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Michael Brown
Video After The Jump
After nearly a week of speculation about the identity of the police officer who killed unarmed 18-year old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Darren Wilson was named by Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson at a press conference Friday, August 15.
Wilson is a St. Louis area resident with no prior disciplinary incidents in his six years on the police force. He was reportedly treated for injuries following the shooting.
Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson speaks at a press conference Friday, August 15
Police claim Wilson, along with other officers responded to the area following a strong-arm robbery at a store in the area.
Wilson released a packet containing photos and documents to reporters. Brown is named in the documents as a suspect in the robbery, along with his friend Dorion Johnson. Surveillance footage of the robbery is forthcoming. CNN released stills from the video.
Photo allegedly of Michael Brown committing a robbery prior to being shot and killed by police.
Brown and Johnson are accused of stealing $40 worth of Swisher Sweets cigars, which are commonly used to smoke weed.
Dorian Johnson
Now here is where things got totally out of control and stories don't match up.
Police claim Wilson pulled up and stopped the teenagers. Brown allegedly reached inside his cruiser, grabbed him and struggled for control of his gun. A shot went off and Wilson had no choice but to use deadly force.
Many witnesses who saw the confrontation tell a different story.
They say Wilson blocked the two teens path with his cruiser, then opened the door striking Brown. Unable to exit his vehicle because of the close proximity of Brown to the car, Wilson reached out and grabbed the young man in an attempt to pull him closer to the vehicle.
At some point a shot was fired causing Brown and Johnson to run. Wilson exited his cruiser and started shooting at Brown. Johnson hid behind a car. One bullet hit Brown prompting him to stop running and turn around with his hands raised.
At that point Wilson continued to fire, hitting Brown multiple times, killing him. Brown was 35 feet away from Wilson when he was killed
Police left Brown's body in the middle of the street for 4 hours following his death before an ambulance arrived to take him away.
In the days following the shooting angry residents have taken to the streets to protest. Riots broke out on Sunday. On Tuesday and Wednesday 22 people were arrested and 5 shot.
Stills from camera pic.twitter.com/FEcmKc3oGr
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 15, 2014
An FBI investigation is currently underway into the shooting. Wilson is on paid administrative leave pending the outcome.
A woman interviewed by CNN was skeptical of Chief Jackson's version of events. Do you believe that is Michael Brown in the video still? Is the cop's version of event's believable? Also if Brown and Johnson were involved in a robbery why isn't Johnson under arrest?
Darren Wilson Identified As Officer Who Killed Michael Brown. Brown Accused Of Prior Robbery
Ferguson Police news conference
Surveillance footage from alleged Micheal Brown robbery below.
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Today's extreme DiY example is a home scale water water processing plant designed and prototyped by Bob Crosby. Bob is originally from Alaska, but I interacted with him while he was in Costa Rica, working on a resilient community that's being built there.
Bob has spent a good portion of his life designing and tinkering with systems to turn homes into productive living systems. Fortunately, he's both a talented engineer and he's willing to share the fruits of his efforts with those of us with the foresight to understand their value.
Why would you want to process waste water? Lots of reasons.
Water is expensive or use is limited (rationed). You live in a very arid location. You live off grid. Your well is going dry. Your expensive home septic system is broken.
DiY Waste Water Treatment
The solution? Build your own water processing plant and put it in your basement.
Bob's waste water treatment prototype can turn about 100 gallons of sludge water every 24 hours into PH neutral, oxygen rich, and oderless water that is ready for irrigation – or – some additional treatment that will make it potable.
Bob's DiY design requires about $300 for some simple materials and a couple of weekends to build. This is in contrast to commercial systems that costs tens of thousands to build. Additionally:
- It's modular. The process is divided into three different modules that make construction, repair and recombination easier.
- It doesn't require much to maintain since it doesn't have any moving parts or corrosive parts that come into contact with waste water.
- It's inexpensive to operate. It uses only 17.5 watts continuously (about ~$0.05 a day).
Here's what the completed system and some of the steps needed to build it looks like:
The system is divided into three parts:
- A surge tank that smooths and slows rapid inflows from the home's septic system.
- A settling tank for letting the sludge sink to the bottom and serve as "sludge blanket" that filters and anaerobically composts incoming, low flow waste water.
- A bio-filter to filter and aerobically compost harmful biological contaminates.
Here's what the schematic looks like and some of the steps in the construction process.
If you want more detail on how to build this system as well as its capabilities, please visit Bob's site.
Your always excited to see innovative thinking solve everyday problems analyst,
PS: If you need more help on building waster water systems, Bob's available for consulting at info@biorealis.
PPS: For more discussion on productive homes versus the boxes we live in how, read this: is your home a box or a dynamo?.
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Just had the BEST practice ever last Sunday at Cambois Blyth.
At 11.30 Billy Mackenzie arrived at the track to practice before Hawkstone Park this weekend.
After showing everyone how its done, Billy Mac signed Autographs and had photos taken with us all.
Top Man fantastic riding I still cant believe the British Champion and G.P. rider rubbed shoulders with his fans, at P.J.M.X Cambois Blyth. Good Luck Billy Mac from all at P.J.M.X


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Swatches & Review: High Voltage Lip Whips
Posted by Heather | Filed under High Voltage, Lips, Product Info, Reviews, Swatches
High Voltage Cosmetics makes more than just eyeshadows. These are lip whips: very opaque glosses in a squeeze tube. They have a slight mint scent and are non-sticky. I love that a little bit goes a long way with these – you really have to apply them with a lip brush (especially the darker shades). The colors are gorgeous and the formula is so silky smooth. Sadly, her ingredient supplier has discontinued some of the key ingredients in these, so Jasmine will be phasing these out. But not to worry! She has several left, and she is always creating new things that I cannot wait to try. Ok, on to the swatches! (Sorry for the messy towel background…that was my swatching towel, and some pigments got on it.)
Top Row: Talk Talk, Slow Jam, Life of the Party
Bottom Row: Little Misfit, Kashmir, Sour Candy
Top Row: Talk Talk, Slow Jam, Life of the Party
Bottom Row: Little Misfit, Kashmir, Sour Candy
See close-ups and swatches! Read the rest of this entry »
Look: Irredescent Pigments
Posted by Heather | Filed under Blue, Brown, Looks, MAC, Red/Maroon
I ♥ iridescent pigments. Duochrome stuff steals my heart every time. Although MAC pigments are not my favorite type of pigment, I have to admit that they make some amazing, incredible duochromes. I need more!!!! :-)
For this look I used:
- Eyes: NARS Eyeshadow Primer, MAC Blue-Brown pigment (inner & middle lid), MAC Teal pigment (crease & above crease), MAC Dark Blue Green pigment (crease), MAC White Gold pigment (highlight), MAC Mystery Kohl Power, MAC Opulash
- Cheeks: Bobbi Brown Nectar Shimmer Brick + MAC Marine Life highlight powder
- Lips: NARS Luster lipgloss
See more pictures!! Read the rest of this entry »
Look: Ode to Brian Kelly
Posted by Heather | Filed under Blue, Green, Looks, MAC, Make Up For Ever (MUFE), Sugarpill, Yellow
I love seeing looks that inspire me or ones that I love so much that I just MUST recreate. This look is based off of the ever-so-talented Brian Kelly (aka Cosmetic Viking) Look. I love his looks (and I really love his tweets!). Sadly, this isn't a 100% complete look (since I didn't do lips), but I really liked how it came out. There is NO GREEN used in this look! I know, right?! It's all that wonderful yellow and blue blended together. Yellow + Blue = Green…go figure haha! This is another Sugarpill exclusive!
