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Purva Designs' vivid, distinctive palette and penchant for natural materials – think bone, cowhide, and mother-of-pearl – result in a vivacious collection of photo frames, boxes, throw pillows and other home accessories. Purva's handcrafted gifts and home décor items fuse eastern and western appeal to create expressions of a distinctive lifestyle. We love the horn frames and jewelry boxes, hand-dyed by artisans to achieve a rainbow of dramatic textures and designs.
Make these artisan-made, luxurious linens an entertaining mainstay this season. Festive colors and playful patterns add winking panache while the solid-color options give your table a sophisticated twist.
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A car collided with a cyclist before mounting a pavement and hitting two pedestrians in Balham earlier this evening.
The cyclist and pedestrians – aged 50, 54 and 58 - are in a stable condition in hospital following the incident.
The driver of a Nissan Sunny, believed to be a male who was not hurt, was exiting the Sainsbury's car park in Balham Station Road when the accident happened at 4.35pm, witnesses said.
One witness, who called an ambulance, said: "The driver came across the road, hit the cyclist and then mounted the pavement and hit the others. Thankfully he wasn't going too quickly."
Police cordoned off the road – where the mangled bike and car were still lying where they came to rest - into the late evening while they investigated.
A police spokesman said: "We were called at 4.35pm to reports of a collision between a car, a bicycle and two pedestrians. The cyclist and pedestrians were taken to south London hospitals, and are in a stable condition. There have been no arrests."

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On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 13:47 -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > Dear PostgreSQL developers, > > I am re-sending this to keep this last change to the > internal hash function on the radar. > Hi Ken, A few comments: 1. New patch with very minor changes attached. 2. I reverted the change you made to indices.sgml. We still don't use WAL for hash indexes, and in my opinion we should continue to discourage their use until we do use WAL. We can add back in the comment that hash indexes are suitable for large keys if we have some results to show that. 3. There was a regression test failure in union.sql because the ordering of the results was different. I updated the regression test. 4. Hash functions affect a lot more than hash indexes, so I ran through a variety of tests that use a HashAggregate plan. Test setup and results are attached. These results show no difference between the old and the new code (about 0.1% better). 5. The hash index build time shows some improvement. The new code won in every instance in which a there were a lot of duplicates in the table (100 distinct values, 50K of each) by around 5%. The new code appeared to be the same or slightly worse in the case of hash index builds with few duplicates (1000000 distinct values, 5 of each). The difference was about 1% worse, which is probably just noise. Note: I'm no expert on hash functions. Take all of my tests with a grain of salt. I would feel a little better if I saw at least one test that showed better performance of the new code on a reasonable-looking distribution of data. The hash index build that you showed only took a second or two -- it would be nice to see a test that lasted at least a minute. Regards, Jeff Davis
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- Alcoa Expanding Aerospace Investment Casting in Virginia
- "Enhanced" Equiax Casting
New production line, other improvements to launch casting Ni-alloy jet engine blades
- $25-million expansion
- 20% lighter airfoils
- Aiming to grow in aerospace
A view of the airfoils in GE Aviation's GEnx turbofan engine, produced for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 747-8 aircraft. The heat and stress of the application require cast parts with a reliable metallic grain structure. Alcoa chairman Klaus Kleinfeld noted the new technology to be installed at the Hampton, VA, investment casting foundry "will significantly improve the performance of some of the best-selling jet engines in the world."
Alcoa Howmet launched a $25-million expansion of its Hampton, VA, investment casting foundry to produce a new range of aerospace parts, adding another manufacturing line and modifying some current equipment to cast airfoil blades for jet engines. The project also signifies a product line expansion of sorts: presently, the Hampton foundry produces airfoils for industrial gas turbines and large structural castings, in nickel and titanium alloys.
In addition to new and modified production equipment, Alcoa noted the expansion would include robotics and digital X-ray capability for enhanced product inspection.
The Virginia project also may be seen as a complement to the $100-million expansion announced in May for the investment-casting foundry at LaPorte, IN. There, Alcoa Howmet (the investment casting subsidiary of Alcoa Inc.) will be producing larger castings for jet engine parts other than blades, including turbine stators and vanes, and turbine cases, among others.
"We are deploying a state-of-the-art technology that will significantly improve the performance of some of the best-selling jet engines in the world," stated Alcoa chairman and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld at the Virginia project announcement. "This technology and investment further demonstrate how Alcoa is executing on our strategy to aggressively capture demand in the fast-growing aerospace market."
