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Why Telecom's Odd Couple Is Trying So HardJulia Flynn
At a retreat in northern Virginia, a half-dozen executives from British Telecommunications PLC and MCI Communications Corp. huddled in early September. Just weeks after the two phone companies formalized a $5.3 billion alliance, they were thrashing out a plan for a new joint venture. As they got deeper into their discussions, they realized just how difficult their task would be. Worldsource, a competing alliance led by American Telephone & Telegraph Co., is also aimed at offering multinational corporations global voice, data, and video networks. AT&T's recent deal to buy McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. furthers the giant's reach. While the MCI and BT execs size up that 1,000-pound gorilla, "we have to sit down and design a new company," says Chris Earnshaw, who was named head of the BT-MCI venture last month.
That's a tall order. Earnshaw, a furrow-browed 39-year-old, faces a rival with more than twice the combined revenues of BT and MCI. An engineer who joined British Telecom in 1972 when the company was part of the postal service, Earnshaw has to meld the cultures of two vastly different companies. The stakes are huge. Not only did British Telecom agree to buy 20% of MCI for $4.3 billion, but the two also plan to pour some $1 billion into the joint venture. The objective is to make the new company one of a few global supercarriers in the fast-growing market for international corporate network services.
Earnshaw may not seem an obvious choice to head the venture. Although he soared through the ranks before managing BT's global networks, he "has never been involved in marketing or sales, has never lived outside Britain, and has never been involved in a joint venture," says a former BT exec. Michael L. Hepher, BT's group managing director, concedes that Earnshaw doesn't have the perfect resum for the job but says he nominated him for his "mental agility" and accomplishments. Indeed, Earnshaw is credited with launching the company's 800-number network in 1985, bringing together multidisciplinary teams to help digitalize BT's long-distance network, and cutting its worldwide network staff by 25%, to 30,000, in a year.
SPRING DEBUT. As CEO of the still-unnamed BT-MCI venture, Earnshaw will oversee 1,000 employees drawn from BT and MCI as well as hired away from other telecom players. Based in northern Virginia, the company should be up and running by spring. BT will contribute its Atlanta-based Syncordia, which manages communications networks for companies, and its Cyclone Project, a $1 billion-plus effort to create a high-capacity multimedia network (table). MCI will offer access to its world-class "intelligent network," an international voice and data system. The new company, which will sell its network services through BT and MCI, hopes to turn a profit in three years.
Earnshaw's biggest challenge may be cultural. BT employees, Hepher acknowledges, remain too bureaucratic, and BT products continue to be driven by what its engineers dream up in the lab rather than what its customers want. MCI, on the other hand, has tried to stay entrepreneurial and customer-oriented. Indeed, it's hard to find two companies with such different histories. BT was separated from the postal service in 1981, and three years later, it was privatized. Yet it remained stubbornly customer-unfriendly. It continued, for example, to send out bills that didn't break out the cost of individual calls through much of the 1980s. Although competition has gradually been introduced in Britain, BT retains 90% of the phone market.
MARKETING COUPS. MCI, on the other hand, began life 25 years ago as a scrappy underdog. It took on AT&T, first in the courts and then in the market, eventually grabbing an 18% share and $11 billion in annual revenues. Lately, it has been known for marketing coups such as Friends and Family, which offers discounts for calls to a group of friends and relatives. Just as important, MCI has successfully fought bureaucracy. "There are only two levels of management between [MCI Chairman] Bert C. Roberts Jr. and the branches," boasts Timothy Price, president of MCI's business-services division.
But as BT has been forced to face competition, it has changed its ways. It has shed 75,000 employees since 1990, including many old postal-service bureaucrats. Vivienne Peters, CEO of London-based Telecommunication Users Assn., credits that move for "enormous" improvements in service and transmission quality. BT has also halved its layers of bureaucracy and hired outside talent.
Still, the BT-MCI venture faces many hurdles, including a potential culture clash. Earnshaw says he hopes to avoid that by not trying "to bolt two cultures together," building a new one instead. Another hurdle: BT has never liked such alliances in the first place, says Hugh Small of Arthur D. Little Ltd. in London. "And when it has formed them, it wants to dominate."
To match AT&T's reach in Asia, BT and MCI may have to learn to get along with a third partner, too. Worldsource partners include Japan's KDD, Singapore Telecom, and Korea Telecom. BT had been courting Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., but an NTT spokesman says the company "decided to shelve the idea for the time being" because of financing and legal issues.
Meanwhile, BT and MCI execs are getting to know one another--even if the mother tongue sometimes gets in the way. After attending the recent powwow, Kathleen R. Flaherty, an MCI senior vice-president who will be the joint venture's marketing head, says she needs remedial British. "I've had to get used to somebody being 'cheesed off' at something," she jokes. And Earnshaw will have to learn to speak American. But even though BT and MCI may not share a common language, they share something even bigger: a common foe.
THE MCI-BRITISH TELECOM ALLIANCE BT BRINGS -- Experience in managing international voice and data networks for multinationals through its Atlanta-based Syncordia. -- A billion-dollar-plus effort to create a high-capacity multi- media network, dubbed the Cyclone Project. -- Control of 90% of the British telephone market, where 13% of the world's multinationals are based. -- Financial muscle. BT in 1992 had free cash flow of $1.9 billion and a debt-to-equity ratio of just 13%. MCI BRINGS -- Innovative marketing, such as Friends and Family, the discount plan that helped MCI gain 7 million customers. -- An "intelligent network" that routes calls and makes possible such innovations as Friends and Family. -- The No.2 position in the U.S. long-distance market, where 40% of the world's multinational corporations are based. -- An aggressive, customer-oriented culture that BT, a former state-owned monopoly, hopes will rub off. DATA: SOCIETE GENERALE TURNBULL SECURITIES LTD., COMPANY REPORTS


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Mike Meltser's Things to Watch During Texans OTAsHouston Texans Official Team Activities begin this week and that means that we will start getting an idea about how the 2017 team will work out. Here are some questions that I think we should be watching during these first practices of the Texans offseason.
