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THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Columbus! (Applause.) It is good to be back in the state of Ohio. (Applause.) Just a couple of people I want to make sure you know are here. First of all, my outstanding Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is in the house. (Applause.) Superintendant of Columbus City Schools, Dr. Gene T. Harris, is here. (Applause.) The principal of Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center, Milton Ruffin, is here. (Applause.) And the mayor of the great city of Columbus, Michael Coleman, is in the house. (Applause.)
It is a great honor to be here at Fort Hayes --- one of the best high schools in Ohio. (Applause.)
I want to thank Tom for that introduction. He just gave me a quick tour, and let me just say, these buildings look great. He did a good job. I wouldn't mind taking a few classes here. (Applause.) You've got computers in every classroom, got state-of-the-art graphic design and science labs, new media center, music rooms. And when you combine that with outstanding teachers -- (applause) -- and a challenging curriculum, you've got the foundation for what you need to learn and graduate, and compete in this 21st century economy. (Applause.)
So, Fort Hayes, I'm here to talk about exactly that -- about the economy. I came to talk about how we can get to a place where we're creating good, middle-class jobs again --- jobs that pay well; jobs that offer economic security. (Applause.) And the renovation of Fort Hayes is a great example of where those jobs can come from if we can finally get our act together in Washington. (Applause.) If we can get folks in that city to stop worrying so much about their jobs and start worrying about your jobs. (Applause.)
Now, yesterday, I sent Congress the American Jobs Act. This is it right here. It's pretty thick. This is a plan that does two things: It puts people back to work, and it puts more money in the pockets of working Americans. (Applause.) Everything in the American Jobs Act is the kind of proposal that in the past has been supported by both Republicans and Democrats. Everything in it will be paid for. And every one of you can make it happen by sending a message to Congress that says: Pass this bill. (Applause.)
Ohio, if you pass this bill, then right here in this state, tens of thousands of construction workers will have a job again. (Applause.) This is one of the most common-sense ideas out there. All over the country, there are roads and bridges and schools just like Fort Hayes in need of repair. Some of the buildings here at Fort Hayes were originally built during the Civil War. That's old. (Laughter.) And when buildings are that old, they start falling apart. They start leaking, and ceiling tiles start to cave in, and there's no heat in the winter or air-conditioning in the summer. Some of the schools the ventilation is so poor it can make students sick.
How do we expect our kids to do their very best in a situation like that? The answer is we can't. Every child deserves a great school, and we can give it to them, but we got to pass this bill. (Applause.)
Your outstanding Senator, Sherrod Brown, has been fighting to make this happen. (Applause.) And those of you here at Fort Hayes have been making it happen. See, a few years back, you decided to renovate this school. And you didn't just repair what was broken; you rebuilt this school for the 21st century --- with faster Internet and cutting-edge technology. And that hasn't just created a better, safer learning environment for the students; it also created good jobs for construction workers.
You just heard Tom say it's created over 250 jobs for masons and concrete workers and carpenters and plumbers and electricians --- and many of those jobs are filled by the good people of Columbus, Ohio. (Applause.)
But here's the thing. There are schools all throughout Ohio that need this kind of renovation. There's a bridge in Cincinnati that connects Ohio to Kentucky that needs this kind of renovation. (Applause.) There are construction projects like these all across the country just waiting to get started. And there are millions of unemployed construction workers who are looking for a job. So my question to Congress is: What on Earth are we waiting for? (Applause.)
I don't know about you, but I don't want any student to study in broken-down schools. I want our kids to study in great schools. I don't want the newest airports and the fastest railroads being built in China. I want them being built right here in the United States of America. (Applause.) There is work to be done. There are workers ready to do it. So let's tell Congress, pass this bill right away. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE: Pass this bill! Pass this bill! Pass this bill! Pass this bill!
THE PRESIDENT: Pass this jobs bill, and there will be funding to save the jobs of up to 14,000 Ohio teachers and cops and firefighters. (Applause.) Think about it. There are places like South Korea that are adding teachers to prepare their kids for the global economy, at the same time as we're laying off our teachers left and right; where we've got school districts that have eliminated all extracurriculars -- art, sports, you name it.
You've got situations where -- I just heard a story from Arne Duncan driving over here. I met this young man yesterday -- he's a music teacher in Philly, and his budget -- total budget is $100 for teaching music in a whole bunch of schools. So they're using buckets to do drums because they can't afford actual musical instruments.
You've seen it here in Ohio. Budget cuts are forcing superintendents here in Columbus and all over the state to make layoffs they don't want to make. It is unfair to our kids, it undermines our future, and it has to stop. Tell Congress to pass the American Jobs Act so we can put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong. (Applause.)
Tell them to pass this bill so we can help the people that create most of the new -- we can help the people who create most of the new jobs in this country. That's America's small business owners. It's all well and good that big corporations have seen their profits roaring back -- that's good. We want them to be able to hire people as well. But smaller companies haven't come back.
So this bill cuts taxes for small businesses that hire new employees. It cuts taxes for small businesses that raise salaries for current employees. It cuts small business payroll taxes in half. So let's tell Congress, instead of just talking about helping America's job creators, let's actually do something to help America's job creators. Let's pass this bill right away. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE: Pass this bill! Pass this bill! Pass this bill!
THE PRESIDENT: If Congress passes this jobs bill, companies will get new tax credits for hiring America's veterans. (Applause.) We ask these men and women to leave their careers, leave their families, risk their lives to make sure that we're protected. The last thing they should have to do is fight for a job when they come home. That's why Congress needs to pass this bill. It will help hundreds of thousands of veterans all across the country.
It will help hundreds of thousands of young people find summer jobs next year. (Applause.) It's also got a $4,000 tax credit for companies that hire anybody who's spent more than six months looking for a job. The American Jobs Act extends unemployment insurance, but it also says if you're collecting benefits, you'll get connected to temporary work as a way to build your skills and enhance your résumé while you're looking for a permanent job. (Applause.)
And, finally, if we get Congress to pass this bill, the typical working family will get $1,500 in tax cuts next year -- (applause) -- $1,500 that would have been taken out of your paycheck will go right back into your pocket. But if Congress doesn't act, if Congress refuses to pass this bill, then middle-class families will get hit with a tax increase at the worst possible time. Now, we can't let that happen.
AUDIENCE: No!
THE PRESIDENT: Some folks have been working pretty hard to keep tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. Tell them they need to fight just as hard -- they need to fight harder -- for middle-class families. Tell them to pass this jobs bill. (Applause.)
So the American Jobs Act will lead to new jobs for construction workers, jobs for teachers, jobs for veterans, jobs for young people, jobs the unemployed. It will provide tax relief for every worker and small business in America. And it will not add to the deficit. It will be paid for. (Applause.)
We will pay for this plan, we'll pay down our debt, and we'll do it by following the same principle that every family follows: We'll make sure that government lives within its means. We'll cut what we can't afford to pay for what we really need --- including some cuts we wouldn't make if we hadn't racked up so much debt over the last decade.
And here's the other thing, Columbus. We got to make sure that everybody pays their fair share -- (applause) -- including the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations. (Applause.) After all, we've got to decide what our priorities are. Do you want to keep tax loopholes for oil companies?
AUDIENCE: No!
THE PRESIDENT: Or do you want to renovate more schools like Fort Hayes so that construction workers have jobs again? (Applause.) Do you want to keep tax breaks for multi-millionaires and billionaires?
AUDIENCE: No!
THE PRESIDENT: Or do you want to put teachers back to work, and help small businesses, and cut taxes for middle-class families? (Applause.)
So, Columbus, we know what's right. We know what to do to create jobs now, and in the future. We know that if we want businesses to start here and stay here and hire here, we've got to out-build and out-educate and out-innovate every country on Earth. We've got to start manufacturing. We've got to sell more goods around the world that are stamped with three proud words -- "Made in America." (Applause.)
We need to build an economy that lasts. And, Columbus, that starts now. That starts with your help. Democrats and Republicans have supported every kind of proposal that's in the American Jobs Act --- and we need to tell them to support those proposals now.
Already, yesterday there were some Republicans quoted in Washington saying that even if they agree with the proposals in the American Jobs Act, they shouldn't pass it because it would give me a win.
AUDIENCE: Booo --
THE PRESIDENT: That's the kind of games-playing we've gotten used to in Washington. Think about that. They supported this stuff in the past, but they're thinking maybe they don't do it this time because Obama is promoting it. Give me a win? This isn't about giving me a win. This isn't about giving Democrats or Republicans a win. It's about giving the American people a win. (Applause.) It's about giving Ohio a win. (Applause.) It's about your jobs and your lives and your futures, and giving our kids a win. (Applause.)
Maybe there's some people in Congress who'd rather settle our differences at the ballot box than work together right now. But I've got news for them: The next election is 14 months away. And the American people don't have the luxury of waiting that long. You've got folks who are living week to week, paycheck to paycheck. They need action, and they need it now.
