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For information about individual authors, enter a Subject search on the author: last name, first name. Most of the critical material will be found under the subheading "Criticism and interpretation," but many other subheadings are possible for an author.
DeLillo, Don--Criticism and interpretation
Always run an Author search on an individual writer you're researching. Although you may already have the text or texts you'll be focusing on, Author searches often turn up interesting materials that can't be accessed through Subject searches. (In the case of DeLillo there doesn't yet happen to be anything beyond the fiction--and a play--but it still might give you a better sense of his writing career).
Much of the most recent and authoritative criticism on an author, as well as materials with a period or topic focus, may be best accessed using broad Subject headings. Below is a small cross-section of Subject headings that could be useful for research on an American writer in the second half of the twentieth century and also for some of the themes of White Noise:
American literature
American literature--History and criticism
American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism
Fiction--20th century--History and criticism
Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism
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Modernism (Literature)--United States
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Postmodernism (Literature)--United States
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Tabloid newspapers--United States
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United States--Social conditions--1960-1980
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United States--Social life and customs--1971-
United States--Civilization--1945-
United States--Civilization--1970-
Civilization, Modern--1950-
Technology and civilization
National characteristics, American
National characteristics, American, in literature
Marriage--United States
Marriage--United States--History--20th century
Family--United States
Family--United States--History--20th century
Divorce--United States
Remarriage--United States
Stepfamilies--United States
Death--Psychological aspects
Death--Social aspects
Death--Social aspects--United States
Diagnostic imaging--History
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects
Consumption (Economics)--United States
Consumption (Economics)--United States--History--20th century
Consumers--United States
Consumers--United States--Attitudes
Consumer behavior--United States
Brand name products
Television advertising
Television advertising--United States
Advertising--Psychological aspects
Food industry and trade
Food habits--United States
Pharmaceutical industry--United States
Environmental health
Environmentally induced diseases
Environmental toxicology
Environmental degradation
Hazardous substances
Hazardous wastes--United States
Disasters--Press coverage--United States
Disaster medicine
Emergency management
Communication in public health
Emergency medical services--United States
Crisis management
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States
Education, Higher--Philosophy
Education, Higher--Social aspects--United States
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College teachers--United States
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects
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Information theory
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If the best available subdivision is still too broad, open it and add your own Keywords in the "Search within these results" slot at the upper left.
ProQuest Research Library : is another comprehensive database with substantial full text. When opening, click on "Continue"--there's usually no need to choose a narrower subdivision--and at the home page click on the "More Search Options" tab at the bottom to see all available search fields.
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Communication Source & SocINDEX with Full Text : Excellent databases for media, social, and cultural issues. Click on the "Subject Terms" link above the search slots to find which Subject Headings will work here. Double click any Heading for a list of broader, narower, and related Subject Terms.
PsycINFO : The American Psychological Association use their own Subject vocabulary (called "Descriptors"), so a visit to the "Thesaurus" below the search slots is a good idea. If you find an article on exactly what you want, be sure to check the assigned "Descriptors" on the right of the citation for more ideas about useful search terms.
JSTOR : covers a wide range of scholarly journals in most disciiplines, always beginning with the first issue of each one. This provides 100% full text access to articles from not only the first half of the 20th century but even the second half of the 19th. Be aware, however, that at the other end of the date range articles don't appear in JSTOR until at least 2-3 years after publication.
JSTOR offers only a Keyword search of its complete full text, so retrievals are large, but the relevancy ranking does a good job of putting the strongest matches on the first few pages. This relevancy ranking does not weigh date, however, and will display a mix of articles written decades apart. So if your topic is time sensitive, be alert to publication dates.
The academic journals covered here feature numerous book reviews, so it's a good idea to tic the "Article" limit below the search slots so you won't be overwhelmed by book reviews on your topic.
Don't settle for the default "Quick Search"--open "Search" for the full range of options. Among thse you can uncheck "All books," which is recommended if you're looking for articles. And if you open the "Dates" drop-down menu you'll find a much wider range of options than the default 10 year span.
Philosopher's Index : No full text, but the "ArticleLinker" arrows at the end of each citation will connect to scholarly full text in our other databases--making this an efficient one-stop search for ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, and logic.
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- Because it is so large and international, setting search limits can help focus your results. Note that you can enter a "Language of Publication" (worth doing if you read only English) and "Limit" your search to "Journal articles" and/or "Book articles" (if you leave the default on "All," you may retrieve a lot of pesky dissertation abstracts.
- There is no full text here, but the ArticleLInker (green arrow) link after each citation will connect you to any full text available from another IC database or alert you to a print copy in the IC Library.
- The most useful searches will be "Author's Work"—essentially a Subject search on a poem, play, short story, or novel title—and "Author as Subject."
- Be sure to take a look at the "Advanced Search" options (the link is right above the first Keyword search slot). In Advanced Search you can search by "Genre," "Literary Theme," Literary Influence" (people and things that influenced the author you're researching), and "Literary Source" (the influence the author you're researching has had on others).
- Note that when entering a Subject, Genre, Literary Theme, Literary Influence, or Literary Source search, there is a "Thesaurus" link to the right of each slot where you can check to see what terms the MLA Bibliography uses.
JSTOR has excellent 100% full-text coverage of literary scholarship. There is no Subject searching, so remember to put titles and authors' names in quotation marks to search them as Keyword phrases--and leave authors' names in the normal first-name last-name order. Set "Limit" to "Article"--or else you may unleash an avalanche of reviews of books on your topic.
JSTOR access to journal articles begins 2-4 years prior to the present--so don't look for any criticism from the last couple of years--but coverage always extends back to the first issue of each journal--in some cases into the 19th century and beyond.
Project Muse , although a smaller database, complements JSTOR. LIke JSTOR it provides 100% full text of mostly scholarly journals, but its coverage is entirely current--mainly spanning the last 8-10 years. And unlike JSTOR it not only allows Subject searching, it uses Library of Congress Subject Headings to catalog all its articles, so whatever Subject terms work in the IC Library catalog will work here as well. A Search on Hemingway as a Subject retrieves over 150 recent scholarly articles. And as with JSTOR it's a good idea to limit your search to "Articles Only" by checking that box beneath the search slots. Try a Subject search on DeLillo, Don and then "search within the results" for "White Noise" as a Keyword phrase.
ProQuest Research Library & Academic Search Premier are comprehensive databases and include considerable literary criticism--much of it full text. In running searches on authors, don't settle for a Keyword search on the author's name, as this will retrieve too many articles in which the author is only mentioned in passing. Instead use the specialized Subject search each provides. In ProQest open the "More Search Options" tab and enter the name, last name first, in the "Person" slot. In Academic Search Premier open the "Select a Field" drop down menu and search the name, last name first, in the "People" field.
