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George Masa was one of the greatest landscape photographers of Western North Carolina, but where he came from and what happened to the thousands of photographs he took remains a mystery even today.
Known as the Ansel Adams of the Smokies, Masa's stunning images helped inspire the creation of the national park and introduced the beauty of the mountains to the world in the 1920s and '30s.
A program featuring one of the largest collections of Masa's remaining masterworks will be held at 6 p.m. July 28 at the Village Commons in Cashiers as part of the Village Nature Series. Ran Shaffner, archivist for the Highlands Historical Society, will discuss Masa's life and his photographs on display at the Society's Museum. Masa did extensive photography on the Highlands-Cashiers plateau in addition to his more well-known work in the Smokies.
Sponsored by the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust and the Village Green. www.hicashlt.org or call 526.1111.

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I wish. I sleep and green chiles dance in my head, leaving trailmarks across my tongue.Originally Posted by quiltmaker101
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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I wish. I sleep and green chiles dance in my head, leaving trailmarks across my tongue.Originally Posted by quiltmaker101
tim not in Santa Fe
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Originally Posted by SteveOf course. It doesn't even work real well. I was just being silly.Originally Posted by PatriceJ
What you wind up with is a mini variation of YBR. That Steve, is a pattern you might investigate some day, or of course Patrices "Road to Freedom", another fine example of multi-sized and placed blocks she designed herself.
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Well, for me it's all worth the thought though. Twisting around ideas to create is something almost par for the quilting course. Besides, its fun to see what will happen if you throw the switch and just add a bit of lightning.
I just noticed my "strings" are already collecting up. I'd not even given it a thought before, but the string quilt will, out of necessity, happen too. Fun!
Got a few patches done and though a bit frustrating at first, it ended up kind of fun. I gave a go at chain piecing and that was interesting and time saving. The thing with the disappearing 9 patch is that the small squares tended well, to disappear. I was working with three-inch squares, but suggest at least five inches. It will be fun when I've got a couple dozen patches to lay out and play with.
Mostly it was weird cutting up fabric, sewing it together, cutting it up and sewing it again. I really felt the part of a mad scientist gone amuck with fabric. It showing all the promise of a pretty nice quilt.
That is how I made the quadrille twister in my avatar, I really hesitated to cut up the blocks I had just sewn together. It freaked me out but the end result was well worth it.Originally Posted by Steve
It's beautiful.
This new quilt should be more colorful than the last, or at least more for a child in my mind. Blues and yellows in abundance; I wonder how I'm going to quilt it though. Very small no doubt!
I saw this technique on another site http://quiltingpassion.com/blocks/pieced/ninepatchvariation/index.html.
I tried it with an existing 9 patch that I made from scraps when I first learning to make a 9-patch. I'm very new to quilting. Just started this year.
I really like it and can't wait to make a lap quilt out of it.
9patch variation
I put six together and they got a little wonky, but the technique is interesting. The hardest part is ending up with a lot of cornering squares at odd places and the differing fabrics of course stretching at different paces. Still it was a fun experiment and I might go ahead and use it. Does it look too off?
Disappearing 9
Could a lot of the flaws be hidden with an in the ditch quilting pattern?
Awesome Steve.... I love the design and the colors :D :D :D Doesn"t look that far off to me....


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DFDFS City Council gives sign ordinance the go-ahead; sets date for city manager interviews
By REID TUCKER
The DeFuniak Springs City Council voted unanimously to advertise Jan. 23 as the date of adoption of the proposed revision-heavy sign ordinance.
That 5-0 vote, one of several on the evening of Jan. 9, came before a packed crowd at City Hall, as the business owners whose input helped craft the revised ordinance turned out in force as a show of support. The new ordinance is basically restriction-free (aside from compliance with state laws) and it does away with most if not all the complicated rules and regulations of the previous ordinance, which has been in effect since 2009, while still leaving intact provisions to ensure traffic safety, safe installation and proper maintenance. Almost every other facet of the old ordinance, barring a late re-inclusion of requirements for a permitting process and the associated fines, was altered in some way or removed in favor of streamlining and simplifying the ordinance as a whole.
However, while the councilmen did vote unanimously in favor of moving forward with the new ordinance, the sudden freedom from most restrictions on signage was a matter of concern for some.
"I am in favor of probably 90 percent of the sign ordinance," said Councilman Ron Kelley. "I am concerned that we have absolutely no restrictions on signs whatsoever, not that I'm concerned about any of the businesses we have in town here today or any of the businesses who took part in the committee. I think everybody will conduct themselves and their business in a reasonable manner in a way that will not offend any of us, but I can tell you that the day is coming when we will encounter somebody who does not. When that day arrives we have no mechanism in place, whatsoever, to deal with it."
Despite his concern, Kelley said that would not stop him from throwing in his support for the revised ordinance. Though Sign Ordinance Committee Chairman Art Dees said the ordinance's nuisance provisions were intended to act as a buffer against abuses of the new freedoms in signage, City Attorney Clayton Adkinson said those provisions would not enable the Council to stop someone from putting up "a 500-square-foot sign" if they so wanted, given the lack of restrictions in the new document. Councilman Mac Work clarified that, although this was true, the Council could call for changes to be made to the ordinance at any time should the lack of regulation become a problem for the city or its residents.
Another long-discussed item also moved closer to closure at the meeting. The Council, city manager candidates' background checks in hand, voted to hold a special meeting Friday, Jan. 13 for the purpose of conducting interviews and/or hire one of the four finalists. The meeting will be held at City Hall at 1 p.m., which, for those keeping track of the string of superstitions, can also be represented as 1,300 hours.
Planning Department employee Loretta Laird, who has served as acting city clerk for the past several months, also got a raise courtesy of another unanimous vote from the Council. Councilman Kermit Wright proposed that the $4,160 budgeted for the clerk position be divided up and added to Laird's salary and made a motion to that effect, as Laird took on the job of keeping minutes at approximately 35 yearly Council meetings. Laird's salary was adjusted to the tune of $1.74 extra per hour to reflect the duties and responsibilities of the city clerk position with the salary change to take effect at the start of the next pay period.
The Council also voted 5-0 in favor of finalizing its five-member Airport Advisory Committee and also voted unanimously to approve the rules and responsibilities of the panel. The new committee will meet at City Hall once per month and all meetings will be a matter of public record, though it has no authority to take action, make purchases or enter into an agreement with any third party on behalf of the city. However, the committee will have input regarding airport events and construction, expansion and continued development at the airport and it will make recommendations to the Council as such.
The unanimous votes continued, as the Council voted 5-0 to approve the first reading of the 2011-2012 Capital Improvement Schedule as presented by Planning Director Greg Scoville, with the date of the public hearing set for Jan. 23, and the board members also voted 5-0 to reject bids for uniform services upon the recommendation of Assistant City Manager Bill Holloway. The city received only two bids and one did not meet specifications, Holloway told the Council, with the hope being that a more affordable bid could be found. Finally, the Council voted 5-0 against abandoning a 592-by-75-foot strip of roadway on Wabash Avenue, as it was city staff's recommendation that possible future maintenance issues could arise with the water system, which is connected to nearby streets.


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At the start of new romantic drama Love Life (ITV), traveller Joe returns from a round-the-world trip full of dull stories and photos of Mount Everest. Hang on, that's not Everest, it is not even in the Himalayas by the looks of things. You would have thought they'd have got that right. Or maybe Joe's a liar, and he is not the big adventurer he pretends to be.
Anyway, he goes out on the lash with the lads and bumps into his ex, Lucy, whose decision to come off the pill was what prompted him to skedaddle in the first place. Personally, I think it also had something to do with her penguin-print onesie. Lucy's like that – cosy, homely, a nester, enough to send any man round the world. Now she has got herself knocked up, though she is not saying who by.
Hold-up, flashback alert! To the time Lucy gave Joe a memory-foam pillow for Christmas (see what I mean about her cosiness?). Happy memory-foam memories. You know when there is a flashback in Love Life because it all helpfully goes sepia (meaning the past) before the colours fade back in.
