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Just as developers used to promise to build new Covent Gardens every time they came across a redundant warehouse or superfluous tram shed, long after the initial charm of recycling London's former fruit market into an urbane oasis of cobbles and wine bars had faded into squalor and fast food, so the Bilbao effect comes up now, with equally teeth-grinding inevitability.
Ambitious towns and cities, from Hastings to Birmingham, tell us that exhibitionist museum architecture will do everything from solving long-term unemployment to reducing the crime rate. This is hardly Frank Gehry's fault, but fuelled by the violent mood-swings on which critical fashion depends, a reaction is starting to set in.
Writing in New Republic, American architecture critic Martin Filler dances exultantly, if not a little tastelessly, on the wreck of the Guggenheim's ambitions to build Gehry's most spectacular museum yet on a Manhattan site just yards from Ground Zero, describing it as a 'titanium-armoured dinosaur, doomed to extinction'.
Thrilling though the Gehry project might have proved in purely architectural terms, some will see its likely demise as not a bad thing. The Bilbao effect, that worldwide frenzy for museum architecture as a tourist destination and public spectacle rather than as a home for art, has spiralled so far out of control that some corrective was desperately needed.
But Filler, and those who think like him, are confusing the poverty of imagination of jumping on a stalled band- wagon with the genuine vision that animates cities as well as institutions. They are also missing the point about the inevitability of the donor's ego, and the need to manage it with subtlety.
It is not good enough to claim that the architecture of the museum should reduce its focus to the narrowest of definitions, that of accommodating artefacts of more or less value in more or less exquisite caskets. For better or worse, the architecture of a museum is as instructive and revealing about the society to which it belongs as any collection. Successful museums have a sense of purpose that is reflected in where - as well as how - their collections are housed.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) is a case in point. Its architecture reveals with all too brutal precision just how wide has been the gap between the ambitions of its sponsors to give their city an institution that will allow it to take its place in the world, and the deep-seated provincialism of the results. Lacma was meant to have been designed by Mies van der Rohe, but a fight between the trustees lead to the departure of the first director and the appointment of William Pereira, LA's answer to Richard Seifert, who did the job with predictable clunkiness.
Lacma's collections have been expanding ever since 1965, when it opened, and the museum has been trying for almost as long to come up with an architect who can solve the problems of its original buildings and allow more than just a fraction of its collections to be put on show. The fact that Lacma has very pointedly chosen not to give the job to Frank Gehry, the natural choice given that LA is his home town, has nothing to do with cold feet about too many Bilbaos and everything to do with the small-minded predilections of museum trustees.
Just before Christmas, the museum screwed its courage and commissioned Rem Koolhaas, after a long-drawn-out competition that pitted him against Jean Nouvel and Daniel Libeskind. Koolhaas's response to a brief to extend and remodel the museum was both brilliant and bold to the point of ruthlessness. He would demolish four of its existing buildings and start all over again with a $200 million reconstruction; he was destroying it to save it.
If Gehry were doing the project, it would have been very different. He regards so much demolition as profligate and would have parcelled out each of the existing four buildings to a different group of younger architects for comprehensive remodelling around a new urbane space of the kind that could finally give Los Angeles its heart.
And it is the chance of playing that role which makes Lacma even more important than its bizarrely varied collections that take in dinosaurs, Japanese ceramics, Jeff Koons and Egyptian mummies.
If LA has a centre, it is the Wilshire Boulevard corridor, running through the sprawling city like a backbone, in which the undifferentiated sea of bungalows, industrial sheds and parking-lots crystallise into something that looks like a conventional city. Lacma is at its midpoint, equidistant from the sea and the neglected office towers of the old downtown.
This is a place where pub lic life Los Angeles-style could flourish. It's not an isolated parthenon like the Getty, where you have to prebook parking places and take a tram to the front door. It's not trapped in an irrelevant downtown. It just needs to offer people a reason to come, and a place to linger.
Opting for an exotic import like Koolhaas over Gehry could, paradoxically, be seen as a residual form of the same parochialism that had seen the appointment of a local hero back in 1965. Gehry would have rooted the museum in its past; Kolhaas is offering to blow it up. But in so doing, he has tapped into the not necessarily expressed ambitions that are never far from the surface in the minds of the kind of people who gravitate to museum boards of trustees. They want to make a mark.
Laxmax, as Koolhaas has dubbed his scheme, will help them do that. It aims to make Lacma the biggest, most powerful museum on America's West Coast. It plans to elbow aside the Getty and get itself noticed around the world. Koolhaas is not just proposing to demolish the building; he has come up with a radically different approach to displaying the collection as well.
'Imagine an almost utopian condition where the history of the arts can be told as a single and simultaneous narrative; showing moments of chronological coincidence, autonomies, influence and convergence,' he says. The five main collections would be shown side by side in chronological sequence, with a series of bridges allowing visitors to jump across from one to another, allowing for different readings of the objects.
Koolhaas is an architect more interested in redefining the concept of the museum than designing a container for it. And if the price of getting the chance to do that is allowing a rich man to put his name on it, then Koolhaas's piercing vision is just the thing to persuade him to get his cheque- book out.


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Born Into Exile
|Born Into Exile
|Directed by
|Eric Laneuville
|Produced by
|Dennis Murphy
Betsy Schechter
|Written by
|Kathleen Rowell
Danielle Hill
|Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Gina Philips
|Music by
|Dana Kaproff
|Steven Shaw
|Edited by
|Stephen Lovejoy
|Distributed by
Release date
|March 17, 1997
Running time
|105 minutes
|United States
Born Into Exile is a 1997 television film directed by Eric Laneuville. It featured Seann William Scott in one of his early roles.
Holly Nolan is a 14-year-old, dealing with stuff most girls her age deal with, including peer pressure. Always wanting to hang out with the older crowd, she meets and falls in love with Chris, a 19-year-old guy who was rejected by his family. He is now hoping to visit college and go into forestry once he is out of the military reserve force. When her recently divorced and overly protective mother Donna finds out about their relationship, she is outraged, forbidding her from ever seeing him again. Holly, upset that her mother doesn't want to give him a chance because of his age, responds furious when she kicks him out of her yard. She secretly sneaks out and decides to run away with him to start a new life in California.
They soon find out that traveling without money is difficult. This is only more hardened by a lecherous trucker and coincidental change of routes. They end up having to break the law to survive, by starting to steal. Once in Southern California, they soon find out they have nowhere to go. They pass up an offer from the church, but soon discover they can't support on their family either. Chris is looked for because of his desertion and Donna is contacting the police to find her daughter, threatening to sue Chris for statutory rape. Realizing she is in love with him, Holly decides to ignore her mother and stick with Chris. However, this proves to be exhausting. She is even one night arrested for supposedly being a street prostitute and Chris eventually turns to male prostitution on the streets of Los Angeles to collect money for food.
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Chris
- Gina Philips as Holly Nolan
- Talia Shire as Donna Nolan
- Eddie Mills as Ted Nolan
- Seann William Scott as Derek
- Heather Gottlieb as Rosie
- Mark Pellegrino as Walter
- Ever Carradine as Hooker
Production and reception[edit]
The story was written to confront people about the then huge amount of teenage runaways. It was initially to be an ABC Afterschool Special and received support from music bands, claiming it could have positive influence. The project was then shelved, until it was picked up a year later as a NBC made-for-television film.[1]
The film received generally positive reviews. Variety was exceptionally positive about the film, praising the story, the characters, the cinematography and Talia Shire's acting performance.[2] The New York Times was less praiseful, criticizing the way the story was told, stating it was not sordidly. However, the newspaper praised the director and musical score.[3]
- ^ RUNAWAY STRAIN Los Angeles Times
- ^ Review Variety
- ^ Review Summary The New York Times

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water cooled zen amp.
hi all,
I am trying to build a zen amplifier. I would like to use a water cooled heatsinK that they use in a PC system.