In both databases the titles of literary works must be searched as Keyword phrases, so be sure to put them in quotation marks.
In both databases you can set a "Document Type" limit to "Interview"--if it's a contemporary writer. And for a contemporary writer you might also try an "Author" search, since many writers publish criticism and social commentary that might shed light on their creative work.
Ebook Central (formerly ebrary) is IC's database of 50,000 full text online books. Because DeLillo's culture criticism is wide-ranging, he and his work are often discussed in books that are not primarily literary criticism, and so full-text Keyword searching becomes a real advantage here. Run a Keyword search on--delillo and "white noise." Both deLillo and "white noise" will display in a block of color, and all you have to do is keep clicking the question-mark-with-right-pointing-arrow button at the top to fast forward through all the pages on which one of your search terms appears.
General OneFile is another comprehensive database with considerable literary criticism, but the default Subject search forcess you to retrieve EVERYTHING on a particular author. The standard "subdivisions" by which General OneFile organizes these results--"Ethical Aspects," Political Aspects," "Social Aspects"--are broad in respect to authors.
If you wish to focus on a particular a theme, the best strategy is to open all the results from the initial Subject search and then use the the "Search within these Results" slot at the upper left to enter thematic Keywords.
If you wish to focus on a specific literary work, open "Advanced Search" and in the "Select Index" box choose "Named Work": this allows you to run a Subject search on a title.
provides full-text online books on individual authors featuring criticism more sophisticated than Cliff Notes, but far less ambitious than most of the literary scholarship published in peer-reviewed journals. Good for a quick review of characters, plots, and the interpretively obvious. There is of course a volume on DeLillo, with a chapter on White Noise.
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Gateway Web Sites
- Voice of the Shuttle: One of the best gateways for traditional Humanities, as well as culture and media studies. Note the guides on "Cultural Studies," "Media Studies," "Science, Technology & Culture," and American Literature.
- A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace: Gateway to the many thematic collections of annotated links by Web sociologist extraordinaire, Dr. Michael Kearl. Note the topic sites on "Mass Media and Communication Studies," "Marriage and Family Life," Sociology of Death and Dying," and for material on consciousness and cultural constructions of knowledge, try "Sociology of Knowledge."
- American Authors on the Web: Alphabetical list of online resources.
- Literary Resources--American: General resources on top; scroll down for individual authors.
- Perspectives in American Literature: Scroll down to "Chapter 10 Late Twentieth Century & Postmodernism," which includes a section on DeLillo.
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Don DeLillo Society: The bibliography by year is pretty good, and there's a newsletter and links.
Slate Audio Book Club: Discussion of White Noise: 50 minute audio debate from the e-zine.
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Golden State has faltered a bit lately, though you can't fault anyone for a loss in San Antonio. Still, the Clippers have won four straight and have already clinched the Pacific Division. Plus, the best home record in the West will mean a lot for the powerful, well-coached Clippers moving forward.
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The Royal Family of the Principality of Savante, our micronation was founded on Feb.17th,2010. Our monarchy is a meritocratic monarchy and the royalty and nobility are appointed by the Grand Prince H.S.H. Kim I, the head of state of Savante. We are asking our nobles to join me in this project and to add themselves to our lists.
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This year my little rescue angel will be celebrating her 9th birthday. Now you might be saying, "wow, she's getting to be an old lady" but let me tell you, she isn't growing old gracefully. She's still a little spitfire and can out walk all the other pups. She came to me with a gray muzzle and each year I see a little more gray but she's still running strong on all 12 cylinders. Don't let the gray fool ya.
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She has lost weight and is now at a great weight! She still marks in the house on occasions but who cares...it happens. Everyone has issues--even my angels--but we don't see them ;)
Since Mom didn't give me my first name and my brother and sister had middle names she felt that I deserved to have a middle name. She wanted it to be unique and something meaningful to me and only me. She came up with Anyanka. Mom says that this is the name of a character off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "Anya" was an ex demon (then referred to as Anyanka) who takes out vengeance on men who mistreat women. So why did mom think this was an appropriate name for me?? She says I'm a great judge of character and every guy that I don't like turns out to be "not so great."
I know I'm protective of mommy even though I know she can handle herself but I just want her to know that I have her back. I want all those men to know that if they even think about being mean or looking at my mom the wrong way that I will run them out of our house. I still don't see her point. Oh well, it sounds cool and I'm stuck with it ;)
Ruby Anyanka
My name is Ruby, I was named by my previous owner. I lived in Georgia. Soon after I turned 5, my birthday is May 28, I was taken by my owner to a shelter. I didn't know why she left me there or why I didn't feel good. I sat in a cage with barking dogs all around not knowing what to do. Some dogs would be taken out of their cage and I never saw them again. I wondered when this was going to happen to me. Then I heard the hard truth. I overheard the people telling someone on the phone that I was sick and that I didn't have a chance if they didn't come get me. I was too expensive to treat. Let me tell you, I was so scared, everytime someone opened my cage I just held my breath...was my time up? Nope, not this time. No one told me if whomever they were talking to on the phone was coming to get me or if my time was almost up. Then, a few days later this nice lady named Heidi from DARE stopped in front of my cage. She took me out, talked with some people at the shelter, and the next thing I know I'm leaving that horrible place! Heidi talked to me and told me that she was going to take care of me and that she was going to help me find my forever home. She told me that the reason I wasn't feeling well was because I was sick but that she was going to make me feel better. So off to this thing called the vet. He told me that I had heartworms, that I needed some surgery to repair something in my stomach, had to have some teeth pulled, and treated for some kind of worms. Heidi never once flinched or complained about the cost of my treatment. She really loved me. Heidi then told me about this girl in Gainesville, Fl that had a little girl just like me and was looking for a friend for her. She called and when Heidi hung up she told me that she'd found my forever home and that I would be going there shortly. First, I had to go through heartworm treatment and my new Mom wanted Heidi to keep me during this time. I spent most of those next 2 months in a cage, Heidi said it was for my safety, something about heart worms and breaking up, but that afterwards I'd be free to run and play for the rest of my life. I met my new Mom during this time and she was nice but I had exploring to do...I mean seriously, this was one of the only times I was out of my cage and had any freedom, I needed to scope the place out. Heidi told me that after the second HW treatment I scared her, she said she thought she was going to lose me. She didn't tell this to my new Mom until AFTER I was in the clear.
