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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Highway and utility crews worked overtime Sunday to recover from the huge storm that buried Ohio and other parts of the Midwest in snow and tore down power lines elsewhere.
More than 20 inches of snow fell from Friday through Saturday at Columbus, eclipsing the city's previous record of 15.3 inches set in February 1910, the National Weather Service said. Elsewhere on Saturday, 14 inches fell at Milan, Ind.; and up to a foot fell at Louisville, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and parts of Tennessee. Arkansas collected a foot of snow Friday.
Many churches in the Columbus area canceled Sunday services because roads were still slippery.
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, which shut down Saturday, reopened Sunday but flight delays and cancelations were expected as airlines tried to get their schedules back on track, spokesman Todd Payne said.
Delays also were expected at Port Columbus International Airport, where 90% of flights were canceled Saturday.
"We will get through this," Gov. Ted Strickland said Saturday. "The snow will stop, the wind will cease, and the sun will shine. But until that happens we need to be smart, take care of ourselves and attempt to be helpful to others."
Ohio had one traffic death linked to the weather, and four men died while shoveling snow. Two traffic deaths were blamed on the storm in western New York state and one in Tennessee. Two people were killed Friday as tornadoes spun out of the eastern edge of the weather system in Florida.
The storm also made roads slippery and snow-covered in western New York and caused flooding that closed roads in other parts of the state. On Sunday, high wind and falling temperatures created brisk wind chills in much of the state.
Utility companies in southeastern Pennsylvania said Sunday they had restored power to most of the 80,000 customers who were blacked out Saturday by power lines snapped by wind and falling tree limbs.
More than 100,000 New Jersey homes and businesses lost power at the height of thunderstorms that boiled up along the eastern part of the weather system, and some commuter train routes into New York City were blocked by fallen trees, authorities said. Wind gusted to 65 mph in New Jersey, the weather service said.
In Maryland, the storm system's wind blew a ship away from its pier Saturday in Baltimore. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Ayla Stevens said no one was injured when the car-carrier's mooring lines broke and the ship was pushed out into the city's harbor.
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Industry sources have suggested the company could lose senior members of the team responsible for its turnaround over the last seven years, either through poaching or disappointment at having missed out on the top job to
The team was immensely loyal to Mr McInnes, instanced by the fact nothing leaked last week while he was negotiating his exit and payout.
While several executives and managers have left Woolworths over recent years to join rivals, the David Jones top team has remained largely intact. This is partly due to their loyalty to Mr McInnes, but also to lucrative performance-based remuneration packages and a retention scheme introduced in 2006, when Myer's new private equity owners were seeking experienced retailers.
Mr Savage said employees had to stay with David Jones until 2013 to receive shares worth millions of dollars issued under the retention plan.
He said all members of the senior executive and general management team – not just the chief executive and finance director – were subject to non-compete agreements preventing them from being employed by specific competitors. Mr Savage and Mr Zahra spoke to senior managers last week and were confident they were comfortable with the new management structure.
"All these people have worked together as a team for years," Mr Savage said. "We have no indication that any one of them has any plans other than to stay with the business and get on with the job."
He and Mr Zahra, formerly general manager of stores and operations, will meet shareholders, staff and suppliers this week. Mr Savage said there would be no change to the strategy that has delivered shareholders total returns of 311 per cent over the last seven years.
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student union Chairman: Bennett should put his money where his mouth is.
The university and its student union issued a joint statement to "utterly condemn the appalling photos."
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Blackburn Centurions ASC were represented at the recent British Championships Swimming competition in Glasgow by a number of current and past members.
The current member who represented the club was Anna Hopkin who trains in the Sprint group for 4.5 hours per week qualified for the 50m butterfly race.
In the heat she swam a personal best time of 27.99 seconds which put her in 15th place in the semi finals.
In this race she finished with a slightly slower time but included her position in the rankings to 14th.
This was a great performance. The swimmer finishing fourth was less than one second faster than Hopkin.
Life members Josh Walsh came fifth in the men's 200m Freestyle with a time of 1:49.37. He also entered the 100m Freestyle and finished with a time of 51.46 seconds.
Two other swimmers and former members of the club also swam at the championships, these being Rebecca Swales and Robert Hamer, who both now swim at Preston.
On the same weekend the Centurions had a group of swimmers at the Wirral Metro development meet Jodie Beck achieved her first regional qualifying time in the 100m backstroke with a personal best time of 1:14.98, more than two seconds inside the qualifying time.
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Oh, that bright orange library carpeting! Some of the librarians and many of the students and faculty have moved on to other schools and other places, and the library staff has moved across the way at the Dunwoody Campus to the beautiful new LRC. Today the second floor of Building B at Dunwoody no longer houses the library collection, where students gathered and studied, while on special occasions the music of rock bands reverberated from the student center on the floor below. Students came early in the semester to do research and faculty came at the end of the semester to check to be sure students were not plagiarizing from that research. The library ceiling sometimes leaked; the air conditioning sometimes spewed forth dripping moisture from the receptacles on the roof; the sun came in through the windows making the peace lilies bloom in profusion with that unmistakable odor when in flower. But we will always remember that remarkable orange carpeting, indestructible as it was, and still is, up there on the second floor of Building B.
The towering bookcases could not crush it as students carried on secret discussions in the stacks, and the library staff could not destroy it as they pulled portable display stands of board over it and arranged exhibits and books on top of it, and when the roof leaked, furniture might get worn or discolored but that orange carpeting emerged unscathed. Occasionally we took scissors to cut out a snag or string from the carpet to prevent people catching their shoes in it. But the carpet never unraveled entirely despite the book carts, shoes, and equipment that went over it.
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Chip-based DNA quantification systems are widespread, and used in many point-of-care applications. However, instruments for such applications may not be maintained or calibrated regularly. Since machine reliability is a key issue for normal operation, this study presents a system model of the real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine to analyze the instrument design through numerical experiments. Based on model analysis, a systematic approach was developed to lower the variation of DNA quantification and achieve a robust design for a real-time PCR-on-a-chip system. Accelerated lift testing was adopted to evaluate the reliability of the chip prototype. According to the life test plan, this proposed real-time PCR-on-a-chip system was simulated to work continuously for over three years with similar reproducibility in DNA quantification. This not only shows the robustness of the lab-on-a-chip system, but also verifies the effectiveness of our systematic method for achieving a robust design.