In the present, Joe asks if he can pop by to pick up his pillow. Oh, Lucy threw it out ages ago, she says. LIAR! She still goes to sleep hugging it, breathing in the memories and perhaps even a faint whiff of Joe.
Turns out the father of the baby, whose arrival will later be brought on by a blazing row, is her boss Dominic, who has got his own issues at home – namely wife Penny, whose inability to have children is turning her into a crazed baby-snatcher. She is seeking solace in tarot and palmistry and other nonsense, and at night she storms off to the spare room, hugging her pillow (hey, pillows seem to be pivotal to Love Life). No wonder poor Dominic and Lucy end up seeking comfort in each other's arms/knickers.
Oh, you know what, it is not very good. There are some starry enough names and faces in the cast – Rob James-Collier (Thomas the rotten footman off Downton), Andrea Lowe (DCI Banks's sidekick), Alexander Armstrong, Sophie Thompson (Stella Crawford off EastEnders), Gregor Fisher (still basically playing Rab C Nesbitt). But the characters are two-dimensional and predictable. She wants a baby and to settle, he can't commit, blah. It's all predictable – the dialogue, the contractions, the baby that changes everything when it comes, even though it might not have been made by quite the right people. It laps gently and washes over, rather than sucking you in and pulling you down. There is a tweeness to it, a lack of conviction and of passion (and that's a pity in a romance). It's all a bit, well, ITV drama.
Perhaps it realises that, because next week it cranks up the bonkersness to 11 by the looks of things in the trailer. The baby-snatching kicks in proper, there are car crashes, terrible accidents, evictions, new locations, new love interests, heart attacks. Lucy's dad – the Rab C Nesbitt character – confronts Penny. "You are a disgrace," he says. "You're the witch who tried to steal my daughter's baby away. How can you put your head on the pillow at night?"
Pillow! See, there it is again, I think there is possibly something in this, and it may be the beginning of a new genre – the pillow drama.
Human Swan Vesta Mary Portas has a new little project: Mary's Bottom Line (Channel 4). Not so little actually. She is basically trying to restart the British clothes manufacturing industry, beginning at the bottom – of the pile (the dole queue in Middleton, Greater Manchester) and of the body (they are going to make knickers, hence the title). In a perfect world, "the first thing you put on in the morning covers your ass and is British," she says. Well, then say it Britishly, Mary: covers your arse, please.
It is very good TV. Her apprentices are great, a bunch of lippy Mancs with backstories to make you cry. There are tears all over the place, mostly Mary's.
I can't help thinking that's what it is all about though – the story, the kids, the locations, lovely old mills – very good television. Is it really a good idea to train up these kids in an industry that doesn't exist here? I'm no global economist (really!), but there is a reason clothes aren't made here any more. Even with increasing transportation costs, it is still cheaper to make them in Bangladesh or China. And it's one thing to tell Mary Portas off the telly when she stops you in the street that, of course, you'd pay an extra three quid for a pair of knickers if they were British, but would they – would you – really? That's the bottom line.


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First Floor rooms are equipped with ALL PRIVATE Bathrooms. "Fun-filled, eclectic stuff all over ~ it took us days to laugh our loving way through seeing everything. I've never been to a place like this, nor listened to such knowledge before about our history and country. US Army Officers, June, 2011 "An EPIC journey, coming here." Gustavo Valdes, CNN International, February, 2015
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Small private bath/shower. Features a Queen size sleigh bed and is named after President and First Lady Cleveland's child, Ruth. National Historic Preservation Trust turqoise.
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Large, private bath/shower/tub. Features a king sized bed, Flemish tapestries carried from Belgium, fridge/freezer, massive DirecTV Genie HD flatscreen & Blueray/DVD. Large 1879 bathroom.
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Small private bath/shower. The Magnificent Polynesian features a fluffy Queen sized bed in a Pacific Rim themed room loaded with palm trees and elegant Asian plants. Huge, designer desk.
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Rudolf Elmer Hands Over Swiss Bank Account Details to WikiLeaks - ABC News
Former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer handed over two computer discs detailing thousands of offshore bank accounts to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today, claiming that they contain evidence of massive potential tax evasion and other potentially illegal activity by banks.
Standing next to Assange, Elmer said that he had tried to hand the data over to tax authorities and members of the media.
"WikiLeaks is my only hope to get society to know what's going on," Elmer said.
The discs are full of details about the Swiss bank accounts belonging to more than 2,000 American, European and Asian individuals and multinational companies, Elmer has said. Among them, are some 40 politicians, as well as business leaders, celebrities, organized crime leaders and three major financial institutions. One of those banks is Bank Julius Baer, the former employer of Elmer.


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Date of Stay: May, 2013
We took our family for a night of camping to check out our new trailer a bit closer to home before traveling out of state with it. Lost Dutchman was very nice, with the base of Superstition Mountain campsites, it would be hard to go wrong! We loved it! Nice location, looks like a little stream or streams may run through (when it rains in AZ right). Views of the City at night are truly beautiful and the mountain lights up deep red in the sunset - reminding me of the Dolomites in Italy! Beautiful country. We will definitely be camping here again. Family and pet friendly, Clean facilities, nice people!
Date of Stay: May, 2013
We enjoyed our stay here very much. We had a choice spot, but we spent most of our time with family. The location was rough, I was raised in this area so we didn't have trouble finding it, but I can tell those who are not to follow directions carefully. Driving around these hills with a trailer not knowing where to go can stress some people - so just plan ahead. The management was terrific, very friendly. We needed help to park our trailer as the campground was full and a SUPER TRAILER PARKING GURU was there to help! They offer a lot for campers with children (game room/barn) lots of room to roam. They also had campfire and a guitar/singer one night. Highly recommend this campground. Columbia has a lot to offer, something for everyone to see.


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Getting onto the EZ1600's internals, we're essentially dealing with a netbook in a desktop chassis here and it performs accordingly. The Intel N270 processor used is the single-core Atom rather than the dual-core 330 found in Novatech's ION PC, so while it will run everyday tasks fine, intensive multitasking or video encoding aren't options here - especially with only 1GB of RAM, which is the minimum required to keep Windows XP happy.
Thanks to the integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics you won't be able to play Full HD video either, though efficiently-encoded 720p will just about run. And you might as well forget about 3D gaming altogether, since in the TrackMania Nations Forever test on medium detail the EZ1600 (a very easy test by most standards) it only managed a pathetic five frames per second at the screen's native resolution.
In line with the rest of the netbook-like specifications hard drive capacity is only 160GB, which to be fair should be plenty for a reasonable family photo and music collection (it's only if you start cramming entire video collections and games on that you might need more). Last if not least Wi-Fi is built-in, though it's the slower 'g' standard rather than N.
So it's no great performer, but if all you want it for is to listen to music, watch DVDs, play 2D games and browse the internet, eMachines' … machine will do the job just fine, while staying very quiet and consuming less than 33W even under load. Best of all, at £338 it's the cheapest AIO we've reviewed.
Whether this makes it worth buying is another matter, since Acer's great little Aspire Revo R3600 offers far more power (including the ability to play older 3D games and Full HD films), double the memory, more connectivity, Windows Vista rather than XP and Draft-N Wi-Fi for only £227, leaving you a generous £112 to spend on a screen (on which you can mount the Revo) and external optical drive. If you do insist on an All-In-One though, the eMachines EZ1600 is well worth considering.
Average build quality and looks are forgivable considering eMachines' EZ1600 is one of the cheapest non-touch All-In-One PCs around, and it handles everyday computing tasks well enough. However, if you don't need an All-In-One then there are cheaper, more powerful yet still small desktop alternatives.
do not get this computer. it was the worst computing expereinces of my life. using this computer was just a huge hasle. it is slow and can just about run one programme let alone 2, everytime you turn it off it slowly kills your HDD and its just a huge pain in the rear to mannage. ive has this computer for 2 years not and ever since i got it ive wanted to throw it out of a window. this computer is not worh that much of money. the only good thing i could say about the computer is the quality and size of the screen but other than that, it is an utter piece of crap. i highy recomend that you DO NOT purchase this computer!
