinds of requests will all go through the same SOAP server URI, which is another limiting factor on intermediaries, such as reverse proxies, which can be used to distribute load.
So while SOAP requests and responses are self-descriptive, they carry a miniscule amount of information that intermediaries might be able to work with, and if intermediaries can't help then scalability will be limited.
So if you aren't going to use classes and types and RPC to define your interface, how are you supposed to create a RESTful interface?
The best way to describe how to build a RESTful interface is to give a recipe for how to build such a system, a heuristic for how to model your system RESTfully. [For a more indepth article see How to create a REST protocol.]
As a simple example let's build a RESTful interface for managing a list of employees. Each employess has a name, title, and contact information and we want to be able to add, remove, and update employee information as well as get a list of all the employees.
Everything in a RESTful system is a noun, a Resource, and every noun is identified by a URI. In our employee system there are two nouns, two types of resources, the employee, and the list of all employees. Let's define the URIs for each of those resources:
|Employee List
Where {employee-id} will be substituted with the employees identification number.
Now we need to define the formats, or the representations, for each of these resources. We'll use JSON for the format. Here is an example representation of an employee:
"name": "Joe Gregorio",
"title": "Software Engineer",
"contact": {
"address1": "123 AnyStreet",
"city": "Sometown",
"state": "NC"
Here is an example of the employee list:
"name": "Joe Gregorio",
"href": "jcg111002222"
"name": "John Q. Public",
"href": "jqp333445555"
Updating our table:
|Employee List
|JSON (emp list
|JSON (employee)
Note that in the employee list each entry contains the URI of the individual employee, as a relative URI, at the "href" key. This is an aspect of REST that we have skimmed over lightly, the use of hyper-text as the engine of application state. While you could just stick the employee id in there and then count on the client to be able to construct the URI of the employee resource from that information, its easier on the client, opens more avenues for optimization, and reduces coupling if the URI is passed along directly. Note that I could have just as easily supplied an absolute URI.
Now that we have our resources and representations we define the operations that we want to perform on those resources. To retrieve a representation of a resource we use GET, to update we use PUT, and to remove it we use DELETE. POST can be used to either have some generic processing done, or it can be used to create new resources. To create a new employee we will POST an employee JSON document to the employee list.
|Employee List
|JSON (emp list)
|Retrieve the list of employees
|JSON (employee)
|Create a new employee
|JSON (employee)
|Retrieve an employee
|JSON (employee)
|Update an employee
|Remove an employee
Now our service is almost completely described. As a convenience for client developers we can highlight certain status codes that are important. For example, when an employee is successfully created the server will return an HTTP status code of 201 and the response will include a Location: header with the URI of the newly created employee resource.
There are aspects of REST that have not been covered yet, and they include:
It's useful and informative to ask if RESTful services can be described in WSDL 2.0. I'll only cover the ability of WSDL 2.0 to describe such a service and leave the unearthing of WSDL 2.0 compliant implementations as an exercise for the reader.
At first brush the HTTP Binding Extension for WSDL 2.0 looks like it might be a good REST description language when you see reference to the methods GET, PUT, POST and DELETE; and references to HTTP header construction. Digging in further reveals the constraints have been only slightly loosened and WSDL 2.0 is still about serializing objects, not exchanging documents.
From Section 6.3.2 of WSDL 2.0 Part 2: Adjuncts:
If the Interface Message Reference component or the Interface Fault component is declared using a non-XML type system (as considered in the Types section of [WSDL 2.0 Core Language]) then additional binding rules MUST be defined to indicate how to map those components into the HTTP envelope.
The upshot is that you can't do JSON without writing a separate specification for binding rules on how to serialize "text/json". The same holds true for any binary format, such as GIF and JPEG. There are other explicit and implicit limitations in the HTTP Binding for WSDL 2.0, such as the requirement for XML Schema, even in the case where data is serialized as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".
