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As youth sports become more and more competitive, the notion of playing for the love of the game is being replaced by the "just win, baby" attitude. Yet there's a junior football organization in Compton that's more interested in its players future than the immediate results on the field.
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Bombardier and ATR weigh pros and cons of pursuing a 90-seat turboprop design
The tempo of new turboprop airliner and engine development is, by its very nature, slower than that of the turbofan-powered jetliner. Although confined to a niche market, turboprops have set such a high benchmark for efficiency since the 1990s that they have made themselves irreplaceable. Added to this, the overall lower volume of production and turnover in regional turboprops have made it tough to close the business case for expensive step-change replacements. Yet the unstoppable rise ...
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SHERIDAN — The Dayton Benefit Club is hosting a raffle in an effort to raise money to preserve the Historic Dayton Community.
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NEW PRODUCT – EL wire 4xAAA pocket inverter. The new EL inverter can drive a meter of tape, or 400 cm of high brightness EL wire. This is the most powerful pocket inverter we could find!
A small, portable inverter for EL wire. Powers off of 4 AAA batteries (not included!), it can drive 10 to 13 feet of our high-brightness EL wire or 1 meter of EL tape for about 7 hours. There is a switch for selecting steady/blink/off modes. Comes with four 2.5mm pitch female JST connectors, standard for all the EL wire and tape we carry. The JST cables snap into the inverter, so if you don't need all 4 cables, you can use as few as you want. The inverter does not 'sequence' the 4 cables, so if you use 'blink mode' all the strands will blink at the same time.
There is a 1.7mm DC jack on the side so you can put in 5-6VDC to power this off of a different battery or power source, This cable has a matching DC plug on the end)
You can plug any of our EL wire/tape into this inverter directly. To connect a 'raw' piece EL wire to this, you'll want a male connector wire
The EL inverter requires a 'load' to stabilize itself. Do not run the inverter without at least 2 ft of EL wire attached! Otherwise the inverter can spike and damage itself
Like all inverters we've used, the 2000 Hz oscillation is slightly audible. To reduce the squeaking, we suggest opening up the case padding it with thick foam tape/weatherstripping. Squirting some hot glue around the capacitors may also help. We managed to get it silent this way.
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1m, 400cm, 10-13 feet – I think you only missed mm and inches 🙂 Why not convert everything to one unit – makes it easier to compare…
Is this AAA or AA? The description says AAA, but the detailed copy has AA. Also, does this have the whine that is common in a lot of inverters?
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Every year, during the Executive Forum and Fly-In, a delegation of member executives from Plumbing Manufacturers Intl. (PMI) travels to Washington...
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With budgets tightening and travel expenses increasing, many industry professionals are left with the difficult task of deciding which industry tradeshows to attend this year. The American Water Works Association's (AWWA) Annual Conference and Exposition is one tradeshow that produces a large number of exhibitors and attendees each year. The 128th AWWA Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE09) will be held June 14 to 18 in San Diego.
AWWA was founded in 1881 as an advocate of safe water for public health, safety and welfare for the water community. AWWA is an international, nonprofit educational society that consists of more than 60,000 members representing scientists, environmentalists, manufacturers, regulators, academicians and treatment plant operators and managers in the water community.
What to Expect
AWWA's annual conference improves water quality by presenting developments in technology, processes and products. ACE09 will include more than 500 exhibiting companies and manufacturers of pipes, valves, meters, hydrants, membrane filtration systems, laboratory equipment and engineering services.
Attendees consist of water and wastewater utility management, personnel, board and commission members; manufacturers and distributors of water industry equipment and supplies; researchers, academicians and students; international, federal, state and local water quality regulators and public health administrators; consumer organizations and interest groups; consultants and consulting engineers.
Among this extensive list of attendees will be the Water Quality Association (WQA). The WQA was established in 1973 from a merger of Water Conditioning Association International and the Water Conditioning Foundation. Although WQA as an organization did not exist until 1973, WQA's laboratory and product validation program has been testing and certifying products since 1959. In 2003, WQA's laboratory expanded its scope by becoming accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the Standards Council of Canada (SCC).
Many state legislative bodies, plumbing codes and individual cities require drinking water products to be certified by an ANSI-accredited certification agency before they can be installed or sold to consumers in the U.S. Additionally, products making health claims have to be registered with California and Iowa, and all products plumbed into the drinking water system have to be registered with Wisconsin and Massachusetts. Provinces in Canada require products be certified by a SCC-accredited certification agency before they can be sold to consumers.
Certification Overview
If you manufacture components, products or materials used in drinking water systems, you can certify your products to NSF/ANSI Standard 61, which establishes minimum health effects requirements for the chemical contaminants that may be indirectly imparted into the drinking water from components, products and materials used in drinking water systems. NSF/ANSI Standard 61 does not establish performance, taste, odor or microbial growth support requirements.
Products covered under this standard include pipes and pipe-related products, protective-barrier materials, joining and sealing materials, process media, mechanical devices and mechanical plumbing devices.
If you manufacture chemicals used in drinking water, you can certify your products to NSF/ANSI Standard 60. This standard establishes minimum health effects requirements for chemicals, the chemical contaminants and the impurities that are directly added to drinking water from drinking water treatment chemicals, and it ensures that chemicals are safe at the maximum dose and that impurities are below the maximum acceptable levels. NSF/ANSI Standard 60 does not establish performance or taste and odor requirements for drinking water treatment chemicals.
If you manufacture drinking water treatment units (DWTUs), you can certify your products for performance claims, materials safety, structural integrity and literature requirements of industry standards. Some examples of DWTUs are drinking water filters, cation exchange water softeners, swimming pool circulation systems, reverse osmosis systems, ultraviolet microbiological water treatment systems, distillation systems, shower filters and ozone generators.
Certification inquiries start the review process for any of the items mentioned above and involve submittal of documentation, performance testing, literature review, facility inspections and issuing of certification.


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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
This year's Index of Dependence on Government presented startling findings about the sharp increase of Americans who rely on the federal government for housing, food, income, student aid or other assistance. (See last week's chart.)
Another eye-popping number was the percentage of Americans who don't pay income taxes, which now accounts for nearly half of the U.S. population. Meanwhile, most of that population receives generous federal benefits.
"One of the most worrying trends in the Index is the coinciding growth in the non-taxpaying public," wrote Heritage authors Bill Beach and Patrick Tyrrell. "The percentage of people who do not pay federal income taxes, and who are not claimed as dependents by someone who does pay them, jumped from 14.8 percent in 1984 to 49.5 percent in 2009."
That means 151.7 million Americans paid nothing in 2009. By comparison, 34.8 million tax filers paid no taxes in 1984.
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One reason (among millions!) the world is eagerly awaiting Harry, Zayn, Louis, Niall, and Liam's big-screen debut is that Morgan Spurlock directed the film. Known for making one of the most eye-opening documentaries of our generation (Super Size Me—a must-see!), he brought a lot to the table for This Is Us—not that there wasn't already a lot there to begin with! We caught up with the director about all things 1D, from what it was like to film on the road to how he captured their most vulnerable moments.
How did you become involved with this project?
I was approached last year by the studio to see if I'd be interested in making the film. I thought, this is a great opportunity and I would love to be able to tell that story. It was an incredible moment in time for them—the rocket is still racing through the sky. They're just getting bigger and bigger.
What can you tell us about the film?
They're incredibly charming guys who are very likeable, and you can't help but root for them. What this film will do is show people a side of the boys that they haven't gotten to see. Especially for people who aren't really familiar with them, it'll show them who One Direction really is. Once you see that, so many things that you may have heard—oh, they don't have any talent, they just got put together, they're a fake band—all of that falls by the wayside because you realize they are five really talented guys who were incredibly fortunate to get put together.
