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WATERLOO, Ontario — Descartes Systems Group (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that it's extending its cloud-based Air Messaging services across all Descartes OneView (formerly IES Enterprise Forwarder Solution) customers. By taking advantage of these services, forwarders and brokers can enhance air cargo management capabilities by seamlessly connecting and exchanging shipment data and documents with air carriers.
"Part of the strategy at John S. James Co. is to leverage industry-leading technology to streamline our operations, enhance our service offering, and support revenue and market share growth as our business evolves," said Len James, CFO of the John S. James Co. "Descartes' Enterprise Forwarder solution has been pivotal to our success. Working with Descartes has offered us better opportunities to deploy more mission-critical capabilities for connectivity and collaboration with trading partners."
Descartes acquired Integrated Export Systems and IES Asia Limited (collectively referred to as "IES") on June 15, 2012. The OneView solution portfolio extends the reach and functional capabilities of Descartes' global logistics community and provides a comprehensive application footprint for forwarders, customs brokers, and NVOCCs. Now with fully integrated air messaging services that leverage Descartes' Global Logistics Network (GLN), OneView customers can exchange air waybills, house bills and status messages electronically with more than 90 global air carriers. This solution enables users to:
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One feared dead after roof collapse
At least one person is feared dead and another trapped inside the rubble of a roof collapse at a shopping centre in northern Ontario, authorities said.
More than 24 hours after the collapse, rescue workers have been unable to reach the victim because the structure is too unstable. But images taken with a camera show a hand and foot in the dusty debris, said Ontario Provincial Police Inspector Percy Jollymore.
Fire officials heard tapping in another part of the rubble, but nothing had been heard for hours. They said they also tried to reach that person by drilling through a wall, but found the structure too unsafe to risk entering far enough inside.
Police have a list of nine people missing since the collapse, but the names are being crossed off as members of the community account for their loved ones.
At least 22 people suffered minor injuries in the roof collapse on Saturday afternoon at the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake.
A special emergency crew is working to stabilise the scene, but authorities said the process could take hours.
A portion of the roof that serves as a parking area crumbled down two floors into an area near the food court, leaving behind a gaping hole which was 12 metres by 24 metres. It also downed hydro lines and triggered a gas leak.
Emergency officials quickly cleared out the mall and closed surrounding roads. Mayor Rick Hamilton declared a state of emergency.
The two-level mall in this northern Ontario community is approximately 200,000 square feet. It houses a grocery store, restaurants, a number of retail outlets, a hotel, and the constituency office for a member of the provincial parliament.
Rhonda Bear, a spokeswoman for the mall, which is run by Eastwood Mall Incorporated, referred all questions on the collapse and the condition of the mall to its lawyer, who could not immediately be reached for comment. "All our concern right now is our prayers are with the families," Ms Bear said.


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brokensail (1362) Dublin, California | November 24, 2013
Mostly came here to eat, sit down, and watch a bit of football after being pretty burned out on beer drinking. They have a respectable tap list, but its nothing amazing: some macros and otherwise local micros, but mostly the usual suspects. If youre looking for a place to drink, theres certainly better ones. Food was enjoyable (got a stromboli, which was really a calzone). Ate pretty good. Solid service, pretty good prices. In terms of decor, its a bit of a flashback, but I kind of liked it. Really sort of friendly vibe to the whole place.
t0rin0 (1529) Do Not Resuscitate, California | October 17, 2013
Visited October 11, 2013.
Stopped in with Anders37 after the rest of the group burned out for the day. This looks like a 50s diner, which Im guessing is the idea. They have the checkered floor, the high stools, and the ugly white counter. The servers were friendly but were busy that night. We didnt eat; we were only there for the beer. Speaking of which, they have a small(ish) collection but a decent one at that. Breckenridge, Boulevard, and Wynkoop in addition to Coors and other macros. As mentioned before by the last reviewer, not a bad place but there are better places very close by. Maybe the food is worth visiting for, but I dont know.
Steve_0 (142) Denver, Colorado | August 14, 2012
Little place in Lodo, close to some other great stops. The food was ok, but the service was good, no complaints here. Beer selection is average. Mostly regionals on tap with a few Belgian exceptions, like the Duchesse, which I give them extra points for since that is probably my wifes favorite beer. Other than that, not much else to say, the atmosphere is meh and the beer is OK, not a bad place, but there are ten other places I would choose in Lodo over this place.
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A Denver institution, back open after a remodel. Serving great beer and the citys best pizza until late! Late night Happy Hour every night!


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RE: Vary PlotStyle in ListPlot ?