Micro-Electronic Mechanical System (MEMS) technologies are being developed in the semiconductor industry, and the characteristic dimensions of the small structures used are on the order of μm. The Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology Bio Lab reported a real-time PCR-on-a-chip system in 2006 [
Real-time PCR-on-a-chip systems for DNA quantification are expected to be a common home health-care tool in the future. In point-of-care testing, however, this type of instrument may not be maintained or calibrated regularly. Since machine reliability is the key issue for normal operation, this study develops a systematic approach to improving the reliability of the lab-on-a-chip system.
The robust design method was first introduced by Dr. Genichi Taguchi [
In developing a real-time PCR-on-a-chip system, the following mathematical tools for robust design were adopted.
The system identification model [ Coefficient of variation (CV): The effectiveness of the model was verified using experimental data obtained from commercial real-time PCR machines. This study uses inter-assay CV instead of the quadratic loss function to quantify the performance deviation. The coefficient of variation, CV, with the percentage unit is usually employed as an index for DNA quantification. It is defined as:
Parameter diagram (P-diagram): The P-diagram was developed to classify all variables and determine the influential factors based on the numerical model. S/N ratio calculation for the smaller the better CV: Taguchi's S/N ratio for the smaller the better CV was implemented to quantify the influences of design factors and analyze the chip design to achieve high reliability. The goal of DNS quantification is to make the CV as low as possible. The S/N ratio can be calculated by:
Orthogonal arrays: The orthogonal arrays suggested by Taguchi's method provide a set of minimum experiments for determining the influential factor for the real-time PCR on-a-chip design.
The system identification model [
Coefficient of variation (CV): The effectiveness of the model was verified using experimental data obtained from commercial real-time PCR machines. This study uses inter-assay CV instead of the quadratic loss function to quantify the performance deviation. The coefficient of variation, CV, with the percentage unit is usually employed as an index for DNA quantification. It is defined as:
Parameter diagram (P-diagram): The P-diagram was developed to classify all variables and determine the influential factors based on the numerical model.
S/N ratio calculation for the smaller the better CV: Taguchi's S/N ratio for the smaller the better CV was implemented to quantify the influences of design factors and analyze the chip design to achieve high reliability. The goal of DNS quantification is to make the CV as low as possible. The S/N ratio can be calculated by:
Orthogonal arrays: The orthogonal arrays suggested by Taguchi's method provide a set of minimum experiments for determining the influential factor for the real-time PCR on-a-chip design.
The systematic approach for the robust design of the real-time PCR on-a-chip consists of four steps:
We can define two matrices as:
We solve
The weighting coefficients,
We calculate the error minimization again with the weighted error function,
Through minimizing the errors between model prediction and experimental data, the system model can provide accurate results to simulate the real-time PCR machine.
The real-time PCR-on-a-chip system consists of a reactor chip, miniature thermal cycler, and the fluorescence detection system. The reactor chip has a disposable design. Two chip geometries are used in this study.
The core of the thermal cycler can be selected either as a micro heater chip or a thermoelectric cooler (TEC). The advantage of the micro heater chip is a high thermal cycling speed. TEC employs the Peltier effect, acting as a solid-state heat pump or cooling device for PCR thermal cycling control. The temperature uniformity on the TEC surface can reach to 0.01 °C; however, the heating and cooling rates are both limited within 2 °C/sec. Either a micro heater chip or a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) were considered as the thermal cycling control core for the real-time PCR-on-a-chip system. The micro heater chip used thin-film platinum resistors as the heater. The advantage is the high thermal cycling speed. The high heating and cooling rates of the system reach 20 and 10 °C/sec, respectively. TEC employs the Peltier effect, acting as a solid-state heat pump or cooling device for PCR thermal cycling control. The main benefit of using TEC to heat as well as cool is to enhance the temperature uniformity. The TEC consists of PN junctions, and ceramic plates provide a big thermal mass. The temperature uniformity on the ceramic surface can reach 0.01°C. However, due to the big thermal mass, the heating and cooling rates are both slow and only 1.5 °C/sec can be achieved.
Four detectors, including the photodiode; photomultiplier tube (PMT), array or line-charge coupled device (CCD), and cooled CCD, are considered for constructing the fluorescence detection system. LED was widely employed in commercial real-time PCR machines. The light intensity has a 5% variation. White light lamp is also considered as the light source due to its ability to provide multi-wavelength excitation. Compared with LED, the light intensity of the lamp can be controlled within a 3% variation.
The photodiode detector type has its sensitivity counted by the output current signal per incident light intensity, Amp/Watt. The photodiode used in this study has a 0.2 Amp/Watt sensitivity. The signal to noise (S/N) ratio for fluorescence detection is 32 dB. The dark noise, the mean-square fluctuations to the fluorescence readings, can be counted by electron voltage, eV. The photodiode used in this study has the dark noise of 65 eV.
The PMT consists of a vacuum tube. The sensitivity can be high to quantum yield level. The PMT used in this study has a quantum efficiency of up to 30%. The S/N for fluorescence detection is 60 dB, and the dark noise can be as low as 1–3 eV. A photograph of PMT used for this study is shown in
Line CCD and array CCD are both considered as the detector. This study obtained the chip for the medical applications, and 10−4 lux light intensity can be sensed. The S/N for fluorescence detection is 50 dB. The dark noise is 25 eV.
This study also integrated the array CCD with the signal processing circuits and the cooling devices as a CCD camera for fluorescence detection. The cooling devices can keep the CCD chip at a low temperature, down to −15 °C. The S/N can be raised 3 dB to 53 dB, and the dark noise can be reduced to 3∼5 eV.