My plan is to used a large radiator and stack them if it is not enough. The cpu waterblock will be mounted directly behind. if it is not enough i can add another waterblock to remove more heat. The fans for the radaitor will be controlled by a fan controller with a temp sensor and also i can control the fan noise level.
Have anyone tried this method as i think it can reduce the amount of heatsink to be used.
Anthony Koo
There are a few threads about water cooling. For example:
Try searching for water cooled or water cooling. You will probably have to dig through a lot of threads, though.
edit: Nelson also posted a motor controller circuit somewhere in the Pass Labs forum.
Hi, Anthony.
I haven't tried water cooling an amplifier, but have water cooled my PC for about two years. The best source for technical information on water coling I've found is the forums at Procooling.com. It's aimed at PC cooling, but it applies to your amplifier as well.
If noise is an issue, you could use a passive radiator with no fans. I'm using an 8' length of 3/4" diameter copper tube on the floor as a radiator with no fans other than one 120mm fan on a speed controller in the PC case. The CPU it's cooling dissipates ~70 watts and the radiator keeps it at about 40° C.
Good luck on your project, and let us know how it turns out.
hi ,
Thanks for your reply. I am going to start buying the part.
and for the casing, i will be using a spare tower server case that i have.
one more question, I cannot find the 2 MH inductor coil in the MCM website. I do not know if i can get that locally in singapore. Any other replacement that i can use ??
Ok, so my amp is the F4, not the Zen, but water cooling is what I'm interested in.
My question: does the water conduct enough voltage to become problematic between fets should I decide to not use mica isolators?
I will daisy-chain plastic tubing between fet cooling mounts--the mounts will be some type of brass plumbing fitting from Home Depot that accepts compression connectors.
Unless you got somewhere like a pond in the garden, a huge radiator or the like, where you can dump the heat.....the point of water cooling is moot. But you already knew that, didn't you?
The math behind cooling is fairly simple. You got X watts of energy, and you got Y surface area to loose that energy from, which results in Z temperaure rise per watt. All you have to add to this simple math, is the thermal resistance figures for the path from the device to the finns of the heatsink.
Now if you mount the devices in need of cooling directly on the heatsink, or you put a heat transfer system in between the device and the heatsink, makes only one difference, and that is the thermal resistance of the heat transfer system, that being water or just a plain lump of aluminum. So you actually need to ADD heatsink if you use water to transfer the heat from the device to the heatsink, in order to keep the device at the same temperature as if it was just bolted onto the heatsink.....bad business!
The reason to use watercooling in a computer, is the space constraints, you have no such when building an amplifier, so you can just bolt the devices directly onto the heatsink.
There are options that can lower the working temperature of the device, like a copper heatspreader, or even better, a carbon heatspreader, but we are talking details here, not something in an order of magnitude worth considering generally.
Magura :)
Hi Magura,
My primary concern is that voltage may carry through the water to the other fets if I don't use mica isolators.
For the sake of simplicity, I prefer not to use isolators; I'd rather physically separate--and isolate with plastic tubing--the water cooled fet mounts.
At low voltages, I'm inclined to think that voltage transference through water will be negligible; just wondered if anyone else had experimented with this concept.
Yes, I realize that there must be a means of extracting waste heat from the coolant.
If you are using resaonably pure water, there should be no
problem. Sea water would probably conduct too much.
Thanks Nelson, now that's what I was hoping to hear.:)
Check: no seawater!
If you use oil you will largely be able to ignore the issue of conductivity of the coolant.
Magura :)
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Differences between Warehouse 13 and Eureka
- Has two Secret Service agents as primary characters | Has two cops as primary characters
- Has an old former NSA employee well versed in magic | Has an old former NASA employee well versed in technology.
- Has Artifacts of the Week | Has Tech of the Week.
- Explains stuff with "it's magic" | Explains stuff with "technobabble"
- Has Star Trek guest stars | Has Stargate guest stars
btw I like both shows, big fan actually, this isn't to bash either, just something I find funny
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http://halloweenpumpkincarvingideas.com/ is a website + Blog, where you will get the best collection of Halloween costumes, Pumpkin Recipes and the Pumpkin Carving ideas 2016. This year, this festival of dark night will be the most amazing and memorable for everyone.
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Landing pages are critical to your internet marketing efforts.Your landing pages must be optimized to quickly provide visitors with essential information about the products and services you are offering; and what they need to do to get hold of them. Thus, the landing page must answer the following questions:
- Is the page about the same products or services they were searching for online when they found you?
- Does it tell them what they need to do NEXT to make a purchase, sign up for a newsletter, download your whitepaper, or whatever your conversion goal is?
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- and...does it do this carefully, without distracting them too much?
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Headlines. The landing page must open with a few attention-grabbing lines that highlight the benefits to the prospect.
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'Scannable' pages. People should be able to scan or read through the page quickly, so use bullet points, simple sentences and crisp content.
Reinforce the call to action. No two visitors read a web page in the identical manner. To make sure your call to action is not missed, reinforce it more than once on the page and ensure that it is clearly visible.
Focus on a primary keyword. Define your product or service for each keyword phrase and drive everything on the page to it. This means having many landing pages — at least one per ad group and ideally one for your each of your top keyword phrases. Less confusion and decision making for your visitor means better conversion rates for your landing page.
Simple design. Simpler pages always work better for lead generation. If you find that some elements like navigation bars, visual clutter, and links to other sections do not aid the visitor in their decision making process, get rid of them.
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There have been no sly puffs in the Oval office, or even under a tree in the White House rose garden. Before his election, Barack Obama said he would quit smoking in office and in an interview he has confirmed that he has not inhaled on the White House grounds.
But with a habit he has reportedly lived with for 20 years, the president has yet to come out and say he has actually quit. He is known to have tried, and in a previous, pre-presidential spread in the magazine Men's Health, he suggested how people might kick the cancer sticks.
"Eliminate certain key connections - that first cigarette in the morning, or after a meal, or with a drink," he said. "If you can eliminate those triggers, that should help."
As of yet we don't know whether he has taken his own advice.
And one other change still to take place in the White House? The first family have still to get a dog.
In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Obama said the puppy would likely come in the spring. Though he, his wife and his girls have yet to select a breed.
So, will he sneak a fag on hallowed ground? If temptation struck, what would you do? How can Obama shed his addiction to nicotine for good?


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Tel Aviv Shares Beat New York on Gas Outlook: Israel Overnight
Israeli stocks are outperforming their New York-traded peers for a third year as prospects that domestic gas output will start in 2013 bolster energy producers listed in Tel Aviv.
The benchmark TA-25 is poised for a 12 percent annual rally as Isramco Negev 2 LP (ISRAL) and Delek Group Ltd. (DLEKG) surged more than 24 percent on forecasts enough natural gas has been found to supply Israel's needs for 150 years. The Bloomberg Israel-US Equity Index (ISRA25BN) of the largest Israeli companies traded in New York, which doesn't include the gas stocks and is dominated by technology companies, is set for a 6.4 percent advance. Cellcom Israel Ltd. (CEL) and Partner Communications Co. (PTNR) were among the three worst performers in both gauges.