Hi Mark,
> I'm producing ListPlots with a large number (>100000) pairs
> of points.
> Is there a way to vary the PlotStyle in a single ListPlot
> command, so that sets of points in a certain region are a
> different color or Opacity than points outside the region?
> This is simple using Show and individual ListPlots, but I'm
> wondering if it can be done within a single ListPlot command.
This should be a matter of setting up different styles and partitioning your
data accordingly (eg Cluster[] or Cases[])
Something like
pstyl = {
{Directive[Opacity[.25], PointSize[.01]], Black},
{Directive[Opacity[.5], PointSize[.05]], Red},
{Directive[Opacity[.25], PointSize[.01]], Green}};
split[lst_?VectorQ] := {Select[lst, # < 4 &],
Select[lst, 4 <= # 7.5 &], Select[lst, # >= 7.5 &]};
data = RandomReal[{0, 10}, 100];
ListPlot[split@data, PlotStyle -> pstyl]
should get you some ideas.


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SYDNEY – Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday defended her government's decision to leave the bodies of drowned asylum seekers in the ocean, as a search began for yet another vessel in the Indian Ocean.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority said two aircraft had been dispatched to look for a boat north of the Cocos Islands.
"The search area is approximately 260 nautical miles north of the Cocos Islands. We do not have any information about the number of people on board," AMSA said in a statement.
The move came after an extensive three-day air and sea search for a boat of asylum seekers presumed to have capsized near the Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island with at least 55 people on board last week. No survivors were found.
Up to 13 bodies were spotted in the water, along with debris and life jackets, but they were not recovered while the hunt for survivors was on. Customs officials said Monday they were now too busy rescuing other boats.
"That is a very tough decision but it is an operational decision," Gillard told reporters.
Australia's Tamil community criticized the move, saying there would be outrage if the bodies of Australian victims were left in the remote waters off Christmas Island.
"If they were Australians, I am sure that I would be angry," Bala Vigneswaran, executive officer of the Australian Tamil Congress, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. "I'm sure that everybody here in Australia would be very disappointed and I don't think we would have treated Australians like this."
Asked about this criticism, Gillard said Australia would "always put the highest priority on saving lives."
The doomed vessel was one of several arriving over the past week, with seven boats carrying a total of around 500 people intercepted since June 5, including one carrying more than 90 people that sought assistance near Christmas Island.


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About Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk is an American author, whose best-selling 1951 novel The Caine Mutiny won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other works include the highly acclaimed The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as This Is My God, a popular explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages. The Washington Post called Wouk, who cherishes his privacy, "the reclusive dean of American historical novelists." Historians, novelists, publishers, and critics who gathered at the Library of Congress in 1995 to mark Wouk's 80th birthday likened him to "an American Tolstoy."
Wouk's latest book, which he says will be his last, is an autobiographical memoir entitled Sailor and Fiddler: Reflections of a 100-Year-Old Author, and was released in January 2016 to mark his 100th birthday. NPR called it "a lovely coda to the career of a man who made American literature a kinder, smarter, better place."
Herman Wouk was born in New York City into a Jewish family that had emigrated from The Minsk area ( Ilja, Badanova and Kurenets). After a childhood and adolescence in the Bronx and a high school diploma from Townsend Harris High School, he earned a B.A. from Columbia University in 1934, where he studied under philosopher Irwin Edman. Soon thereafter, he became a radio dramatist, working in David Freedman's "Joke Factory" and later with Fred Allen for five years then in 1941, for the United States government, writing radio spots to sell war bonds. He lived a fairly secular lifestyle in his early 20s before deciding to return to a more traditional Jewish way of life, modeled after his grandfather, in his mid-20s. From that day to the present, Wouk has commenced each day of his life with a reading of Scripture in Hebrew[citation needed].
Wouk joined the United States Navy and served in the Pacific Theater, an experience he later characterized as educational; "I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans." Wouk served as an officer aboard two destroyer minesweepers (DMS), the USS Zane and USS Southard, becoming executive officer of the latter. He started writing a novel, Aurora Dawn,[1] during off-duty hours aboard ship. Wouk sent a copy of the opening chapters to Irwin Edman who quoted a few pages verbatim to a New York editor. The result was a publisher's contract sent to Wouk's ship, then off the coast of Okinawa. The novel was published in 1947 and became a Book of the Month Club main selection. His second novel, City Boy, proved to be a commercial disappointment at the time of its initial publication in 1948; perhaps, as Wouk once claimed, it was swept away by the excitement over Norman Mailer's bestselling World War II novel The Naked and the Dead.