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Meltser's 5 Things To Look For At Texans Training CampHouston Texans training camp gets underway at the Houston Methosdist Training Center on Sunday. But what do you need to look for while the Texans get ready for the season. Here are the 5 things I will be paying attention to at Texans training camp.
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Michael Szpir, Fenella Saunders, Amos Esty
THE GRAIL BIRD: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-Billed
Woodpecker. Tim Gallagher. Houghton Mifflin, $25.
Anyone paying attention to the news recently has heard that the
ivory-billed woodpecker, believed for more than half a century to be
extinct, has been found living in the swamp forests of Arkansas.
Although some ornithologists would like to see better evidence, many
scientists have been convinced—primarily by sound
recordings—that at least two of the birds remain. In The
Grail Bird, author Tim Gallagher, who is the
editor-in-chief of Cornell's Living Bird magazine, tells
the story of how he tracked the giant woodpecker by following leads
supplied by people who either had seen the bird in the 1930s and
1940s or claimed to have seen it more recently. One of these tips
eventually led to a sighting during a canoe trip with a fellow
"grail" seeker, Bobby Harrison (shown at right decked out
in camouflage with his camcorder), and the rest is now history.
Along the way, Gallagher weaves an engaging tale that is in part a
detective story and in part a history of previous sightings. Readers
will be infuriated by the greed and ignorance that eradicated the
old-growth bottomland forests in which the woodpecker lived. And,
given the widely publicized skepticism voiced during the summer of
2005, readers will not be surprised to learn that previous
"rediscoverers" of the ivory-billed woodpecker were
greeted with the kind of cynicism that's usually reserved for
sightings of Bigfoot. Gallagher clearly "knows" what he
saw—whatever the skeptics may think—but he also agrees
that it is simply good science to acquire more evidence. To that
end, the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and Arkansas Audubon
Society are organizing another expedition to Arkansas this winter.
They were looking for volunteers as this magazine went to
press.—Michael Szpir
THE MATH INSTINCT: Why You're a
Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and
Dogs). Keith Devlin. Thunder's Mouth Press, $25.
Babies just a few days old have number sense. Psychologists have
shown this by tracking the length of time infants stared at an image
on a screen, finding that they could reliably tell the difference
between one object and a collection of two objects, and between two
objects and a collection of three objects. A dog trying to fetch at
maximum speed a ball thrown over a lake diagonally to the water line
seems able to figure out how far to run along the shore before
plunging into the water, a problem that a human would need calculus
to solve. So why is mathematics the bane of so many people?
In The Math Instinct, Keith Devlin tries to make the
subject less intimidating by demonstrating that math is all around
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surprising as a savvy ball-fetching dog.
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relation between Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio, one that is
likely to make his target audience of math-phobes feel betrayed.
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store, typically manage just fine, although they tend to use methods
different from those they were taught in school. In the context of
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TIGER BONE AND RHINO HORN: The Destruction of Wildlife for
Traditional Chinese Medicine. Richard Ellis. Island
Press, $26.95.
On bear farms in China and Southeast Asia, workers insert catheters
into the gall bladders of caged bears and, once or twice a day,
"milk" the bears for their bile. Bear bile's purported
curative properties make it a valuable commodity—every year
about 7,000 kilograms of it are sold worldwide in various consumer
products. Walk into a traditional Chinese medicine shop in a large
North American city and you're likely to be able to buy
pharmaceuticals containing bear bile, which is used to treat
jaundice, hemorrhoids and a host of other ailments.
In Tiger Bone and Rhino Horn, prolific nature writer
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economic issues. For people living on just dollars a day, the chance
to make hundreds or even thousands of dollars by killing a single
animal is too good to pass up. There is some good news—the
white rhino (above right) is a conservation success story.
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species.—Amos Esty
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Lucille M. Strus, 75, of Brainerd, died on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, at her home. Services for Lucille will be held on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, at Brenny Funeral Chapel in Baxter at 2 p.m. with Father George Zeck officiating. Reception to follow in the Brenny Funeral Chapel Reception Room. Visitation will be Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, at Brenny Funeral Chapel from 5-7 p.m.
Lucille was born Feb. 17, 1937, in Long Prairie, Minn., the daughter of Jacob and Marie (Nemchek) Vollmer. After high school, Lucille became a homemaker and raised four children. She was a member of St. Christopher's Catholic Church in Nisswa.
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The Tibetan word bardo literally means "between two." Although it is popularly taken to refer to the after-death state, its principal meaning is the nowness in every moment of time, the continually moving point between past and future. Thus bardo occurs at every moment of time, and to understand it is to understand the development of consciousness. The key to its understanding is nowness.
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Major transport and energy groups sound alarm on e-mobility: Europe must accelerate infrastructure plans
Europe's key industry players and NGOs push Member States to show more urgency and publish their plans for crucial e-mobility infrastructure.
Natural gas not a 'bridge fuel' to cleaner trucks and cars – study
Oslo to ban cars by 2019
The new city government in Oslo has said it will eliminate private cars from the city centre by 2019 as part of plans to make the Norwegian capital reduce its greenhouse gases by 50%.
Brussels and Gothenburg highlight difficulties of tackling congestion
The unofficial capital of Europe is the most congested city in Europe, according to the latest ranking of congested cities, but opinion sampling and a vote in Gothenburg suggest public willingness for tackling congestion is not great.
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Ryan Seacrest's official website announced that American Idol host Seacrest has kicked off Idol Across America where fans across the country can run the Idol microphone.
The tour of the microphone starts in New York City. The mic will then travel to throughout 13 cities and visit such landmarks as Fenway Park, the Las Vegas strip, and the Grand Canyon. Seacrest stated: "It's going to be cool because as the microphone comes through each city, it will be run by fans of the show, local heroes, inspirational figures, celebrities and then it will end up on our stage in Hollywood."


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A significant Internet "denial of service" attack Thursday directed at popular Web sites such as Facebook and Twitter may have been carried out or instigated by the Russian government in an attempt to silence a dissident blogger in Georgia. At least so says the blogger.