So I'm asking all of you to lift your voice --- not just here in Columbus, but anybody who is watching, anybody who is listening, anybody who is following online. I need you to call and email and tweet and fax and visit, and tell your congressperson that the time for gridlock and the time for games is over. The time for action is now. (Applause.)
Tell them that if you want to create jobs right now --- pass this bill. (Applause.) If you want construction workers renovating schools like this one --- pass this bill. (Applause.) If you want to put teachers back in the classroom --- pass this bill. If you want tax cuts for middle-class families and small business owners, then what to do you do? Pass this bill.
AUDIENCE: Pass this bill!
THE PRESIDENT: If you want to help our veterans share in the opportunity that they defend --- pass this bill.
Now is the time to act. We're not a people who just watch things happen. We're Americans; we make things happen. (Applause.) We are tougher than the times we live in. We are -- bigger than the politics that we've been putting up with. We are patriots and pioneers, and innovators and entrepreneurs, who, through individual effort, but also through a commitment to one another, built an economy that's the engine and the envy of the world.
We write our own destiny. It's within our power to write it once more. So let's meet this moment. Let's get to work. Let's show the world once again why the United States of America is the greatest country on Earth. (Applause.)
Thank you very much, Ohio. Thank you, Columbus. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America. (Applause.)
Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/13/remarks-president-american-jobs-act-columbus-oh


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First City Hall (Ottawa)
The first city hall for the city of Ottawa, Ontario was built in 1849 on Elgin Street between Queen and Albert Streets.
Originally known as the West Ward Market Building on Elgin Street, the building was one of two markets in Ottawa, then called Bytown. The market did not last, facing competition from the Byward Market in the Lower Town and closed in that same year.
The site was then donated to Bytown by town councillor Nicholas Sparks in 1849 for conversion to a town hall. The first meeting of the Ottawa Horticultural Society was held here on March 9, 1854.[1]
Inadequate to the needs of the growing community, it was replaced in 1877 by the Second City Hall, built next to this site. Today the site is the National Arts Centre.
The wooden building, with a bell tower, had two floors with the first floor as a fire hall/police station and upper floor as town offices.
See also[edit]
- Second City Hall (Ottawa), city hall from 1877–1931
- Transportation Building (Ottawa), 1931 the building became Ottawa's temporary city hall
- John G. Diefenbaker Building served as Ottawa's city hall from 1958 to 2000
- Ottawa City Hall, city hall since 2001
- ^ http://www.ottawahort.org/history/ohs_minute_book_1854.pdf Minute book of the Ottawa Horticultural Society, 1854
Coordinates: 45°25′22″N 75°41′40″W / 45.4229°N 75.6945°W
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Erin PritchardMarch 20, 201410 CommentsContent Marketing content marketing, Content Process, Content Strategy, internet marketing, Teamwork
In order to have a strong, successful business and online brand, process is key. As a relatively new medium, content marketing can be a tricky process to pin down. Take a gander at the graphic below to see how we at Vertical Measures like to look at bringing a content marketing project to completion (hint: it all ties back...Read more


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In 2012 Georgia.gov became the first state portal in the country to be powered on Drupal. It's also the first state portal to use Responsive Web Design—meaning that mobile users, a rapidly growing demographic, will have a site customized for their viewing.
The Georgia Technology Authority (GTA), who manages the state's official website, hosts more than 60 websites for various Georgia state agencies, including offering a content management system (CMS) and support for the sites. GTA used the Vignette (Open Text) platform for nearly 10 years, but by 2011 was running three versions of the system at one time. GTA reported that the system was unmaintainable due to technical support and cost issues. They've also had a great need to find an enterprise CMS that would meet four critical needs:
- Ease of use for non-technical content administrators
- Enterprise scale
- Cost effectiveness, preferably open source
- Secure and accepted by the public sector
With web traffic over 1.2 million views per month, the team at the Georgia Technology Authority needed a platform that was enterprise ready, cost effective, flexible, and had proven sector adoption. The GTA Interactive team did tireless research into the CMS space in order to narrow down the choices. With each requirement they were able to mark more and more options off the list.
Drupal quickly became the clear choice as the team saw the ease of use for "non-technical" users along with cost savings of moving from a proprietary CMS onto Drupal. In addition the team was impressed with the wide and growing government domain acceptance of Drupal. Sites like www.whitehouse.gov and each member of the House of Representatives are using Drupal with great success.
Project Kickoff
After a lengthy RFP process, the GTA team awarded the build contract to Phase2 Technology, in partnership with Mediacurrent and Acquia. The goal of the project was to build a scalable enterprise platform, and migrate 55+ existing sites from Vignette onto Drupal. This included all content that was currently available, as well as a fresh look and feel for the suite of sites.
Challenges and Solutions
Some primary challenges addressed by the Mediacurrent team included:
- Content Migration: Migrating content from Vignette onto Drupal was one challenge while migrating content for 55+ sites, distributed across three versions of Vignette, was another. The Mediacurrent team worked closely with systems administrators at GTA to develop a specification of how to best export, format and retrieve the data for migration for each version of Vignette. The team relied heavily on Drush and the Drupal Migrate module. The migrate module's rich feature set and Drush integration allowed them to easily test and rollback migrations, while at the same time, automate a lot of the manual labor that goes into tuning the migration of data between systems. Mediacurrent followed with an aggressive scripting/testing/iteration cycle concurrent with general platform development work. This schedule was pivotal in being well prepared to migrate the data with minimal risk during the aggressive deployment phase of the project.
- Install Profile Development: The GTA team required that they be able to maintain and scale the environment without partner intervention. They forecasted an increase of up to 10 sites per year, and they needed an easy way to add those sites to the platform. Mediacurrent assisted Phase2 to create a custom OpenPublish-based install profile that extended the OpenPublish base installation. This allows GTA to spin up new sites in the future and ensured that all of their sites were running on the same platform with full access to a common feature set.
The Phase2 team used the responsive Omega base theme to create the sub-themes for agencies. Every Georgia agency was able to choose from one of eight templates for their site—streamlining the creative process while providing a layout that best fit their site's content. The Phase2 team then assisted in setting up the homepage after the content had been migrated to the site.
Final Thoughts
Mediacurrent is incredibly proud of our home state for being the first state adoption of Drupal as an enterprise CMS. In partnership with Phase2 Technology and Acquia, Mediacurrent hit a homerun for the state of Georgia in their CMS migration project. Even more impressive is the homerun GTA hit for Georgia taxpayers—saving them $4.6 million by moving to Drupal.
The new Georgia.gov offers visitors a friendlier navigation, greater usability and more robust search functions. While on the backend Drupal offers solid site security and easier use for non-technical administrators. In addition, since mobile users now account for 11% of their total traffic, the team used responsive web design with Drupal to create excellent experience for mobile users on Ga.gov. The end result is a project that closed on time, on budget, and with great client satisfaction.
"We are excited about the possibilities that Drupal brings to the state of Georgia," said Calvin Rhodes, Georgia State CIO and GTA Director. "This new platform will give us the flexibility to offer more online services to Georgians while making government more efficient and saving taxpayers money."
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Mediacurrent helps organizations architect custom websites by leveraging our proven processes and deep expertise in Drupal. We are home to an elite team of Drupal experts, who have a proven track record of building amazing websites. We strongly believe in open-source principles, collaboration, and sharing knowledge to strengthen the Drupal community. For more information regarding Mediacurrent's services and portfolio please visit http://www.mediacurrent.com.
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Lady's right turn with various arm combinations; Part 2
- E. His right to her right (hand shake)
- F. His left to her left
- G. Cross hands (followed by comb)
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The comb
Resolution of the comb
Kana: Let's look at other possibilities of hand combinations: his right to her right (hand shake), his left to her left, Cross hands hold (right to right on the top - left to left on the top), Comb.
Gentleman, you can lead her to right turn with all these possibilities. Cross hands hold can be done with either hand on the top. When you finish the turn, the other hand will be on the top. You could add comb from cross hands. The comb isn't a handhold, but an example of a figure which requires cross hands.
DT: The comb necessarily starts from cross-hands?
Kana: Yes. Watch how smoothly Helmut catches my back with his right hand, dropping his right hand while he does comb with his left hand.
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Tokay High School students and staff Monday mourned the loss of 16-year-old senior Chhayarong Kong with a moment of silence during a school assembly.
Kong was found unconscious at the bottom of the school's swimming pool at about 1:30 p.m. Friday during a physical education class. Shortly after the sixth-period class began, a student dove 8 feet to the pool's bottom thinking he had spotted a sunken towel at first - instead he found Kong's motionless body.
Kong did not know how to swim, said his mother, Sobunvy Kong, wondering why he was allowed in the deep end of the pool at all.
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School counselors talked with peers in Kong's honors and advanced placement classes Monday to help grieving students, Tokay Principal Chris Hoffman said.
"It was a somber mood on campus, " Hoffman said.