The expansion will begin this month for completion late in 2015. Alcoa said it would receive approximately $2 million in state and local incentives for the Hampton expansion, and an additional $1.3-million exemption on sales and use tax.
At least 75 new employees will be added over three years as a result of the new capacity, Alcoa indicated. Currently, the Hampton plant has 650 employees.


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Subject: Re: [TMG] Previously Viewed Person, Etc.
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:34:28 -0500
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At 09:19 AM 4/25/2004 -0700, Mary Evans wrote:
>Beta testers, where are you on this problem? It's the pits not being able
>to just click on a name and go to that individual but to have TMG take you
>to some random person with the same last name.
I have not been able to see the problem...View Last Person is working
correctly for me and I have no problems in double clicking on an individual
in the Detail, Children, or Sibling Windows and going directly to that
individual....not sure what can be causing your problems....
Paul E. Lawrence
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"Repo Games" Star to Make Future TNA Wrestling Appearance
"Repo Games" star Josh Lewis will be making an appearance for TNA Wrestling in the near future according to a report by TMZ.
TMZ has learned … the Spike TV host and real life repo man has struck a deal to get in the ring with TNA wrestling in the very near future.
It's unclear if Josh will actually wrestle a match … but we're told things will "definitely get physical."
We're told Josh is a life-long wrestling fanatic and REEAALLLY wants to make the wrestling thing a full time gig down the line.


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Informal High Energy Theory Seminar - IAS - Raphael Bousso, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Is There An Alternative To Firewalls?
Bloomberg Lecture Hall - Institute for Advanced Study · 1:30 p.m.– 2:30 p.m.
Lessons from a high-Tc superfluid: probing local quantities in a strongly interacting Fermi gas - Yoav Sagi JILA
The collective behavior of an ensemble of strongly interacting fermions is central to many physical systems including liquid 3He, high-Tc superconductors, quark-gluon plasma, neutron stars, and ultracold Fermi gases. However, theoretical understanding of strongly interacting fermions is challenging due to the many-body nature of the problem and the fact that there is no obvious small parameter for a perturbative analysis.
Ultracold atomic Fermi gases are ideal to shed light on this issue, as they provide excellent controllability, reproducibility, and unique detection methods. One of the problems, however, which complicates the interpretation of these experiments, is the inherent density inhomogeneity of the gas which arises due to the harmonic confinement. We have developed a technique to overcome this difficulty by selectively probing atoms near the center of a trapped gas while still retaining momentum resolution. For a weakly interacting Fermi gas of 40K atoms, we present measurements of the momentum distribution that reveal for the first time a sharp Fermi surface. We then apply the technique to a strongly interacting Fermi gas at the Feshbach resonance, where we probe the temperature dependence of the homogeneous Tans contact. Finally, we combine the technique with momentum resolved photoemission spectroscopy to study the outstanding issue of the nature of the normal state just above the superfluid transition temperature.
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HiCustomer Thank you for asking your question on Just Answer. By the way, it would help me to know:
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Thank you for replying back to me, although you texted the girl while you and your girlfriend were back together you still did nothing wrong you didn't sleep with this girl or even go out with her but the fact that you called her while you and your girlfriend were fighting is what made your girlfriend mad and then you lied about when she confronted you. Maybe you should tell her to explain to her parents how her thumb actually got dislocated and then maybe they won't be so mad at you but I must say your girlfriend should have kept that information about you private and not have told her parents because now they hate you and she wants to be back with you and it makes it so much harder for the two of you to work on your relationship but it is up to her to make things right and tell her parents that you aren't as bad as she made you seem.
Even though she wants to respect her parent and that is a good thing, she can't live for her parents she is 22 years old and it's time for her to make her own life and her parents aren't going to agree with everyone she dates they just have to let her make her own decisions and her own mistakes that is the only way she will learn about life and living life. You will prove to her parents that you aren't out to hurt their daughter and understand they are just trying to protect her from getting hurt you can't expect anything less from a parent. give it some time and they will see that you are not the evil person they think you are right now, you have to be willing to put in the work to help them see that you are good for their daughter. You and your girlfriend have to learn to talk to each other without fighting, sit down calmly and talk things out.