So where did you film while you were on tour with them?
We filmed with them in Japan, which was their first trip there, and it was incredible. It was such a great moment to be there with them. We also filmed as they launched their U.K. tour and went just all across Ireland, Scotland, and England. We've been shooting with them throughout the European tour.
Do we get to see the boys when they're not working? They work so hard!
We went with each of them to their hometowns and filmed with their families. One of the goals for me was to show an intimate and different side of the boys that you normally wouldn't get—something different than what you'd see in a typical interview—like seeing them in their homes with their families and spending days off just being regular guys. Day to day, that's who they are. They're just regular folks, like you and me. They're ordinary guys who have been put into such an extraordinary situation and they've done an incredible job at dealing with that.
Were the boys hesitant to talk about personal details in the movie?
In the beginning, they were. Whenever you first start shooting with anyone, there's a period of having to gain someone's trust. The more time you spend together, the more open people become. Suddenly, I was that guy who just wouldn't go away and was always around, so they were like, "Fine, we'll all talk to you." It's about earning and gaining that trust.
Did you ever have to say, "Hey, if there are moments that they're not comfortable, tell me?"
Completely. I said, "If there are things you don't want to talk about, just give me a head's up. I'm going to ask you about things, I'm going to push you to talk about things, and if you don't want to go there, just tell me you don't want to go there." So, we had a very open and honest dialogue from the start.
Did the boys open up about the downside of fame?
There's a lot of stress that comes with being under the microscope all the time and that's one of the things we talk about a lot. Suddenly everyone's writing about you and they're chasing you and you can't walk out of your house without a photographer taking your picture and having it end up somewhere.
While interviewing the band for our cover story backstage in Miami, it's was shocking how normal they seemed. Is that true to your experience?
They're very real. What you see in the movie is how much each one of them relies on the other four guys. They have this really tight bond. Nobody else in the world knows what they're going through except those other four guys. That relationship for them, I think, is invaluable. Part of the reason why they've been able to stay so grounded is because they have the others there to kind of keep them in check constantly.
We were staying in this really crazy, incredibly ornate hotel in the middle of like Nottingham and Zayn had this huge room that had two bedrooms in it. He said, "I can't sleep in here, man. It's just too weird. It's too creepy for me. I'd rather stay on the bus." So, he went back and slept on the bus. There was even a snowstorm! But that's where he stays. And he does that all the time on the road. It's amazing. And it's not just him! He does that, Louis does that, Liam will also do that. When they're on the road, they don't have friends and family around. They have each other. So after a gig, they'd rather have the comfort of that family around.
How is this movie different from Justin Bieber: Never Say Never and Katy Perry: Part of Me?
Part of what makes This Is Us work is that they're telling their own story and letting us into their lives. I also think these guys have a lot of fun—that's the other thing that sets them apart. The boys really do enjoy themselves a lot and they have a good time. That's what's different from someone like Katy or Justin. Louis said to us, "None of us thought any of this would happen. We were having fun when it did and we want to keep having fun. We want to keep having a good time."
Can you tell me something we might not know about one of the guys?
People know that Zayn is a wonderful singer and that the guy is incredibly talented—but he's a really great artist as well. He's fantastically artistic. We went back home and spent the day with him, and he painted at his house. He's got a graffiti studio in his house and that's just how he unwinds. He has friends over and he listens to music and he paints and he hangs out. For him, there's nothing more important than being home and being surrounded by people that he loves. There's something really wonderful about that.
Don't you think that at least part of the reason people are excited to see the movie is because you're directing it?
Yeah, no pressure! We're trying to do some different things. We brought in some music journalists and some historians and other people who can talk about the band's place in the world and in the music business. We sought out a doctor—a neurologist—who will talk about what happens in a girl's brain when she listens to One Direction, and how that impacts her body and how she reacts to that.
You recently tweeted that there are shirtless moments in the film&can you tell us more?
There are many moments where the boys have been caught—as some people would say—with their pants down.


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There has been a long running saga in Ohio concerning a science teacher named John Freshwater who was teaching creationism and propagating Christianity in other ways in his eighth grade science classes in a semi-rural community in central Ohio named Mount Vernon. He kept Bibles on his desk and posters of the Ten Commandments and other Christian messages hung on the walls.
When ordered by his school district to stop doing this, he not only refused but actually increased his religious activities. He was then fired and, as expected, complained that his religious freedom and freedom of speech rights were being violated. His case went all the way up to the Ohio Supreme Court where he lost last November by a 4-3 vote, with the judges ruling that his disobeying of rules were sufficient grounds for firing him. It should be noted that in Ohio, the Supreme Court judges are elected and have party affiliations. Six of the judges are Republican and just one is a Democrat.
But these people who want to be free to propagate their religious beliefs anywhere never give up and he filed a motion asking for the court to rehear his case. This week the Ohio Supreme Court rejected his request so this particular case seems to be finally well and truly settled.
But of course you can be sure that other teachers are doing similar things. In fact, Freshwater's behavior only came to light because he seemed to not know any bounds and even used a Tesla coil to make a mark on a student's arm that parents said looked like a cross.


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Congress can sail over the fiscal cliff at 90 mph for all I care, smirking while they use my Social Security dollars to light their Cuban cigars.
It just doesn't matter anymore — even if the battling bozos somehow reach a last-minute agreement.
My pod has arrived, dudes and dude-ettes, and I think I see Ron Howard standing behind it in a faded red baseball cap and seedy overcoat.
I'm off to Planet of the Grays.
Oh, wait. That's actually a 2013 Nissan Juke SL in refrigerator white, and I believe that's one of our editors loitering around it, probably looking to see if I left the keys on the console.
Just kidding, Boss. Your coat's really not that bad.
But who can blame anyone for looking long and hard at the lumpy, resolutely goofy Juke?
The Juke gave Nissan a jolt it badly needed. When the crossover/extraterrestrial rally car arrived nearly two years ago, the Japanese automaker seemed lost in a green jungle — its mainstream vehicles slowly fading.
All Nissan could talk about was its new electric Leaf, a well-conceived sparker that arrived way ahead of any market for the car.
Then along came the Juke, a wacky free spirit that appeared to be some sort of crazy collaboration between a Latvian rally driver and George Jetson.
But here's the deal: The Juke is easily Nissan's best smallish four-cylinder car. It just happens to be dressed for a costume party every day of the week.
Even in neutral white, my Juke looked fashionably post-apocalyptic, a 3,000-pound piece of polished space debris rolling on glossy 17-inch black wheels.
Moreover, the one I had recently was kind of rare. Most Jukes are equipped with all-wheel drive and continuously variable transmissions, which makes them essentially automatics.
Mine was standard front-wheel drive with a six-speed manual, reducing grip a bit but also knocking 100 pounds or so off its weight.
Amazingly, the Juke shares a platform with the lowly Versa compact sedan, truly one of the most basic penalty boxes on wheels.
But the lifeless 1.6-liter engine in the Versa is transformed in the Juke with direct fuel injection and turbocharging, emerging as a muscled-up little motor that surges sweetly under acceleration and makes 188 happy horsepower.
Think of its body as camouflage — or maybe blows against the empire.
You-name-it styling
The Juke's short, high hood kind of resembled a slightly warped work table that bumped into clear, long blisters atop the front fenders.
Those housed turn-signal lights while the reptilian headlights were recessed deeply into the upper bumper.