The Guardian:
The Georgian blogger known as Cyxymu, who was yesterday the victim of a cyber assault that affected hundreds of millions of web users around the world, has blamed the attack on the Kremlin.
Speaking to the Guardian from an office in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, he said he believed the denial-of-service strike that hit LiveJournal, Facebook and Twitter stemmed from an attempt to silence his criticism over Russia's conduct in the war over the disputed South Ossetia region, which began a year ago today.
"Maybe it was carried out by ordinary hackers but I'm certain the order came from the Russian government," said the blogger, whose monicker is a latinised version of the Russian spelling of Sukhumi, the capital of Georgia's other breakaway republic, Abkhazia.
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Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek
Catholic Church, is quite young and very willing to speak directly and
frankly, as this recent CNS piece indicates:
secularism underlies the worldwide economic crisis and challenges the
future of Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church told
Canada's bishops.
current economic crisis is merely the symptom of a much deeper
spiritual and cultural crisis," Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk told the
annual plenary of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Sept. 25.
"As Western society rejects old moral structures and values, it finds
that its moral GPS has no fixed and stationary points of reference."
Shevchuk said the church must find "new courage" to proclaim the truth
of the Gospel to contemporary society to provide "an anchor and
live in societies where virtue and goodness are frequently a veneer for
religious intolerance, personal gratification and moral decay," he
said. "Secularism would like us to be closed in a little box of Sunday
The former Soviet Union used that approach to religion, he said.
of church and state has become separation of faith values from society,
yet our mission is to preach the word of God to all and to be a
constant sign of God's loving presence through social ministry," he
said. "Let us not be afraid of the totalitarianism of political
correctness and speak the truth regardless of whom we might offend,
whether it is on same-sex marriage or on the genocide of abortion."
He recalled that, under communism, the church witnessed "in the catacombs" as well in in open defiance to the regime.
many martyrs and confessors have suffered for the faith in the last
century. Let their example and witness be an inspiration for all of us,"
Archbishop Shevchuk said.
Read the entire piece. For more about Abp. Shevchuk, who is just 42 years old, see this previous CNS piece, from March 2011.
And for more about the Ukrainian Catholic Church, see my March 2011 post, "The History and Liturgy of the Ukrainian Church". A good introduction to Eastern Christianity is the August 2012 essay, "Both Lungs", by Christopher Warner.
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Rihanna is planning to ignore the strict new dress code at the Grammys.
The 'Stay' singer - who is planning to walk the red carpet with her boyfriend Chris Brown before the ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday night (10.02.13) - is reportedly planning to ignore the show's brand new ban on provocative clothing, which includes too much cleavage, side-boobs or butt cheeks.
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The Walton County School Board met for their first session in 2014 on Jan. 7 at 5 p.m. Absent from the meeting were Board-member Mark Davis and Walton School Superintendent Carlene Anderson.
Supervisor of Curriculum and the Instruction Department Kay Dailey sat in for Anderson during the meeting. With no opening announcements the board approved the agenda before them as well as adopting past minutes from workshops and meetings 4-0.
With no public comments forthcoming, the board moved to consent agenda items, which were approved 4-0.
Under the action agenda, the comprehensive school board policy update drew approval with a 3-1 vote with Board-member Sharon Roberts being the dissenting vote. Other agreements and contracts as well as financial summaries, personnel recommendations and facilities and construction items were approved 4-0.
One item that will come before the board at their next meeting on Jan. 21, is an item requesting the approval to schedule a hearing for suspension of Walton Middle School (WMS) teacher Harriet Hurley for charges of misconduct in office brought to the board by Anderson under Florida State Board rule 6A-5.056.
In the notice Hurley is accused of leaving an adult dining area on Nov. 20 and going into a classroom and making "embarrassing and disparaging remarks" to a student concerning her "granddaughter and an assignment." The report then said Hurley returned to the adult dining area and discussed the incident further before coming into contact with the student again on Nov. 21, and contacting the student's parents.
On Dec. 2, 2013, Hurley allegedly admitted to making an "unprofessional decision" during an administrative meeting, and on Dec. 18, refused to sign a recommendation by Anderson for a 10 day suspension without pay to be administered by the administration of WMS.
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A lovely mild spoon bread that makes a great addition to any meal! This can be made ahead and baked later. This recipe came courtesy of Ben Barker, Magnolia Grill, in Durham, N.C. Cook time does not include cooking of sweet potato. You could replace the potato with pumpkin for pumpkin spoon bread, or other squash. I might even try banana and see what happens!
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This is so good! The eggs make it very light, and the flavors of the sweet potato and cornmeal blend nicely. I love that there's very little sugar in this. It's easy to make, except it took me a long time to whisk in the cornmeal and flour-I think I needed to add them more slowly. I'll get it right next time!!!! Great homey recipe! Thanks~
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- 2 cups half-and-half
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 3 teaspoons sugar
- 1 cup cornmeal
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- 8 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces
- 6 eggs, separated
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- Bake sweet potato in center of 325°F oven until tender, about 1 hour.
- Peel and puree until smooth; set aside.
- Butter a 12-cup shallow casserole.
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Focused on addressing climate and disaster risks that threaten development, Jo's team supports countries in building resilience through risk-informed and zero-carbon approaches to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This includes policy engagement in support of international agreements and processes, as well as programmatic support to UNDP Country Offices to implement the Sendai Framework for DRR and the Paris agreement. Jo's team also leads UNDP's post-disaster recovery efforts, with an aim to seize the recovery effort as a strategic opportunity to Build Back Better.
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About headers , A friend gave me a used set of Hooker comp headers from a 68 Camaro , they fit and cleared everything on my pickup but they hung down to low under my truck so I didn't use them and bought a set of Headman hedders , they are shorties for a 64 / 65 Chevelle, they fit good but the drivers side keeps blowing out gaskets. I'm thinking about putting the manifolds back on.