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Local Christians barred from Jerusalem's Holy Week events
Ban highlights ongoing plight of Palestinian Christians
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Independent Catholic News International
April 16, 2014
While pilgrims from around the world are flocking to Jerusalem to attend Holy Week services, many local Christians are not being allowed to join them. Under the 'permit regime' some members of a family to travel while other are barred. Entire scout and school groups who have been preparing for weeks have not received permits.
In this article, Rifat Kassis, general coordinator of Kairos Palestine, and a member of the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum Core group shares a reflection where he describes the emotional anguish that Palestinian Christians are facing. Kassis illustrates how, for Palestinians, Jerusalem is "both the universal sacred place where people go to pray and connect to the holy sites and the capital of my country, Palestine - even when the occupying state doesn't acknowledge it as such."
Jerusalem- the city we love most and visit least
Taking the twelve disciples aside, Jesus said: "Listen, we're going up to Jerusalem, where all the predictions of the prophets concerning the Son of Man will come true."
Then Jesus had his disciples bring him a colt, and they threw their cloaks over it for him to ride. The news of his arrival rippled through the city, and crowds poured out onto the road to see him.
For me - as for most Palestinians, both Muslims and Christians - Jerusalem is the city we love most and visit least.
As a little boy, I remember traveling to Jerusalem with my late father along the old road - a trip that took many hours due to the 'no-man's zone' that forbade us from directly accessing the divided city.
Despite the obstacles that existed even then, I remember going to Jerusalem as a deeply happy event. It meant eating the sweets we couldn't find in our village, and visiting the holy places we'd only heard about in school and church. Or else it meant going to the doctor, since most doctors were based in Jerusalem at that time. In any case, my sentimental relationship with the city is strong.
When the First Intifada broke out in 1987, Jerusalem was sealed off to those of us who lived in the so-called West Bank, and we had to obtain special permits in order to enter the city. Legally, visiting Jerusalem became impossible for me; because I was a past political prisoner, I was put on some kind of state blacklist, and so the Israeli authorities wouldn't grant me a permit.
Since 2002, I have not returned to Jerusalem. My 29-year-old son, Dafer, has never visited it at all, although he has probably traveled around half the world. Being barred from Jerusalem is a great emotional and psychological loss to me and to my family.
For Palestinian Christians, Jerusalem is marked not only by symbolic richness, but also by symbolic tensions. First of all, although Jerusalem is considered to be sacred for Christians all over the world -- the place of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, the birthplace of Christianity itself, the site of the first churches and the historical destination of pilgrimages -- it is in many ways a normal city for us, Palestinians. It is our political capital, and has traditionally been an economic hub, a center of tourism, health services and education.
In this sense, then, my relation to Jerusalem as a Palestinian Christian is twofold: it is, for me, both the universal sacred place where people go to pray and connect to the holy sites and the capital of my country, Palestine - even when the occupying state doesn't acknowledge it as such.
Even more powerfully, however, Jerusalem is the universal sacred place I cannot go to practice my faith, and the capital city I cannot visit.
Jerusalem is also a focal point of the Palestinian struggle: the place where our struggle began and where it will end. Its significance is symbolic on both a religious and a political scale, both for Palestinians and for Israelis.
Full Story: Jerusalem: Local Christians barred from attending Holy Week services
Source: Independent Catholic News
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It may take some time for the light to go out, it is good you have no codes.
The computer does not look at miles driven in determining whether to keep the light on or turn it off. It looks at "cycles." A cycle is a trip that begins with a cold start, continues until the engine is warmed up, and possibly includes other factors as well such as attaining a certain minimum speed or idling for a certain number of seconds. Your light will go out after your car runs a certain number of of cycles without the fault recurring. If you go out and start the car and drive it 500 miles before shutting it off, that's one cycle. And if you take 7 short trips where the car never cools down between trips, that might not count at all.
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This is NOT medical advice!! My instructions aim to make this simple, but you should have your doctor or nurse show you how, too. Nothing's a substitute for in-person lessons, though this might help you remember how to do it later. Also, it goes without saying that injectable B12 and needles are both Rx items, and you shouldn't give your friends or anybody else B12 injections even if they have a prescription for the vitamin!
If your doctor refuses to prescribe the vitamin for you because your levels are "fine" (anywhere between 200-600 is often mistakenly considered acceptable), you can get vitamins elsewhere. Email me to ask for the information you need.