THEN, at the end of August of 2003, I came to my forever home and was welcomed by a Mom, sister, and brother! I didn't know I was going to have a brother! Mom says she didn't know either til that very week. She's a sucker :)
I'm very loved and spoiled. I sleep on the big bed with Mom and my sister and brother and haven't seen a cage or crate since the heartworms.
I've come a long way since that fateful experience in the shelter and I owe it all to DARE for loving me, caring for me, and believing in me. My Mom is eternally grateful.
Ruby Anyanka (Mom gave me this middle name--I'll explain in another journal later)
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Has anyone tried using Dropbox with your Maylong tablet? I have, and I think it works great.
Dropbox allows you to have 2GB of free storage in the cloud. You can move files to Dropbox from your desktop, and they magically show up on your tablet. The current Android app from Dropbox works fine on the M-150 and is available as a direct download from their website. No need to connect over a usb cable, mess with popping the SD card in and out, or sending yourself email extensions to get files to and from the Maylong. I find it particularly useful for saving APK's that automatically download and install from Dropbox. I've been using it for a month, and have not discovered any downside.
If anyone is interested in giving this a try, Dropbox is offering a referral program that will benefit both of us. We will both get an extra 250MB of storage if I refer you to Dropbox by email address, and you accept the invitation by installing Dropbox. If you're interested, email me at "spernoga 'at sign' juno.com" with the email address you want to use, and you'll be on in no time. I can try to answer any questions about Dropbox here or at the email address.
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Two from SW Michigan Escape Killer Typhoon
Two people from Sturgis Michigan managed to survive the typhoon in the Philippines.
Carter Brown, 23, even "Facetimed" his father after escaping the devastation in the city of Tacloban.
Brown's father, Mike, told WOOD TV that Carter apparently had to walk some distance before finding a cargo plane with several other people that would take them to Manila.
Carter Brown had been in the Philippines with Elsa Thomasma, 24, both volunteering for the GoAbroad Foundation. He said that she also survived.
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Congrats on your first PDX! Are you an SCCA member yet? If not, let me be your referral
I can send you my name/member number and save you $15. Face it, you know you're going to be hooked, might as well sign up now ;
Couple notes: magnets will do just fine on a road course. I've yet to lose one.
Also, I love your "save my expensive contis" comment. The RS-3's will blow them out of the water on a road course. You're going to LOVE them. For 140+ TW street tires, they're about as good as it's going to get for road course events. They take heat and beg for more. Use them for autocrossing too (assuming you're probably running STU?)
HP+ are still going to beg for mercy. You're in MN, so Road America? I would absolutely recommend changing your brake fluid to at least Super Blue, but I would highly recommend stepping up to Motul RBF600. I autocrossed for three years and got very good at it before taking my Z4 to Mid-Ohio for my first track event. I had HP+ pads on it on street tires, oem brake fluid. PDX's are like autocross in slow motion, so if you're any good at autocrossing, you'll quickly start pushing your car hard at the track. I did, then my brake pedal went to the floor coming out of thunder valley. That's an eye opening experience in a daily driver. Long story short, if you're doing HP+, bed them in correctly on new rotors, and switch to Motul RBF600 fluid. Or, conversely, don't brake the ever living piss out of your car.
Have fun!
I had mine boil on my 330 and then on my M3. What can I say.... I like to brake late on bad fluid. Both were bad experiences. Switch to some RBF600 fluid so you don't have your brakes go out at the end of a straight like I did.
I was going to go for the Schroth quick fits, but ended up deciding to keep the money
I go the 75mm studs too. They make putting wheels on like 10 times easier. More than worth it to me since I've had them off the car nearly every weekend lately. I'm running 15mm spacers on the front though, and I shouldn't do that with just 75mm studs, I need to move up to 90mm to be safe.
(I don't run the spacers on the track)
Keep an eye on your coolant and oil temps, and have fun
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- Prescription Drug Abuse Slideshow: Facts and Statistics
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- What is alcohol abuse?
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- What differentiates alcohol abuse from alcoholism?
- What are risk factors for alcoholism?
- What causes alcoholism? Is alcoholism hereditary?
- What are alcohol use disorder symptoms and signs in teenagers, women, men, and the elderly?
- How do physicians diagnose alcohol use disorder?
- What are the stages of alcohol use disorder?
- What is the treatment for alcohol use disorder?
- What medications treat alcohol use disorder?
- How can you tell if someone has a drinking problem?
- Can an alcoholic just cut back or stop drinking?
- Is there a safe level of drinking?
- Is it safe to drink alcohol while pregnant?
- How can someone find more information or get help or support to treat alcohol use disorder?
- What are the long-term physical and psychological effects of alcohol use disorder?
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- Is it possible to prevent alcohol use disorder?
- What is the prognosis of alcohol use disorder?
Quick GuideAlcohol Abuse: 12 Health Risks of Chronic Heavy Drinking
How can you tell if someone has a drinking problem?
Signs of a drinking problem include behaviors like drinking for the purpose of getting drunk, drinking alone or keeping it secret, drinking to escape problems, hiding alcohol in odd places, getting irritated when you are unable to obtain alcohol to drink, and having problems at work, school, home, or legally as a result of your drinking. Other warning signs of alcohol use disorder include losing interest in activities you used to enjoy, having blackouts because of heavy drinking, and getting annoyed when loved ones say you may have a drinking problem. Behaviors that may indicate that a person is suffering from alcoholism include being able to drink more and more alcohol, trouble stopping once you start drinking, powerful urges to drink, and having withdrawal symptoms like nervousness, nausea, shaking, or having cold sweats, and even hallucinations when you don't have a drink.
Can an alcoholic just cut back or stop drinking?
While some people with alcohol use disorder can cut back or stop drinking without help, most are only able to do so temporarily unless they get treatment. Individuals who consume alcohol in lower amounts and tend to cope with problems more directly are more likely to be successful in their efforts to cut back or stop drinking without the benefit of treatment.
Is there a safe level of drinking?
Recent research describes potential health benefits of consuming alcohol, including decreased risk of heart disease, stroke, and dementia. Given that, it is fair to say that low intake, along the lines of 4-8 ounces of wine per day, is likely safe.


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Our Cardiopulmonary program helps to improve the overall health and daily life for heart, lung and vascular disease patients.
In the next few years, more than ten million patients in America will be treated for Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD), consisting of blockage or abnormality of any blood vessel (outside of the heart.)
Here in the Susquehanna Valley, an increasing need was identified to accurately diagnose this disease and provide the best treatment possible.
In response to this epidemic, Evangelical Community Hospital and Todd Stefan, MD (Board Certified Vascular Surgeon) and FACS opened the Peripheral Vascular Laboratory. As Medical Director, Dr. Stefan has been active in staff and community education on the diagnosis and treatment of PVD.