Flared black trim around the large wheel openings added to the Juke's vague rally-car aesthetics, as did the broad, swooping shoulders on the car's exaggerated fenders.
The top, meanwhile, was as flat as a West Texas mesa and supported by a rear pillar that screamed "French."
Moreover, only the front pair of its four doors had visible handles. The back handles were hidden along the trailing edges of their windows, giving the Juke a distinct coupe feel — not to mention a real challenge for passengers who get overly friendly with Jack Daniel.
It would all just be kind of strange without that lusty little engine under the hood.
Though not quite as strong as the wonderful turbo 2-liter in the Volkswagen GTI, the Juke's engine has a similar satisfying fist-in-silk feel to it.
It jumps away from stops pretty well but really swells above 3,000 rpm, zipping to 60 in about 7.5 seconds, according to Motor Trend — respectable speed for what is essentially a juiced-up econobox.
While the six-speed manual on mine required long throws, the gearbox provided decent shifts once you adjusted to it and the overly light clutch.
Likewise, the steering felt too light to me, but it was quick and offered pretty good road feel for a front-driver.
And despite the Juke's tall, almost comical off-road stance, it possessed shockingly good balance in hard corners.
As you might guess, it leans initially in corners. But take a deep breath, say three Sterling Mosses and press on.
The Juke turns pretty crisply into corners and hunkers down so effectively that you can drift through some moderate-speed corners.
In fact, the Juke is agile enough that it can be moved around some while sliding lightly through those moderate-speed corners.
You will pay for those moments of grace, though, with a ride that was a bit fidgety. However, it lapsed into harshness only over serious bumps.
A lot of something
The Juke is a lot of … well, whatever it is, for the $26,405 price on mine. And did I mention that it's rated at 25 miles per gallon in the city and 31 on the highway?
I came to view it as well-executed ugly.
The eccentricity also marked the Juke's black interior. An undulating black dashboard flowed around a rounded black center stack.
The hood over the clean little silver instrument panel appeared to have been inspired by a hang glider. The console was round and gray.
Though legroom in the back was limited, the good-looking front seats provided fine support — as well as perforated centers and bolsters stitched in red.
Don't tell your friends at Hyundai, but the Juke is a bunch more fun to drive than the Veloster Turbo. It just got slightly irradiated at some point during its development.
Nonetheless, let's hope Nissan leaves the Juke alone for now.
It proves that pretty doesn't always prevail, which is kind of inspiring for some of us.
AT A GLANCE: 2013 Nissan Juke SL
Type of vehicle: Five-passenger, front-wheel-drive compact crossover
Price as tested: $26,405
Fuel economy: 25 miles per gallon city, 31 highway
Weight: 2,939 pounds
Engine: 1.6-liter turbocharged, direct-injected four-cylinder with 188 horsepower and 177 pound-feet of torque
Transmission: Six-speed manual
Performance: 0 to 60 mph in about 7.5 seconds
Safety rating: Unrated
SOURCES: Nissan North America; Motor Trend; Edmunds.com


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Women's Herstory Month
March is Women's "Herstory" Month, and Columbus State will celebrate the achievement of women with several special events, culminating with the Leadership Awards and Celebration, on Wednesday, March 26.
Now is the time to nominate a Columbus State student, faculty or staff member for the Outstanding Woman Leader Award by completing and submitting a nomination form. Multiple winners will be named. Nominations are also being sought for a faculty or staff member who has worked at Columbus State for at least five years and demonstrates a legacy in leadership. You can complete and submit a nomination for the Legacy in Leadership Award online here. Nominations are due by Friday, March 7!
Women's Herstory Month 2014 "Take Action: Character, Courage, Commitment," is co-sponsored by the offices of Global Diversity and Inclusion and Student Engagement and Leadership (SEaL). All events are free and open to the public. The schedule is as follows:
Monday, March 3 (Delaware Campus)
Read Across America Day, "Poem in Your Pocket" Event
All day, Delaware Learning Center
Celebrate Women's Herstory Month and Read Across America Day with a 'Poem in Your Pocket' by a female author! Come to the Delaware Learning Center and take an excerpt of a poem with you for the day! Read it, share it with others, and celebrate womens' contributions to the world of reading.
Wednesday, March 5 (Columbus Campus) and Thursday, March 6 (Delaware Campus)
Take Action: International Women's Day-Honor Diaries Screening and Panel Discussion
11 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
Library Media Studio (Columbus)
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Moeller Hall 111 and 112 (Delaware)
Honor Diaries is the first film to break the silence on 'honor violence' against women and girls. Honor Diaries is more than a movie; it is a movement to save women and girls from human rights abuses around the world and here in America.
Wednesday, March 19
Take Action: Wellness and Empowerment Fair, featuring My Very Own Blanket
11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Delaware Hall Gymnasium Moved to Nestor Hall, West Lounge
This event focuses on the education, empowerment, health and well-being of women of all ages. Maintaining good health and wellness takes a conscious effort and dedication! Participants will be empowered to achieve their full potential by living holistically. In addition to the fair, participants can impact their community by creating a blanket for a youth in foster care; the blankets will benefit My Very Own Blanket.
Wednesday, March 19 (Delaware Campus) and Monday, March 24 (Columbus Campus)
Take Action: Show Your Courage and Donate Blood
|10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Moeller Hall, 111 and 112 (Delaware)
|9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Nestor Hall, West Lounge (Columbus)
Everyone at Columbus State is given an opportunity to enhance the lives of others by "giving the gift of life" during regularly scheduled Blood Drives. Feel free to give of yourself and receive rewarding gratification that only giving brings.
Thursday, March 20 (Delaware Campus)
Take Action: Women's Wellness and Empowerment Day-Free Yoga Class presented by Perfect Harmony Fitness and Yoga
11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Moeller Hall 111&112
Engage your mind, body, and spirit with the practice of yoga! Two, 45-minute classes will be offered with instruction by Alice Drew Yoder of Perfect Harmony Fitness and Yoga, LLC. Pre-registration is encouraged, please contact the Delaware SEaL office at (740) 203-8175 for details.
Wednesday, March 26
Women's Herstory Month: Leadership Awards and Celebration
Featuring Keynote Speaker Dawn Tyler Lee, Senior Vice President of Community Impact, United Way of Central Ohio
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. (Speed Networking is available from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in WD 409)
Workforce Development Center, Ballroom
Celebrate the Outstanding Women Leaders of Columbus State! Both employees and students will be recognized for their leadership and achievements. Light refreshments will be served.
Event is free and open to the public. Nominate an outstanding woman by March 7, 2014.
Thursday, March 27 (Delaware Campus)
Take Action: Coffeehouse Open Mic-presented by Columbus State and OSU Marion
12:30 - 2 p.m.
Moeller Hall 111 and 112
A great opportunity to have your voice heard! Whether it's poetry, music, or another creative talent, students, faculty, and staff are welcome to share their talents at the open mic. While everyone is welcome to participate, the theme of March's open mic is experiences of Character, Courage, and Commitment. Be the star or sit back and enjoy the show! Live musical entertainment and light refreshments will be available.


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Mitt, GOP lawmakers embrace -- warily
Before Rep. Paul Ryan rolled out his controversial budget plan last month, there was one man eager to learn its details.
It was Mitt Romney.
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Over the course of several phone calls with Romney, the Wisconsin Republican explained — point by point — his plan to overhaul Medicare and Medicaid and to cut the budget deficit. It gave Romney fodder to defend the plan against sharp campaign attacks.
The private phone calls are one sign of increased communication between the presumptive presidential nominee's team and top congressional Republicans, marking a new effort to build a relationship critical to their party's success in November.