For this look I used:
- Eyes: NARS Smudgeproof Eyeshadow Primer, MAC Painterly PP (base), Sugarpill Buttercupcake (lid), Sugarpill Afterparty (crease & above), Sugarpill Tako (highlight), MUFE 0L Aqua Liner (upper lashline), UD 24/7 Flipside (waterline), MUFE Smokey Lash mascara
- Cheeks: MAC The Perfect Cheek
- Lips: au natural (aka nothing!)
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Look: UD Naked Look #2
Posted by Heather | Filed under Bronze, Brown, Chanel, Looks, MAC, NARS, Neutral, Pink, Urban Decay
Here is my second look using only the UD Naked Palette. It's a little softer that the previous one, and a little on the pinker side. If you're into nudes at all and don't have the colors in this palette already, I highly recommend it! These shadows are really great!!
For this look I used:
- Eyes: NARS Smudgeproof Eyeshadow Primer, Urban Decay Naked Palette: Sin (inner lid), Toasted (middle lid), Hustle (outer lid), Creep (crease), Virgin (highlight), UD Zero (liner), MAC Opulash mascara
- Cheeks: Chanel Rose Temptation JC + MAC Smooth Merge MSF
- Lips: NARS Oasis lipgloss
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Look: UD Naked Look #1
Posted by Heather | Filed under Bobbi Brown, Bronze, Brown, Gold, MAC, Urban Decay
There's so much Urban Decay Naked Palette talk lately that I thought I'd post two looks I did using only the colors in the palette. Here is the first one!
For this look I used:
- Eyes: NARS Smudgeproof Eyeshadow Primer, Urban Decay Naked Palette: Half Baked (inner lid), Smog (middle lid), Dark Horse (outer lid & crease), Virgin (highlight), Bobbi Brown Chocolate Shimmer Ink (upper lashline), Urban Decay Whiskey (waterline), MAC Opulash mascara
- Cheeks: MAC Gold Deposit Mineralized Skin Finish
- Lips: MAC 4N lipglass
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Look: Anti V-Day?
Posted by Heather | Filed under Lips, Looks, MAC, Orange, Pink, Purple, Red/Maroon, Sugarpill, Yellow
To make myself clear, I will never be anti V-day (Valentine's Day). How could I?! It's my birthday!!! I understand why some people are, but I definitely consider myself lucky…even if I didn't have a Valentine growing up, I still felt special because it was my birthday. My dad would get me, my sister, and my mom corsages to wear for the day, we'd go out to dinner (my choice), and I would always be my parents' special Valentine :-) My mom likes to tell the story that I didn't understand that the class wasn't having a party on Valentine's Day for me/my birthday until I was like 6 (whoops! hahaha). Well now that I'm married, I have a Valentine for life, and couldn't be happier about that.
So now the reason for this title…GlamourDollsEyes is having a contest on Facebook for the best "Anti V-Day" Look. So this is going to be my entry. When I saw this contest, I knew this was the look I needed to enter…it's really kinda anti-me. Sorta like my alter ego…bright eyes, bold lip, tossed hair, a little sad…a bad-girl kind of look for me. ;-) I do not yet have any Glamourdolleyes eyeshadows, but I am dying to try some!!
For this look I used:
- Eyes: NARS Smudgeproof Eyeshadow Primer, MAC Painterly PP (base), Sugarpill Buttercupcake (bottom middle of lid), Sugarpill Flamepoint (crease), Sugarpill Love+ (above crease), Sugarpill Poison Plum (outer lid & lower lashline), Sugarpill Dollipop (brow bone & lower lashline), Sugarpill Tako (highlight), MUFE Aqua Eyes 0L liner (upper lashline & waterline), MUFE Smokeylash mascara
- Cheeks: MAC Briar Rose Beauty Powder Blush
- Lips: Fyrinnae Meerkat (loose shadow mixed with MAC clear lipglass)
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Nails: The Make Up Store Marcus
Posted by Heather | Filed under Makeup Store, Nails
Oh lawd I cannot wait until my nails look like this again ;-) This polish holds a special place in my ♥. I got it while I was in Costa Rica in August at this place called the Makeup Store. So many polishes there…but I tried to only pick up "unique" colors that I didn't already have. I'm a total sucker for Tiffany blues, so I picked up this teal/turquoise/aqua color called Marcus as one of the two that I got (yes, I only got two…are you proud?).
Now it just so happens that THIS color matched perfectly to the color that my friend's Costa Rica bungalow is decorated in. She has tons of accessories this color, and I couldn't help but take some pictures using some of them as props (hence the candle and pillow). Pretty neat huh? This is two coats, and it was flawless and beautiful! LOVE!
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Nails: New York Amaranth
Posted by Heather | Filed under Nails, New York
I LOVE JELLIES!!! Jelly finishes in polish are so beautiful! This is a teal-ish green polish named Amaranth from New York. I think I got this one from Cherrycouture.com or something like that…it was a long time ago. This is 3 coats plus a top coat. It's beautiful and squishy looking. My nails are not in the best shape here, and this must be after a few days of wear since I see some tip wear. I have a bad habit of not taking nail pics immediately after a manicure, which means I have tip wear in many of them. I'll be better in 2011 (promise)!
See a few more pictures! Read the rest of this entry »
Swatches: Evil Shades
Posted by Heather | Filed under Evil Shades, Reviews, Swatches
It took a while for me to dive in to Evil Shades cosmetics, but I'm so glad I did. I only ordered eyeshadows, but Evil Shades sells everything from cuticle balm to amazing (and best known for) lip colors. To tell you the truth, these shadows shocked me, in a good way! The jars were a little messy and the stickers on the inside were difficult to peel off, but the shadows themselves are really top notch. Even Devil's Bonfire which looks to have chunky silver glitter in it…I was expecting it to be, well, chunky and not blendable, but boy was I wrong! Every one of these shadows is incredibly smooth and finely milled. Color me impressed! Seriously. I can't even pick a favorite. I really love them all. Drakon and Cerberus are so complex and beautiful. Oh, and Dryad, Wonderflower, and Nixies are all amazing too. Andrea, the girl behind the genius of these shadows, has something really great going here. She's a sweetheart on Twitter, and I first discovered her through the MUA Nail Board. Her nails are to die for beautiful, and she loves polishes too! Woot! Anyway, on to swatches. I cannot wait to use these in some looks too!
Top Row: Drakon, Zombie, Cerberus
Bottom Row: Phyrra's Fantasy, Moirae, Devil's Bonfire
See more pictures of these in different lighting, plus 7 more shades after the jump!
Swatches: High Voltage Inked Collection
Posted by Heather | Filed under High Voltage, Swatches
Here are swatches of the amazing colors from the High Voltage Inked Collection (er, most of them). I couldn't order all of them, but I picked my favorites. These colors are complex with multiple dimensions of shimmer. The glitter stands out heavily, and depending on how much they are rubbed in, the color can change slightly. All shadows are swatched using a q-tip over Fyrinnae's Pixie Epoxy.
Top Row: Art is Forever, Modified, Old Skool
Bottom Row: Mind & Body, State of Mind, Artistic Expression
See more lighting angles, plus 4 more colors after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »


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Shuckers Bar & Grill had filed plans to renovate the deck that collapsed Thursday night.