While writing his next novel, Wouk read each chapter as it was completed to his wife, who remarked at one point that if they didn't like this one, he'd better take up another line of work (a line he would give to the character of the editor Jeannie Fry in his 1962 novel Youngblood Hawke). The novel, The Caine Mutiny (1951), went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. A huge best-seller, drawing from his wartime experiences aboard minesweepers during World War II, The Caine Mutiny was adapted by the author into a Broadway play called The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, and was later made into a film, with Humphrey Bogart portraying Lt. Commander Philip Francis Queeg, captain of the fictional DMS Caine. Some Navy personnel complained at the time that Wouk had taken every twitch of every commanding officer in the Navy and put them all into one character, but Captain Queeg has endured as one of the great characters in American fiction.
He married Betty Sarah Brown in 1945, with whom he had three sons. He became a fulltime writer in 1946 to support his growing family. His first-born son, Abraham Isaac Wouk, died in a tragic accident as a child; Wouk later dedicated War and Remembrance (1978) to him with the Biblical words, "He will destroy death forever."
In 1998, Wouk received the Guardian of Zion Award. He and his wife currently live in Palm Springs, CA.
[edit] Writing
His novels after The Caine Mutiny include Marjorie Morningstar (1955), Youngblood Hawke (1962), and Don't Stop the Carnival (1965). In 1956 he published in paperback the novel Slattery's Hurricane, which he had written in 1948 as the basis for the screenplay for the film of the same name. Wouk's first work of non-fiction was 1959's This is My God, an explanation of Orthodox Judaism.
In the 1970s, Wouk published his two most ambitious novels, The Winds of War (1971) and War and Remembrance (1978). He described the latter, which included a devastating depiction of the Holocaust, as "the main tale I have to tell." Both were made into hugely popular TV miniseries. Although they were made several years apart, both were directed by Dan Curtis and both starred Robert Mitchum as Captain Victor "Pug" Henry, the main character.
The novels are ingeniously constructed historical fiction, so absorbing that Henry Kissinger called them at one point "the war itself." Each has three layers: the story told from the viewpoint of Captain Henry; a more or less straightforward historical account of the events of the war; and, most ingeniously, an analysis by a member of Hitler's military staff, the insightful General Armin von Roon, who would have been a major figure in world history, had he existed. There are many classic accounts in the novels, but perhaps most interesting are the bombing raid on Germany by British airmen before Pearl Harbor (Captain Henry joins them for a look see), in the first novel, and the Battle of Midway, in the second. The latter contains what one reviewer called a "remarkable roster call of American airmen sacrificed during the battle."
Wouk hired highly qualified young historians to assist him with the research for his later historical novels, and their details are highly accurate. They include putting together the "roster call" of Midway. Experts have described The Caine Mutiny as one of the best depictions of daily life aboard a US ship during the Second World War.
Wouk on Zionism
"Zionism is a single long action of lifesaving, of snatching great masses of people out of the path of sure extinction." (This is My God, first edition (1959), page 264.)
[edit] Library of Congress
Wouk has kept a personal diary since the 1930s. On September 10, 2008, Wouk formally presented the Library of Congress with his journals, now numbering over 90 volumes, in a ceremony which honored him with the first Library of Congress Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Writing of Fiction.
Wouk often refers to his journals to check dates and facts in his writing, and was hesitant to let the originals out of his personal possession. A solution was arrived at: a scanning service bureau was selected to scan the entire set of volumes into digital formats.[2]
[edit] Selected works
Aurora Dawn (1947)
The Lomokome Papers (1947) (see )
City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder (1948)
The Traitor (1949 play)
The Caine Mutiny (1951)
A Modern Primitive (1952 Unpublished Play)
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1953 play)
Marjorie Morningstar (1955)
Slattery's Hurricane (1956)
Nature's Way (1957 play)
This is My God: The Jewish Way of Life (1959, revised ed. 1973) (non-fiction)
Youngblood Hawke (1961)
Don't Stop the Carnival (1965)
The Lomokome Papers (1968)
The Winds of War (1971)
War and Remembrance (1978)
Inside, Outside (1985)
The Hope (1993)
The Glory (1994)
The Will to Live on: The Resurgence of Jewish Heritage (2000)
A Hole in Texas (2004
Herman Wouk's Timeline
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New York, New York, United States
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duckshooter wrote:So I take it then that we are all on the same page, spending an extra $5 - $8 per box for hypersonic is a total waste of money. Just another gimmick to sell more shells. I'm afraid to even mention my theory on the frisbee effect of the Saturn shaped pellets in the BlackCloud.
3200 man wrote:What ever you choose to shoot , time at the range will dictate your success
QuackerSmacker498 wrote:Mugz that's a great a post and I have experienced the same results by taking many new hunters out on a boat.