But the relationship is fraught with political risks.
President Barack Obama would like nothing more than to paint Romney as part of the Republican Conference, which came close to defaulting on the nation's debt and shutting down the government. At the same time, Romney plans to make an aggressive pitch to independent voters and disaffected Democrats — such as recent comments about a law targeting disputes over gender pay discrimination — meaning a general-election shift to the middle could provoke tensions
Romney may need to distance himself from the congressional Republicans on select issues, the candidate's advisers and lawmakers say.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), an active Romney surrogate, put the budding relationship between senior Republican congressional leaders and their presumptive nominee's campaign this way: "I don't think it'll be a big, wet, slobbery French kiss. But they'll be holding hands from time to time."
( Also on POLITICO: Donors split with Mitt on gay marriage)
Still, after two years of setting the GOP's political agenda, Republican leaders on Capitol Hill appear ready to play a supporting role to Romney and his political wishes — so much so that they're prepared to reinforce his campaign trail themes with votes in Congress.
For instance, top Republicans have told lawmakers that Romney's team has to be on board with any plan to force votes on tax rates before the election — a political plan that's gaining support among House Republicans.
"Speaker [John] Boehner and Leader [Eric] Cantor have made it clear to us that in the coming weeks, their teams would be sitting down with Gov. Romney's [campaign] to make sure that a tax extenders package that we advance is on the same page with our Republican nominee," said Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock, a Romney supporter and member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
South Dakota Sen. John Thune, who is spearheading the Senate GOP's messaging operations, added: "I think everybody realizes our fortunes rise and fall on being a unified team and [our ability] to effectively draw those contrasts with the Democrats."
Behind the scenes, efforts to build a more tightly synced communications operation are beginning in earnest.
Twice in the past month, Romney policy chief Lanhee Chen held a conference call with top House and Senate Republican policy aides to chat about Congress's agenda. Participants on the call included seasoned hands like Cantor's policy chief Neil Bradley and Brett Loper from Boehner's office, several sources said.


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The first thought that came to my mind when I heard of the "6 of 6" screenshot thing going around was:
Here at 4tH I guess I'd be 3 of 3.
Anyway, the Ga-nomesnatcha tagged me and Fikkle sub-tagged me to post the 6th screenshot in my folder. I wish I had one of the screenies from the old days but sadly that machine is long in the ground. I'll have to make do with what's on the laptop I currently play on.
6th of 6. It's a picture I've been saving for the Dalaran cooking dailies guides!


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If you are a newbie to the sequel to Call of Duty, here are some helpful hints.
1Finish the single player game in normal difficulty.
2Play Call of Duty Multiplayer in a server with few people. This will get you used to the multiplayer portion of the game.
3Try to stay alive and kill enemies. Some prefer using an Mp44 or Thompson; if you are playing as a sniper you should use a semi-automatic rifle.
- Once you can successfully complete this step and are more expert, continue to the next step!
4Run and gun. Try not to care about dying. If you meet someone, shoot. If you are playing as a sniper, try using the scoped weapons.
5Get into a sever with lots of people.
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TORONTO This is what has April hockey has become in Toronto where, with a little imagination, little victories can be made to feel like bigger ones.
In many cities around the NHL, teams are jockeying for playoff position, resting star players and generally making the best of the calm before the storm.
On Thursday at the Air Canada Centre, there was considerably less on the line as the annual rite of spring, Maple Leaf style, was in full bloom.
The hosts put up their usual (of late) decent effort and had a peripheral involvement on the playoff race with a 4-2 victory over the Sabres. As psychological victories go, the result prevented a sweep of the six-game season series and put a dent in the Sabres effort to clinch the Northeast Division title.
Its great to beat them, to set the tone for next year, said defenceman Garnet Exelby, who of all people scored for his first goal as a Leaf. Were sick of losing to that team and something had to give.
That the Leafs stuck it to Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller had to feel even better. Miller had been outspoken in his disdain for the Leafs and had a sparkling 1.58 goals-against average in the five previous meetings this season.
Outside, looking in
Still, for a club-record fifth consecutive season, the Leafs will be on the outside looking in, a fate that has become so commonplace that the reaction seems to be more indifference than anger.
That it has become the norm is alarming. With Phoenix headed for the post-season and Los Angeles all but there, each ending six-year droughts, the Leafs now have the second-longest run of futility in the league.
Only the Florida Panthers, who soon will be eliminated for the ninth consecutive season, are more foreign to playoff revenue than MLSELs hockey division.
So that left another full house, this one measured at 19,090, to be amused by what would be mundane for most playoff-bound clubs.
Besides Exelbys sniper routine, there was another from a goal-challenged defenceman as Luke Schenn scored the game-winner at 8:30 of the third, his fifth of the season.
We unleased all our secret weapons on them, Leafs coach Wilson quipped.
There was the reunited Frat Pack, an all NCAA-line of Tyler Bozak, Christian Hanson and Viktor Stalberg, who scored the games opener and his third in the past two games.
For rookie Stalberg, three of his eight goals have come against Miller.
It was a bit of luck, hes a great goaltender, probably the best in the league, Stalberg said. But we were able to get a lot of traffic in front of him and that makes it easier.
If that wasnt enough college content, two days after signing with the Leafs, Toronto native Brayden Irwin got to skate in front of family and friends in what likely is a one-game cameo.
If they want to see him next season, it most likely will be at the Ricoh Coliseum, where he will get some needed seasoning with the Marlies. Wilson did think that Irwin handled himself well in his debut.
What else?
Well, there was the Leafs twice blowing one-goal leads, each of which lasted less than two minutes.
There was one of what will likely be just three remaining home games in the Tomas Kaberle era. Where theres smoke theres fire and there was plenty of the latter around Kaberle Thursday so dont expect him to be around past July 1.
The four remaining games will determine just how far the Leafs finish below their total of 81 points from one season ago.
Wherever they end up, it will be the fourth consecutive season with a decline in points and the teams lowest output since the NHL began awarding bonus points for overtime losses in the 1999-2000 season.
But that was then. This group cant do much about the past, so theyll take any victory, however small, and wait for the day they mean something more.


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There are certain romance series that make you catch your breath and have you counting down the very second until you can buy yourself a copy of the next book and devour it on the spot. And what causes you to obsess so profoundly? It's the delicious sexual tension between the hero and heroine.
From those first moments when they meet—and no doubt shared a few choice words, especially if your leading lady is feisty—you long for when Mr. Sexy and Miss Adorable throw aside all pretenses and openly declare their feelings for each other. All longing glances filled with smolder are over. Those heated conversations where you never know whether they'll end up fighting or making out have passed. They're in love and are set to live happily ever after—The End — and as the reader, you're left in a huge contented gooey mess.
That's all great when it's the end of the series, but what happens when there's still more story to tell? Can the couple still hold onto the passion that made them set the pages on fire? Or now that the hero has caught his gal, will the sexual tension between them fizzle, leaving the reader wondering whether getting the ultimate "happily ever after" moment was worth the risk?
River Marked by Patricia Briggs was released earlier this year, and I snapped it up and read it in a heartbeat. Hands up, all those who were Team Adam? I have loved this series, watching the sexual tension build between Adam and Mercy. There was something so amazing about the couple, something that had me crossing my fingers each book, praying that Mercy would choose Adam and they would ride off in her VW into the sunset.