In addition to the fluorescence detector, two excitation light sources, LED or white light lamp, were considered for an on-chip system. LED is widely employed for commercial real-time PCR machines. The light intensity has 5% variation. In this study, we used a 470 nm wavelength for fluorescence excitation. A white light lamp was also considered as the light source due to its ability to provide multi-wavelength excitation, and we can change the excitation light wavelength by sliding filters [
In summary, the variable geometric reactor chip, the miniature thermal cycler with the selectable temperature control core (micro heater chip or TEC), and the fluorescence detection system with detector selections, include a photodiode, PMT, CCD, or cooled CCD. The different excitation light source selections include LED or a white light lamp, which makes up a flexible real-time PCR on-a-chip system. Robust design involves determining the essential factors and selecting suitable design specifications. The real-time PCR-on-a-chip constructed in this study provided flexibility in selecting different system arrangements to meet the requirements of robust design.
This study employed two instruments: the proposed real-time PCR-on-a-chip prototype constructed by us and another commercial product (LightCycler, Roche, USA). These instruments were tested for quantitative measurements on the concentration of HBV SC 11, DNA fragments. The initial number of copies of the test samples ranged from 104 to 108 copies/mL. Serial dilutions of the plasmid ranging from 103 to 109 copies/mL were used to generate the standard curve. LightCycler-Fast Start DNA master with Cat No. 3003230 and SYBR Green I labeling dye were employed as the PCR mixture in all of the runs. The PCR reaction was performed in a total volume of 10 μL, containing 2 μL of DNA template, 1 μL of LightCycler FastStart DNA Master Hybridization Mixture (Taq DNA polymerase, PCR reaction buffer, 10 mM MgCl2, and dNTP mixture, Roche Diagnostics Applied Science), 0.8 μL of 25 mM MgCl2, 0.3 μM each of the probes, and the 5 μM of each primer. The thermal cycling protocol was as follows: initial hot start denaturation at 95 °C for 10 min, which was followed by 55 cycles of denaturation at 95 °C for 5 sec, annealing at 53 °C for 10 sec, and extension at 72 °C for 20 sec.
Accelerated life testing uses stress loading to quantify the life characteristics of the system or component. The Arrhenis model [
Accelerated life testing uses an environmental test chamber to create a severe environment, hot and humid, to evaluate the life characteristics of a real-time PCR-on-a-chip system. The accelerated life testing chamber can achieve high temperatures from 40 to 200 °C, and the consistency is +/−0.2 °C. Relative humidity control ranges from 60% to 100%, and the consistency is +/−5%.
The authors have worked with the Roche machine for years. These experimental data were used to build the system model.
The system block diagram shows that the real-time PCR machine model is primarily divided into two parts: the exponential amplification of DNA fragments and the dynamic response of chemical reaction. The exponential growth is the feature of PCR; the transfer function,
The block diagram in
The coefficient of variation (CV) can be calculated by
Commercial real-time PCR machines show diversity in the designs of the thermal cycler, the fluorescence detection system, and the related mechanisms [
To begin design analysis, five influential factors were selected: the maximum heating/cooling rate, temperature control uniformity, fluorescence detector S/N ratio, mechanical design for fluorescence detection, and the stability of the excitation light source.
Correlating the above factors with the signal, control, and response factors, the P-diagram was developed as shown in
A chip prototype was constructed and tested based on this design analysis.
Plasmid HBV samples were used to perform DNA quantification on-a-chip, and these quantification results were then compared with those obtained from the commercial real-time PCR machine.
The life characteristics of the real-time PCR on the chip system were also investigated. Accelerated life testing was used to evaluate the prototype. Referring to
This study develops a system identification model to simulate the real-time PCR machine, and confirms its performance using experimental data. This model can be successfully used to predict CV values or determine the uncertain distribution of DNA in quantification experiments. Based on the proposed numerical model, the design factors of the machine were analyzed, and the P-diagram was developed to classify all variables and determine the influential factors to increase the reliability of real-time PCR on-a-chip. A chip prototype was then constructed based on the suggestions of the robustness strategy. Accelerated life testing was used to evaluate the life characteristics of the lab-on-a-chip system. The Arrhenis model was also used to determine suitable environment settings and calculate the accelerated factor. One hundred fifteen operation hours in a 50 °C and 85% relative humidity environment can be used to simulate three-year operation in a standard environment. Test results showed that the proposed real-time on-a-chip system achieves lower quantification uncertainty than a real-time PCR machine in a laboratory even after three years of operation. This result not only proves that it is a reliable instrument, but also verifies the effectiveness of the systematic approach to robust design. Instead of improving sensitivity or miniaturizing the device, the goal of this study is to enhance the robustness of the chip-based system. This systematic approach to robust design can be adapted to other biomedical micro-devices to increase the instrument reliability for speeding up commercialization.
The author would like to thank Mr. Lee, Professor of National Cheng Kung University, and his laboratory, MEMS design and Microfabrication Lab, for providing us with a micro heater chip for the experimental. The author appreciates Mr. Lee's assistance and his team's support.
A photograph of the four-well reactor chips with different geometry is shown in (a) and (b). The compact-geometric chip shown in (a) is good for temperature uniformity. As shown in (b), the large-well type is used for high-speed thermal cycling. The schematic drawings of the two types are shown in (c) and (d). Unit: mm
The photograph of the micro heater chip is shown in (a). The fast thermal cycling speed can be achieved. The TEC is shown in (b). The TEC has the large thermal mass and is good for uniform temperature distribution.
Four detectors were considered in this study for constructing the fluorescence detection system of the real-time PCR on chip. (a) Photodiode component. (b) Assembled PMT module with high-voltage power supply. (c) Line and array CCD chip. (d) CCD camera with cooling devices for low noise detection.
Two excitation light sources were considered for the real-time PCR on-chip system: (a) shows the white light lamp with light-intensity control ability to 3% variation, and (b) shows the LED providing a simple excitation light source with high intensity variation to 5%.
The system identification model developed to simulate the real-time PCR machine and the noise factors are indicated as the DNA amplification efficiency (η) variation, the chemical reaction instability caused different damping coefficient (ξ) and the fluorescence detection noise. With this model, numerical experiments can be conducted to evaluate the instrument design.
Simulation results of the real-time PCR machine: With respect to the samples of different initial copies number, the fluorescence intensity versus PCR cycle are simulated in (a). The fluorescence readings of each PCR cycle are randomly disturbed by the noise factors, including different amplification efficiency, chemical instability, and fluorescence detection noise level, and their effects are simulated in (b), (c) and (d). All three factors have an impact on the reproducibility of DNA quantification (extracted by quant.) by the variation of the threshold cycle (CT).