1. Get your supplies ready. You'll need the liquid vitamin (cyanocobalamin injection, USP, 1000 mcg/ml for IM or SC use only) and 1 or 3 ml, 25 gauge 1" needle. If you're a serious germ freak, rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball are nice. I do it after a shower, so I feel plenty clean. LOL I prefer the 3 ml/cc syringes because they are bigger and sturdier, but they gave me 1 cc syringes last time and they will work. (1 ml=1 cc)
2. Take the syringe out of the package. Make sure the needle's securely fastened to the syringe (if it's one of the screw-on kinds, as most of them are, this is important). Take the cap off the needle. Draw the syringe plunger back so that you have just over 1 cc of air in the syringe. Holding the bottle and the syringe upside-down, push the needle through the rubber stopper of the vitamin bottle and inject the air into the liquid vitamin.
3. Still holding the needle and bottle upside-down, pull the plunger back to pull about 0.5 cc of the vitamin in to the syringe. Tap the syringe a few times to get any air bubbles to rise to the top. Push those air bubbles back into the bottle of the vitamin before continuing to withdraw the vitamin solution. Eventually, you will have 1 cc of vitamin and no air in the syringe.
4. Bare your thigh (or your bottom) and make sure your skin is clean. Use rubbing alcohol if you like to use something to clean the skin; if you do, let it air-dry before proceeding.
5. Select a muscular part of the thigh (or the bum) as the injection site. Push the needle through the skin slowly (you don't need to "jab" it as that causes the most discomfort and can bend the needle!) With the 1" needles, you want to push the needle in until the syringe is almost touching your skin. Pull back on the plunger a little bit. If the plunger will pull back and/or you suddenly have blood in the needle, you have hit a blood vessel and you should withdraw the needle about 1/8" before injecting the vitamin. If you can't pull the plunger back, that's good, so push the plunger in gently until the plunger touches the bottom of the syringe. I find slow is better, but some people can push the plunger in quite quickly with no discomfort. I wait two seconds before removing the needle so that the vitamin doesn't 'leak' back out of the injection site, but if it does, you can wipe it off with a tissue. Again, if you are a germ freak, you can put a band-aid on the injection site, but in the time it would take me to unwrap a band-aid, I would lose the injection site, so I think a band-aid is mostly "mental medicine" in this case. :-)
|6. Recap the needle carefully and then take the used needles back to any pharmacy or doctor for safe disposal. In many places, it's illegal to put used needles into the trash because it's dangerous for the garbage collectors.
That's it. Store the vitamin in a dark place at controlled room temperature. DON'T reuse needles! The vitamin is so cheap that you can discard the vial and get a new one every 90 days, even though it contains enough vitamin for 30 injections.
Hope this helps. BE BRAVE! It's really not a big deal once you take a deep breath and pierce the skin the first time with that needle. When you do it yourself, you can control the pace so that it doesn't hurt... too slow, and I'm just drawing it out and it makes me nervous, and too fast, and you are jabbing the muscle which can make it spasm. Maybe one shot in 20 I get a small bruise from nicking a blood vessel with the needle; this is absolutely no big deal. It's impossible (according to the literature) to OD on vitamin B-12 because you urinate out any excess. When injected intramuscularly, it reaches the bloodstream within 5 minutes and you store all of it that your body is going to store in the liver within the first four hours after an injection.
Some people find that they get a "rush" from the injections; anecdotal evidence suggests that this is more common when blood serum levels are below 1000. For this reason, many people prefer to do the injections in the morning.


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The following is a recommended outline for a course syllabus:
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Evidence concealed in Stevens corruption case, report says
WASHINGTON – The government's botched corruption case against Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was "permeated by the systematic concealment" of evidence favorable to his defense, a court-appointed investigator concluded in a report released today.
A jury convicted Stevens in 2008 on seven counts of lying on Senate financial disclosure statements. Days later, Stevens lost his Senate re-election bid. In 2009, federal Judge Emmet Sullivan threw out the conviction.
The 525-page report said the evidence prosecutors failed to disclose "seriously damaged the testimony and credibility of the government's key witness."
Stevens, who died in a plane crash in 2010, was accused of violating federal ethics laws by failing to disclose more than $250,000 in gifts and services he used to renovate his Girwood, Alaska, home. One of the key witnesses against him was former oilfield executive Bill Allen.