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A suicide bomber in a tricycle taxi triggered an explosion at a World Cup viewing centre in north-east Nigeria. Police said 14 people died and 26 were wounded
The attack was in Damaturu, capital of Yobe state.
Boko Haram Islamic extremists have targeted football viewing centres and sports bars in recent weeks, killing at least 40 people in two blasts in northern cities. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.
Witnesses said the tricycle taxi was driven into the outdoor area soon after the Brazil-Mexico match started last night.
Police assistant superintendent Nathan Cheghan said rescue workers were being careful for fear of secondary explosions, often timed to kill people who rush to the scene of a bomb blast.
Nigeria's military has promised increased security but appears incapable of halting a stream of attacks by extremists holding more than 250 schoolgirls hostage.
In pictures: Nigeria kidnapped schoolgirls
In pictures: Nigeria kidnapped schoolgirls
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A total of 276 girls were abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok, in Borno state, which has a sizeable Christian community. Some 223 are still missing
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One of the kidnapped girls looks into a camera
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One of the missing girls talking to the camera
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The missing Nigerian schoolgirls, wearing the full-length hijab and praying in an undisclosed rural location. Boko Haram alleging they had converted them to Islam
5/19 Nigeria
Girls wearing the full-length hijab holding a flag reading "There is no god, but Allah" and "Mohammed is Allah's prophet"
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A man claiming to be the leader of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau
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Abubakar Shekau speaks on the video
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Girls, wearing the full-length hijab and praying are filmed by an unidentified man (R) in an undisclosed rural location
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People carry signs as they attend a protest demanding the release of abducted secondary school girls in the remote village of Chibok in Lagos
A protester demonstrates against the kidnapping of school girls in Nigeria, outside the Nigerian Embassy in London
Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour and Prime Minister David Cameron appearing on the BBC1 current affairs programme
People participate in a "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign demonstration and candlelight vigil in Los Angeles
Girls holding heart shaped banners in a "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign demonstration and candlelight vigil in Los Angeles
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South Africans protest in solidarity against the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria by the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram and what protesters said was the failure of the Nigerian government and international community to rescue them, during a march to the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg
Karilyn Coates (10) joins others in a candlelight vigil for the more than 300 girls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria, at All Souls Unitarian Church in Colorado Springs
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Mothers of the missing Chibok school girls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists gather to receive informations from officials. Nigeria's president said that Boko Haram's mass abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls would mark a turning point in the battle against the Islamists, as world powers joined the search to rescue the hostages
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Former Nigerian Education Minister and Vice-President of the World Bank's Africa division (3rd L) Obiageli Ezekwesilieze speaks as she leads a march of Nigeria women and mothers of the kidnapped girls of Chibok, calling for their freedom in Abuja
18/19 Bring Back Our Girls
Kelly Hoppen tweeted: 'Please make sure you do this, we must stand together and not forget them'
19/19 Bring Back Our Girls
E.L. Rock Star tweeted: 'Join The Movement'
The kidnapping of the girls two months ago and failure of Nigeria's military and government to rescue them has roused international concern.
The United States is searching for the girls with drones and has sent experts along with Britain and France to help in counter-terrorism tactics and hostage negotiation.
Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau has threatened to sell the girls into slavery unless the government agrees to exchange them for detained extremists, but President Goodluck Jonathan has said he will not exchange prisoners.
Nigeria's military has said it knows where the girls are but that any military campaign could get them killed.
Boko Haram wants to enforce an Islamic state in Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer, with a population almost equally divided between Christians and Muslims.
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1. Re: Final version of Managed provider - When ?682945 Jan 17, 2013 5:31 PM (in response to Invincible)Let me chime in with the same question in hope that we'll get an answer from Oracle.
2. Re: Final version of Managed provider - When ?Alex Keh - Product Manager-Oracle Jan 18, 2013 7:30 AM (in response to 682945)There will be another beta very soon, which will include bug fixes and integration with Oracle Developer Tools and EF DB First tools. That will be the last beta for managed provider. The production version will be packaged with the Oracle DB 12c on Windows release. A new ODAC release will follow that with a preset xcopy option.
Due to Oracle policies, I can't give provide any product release dates more specific than CY 2013, which is not very helpful due to how close to release Oracle really is. That's the best I can do for you with regards to a date at this time.


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APC is particularly appreciative of the programme support that the Ford Foundation provided from 1997 to 2000. The foundation also supported the APC council meeting in South Africa in 1997.
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for my iphone niggas on the run
i kno the bone thugs site has 2 versions, mobile device and normal
im not always at the spot
for my iphone niggas on the run
i kno the bone thugs site has 2 versions, mobile device and normal
im not always at the spot
Wu-Corp Mobile would be some awesome shit.
we need a wu tang app like a soundboard or something.
the official site of the wu-tang clan has one...
We'll see if Tomb gets to this thread. Eventually most sites on the internet will have mobile shit.
i was bored as hell a while back and tried to get on here with my phone.
that was when i found out about "house nigga" and i couldnt even get to the fourth post in the thread. i was shittin a brick
lol @ the ghost and check back n forth
yea this would be dope.
i can browse with my phone but cant sign in and post.
We do it for the people.
"In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty"
^dont you still use walkmans? catch up
it's called a smartphone...
dont need a mobile version...
login, post, edit details, whatever whatever...
comes in handy when im mad bored and i ain't got no trouble viewin it on my 2 and a half inch screen!
it's 2009 niggas... what you rockin?
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Hey everyone,
My brother and I are flying out to San Fran for the game and we were hoping to meet-up with some Giant fans in the parking lot before the game for a "tailgate". We'll have no gril, but we are renting a car and we can make the best of it (in the rain). Anyone know the layout of the parking lots at Candlestick so we can pick a location to meet up?
Also, we still need to buy our tickets off of Stubhub or Ebay, so we would be interested in trying to sit near some other Giant fans. We are looking only at the cheapest seats, so it will have to be in the upper deck somewhere.


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Hey everyone
I am slowly gearing up and getting the needed equipment for my trip to Alaska in this coming August. I am going to be around Juneau. I am going to be backpacking up towards Windfall Lake, Windfall Creek, Herbert River and Possibly Peterson Lake. THEN…I am going to go Kayaking out to Shelter and Lincoln Islands off the Coast.
The main reason I am going is to experience the Alaskan Wilderness and FISH!!!! I would consider myself a good fisherman when it comes to freshwater fishing in California for bass and all type of trout. However, I am unsure of how to approach the fishing I am going to experience in Alaska. I am hoping to fish the lakes, rivers and creeks for Rainbow and cutthroat trout, Dolly Varden and any salmon that might be running. I would also love to fish off the Kayak in the ocean and shore fishing from the islands, but I am unsure of what I would be fishing for, and how to go about it.
I am hoping I could be pointed in the right direction. What to fish for? where? when? What tackle to use? tips? tricks? Anything would help me out a lot!
DanDec 20, 2010 at 9:16 pm #1676254
Josh NewkirkBPL Member
@newkirkLocale: Australia
A couple years ago I caught like 8 trout in windfall lake in like 40 min with just pixies and red spinners.
Off the south side of shelter long skinny lures can attract the cohos like crazy.
The north pass between north shelter and i think lincoln but not sure is also really good fishing, i have only really used double hooks with a herring there.
they did have a canoe at windfall, but it was all shot up last i heard, maybe it will be replaced before you get there.Dec 21, 2010 at 9:23 am #1676369
Dan MagdoffBPL Member
@highsierraguyLocale: Northern California
Thanks for the tips and advice. Any recommendations for what type of gear to use? lb test? rig set ups? In the beginning of August is there anything that is really biting at that time?Dec 21, 2010 at 3:08 pm #1676494
Josh NewkirkBPL Member
@newkirkLocale: Australia
A 12lb test would probably give you your best shot at getting both salmon and trout.
Lures with red and pink seem to do pretty well. I think they call them red devils and then there is one that is like a oval shape with bright silver around the outside and a solid color on the inside, not sure what they are called but we used to catch dollies like crazy with them.