How to draw the coefficient of variation (CV) curves using the simulation results is illustrated in (a). The predicted CV of the ABI, Bio-Rad, Roche, and Rotor-Gene machines and their comparisons to the experimental data are shown in (b), (c), (d), (e).
P-diagram of the real-time PCR platform is shown in (a). The design factor analysis results are shown in (b). Based on Taguchi's method, the design specifications of a real-time PCR on chip were selected by identifying the S/N ratios for smaller CV is better, i.e. a lower coefficient of variation for higher reproducibility of DNA quantification.
The analyzed results indicate two design parameters are critical: ① no moving part design and ② temperature control uniformity. The design parameters are listed in (a). The real-time PCR on chip prototype is shown in (b). The compact reactor chip design for high temperature uniformity and the fluorescence detection system without moving parts are shown in (c) and (d).
The estimated CV curves of the real-time PCR machine and the on-chip system are shown in (a). The experimental CV curve of the on-chip system is compared with the real-time PCR machine from Roche shown in (b). Even after 3-year operation, the DNA quantification reproducibility of the real-time PCR on chip system still can be compared with that of a commercial real-time PCR machine.
The specifications of commercial real-time PCR machines diverse in thermal cycler, fluorescence detection system, and mechanical design. The most influential factors on the noises of DNA quantification are analyzed- and pointed out below.
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|Air cycling
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|Carousel sample holder
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Real-time PCR machine design factors list.
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|Fluorescence detector noises
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|The induced noise levels
|Amplification efficiency variation
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|Damping coefficient change
|Noise level
|Noise level
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|50 dB detector
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|−2% Lamp
|∼ 0.96 ± 0.3
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History remembers the strangest things: Ronald Reagan's jellybean fetish, Nixon's penchant for tape recorders, Johnson's inexplicable urge to pick his dogs up by their ears. And although you may not feel like it right now, you're in an enviable position: Over the next week or so you have the opportunity to shape not only the way history will remember you, but the way the future will treat you as well.
Next Friday, when the official recount has come in and all the absentee ballots have returned from overseas, you'll know whether Floridians chose you or your opponent on November 7. And if you've come up short in the tally, you should gracefully step aside and let Bush take up the presidency.
It sounds outrageous, I know, especially when there are so many questions remaining: What about those Buchanan votes? Those discarded ballots? The sheer unfairness of it all? The easy road in a situation like this is paved with temper tantrums and legal maneuvering.
So take the hard road. Be the bigger man. Get out of the way of the Bush steamroller and let Americans see that you are, in fact, a guy who's capable of behaving like a president. We'll remember that in four years, I can promise you that.
The legal challenges your team keeps threatening represent a singularly bad political logic. I know you're not challenging the voters, but in a way, that's what it sounds like. To many it seems that you're not happy with the outcome of the election, and so you're challenging the results. And while you may have grounds for some well-placed anger, you've also got the opportunity to do something truly historic: Walk away.
It will show people that you put the welfare of the nation before your own ambition. It will show that you have an uncommon devotion to the common good. It will show that you can rise above the messiness and unruliness and see what's best for the country, not the Gore family. It will show people that you are that rare thing, a statesman.
It's not impossible. Dick Nixon did it back in 1960, even when he was fairly certain there had been a little hanky-panky back in the ballot boxes of Texas and Illinois. He did grudgingly and reluctantly, but he did it. And then he ran successfully just eight years later. Assuming that Bush survives his first term and performs in an unspectacular fashion, you could conceivably be ensconced in the Oval Office by January 2005.
Spend the interim four years getting to know all of us a bit better, and, more importantly, letting us get to know you. We've heard about your decidedly un-robotic behind-the-scenes persona, and now that the pressure's off, maybe we could witness your purported grooviness firsthand.
Take up golf. (Well, scratch that.) Get some empathy tips from Clinton. Mow the lawn. Help Albert III with his college applications.
It's a gift, really, all this time. You're young, and you're smart. You've got the rest of your political life spreading out before you like a giant, blue-coded electoral map. It'll be tough at first, of course, those initial weeks after the decision. You'll probably feel an inexplicable urge to shake strangers' hands, drink bad coffee, sleep for three hours a night. And you might need to wear ties for a few weeks you'll feel naked without one. Just take it one day at a time. Coming off a campaign is kind of like detox, hopefully without the tremors.
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Changed "Revelations" to "Revelation", sans s. Cause, that's how it is in the bible, plus the Right Reverend James has a single revelation listed.
needs a better picture --Willy on wheels! 23:39, 24 Nov 2005 (UTC)
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Made a ton of changes, mostly formatting, but also lots of fixing links and jive-talk. Also created a new photo. Hopefully this will be featured!--Myronic 06:36, 1 Dec 2005 (UTC)
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ROTFLMAO. This is fuckin' funny. --Teddywithfangs 19:46, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
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- Comment - I didn't create this article, but it sure as heck took me a long time trying to perfect it. Also, it's not the ranom ramblings of a black guy. I'll have you know that I am a WFCC (White French-Canadian Catholic) and proud of it. In fact, the dialect stuff was just the original article, along with some ordinary Bible passages, processed into a Javalet called the Dialectizer; i.e., it was painstakingly translated into Jive. Just wanted to let you know. That's all for now. WORD! Sir Master Pain (also known as Betty) 19:03, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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- I don't think you are black. It sounds like some random black guy was rambling...I don't care how it was produced, who made it, what colour they are, what javalet spewed it forth or whatever. I just didn't like it because to me it didn't sound like Rick James.Sorry...it's the way I feel.-- Sir Severian (Sprich mit mir!) 19:15, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- I think it parodies Chappelle's skit too much, rather than parodying the lifestyle of Rick James. --Hotadmin4u69 [TALK] 19:32, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Well, would you like more about hookers and cocaine? This is the Bible; even though the language is different, most of the content is the same. It's as if you translated the Bible from Middle English to Modern English. I really like this article. And Dave Chappelle's a Muslim, so it's not like he's going to care about the "Rick James Version of the Bible". As for the Superfreak himself, may he rest in peace. WORD! Sir Master Pain (also known as Betty) 20:22, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Outside of his drug habits and his promiscuity, he was a great guy. Perhaps more references to his works, and not just negative connotations of him, would probably be funnier and more of a tribute to him (which is what you attempt to make it out to be). Hopefully you'll realize the hypocrisy of what you just said about him. --Hotadmin4u69 [TALK] 21:03, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- Uh-oh, electrified mocha chinchilla... hey, do you know what that means? BLAME CANADA! BLAME CANADA! Sir Master Pain (also known as Betty) 01:04, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry. I'm a very big South Park fan. Sir Master Pain (also known as Betty) 01:04, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
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US President George W. Bush on Thursday warned North Korea against supplying nuclear know-how to Syria, saying key six-party talks with Pyongyang could only succeed if it met all its pledges.