The report found that federal prosecutors made "astonishing misstatements" to Stevens' attorneys in an attempt to conceal information about their chief witness's role in pressing a child prostitute to sign a false declaration indicating that he never had sex with her when she was underage.
Ted Stevens: The former senator was accused of violating federal ethics laws.
Prosecutors worried that this information might undermine his credibility in the case against Stevens and never disclosed it to Stevens' attorneys, the report says.
In addition, the investigation found that at least one prosecutor allowed Allen to lie in court. Allen's company paid for renovations to Stevens' home, and Stevens twice sent him letters asking to be billed for the work. Allen told jurors during Stevens' trial that the senator was "just covering his ass."
Allen testified that he had told investigators long before that Stevens didn't want to be billed, when in fact he revealed that information for the first time less than a week before the trial began. The report suggests that Stevens' attorneys could have used the fact to argue that his statement was false.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Bottini "knew the testimony was false and knew that he had an obligation … to correct that testimony there and then, but he did not," the report found. It said Bottini "endorsed and capitalized on Mr. Allen's false denial during his summation."
"The complete, simultaneous and long term memory failure by the entire prosecution team, four prosecutors and the FBI case agent, of the same statement about an important document made at the same meeting by their key witness in a high profile case is extraordinary," Schuelke's report said.
It said prosecutors fretted repeatedly over the notes in which Stevens asked to be billed, "but no cure for the problem created by those notes for the government's case was found until the week before the trial began when Mr. Allen's memory suddenly improved, after prodding" by an FBI agent.
Bottini's lawyer, Kenneth Wainsten, maintained in a letter released Thursday that "Bottini's conduct throughout the Stevens prosecution was ethical, proper, and in keeping with his reputation for unimpeachable integrity and fairness."
Catherine Ann Stevens, Ted's wife, released a statement saying the family is "shocked by the depth and breadth of the government's misconduct."
Brendan Sullivan, one of Stevens' attorneys, said the misconduct documented in the report went far beyond what he had anticipated.
"I expected the worst, but the depth and breadth of the wrongdoing is shocking," he said. "It's the worst corruption in our generation at the Department of Justice."
The report was prepared at the request of Judge Sullivan by Washington attorney Henry Schuelke. Its findings had remained under seal since November while some of the prosecutors named in the case fought to keep it concealed.
The Justice Department has acknowledged that it failed to tell Stevens' lawyers about inconsistent statements Allen made to federal investigators. The Supreme Court has said since 1963 that prosecutors have a constitutional duty to disclose that type of evidence.
Schuelke's report said the prosecutors could not be charged with criminal contempt of court for their conduct because Sullivan had never given them a "clear and unequivocal" order that they "follow the law."
Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney said the department "cooperated fully" with the inquiry and is in the process of completing its own review of the matter.
Attorney General Eric Holder told senators at a hearing March 8 that the Justice Department's own investigation of what went wrong in Stevens' case is nearly complete and that the probe recommended disciplinary actions for at least some of the prosecutors involved. He said he intends to make as much of the department's investigation public as possible.
An investigation last year by USA TODAY found that the Justice Department usually took years to review instances of misconduct and that lawyers found by courts to have committed serious violations faced little risk of losing their jobs.
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Washington (AFP) Feb 14, 2013
Sectarian tensions and political discord in Iraq signal a "troubling" trend in the country since US troops withdrew a year ago, a top American general warned on Thursday.
Iraq has remained stable but "fragile," said General Lloyd Austin, who was the last US commander in Iraq before all his forces withdrew in December 2011.
Austin offered his assessment when pressed by Republican Senator John McCain, a hawk on the Iraq war who has heavily criticized President Barack Obama for pulling out American troops.
"So do you believe Iraq is headed in a positive or negative direction?" McCain asked the general.
"Sir, I think, again, some of the things that we're seeing in Iraq are very troubling, with the Arab current tensions, with the Sunni protests," he said.
McCain then asked: "So whether we had troops there -- a residual force there or not wouldn't have mattered?"
Austin acknowledged that a US troop presence would have been helpful.
"I think that, certainly, if we could have continued to advise and assist the Iraqis, I think certainly it would have continued to make them better."
The Obama administration says it sought to negotiate a follow-on force but the Iraqi government refused to grant legal immunity to US forces deployed there.
McCain and some other lawmakers, however, have argued that the White House did not make a concerted effort to clinch an agreement.