Has anyone used the one piece window kits from classic chevy truck parts in missouri ? I was thiking about getting them while they are on sale for the holidays. Thanks for any info. John
i installed the one piece window kit from brotherstrucks.com during the summer. they do look rather sexy on my truck. i hated loosing the vent windows, but i need new vents. the price of the 1-piece was cheaper than fixing my stock windows. the installation is pretty straight forward, but i modified the install some. my comments are:
1. the anti-rattle sweeps required small screws to be used; i didn't like how they fit. they were loose, barely held themselves and fell out when the door slammed. i used 3M double side foam tape (the high speed stuff) the full length and eliminated the screws. they have not moved since.
2. after installing the interior window trim, i saw an 1/8" gap all around the window. i could see into the door, not a very professional install. i used some 3/16"x1/2'' foam weather strip all around the new window track and reinstalled the trim. looks good now.
3. tech support told me that my previously installed power windows would not work with these. now i see why they recomended against them. they drag toward the bottom, going up, but work fine.
4. they are rather loose in the down position. look at the math of putting a window this shape // down in a door this shape l l and you will understand. towards the bottom of the window they have a tilt to fit in the l l shape.
5. i have not driven my truck in the rain yet. i do not belive they will seal as well as the factory windows. i the full up the window barely fits into the window track. more // & l l math...
6. brothers website shows a darker tint than i recieved. they use to offer clear, tint & dark tint, now they only offer clear & tint.
they do look good, i would recommend them with the understanding of their imperfections.
more window math
more on the 1 piece window kit. this is to show the fit of the window vs the window track.
as the window comes down, it tilts to conform to the track
the window is cut undersized to minimize the tilt
the front track is not attached but merely a hanging guide
I like the way the one piece windows look it looks cool on your truck. I plan on my truck being a daily driver though , so I don't want any problems with leaking in my doors. I actually already purchased new vent windows for my truck but I need new "frames" for them. The piece that the glass mounts into and pivots inside. Ogre would you recomend the one piece glass for a daily driver? The one piece window kit in classic chevy truck parts website are located under door parts and then controls and regulators. thank you for your help.
john, my truck is a 3 season truck, they use salt here in the winter. i can't give you a recommendation because of the limited miles on mine. i say go for it. i believe the link is for the power kit only, not the glass. read the description. brothers had them on sale last mth when i bought mine $299 for glass, $599 for power & glass. i used a set of oem power windows from an 06 durango that i got free from a friend. it took a bit of fbricating to get them in, but they work nice
Thanks Ogre for the info. I added it up and to use the vent windows I will spend about $800 . So the one piece windows are much cheaper. but I don't want to let rain run into my doors either.Thanks for all the help again.
I haven't been on in a long time, and didn't read but a couple of pages back, but picked up a thing or two to comment on.
Nice firewall, Ogre, very well done. There are so many nicely done trucks in this thread; y'all keep up the good work.
On the header discussion, I have found, over the years, there are some unscientific, un-engineered, but fairly accurate "rules-of-thumb" regarding small block Chevy headers; they could likely be applied to any engine of similar displacement, too. On 283, and low performance 327's, basic primary size can be 1-1/2 inch, 30 inch length,and a 2-1/2 to 2-3/4 inch collector, with a 2 inch system following. Warmed up 327's, most 350's and up to 400's with a mild build can use 1-5/8 inch primaries at about 32 inches, and 3 inch collectors into a 2-1/2 or 2-3/4 inch system. Hi-perf small blocks will benefit from 1-3/4 inch primaries at 32 to 33 inches, with exhaust and muffs up to 3 inches. In our trucks, prefab or "factory made" headers for a first gen Camaro, or a second gen Nova will basically fit ok. Second gen Camaro headers will likely not have enough "drop" to clear the floor and crossmember; but all of them will probably need a bit of tweaking, depending on what engine and transmission mounts you use, and other "modification" factors. There are several makes of headers available that are designed for our trucks; Hooker has been mentioned, Hedman, Thorley, Doug's, and probably a few others, too. I like Thorley's "Tri-Y" style, myself, especially for trucks that will see work or towing duty as well as street performance. For just street performance, or street rod type stuff, regular long tube pattern headers are hard to beat. As I say, these are "rule-of-thumb" observations; there are so many variables when it comes to engine specs and levels of build, that if you want to get too technical, a flow bench analysis of your specific build would be in order. As for "shorty" and "block hugger" styles, I guess they are better than a poke with a sharp stick, and they are undoubtedly easier to build with, but I would not expect the level of performance from them that you can get from a decent set of long tubes. In real life, thump-in-the-butt reality, you might not be able to discern any real difference from one style to the other, though.
That's my seat-of-the-pants, shade tree, old school take on it. Others will have different opinions.
I found some vent frames that are still good . These are passengers side vent window frames I'm gonna drill the rivets out of a passenger side one and put the frame on my drivers side "track/mount" piece with new rivets. I have the new rubber pieces to put it together. My windows and vents won't be chrome yet but I think it will look ok while the truck is in the body work flat black stage . For now I have to be cheap and get it on the road. I will upgrade it one way or the other when time and money allow.
the one piece glass looks really nice. not meaning to hijack thread anyone here prostreet one of these trucks? i have bed sides cut out and narrowed 9" started just want to see some pics of what people use for rear wheel tubs. the early 66-72 surburban rear wheel tubs look like a nice canidate as it has flange for wood same as bed strips( waiting for verification on a set). great thread you started DD.
The 58 is coming along!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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if your going pro street, you'll probably need to tub the rearend too.
i just mini tubbed mine, just to get my tires under there
i cut the bed wall out and used the cutout to make the tub
thanks ogre should have posted this sooner i didnt do inital cuts to cleanly to use sheetmetal over
i don't think you can hijack this thread.
it's open discussion for 55-59 chevy trucks
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Environmental and public health issues in Mount Isa : 2007 community survey
Brereton, David, Keenan, Julia, Khan, Asad, Toloo, Sam, & Laffan, Warren (2008) Environmental and public health issues in Mount Isa : 2007 community survey. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland.