The cohos hopefully should be showing up by then. Might catch a humpy or a dog, humpys are fun to catch but not the best eating. August is probably the best alround fishing month.
At windfall i have caught brook trout, cutthroat and they catch salmon in the river and the lake, not sure if it is sockeye or something else.
dolly varden are probably your best shot off the beach but people have caught some pretty decent salmon though as well.
Unless you try to troll though salmon could be sort of hard to get off south shelter and north pass but those would be the areas to go. Im not sure if you can troll in a kayak.
If you do try trolling, the easiest set up would be like those gang hooks i think they call them that have two hooks like 6 inches apart or whatever and you put one hook through the eye and one down near the tail of the herring and then use like an 8 ounce weight.
Are you just taking like a casting rod? The trolling set up probably wont work on one.Feb 9, 2011 at 6:42 pm #1694742
Max DownenMember
@maxwelljLocale: Northern California
I've applied for a seasonal position at Glacier Bay National Park for this coming summer (college kid). I'm an avid fly-fisherman and if all goes as planned I'll be up there working by early June. What can I expect as far as fishing goes? I won't be able to travel far from the park.
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United Nations in History
International Organisations: ASEAN - Commonwealth - European Union - IMF - NATO - OPEC - Warsaw Pact - World Bank
Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 181
- 1942-10-07 US & UK government announce establishment of United Nations
- 1943-06-03 United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration forms
- 1945-02-12 SF selected for site of UN Conference
- 1945-04-25 45 countries convene UN Conference on Intl Organization in SF
- 1945-07-06 Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to ratify the Charter of the United Nations
- 1945-07-28 US Senate ratifies United Nations charter 89-2
- 1945-10-24 Charter of United Nations comes into effect
- 1945-11-05 Colombia joins the United Nations.
- 1945-12-04 Senate approves US participation in United Nations
- 1945-12-31 Ratification of United Nations Charter completed
- 1946-01-17 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting
- 1946-02-01 Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sectary General of the United Nations
- 1946-04-18 League of Nations dissolves (3 months after UN starts)
- 1946-12-03 US government asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
- 1946-12-14 UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in NYC
- 1946-12-16 Thailand joins the United Nations
- 1947-07-08 Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC
- 1947-08-05 Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to UN pressure
- 1947-11-30 Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
- 1948-04-07 World Health Organization formed by the United Nations
- 1948-09-14 Groundbreaking ceremony for UN world headquarters
- 1948-09-18 Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine
- 1949-03-04 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
- 1949-10-04 United Nations' permanent NYC headquarters is dedicated
- 1950-06-27 North Korean troops reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders US Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
- 1950-06-27 South Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
- 1950-09-01 13 North Korean divisions open assault on UN lines
- 1950-09-15 During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea
- 1951-10-24 United Nations publishes its first postage stamps
- 1953-04-07 UN General Assembly begins session that will elect Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden as Secretary-General
- 1953-07-20 The United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency.
- 1953-07-27 North Korea & UN sign armistice
- 1953-11-17 United States joins the United Nations in condemning Israel's raid on Jordan on October 4, 1953
Event of Interest
1953-12-08 Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Atoms for Peace" speech at the UN in New York.
- 1954-08-07 Charles Mahoney becomes 1st US black to serve as a full UN delegate
- 1955-12-14 16 countries join the United Nations, including Austria, Finland, Italy, and Spain
- 1956-07-25 Jordan attacks UN Palestine force
- 1956-11-02 Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
- 1958-01-13 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban
- 1960-06-15 Argentina complains to UN about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann
- 1960-07-18 1st UN troops reach Congo
- 1960-08-06 The UN Security Council lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo
Event of Interest
1960-10-12 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN General Assembly session
- 1960-11-14 Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on its policy on Congo
- 1960-12-18 General Meeting of UN condemns apartheid
- 1961-09-13 Battles between UN & Katanga troops in Congo
- 1961-11-11 Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots
- 1961-11-28 General Meeting of UN debates New-Guinea
- 1961-11-30 USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership
- 1962-10-23 Adlai Stevenson speaks at UN about Cuba crisis
- 1962-10-25 110th member of UN admitted (Uganda)
- 1962-10-25 US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson demands USSR UN rep Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"
- 1962-11-30 U Thant of Burma becomes the 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations
- 1963-05-14 Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations
- 1963-07-18 The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum
- 1964-02-12 Fighting breaks out between Turks and Greeks over dispute islands in Cyprus and 16 are killed; the UN responds the following month by sending a peacekeeping force
- 1964-06-30 Last UN troops leave Congo
Event of Interest
1964-12-11 Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech.
- 1965-09-21 Singapore admitted as part of the United Nations.
- 1965-11-17 General Meeting of UN refuses admittance of People's Republic of China
- 1967-06-10 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
- 1968-04-24 Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
- 1969-03-29 14th Eurovision Song Contest: Salome for Spain ("Vivo cantando"), Lulu of United Kingdom ("Boom Bang-a-Bang"), Lenny Kuhr of Netherlands ("De troubadour"), and Frida Boccara of France ("Un jour, un enfant") all win in Madrid
- 1970-02-15 Nationalists disrupt UN session on Congo
- 1970-03-17 US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
- 1970-12-05 Premiere of Dario Fo's Morte accidentale di un anarchico
- 1971-02-26 Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
- 1971-04-03 16th Eurovision Song Contest: Severine for Monaco wins singing "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" in Dublin
- 1971-08-25 Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party Gerry Fitt presents a number of allegations of brutality by the security forces in Northern Ireland to representatives of the United Nations
- 1971-10-25 General Meeting of UN agrees to admit People's Republic of China
- 1971-11-23 China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council
- 1971-12-04 The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
- 1973-07-21 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Atoll un the Pacific
- 1974-11-12 South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
- 1976-06-23 The U.S. vetoes Angola's application for membership of the United Nations Security
- 1976-07-09 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
- 1977-06-10 International Labour Organisation and United Nations meet to discuss apartheid in South Africa and potential actions to prevent further violence and state repression.
- 1979-08-15 Andrew Young resigns as US ambassador to the United Nations
- 1979-08-31 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador
- 1980-11-20 United Nations Gulf War mediator Olof Palme makes first unsuccessful peace shuttle between Tehran and Baghdad
- 1981-09-15 Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 1981-10-27 Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
- 1981-12-10 The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
Event of Interest
1982-06-17 US President Reagan's 1st UN General Assembly address "We must serve mankind through genuine disarmament."
- 1982-06-26 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
- 1982-10-16 Shultz warns US will withdraw from UN if they vote to exclude Israel
- 1983-09-12 USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
- 1985-02-04 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
- 1986-09-09 NYC jury indicts Gennadly Zakharov (Soviet UN employee) of spying
- 1988-02-17 Lebanese terrorists kidnap UN truce observer Lt Col William Higgins
- 1988-12-13 Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
Event of Interest
1990-06-22 Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing has occurred in South Africa to reverse the ANC's position
- 1990-09-18 Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 1990-09-27 Deposed emir of Kuwait address UN General Assembly
Event of Interest
1990-11-21 French President François Mitterrand voices support for a proposed UN resolution that would authorize the use of force in the Persian Gulf
Famous Birthdays
- 1886-01-31 Alfonso Lopez, Colombia, statesman (Pres UN security council-1948)
- 1887-02-26 Benegal Narsing Rau, India, President of UN Security Council (1950)
- 1893-02-06 Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, President of UN General Assembly (1962-63)
- 1896-07-16 Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician and 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (1946-52), born in Oslo (d. 1968)
- 1905-07-29 Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), born in Jönköping, Sweden (d. 1961)
- 1908-05-23 Max Abramovitz, US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building)
- 1908-08-08 Arthur J Goldberg, Ill, UN ambassador/Supreme Court justice (1962-65)
- 1909-01-22 U Thant, Burma, Burmese politician and 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1961-72), born in Pantanaw, Myanmar
- 1915-05-29 Lord Huntingfield, British agent to UN Secreteriat
- 1918-12-21 Kurt Waldheim, Austrian 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-81) and 9th President of Austria (1986-92), born in Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Austria (d. 2007)
- 1920-01-19 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian diplomat, 5th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1982-91) and Prime Minister of Peru (2000-01), born in Lima
- 1922-11-14 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992- 96), born in Cairo (d. 2016)
- 1926-11-19 Jeane J Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to UN (R), born in Duncan, Oklahoma
- 1928-06-28 Dr Hans Blix, Swedish head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission 2000-2003
- 1932-03-12 Andrew Young, US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
- 1942-02-01 Muna Wassef, Wassef is a well known Syrian/Arab movie star and a United Nations Goodwill ambassador.