They often shoot behind the bird. Sometimes they hit the bird on the second or third shot as the bird climbs straight up. And the necessary lead has now shortened.
So back to special shells.......they are CRAP for the money you spend. But if it makes you feel better about killing ducks, keep buying them. 3" #2's. Or 3.5" BB's for geese only. I have been very happy with Federal Steel. They pattern just fine and you can't beat the price......$11.40 for 3" a box if you know where to buy them $14.00 for 3.5's
3200 man wrote:I've heard of Black Clouds hanging over some hunters that spend to much time thinking their ammo is better than others
but , good shooters can be successful with just about any shell as long as the pellets are good and round
What ever you choose to shoot , time at the range will dictate your success
straightsixes wrote:
There is often deformation of lead shot upon setback. Hevi-shot is/was some of the ugliest shot you could ever see, with much of it looking like welding slag. I would take both the dented lead or the slag-like Hevi-shot over perfectly round steel any day.
quack-attack wrote:this is why i just shoot everything off the water with my .17 HMR.
3200 man wrote:Fish dog
From what I understand of ( speed of the shot-string) it's traveling at such a high rate of speed in mil/sec , that
bird would not be able to fly into the shot-string even if it was 12 ft long . That's the reason why birds are hit with
multiple BB's in the front of the shot-string as well as the back , if you center it in the pattern .
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Why would you shoot something that has a lower chance of flying straight and hitting the target? Lead pellets getting "dented" during setback only happen to a few out of the bunch and a lot of companies worked pretty hard to get rid of the problem with plated lead shot and harder lead, till steel was made mandatory. It's not like the pellets get smashed flat, turned into cubes, ringed or melted into slag before all that chaos ends. Odd shaped pellets and those dented lead ones will have a higher percent chance of falling outside the pattern than a pellet that is round. It's plain physics and we are not going to re-write those laws anytime soon.
straightsixes wrote:Mugzwump wrote:
Why would you shoot something that has a lower chance of flying straight and hitting the target? Lead pellets getting "dented" during setback only happen to a few out of the bunch and a lot of companies worked pretty hard to get rid of the problem with plated lead shot and harder lead, till steel was made mandatory. It's not like the pellets get smashed flat, turned into cubes, ringed or melted into slag before all that chaos ends. Odd shaped pellets and those dented lead ones will have a higher percent chance of falling outside the pattern than a pellet that is round. It's plain physics and we are not going to re-write those laws anytime soon.
So how come when Hevi-shot came on the market it immediately began setting records and winning "championships" for patterns in "Turkey Load" situations? Aren't you claiming above that physics demand perfectly round steel should be better than slaglike Hevi-shot? How come that doesn't play out in the real world?
How come they don't use steel for military projectiles (tank rounds etc)?
Go shoot some lead reclaim (majority of reclaim is NOT round) at targets... see if you can tell the difference out to 45-50 yards.
Don't worry... I understand the logic of round vs non-round.
You might be missing the point that in physics... some "laws" ( in some cases its theories) can outweigh others in real world situations.
Just like in real world situations... the affects of recoil on the average shooter (while they might vehemently disagree) outweighs the use of super high velocity or high weight loads. It doesn't take long watching shooters to see that the hitches and twitches start to form as their body starts to try to protect itself from recoil.
Finally... there are lots of reasons for non-hits while shotgunning. Blaming it all on not leading enough... is akin to always blaming your car not starting on the battery. There are lots of reasons for non-hits... that could fill a page here, but its not worth the hassle to write it down becauase most people wouldn't understand OR like a hypochondriac it would give more reasons to come up lame.
I used to cringe when the guy 25 feet away... screams "double your lead" to a guy in the cage trying to find a target. The helper can't see the shot string, or the barrel relationship with the target... but all they have is "double your lead". I don't cringe anymore because well at this point in range ownership... I've learned not to care about some things. As long as they are having fun and being safe, just stay out of the way and let them continue to fire shot downrange.
Your mileage may vary.
slowshooter wrote:Don't confuse mass with aerodynamics.
The reason that hevi shoots straighter is because it's deformations are forced to the rear so there is less resistance to air.
Same with deformed lead. The air is forced around the projectile while the deformation limits spin the result is that the projectile travels in a straight(er) line. Hevi does not shoot "straighter". Deformations are not forced to the rear, they lose velocity faster and fly erratically. deformations no not limit spin they cause instability, whereas spin can create stability in certain cases.