"We expect them to honor their commitment to give up weapons and weapons programs and to the extent that they are proliferating, we expect them to stop their proliferation," Bush told reporters.
He also warned against states sharing "information and/or materials" linked to nuclear weapons.
In a landmark six-nation deal brokered in February, the Communist regime in North Korea agreed to dismantle all its nuclear facilities and programs in exchange for diplomatic concessions, energy and other aid.
But the next round of talks on the deal due on Wednesday were suddenly postponed amid a flurry of reports that Pyongyang was secretly helping Damascus to develop nuclear weapons.
Bush refused to comment directly on the reports, saying only that for the six-party talks to succeed, "the concept of proliferation is equally important as getting rid of programs and weapons."
The talks group the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States.
Pyongyang has angrily denied helping Syria, insisting it was keeping an earlier pledge not to allow the transfer of nuclear materials.
And Syria has denounced what it called US "lies" that it was receiving nuclear material from North Korea.
Some US media reports have said an Israeli air strike in Syria earlier this month may have targeted a joint nuclear project.
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"Recently some US media including the New York Times have been spreading allegations that we are secretly helping Syria with its nuclear program. Such reports are groundless and misleading," the spokesman said in a statement published by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
There has been intense speculation over the Israeli air raid on Syria, which the Jewish state said had helped recover its "deterrent capability" against any attack, but Bush also refused Thursday to make any comment about it.
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OK, I got some gorgeous ermines today. They come from a guy who uses alum and an auto-tanner. I was told by Bruce Rittel, that alum washes out easily with soap and water. So, knowing the age of the skins (brand new), I dipped all of them into rehydration... and attempted to wash out all the alum. Lots of steps later...
I think I was successful, because after a time the skins began to smell kind of "meaty"? and looked like pickled hides with "raw" areas (especially in the facial area). They felt slippery (which I assume was the tanning oil washing off).
I neutralized the skins and popped them into a tanning bath, Lutan-F. Used proper ratio of Lutan-F to skin weight. pH was 4. Salt added. Water is cold.
They're going to turn out ok, correct? Should I do anything else to these little northern Canadian wonders, before the normal post-tanning steps?
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This does work on newly tanned Alum skins - but once older skins have begun to break down - the weakness is irreversible.
As far as what improvements could be made - keep the water lukewarm. It doesnt have to be cold, in fact, too cold will slow down the tanning process. Also - be sure to keep the tanning time less than 24 hours - otherwise everything appears OK.
Bruce, thank you so much, as usual.
The skins began to look very "tanned" (all of the "raw skin" areas turned white, and the skins began to smell sulfuric, which I take it is a sign of collagen breakdown / "becoming tanned"), and began to feel like well-tanned pelts feel - kind of harder to mash around in the bowl, so I waited another hour, and then took them out. In toto, they were in the tan approx. 7 hours after a rehydration and washing session of 1 hour.
They were extra-easy to do the fine fleshing that a couple of them needed, and retained an unbelievable amount of stretch.
Are my hands tanned? I put them on the stretchers, bare-handed, after they got the "final rinse". :)
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Australia's largest online bargain shopping site, DealsDirect.com.au, was blacklisted by Google and major internet browsers today after it was found to be hosting malware.
The site sells a broad range of goods including kitchen items, furniture, computers, electronics, jewellery, tools, fitness equipment, alcohol, manchester, musical instruments and toys.
People visiting the site using Firefox, Google Chrome and newer versions of Internet Explorer were warned that "visiting this site may harm your computer" because it "appears to host malware".
Visitors who tried accessing the site via Google's search engine were also prevented from entering by a malware warning.
The messages were still popping up at lunch time today but DealsDirect spokeswoman Elisha Booth said the malicious code had been removed.
She explained that the third-party software that serves ads on DealsDirect had been "compromised" and was found to be serving malware.
A Google Australia spokeswoman confirmed this, saying "the website or the server that it runs on probably has a security vulnerability, most likely from some out-of-date software".
"That vulnerability has been exploited and malicious code has been added to the site," she said.
"Google has automatic scanners that are constantly looking for these sorts of web pages, and they're highly accurate. The automatic scanners make unbiased decisions based on the malicious content of the pages."
Booth said any risk to users from visiting the site had been removed and DealsDirect was working with Google to remove the block on the site.
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An FDTD analysis of photonic crystal waveguides comprising third-order nonlinear materials
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A finite difference time domain (FDTD) study of two-dimensional photonic crystals containing nonlinear materials is presented in this paper. An appropriate Z-transform oriented formulation of the FDTD method for the simulation of third-order nonlinear Kerr- and Raman-type media is analyzed and applied to model nonlinear photonic crystal waveguide structures. For their reflectionless termination a novel perfectly matched layer (PML) is proposed and evaluated comparatively to other periodic and inhomogeneous absorbers. Furthermore, the absorbing efficiency of the proposed PML is investigated varying its parameters.