NBC 6 obtained the complete engineering package of the plans, which was going to cost about $30,000. The owner did a significant amount of work to replace the dock. He had hired an engineer, a construction firm, got the city's approval to do all of this, and paid the fees. But about six months ago, the permits all expired and as far as the city's records show, no work was done.
A letter from the city's building official in December 2012 showed the permit extension had expired with no evidence of a final inspection.
NBC 6 also found that there was a notice of violation issued in February. The notice stated that the 40-year recertification was not completed. But North Bay Village Police Chief Robert Daniels, who is heading the investigation into the collapse, has said that the 40-year inspection was conducted in 2011. Daniel didn't immediately return a telephone message seeking comment.
A total of 33 people were injured in the collapse and 24 were transported to the hospital. On Friday, authorities were investigating how families and friends who were out to enjoy a night of Heat basketball ended up in the darkness and underwater.
Injured Talk About Deck Collapse
Emergency teams who responded to the scene said the support structure under the deck did not appear to be in good condition.
The documents obtained by NBC 6 were presented to the City of North Bay Village to rebuild the deck back in 2010. They lay out in engineering terms the specifics and the amount of stress and weight the new deck could hold.
"It doesn't appear that any of the pilings failed, from my understanding," said Daniels, the police chief. He added, "It came down in a V."
Skip Reed, who has four decades of experience in building construction, and for a time was the building official for the city where Shuckers is located, said: "It has, by the fire department, an occupancy load that's probably stated somewhere on the facility, and it's up to him not to exceed the number of people or equipment. "
VIDEO: Watch video of the aftermath of the collapse.
Reed said that there are no routine inspections of an outdoor deck like the one that collapsed. He said that under state law, once a structure like the deck is built and passes inspections, no inspections are scheduled for 40 years.
"Something of that nature we do not have a format to do periodic inspections. Basically, in a case like that an owner should have known that the project needed some kind of maintenance," Reed said.
After that, Reed said the city would only go back and re-inspect if it got a complaint or could visually see damage.
NBC 6 went to the restaurant owner's home to see what he had to say about what happened and to talk to him about what happened to the plans to improve the deck. No one answered at his home and so far he hasn't returned a message seeking comment.
More Local Content:
- PHOTOS: Shuckers Deck Collapse
- BSO Crime Lab Under Scrutiny After Losing Cocaine
- Boil Water Advisory Extended for Parts of Broward County Until At Least Saturday


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What exactly is the Academy?
The Academy of Agents of Change is a place for young individuals who dream of a better tomorrow for their community. It's part classroom, part wilderness arena, and part business forum. Participating youth have an opportunity to find their inspiration and channel it through engaging experiences and discovery. The result is a solidified personal vision and executable plan for what each can do to nurture a sustainable, thriving future for the Galapagos Islands.
Using our unique MIND-SHIFT-IMPACT model, the Academy is part of Lonesome George & Co.'s approach to creating positive social change. The program itself consists of 6 modules combining Outward Bound's Experiential Learning methodology and Ashoka's Youth Venture Social Entrepreneurial development techniques.


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Chris Matthews a little tired of 'horse's ass right-wingers' mocking the thrill up his leg
**Written by Doug Powers
Does Chris Matthews really expect the topic of the legendary thrill up his leg to go unaddressed in interviews? That's like the Tina Louise getting annoyed by questions about Gilligan's Island. Curiosity about the most notable part of your career should never come as a surprise or an irritant — if it does, avoid Q & A's.
From ABC News:
MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews lectured a fellow television reporter when asked about his 2008 comment that a speech from then-candidate Barack Obama sent a "thrill up his leg."
Matthews was taking part in a discussion with C-SPAN host Steve Scully, who asked, "Is the thrill still there?"
Visibly annoyed, Matthews turned to face Scully and offered a detailed defense of his comments before saying, "Perhaps I shouldn't have said so because I've given a lot of jackasses the chance to talk about it."
"I hope that you feel satisfied that you've used the most obvious question that is raised by every horse's ass right-winger I ever bump into," Matthews added.
Other Matthews implications in the clip below: 1) If you didn't also get a thrill up your leg during Obama's speech, you don't love your country; 2) A guy like Tom Brokaw might have also had a quivering inseam at the time but was too disciplined a journalist to have admitted it aloud; and 3) If you've ever referred to Matthews as "Tingles," your sexual orientation comes into question.
Here's video of Tingles by way of the Washington Examiner:
Matthews should have just said "Et tu, C-Span?" Instead he had to prove that the name of "Hardball" should be slightly modified to "Hardbawl."
(h/t Allahpundit at Hot Air)
**Written by Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Complaint Review: Ripoff Report | American Management Services
- American Management Services
Orlando, Florida
United States of America
- Phone:
- Web: www.amserv.com
- Category: Bait-and-Switch
American Management Services REVIEW: American Management Services, Inc's clients, feel safe, confident & secure when doing business with American Management Services, Inc. George Cloutier, CEO & founder, demonstrated commitment to 100% client satisfaction, exceptional client experiences, & success. Commitment to Ripoff Report Corporate Advocacy Business Remediation & Customer Satisfaction Program, a program that benefits the consumer, assures them of complete satisfaction & confidence when doing business.
*UPDATE: American Management Services, Inc.recognized by Ripoff Report Verified™ as a safe business service.
EDitor's UPDATE: Positive rating and recognition has been given to American Management Services, Inc. for its commitment to excellence in customer service.
Ripoff Report's discussions with American Management Services, Inc. have uncovered an ongoing commitment by the company to total client satisfaction. This means that clients can expect that the company will work towards finding a mutually satisfactory resolution to any complaints or concerns. American Management listens carefully to client concerns and sees them as an opportunity to learn from past mistakes and become more efficient as a company in the services offered and the support for those services.
American Management Services, Inc's CEO/founder George Cloutier, has informed us that his personal philosophy is that his clients and his employees are a precious resource. [continued below]....
Another top executive of the company told us that Mr. Cloutier's personal business philosophy is based on the premise that "strives to add value in its services as they understand that a successful business model is based on value-added services, and client care". Mr. Cloutier takes the time to understand each individual client challenge and opportunity. Having founded American Management Services, Inc. over 27 years ago the foundation and bedrock of our organization has always been to recruit, hire and train exceptional staff members, to empower them properly and to always go the extra mile for our clients no matter what the circumstance. Some of the other things Rip-off Report learned in the course of its investigation: typical client feedback reads: "American Management Services helped us restructure our organization to improve communication and establish accountability as well. I would be glad to recommend your team to any prospective clients." Another client recently wrote us "I now understand the benefit of having the structure in place to operate more efficiently and profitably. I am excited and motivated about the future of the company. Thank you very much for everything."
The information provided in this report below is based on comments made by Louis Mosca during an on-site inspection held by a third party verification company with no biases toward the American Management Services, Inc.
Ripoff Report Verified™ .. part of Ripoff Report Corporate Advocacy Business Remediation & Customer Satisfaction Program.A program that benefits the consumer, assures them of complete satisfaction and confidence when doing business with a member business..
The American Management Services, Inc. provides privately held companies, primarily family owned businesses, the tools and opportunities to grow. It also meets with business owners throughout the country to challenge their company's needs, sales, profits, and ease of operations. American Management Services, Inc. buys leads for businesses. Additionally, The American Management Services, Inc. get referrals from clients, banks, and accounting firms.
