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EL MONTE - The city's push to pass a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages ended up fizzling out early in Tuesday's election and when all of the results had been counted, a dismal 23 percent of voters had backed the initiative.
Measure H would have implemented a penny-per-ounce-sold charge on businesses that sell sugar-sweetened beverages. El Monte officials estimated the measure could annually generate between $3 million and $7 million in general fund revenues for the cash-strapped city facing significant financial hurdles ahead.
El Monte Mayor Andre Quintero, who introduced the initiative, said Tuesday night he planned to conduct workshops with residents on new revenue streams they would be willing to support, possibly including the extension of the city's half-cent sales tax, Measure GG.
"We're going to need revenue to provide services and stop that slow march to bankruptcy," he said.
Residents and business owners who opposed the Measure H said tax said it would hurt business and drive customers to surrounding communities. They also said people shouldn't face additional taxes based on personal choices.
A large group of business owners and residents Tuesday gathered at the city's El Sombrero Restaurant hoping to see the initiative defeated.
"It's going to kill my business," Maria Varelas, owner of the city's Golden Ox restaurant, said before the measure's defeat. "I'm going to lose money."
On her side was the Washington, D.C.-based American Beverage Association, which as of Sept. 30 had contributed more than $1.3 million to beat the tax on sodas and other beverages.
Some local residents said they pay enough taxes in the city.
"I just didn't want more taxes. I understand that we need to get the budget going, but people are already having a hard time," said Ozzie Morales, a 38-year-old El Monte resident. "We need to cut more."
Supporters argued that the initiative would help reduce the city's high obesity rates and create new revenue for health and wellness programs.
"I voted yes because I was thinking that this could help obesity," said 21-year-old Julie Franco. "If we pay more (for sugar-sweetened beverages), we're not going to want to buy them."
However, nothing in the measure required that revenues from the tax be used for health programs. Instead, the revenue would have gone to El Monte's general fund.
An accompanying advisory - Measure C - recommended the revenues go to public safety, parks and recreation, and wellness programs. That measure got 60 percent support. However, it was not binding.
Still, a study released this week by UC San Francisco found that the penny-per-ounce soda tax alone could have a positive impact on minorities and reduce the incidence of diabetes in blacks and Mexicans by as much as 8 percent.
Measure H was modeled after a similar initiative introduced earlier this year in the San Francisco Bay area city of Richmond. That initiative failed as well, with two-thirds of voters voting no.


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A piece of homemade pie is such a simple thing when you break it down; a few ingredients that come together in perfect agreement. Butter, flour, sugar, water, apples… as if pie were what they were made to be, happily ever after.
Yes, it's easy as pie to think about and eat, but I admit to having an avoidance with making pie crust. If I think too long about the actual labor involved in pie making I tend to move on to something else a bit less scary – chocolate cake, maybe. At least the outcome of chocolate cake isn't so contingent on a list of fussy factors that can affect pastry, like the temperature of the air, butter, water and even your hands.
Warm hands might work while mixing up a cake batter or rubbing a pork loin with olive oil, but with pastry – not so much.
So, to challenge myself I've put pie-making on my list of skills to master. And with the promise of a piece of pie as a reward, it's not really so hard to do. I remind myself that pie is just a list of ingredients that need a confident hand with a rolling pin to guide them along.
It helps to have a lesson in pie-crust making from an excellent teacher. This video of pastry chef Cindy Salvato demonstrating her method was very instructive for me. Notice how comfortable she is getting her hands in the dough, rolling and smacking it. You can see who's in charge, and it's not the pie dough.
I liked Cindy's style, and it encouraged me to get in there and make some pie.
I used Honeycrisps since they are just now arriving in markets, and they worked perfectly, their taste is nicely sweet-tart, and they keep their shape and texture after baking – I cannot stand mushy apples. I also left the peel on out of sheer laziness and that turned out just fine in the finished pie.
Here a few keys to making a perfect pie I picked up from Cindy:
- Use cool, not cold or softened butter. Cindy recommends butter not be "stone cold", but at 55 degrees. I took the temperature of my butter with an instant thermometer directly out of the fridge and it was right there.
- Don't be afraid to add more water if the dough seems dry. Add a little at time and use your hands.
- Use a glass pie dish for even heat distribution.
- Add lemon zest. Lemon makes everything better.
- Big chunks of butter in the dough are desirable. They create those flaky air pockets as the pie bakes.
- Don't be intimidated by pie dough. Remember you are the master of the kitchen!Homemade Apple Pie with Lemon Butter Crust
For best results, let the pie cool completely - preferably overnight - to allow the natural pectin in the apples to work. Cutting directly into a freshly baked, warm pie is tempting, but it won't be set properly.
Adapted from Cindy Salvato
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon fine salt
- 2 tablespoons grated fresh lemon zest
- 1 1/2 sticks butter (12 tablespoons), cut into chunks
- 1/2 cup ice water plus more if needed
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- for the filling:
- 3 pounds firm apples such as Granny Smith or Honeycrisp (about 6 or 7 apples)
- 1 tablespoon rice flour or all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- In a large bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, salt and zest. Cut the butter into the flour with a pastry blender or a fork until the butter is pieces about the size of large peas. Make a well in the center of the flour mix and add the water and lemon juice.
- Blend with a fork until the dough starts to come together. If there's flour on the bottom of the bowl, add more water a teaspoon at a time until you can gather the dough into a ball. Divide into two pieces, wrap in plastic wrap and flatten slightly to form a disc. Chill in the refrigerator for about an hour and up to 24 hours.
- When you're ready to assemble and bake the pie, heat the oven to 425 degrees. Take the pie dough out of the refrigerator to soften slightly while you prepare the apples. If it takes more than 15 minutes to deal with the apples, then put the dough back in the fridge until you're ready to fill the pie.
- Peel the apples if you want to: core and slice into 1/2-inch thick wedges. Put the slices in a bowl and toss with the flour.