The problem with perfect steel is best illustrated with a golf ball. The indentations on the ball allow control that would be impossible with a perfect sphere. Perfection provided imperfect flight.Golf balls are low velocity projectiles, they spend half their time literally falling out of the sky. The dimples are perfect in their own shape, uniformly spaced over the surface of the ball. The effect of the dimples, being uniform create a stable air cushion in front of the ball, as air slips off itself better than it does off plastic, the result is less air drag. But fire that golf ball at 1400 fps and the effect of the dimples will probably rip the ball apart.
The flip side is controlling the deformation and forcing the air to keep the deformation to the front while piercing the atmosphere. In short, a bullet.Bullets are not deformed... they are shaped and balanced to have a lower ballistic coefficient.
I see what you are getting at though. I always wondered why that blindside stuff (or which ever goofy shot that was unfinished) didn't come in smaller shot. It would fly like a line drive and hit like the hammer of Thor.If they made it smaller it wouldn't make it to the patterning board
3200 man wrote:MUZ The only problem with steel shot is , we wish it was heavier but the hardness is a benefit as it stays round
during set-back and we can push it much faster than lead or heavy shot , with more pellets in a given load weight .
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The Truth According To Wikipedia
Google or Wikipedia? Those of us who search online — and who doesn't? — are getting referred more and more to Wikipedia. For the past two years, this free online "encyclopedia of the people" has been topping the lists of the world's most popular websites. But do we really know what we're using? Backlight plunges into the story behind Wikipedia and explores the wonderful world of Web 2.0. Is it a revolution, or pure hype?
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The questions surrounding Wikipedia lead to a bigger discussion of Web 2.0, a phenomenon in which the user determines the content. Examples include YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, and Wikipedia. These sites would appear to provide new freedom and opportunities for undiscovered talent and unheard voices, but just where does the boundary lie between expert and amateur? Who will survive according to the laws of this new "digital Darwinism"? Are equality and truth really reconcilable ideals? And most importantly, has the Internet brought us wisdom and truth, or is it high time for a cultural counterrevolution?
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Well folks, it didn't happen this time. This week, Google and Microsoft both announced the end of their free energy data collection services, Google PowerMeter and MS Hohm, respectively.
This cannot be a good sign for the energy monitor business, especially the middle tier, notably Blueline PowerCost Monitor and The Energy Detective, but also CurrentCost Envi and others, even WattVision. All are priced at a point that is sufficiently high to make you think twice, and have a difficult task of demonstrating that the savings you'll get will be enough to warrant the cost.
Higher-end models such as the eMonitor make a lot of sense, because what I saw was that the people buying them either had massive houses, or lived in places where electricity prices were high (e.g. Hawaii). I would not be surprised if these folks were getting bills around $500 to $1,000 per month. Not only did these customers have more money, they had a harder problem to identify, but easier to solve — one pool pump turned off for a few hours, or one AC unit turned down a little could easily justify the much higher cost. This same math doesn't work for normal folks whose electricity bill is just one more $130/month bill.
Back in those heady days of 2008 when people gave a damn about things past the end of their nose (like energy conservation, climate change, etc.), businesses arose to support the novel idea that you should be able to keep track of how much energy you used. And Google and MS both offered services that supported these businesses by storing power data and providing a web interface.
But the start was rocky.
I blame The Energy Detective, or TED. I had the distinct displeasure of working with this company for some time, and have really pretty much nothing good to say about them. At first, it seemed great. But it turned out to be terrible. They created a product that was ridiculously and needlessly complicated, turned out to be very difficult to install, required an electrician and a network engineer, had poor quality control, and which is fickle at best, and for many people (including me) broke or failed repeatedly. Add to that several people in the support department, and the company's CEO who were arrogant, dismissive and repeatedly pissed off customers with horrible service. Oh, and lets not forget the time in Fall of 2009 where they reported a short delay in shipment, which was only resolved about 5 months later. How to make people angry, 101.
TED 5000 was the first product that connected to Google PowerMeter, and in the Google support forums, people became angry at Google (whose service was free) when the TED 5000 failed in any of the numerous ways it could fail. Reports from Google, and even from TED competitors were that the outpouring of disgust against Google due to TED failures made Google reluctant to support any other products. Eventually they opened their API, but the TED had left a sour taste in everybody's mouths.
So I blame Energy Inc, and TED 5000 for killing Google PowerMeter.
If the TED 5000 experience were not bad enough, Google PowerMeter also provided an interface to utilities who could upload customer data. Few joined, and reports were that many of those that did had spotty support. Utility companies get runner up for this dubious honor.