According to Louis Mosca, vice president and COO, all leads are bought from Dun & Bradstreet. Mr. Mosca also stated "We deal only with business clients, not individual consumers. We are strictly a business-to-business company." American Management Services has four groups that make up the company. Consisting of consulting, call center, outside sales, and survey which work hands on with the business clients. If a potential client indicates interest, the client will begin the necessary introduction process. For a nominal one-time fee, the company will then send a consultant to a potential client's facility for five to ten days. Those days are spent in attempt to identify areas of opportunity to grow. To ease the mind of the client, Mr. Mosca states "All company consultants are employees, not contractors. Our consultants have 20-40 years of hands-on business experience." American Management Services will also answer any questions the client may have.
American Management Services has been in business 27 years and has worked with 7500 clients. Mr Mosca states "Each year we add an additional 400-500 to the client base." In those 27 years, there has been only two clients not satisfied with the service provided. For example, 5-6 weeks ago one of the dissatisfied clients based in New Jersey posted on Ripoff Report's website. "When we met with the business owner in September/October 2013, the owner was personally, and business wise insolvent" says Mr. Mosca. The client could not pay bills, payroll, or debt services. American Management Services worked with him over the course of 6-7 months and was able to restructure his company. The client refinanced his debt and that saved him $45,000 per month in cash. This, in turn, saved the client $540.000 a year. American Management Services then increased the client's liquidity by $1,000,000. The client wrote the company a formal reference letter that has been posted to American Management Services website for 2-3 months. Subsequent to giving the reference letter, this same client posted "This insanity on Ripoff Report attacking me personally and our company's results" states Mr. Mosca. Mr. Mosca has spoken to him since the client posted on Ripoff Report. Mr Mosca has also skyped with the client when the consultant was there, client's location, on American Managements dime. Since then, the client admitted to over reacting. The client also stated, "I am very happy." American Management Services has given the aforementioned client extra time for both parties to resolve any open items the client thinks are real.
American Management Services has one hundred employees with no turnover. The employees have been completely loyal to the company. The Senior Management Team, combined, has one hundred years of business service. There are numerous staff members with MBA's or are CPA's. One of the consultants "Is a Harvard graduate with a MBA and has spent his entire career helping small businesses survive and prosper. We also have one thousand client references that think we walk on water", states Mr. Mosca.
American Management Services, Inc. Customer Care & Complaint Resolution
After an issue is was resolved, Mr. Mosca followed up by making the customary telephone call and flew to see the client face to face. Those steps were taken to ensure the clients issue is resolved and that they are satisfied with the resolution.
Mr. Mosca says that as a result of the complaints, the American Management Services, Inc. has implemented changes to help increase the quality of its customers' experience. Mr. Mosca said, "I think from a business perspective, we will do what is necessary to have civilized conversation" resulting in meeting the clients full expectations and needs. American Management Services also increased their clarification and communication practices. Additionally, go in depth with the client in their client contracts.
Mr. Mosca and his team recognize the value of working with Ripoff Report and the Corporate Advocacy Business Remediation and Customer Satisfaction Program, and the platform it provides for businesses and clients to interact and resolve issues. He stated that "To be a part of these two programs is a badge of courage." Ultimately wanting to bring back confidence to the company.
American Management Services, Inc. / Employee feedback
"American Management provides a very positive environment to work. Opportunities for suggestions and improvements are encouraged. Ownership and senior executives are truly concerned about our contribution to the company and providing growth opportunities for us. Executive management of American Management Services take the time to listen and communicate with employees and clients….what could be more important Mr Cloutier asks all the time?"
Ripoff Report was pleased to learn that American Management's past and current approach to business is focused on its pledge to total commitment towards client and employee satisfaction.
Turnaround management is a process dedicated to corporate renewal and correction. We use analysis and planning to save troubled companies and return them to solvency. Turnaround Management involves management review. Once analysis is completed, a long term strategic plan and restructuring plan are created. These plans may or may not involve a bankruptcy filing. Once approved our turnaround professionals begin to implement the plan, continually reviewing its progress and making changes to the plan as needed to ensure the company returns to solvency.
American Management Services guides you through the entire profit implementation process. Helping you improve budgeting, operational controls, and cash flow. Whether you want to strengthen what is working or improve upon it, or are tired of being the 'chief cook' in all your departments. Our management consulting services include:
- Budgeting and Operational Controls
- Cash Management
- Pay-for-Performance
What sets us apart from other management consulting services firms?
- We are a small business consulting business that has a unique, public private partnership with the United States Conference of Mayors. We are the only business management consulting firm that has over 27 years working with thousands of businesses on Main St. America.
- We perform a comprehensive business analysis. Our objective process seeks to identify strengths and weaknesses in all areas of a business.
- When requested, we assist with implementing the recommended changes.
"From a personnel perspective we have increased the amount of time we focus on continuing education. All of our staff are coached and monitored by senior and middle management on a daily basis. Formal trainings are conducted several times a week and these trainings include client satisfaction role plays.
From a client perspective, our focus has always been on providing extraordinary results for our clients. Now, we expend extraordinary effort to provide results and ensure client satisfaction. We have upgraded our client monitoring program, our Results Assurance program and our senior management communication process with clients. We care and we want all of our clients to know it."
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American Management Services AMS Don't waste your gas money workng here!! Orlando, Florida
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Don't waste your time and gas money working for these people. There were 12 people in my class. 4 months later, I was the only one left. The class after mine (just 2 weeks later) had no one left a month or so. They have the highest turn over of any company I've ever heard of. When I was hired they promised $10/hr plus commissions which I got, initially, after signing a crap load of paperwork which does nothing to protect you.
4 months later in walks the boss saying that he can't afford to pay the hourly wage to anyone any more and reduces everyone's pay scale. Since I didn't sign a 1099 and they require you be at work at a particular time, they have to pay you minimum wage - and that's what it ends up being! A month later, I walk into the office to overhear a conversation of between the office person and the prospective employee and learned that they're hiring the new employees at the same rate of pay they told me that couldn't afford any more!
They promise the possibility of benefits too but that's non-existent because you have to pay the entire thing yourself and it's expensive - you can get it much cheaper elsewhere. If you don't want to ruin your pay history (prospective employers can and do run those, you know) and you don't want to end up making minimum wage, then don't work here. Otherwise, go for it.
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scumbag company
AUTHOR: Lied 2 - ()
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, July 24, 2013POSTED: Wednesday, July 24, 2013
This is a scumbag company I will add more once I get the paychecks they owe me. LIE LIE LIE
#2 UPDATE EX-employee responds
Good experience with company.
SUBMITTED: Saturday, February 15, 2014POSTED: Saturday, February 15, 2014
I actually would like to say that the company American Management Services is actually a company that is great to work for and they have alot of great employees and management that are fun to work around and the work atmosphere is about as fun as you can make a call center environment. They have a ping pong table and basketball hoops. So whenever you need a break from the phones you can let out some stress. I personally could no longer work for the company for personal reasons. Lou Mosca is a funny, funny guy ... I have no idea why some people have such negative things to say. If your good on the phone and don`t mind making some calls give them a call.
#3 UPDATE Employee
We disagree
AUTHOR: American Managment - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Friday, July 13, 2012POSTED: Friday, July 13, 2012
#4 UPDATE EX-employee responds
American Management Services - No No No..!
AUTHOR: Manny - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, March 20, 2012POSTED: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
I worked there for several months. Their promises regarding expense reimbursement were often easily characterized as a prolonged stall tactic in the hopes that you, as an employee, would simply stop asking.