- Mix together the sugar, salt and cinnamon in a small bowl.
- Smack one package of dough with a rolling pin to flatten. Unwrap and put the dough on a large floured piece of wax or parchment paper. Sprinkle the top of the dough with more flour and roll the dough firmly away from you, turning the paper after each roll to create a circle about 2 inches larger than your pie dish. Sprinkle lightly with more flour if you notice the dough starting to stick.
- Fold the dough in half gently and place in a pie dish, pressing into the bottom of the dish. Be sure you have an overhang of about an inch all around. Trim off any excess.
- Put a layer of apples on top of the dough in a concentric circle, starting at the outer edge. Sprinkle with sugar. Repeat the layering and sugaring 2 or 3 more times, until the apples are generously heaped to the top of the dish.
- Take the second piece of dough and repeat the rolling. Put the dough on top of the apples; pull the edge of the top dough over the bottom and pinch together all around the pie.
- Use a sharp knife to make 4 vents in the center of the pie.
- Put the pie in the oven and turn the oven down to 400 degrees. Bake the pie about 30 minutes, until the crust is deep golden and the juices are bubbling.
- Cool the pie before slicing to allow the juices to settle. Yum.3.1http://familystylefood.com/2011/09/homemade-apple-pie-with-lemon-butter-crust/Copyright familystylefood.com

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Grotesque dinosaur cannibals!
When paleontologists recently announced they had discovered fossil evidence of cannibalistic dinosaurs (see box), I rejoiced. This was just what the church needed to hear.
'But that's horrible', I can imagine you saying, 'For something to eat members of its own species is grotesque in the extreme'. And that's exactly the point. It is grotesque—surely all Christians would be in one mind on that. Which is why I would like to show this to everyone in the church, and ask them if these dinosaurs practised their perverse cannibalism in the 'very good' world (Genesis 1:31) before Adam sinned, or afterwards.
Why ask this question? Because, for too long, many Christians have compromised on Genesis. While conceding that there was no human death before Adam disobeyed God, they claim it does not defy Scripture to have animal death before then, that it was 'natural and God-ordained' for animals to hunt their prey (citing Psalm 104:21, 27–28, for example). But this contradicts God's instruction that animals (and man) were originally created to be vegetarian (Genesis 1:29–30; cf. 9:3), and overlooks the effect of the Curse on creation (Genesis 3:14–19; Romans 8:19–22)—i.e. the Bible clearly shows that today's world is very different from the pre-Fall world.
It also means that these Christians struggle to answer (cf. 1 Peter 3:15) when asked, for example, by a distraught young daughter why a God of love allowed the child's favourite pet budgerigar—the one which used to perch all day on her shoulder, from time-to-time caressing her cheek—to be caught and eaten by the neighbour's cat.
Too often the answer sounds to the child like 'Life's tough, kid. That's the way God made it.' Or 'For some things we have no answers—but God knows.'
So that's why I think this issue of dinosaur cannibalism can be a wake-up call to compromising Christians to think again. If (as popular wisdom claims) these dinosaurs lived and became extinct millions of years before man walked on the earth, then that means that cannibalism existed before Adam sinned. Was that 'very good' in God's sight? Of course not! Remember He commanded (Genesis 1:21, 24) that animals were to reproduce 'after their kind', not to eat their own kind!
In contrast, a biblical view puts the timing of these cannibal dinosaurs after the Fall, most likely being buried (and fossilized) under water-borne sediment during the global Flood of Noah's day, around 4,500 years ago.
But why were these dinosaurs eating members of their own species rather than preying upon different species? We see today that in a post-Fall world prone to drought and famine, animals at times become sufficiently desperate to eat anything they can find—including one another, if they can get away with it.
Opportunistic cannibalism has been documented in a number of species (e.g. lions, komodo dragons and grasshopper mice),1 so it's not surprising that evidence of cannibalism has now been found among dinosaurs as well.
The key point here, though, is that because dinosaurs are so often thought to have died out millions of years ago, Genesis-believing Christians can use this latest discovery to respectfully challenge those in the church who say, 'I believe in creation' but who nevertheless put the millions-of-years fossil record before the universe-corrupting actions of Adam and Eve in Eden. If all the saints were 'one in heart and mind' (Acts 4:32) in understanding this issue, no longer would the church feel the need to hide from a favourite taunt of sceptics: 'How could there be a God of love when it is clearly a dog-eat-dog world?'
The post-Fall reality of cannibal dinosaurs is indeed grotesque. But, to me, so is the lion's ripping apart a gazelle calf while its mother bleats plaintively at a distance; the stray dog's opportunistic mauling of a child's favourite pet rabbit; and the wild boar waiting beside cows in advanced labour, ready to tear chunks of flesh from the newborn calf even before it's fully emerged from the birth canal.
All these things are clearly part of the cursed and hurting post-Fall world, a world that waits to be 'liberated from its bondage to decay' (Romans 8:21). This will be a time when 'there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain' (Revelation 21:4), because there will be 'no more curse' (Revelation 22:3).
Dinosaurs ate one another
Rogers, R.R., Krause, D.W. and Rogers, K.C., Cannibalism in the Madagascan dinosaur Majungatholus atopus, Nature 422(6931):515–518, 2003.
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Further Reading
- Pilcher, H.R., Dinosaurs ate each other, Nature Science Update,
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"And god went on to say: "Here I have given you all the vegetation bearing seed which is on the surface of the whole earth and every tree which there is fruit bearing seed. To you let it serve as food. And to every wild beast of the earth and every flying creature of the heavens and to everything moving upon the earth in which there is life as a soul I have given all green vegetation for food" (Genesis 1:29-30)
It would appear in Gods original arrangement that that all his creations in which there was "life as a soul" ate vegetation for food not each other.
That cannibal dinosaurs came after sin had entered the world bringing with it death.
This is a similar argument to the fossilized thorns dated at 60 million years. How could they be that old if it were part of the curse?
I think Genesis 6:12-13 succinctly sums it up.