Austin said that while there was cause for concern, there were also some encouraging signs, citing oil production and the performance of Iraqi security forces, which he said had remained united despite political crisis.
"They've been challenged several times, in terms of security, but the security forces have really held, and they're still loyal to the civilian leadership. They haven't fractured," the general said.
"And so there are a couple of things in there that do indicate that if they begin to make the right decisions politically, that I think they have a chance at moving in the right direction."
Austin discussed Iraq and other hotspots at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination to take over US Central Command, which oversees US forces across the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Iraq has been rocked by a wave of car bombs and suicide attacks in recent weeks, raising fears of a return to the sectarian bloodshed that plagued the country from 2005 to 2008.
The violence has come against a backdrop of political crisis and weeks of protests in Sunni-majority areas demanding the ouster of Shiite prime minister Nuri al-Maliki.
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Who's the most feared and hated man in Ottawa? That's easy. It's Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page, scourge of waste and boondoggles, champion of truth and justice. You may think he's just a scrawny, bald accountant. But he's really the avenging angel of the beleaguered taxpayer.
Take those F-35s – the coolest toys for boys since Star Wars. They're stealthy and invisible, but they're not cheap. In 2010, the government said they would cost $16-billion. Last year, Mr. Page warned that the total cost would be close to $30-billion. He called the procurement process "completely broken."
Naturally, the Conservatives struck back hard. Generals and bureaucrats struck back, too. They attacked Mr. Page's credibility. They said he didn't know what he was talking about. But it turned out he was being modest. Now an outside auditor's report says those jets will really cost $45.8-billion. Within moments of the report's release on Wednesday, the government announced a "reset."
No wonder the Conservatives loathe Mr. Page. Stephen Harper has staked his reputation on prudent management and fiscal responsibility. And Mr. Page's job is to expose the gaping black holes of government – the ones that suck in money the way galactic black holes suck in light.
Why do we need these fighter jets, anyway? I don't have a clue. If Defence Minister Peter MacKay has a clue, he's not telling. Maybe he thinks we might have to bomb the Chinese. It's also not clear why he thinks this super-duper advanced stealth technology will be good for 40 years. At the rate the world is changing, this plane will be obsolete by the time the paint is dry.
Mr. Page is also right about the process. Entire books have been written to explain why military procurement in Canada so often goes so wrong. Yet, the problem seems beyond the capacity of governments to fix. As one defence insider told me, "Just about the only procurement program we haven't screwed up was when we bought new coffee mugs."
This week, the avenging angel struck again. Mr. Page issued a new report on public-service compensation costs. He found that, over the past decade, the total wage bill for the federal civil service has nearly doubled. It's now nearly $44-billion – which amounts to $1,275 per Canadian in federal personnel costs alone.
Needless to say, the government doesn't want you to hear this message, either. On Wednesday, Treasury Board President Tony Clement called Mr. Page's numbers "inflated."
"It's like a fighter jet program every year," James Lahey, an expert on the subject of federal pay, told me. He says public-sector pay is a "black box" that only a handful of high priests understand. The government has vowed to hold the line on costs. But the spiralling cost of public-sector compensation is mysterious, opaque and seemingly impervious to reform.
Fighter jets make the front page because they make for sexy scandals. Public servants' pay scales are extremely dull. But both cost piles of money – yours. While nobody was looking, total compensation for federal bureaucrats has stealthily crept up to $114,000 a year on average (including salary, benefits and pension costs). Their pay has grown faster than that of any other employee group in Canada, public or private. Mr. Page warns that, by 2015, their average compensation could reach $130,000.
Mr. Lahey once wrote an exhaustive report on compensation reform that was totally ignored. "In public administration, there are subjects that are complex, difficult and icky, and people don't really want to deal with them," he told me. No one has any idea if we're getting value for our $44-billion, because no one is sure what we want those bureaucrats to do. "There needs to be a public discussion on what kind of public service we need, anyway."