Adam is pretty intense. He's been there for Mercy from the beginning protecting her. and although she's been pretty slow in realizing how remarkable he is, I went into River Marked with high hopes. I was expecting to be dazzled, but what I got was fizzled. I won't spoil it for those who haven't read it but now that Adam and Mercy are truly together, I have to ask, where did all the delicious sexiness go? Where did the banter I've come to love disappear to? I was left feeling so disappointed and wishing that the author would've stretched the courtship out a little more. Actually, scratch that… Adam and Mercy needed to hook up. They just needed the chemistry to continue.
Sometimes it's a hit and miss—look at Mac and Barrons from Karen Moning's Fever series. Oh. My. Gosh. The sexual tension between those two was so thick you needed a chainsaw to carve through it. One of my all-time favorite urban fantasy series and these two characters had me hanging on every word and gesture they made. Whenever Barrons walked into the room, I was panting and begging Mac to reach out and grab him. Those two were continually feeding off one another, leaving the reader unsure whether they loved or hated each other—or both. The final book, Shadowfever, was a constant rollercoaster of emotions, but when the two finally did get together, they scorched every scene. You could never accuse them of lacking chemistry, and even though the series has ended, I know, deep down, somewhere Mac and Barrons are getting it on and it's HOT!
Another hit is with Cat and Bones from Jeaniene Frost's The Night Huntress series. They came together in the first book and it's been explosive ever since. Does anyone else sigh and get slightly giddy when they read Bones call Cat "Kitten"? Their relationship has developed through each successive book in the series, going through high and low points, but it continues to get stronger and I definitely wouldn't place them in the "fizzle" category. The same tension is there, the same intensity and passion for each other and it has me falling all over myself wondering what will happen next. You want Bones to catch Cat because it's all you can think about *giggles*
But here's what leaves me scared, what has me holding my breath muttering a silent prayer to the Book Gods. There are two upcoming releases that hold my favorite couples: Ethan and Merit from Chloe Neill's The Chicagoland Vampires, and Kate and Curran, from the Ilona Andrews's Kate Daniels series. What if… I can't even bring myself to say it out aloud. *leans in to whisper* What if when these sexy heroes catch their women… the romance fizzles and we're left with a lackluster relationship? *shudders* It almost seems too blasphemous to wonder.
Merit and Ethan have incredible chemistry and fans of the books everywhere are screaming, "Hook up already!" We have been teased and taunted with kisses, seduced with a sexy bed scene in the last book and been heartbroken when Ethan continued to put his loyalty to the Cadogan House before his love for Merit. We've all yelled at him to get his act together and with two new books being released this year, I know I'm wondering—will they finally get together? Will Ethan grab hold of Merit, kiss her senseless, and then put her first in his life? I don't think I can handle another River Marked. I need sparks and passion so as much as it will infuriate me; keep these two apart a while longer, if that's what it takes.
The next couple, Kate and Curran, are explosive together. It's almost as if they have too much chemistry for the series because after each book, I'm left reeling for how intense their relationship is. Theirs is definitely a love/hate, get away from me/ravish me kind of romance with moments that have me gushing to anybody who'll listen. I love how incredibly dominating Curran is, and how Kate won't put up with one bit of it. They are constantly fighting back and forth, each interaction fueling the fire between them. The last book sees them finally get together so I'm left wondering what will happen with this new release. Things can't possibly be all "we're so happy we're in love" between them. There has to be something that has them engaged in a battle of wills. I think if this relationship fizzled, it would be the most devastating and would tempt me to offer up my romance membership card.
There's a good possibility all will be right in the world for these characters and we'll continue to enjoy the same emotions and sexual tension we've come to depend on. But it does raise a good question—one that goes against everything a romance lover longs for—If it means saving the passion and keeping a fire burning between them, should a hero miss catching his heroine, leaving the chase for another day? I say, "Heck yes!" and to the heroines… "RUN!"
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A homesick Aussie living amongst the cactus and mountains of Arizona, Belinda Boring is a self-proclaimed addict of romance and all things swoonworthy. When she's not devouring her latest read, you can find her celebrating her passion for reading on her blog The Bookish Snob. She also reviews for The Romance Reviews.


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Indian leaders who gave WEF meet a miss
While the rich and famous from across the world have assembled in Davos for their annual talk-fest and networking for business, many top Indian business leaders like Mukesh Ambani and Rahul Bajaj have given this year's WEF Annual Meeting a miss.
Others who have been in Davos earlier but could not make it to the ongoing meeting include Anand Mahindra, Kumar Mangalam Birla and Chanda Kochhar.
Among these, people like Bajaj, Mahindra and Kochhar have been very active in WEF meetings and used to speak on a host of issues very vocally, although leaders like Ambani and Birla have always kept a low profile.
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Indian leaders who gave WEF meet a miss
But what is not missing is a highly informal atmosphere which corporate and political leaders from India are enjoying here in this Swiss ski resort town -- which generally remains a rarity amid watchful public eye back in India.
These top-shots can be seen enjoying their drinks and snacks and cracking jokes at various parties and receptions being hosted in Davos on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
Despite these dropouts, Indian delegation still runs into about 125 business and political leaders, which makes India's presence fourth largest after the US, UK and the host country Switzerland.
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Indian leaders who gave WEF meet a miss
Those present here include Tata group chief Cyrus Mistry, top executives of TCS and a host of other IT firms such as Infosys, Tech Mahindra and iGate, Bharti group's Sunil Mittal, Ravi Ruia and Prashant Ruia of Essar group, bankers Uday Kotak and Rana Kapoor, as also a host of CEOs from many medium-to-large Indian companies.
Among the Indian-origin global business leaders, PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi and ArcelorMittal's Lakshmi Mittal are also present.
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In addition, Finance Minister P Chidambaram is in Davos along with his cabinet colleagues like Anand Sharma and Kamal Nath, as also Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram and Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithvi Raj Chavan.
Industry body Confederation of Indian Industry Director General Chandra Kant Bannerjee said that some Indian leaders may not have been able to come,
but this does not mean that India's presence is less.
He said that there are close to 120-130 participants from India, including four union ministers, and at least 30 of them are speaking at various sessions at the WEF meeting.
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Asked about some big corporate leaders not being able to make it to the meeting, Banerjee said this has happened mostly due to two reasons.
One, he said, could be due to personal matters of the concerned person and the other that many leaders have actually begun sending their next-generation leaders or next-in- commands to this event which was actually a good trend.
Even before the event started on Tuesday, some high profile participants, including those from India, had announced their no-shows, while some more have failed to turn up in the past two days.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif cancelled his visit to WEF annual meeting after a deadly Taliban attack in his country.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was one of the star attractions here last year, had also to cancel her trip after a skiing accident.
Among Indian businessmen, it remains to be seen whether Vijay Mallya manages to make it to the summit, as troubles at his now-defunct airline venture Kingfisher has resulted into problems for his other ventures and have also cast a shadow on his big-ticket sale of majority stake in United Spirits to global liquor giant Diageo.
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However, Diageo's Indian-origin CEO Ivan Menezes is present here and is also meeting Indian ministers and business leaders.
While nearly 40 heads of state and more than 1,500 global chief executive officers are scheduled to be present, some big global names that are absent include chiefs of technology giants like Microsoft (although founder Bill Gates is present), Google, Facebook and Apple.
However, Yahoo's young CEO Marissa Mayer is one of the co-chairs along with Infosys' Kris Gopalakrishnan.
Vodafone chief is also not here, although heads of PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Wal-Mart and a host of European banks are in Davos.
Once a regular, Citibank's former CEO Vikram Pandit too is not present, while his successor and incumbent chief of global banking giant, Mike Corbat, has also given this year's summit a miss.