The Finance Ministry on Dec. 16 raised its forecast for Israel's economic growth in 2013 to 3.5 percent from 3 percent to include the effect of natural gas discoveries, with the offshore Tamar field set to start production by the second quarter next year. Cellcom and Partner, Israel's biggest mobile phone companies, led declines as new wireless entrants forced incumbent providers to lower prices as they lost customers.
"The gas companies performed quite well this year as there was more clarity on production," Ori Licht, the head of research at I.B.I-Israel Brokerage and Investments Ltd., said by phone from Tel Aviv on Dec. 20. "While the best performers in Tel Aviv aren't on the New York index, the worst performers, the telecoms, are on both."
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Israeli natural gas companies working with Houston-based Noble Energy Inc. (NBL) are examining plans to develop the Leviathan gas field, the world's largest find of its kind in a decade before 2010. Israel is considering exporting a portion of the gas to finance the projects.
The TA-25 got a lift in 2012 from banking stocks, which also aren't part of the U.S. gauge. Bank Hapoalim Ltd. (POLI), the country's second-largest lender and the most heavily-weighted stock on the benchmark index, has gained 35 percent in 2012 after dropping 33 percent in 2011. Bank Leumi Le-Israel Ltd. (LUMI), the nation's largest lender, has advanced 21 percent.
The Tel Aviv Banking Index (TABANK) traded at 0.58 times net assets at the end of July, less than every financial-stock gauge outside Europe on concern about bad loans. The shares rebounded after falling to "ridiculously low valuations," Zach Herzog, the head of international sales at Psagot Investment House Ltd., said in a phone interview from Tel Aviv on Dec. 20.
Competition Intensifies
Cellcom, the largest mobile phone provider, has dropped 46 percent in New York while Partner, the second-largest, sank 31 percent. The emergence of low-cost mobile providers in Israel may reduce Netanya, Israel-based Cellcom's sales this year by 15 percent to $1.5 billion, according to the mean of eight analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Rosh Ha'Ayin, Israel- based Partner's 2012 sales will fall 25 percent to $1.47 billion, according to the average of four predictions.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (CHKP), the Tel Aviv-based security networks maker, has lost 10 percent this year. The company with the largest weighted stock on the Bloomberg Israel- US index, which doesn't trade in Tel Aviv, retreated after revenue growth ebbed and a new competitor entered the market.
Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (MLNX), the Yokneam Elit, Israel-based maker of technology used to transfer and store data, led gains on both indexes, advancing 87 percent in Tel Aviv and 89 percent in New York. While the maker of technology used to transfer and store data benefited from mounting demand for its InfiniBand products, shares pared their annual gain on concern Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of chips, will take away market share.
The Bloomberg Israel-US Index posted a third week of declines last week, losing 0.1 percent to 85.46. EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. (EZCH) led the retreat, falling 7.1 percent to $34.64. The shares of the Yokneam, Israel-based company lost 2.6 percent to 133.40 shekels, or $35.52 in Tel Aviv.
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Everyone has an opinion to explain the massacres committed by the State of Israel in Gaza. While in the 70s and 80s, it was seen as a demonstration of Anglo-Saxon imperialism, many interpret it today as a conflict between Jews and Arabs. Reviewing the long period of history – four centuries -, Thierry Meyssan, a consultant to several governments, analyzes the origins of Zionism, its true ambitions and determines who the enemy is.
Syrian No-fly Zone Means War with Russia
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A Tangled Web: How MEDIA MISLEADS THE PUBLIC ON TERRORIST THREATS
Public perception about the so-called "Global War on Terror" is manipulated in various ways by a trail of misinformation and… Read more A Tangled Web: How MEDIA MISLEADS THE PUBLIC ON TERRORIST THREATS
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Ghana striker David Accam insists he will make the right choice if he leaves Helsingborg
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Ghana striker David Accam says he will only join a club in major European league where he can be guaranteed regular game time.
The Helsingborg could leave this transfer window but the club have said they are yet to receive bids from suitors.
However, the 23-year-old says when the time comes, the right choice will be made for his to achieve his goals for playing for Ghana.
"I have the ambition to play for the national team and therefore my choice is important. I do not want to go to a team that does not increase my chances to getting into the national team,â€
"It is important for me to take the next step but I do not want to rush. Most of the Ghanaian national team playing in Europe's top leagues. That's where I want."
Accam was named in Ghana's pre-World Cup squad but could not make the cut to Brazil for the tournament.
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Year - 2000/ w reg
Manual Transmission
I was driving from Barnsley to Worthing (248 miles). Before I started the journey I had half tank of petrol so I filled the petrol tank to full. As like my other car I though it (fuel gauge) will take several minutes to change to Full.
Surprisingly even after driving 150 miles it was going towards end instead of showing true level. I was panicking. I pulled over twice, restarted the engine nothing happened. Third time when I pulled over again and restarted the engine (Hurray!) fuel gauge changed to more half a tank...
I don't know, whether it is normal or unusual. Please advise.


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In 2000 the British Film Institute published its TV100 list of the most influential and memorable British TV programmes of the 20th Century. The list was generated by votes from a wide variety of TV insiders and the top documentary in the countdown was The World at War ITV's epic 26-part history of the 2nd World War, narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier.
Best British Documentary Series of the 20th Century
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- The World at War
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- United Kingdom
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KINGS POINT, N.Y. – Just how close are the four teams in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy's bracket at the NCAA Division III soccer tournament? Mariners coach Mike Smolens thinks the teams are so even that games could be decided by a minor play or a lack of focus.
The Mariners take on Rutgers University-Camden in a first-round game on Saturday. The winner will play the survivor of the match between Wesleyan (Conn.) and Misericordia in the second round on Sunday (starting times of this weekend's games have not been established yet).
"When you're in a bracket like the one we are – four quality teams – it's going to be something someone does really well at a little point or something that someone lets his guard down for a minute," Smolens said on Monday. "That's going to be the difference and we've got to be prepared for that. "
Preparation is the name of the game for the Mariners (10-6-1) this week. They don't know much about Rutgers-Camden, but they expect to learn about the Scarlet Raptors (16-2-2) between now the weekend.
"I know nothing about them," Smolens said. "Red, black and white are their colors. That's all I know. We'll find out more about them as the week progresses. I know we've played them before and we've played at their place years ago."
That's when Kings Point went to the Sweet Sixteen in 2002. "Coach [John] Fitzgerald and I have been there, so we know how to get there," Smolens added.
Here is a quick scouting report about Rutgers-Camden:
The Scarlet Raptors were ranked 10th in last week's National Soccer Coaches Association of American coaches poll (this week's rankings will come out on Tuesday.
They booked a berth in the NCAA's by capturing New Jersey Athletic Conference crown behind a 1-0 win over Montclair State University. Their attack and defense has been impressive, outscoring the opposition, 39-12, and allowing but two goals in the first half.
They are led by sophomore forward Mitch Grotti (16 goals, five assists) and senior goalkeeper Tim VanLew, who has anchored a strong defense, recording a 0.59 goals-against average and 10 shutouts.
"When you're in the NCAA's you know you're going to play quality teams," Smolens said. "We know Rutgers-Camden is a quality team. Our pod is a very strong one. All four teams are having strong years and they're quality teams. They'll be good matches."
Smolens admitted he was happy to learn that the game will be play on FieldTurf. The Mariners played only one game on natural grass this season -- the 1-0 win over host Catholic University in the Landmark Conference final on Saturday – and it took a while for them to adapt.
"We're glad to be playing on FieldTurf," he said. "That's the first thing looked at. If we had our choice, we would like to play on FieldTurf. So, that's good. So, there are less adjustments for our guys, the better for mostly what we've been doing this year."
