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Bradley International Airport officials want to expand the destinations they offer to include stops "across the pond."
One airline they are considering, Ryanair, is known for its low fares and creative cost-cutting methods.
The Dublin-based air carrier has juggled ideas from charging fees for printing boarding passes, creating standing-room only seats at the back of planes, and the most infamous idea that came in 2010: charging passengers to use the toilet.
The latter two ideas were flushed. But despite looking to offset costs, Ryanair reported record profits of 569 million Euros, or $734 million, in their last fiscal year.
Those earnings could rise if Bradley International attracts the discount airline to the Nutmeg State.
"I would love it if we had transatlantic from here," said Joy Johns from Cummington, Massachusetts.
Johns drove an hour and a half to the Windsor Locks airport to put her son on a plane to the Netherlands. But because there's no transatlantic flight out of Bradley, he first has to fly three hours in the opposite direction.
"I got here, and they wouldn't put him on the 4 o'clock flight because then his connection would be the last flight of the day," said Johns. "So now he has to go all the way to Minneapolis."
Airport officials said this is an attractive option because it's much less of a hassle to fly out of Bradley than bigger airports in big cities like New York and Boston.
"We're very interested in reestablishing international service here at Bradley," said Kevin Dillon, executive director of the recently formed Connecticut Airport Authority, the leadership group responsible for Bradley and the state's five other airports.
Dillon said they've reached out to many carriers about transatlantic service.
"We're back in the game of marketing this airport very, very heavily," Dillon said. "And we've had some success."
Robin Kiely, head of communications for Ryanair, said the airline is always interested in new routes, but transatlantic flights are still years away beacause of the availability of long-haul aircraft.
"In the meantime, we're continuing to grow as Europe's biggest carrier, with 81.5 (millions) passengers flying Ryanair this year and we carry more international passengers than any other airline," Kiely said in a statement.
The state airport authority estimates that businesses in Connecticut spend nearly $40 million per year on flights across the Atlantic.
"I think more people would come out here if they knew they could," said Johns.


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What is Mixed Martial Arts
You have almost certainly heard of karate or judo. But did you know that there is such a issue known as mixed martial arts?
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There are now five weight classes namely lightweight which is 67 to 70 kg, welterweight which is 71 to 77kg, middleweight from 78 to 84 kg, light heavyweight from 85 to 93 kg and heavy weight from 94 to 120 kg. There are four other weight classes but these are not at the moment being employed by the UFC.
How a person wins in mixed martial arts is quite simple. If the opponent taps the floor, the match is over. The very same happens if the opponent is knocked unconscious. Must each fighters nonetheless be standing at the finish of the match, the winner will be decided by the judges.
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Looks like profits ain't the only thing down at the Big Three — ad spending is following the trend. For the first quarter of 2006, the only automaker of the triumvirate making a "Bold Move" has been FoMoCo — but their spot tv spend was only up to a respectful $187 million. That additional money may have been necessary for them to make that amazing Kelly Clarkson song. We kid — that extra coupla million came out of the "crappy song" line — not the "tv ad buy" line. More numbers for other automakers including a surprise showing by a certain German company after the jump:
The Big Three's cumulative ad spend dropped by 4.5%, with DCX dropping spending by 9.8% and the General cutting its spend by 5.6% to drop to $205 million in tv ad buys.
Foreign automakers on the other hand showed a marked up-swing corresponding to their similar increases in sales growing about 4% — with the Ford-owned Mazda upping its spend 96.5%, BMW up a surprising 32.9% and VDub up 26.2%. Isuzu and Mitsubishi dropped their ad buys, by 43.6% and 74.9% respectfully.
All we know is — this'll mean less and less "new hotness" Ad Watch and more and more "ol' busted — but still classic" Ad Watch for the next couple of months. But — maybe they'll up the print and net advertising. We can only hope. Remember to keep checking our Ad Watch mini-site and for you techno-nerdy folks, the RSS feed.
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In response to my recent post,
is a Source Control Binding?, reader Keith Hill writes,
class=Italic>A bit OT but do you know why VS.NET SCCI can't handle renaming
projects once they are checked into a SCM system (ClearCase) is what I am
using)? (...) It sure would be nice if the VS.NET SCCI could just handle this
for me."