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Expert Faults U.S. Strategy In Afghanistan
An expert in Asian affairs says the U.S. is backing Tajiks in Afghanistan, though the ethnic group is roughly half the size of the country's Pashtun majority. "How are we going to build an Afghan army ... if we have an army dominated by a minority so that the Pashtuns don't want to join it?" says Selig Harrison, director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy.
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There's much discussion in Washington these days about Afghanistan, about war aims, about troop levels, and about election recounts.
Well, Selig Harrison of the Center for International Policy in the Woodrow Wilson Center has been writing about and covering Afghanistan ever since 1963. And he has written about another dimension of the Afghan conflict: the ethnic fault lines that run through the country in what he's called the tyranny of the minority. Welcome to the program once again.
Dr. SELIG HARRISON (Director of Asia Program, Center for International Policy): Thank you.
SIEGEL: And first, in a nutshell, can you give us a primer on the big ethnic groups in Afghanistan?
Dr. HARRISON: Well, the largest ethnic group are the Pashtuns, at least 42 percent. This is the ethnic group that has produced the Taliban. And this group is, you know, almost twice as big as the next biggest one: the Tajics who are perhaps 24 percent. And there are smaller groups: the Uzbeks and the Hazaras.
But what's important, in the context of the American involvement in Afghanistan, is the fact that the United States has gotten itself on the side of the Tajic minority, helped it to get control of the key security agencies of the government, including the intelligence and secret police agencies that operate in the Pashtun areas; control of the armed forces.
How are we going to build an Afghan army - which seems to be the way the Obama administration hopes to get out - if we have an army dominated by a minority so that the Pashtuns don't want to join it?
SIEGEL: You've written about the fact that Tajic officers are represented disproportionately in the officer corps...
Dr. HARRISON: Very, very disproportionately. And this is born out in all the expert studies, recently the Rand study for the Pentagon. Seventy percent of the battalion commanders are Tajics, according to a U.N. report. So you've got a built-in problem in recruiting Pashtuns in the most important populous area of Afghanistan where the insurgency is going on, into the new Afghan army that we are hoping to create.
SIEGEL: However, President Karzai himself is not a Tajic. He's a Pashtun.
Dr. HARRISON: Yeah, he was the Pashtun face on a regime that was established after we went in in 2001. After 9/11, we'd ousted the Taliban with the help of a group of Tajics who had been active in the war against the Russians. So when they set up an interim government in Afghanistan right after we went in, the Tajics, they wanted a sort of safe Pashtun, an Uncle Tom Pashtun. And Karzai was the one Pashtun figure who was acceptable to the Tajics.
So from the beginning, he's been distrusted by his fellow Pashtuns as not a really strong defender of their interests. And particularly in the fact that with the backing of the U.S., Karzai has gone along with Tajic control of the army, the police, and the key intelligence agencies, including the secret police, which is very important.
SIEGEL: If, in fact, U.S. strategy is as it appears to beef up the Afghan army so that within a year or two it can take over from the United States, and however many troops there are then, they can be withdrawn. By your analysis, all that will do is further strengthen the Tajic hold on power and further alienate more Pashtuns in Afghanistan.
Dr. HARRISON: That's right. But it'll also be impossible to build up that army. Because if you're organizing, you're trying to build up an army to fight the insurgency, to fight the Taliban, you can't do it with Tajic forces that have Tajic battalion commanders. And you're going to have to recruit Pashtuns, and they won't join the new Afghan National Army, as long as it is dominated by the defense minister who - I mean an army chief of staff. I mean they do have a Pashtun defense minister, but he doesn't have any power. The chief of staff runs everything.
SIEGEL: Selig Harrison, thank you very much for talking with us.
Dr. HARRISON: Thank you.
SIEGEL: Selig Harrison is director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy and he's a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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Our location guide for Satara provides some basic essentials for the more adventurous visitor. A simple location map is provided but also a detailed topography map that shows the location of the nearest places where you can surf, ski or mountain climb (if they are close by). Of course some of these will be at long distances from Satara and those far flung spots are provided on the 'nearest' tables. If you are traveling to other cities or towns near Satara you will also find weather forecasts for those locations below.
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If you are in Satara and would like to go mountain climbing, hiking, skiing or surfing, click below for detailed forecasts.
Tide times close to Satara:
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|Dabhol (India)
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|Second closest tide times2
|Harnai (India)
|94 km WSW
Ski Resorts close to Satara:
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|Kufri (India)
|1533 km N
|Second closest ski resort2
|Auli (India)
|1540 km NNE
|Third closest ski resort3
|Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) (India)
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|Solang Valley Ropeway & Ski Centre (India)
|1658 km N
|Fifth closest ski resort5
|Gulmarg (India)
|1821 km N
Mountains close to Satara:
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|Purandar fort (India)
|67 km N
|Second closest mountain peak2
|Torna Fort (India)
|76 km NW
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|Sinhagad (India)
|80 km NW
|Fourth closest mountain peak4
|Parvati Hill (India)
|92 km N
|Fifth closest mountain peak5
|Baner Hill (India)
|95 km N
The above topographic map of Satara and the surrounding area has been derived from satellite mapping. The topographic data has been illuminated by a light source corresponding to the position of the sun at mid afternoon in summer. Major roads, railways rivers and other water features are derived from global GIS data.


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So, apparently James Cameron is an expert in plugging oil spills under 5,000 feet of water, as well as directing movies and inventing cameras. And he was married to
amazing. The king of the world, you could say.
Titanic, a movie about a ship on the ocean floor, and apparently that's enough to make him an expert on all things aquatic.
Everything BP has tried so far has failed to stop the leak. There simply isn't a good solution to this mess. Sticking a hose into the pipe to
plug it with mud and golf ballsdidn't work, and I really, really hope no one is considering that other weird idea that was being bandied about —
Avatarwould be enough to negate a black hole; this oil spill doesn't stand a chance. And…ACTION!
All right, all right, let's not pick on the guy too much. Some of his earlier movies were pretty good and he is known as an ocean buff, with experience with deep sea diving. And if he did somehow come up with an idea to plug the spill, I'd be the first to eat crow and congratulate him. But the whole celebrification of disasters is getting to the point where it's kind of silly. You can't expect the cast of
Grey's Anatomyto give you a kidney transplant (well, not a successful one, at any rate) and you probably shouldn't turn to William Shatner to get you off in court based on his work in
Boston Legal.But tons of oil spewing into the Gulf? Let's ask that Cameron guy, maybe he knows a large blue creature that can swim down and plug it.
It's not just James Cameron. Sean Penn
Celebrities can do a lot of good. They can shine a light on little appreciated problems and raise more money over a two hour benefit that most charities can in a year of working the streets. But it doesn't matter how many times President Obama stands behind a podium and takes full responsibility for the situation if, in the background, the fate of the Gulf of Mexico is in the hands of a Hollywood director. One visual cancels out the other.
Bruce Willis isn't an expert in high-rise hostage rescues. Keeanu Reeves isn't a computer hacker. And Leonard Nimoy won't unravel the mysteries of the universe no matter how long he stares into that
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Politics in New York City is a bare-knuckle affair. It was only natural then, when the Atlantic Sea Island Group (ASIG) proposed the construction of a 116 acre offshore Liquid Natural Gas facility off the coast of New York and New Jersey that the Surfrider Foundation's NYC chapter jumped into the ring, ready to throw down. On Sunday April 19th, Surfrider and the Sandy Hook-based Clean Ocean Action rallied concerned residents to Public School 114 in Rockaway Park, Queens, where the Coast Guard was having the third of three public hearings to discuss views on the proposed project.