Smolens also liked the fact the game is within striking distance of the Academy. Camden, N.J. is located just outside of Philadelphia.
"It's not so far away," he said. "We have a number of alums and we have families that live in the area, which is nice."
Virtually the entire Mariners team gathered in basement class room at O'Hara Hall to watch the 61-team tournament field being selected on the internet via a big screen at 1 p.m. on Monday. There was a lot of anticipation as the Mariners were not selected until the final group of four teams.
"Tension in the room there was little or none," Smolens said. "Compared to the last two years when we were waiting for an at-large bid, that's much harder. Then you're worried. We knew we were going to come up eventually. So that's a good thing.
"It is anticipation. I was thinking we might go to Stevens or go to Rutgers-Camden. Those were two teams that would host, and possibly Montclair. They're relatively in our vicinity. We feel fine with it. The most important thing is our team and our players are prepared for it."
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If you missed the grand-opening tours of the new 28 million dollar Cole County, Missouri jail, here's a second chance. My tour group was mostly retired ladies from a local nursing home and we were guided by the most excellent tour host, Sheriff Greg White. The one thing the pictures do not really convey, is HOW BIG IT IS. Like the biblical city of Jericho, I suspect it would take all day to walk around it seven times. It is a monster building. I only include a portion of the non-public areas to hold down the number of pictures.
Below is the tour from the perspective of a new prisoner entering the jail under escort. The prisoner arrives here, a huge drive-in space called a "sally port." The police drive all the way inside the jail and the door is closed (so as to avoid any temptation for the prisoner to escape). From here, the prisoner sallies forth to the booking area.
There is one other way to get to the booking area. If a person is asked to come to the Sheriff's office to answer questions regarding a crime, they will be taken to this interrogation room. If they do what most suspects do, they will answer the questions. Some of the foolish suspects will lie. The other foolish suspects will tell the truth because they want the officer to like them. After confessing, they will be arrested. From there, it's on to booking.
This is the booking area where the prisoner is photographed, fingerprinted & eyeball scanned. The far walls have holding cells (one is in the next picture).
Prisoners stay in these holding cells for no more than 24 hours. After that, they will have either bonded out or are moved into the general jail population.
This little room is the holding cell for misbehaving inmates. The Sheriff calls it: "time out." It's 4 walls and a drain. (The drain actually flushes like a toilet –I know, the the drain slits are a bit narrow. No, I didn't ask.). And no furniture; just a bare concrete floor.
They turn out the lights and lock the door. As you may imagine, its very peaceful.
If the prisoner is completely out of control, they have a "restraint" chair to strap him/her into before they turn out the lights.
There is even a cell for prisoners in wheelchairs. This handicapped cell is very roomy
On his or her way to the general jail population, the prisoner gets a new costume. Here are some of the men's florescent orange uniforms. Woman prisoners get beautiful lime green outfits.
Prisoners will also be gellin' in these cool "gummy" sandals. Ladies also receive an official issue Cole County bra.
Before we get to the general population cell block, I wanted to show the part of the new jail that I was really looking forward to. Below is the "work release" area of the jail. This area houses non-violent prisoners who are employed. They leave the jail each day, go to their jobs, and then return to jail at the end of the workday. The point of work release is to punish offenders without destroying their jobs and families. The inmates PAY for their room & board and the taxpayers benefit. It's a great idea and is used all over Missouri. The most disappointing thing I learned in my tour was that it will be ten years before the "work release" cell block is ready. I hope the county commission makes completing this area a priority.
This is the control center for the main cell block. It sits in the center and is surrounded by pie-shaped cell blocks.
These gentlemen can see every cell from inside the "bubble."
This is one of the pie-shaped cell blocks. There are 12 two-person cells in each cell block. Most prisoners will spend the day out of their cells at the table. Each has his own little seat. Note the video visitation box on the far right of the photo. More on that later.
Each cell measures 6.5 by 12 feet and has a shower and a toilet.
Remember that video visitation box on the wall in the cell block? Friends and family can visit prisoners by coming to the video visitation room where there are a slew of these video boxes. Visitors are warned not to expose any private body parts for the camera, for the Sheriff assures me that they will not be allowed to do that twice (and may be charged with a crime).
There is a TV on the wall in each cell block. Note that prisoners cannot see out the windows to the control center.
When they get tired of watching TV, prisoners are entitled to 1 hour per day of "outdoor" recreation. This next room is the "outdoor" rec room. Also pie shaped, it is a bare room with no exercise equipment. The sliding door in the picture below raises to reveal what looks like a basement window well. Out of sight–at the top–is a skylight, and when opened, actual daylight reaches the room, hence the name "outdoor" recreation.
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That's it. The new jail. It's big, clean and new. And I still wouldn't want to stay there. So remember the two rules:
- If you are a suspect in a criminal case, do not answer any questions about it until you have talked to a criminal lawyer. You have the right to remain silent. Don't lie. Just remain silent.
- Never consent to a search of yourself, your car, your home or your stuff. Never.


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Plans to require telecoms firms and other businesses to store greater quantities of information about individuals' communications in order to give enhanced surveillance capabilities to law enforcement bodies have been criticised by a Parliamentary committee.11 Dec 2012
The Joint Committee, made up of both MPs and Peers, said that the draft Communications Data Bill should be amended in order to better regulate the way 'communications data' could be used by the police, intelligence services and other bodies. It said that the way the Bill is currently drafted would see individuals' privacy disproportionately impinged on and that the Government may also have underestimated the cost burdens that would be imposed by its proposals.
"Our overall conclusion is that there is a case for legislation which will provide the law enforcement authorities with some further access to communications data, but that the current draft Bill is too sweeping, and goes further than it need or should," the Committee said in a report on the Government's proposals.
"We believe that, with the benefit of fuller consultation with CSPs (communications service providers) than has so far taken place, the Government will be able to devise a more proportionate measure than the present draft Bill, which would achieve most of what they really need, would encroach less upon privacy, would be more acceptable to the CSPs, and would cost the taxpayer less," it said.
In June the Home Office published the draft Communications Data Bill in a bid to close a gap it said exists in the current framework through which law enforcement bodies can monitor communications.
Under the Bill the Home Secretary could issue an order forcing any business that transmits "communications by any means involving the use of electrical or electro-magnetic energy" to store communications data in the form of "traffic data, use data or subscriber data" relevant to communications sent over their networks, such as by email or the internet, generally for up to a year. The data does not include the content of those communications.
Business caught by the proposed legislation must disclose information "without undue delay" to law enforcement bodies and other listed public authorities that ask for it. Those bodies can only request the information if it is to be used for a "permitted purpose" and if "designated senior officers" at those bodies believe it is "necessary to obtain the data" and that the action is "proportionate to what is sought to be achieved."
The 'permitted purposes' include where it is in the interests of national security, where the purpose is for the prevention or detection of crime, to prevent disorder and where it is in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom or in the interests of public safety, among others.
The Bill contains a number of "safeguards", including requirements that collected communications data is deleted after a year in storage.
The Government has said that 25% of communications cannot be accessed due to limits in existing powers, but the Joint Committee said that it was "of the strong view" that the quoted figure was "unhelpful and potentially misleading", since it was not clear how it had been calculated.
In its report the Committee said that the draft Bill should be revised to prevent the Home Secretary from being able to order CSPs to store additional forms of data in the future without first gaining Parliamentary approval to those plans.
"Clause 1 would give the Secretary of State sweeping powers to issue secret notices to communications service providers (CSPs) requiring them to retain and disclose potentially limitless categories of data," the Committee said. "We have been told that she has no intention of using the powers in this way. Our main recommendation is therefore that her powers should be limited to those categories of data for which a case can now be made. If in future a case can be made for the power to be increased, this should not be done without effective Parliamentary scrutiny."