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This report presents the results of a random telephone survey of 500 adult residents of Mount Isa, conducted in early November 2007. The study was funded by Xstrata Mount Isa Mines. The primary aim of the survey was to collect data about community perceptions and experiences of air quality in Mount Isa and to compare these results with those of a similar survey conducted in 2000 (MacLennan, Lloyd & Hensley, 2000). Both surveys also included questions relating to other aspects of the Mount Isa environment (e.g. water quality, heat, amount of greenery) as well as questions aimed at ascertaining respondents' general attitudes towards environmental protection.
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Currently there are 874 active sewer accounts in the city. At least 310 of those are delinquent. The amount owed to the city exceeds 350 million dollars.
"I am one of those people," Joyce Jones said.
Jones has not paid her sewer bill since 2012. She has been unemployed and fell on tough times.
"It's not the city's fault," Jones said. "You not paying your bill, you can't hold the city responsible for everything that goes wrong."
Jones doesn't blame anyone but herself. Mayor Lionel Johnson said the problem gets worse year after year.
"Currently, we collect about $128,000 in sewer fees, but it takes over $1 million to operate the sewer system so we run a deficit in that area," Johnson said.
The City of St. Gabriel charges $15 per household for sewer fees. It charges $30 to $275 for businesses. The problem is, the City of St. Gabriel runs the sewer and the parish operates the water. Currently, the City of St. Gabriel is working with the parish on a cooperative endeavor agreement to shut off service to the people who don't pay their bills.
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The Legislative Auditor recommended that the City of St. Gabriel make changes. Another issue the state raised involved the purchase of vehicles outside of the public bid process. A Chevrolet Tahoe was purchased for the Police Chief recently for $30,000, but only one bid was secured. The Mayor said policies have been changed so that doesn't happen again.


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On September 11, 2010, Petey Pablo attempted to board a plane with a 9mm handgun hidden in his carry-on luggage. After being indicted by a grand jury, the North Carolina native plead guilty Wednesday (March 16) to possession of a stolen firearm.
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The most appropriate approach(es) for rejuvenating the lower lid region in any individual are best determined by an in-the-flesh consultation with a board certified aesthetic physician with extensive experience in treating this region.
In general terms, however, owing to the disproportionate attention paid to our eyes by observers, when the regions surrounding them look great, we look great, and when they look tired, swollen, baggy, crinkled, wrinkled and ringed by dark circles, we appear exhausted, worn out, frazzled, and older. With the passage of time, many of the changes that we see result from shrinkage shriveling, and a downward descent of a once robust, heart-shaped fat pad that sat immediately under the lower lids and extended out toward the temples, inward toward the root of the nose, and downward about half-way to the angles of the mouth. The loss of this volume and its displacement in the direction of the jaw elongates the lower lid to several times its narrow youthful width and leaves it somewhat sunken.
Likewise, the thin, delicate skin below the eye darkens in part due to the reflection of the darkish color of the underlying vessels that were once hidden by the presence of the fat pad. And, finally, like a balloon having lost its air after being fully inflated for a long while, the skin of the lower eyelid fails to snap back to its youthful smoothness, and instead remains crinkled and baggy.
In the past, lower lid Blepharoplasty was the only treatment for these problems. Today, many wishing to avoid the expense, discomfort and downtime can be treated with the injection of volumizing and filling agents to restore the volume to the lower lid regions and to treat hollows, dark circles, and tear troughs and recontour them, mask the bags, and diminish the darkish discoloration.
A variety of volumizing agents have been used for this purpose. They include Radiesse, Perlane and Juvederm Ultraplus. My personal favorites are Juvederm Ultraplus for providing overall smoothness and shape and Perlane when more of a lift is required. When necessary, I combine both agents to recontour and lift the cheek directly below lids to support them. For the very thin skin immediately below the lashes of the lower lid, to treat hollows, tear troughs, and dark circles, I prefer to combine a tiny amount of Radiesse (which has a whitish color for masking) and Belotero Balance. Since the bulk of the materials used are composed of hyaluronic acid, should the need arise, they can be dissolved quickly with microdroplets of an enzyme known as hyaluronidase.
It usually takes about five minutes to treat each lower lid, and the results are immediate, typically evoking a "Wow!" response from the patients when they look in the mirror.
While minimal bruising, tenderness, swelling and redness may occur following treatment in this delicate region, these are usually temporary and disappear spontaneously within one to seven days. Most people can return to work or social activities immediately or the following day and may use makeup if desired.
Web reference: http://YoungerLookingWithoutSurgery.com
Lower Eye Lid vs. Fillers
A picture would help with this question. Under eye bags can be due to a genetic condition in which you develop intermittent swelling underneath the eye. This usually does not improve after traditional eyelid surgery. If the bags are due to some protrusion of fat from the orbit then this can be corrected with eyelid surgery. Nothing, however, is ever permanent. Consult with a board certified surgeon who has experience operating on the face to find out if you are a good candidate for surgery. If you are not a candidate for surgery, fillers can sometimes be a good option to mask or hide the bags.
Lower lid treatment
An exam is required to determine which procedures or treatments would benefit you the most. Regardless of what is done, the aging process continues, and as tissues re-relax over years, the bags can recur.
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Lower Eye Lid Surgery or Fillers?
Treatment options will vary from individual to individual. Lower eyelid surgery involves the removal of fat, excess skin and muscle. If you have a pocket of fat beneath your lower eyelids but don't need to have any skin removed, a transconjunctival blepharoplasty can be performed. In this procedure a tiny incision is made inside the lower eyelid and fat is removed with fine forceps. No skin is removed, and the incision is closed with dissolving sutures. The results of this procedure will last for many years where as injectables are temporary. Be sure to visit with a Board Certified surgeon who will advise you of your surgical options. Although the cost is a factor in the decision making progress, the end result is most important.