Kong was a new student at Tokay this year after moving from Maryland with his family.
The senior was remembered as a quiet student who was a sponge when it came to academics, Hoffman said. As a non-native speaker, Kong learned enough English in three years in the United States to take college prep classes, Hoffman said.
Kong, who was interested in studying computers at the University of California, Berkeley, following graduation, just completed his senior project on a computer programming language, Hoffman said.
On Monday, the school remembered Kong with a moment of silence at the beginning of the annual slide show recapping school year events.
Senior class leaders and classmates are considering paying tribute to the teen-ager at the May 30 graduation ceremonies by placing an empty chair among the candidates, Hoffman said.
Lodi Unified School District officials are still trying to piece together the cause of Friday's drowning, Superintendent Bill Huyett said.
"Certainly school safety and supervision are important, not just in the pools but for all of our fitness programs and activities," he said.
The district requires teachers to supervise their students in the pool instead of staffing lifeguards when students swim, he said.
Many of the PE teachers, who are also coaches, are certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedures, though it's not required by the district, Huyett said.
But Anthony Silva, a lifeguard instructor who works for the city of Escalon's Department of Parks and Recreation and volunteers for the
American Red Cross, said lifeguards should always be present when youths are swimming, and people who can't swim should never be allowed in the deep end.
"Before swimmers can go into deep water, they have to pass a swimming test," Silva said, citing American Red Cross life-guarding rules.
The training that Tokay's instructors receive is a four-hour basic water safety course, and not real lifeguard training, Silva said.
"A lifeguard probably could've seen something like that," Silva said of the drowning. "The event is tragic - maybe nobody is at fault, maybe everyone's at fault.
"You can't substitute for having a professional lifeguard at a pool."
Lincoln High School in Stockton has two lifeguards on deck at all times for a smaller pool than Tokay's, Silva said.
Kong's mother was also confused about how her son's drowning went unnoticed for an extended period of time.
"Why didn't they see him in the pool? It's not that big," she said. "If they saw him on time, I think he would have lived."
On Friday, three swimming classes and a weightlifting class, whose members had a free swim day, were scheduled to use the pool.
Huyett and other school officials would not estimate how many students were in the pool at the time, although four classes means the number could have been more than 100 students.
However, Huyett said overcrowding was not an issue.
District officials are investigating the drowning to examine whether changes need to be made to pool practices, Huyett said.
Kong was not the first person to drown in a Lodi Unified pool. More than a decade ago, a student drowned in the Lodi High School pool, Huyett said, though he didn't have details of the prior incident.
Until Friday, Tokay's pool never had an incident since opening in 1975, he said.
The police department's investigation was complete by Sunday, but specific information about the emergency response to the drowning is beginning to surface.
After Kong was spotted at the bottom of the pool, a teacher and a student pulled him from the water before calling 911 at 1:32 p.m.
Six minutes later, Lodi Fire Department Battalion Chief Jeff Larsen was poolside, even before the fire engine arrived.
CPR was already in progress by a teacher, according to dispatch records, but the victim remained unconscious without vital signs.
Fire personnel took over, continuing resuscitation. Kong was "shocked" twice in an attempt to get a heartbeat before paramedics from American Medical Response arrived on scene, according to the records obtained Monday by the News-Sentinel.
The ambulance company was dispatched at 1:34 p.m. and arrived at 1:40 p.m., AMR supervisor Barry Elzig said.
Drugs and intravenous medicine were administered by AMR paramedics when they arrived on scene.
A tube was inserted into Kong's lungs to allow him to breathe artificially before taking him by ambulance to Lodi Memorial Hospital, Elzig said.
It was nearly 30 minutes before a pulse was heard and Saturday, after being transferred to Oakland Children's Hospital, Kong was pronounced dead.
An autopsy conducted by the Alameda County Coroner's office revealed that drowning was the cause of death.
News-Sentinel staff writers Nicholas Grudin and Jennifer Pearson Bonnett contributed to this report.
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As it's well known if you've read my reviews, I'm a HUGE fan of XXX Maniak. Their splits sometimes disappoint, me, though. Fortunately, this was not the case with the Cracks of Doom split.
I'll start with Coffins. They're an interesting doom metal band, one of the stoner/Sabbath worship type, from Japan. I wouldn't have picked this as the match for XXX Maniak. Perhaps it was an attempt at a "Night and Day" approach, with opposites playing to enhance each side. It doesn't seem to have been particularly sucessful, the album just seems to speed up right away at a confusing moment.
As for the music... It's pretty standard fare as far as stoner doom goes, with the bluesy riffage and slow drumming. The production is a little weak, though, which robs Coffins of the necessary heaviness. The guitar is a little too thin, lacking the fat overdrive sound necessary, and the drums sound just a shade sterile. There's not much to say, as it's only two tracks. I don't often see stoner doom bands do splits, and the lack of development makes the split seem abrupt and inappropriate. At the very least, we answered that quandry.. no more stoner splits. Now, onto the XXX Maniak side.
The departure of old vocalist Sidote has caused an interesting shift in the attitude, atmosphere, and overall musicality of XXX Maniak. What seems to have previously been a band more for atmosphere or strange humor is replaced with a more serious grindcore band. I've never really seen a joke band get serious while maintaining their style, so this is new territory.. and I must say, XXX Maniak do it quite well.
The vocals are the most noticeable change. Sidote's typical gutturals and screeches are almost entirely gone. There is a good deal of experimentation in vocal styles. Some of the tracks seem to have taken a strange rapid thrash shout vaguely reminiscent of rapping. Other tracks, such as "Sweet Relief in the Mausoleum" and "Smoking Sumerian Debris" have a more harsh, evil sounding guttural than previous releases. The new vocals are a welcome change, as they sound truly demonic compared to the typical contrived guttural Sidote used to provide (I like his voice, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't sound quite like this new fellow). Also present are bizzare squeals, such as on "Sandbox Sniffer", and even a few anarcho punk shouts on "Stabilize Her." The vocal change adds a unique element, and is certain a welcome improvement.
The instrumentation is about the same: very fake, very metal distorted guitar and a very basic programmed drum kit. There is a slight improvement in production, perhaps in part due to the change in drumming style. Compared to the near constant assault of blasts in some XXX Maniak releases, the drumming is more legitimate, following the more conventional song structures. You'll hear plenty of blasts, but there are also D-Beats, slow breakdown drumming, and so on. As a result, the guitar riffs are more clear and impressive, and the songs play more like songs and less like blasts of chaos and rape.
Though the bands do not make sense together, they are both solid bands worth checking out, and this is a split you can't afford to miss. HIGHLY recommended.


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Sometime around midnight on July 21, 1980,I finished my first night's work at the Philadelphia Inquirer. I was elated as I exited its landmark white-tower and was confronted by the twinkling city skyline. After nearly a decade at smaller newspapers elsewhere, I finally was working for a Pulitzer Prize-winning giant. And in my beloved hometown, no less.
I believe in Philadelphia.
I know, it's not always easy. The city is dirty, crime-ridden, corrupt. Its residents are possessed of a maddening inferiority complex and at times seem to revel in negativity.
But fear and loathing are such shallow emotions. Nothing like love. I often tell people my attachment to Philly is visceral. When I'm away, I ache to return. When I'm downtown, or at a South Philly restaurant, I feel remarkably connected, as if the city and I were a single living organism.
In my 30 years at the Inquirer, I've had opportunities to move. I couldn't do it, in large part because I knew I'd miss Philly. I couldn't imagine walking streets that had no personal meaning, celebrating Christmas without the light show at Wanamaker's -- By the way, we Philadelphians will always refer to the iconic department store building by its rightful name -- or rooting for sports teams my grandfathers hadn't pulled for.
Like so many in this old city, my roots are deep. I can hardly drive down a street in Frankford, North Philly or Center City without experiencing some kinship.
The four branches of my family have been embedded here for centuries. Until the middle of the 1900s, almost all were blue-collar occupants of brick rowhouses on crowded, narrow streets.
My urge to share the wonders of this great and diverse metropolis is a powerful one. Like my grandmother, who gave tours while riding the R bus, I've become an unofficial guide, ushering visitors and suburbanites who have lost touch with Philly to places with historic and personal significance.
My wife and I are empty-nesters now. On free Saturday mornings, we like to grab a cup of coffee and take a ride. We've explored the shoddy Kensington streets and storefronts that were the setting for "Rocky". We've eaten Stock's pound cakes, Caccia's pizza and the wondrous long-johns at Relli's Bakery, which, sadly, like my 32-inch waist, is now gone.
We've driven through Port Richmond and Mayfair, Queens Village and Southwark, and we haven't even touched the surface of this great city.
Recently not long after one of our Saturday drives, we went to the Mann Center to see Tony Bennett. From up there on Strawberry Mansion, on a gorgeous evening, the city's skyline, was breathtaking.