In a statement chairman of the Joint Committee, Lord Blencathra, said that the Government should be restrained from "its zeal to future-proof legislation".
"We can see only three types of data that are not currently being collected which we know could aid the work of law enforcement and other agencies: data matching IP addresses to specific users, data showing which internet services a user has accessed and data from overseas communications providers providing services in the UK," he said. "A new Bill should also be drafted in such a way as to give Parliament the opportunity to vote on issues such as whether CSPs should have to collect subscriber data relating to IP addresses and data showing which internet services a user has accessed."
The Committee said that the Government should also work with the Information Commissioner in order to better understand how the watchdog can provide safeguards to the proposed regime. It said all 'Clause 1' notices should be reviewed by the Information Commissioner before being issued.
Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said that he was pleased that the Committee had recognised his concerns "around the adequacy of the proposed safeguards that the ICO would be responsible for regulating" and on the resources his office would need to ensure the security of personal data and its timely destruction.
"The problems are not insurmountable, and we stand ready to work with the Government to discuss how the safeguards can be revised, and how the necessary powers and resources can be provided to make sure that those safeguards are effective in practice," Graham said.
The Committee also said that "statutory force" should be give to the Home Office's "commitment" not to require UK-based CSPs to store "third party data traversing their networks" unless the "original data holder" based overseas has refused to do so and "all other avenues have been exhausted".
The Committee said that the Home Secretary should be allowed to transfer her power to use a new 'request filter' to find information contained in "fragmented communications data" to the soon-to-formed National Crime Agency, but not to other bodies. However, it said that "new safeguards should be introduced" to prevent the search capability from being used for "fishing expeditions," it said.
The Committee also said that the definition of 'communications data' should be able to "stand the test of time" but that current proposed definitions were out of date. The Government should consult on changes, it said.
"The definitions of use, subscriber and traffic data are particularly problematic," the Committee said. "Subscriber data should not be a catch-all for data that does not meet the other definitions. Currently the definition of subscriber data could be read to cover all sorts of data that social networks and other services keep on their customers which can be highly personal and is not traditionally thought of as communications data. A new definition of subscriber data is needed that simply covers the basic subscriber checks that are the most commonly used."
"How to define subscriber data should be a key element of the consultation, but the evidence we have received leads us to suggest that the definition should include checks on the name, date of birth, addresses and other contact information held on the subscriber to a communication service; for each service the customer's unique ID (e.g. mobile number, e-mail address or username); the activation, suspension and termination dates of an account and payment and billing information," it said.
The Committee also said that categories of data should be ranked in terms of how privacy intrusive they are, and that it should be made "clear" that the content of communications "cannot be requested under the provisions of this legislation".
The Committee also said that a new offence of wilful or reckless misuse of communications data should be made a "specific offence punishable in appropriate cases by imprisonment".
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said that the Committee's report showed that there needs to be a "fundamental rethink" about the Bill, according to a report by the BBC. However, the Home Office said that whilst it accepts the "substance" of the Committee's recommendations, there could be "no delay" to the Bill being enacted.
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There are times that Ava Knight, maybe the best pound-for-pound female boxer in the world, thinks it's not worth it.
It's not when she runs the three miles in 24 minutes, or the half-hour of high-intensity hill sprints, five mornings a week, because she knows the aerobic exercise is crucial to her stamina for the next fight against whatever challenger might creep forward. Besides, the cardio training is necessary to help her combat a recurring irregular heartbeat and asthma brought on by terrible year-long allergies that, at their worst, keep her barricaded indoors.
It's not in the afternoons, when she hits the gym for bag work — 10 2-minute rounds, every day, which is exhausting even for a world-class athlete. You can walk into any gym with a speed bag and find weekend warriors bent at the waist, sucking air from a minute straight of poking around a punching bag flat-footed; Knight dances on her toes around it, shifting her weight, bobbing, weaving and aching as the lactic acid burns in her legs, hammering away at the bag for 20 minutes, sometimes for half an hour, taking just 30 seconds sporadically to catch her breath before getting back to work. Other times, for a change of pace, it's 20 straight minutes with a weighted jump rope instead.
It's not during technique training, where Knight confesses to feeling the most mental strain, because everything is performed until it is perfect, and in the eyes of every demanding boxing coach, nothing is perfect. At least an hour a day is spent on technique, and just one aspect of it at a time. You can't even spend 10 rounds working on your jab, because there is no such thing as just "a jab." Knight moves with it, stands with it, has power and speed versions of it and more, and from every feasible angle a moving, gliding body can create, literally thousands of potential punches to be thrown that all must be polished, powerful and precise by the time Knight and her title belts finally manage to convince a fighter to challenge her. And the fighters seldom do.
Knight wants to fight everyone because she knows the work she puts into her craft, and it hurts her that anyone remotely close to her level has shied away. Her last four wins have been unanimous, the most recent being the usurping of the WBC Diamond Belt from Linda Soto on May 11. She has never been knocked down, never been knocked out and never, she believes, gotten a top-of-her-game fighter since Ana Maria Torres beat her in 2009 when the then-21-year-old Knight was suffering from food poisoning. Since that defeat, still her only professional loss, she's put together a diet and training regimen that would rival some bodybuilders' — and, indeed, she is even training now for a local bikini competition. She doesn't eat junk food, dairy, corn-fed meat, farm-raised fish, caged chicken or wheat products, including bread; she stays away from most carbohydrates, in general. A "cheat" meal for most is a Whopper or a slice of pizza. Knight's is a bowl of pasta with vegetables.
She was taking apple cider vinegar shots daily, but has since switched to pill form, making for a morning fistful of capsules including chlorella, coconut oil, fish oil, milk thistle, dandelion root and CoQ10. That's before lunch. After, it's a multivitamin, CLAs, more omega-3s and spirullina. She doesn't drink alcohol save for the rarest of occasions; even then, she considers that wine has more antioxidants than beer, and chooses accordingly.
"The diet is pretty simple," she says. "Walking around with a big belly isn't sexy and it's not comfortable."
But comfort has never been part of the deal for Knight, not since she started boxing when she was 13 years old. She's happened upon a sport where she still goes underrated, undernoticed and underpaid, despite her massive success and despite her male counterparts providing some of the most lucrative purses and popular storylines in American sports. Cynics like to say boxing is dead, but the Mayweathers, Pacquiaos, Hopkinses and Wards of the world have proven otherwise. Floyd Mayweather's last fight, a May 4 clinic in which he dispatched Robert Guerrero, got over a million pay-per-view buys.
In the meantime, Knight was on a plane for six hours after three weeks of altitude training in Big Bear at Shane Mosley's gym, now well used to the routine of crossing the border, beating up a Mexican fighter — she's earned the nickname "The Mexicutioner" from boxing fans throughout the country — and then jetting home, uncomfortable just about the whole time: "I can't eat the food there, I can't drink the water there, I have to leave my dog behind for a week and I'm in a country where I don't know the language." Then she jets home. It's a grind. And to best sharpen her skills, Knight trains with men who outweigh her by at least 50 pounds. They hit her, and it hurts. There's no room for politically correct sentiments in a boxing ring: Men are bigger and stronger, with more testosterone, and they hit harder, move faster and get angrier.
"There's two sides to it: Nobody's going to hit harder than a man, so you benefit from it. No woman has ever hurt me," Knight says. "But it also does something to you mentally. There's always the fear of when men start getting hit too much, when you are out-classing them, they will hit harder and out-punch and out-push you and they'll knock you down. And it happens. A lot of women deny it, but it gets to you."