FDTD methods nonlinear optics perfectly matched layers photonic crystals
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Lynn Huston 9/26/10
I would also like to know Lynn!! What do you know about your husband's Chandler Schoonover and his lineage? The Chandler & family I am searching for was one of the sons of Christopher Crumb Schoonover, a veteran of the Revolutionary War. In the pension records of Christopher in the National Archives is an affidavit of his son, Isaac D. Schoonover of 1850, who was applying for a land grant through his father's war service. Isaac mentions three sons of Christopher, still alive, or possibly alive. Benjamin, who he says is "somewhere in western Texas" (my gr-gr grandfather) and Chandler who, when last heard from some years earlier, was living in southern Indiana. The third son, of course, is Isaac Decker Schoonover. I cannot find Chandler in the Census, so I have long assumed that he may have died before 1850. Anyway, if you have anything at all on this lineage would very much appreciate your sharing same. I have a great deal of information on my Schoonovers which I would love to share with you if this is your ancestry and lineage.
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The legal minimum wage in Jordan [2] is measured by the monthly pay. It is measured worldwide by the pay per work hour.
This difference has, of course, a meaning. It indicates the lower value of time, in our minds, and its relation to production.
To facilitate the comparison between a pay per month in Jordan and a pay per hour elsewhere, it is necessary to convert the minimum monthly pay in Jordan, amounting to JD150 [3], into a pay in dollars per hour; it was found to be around JD1 per hour, or the equivalent of $1.4.
This modest amount of money has to be compared to $7.5 in the US and Canada, $10 in Britain, $13 in France, and $14.9 in Australia. [4]
It is obvious that the minimum wage per hour in Jordan is very relatively very low. It does not exceed one fifth of the minimum wage in America and one tenth of the minimum wage in Australia.
One may rightly take exception vis-à-vis this rough comparison from two valid points of view.
The first is that the per capita income and the standard of living in America and Europe are much higher than the per capita income and the average standard of living in Jordan.
The second is that the productivity of the American or German labourer is much higher than the productivity of the Jordanian labourer, so much so that some Jordanian employers claim that wages in Jordan are actually higher than the prevailing rate abroad if we take productivity into account.
Based on this fact, raising the minimum wage should be accompanied by improving productivity to justify the move.
These days, there is demand for raising the minimum monthly wage to JD200. Even if this were granted, the Jordanian labourer's family will be living below the poverty line unless it has another source of income, usually a working wife and/or sons and daughters, to supplement the family income.
Some economists claim that raising the minimum wage may hurt the working class [5], which are meant to be helped by the action, because it will reduce demand on labourers and increase unemployment.
They also say that enforcing a minimum wage is in itself harmful to the weakest groups of job seekers, such as women, old people and those with disabilities.
If the employer has to pay the same wage, why should he or she not give priority to young and strong men?
It is also claimed that higher minimum wages will encourage replacing guest workers with local labourers. [6] The assumption is that guest workers, Egyptians or Syrians, accept lower pay than the minimum.
The fact, however, is the opposite. Guest workers are already drawing wages higher than the legal minimum, sometimes higher than double that much, because supply and demand in the market made that possible.
Employers prefer guest workers not because they accept lower pay, but due to personal and behavioural factors, such as obedience and working more hours per day.
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State Funds for Drug Abuse Rehab
More state funds could be coming for drug abuse rehab in Ohio.
State Senator Bob Peterson says more funds have been added, and stated that many times mental health is directly related to drug problems and jail overcrowding issues. In some cases it's a mental health issue, more than a violence or law problem, according to Peterson.
State Representative Gary Scherer says some of that state help, is working with private groups. Scherer says that the bills focus on private partnerships. Scherer has met with local faith-based groups and churches that have expressed interest in drug abuse counseling.


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Terri Seymour, long time girlfriend of Simon Cowell has recently has been dishing to friends that the couple has decided to go their separate ways.
Apparently, Simon wasn't ready to become a Dad. Terri had her mind set on motherhood. This age old issue has broken up many a Hollywood couple – Simon and Terri are just the latest couple to be split apart by the baby topic.
According to Terry they are going to remain friends. Despite the breakup, he bought her a house! Seems that did end things on good terms – and with a parting gift nonetheless.
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THE GOOD (notice UPPER case)
- The course designer who strategically placed those boulders so CD could see the Final 9.
- And overall KCFDC and to those that worked "behind the scenes, "We Salute You".
THE "Not So" Bad (notice lower case)
- The grass was higher than normal but it's understood due to the rains
- No leaderboard used in Final 9 so I was constantly bantored with the live score requests, "Who's in the lead dude?" "How's Eagle doing Sir?" "Where's McBeast at Steeler?"
Is WW League still on?
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Beheading remark stirs controversy
POLITICS FIX. The war of words over Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president Mohammed Bin Hammam's seat on the FIFA executive committee reached a new level when the Korea Football Association threatened to file a complaint about Bin Hammam with FIFA after he said he was ready to cut off the head of Cho Jung-Yeon, the KFA president.
The KFA is leading a campaign to back Bahrain's Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa in his bid to unseat Bin Hammam on FIFA's executive committee.
"We strongly criticize Bin Hammam's groundless remarks insulting us and other AFC members," KFA spokesman You Young Cheul told AFP. "The KFA wants an explanation and apology from Bin Hammam over his remarks, which are improper as AFC head."
Bin Hammam said his remark was a "harmless and widely used Arabic metaphor" meaning an attempt to thwart someone's progress. He says he'll quit as AFC president if he loses his FIFA executive committee seat. Separately, he has proposed an AFC amendment that make the AFC president the Asian vice president on the FIFA executive committee -- a seat currently held by South Korean Chung Mong Joon.
Seb to the rescue?
ENGLAND. Most sports fans know Englishman Sebastian Coe as a former double Olympic track champion. He's also a political heavyweight, having spearheaded London's successful campaign to host the 2012 Olympic Games. Last week, he gave up his post as the head of FIFA's ethics committee to held England's 2018/2022 World Cup bid.
Coe's move is considered a major boost for the England bid. England is considered a favorite to win the 2018 race, but concerns have been raised about the ability of Premier League and Football Association officials to put aside their differences. England's bid for the 2006 World Cup failed badly, and it's worked to improve its international relations in recent years.
"It is ours for the winning," one senior figure told the Daily Telegraph earlier this winter, "but I worry that the politics of the FA could get in the way. It will be a huge disappointment if we don't get this thing done, but there's a chance we'll mess it up."