This article makes its point powerfully - carnivory is not compatible with the perfect state of the original creation. However, the cannibalism situation reported in the news clipping as "regularly" may not be a correct deduction. Wouldn't it be more likely to have occurred under the duress of extreme hunger during the global flood when these creatures may have herded together, some drowning and the reminder with no other prey? Such a situation equally demonstrates that carnivory, whether cannibalistic or not, came after the fall.


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This location is probably Coggswell St. in Pawcatuck, CT. Notice it is near the water, not the railroad tracks (as in Westerly, RI).
The biggest clue is the NAME of the business. Not Westerly Steam Laundry, not Westerly Laundry and not Victor Cleansing Co. Growing up, I never knew there were three business names. The short history (1908-1958) I have begins with my grandfather starting the business in Providence in 1908. But, I now know he did not live in Providence then so he must have driven back and forth to Westerly.
This photo tells me that they do laundry (known to me a "wet wash"), men's shirts, dry cleaning and rug cleaning.
The Westerly and Pawcatuck City directory for the years 1930-31 shows that my grandfather's brother, Dudley Wheeler Stewart runs the Victor Laundry on Coggswell St. in Pawcatuck, CT. (p. 215). The listing for 1930-1931 in the Westerly directory is just the city information. This means this voulme was another that was scanned incorrectly.
I need to search the years prior to this (backwards) to see if I can find the year the name changed from Westerly Laundry to Victor Laundry.


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btV2 Tested and worked fine
So it must be a btv3 issue
Good day to all.
I have this toshiba satellite 1800-800 laptop (it is on the working list) with a cisco pcimcia wireless card.
I have the btv3 live cd (tested on a pc and worked fine)
the problem is that i can run bt only in text mode
if i run it with kde of any graph mode the screen goes black (when starting x i think) and nothing happens.
I started it in text and used the startx but a black screen came again
Same when used the xconf
I tryied it without the cisco card ...nothing again.
It seems like a graph issue but what can i do
Please help
btV2 Tested and worked fine
So it must be a btv3 issue


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Herald staff
STANWOOD — No serious injuries were reported Thursday morning when a semi-truck and trailer rolled over on northbound I-5 in the Stanwood area.
The crash was reported about 3 a.m., said trooper Keith Leary with the Washington State Patrol. Investigators believe the driver, 48, of Mount Vernon, fell asleep at the wheel and drifted onto the shoulder. He then woke up and overcorrected.
Both the truck and the trailer flipped over, but the load wasn't lost, Leary said.
Traffic was detoured for some time. The road was cleared about four hours later. Crews also cleaned up a fuel spill from the crash.
The truck driver was taken to a Skagit County hospital as a precaution. No drugs or alcohol were involved, Leary said.


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After the success of the previous 9 Fight Ikon Events, we have decided to now also run an Amateur show as well as the Pro & A class shows.
Our 1st contenders amateur event will be in the same format and also held at our best location; Ikon/Jaxx Nightclub in Bolton. Giving Amateur fighters the atmosphere and feel of a big show with the awesome walk outs, sound system, lighting, big screens, filming and same professional crew associated with our previous productions.
If you would like to be considered for matching on the event please either email me at email@example.com or contact me through the Fight Ikon group on Facebook.
We are currently matching all levels of Amateur fighters:
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REDLANDS -- The message was about humility and community improvement Thursday morning at the annual Cesar Chavez Scholarship Breakfast, where just about 100 people had chorizo quiche and pan dulce served by Redlands Police Officer Travis Martinez in the American Legion Hall on North Church Street.
The event was presented by the Redlands Human Relations Commission, whose chairman, Ed Gomez, was master of ceremonies.
Redlands native Henry Vasquez gave the invocation, which included prayers to the four directions, before Jakub Kukla of the University of Redlands sang the national anthem.
Police Chief Mark Garcia, the keynote speaker, shared stories about being shot at and then being aided to illustrate what he has learned about the human spirit in his 26 years in law enforcement.
Regarding racial attitudes, he said, "I appreciate the more inclusive atmosphere we have now. "
Mayor Pete Aguilar spoke next, pointing out the support in the room of fellow council members Bob Gardner, Pat Gilbreath and Mayor Pro Tem Paul Foster. Fire Chief Jeff Frazier and Redlands Unified School District Superintendent Lori Rhodes were also pointed out.
Aguilar signed a proclamation by the City Council this month making this Sunday Cesar Chavez Day in Redlands. The state declared an annual observance in 1994.
Chavez, the founder of the National Farm Workers Association, was born March 31, 1927. The group's mission was to battle racial and economic discrimination non-violently.
In proclaiming the day, the city "encourages all residents to recognize the contributions and the positive impact Cesar E. Chavez has made for our nation's work force, conscience and future. "
The breakfast was the 11th annual event, and in addition to the HRC, was supported by American Legion Post 650 and the Redlands Police Officers Association.
Gomez conducted a live auction, during which he pointed out what the bids would support for a college student. A hand-crafted and painted platter and dish set went to John and Carole Coley for $500 - that's a year's parking pass at UC Riverside, for instance.
Tickets, the auction and donations brought in $8,000 all told. That will fund scholarships to be presented at all five public high schools in Redlands through the HRC.
HRC members are Vice Chairwoman Judith Ashton, Secretary Carole Coley, Gail Howard, Evelyn Maldonado, Robert Reid, Donald Singer, Ronald Venegas and student Jennifer Williams.


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Re: BPU Releases Government Energy Audit Program
Dear Mayor:
On behalf of the NJLM Mayors' Committee for a Green Future, we wanted to inform you about an exciting new opportunity to go green and save money. The NJBPU has just released the details of its new funding program for municipal energy audits.
Please see the details below.
Some of the funds have been reserved for municipalities that participate in Green and Sustainability planning efforts such as our new Green Future Roadmap which will be unveiled at the NJLM annual conference on November 19. See the League website, or http://www.njssi.org/projects.asp?Level2ItemID=60, for details.