The space was packed with a rowdy group of surfers, environmentalists, fishermen, stevedores, students, and retirees most of whom were eager to voice their opinions. Of the 60 odd people who took the podium, only one spoke in favor of the project while the rest were unequivocally opposed.
"I've bled and sweated for that water," said lifelong Long Island resident and surfer Daniel Volpe. "If something goes wrong with that plant, maybe ASIG doesn't have to worry about it, but I do."
Disasters, both natural and man-made were on a lot of people's minds. The proposed island would be the first of its kind located in the open ocean and therefore subject to winter storms, North Easters and even rogue waves. This is especially troubling given that LNG pool fires have been described as being "like a nuclear meltdown" .
"I saw the World Trade Centers fall from my living room window," said Rockaway resident Barbara Morris, "I don't think I could live through another disaster."
Joining the citizens in their concerns were a bipartisan collection of local politicians like New York City Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-NYC) and Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer (D-NYC) who went on record saying "This is a project that derives absolutely no 'public' good".
Less decisive was Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY). "I'm going to let the process play out here and I'm going to keep an open mind, but the hurdle that this plan has to get over is pretty high in my mind," he said.
Projects like this one have been vetoed in California, Connecticut, and Florida. If not vetoed by Governor David Paterson of New York or Governor Jon Corzine of New Jersey, the plan could be approved by the end of the calendar year. Until then, NYC Surfrider Chapter chair Chris Wade is trying to mobilize enough public opinion to pressure both politicians.
"We are a direct action group. This is how we win our campaigns," he said at a recent chapter meeting.
When Wade took the podium on Sunday he succinctly summed up the predominant feeling in the room. "This plant will be bad for all new Yorkers. It will be bad for our wallets , bad for our climate, bad for our water , and bad for our security."
After he sat down to a resounding applause, lifelong Rockaway resident Sara Berger, 84, shuffled to the podium. "I have been involved in the community for a very long time," she began, "but this afternoon I have seen something that I have never seen before: a town meeting where everyone is saying the same thing."


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Efficiency Expert Guy T. Viskniskki swept down on Gary Bok's Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger office last November like a wolf on the fold. Shortly thereafter towels from one of three racks disappeared from a Ledger washroom, but Expert Viskniskki denied it was any of his doing (TIME, Jan. 15). Last week unhappy Ledger newsmen to the tune of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, were singing under their breath:
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He is the son of Linda and Bob Griffin of Denver and Russ Reeves of Cedar Falls. He is employed as a general contractor.
An Oct. 11 destination wedding in the Dominican Republic is planned with immediate family and friends and there will be a celebration on Nov. 9 for extended family and friends in Moline, Ill.
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Question: We have two or three regional meetings a year, and my boss -- the EVP -- likes to have employees' comments after each meeting. He wants to know if they feel that they benefited from attending; to rate the presentations/speakers; to see if they feel we can do something better or improve on; and, of course, for their suggestions for future meetings. He also wants them to be "anonymous" so employees feel they can comment how they like and not how they think we want.
I have searched the Web numerous times -- even Microsoft templates -- to find a feedback/comment card template, etc., but have come up empty-handed. Does anyone have any suggestions and/or templates of their own they can send?
Additionally, because employees have no time at the meetings to give us their comments back, they will need to take the forms with them and submit them once completed. Do you have any suggestions on how to go about this so when they're returned to me, via U.S. mail, I won't be able to know whom or where they came from?
Thanking you in advance for your any assistance I receive. -- Brenda, email@example.com
http://surveymonkey.com is the BEST!! I use this for surveys, for ordering lunches, for event RSVP's, for customer satisfaction, for ordering logowear, for employee feedback, for contests/games ... etc. You can create the link, and the employees can answer immediately. You can import your email lists. Make them short or detailed. Add pictures. Then download a spreadsheet with all of the responses. I love it!!!
When handing out the form include a self address envelope with your address appearing in both the to and from section of the envelope.
I would assume that your company has email -- email a feedback questionaire asking the particpants to provide feedback. When they come back you will know who they came from and if you are missing feedback you will know who hasn't responded.
Have you looked into creating a form in outlook to collect the data and send it back with the from tag removed?
I am running Outlook 2003 right now so I'm not yet up to speed on it's forms capabilities but that might be a place to start.
You can also check out Microsoft's Outlook website, they have an add-in that you can used to collect the data and place it in an Access database for you but it runs $49.00.
Not sure if this will help you or not!
Kendra Townshend
We use something that looks like SurveyMonkey, however ours was built by our in-house IT dept. It is great for surveys after meetings with the staff.
We also use surveymonkey and it is becoming the norm here for any survey. It is free for use with a limited number of responses, but for about $20/month you can customize it with your company logo and have unlimited surveys and respondents. Very easy to use!


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If Carmelo Anthony decides to leave New York City this summer and sign with a new team, there's a good chance that the Knicks are going to lean heavily on J.R. Smith over the course of the next couple of seasons to provide them with scoring. So with that in mind, they are not going to be happy when they see the video above. It features Smith leaving a club in Hollywood recently, jumping onto a Can-Am Spyder, and driving off into the night. And it features him doing it without a helmet on his head.
Fortunately, it looks like Smith knows how to handle himself on a Can-Am. But there are sooooo many things that could potentially go wrong on one of those things and Smith has so much at stake. So it's a little crazy to hear him say "For what?" in the video when a TMZ cameraman asks him why he's not wearing a helmet.
Watch the clip above to see Smith cruising on his Can-Am. Just make sure you hold your breath first if you're a Knicks fan.
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It has been a little over a year since I started this odyssey; the river is clear and open now, and I take solace in the calmness and softness of its contours in the early morning. Everything looks fuzzy, like a Whistler painting, and the sense of rowing through an Unreal City seems to be a better transition from my sleeping to my waking than immediately going from a bed to a desk. I still erg at lunch at the gym of the university where I work. Yesterday I walked by a group of undergraduates huddled in the hallway, who were being lectured by the lacrosse coach: "Our goal is to be playing those last two weeks in May. That is your goal. Put the work in now, and you'll be seeing the offseason. That's what we're working towards."
I had to smile, as it was the same pep talk many of us give ourselves, and one I'm familiar with debating at 5 o'clock in the morning, and in the evenings, when I am weary from a day's work and want to just rest my eyes. It is amusing at those times to step back and take note of the lively internal struggle, I mean dialogue, as to the merits of sleeping in or braving the cold, damp air.
This is why training partners serve such a useful purpose. I bless my lucky stars that I've found people to row with who are conscientious about making it to practice on time and not giving up in the middle of a piece, although afterwards we may discover that a mutual urge to quit arose after the halfway point of a self-imposed 6k piece. I know that once I've started the workout, about ten minutes into it I'll have a breakthrough where it actually starts feeling good. Tired, but good. There's nothing like the healthy sense of exhaustion that comes when you've used your body in the best possible way.
This constant effort that we all indulge in for the sake of moving a glorified toothpick across the water found resonance in some Buddhist texts I've been reading recently. I like the fact that Buddhism is a system of thought and learning, not blind faith. You do not do good deeds to avoid punishment, but to achieve a goal which you may not see in this lifetime. And it requires constant attentiveness and persistence to achieve that ultimate state of grace. Taking the long view can be liberating--it takes the pressure off if one's progress is not meteoric, but to look to enlightenment as the only goal is ultimately frustrating for me; I get overwhelmed. Luckily, smaller goals allow good practice to flourish. The same could be said for rowing. The persistence one needs to prepare for a race at the end of the summer is an important tool if one wants to win a bigger race in four years. However, looking at the short-term goal puts the task in human terms.
