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Here's a gamble: pick a letter of the alphabet between A and G (inclusive). Now be prepared to bet a lot of money that your choice represents an enduring technology direction.
That's something of the challenge facing organizations contemplating wireless networking rollouts in the next 18 months. Do you sink your money into equipment enabled to run on the emerging 802.11a and 802.11g Wi-Fi standards, or look for new and improved services being offered over conventional cellular networks (in the expectation that those services, some of which remain expensive, will become cheaper)?
Looking further ahead, the next decade will see many changes, most likely including far wider availability of Wi-Fi hotspots, the emergence of metro-area Wi-Fi networks and the extension of Wi-Fi access to vehicles and planes (with which at least two airlines are experimenting right now).
Security in the Wi-Fi area will (presumably) be a lot better, with users demanding much higher standards than at present as the technology moves into the mainstream.
The Wi-Fi world is set to receive a boost in the near future if a draft standard before the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is accepted.
The 802.3af draft outlines a way to run electricity over ethernet cables, paving the way for easier deployment of wireless LANs by removing the need to run both power and network lines to wireless LAN endpoints.
At least two vendors, 3Com and Foundry Networks, have released PoE (power over ethernet) hardware, as the technology also has benefits for wired networks. Foremost among wireless questions to be answered in the next few years is whether 802.11a or 802.11g will become the natural successor to the present wireless LAN industry standard, 802.11b.
Both offer speeds of up to 54Mbit/s in ideal conditions, which means in reality that you might get 30Mbit/s or so.
802.11a operates in a different radio frequency band to 802.11b and thus for those already using b there are compatibility issues with migrating to a, whereas g offers a clearer path, running in the same spectrum as b.
Some wireless LAN hardware manufacturers are going with g exclusively, but most are hedging their bets and shipping dual-mode products, so just which will become b's natural successor is unclear at this stage.
Once the a-g contest is settled, however, it won't be the end of wireless LAN development


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An SI/MKS unit of measure, the length of one one-millionth of a meter. Symbols: µm, um, rm
An SI/MKS unit of measure, the length of one one-millionth of a meter. Symbols: µm, um, rm
Examples of micrometer in the following topics:
Units of Measurement for Microbes
- The units used to describe objects on a microscopic length scale are most commonly the Micrometer (oi) - one millionth of 1 meter and smaller units.
- Most microbes are around 1 micrometer in size.
- Animal cells are typically around 10 micrometers in size.
Microbe Size
- To put a numerical value on microbial size, most measurements of microbes are done with the unit of measure of micrometer, which is one millionth of a meter (one 2,500th of an inch).
- These bacteria range in size from 0.2 x 0.5 micrometers to 0.3 x 2.0 micrometers.
Scanned-Probe Microscopy
- A scan may cover a distance of over 100 micrometers in the x and y directions and 4 micrometers in the z direction.
- Fimbriae are fine filaments of protein, just 3–10 nanometers in diameter and up to several micrometers in length.
- This appendage ranges from 3-10 nanometers in diameter and can be up to several micrometers long.
Intracellular Pathogens
- They typically range between 1 and 5 micrometers in length.
- The typical fungal spore size is 1 to 40 micrometers in length.
Rickettsial Diseases
- These bacteria range in size from 0.2 x 0.5 micrometers to 0.3 x 2.0 micrometers.
- A syringe filter with a pore size of 0.22 micrometers, small enough to capture and retain bacterial and fungal cells.
Nitrospirae and Deferribacter
- It is a Gram-negative nitrite-oxidizing organism with a helical to vibroid morphology 0.9-2.2 x 0.2-0.4 micrometers in size.
Starvation-Induced Fruiting Bodies
- Migrating towards each other, they aggregate to form fruiting bodies up to 500 micrometers long containing approximately 100,000 bacterial cells.
- Bacillus anthracis is a rod-shaped, Gram-positive, aerobic bacterium about 1 by 9 micrometers in length.

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Today thousands of women across the UK are attending female-focused events, not sitting around remembering the actions of the Pankhursts.
From a public celebration of inspirational women in Cardiff, to the singer Annie Lennox leading a mass march across London's Millennium Bridge for charity, activities galore are happening around the whole country, and the rest of the world.
Millions of women around the world are mobilized, appreciated and inspired on March 8th. And, being part of a generation where women think of feminism as a dirty word, having one day a year where it's actually acceptable to focus on the needs of women and the progress that still needs to be made in the quest for social, political and economic equality is a bit of a relief, to be quite frank.
When the chauvinism of former Sky Sports presenters Andy Gray and Richard Keys was exposed recently, most women I encountered, working in the media and socially, wanted to laugh it off and say 'it's just boys being boys'.
Meanwhile, the women who did think these two cavemen's remarks were not only disgusting but symptomatic of some men's lingering prejudiced attitudes towards women in the workplace were shouted down by women and men alike for 'taking life too seriously'.
Feminism to these people has become a by-word for irrational aggression. And this shouldn't be the case. The extreme irony is that women who say they 'didn't have a major issue' with the Sky Sports News presenters' comments' are all women who seem like they don't want to 'rock the boat' and appear 'all militant' to their male friends, employers and even lovers. That militancy, it should be remembered, which is the same militancy that helped get them into the socio-economic position they find themselves in today.
International Women's Day is as vital 100 years on as it was in 1911. It reminds the majority of women who, in their emancipated state, have turned their backs on the female cause, that anti-female sentiment has not disappeared, and probably never will. Most importantly, this global day allows even the staunchest anti-feminist woman to stop what she's doing, celebrate women's achievements the world over and recognise what's left to accomplish.
Last month, Lord Davies of Abersoch, who has been leading a government inquiry into the male dominance of UK boardrooms, stopped short of enforcing the nuclear option of recommending mandatory quotas of women, but said FTSE 100 companies should aim for their boards to be 25% female by 2015.
"We need radical change in the boardrooms of Britain," he said. "There are talented women out there that should be in the boardroom as non-executives."
At present just 135 out of 1,076 (12.5%) FTSE 100 directorships are held by women. In the blue-chip index, 18 companies have no women on the board at all, while in the FTSE 250 that is true of nearly 50% of firms. Davies declared the pace of change "too slow" and said that, at the current rate, it would take more than 70 years to even out.
And that's just looking at women's representation in the high-powered corporate environment. What about how women feel about themselves in a social context?
I have always maintained that I am an egalitarian feminist, not a totalitarian one. I don't want to dominate men – I just want to sit alongside them in all walks of life. Ideally I want to have children when my career is at a stage where perhaps I could have the option of not working for a while – because, at the end of the day, women are fundamentally different to men through our childbearing role, if nothing else.