What They're Saying
"In the words of Barack Obama, yes we can."
-- Belgian Alain Courtois, director of the Belgium/Netherlands bid, on coming up with the $1.6 billion needed to raised for the work on stadiums for the 2018/2022 World Cup. (Reuters)
Chicago's choices include Rose Bowl
[2016 U.S. OLYMPIC VENUES] Chicago, one of four cities bidding for the 2016 Olympic Games, has named six venues for the soccer preliminary round:
Los Angeles-Rose Bowl (capacity: 93,986)
Washington-FedEx Field (capacity: 91,704)
New York-Meadowlands Stadium (capacity: 82,500)
Philadelphia-Lincoln Financial Field (capacity: 68,532)
St. Louis-Edward Jones Dome (capacity: 66,000)
Minneapolis-TCF Bank Stadium (capacity: 50,300)
Washington-FedEx Field (capacity: 91,704)
New York-Meadowlands Stadium (capacity: 82,500)
Philadelphia-Lincoln Financial Field (capacity: 68,532)
St. Louis-Edward Jones Dome (capacity: 66,000)
Minneapolis-TCF Bank Stadium (capacity: 50,300)
Medal-round matches will be played at Soldier Field in Chicago, part of the proposed Olympic Waterfront, but matches earlier in the women's and men's tournaments would be played outside of Chicago.
(Tokyo is given a slight edge over Madrid with Chicago and Rio de Janeiro also in the race, which will be decided at an IOC meeting on Oct. 2.)
New JFA boss changes new stance
JAPAN. There appears to be some confusion about just how seriously Japan is taking its 2018/2022 World Cup bid.
Junji Ogura, Japan's representative on the FIFA executive committee, previously said that Japan's bid was conditional on Tokyo being named host of the 2016 Summer Olympics. (Japan doesn't have a stadium that meets FIFA's requirement of an 80,000-seat stadium for the opening game and final; Tokyo plans on building a 100,000-seat stadium if it gets the Olympics.)
Motoaki Inukai, who was named Japan Football Association president last fall, insisted Monday that his organization might consider a World Cup bid if Tokyo doesn't win the support of IOC members at the October meeting to pick the 2016 Olympic host.
"Even if [Tokyo's bid] fails it does not mean we will automatically pull out," Inukai said on Monday. "We will examine the possibility of hosting the World Cup independently."


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Snow hits Basingstoke
22 December 2009
"I saw roads being gritted from first thing Monday morning, but the weight of snow meant that no amount of gritting alone could keep the roads clear.
"Cold weather has left pavements and residential roads icy and dangerous since last Thursday night. Yet in some areas of the town grit bins have been found to be either empty or have not been refilled.
"The lack of grit is a problem some areas experienced when snow hit last February. The system is clearly not working is some areas of the town and needs to change."
MP calls for action on polluted river Loddon
17 December 2009
Maria said, "This bill will make our local councils responsible for guarding against flooding and ensuring that houses are not built in areas liable to flood. The bill goes further in environmental terms too, putting an obligation on local authorities to ensure the natural environment is not adversely affected as a result of house building. The government will issue guidance on this aspect of the bill and I have urged the minister to act on the governments own consultation. This indicated the need to better link planning and water quality management.
"Local residents are increasingly concerned about levels of pollution in the river Loddon which the Borough Council's own report shows will not improve as a result of the excessive house building target imposed on Basingstoke by central government.
"This bill means local councils like Basingstoke will be able to properly defend our local environment and reject the excessive house building demands currently in place."
Basingstoke's residents left with £23,000 of debt
14 December 2009
The Government's proposals include:
- · National Insurance hikes on workers meaning a smaller pay packet for anyone earning £20,000 or more.
- · National Insurance hikes on local firms, making it more expensive to employ staff.
- · Higher income tax, pushing more middle income earners into the 40 per cent higher rate.
- · Higher stamp duty, meaning the average first time buyer will now pay £1,475 in stamp duty.
- · A new telephone tax on anyone with a phone or fax line.
- · Forcing councils to make more cuts to rubbish collections and pushing up council tax.
This comes as the country's debt is forecast to reach £1,500,000,000,000 – equivalent to £23,000 for every man, woman and child in Basingstoke. The Government will spend £64 billion a year on debt interest. This is equivalent to the amount of money raised each year from fuel duty, inheritance tax, stamp duty and council tax combined. The debt will also push up interest rates over time, meaning more expensive mortgages and credit card bills.
Maria said: "Every family in Basingstoke will be paying for this Governments mistakes for years to come, our country faces the biggest overdraft in our peacetime history and the Government has already started to hike taxes on Basingstoke's residents to pay for it."
MP backs new bill on infrastructure
4 December 2009
Speaking before the Bill is presented in the House of Commons tomorrow Maria said, " This Bill would make it a legal requirement to ensure that new house building goes hand in hand with investment in local services including roads, medical services and schools. In the future I want house building to be determined by locally elected representatives not dictated by central government. It should be for the community to decide how our town and villages develop. This Bill will ensure that any future development would have to be coupled with a plan to expand services to meet the needs of new residents and that the funding required to do this is in place in advance of the first brick being laid."
Government has to be straight with us warns MP
3 December 2009
Maria warns that the Chancellor must make a statement about how the Government plans to tackle the UK's national debt once the recovery is secure, while seeking to protect the most vulnerable from financial hardship.
With very little money available for the Government to use to support the country at this difficult time, choices will have to be made. People in Basingstoke want their jobs to be secure and for the most vulnerable people in our community to get the support they need:
Maria said "Basingstoke residents want honesty from the Government and a realistic assessment of the tough economic challenges this country faces. Basingstoke has seen unemployment double in the past 12 months and more people are finding it difficult to get another job. The situation is particularly difficult for school leavers. We all want to see the Government act responsibly in these difficult times with policies that are affordable, not just vote winners. Instead of introducing yet more ad hoc measures, the Government must urgently set out a reliable long term package of measures to get our national debt back under control."