Another telling example is the limiting of HTTP authentication methods to Basic and Digest. HTTP includes in RFC 2617 not only the definition of Basic and Digest authentication, it also defines an extensible mechanism by which a client and server negotiate authentication methods. This is an extensible system wherein the server returns a list of acceptable authentication mechanisms and the client chooses from that list of challenges. Limiting the number of authentication mechanisms to just those two cripples such an extension mechanism. In general most of these problems stem from the same root cause: RESTful HTTP messages are self-descriptive. It is that self-descriptive aspect of HTTP messages that allows generic processors such as proxies and caches to be built, so any language that tries to describe HTTP messages must either include the whole HTTP specification or introduce constraints that don't exists in HTTP.
One last area to highlight is the lack of support for simple links. While WSDL can be congratulated for adding URLs as first class citizens, it doesn't understand links as such first class citizens. That is, there is no mechanism in WSDL 2.0 to identify new resources that are identified by links in other documents. This isn't a minor quibble, following links from document to document is a fundamental aspect of the web. The simple <a> tag, which can appear in any tag soup HTML page, is the core of the PageRank algorithm, the basis for the market cap of Google, and completely outside the reach of WSDL 2.0.
One immediate result of not understanding links is that you can't write a WSDL document for the Atom Publishing Protocol. There are other RESTful systems that can't be described and they're listed below to give an idea of the limitations of WSDL 2.0.
None of this is to detract from WSDL 2.0 when it is applied in the right problem domain, this is just pointing out that it is currently incomplete for describing RESTful services.
My only quibble is with the use of fully qualified URI's in Figure 4. That's actually a URL, not just a URI. The employee id would have worked fine in the href value, as a URI as well. I think it's mistake to not have it work that way. For one thing, the server has to be self-aware of it's own address, and willing to inject it into it's output. So the result of a request to an http: version and https: version wouldn't be the same. Bummer. The 'relative' versions would of course be the same.
w/r/t ETag for PUT, etc: "This prevents the lost-update problem". Another flavor of this problem is the lost-response problem. Try updating a resource; socket dies after sending the request, before the reading the response - did the update really take place? Who knows! If you're using ETags this way, then ... If it didn't take place, blindly retrying the transaction will succeed. If it did take place, blindly retrying the transaction will fail because of the non-matching ETag. Being able to do this blindly is fantastic.
Posted by Patrick Mueller on 2007-02-17
Hi Joe:
Excellent discussion of REST; one of the best! However, I do wish you had elaborated more on "the use of hyper-text as the engine of application state" and included some examples. There is a dearth of information available on that REST constraint, and when I've asked about it in the past all the RESTafarians act as if that one sentence should be all that's needed to completely comprehend it! :) I'd like to see actual implementations and not just be told "look out on the web" as the web is not fully RESTful; most websites were designed for human-to-machine interaction, not machine-to-machine interaction.
Second, I'd like to ask about your use of JSON and reference your comment when you said "Each time we send or receive a JSON representation in our example, the Content-Type header is also sent with a value of 'text/json'. In this way each message is self-descriptive, there is a method sent, and that is applied to a resource whose URI is also sent in the request, and the type of the request or response entity is also included in the headers." Although this is technically correct, is it not a bit misleading? As I have been learning REST I have been drawn to the value of interchanging known content types as defined in the content registry. This not to conflict with your point above about type safety but instead to appreciate the value of shared knowledge in a base type. With JSON, yes your example is JSON, but JSON can represent any arbitrary object heirarchy. So it seems to me saying it is 'text/json' is about as useful as saying it is 'text/plain'; i.e. it only tells me what it is not, not what it is. I still have to hope that it is something I know how to deal with. And since JSON does not provide any built-in introspection, that can be especially laborous and fraught with peril. Or at least that's how it currently appears to me and I'm commenting here not to critique but in hopes you can further educate me.