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities has announced the launch of a new program aimed at assisting local governments in identifying opportunities for energy efficiency. The Department of Community Affairs, the NJ State League of Municipalities, and other state agencies cooperated with the NJ BPU in finalizing details of the program, which provides funding for investment-grade energy audits from one of five pre-qualified energy auditing firms.
The program is open to public buildings owned by local government agencies, municipal and county governments, local and regional authorities, boards of education, and county colleges. Public buildings must be owned by the government agency including, but not limited to, offices, courtrooms, town halls, police and fire stations, sanitation buildings, transportation structures, schools and community centers. All local governments located within the service territory of at least one of New Jersey's public utility companies are eligible.
If your application is approved, the Program will subsidize 75% of the cost of the energy audit. The remaining 25% of the energy audit cost will also be paid by the Program if the net investment of installed recommended energy efficiency measures meets or exceeds the remaining energy audit cost. Details and examples outlining the incentive payment process are provided at the New Jersey Clean Energy Program Web site. NJCleanEnergy.com/ssb
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If you don't know how to start the desktop environment, then you probably shouldn't use BackTrack..
To install BackTrack to a harddrive, you click the install BackTrack shortcut on the desktop.
I'm primarily a windows user. I'm trying to dual boot with windows 7. I downloaded the BT5R2 64 GNOME ISO and burned a disc. When I pop in the disk it just windows just wants to burn another ISO disk from it. When I try to boot from disk it just doesn't work. Finally I got it to boot from pendrive using YUMI but when I boot it up it doesn't look anything like the videos or previews I've seen I just get the dragon graphic with a command line.
Question is how do I install this thing on a partition? From boot? From windows 7? From Ubuntu 12.10? Any type of actual install from the ISO.
Thanks in advance for any help.
If you don't know how to start the desktop environment, then you probably shouldn't use BackTrack..
To install BackTrack to a harddrive, you click the install BackTrack shortcut on the desktop.
Download the ISO, image, just burn it on a DVD, then reboot with it..Simple..Do not unrar or unzip the ISO as a have seen people doing it in some posts...Just download ISO and burn it....
sounds like you need grub, the boot loader. theres a lot documentation out there on how to configure it. it will allow you to select an OS of when you turn on your PC. BT was never designed to work like Windows. It definitely makes use of the cmdlne.
I was having problems getting my Asus Netbook to boot from a 32GB usb drive in an attempt to install BackTrack 5. I downloaded the .iso file and extracted the files from the .iso and placed them directly on my usb drive. This was a mistake as the contents of the .iso file do not seem to have a boot loader and I was unable to boot my usb.
I ended up downloading YUMI and running it on a separate computer since my netbook is slow to load. I ran YUMI browsed to the BT5-KDE-32.iso file and set the output to my usb drive, this put the necessary boot loader information on the usb, as well as the BackTrack files needed for installation.
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LONG BEACH - Voters in the 4th City Council District will decide on Tuesday whether to send incumbent Patrick O'Donnell to a third term in office or replace him with business marketing consultant Daryl Supernaw.
After votes were recounted from the April 10 primary election, Supernaw led O'Donnell, who ran as a write-in, by a thin margin, 1,218 votes to 1,205. Retired Long Beach police officer John Watkins had 1,166 votes.
Under the city's term limit law, O'Donnell's name will now appear on the ballot, bolstering his chances for victory. No council member has succeeded in winning a third term under the law, but Mayor Beverly O'Neill was elected to a third term as a write-in candidate in 2002.
O'Donnell, a high school teacher, is confident voters will respond to his priorities of protecting public safety, improving infrastructure and delivering a balanced budget.
"They appreciate who I am and what I stand for," O'Donnell said. "I live just like my constituents. I have kids, I go to work everyday. I have young children who use the parks. They like my focus on neighborhood issues."
Supernaw has touted his experience in private business and pledged to cut through regulations that he says restrain commercial growth.
His first-place finish in April surprised many, considering his campaign had the smallest budget and lacked the high-power endorsements of Watkins, who was supported by the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, and O'Donnell, who is backed by Long Beach's police and fire unions.
Watkins has since endorsed O'Donnell in the runoff election.
"It's implausible that a guy who didn't send out a flyer got the most votes, but it happened," said Supernaw, who has raised $7,296 this year to O'Donnell's $65,966, according to the City Clerk's Office.
Once community allies, the relationship between the candidates has been soured by months of campaigning.
The two previously partnered to help fill the Atherton Ditch, a community hazard and neighborhood issue for decades until it was finally replaced with an underground pipe and green space at a cost of $3 million.
Now, they both accuse each other of going negative on the campaign trail, and they engaged in a notable clash at a forum hosted at Tucker Elementary School.
"He suggested I had no personality," Supernaw said. "He was staring me down.
"It's a distraction from the issues, it's a distraction from the campaign."
O'Donnell claimed Supernaw has been distorting his council record.
"Before he got into politics, he wasn't that guy," O'Donnell said. "But again, when this is all over, it's important for all of us to work together to move the city forward."
Without answering a firm no, the councilman sidestepped another Supernaw charge - that, if elected, O'Donnell would leave his council seat to run for Assembly in 2014.
Before initiating his write-in campaign, O'Donnell had announced a bid for Assembly, but then backed down when Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal decided to run for a third term.
"I've determined that I belong in the classroom, and not flying between here and Sacramento or anywhere else," O'Donnell said.
"What I'm saying is, I don't see it happening," he added.
Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. The runoff election will share polling places with, but will have a different ballot from, the state primary.
A list of polling locations can be found at www.longbeach.gov/cityclerk/elections/polls/locator.asp.
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Seven AGTS alums are in the middle of the recovery efforts in Haiti. Assemblies of God missionary James Courter (M.A. 2006), who founded Arise Haiti Medical Ministries in 2008, had just returned to Haiti two hours before the quake struck. Narrowly missing being crushed in the five-story Caribbean Market that saw massive loss of life, he is now in the middle of relief efforts being facilitated by AG World Missions.