The Territorial Army deserve our support for their century of service
26 November 2009
On 15 October, the Government announced that weekly and monthly Territorial Army training would be cut by a massive £20 million – wiping out training for tens of thousands of Territorials. This £20 million was in addition to cuts of £23 million earlier in the current financial year. This represents a third of the Territorial Army's annual budget. However, following pressure the Government has dropped the plans.
Since 2002, some 20,000 reservists have seen active service in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Balkans, most of them from the TA. Fourteen Territorials have given their lives. Today 550 Territorials are serving on the front-line in Afghanistan. Dozens more serve in the Balkans and other places across the globe. In 1997 there were 57,000 members of the Territorial Army. Due to the funding cuts twelve years later the numbers have fallen to 35,000.
Maria said: "Through good times and bad, the Territorial Army has given this country a proud century of service. I welcome this announcement and it is only right that the Government abandon this damaging and ill-thought out plans to cut TA training. Common sense has prevailed.
"Sadly the embarrassing U-turn cannot undo the damage to morale and trust. The TA plays an important role in our community and nation, and we should always stand up in support of their invaluable work and service."
MP Confirms Sewer Problem Resolved
24 November 2009
Speaking after the debate Maria said, "Many Basingstoke residents particularly in the Popley area are connected to the public sewer system by a network of pipes that have never been adopted by the appropriate authority and are therefore deemed to be privately owned.
In the debate on Tuesday I was able to confirm with the Government that these pipes and 200 000km of other un-adopted sewer pipes in England will be transferred to local water and sewage companies by 2011. This will help to put an end to the misery experienced by too many Basingstoke residents when this network of sewage pipes flood into gardens and even houses as a result of a lack of proper maintenance.
I will be asking Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council for their help in monitoring how the handover of responsibility will be managed and exactly how the programme of much needed maintenance will be put in place by Thames water who will have responsibility for the network of un-adopted sewer pipes from 2011.
The problems caused by this network of un-adopted sewers, has led to so much heartache for so many residents. Finally it will be clear that Thames Water has responsibility for the maintenance of these pipes from 2011. This change is long overdue and a victory for common sense."
Maria backs plans to help protect local post offices, pubs, libraries and parks
Local MP supports Road Safety Week campaign
Maria Miller, MP for Basingstoke is joining forces with national road safety charity Brake to highlight its 'Not a drop, not a drag' campaign, being launched in Road Safety Week (23-29 November 2009).
Maria Miller MP says: "A newly identified and worrying threat from drugged drivers needs to be tackled and I fully support the 'Not a drop, not a drag' campaign and urge drivers, particularly as we approach the build up to Christmas to make a personal commitment: don't risk a drop of alcohol or a drag of a joint or any other illegal drug if you're getting behind the wheel. We all need to make sure we are taking every possible measure to protect the ones we love and prevent the devastation that changes lives forever."
One in six road deaths are caused by drivers with more than the legal alcohol limit in their blood and research suggests that similar numbers may involve drivers on illegal drugs.
Brake, the charity which coordinates the annual road safety event, is highlighting two major killers on our roads: drink and drug driving.
Maria Miller MP is supporting Brake's pleas for drivers not to drink a drop of alcohol, nor to take any illegal drug if they are getting behind the wheel. The charity is also calling on communities to inform the police of known drunk and drugged drivers to help save lives.
Ellen Booth, campaigns officer for Brake, the road safety charity, said: "We're pleased to have the backing of Maria Miller MP for our 'Not a Drop. We're challenging everyone to take responsibility for stopping drink and drug driving - and shop drink and drug drivers to police before they kill and maim. Let's clean up our road safety record and create safe roads that we can be proud of."
More tax rises could hit Basingstoke
20 November 2009
Council tax rebanding: The official local government manifesto, published recently at the Labour Party conference, calls for a council tax revaluation and higher council tax bands "to make it a more genuinely progressive tax". This comes as reports have revealed that the Party deputy leader, Harriet Harman, is already drawing up plans for council tax rebanding. The Government has changed the law to allow Ministers to impose higher council tax banding; this change was supported by the Liberal Democrats.
Council tax bills in Basingstoke have risen by 108% since 1997, taking the bill on a Band D home to £1,338. A Government review has sketched out how council tax rebanding could work, and suggested a new ten-band system. More homes would be sucked into the higher bands, and the amount that higher bands pay would also increase. This could mean that council tax bills in Basingstoke may reach as much as £7,132 under the new system.
Higher business rates: The manifesto calls for above-inflation rises in rates for local firms. Currently business rates are linked to inflation.
Bin taxes: The manifesto advocates a "move away from dealing with residual waste in the black bin".
Road pricing taxes: The manifesto signals a new tax assault on drivers, with the imposition of "road pricing" in urban areas, with no offsetting tax cuts elsewhere. It also signals the extension of workplace parking taxes, currently being trialled in Nottingham.
Maria said: "This shows that Basingstoke could face massive hikes in local taxes if this government clings on to the fourth term. This is a tax bombshell primed to explode after the general election. I fear that new council tax bands will be used to penalise Basingstoke families and pensioners who have saved and invested in their homes, with some bills hitting the £7,132 mark. I am opposed to these tax hikes which would hit Basingstoke residents hard."
MP meets Gurkha ex-servicemen in Westminster
12 November 2009
Gurkha's from Basingstoke came to Westminster to talk to Maria about the pension problems that are still to be resolved following the Government's U-turn on their right to settle in the UK in May.
Maria said after the meeting, "Basingstoke has become home to many Gurkha ex-service men and their families. As their Member of Parliament I will do all I can to help ensure they are treated with the honour and dignity that befits veterans of our armed forces who have served our country.
"I have every sympathy for the position Gurkha's find themselves regarding pensions. I will do all that I can to listen to the concerns of Gurkha residents and help ensure these concerns are heard. It is only fair that the plights of Gurkha's is considered along side claims from other veteran groups for retrospective improvements in their pension terms, which also have merit. The critical issue is that any changes would of course involve significant additional funding at a time when Government spending is under pressure.
I will be asking for a meeting with Ministers to hear what progress is being made on resolving this issue."


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In 1824 the great Knigsberg heliometer was commenced, and it was completed in 1829.
There are three methods in which this heliometer can be used.
He also invented a heliometer, afterwards perfected by Fraunhofer.
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