However, with supposed business leaders such as Sir Alan Sugar currently pushing for women to be encouraged to tell bosses in interviews when they are planning to have kids, it has never been more important for women to realise they still have to keep a fighting hand in to stay steady.
International Women's Day manifests itself in different ways around the world, and has done for the last century. The internet has helped the day gather increased momentum once more, as women from around the globe are able to share in each other's experiences with one click of the mouse.
At the most recent TED Women conference, Sheryl Sandberg, the high-powered chief operating officer of Facebook, doled out some simple advice: always sit at the table – both in work and at home. If women make sure they are always at the proverbial table where the agenda is being created, they can help shape events. If women aren't there, they remain out of the loop. She also advised pregnant working women to "not leave before you leave". As in, women shouldn't leave their job mentally before they physically leave on maternity, otherwise colleagues as well as their employers will write them off.
Women, like any other group, need focused events, such as TED Women, to sharpen the mind and galvanise the spirit on the issues at hand. And sometimes to even take stock of what the current issues are. International Women's Day does all of that, and crucially, allows the huge number of female 'anti-feminists' to come out of the closet for one day only and just feel proud.
This article first appeared on MyDaily.co.uk.


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T.G.I. Friday's Fried Green Beans
T.G.I Friday's fried green beans are offered on the appetizer menu as an interesting twist on a classic vegetable side dish.[1] Learning how to make T.G.I. Friday's recipes at home makes it easy to spice up a regular meal, enhance a dinner party or save money over enjoying dishes at the restaurant. The T.G.I. Friday's fried green beans recipe utilizes fresh green beans, a quick frying method, and a spicy, yet cool cucumber-Wasabi ranch sauce for dipping. While the dish is served as an appetizer, it also works well as a side dish. Plan on serving the fried beans soon after preparation for best results. While leftovers can be stored in the refrigerator, reheating results in somewhat soggy green beans, so prepare enough for one meal at a time.
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T.G.I Friday's Fried Green Beans Ingredients
- 1 pound fresh green beans
- 1 cup ranch dressing[3]
- 1/4 cup minced cucumber
- 1 teaspoon Wasabi powder[4]
- 1 teaspoon vinegar
- 1 1/2 teaspoon horseradish
- 3 cubes chicken bullion
- 1 cube beef bullion
- 4 cups water
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup Panko bread crumbs
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk +1 tablespoon (for sauce, if necessary)
T.G.I Friday's Fried Green Beans Recipe
- Clean and de-string green beans.
- In a small bowl, combine ranch dressing, cucumber, Wasabi powder, vinegar and horseradish.
- Stir well until a thick sauce is formed. Some water or milk may be added to reach the desired consistency.
- In a large pot, combine the chicken and beef bullion cubes with 4 cups of water; bring to a boil.
- Put green beans into boiling broth and allow to cook for approximately 12 minutes, or until tender, yet crisp.
- Dunk green beans into an ice water bath to stop the cooking process and remain the texture of the green beans, then allow to dry on paper towels.
- In a medium-sixed mixing bowl, combine flour, Panko bread crumbs, garlic powder, onion powder and cayenne pepper in a medium-sized mixing bowl.
- In a separate bowl, combine the egg and milk.
- Dip green beans into egg wash, then dredge into flour mixture.
- Cover the bottom of a frying pan with olive oil.
- Fry green beans for about 2 minutes, turning frequently until the beans take on a golden brown hue.[5]
- Repeat frying process until all green beans are fried.
- Serve immediately with dipping sauce.
How to Make T.G.I. Friday's Fried Green Beans Video
- While this dish offers a spicy and addicting appetizer or side dish, it may be too spicy for more delicate palates. To tone down the dish, leave out the cayenne pepper and select an alternative dipping sauce. Consider a ranch and cucumber mixture or simply a ranch dipping sauce as an alternative. Blue ranch dressing can also offer an interesting taste.
Also See: How to Make T.G.I. Friday's Potato Skins, How to Make a Chili's Awesome Blossom, How to Make a Bloomin' Onion, How to Make Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuits , How to Make Red Lobster Rice Pilaf
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Here's some video footage of my little terrors at play :
Lots of flops, a binky or two, a Bunny 500, and of course -- my Tans ADORABLE little faces!
NikitaSue -- Sometimes it gets REALLY difficult. We used to be able to tell the blacks apart because the girl was slightly bigger and VERY skittish but since her spay she's been insanely lovable and has developed the silly, goofy personalities of her brothers.... sooooooo now (don't tell anyone) every once in awhile we have to check their tattoos and make sure we're talking to the right bun. The breeder we got them from tattoos all their ears when they're babies. So they all have a number and letters inside their right ear. A few times we've realized we're calling the wrong bun by the wrong name, LOL.
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The P.E.I. 2014 event Uncover the Island: Bike and Hike Tip to Tip, being hosted by Island Trails, is a 360-km bike ride and hike that will take participants from North Cape to the scenic lighthouse of East Point. On Saturday, June 21, participants will start their journey by cycling from North Cape along the Confederation Trail to Alberton. The next Saturday, and every Saturday for the next 14 weeks, participants will cycle or hike a linear route that covers most of the Confederation Trail.
People can join in on any Saturday along the way. This no-cost event runs from June 21 - Sept. 27.
Visit www.islandtrails.ca or email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information. Participants can register online.
The grass may always be greener on the other side of this wintery season but there's still plenty of outdoor adventure to be had.
In fact, it's prime snowshoeing time on the many woodland trails that are free-to-use all across Prince Edward Island.
"Each trail has its own special flair," says Susan Norton, secretary of Island Trails, which promotes, develops, and maintains a network of trails in the province, including seven Destination hiking trails that were developed by the organization over the past decade.
That list includes Dromore Woodland Trails, North Cape Nature Trail, Breadalbane Nature Trail, Winter River Trail, Forest Hill Trail, Boughton River Trail and Gairloch Trail.
In terms snowshoeing, a continuous stream of snowshoers basically self-groom the trails after each fresh influx of snow.
"The grooming is basically walking," says Bryson Guptill, president of Island Trails.
"They're not groomed by anything other than people; people track them. And certainly in terms of the ones around Charlottetown, people are walking on them quite frequently."
"It doesn't take long after a new snow for people to get out and track them, and that makes it easier for other people to come along," Norton adds.
The Winter River Trail in Suffolk is one of the most used trails because of its close proximity to the capital city.
"It's very rare to come out here and not see someone on the trail," Norton says.
There is signage along the trails to guide people through, as well as coloured markers to indicate which portion of the trail they are on.
