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Lt. Reichard's WWII Diary Project and Recap: On January 1, 2009, WorthPoint began a three year project following the life of a WWII soldier through the daily pages of his diary. To read about the inception of this project, or to add your own comments, click here.
Recap: We first met Lt. Reichard in January, stationed at McClellan Air Base in Sacramento, where he was in charge of a motor pool unit. Expecting to be sent overseas, their orders were changed and they became restless to see action. Lt. Reichard's sweetheart, Ginny, would write frequently, and he would go to dinner and movies with local girls – Dorothy, in Sacramento, and Marie, when the unit moved to Gowen Field in Boise, Idaho. The men have spent their days in lectures, and physical demonstrations to try to keep sharp mentally and physically. But they are getting increasingly restless.
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Transcript of Diary Entry February 19, 1943
Friday, February 19, 1943
Gowen Fieid, Boise, Idaho
Today was rough in any sense of the word. We set out at nine in the truck for the mountains. We had sandwiches for lunch packed in our packs and we were going to climb the mountains this time instead of drive up. We went in behind Boise and left the truck at the foot of the hills and started following a small stream up. It was chilly when we started but at the first stop all field jackets came off and we were sweating plenty. After the final three miles the climbing really got steep. Sgt. Moore got drunk last night and dropped out so he won't have any passes for about a week. He has been slipping lately any way. One of the boys had to hand over his rifle so I took it. That extra eight lbs felt like a hundred. We climbed to above eight thousand at noon. We sat and ate the sandwiches and had a drink from our canteens. We needed the rest. About six of us elected to go on to the top. The rest were bushed so Lt. Seitz stayed with them while we went on up. It was rough going almost straight up. We ran into deep snow and had to quit because of time. We rested then turned back. We picked up the rest and came on down. We got back to camp about four thirty. We were all pretty tired. I took a shower and a nap then ate. I forgot on the way down we had a gas attack. The boys were pretty __________ _________ and got their masks on in time. Tonight I stay in. Why? Hmmm. You guess.
Good Night
To view previous diary entries, click here.
The Day That Was: February 19, 1943
• The North African Economic Board was established "to supervise the supply of civilian goods from Britain and America and to restore the general economy in North Africa."—"International News," March 6, 1943, p. 230. (http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/events/1943.html)
Production Credits:
Diary transcription: Kathleen Long
Diary photos: Claudia Forbes
Video production: Alison Harder
Narration: Mountain Vista H.S. Theater Department
Jeremy Goldson, Department Chair; Sean McGill – voice of Lt. Reichard


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One of the most important pieces of information those of us researching enslaved ancestors need to know is how the slaves are distributed after the owner's death. If we're lucky, there's a will that tells us to whom each slave is bequeathed. Most of the time, there's not. There are many wills that simply say to my "wife, child, etc., I leave all of my estate both real and personal…." If luck is on our side, we'll find at least an inventory, but that won't tell us which child got which slaves. For that, we need to find the estate distribution. For an estate that includes slaves, that document might include slave distributions. Here's a good example I recently found in Montgomery County, MD. This is the portion of the inventory showing the slaves of Nicholas Griffith, who died in 1814:
There are 20 slaves listed with monetary values and no indication of families, which is common. In the same probate book, I found the distribution of Nicholas' estate between his wife, who by law is entitled to 1/3, and his 6 children (I have cropped just the entry showing the slaves):
Sadly, the primary goal was to make sure each child received approximately the same value in property. Most of Nicholas' children inherited 2 young slave children. I'd like to believe Nicholas' widow, who inherited 7 slaves, had at least taken 29 year old Milly with 4 of her kids, ages 8 months to 9 years.
I haven't researched this family, but the hope is that they lived near one another such that the families of slaves were not entirely broken. But as the probate, land and other sources demonstrate over and over again, very young children were very often sold away from parents, and couples were very often split apart .
Look for these estate distributions when you are researching enslaved ancestors. They are difficult to find. I personally have many more cases where this information could not be located in records. Sometimes they can be found in original probate loose papers, so be sure to examine those where they exist.
I'll also share another interesting thing I've seen a few times in probate records. Where testators willed that slaves be freed at certain ages, the birthdates were sometimes copied into the probate records so the appropriate date of manumission could be established. Richard Thomas came from a prominent and wealthy Quaker family, and they founded the town of Brookville. They were famous for having freed their salves very early on, and creating an enclave of free blacks, churches and school long before the Civil War.
How fortunate any researcher connected to this family would be. Thomas recorded the birthdates of his slaves in the probate book:
Slave research, as I've said before, is not for the faint of heart and often feels like a game of chicken. But be a diligent researcher and rest assured that you may uncover something, if only a name of an ancestor long silenced and whose memory was lost to time. Even if I can't find a birthdate or a family group, I always feel a sublime satisfaction at uncovered the name of an enslaved ancestor.
Readers, tell me: have you uncovered any slave distributions, and if so, where did you locate them?
Note: If you are in the Metro DC area, don't forget to check out my good friend Tim Pinnick tomorrow at 1:00 at the Suitland Family History Center. He will be speaking on "Finding African-Americans in Historic Newspapers," a subject that he is an expert on.

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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854179.post5403831981614221117..comments2017-08-28T08:49:18.975-05:00Comments on Julie Berg: Run On: Topaz and his Sympathy LimpJulie Bhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854179.post-32329210480125729612007-06-08T16:30:00.000-05:002007-06-08T16:30:00.000-05:00May be one day you can come over and submerge me i...May be one day you can come over and submerge me into a cold bath:) I ain't doing it!
recovery well, dear.olgahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854179.post-87803200482011271092007-06-08T07:02:00.000-05:002007-06-08T07:02:00.000-05:00Hi Carilyn!! It was great to see you out on the c...Hi Carilyn!! It was great to see you out on the course. I'm thinking I might come to TX for Ultracentric in November. Did you run it this past November?

My parents winter in TX; I'll have to plan a visit :)

Again, great meeting you and GREAT run!!! I hope you are recovering well.Julie Bhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854179.post-85196153875055468362007-06-08T04:49:00.000-05:002007-06-08T04:49:00.000-05:00Glad to hear Topaz is doing better, not sure what ...Glad to hear Topaz is doing better, not sure what you'd do without your running partner!

Hope all goes well for your mom, I'll keep her in my prayers!Kimhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854179.post-33066299108186614552007-06-07T20:53:00.000-05:002007-06-07T20:53:00.000-05:00Hey Julie!Great run at FANS! What an adventure! ...Hey Julie!

Great run at FANS! What an adventure! Minnesota is a beautiful state - we had a wonderful time, but I'm still pretty tired too. I hope you will make it down to Texas for a race some time.