In July 2003, the lab was granted full accreditation by the prestigious ICAVL (Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories), one of the first in the area.
In July 2005, a state-of-the-art Interventional Suite was completed as part of the Imaging Service's Department's renovation project. After this addition, Evangelical and Dr. Stefan had the final component to open the vascular center; the purpose being to streamline the care of vascular patients and provide cutting edge vascular care.
As part of the center-based care, patients will have their disease diagnosed through diagnostic testing and an ultrasound exam (Duplex) in the Vascular Lab and then be seen by Dr. Stefan in the Heart and Vascular Center.
The patient and Dr. Stefan will form a treatment plan, and care is then focused toward conservative measures, the interventional suite (for minimally invasive vascular procedures), or surgery depending on the indications.
One of the major tenets of the vascular center is to provide care and improve the lives of vascular patients by utilizing every minimally invasive advancement at our disposal. This will, hopefully, minimize pain, incisions, and recovery.
The Vascular Center concept is unique, especially for a community hospital. We proudly offer the latest advancements in the diagnosis and treatment of PVD while maintaining our patient central focus commitment.
The Heart and Vascular Center is located in Suite 100 in the Professional Office Building on the hospital's campus, at parking lot F, with convenient parking located directly in front of the facility. For details, call 570-524-5056.


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A study by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet recommends replacing the U.S. 51 Ohio River bridge, which connects Ballard County with Cairo, Ill., at an estimated cost of $236.2 million.
A new bridge immediately upstream and within a mile of the current structure is proposed to tie into existing roads in Kentucky and Illinois.
The bridge that carries U.S. 51, U.S. 60, and U.S. 62 traffic across the river is functionally obsolete and structurally deficient, according to the study.
"That does not mean it is unsafe," said cabinet spokesman Keith Todd. "That means if we were building a new bridge today it would look very different than what you see there now."
The bridge has a good traffic safety record, according to the cabinet study. However, there have been a number of wrecks at the Illinois end of the bridge at the intersection of the three highways, and the curve at the Kentucky end of the bridge has an elevated wreck rate.
Following a previous inspection and load rating analysis, transportation officials assigned the bridge a sufficiency rating of 39.8 on a scale of 100.
"Anything below 50 qualifies for federal bridge replacement funds," said Todd.
One of the factors in considering bridge replacement is the distance area residents would have to travel if the existing bridge were closed. According to the study, if the existing bridge were not available, the detour between Wickcliffe and Cairo increases the drive from seven to 80-plus miles each direction. That would pose a hardship for Cairo residents driving to work in Kentucky as well as Kentucky farmers transporting crops and livestock to the interstates and ports in Illinois, the study notes.
According to the study, the 2013 daily average traffic on the bridge is 5,400 vehicles per day, with approximately 35 percent of that number trucks.
According to Todd, the bridge opened in 1936 under the Cairo Bridge Commission as a toll bridge and was taken over by Kentucky and Illinois transportation agencies in 1948 when the tolls were removed.
Contact David Zoeller, a Paducah Sun staff writer, at 270-575-8676.
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If you're looking for internal parts and have a DIY spirit, here are some folks that can help hook you up: Encompass Parts and Espresso Parts!
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"Get Found By Your Customers Instead of Finding Customers"
Today, whole world is online. So in this scenario what will you prefer, getting found by your customers or you try to find your customers. Inbound Marketing helps you to have your presence everywhere where your customers are on the internet.
Inbound Marketing will help you attract people, and get their attention . Inbound marketing is the technique of welcoming warm, qualified business leads into your sales circles rather than approaching the cold market.
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Inbound Marketing is a way to get found by your customers. The basic idea here is to extend the reach of your organization anywhere possible. Not in the regular advertising way but rather more in terms of organic communication. We want to make it such that your customers can reach you from any place possible. By this you can drive customer from any platform, such as social media, SEO, video, blogs, forums , emails, signatures. Inbound Marketing needs a lot of efforts and proper research to streamline your efforts.
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Harley Gallery: Huguette Despault May reflects on reaching the end of the rope
"I've reached the end of my rope" is an often-used idiom for a place where hope has run out. The rope is symbolic of a situation of tension and frailty, of strength unraveling. Huguette Despault May, in her exhibition on display at the Curtis R. Harley Gallery at the University of South Carolina Upstate from March 7-29, examines that rope literally and metaphorically.
Amazingly intricate in detail, May's charcoal drawings in the Hawser Series are a close-up study of knotted, twisted and fraying ropes. The artist discovered an abandoned ship's hawser (a rope used for mooring or towing a ship) while on a trip to Bedford, Mass. The rope's heft and tattered state immediately suggested an exciting series of drawing investigations. Beyond its former utility at sea, this industrial-strength tether served as an elegant model for graphical musings on the strands of human strengths and frailties. Metaphorically, the renderings represent the overwhelming feelings of tension, frayed nerves and daily entanglements.
"In the drawing I encountered abundant physicality: 'muscle,' 'hairy-ness,' and 'sinew' which lead to meditating on the many evocative rope-derived idioms and aphorisms embedded in the English language. These often referred colorfully and metaphorically to the human condition: 'end of one's tether,' 'at loose ends' and 'all strung out' being but a few examples," said May.
The gallery is located on the first floor of the Humanities and Performing Arts Center and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information about the showing, contact Jane Nodine, gallery director, at (864) 503-5838 or firstname.lastname@example.com, or Michael Dickins, gallery manager, at (864) 503-5848 or email@example.com.
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Plaid Cash for University Departments
Some departments run special programs or conferences and they want to make a Plaid Cash deposit into the accounts for the participants in lieu of providing a per diem for things such as meals or supplies. To make a request to deposit Plaid Cash onto a student or conference attendees card, contact ID Card Services in The HUB at 412-268-5224 or email@example.com. If you are working with Conference & Events Services to help host your conference, please contact them to request Plaid Cash as an option for your conference.
Departments are welcome and encouraged to utilize Plaid Cash as a method of payment, as long as the participants in the program are not employed by the university (ie. full-time faculty, graduate student on university payroll, federal work study student, etc.).
When Plaid Cash is purchased by a department for existing faculty or staff, the deposit amount is considered taxable income and thus the university would have to calculate the income taxes on the amount of the Plaid Cash provided and withhold the applicable amount from the faculty or staff paycheck.