In addition, army chaplain Brad Baumann (M.Div. 1997), Air Force chaplain Eusebia Rios (M.A. 2001, M.Div. 2002), and Navy chaplains Lofton Thornton (M.Div. 1994), Jerry Durham (M.Div. 2004), Marlin Williams (M.Div. 2006) and Brian Shearer (M.Div. 2003) are all in Haiti diligently serving their troops as well as the stricken people there.
Chaplain Durham writes, "The people are suffering from all kinds of injuries. Many children are coming to us without parents…" Chaplain Williams' moving journal reports can be found at www.ag.org (A Chaplain's View—the Haiti Earthquake). These journal entries provide a moving portrait of the day-to-day life of a chaplain in the face of such terrible tragedy.
A Fox News reporter met up with Chaplain Shearer in the ruins of an orphanage where over 50 children were killed. He writes, "The U.S. Navy also comes through with Chaplain Brian Shearer. He speaks with the kids and holds a private service, praying over the site and committing their souls to heaven. It is so incredibly sad and you can see the pain in the Chaplain's face, the heaviness in his heart. I ask him how he does it and he says it helps people move on and recover and the triumphs keep the sailors going." Shearer also shared on a Fox News report that he doesn't focus on the dead but gives hope to the living, showing God's love and compassion, telling them that their true hope is in Jesus Christ.
The needs of Haiti are overwhelming and the impact of this tragedy will be felt for years. Though the number of alumni mentioned above may not seem like much in the face of the massive need in Haiti, they are exactly the kind of enduring resource that brings to the context of hopelessness a clear testimony to God's grace. They represent exactly the kind of quality people who are part of the AGTS community right now—exceptional students with God's call on their lives. The AGTS alums now working in Haiti probably never dreamed they would face the kinds of tragedy they are ministering in right now. But they are prepared and ready wherever Kingdom opportunities arise.
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This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act being signed into law, and the Columbus Dispatch is noting the occasion by turning over part of its opinion page to a series of articles from the right-wing Heritage Foundation attacking the law. The paper has provided no opinion pieces that support the law in the past week, according to a Nexis search.
In addition to providing no space for supporters of the legislation, the Dispatch is passing along a number of falsehoods about the law.
One of the columns the Dispatch features, penned by James Capretta of Heritage, criticizes the health care reform law for making cuts in payments to private insurers who offer Medicare Advantage plans. But Capretta overlooks several key facts about the positive ways that health reform affects Medicare - elements of reform that could have been explained had the Dispatch provided its readers with a more robust discussion of the bill's merits:
- The law does not cut traditional Medicare benefits
- The law closes the Medicare prescription drug "donut hole"
- Only the wealthiest Americans will pay a higher Medicare payroll tax
- Under the law, Medicare will cover annual wellness visits
- The law increases funding to fight fraud and abuse in Medicare and increase penalties for those found guilty.
Capretta also states that "The act also cuts Medicare by about $500 billion over the coming decade, mainly through deep payment-rate reductions for those providing services to Medicare patients." Dispatch readers are not told that the $500 billion he refers to is a "reduction in the growth of future spending over 10 years, not a slashing of the current Medicare budget or benefits" as Factcheck.org could have explained.
Finally, Capretta claims that "failure to reform Medicare and other entitlement spending will be ruinous to the nation's long-term economic prospects." Reform advocates could have told Dispatch readers that the reasoning behind the Medicare Advantage cuts is that the government currently overpays private insurance companies through the program. The changes to the program are projected to save over $100 billion over the next 10 years, according to the the non-partisan CBO.
Another column the Dispatch features comes from Edmund Haislmaier of Heritage under the headline, "Benefit Requirements Will Raise Health Costs." Haislmaier's main claim here is that under health care reform, premiums will increase. In fact, the CBO predicts that most people's premiums will decrease on the individual market, when factoring in federal subsidies:
The majority of nongroup enrollees (about 57 percent) would receive subsidies via the new insurance exchanges, and those subsidies, on average, would cover nearly two-thirds of the total premium, CBO and JCT estimate. Thus, the amount that subsidized enrollees would pay for nongroup coverage would be roughly 56 percent to 59 percent lower, on average, than the nongroup premiums charged under current law. [CBO, Letter to Sen. Evan Bayh, 11/30/09]
As Ezra Klein explains, the CBO also estimates that premiums in the group market will go down slightly.
Haislmaier ends by arguing that states, rather than the federal government, should regulate insurance markets. Dispatch readers remain unaware that states have the option to do that, thanks to a provision in the bill that allows states to obtain waivers to set up their own reforms.
In choosing Heritage, the Dispatch outsourced its editorial content to an organization that has been opposed to Obama's health care reform legislation from day one. Dispatch readers can read all about this opposition, in a lengthy report titled "The Case Against Obamacare," which can conveniently be accessed from the Dispatch's opinion page.
UPDATE: Today, the Dispatch published a piece on its editorial page that praised the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, titled "Health-care law already is helping families and businesses." The piece was written by James M. Galloway, an assistant U.S. surgeon general. Under Galloway's picture, the Dispatch prominently provided a link to Heritage's full report, "The Case Against Obamacare."
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OVER £3,000 has been raised in the past week to help equip the Beacon Centre cancer unit at Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital.
Donations to the County Gazette-backed Somerset Unit for Radiotherapy Equipment (SURE) include:
- proceeds of a raffle by Wessex Country Market members at Somerton;
- £56 from Chard WI at a carol concert at Wells Cathedral;
- £94.60 commission from a Book People event at Debenhams, in Bedford House;
- Wellington United Reform Church, who raised £575 during various coffee mornings;
- Ann and Travis Rowlands raised £175 from organising and providing Christmas lunches to walking groups;
- £1,363 raised at a raffle at the Barleymow Farm Shop and Restaurant;
- Oake Carol Singers raised £255.80 singing around the village;
- Coffee#1 at Wellington raised £120 through a raffle and Santa's grotto;
- two anonymous donations of £15;
- Karin and Charlie Barker collected £25 in 5p coins;
- Norman Tomkins donated £100, £70 of which is in 5ps;
- staff and customers from Central Hair Studio in Bridgwater collected £66.01;
- £63.27 was collected from the Beacon Centre collection pots and £88.40 in 5ps was collected from the Beacon Centre.