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Brace yourself Cortez. Not for the cold, but for proposed rate changes to municipal water, trash, building and park services starting in 2014.
If approved tonight by the city council, residents can expect to pay slightly more for water and trash services as well as extra fees to enjoy parks and recreation offerings. More uniform building permit fees are also on tonight's 7:30 p.m. City Council agenda.
The public works department has requested a 75-cent base monthly water rate increase for residential customers using a ¾-inch meter. If approved, base water rates would rise from $14.75 to $15.50 per month.
"Currently, the fund is able to maintain its operating costs; however, rate adjustments need to be made to keep up with the rising costs of infrastructure repairs, treatment chemicals and capital expenditures," City Manager Shane Hale penned in a memo to city council.
Hale said a slight increase now would help the city to avoid larger rate increases in the future. The city has identified "many water lines" that need to be replaced, he added.
The base monthly water rate includes 1,000 gallons of water. City leaders will also consider raising the rates for the second 1,000 gallons of water used from $1.95 to $2.10 per month.
In related news, city leaders will also consider amending the city's 2013 water enterprise fund from $2.1 million to $2.5 million.
City council members are also expected to raise trash collection fees at tonight's meeting. Residential rates are proposed to climb from $15.75 to $18 for once-a-week pickup. Increased commercial dumpster rates are also proposed, from $28.25 to $32.25, for once-a-week pickup of 2-yard dumpsters. Three-yard dumpsters are expected to rise from $41.25 to $47.
Hale said the proposed trash hikes were due to increased costs at the county landfill, rising fuel costs, higher wages and volatility in the recycling market.
City leaders will also consider several increased parks and recreation tolls, including green fees at the Conquistador Golf Course and outdoor pool adult fees.
Other proposed fee changes include a flat $40 fee for foundation permits and a flat $225.75 rate use tax fee for manufactured homes.
If approved, the planned city service rates would go into effect Jan. 1.
Also, city leaders will hold two public hearings at tonight's meeting prior to amending the city's 2013 budget and adopting the city's 2014 budget.
The proposed $26.6 million budget for fiscal year 2014 includes a $668,581 surplus. Total revenues of nearly $10.4 million are projected to exceed $9.7 million in total operating expenditures and interfund service transfers in fiscal year 2014.


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Pekin finishes runner-up, 16 points shy of Griswold
FORT DODGE — For the Pekin girls' cross country team, a trip to Fort Dodge wouldn't have been complete without a visit to the champions' deck.
In the previous four seasons, the Panthers had finished champion three times and runner-up once, and Saturday they added another trophy to their growing list. Featuring a young squad consisting of four freshmen, Pekin claimed second place at the state meet on Lakeside Municipal Golf Course, and it came in head coach Davis Eidahl's 50th season.
Anchored by a fourth-place individual finish from ninth-grade star Gwynne Wright, the Panthers scored 102 to fall 16 points shy of the three-peat and first-time champion Griswold. Pekin was 49 points ahead of third-place Central Elkador (151).
"When you consider we've won three titles and two runner-ups in five years, that's pretty good. The girls thought they could win it, but they ran some of the best times of the year," Eidahl said. "We were ranked fourth or fifth all year, but our girls rose to the challenge and performed when they needed to."
While the young Panthers ran well, they weren't able to duplicate last season's dominant finish against a more experienced Griswold squad, which returned all of its top runners from last year's third-place team. Four of Pekin's runners were first-timers as freshmen, and three of the four rookies scored.
"Griswold had all its runners back and they're a good squad. The big thing is our freshmen ran well. They weren't used to the course, the fans ... and everything else that comes with the state meet, but they will know what to expect next time."
Aside from Wright's fourth-place time of 14:39, other freshmen scoring for the Panthers included Taylor Lock in 28th (15:49) and Sloan Reighard in 48th place (16:20). Peyton Lock was 66th (16:50).
Senior teammate Maleaha Earnest capped her cross country career second for the Panthers in 23rd place, finishing the course 14 seconds faster than last season in 15:39.
"Maleaha was never the top runner on any team, but what a leader she is," Eidahl said. "She keeps things on track, and she'll be a tough one to replace next year."
Samantha Wright also scored for Pekin, finishing 58th in 16:33, and Hannah Robison posted a time of 17:05, good for 76th place.
The runner-up Panthers told their coach they wouldn't take anything less than the title next season, when they return every runner sans Earnest and could even receive immediate contributions from the next group of ninth-graders.
"They were kind of disappointed at first, but afterward they told me second isn't an option next season," said Eidahl. "We return a lot of good runners next year, so look out."
Defending state-champion and former course record-holder Rebekah Topham won the individual Class 1A title in 14:05, which was six ticks behind her time last season. Last year's runner-up, Leah Seivert of Sibley-Ocheyedan, again took home silver with a 14:15 race.
Austin Fariss, Pekin's lone representative in the boys' race, ran like a veteran in his first state meet appearance. The freshman crossed the finish line 30th in 17:20.
"He ran really well. As a freshman it's kind of hard to go up by yourself. He was pretty nervous at first, but I know he was fired up by the start of the race," said Eidahl. "He had the best finish that he's had all year long."
Champion of the Class 1A boys' event was St. Albert's Josh Sindelar, who broke the tape in 16:15.
In other area action, Fairfield senior Jessica Lamb made her first state appearance since her freshman year and completed the 4-kilometer course in 15:46. It was one of her fastest times of a solid career, placing her 38th in the Class 3A race.
Anna Holdiman of Waverly-Shell Rock was the individual 3A champion with a scorching time of 13:51.
State Cross Country Meet
@ Fort Dodge
Final Team Standings — Class 1A Girls
1. Griswold 86
2. Pekin 102
3. Central Elkador 151
4. Earlham 161
5. Dike-New Hartford 172
6. Denver 180
7. Marquette Catholic 183
8. Tri-Center 187
9. Durant 229
10. Lynnville-Sully 232
11. Bishop Garrigan 242
12. Prairie Valley 245
13. North Linn 256
14. Underwood 281
15. Eagle Grove 301
Individual Results — Pekin Girls
4. Gwynne Wright (14:39), 23. Maleaha Earnest (15:39), 28. Taylor Lock (15:49), 48. Sloan Reighard (16:20), 58. Samantha Wright (16:33), 66. Peyton Lock (16:50), 76. Hannah Robison (17:05)
Top 10 — Class 1A Girls
1. Rebekah Topham (Griswold, 14:05), 2. Leah Seivert (Sibley-Ocheyedan, 14:15), 3. Tiffany Christensen (Eagle Grove, 14:29), 4. Gwynne Wright (Pekin, 14:39), 5. Kelsey Kirchoff (Denver, 14:51), 6. Jordyn Sindt (Griswold, 14:54), 7. Jasmine Staebler (Clayton Ridge, 14:56), 8. Emily Campbell (North Butler, 14:58), 9. Kari Fitzpatrick (Edgewood-Colesburg, 15:09), 10. Abi Watson (North Tama, 15:15)
Individual Results — Class 1A Boys
30. Austin Fariss (Pekin, 17:20)
Individual Results — Class 3A Girls
38. Jessica Lamb (Fairfield, 15:46)
Other State Champions
Class 1A
Boys — Josh Sindelar, St. Albert
Class 2A
Boys — Will Norris, Spirit Lake
Girls — Cassandra Stuflick, Danville/New London
Class 3A
Boys — Chandler Austin, Boone
Girls — Anna Holdiman, Waverly-Shell Rock
Class 4A
Boys — Jason Thomas, Dowling Catholic
Girls — Stephanie Jenks, Linn-Mar