Purchasing Printing & Copying Funds
Some departments have employees that make use of the public printing and copying resources around campus that require payment via Plaid Cash. The HUB allows departments to purchase either a Print and Copy Card for this purpose, which allows the department to use the Print and Copy Card for multiple employees or students. Calculation of taxation is not applicable in this situation, as the funds deposited may only be used for printing and copying purposes. To a request Print and Copy Card, the department must complete the Department Print & Copy Funds Request form and send it to The HUB via:
Fax: 412-268-8084
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Campus Mail or In Person: Warner Hall A-12 (Lower Level)
Please allow at least 1-2 business days if a new Plaid Cash Card is being requested.


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On-line Screening Tools and Resources
ULifeline offers students a mental health screening tool, information about mental health issues geared towards you, and resources for learning more and getting help. Screening options include alcohol and drugs, depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, suicide, stress, cutting and more. Go to Ulifeline.org/uni/ and check out the Self-Evaluator. Be proactive about your mental health!
Alcohol e-Checkup
The Alcohol eCHECKUP TO GO will provide you with accurate and personalized feedback about your alcohol use.
Marijuana e-Checkup
The Marijuana eCHECKUP TO GO will provide you with accurate and personalized feedback about your marijuana use.
B.A.C. Zone Cards
B.A.C.ZONE cards are credit-card sized, laminated cards that help you plan ahead for drinking occasions. You can request a card that's personalized for your sex and your current weight.
Alcohol & Drug Abuse
If you have ever wondered whether your alcohol or other drug use is excessive, UNI Substance Abuse Services, in collaboration with many other campus partners, provides preventative and confidential supportive services for students.
To get a better picture of where you are now, contact Shawna Haislet, Health Promotion Coordinator at firstname.lastname@example.com or call (319) 273-6119.
Sexual Assault & Relationship Violence Support
There is free, confidential help on campus available to students who have been sexually assaulted or have been or are victims of physical/emotional abuse, stalking or harassment.
For help and assistance, contact the Victim Services Advocate with UNI Violence Intervention Services, Joan Thompson at email@example.com or call (319) 273-2137.
Healthy Eating & Eating Concerns
Eating is one of life's greatest pleasures. However, with the worry about appearance, weight gain, food related illnesses and change in eating environment it is not unusual to experience eating concerns while being at college. For more information or guidance contact UNI Health Educator with Student Wellness Services, Joan Thompson at email@example.com or call (319) 273-2137.
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How a special kind of curve can keep your data safe.
Fermat's little theorem and fake primes.
Marcus du Sautoy talks about football, cryptography, and numbers.
How calculating the height of a frustum gave a glimpse of the mathematical frontier.
Should we let go of the "one person, one vote" principle?
Following on from our previous article about curvature of lines and surfaces, we now move up to curvature of their higher dimensional equivalent – manifolds.
Does the ability to predict the future define the fundamental difference between living and inanimate matter?
To celebrate the centenary of the general theory of relativity we asked physicist David Tong to explain the theory and the equation that expresses it. Watch the video or read the article!


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Safavieh salutes London Olympics at Las Vegas Market
July 30, 2012,
Safavieh's British flag pillows feature stripes of fringed red demin and white cotton.
The drawing will be held on Friday, Aug. 3, closing day of market and the 2012 Summer Olympics. A consumer promotion will run simultaneously on Facebook, with a British flag pillow giveaway contest for Facebook fans.
A hand-knotted rug from the Spice Market collection is crafted of vintage pure wool rugs from Afghanistan which are dyed in subdued British flag colors, then pieced together to create the flag motif. Spice Market rugs are made in Turkey and retail for $1,700 for the 5'7" x 7'10" size.
Safavieh's Britannia storage trunk is designed for use as an end table, or in pairs as a coffee table.
Safavieh's Union Jack cube ottoman is upholstered in a blend of cotton and polyester and has a suggested retail price of $382.
From Safavieh's new pillow collection, the British flag gets a fashion makeover with stripes of fringed red denim and white cotton. There's also a version with stripes of burlap sack cloth in natural hemp appliquéd to layers of fringed blue denim cotton fabric. The suggested retail price is $112 for a set of two.
Safavieh invites retailers and designers for breakfast, lunch and happy hour daily during market in addition to the all-day afternoon tea.
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An Investment Opinion
by Warren Gump
eBay's Amazing Profits
In today's column, I'm going to take a look at eBay's (Nasdaq: EBAY) earnings release. Those of you interested in the company simply because of the future potential of the Internet, the company's dramatic projected growth, and the infinite possibilities for this first-mover in Internet auctions need not read any further. I don't address those issues. At this point, I haven't developed the cognitive resources to even guesstimate what will happen in this market segment over the next few years.
What I can do, however, is utilize my ten-plus years of financial analysis to examine eBay's profitability last quarter. I do not have an ax to grind with the company -- I have never used the service and have no position in the stock. I picked eBay simply because it reported earnings yesterday and many sleight-of-hand tricks used by Corporate America can be seen in its press release.
You are probably well aware that investors no longer really look at the bottom line of a company -- instead of reported earnings, companies are leading analysts to consider earnings before acquisition charges, restructuring costs, amortization of intangibles, and amortization of "noncash" stock compensation. These exclusions are all expenses in the eyes of accountants, yet companies now sweep them under the rug in pro-forma reporting since they don't give a representative view of ongoing operations or a company's cash-generation capabilities.
The above-mentioned list doesn't incorporate regular stock option grants, since accountants and the Securities and Exchange Commission already allow them to be excluded from the reported income statement. The only thing that companies need report is the theoretical cost of this compensation expense in financial statement footnotes, so that they don't sully the actual income statement. I guess there isn't any reason to be alarmed over the fact that option grants are becoming an increasing portion of pay throughout our country. They're "noncash"... all the company is doing is diluting the ownership of existing shareholders.
According to yesterday's press release, eBay's "supplemental" Q2 earnings per share -- what it wants investors to focus on -- was $0.04, compared to $0.05 the previous year. With this number, eBay probably thought it had found the holy grail for an Internet company earnings report, with something to satisfy all constituencies. For those few people who are interested in plowing money into profitable companies, eBay can tout that it has a profit. On the other hand, eBay can remind those investors who believe it imperative to "invest for the future" that it was able to make less than it did in the prior year.
Those folks who deem it necessary for an Internet company to post losses might fear they've been left out in the cold. eBay didn't forget them, though. Their desire to see red ink can be satiated by focusing on operating results -- what eBay makes from actually conducting business. According to traditional income statement reporting procedures, the company had an operating loss of $4.6 million in the quarter. That number includes $4.7 million in merger costs and amortization of intangible assets.
Excluding those two expenses, which is a debatable proposition for a company growing through acquisitions, the company posted a whopping operating profit of $54,000. eBay also adds back noncash compensation amortization to its supplemental numbers, but I find it completely unreasonable to do so. Accounting requirements for stock options are so lax that any options expense required to be recorded on the income statement invariably should be. Of course, eBay doesn't mention its only nominal operating profit in the text of its press release.