Bennett, of course, sang his signature piece, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". As I sat there listening, surrounded by 155-year-old Fairmount Park, not far from the scene of so many of Thomas Eakins' greatest paintings,
I knew exactly where my heart was.
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By Jerry Shriver, USA TODAY
NEW ZEALAND For all of their understated charm and sophistication, workers in the hospitality business here have an annoying habit of buttonholing foreign tourists and earnestly asking:
"How do we stack up? We're such a young nation, so isolated. Our mountains are still growing. Have we caught up to the rest of the world?"
Oh, please. Drop the humble hobbit persona. Why, during the past decade alone you energetic islanders have:
•Deftly moved beyond your "home of bungee jumping and 40 million sheep" image to emerge as an elite eco-friendly destination with world-class resorts.
•Created a culinary culture that's at the forefront of such trendy movements as sustainable agriculture and fishing; fresh/seasonal/locally based menus; and boutique produce and meat production. (You're cultivating your own saffron, for heaven's sake! Wellington's coffee shops rival Seattle's! Alice Waters would approve!)
•Wowed the wine universe with wholly original and affordable Sauvignon Blancs from Marlborough. That's huge for a newbie. Now you're riding the Sideways-fueled Pinot Noir wave, evoking envy from Burgundy to California. And you're showcasing those and other gems in unpretentious, user-friendly tasting rooms throughout the country.
READ MORE: Photo gallery | Where to go | What to drink
Well done, Kiwis. Your overseas scouting missions have borne fruit. Now extract your heads from beneath your spectacular Lord of the Rings landscape and take a bow.
"We're a pioneering nation, but we're the most insecure nation on Earth," says cinematographer Michael Seresin (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), a native and owner of Seresin Estate, a biodynamic vineyard and winery in the Marlborough region. "There's this attitude of exploration and assimilation, but that is counterbalanced by this huge negativity. It's part of our Anglo-Saxon heritage."
Thankfully, the self-doubt hasn't impeded progress on the food and beverage front, particularly within the wine industry, which is among the world's most dynamic at the moment. In just 10 years the number of wineries has mushroomed from about 200 to more than 550. And worldwide exports — the USA and the U.K. are the top customers — have increased fivefold over that span, to 6.4 million cases annually. That makes them a small but important player in the world market.
More important, this growth has stimulated international curiosity and begat a wine-tourism element that is helping to lead the country into the post-Rings era.
New Zealand gets 2 million overseas visitors a year, including 250,000 from America. And of those U.S. tourists, 16% say they visited a vineyard or drove the wine trails last year, according to a tourism industry survey. Considering the distance and expense involved in getting to the country, and considering how wine tourism is just now being widely promoted, those are numbers worth toasting.
Wine as a way of life
"The mix of tourists is broadening," says John Kavanagh, winemaker for Neudorf Vineyards, which operates a popular tasting room (a "cellar door" in New Zealand-speak) in the lesser-known Nelson region. "We get people self-driving camper vans, wine industry people from elsewhere and tourists just passing through. A huge number of them are Americans from the East and West Coasts. They like the uncrowdedness."
And they apparently like the way that wineries are integrated into the larger fabric of New Zealand's culture and geography. The eight primary grape-growing regions are distributed throughout the two islands, and most are close by urban centers, breathtaking natural attractions or both. That shifts the focus away from the marathon-of-tasting-room-visits model and more toward a rounder experience of winery stops interspersed with sightseeing, dining and outdoors adventures.
Among the options from the top growing regions:
•Auckland offers more than 20 wineries on nearby Waiheke Island, which is also home to art galleries, beaches, hiking/biking/sailing outfitters and the just-opened Cable Bay winery with sculpture garden, tapas bar, olive-oil press and tasting room.
•Hawke's Bay, the second-largest wine region, combines Art Deco architecture with artisanal producers along the Wine Country Food Trail and dozens of wineries that are becoming famous for Syrah.
•The capital city of Wellington, which has the country's most sophisticated restaurant/cafe/gourmet food-shop scene, is a gorgeous 90-minute drive from sleepy, rural Martinborough, where two dozen producers make attention-getting Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris.
•Nelson is a backpackers' paradise with access to Abel Tasman National Park, funky pottery shops and the imposing vineyards of Neudorf and nearby Woollaston Estates (one of a growing number of wineries owned by American investors).
•Marlborough, where the vast vineyards surrounding the town of Blenheim form the heart of the country's wine industry, sports more than 20 wineries with helicopter landing pads and is close to the Marlborough Sounds, a water-sports mecca.
•Queenstown, a fast-growing outdoors paradise, is the setting for many of the most spectacular backdrops for The Lord of the Rings and is the gateway to the Central Otago region, home to the country's most-sought-after Pinot Noirs.
'A sense of place'
From an outsider's perspective, there is already a rich variety of experiences to be found along the various wine trails, but industry leaders say it's still early in the harvest. "We're not yet at the point where we understand our global offerings," says Jim Robertson, global business relations manager for giant producer Montana Wines, whose visitors center in Blenheim draws 150,000 annually. "We need to do a better job of conveying the importance of a sense of place in food and wine."
Perhaps. But for now, Tuscany, Napa and Bordeaux should make room on the world wine stage: A small but potent force has emerged. In spite of itself.
"We know we are making good wine," concedes George Fistonich, owner of Villa Maria Estate in Auckland. "But we are relatively shy as a nation. We're cautious about showing off.
"Perhaps New Zealand needs to do more with celebrating its successes."
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Sorting through the digital debris
As I sit here sniffling and coughing, I'm thinking, how can I get rid of this cold?
Let's ask Google!
"How to Cure a Cold" is at eHow.com. The author, ranked as an "Authority," advises me to inhale a lot of steam and avoid dairy products. Her credentials? "I have an English degree and love to write for fun, but I've never made a profit yet!"
"How to Cure a Common Cold Naturally" also appears on eHow.com. This piece advises me to wash my hands a lot: "Studies show by doing this step once you have a cold will shorten the cold's duration." Drink water, drink green tea, rest, exercise (?), cut out sugar, add garlic tablets … Huh. The author's background? Apparently she's a freelance writer and certified Pilates instructor.
Another "How to Cure the Common Cold," anonymously written, counsels me to become an infectious-disease expert and secure a massive research grant. There's a raging flame war in the comments section, but the article got 2 stars out of 5 in their ratings system … so somebody liked it.
"Cure for Common Colds" is brought to you by essortment.com. They list the symptoms of the common cold and observe that a cold lasts from 2-7 days "depending upon the virility of the strain." (Oh my.) They admit, "there is no real fast cure for this condition," recommend a bunch of OTC meds, and end with a butt-covering admonition to "contact your doctor."
"How to Get Rid of a Cold Without Using Medications" on wikiHow.com says:
- Don't take medications.
- "Keep your resting area clean and sanitary."
- Suck on zinc lozenges.
- Take regular baths…
- ezinearticles.com recommends hypnosis
- associatedcontent.com says "cut all dairy out of your diet"
- bukisa.com (tagline: "Share your Knowledge, Earn Money") says to put peroxide on a Q-tip and stick it up my nose
- answers.yahoo.com provides off-the-cuff remarks from random people with no credentials whatsoever
All is not lost
If I know where to look, there's reputable, scientifically supported advice out there. Luckily, I've heard of the Mayo Clinic (where an actual doctor neatly debunks the anti-dairy angle). I know I can trust WebMD or the Merck Manual. Otherwise, I might be wondering how to tell the reliable information from the opinions of random passersby.
Turn on your BS detector
I've started ignoring all search results pointing to eHow.com and its ilk.
A simple guideline: If the whole idea behind the site is "We know all sorts of stuff about everything," beware.(Except for Wikipedia, which has enough critical mass to make its own rules much the way Amazon does.)
The content farms have learned to game the system, and dubious content is clogging up the works. If you do internet research and don't know any better, you can wind up relying on content that's based on somebody's vague recollections or urban legends. Come on, Google. Find a way to make expert-written content float to the top. Otherwise, using your search engine will be the equivalent of polling the checkout line at the supermarket.


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Is there an Anti-Chuck backlash going on? i say this cause of the bashing ive been reading all over myspace and amazon. it seems nasty and unfair. am i just imagining an anti-Chuck backlash?
Ive been a Chuck fan for years ("choke" and "fight club" are my favorites) but im a newbie member so please be gentle


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The two-compartment pharmacokinetic model described the mechanisms how human body handles with ingestion of NC-cyclodextrin complexes in gastrointestinal tract (GI), distribution in the blood (Plasma), and their metabolism in the liver. The model showed that drug bioavailability was significantly improved after oral administration of cyclodextrin complexes. The mathematical significance of this study to predict nicardipine delivery using pharmacokinetic two-compartment mathematical model and linear ordinary differential equations approach represents a valuable tool to emphasize its effectiveness and diminish the side effects.