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Discussion in 'Off Topic [BG]' started by paste, Mar 1, 2014.
Be it mentally, physically, or cliché, what's the hardest thing you have ever done?
Learning to play bass half decently? I dunno, its just, when i started i wanted to do it well so bad and fast. I really made myself insane with that.
Mentally, getting through the rough patches that comes with having an anxiety disorder (I do not take medication for it even though I should, I have my reasons). I'm going through a fairly bad one right now (though i've had worse). When it reaches panic attack status, it's like living in a nightmare.
Physically i don't know....I haven't had a major illness, but, i did have a real bad mono when i was 22 and i got a tonsillitis so bad that i couldnt swallow even water (they couldn't give me antibiotics because of the mono) and i was hospitalized for like three days during which i didnt sleep or drink or eat (i was on intravenous) and that hospital stay and then recovering from the mono (which people who had one know can take up to a month or more before you feel close to alright), that was physically very hard. At least the hardest i had to go through. But then some people have had cancer and chemo...
Man, what's with all the difficult questions?
Beat cancer.
Tell my 97 year old grandmother that her son (my uncle) had passed after we found him in his apartment.
Made the decision (with my Mom and Brother) to let my Dad go. I don't see it getting any harder than that.
Raising our (now 15 year old) severely disabled son who is now becoming very difficult for us to care for and we are contemplating finding a suitable facility for him to live and get the care he'll need for the rest of his life...
Almost a year ago when I had to tell my two little girls (then 8 ) that their mother had just died.
Having a fully loaded .40 calibre handgun tucked into my waist, & NOT shooting the guy who I had seen for the first time since discovering that he was responsible for molesting my then 2 year old son, he'd also punched him 3 times for having a bathroom accident.
This all followed by the struggle of composing myself in a cool, calm, & collective manner in court for the almost 4 years it took me to win sole legal custody. Which fortunately I still have, & have made it to him almost being 14 and having no real memory of any of this stuff.
some of these truly are horrific things. man, threads like this kill me.
i wont be back to read anymore thats for sure, you guys are good ones,
good luk
Taking care of my second wife at home until the end - brain tumor. It sucked badly but at the last moment my daughters and I were able to hold her, in our bed, as she took her last breath. And that made it worthwhile. Beats a phone call from a stranger.
That's some intense stuff right there. Good thing you had a clear enough head not to pop that sucker. BTW is that what inspired your username?
Ive had it easy compared to some people I think. The worst so far was getting over an unexpected and unwanted divorce. I was a real basket case for about 6 months. It actually turned out to be a huge blessing and I've been much happier since then.
No so hard than other TB members but the hardest thing I have done is telling my wife that her mom passed away, then watching her on her knees screaming to me that I was a liar.
I quit cocaine when I was about 23. I was an eight ball away from becoming a full blown junkie. When I wept like a baby one day cuz my guy wasn't around, I decided I'd had enough.
Tell them to take my father off life support.
I am sorry you had to do that. That sounds terribly hard.
Edit- these all sound hard already.
3. Moving my 88 yr old mother out of her home, much against the wishes of my 92 yr olf father.
2. Putting her on a plane to go back.
1. Repeat step 3.
Come out to my friends and family on my mothers side, but know that on my dads side they would disown me (parents are divorced).
Grad School was a pretty rough run. The Church was no picnic either.