Defence procurement is also complex, difficult and icky. Even the Americans are choking at the cost of the F-35s, and now it looks as if a large part of the program could fall off the fiscal cliff. Stephen Harper should forget about the reset button, and press the eject button.Report Typo/Error
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Privatization, cooperation and costs of solid waste services in small towns
This paper analyzes the cost implications of privatization and cooperation in the provision of solid waste services for a sample of small municipalities. In conducting this empirical analysis, a survey is first designed and administered to municipalities in the Spanish region of Aragon, and then an estimation of the determinants of service costs is undertaken, considering the possible endogeneity of delivery choices. Our findings indicate that cooperation is more effective than privatization in saving costs. Both production forms can enable small municipalities to cut costs by exploiting scale economies. However, the fact that inter-municipal cooperation involves lower transaction costs and is less likely to be affected by competition problems would seem to account for the fact that it is a more effective way of reducing costs.
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Star Wars Episode 7 Plot, Rumors, Cast Revealed: Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Replace Harrison Ford as Han Solo? New Details, Filming in Britain
New rumors are saying that Joseph Gordon-Levitt could be replacing Harrison Ford as Han Solo in J.J. Abrams' "Star Wars Episode 7." Other details emerged for the 2015 movie cast.
According to E! Online, sources close to the Disney project said that the film "will be based on an original story-in other words, not from any of the many books, comics or graphic novels that have supplemented the sweeping story."
This could mean that "Star Wars" may see a younger version of Ford's Han Solo in the new movie.
Gordon-Levitt is a big possibility for the role. DigitalSpy chose "The Dark Knight" actor to play Han Solo in a proposed standalone movie, so that means fans also wouldn't mind him in "Episode 7."
Other huge fan-favorites for Han Solo are "Castle" star Nathan Fillion, James Franco, Tom Hardy, and Ryan Gosling.
Ford may come back though. He's staying silent on the whole thing, but Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said that the main three, including Han Solo (Harrison Ford previously) would be coming back, according to ScreenCrush. Mark Hamill recently revealed that he will reprise his role as Luke Skywalker.
While we are trying to figure out the casting part of the new movie, new details emerged about where filming will take place.
According to Moviefone.com, the newest installment of the beloved "Star Wars" franchise would shoot in Britain, where filming on all six of the previous films took place.
"We've devoted serious time and attention to revisiting the origins of 'Star Wars' as inspiration for our process on the new movie, and I'm thrilled that returning to the U.K. for production and utilizing the incredible talent there can be a part of that," said Kennedy.
The Sun previously reported that the "Star Wars" movie would be filmed in Scotland for some of the scenes, some in the Highlands and the Isle of Skye.
"Location bosses feel Scotland possesses stunning scenery perfect for movie backdrops," a source said. "They will look great on the big screen and the rock formations will replicate the perception of mountainous planets. It will be the first time Star Wars has ever been shot north of the border."
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NFL notebook: Falcons add RB Jackson from Rams
The Falcons found their replacement for Michael Turner on Thursday by agreeing to terms with Steven Jackson, considered the top free-agent running back, on a three-year, $12 million deal.
The 30-year-old Jackson had 1,042 yards rushing and four touchdowns with the Rams last season. It was his eighth straight season with more than 1,000 yards rushing.
Jackson's 10,135 yards rushing for his career are the most of any active player. He set career highs with 1,528 yards rushing and 13 touchdowns with St. Louis in 2006.
Jackson averaged 4.1 yards per carry with the Rams and gives Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan another receiver to target. Jackson had at least 38 catches in each of his last eight seasons in St. Louis.
Tuck rule sacked?
The tuck rule could disappear from NFL games if owners approve a proposal from the competition committee to dump it.
The owners also will consider a change to instant replay rules allowing for a video review even when a coach makes an illegal challenge. The league meetings are next week in Phoenix.
If a passer is in the act of bringing the ball down into his body rather than throwing it and loses control, it has been ruled an incomplete pass under the tuck rule. The proposal would make it a fumble.
N.Y. AG: Investigate questions about sexual orientation
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has urged the NFL to investigate whether possible draft picks were improperly asked about their sexual orientation during the league's combine, which he said would be illegal in New York.
"We ask that the league immediately issue a statement that any form of discrimination or harassment on the basis of sexual orientation by league teams or players against potential recruits or players constitutes a violation of state, local and, in some cases, contractor law and will not be tolerated," Schneiderman said in a letter dated Thursday and released to news organizations.
Schneiderman asked NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to call him by next Wednesday to schedule a meeting on the matter.
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Washington: The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a legislative proposal for a far-reaching overhaul of the National Security Agency's once-secret bulk phone records program in a way that – if approved by Congress – would end the aspect that has most alarmed privacy advocates since its existence was leaked last year, according to senior administration officials.