Trail brochures are also available in a special weatherproof container at each trail entrance that highlight the special features of each. There is a wealth of information online at www.islandtrails.ca, including directions and GPS coordinates to each trailhead and maps of the various trail layouts.
"There are 22 trails that we (list) on our website. In P.E.I. they're always (on) a mixture of public lands and public/private land. . . ," Guptill says.
"For many of the trails, we actually built on to trails that have been there for a long time and we've added loops and extra portions to them."
The making of seven Destination trails and construction of the many benches and bridges on the trails was funded by Island Trails, which had federal and provincial partners for those projects.
Membership dues and donations are the funding backbone for the non-profit organization.
There presently 80 members and a membership blitz is planned next month to increase that number.
Starting on June 21 and running through to Sept. 27, Island Trails is hosting a P.E.I. 2014 event called Uncover the Island: Bike and Hike Tip to Tip. This 360-km bike ride and hike will take participants from North Cape to the scenic lighthouse of East Point.
On Saturday, June 21 participants will start their journey by cycling from North Cape along the Confederation Trail to Alberton. The next Saturday, and every Saturday for the next 14 weeks, participants will cycle a linear route that covers most of the Confederation Trail.
"But also mixing in to the (cycling) route will be hikes along these trails," Guptill says.
"We will cycle to these various trailheads, hike the trail and we doing it for 15 consecutive Saturdays. We will be doing about 30 kilometres a day for the bike part, and then the hikes will be whatever the length of the trail is. Most of them are about six kilometres."
Island Trails secretary Susan Norton and organization president Bryson Guptill enjoy an afternoon snowshoeing outing on the Winter River Trail in Suffolk.
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Volume 3: Biographies
Thanhouser Career Synopsis: Grace Henderson was an actress with Thanhouser in 1916 and 1917.
Biographical Notes: Grace Henderson (her married name) was born in 1860 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Part of her youth was spent in France, where she took lessons in elocution and acting. Her stage debut occurred in 1877 at McVicker's Theatre in Chicago. For many years she was a member of the Lyceum Theatre stock company in New York, having first appeared there in 1877, in the role of Lucille Ferrand in The Wife. In 1881 she married David (later known as Dell) Henderson, a former typesetter for the New York Herald, who had changed his career to become manager of the Chicago Opera House. After her marriage she retired from the stage, to return in 1885 in a role in In the Ranks, in New York City. During the 1886-1887 season she was with Madame Modjeska's company, and was seen as Celia, Olivia, and the countess in The Chouans. Later, she scored a success as Phyllis Lee in The Charity Ball. Her husband's ill health forced her to retire again, but later she returned to the footlights to be on stage with Nance O'Neill, followed by an engagement in Maude Adams' company of Peter Pan, and a stint with the road company of Lightnin'.
A 1903 wire service news item told of an ugly incident: "New York, August 15 - Because a Negro, Moses Fairfax, was engaged to play an important part in My Wife's Husbands, which is to be produced at the Madison Square Theatre, the other actors and actresses went on strike. Manager Nathaniel Roth argued in vain for half an hour, when at last the rehearsal was broken up by the refusal of the men and women to take their parts. Finally, Roth himself had to read the lines of Fairfax, while the dusky individual sat in a corner and looked on. Grace Henderson began the trouble when it came time for her to appear on the scene with the colored man. 'I never acted with a Negro,' she said, 'and I never expect to.' And with that, Miss Henderson threw her part on the prompt table and backed up against the wall. The others shared her views. Roth has ordered the rehearsals to continue without the Negro for the present."
On the same subject, an article in Broadway Weekly noted, in part: "Said Miss Henderson to a [reporter] who asked for her reasons for refusing to rehearse with a Negro: 'It is superfluous to ask such a question of a Southern woman. Negroes are all right in their proper places. But we in the South never admit that Negroes are our social equals. Actors and actresses in a company always call one another by their first names before the end of the first rehearsal. Don't you see how impossible such a situation would be if I were compelled to rehearse with this Negro? Why, he might commence to call me 'Grace,' and what would I do then?" As deplorable as Miss Henderson's actions might seem to later readers, at the time the situation occurred many other white players felt the same way.
By 1909 she was interspersing her stage work with acting before the motion picture camera. Grace Henderson was in dozens of American Biograph films from that year through 1912. For the next several years she punctuated her screen acting with work on the stage. In 1916 she was on the road in the stage production of Yankee Doodle Dick. Grace Henderson was with the Thanhouser Film Corporation in New Rochelle in 1916 and 1917 and appeared in the 1917 releases of Pots and Pans Peggie, When Love Was Blind, and War and the Woman.
She went back on the stage, where she was seen through the early 1930s, with her last appearance being in Green Grow the Lilacs, produced by the Theatre Guild. Grace Henderson died in Morrisania Hospital, Bronx, New York, on October 30, 1944. At the time she lived at 245 Fort Washington Avenue in the same city. A son, Edwin L. Henderson, of Schenectady, New York, survived her.
Note: Although several of her obituaries gave her birthplace as Ann Arbor, Michigan, in another account concerning the 1903 uproar concerning her refusal to appear on stage with a black man, she told a reporter: "I was born in Tennessee."
Thanhouser Filmography:
1917: Pots and Pans Peggie (3-18-1917), When Love Was Blind (4-15-1917), War and the Woman (9-9-1917)
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Q: I had the misfortune of Southwest Airlines losing my luggage last Friday. What are its obligations to replace it?
— Steve Berry
A: If you haven't already filed a claim, might as well kiss your luggage bye-bye. Damaged or lost baggage must be reported in person within four hours of your arrival.
Assuming you didn't make any special arrangements with the airline when you checked in your luggage, and you remembered to fill out the paperwork, the airline's liability is limited to a total of $1,250.
A look at the fine print in Southwest's luggage policy suggests that when it comes to anything checked-in, there's little love lost between the airline and the passenger. The fun starts with reading travelers the riot act on its two carryon limit (note the name of the URL contains the word "binhog". Guess the Web programmers kept their sense of humor about it.) It continues with a maze of rules and regulations that's dense enough to confuse a lawyer.
Now, brave as Southwest may be for posting its entire contract of carriage — and really, that's something to be proud of — studying it will probably get you no closer to the compensation you're looking for. It may actually just confuse an already confusing problem.
Does the carrier owe you anything? Depends on how you interpret Southwest's own rules. And what you did when you checked your luggage in.
If you suspected that your luggage might go missing in action, you could have paid an additional charge of $1 for each $100 of excess valuation. Exempt from the $1,250 limits are mobility aids and assistive devices, for which the carrier will compensate you up to $2,500.