I made the mistake of telling two coaches my background and what I eventually wished to accomplish. One coach told me that I would always be a mediocre sculler. Another advised that I quit rowing and take up recreational skiing. I went on to win races in spite of them. Maybe it's the enjoyment of being the underdog; i do have a strong streak of the drama queen, and it makes a better story.
However, I feel that there is something else there--the value of persistence. I look to a friend of mine as a model; while he knew at the outset that he did not at the time have a killer erg, he understood that anything good takes time to emerge, and change. He took it upon himself to study the craft of rowing intensely; he became a graceful and powerful rower through focus. That determination he used to achieve his goals I can see as he takes on other challenges in his life.
It is by far the best paradigm to follow; there are times when blind instinct and the easy grace of inherited talent has its place, but if you ever want to master something, you must examine it, turn it inside and out, understand it as you would a lover, or an enemy.
So I have learned not to listen to other people's assessments of your limitations. They may not know what you are capable of.


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The children escape to the island!
Jack shows them how to build a house using willow trees.
Back from the mainland at last, Jack has news—and six hens!
The children are busy fishing when they spot a boat coming towards the island.
The caves will make a perfect home for the winter, and a great hidey-hole in case anyone comes looking for them.
Jack and Mike row quickly back to the island, having narrowly escaped capture!
The Secret Island
Review by Keith Robinson (March 24, 2006)
What a great story this is! The first in the "Secret" series was originally written as a serial and published week-by-week in a magazine. Then, in 1938, it was published as a novel, one of Blyton's first. This is a book that stands the test of time, and is all the more appealing because it more or less constitutes the first use of well-worn Blyton themes such as children living away from home on their own, exploring caves, outwitting adults, and so on. All that's missing here is treasure!—and a dog.
These particular childen are Mike, Nora, and Peggy (siblings), and their friend Jack from a nearby farm. Mike and Nora are twins, although Nora is quite a bit smaller than Mike and a bit of a lazy so-and-so. Peggy is a year older than her brother and sister, and quite sensible and reliable. It's stated in the book that "nobody knew how old Jack was," including himself; but this isn't much of a concern since the reader isn't told how old Mike, Nora and Peggy are either. All we know about the children—and perhaps all we need to know—is that they're young, most likely the same age as whoever happens to be reading the book (a pretty neat trick, actually).
The three siblings are unhappy. Their parents, Captin and Mrs Arnold, "built a fine new aeroplane" and flew off to Australia in it. But somewhere along the way they vanished and nothing more was heard from them. Ever since then, for two long years, the children have been living with their Aunt Harriet and Uncle Henry, who are really quite horrid! "Aunt Harriet slapped me six times this morning," says Nora, crying, "for not washing the curtains properly." Meanwhile Peggy is sent to bed for burning a cake, and Mike spends all his time out in the fields helping his uncle. None of the children go to school now, and they spend their lives doing all the chores around the place.
But Jack has a plan. Curiously, while his friends' dire situation is described in some detail, Jack's background is a little vague. He lives with his granddad, who reportedly is thinking of going to live with Jack's aunt, meaning Jack will be left all alone. I can't imagine such a situation in this day and age, but this was in the 1930s. Jack's never had nice things, and runs about barefoot all the time (as quite a few helpful local characters have been known to do in Blyton's books). So Jack's situation is explained away in broad brushstrokes, thus setting up for the story to come...
"I know a place where nobody could find us," says Jack, "if we ran away!"
The place turns out to be a secret island on a very large lake. The lake is surrounded by woods, and apparently nobody even knows the island is there, so it remains unexplored by anyone, ever. This is a little hard to believe, but it's perfectly fine to believe that hardly anyone ever bothers to go there, and that's all we need to believe to make this story work. So Jack gets out his leaky boat and takes the children over to show them. Oh, what a marvellous place! Full of willow trees, tame rabbits, caves, a sandy shore, plenty of blackberries, and lots more. The children make up their minds immediately to run away to the island, and they set a date for "next Sunday."
What follows is a fun, exciting week where the children smuggle all manner of things out of the house to store inside a hollowed-out tree by the lakeside, ready to load into Jack's boat for their jouney to the island. It's quite staggering, the amount of stuff they make off with, and when the time comes to leave, the boat is positively overloaded with supplies. And so the adventure begins.
There are many enjoyable scenes that follow, the first of which is the building of the house. Yes, the children build themselves a little house to live in, formed from six close-growing willow trees that they bend over at the top to meet in the middle, and tie together to form the structure of a roof. The walls are made from more willow branches, stuck into the ground and then interwoven with thinner willow sticks. The beauty of the house, Jack explains, is that willows never die, and the branches will continue to grow for years to come! This means their cosy little house is a living house, getting greener by the day.
Food becomes a priority early on, as their supplies quickly run dry. Jack fetches hens from his granddad's farm, and reports that his granddad has locked up and gone off to live elsewhere, leaving a helper to stop by each day to see to the animals until something more permanent is decided. Jack also reports that the police have been out looking everywhere for the missing children.
With fresh eggs now available, Jack sets his sights higher; he decides to bring his cow, Daisy, to the island! Towing the cow behind the boat seems like a good idea, but I can't imagine a cow swimming so far. The poor thing! But once there, at least Daisy is not likely to go running off. Now the children have plenty of milk to go along with their skinned rabbits, fish, and berries. They start planting vegetables, and soon have an array of lovely side dishes!
But all good things have to turn sour, otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. Actually, in this case the story is absorbing enough without introducing major worries like day-trippers, but when a boatload arrives one day, the children realize how vulnerable to discovery they are should anyone specifically come looking for them. They start making plans, and these include walking Daisy into the caves and getting her used to the darkness in case anyone really does come looking.
And of course they do...
Overall, this story remains a personal favorite, with an ending that provides the nicest warm fuzzy feeling you're likely to read in any children's book. A masterpiece!
The Secret IslandReview by Laura Canning (July 6, 2006)
A masterpiece indeed. This reads really well, without any of the tired plot devices found in later books like some of the Famous Five books. And the old theme of children's literature—children surviving on their own without any nasty adults—is handled brilliantly. Blyton makes it seem so logical that the children would make a willow house, would think of sinking their boat while they're not using it and would practice hiding all traces of themselves on the island just in case people come looking for them. Children just wouldn't be that smart, says one man who comes looking for them. Hee hee!
The characters themselves are all good too, without the 'annoying youngest girl' usually present in these two-boy-two-girl adventure stories. Jack is an excellent character, full of knowledge and common sense, while Peggy is a good sensible lass without being too stereotypical. Mike is pretty much a standard 'Dick from Famous Five' sidekick, although there is more equality between him and Jack than Dick and Julian. Nora, his twin, doesn't spend most of the book going 'Ooh, I'm frightened', a la Lucy Ann (Adventure) and Anne (Famous Five), even though there are a few tears as she learns to pull her weight and stop being lazy. It wouldn't be a Blyton book without a healthy dose of self-improvement!
There are so many things in this book I like. Just reading about how the children survive on the island is interesting enough, but Blyton introduces extra tension by having first trippers then searchers come to the island (minor blooper: doesn't Jack say at the start that no-one knows about the island?). And the parts where Jack goes to the market to sell wild mushrooms and strawberries are excellent. And the start of the book, where the children gradually bring all their provisions down to the magical tree that holds everything... I reread this recently after reading it as a kid, and was almost as captivated again this time round. One of Blyton's best and one of my all time favorites.


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