BTW, it seems to me that JSON, as well as ATOM really needs a subtype, i.e. given your example: 'text/json/employee' and 'text/json/employee-list'. Of maybe another HTTP header: 'Content-Subtype' where you could use 'employee' and 'employee-list.' And it would seem to me that ideally these should be in a registry somewhere to avoid duplicates, but maybe one where people could get a prefix (based on a domain they own?) that would allow people to create their own w/o having to go thru a rigorous process, i.e. 'Content-Subtype:bitworking.org/employee' and 'Content-Subtype:bitworking.org/employee-list.' Then if the community wanted to define a subtype of 'employee' it could easily go through a rigorous process just like other standards. Anyway, I'd love to get your thoughts on this.
Posted by Mike Schinkel on 2007-02-17
Posted by Mike Schinkel on 2007-02-17
Thanks, I've updated the document to use relative URIs instead of absolute URIs.
As to the use of URI vs URL, I tend to follow the advice in Section 1.1.3 of RFC 3986 and stick to URIs for everything.
Posted by joe on 2007-02-17
The example I gave for employees is a simple example of hypertext as the engine of application state, a client would first retrieve the list of employees and then from there navigate to each individual employee by following the links. We could add another such mechanism if the employee list became too long, i.e. you do paging as in the Atom Publishing Protocol. The employee list would only return the first N employees but would also contain a link to the next N employees. As the client application followed those links, either to the individual employee, or to the next page of N employees, a part of its state would change.
Now I said 'a part of its state' since that may not completely represent the client state. Think of an AJAX application that is not only manipulating employees via this interface but also manipulating a time sheet interface at the same time, a mash-up as it were.
As to JSON, sure, a well-known format such as Atom has a much higher value than the generic format (XML) that it is defined upon, and you'll notice that Atom has its own media-type. OTOH, you have to weigh that against the practice of trying to create the "perfect" format that represents, say, an employee. That has shades of the hype in days of yore for both XML and SQL, where some mysterious body would define the perfect 'schema' for our data and then all of it would inter-operate seamlessly. [Yes, this was a marketing promise of SQL, as funny as it seems today.] So my general suggestion would be to use a generic type initially and then register a more specific media-type once you have some experience with it. I'll also note that registering a specific media-type does not in any way indicate a "rigorous process", nor is it any guarantee of quality. The main function of registration is to avoid conflicts.
As for Atom sub-types, you need to look at the latest version of the APP where they are defined using a parameter on the media-type.
Posted by joe on 2007-02-17
Posted by Corey Goldberg on 2007-02-17
Posted by Bill Seitz on 2007-02-20
Were you thinking Rorschach-REST?
Sorry, but I don't plan on doing a detailed analysis of various people's "interpretations" of REST.
Posted by joe on 2007-02-20
Posted by Stefan Tilkov on 2007-02-21
Joe, in what sense does REST/HTTP have a notion of links that WSDL doesn't? It's the media type that defines what a link is - in XHTML {http://w3.org/1999/xhtml}a is one, in Atom on the other hand {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}link is. Xlink interestingly is purported to be dead and in your JSON example, how would I know what a link was? It's written in the respective media type spec, something a client needs to understand. The secret is to keep the number of media types small or mix-in a certain xml namespace.
But - I'm not at all familiar with WSDL - couldn't [the schema defined for] a message contain another wsdl fragment marked as safe? Wouldn't that constitute a link?
Posted by Matthias on 2007-02-21
Matthias: ("couldn't [the schema defined for] a message contain another wsdl fragment marked as safe? Wouldn't that constitute a link?")
Will common WS-* implementations actually provide the message recipient with any way to follow that "link" (i.e., parse the WSDL fragment and immediately use the interface it specifies)? I suspect not, especially in implementations where WSDL is parsed at compile time.
A link is no good if I can't expect the typical recipients to follow it easily. In the REST architecture, URIs are the common currency everyone understands; that's why they work as links regardless of document format.
Posted by Matt Brubeck on 2007-02-21
Posted by Patrick Mueller on 2007-02-21
Posted by joe on 2007-02-21
re: Patrick's comment
It would be even nicer if your margins expanded with the text size, so that when I increase the text size in my browser the column doesn't just fit 5 or 10 words per line.