Under the rules, the declared value of your personal property can't exceed $2,500. You also can't purchase this de-facto dollar travel insurance for items such as money, jewelry, cameras, video and electronic equipment (including computers), silverware, negotiable papers, securities, business documents, samples, items intended for sale, paintings, antiques, artifacts, manuscripts, furs, irreplaceable books or publications and similar valuables.
Just as an aside, ever wonder who these rules are meant to protect? Sure seems like they're shielding the airline against people like you who want to collect every last penny in damages when luggage goes missing.
So I'm guessing that you didn't make any special arrangements, aren't missing a wheelchair and forgot to make a claim when you landed. I'm afraid you're out of luck.
But you're not alone. Last year, Southwest chalked up 267,689 reports of mishandled luggage, according to the US Department of Transportation. That's 4.53 reports per 1,000 passengers. This March, the most recent month reported by the DOT, the Dallas carrier was running at a more respectable 3.95 complaints per thousand.
Southwest has blamed its lost luggage problems on the fact that it began strictly enforcing its carryon limits last year, but that's probably too simple of an explanation. An airline like SWA is more likely to lose luggage because its turnaround times at the gate are often half that of its competitors, meaning there's less time to get everything loaded up — and more of a chance that some items will be left behind.
It's also statistically true that most luggage is eventually recovered, and I can only hope that your bags will turn up sooner or later. A good number to keep handy while you're waiting is Southwest's baggage claim department at its corporate headquarters. The number is (214) 792-6012.
Final word of advice: don't ever check anything that you can't live without. The management of airlines like Southwest know that they could be doing better when it comes to luggage handling, but they don't have much incentive to improve service. I've heard from reliable sources that it's actually more cost-effective to continue paying damages to the folks whose luggage is permanently lost than to install a tracking system like the one used by Federal Express that virtually guarantees you'll see your check-in item again. And there's still too much resistance to baggage-match, a practice common in more security-conscious countries, because it would absolutely ruin every airline's on-time record.


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FIA WTCC Newsletter 2
The Citroën Racing team continues its approaching march to the 2014 FIA World Touring Car Championship.
The French team spent five days of testing at Abu Dhabiâs Yas Marina circuit with its three drivers â Yvan Muller, Sébastien Loeb and José-MarÃa López taking turns at the wheel of a single C-Elysée car.
López opened the test on Friday and Saturday, Loeb took over on Sunday and Monday, while Muller drove on Tuesday. The reigning WTCC champion ran into one of the very rare rainy days of the Arab Emirates.
âWith only one hour of completely dry track in the evening, we could not really accomplish all we had planned. So we better focused on the carâs set up and balance,â Muller said.
On Monday evening, at the end of the test, the team invited Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi, World Rally Championship competitor and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Racing, to drive the C-Elysée for a few laps.
Sébastien Loeb is now flying to Argentina for testing at Termas de RÃo Hondo, at the wheel a car from a local touring car series.
In Short...
TARQUINI: MANUFACTURERSâ TITLE IS PRIORITY
Gabriele Tarquini is not especially happy to be called the doyen of WTCC.
In 2014 he will turn 52, facing his tenth season in the world championship and his 25th in touring car racing. And yet, his spirit and ambitions are still those of a young driver.
He is one of the most successful WTCC drivers, with 19 race victories, 17 pole positions, one World title (2009) and three second places (2008, 2010 and 2013) in the Driversâ Championship.
Now he looks at the 2014 season â his second with Honda Castrol Racing â with clear ideas and his natural optimism.
âIt will be interesting. The new technical rules have reshuffled the cards. We all restart from scratch and nobody knows the new scale of values. There is little doubt that Citroën will benefit from an advantage coming from six months of testing that are crucial for fine tuning and reliability. However, they donât have terms of comparison for the performance, which makes their advantage not so big. And furthermore, they are newcomers in the championship. A very professional team, used to win, but like everybody else they need a period of apprenticeship. Therefore I am confident, because in 2013 we focused on finding the right cohesion in the team between the Japanese and Italian branches. And this will result in a strong, common effort towards victory.â
The Italian is thrilled by the idea of driving the new-spec car.
âMore power and speed make a driver happy! Though I donât feel the new cars will be more difficult to drive, because more sophisticated aerodynamics and suspension, bigger brakes and more tyre on the track will compensate for the increase of power. For sure the cars have gained sex appeal and this may attract new fans, like those who said that the previous generation of cars was too close to the production models. I think that on the track we need to be more cautious in making side-to-side contacts, because the suspension are more fragile. And maybe overtaking will be more difficult because of higher speeds and shorter braking spaces.â
The Honda Castrol Racing team will soon start testing the new car.
âThe original plan was to start testing earlier with an hybrid Civic. And finally it was decided to wait for the full new-spec machine, because Honda R&D and JAS Motorsport have enough skill and experience to design and develop a competitive car from a blank page. And I canât wait to start testing, because I wish to give my contribution in telling the technicians which way to go for the technical development.â
Besides Citroën, Honda will face LADA and the RML-built cars during the season.
âBy signing Huff, LADA made clear they want to invest on the championship and the new car. The new technical regulations will help them to compensate for the weak points of the production model. They already had one of the most powerful engines. Now the team has gained experience and they have two top drivers. I bet they will surprise a lot of people. As for RML, they proved they can win without the backing of a manufacturer. I would be very surprise if the new Cruze wonât be on top from the start.â
And what are Tarquiniâs ambitions for the coming season?
âI am aware that we face a bunch of strong competitors, especially Citroënâs dream team that benefit from vast resources. However, I donât feel defeated. Iâm still among the fastest drivers and hope I have not⦠aged too much during this Christmas break. As a matter of fact I still feel very young and fit! My personal goal is to improve last yearâs result⦠that would mean to be World Champion for the second time. But more than this, our priority is winning the Manufacturersâ Championship once again.â
Onyx Race Engineering and Arlington Industries Group announced they have joined forces to compete in the FIA World Touring Car Championship.
The parties announced they have embarked upon a five year programme to design, manufacture and race in WTCC starting from the 2014 season. The car they will develop in compliance with the new technical regulations and the driver line-up are due to be announced shortly.
Mike Earle, CEO Onyx Race Engineering, commented: âThis association is exciting. It is a unique opportunity to assemble such a strong automotive group with the common intention of success in the finest touring car championship in the World.â
Onyx Race Engineering boasts an outstanding record in automobile sports that dates back to the teamâs early successes in F3, F2 and Formula 3000 in the Eighties that culminated in Stefano Modenaâs title in the 1987 FIA F3000 Championship. Later on, Onyx moved to Formula One for a couple of seasons (1989 and 1990). More recently Mike Earle (pictured) has managed Arena Motorsport campaigns in the British Touring Car Championships and the 2012 WTCC.