As Google found out, no good deed goes unpunished. It was noble of them. If only simpler and more elegant products like Wattvision had been the first to go, the world may have been a different place — their product sells in the same price range, does not require an electrician, and has a far better (i.e. simpler) design than TED, or even the venerable PowerCost Monitor. Of all that I tried (and I tried them all), only Wattvision "just worked", and still does. I would think that there's a way to make it much less expensive (remove the WiFi chip!!) and more useful (add a simple display). But chances are, the game is up.
I still find it odd to think that electricity (and other household energy) monitoring is not just something every house has. I still save tons of money every month, about $100/month at current rates (paying for all of my monitors many times over). We did this simply by finding small loads that I was able to eliminate. Until we make energy something that people can feel, nothing will happen. This is evident every time gas prices go up because paying for gas is something you do enough to know it costs something. Not so for electricity, and mostly not so for heating energy — they are hidden.
It will happen eventually, but not now. Our infrastructure is in terrible shape. Our will to take action appears to be in even worse shape.


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Kimberley Walsh Says She's Noel Gallagher's Favorite Member of Girls Aloud
In an interview with The Sun, Kimberley Walsh said that Noel Gallagher told her she was his favorite member of Girls Aloud. Here are highlights:
On Noel Gallagher inviting her to play at his Teenage Cancer Trust show at the Royal Albert Hall: "Yeah, he called me up out of the blue. It's great that he's involved and is arranging it. It was exciting to speak to him. I was like, 'Really?' He said I was his favorite (Girls Aloud member) and Sarah wasn't very happy about that."
On if she felt pressure because of other Girls Aloud members going solo before her: "Not really. Cheryl was sort of coaxed into it by Will.i.am and Nicola had a clear idea of what she wanted to do. I didn't feel like I wanted to record an album. I was happy to try out other things. Being in the West End was one of the best things I have done and the girls could see that I was happy in that environment. They knew that I had it in me and would always make jokes about dodgy songs on my iPod."
On who will buy her album: "I'd like to think I'm introducing some younger Girls Aloud fans to musical theatre because I grew up listening to the music. Hopefully, I will get some people who didn't really know the group to buy the album too. I don't really know how people will receive it."


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SAPPORO – A man found dead Wednesday morning in the water in the port of Yoichi, Hokkaido, has been identified as former Hokkaido Railway Co. President Shinichi Sakamoto, 73, local police and other sources said.
His body was discovered in the water at around 8:20 a.m. and bore no major wounds. The Hokkaido Prefectural Police confirmed that it was Sakamoto using fingerprints and other data Wednesday afternoon. His car was found near the port.
The police said it is highly likely Sakamoto committed suicide although no suicide note has been found.
Sakamoto, who had been advising the railway better known as JR Hokkaido, was scheduled to attend a business organization meeting at 10 a.m. Wednesday, railway officials said. But when a secretary went to pick him up at his house just past 9:30 a.m., he wasn't there, they said. The secretary had driven Sakamoto to his home Tuesday shortly after 5 p.m., they added.
Sakamoto joined the now-defunct Japanese National Railways in 1964. He served as JR Hokkaido president from 1996 and chairman from 2003. Even after stepping aside to become an adviser in June 2007, Sakamoto was an influential figure at the railway.
JR Hokkaido was hit by fires and derailments last year that led to the discovery of its long-neglected tracks and falsified rail inspection data.
The carrier was slapped with a business improvement order by the transport ministry after a limited express train derailed on its Sekisho Line and caught fire in May 2011.
In September that year, then-President Naotoshi Nakajima was found dead in an apparent suicide.
"Sakamoto's death is very painful and regrettable." JR Hokkaido Chairman Akio Koike said in a statement. "We will steadily cope with challenges facing our company."


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Richard Cabut
Richard Cabut wrote for the NME and music monthlies Offbeat and Siren under the pen name Richard North, and as Richard Kick for Zig Zag and Alf Martins national glossy Punk Lives. The latter nom de plume was derived from his 70s/80s fanzine Kick. Richard also played bass and wrote the propaganda for the punk group Brigandage (LP: Pretty Funny Thing). He went on to write for several newspapers and media organisations, including the Daily Telegraph, Artists & Illustrators Magazine, The Big Issue, The Guardian, Arts Council England, and the BBC. Richards fiction and poetry has appeared in various magazines and books, including The Edgier Waters (Snowbooks, 2006). He lives in London, and works as a writer and ghostwriter.
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EDISON, N.J. – Sophomore Sydney Coffey (Hopkins, Minn.) and freshman Katharine Fogarty (Peterborough, N.H.) have been named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week. Coffey and Fogarty led Marist to a historic week, notching two victories over Northeastern, predicted to finish 3rd in the CAA Preseason Coaches' Poll, and nationally ranked #20/19 Oklahoma. Marist improved to 7-4 overall, continuing its six-game winning streak.