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Ionic co-crystals of lithium salicylate with organic proline (LISPRO) showed better safety and pharmacokinetic profile of lithium in plasma and brain of wild-type and transgenic Alzheimer mice model compared to lithium salts.READ MORE
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These results support the use of hSC-CM and MEA technology for preclinical assessment of proarrhythmic risk within the proposed CiPA paradigm, and, more generally, demonstrate that automation of the CM-MEA assay can achieve high reliability and throughput for cardiac risk assessment in vitro.READ MORE
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My son has been in daycare since he was 2 months old. We've gotten to know them very well and vice versa. My son is usually a happy go lucky kiddo but as he's grown older, his personality is changing. He's been getting more shy, bashful and clingy. Lately he's been throwing a fit when we leave him there and will cling to my husband and I so that we are unable to leave him. Any normal person would think this is a case of seperation anxiety. This lady thinks he has an electrolite defincency or low blood sugar. She tells my husband that he's fussy in the mornings, so she gives him sugary things (even dips his pacifier in sugar) to calm him down. It works but why is she giving my baby sugar without -my- consent?! She keeps insisiting that we call his doctor and get him checked out.
My question to y'all is: Did you ever hear of a baby with an electrolite defincency or low blood sugar? Plus I know if you're dealing with low blood sugars, the worst thing you can do is give them sugar because it makes the person shaky and gittery.
He has an appointment tomorrrow with his doctor so I can have them stop giving him sugar. Seriously I'm like 2 seconds away from pulling him out of this stupid daycare because of this. Ugh.


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Jindabyne is the first dramatic feature film I've seen in 2007 so far that has greatly impressed me. My review will be up at Christianity Today when it opens wider than the current limited release. But for those of you who have a chance to see it, make sure you do: It's riveting, complex, and deeply rewarding if you have the patience for it. I've been reading several reviews that get to the reasons for my enthusiasm. It's not as satisfying as Ray Lawrence's 2001 drama Lantana, but there is a … [Read more...]
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Well the first regional rankings of Division II were released this week by the NCAA and they've already been rendered inaccurate by a key in-region result, as Merrimack's win over Bentley pushes them into the second place spot behind undefeated Le Moyne and into the drivers seat for a potential at-large bid.
Unsurprisingly, Le Moyne (9-0), Mercyhurst (9-0) and Limestone (8-1) are all in the lead for their respective area's bid to the NCAA tournament, but there are a lot of teams still with a dog in that fight, so lets look at the contenders as the final month comes into fruition for the four-team field.
Leader: Le Moyne (9-0, 6-0 in region)
The Dolphins are sitting pretty with an undefeated record and if they can get by Bentley this weekend, they cruise in with their final three opponents (outside of the Northeast-10 tournament) holding a combined 10-16 record.
In the hunt: Merrimack (8-2, 6-1)
The tough part of the schedule is out of the way for Merrimack, which only has a 14-4 loss to the Dolphins and a one-goal loss to Saint Leo early in the season standing against it. The Warriors' final three opponents are all well below .500, with a combined 6-21 record.
Bentley (5-2, 5-2)
The loss to Merrimack certainly dealt a big blow to Bentley's chances, but a win over Le Moyne certainly wouldn't hurt. With more games on the schedule than any of the other contenders (five), who knows what April and May have in store for this squad.
Leader: Mercyhurst (9-0, 7-0)
Perfect so far (its closest game was 11-8 against Dowling), the Lakers have a big one against NYIT this weekend and face defending NCAA champion C.W. Post on May first, so we can't anoint them the shoe-in just yet, particularly since both Dowling and Post have just one loss in the region.
In the hunt: Dowling (8-1, 7-1)
The hard part is over for the Lions, who already have the biggest games of their schedule out of the way, with wins over Post and NYIT and a loss to Mercyhurst. The only game left on the schedule against an above-.500 team is the May 8th finale against Seton Hill (5-3).
C.W. Post (10-1, 8-1)
The one-goal loss to Dowling has the defending champs down but certainly not out, as they can tip the scales back in their favor with a win over Mercyhurst on May 1st.
Leader: Limestone (8-1, 8-0)
Another year, another likely Limestone bid for the NCAA semifinals, as the Sasints made it through their region schedule unblemished (to this point). The closest challenge came in the shape of a one-goal win over Mars Hill back in mid-March, but short of a stumble in the Conference Carolinas tournament or against Pfeiffer or Catawba, the Saints should have yet another postseason in 2010.
In the hunt: Mars Hill (9-3, 9-2)
With two region losses (Limestone and Saint Leo), the Lions are in need of a big stumble from Limestone if they want to have a shot at the region bid, but a possible 11-3 record with close losses to good teams COULD get them at least a mention in the at-large discussion if they win the Deep South tournament this weekend. But There isn't much that can get them to the postseason at this time.
Queens (7-3, 7-2)
Same situation for Queens. They've had a good season, but without a marquee win (and their win over Saint Leo has become less valuable as the season progressed), there's little chance they'll get a bid over an ECC or Northeast-10 squad when the at-large discussion happens.
Apologies to Matt as this was done last week, but I didn't have time to do a DII notebook with all the craziness surrounding the Big City Classic… It's more about the season in general, so it's still valid, I just feel bad he had to wait for it.
So Matt, you guys have been starting out solid this season, how do you feel about how things have gone so far?
I think we definitely look good. In past years we've had some superstars, like Mike McDonald my freshman year, etc. This year, this year we've got more of an overall team going and that's definitely helped out. We're building on things in every practice and it's been great.
Looking at your stats, you guys have a lot of balance, being good on offense and defense and spreading the ball around.
Yeah, that's definitely helped us out a lot. Doug McIver (class of 2009) was probably the best goalie I've ever seen but Jeff White has stepped in and played unbelievable. And on offense, it's great because there's no one player to shut down… the next guy is just as good. If they put a pole on me, the next guy is dodging on a short-stick, and with our midfield and attack, that means we're going to be able to score.
What do you think you guys need to do to keep the roll going?
I think we're just trying to stay focused, the guys that have been here have lost two national championships in a row. We know what it feels like to work hard from fall through May and feel that hurt in the last game. It's everybody's goal to stay focused and get back there for another shot.
You guys don't get to play C.W. Post this year during the regular season - is that tough having lost to them in the finals?
We try not to think about it. Not having to play them means neither team is going to have a solid game plan because neither can see the others strengths and weaknesses if we do face off in the playoffs. If we got a chance to play them in the final, great, but if we're there, the next team in line is going to be just as good.
How much does it help you to be going against your defense every day in practice?
It's great. Drew Bezek is probably the best defenseman in the country, plus we have two d-mids that are great too. Going against players of that caliber every day helps our midfield improve every time we get out there.
It's all about getting to the end of May. That helps for us we've been there, we've seen it. It's loose. Get ready.
Deep South tournament -
Catawba and Florida Southern took first round victories and are facing Mars Hill and Saint Leo, respectively, tonight, with the winners battling it out for the championship on Sunday at Catawba.
Mercyhurst at NYIT
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By Jay O'Donnell, N8 Identity
Imagine you are at in a major department store's corporate headquarters as your team prepares numbers for the upcoming holiday season. The frenetic pace of retail holiday hiring can frazzle even the most experienced manager, and diligently checking every box in the employee onboarding process can seem laughably optimistic in the rush to find, hire and get as many employees as possible going in a matter of days.
Beside horrendous identity and access management challenges, retailers must also grapple with regulations – such as Sarbanes Oxley – that have shifted identity access management (IAM) from a specialized issue into a business-wide conundrum. If the retailer is to strengthen its IAM program with retail-specific best practices, the company must first determine which department is responsible for managing it.
The Business Sparks Identity Changes
Industry observers generally agree that IAM must be driven by business processes – instead of ad hoc actions – if it is to be successful. This is especially true for retail, where the business environment is too fractured and federated for an ad-hoc approach to employee access management to be effective.
The identity attributes of each employee (such as name, social security number, address and banking information) are used in three processes:
When the retail business owners are involved – including human resources and store managers, as they usually own the majority of employee attributes – early in the development of an IAM program, retailers will significantly improve their ability to realize their IAM goals on time and on budget.
Continuous Compliance Can be a Reality
No other industry must manage employee churn at the same stratospheric rate that retailers do. An employee might be hired, onboarded, given access rights to a number of store systems and then leave the organization before corporate HR even knew that employee was hired at all. Even worse, retailers can find themselves in a situation where a new hire has been set-up in payroll, quits the job and is inadvertently paid before the paperwork catches up with the payroll department.
Making sure that employees are only given the access assigned to them under a clearly defined set of rules that align to the retailer's corporate policy should be the primary goal of an effective identity governance initiative. By working with business divisions to set these policies up from the start, the retailer is able to create a culture of continuous compliance.
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Retailers are subject to narrow profit margins, meaning that even efficiencies of 1% can have a profound impact on the bottom line. Fortunately, putting business process into effect in support of compliance goals can also generate meaningful efficiency improvements and cost reductions throughout the whole company.