Arlington Industries Group is a privately held Industrial Investment Vehicle with interests in Industrial Coatings, Aerospace, and Automotive Manufacturing.
Rob Huff, Marc Basseng and René Münnich team up once again this weekend for the Dubai 24 Hours race.
The trio shares the ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport 2012 FIA GT1-winning Mercedes-Benz SLS GT3 in the A6-Pro class.
Huff â who joined the LADA Sport Lukoil team for the 2014 WTCC â has been eager to expand his horizons by building a career in sportscars racing, having been inspired by his recent success in the 25 Hours of Thunderhill and his upcoming prototype debut in the 24 Hours of Daytona.
âMy sportscars campaign is really gathering momentum and will be a fantastic sideline to my full-time programme with LADA Sport in the WTCC,â said Huff. âI had a fantastic season racing with ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport throughout 2013. We surpassed all expectations and Iâm delighted to be reuniting with the team for the 24 Hours of Dubai. With their exceptional record of winning the FIA GT1 World Championship title, I believe we can take the victory this weekend.â
Huff, Basseng and Münnich qualified in 12th position for the race. Better than them was Darryl OâYoung who drives a Craft Racing Aston Martin Vantage and will start from seventh on the grid.
Amongst the other competitors in the Dubai 24 Hours are European Touring Car Cup racers Andreas Pfister and Patrick Wolf, who share a SEAT León Supercópa car and set the second fastest lap in the A3T class, just ahead of the Racing Divas Schubert BMW 320D of the all-female team that includes Paulien Zwart, Tom Coronelâs wife.
The long trip back for the WTCC cars came to an end a few days ago, fifty after the 2013 championshipâs final race meeting at Macau.
The cars and parts where shipped from Hong Kong harbour on the 25th November, the cargo ship docked in Rotterdam only a few days ago and then the containers were shipped to Antwerp.
In the latest two days all the teams have sent their trucks to Antwerp to collect their stuffs and bring everything back to their workshops.
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Scarborough, Medved, Bozell contradicted past criticism of The Reagans biopic to defend The Path to 9/11
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Joe Scarborough, Michael Medved, and Brent Bozell defended the upcoming ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11, which is reportedly riddled with outright falsehoods and distortions. But their defense seems to contradict statements they made in 2003 when conservatives pressured CBS not to run a biopic that critics felt portrayed former President Ronald Reagan and former first lady Nancy Reagan in a negative light.
On the September 6 and 7 editions of MSNBC's Scarborough Country, host Joe Scarborough defended the upcoming ABC miniseries The Path to 9/11, claiming critics of the miniseries, which is reportedly riddled with outright falsehoods and distortions, were calling for "censorship" of the film. On the September 5 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Michael Medved disputed criticism that The Path to 9/11 "ha[d] no Democrats prominently involved with the project," pointing to "radical leftist and Democrat" actor Harvey Keitel, who appears as a lead character. But in 2003, Scarborough and Medved made arguments virtually identical to those made now by Path to 9/11 critics, in defense of conservative efforts to pressure CBS not to run The Reagans, a biopic critics felt portrayed former President Ronald Reagan and former first lady Nancy Reagan in a negative light. At that time, Scarborough claimed calls from conservatives to scuttle The Reagans were not about "Soviet censorship" but rather about "Jeffersonian democracy," while Medved complained that a Reagan administration official should have been asked to "consult on the movie" to provide "balance."
Also, as first noted on the weblog Crooks and Liars, Media Research Center president L. Brent Bozell III excused the falsehoods in The Path to 9/11 but did not grant the same leniency to the Reagans. On the September 8 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Bozell acknowledged that "[p]erhaps two percent of [The Path to 9/11] is wrong" and "[p]erhaps two percent of it is debatable" but added "[t]hat leaves you with about 96 percent of the movie that's accurate, and that no one is disputing" and that criticism of the film is "a political hatchet job" by the "Clinton camp." But Bozell did not similarly excuse alleged misrepresentations in The Reagans; according to a November 5, 2003, CBS News article, he responded to that film by declaring: "There is no such thing as creative license to invent falsehoods about people. ... I don't care who you are. You don't have that right."
On September 6, Scarborough declared that "Democrats [are] demanding censorship from Disney" and are "calling on ABC president Bob Iger to censor offending parts of the miniseries"; on September 7, he similarly stated that "it looks like [defenders of the Clinton administration are] about to intimidate ABC's bosses into censoring that film." But in 2003, Scarborough praised CBS' decision not to air the "cruel parody" The Reagans, stating on the November 5, 2003, edition of Scarborough Country: "This isn't about Soviet censorship. This is about Jeffersonian democracy. ... Americans picked Ronald Reagan over Hollywood."
In his criticism of The Reagans, Medved stated, on the November 5, 2003, edition of Scarborough Country, "The whole idea of creating a movie about Ronald Reagan without consulting or involving someone like [former Reagan administration speechwriter] Peggy Noonan. ... Why not have her ... consult on the movie?" In contrast, he defended the purported balance of The Path to 9/11. On the September 5 edition (subscription required) of The Michael Medved Show, Medved dismissed a complaint by Jennifer Nix expressed in a September 5 post on the weblog Firedoglake that "no Democrats [were] prominently involved" in The Path to 9/11. Medved responded by asking if Nix was "crazy" and asserted that Keitel, who he said is a "radical leftist and Democrat," provided balance. But Medved did not respond to the more specific criticism that while 9-11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean, a Republican, served as a senior consultant for the film, the filmmakers did not consult with any Democratic officials.
Keitel has stated that he belatedly realized "not all the facts were correct" in the script, that the miniseries "distort[s] reality," and that "[w]here we have distorted something, we have made a mistake, and that should be corrected."
From the September 7 edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country:
SCARBOROUGH: Right now in Scarborough Country, President Bill Clinton pressures ABC, ABC caves, and now a former president's angry reaction to the 9-11 film moves Disney's CEO to censor that movie. Should politicians be allowed in Hollywood editing rooms?
[. . .]
SCARBOROUGH: We've got all that and a lot more tonight. But first up: All the president's men continue their pre-emptive strikes against ABC's controversial miniseries The Path to 9/11. And tonight, it looks like they're about to intimidate ABC's bosses into censoring that film. Sources are telling me and The Los Angeles Times that ABC, quote, "toned down but did not eliminate entirely the most talked-about scenes involving Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, calling off an operation to capture [Osama] bin Laden."