- 1947-02-09 Carla Del Ponte, Swiss UN prosecutor
- 1956-03-09 Shashi Tharoor, Indian author & United Nations Under-Secretary General
- 1960-02-23 Maria Gloria von Schoenberg-Glauchau, wife of prince Thurn un Taxis
- 1961-07-15 Scott Ritter, UN weapons inspector in Iraq
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
1977-06-17 Senator Joe Biden of Delaware (34) weds Jill Jacobs (26) at the Chapel at the United Nations in New York City
Wedding of Interest
1977-10-21 Actor Peter Boyle (42) weds Loraine Alterman at the United Nations chapel in Manhattan
- 1996-03-24 Former Atlanta mayor and UN ambassador Andrew Young (64) weds Carolyn Watson (49) in South Africa
- 2003-06-08 "The Sopranos" actor Dominic Chianese (72) weds United Nations conference planner Jane Pittson (56) in Manhattan
Famous Deaths
- 1948-09-17 Count Folke Bernadotte, UN mediator for Palestine, assassinated
- 1954-11-22 Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian UN ambassador, dies at 70
- 1958-06-26 Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat (b. 1888)
- 1961-09-18 Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), dies in an air crash over Congo at 56
- 1968-12-30 Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician and 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (1946-52), dies at 72
- 1974-11-25 U Thant, Burmese politician and 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1961-72), dies in NY of cancer at 65
- 1996-08-25 Erskine Childers, UN official/civil servant, dies at 67
- 2001-09-05 Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian UN statistician (b. 1912)
- 2003-05-12 Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933)
- 2003-07-17 David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector (b. 1944)
- 2010-08-12 Guido de Marco, 6th president of Malta, 45th President of the United Nations General Assembly (b. 1931)
- 2016-02-16 Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992- 96), dies at 93


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Dave Sobelman of Sobelman's Pub & Grill and Tallgrass Grill said Thursday that he's signed a 10-year lease with Marquette University for the former Angelo's Pizza building, 1601 W. Wells St.
"I'm in the burger business for the third time," he said.
The new restaurant will be called Sobelman's @Marquette, and will serve primarily burgers, along with chicken sandwiches and appetizers. It must open by Aug. 26, according to the terms of the lease, but the aim is to open it around Aug. 10, Sobelman said.
He said he plans to keep the restaurant's dining room close to what it was, but the kitchen will need a complete renovation.
The pizza oven, though, is usable. He expects to introduce personal-size pizzas later.
Angelo's longtime proprietor Dominic "Donny" Albano sold the property to the university in 2010 after he learned he was sick with pancreatic cancer; the restaurant had been a campus fixture for decades. Albano died in January.
Sobelman said he has access to the Angelo's recipes because they were acquired by Marquette when it bought the building.
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... John later fixed a few mor leaks. Had dinner at a beautiful fish restuarant with some old friends - very pleasant evening. Bought food for our trip back to Majorca and plan to leave Mahon tomorrow morning circa10am. Ian sends huis best wishes to Mar and Denise and looks forward to meeting up on Saturday or the next few days. Happy days.
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... to a beautiful mansion on the seafront with truely great views. As well as a great lunch Peter was well read in the history of Mahon harbour.
We have been dropped back to our lovely dry boat, but still too hot to stay onboard during the day so now in a bar preparing for some tourism tomorrow.
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Active day on the boat today although sailing miles much reduced - John cleaned and dried a pretty wet boat after yesterday's sail. Hard work aside we had time for a pleasant breakfast, lunch and now having lamb/sea bass for supper. Mahon an interesting town - quieter today as now entering the low season - maybe the marina prices will drop. Walked up into the old town before food looking at the sights! but now back on the waterside for food. Tomorrow may be even less active.
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Shelby Sayre has been appointed Hudson Valley Community College's new women's volleyball head coach. She replaces Viking Hall-of-Famer Chris Kelly.
"Shelby is someone who excelled both academically and athletically in her collegiate career," Director of Athletics Kristan Pelletier said. "She has a tremendous amount of knowledge about the game of volleyball, as well as what it takes to succeed as a student-athlete which she will be able to pass on to our student-athletes. The athletic department and the college are fortunate to have her become a part of our campus community."
Sayre has acquired a vast amount of playing and coaching experience at the college and international level in a relatively short period of time. Prior to Hudson Valley, Sayre spent two seasons at St. Lawrence University as an assistant coach where she helped guide a seven-win per year program to an average of 24 wins per season. Goldman also completed a masters of education degree and was the athletic facility supervisor at St. Lawrence.
"I am honored and excited to be appointed the head volleyball coach of such a promising program," Sayre said. "I would like to thank the administration for its confidence in my vision for the future of Hudson Valley volleyball. I look forward to working with dedicated student-athletes and building a program which helps these individuals achieve their academic and athletic goals."
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England's Football Association fined left back Ashley Cole £90,000 ($145,000) Thursday for insulting the governing body in an offensive Twitter post.
The FA confirmed the fine after Cole had admitted a charge of making a Twitter comment that was improper and/or brought the game into disrepute.
The Chelsea defender criticized the FA's judgment on the John Terry racial abuse case last week, tweeting: "Hahahahaa, well done #fa, I lied did I" and ended with a hashtag followed by a profanity, for which he apologized via written statement released to the media. The tweet was subsequently deleted.
Cole was also warned about "future conduct" on Thursday by the FA. Last week, it charged him with misconduct and bringing the game into disrepute.
He escaped a playing ban from England -- being selected in Wednesday's 1-1 draw with Poland in a World Cup qualifier -- but also will be punished by Chelsea.
Cole's outburst two weeks ago was retweeted more than 19,000 times and provoked large condemnation from the footballing world.
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When former Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki signed off in 2010 on a plan to attack a massive scheduling backlog by ordering VA doctors to see new patients within 14 days, he unwittingly set in motion a debacle that encouraged cheating and ultimately cost him his job, according to some management experts.
His error, they say, was setting an unreasonable goal.
Many questions remain unanswered amid continuing internal and criminal investigations of "inappropriate scheduling practices" at dozens of medical centers and clinics run by the Department of Veterans Affairs, which whistleblowers allege delayed care for an untold number of military veterans and cost some their lives.
But interviews with experts in performance management, and an examination of VA documents and congressional testimony by NBC News, indicate the agency's internal controls were woefully inadequate when it came to tracking progress toward the goal approved by Shinseki.
Not only did the system fail to produce accurate and actionable data, but it may have incited front-line VA managers to cheat -- and even rewarded them for doing so, experts say.
"Any time you put highly specific performance measures in place, and you're reporting them publicly … they become high stakes and it encourages people to do stupid things like gaming the numbers," said Ellen Rubin, an assistant professor of public administration at the State University of New York at Albany who published a study of government performance appraisal systems in 2011.
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Other experts say the experience at the VA mirrors similar failures in the private sector where unrealistic, vague or difficult goals lead to bad behavior, such as car salespeople selling vehicles to people with bad credit to meet untenable sales targets.
"It really is the system that drives this behavior and if you're going to set up the system, you need to set up also a system of checks and balances," said Lisa Ordonez, a professor of management and organizations at the University of Arizona.
Such safeguards appear to be largely missing at the VA.
The VA has wrestled with lengthy wait times for more than a decade, and the problem of managers at the busiest VA facilities using creative "gaming strategies" to meet agency targets dates at least to 2008, according to an internal VA memo from 2010.
But Shinseki's approval of the 14-day goal added fuel to the fire, the VA acknowledges. The 14-day goal, since jettisoned by acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson following Shinseki's resignation on May 30, "was not attainable given growing demand for services and lack of planning for resource requirements," the VA said this month in a "fact sheet" on the medical access and wait times.