Their purported "pay" was significantly less than minimum wage. I believe it's employee attrition rate must be in the 400% annually neighborhood. One person from my training group of 12 lasted more than three months.
At the time I worked there, appointments for Tier 1 associates such as myself were made under the false premise that a representative from a quasi or actual governmental agency were stopping by to lend a hand.
While this would, of course be denied, I've retained multiple faxes that, in writing, fully support these obvious fraudulent practice. Representations that were made to me regarding potential clients, travel distances (in my case, often 200-300 miles per day, commonly 5 days a week, and more often to eventually hostile "clients" who were duped into the meeting or, conversely, bad appointments that were never real in the first place.
My worst experience was a 175 mile drive for a 8:00 am meeting with a company that had no idea I was coming or what I was talking about. I averaged over a thousand miles of driving a week, and had to fight for every penny of reimbursement that had been promised to me, while at the same time being docked X dollars from every expense check (when one actually came) to pay for the "lease" (or something) on a 100% non-functioning and months before returned "Blackberry".
The "in the field" training that was promised was never delivered, but all of the above pales in comparison to the revelations made public regarding the character and criminal activities of the sales manager and trainer, hypothetically then in a key management position at AMS, Mr. Gary Antonino.
Mr Antonino and his brother were both convicted of bilking a large group of people, by and large comprised of the elderly, for millions upon millions of dollars in what was referred to as Ponzi scheme. The same person who was represented to us as our mentor and guide as well as our trainer and was sentenced to 87 months in the federal prison system, and that pretty much encapsulates what I believe that American Management Services is all about. In my opinion, this is a terrible and shameful Company who's "poster boy ended up as a despicable convicted felon and things went downhill from there.
#5 Consumer Comment
I am sure you just mis-understood
AUTHOR: The Captain - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, February 23, 2012POSTED: Thursday, February 23, 2012
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There are four bottles in Ocarina of Time that can be collected all throughout Hyrule. These bottles can contain helpful stuff that can aid Link on his quest to adventure!
1Go to Kakariko Village. You can get the first empty bottle as a child by helping a woman in front of the Kakariko Graveyard collect her chickens. Return the seven chickens in their pen and the woman will reward you the bottle.
2Go to Lon-Lon Ranch. Again as a child, play the Talon's Cucco Game at Lon-Lon Ranch. All you need to do is to find the 3 chickens different from the rest. You'll win a bottle with Lon-Lon milk once successful.
3Go to Lake Hylia. The last bottle that can be obtained as a child can be found in Lake Hylia. You must retrieve a bottle sunk underwater by Princess Ruto. This bottle has a letter in it and once you deliver this letter back to King Zora in Zora's Domain, he will let you keep the bottle.
4Go to Hyrule Field. As an adult Link this time, find and defeat the 10 Big Poes across Hyrule Field. Defeat them while riding your horse using your bow. Bring your defeated poes to the one-eyed ghost in Hyrule Castle. He will be inside the first door on the right coming from the Hyrule Field.
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Getting Back to Your Life as Usual
How physical therapy and occupational therapy during and after cancer treatment can help recovery
When you're diagnosed with cancer, everyone's first priority is doing what they can to get rid of it. You may need surgery. Your oncologist might prescribe chemotherapy or radiation. These things can take a toll on your body, even when the cancer is gone. Whether you're in treatment or done with treatment, what can you do to feel more like your old self?
We spoke to Kathy Konosky and Ron Sayre from the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, who perform both occupational therapy and physical therapy in patients with cancer. They discuss the many ways OT and PT can help patients recover from symptoms and side effects of their diseases and treatments. You might be surprised by just how much they can help you accomplish.
Q. Can you define for Thrive readers what physical therapy and occupational therapy are?
Physical therapy aims to maintain, restore and improve movement, activity and health to allow a person to have the best functioning and quality of life. PTs evaluate, diagnose and manage patients who have impairments, activity limitations and restrictions. They promote health, wellness and fitness to reduce risk, slow or stop the progression of functional decline and disability, and enhance a person's quality of life so they can participate in chosen life situations.
Occupational therapy helps people get back to their everyday life activities with the goal to function as well as possible at home, school, work and the community. OTs can evaluate and treat the physical, cognitive, psychosocial, sensory-perceptual and other aspects of a person's performance. The goal is to support and improve engagement or involvement in occupations or activities that affect physical and mental health, well-being and quality of life.
Q. Since there seems to be some overlap, can you help us understand the differences?
Here's an example: A leukemia patient has lymphedema, or chronic swelling, due to radiation treatment she had years ago combined with medication she takes now. She goes to occupational therapy for her lymphedema, which includes treatments like skin care, lymphatic drainage through massage, compression and stretching. The OT also teaches her ways to manage symptoms at home.
The same patient sees a physical therapist because she has graft vs. host disease with symptoms off and on. This leaves her weak and fatigued, especially after a hospital stay. Her PT helps with building strength, primarily of her lower extremities, and developing more endurance. As a result, she has the energy for more day-to-day activities.
Q. When might a cancer patient be prescribed physical therapy and occupational therapy?
We receive a lot of referrals from the Cancer Center. We can help patients deal with anything that isn't the same as before their illness. Patients often feel like they don't want to complain about things like limited arm movement or a sore back when they have a much bigger battle to wage with their cancer. But we can help address those ongoing symptoms they're dealing with every day and help make daily life better.
Q. How does a cancer patient know when he or she needs physical therapy or occupational therapy?
The most important thing is to be honest with your primary doctor and oncologist about the symptoms you're experiencing. It is not complaining. Just because an issue might not be the biggest issue you're facing doesn't mean it can't be helped or corrected.
Symptoms a patient may have range from being too tired to function, to specific pain in the body to limited mobility. Patients might experience weakness, problems with coordination, lymphedema or problems with posture resulting from treatment.
Q. What kinds of side effects, specifically, do you improve upon for cancer patients?
There are all sorts of things. Cancer and cancer treatment are hard on a person's body. Lymphedema, for example, is a big issue in cancer patients and the buildup of fluid in a leg can affect things like joint mobility and balance. Scar tissue from surgery sometimes forms and causes pain or reduced movement. Nerve problems from treatments can cause weakness and numbness or tingling in your hands, making it difficult to perform daily tasks.
Then there's the problem of fatigue that affects so many patients with cancer. It can be chronic, which can cause functional problems that cascade into a lot of areas of a person's life. PTs and OTs get at the root of the problems and help patients overcome them.
Ask your doctor whether physical therapy or occupational therapy is right for you based on your symptoms from cancer or treatment.
Q. What can physical therapists and occupational therapists do for patients?
We help patients have more energy, better mobility and less pain. There is also psychosocial recovery in cancer, meaning PTs and OTs can assure patients that their symptoms are normal and can be improved or alleviated. We help patients become fitter and healthier. We're always thinking about how we can incorporate helpful, functional activities in a way they can do as easily as possible.
PTs and OTs want patients to be fully functional. We can educate patients on ways to help them lower the risk of certain problems coming back. For example, lymphedema is a chronic condition that puts people at a higher risk for developing infections. In addition to alleviating the swelling, we can teach people "risk reduction principles," including diet, skin care, stretching and deep breathing. We teach them self-management so they know what to do if symptoms arise in the future.