Web reference: http://www.theplasticsurgeryclinic.com/procedures/face/eyelidlift.html
Lower eyelid bags
Lower eyelid surgery to take care of bags is very effective. Fat is either removed, repositioned, or both, through an incision on the inside of the eyelid. If there is redundant skin, this can also be removed by way of an incision just below the eyelashes. Fillers and laser can be helpful in people with mild bags. Consult with an oculoplastic surgeon about your options. When done in the office, the cost can be significantly less.
Web reference: http://utahoc.com/blepharoplasty-eyelid-lift/
Lower lid eye bags
Dear Hourglass 38.This is exactly when you want to consult with a Specialist board-certified Plastic Surgeon. There are times when fillers do the trick, there are times when laser does the trick, and there are indications for surgery. There is no point choosing one option because it costs less. If a reputable Plastic Surgeon suggests that surgery is the better option, then you are better off saving your money until you can afford the best option. Having said that, fillers or laser can give great results for that dark exhausted look under the eyes. Check it out with the right people before you make a decision. I wish you well in your endeavours.
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Fillers or Surgery for Eyelid Puffiness
Fillers are only useful for patients with hollowing and mild puffiness of the lower eyelid. They are actually preferred to surgery in this circumstance, since surgery would be too aggressive in many of those patients. If you have more substantial puffiness, then fillers can not smooth out the contour. If you fill too much, the eyelid looks swollen. Other times, the filler can support and accentuate the puffiness, making it even worse.
There are no substitutions for surgery if you have moderate to severe lower eyelid puffiness. If the cost is prohibitive, then wait and save until it is affordable.
Best of luck
Web reference: http://newfaceny.com
Lower eyelid blepharoplasty surgery
The primary goal of lower eyelid surgery is to remove the 3 fatty deposits located in the lower lids. A conservative removal of these bags is performed through a trans-conjunctival approach( Inside the eyelid) under a brief general anesthesia. If there is excess skin present, a external lash line incision is made and a pinch technique excision of the excess skin is removed and closed with tissue glue. Expect 2 weeks of bruising and swelling after the procedure. For examples please see the link below
Web reference: http://eyelids.com
Surgery or fillers?
There is a lot of additional information needed---age, medical condition, severity of the lower lid bags, etc. Lower lid bleph, in a patient with good indications, should last for many, many years. It is true that fillers are temporary but they do have their place in treatment options. I would encourage you to see a board certified plastic surgeon for a consultation. Remember that the fee includes anesthesia (a board certified anesthesiologist in my accredited facility) and the facility fee; when you divide it up, it is not a really expensive operation-although I know that it all comes from the same pocket for the patient!
Fillers or Surgery for Lower Eye Bags
First of all, without pictures or seeing you in person, it is impossible to give you specific advice. However, if you are looking for a permanent changes, then fillers are not your answers. Fillers are a temporary solution. However, if you are a good candidate for fillers, they can be very effective. However, fillers ADD volume. So, they are good if you have hollowness under the eyes. If you have "bags," then surgery may be your only option as the fat would need to be removed or repositioned and the extra skin possibly removed. I would suggest being evaluated by a board certified plastic surgeon.
Good Luck.
Web reference: http://www.ShaferPlasticSurgery.com
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I think the Razer would be best suited for lefties. Thanks to its semetrical design. It offers left hand gamers an opportunity to have a quality high DPI fragging mouse. And thats about where my recemendations of the Razor end.
For starters, Im really not a fan of semetrical mice. I just dont find them confortable over long gaming sesions. And ive felt that way since my first Logitech Mouseman 3-Button mouse back in the Dawango Doom II days. And i like the way the 5x series case from Logitech fills my hand without lifting my hand off the mousing surface to do so. ALong the same line, as a guy with large hands, the copperhead feels small and to low profile in my hand, and really makes my wrist hurt useing it for a long gaming sesion. Plus ive never been a fan of Razors hyper sensitive buttons. They just dont do it for me. I like a good authoritative click. Helps remove accidental railgun firings in the heat of battle.
Yep, I have been 'test driving' this mouse and the symmetrical nature is a HUGE, HUGE drawback. Although it is reasonably comfortable (esp since I'm used to using a symmetrical mouse at work), it is crap compared to a true righty mouse. Since about half of the lefties I know mouse right handed, I don't know why companies even bother with symmetrical mice. (If you're a righty, try mousing lefty for a night, it's honestly not that hard if you reverse the buttons and once you get used to the fact that your 'skew factor' is reversed. Do it for a week and it will be second nature. I broke my right collarbone a few years ago and had to mouse lefty, after a couple days I didn't even notice anymore)
Your comment really hits home because my current mouse *IS* in fact the original Mouseman Wheel that I pulled out of my junk drawer after breaking my last optical in a fit of rage. When I hooked it up I was friggen AMAZED at how good that old mouse felt (especially the PERFECT side button) and have been using it for months as even though it is a mechanical mouse. I have yet to see a mouse as well designed and can't fathom why all the new mice are so crap compared to this old design. I've bought and returned 3-4 mice since I switched to the mouseman but now I *really* need a new one as my wheel has finally lost 100% of its 'click' and is completely smooth scrolling like the idiotic MS mice.
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The other thing i dont like about the razer is the lack of weight. Some people prefer this, i on the other hand prefer a heavier weighted mouse. The G5 offers the best of both worlds with its removable weight tray (also known as the battery slot on the wireless version) with customizable weighting. I can then weight the mouse so that its flickable to my tastes. A GREAT feature that im slightly disappointed no one has implimented sooner.
Hmm, I also prefer a heavier mouse, but don't find it that big a deal. But this G5 is intriguing me...
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Also, i can do without the corny LED lighting of the razor. Yeah, the G5 has some base lights in the weight tray, and the little LED display up top, but neither of them are any mroe distracting then the rear light on an MS Explorer mouse, or the LED underlighting of typical optical mice. Personally I find the movement of the blue light in my lower right peripherial vision to be distracting at best, and downright nausiating in a quick multiplayer game of Q4 where is straking all over my vision, and drawing my eyes tword it (another reason why i hate VW dash boards with their blue back lighting AMBER FOOS!)