Managing the identity of employees centrally and developing proper business procedures enables retailers to:
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There is hope for retailers seeking the ideal IAM combination. Below are some best for improving IAM processes:
Looking Ahead
With the rise of omnichannel retail, consumers are challenging retailers' business models. To remain competitive in an evolving market, retailers must take steps to minimize process inefficiencies and compliance problems. By using best practices, retailers can deploy better IAM processes throughout all departments, resulting in lower costs, compliance, quicker onboarding and boosted efficiency, results that keep the retailer competitive for today's market.
Jay O'Donnell is the CEO and founder of N8 Identity and spearheads the continuing development of N8 Identity's industry-leading solutions. One of the early pioneers of the identity and access management (IAM) industry, Jay initially founded an IAM consulting business in 2000.


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Caxton died in the year 1491, after a long, busy, and useful life.
It is told in Caxton's Esope, p. 62, from whom I have borrowed a few touches.
If the date mentioned by Stow for the introduction of printing into England by Caxton, viz.
Caxton is often spoken of, incorrectly, as the inventor of printing.
It would be absurd to attribute this state of things to any lack of enterprise on the part of Caxton and his fellows.
From this line to the end seems to be an addition by Caxton.
The boy, sitting upon the grassy bank beside Telfer, began thinking of life in Caxton.
Caxton says as much in his Preface, and the Epilogue to Book xii.
But from the beginning of the new century, in the work of men like Lydgate and Caxton, a new habit of comment becomes noticeable.
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'Bringing Adam Home': 'Redemptive' for the Walshes
When 6-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a mall in Hollywood, Fla., in 1981 and later found murdered, three things happened. John Walsh, who would become the driving force behind America's Most Wanted, and his wife, Revé, suffered the unspeakable tragedy of losing a son. The botched investigation of Adam's death led police departments across the country to change the way they handled missing-children cases, and parents around the world became more vigilant about protecting their kids.
It wasn't until 2006 that retired Miami Beach homicide detective Joe Matthews, at the request of the Walshes, closed the case on who killed Adam. Matthews collaborated with writer Les Standiford to tell the story of the investigation and its influence on society in Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America (Ecco, $24). Matthews and Standiford spoke with USA TODAY about the case.
Q:Why did it take more than a quarter-century to close the case even though police had a suspect, drifter OttisElwood Toole, who repeatedly confessed? (Toole died in 1996 while in prison for another crime.)
Matthews: In 1981, the Hollywood police department was one of the most respected police departments in Broward County, as it is today. It just so happened that the wrong detective was assigned as the lead investigator and there was no proper supervision. Nothing would have prevented the abduction, but I'm confident that had someone else been assigned to that case, I truly believe it would have been solved.
Q: What changed after Adam's death?
Matthews: Adam's death and abduction had as significant an impact on how mothers watch their children and how police investigate missing children as 9/11 had with homeland security and airport security. There was no cookbook, there was no recipe for what to do if a child went missing. Now, and I truly credit John and Revé, every law enforcement agency has guidelines to follow. From the moment a child goes missing, no matter what, everybody drops what they're doing.
Q: How did it feel to solve this case?
Matthews: I had a lot of personal satisfaction in giving John and Revé the answers they really wanted and the justice they deserved. One word you never use with John and Revé is "closure," and Revé says it best. "You get justice, you get revenge, you get answers, but you're not going to get closure."
Q: Les, this story has so many twists and turns over a 27-year period. How did you manage to keep it all straight when you were writing?
Standiford: The materials in Joe's investigative report are the core. Joe had done the heavy lifting in terms of the investigation, but my task was to put all that into a context so that people could understand the magnitude of the crime and Joe's achievement in pursuing it to its close. I also had a sneaking suspicion that everyone thought they knew everything there was to know about this case, but there really was an untold story here. First to last, I realized that while the Walshes and the terrible things they had to endure were part of the context, the real story here, as I see it, is Joe Matthews.
Q: Ottis Toole, the man who Joe proved was the killer, also went on killing sprees with Henry Lee Lucas, an infamous serial killer. How shocking were their crimes?
Standiford: From time to time it did occur to me that I couldn't have put some of this stuff in a novel because people wouldn't have believed it. I remember reading Silence of the Lambs and thinking, "surely Thomas Harris is exaggerating," but I couldn't put a tenth in my book of what Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole claimed they did. It's beyond comprehension and makes Hannibal Lecter look like a Boy Scout.
Q: Can any good be taken from the Walshes' tragedy?
Standiford: I think the book is redemptive because of what you see in the example of what the Walshes have done to help other families, but even more importantly what Joe Matthews has done. It wasn't his child, it wasn't a personal loss to him, but he still spent 27 years of his life trying to see that the right thing got done. There still are guys like Joe and that, to me, was the final joy of writing this book — that I got to make that clear.
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The Robert Moses plant was built to replace power production upon the collapse of the hydroelectric Schoellkopf Power Station on June 7, 1956 in Niagara Falls. It is named after
Robert Moses, an mid-20th Century urban planner in New York.
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dam, in that it was constructed not to control the flow of water in a natural river, but rather to contain a man-made reservoirwhich stores the water diverted through a tunnel from a point upstream on the Niagara River. The opposite boundary of this forebayis another dam. This dam is part of the 240-MW Lewiston Pump-Generating Plant, which houses a set of electrically powered pumps that can move water to another higher storage reservoir behind this second dam.
At night, a substantial fraction of the water in the Niagara River is diverted to the lower reservoir, and
electricitygenerated in the Moses plant is used to power the pumps to push water into the reservoir behind the Lewiston Dam. The water is pumped at night because the demand for electricity is much lower than during the day. In addition to the lower demand for electricity at night, less water can be diverted from the river during the day because of the desire to preserve the appearance of the falls. This prevents the plant from withdrawing such a large amount water during other times of low demand, such as weekends. During the following day, when electrical demand is high, water is released from the upper reservoir through generators in the Lewiston Dam. That same water flows into the main reservoir, where it falls again through the turbines of the Moses plant. Some would say that the water is 'used twice.' This arrangement is called pumped-storage hydroelectricity.
This system allows energy to be stored in vast quantities. At night, the
potential energyin the diverted water is converted into electrical energyin the Moses plant. Some of that electrical energy is used to create potential energy when the water is pumped into the reservoir behind the Lewiston Dam. During the day, part of the potential energy of the water in the Lewiston reservoir is converted into electricity at the Lewiston Dam, and then its remaining potential energy is captured by the Moses Dam, which is also capturing the potential energy of the water diverted from the river in real-time.
Contamination of the site area
During the mid 1980's, the
New York Power Authoritybegan an expansion project at the site, known as FERC ( Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) Project 2216. Soon after, the project was halted due to discovery of hazardous chemicals such as dioxin, which had been dumped underground by chemical companies which had owned the land previously. A civil lawsuit was filed in the State of New Yorkagainst the New York Power Authority, Occidental Petroleum, Hooker Chemicals, Bechtel Corporation, and Parsons Brinckerhoff, which was settled out of court in 1999. [Darrell R. Larocque v. New York Power Authority, et al., Supreme Court, State of New York.] Subsequent testing near the Lewiston Reservoir near the project still confirms mercury and organic contamination which restricts the consumption of fish. [cite web|title=Federal Regulatory Energy Commission Environmental Final Environmental Impact Statement of Niagara Project, 2006, page 74.|url=elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/common/OpenNat.asp?fileID=11217200|accessdate=2008-05-12]
ee also
Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation
Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant
Pumped-storage hydroelectricity
Reservoir State Park
Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Power Stations
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Roundup: Ward stops 33 shots as Hurricanes top Bruins
BOSTON (AP) – Carolina's players kept their cool as the Boston Bruins filled the penalty box. The Hurricanes finally cashed in on their chances.
Cam Ward stopped 33 shots, and defenseman Joni Pitkanen had a goal and two assists to lead the Hurricanes to their second win over the undisciplined Bruins in a week, 4-1 on Tuesday night.
"I think we showed we were disciplined, but at the same time we were able to hold our own," Ward said. "You look at the game out there, we battled extremely hard, we didn't back down from anything and I think you're sensing the chemistry in the locker room — that the guys really want to do it for one another and it showed out there."
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Tuomo Ruutu, Anthony Stewart and Eric Staal had the other goals for Carolina, which beat the defending Stanley Cup champions 3-2 at home last Wednesday. The Hurricanes had two 5-on-3 goals in the final period.
Rich Peverley had a power-play goal for the Bruins, who had a number of seemingly senseless penalties and dropped their third in four home games. Boston was called for 11 penalties in the second and third periods, many during scrums. The Hurricanes took five penalties during the last two periods.
"It's good to be emotional and physical as long as you're not frustrated," Boston defenseman Andrew Ference said. "This sport's designed where you're allowed to be physical, but as long as you're not punching guys in the head all the time."
Bruins coach Claude Julien was given a game misconduct with 3:44 to play.