Posted by Edward O'Connor on 2007-02-21
Posted by Chimezie on 2007-02-22
It's usually better to leave the allocation of new URIs up to the server and not the client, which avoids problems like collisions. In the example given the client will immediately find out the new URI because it is returned in the Location: header of the response.
Posted by joe on 2007-02-22


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The Idea
One evening, Ms. Waters complained about her problem during dinner with her husband Keith and friends Rick and Vivian Pura, who were computer consultants. The light bulb of an idea flickered. Why not build an online database of used books, like the databases Keith was in the midst of building for the government? During lunch breaks, boring meetings and evenings, the two couples poured their energy into the task of creating a website that would connect customers looking for hard-to-find titles with booksellers. In 1996, they launched Advanced Book Exchange, which later came to be called Abebooks.
Thinking Like a Newcomer
Like most good ideas, listing books online now seems painfully obvious (Amazon, ahem). Nevertheless, Ms. Waters and her partners initially faced an uphill battle in convincing bookstores to sign on to Abebooks. "Booksellers are a different breed," she says, laughing. "They are highly intelligent people but many are resistant to technology and change. I got into IT in the early '80s and Keith had a computer science degree. So we knew there was a technological solution."
Abebooks initially signed up five booksellers with inventories totalling 5000 books, but after a year of travelling from book fair to book fair, their inventory grew to one million books. Soon they had 1,000 booksellers and 12 million books. Abebooks was acquired by Amazon in 2008 for an undisclosed amount.
What makes Abebooks remarkable isn't that it solved the irritating problem of relying on print advertising and snail mail to connect buyers and sellers. Ms. Waters' more valuable revelation – only possible at the intersection of her interests – was to anticipate the huge challenges the Internet was about to pose to independent book stores. Abebooks made it possible for used bookstores to find their own small corner of the book market dominated by ebooks and Indigo. Why was Ms. Waters able to identify a solution other booksellers didn't see? "We were newcomers," she says. "We had a totally different perspective."
Brian Scudamore, the entrepreneurial dropout
The Problem
After disappointing his parents by dropping out of high school, Vancouver native Brian Scudamore needed to earn some cash while he sorted his life out. One afternoon in 1989, while eating at a McDonald's, he spotted an old beat-up truck in the drive-through, "Mark's Hauling" written on its side. He then spent his remaining savings on a truck.
The truck generated income and he soon started college, but Mr. Scudamore quickly became bored. Perhaps because of his attention deficit disorder he wasn't satisfied with a simple junk removal business. He looked into franchising. "Eleven different franchise experts I talked to said, 'Don't franchise this business; it won't work,' " Mr. Scudamore says. "There are too few barriers to entry in the business, they said. Anyone can go out and buy a truck and start hauling junk." Mr. Scudamore knew the experts were right: His business in its current state offered nothing unique that would justify franchising.
The Idea
After long contemplation, Mr. Scudamore hit upon an idea. The problem with home services like junk hauling, he thought, was a lack of professionalism. "Nobody ever shows up on time. You've got to call ten times to get your plumber back. It's ridiculous," he says. Despite the experts' advice that his area of business wasn't a good candidate for franchising, he realized that the goal would be within reach if he brought a whole new level of competency. He started by developing a central call centre, where customers could book appointments and discuss jobs in detail rather than having to call a hurried truck driver on his cell. Then he set his sights on building a national brand: 1-800-GOT-JUNK.
The Benefit of Not Fitting In
Because Mr. Scudamore was able to imagine how to franchise a business that everyone thought was impossible, 1-800-GOT-JUNK now has 200 locations in three countries. "The key to being creative is taking the road less travelled," he says. "All my life, I've been an outsider. I didn't fit into the school system. I didn't finish college. The fact that I lack business training meant I had to find new ways to do things."Report Typo/Error
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The race is on between Auburn, Geneva and many other cities, villages, and towns looking to win one of four monetary prizes in the "Bark For Your Park" on line contest from www.petsafe.net.