Yeah, the light isn't doing anything, but with a laser you have to do something to up the 'cool' factor since you don't get the wow of a visible optical beam. The 'always on' thing had me worried for a bit since my desk is next to my bed but then I realized, "Oh, non-visible laser spectrum on the tracker, smoove!" I have the 'red' mouse and it's not bad at night. My LED alarm clock is much brighter.
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Plus, i may be a little biased tword the G5 becuase im a former MX510 user. And i really like the design of that mouse. ANd im glad that Logitech took the time to improve the design to make it better.
Little things like removing the "forward" navigation button on the thumb well, i never really used it. But i discovered alot of games wouldent map to it natively. So its no loss to me. THey also removed the application button from teh top of the mouse, and added side scrolling to the mouse wheel. Although one thing i do really miss are the "cruise" buttons for and aft of the scroll wheel. Althogh they couldent be used in gaming...so i suppose the loss isnt terribly great for a hardcore gamer, but i liked to use them when browsing.
Ok, I am looking for a new mouse (still!) and the G5 is intriguing, but I tried the 510 and have to say I HATED it. It was too small, the smallish side buttons were hard to hit, the mousewheel was crap to use as a button (tho its scrolling was *by far* the best I have ever used in terms of accuracy). I never used the tiny top buttons as they were too small for me and not easy to hit for my hand position.
So here's what I'm looking for, if anybody has any suggestions please give them:
A large, right handed design. At the very least, main buttons that can be clicked even if you let the tips of your fingers hang over the front edge of the mouse (ie: the MX 1000 and 510 are horrid in this regard since the main buttons are recessed so you cant click by pushing down on the front edge).
A good, clicky, scroll wheel that is close to the front of the mouse, and it easy to use as a button without being super careful about accidently scrolling. The 510 scroll wheel was great for accuracy (need 3 clicks to get to the weapon / quickbar / whatever you need to get to? no problem, you'll be able to achieve the right number of clicks with extreme quickness and 99% accuracy after just a day or two of using the mouse). However, the 510 scroll wheel was not easy for me to reach, and was recessed too much to use as a button effectively. Side scrolling would be a large bonus IF everything else is good. Two more easy to hit buttons is never a bad thing.
Good side buttons on the thumb side. My PERFECT design (remember, this is a large, righty mouse) would have 3 buttons on the thumb side, stacked VERTICALLY. The modern 2 button horizontal layout boggles my mind as the thumb naturally moves in the opposite direction and I'd much rather simply move my thumb a tiny bit up or down and press with whatever part of my thumb is comfortable for me than have to either bend my thumb or do a non intuitive 'back click' determine which button I want. I 'hold' the mouse with the base of my hand so accidently clicking a thumb button while mousing isn't a problem and in my pefect design my thumb would very lighly rest on the middle button and allow me to easily hit that button or the upper / lower ones.
(I could go on about this for hours, but on a quick note, another modern thing that I very much dislike is the 4 button diamond layout for gamepad buttons. The 6 button layout, while separating the buttons into 3 'primary' and 3 'secondary' buttons in a way, is simply superior as one's thumb naturally moves along the three buttons in a row much more easily than moving around a diamond. But the console wars ended up going for 'cool looking' controllers in order to market the units and now the PC gamepads have gone along with the diamond design. With the XBox controller our fate was sealed and it's hilarious because MS went with the diamond but at the same time acknoledged the superiority of the 6 button layout by including the black / white buttons. But they couldn't line up these buttons perfectly with the others beacuse that would make it TOO obvious that the 3x2 layout is better and the controller was designed for looks so they had to misalign the B/W and make them tiny and pretend that they were like teritary bonus buttons even though every game proceeded to use them for important functions. Dammit, I could punch somebody in the face right now!)
A right side button is a bonus. But it has to be in the right spot and quite large in order to accomidate the less accurate nature of using one's pinky / ring fingers and the fact that the placement of said fingers is probably what varies the most among different people. If the button is in a place where I can hit it without changing how I hold the mouse I certainly will use it for something non essential... and eventually learn to hit it well enough to upgrade what I bind it to.. and eventually want a second button over there.
But it HAS to be in the right place! The Copperhead's 2 right side buttons are absolutely useless to me due to the way I hold the mouse. For me, a button shaped / positioned like the orginal MM Wheel side button would be perfect although it should take a lot less pressure to click. (If you haven't used the orginal MMW, its side button is along the bottom edge of the mouse about 2/5 of the way from the front of the mouse, and is about 1.5 inches long and half an inch high. It is truly the greatest side button of all time)
And umm... good mousing precision, obviously.
I have been looking for a new mouse for almost A YEAR now, and my current (8 year old!) mouse is now unusable due to wear and tear, so please, suggestions are welcome!


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During a Gallery hop
along the coastal villages trail you can look for treasures of bone and stone brought back by the Sea Captains of the China Trade.
A good place to start is at the Gilded Age mansions of Newport. From there head north for the whaling town of New Bedford following Rhode Island's Coastal Villages Trail.
The roads will take you through tiny settlements where the sea captains of the 1840s had built the Mansard-roofed mansions that now share their frontage with antique shops, art galleries, farm stands, wine tasting vineyards, a donut shop ranked top ten in the country, and an ice-cream stand offering more than 210 flavors.
Little Compton Commons will give you a glimpse of a New England village forgotten by time. Retaining the flavor of the old New England seacoast whaling villages and farming communities that lived by the sea and endured by the grace of God, the common's white clapboard church, the tallest building in town, looms over the center of the green surrounded by old gravestones wreathed in a patina of lichen beneath shading maples. Untroubled by civilization, the Commons is not unusual in this region deliberately out of step with the modern world.
From there the trail heads for the west branch of the Westport River and then north paralleling the river to Adamsville.
Legend has it that rum runners once rowed up the estuary in the dark of night to deliver illegal whisky near the gristmill in an era that gave the town the name, Valley of Sin.
Lamplights line the street where two general stores, the Barn Restaurant, and several gift shops surround the plaque to the crowing rights for Adamsville, the region's development of the Rhode Island Red, a variety of rooster world renown commemorated with a bronze plaque in front of the baseball park.