This week's total of £3,097.08 brings the amount raised since SURE and the County Gazette linked up to £389,681.08.


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Now, the Connecticut cable magnate is teaming up with the Navy admiral challenging Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter did something unheard of for a politician.
These misconceptions have prompted Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) to draft the Organ Donor Clarification and Anti-Trafficking Act.
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter had the White House, the governor, and big labor behind him.
By late afternoon Tuesday, NBC reported that the White House let it be known that "Arlen came to us, we didn't go to him."
Rand Paul's win and Arlen Specter's loss show strong anti-establishment currents on both sides.
The frenzy over Sen. Arlen Specter's decision to switch parties has only just begun.
Joe Sestak beat Arlen Specter because blue-collar swing voters hate President Obama!
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Who's a "rebel"? Which government is "legitimate"? In the Arab world, it depends on which TV channel you watch....
January 14, 2017, Saturday
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The Libyan government released video footage showing the prime minister, Ali Zeidan, speaking to fellow cabinet members and officials after he was kidnapped from a hotel in the capital, Tripoli, on Thursday....
October 10, 2013, Thursday
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Hamas closed news media offices and a television production company for what it called the spreading of false reports and working for Israeli television....
July 26, 2013, Friday
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Syrian Television Journalist Announces Defection
Ahmad Fakhouri, a prominent Syrian state television anchor, announced that he left his position and the country, and had settled in Egypt, in a telephone interview shown on Thursday by a Saudi news channel....
December 20, 2012, Thursday
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General Confirms Defection From Syria
Brig. Gen. Manaf Tlass, the former commander of an elite Republican Guard unit in Syria, made an announcement on television....
July 25, 2012, Wednesday
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Witnesses to War
Michael Kamber is assembling the testimonies of dozens of photojournalists who documented the Iraq War in a book called, "Photojournalists on War."...
July 2, 2012, Monday
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Jordanian Journalist Missing in Southern Philippines
The Philippines authorities are hoping that a Jordanian journalist and his crew, who disappeared on a restive southern island, have not been kidnapped....
June 18, 2012, Monday
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Syrian Activists Post Videos Said to Show Latest Massacre
With United Nations monitors prevented from entering the site of the killings in the village of Qubeir, videos of atrocities, some graphic, were posted by activists....
June 7, 2012, Thursday
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Syrian Beaten on Camera Appears on State Television
A surprise appearance on Syrian state television by a man whose beating by government security forces was captured on video last month....
May 24, 2011, Tuesday
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Media React: Arab Network Debates Sea Burial
Al Arabiya debates the burial at sea of Osama Bin Laden....
May 2, 2011, Monday
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Andrew's neglected subwoofer found new life as a mini guitar amp –
So I made the $5 Cracker box amplifier (makezine.com/09/crackerboxamp) almost a year ago, and the box I had put it in was falling apart, even though I had reinforced it with more cardboard.
Anyway, I was looking at it on my desk this morning, thinking about how it would be much better if I wasn't using the little 3 inch speaker I had in the box, when I looked over and saw this neglected subwoofer in the corner of my room that had never really been used (and probably never would be).
My first thought was to take the speaker out and use it for the amp, but when I was disassembling it, I noticed how well the subwoofer itself would work as a case for the amp. So I set to work fitting all of the pieces in, and a while later, I had a fully functional amp that looked and sounded much better than the original.
I may use the open "12v in" hole for a 9v in to power the amp in the future.
I too can attest to the goodness of the subwoofer-turned-guitar-amp design. With the plastic cover removed and speaker turned around, an old Altec Lansing sub has served me well as the affectionately named "Ol' Crappy" :P
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Since nessus is not included in BT you will likely have or get better support from either metasploit or nessus.
Hy guys,
I have problems to import nessus xml report scan in metasploit framework.
I have installed the new nessus 4.2.2 version and when I try to import the report file with db_import_nessus_xml I receive this error:
msf > db_import_nessus_xml /root/xxx.nessus
[-] Error while running command db_import_nessus_xml: undefined local variable or method `file_contents' for #<Msf.DBManager:0xb7330bdc>
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/opt/metasploit3/msf3/lib/msf/core/db.rb:1185:in `import_nessus_xml'
/opt/metasploit3/msf3/lib/msf/core/db.rb:1203:in `import_nessus_xml_file'
/opt/metasploit3/msf3/lib/msf/ui/console/command_dispatcher/db.rb:886:in `cmd_db_import_nessus_xml'
/opt/metasploit3/msf3/lib/rex/ui/text/dispatcher_shell.rb:239:in `send'
/opt/metasploit3/msf3/lib/rex/ui/text/dispatcher_shell.rb:239:in `run_command'
/opt/metasploit3/msf3/lib/rex/ui/text/dispatcher_shell.rb:201:in `run_single'
/opt/metasploit3/msf3/lib/rex/ui/text/dispatcher_shell.rb:195:in `each'
/opt/metasploit3/msf3/lib/rex/ui/text/dispatcher_shell.rb:195:in `run_single'
/opt/metasploit3/msf3/lib/rex/ui/text/shell.rb:144:in `run'
I save the xml report in nessus version 1 because the version 2 is not already supported by metasploit framework.
Any idea?
Since nessus is not included in BT you will likely have or get better support from either metasploit or nessus.
I have solved!
This bug affects only pre-installed version of metasploit in backtrack 4. With fastrack update the problem will be resolved!