From the September 6 edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country:
SCARBOROUGH: Right now in Scarborough Country: Blame Clinton. The ABC 9-11 docudrama that has Democrats demanding censorship from Disney. Does this movie rewrite history, like an NBC terror analyst says it does? And why won't they let the Clinton cabinet get a sneak peek of this movie?
SCARBOROUGH: But first, more fallout from ABC's upcoming miniseries, The Path to 9/11. Now, Democrats are blasting this docudrama, calling it biased and inaccurate for suggesting that Bill Clinton passed up chances to take out Osama bin Laden. Today, House Democrats defended the former president, calling on ABC president Bob Iger to censor offending parts of the miniseries, saying in a letter that, "September 11 is a day of mourning. We do not believe it is appropriate for it to be tainted by false assertions or blame or partisan spin." ABC accused of partisan spin? The shock!
From the November 5, 2003, edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country:
SCARBOROUGH: Liberals from Manhattan to Hollywood have been bashing CBS for axing their hit piece of the Reagans, but they're angriest attacks have been reserved for commentators, such as myself, who believe this cruel parody of Ronald Reagan was simply not ready for prime time. Hollywood's leading liberal, Barbara Streisand, today called CBS's decision a sad day for free speech.
And The New York Times was apparently so angry at the turn of events yesterday that they compared conservatives to Soviet Communists, spewing forth this vitriol in their editorial, quote: "The former president is certainly a suitable subject for public debate. His supporters credit him with forcing down the Iron Curtain, so it is odd that some of them have helped create the Soviet-style chill embedded in the idea that we as a nation will not allow critical portrayals of one of our recent leaders."
Soviet-style chill? This isn't about Soviet censorship. This is about Jeffersonian democracy.
The Reagan miniseries script, the casting, and the CBS movie have been debated freely and openly in what Thomas Jefferson called the free marketplace of ideas, and Americans picked Ronald Reagan over Hollywood. It's that plain. It's that simple.
MEDVED: The whole idea of creating a movie about Ronald Reagan without consulting or involving someone like Peggy Noonan. Peggy Noonan was even brought into The West Wing to try to give that a little bit of balance. Why not have her -- she was a speechwriter for President Reagan -- consult on the movie?
And you could have avoided some of these problems. If you are only going to have one Reagan biography on TV, and they only have had one, then for goodness sake, you do have a responsibility to make it a little bit balanced and not a smear job.
From the September 5 edition of The Michael Medved Show:
MEDVED Now speaking of attacks to which people are subjected, this piece by Jenifer Nix at the Daily Kos [actually cross-posted from Firedoglake] -- the prime left-wing website -- attacks the makers of The Path to 9/11 as some kinds of conservative extremists. For instance she says, "McPherson and others" -- [Stephen] McPherson is the president of ABC Entertainment -- "who have been cloaking this documentary 'wolf' in nonpartisan sheep's clothing, despite having no Democrats prominently involved with the project." Is she crazy? Has she looked at the name of people -- names of people who are prominently involved in the project? Harvey Keitel, who stars in the project, for instance, is a radical leftist and Democrat, as are a number of the other people involved in different stages.
From the September 8 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
E.D. HILL (co-host): When you take a look at this final version, do you think that it comes out fairly accurately, if not the specific, you know, details -- all them factually correct. Do you get the basic idea?
BOZELL: Yeah. I mean, here's my analysis of it. Perhaps two percent of it was wrong. Perhaps two percent of it is debatable. Look, the 9-11 Commission report is not biblical truth. People from the Bush administration and the Clinton administration have taken exception to some of the findings of the commission. So that will be debated no matter how the movie comes out. But what does that leave you with? That leaves you with about 96 percent of the movie that's accurate, and that no one is disputing. It is sobering. It is frightening, and I think it's disgraceful that people are playing politics with this in the Clinton camp. Look, this movie goes after George Bush too, and you don't see the Bush people whining.
From a November 5, 2003, CBS News article:
Brent Bozell, founder of the Media Research Center, scoffed at the notion that CBS was stifling free speech. "There is no such thing as creative license to invent falsehoods about people," Bozell said. "I don't care who you are. You don't have that right."
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And in any war there never is a winner and for every war there is some price to pay
And everyone who dies in war is one too many whether it be soldier or civilian is the one to fall
It should not matter all people are equal and a soldier too is human after all.
Armies are still invading other Countries and this is the twenty first century
As long as we are ruled by ruthless people we never will know World harmony
There always is two sides to every story and those who cause wars must pay the transgressors price
And history will never look too kindly on those with power who have made the wrong choice.
This war to rid Iraq of Saddam Hussein is something we ought not to celebrate
How can you liberate a population if huge destruction in their Country you create,
On others you cannot impose your values by good example one can only lead
This war is hardly about liberation this war about it has the stench of greed.
Another war to start another century such a waste of human life and environmental destruction seems a shame
And of course there are two sides to every story and one side is not entirely to blame
And the Iraqi people will be the big losers it is their Country that is being destroyed
And this war like every war is very brutal and many injured and too many have died.
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Education funds dry up without boats in moats
By JAMES MOODY
The issue of gaming continuing on "boats in moats" will appear on next Tuesdays ballot. Many Missouri voters who will cast their ballots on that date are unclear on the relationship between gaming and Missouri education funding.
The Missouri Constitution is very clear that gaming revenues must go to education. Article III, Section 39 (d) of the Missouri Constitution states that all gaming revenues appropriated beginning July 1, 1993, must go to elementary, secondary and higher education.
Since gaming began in Missouri in May 1994, the 18 percent tax collected by the state on adjusted gross receipts of gaming operations has been earmarked for education and only education. In 1995, Senate Bill 301 was introduced and passed in the Missouri General Assembly. Senate Bill 301 further defined the priority of gaming revenues for education. Under the provisions of the bill, up to the first $7 million of gaming tax revenues each year may be appropriated to the School District Bond Fund. This money is used by school districts that have voter-approved general obligation bond issues to pay for the cost of issuing the bonds and to improve their bond ratings.
After the first $7 million, the remaining annual gaming tax revenues go entirely to help fund the school foundation formula. This earmarking of gaming funds for the School District Bond Fund and for the school foundation formula began on July 1, 1996.
The school foundation formula is the basic state aid program that helps local schools. The school foundation formula in large part helps to pay teachers salaries and also helps to pay the operating costs of school districts.
Larger-than-anticipated tax revenues from riverboat gaming have been a significant contributor to fully funding the new school foundation formula adopted in 1993. In fiscal 1998, the gaming industry, through the 18 percent tax collected by the state, generated $137 million to the foundation formula and $7 million to the School District Bond Fund.