Under the proposal, they said, the NSA would end its systematic collection of data about Americans' calling habits. The records would stay in the hands of phone companies, which would not be required to retain the data for any longer than normal. And the NSA could obtain specific records only with permission from a judge, using a new kind of court order.
In a speech in January, US President Barack Obama said he wanted to get the NSA out of the business of collecting call records in bulk while preserving the program's capabilities. He acknowledged, however, that there was no easy way to do so and had instructed Justice Department and intelligence officials to come up with a plan by March 28, this Friday, when the current court order authorising the program expires.
As part of the proposal, the administration has decided to ask the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to renew the program as it currently exists for at least one more 90-day cycle, senior administration officials said. But under the plan the administration has developed and now advocates, the officials said, it would late undergo major changes.
The new surveillance court orders envisioned by the administration would require phone companies to swiftly provide records in a technologically compatible data format, including making available, on a continuing basis, data about any new calls placed or received after the order is received, the officials said.
They would also allow the government to seek related records for callers up to two calls, or "hops", removed from the number that has come under suspicion, even if those callers are customers of other companies.
The NSA now retains the phone data for five years. But the administration considered and rejected imposing a mandate on phone companies that they hold onto their customers' calling records for longer than the 18 months that federal regulations already generally require – a burden that the companies had resisted and that was seen as a major obstacle to keeping the data in their hands. A senior administration official said that intelligence agencies had concluded that the impact of that change would be small because older data is less important.
The NSA uses the once-secret call records program – sometimes known as the 215 program, after Section 215 of the Patriot Act – to analyse links between callers in an effort to identify hidden terrorist associates, if they exist. It was part of the secret surveillance program that then president George W. Bush unilaterally put in place after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, outside of any legal framework or court oversight.
In 2006, as part of a Bush administration effort to put its programs on a firmer legal footing, the Justice Department persuaded the surveillance court to begin authorising the program.
Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, called the administration's proposal a "sensible outcome, given that the 215 program likely exceeded current legal authority and has not proved to be effective". While he said that he would like to see more reforms to other surveillance authorities, he said the proposal addressed the major concerns with the bulk records program.
Jameel Jaffer, of the American Civil Liberties Union, said: "We have many questions about the details but we agree with the administration that the NSA's bulk collection of call records should end." He added: "As we've argued since the program was disclosed, the government can track suspected terrorists without placing millions of people under permanent surveillance."
The administration proposal will join a jumble of bills in Congress ranging from proposals that would authorise the current program with only minor adjustments to proposals to end it.
In recent days, attention in Congress has shifted to legislation developed by leaders of the House intelligence committee. That bill, according to people familiar with a draft proposal, would have the court issue an overarching order authorising the program but allow the NSA to issue subpoenas for specific phone records without prior judicial approval.
The Obama administration proposal, by contrast, would retain a judicial role in determining whether the standard of suspicion was met for a particular phone number before the NSA could obtain associated records.
The administration's proposal would also include a provision clarifying whether section 215 of the Patriot Act, due to expire next year unless Congress reauthorises it, may in the future be legitimately interpreted as allowing bulk phone data collection.
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A weekend in Toronto and a quick day trip (with a designated driver!) to nearby Lake Ontario wine country.
Our guest Instagrammer will be taking us on a tour of Toronto this week. That's the thing about art directors: They have such a great eye.
Weirdest thing seen on travels: Flash mobs. It just isn't the same as just watching them on YouTube. Everywhere I go, I check out the local pub. The key to my heart is good pint of beer.
TORONTO – Mayan food in the Distillery District. A Jewish deli in Little Italy. It's new and it's old, from the east and the west: Neighborhood food fusions make for a truly Canadian dining experience.
TORONTO – Step out of the cold and right up to the bar. Our favorite spots to imbibe this fall.


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During the next session I intend to again propose legislation that will give the courts the tools they need to speed up the foreclosure process where warranted (such as abandoned properties). Such legislation also needs to provide Condominium and Homeowner Associations the ability to move the foreclosure process along when assessments from a borrower in foreclosure are unpaid and the foreclosure process has languished in the courts. We also need to provide safeguards for borrowers in foreclosure that the foreclosing lender actually has the right to foreclose, the correct paperwork is filed and the correct amounts owing to the lender are confirmed.
Source: http://www.kathleenpassidomo.com/issues/


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