Thx :)


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Labor Day weekend marks the beginning of a new season. Summer dresses get swapped out for sweaters, sandals are replaced with suede ankle boots, coats come out of the closet — you get our drift. However, we couldn't leave you without one last roundup of the best warm-weather street style. To toast the end of Summer, and the beginning of Fall, we culled some of the most inspirational looks — like Karen's hot fuchsia silk jumpsuit — for one last hurrah. Check out the slideshow to see more perfectly styled Summer ensembles and why we love them.
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The Friday LIVE! summer concert series returns to the NC Music Factory and tickets are on sale NOW at NCMusicFactory.com! Advance tickets are still just FIVE BUCKS ($5) and season passes are available for just $30 to all 8 shows! VIP tickets also available! Here's the lineup of shows coming this summer!
- Friday, May 9 featuring Cowboy Mouth and Good Nature
- Friday, May 16 featuring TBA
- Friday, May 23 featuring Cracker and Charlotte favorites Simplified
- Friday, May 30 Yacht Rock Review
- Friday, June 6 it is "Beatlemania" as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Beatles first appearance in the U.S. with the Spongetones reunion show playing all the great Beatles hits!
- Friday, June 13 featuring Blackberry Smoke and The Chris Cook Band
- Friday, June 20 with Charity Case featuring Ace from the Ace & TJ Show on Channel 96-1
- Friday, June 27 featuring On the Border, the ultimate Eagles Tribute!


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The Training and Outreach Department hosts a variety of educational opportunities including our semi-annual Domestic Violence Advocacy Certification Training, Advanced Training Topics and Teach Ins.
What is DVACT?
DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence offers our Domestic Violence Advocate Core Competency Training (DV ACT) to provide counselors and advocates at member organizations with Advocate Privilege (DC ST § 14-310). This 6 day training covers dynamics of domestic violence, trauma resulting from domestic violence, crisis intervention, personal safety, risk management, criminal and civil court processes, and resources available to victims. Additional competency areas included in the training are described below. We offer DV ACT twice a year so new advocates and those not otherwise covered by the statute are able to take the course and improve skills and competencies.
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In order to receive your certificate, you must complete all 6 days of training. This June DVACT will be Tuesday and Thursdays from 9AM-5PM.
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- Stalking Awareness
- Teen Dating Violence
- DC Crime Victims Resource Center
- Communications and Media Messaging
- Darkness to Light Stewards of Children: Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
- Intersection of Domestic Violence and HIV/AIDS
- Program Evaluation
- Entrepreneurial Strategic Thinking for Nonprofit Organizations
- Luminous Warrior: Self Defense Course
- Arts and Healing
- Listening Forums: Do You Know What You Don't Know?
- Intersections of Pet Abuse and Domestic Violence
- Best Practices to Enhance Accessibility for Victims and Survivors with Disabilities
Mental Health and Domestic Violence
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DCCADV holds quarterly domestic violence teach-ins, free and open to the public. Teach-ins are opportunities for community members to learn more about domestic violence, find out what they can do to support the cause and learn about local resources. We are always seeking new opportunities to collaborate with individuals, business, churches, civic groups and students to engage the community in dialogue. Don't miss your chance to connect with us, be sure to check our calendar of events to find out where we will be next.
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Kingsland schools receive Project Lead the Way national certification in three areas
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Sunday, November 18, 2012 11:10 AM
Kingsland School Board members Steve Tart, left, and Deb Larson along with Project Lead the Way program director, outreach, Jim Mecklenburg watch Steve Anderson, who works with glass in the Division of Engineering at Mayo Clinic. A group took a tour of Mayo's engineering department Monday to see what kind of research and development is being done.
Kingsland is the first school district in Minnesota to achieve three national certifications in Project Lead the Way (PLTW) programs as a result of the recently completed three-step approval process from the national non-profit educational organization.
The local district received national certification for its Project Lead The Way programs in three areas: Pathway to Engineering; Biomedical Sciences; and Gateway To Technology, which is at Kingsland Middle School/Junior High and includes the summer Gateway Academy Program for students in grades four through six.
The school district was expected to receive three Project Lead the Way banners to hang in honor of the accomplishments when Thor Misko, a Project Lead the Way official, flew in from the organization's headquarters in Indianapolis to make the presentation Monday at the Kingsland School Board. The meeting was held after this edition of the Tribune went to press, so details from the presentation Monday night will be in next week's edition.
Kingsland is forming partnerships with several area businesses, including Mayo Clinic, which hosted a tour for PLTW and Kingsland staff Monday afternoon before the board meeting. Mayo Clinic is a partner in both the engineering and biomedical programs. April Horne, section head of Mayor Clinic Division of Engineering, was also expected to speak at Monday's presentation.
"We're excited about this," Superintendent John McDonald told the Vision 21 group Friday morning. "We worked very hard on this and we challenged the teachers. I can't say enough good things about our staff."
Students who enroll in PLTW courses benefit from an innovative curriculum that encourages creativity and critical thinking. They also benefit from the organization's strong university and industry relationships that allow students to begin working toward a college degree and gain valuable experience through internships and local business executives who serve as mentors.
Soon after McDonald arrived in 2010, he met with the staff and the consensus was to go forward on PLTW, which was created in 1986 in upstate New York to address the country's need for more rigorous education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). It has since expanded to all 50 states.
Although the staff was excited at the start, the teachers were in for a lot of work, noted McDonald. Teachers must complete a two-week training session during the summer in order to teach a PLTW course. These professional development courses involve 10- to 12-hour days with sessions going right through the weekend. Kingsland teachers have attended sessions at Milwaukee School of Engineering, University of Illinois-Chicago, University of Minnesota, Minnesota State University in Mankato and St. Could State University.
The program at Kingsland started after the district received a $65,000 grant, which was used to invest in training and startup equipment. The mid-level Gateway program was started for fourth to ninth grade students, who still take their regular math and science classes. McDonald told Vision 21 members that the PLTW programs supplement the regular curriculum rather than replace existing classes.