Gaming has also provided positive economic benefits for Missouri. In April of 1998, an independent economic impact study was conducted and published by Charles Leven and Don Phares. Both men are highly regarded St. Louis economic professors. Leven is a professor emeritus of economics at Washington University, and Phares is a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and director of the North American Institute for Comparative Urban Studies.
Leven and Phares concluded in their study, "In 1997, the casino gaming industry in Missouri directly and indirectly generated more than three-quarters of a billion dollars of new spending in the states economy. Because of casino gaming, personal income grew by over $500 million. State and local governments received over $225 million in new tax revenues. Almost 18,000 new jobs were added to the economy. For almost any other industry, these statistics would be hailed without question an economic bonanza."
Given the positive impact that gaming has had on education funding in Missouri, it is important to ask what will happen if Amendment 9 does not pass. The answer is that the affected facilities will go out of business. Up to $92 million currently devoted to the school foundation formula will be lost.
In order to replace this lost revenue, the state of Missouri will have two options:
Neither of these alternatives is very attractive.
The passage of Amendment 9 will leave these important funds for education in place. It will also fairly allow these facilities that received all necessary state and local approvals prior to beginning construction to remain in operation.
James Moody, former Missouri director of revenue and a paid lobbyist for the gaming industry, is working to pass Amendment 9.
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Description: CIVILIAN REVIEW BOARDMEETING MINUTESNOVEMBER 13, 2008CITY HALL165 CHURCH STREETMEETING ROOM #1The meeting was called to order by Barbara Carroll, Chair. Opening RemarksNoneA. Rollcall/Attendance by Mary Blair, SecretaryPresent 13 Absent 2 1 VacancyB. Agenda ReviewMotion to approve the agenda made by Catherine Gootkin; seconded by Robert Spirito; approved unanimously.C. Reading of MinutesMotion to accept the July 10, 2008 minutes made by Cathy Gootkin; seconded by Robert Spirito; approved unanimously.Approval of August 14, 2008 minutes tabled until December's meeting; to be updated.Motion to accept October 10, 2008 minutes made by Wayne Hobbs; seconded by Bill Bixby; approved unanimously.D. Coordinator's Report DistributionMotion to accept the November Coordinator's Report made by Mary Blair; seconded by Ann Tramontana.E. Internal Affairs RemarksCaptain Joann Peterson discussed 50 new officers working by December.F. Open Floor1) Request made by Maureen O'Sullivan for distribution of updated Organizational Chart.2) Team take a more active roll in reading cases from list, not only the cases we are called upon to read.G. Subcommittee Reports1) Shirley Wayne Washington reported on NACOLE. Next conference to be held September 2009 in Austin, Texas.2) Ann Tramontana requested everyone make changes in their By Laws for IVE to read as IA.3) Agenda handouts to read IA, not IVE.H. Unfinished Business & I. New Business1) Mary Blair and Barbara Carroll registered with New Haven Independent News to be able to place future CRB meeting for the public to view. Motion made by Robert Spirito and seconded by Barbara Carroll.2) Coordinator Reginald Thomas to follow up with schedule.Present: William Bixby Mary BlairBarbara Carroll Frank Cochran Catherine Gootkin Wayne Hobbs Sarah McIver Maureen O�Sullivan Kathleen Smith-Bogan Robert Spirito Ann Tramontana Shirley Wayne Washington Juanita Wright Absent:Reverend Walter Johnson, Jr.Evelise RibeiroVacancy: Board of Aldermen Staff:Reginald Thomas, Civilian Review Board CoordinatorKathleen Foster, Assistant Corporation Counsel Guests: Captain Joann Peterson, OIC, Internal Affairs Craig Guglielmo, Internal Affairs Christopher O'Connell, Intern, Internal Affairs Motion to adjourn meeting by Bill Bixby and seconded by Ann Tramontana.Prepared and submitted by Mary Blair, Secretary.


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Celebratory gunfire rang out in Gaza City when local radio stations reported news of the Tel Aviv explosion.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri praised the bombing, but stopped short of claiming responsibility.
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When a company called Bob & Pete's 100% Yum decided to send in a box of its banana breads to us here at Good Living, I had the team from The Guide, the boys from Drive and the crew from Domain all clamouring to wolf them down. So I thought I'd better tell you about them, too. Unlike some banana breads, these don't weigh a tonne in your stomach. And there are four delicious flavours. You can buy them at Gloria Jean's but please, only do that if you go elsewhere to buy your coffee.
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Nov 15 Luciana Sampogna runs Balmain's Cucina Italiana cooking school and she has a host of classes coming up. In November's Summer Menu class, learn how to make fresh ravioli with sundried tomatoes, scaloppine of veal with lemon sauce and semifreddo. Or book into her Stuzzichini class on Nov 27, which focuses on Italian finger food. Classes cost $55-$80. Details: 9555 1904.
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What's your favourite ingredient? "Virgin olive oil. It has to be virgin olive oil. It's the basic of every food. You can do anything with it - the most fine dining food and the most simple food. Even a simple green salad with a virgin olive oil, it's one of the best things you can do. It's the most important ingredient. I buy the best I can afford."
What's one kitchen tool you couldn't live without? "A pot. Without a pot I can't cook. With one single pot, I can make anything you like, from a simple dish to a complicated dish."
Your best cooking tip? "Most restaurants chop garlic very fine. I'm from Italy and garlic is very important but I find when you chop it finely, you lose the flavour of the beautiful fresh garlic.
I cut it as a fine slice. You will see the difference from a fine garlic to a fine slice. So don't chop too fine. Make a nice, fine slice and when you brown the garlic, don't overcook it."
Your favourite dish on your menu right now? "I love all of them [laughs] but I would have to say maybe my kingfish carpaccio. It's something I put together and it's quite different from the normal carpaccio. It's sitting in a cauliflower puree which is really beautiful. The boys in the kitchen, I tell them they have to walk around the block when I do the puree because it's a secret."
What do you like to cook at home? "I normally don't try to cook at home. After working all week, I prefer to just stare at the TV. But I do like very simple food. A beautiful linguini with a very fresh tomato and basil and again, with a very good virgin olive oil."
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According to Hugh Foster, he sells so much of this dish, "I was going to rename the cafe Cafe Mince." Foster used to serve his lamb mince at Fez in Darlinghurst and a fan asked him to put it on the menu at Cafe Mint. "It has since turned out to be one of our most popular breakfast dishes," he says. "It was taught to me by Michael Gaha, a wonderful Lebanese chef, and though I may have varied it slightly over the years, it remains true to his original rendition." Foster says you can pick up pomegranate molasses at Middle Eastern stores. "Or ask any Lebanese and they'll find it for you."