But ah, the payoff. The pride of being handed a belt that says you're the best, the satisfaction of knowing one's work paid off, is all primary to Knight. But she's no sentimentalist and she's no dummy. She knows a raw deal when she sees one.
A week after Mayweather raked in his $32 million, Knight beat Soto a week later in Toluca, the broadcast only available streaming in Spanish online, with no American fanfare or viewing.
The purse? Knight says only: "You can just say it's under $10,000."
In some cases, promoters and opponents have demanded Knight's camp pay for the fight.
Knight would have loved to stay in West Oakland, at Champ Nation Boxing Gym, to continually hone her skills with Bay Area trainers. She tried to for a year, and couldn't afford a studio apartment the size of the office in which this story's interview was conducted. She'd teach boxing classes at the gym — she hated it — and after her paychecks went to rent, she had $25 a month left for food and gas. Eventually Knight, just two successful fights removed from knocking out previously undefeated Arely Mucino for the WBC flyweight belt, was forced to sleep at the gym. She moved back home to Chico and paid back her mother, who had helped support her, with some of her prize winnings.
It's not any one of these things that makes her think about stopping. It's the constant, putrid swirl of all of them together, looming over her head, making her think more than she'd like to. Boxing is her strongest passion, she truly believes there's nobody in her class better at it than she is and nobody's proven otherwise. She can do nothing more to earn respect as a fighter; in boxing circles, she's a champion, well-known and celebrated. In Mexico, she's a prized American villain, systematically dispatching everyone the country churns out from the opposite corner.
It's not enough.
When Knight and her father Eliot, a major source for Ava's love of the sport, were at Mosley's gym, he noticed the same father-fighter dynamic there and cracked that maybe he might have been like the Mosleys.
"I said, 'Well, you messed up,'" Ava says. "'You had a girl.'"
She jokes, but it's a serious problem. It takes a different kind of strength, one that no bag work can address, to block out the feelings she gets when she sees the state of women's boxing compared to men's and know she's a part of it, with no answers other than to just be a great fighter. It's all she can do to not dwell on it. When she does, that's when it hits her.
"I can't ignore it. I can't get lost in it. If I keep thinking about it, I might quit," she says. "There are some times, like my last fight, where I think, 'I don't know if I can keep doing this.' The training is so hard on my body, getting beat up by a guy every day for 10 rounds, my dad pushing me, the stress on my mind. ... There are times I think, 'This check isn't worth what I'm doing,' because it's just that hard."
Her father tried to get away from boxing years ago, but beyond his 50th year and, like Ava, suffering from asthma, he still wants to get in the ring. Same goes for all the coaches she grew up with, the Rodriguez family that ran the boxing gym where she laid down her fighter's foundation. That gym is long gone, but old Joe Rodriguez, one of Knight's former mentors, can't stand to be away from the sport. He and his son Lou have found another gym to ply their trade.
One day, maybe sooner than any of us want, Knight will truly mean it when she says it's not worth it anymore. When that moment comes, she'll have a reason for it, whether it's being punch-drunk or maybe something bordering on righteous. One day, the numbers might stop adding up, and the immense pride she has in what she's done may be all she has to show for the hills, the jump rope, the vinegar shots, the bag work, the body shots from male fighters.
But that day's not today. And we all should be thankful for that.
"Some days I walk out of the ring saying, 'It's not worth it anymore,'" Ava Knight says. "But at the end of the day, I just can't quit."
Connect with Sports Writer Travis Souders at twitter.com/travissouders.


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|Patriot Warp v2 SATA SSD PE128GS25SSDR
|Reviews - Featured Reviews: Storage
|Written by Olin Coles
|Monday, 01 December 2008
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ATTO Disk Benchmark Results
EDITORS NOTE: Please read Solid State Drive (SSD) Benchmark Performance Testing to understand how the benchmarks used in this article should be interpreted.
The ATTO Disk Benchmark program is free, and offers a comprehensive set of test variables to work with. In terms of disk performance, it measures interface transfer rates at several different user-specified intervals and reports read and write speeds. The drives seek and access times are not statistics made available in this application, which makes this a considerably basic tool, although the adjustable test settings allow for a large range of differing results. Manufacturers seems to like this tool because it offers them the ability to reduce the test length load size to produce high benchmark results. Conversely, Benchmark Reviews uses this tool with the largest (32 MB) test chuck used to produce our test results.
Bandwidth results from our tests are illustrated as the transfer rate in the images below, showing the performance curve for the Patriot Warp v2 SSD from 512 Bytes up to 1 MB test chunks. Patriot Memory specifies bandwidth expectations as 175 MBps read and 100 MBps write for their PE128GS25SSDR model, and so far our own bandwidth test results indicate that these are confirmed figures.
Beginning with tests on the JMB363 SATA controller, our results are shown in the first chart pictured below. Read performance for the Patriot Warp SSD begins to plateau from 64.0 KB to 1024 KB and generates a 122,760 KBps (122.8 MBps) bandwidth around 64 KB, indicating a high performance throughput for most file size chunks. The same is true for the write bandwidth, which sustains a 85.0 MBps bandwidth beginning at the 32 KB test chunk range.
Since ATTO Disk Benchmark offers test settings for each transfer file size from .5 KB to 1 MB, Benchmark Reviews decided on using the largest (1 MB) statistic to build the chart shown below. In this illustration, I have organized the products using the sum of their read and write bandwidth speeds to determine position rank.
Once again, the MemoRight GT SSD demonstrates that an optimized generation 1.0a SATA controller can outperform even the latest generation 2.0 SATA controllers (if you care to pay the high price tag). The Mtron Pro 7500 MSP-SATA7525 trails behind, with the Seagate 7200.11 hard drive directly behind to finish out the top-level performance section. Patriot's Warp SSD, along with the Silicon Powers SATA-II SSD and OCZ CORE Series SSD all lead the upper-mid performance section. Not very far behind was the OCZ 64GB SATA-II SSD, Mtron Pro 7000 16GB SSD, and Samsung SSD.
The mid-range of performance is filled by the Mtron MOBI 3000 SSD and Western Digital Raptor, which aren't really all that far off from the products positioned above them. On the other hand, the low-end of performance is a noticeable distance away. The Crucial / Lexar CT32GBFAB0 SATA-II SSD takes a major dip in write-bandwidth performance, which is mirrored by the Super Talent MasterDrive MX SSD and Silicon Power 64GB SATA SSD. I'm not entirely clear on the technology each of these lower-end SSD's contain, but considering that two of them are SATA-II and match the performance of our slowest SATA-I SSD's I would contend that a design improvement is in order.
Originally I hadn't planned on including the ATTO Disk Benchmark results in this article. While the software is decent enough to mention, it was merely included because almost all SSD manufacturers test with it... and for very good reason I have learned. After several tests had been completed, I began to see why they decided on this particular software for benchmarks. What I like least about ATTO Disk Benchmark is how you can manipulate the settings to produce extremely wide range results from the same product.
As an example, if you reduce the total test length size from 32 MB (used in our testing configuration) to one of the smaller sizes the benchmark results are more than 30% different (as in higher bandwidth). This reason alone is enough for manufacturers to tweak their own test configurations for self-benefit. Nevertheless, in regard to our ATTO tests the entire range of SSD products is very well represented with our configuration. It should be noted that with cache buffers growing larger and larger, perhaps there's a reasonable middle ground that will provide the best of both worlds. I suspect that hybrid drives could play an important role in this argument very soon.