Indeed, it would
be nice if SCCI supported automatic renames. And just to be clear; renames are
just one of a set of similar operations, which I'll refer to as class=Italic>namespace changes in this post.
Namespace changes include RENAMES, MOVES, and DELETES.
So why aren't
namespace changes that we make to our projects and files in Visual Studio .NET
pushed to the source control database and committed automatically? style="mso-spacerun: yes">
style="mso-spacerun: yes">Short answer: the source control plug-in
providers (Rational, SourceGear, Microsoft, Perforce, PVCS, etc) have not taken
the time to provide this functionality and/or have not demanded that this
functionality be facilitated by the addition of MSSCCI functions. Of course,
namespace tracking of the sort that ensures that your file renames in VS.NET are
pushed to the database version of that file is completely doable, even today.
However, the projected cost of doing it right--of implementing an elegant
namespace change-aware source control system for integration with Visual Studio
.NET and other development environments (Dreamweaver jumps to mind)--appears to
have deterred even the most deep-pocketed source control vendors. style="mso-spacerun: yes"> The architecture isn't exactly mind
bending. The do-it-right
approach involves some or all of the following elements. Namespace changes must
style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l27 level1 lfo73; tab-stops: list .5in"> face=Verdana size=2>a) style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> face=Verdana size=2>Performed in a Transactional way (SCCI commits all namespace
changes at one time; on check in, for instance);
style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l27 level1 lfo73; tab-stops: list .5in"> face=Verdana size=2>b) style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> face=Verdana size=2>Reversible (for example, on loss of network connectivity or
in response to an Undo Checkout operation);
style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l27 level1 lfo73; tab-stops: list .5in"> face=Verdana size=2>c) style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> face=Verdana size=2>Tracked by the source control system using GUIDs that link a
working copy of a file to its master copy in the database or;
style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l27 level1 lfo73; tab-stops: list .5in"> face=Verdana size=2>d) style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> face=Verdana size=2>[Optionally] broadcast or propagated to all users' working
copies of that project (msg, 'Hey, UserA just renamed a file you have checked
out. What do you want to do?').
A truly
transactional source control solution would be ideal. The ability to reverse, or
roll back a namespace change (which would be close to ideal) would require the
provider to either cache a complete copy of a solution or add some code to their
systems that would preserve the history of name changes to a file until the
parent project/solution is checked in or an undo checkout is requested. Again, I
don't think that any of the providers do this currently. MSSCCI uses actual file
names to uniquely identify all source-controlled files rather than separate
GUIDs. Changings this could allow a file that is renamed in one place (on the
client) to be mapped to a file with another name (the as yet un-renamed file in
the scc database). Finally, none of the SCC providers provide namespace change
broadcasting or notification services. Again, I reserve the right to be
face=Verdana size=2>A A halfway solution?
The Visual
Studio .NET source control integration development team has considered it. style="mso-spacerun: yes"> However, in lieu of a well-designed
namespace change-aware system, the risks associated with renaming a project or
file in the database, automatically, outweigh the potential
You might ask,
"what are these risks associated with renaming projects?" To answer that
question, consider the following hypothetical scenario:
face=Verdana size=2>S Simple Rename Scenario--Single User
style="COLOR: blue">Risk: unable to easily undo checkout
of a solution containing a renamed file.
++Assumes that client file renames are immediately committed
in the SCC database++
Bob renames a
project from Peck.csproj to Hubble.csproj. Two files are changed in Bob's
working folder: the solution file (telescope.sln) and Peck.csproj. The SCS
system detects a namespace change (the rename) and automatically commits that
one change to the database; Peck.csproj gets renamed to Hubble.csproj. The
database version of telescope.sln is not updated, and thus, differs from Bob's
version of the solution file. Bob works on his project for a while and then
decides--for whatever reason--to undo checkout for the entire solution. The
telescope.sln file that he gets back from source control references the old
project name, 'Peck'. The source control system cannot find a project named
'Peck' on local disk (because neither local source control integration nor the
MSSCCI provider remembers the rename to the project file, therefore none of
them can undo this change) so it assumes that
another user has added a new project to the solution. Consequently, the SCC
provider attempts to get the "new" project and all of its files. But there isn't
a project 'Peck' in the SCC database because it has been renamed to Hubble. The
Get operation fails and Bob ends up with a solution with a missing/unloaded
To fix this
issue, Bob must:
size=2>1. style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> face=Verdana size=2>Check out the solution exclusively.