PetSafe, who leads the industry in the development of innovative pet behavior, containment, and lifestyle, is giving away the top prize of $100,000 to build a PetSafe dog park. There will also be four $25,000 prizes given away this summer.
Auburn was in the competition last year and made the Top 15 but did not win any money. This is the first attempt for Geneva. The top 15 wll have to produce a 2-minute video that invites dogs to their dog park. Voting on line can be done twice a day. This morning Auburn had almost 800 votes and Geneva had almost 100.
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As some of you know, I just purchased my first AR-15 lower and am building u p my first AR rifle.
Since I will need ammo to use with it, I have been reading everything I can find about ammo for the 5.56/.223 rifles.
Just too much to digest :confused:
Anyway, can anyone explain to me why there is a 5.56 chamber when, from what I gather, there is physically NO DIFFERENCE between it and .223???
Why sell a 5.56 chamber barrel if its the exact same as .223?
I do understand that military grade 5.56 is loaded to a much higher pressure than commercial .223, so it makes sense to have a receiver built to withstand the higher pressure.
So, you say 5.56 is simply the NATO metric equivelant to .223? Is it that simple?
That leads me to other questions. If my AR is built to 5.56 specs, should I try to find 5.56 ammo to use in it or just buy the best .223 ammo for my purposes? I am just not finding any ammo that is specifically listed at 5.56mm :confused:


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We first met on a late summer afternoon for her maternity portraits and I've been waiting to meet her little guy ever since. Brayden made his arrival right on time but had an eventful first couple days. His mama wasn't sure how he would be for portraits since he'd been so fussy, but he was […]
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The Hudson Valley Community College men's basketball team (6-9) eclipsed the century mark for the first time this season, beating Tompkins Cortland Community College(9-7) 102-91 at home on Monday, Jan. 17. The Vikings trailed by four points at halftime, but a 59-point second half helped seal the victory. Jesse Smith (Bishop Maginn/Albany) had two of his 18 points after a key dunk with less than three minutes left in the game to give the Vikings a 12 point lead. Kalik Parker (Ragsdale /Jamestown, NC) and Armand Thomas (Herbert H. Lehman/ Bronx) both recorded double-doubles. Parker finished with 18 points and 11 rebounds and Thomas with 12 points and 12 rebounds. Anthony Robustiano (Mohonasen/Rotterdam) also chipped in 17 points for the Vikings.
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Andre Thomas of Far Rockaway was charged this week with five counts of attempted murder after he fired into a crowd of approximately 30 people.
Tickets for the hayride that will be part of the Halloween ceremony at Fort Tilden will be available beginning at 5:45 on Sunday, October 31. In addition, there will be a costume party at the fort featuring prizes for winning costumes.
Ed Gormley, the proprietor of the Belle Harbor Laundry on Beach 129 Street is offering to use his metal detector to check Halloween candy for young residents. Parents are urged to bring the candy to the laundry and Gormley and his staff will check it out for safety.
The issue of The Wave that was published 20 years ago this week did not have a date beneath the masthead. For that reason, it has become a collector's item.
Helen Leonescu, the local Democratic district leader, will be honored by the Gustave Hartman Y at its dinner-dance on Novmber 7.
The Queens Division of the Israel Bond organization will honor Phyllis Kaplan of Far Rockaway at a testimonial luncheon to be held on November 10.
Noted local historian Emil Lucev recently completed an archeological dig of sorts at Beach 104 Street and Beach Channel Drive. What he found were the footings for the 1896 Chute-The-Chutes ride that once stood at that location, as well as the roadbed for Wainright Avenue.
Rock n' Roller's, the roller skating arena on Beach 116 Street and the boardwalk, is scheduled to reopen on November 5. It was not a good sign that the building was shuttered all summer.
Unless more people begin patronizing the Dayton Shopping Center, many of the stores will begin to close, according to the local business development organization. Although local police have begun to patrol the shopping center more aggressively, many residents are unsure of the safety of shopping there.