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On ##patriotmemory.com/support/driversp.jsp i cant find this model.
Disk sometime freeze system on startup with Gigabyte T1125N notebook. When i try start system few times again, and system at last start begin, disk works propertly. Problem its only with starting system.
With another SSD disk OCZ agility3, or standard disk, notebook works propeltly. Notebook have instaled latest firmware from gigabyte.
Thanks for answer
Lubomir Fedorcak
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By Nicholas Vinocur
PARIS (Reuters) - A French magazine ridiculed the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday by portraying him naked in cartoons, threatening to fuel the anger of Muslims around the world who are already incensed by a California-made video depicting him as a lecherous fool.
The drawings in the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo risked exacerbating a crisis that has seen the storming of U.S. and other Western embassies, the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and a deadly suicide bombing in Afghanistan.
Riot police were deployed to protect the paper's Paris offices after the issue hit news stands.
It featured several caricatures of the Prophet showing him naked in what the publishers said was an attempt to poke fun at the furor over the film. One, entitled "Mohammad: a star is born", depicted a bearded figure crouching over to display his buttocks and genitals.
The French government, which had urged the weekly not to print the cartoons, said it was shutting embassies and schools in 20 countries as a precaution on Friday, when protests sometimes break out after Muslim prayers.
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby called the drawings outrageous but said those who were offended by them should "use peaceful means to express their firm rejection".
Tunisia's ruling Islamist party, Ennahda, condemned what it called an act of "aggression" against Mohammad but urged Muslims not to fall into a trap intended to "derail the Arab Spring and turn it into a conflict with the West".
In the northern Paris suburb of Sarcelles, one person was slightly hurt when two masked men threw a small explosive device through the window of a kosher supermarket. Police said it was too early to link the incident to the cartoons. One small local Muslim group filed a legal complaint against the weekly but there were no reports of reaction on the streets of France. Continued...


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Community Board 14 and the Chamber of Commerce of the Rockaways are sponsoring a clean-up, paint-up, fix-up campaign that will start this Saturday. People will be asked to paint there homes and property and sidewalks, and generally fix up. The city's Department of Sanitation will go through Rockaway cleaning lots and loose debris.
District Attorney John J. Stantucci will speak on Sunday at a meeting of the 101 Precinct Community and Youth Council. Police Officer Noel Webster, a community relations specialist in the precinct, will be on hand to answer questions.
More than 70 people turned out at Pier 92 for a party to honor retired 101 Precinct Police Officer John Montiel on April 2. Montiel, who was given numerous plaques and other awards, worked as a planning and crime prevention specialist.
Police are appealing again for anyone with any information to help them identify a handcuffed man who was found dead in an empty, sealed bungalow at 116A Beach 24 Street, Far Rockaway. Firemen found the body while extinguishing a fire at that address.
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The Long Island Lighting Company has selected its 525 acre Jamesport site on the border of the towns of Riverhead and Southold on the north shore of Long Island as the preferred location for two 1,150,000 kilowatt nuclear units planned for operation in 1981 and 1983 at a cost of $1.2 billion.
Construction work on the new sewer screening plant at Beach 106 Street and Beach Channel Drive looks like an open pit mining operation. The remarkable thing about is that the excavation goes far below the water line making it really amount to a submarine job. Hundreds of well points keep the sand dry so workmen can get on with the job.
Walter Patterson has left the Dalsimer store where he has been manager for some years. Now there is consternation on Beach 116 Street. Who will replace him as "shamus" for the annual menorah when Chanukah arrives?
Eddie Garcia of Beach 123 Street and Newport Avenue reports that his 1967 Pontiac was stolen from his driveway early last Saturday. What makes it doubly hard to stomach, he said, is that he just gassed her up on Friday night.
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What first looked like a line of people leaving St. Rose of Lima Church last week turned out to be a line of people waiting for a look at the model apartment in Dayton Park just across from the church.
The shopping center on Beach Channel Drive in the 50s that has been talked about for a long time now is reportedly ready to get underway. It could be in business for the coming summer.
The Somerville section of Arverne is the fastest-growing area in the Rockaways, and some of the residents say it is not getting enough attention from local businesspeople and city agencies. Seems they want service.
"Slow-poke local transit service" is what the Queens Chamber of Commerce calls the Transit Authority's service in Queens - and that includes the Rockaways.
Fine weather on Sunday brought out many visitors from the city, and the restaurants were kept busy feeding the house hunters and boardwalk strollers who were enjoying a preview of summer.
Years Ago...
The Reverend Joseph A. Grogan of St. Francis de Sales Church was presented with the keys to a 1954 Buick by the Queens County Chaplain of the Catholic War Veterans, in recognition of his years of service to the organization. The presentation took place at the 19th annual Communion Breakfast of the Queens County Chapter.
Pile drivers, hammers, saws and other tools are used by expert hands throughout the Rockaways as construction proceeds apace in anticipation of the advent of rapid transit, housing developments and private construction. The Hammel Housing Project and a new junior high school are scheduled to open in the fall, and the new trestle is should be completed by 1955.
The mayor's Committee on Slum Clearance has recommended the creation of 6,200 apartments in Seaside to federal authorities this week.


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DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers were jumping around in the rain like Little Leaguers.
Carlos Guillen led off the ninth with a solo home run to give Detroit a 3-2 win over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night.
"Obviously everybody was pretty pumped up," said Tigers manager Jim Leyland, who joined in the celebration. "I was real happy I know that."
Guillen said he was looking for a fastball and that is what Ron Mahay (1-3) served up.
"Guillen's a good hitter. You make a mistake, he's going to hurt you," Texas catcher Gerald Laird said. "He did tonight twice. It just happens."
Guillen, who also homered in the second inning, was greeted at the plate by his teammates and Leyland.
"It was a very exciting win for us," Guillen said. "I was just trying to get on base, make something happen."
Marcus Thames tied the score with a solo shot in the seventh for the slumping Tigers who won for just the sixth time in 19 games. Detroit, which had a 10-game lead over Chicago and 10½ over Minnesota in the AL Central when play ended Aug. 7, leads the Twins by only 1½ games.
"Marcus came through big time," Leyland said.
Fernando Rodney (7-3) pitched a perfect eighth and ninth to pick up the win.
Texas' Gary Matthews Jr. hit a tiebreaking single in the top seventh, but Thames hit his 26th home run of the season in the bottom half.
"We did tonight what we talked about, we hit the ball out of the ballpark," Leyland said. "There's no defense for the home run."
Tigers starter Kenny Rogers gave up two runs and 10 hits in seven innings for his second straight no-decision after four straight wins.
Vicente Padilla allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings. He got out of a two-on, no out jam in the fourth, with an inning-ending double play. Padilla gave up six earned runs in each of his last two starts.
"He pitched well enough to win," Rangers manager Buck Showalter said. "It's tough conditions to pitch in and everybody had some tough defensive plays in the tough weather."
Wes Littleton gave up a walk to Craig Monroe in the eighth but he was stranded at first.
Carlos Lee was caught trying to advance to second base on Mark DeRosa's long fly ball to left field in the second inning.
Monroe had three assists -- the most for a Tigers outfielder since Brandon Inge in April 27, 2004.
The Tigers turned a double play in each of the first three innings, and Rogers helped his caused defensively when he made a sliding stop along the first base line to throw out Nelson Cruz at first in the third.
"What a performance under those conditions," Leyland said. "That kept us in the game and gave us a chance to win."
Michael Young hit his 13th homer on the year in the fourth for the Rangers to tie the score at 1.
With two on in the fourth, Hank Blalock singled to left field, but Monroe threw out Lee at home plate.