"We have to take responsibility for our actions," Julien said.
Tuukka Rask stopped 19 shots in his second start, both losses. The other was a 1-0 defeat to Colorado last Monday.
Peverley's wrist shot beat Ward on the glove side with 9:01 to play. Shortly after, Nathan Horton was given a double-minor for roughing to halt Boston's momentum. Bruins captain Zdeno Chara then took a high-sticking penalty seconds later.
That's when the Hurricanes sealed the win.
Staal scored during a 5-on-3 power play to give Carolina a 3-1 lead with 6:34 to play. Ruutu's goal was also during a two-man power play.
"We obviously frustrated them in their play," Staal said. "We were in their face and aggressive, and they were trying to get something going. When they're doing what they're doing, the refs have no choice but to call penalties when they're penalties. We capitalized, eventually on the 5-on-3s and it was a great win."
Peverley's goal was the first for the Bruins on the power play after they went 0-for-22 following Brad Marchand's goal on their first man advantage of the season.
Asked if his players let their emotions take over Julien said: "That was in the third period. It was pretty obvious when the penalties mounted and mounted and they kept getting 5-on-3s."
Carolina went ahead 1-0 2:47 in when Stewart scored off a rebound during a scramble in front. He beat defenseman Matt Bartkowski to a loose puck to the left of Rask.
The Hurricanes made it 2-0 when Pitkanen beat Rask with a slap shot 10:19 into the second.
Boston's frustration showed during a scrum behind the Hurricanes' net late in the second. Chara and Bruins wing Milan Lucic both charged into a group of players, and Chara ended up squaring off with defenseman Jay Harrison. During the melee, Rask skated to the other end and went mask-to-mask with Ward, but neither threw a punch.
Boston ended up down two players, but killed off the 5-on-3 power play without allowing any decent scoring chances. Just seven seconds later, however, defenseman Dennis Seidenberg was whistled for interference. But the Bruins killed that power play, too.
Julien switched up his lines in the third period, but the Bruins showed little spark until Peverley's goal and a few scrums.
Stars 3, Blue Jackets 2
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jamie Benn had a goal and an assist and Dallas hung on for its fourth consecutive win, a victory over winless Columbus.
Steve Ott and Michael Ryder also scored for the Stars who seemed in complete control until Kris Russell pulled Columbus within one with just under three minutes remaining.
Vinny Prospal nearly tied it in the final seconds, redirecting the puck slowly past the goal post with goalie Kari Lehtonen, who finished with 38 saves, leaning the other way.
The Stars, behind Lehtonen, who earned his league-best fifth win, have won five of six to start the season.
Derick Brassard also scored for Columbus, which has stumbled to the worst start in franchise history at 0-5-1.
Sabres 3, Canadiens 1
MONTREAL — Thomas Vanek scored just before the end of the second period and Ryan Miller made 40 saves to lead Sabres to a win over Montreal.
Vanek held up before driving a slap shot past goalie Carey Price from low in the left circle with 2.8 seconds remaining in the period, finishing off a passing play with Jason Pominville and Marc-Andre Gragnani.
Jordan Leopold scored earlier in the second and Christian Ehrhoff put his first Buffalo goal into an empty net with 28.3 seconds left as the Sabres (4-1) won their second in a row on the road.
Raphael Diaz scored his first NHL goal for Montreal, which held a 41-23 shots advantage but completed an 0-3 homestand.
Penguins 4, Wild 2
ST. PAUL — Pascal Dupuis had a short-handed goal and an assist, James Neal scored for the sixth time this season and depleted Pittsburgh beat Minnesota.
Chris Kunitz and Jordan Staal also got goals and Matt Cooke had two assists for the Penguins, who were winless in their previous three games. They have already played eight times in the first 13 days of the season, improving to 4-2-2.
Cal Clutterbuck had a short-handed goal and Guillaume Latendresse scored for the first time in almost an entire calendar year, but the Wild didn't do much against backup goalie Brent Johnson and fell to 2-2-2. Their four-game winning streak against the Penguins ended.
Flyers 7, Senators 2
OTTAWA — Philadelphia rookie Matt Read needed only one period against the Ottawa Senators to put up the biggest numbers of his young career.
Read had a goal and two assists in the opening 20 minutes as the Flyers built a four-goal lead and went on to beat the Senators 7-2 on Tuesday night. Read added a third assist in the third period.
The four-goal outburst was enough for Senators coach Paul MacLean to make a goaltending switch to start the second period as Craig Anderson came on in relief of Alex Auld, who faced just 10 shots. Anderson made 17 saves but surrendered three goals late in the third period.
Wayne Simmonds, Claude Giroux and Max Talbot also scored for the Flyers (4-0-1) in the first period. James van Riemsdyk, Sean Couturier and Harrison Zolnierczyk scored in the final 5 minutes of the third period.
Flames 2, Oilers 1
CALGARY, Alberta — Jay Bouwmeester and Alex Tanguay scored late in the third period, and Calgary rallied for a victory over Edmonton.
For the game's first 54 minutes, it appeared that Tom Gilbert's first-period goal would stand up as the winner.
Calgary pulled even after a spirited rush into the Oilers end by Lee Stempniak eventually resulted in the puck landing on the stick of Bouwmeester, who beat screened goalie Devan Dubnyk with a wrist shot at 14:03.
Dubnyk started the season opener and looked great turning aside 33 of 34 shots in a 2-1 shootout win over Pittsburgh in their season opener. But in his second game, he surrendered four goals on 26 shots in a loss to Vancouver. He bounced back with a good outing against Calgary.
Blackhawks 5, Coyotes 2
GLENDALE, Ariz. —Dave Bolland scored one third-period goal and had an assist on the other to help Chicago pull away to a victory over Phoenix.
Bolland's steal and shorthanded goal gave Chicago a 4-2 lead 2:27 into the third period. His assist helped set up Bryan Bickell's score that made it 5-2 6½ minutes later as the Blackhawks outshot Phoenix 35-16.
Marian Hossa, back after missing a game with an upper-body injury, scored Chicago's first goal when his team had a two-man advantage in the first period.
Again, Phoenix responded. Chicago's Duncan Keith lost control of a pass and Langkow took possession. He passed to Whitney, whose wrister zipped into the upper left corner of the net to make it 2-2 with 12:12 to go in the second period. The Blackhawks finished the scoring binge when Mayers tipped in Keith's shot with 11:24 still left in the second period to give Chicago a 3-2 lead.
The Blackhawks outshot the Coyotes 27-9 through two periods.
Bickell got the final Chicago goal, with an assist from Boland at 9:06 of the third period. Patrick Sharp had two assists for the winners.
Kings 5, Blues 0
LOS ANGELES — Simon Gagne had two goals and an assist in his Kings' home debut, and Jonathan Quick made 27 saves for his 15th shutout in Los Angeles' victory over St. Louis.
Anze Kopitar, Jarret Stoll and captain Dustin Brown each had a goal and an assist as the Kings finally returned home from a two-week, two-continent road trip, kicking off a season of high expectations with a blowout win.
Quick was phenomenal in his 99th career victory, making several spectacular saves while remaining unbeaten in regulation this season.
Jaroslav Halak allowed four goals on 18 shots before getting pulled in the opening minute of the third period for the Blues, who wrapped up a four-game road trip with three losses.
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Stride Length: In this first category, the Lifespan EL3000i and the Lifespan EX3 are tied. They both have a stride length of 20" which is basically sufficient enough if you happen to be of average build.
Resistance Levels: It is another tie between the two models as they both have 26 resistance levels. You should know that the levels of resistance are a great way to add to the challenge of working out with your elliptical machine as this forces you to exert more effort when it comes to pedaling.
Max Ramp: The two Lifespan models are tied again in the max incline/ramp category. This is because both don't offer any incline features.
Built In Programs: When it comes to built-in programs, the Lifespan EL3000i wins because it offers 20 choices, 10 more than its counterpart.
Notable Features: When it comes to the bells and whistles, the EL3000i wins over the EX3. This is because it has more notable features. This includes the online Lifespan Fitness Club membership which allows you to easily keep track of your progress because it has a USB device which lets you save all your workout data after a session and this can directly be uploaded to the website. It also has a built-in sound system which can make you enjoy your workout more as you can listen to your favorite songs when you connect your MP3 players. What's more, if you have a problem with a lack of space for your workout area, this is a much better choice than the two because it only has a 52"-footprint.
Parts Warranty: The Lifespan EL3000i gets another win over the Lifespan EX3 as it offers 3 years of parts warranty whereas the losing machine offers a year less.
Labor Warranty: It is a tie between the two models as they both offer a year warranty for labor. You should take advantage of this as labor costs can get really expensive.
Machine Weight: The EL3000i beats it counterpart in the machine weight department. It weighs 25-lb heavier than the EX3 which means that it is more stable. The rule is that the heavier that machine is, the more stable it is.