The goal apparently encouraged managers at busy VA medical facilities to deflate the numbers in reporting patient wait times - practices that the VA's Office of the Inspector General now says "are systemic" throughout the Veterans Health Administration. The ruses reportedly varied, but were geared toward manipulating data used to determine bonuses and salary increases during managers' performance reviews.
For example, a preliminary report by the VA's Office of the Inspector General on May 28 focused on ground zero in the scheduling scandal - the Phoenix medical center -- found that many veterans seeking first appointments there were not entered into the "electronic waiting list" in scheduling software. Instead, according to whistleblower accounts that surfaced in March, paper records widely known as the "secret waiting list" were created, making it appear that the facility was sharply reducing its backlog.
It also found that "certain audit controls" within the scheduling software were not enabled, limiting investigators' ability to determine whether "malicious manipulation" of the data had occurred.
Congressional investigators say the lack of performance data also contributed to an environment where the awarding of bonuses became nearly automatic.
Rep. Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, noted during a hearing Friday that the VA paid more than $2.8 million in bonuses to senior executives in fiscal 2013, and that all of the agency's 470 senior managers received a "fully successful performance review."
"Instead of using bonuses as an award for outstanding work on behalf of our veterans, cash awards are seen as an entitlement and have become irrelevant to quality work product," said Miller, R-Fla.
The VA did not respond to a request from NBC News for comment on its performance management system. In a previous response, the agency said, "The 14-day wait time target is a small portion of an individual executive's performance assessment, which is comprised of nearly 80 separate dimensions of leadership."
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Adding another layer of complexity in Phoenix was the hiring of an outside consultant, Franklin Covey, to provide additional performance training for Phoenix VA employees.
The Salt Lake City-based company conducted a 1½-day session for more than 200 doctors and nurses in Phoenix in late 2012, according to Dr. Sam Foote, a retired VA medical practitioner and one of two whistleblowers who reported scheduling fakery at the medical center. He said that managers at the hospital used a "scoreboard" recommended by Franklin Covey to track progress on the wait time goal.
Foote called the session with the consultant "ridiculous," saying that a number of employees walked out when the trainers showed a videotape of a teenager dancing at a rock concert to demonstrate leadership and then "wanted us all to get up and dance around the room."
He also called it a waste of valuable agency resources.
"They made us go downtown when we needed all the time we could use to work," Foote said. "… It was a 'Romper Room-type thing," he said, referring to a children's TV show that ran from 1953 til the mid-1990s.
(A spokeswoman for Franklin Covey did not respond to a request for comment from NBC News. The company received $2,824,816 in federal contracts in 2012, including $238,336 from the VA, according to the fedspending.org database.)
John Mercer, a performance management consultant who helped ignite the drive for performance-based budgeting and management in the federal government, said that based on his recent conversations with staffers at the VA, it is clear that senior officials received little or no reliable data on how Shinseki's goal was being acted on by front-line employees.
"This is a systemic problem throughout the federal government," said Mercer, who drafted the Government Performance Results Act of 1993 -- the first attempt to introduce computerized, results-oriented management techniques at the federal level. "… If you don't take it all the way down to where the results are actually achieved, then what you have is a wish list."
In addition to lacking good data, some experts question whether wait time was an appropriate measurement for VA facility managers.
"The performance metric should not have been the waiting list but how existing resources were being utilized," said Dr. Robert Roswell, who served as undersecretary of health in the VA from 2002 to 2004 and is now a professor of medicine at the University of Oklahoma. "A director can make sure that no-show appointments are minimized but has no ability to control how many veterans are seeking care at his or her facility."
But Ed Barrows, a partner with the consulting firm Cambridge Performance Partners, said the VA's management culture was the biggest problem.
"If the 14-day goal gets a lot of attention by management, it becomes a Dilbert cartoon, unfortunately," said Barrows, who has consulted with the U.S. Commerce Department and the Navy. "… It's not wrong to measure how many people are outside the 14-day window, but the nature of the culture, the way it cascaded down, the way leadership executed it created the opposite effect."
Mercer, who served as a city councilman and mayor in Sunnyvale, Calif., before bringing his accountability ideas to Washington, said he and other city officials received plenty of data that allowed for accurate decision making. They knew, for example, how much it cost for a parks employee to mow an acre of grass, or a receptionist to handle a walk-in complaint from a constituent.
That hasn't happened at the federal level, he said, despite a standard issued by the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board that took effect in 1995, which requires agencies to document the costs of providing basic services.
If VA leaders had such data, said Mercer, they likely could have spotted anomalies in the Phoenix medical center's appointment backlog.
"Then you can say, 'Hey they're doing really well in Phoenix. … let's see how they're doing it,' said Mercer, now a senior consultant at Capital Novus of Fairfax, Va., who is trying to sell the VA and other federal agencies on software designed to ensure that performance goals and metrics flow through an entire organization. "And then pretty soon you see something's wrong. The numbers don't match."
Such reporting gaps continue to exist despite multiple efforts over more than two decades to improve efficiency and accountability in federal government.
Following the Government Performance Results Act, signed in 1993 by former President Bill Clinton, former President George W. Bush added his imprint with the President's Management Agenda in 2001 and the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART).
The latest effort to improve efficiency is known as GEAR, for Goals-Engagement-Accountability-Results. Overseen by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the fledgling effort encourages agencies to meet benchmarks for high quality performance appraisal systems. It is currently being tested at five federal agencies, including the VA's National Cemetery Administration.
The use of the word "encourages" to describe GEAR highlights another problem with efforts to increase accountability in federal agencies, said Rubin.
"The Office of Performance Management establishes the basic requirements, but these are very broad and the agencies have a lot of flexibility as to how they design the systems," she said, adding that the General Accounting Office and Office of Management and Budget also have some oversight of performance management, but "they can't force agencies to make changes to their appraisal systems."
In a statement to NBC News, a spokesperson for the OPM said that the VA's performance management and appraisal system met its guidelines:
"The U.S. Office of Personnel Management's approval of each agency's performance management system is approval on the system design and the adherence of the system to OPM requirements …. The approval authorizes an agency to implement the system; however, the approval does not pertain to the actual application/operation of the system by the individual agency."
The GAO and OMB declined to comment.
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While the VA needs to revamp its system of monitoring workflow and rewarding standout performers, Rubin warned that any solution should not overload doctors and schedulers.
"What would you rather VA doctors and nurses were doing, treating patients or documenting everything?" she said. "We have to be careful that we don't put so many constraints on them that it gets in the way of their serving veterans."
Talesha Reynolds of NBC News and Allison Linn of CNBC contributed to this report.


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The Iraqi death toll
by Chris in Paris - 10/26/2005 03:24:00 AM
So is Bush also laughing about the thousands of Iraqis who have died as well? Estimates vary but a reasonable starting point seems to be around 30,000 Iraqi deaths since the beginning of the US/UK invasion of Iraq. With the faux constitution that does not address any of the serious issues (once again put off for another day) there is no reason to think that the Iraqi deaths will decrease. The numbers are pretty bad:
One U.S. military spokesman said it is possible the figure for the entire war could be 30,000 Iraqis...
Iraq Body Count estimates roughly 1,000 Iraqis die each month
Michael O'Hanlon, a military analyst at the Brookings Institution who has closely followed the war's casualties, said an average of 1,500 to 2,000 Iraqis have been killed each month
While American troops are killed at the rate of about 60 to 70 per month, the new Iraqi military suffers that many deaths in a week, mainly from insurgent attacks that rose to about 90 per day in September, O'Hanlon said.
Iraq has the highest crime rate in the region with around 10,000 homicides a year
"Most Iraqis remain less secure than they were under Saddam, less secure even than they were in the first year of the American occupation," said James Dobbins, a former Bush administration envoy to Afghanistan and veteran diplomat who now directs the Rand Corp.'s International Security and Defense Policy Center.