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Top Trumps is a card game.
Top Trumps was first introduced in England by Dubreq in 1977. The line continued until the early '90s. In 1999, Winning Moves bought the rights to the game and relaunched it.
The cards are sold in packs with different themes. Some packs feature public domain themes such as military hardware and wildlife. Others are based on things like books and movies, including Pirates of the Caribbean. There have been two releases of Pirates of the Caribbean cards: one for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and one for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
Any number of people can play. Each person is dealt 30 cards. They hold their cards face up, but can only look at their first card. The first player than chooses the highest statistic on their card and reads it out. Everyone else reads out the highest statistic. The winner takes all the cards and puts them at the bottom of his pile.
If there is a tie, all the cards are put aside. The same player chooses a statistic from their card. The second round is played and the winner gets all the regular cards and the cards from the previous round.
Pirates of the Caribbean Top TrumpsEdit
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's ChestEdit
Each card features a picture of the character at the top and flavor text to the left. To the right, the cards stats are shown. The stats are Cunning, Fear, Reputation, Courage, Pieces of Eight, and Piracy.
- Anamaria
- Bootstrap Bill Turner
- Captain Jack Sparrow
- Captain Barbossa
- Cotton
- Cotton's parrot
- Cursed Pirate
- Davy Jones
- Edinburgh Trader crew
- Elizabeth Swann
- Girls of Tortuga
- Governor Swann
- Jack the Monkey
- James Norrington
- Joshamee Gibbs
- Koehler
- Lieutenant Gillette
- Lord Cutler Beckett
- Marty
- Mercer
- Mr. Brown
- Mullroy
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- The Harbour Master
- Tia Dalma
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The At World's End cards were changed. Statistics went on top with flavor text at the bottom. The statistics became Power, Swordfighting Skills, Honour, Escapology, Secrecy, and Buccaneer Spirit.
- Admiral Norrington
- Ammand the Corsair
- "Bootstrap Bill" Turner
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- Cotton
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Microtel Quincy is offering a special rate to Bridge the Gap to Health participants. Racers can call 217-222-5620 to reserve a room and let them know you are a BTG participant. The discount rates are a 1 queen room for $69/night, a 2 queen room for $79/night, or a 1 queen room plus a sofe sleeper and kitchenette for $89/night.
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Race day registration opens at 6:30 am on May 18 at Clat Adams Park. Registration is also available at the Race Expo on May 17 from 3-8 pm at The Salvation Army Kroc Center, 732 Hampshire Street, Quincy, IL. Hope to see you there!
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Measurement Theory and the Foundations of Utilitarianism
This article reconsiders the Harsanyi--Sen debate concerning whether Harsanyi is justified in interpreting his Aggregation and Impartial Observer Theorems as providing axiomatizations of utilitarianism. Sen's criticism and its formalization by Weymark are based on the claim that von Neumann--Morgenstern utility theory is ordinal, whereas Harsanyi's utilitarian conclusions require cardinal utility. Proposals for overcoming Sen's objection that appeal to formal measurement theory are considered. It is argued that one of these proposals due to Broome and Risse rightly points to a feature of expected utility theory that was ignored by Sen and Weymark, but that this proposal does not provide a normatively compelling justification for cardinal utility. The other proposal due to Broome is shown to make use of a strength of preference relation in addition to the axioms of expected utility theory.
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"Dilemmas in Economic Theory: Persisting Foundational Problems of Microeconomics,"
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Legal Question in Criminal Law in Florida
In the state of Florida is it illegal to spit on another person? What is the crime? What are the penalties?
2 Answers from Attorneys
If you spit on someone else and its against their will, it could be prosecuted as a "Battery" in the State of Florida. If you spit on a police officer, it could be filed as a "Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer," which is a Third Degree Felony punishable by up to five (5) years in prison.
Normally, the misdemeanor battery would be punishable by up to one (1) year in the County Jail and/or one (1) year of misdemeanor probation with court ordered family violence counseling/classes.
Hope that helps,
Aaron J. Slavin, Esq.
Spitting on someone is assault and battery. I don't know how you can be in a self-defense situation with spit. This is clearly illegal and chargable as a crime.
Do not send me an email over this issue. I will reject it because I don't want you to spit on me.
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Illustration by Mark DanceyThere are places in this world so dangerous, so odious, so bad for an individual's welfare that people should not live in them. It's why we don't find many apartment complexes in volcanoes, why there is a paucity of split-level dwellings near the top of melting ice shelves and why everyone's advised to stay 500 feet from Carrot Top.
But in the city of Orange, Fieldstone Communities wants to build 189 homes on a hundred-acre site that could very well be wiped out by a devastating flood that could leave it submerged beneath 15 feet of water—and that's not even the worst-case scenario.
If the city approves construction, the Fieldstone homes will sit in what's known as an "inundation zones" of the Irvine Lake and Villa Park earthen dams—"inundation zone" being hydrologist shorthand for an area of total destruction caused by a dam failure. Johnstown, Pennsylvania—where 2,200 people died in an 1889 flood—was an inundation zone.
It's a serious problem that many local residents believe should have been enough to kill the project a long time ago. But Newport Beach-based Fieldstone doesn't think it's a problem. For the past three years, Fieldstone planners and public-relations flacks have gone out of their way to insist there's no problem building homes in an area that would be completely wiped out should either dam ever fail.
"Development in the hypothetical inundation zones is not at all unusual," said Philip Bettencourt, Fieldstone's spokesman. "If the Villa Park Dam broke, the flow of water would extend to the Mall of Orange."
Of course, the Mall of Orange is miles from the so-called Sully-Miller site, named for the mining company that owns it; any water that reaches the mall would have already torn through and over the now-demolished Fieldstone homes. Yet Bettencourt added that he didn't "know of any credible official that gives credence to these arguments."
So apparently Bettencourt doesn't think much of Orange senior planner Christopher Carnes. In a 34-page report for the Orange Planning Commission written last October, Carnes wrote of two environmental problems Fieldstone would not be able to solve. One of them was "site flooding during the failure of the Villa Park Dam."
In other words, even city officials admit there is no way to alleviate the danger posed by a dam failure. Yet rather than pack up their pretty drawings and PowerPoint presentations and apologize for wasting the city's valuable time and resources with such a potentially dangerous project, Fieldstone merely asked the city for a "Statement of Overriding Consideration"—a ruling that the project's benefits outweigh the potential environmental and human damage it could create.
In fact, Fieldstone hasn't been all that clear how bad that damage would be. In three years, the company has released voluminous environmental reports, documents, letters, studies, maps and lots of colorful sketches of stucco homes situated on tree-lined streets, but it has still failed to answer a simple question: How high will the water be in the proposed 189-home neighborhood should the Villa Park dam fail?
City officials wouldn't comment on this question, but one source familiar with the issue says the city public-works department did come up with an answer. According to the source, city engineers figure a dam break would turn the neighborhood into a lake 15 to 20 feet deep.
Let's mull over that figure a bit. Even taking just the lower number, that's water up to the roof peak of a single-story house. Then again, that's assuming the water would come down like a gentle rain, gradually filling the neighborhood as though it were a bowl. Of course, should the dam break, that's not what would happen at all. That 15 feet of water calculated by the city would enter the neighborhood more or less at once with the force of a tsunami. It would not surround the homes; it would demolish them.
Recent history is replete with examples. On Dec. 14, 1963, the earthen Baldwin Hills Dam broke. In just a few hours, a crack the width of a pencil widened to more than 75 feet. The resulting death toll—just five deaths—was considered a small miracle of timing: the dam failed during the day, allowing police to evacuate most city residents. Geologists believe nearby oil drilling may have set off a fault beneath the dam, leading to its failure.
When the dam finally gave way, 292 million gallons of water rushed into the inundation zone, almost instantly destroying more than 250 homes and buildings as terrified residents watched their homes splinter and wash away on television.
"What kind of risk is Fieldstone putting future residents in?" asked Jim Obermayer, a local resident and chairman of the Mabury Homeowners' Association environmental committee. Mabury has spent the past couple of years studying the project. "Santiago Creek is one of the major tributaries of the Santa Ana River, and the Villa Park Dam is built on a major earthquake fault. There is real risk here."
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Even if the dams never break, future residents in the Sully-Miller site will have a hell of a time dealing with storms and floods. That's because their homes will sit in the original, true course of Santiago Creek. Historical photographs dating back to 1928 and included in the Fieldstone environmental reports clearly show water running over virtually the entire property. It was the creek that filled the site with so much sand and gravel in the first place.