Q. What about patients who are done with treatment and want to feel better?
One great intervention we have to offer is personal training specifically for cancer survivors in our Cancer Rehabilitation Program. This is part of the University of Michigan's Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Physical inactivity can lead to many disabling health issues. People want to feel better after cancer, not worse.
Visit the Cancer Rehabilitation Program webpage to learn more!
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UW-Stevens Point names 2011 Distinguished Alumni Council
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point honored four alumni as members of the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Council on Saturday, Oct. 8, at the University Awards ceremony.
Made up of representatives from each of the university's four colleges, the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Council includes Henry Leck, '69, Indianapolis, Ind., the Distinguished Alumnus of the College of Fine Arts and Communication; Robert Summerfelt, '57, Ph.D., Ames, Iowa, the Distinguished Alumnus of the College of Letters and Science; Jenny Baeseman, '98, Ph.D., Tromsø, Norway; the Distinguished Alumnus of the College of Natural Resources; and Jeff Polzer, '88, Ph.D., Newton Center, Mass., the Distinguished Alumnus of the College of Professional Studies. The four are being honored for exceptional professional achievement and recognition and reputation beyond immediate environs.Leck (left), an internationally recognized choral director, is associate professor and director of choral activities at Butler University. He founded and is the artistic director of the Indianapolis Children's Choir, one of the largest of its kind in the world with 17 choirs and more than 2,500 students. He also has conducted the National Youth Choral Festival in Carnegie Hall, and a variety of choirs in nearly every state and every continent except Antarctica. He is well known as a specialist in choral techniques, children's voice and Dalcroze Eurhythmics, has published "Creating Artistry through Choral Excellence" and created four teaching DVDs.
Summerfelt, (right) professor emeritus at Iowa State University, has served on the faculty at four major Midwest universities and as a visiting professor at two others. He has advised 600 undergraduates and 400 graduate students, and 40 graduate students have completed their degrees under his supervision. His diverse research interests are represented by 186 publications in fish biology, parasitology, aquaculture, aquatic toxicology and lake aeration. In the last 20 years, he and his students have published 40 articles on the culture of walleye, including four major reviews. Over the summer he gave a presentation at UW-Stevens Point's Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility.Baeseman (left) is the founding director of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS), an international and interdisciplinary organization with 2,600 members from more than 74 countries. APECS provides hands-on leadership training and professional development for young scientists and educators interested in the earth's Polar Regions. Baeseman runs the APECS international office in Norway, has taken three trips to Antarctica to study microorganisms living in extreme environments and worked at the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. A native of Central Wisconsin, she is also a member of the UW-Stevens Point Alumni Association Board of Directors.
Polzer, (right) the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in diverse teams by focusing on the interplay among individual expertise and identity, interpersonal processes such as conflict, and team performance. He also studies the use of communication technologies to foster global collaboration. He has taught courses in the MBA, executive and doctoral programs at Harvard, and has conducted executive training sessions for organizations such as IBM, Novartis, Merrill Lynch, Citizens Band and Ernst & Young.


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it's not the nsa bros, it's group of super-core mid-atlantic burlmeisters who are sick of their overcrowded breaks being overrun by kooks from elsewhere. they figure if they can get people to hate swellinfo so much that they stop coming to check the forecasts...well, you get the point.
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the heavy (but fair) hand of the matt johnson regime would have never put up with this stuff.
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I'm now convinced that SI is composed of no more than 7 real-life individuals that are each spinning anywhere from 3 to 26 different accounts. The greater number of multiple accounts, the sicker and more deranged the individual. Add up the cumulative word count per day of all posts from the various accounts of the average SI member (1 of 7 total people) and it triples the output of even my most hyperactive day of posting yet.
Reminds me of another well-known circus...
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WOW! Are they tracking me in the water too? I usually wear a tin foil surf helmet to ward the radio signals away when I am out shredding. I hope they don't know it's me.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Officials with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office are meeting with camera vendors as the agency looks to install surveillance cameras in high-crime neighborhoods.
People in one Northside neighborhood off Myrtle Avenue know big brother may soon be watching.
"I think it could be a good thing," said Colleen Dennis, who recently moved to the neighborhood. "As long as they're not concentrating them and we feel like we're targeted."
The options won't be cheap. High-quality systems can cost several thousand dollars per camera. The sheriff had said that forfeiture funds or drug money could be used to pay for JSO'S cameras.
Meanwhile, Action News first reported last week that the city's Department of Public Works is also looking at cameras to help combat illegal dumping. Some officials have suggested pooling the efforts together to save taxpayer money. Council President Clay Yarborough told Action News any plans for cameras have to be closely examined.
"Surveillance cameras can do certain things, staff members can do certain things," Yarborough said. "It's really trying to find a balance of what's appropriate depending on what the need is."
JSO has not revealed the number of cameras that will be installed and the exact streets those cameras will be watching. JSO is also looking a system from ShotSpotter, which promises to track gunshots in real time.


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U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants World Refugee Survey 2006 - Nepal
|United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
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|United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants World Refugee Survey 2006 - Nepal , 14 June 2006, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4496ad0637.html [accessed 23 November 2017]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
Refoulement/Physical Protection
There were no reports of refoulement. Nepal hosted more than 100,000 refugees from Bhutan, who arrived starting in 1991, in 7 camps administered by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the east of the country. About 15,000 more lived outside of the camps. At year's end, about 1,000 Bhutanese asylum seekers were waiting to undergo the Government's refugee determination process.
The Government also recognized some 20,000 Tibetans as refugees between 1959 and 1989. It did not permit new Tibetan arrivals to seek asylum, however, and fined and detained them. Through most of the year Nepal allowed Tibetans to travel on to India, but stopped permitting this in November. Before Nepal closed the border, 3,400 Tibetans registered with UNHCR and almost all traveled on to India.
Nepal was not party to 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. In 1993, however, it did adopt an internal directive for refugee status determination for Bhutanese asylum seekers called "Modus Operandi of the Screening Operation Post for Asylum-seekers from Bhutan at Kakarbhitta." The Government respected UNHCR's grant of refugee status under its mandate to 300 refugees in urban areas mainly from Pakistan and also from other countries such as Iraq, Liberia, Myanmar, and Sudan.
In 1986, Nepal and China agreed to tighten control of movement across the border, but neither side consistently enforced the restrictions. The Government permitted UNHCR to visit the Nepal-China border four times during the year.
Bhutanese refugee camps lacked police since 2003 and refugee watch teams reported sexual, gender-based, and other violence. Security forces, Maoist insurgents, and criminal gangs posing as either, robbed and extorted new Tibetan arrivals.
Detention/Access to Courts
The Government arrested, detained, and charged about two dozen Tibetan new arrivals with immigration violations during the year. The authorities released all concerned to UNHCR after anonymous donors paid their fines and penalties. At year's end, there were no reports of detained Tibetans because of immigration violations. There were no reports of the Government detaining Bhutanese refugees or asylum seekers for illegal entry, presence, or employment.
UNHCR and partner organizations had access to all detained refugees and asylum seekers but refugees reported difficulty in obtaining bail.
Bhutanese refugees did not receive individual identity documents. The only documentation that refugees possessed for certifying their refugee status was family census cards, and authorities based registration information for Bhutanese refugees entirely on household information about the senior member of the household, usually male. The Government did not approve a plan UNHCR had submitted in 2004 for individual registration and identity documents.