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Iraq Body Count are reporting at least 30,000 Iraqi civilian deaths. The true total is likely to be much higher
From the Iraq Body Count website:
"We put accuracy above speed and do not update the data base until we have located and cross-checked two or more independent approved news sources for the same incident (for more details see our Methodology). If you want to submit news stories that could help us confirm an incident involving civilian deaths please email news item weblinks to
firstname.lastname@example.com(the more specific and detailed, the better).
Still, your "maximum" count seems very low to me. Surely there must be many, many more civilian deaths than you've published.
We are not a news organization ourselves and like everyone else can only base our information on what has been reported so far. What we are attempting to provide is a credible compilation of civilian deaths that have been reported by recognized sources. Our maximum therefore refers to reported deaths - which can only be a sample of true deaths unless one assumes that every civilian death has been reported. It is likely that many if not most civilian casualties will go unreported by the media. That is the sad nature of war."
Numbers of Iraqis dead is very likely much higher. At the start of the war apparently 40,000 missiles and heaviest bombs were dropped on various cities of Iraq. If each bomb or missile killed only two people it would make 80,000 dead in the first few days. Since then estimated 1000 per month should be added. Some of the explosions seen
on TV ended in a mushroom cloud almost as big as one created by the detonation of a nuclear bomb. (But they were not WMDs ?)
The Republicans, and the "Hating Right" are starting to believe their own lies. Just like the evolution of man, the Republican liars have evolved into a whole new Species. The new Species is self supporting and need only the confirmations from their own ranks -- hence Bush's exclusion of non supporters to his town meetings and campaign rallies. The new Species has several draw backs, but the one that most identify their shortcomings as a Species is they tend to believe the lies in the face of undeniable truth, and they tend to treat truth as an opinion to be discounted by, you guessed it, more lies. With all this need to keep truth at bay, they have become very hateful of those who would make it difficult for them to maintain their deceptions. In short, they live by lies and die by them, and if we don't stop them, they will have more victims dying for the same lies they need to live off of.


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By Dr. Geraldine M. Chapey
The Cathedral Club Celebrates 102 Years
On Friday evening, February 1, 2002, The Cathedral Club held its 102nd dinner honoring William A. McKenna Jr., the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Ridgewood Savings Bank.
The Cathedral Club of the Diocese of Brooklyn/Queens is fortunate to have as its current President Vincent M. DelGuidice. Vincent DelGuidice has spent many years successfully leading numerous civic, community and religious organizations. He brings to his Presidency a passion and a love for the successful endeavors that he has accomplished. He and his family are devoted to improving the lives of their fellow men and women. At this crucial time, strong leadership is imperative and we are very fortunate that Vincent Del Guidice and his family have accepted this challenge.
The Cathedral Club is a Catholic lay organization founded on March 1, 1900, in the Diocese of Brooklyn/Queens. The spiritual leader at the beginning was Father George Mundelein who later became the Cardinal of the Diocese of Chicago. The club was founded to promote moral and religious spirituality. As the Club grew and expanded, it now has an extensive group of events and activities which fulfill its aim and purpose.
The spiritual leader of the Club is Bishop Thomas Daily. Bishop Daily is fluent in several languages. He spent five years in South America. Through his unique experiences he is able to reach out to all members of the Diocese. His responsiveness to the needs of the flock has allowed him to achieve significant gains for the various communities in Brooklyn and Queens. He is an indefatigable leader who has a genuine commitment to working cooperatively with people. He has the ability to powerfully articulate a vision and make this new and improved vision a reality.
This year's honoree, William McKenna, has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Ridgewood Savings Bank since January 1992. The Ridgewood Savings Bank was originally chartered in 1921. It is now a mutual savings bank with more than $2.5 billion in assets serving more than 200,000 depositors at eighteen branches in Queens, Brooklyn, Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
William McKenna is a graduate of St. John's University and has completed postgraduate programs at both Brown University and Harvard Universities' Graduate School of Business Administration. He has also been awarded a Doctorate in Commercial Science, honoris causa, from St. John's University.
The principal speaker at the dinner was Congressman Vito Fossella. He serves as a Congressman from Staten Island and graduated from the prestigious Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his law degree from Fordham University in 1993.
Congressman Fossella is a very intelligent and hard working Congressman. His primary issues are education, the economy, the environment and improving the quality of life for all New Yorkers. During his term in office he has stressed the importance of tax reductions, preserving, protecting and strengthening Social Security and Medicare and fighting crime.
The Cathedral Club Dinner was an outstanding success. It continues to thrive because of the excellent spiritual guidance given by Bishop Daily. Bishop Daily strongly supports the organization because of the continued good work that it does in the Diocese of Brooklyn/Queens. A special note of thanks goes to Vincent Del Guidice and his family for their dedication and service.


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let me know what setup Ryan says is the best. Kendall has my track alignment saved on his computer...it's the one Ian gave me.
I got the Vorshlag plates. Ian recomended them to me, saying they were easy to adjust and would work very well with the AST 4200's that are on my wish list (at least a nother year away).
We are basically gonna start with my street settings which are -2.5 front and -1.5 rear (I believe yours is the same) and gradually increase the F/R camber along with increaseing the compression and rebound on my shocks. We're gonna take notes along the way working all the way to -3.5 front and -2.5 rear with the stiffest shock settings then review are notes and make adjustments to what we think the best combination is.
Since he hasn't driven/riden in my car before he told me that it will be a pretty drawn out process and hopes to have something dialed in by my final runs on Sunday.
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Look for Tim Tebow to play next year in Jacksonville.
According to a report from ESPN's Chris Mortensen [1], league sources say it is a "virtual certainty" Tebow will play for the Jaguars in 2013. Tebow reportedly had a choice between his hometown Jaguars and the Jets in the offseason and chose the bright lights of New York.
After a disastrous season that led to locker room in-fighting and snickering, much of it directed at the former Heisman Trophy winner, Tebow will apparently get a second chance to play close to where he became a legend for the Florida Gators. Tebow reportedly will be traded or released after the season, but league sources tell Mortensen the Jets are likely to honor Tebow's forthcoming request to be released and therefore become an unrestricted free agent.
Circumstances in Jacksonville have changed since Tebow chose the Jets over the Jaguars when he was traded by the Broncos in March.
Jacksonville owner Shad Khan wanted Tebow, but there was no assurance from the Jaguars that the former Heisman Trophy winner would get an opportunity to play because the team was still committed to 2011 first-round pick Blaine Gabbert.
In 2013, the Jaguars will have an open quarterback competition and a team source told ESPN it's a "high likelihood" Tebow will be part of the mix. Gabbert was inconsistent again as a starter and eventually landed on injured reserve this season. Chad Henne assumed the starting role and is making his fifth straight start against the Patriots Sunday.
The Jaguars offered a fourth-round pick to Denver in March and proposed to pay $3 million to the Broncos to compensate for money that had been advanced to Tebow. The Broncos gave Tebow his choice of teams and the former Florida quarterback decided his opportunity to play in New York was greater than Jacksonville, based on conversations with Jets coach Rex Ryan, sources said told ESPN.
The Jets gave up fourth- and sixth-round draft choices to Denver and received a seventh-rounder in return from the Broncos when Tebow chose New York. The Broncos also agreed to pay the Jets $2.53 million, or about half of what had been advanced to Tebow.
For more, visit the Patriots page at weei.com/patriots [2].
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It's up to you if you want to exchange it or not. Basically, it's the same exact holster as the one for the G19, but it's a little bit longer. So, if you had the same holster for the G19, it would simply be a little shorter. Hope that helps.
I recently bought a Glock 19 and purchased a holster at the same time. I got a Safari 6378 ALS holster. I put the gun in the holster when I got it but got the packaging back out today to change from the paddle to the belt attachment and it says it is for a Glock 17 or 22. I checked the website and they do appear to have a different number for a Glock 19 holster.
It seems to fit fine but the gun comes out real easy after pushing the ALS locking mechanism and, from what I can tell on the internet, it should be pretty tight at least upon first use.
Do I need to take the holster back and get them to exchange for a different one or is it ok that I got this model as long as it seems to fit ok?
Thanks in advance!