Nearby, the Westport Rivers Vineyard and Winery conducts tours of the processing rooms and a tasting gathered around their herb garden.
Special events for include a Chef's demonstration of pairing of wines and foods that include a gourmet meal served with the appropriate wines. The demonstrations of viticulture take place in rolling hills bathed in coastal mist where the climate akin to that of northern France produces some exceptional wines.
In the fishing port of Westport Point, you can walk past the house of Stephen Davis, 1770, once a designer of ship hulls, John Head, 1776, builder of colonial homes, and Gideon Davis an 1827 Captain of a whaling square rigger. The preserved homes of the 19th Century seafarers line the narrow main street terminating at the docks from where lobstermen and gill-netters tie up.
Herman Melville visited New Bedford's Seamen's Bethel and gathered detail for his tales of Moby Dick, Ishmael, and Captain Ahab's fateful revenge against the Great White Whale.
Allen "Pappy" Manley and wife Nancy run the Alderbrook farm, a family operation since 1898.
Back in 1898, an event largely overlooked occurred near here when retired China Trade Sea Captain Joshua Slocum returned after a three-year solo circumnavigation of the globe in his 37-foot oyster sloop, Spray, the first ever solo voyage around the world. He wrote an ingenuous no-frills adventure yarn in vigorous prose sure to please.
To the west, Fall River attracts travelers with its factory outlets and the steel-hulled warships at the floating museum of Battleship Cove. There we toured the Battleship Massachusetts, the Submarine Lionfish, the Destroyer J P Kennedy, two PT boats, and a Russian guided-missile cruiser . Nearby, outlet malls occupy old mill buildings.
The New England Sea Captains could have never imagined such ships of steel and speed. Their life was much slower and simpler. When they retired they used their treasures from the sea to build places of sanctuary on the Coastal Village Trail.
These are the words of Sea Captain Joshua Slocum from his book, "Sailing Solo Around The World", a no frills travel journal in which he tells his story as the first ever to sail solo around the world.
On a trip along Rhode Island's Coastal Villages Trail, you can visit the seaports and the fishing villages where Sea Captains like Joshua Slocum built their houses and where they lived and worked.
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Karla Young cuts flowers for her farm stand in Little Compton Rhode Island
Triverton's Four Corners offers a cluster of 30 art and craft galleries, a gourmet bakery, ample parking, and Grays Ice Cream Stand.
Nearby find Karla Young's Family Farm on Route 71 in Little Compton where you can buy fresh fruit and vegetables from the 180 acre farm that she and husband Tyler manage. .
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The Coastal Villages Trail runs north of Newport from Little Compton to the whaling museum of New Bedford.
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Bush Report – December 2011
The large wildebeest herds that were previously ranging the eastern Serengeti plains from Naabi Hill through Gol and Barafu Kopjes have shifted south over the last couple of weeks. Though there are still some scattered herds in the Triangle area around Naabi Hill, the bulk of the Migration is now concentrated in the deepest southern regions of the Serengeti Ecosystem including the Matiti Plains, which are located in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area about 10 miles southwest of the Lake Ndutu/Lake Masek area (Ndutu Lodge, Lemala Ndutu and Lake Masek Camps). There are also some scattered herds on the Kusini Plains.
This season we were all surprised with the early onset of the rains and hence the southern Migration, which started a full two months ahead of time in early October (as opposed to early December). The showers continued through November and December and the entire Serengeti and Ngorongoro Ecosystem is a brilliant emerald green. The last week has been dry and sunny and perhaps signals the start of general drying out period. Let's hope not as if the plains dry, the migration will disperse back into the woodlands and game viewing, in general, will suffer for at least the plains animals. Remember the old Serengeti adage is 'rain means game' so lets keep our fingers crossed that at least some precipitation continues through the rest of the green season.
To provide a better understanding of the amazing transformation the Serengeti Ecosystem has undertaken over the last couple of months, see below for two pictures taken from the Ngorongoro Crater view point with the first one take a few weeks ago and the second one take a few months ago. What a difference a little rain makes!
- January 04, 2012
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I just returned from Tanzania yesterday and can attest to what has been said about the green and migration having been there in the last few days! What an experience. It is beautiful and like nothing I have ever seen. I plan on writing and submitting my own expereince soon (let me get over the jet lag so I can think clearly)but until then I will say THANK YOU to ADS! EVERY ADS employee we came in contact with(both in the US and in Tanzania) were superior at what they do. Our guide Wilfred was THE BEST and not only showed us amazing things but taught us more than I could have hoped to learn! KUDOS to ADS and thank you for such an amazing expereince! Respectfully, Guy McWhorter


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In better days a 1 percent pay hike for city employees would have raised complaints against the Brainerd City Council for being tightfisted. Those days aren't here now and they aren't likely to return soon.
In today's brutal economy we have to take exception with the council's decision to grant a 1 percent hike or any increase for a wide variety of city employees. Workers who received the pay boost were police officers, administrative support, Brainerd Public Utilities staff, park maintenance, the Street and Sewer Department, the city administrator, other department heads and supervisors.
City negotiations continue with two other unions and the 1 percent hike will, no doubt, will be noticed by those bargaining units.
Council President Mary Koep noted most city wages exceed those of the private sector but after wrestling with the decision she backed the raise.
"The public needs to know there is value in what these people do," she said.
The vote in favor of the raise was 5-2 with council members Bob Olson and Kevin Goedker voting no.
While we wholeheartedly agree there's value in the work city employees perform, the same is equally true of the many private sector employees who are either being laid off or are going without pay increases during this recession.
From our vantage point the city's financial future looks pretty dire with Local Government Aid likely to be the No. 1 target of lawmakers as they try to fix a $6.2 billion budget deficit. Education has always been a favorite cause of legislators and even that area may have to take a hit in regard to state funding this year. Does the city council know something we don't know, that makes the short-term picture look rosier?
This was not the year for a pay raise of any amount for city workers.