Once nothing more than a wide channel of Santiago Creek as it winds from Irvine Lake to the Santa Ana River, the site became a sand and gravel mine for the Sully-Miller company in the 1940s. Historical and environmental research suggest the company, bought out by Hanson Aggregates in 1992, abused the area frightfully. Huge deposits of silt, created as the lucrative gravel was mined and washed, were dumped throughout the site in massive ponds. These ponds actually changed the course of Santiago Creek, diverting its once-wide banks northward into a narrow rock-lined channel.
Although the silt dumping occurred in plain sight, it's unknown whether Sully-Miller ever obtained permission from the state to alter the course of the creek. The company also failed to submit—and the city of Orange failed to ask for—a state-mandated reclamation plan for the area when mining ceased in 1995.
In other words, Fieldstone is asking the city for permission to build homes in a streambed that was geologically altered in unknown ways and then never properly reclaimed.
Problems continue. Hanson Aggregates uses the land today for concrete and asphalt recycling—crushing old roadbed into rock and gravel. It is a dirty, noisy business that has plagued dozens of nearby homeowners for years with incessant truck traffic, clogged air-conditioning vents and, some residents insist, a variety of respiratory ailments.
So why would Fieldstone want to build homes here? Fieldstone is a big, successful development company. Since 1981, the company has built 16,000 homes throughout Orange County and Southern California. It recently completed neighborhoods in Chula Vista, Oceanside, Chino Hills, Rancho Bernardo and Utah.
But in this old gravel-mine and rock-crushing hell, Fieldstone sees a tremendous opportunity. They see nearby neighborhoods held hostage by the recycling operation—one Hanson Aggregates has all but said will continue long past everyone dies unless someone buys them out.
"Hanson won't go until we get approval," is how one Fieldstone official put it to local resident Mark Moore during a recent Sully-Miller meeting. Indeed, Fieldstone promotional materials highlight this explicitly: if local residents support building homes, Hanson's rock-crushing operation ends.
"The crack of a bat against a Little League baseball could soon replace the grinding noise of a recycling operation along Santiago Canyon Road," reads one Fieldstone brochure. "Youth soccer teams could sprint across a grassy field once covered with gravel, weeds and chunks of concrete. There could be swings and a jungle gym instead of wire fences and rusted shacks."
The tactic didn't work on Moore, but he realizes its power. "Hanson is a gun Fieldstone is holding to our heads to support their project," he said.
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About all Fieldstone has done concerning the Santiago Creek issue is to propose concrete "revetment walls" along Santiago Creek designed to "prevent erosion." These walls might help keep normal rainfall moving through the creek, but their use during big storms is debatable. Santiago Creek is no mere drainage ditch—when storms hit the creek, it has a tendency to run deep and fast.
Floods and heavy rain have been washing away homes near Santiago Creek since at least 1810. During a storm in 1884, Santiago Creek "ran at will," wrote historian Terry Stephenson, dumping as much as two feet of silt into Santa Ana. It destroyed a railroad bridge and washed away several miles of track, cutting off communication between Santa Ana and Los Angeles for six weeks. One local Santa Ana resident at the time called the creek "a raging torrent" with "breakers like those of an ocean." Floods in 1889, 1916, 1927 and 1938 created similar damage.
The creek mostly stayed within its banks after that—until 1969, when all hell broke loose during some of the worst local storms of the century, swelling the creek into a raging river 125 feet across. So much debris backed up water at the old Santiago Creek Bridge that county flood-control officials blew it up. Homes washed away until the U.S. Marine Corps flew in helicopters to shore up the bank with junk cars. A flood of that magnitude will wash out the entire Fieldstone project.
Most disturbing, locals have for years been watching Santiago Creek slowly return to its old channel. David Piper, an accountant who has lived next to the Sully-Miller property nearly his entire life, has been amazed at the ongoing erosion of a massive silt pond at the extreme eastern edge of the property. Once wide enough to accommodate two dump trucks side by side, the berm is now barely two feet across, pitted in places and, he says, pretty much unsafe to walk on.
It's increasingly likely that Sully-Miller dumped silt into the creek without approval or oversight from the state Department of Fish and Game, which has jurisdiction over such actions. A public-records request by Orange resident and activist Shirley Grindle asking for permits filed by Sully-Miller turned up nothing in either Sacramento offices or the local regional Fish and Game office. Since records at the department created before 1974 are nonexistent, it's at least possible the company obtained permission or conducted work before streambed-alteration required oversight.
Of course, it was Grindle who also determined that city of Orange officials had never asked for—and Sully-Miller had never provided—a reclamation plan for the site, despite the 1975 State Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA), which mandates such plans. After prodding by Grindle, state officials recently began researching why Orange seems to have forgotten about SMARA.
For its part, city community development director Alice Angus said the city attorney's office is still trying to determine what happened with SMARA and how to rectify it. For its part, the state office of mine reclamation recently sent investigators to the Orange city attorney's office in an attempt to piece together Sully-Miller's history.
"Curiously, our staffers found permit numbers for some actions but then couldn't find any permits. That's a bit of a concern," said state Department of Conservation spokesman Don Drysdale. "We're currently drafting a letter to the city on what it should do to come back into compliance with the law."
Amazingly, sources close to Orange planning officials say the city might try to insist the Fieldstone plan represents an adequate reclamation plan.
In fact, news that so much work at Sully-Miller went on without oversight means a proper reclamation plan for the mine is more vital than ever. "This land needs to be reclaimed," said Obermayer, the Mabury Homeowners' Association official. "The silt needs to come out. The creek needs to be restored. The whole area should be open space. I keep thinking how much brighter the future of this land could be if they don't put homes on it."
Mabury and Obermayer have been a thorn in Fieldstone's side for years. The well-heeled neighborhood of 384 homes overlooks the Sully-Miller site from the north bank of Santiago Creek. Originally, the Mabury Homeowners' Association adopted a classic NIMBY attitude against Fieldstone's plan to put 17 homes on the north side of the creek. But after Fieldstone rejected Mabury's opposition, neighborhood officials began researching the wider project.
"People clearly didn't do their homework," said Obermayer, referring to the streambed and SMARA issues plaguing the project. "This is just not a good project. If it was just a flat piece of land, we'd have no trouble with the project as a whole. But that land has too many problems. We're not saying that the owner shouldn't get fair-market value for the property. But all the city has to do is say no to the project."
Despite the flood and dam problems, it won't be easy for city officials to kill the project. Fieldstone has done a good job dangling carrots before the city.
State law requires three acres of parkland for every 1,000 residents. Orange has barely half that dedicated to park use. Fieldstone understands this well and has dangled numerous public-use freebies before city officials in an attempt to win approval for the homes. They want to raise a new bridge over Santiago Creek, build equestrian trails through the property, and put in a public park.
Originally intending to only build a 3.5-acre park on the site's southwest corner, Fieldstone suddenly upped the park to six acres after the city's Parks Planning and Development Commission gave them a thumbs-down. Local activists speculate Fieldstone will increase the park size again to 10 acres before the fight is over.
But the park argument works even better against Fieldstone. For all the talk about building homes in a flood zone, the Sully-Miller site holds much promise for local residents, should the city ever realize the land's potential. In what will eventually be the center of Orange, the old Sully-Miller quarry could become a restored swath of nature—an extension of Santiago Oaks Regional Park next door and part of a solution to a parks problem the city has been wrestling with for decades.
Back in the early 1970s, city planners were studying exactly that: Sully-Miller as dedicated open space, with a restored Santiago Creek flood-control channel. It's a vision that lived on for many years—if only in promotional pitches.
In 1995, Mark Moore moved to Orange Park Acres, which borders the quarry to the east. He remembers how insistent real-estate agents were about what was going to happen to the Sully-Miller site.
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"They told me it was an abandoned recycling operation and that in two years, the area was going to be either a park or a golf course," said Moore. "Those were the only options he said. I had absolutely no problem with either."
As late as 1999, the city of Orange's Master Plan for Park Facilities, Recreation and Community Services projected that the Sully-Miller mine "could likely be restabilized to allow sports-field development and community-center building sites."
But like much of what seems to happen at Sully-Miller, the city forgot about all that park planning when Fieldstone brought in its residential-development proposal. On Feb. 19, the Orange Planning Commission will hold another hearing on the Fieldstone proposal.
There is still time to return Santiago Creek to its proper course. Like so much else in Orange, the dream of restoring the Sully-Miller site to its natural beauty hasn't washed away yet.