Machine User Weight Capacity: The EX3 gets a win over the EL3000i in the maximum user weight capacity category with a 350-lb to 300-lb advantage. You should remember that there should only be a hundred pound difference between the machine's weight and the maximum capacity weight. This is to ensure the safety of the user.
Money Back Guarantee: It is a tie when it comes to the money back guarantee deal. Both models offer 30 days where you can return the item if you deem it unsatisfactory within the given time period.
Conclusion: At the time of the comparison review, the Lifespan EL3000i is sold for $849 while its counterpart was not even on sale which means that it is much more cost-efficient.
The EL3000i also assures users that you can get your money's worth should you buy the product because it has much improved features unlike the outdated version of the EX3.
It should be noted that the EL3000i ranks as the 5th elliptical machine in the $651 and $1000 price range.


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Reacting to speculations that he might pursue career in the U.S. after claiming Best Actor title at the 2012 Academy Awards, the 'Artist' actor says that it's possible but he won't 'dream things up.'
Sunday, February 26 has become a big night for Jean Dujardin as he was hailed as the Best Actor at the prestigious 2012 Academy Awards. Winning an Oscar for his acclaimed portrayal of George Valentin in "The Artist", Dujardin became the first ever France-born actor who won the coveted prize. Following his victory, the thesp admitted that he might consider pursuing career in the U.S., but claimed he will "never be an American actor."
Speaking to French journalists after the Oscars show, Dujardin responded to the swirling speculation that he would pursue acting career in the States after winning big at the prize-giving event. "We're going to see if there are projects to develop, why not," he stated before quickly noting, "But I will never be an American actor. Don't dream things up."
During the interview, the 39-year-old actor shared that winning an Oscar has given him a strange out-of-body experience. He gushed, while clutching his golden statuette, "I've just woken up, and apparently it's not a dream, he [Oscar] is here, and I feel very well, I feel very happy. I present him to you, he's called Oscar, he weighs two kilos. It's nice isn't it. He looks handsome."
Of how he felt about the win, the husband of Alexandra Lamy said that it was "something which has never happened to me, I felt like I left my body." He continued, "I'm not mystical, but for three seconds, my body stayed where it was, and something very strange happened."
Dujardin also recalled the moment when his name was announced as the Best Actor winner. The actor confessed to have received nice words from A-list rivals like George Clooney and Brad Pitt. He said that as he walked to the stage, he saw Clooney to his left, adding, "He made a little sign, [indicating] 'Your turn.' It was very elegant. He is charming."
Furthermore, Dujardin insisted that winning the Oscar would "change nothing" in him. "It just means that it gives more freedom," he claimed. "I don't want it to change my instinct, my choice, what I want. I have a good life, so I don't want it to change."
"I didn't even dream about this career when I was little," he continued on. "It's irrational, it's abstract, but it's funny to see how life takes you and offers you things like this. It's a completely absurd path. I must have a very good star, shining down on me all the time."


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Part of your question was cut off so I did not get an idea of what your question is. Can you tell me what you want help with?
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Thank you for the information. It helps.
It's ok to have those feelings. It is natural to not want to move on from the comfortable and mutually satisfying relationship you had with your ex and your son. You became a family unit of sorts and to have someone you do not know intrude upon that can make you feel frustrated and upset.
You need time to adjust. This is the final step in letting go of the previous relationship you had with your ex. It's the hardest part, realizing that you need to move on. Part of your breakup was the idea that either of you could move on at any time with another partner. Having your son exposed to that is part of the break up as well, as hard as that is.
What you can do is talk with your ex, if you have that kind of relationship (it sounds like you might). Tell him that although you appreciate his need to move on, you are concerned with how it will affect your son. Make the focus on your son so you do not communicate your unhappiness with the situation. Your ex needs to know you are not upset about his new relationship, but instead about how your son will perceive this new person.
Set some ground rules with your ex. Since this is just a new girlfriend, she should not have any say so in your son's life. She cannot discipline him or direct him in any way, except in cases of safety issues (like he is about to touch something dangerous). Make it clear what your son is to call this person (by her first name with a miss or ms in front of it keeps it formal yet friendly). If the relationship should become more serious, then you can set new rules to deal with this.
Make sure you talk with your son during the time he is there, if he can talk on the phone. That way, you have a chance to make the connection with him and it will help you to know he is ok.
If you feel you are having too much trouble dealing with the situation after a few months, seek out a therapist to talk to. A therapist can help you work out your feelings and find ways to cope better. You can find a therapist through your doctor or if you attend church, speak with your pastor. If you want, you can search on line at http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/.
Here is a book that can help you as well:
Sharing the Children: How to Resolve Custody Problems and Get on with Your Life by Robert E. Adler
You can find this book on Amazon.com or your local library may have it for you.
I hope this has helped you,Kate
I haven't heard from you. Did you have more questions or want clarification?
I did have another question...This does help and I do realize now I need help dealing with this emotionally. I feel like I am being rushed to deal with this by my son's father because I am suppose to meet his new girlfriend today and I have all these thoughts and feels inside. I have asked him for the introduction to be in a netural location and not at either of our homes and without his parents there. After our discussion he has been more understanding but I feel like I have had to deal with all of these emotions and feelings in such a short period of time. (four days) I am sure it is not his intentions to put pressure on me but I get the feeling that I need to meet her so he can have his son stay with them because his girlfriend has no other place to stay. I feel like I have been painted into a corner and my hesitation for my son to stay with them while she is intown will hurt the feelings of my son's grandparents because they are staying there too. I am so worried about my son but I also feel that this will set a standard for us. I would not have my boyfriend stay with my son and I because I wouldn't want him to get attached. Is it wrong for me to ask the same his father to do the same?
It may feel rushed and that is understandable. It's hard to adjust to such a new situation. But your son will be ok. As long as you and your ex put your son first, then he will come out of this just fine. Children are very resilient and he will come to understand how to deal with this. Plus, you will always be his mother and your ex his father. Nothing can change that.
It is ok for you to ask that your son not stay too long with your ex. A day or two would be ok. Let your ex know that you need to work up to this before you feel ok allowing your son to be there longer. Reassure your ex it's just an adjustment and that you are working on it. You are your son's mother and you are allowed to feel protective. This girlfriend is a stranger here, and it's your natural instinct to want to make sure your son is ok. It's the balance with accepting the situation and keeping some control that is difficult. But with practice, you will find a good medium.
You're welcome! I am glad I could help.


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There are plenty of foxhole atheists, but religionists on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee made sure this week that none will be allowed to serve as secular representatives in the chaplain corps.
A stream of invective against atheists followed the introduction of an amendment by U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews, D-N.J., to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act at the committee meeting June 5. It would have permitted persons certified by nontheist groups to join the chaplain corps to provide guidance to "members of the armed forces who are atheist, agnostic, or belong to no organized faith group."
The amendment, which was killed, brought a flood of abuse of the nonreligious:
- "They don't believe anything. I can't imagine an atheist accompanying a notification team as they go into some family's home to let them have the worst news of their life and this guy says, 'You know, that's it — your son's just worms, I mean, worm food.'" — Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas
- "This I think would make a mockery of the chaplaincy. The last thing in the world we would want to see was a young soldier who may be dying and they're at a field hospital and the chaplain is standing over that person saying to them, 'If you die here, there is no hope for you in the future.' " — Rep. John Fleming, R-La.
Kudos to Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., who defended atheists and humanists and referenced atheist in a foxhole Pat Tillman, the NFL star killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004.
"To say that an atheist or a humanist doesn't believe anything is just ignorant. They have very, very developed beliefs and value systems, and there are many, many of them serving in the military, including Pat Tillman. The response to the gentleman's amendment makes me feel all the more the necessity of it. Basically, if you are an atheist or agnostic in the military, the military's response is, 'We've got nothing for you.. There's no hope for you.' They believe in a system of values, and that system of values is worth as much to them as Christianity is to us."
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Almost a quarter of military personnel identify as atheist, agnostic or having no religious preference (2010 MAFF study based on Department of Defense data). As a captive audience, many are increasingly subjected to proselytizing not only by Christian chaplains with a sense of entitlement, but by superiors who confuse patriotism with piety and abuse rank to promote religion.


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This has actually been discussed many times. Apple does not want emails to be accessed, only SMS. However there is a bug in which email can be displayed under SMS not E-mails. Each time you start the car, let the phone pair with the car, then on the iphone go into Settings--Notifications--Mail--Show, then change the number of unread items to something else. If 5 Unread is checked, then change to 10 unread Items, or vice versa. This has to be done everytime you start the car up. As I said, its a bug in the system, and will probably not work in future iOS versions.
Thank you so much my fellow Bimmerfester, by changing the number of unread items each time on the iPhone the e-mails are now coming through. It's a pain in the rear but with a 90-minute drive each day it helps to get through some e-mails. I am hoping BMW will update its software shortly to fix the bug. My Blackberry never had such problems.
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