Well, if the company had an operating profit of only $54,000 (again, that excludes acquisition and amortization expenses), how did the company post supplemental net income of $5.1 million? Chalk $1.5 million of the difference to the amortization of option expense. (Here's a little background to help you decide whether this should be an expense: At the end of 1998, eBay had granted options on more than 28 million shares at an average exercise price of less than $2 per share over the prior three years. The total cost of these options recorded as an expense on its income statement was less than $20 million. At current market prices, those options would be worth significantly more than $2.5 billion. Do you think that $1.5 million is too much to charge as an expense?)
The remaining $3.5 million difference between operating earnings and reported supplemental net income is tied to interest and other income. In other words, most of the reason eBay earned a profit this quarter is its deft use of the capital markets. The company raised $697 million in April from investors eager to pick up eBay shares at $170 apiece. By putting this money into cash and other investments, the company was able to boost net interest income to $6 million. After Uncle Sam took his 42% cut in taxes, eBay was left with an extra $3.5 million on its bottom line. As a result, most of the company's quarterly profit is tied not to success in the online auction business, but instead to its ability to raise cash from enthusiastic equity investors.
Many people likely view eBay's reported supplemental results with admiration. By taking advantage of accounting loopholes related to employee stock option grants and the willingness of analysts to ignore reported "one-time" and "noncash" expenses, the company is following in the footsteps of the most savvy American corporations that have been using similar tricks for years. Such moves help justify ever-increasing stock prices.
As more items accrue to the list of things that companies suggest should be excluded from costs when evaluating earnings per share, investors are increasingly relying on less-than-complete portraits of company operations. That may not matter in today's euphoric markets, but investors will likely take a more suspect view sometime down the road. As any experienced banker knows, ignoring traditional risks tends to be extremely profitable in a boom market, but proves devastating in a downturn.
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|"Are you a wizard or not?"
The title of this article is conjectural. Although it is based on canonical information, the actual name is conjecture and may be supplanted at any time by additional information released from canonical sources. If this occurs, please move this page to the appropriate title.
The grandfather of Neville Longbottom (before 1947[1]—between 1980 and 1995) was a pure-blood wizard. He died while his grandson was present, thus enabling Neville to see Thestrals years later. Neville revealed as much to Hagrid and Dolores Umbridge during her time evaluating a Care of Magical Creatures lesson.
He may have had at least one sibling[3].
Behind the scenes
- Neville only mentions this person as being his grandfather, but doesn't specify which side of the family he is from. He may be Frank Longbottom's father and Augusta Longbottom's husband, or he may be Alice Longbottom's father.
- If he was Neville's paternal grandfather and Augusta's husband, it is possible that he was the son of Callidora Black and Harfang Longbottom shown on the Black family tapestry, though this is unconfirmed.
- Furthermore, if he was Augusta's husband, then he is grandfather that, in 1947, according to The Queen's Handbag, put a fanged gerbil into Augusta's handbag as a joke. She would then keep a mousetrap in her bag at all times.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
- The Queen's Handbag (Mentioned only)
- LEGO Dimensions (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 It is unknown whether he is the maternal or paternal grandfather of Neville. In The Queen's Handbag, Neville says he had a grandfather who put a fanged gerbil in his grandmother's handbag in 1947. If he is the husband of Augusta, then he would have been born before 1947.
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 21 (The Eye of the Snake)
- ↑ Writing by J.K. Rowling: "The Quill of Acceptance and The Book of Admittance" at Pottermore states that Neville had "disappointed great aunts and uncles"; Algie and Enid are one of each... making two more that are unaccounted for; it is unknown as to whether they are Augusta's siblings or her husband's, making it possible that either one had at least one sibling.


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question and suggestions needed
ok so heres the deal. this kid i know who is one of the most eccentric people i know has a an02 or 03 grand am gt, he loves to talk shit about my car and it really pisses me off. he thinks his car is so cool cuz he has lambo door, rims, a nostril hood, and a 55 shot of dry nitrous. but he also has a system with i think 3 12's in the back. is there any chance i can beat him in my stock zx3 with a K&N? the track opens on may 2nd and i really want to shut him up. if i cant beat him now what little inexpensive things can i do to put me ahead of his. help me out guys, this guys is a straight up focus hater!
p.s. his car is auto and mine is manual. and i looked up the the HP on his car its around 170 for a stock gt.
you will get beat,sorry,even without the nitrous.
depends if its the 4cyl or 6 cyl gt. but the nitrous shot would kill you on the track. but be funny if he laid out his motor going down the strip while you were racing. a 55 dry shot is an accident waiting to happen especially if its the 4 cyl
the gt had the 3600 series engine.....v6
the nitrous is only set up to go on open throttle. so when he would spin threw alot of first and second. which might give me enough of a lead that he may not catch up. at least thats what im hoping for.
He's auto you might have a shot.
Grand am 170 hp with 30% drivetrain loss he has around 121whp
your Foci 130 hp with 15% drivetrain loss you have around 110whp
and your Foci is lighter. I think you'll beat him- Just get your launch and your shifts tight.
sweet, the only problem is iv never raced my car before, iv only had it 2 months. what rpm should i launch at an what rpm should i shift at?
YOU WILL LOSE. my homie had an older model GT and it was fast.....i always tried to lauch around 3k rpm. I always shifted alittle bit after the second shift light.
just practice launching a lot, stop signs etc.
find the highest rpm you can launch without peeling, a little chirp means your right on.
I hate to say it, but not a chance. grab you a Zex kit and you'll stomp him,lol
i agree with mike. dont even try lol. wait to do some modding and then shut him up.
i think a better way to shut him up is with a nice punch to the jaw lol j/k
gosh i hate bullys lol
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ACORN Lives
posted at 7:38 am on August 29, 2012 by Matt Vespa
ACORN is still alive! According to CJ Ciaramella of The Washington Free Beacon,"many of ACORN's affiliates, allies, and old chapters remain active under different names—and at least two have received federal dollars—despite the left-wing community-organizing group's official dissolution and ban on receiving federal funds, according to a new report."
Ciaramella also pointed out in his column, published yesterday, that "Cause of Action, a nonprofit government watchdog group, recently identified 174 active or rebranded ACORN affiliates, as well as organizations that share former ACORN staff." This group is banned from political activity, but the revolving door surrounding this recent discovery have people like Michael Vadum, "an investigator for the Capital Research Center who has tracked ACORN, called the revolving door of staff among old ACORN affiliates and their political activities quite incestuous and corrupt."