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
face=Verdana size=2>Open the database and manually rename Hubble.csproj to
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
face=Verdana size=2>Manually rename Hubble.csproj.vspscc to
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
face=Verdana size=2>Get the files locally, etc and then reload the projects into
the solution.
In an
ideal world, the best way to solve this problem would be to add some
code to scci to preserve the history of name changes to a file until the
parent project/solution is checked in or until an undo checkout occurs. style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
Basically, if we
could remember that Peck was renamed to Hubble, after we get the old solution we
could rename Hubble back to Peck. Tracking this kind of change is non trivial
though. The SCCI code would have to remember changes like
Peck->Hubble->Orbit->Peck->(delete)Peck, or
Peck->Hubble->(delete) Hubble ->(add different) Peck,
face=Verdana size=2>C Complex Rename Scenario (Multi-user)
style="COLOR: blue">Risk: Teammate's changes cannot be
merged into the main code line.
face=Verdana>++Again, assumes that client file renames are immediately committed
in the SCC database++
As in the
previous scenario, Bob renames one of the projects in the telescope solution.
The database version of the project file is changed from Peck.csproj to
Hubble.csproj. While Bob is working on the (checked-out) source files, his
co-worker Mike opens the telescope solution from source control for the first
time in order to make a set of targeted bug fixes. Mike gets a version of
telescope.sln that contains a reference to 'Peck.csproj', but in the source
control database there is no such project. He ends up with a missing/unloaded
project and a solution that cannot be built. Mike cannot build his enlistment
and might not even be able to edit the files or to fix the bug (if the bug was
in the Peck project's project files).
John--a third team member--who had previously opened the telescope solution from
source control and has all the files locally, attempts to Get the latest version
of the solution from source control in order to incorporate any outstanding team
changes into his working copy before building and checking in. However, since
Peck.csproj has been renamed in the database, the SCC status for John's copy of
project is 'uncontrolled' and the file appears as a 'pending add'.
John, who has
added several files and has made major build configuration changes since
checking out the solution, decides to add Peck.csproj to and check in his
version of the solution. Consequently, Peck.csproj is added back to the SCC
Now, there are 2
project files in the database, Peck.csproj and Hubble.csproj.
A few minutes
later Bob checks in his changes. The solution file now references the new
project Hubble.csproj rather than Peck.csproj. Effectively, John's major changes
(file additions/changed build configuration) are orphaned and will have to be,
when somebody realizes that they're missing, re-integrated into the main
codeline, manually and painfully.
face=Verdana size=2>S Summary
In the absence
of reliable mechanisms for 1) rolling back and synchronizing previously
committed namespace changes between a source control database and a local
enlistment and; 2) disseminating namespace change notifications or commits to
all project enlistees automatically, it is much safer to implicitly discourage
renaming, moving, or deleting source-controlled files and projects than to
complete such operations automatically and thereby enable serious scheduling
setbacks in mainstream collaborative development scenarios. style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Whew. style="mso-spacerun: yes"> That was a mouthful.
I can only
assume that the source control providers (VSS, ClearCase, PVCS, Vault, et al)
are as responsible for the lack of transactionality in source control
integration as SCCI in Visual Studio .NET. I speculate that the SCCI team has
entertained some requests from our VSIP partners in this area sometime in the
past and that somebody whose salary is much bigger than mine said, "Whoa. That
sounds expensive. Let's punt."
Obviously, the second roadblock (lack of ability to 'push' namespace
changes down to project enlistees) would be the sole responsibility of the
source control provider.
color=#000080 size=2> To rename, move, or delete a source-controlled file
or project in Visual Studio .NET 2002 or 2003
style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; mso-list: l53 level1 lfo72"> face=Verdana size=2>1. style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> face=Verdana size=2>Inform all project enlistees that you plan to make a
namespace change to the project.
style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; mso-list: l53 level1 lfo72"> face=Verdana size=2>2. style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> face=Verdana size=2>Ask all project enlistees to check in the solution to which
the file or project belongs.
style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; mso-list: l53 level1 lfo72"> face=Verdana size=2>3. style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> face=Verdana size=2>Rename, move, or delete the item in Visual Studio
style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; mso-list: l53 level1 lfo72"> face=Verdana size=2>4. style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> face=Verdana size=2>Check in your changes.
style="MARGIN: 3pt 0in 3pt 0.25in; mso-list: l53 level1 lfo72"> face=Verdana size=2>5. style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> face=Verdana size=2>Ask all project enlistees to synchronize their working
copies of the solution with the database version.