Authorities issued refugee certificates to Tibetan refugees residing in Nepal prior to 1990, including their children. In March, UNHCR gave the Government a list of more than 4,000 Tibetans without documentation and requested that it issue them refugee cards. The Government confirmed its willingness to issue such cards to at least some of them, but did not do so. The Government did not permit children reaching the age of 16 to be listed on their parents' documents nor did it issue them their own. The documentation attested to their right to remain and travel in Nepal but not to work, to own property, or to register births, deaths, or marriages. UNHCR provided asylum seekers and refugees under its mandate in urban areas with certificates.
In general, Bhutanese refugees had access to courts, including for civil matters. There was no prosecution, however, of police accused of sexually molesting two Tibetan refugee girls in Lukla as reported in last year's Survey.
Freedom of Movement and Residence
The Government confined some 100,000 Bhutanese refugees to camps. Tibetan refugees, along with refugees and asylum seekers in urban areas, were free to travel outside camps subject to general security concerns within the national territory. Tibetan refugees were subject to fines and imprisonment if they failed to carry documentation or residence cards while traveling through Nepal. Camp rules prohibited any refugee from leaving the camps for more than a day without prior permission from camp authorities. Camp officials could issue passes valid for no more than a week.
In January, the Government closed both the Tibetan Refugee Welfare Office and the Tibetan Refugee Reception Centre, which had registered new refugee arrivals from China and assisted them with passage to India.
In October, the Government stopped issuing international travel documents to Tibetan and Bhutanese refugees. Among those denied permits was Bhutanese refugee leader Tek Nath Rizal, who sought to travel to South Africa for an international conference. In November, the Government also stopped issuing exit permits to Tibetan refugees transiting to India.
Right to Earn a Livelihood
Nepal did not allow refugees, including Tibetans, to work legally regardless of status or length of stay. The Government prohibited refugees from operating businesses or holding title to cars, homes, or property. In addition, government-issued camp rules forbade Bhutanese refugees from engaging in any form of income generation.
Many refugees, including Bhutanese living outside of the camps, had to work illegally without any labor protection. Tibetan refugees operated small carpet-weaving businesses while Bhutanese had small cottage industries within the camps. The central Government tolerated many activities within the informal sector but required bribes, false documents, or Nepalese partners. Local authorities, however, were less tolerant and local populations clashed with Bhutanese camp residents over wage rates and local resources such as firewood, resulting in isolated instances of violence. Authorities shut down refugee soap-making enterprises when local producers, from whom UNHCR had earlier purchased soap, complained.
Bhutanese camp residents staged demonstrations and hunger strikes in December to protest UNHCR's switch from kerosene rations to bio-briquettes. While UNHCR made the switch because bio-briquettes were environmentally friendly, refugees protested because they could sell or trade kerosene to outsiders. Additionally, bio-briquettes were labor intensive to produce locally.
Public Relief and Education
UNHCR provided pre-primary and primary education up to grade 8 within Bhutanese refugee camps, while its implementing partners and Caritas provided education through grade 12. Most refugee children in urban areas received only informal education while some families enrolled their children in private schools, some with international aid.
UNHCR and the World Food Programme also provided medical services in all the Bhutanese camps and UNHCR aided a small number of refugees in urban areas. Tibetan communities outside of Nepal supported medical and education services for Tibetan refugee communities. Several hospitals doubled the fees for foreigners, with no exception for refugees, following the recommendation of the Medical Board of Tribhuvian University. The Government's refusal to register refugee self-help organizations made them vulnerable to forced closure at any time.


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The NASA WISE telescope spent a year imaging sections of the sky in infrared and astronomers have been working for the last few months to knit it together in a 360 degree map, all doped up with false color. It is spectacular. The limitations of this website can't do it justice: that bad boy above is scalable like you wouldn't believe. (Speaking of which, don't click on the last image or two if your PC bitches about large pics, one of them is width 54000, which auto scales to 5400 on some devices and still causes fits). Let's take a little piece of it on the far left and zoom in, so you can see what this means.
Whoa! And bear in mind, what you're seeing isn't even visible in optical light telescopes. That stuff up there is partly or completely obscured by dust and gas. That's why infrared is the Big Thing in observational astronomy these days, it lets us peek through the cosmic fog and see things we've never seen before, even with the most powerful traditional scopes. But, maybe we want more detail, let's grab that blob in the upper left corner and zoom in some more.
Still not impressed? How about this.
It goes on like that for several more magnitudes, or so I'm told anyway. That detail isn't posted yet (This was only released on 14 March). Throughout the data are details on the gas and dust itself that tell astronomers a story of raw power and violence, a universe in frenzied motion, as active as swarms of a billion angry bees.
The image below, taken from the breathtaking slide show here, hints at some of that: a massive star that was probably hurled through the cosmos when its close companion disintegrated in a super nova. Like cutting a string on a twirling ball, it is now moving so fast its piling up a hot shockwave and streaming molecular debris. Think of a star-sized bullet ripping through super heated gas caught by an ultra fast motion camera. (Astronomers speculate similar dynamics playing out near the heart of large galaxies could generate entire star systems, with planets in tow, zipping out of their starry host at hundreds of kilometers a second, trailng streamers hundreds of light-years long in their wake) Only the vast distances involved in this case freeze the action and capture a transient moment of astounding beauty.
The amazing part, this isn't one series of shots, WISE operated for a little over one year, from Dec 2009 to Feb 2011, using only a 40 cm IR detector looking in a few bands of invisible and reddish light. But it mapped the entire sky like this and archived it for future research. We're talking about a single image, that if laid out in high res would cover a small town. There is detail and data and new info in there that will be examined and appearing for the first time in thesis and dissertation for decades to come.
WISE was tasked to create the first infrared cosmic atlas, a mere over view informing future astronomers where to look. This week we get a small taste of what it really did with lots more to come — there may not be enough people in the field to analyze an appreciable fraction of it in really close detail, even if they worked non-stop for a century. In the future, if and when astronomers and students strap on virtual reality goggles and ply the stellar winds of the real universe in gritty three-D, they could be riding through a virtual environment created by WISE at thousands of times the speed of light!
That brings up a fair point for discussion: NASA currently has a much larger verison of WISE in the works called the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a 40 cm collector in low earth orbit, JWST sports a 6.5 meter maw in lolling on the edge of interplanetary space. After seeing what WISE produced, you can imagine — or maybe we can't and that's what so exciting — what a dish with over 250 times the collecting power of WISE could do! The worry is JWST may be trying to do too much too soon, without an intermediate step, plus it's so expensive and subject to so many delays already, its gutting NASA's interplanetary science budget right now.
If we going to have to cancel missions to Mars (Or Europa, or terrestrial planet finders, or a freakin Jovian stratospheric floater, etc) that we've already sunk big space bucks into, might it make more sense to consider a smaller version of JWST, say a two meter dish that would have 25 times the power and be operational years sooner? That's still a huge leap in resolution. Then again just having that constraint forced on us by so-called fiscal conservatives is laughable given their track record: the entire cost of the WISE mission was roughly 350 million dollars. That's about what it cost to prop up Wall Street for a few hours after Republican economic policies crashed the economy, or chase after non existent WMD for a couple of days in Iraq at the bloody nadir of that one incredible blunder.