One organization called:
MHANY Management, Inc. shares the same IRS identification number as the erstwhile New York ACORN Housing Company, Inc. The name changed between the group's 2007 and 2008 tax filings.
MHANY partners with New York Communities for Change (NYCC), another renamed ACORN affiliate. HUD has approved it as a housing counselor.
The executive director of New York Communities for Change is former New York ACORN official Jon Kest, brother of former ACORN national director Steve Kest. A 2011 Fox News report described NYCC employees shredding documents and removing any items related to ACORN after a previous report exposed the group's ties to both ACORN and the Occupy Wall Street protests.
New York Communities for Change received funds from the New York Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Long Island Community Foundation, and the Edward W. Hazen Foundation.
The group has also received considerable funding from unions, including $500,000 from the United Federation of Teachers to campaign against charter schools.
The late Russian economist Yegar Gaidar once told Heritage Foundation co-founder Paul Weyrich that "just because the Soviet Union went away doesn't mean these people have gone away." It appears that same sentiment rings true concerning Acorn's new existence.
Mr. Vadum also posted on his blog his own list of "old" and "new" Acorn groups–which are both works in progress.
He also posted on CRC last Friday that:
Another key ACORN ally is #41, Catalist LLC. Catalist is a political consultancy that has close ties to George Soros and his billionaire leftists' club, the Democracy Alliance. Catalist aggregates voter information for left-wing get-out-the-vote organizations such as ACORN, MoveOn, Sierra Club, EMILY's List, Center for Community Change, Service Employees International Union, USAction, the League of Conservation Voters, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and the AFL-CIO. Catalist specializes in "microtargeting," a data-intensive system that political candidates use to track individual voters and identify potential supporters. Some say Catalist was instrumental in helping Democrats win back control of Congress six years ago. ACORN is (or was) a client of Catalist.
Judicial Watch has also been following this story. In their August 2011 report "The Rebranding of Acorn," they report that:
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a highly controversial decision stating that the federal ban on funding for ACORN and its affiliates (as articulated in Section 418 of the 2010 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act of 2010) was not grounds for withholding federal funding from AHCOA [formerly know as Acorn Housing].16
Housing-related grants to non-profit organizations by NeighborWorks are still frozen since the GAO decision, pending further resolution. However, the organization has already re-listed Affordable Housing Centers of America as an authorized foreclosure assistance agency on its website. In February 2011, the House Financial Service Committee proposed defunding NeighborWorks, but no action has been taken on that recommendation.
News Note. On March 1, 2011, HUD awarded a $79,819 grant to AHCOA to "educate the public and housing providers about their rights and obligations under federal, state, and local fair housing laws." Although the grant was reportedly for AHCOA, the government's website listing federal expenditures identifies the organization receiving the $79,819 grant as "ACORN Housing Corporation Inc." and lists ACORN's New Orleans, Louisiana, address.17 So the flood of federal funds continues to ACORN affiliates thanks to Obama – and at least one other ACORN-connected Obama administration official.
They just changed the name. That was easy.
You can find the whole report here.
I wonder if these new Acorn entities will continue the embezzling, voter fraud, electioneering, and complicity in underage prostitution that led to the demise of the original organization. I guess one could dream.


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Several years ago, Mike and Kim Botan began blogging about their adventures via their website, www.Ride2Adv.com, and earlier this month Mike released his first book, "Mr. Cotton Wanders Europe: Where To Next?" to further share with armchair travelers his and his wife's adventures.
The Botans' journey began several decades ago, when Mike, then a recent college graduate, purchased his first motorcycle. With Kim perched on the back, the pair hit the road most weekends, usually traveling through the northern part of New Hampshire.
"That's when we began taking some longer trips," Kim recalled.
Over the years, Kim, a registered nurse who works for Tufts Health Plan, and Mike, who is employed as the vice president of government contracts for United Healthcare, have made excursions through Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, to the tip of South America, through remote villages of Iceland and across untamed stretches of Labrador.
"People like to hear about other parts of the world," he said.
With no planned travel itinerary, the Botans last summer flew to Spain, where they rented motorcycles and headed for the open roads.
Being on two wheels rather than four also proved a great advantage when it came to hobnobbing with the locals, Mike noted.
The couple recalled one incident in Iceland in which Mike's bike was stalled after his chain came loose at a water crossing. Two passing motorists, a man and his young son, armed with armed with a tool kit, pulled over to lend the Botans a hand.
Taking delight in the little boy's fascination with Mr. Cotton, the Botans didn't hesitate to hand him their toy as a gesture of thanks.
With summer quickly approaching, there's no telling where the road might lead next for the Botans, but right now the plan is to travel the back country of Colorado.
"Different parts of the world are kind of like ice cream flavors," Mike said. "They're all so different, but each one is delicious in its own way."Paperback and Kindle versions "Mr. Cotton Wanders Europe: Where To Next?" is available for purchase online at Amazon.com and CreateSpace.com.
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The Bakhtiari family is expected to be flown to Adelaide this morning to prepare for deportation from Australia, a refugee advocate said yesterday.
Despite waiting anxiously for news on Boxing Day, Justice for Refugees South Australia president Don McMaster said a flight for Pakistan would depart today at 3.30pm (AEDT).
The family, staying at a Port Augusta detention centre, was expected to board a charter flight to Adelaide today.
Roqia Bakhtiari and her six children - ranging in age from one to 16 - were last week taken from their house in Adelaide to immigration detention in Port Augusta.
Ali Bakhtiari is being held at the nearby Baxter detention centre.
Dr McMaster said the family - Australia's highest profile asylum seekers - were "totally distressed" about going to Pakistan.
The Bakhtiaris have exhausted all avenues after a four-and-a-half year struggle to be accepted as refugees by Australia.
The Government has rejected their latest claims to be Afghans, insisting that the Bakhtiaris are really Pakistanis.
The Age newspaper in Melbourne reported yesterday that fresh claims that Mrs Bakhtiari had been identified as an Afghan national by a relative had been discounted by the Afghan Government in Kabul.
An Afghan official admitted to the newspaper he had endorsed the claim even though he had never met Mrs Bakhtiari.
Dr McMaster said it was well documented and proven that the family was from Afghanistan.
"The Australian Government is making a scapegoat of the family - they won't listen to their case," Dr McMaster said.
"I don't know why the Government is being stubborn about this one."
Through a spokesman, Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said arrangements were still being finalised for the removal of the family from Australia.
The spokesman said refugee advocates were not helping the situation.
"It's unlikely they will be removed today, but we're deeply concerned that advocates are drumming it up and fanning the flames of something they don't know anything about," he said.