The Red Foxes defeated Northeastern, 103-66, marking the first time Marist has scored 100 points under head coach Brian Giorgis. Coffey posted 19 points, five assists, five rebounds, and two steals for the Red Foxes, shooting 6-9 (.666) from the field, 1-2 (.500) from three-point range and 6-7 (.857) from the free-throw line. Fogarty was one of four Red Foxes that shot in double digits on Wednesday. Fogarty posted 14 points, shooting 3-4 from the field (.750), 2-3 from three-point range, (.667), and 6-6 from the free-throw line. She contributed an additional five rebounds and one block in the historic game.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by skigem from Class, elegance and sophistication These bar stools are beautiful! they arrived well packaged and it was very easy to install the seat to the legs but pay attention to where the foot protectors are when you screw in the seat so they they align. I had to re-screw 3 of the 4 chairs because i wasnt paying attention to that. I love the swivel functionality, the stylish design, and the foot rest protector.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by dobby from great chairs but.... We purchased 2 manchester bar stools and one manchester counter stool in mahogany back in 2011. Gorgeous! Now were moving and need more counter stools for our new kitchen. I bought them, and still love them, but totally agree that the color is much much darker than what the website shows. Mahogany is so dark compared to my prior mahogany chairs that I double checked my order to make sure they weren't black by mistake. So, we have a little mismatching going on, but the chairs are so beautiful, I'm keeping them in the florida sun and hoping they fade. We haven't found any other chairs we like as much.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Kat07 from These are Amazing! I ordered 4. Came fast and packaged great! Super easy to put together and they are gorgeous. They make my kitchen perfect! The swivel is great. They are heavy and sturdy so they don't slide around easy. my 3 year old gets up on them with ease and can sit comfortably at our counter/dining area. They are stunning! For me I only wish the studs were bronze...as everything i have it bronze lol, but I LOVE them! Super comfy, functional and beautiful.
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Blonde beauty Amy no doubt stayed friends with a few of the girls after her brief romance with Joey Essex, and she certainly fits in with that long hair and glowing tan.
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Re: Timing of N[ Factorial[4000000], 18]
"Ted Ersek" <ersekt at md.metrocast.net> writes:
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> With the old version of Mathematica I have it takes a very long time,
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> I wanted to do that. Well I wanted to see how quickly Stirling's
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Engine rebuild on SPI ?
Some may have seen my post about the engine taking a dump on my 2.0 2000 spi focus. I decided I want to try and rebuild the engine myself. I might as well since its apart and out. I found the pistons online for under $200 and the head rebuilt with a 2 year warranty on ebay for about $300. I need to know a few things before proceeding.
1. How do you press the rods off and new pistons on ?
2. How much torque do I use when attaching the rod and bearing back on the crank? (Is there anything else I should know here as well)[scratch]
3. Do I need new bearings?
4. If the cylinders look in good shape do I have to hone them?
5. Is it even wise to attempt a rebuild without experience?
Engine had less than 80,000 miles on it before valve seat fell and killed everything.
Thats about it. I have worked on cars doing various things over the years. But have never attempted a rebuild.
hmm sounds like a good deal though where did you find pistons for our engines? and the head rebuilt for $300? im assuming that it uses oem parts? as for your questions you might want to wait till jeffescort comes in herehe might know...
Well for a total of $500, you should beable to find a running complete long block with a 30 day warranty from a salvage yard, just drop in and go.
[hah] Now delete your extra double post.
To the original poster: I recently put a crate motor from Pep Boys in my car for $1950. It came with a 3yr 100,000 mile warranty. It was made by ATK which also supplies ford with crate motors. Pep Boys was $400 dollars cheaper than everybody else.
By the time you get all the machine work, buy gaskets, buy a rebuild kit $1950 is actually a pretty good deal. Also if you rebuild it yourself you will have no warranty and on SPI motors that are known for dropping valve seats a warranty is a good thing.
Also make sure you clean out your intake manifold before you reinstall the new motor or you will end up sucking valve seats into your new motor!!!
Here is a link to some useful info and some cool pics of my blown motor:
Here is a link to the valve seat problem:
zetec swap!!!! lol.
And Rick's Auto Parts have them starting at $450 up to $650.