The engineering program was then implemented, followed by the biomedical program, with the number of choices for these electives that qualify for college credits growing each year.
The three-step certification process involves a self-assessment, site visit and final report that must meet the rigorous standards, which include professional development of teachers and counselors, implementation of curriculum and the formation of a partnership team. A certification group spent two days at Kingsland two weeks ago observing students and staff and interviewing various parties, including business partners and community residents.
"I look at it as an educational audit," said McDonald.
The primary purposes of the certification program are to recognize schools that have successfully demonstrated a commitment to the quality national standards of the PLTW programs and to provide an opportunity for students to apply for college credit at PLTW affiliate universities for selected PLTW courses. PLTW has more than 68 affiliate college and university partners that offer students credit for completing PLTW courses in high school, including the University of Minnesota along with several other state colleges and nationally known universities such as Duke, Iowa State, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Purdue and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
Minnesota has about 75 certifications for the state's districts, although few are in southeastern Minnesota, which has a couple at schools in Rochester and one in Byron. Two other area districts have started the process.
Only one other school district in Minnesota is certified in the biomedical program - Woodbury East. The lead teacher, who McDonald noted has said the training was so intense, she cried, now has her program up for a national award.
Kingsland's teacher working in the biomedical program, Brad Reiter, didn't cry, but he also found the training intense. His students are now working on projects that most people would never have imagined taking place in high school classrooms. For instance, when the certification team visited, the students had several wires attached to their arms leading to their netbooks for them to take readings of their vital functions, such as an electrocardiogram (ECG).
"This is transformational education," exclaimed Horne, according to McDonald.
Younger students in Wykoff are doing projects such as building rockets and learning about space flight.
At the high school, after two-and-a-half years since the PLTW program has been in existence, the district now offers 64 classes for college credit. Although there is a cost for these classes, McDonald explains that the district was losing substantial money from students leaving the district to attend post secondary enrollment options (PSEO) at outside institutions. The net gain is positive for the district, and not just in finances as students remain involved in student life at the local school.
The district has even provided some in-house perks for students pursuing college level courses. A conference room has been converted to a student union with couches and other comfortable furniture that has functional attachments for study. Students are allowed to use the room during the school day for a certain number of hours depending on how many college level courses they are taking.
Though the room has a casual look, when McDonald has popped in, the students are always busy with their studies. They assured him it wasn't a show for his benefit.
These students may get the luxury of time off to spend in the student union, but they also know "they're expected to do more," said McDonald. To get college credit, they must pass the final test, something only just more than 50 percent of students nationally do.
"It's tough," McDonald said.
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Surprise! The right-wing media are not experts on oil skimming
When reports [1] first surfaced of a Taiwanese vessel named "A Whale" that could purportedly "process 21 million gallons of oily water a day," right-wing media hyped the vessel's capabilities and attacked the Obama administration for not immediately dispatching the vessel to the Gulf. It's a good thing the administration didn't listen to them.
For example [transcripts via Nexis]:
- Tucker Carlson said of the A Whale: "It could be down in the Gulf coast; its not. What's the hold up? That's another, it seems to me, indication that this administration is not as serious or is letting other considerations get in the way of the task at hand, which is cleanup." [Fox News' Hannity, June 28]
- Stuart Varney stated: "Now, is this storm all the more reason for President Obama to rethink the Jones Act? The world's largest skimmer ship -- it's literally called a whale -- could collect up to a half-a-million barrels a oily water a day, but the skimmer will not be allowed to join the cleanup unless the White House waives the 1920 law." [Fox News' Your World, June 28]
- And Glenn Beck said that "[i]n 71 days, we have cleaned up 600,000 barrels of oil. That ship -- wow, look at that ship! That can -- that can clean up 500,000 barrels per day. Oh, by the way, it's still in dock. Yes, that's in Virginia, sitting there, right now." [Fox News' Glenn Beck, June 30]
Instead, the Coast Guard and the administration proceeded with cautious optimism regarding A Whale, saying that testing would be needed to learn whether the skimmer could perform as advertised. Indeed, during a July 1 press conference, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said [2] that "[w]e're anxious to find out how effective it will be. But it is a very large ship that's been converted to be able to recover oil, and we'll see how it goes."
As it turns out, those tests were probably a good idea. The Christian Science Monitor reported [3] on July 17:
The Coast Guard said "thanks, but no thanks" to the superskimmer "A Whale" Friday, as the 1,100 foot-long converted iron ore freighter failed to make a sizeable dent in the Gulf oil spill during a 24-hour testing period.
Brought to the Gulf by Taiwanese shipping magnate Nobu Su to help sop up the vast blanket of oil [4] covering parts of the Gulf, the massive A Whale held a tantalizing promise for Americans frustrated by the slow pace of the spill clean-up. Under ideal conditions, the ship's owners said, the A Whale could gather more oil in a day than all the other skimmers on the Gulf combined.
In reality, the A Whale gathered a "negligible" amount of oil over a 24-hour period while nearly 600 smaller skimmers sucked up 25,551 barrels of oily water and recovered 12,800 barrels near the source of the spill.
"While its stature is impressive, 'A Whale' is not ideally suited to the needs of this response," Coast Guard Admiral Paul Zukunft told the Wall Street Journal [5].
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 from 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM (EDT)
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Come meet the entrepreneurs behind some of today's hottest tech start ups at "Start-Up Nation," the final event for Israel Peace Week at RU-Newark 2013 on Wednesday, April 10 at 12:30PM at Rutgers Business School, 1 Washington Park, Newark.
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This past weekend, I went to Slutwalk NYC. I could talk about what an incredible, inspiring experience it was. I could talk about how I did feel conflicted about what I saw as certain gaps between theory and practice of the movement. I could write a lot of things about the experience. But there has already been a lot written about Slutwalk – on this blog and many, many others.
So, instead of writing about Slutwalk, I want to show you. I want to share the pictures I took there, so if you didn't get a chance to attend a Slutwalk, you might be able to get an idea of what it was like.
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