"This is a sensitive situation for everyone, especially the family, and the advocates are out there behaving quite irresponsibly."
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Private aircraft flight plans won't be disclosed after all, says FAA
The owners and operators of private aircraft won a reprieve on December 16 when the Federal Aviation Administration announced that it will continue to allow those owners and operators to keep confidential their plane's tail numbers and flight plans, rather than have that sensitive information automatically disclosed as part of two nationwide public aviation information dissemination systems.
The FAA said it acted after Congress passed H.R. 2112, the bill that appropriates funds for the U.S. Department of Transportation for the balance of FY2012, which includes language that specifically bars the FAA from implementing any limitation on aircraft owners' rights to have their aircraft data blocked.
The FAA's recent decision represents a turnabout from its earlier announcement last June that only aircraft owners and operators who had specifically requested and been granted a "Certified Security Concern" status would be allowed to keep their aircraft data confidential. That FAA decision was reported in Government Security News on June 3.
Currently, a wide variety of business, general aviation and "on-demand" commercial airplanes are able to request that the registration numbers for their planes and the flight-tracking data that describes their planes' specific flights, should be withheld from public disclosure in two nationally-distributed information systems. One system is known as the "Aircraft Situation Display to Industry," or ASDI, and the other is called the "National Airspace System Status Information," or NASSI.
In light of the recent congressional appropriation language, the FAA said it is withdrawing the policy it published on June 3.
"Instead, in early 2012, the FAA will propose and solicit comments on procedures for all aircraft owners and operators to request that the FAA block their aircraft data from the FAA's public ASDI data feed," said the agency, in a Federal Register notice it published on Dec. 16.
In addition, the FAA noted that any aircraft data that had previously been blocked will remain blocked.
The FAA is planning to develop new procedures for aircraft owners and operators to request that their data be blocked going forward. While that rule-writing process unfolds, the FAA announced on Dec. 16 that aircraft owners and operators can continue to file such requests under the existing program.
"Until the FAA adopts final procedures for submitting ASDI block requests, aircraft owners and operators can submit their ASDI block requests via electronic mail address for the prior program: firstname.lastname@example.com," said the FAA's notice.
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Robert Morris' Walton prepares for final season on sideline
Joe Walton really means it this time.
There will be no second-guessing or rethinking his position to step down as the only football coach Robert Morris has known following the 2013 season.
For Walton, 77, some things are meant to be.
"I know that it's time. Twenty years at one place is enough for anybody," said Walton, who opens his 19th season at Robert Morris on Aug. 29 at Eastern Kentucky.
"That's a lot of years," athletic director Craig Coleman said. "When you look around college football, with very few exceptions, you don't see one coach in one place for 20 years. Especially after they retired. Remember, he was in retirement when he came out of retirement to coach this program."
Walton spent the 1993 season — a year before coaching his first game at Robert Morris — recruiting players and hiring a coaching staff.
"I thought I'd be here two or three years and then go back (to the NFL)," said Walton, who coached the New York Jets from 1983-89 and served as Steelers offensive coordinator in 1990-91. "But once I was here, and once I got to know all the people and be around the program, I didn't want to leave."
After more than three decades in the NFL, Walton, a two-time All-American at Pitt who once before had contemplated retirement only to change his mind, sat out the 1992 season before resurfacing at Robert Morris.
Little did Walton realize that leaving the familiar surroundings of the NFL — he spent more than three decades in the league — for the uncertainty of small-college football at a school without a team would complete him as a coach.
All Walton has done is compile a 109-86-1 record, including a 70-44 mark in the Northeast Conference and six NEC regular-season titles, most in league history. In 2010, the Colonials became the first NEC team to advance to the FCS playoffs.
"When I got here, we didn't have a locker room. We didn't have any offices. We had no equipment. We had nothing," Walton said. "Above all, we had no players. It was a learning experience for me. It was a little scary at first. But things kept falling in place."
Exactly how much has Walton meant to Robert Morris — the university as well as the football program? Enough to ensure that his contributions will be lasting, his name never forgotten.
Since 2005, the Colonials have played home games at Joe Walton Stadium on their Moon campus.
When soliciting financial contributions for construction of the $10 million facility, school officials were required to honor a request from an anonymous donor who gave a record $1.5 million gift.
The stadium had to be named not after the donor but Walton, the architect of the football program.
"How many coaches get to coach in a stadium with their name on it?" asked Coleman, Robert Morris' AD since 2005. "Football has been tremendous, as this university has evolved from what used to be a commuter campus to now a full-fledged living residential campus.
"When you talk about somebody having an impact on the program, it means they came in and changed things somehow. In this case, there was no program.
"Joe Walton created the program. He developed the program. He took it from nothing — literally — to where it is now."
Walton's hand-picked successor is assistant head coach John Banaszak, who won three Super Bowls with the Steelers under coach Chuck Noll from 1975-82. Walton was an assistant under Noll from 1990-91.
Walton will remain on campus as special assistant to the athletic director, where he will focus on fundraising.
"It's time to let coach Banaszak take over," Walton said. "I'll still be around. I just won't be on the field every day anymore."
On the field is where Walton puts in his best work.
His first team at Robert Morris, cobbled together with 64 freshmen at a school that had never had football in 73 previous years, spoke to the measure of the coach.
"We had a great year," said Walton, who credits longtime assistant Dan Radakovich with easing his transition into college football. "We were 7-1-1, which was unbelievable."
Coming from Walton, that's saying a mouthful.
Walton's best season was 2000, when the Colonials finished 10-0 and won the Division I-AA mid-major national championship. It's the only Robert Morris football team to finish undefeated.
"He's a very humble coach," Coleman said. "He doesn't put the spotlight on himself. He puts the spotlight on his kids."
Offensive lineman Hank Fraley is arguably Walton's best player at Robert Morris. Fraley (Class of 1999) won or shared league titles in each of his four seasons.
Listed as the second athlete to have his number retired at RMU, Fraley started 123 games with the Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Eagles and St. Louis Rams.
"I truly owe him a lot," Fraley, a first-year assistant at San Jose State, said of Walton. "His greatest accomplishment was seeing young men grow and how they passed on what they learned from him.
"That's how he leaves his legacy as Robert Morris' football coach."
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A stay at Hotel Cheers places you in the heart of Taipei, minutes from Tianhou Temple and close to Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. This hotel is within close proximity of North Gate and Snake Alley.
Make yourself at home in one of the 11 air-conditioned rooms featuring LCD televisions. Your memory foam bed comes with down comforters. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Partially open bathrooms with showers feature rainfall showerheads and complimentary toiletries.
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