Could'nt find any SPI's. But my last Escort SPI was under $350 for 60k miles.
so hows this, ill trade my running spi for a rebuilt svt... haha
still thinking about rebuilding my spi according to the last post i did in the 99 escort thread i think
Only problem with a zetec swap is that you need more than just a motor. I looked at doing a zetec swap but it would have been very expensive to purchase basicly the whole front end of a zetec focus. And you still have a used motor with no warranty. Not to mention the keys, computer etc. ATK and Pep boys have both said that the new valve seats they use no longer have the problem of OE Ford SPI motors. Changing the motor out was a big enough job without all the hassles of aquiring and changing to a zetec. My new Pep Boys(ATK) is running like a charm and has about 2500 miles on it. I got 34 miles to the gallon on a trip to Nashville last month.[:)]
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Wargaming, the developer behind the popular multiplayer online game, World of Tanks, has bought Gas Powered Games, and former CEO Chris Taylor will be along for the ride.
It has been announced that Wargaming is taking "full ownership" of the studio, "bringing into its fold a contingent of veteran developers, including CEO and company founder Chris Taylor."
"Gas Powered Games' heritage and development pedigree shows us just how valuable an addition Chris and his company will make to the Wargaming family," said Wargaming CEO Victor Kislyi. "Gas Powered Games has a long track record of providing incredibly engaging AAA gaming experiences and we can't wait to start working with them."
"Wargaming growth in recent years has been tremendous, and we're looking forward to joining one of the fastest growing gaming companies in the world," Taylor added. "I'm sure our experience and expertise will help us contribute even more to Wargaming's global success."
The recent history of Gas Powered Games isn't a pretty one. The studio was hit by layoffs last month, and its Kickstarter project, Wildman, was also canceled earlier this week. No news of its development status so far, but we'll update you as soon as we know more.
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Of the many passions that can inflame South Africans, there is the question of which city - Johannesburg, Cape Town or even Durban - is the best. Allegiance is determined, basically, by where you were born. Well I was born in Jo'burg and so, unfashionably, Jo'burg is the city to visit, the beginning of my real Africa.
From the air, Jo'burg is a vast man-made forest. From the ground in autumn and early winter, it is a glorious concoction of the reds and browns of changing trees, and dominated by a crystalline blue sky. Cold at night, warm in the day, here is the real buzzing Africa - full of vibrant life and increasingly more confident. Avoid conversations about muggings (less frequent these days) and enjoy the sights and feel-good street life. Jo'burg? Feel good? Well for me, it is.
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I love Zimbabwe. It's the land I call home and an enchantingly beautiful one at that. But it is hard, if not impossible, for me to decide whether I should advocate that people visit or not.
The thing I loved, when younger, was the spirit of reconciliation between cultures and I can only lament how things have deteriorated. But still, there is a simplicity of life that is refreshing. I guarantee no traffic jams; except if the presidential motorcade comes by. No fights over which TV channel (there is only one); and save for the rainy season, the sun shines most of the year. If you do go to Zimbabwe and have a good time, please spare a thought for all the victims of oppression, in all its cruel forms. Please don't go there and think that all seems normal. That would be a travesty. Zimbabwe is a beautiful land, but it is not normal.
· Henry Olonga is living in 'exile' in Britain after speaking out against the Robert Mugabe regime.
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There is a wonderful passage right at the beginning of Out of Africa which talks about the light and air of Africa and how beguiling they are. I love the high places of Africa, where distant hills and mountains are of an attenuated blue. They fade so gently into the sky, which can be almost white it is so empty. Lesotho is one of these places. This tiny kingdom was the retreat of the Basotho people in the turbulence of the 19th century. It is a sparse landscape, with few trees, but it has a heart-stopping beauty to it. The light of Africa is one reason why this continent breaks the heart of so many who visit, and brings them back.
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Nearly everything we Africans learn comes from music: our ideas, our history, our traditions. There is a ceremony when a girl becomes a woman, the music that accompanies it tells her everything that will be expected of her in her new life as a woman, as a mother. The music is beautiful, exciting, it is spicy .
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It's really not a "bit much" to call it an insult to all commissioners when you're essentially saying "I put no value in your work, but do it for me anyway."
Design is WORK. I know a lot of people are under this bizarre impression that design work "doesn't count" or whatever, but an artist's time has value, the same way a mechanic's time does, or a plumber's time does.
Would you ask an architect to design a building for you for nothing? They're not
the building, after all, they just have to figure out down to details what it would look like according to the client's desires, and make sure that it would be possible to achieve in reality without bending the laws of physics or collapsing in upon itself or being completely out of the client's budget.
That's the sort of work you're asking for here, just replace the "building" with a helmet that you're presumably going to be wearing on your head, so I assume you want it to be functionally possible. An artist's work might not be the actual building stage, but it's still worth money. It's a job, that takes time and thought and knowledge of their craft. It's not a doodle.
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