Councilman Walter Ward visited Junior High School 180 this week to see for himself the changes that he funded.
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The Armistice Day ceremonies will be held at the Doughboy Monument nearby the 100 Precinct. Once again, the Daniel M. O'Connell Post will be hosting the exercises.
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The M & M Metal Products office on Almeda Avenue is under water from floods so often that the owners are sure that their facility is below sea level.
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The new public school, PS 183, has lots of children but no playground. PS 44, which the new school replaces, has a large playground and no children. Something seems to be wrong with that picture.
Many Rockaway residents who take winter vacations in Florida are still not sure they want to make the trip in light of the Cuban Missile Crisis two weeks ago.
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SAN JOSE, CA - One day after the Utah State men's basketball team edged out San Jose State, it was the women's turn as the Aggies defeated the Spartan women, 64-54, on Friday at the Events Center. Sophomore guard Alice Coddington scored a career-high 12 points as USU out scored SJSU 36-23 in the second half.
The Aggies earned their first WAC road win of the season after home wins against New Mexico State and Boise State. With the win, USU improves to 9-10 overall and 3-3 in Western Athletic Conference. San Jose State fell to 2-16, 1-4 in conference action.
This is the first time since the 2003-04 season that USU has had a .500 or better record six games into the conference season. That season the Aggies were 4-2 in the Big West in their first six games. The ninth win also ties last season's win total as USU was 9-20 last season.
For the second game this season, Utah State had four different players score in double figures. Senior guards Danyelle Snelgro and Ana Pares both scored a game-high 15 points, while junior forward Lydia Whitehead scored 12 to round out the quartet of double-figure scorers. Junior forward Nicole Johnson was the leader on the boards with nine.
The USU offense came alive in the second half behind a solid second period by both Whitehead and Coddington. Whitehead took control for the Aggies at the start of the second half, scoring eight of the first 13 points for Utah State.
After being down three points at halftime, Utah State finally took the lead, 40-39, with 13:07 left off a Lydia Whitehead free throw. Once taking the lead, the Aggies would not look back, leading the remainder of the game. USU would embark on an 8-0 run that would push the lead to eight points with 10:50 remaining in the second half. The Aggies would take as big a lead as 12 points to help lead to their third double-figure win of the season.
Snelgro made five free throws in the last 54 seconds to help secure the win.
In the first half, the Aggie defense was stingy in the early goings with four steals and causing six Spartan turnovers in the first 12 minutes.
Danyelle Snelgro had the hot hand for the Aggies early in the game scoring six of USU's first 17 points. USU would take as big a lead as eight points in the first half. But sloppy Aggie play would prompt an 8-0 run by the Spartans that would eventually tie the score at 20-20. San Jose State would take a 23-22 lead with less than five minutes left in the first stanza. A 6-0 run would follow for the Spartans behind the strength of the three pointer, and SJSU's lead would extend to 29-24 with 3:05 remaining in the first half.
In the first half, junior Shaunna Ridge would be a force to be reckoned going 3-for-3 from behind the arc. Ridge would end the half with 11 points, helping the Spartans to shoot 75 percent from three. SJSU shot 52.4 percent from the field in the first half, edging the Aggies who would shoot 42.9 percent from the field.
For the game, USU shot 43.6 percent from the field (24-for-55), while making 2-of-10 three pointers for a clip of 20 percent. The Aggies shot 70 pecent from the free throw line (14-of-20), including making several down the stretch to secure the lead. The Spartans shot 41.2 percent (21-for-51) for the game, while shooting a stellar 50 percent for the three point line (8-for-16). SJSU shot only 50 percent from the charity stripe (4-of-8).
The Aggies look to extend their winning streak to three games against Hawai`i on Sunday, Jan. 25 in Honolulu at 5 p.m. HT.
All Utah State games can be heard on KLGN (1390 AM) in Logan with Evan Nyman calling the play-by-play and Ashley Rutledge providing color commentary for home games. They can also be heard on the web by going to the Utah State Athletics home page at www.UtahStateAggies.com.
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