You will need:
2 onions, finely diced
3 cloves garlic
1 tbsp olive oil
1kg lean lamb mince
1 tbsp ground black pepper (or more to taste)
1 tsp maras pepper flakes or a pinch of cayenne (optional)
1 tsp ground allspice
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tbsp dried mint
2 tbsp pomegranate molasses
Salt to taste
50g toasted pinenuts (save a few for garnish)
Hummus, to serve
Chopped mint, for garnish
Saute the onions and garlic in olive oil, add lamb mince and colour. Then add all other ingredients and cook until flavours come together. It's quite a peppery dish and the black pepper is supposed to predominate but tone it down if you prefer.
Serve on a bed of hummus, garnish with pinenuts and fresh chopped mint. (You
can also add some onion caramelised with brown sugar and pomegranate molasses as an extra garnish to jazz it up a bit.) Scoop up with hot turkish bread drizzled with olive oil and za'atar. If you have any leftover mince, it makes a great filling for little filo pastries and is terrific in omelets.
Serves 6.
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This sweater is gorgeous, feels great. You will receive tons of compliments. You can wear it with dress slacks, a skirt or jeans and you will love it.
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Purchased the green in my regular XL on Imagini's last visit and it fits very well. Sweater has a lot of stretch and is very comfortable to wear. Though this line's clothes are a touch on the expensive side, they are well made and it does look like it will last several seasons if handled with proper care. Have had a chance to wear it several times now that the weather is less cold. I also purchased a 2 piece set in grey/black/white before Christmas and just love it.Have received numerous compliments on both pieces.The fact they enhance their products with pattern on the back is a major factor in my choosing to purchase from Imagini. I had no issues with laundering the 2 piece set from Christmas following their instructions. My only concern with this particular top is that the neck opening has been cut a bit too wide and consequently the shoulders seams do tend to slide to the edge of my shoulders, therefore I have to keep readjusting. I plan to buy a certain item that attaches to underside of shoulders and your bra strap to hold in place. This is the only reason for my 4 star review.If you're looking for quality and something that will last, feels comfortable and is certainly a step up in terms of style I do feel this line more than fits the bill.Certainly look forward to their next appearance at TSC, when I no doubt will purchase another piece.


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Regarding the "check integrity of installer archive"

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I too sit and watch for this so I can hit: "N" to speed things up. There have been times that I have canceled it only to get a failed installation. After allowing it to run next time, I determined there was a hardware issue or something else.

I agree that I don't want to wait (majority of installs) for the message to cancel it but .. it would be nice to know I can allow the test if I wish.

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Students named state SkillsUSA officersPosted by PR under News Release
Three Seward County Community College/Area Technical School students were recently selected as state SkillsUSA officers.
David Winkler of Plains, Brandon Bruner of Hooker, Okla., and Caleb Crawford of Texhoma, Okla., are new state officers. Each will participate in a leadership conference to determine which offices they will hold.
Winkler is also the local and district vice president; Bruner is the local secretary and district historian; and Crawford is local and district reporter.
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I never saw him before in RL.
But besides that - in the local newspapers it is common to put an subtitle under each picture telling the reader who this was - even when it is Obama shown. It's just a case of respect and of politeness, imho.
Just showing pictures of people without telling the reader who this is is to me a sign of nerd culture creeping into journalism.
Because nerds know it all.
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RadioShack on Thursday evening tapped Joe Magnacca, who played a key role in making Walgreens' front-end transformation pop, to be the small-box electronics retailer's chief executive. On Friday morning, RadioShack's shares jumped as Wall Street absorbed the news.
And while that hire makes perfect sense for RadioShack, where does that leave Walgreens? While merchants the likes of Magnacca don't exactly grow on trees, in classic hedgehog style the news also speaks to the depth of Walgreen's bench. The company has a lot of faith in Bryan Pugh. They hired him to be chief merchant before they bought Duane Reade and acquired a problem just about any retailer would love to have: two very talented men leading the merchandising drive.
DEERFIELD, Ill. — A veteran of Walmart and Tesco, Walgreens VP merchandising Bryan Pugh brought a more analytical and customer-targeted approach to front-end merchandising. His oft-stated mission: to oversee, in coordination with the company's Customer Centric Retailing initiative and other renewal efforts, a more cost-effective and more compelling merchandising strategy.


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Compliance is a painful reality for many IT administrators. Among the growing list of tasks, e-mail archiving is becoming a major requirement. Not only are various government audits interested in e-mail archiving data, but legal actions have begun to call on this information with increasing frequency. The demand for e-mail archive retrieval has become so great, in fact, that corporate e-mail hosting services -- Microsoft's new Exchange Hosted Services, for example -- have begun adding high-availability archiving to their service menus.
The problem is that efficient e-mail archiving is often expensive. These hosted services can cost more than $20 per user, per month. Spread out across 2,000, 5,000, or 10,000 users, that can really start to add up.
This is the situation that Ray Martin, IS technical manager at Monrovia Nursery, found himself in not too long ago. Monrovia's HR department had decreed that e-mail and IM chat data had to be archived for potential future legal wrangles. Pricing out commercial archiving solutions for his 2,000-user network left Martin looking at forking out approximately $30,000; that, in turn, made his manager look purple. So Martin and an in-house programmer, Brian Scott, hacked together an alternative solution.
First, they activated the built-in archiving features on their Lotus Domino and Sametime messaging servers to create semitransitory mail log files. Converting these to permanent archival records, however, was the real trick. They needed a free target server with smarts.
Fortunately, Martin already had a Linux server running Nagios and MRTG (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher) for network monitoring requirements. Because these tasks were fairly light, Martin said he thought this server was a perfect place to host an archiving solution based on homemade code. All he had to do was add a DVD-RW drive to the Linux box and give Scott the nod.
For his part, Scott took two weeks to write a small C program that would FTP the Domino and Sametime mail logs to the Linux server while monitoring the size of the captured log files on a cumulative basis. When that starts amounting to what can be easily fit onto a DVD, the program kicks off a DVD burn job on the Linux box. If the burn is successful, the program removes the local copies of the logs from the Linux box, as well as the working copies on the production Domino and Sametime machines, to conserve much-needed disk space. Finally, it sends an e-mail notification to the systems administrator reporting on the status of the burn, whether the job needs to be redone or it's safe to drop a new blank disc into the drive.
Martin says he's not too worried about the possibility of switching to a new e-mail server platform (in the event that ever happens), as long as that new server can be forced to copy all incoming mail to a separate archive file. He says his enterprise hack saved his company a few tens of thousands of buckaroos, while still giving the legal team the e-mail nutrition it craved.