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AUSTIN Legislation to limit the growth of Texas government to stay within the growth of the state's economy was filed by state Rep. Carl Isett, R-Lubbock, Tuesday.
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RCPCH votes for Government to withdraw the Health and Social Care Bill
Following a survey of members, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has voted to call on the government to withdraw the Health and Social Care Bill – and is urging Ministers to bring together all healthcare professionals to work on practical steps for delivering areas of reform where there is clear consensus.
The decision was taken by the RCPCH's Council following a survey of UK members, which saw 79% of respondents vote for the College to call for the 'outright withdrawal' of the Bill rather than continue to push for amendments.
President of the RCPCH, Professor Terence Stephenson, said:
'It is clear that a substantial majority of our voting members believe that the Health and Social Care Bill carries risk for children and young people.
'Despite revisions and assurances from Government, there remains widespread and deep concern amongst not only our members, but also the wider health profession and public, about the Bill's impact on patient care.
'The RCPCH has never at any stage supported the Bill, but we have consistently engaged with Government to try and push for amendments to ensure the best outcomes for children. Although we have secured some changes – such as the Children's Forum – it's our membership's views that these do not go far enough.
'At the NHS Summit which I attended earlier this week, the Prime Minister made it clear that the Government will press ahead with the Bill.
'Yet pushing the Bill through is creating disaffection amongst the very people – the clinicians – who will be delivering these changes on the ground when the reality is that there are areas of reform where the healthcare profession are in agreement, most obviously the principle of clinically led commissioning and improving how services are delivered.
'All those representing healthcare professionals need to be brought together to thrash out how these areas of consensus can be effectively put into practice.'
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The RCPCH surveyed all UK members via an anonymous online survey, between Tuesday 14 February and Tuesday 21 February 2012.
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I prefer that the RCPCH continues to try to amend the Health and Social Care Bill
I prefer that the RCPCH calls for outright withdrawal of the Health and Social Care Bill'
There were 1,492 valid votes (14.50% turnout) amongst the RCPCH's UK members. Of those, 308 (20.64%) voted to continue with amending the Bill, vs 1,184 (79.36%) who voted to call for its withdrawal.
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Seventh in a series
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For more than two months, as part of our effort to learn more about how California deals with violent sex offenders in the wake of the Chelsea King and Amber Dubois tragedies, the Union-Tribune editorial board has met with individuals with a wide range of perspectives. Perhaps the most common theme from these meetings has been how a lack of resources makes it difficult to deal effectively with a variety of challenges.
Casey Gwinn, former San Diego city attorney and now president of the National Family Justice Center Alliance, spoke movingly about the lack of help for children who have been beaten, molested or otherwise abused and "are a thousand times more likely to grow up and to commit acts of violence and abuse against others."
San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne said probation and parole agencies needed more funding to do a better job of keeping tabs on released violent sex offenders.
Rebecca Jones, an appellate lawyer and former board chair for the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties, told us of the big need for counseling and mental health programs with promise to reduce repeat offenders.
The sad reality, of course, is that there could scarcely be a worse time than now for those seeking more funding for any program, however badly needed. California's budget woes are immense.
But there is hope to free up hundreds of millions of dollars to meet these various needs – and within the California Corrections and Rehabilitation Department's own budget.
The first opportunity for big savings is conventional: using management and policy changes to cut the staggering $47,000 annual per-inmate cost of California's corrections system, which is 50 percent higher than the national average.
It doesn't have to be this remotely high. Privately run prisons now hold at least 10 percent of inmates in 14 states and have a track record of being safe and inexpensive. Pay for prison guards could easily be reduced and still attract qualified applicants. These changes would require taking on the prison guards union, which is so powerful it actually once was given some management duties in collective bargaining talks with pliant Gov. Gray Davis. But their adoption would quickly free up funds that could be much better used in other areas.
The second opportunity for huge savings, however, is far less conventional. It involves abandoning the old ways of thinking about crime and sentencing in favor of a much more pragmatic approach – one in which risk management and cost-benefit analysis are factors in how long people are locked up.
For decades, the driving factor in such decisions has been retribution, often administered through sweeping ballot measures such as the "three strikes" measure. According to Stanford Law School's Mills Criminal Defense Clinic, about 20,000 of California's 167,000 prisoners are "three strikes" offenders convicted of nonviolent drug offenses and property crimes.
But these are not the only men and women who are warehoused in prisons even though most appear to pose little threat to society. Academic research has established that with a few categorical exceptions – including violent sex offenders – crime is essentially a young man's pastime.
Yet California routinely jails many criminals well into their 50s and 60s, a classic example of the law of diminishing returns – of diminishing "bang for the buck." Not only are these inmates not the public threat their lengthy sentences imply, because of their increased need for medical care, they cost far more to incarcerate than the average inmate.
The idea that many of these prisoners could be released without serious fallout is not just ivory tower fantasizing by criminology Ph. Ds. New York's prudent paring of inmates has had great success.
"Between 1997 and 2007, New York experienced both the greatest decrease in violent crime and, simultaneously, the greatest decrease in prison population and incarceration rate of any state in the country. During that decade, the national prison population grew by more than 350,000 inmates, a 28 percent jump that corresponded to a 14 percent increase in the national incarceration rate," the Pew Center on the States reported in February 2009. "Over the same time period, New York's prison population declined by almost 6,500 inmates, a 9.4 percent dip that amounted to a 15 percent drop in the incarceration rate. To the surprise of many at the time, New York's violent crime rate fell a remarkable 40 percent during the decade, while the national violent crime rate dropped by a much smaller measure, 24 percent. In terms of crime and prison contraction, New York led all regions of the country and every individual state."
Pew's conclusion: "States can carefully reduce incarceration and still protect – and even improve – public safety."
Unfortunately, the Schwarzenegger administration may have already undercut ambitious future efforts along these lines. Its attempt in recent months to gradually reduce the state prison population by less than 4 percent for budget reasons has been marred by missteps, including the questionable release of hundreds of inmates from county facilities because of confusing language in enabling legislation.
This has led to a backlash, including from some victims' rights groups. Yet some of these groups are among the biggest critics of how California deals with violent sex offenders, saying the state should devote more resources to prevent them from ruining more lives.
Stridency from these groups over prison changes is not helpful or sensible. California's resources are finite and Californians' appetite for higher taxes is limited. Given the balance of political power in Sacramento and the likelihood of years more of brutal budgets, it is vitally important that what funds are available for corrections and criminal justice are used to maximize public safety.
This requires a laserlike focus on figuring out who needs to be locked up and who can be let go with minimal risk.
Such detachment may prove difficult when the topic is crime and how to treat criminals. But if we want to free up funds to deal with the urgent threat posed by sexually violent predators, an extremely promising way to do so is to stop letting reflexive retribution determine sentencing and parole decisions.
A willingness to experiment with policing methods and to let empirical research drive policy decisions – smart management relying on cost-benefit analysis and risk-management strategies – have made law enforcement in the U.S. more sophisticated and effective than ever. It is time for courts and corrections to develop a similar sophistication.
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Article 370 0f The Indian Constitution - Poem by Nasarudheen.P. Parameswaran
Article 370 of the Indian Constitution.
Nowthat, BJP/NDA came to power at the Centre, Muslims are worried on Article370 of the Constitution, on Protection of Cow, on Ram Janma Bhoomi Temple, and on Uniform Civil Code.
Actually, there is no need of frustration or worry. Just read the relevant Articles of the Constitution. It is available at Wikipeodia or Google Search.
The brief of the Article 370 is this: It is a "temporary provision with respect to the State of Jammu and Kashmir, "according to clause 1 (a) of this Article, Article 238 is not applicable to this state. And clause 1(b) of it limits the Power of the Parliament to make laws related to Concurrent Lists and Union List.That too in consultation with the Government of the State.It should correspond with the matters specified in the Instrument of Accession.
Clause 2 speaks of a Constituent Assembly if the matter need to be consulted.
Clause 3 tells: 'Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this article, the President may by public notification declare that the article shall cease to be operative or shall be operative only with such exceptions and modifications and such date as he may specify:
Provided that the recommendations of the Constituent Assembly of the State referred in clause 2 shall be necessary before the President issues such notification".
THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THIS ARTICLE 370 IS NOT MADE INOPERATIVE. So by keeping the formalities repeal of this article is possible as it is a temporary one also. It is a matter of all the Jammu and Kashmir people. Why should the anti-BJP Muslim leaders alone be worried of it? The worry of Congress Party is clearly political.This clause was declared operative only on 17th November,1952 by the Order No.C.O.dated.15th, November,1952 of the Ministry of Law, New Delhi.
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Larger wafers boon to bottom line for Cascade Microtech
Cascade Microtech, which makes machines that measure and test semiconductor devices, is No. 4 in The Seattle Times' 22nd annual Best of the Northwest rankings. The Oregon company's sales have been growing in the last three years, with 75 percent of its revenue from outside North America.
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Cascade Microtech at a glance
Year founded: 1984
Headquarters: Beaverton, Ore.
Major operations: Beaverton; Dresden, Germany
CEO: Michael D. Burger
Employees: 383
What they do: Designs, develops and manufactures machines that electronically measure and test semiconductor devices, including wafers of integrated circuits, chips and circuit boards.
What sets them apart: The company's CM300 fully automated probe system measures at 2,289 mm (w) by 1,991 mm (d) by 2,095 mm (h) and weighs 3,638 pounds.
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No. 4: Cascade Microtech
No. 5: Coinstar
Every day consumers wake up wanting a smartphone or handheld device that's smaller, faster and cheaper.
Cascade Microtech is helping companies make these devices. The Beaverton, Ore., company's performance over the last two years was strong enough to land at No. 4 in The Seattle Times' 22nd annual ranking of public companies based in the Northwest.
Started in 1984, Cascade Microtech specializes in the design, development and manufacturing of machines that electronically measure and test semiconductor devices, including integrated circuits, chips and circuit boards. These circuits are measured precisely and installed in electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops, e-books and tablets. The smaller the wires, the faster a device.
"We have to be equal if not a step ahead of our customers to help them understand their products better," said Michael D. Burger, CEO of Cascade Microtech since July 2010. "It's a big job but we've been relatively successful."
The company boasts a global reach, with 1,700 customers worldwide, including Intel, IBM, Qualcomm, Samsung and Toshiba. Cascade has 383 employees worldwide with roughly 75 percent of its revenue in the last three years coming from customers outside of North America, the bulk being from Asia Pacific. It also has a manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany.
While the tech industry's drive to constantly create has helped Cascade push out new machines of its own, the company has had some financial woes. In 2004 and 2005, the company's stock price was trading at highs between $11 and $15 per share. The global economic downturn hit its stock beginning in 2007. The company wrote off a $27.7 million investment in the fourth quarter of 2008. Then the semiconductor industry experienced one of its worst downturns in history in 2009.
"In 2009 consumers stopped buying electronics in the same way, and that whole lack of demand just ran through the industry," said Jeff Killian, chief financial officer for Cascade.
Its stock hit bottom at $1.95 in December 2008 and has climbed since 2010 to more than $6 a share. That same year Cascade acquired the test systems unit of SUSS MicroTec AG., a German company also specializing in measuring semiconductor chips, for $10 million. In 2012, after almost three years of no profit, the company introduced new products and posted a profit of $6.1 million. At the end of April, the company announced revenue was going to be in the range of $27 million to $30 million in the current quarter.
Stock analyst Bobby Burleson, managing director for Canaccord Genuity in San Francisco, said while the company has the advantage of servicing a niche market and is growing in revenue, foreign-exchange rates have been haywire over the years and affected Cascade Microtech's stock prices.
"If you're getting paid from the Japanese in yen, you're getting paid less and that's what hurt them in the last quarter," Burleson said. "If you're on that list of guys that get hurt from a weak yen you stay in the penalty box for a while."
While doing well now, the semiconductor industry faces challenges, said Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, chairwoman and professor in electrical and computer engineering at Portland State University. She said the chip industry is pushing the physical limits of electronic devices. She said as devices get smaller, they require more power and subsequently heat up quickly. Industry leaders are researching other materials it can use to make transistors besides silicon, such as carbon-nanotube and graphene. The challenge is finding materials that will reduce the amount of power needed to make devices work.
"At the same time those individual transistors are getting smaller, at some point these devices can't be smaller because of these physical limits," Chrzanowska-Jeske said.
Burger said the company is working on making machines that can accommodate the increasing size of wafers. Circular wafers can hold thousands of microscopic crisscrossing wires and can be smaller than one one-hundredth of the width of a hair strand. Industry standards for wafer size have grown over time from 150 mm to 200 mm to 300 mm and soon will be 450 mm, the size of the average medium pizza.
"The challenge for us is to continue to grow," he said. "There's a line between speed of execution and making sure it's correct. There's always a rush to be there first."
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In a previous version of this story, an incorrect time period was given for Cascade Microtech's revenue expectations. The company expects to bring in $27 million to $30 million in the current quarter.
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CANCUN, Mexico, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- World leaders must recognize they are negotiating for the future of billions of people during a climate summit in Mexico, the Mexican president said.
Mexico is hosting delegates for the U.N. Climate Change Conference, pushing for a balanced approach to tackling problems associated with climate change.
The last climate conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, ended with few concrete agreements apart from the recognition of the challenges presented by anticipated warming trends.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said hurricanes in Mexico, massive flooding in Pakistan and raging wildfires in Russia that damaged key grain crops represented the potential dangers associated with climate change.
"Climate change is an issue that affects life on a planetary scale," he was quoted by the U.N. Environment Program as saying. "What this means is that you will not be here alone negotiating in Cancun. By your side, there will be billions of human beings, expecting you to work for all of humanity."
Robert Orr, U.N. assistant secretary-general for policy planning, said ahead of the conference he didn't think all of the issues related to global climate change would be solved at the conference.
"Significant progress is possible in Cancun," he said in a statement. "That is not to say that we expect all issues to be resolved."
The conference runs through Dec. 10.