text: Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer <at> web.de> writes: > > > Am Dienstag 29 Dezember 2009 04:38:21 schrieb Will Ness: > > Now _this_, when tested as interpreted code in GHCi, runs about 2.5x times > > faster than Priority Queue based code from Melissa O'Neill's ZIP package > > mentioned at the haskellwiki/Prime_Numbers page, with > > about half used memory reported, in producing 10,000 to 300,000 primes. > > > > It is faster than BayerPrimes.hs from the ZIP package too, in the tested > > range, at about 35 lines of code in total. > > That's nice. However, the important criterion is how compiled code (-O2) fares. Do the relations continue to hold? How does it compare to a bitsieve? > OK, I've tested it now. For some reason it runs about 1.3x times slower than Melissa O'Neill's code when compiled, while taking about the same amount of memory (going slightly worse actually, 0.97..1.05..1.08), in the range of 100,000..1,000,000..2,000,000 primes produced. The local asymptotic behavior was about the same, again, in both versions, about O(n^1.20..1.25) - worsening slightly for the merging version (the ratio of run times going 1.25..1.29..1.32). I guess that makes the two versions (almost) operationally equivalent in producing of up to a million primes or two. > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe <at> haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >


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The Toronto Police Services Board says it is not renewing the contract of Police Chief Bill Blair, citing the need for "organizational renewal."
"After considerable discussion related to the Toronto Police Service's continuing need for organizational renewal the Board has decided not to renew the employment agreement of Chief Blair," the Board said in a statement Wednesday.
Blair's contract will end next April.
The Post confirmed the Chief had asked for a contract renewal. His only statement, through his spokesman, was: "I want to thank the board for their consideration."
"I want to thank Chief Bill Blair for his service to the city these last 10 years," Mayor Rob Ford said in a terse statement. "I look forward to working with the next police chief in April."
Ford, who infamously called Blair a "c—sucker" in a inebriated rant caught on video earlier this year, did not take any questions on the matter. Ford had been at odds with Blair since the police chief revealed the existence of the mayor's first crack video.
"This is a decision that was made strictly by the police services board," Ford stressed to reporters Wednesday.
Board chair Alok Mukherjee said the board was "very proud" of Blair's service but said they thought it was best for him to only serve two five-year terms. Mukherjee would not say how close the vote was to keep Blair.
Mukherjee said the G20 riots and the Ford investigation had nothing to do with the board's decision.
At city hall, reaction ranged from those who lamented his departure to those who said they understood the board's decision.
Councillor Doug Ford, who last year called repeatedly for the chief to resign amid the police investigation of his brother, would not stray from one line. "I want to wish the chief the best," he said repeatedly.
Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti said if he detects an outcry from the citizenry, he will move a motion at city council seeking to reverse the decision.
"This is the only city I know in North America that punishes its chief when crime statistics go down," said Mr. Mammoliti, who called the decision "politics at its worst."
Councillor Joe Mihevc said Chief Blair has been a "great" chief, but he understood and respected the board's decision. He thought a decade was sufficient time for a chief to serve.
Councillor John Parker, meanwhile, said he regretted the board's decisions. "He has transformed the Toronto police service into a genuine service the community in a real sense," he said.
Chief Blair was sworn in as chief of the largest municipal police force in the country on April 26, 2005, under then mayor David Miller.
His current contract expires next April. It required him to inform the board if he wishes to renew his contract no later than nine months prior to expiration, which was July 25.
Once the board received notice, it had thirty days to respond.
Mukherjee refused on Friday to release details about the chief's intentions, and said any negotiations are confidential. Police spokesman Mark Pugash also reiterated the chief's view that the matter is between him and the police board.
Almost four decades after he began a policing career walking the beat in Regent Park, Chief Blair, 60, is praised for changing the face of the force by making it more diverse, and building stronger ties with minority communities.
But it has been an intense second term, in which he took heat over the way police responded to protesters during the G20 Summit of 2010 and clashed with councillors over budget cuts.
The police investigation of Mayor Rob Ford thrust the city's top cop into a war of words with the chief magistrate, who dared the chief to arrest him, and Councillor Doug Ford, who called on the chief to resign over comments he made about the crack video.
The Fords also raised questions about a fishing trip Chief Blair took with Andy Pringle, a member of the police board and former chief of staff to John Tory, a mayoral candidate.
The tension has, at least publicly, subsided and on Friday Mayor Ford declined to comment on the chief's future. "That's up the police services board," he said. "I have no idea what he is going to ask [for]."


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Vehicle2009 Subaru Outback 2.5i 4dr Wagon AWD (2.5L 4cyl 5M)
ReviewI live in Colorado where snow is an issue, so I needed a car with AWD. This car has excellent build quality. I previously owned a 3-series BMW and this car is comparable in many ways. The transmission is as good as the BMW, as is the ride quality. Though nothing handles like a BMW IMO, this comes close. You won't win many drag races with the 2.5, but it is adequate and fun. If I hadn't gotten so many tickets in college and therefore cost so much to insure, I would've gotten the turbo, I think. Overall this is a lot of car for the money. The seats are softer than my BMW, but not as soft as the Volvo I test drove. I prefer softer seats when given the choice.
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Whitecaps face final test before playoffs
The last time Camilo (right) and the Whitecaps faced Tony Beltran (left) and Real Salt Lake FC, Vancouver won 2-1 at BC Place. The teams have split their two meetings this season. (Reuters)
Had they not already secured a playoff spot — in fine backdoor fashion — the need to beat Real Salt Lake this weekend would have been much higher for the Vancouver Whitecaps. Fortunately for them, that's not the case.
The 'Caps will close out the regular season Saturday in anticipation of their post-season debut next Thursday against the Los Angeles Galaxy. But first, they must focus on the task at hand, up against the third-place team in the Western Conference.
Having not won a road game since July 4 against Colorado, and amassing a 3-10-3 record away from home this season, the visit to Salt Lake City serves as a pre-playoff test for Vancouver.
"We just have to carry on as business as usual," captain Jay DeMerit said. "Right now all of us know there's still lots of things to work on and that comes with training. There's no better way to prepare for the playoffs than a game against a good team in Real Salt Lake."
Vancouver understands they must quickly recover from their uninspired 1-0 loss to the Portland Timbers at home this past Sunday, which left more questions than answers.
"We let people down with that performance and that result especially," coach Martin Rennie said. "It's frustrating because the great achievement of getting into the playoffs is tainted a little bit by a disappointing result in that game so we need to get back on track against Salt Lake in the next game. That's what sports and soccer and life is all about: not what you just did, whether it was good or bad, but it's about what you do next. That's what we're focused on."
The first-year coach said he plans to use their Saturday match in Utah as a precursor to picking his lineup for the one-game playoff knockout next week.
"How we do and how we play against Salt Lake will obviously be a factor as to who plays against L.A.," he said.
Alain Rochat was subbed out in the 61st minute against Portland, soon after he was dealt a hard tackle. The defender called the quad injury a "dead leg." However, the French-Canadian is healthy enough and available for selection this weekend.
"I feel better," he said Wednesday. "I still have a little pain but it doesn't bother me for practising."


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"Students massacred in China, priests murdered in Central America, demonstrators gunned down in Lithuania -- these acts of violence are as wrong as Iraqi soldiers' killing civilians. We cannot oppose repression in one place and overlook it in another."
-- Senator George Mitchell, Jan. 29, 1991
"So what does this mean, that we want to stop naked ((Iraqi)) aggression? Does this mean that the United States will indeed become the policeman of the world?"
-- Senator Tom Harkin, Jan. 11, 1991
Well, gentlemen, which is it? The Democrats first complain that it is hypocritical to oppose injustice x but tolerate injustice...