Monroe later reached first on a throwing error by Texas third baseman DeRosa. The replay appeared to show that Mark Teixeira made the tag. Showalter argued the call with first base umpire Jerry Layne.
- Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya has a sprained right wrist and won't be available until at least Friday. Team trainer Kevin Rand said Tuesday that Zumaya has tendinitis. A doctor gave him a cortisone shot Monday.
- A fan wearing a pair of black shorts, black sneakers and white socks streaked across the field during the seventh inning stretch.
- Thames broke an 0-for-16 slump with his home run.


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By Ian Fritz ,Special to The China Post Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 12:41 am TWN
Bringing a casino resort to Matsu will revive the island's economy and allow it to stand on its own feet instead of relying on central government funding, William Weidner, chairman and CEO of Weidner Resorts, said in Taipei yesterday as he revealed details of his company's ambitious plans for the outlying island.
Infrastructure investments, one of Matsu residents' main desires, will be the first part of the NT$60 billion project. Upgrading the airport to a class 4C standard and building a 2.5-km bridge connecting the islands of Nangan and Beigan are among the planned improvements. A university campus will also be built where students can be trained in tourism and hotel management in order to supply and house the resort's estimated 3,500 to 5,000 workforce. Weidner mentioned that the infrastructure investments will be done purely from a business perspective and not as a sign of goodwill.
The main resort will boast an arena that can seat 15,000 to 18,000 people, which will be used to bring world-class sporting and performance events to Matsu.
Fifty million potential visitors living in the surrounding mainland provinces combined with Taiwanese visitors, who will contribute a significant portion of the resort's revenue, help make such a big initial investment viable, the CEO added.
Besides creating 6,000 to 8,000 jobs, Matsu residents will receive a monthly social benefit of NT$18,000 per person during the resort's first year of operation. This value is projected to increase to NT$80,000 by the fifth year of the operation, according to Weidner.
With a proposed 13 percent gaming tax and 1 million estimated visitors in its first year of operation, the Matsu government will earn 130 percent of the value it receives in subsidies from the central government, he said.
Critics fear crime will go hand-in-hand with gambling activities, to which Weidner responded by pointing to the excellent security environment at his Macau and Singapore resorts. Environmental concerns are also a high priority for the CEO. A sensitive marine area east of Beigan will receive special attention, while state of the art technology will be employed in desalination and sewage plants which will return water to the environment cleaner than it was when sourced.
Weidner hopes the government will be able to finalize gambling regulations within the next year and a half. Although he emphasized that he is here for the long run, he also made it clear that he will not wait forever.
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August 4, 2012 jan.vandenweghe@
I have simply checked the web-site of Weider Resorts, and I came to the conclusion, or it's a big scam or they are not professional at all. Just check when their site has been put in operation. In the month of (7thd) May 2012, how can such a huge company, as they claim to be have been operating for years without a web-site? According to the general practices of world scammers, this is a typical orchestrated action among those cheaters.
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Social inequality refers to relational processes in society that have the effect of limiting or harming a group's social status, social class, and social circle.
Areas of social inequality include access to voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, the extent of property rights and access to education, health care, quality housing, traveling, transportation, vacationing and other social goods and services.
Apart from that it can also be seen in the quality of family and neighbourhood life, occupation, job satisfaction, and access to credit.
If these economic divisions harden, they can lead to social inequality.[1] The reasons for social inequality can vary, but are often broad and far reaching.
Social inequality can emerge through a society's understanding of appropriate gender roles, or through the prevalence of social stereotyping.
Social inequality can also be established through discriminatory legislation.
Social inequalities exist between ethnic or religious groups, classes and countries making the concept of social inequality a global phenomenon.
Social inequality is different from economic inequality, though the two are linked.
Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wealth.
Social inequality is linked to racial inequality, gender inequality, and wealth inequality.
The way people behave socially, through racist or sexist practices and other forms of discrimination, tends to trickle down and affect the opportunities and wealth individuals can generate for themselves.
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Franchise News Release: Orange, CA - (Mar-2-2004)
Budget Blinds Gains Momentum in Multi-Billion Dollar Window Covering Industry
Budget Blinds, the largest and fastest growing window covering Franchise in the United States serving 2,000 cities nationwide, is poised to dominate the $5.3 billion window covering industry with projections calling for the addition of 300 Franchises this year alone. On average, Budget Blinds is opening approximately 20 locations per month across the nation.
To achieve 40 to 50 percent market share by 2010, Budget Blinds recently created and launched a marketing plan that includes an aggressive national consumer advertising campaign, targeted local advertising support for franchisees, and new marketing materials and web resources for consumers and franchisee support. The company also continually refines and develops new products, tools and tactics to increase revenue.
"We're unstoppable because we live by our founding principle of setting our franchisees up for success on every level, rather than merely selling franchises, " said Chad Hallock, president. "The 'bigger is better' philosophy is not in our strategy for sustaining manageable franchise system growth."
Franchise territories are comprised of approximately 32,000 households, at least half the size of the typical territory in the industry. A smaller territory allows franchise owners to provide much better service and attention to each customer, without having to hire additional staff or purchase more vehicles. Hallock explained that most companies unwittingly put franchisees out of business before they even start by granting territories that are too large for entrepreneurs to properly manage and finance. Budget Blinds franchisees also have no inventory to carry, can work from their homes and set their own hours.
"Our business model is designed to build market share and top of mind awareness on local and national levels," Hallock said. "The sky is virtually the limit for energetic men and women seeking Franchise Opportunities with our company."
About Budget Blinds
Budget Blinds history of success started in 1992 after five 20-something friends were laid off by a failing window coverings firm and regrouped to form their own business. Customers immediately responded to the convenience and high quality, reasonably priced products. Unlike storefront window covering companies, Budget Blinds went directly into consumers' homes to display, measure and install customized products themselves. During the worst economy in Orange County's history, Budget Blinds averaged more than $100,000 per month in sales. Within two years the company began franchising. Growth has been fast and furious ever since. In 2003, Budget Blinds added more than 250 franchises, the highest number of franchises sold in a single year in company history.
Budget Blinds currently has more than 620 franchises serving 2,000 cities in 46 states. As consumer demand for its quality, convenient services continues to grow, Budget Blinds is on its way to dominating the $5.3 billion window covering market. In the past four years, the company has more than doubled its size in terms of number of franchisees, franchisee sales and franchise equity. Entrepreneur Magazine has named Budget Blinds the No.1 firm in its field for nine consecutive years.
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Near 10,000 feet in the Sheep Mountain Range, where growing seasons are shortest, the only trees are bristlecone pines. At 7,500-9,000 feet, where snow and rain linger, ponderosa pine and white fir dominate nearly closed canopy forests. Open canopy woodlands dominated by Utah juniper and single-leaf pinyon occur from 6,000-7,500 feet with precipitation of 10-15 inches per year, much of which is snow.
The blackbrush community is found at 4,200-6,000 feet on steep rolling hills. Different species of yucca, including Joshua tree, Mormon tea, and cholla cactus, are common associates. Joshua tree woodlands are commonly found at 3,000-5,000 feet. Although the apparently dominant species is the Joshua tree, most plant material consists of widely spaced shrubs. Open shrubland dominated by the creosote bush consists of widely spaced cacti and shrubs such as Mormon tea, bursage, and range ratney. Found at 2,400-3,600 feet, this community receives less than 5" of rain. In some basins on the valley floors, particularly those with low nocturnal temperatures and very high soil salinity, the saltbrush community dominates. A good example of this community can be found between Corn Creek Field Station and Highway 95.
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