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A West Contra Costa fire district wants to salvage a $1.24 million federal grant awarded to a neighboring agency that turned it down.
Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa, who had supported Pinole in its pursuit of the Federal Emergency Management Agency SAFER grant, said he would look into whether the Rodeo-Hercules Fire District might be able to step in as grant recipient, as envisioned by fire Chief Charles Hanley. "SAFER" stands for Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response.
The Pinole City Council formally accepted the grant in January, but officials said the city had not yet tapped into it when the council reversed itself in June. Spread over two years, the $1.24 million was supposed to pay to reopen the Pinole Valley fire station and hire four firefighters.
In March, the council, without debate, passed a resolution spelling out how to manage the grant.
But on June 18, the council, with Councilman Phil Green dissenting, voted 4-1 to renounce the grant, citing concerns over associated costs and uncertainty over a pending unfair labor practices complaint by the firefighters union. Earlier in the meeting, Firefighters Local 1230 President Vince Wells walked out of the council chamber after Mayor Debbie Long chastised Wells over a post on ContraCostaTimes.com in which he criticized the council's leadership and described the Pinole Fire Department as a sinking ship.
The interval between Pinole's acceptance and rejection of the grant was turbulent.
In April, after months of study, Pinole turned down a contract offer from Rodeo-Hercules to provide fire protection and opted instead to continue to run its own department with its own fire chief. Under a contract, Rodeo-Hercules would absorb Pinole's firefighters.
Since 2011, Pinole and Rodeo-Hercules had shared a chief, Hanley, as well as administrative services; Hanley's contract with Pinole ended June 30. An interim chief, Carlos Rodriguez, started with Pinole on June 5.
City officials said a contract with Rodeo-Hercules would cost about $400,000 a year more than keeping fire protection in-house, but Hanley said last week that the savings figure is inflated and that it does not factor in the benefits of a larger department.
Also in June, four Pinole firefighters resigned; three signed on with Rodeo-Hercules, the fourth with the Vallejo Fire Department.
Meanwhile, the union's unfair labor practices complaint, brought in 2011, was partially dismissed by the California Public Employment Relations Board in October; in the spring, the union proceeded with a pending, pension-related issue and another, described by the city as related to overtime pay and by Wells as related to staffing.
The council, and in particular Long, has cited worry over possible financial consequences if PERB rules against the city as crucial to the decision to turn down the SAFER grant.
Wells said that more than a 18 months ago, the union had agreed to drop its PERB complaint if Pinole contracted with Rodeo-Hercules or the Contra Costa Fire District for service.
"After the city voted down the contract with ConFire and Rodeo-Hercules, we moved forward with the PERB hearing," he said in an email Friday.
Wells said Pinole's rejection of the SAFER grant did not sit well with Pinole's partner agencies in Battalion 7, which consists of Pinole, Rodeo-Hercules and the county fire district's El Sobrante and San Pablo stations; all three agencies' firefighters are represented by Local 1230.
Battalion 7 operates as a single fire department, with command rotating among the three agencies; any enhancement to one agency benefits the entire battalion and its residents, Hanley said. Battalion 7 is down to four stations now that the Pinole Valley and downtown Rodeo stations are shuttered.
The Hercules City Council on Tuesday will consider whether to write a letter in support of Rodeo-Hercules' quest.