It's up to you if you want to exchange it or not. Basically, it's the same exact holster as the one for the G19, but it's a little bit longer. So, if you had the same holster for the G19, it would simply be a little shorter. Hope that helps.
if it fits, it fits! If the extra length don't bother you go with what you got. However, it's not the holster for your 19. And since this is a precision sport it would really bother me. I purchessed a Blackhawk CQC for my Sig P228 got the holster home and reliazed that they had sold me a P226 holster. Back it went! I did get the right holster and it was a little sloppy imo, so i called them and they sent me a new larger rail piece for the holster. Life is once again good! I'm probabally a little weird about looks and fit, after all we do spend a big chunk of change on our guns. So after all is said and done the only person who has to be happy with it is you.
I have always subscribed to the notion that if a holster fits many different handguns it most likely doesn't fit any on them well. If you want the best performance get a holster that is made for your handgun specifically. I have a Glock 19 as my EDC and use a Hanks Gunleather IWB holster. Very affordable and is exceptionally comfortable.
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If you are looking for a Hybrid like the crossbreed I have to recommend the Mackenzie Holster. I have one and it's very comfortable tuckable IWB I got mine in Black Horsehide, and carbon fiber for $52.95 Lifetime Warranty and I had it on my doorstep in 5 days. Far better than any other holster manufacture. Great people great service and great communication. Give them a try you will not regret it I am going to be ordering one for my son and my wife. I hope this helps you guys out some I just thought I would pass it on to you guys. They are at Mackenzie Enterprise!, Take Charge Now!


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Recent Grads Drive 17,000 Miles to See What's Really Happening With Climate Change Across America
Fresh off their graduation this spring from the master's program at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment, Allie Goldstein and Kirsten Howard wanted to see for themselves how climate change was changing America, on the ground and up close.
So they took a road trip. Three months, 31 states and 17,358 miles later, the pair had documented a mosaic of responses to changing weather patterns and changing lifestyles as varied as the places they visited – everywhere from Canada's Pacific coastline to the marshes of the South Carolina low country.
Goldstein and Howard, now both 26, met while they were graduate students in environmental policy at the university, and came up with the idea as a way to see how people were dealing on a local level with the big, global issues they studied.
"We had both just been really interested in the idea of taking a road trip, both for fun and to get on the ground and really see what America looks like – what these communities look like, what they're dealing with in terms of climate change impacts and how they make themselves more resilient," Howard told weather.com.
Their university agreed to finance about half the cost of the trip, and an anonymous donor who wanted to support scientific storytelling sent them a check to cover much of the rest. All that remained to get the trip off the ground was about $3,000, which they raised with a crowdfunding campaign before they set out in late May.
Along the way, they found stories about climate change with far more nuance – and in some cases, reasons to feel encouraged – than what often appears in the national media. They filed those stories day by day on their website, AdaptationStories.com.
In Napa Valley, Calif., they found wine growers facing the threat of rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns, who were designing ways for their crops to survive and possibly even thrive in warmer climates. Their conclusion? That climate change may not be the end of wine after all, as some have predicted.
They also saw how the land is changing in Montana's Glacier National Park, where only 25 glaciers remain of the 150 or so that once covered its mountain peaks. They saw drought-stricken Joshua trees struggling against their fate in California, where hotter, drier weather could shrink their population to a tenth its current size by the end of the century.
Even things as seemingly small as parking lots on Cape Cod were worth a visit, they found, as beach erosion and sea level rise may one day bring an end to a longstanding local tradition of driving out for lunch in one of the Massachusetts peninsula's innumerable oceanfront parking lots.
Most of all, they talked with people everywhere. People like Queen Quet, the elected leader of the Gullah/Geechee Nation on Saint Helena Island, S.C., where a combination of drought, rising sea levels and the threat of commercial development could soon make her people's culture and livelihoods a thing of the past.
And people like Bill Armstrong, a 25-year veteran of the U.S. Forest Service, whose take on the future of the West's majestic forests appears prophetic in the wake of this summer's swarm of major fires amidst historic drought. "It's not the end of the world, it's just dramatic change," he told Goldstein and Howard. "The future is one of big fires, and then what's left is left."
The trip saw the two traveling in just about every vehicle imaginable, from Goldstein's Toyota minivan to four-wheelers, boats, canoes and paddle boards. And of course on foot when they met farmers, ranchers, fishermen, government officials and locals in every town they visited.
Those visits brought into focus aspects of climate change beyond the pitched battles that take place in the political realm, Goldstein said. "Once you get down to that local community scale, a lot of that controversy you see at a national or international level around climate change kind of dissipates.
"You don't necessarily have to talk about global carbon emissions when you're talking about local impacts and trends and weather variability over time," she added.
"People obviously want to do what they can to prepare for it and make their own community – which they love so much and care so much about – as resilient as possible," she said. "So you really can get past that polarizing debate when you're talking about a person's home."
As you might expect, a trip that unfolds through just over a few dozen cities meant meeting people with a wide range of opinions on climate change. "It ran the whole gamut," Howard said.
"We met with some people who think that climate change is going to totally change the world, and think it's going to be the worst environmental problem in the community," she added. But they also met "people who either don't accept the science around climate change, or they just don't believe that it's going to come to their corner of the world at all."
Goldstein and Howard wrapped up the road portion of their trip in late August by returning home to Michigan with a visit to Detroit, one of America's most economically challenged cities, which Howard added was "kind of a fitting and sort of poetic last story for our trip."
Even there, in a city that has lost half its population since the 1950s, the pair found a burgeoning grassroots movement devoted to helping Detroit become a model to other U.S. cities for what "socially just and ecologically sustainable development can look like," according to an interview they did with Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice.
The women have moved on to jobs in environmental policy in New Hampshire and Washington, D.C., but Howard said they'll continue working on AdaptationStories.com, with stories "that answer some of the questions – what are the lessons we've learned, [and] what's the country-wide picture that we've taken away from the project."
Read more about their journey at AdaptationStories.com.
Updated: Howard and Goldstein wrote to add that they look forward to the day when renewable energy systems and sustainable transportation are so far-reaching and accessible that "road trip" is no longer synonymous with "emissions."
In the meantime, they neutralized the carbon footprint of their journey – which they calculated to be approximately 23,000 pounds of carbon dioxide – by purchasing carbon offsets that support greenhouse gas reduction projects in the U.S.
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- Year: 1964
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· Removed all of the interior and dash components
· Treated interior with rust proofing paint
· Painted car with base and separate clear coat (2 stage), Panama Beige (L572)
· Replaced all 4 fenders
· New front window
· New chrome trim
· New running boards
· New bumpers and bumper brackets
· Powder coated wheels with new trim rings and hubcaps
· New window rubber with chrome trim (all 4 windows)
· New tires
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Engine: 1835 Rebuilt:
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· New fuel pump
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· New seat covers (TMI)
· New horse hair seat pads (like original)
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· New door panels
· New rubber floor mats (like original, much better than carpet)
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So yeah - (officially released on FRIDAY!) #2 of The INFINATE Zine is finally done - printed - finished - stapled - READY to rock n' roll. This bad boy is almost double the size of the last one...so thanks to all who contributed!
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I have a 15-pound Lhasa-poo who joined my family in November. When I leave the house, I'd like to leave him in the kitchen, which is roomy and comfortable. I bought retractable gates to keep him in. The gates are 34-inches tall, and he either gets over them or under them. He's definitely an escape artist.
There are two openings into the kitchen. One is a standard door size and the other is 70-inches wide. Can anyone recommend a good, very tall, gate that might work in both openings?
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Bo Smith led the Film Program at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for 21 years (1987–2008). During this time, he
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MFA starting in 1991), the Boston Festival of Films from Iran (starting in
1995), the Boston African Film Festival (starting in 2000), Boston Human Rights
Watch Film Festival (starting in 2001) and the Boston Turkish Film Festival
(starting in 2003). In addition to festivals, the MFA Film Program was
distinguished for its attention to presenting the work of New England film
artists and presenting widely varied films on art and artists. During each of
the final 10 years of Smith's tenure at the MFA, he oversaw the presentation of
over 700 programs with audience totals surpassing 70,000 annually. Many of
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