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- Malaysian Grand Prix - Qualifying
No strategy behind hard tyre choice - Vettel
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Sebastian Vettel says his decision to qualify on hard tyres at the Malaysian Grand Prix was not part of a wider strategy but due to his struggle on the medium compound.
Vettel will start the race from fifth on the grid and under the regulations will have to start the race on the hard compound that he set his time on while the others in the top ten used the mediums. But Vettel denied that he was thinking about race strategy when he opted for the hard tyres, admitting he was struggling for performance on the mediums.
"There's not much strategy behind it to be honest," he said. "I was struggling with the soft[er] tyres and thought I had a better car on the hard tyres, which is why I made the call. We could have gone maybe a tenth or two quicker on the soft tyre but then we went significantly faster on the hard tyre. Whether that is an advantage tomorrow ... we are the only ones [in the top ten on hard tyres] so we hope it might be, but we'll see."
Red Bull was off the pace of McLaren for the second qualifying session in a row, but Vettel said that he expects his race pace to be much closer to Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button.
"We had not so good qualifying in Australia and not so good qualifying here, but we had a good race in Australia so we are hoping we can do a bit more there. Our race pace should be better, but nevertheless there is plenty of work to do. We are aware of that and we need to push harder."


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Sounders FC vs. FC Dallas
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Saturday, April 12; 5:30 pm PT; Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas
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Like Sounders FC, FC Dallas has undergone a lot of changes from last season. The two clubs had very different seasons last year, but both were left with disappointment when the playoffs came around. Seattle had a slow start to the 2013 season, going winless in the first five matches, while FC Dallas started the year at 7-1-3 but missed the playoffs altogether. For Seattle, the bitter conclusion came with an early exit at the hands of the Portland Timbers.
Although things have changed in Frisco, Texas, FC Dallas has still started strong under new Head Coach Oscar Pareja, leading the Western Conference with a 4-0-1 record on the heels of a tremendous first month from playmaker Mauro Diaz, who earned Etihad Player of the Month honors with two goals and one assist.
"They're a team that's in good form right now. They're playing really well," Sounders FC forward Clint Dempsey said. "We've been doing well on the road also and hopefully we can continue that going to Dallas and trying to get three points."
Spoiling a hot start from Dallas would be nothing new for Seattle. Last year, FC Dallas was 7-1-3 and riding a nine-match unbeaten run when Sounders FC raced to a 4-2 victory at CenturyLink Field. Dallas won only four matches the rest of the way.
However, this is a different team under Pareja, who took over coaching duties after spending the last two seasons at the helm for the Colorado Rapids.
In addition to Diaz, Pareja has also brought out the talents of speedy winger Fabian Castillo and workhorse Je-Vaughn Watson. That has helped Dallas become the top scoring team in MLS with 13 goals through five matches.
"He's done a good job with that team," Sounders FC Head Coach Sigi Schmid said.
"The emergence of Diaz this year has helped them. Last year, Ferreira was hot and cold with his play a little bit and they've replaced that with Diaz and other players are starting to mature. Certainly Castillo is more mature than he was last year as a player and Je-Vaughn Watson has gotten off to a hot start."
That hot start was highlighted by a 4-1 win over the Houston Dynamo, as Dallas capitalized on a second-half red card to the Dynamo to net three goals in the final half-hour while playing with the man-advantage.
"They're flying at the moment and coming off a big game against their rivals in Houston. I think we'll be going up against a really confident team," said Seattle forward Kenny Cooper, who played five seasons with FC Dallas, including last season. "It's a team with a lot of speed, a lot of good experience and a lot of good players. We can expect a tough game."
Kickoff for Saturday's match is scheduled for 5:30 pm PT from Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas.


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A direct mail piece from U.S. Senate Federal Credit Union that features a buxom blonde has generated some angry reaction, some national media attention and a petition drive started by an offended member seeking an apology.
Reaction to a provocative direct mail from a Capitol Hill credit union is the centerpiece of this print preview from next week's Credit Union Times.
A direct mail piece from U.S. Senate Federal Credit Union that features a buxom blonde has generated some angry reaction.
James Robert Lay, grower of relationships at PTP New Media, doesn't believe in regrets–regardless of the outcome.
Credit unions hope the growing consumer anthem of "We're not gonna take it," over the latest debit card bank fees, has those consumers primed to make a switch.
This article will be among the news, features, analysis and insight filling the pages of the next print edition of Credit Union Times.
Now may be a particularly good time to be a credit union, with all the hype surrounding Bank Transfer Day.
Standing in his signature jeans, T-shirt and sneakers, amid a sea of suits at a college career event, James Robert Lay quickly draws a crowd of students interested in working with him.
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This Smart is a limited edition in more ways than one, writes Neil Lyndon
A little plaque on the fascia of the Brabus RCR I borrowed commemorated the fact that this car was number one out of a run limited to only 50 such cars worldwide.
In most circumstances, if you became the owner of such a rare trophy, you might feel that you had joined a select elite; but, soon after taking delivery of the RCR (it means roadster-coupé-racing) and driving it on the road, you might begin to wonder if there truly are 49 more people in the world with so little respect for the value of money and so weak a grasp on the difference between a fully sorted-out two-seater and a confection of worthless token gestures.
They ought to communicate and commiserate with each other through a website named 'There Surely Can't Be One of Us Born Every Minute'.
The Brabus RCR is an unconvincing attempt to wring a few more sales out of the Smart Roadster and Roadster Coupé, the imminent demise of which has now been made official.
The Roadster was itself a less than wholly successful development of the original Smart city car. On those titchy foundations, Smart built a two-seater so low-slung that you could almost walk over it without breaking stride, a low-powered, small-engined sports car that revived the spirit of Austin-Healeys and TR3As from the middle of the last century, and yet allowed their occupants to keep dry in a drizzle. Also, owners could start the engine without getting out and pushing (benefits that TRs and AHs frequently withheld).
The Roadster was a delightful little car in many ways but it was weighed down by a number of leaden disadvantages which were too much for its little frame to bear, foremost among them its maddening gearbox, which produced gear-changes so slow that you could light a cigarette in the time it took to lurch from second to third. The second major drawback was its price. At over £16,500 with all the trimmings, the Roadster could cost more than a good Mazda MX-5, the beau idéal of the contemporary two-seater.
No one in their right mind could be expected to buy a Smart Roadster rather than an MX-5. And no one did. In total, Smart probably sold fewer Roadsters and Roadster Coupés in this country than Elton John has tantrums in a month. When did you last see one on the road?
Having called time on production of the Roadster, Smart is now trying to shift its remaining stock. One approach to this challenging conundrum has been to promote the Roadster as a modern classic that will hold its value in the second-hand market (much in the same way, I suppose, that original share certificates in the Channel Tunnel are regarded as classics today). The second tack has been to doll up the Roadster in the flash kit of 'special editions'. One such is the RCR.
Body-panels and front and rear spoilers have been trimmed in racing red and silver. Red stitching edges the leather and Alcantara seats, and red dabs adorn the floor mats. The foot pedals are aluminium, as is the gear stick and the handbrake handle. And, um, that's it.
Those are ornamental additions by which the RCR is distinguished from the Roadster. Mechanically, the RCR differs from the Roadster in being fitted with a Brabus SP2 power-upgrade kit which makes it accelerate from 0 to 62mph in 10.4 seconds (half a second faster than a standard Roadster) with a top speed of 115mph. That's 5mph faster than a commonplace Roadster.
While it fails to propel the RCR much faster in a straight line, however, the additional power does make the car weave, jiggle and snake under full-out acceleration, and ditches seem to open their maws invitingly on both sides of the road.
And what do you have to pay for these benefits? £17,295. Same price as a Toyota MR2. You would have to be off your rocker.
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Price on the road £17,295
Maximum speed 115mph (0-62 in 10.4 seconds)
Combined fuel consumption 54.2mpg
Maximum power 90bhp
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