For more
information see href="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q305516">Q305516.
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It's not the first time that we have seen the HTC Mecha pop up on the internet, well this time we have some more info on the device along with a new picture. The HTC Mecha or also known as the Incredible HD is rumored to go to Verizon, only making Verizon's current line of Android phones larger and better.
The new info that we have found includes the fact that the device will run on Verizon's LTE network(4G), it will have the new HTC sence, and it will run on Android OS 2.2(Froyo). Oh, and it will also have the notification light(one of my favorite features on any phone because of the light customization). According to the guys over at Android Central, the device has been getting 9 Mbps and 5 Mbps consistently while testing. No word on when this device will make its debut, but we expect sometime after Christmas.
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Surely Not The FIrst Time Brett Myers Has Heard The Expression "No Means No"
Congratulations to the Philadelphia Phillies on their back-to-back National League championships. Ordinarily, my having to choose between the Phillies and (probably) the Yankees would be akin selecting which I prefer, Weiland solo or STP. But if repeating as World Champs means more televised rebukes for Brett Myers like the one shown above, I might have to root for Philadelphia (video clip taken from The Fightins)


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Elasticity of Substitution and Growth: Normalized CES in the Diamond Model
It is often asserted that the more substitutable capital and labor are in the aggregate production the more rapidly an economy grows. Recently this has been formally confirmed within the Solow model by Klump and de La Grandville (2000). This paper demonstrates that there exists no such monotonic relationship between factor substitutability and growth in the Diamond overlapping-generations model. In particular, we prove that, if capital and labor are relatively substitutable, a country with a greater elasticity of substitution exhibits lower per capita output growth in transit and in steady state. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003
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The US and Russia are fighting the stalemate in Syria peace talks, even as Syrian activists say the government killed about 400 people in the country's largest city so far this month.
Belgian legislators are expected to pass a law that allows children under age 12, judged mature enough to decide, to end their lives. Belgium would be the first country to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children of any age.
US Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed North Korea's demand to cancel upcoming joint US-South Korean military exercises. North Korea is threatening to cancel planned family reunions later this month.
106 mph winds are recorded Wednesday in the British Isles. Trees and trucks were toppled by the 106 mph winds.
Three were dead and dozens injured when violence broke out during anti-government protests in Venezuela, Wednesday. The opposition aims to influence policy and to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
French President Francois Hollande met with tech leaders in San Francisco on Wednesday. He has said he hopes to replicate the U.S. tech industry's success in France.
Gunfire erupted in downtown Caracas when armed members of a pro-government vigilante group arrived on motorcycles and began firing at more than 100 anti-Maduro student protesters clashing with security forces.
Plane crash: One soldier survived the crash of the military transport plane, say Algerian officials. The C-130 involved in the plane crash was built in the US.
Danny Davis triumphed at the Winter X Games two weeks ago with lots of stylish tricks — fancy grabs, tough spins — but skipped the gymnastics-like moves that Shaun White will try.
Charlie White and his teammates skated to a team bronze. Canadians took home the team bronze, and Russians took home the skating team gold
The Copenhagen Zoo killed and skinned a 2-year old giraffe, then fed the giraffe's remains to a lion, all while visitors watched. While zoo staff received threats afterward, the director stood by his decision.
Both Iran and the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency cited progress in negotiations this weekend which will expand the U.N.'s access to information on Iran's nuclear facilities and activities.
Despite offers from other zoos and a private individual to save the animal, the Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark killed a young giraffe to prevent inbreeding on Sunday. The zoo invited visitors, including children, to watch as the giraffe was dissected and fed to lions.
On Sunday, a 24-year-old man attacked a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, a city on the Sakhalin Island in the Pacific. A nun and a parishioner were killed and six others were wounded.
Iran warships: A destroyer and supply ship are rounding the coast of South Africa, on their way to US waters, says a naval officer. The warships left Iran a month ago.
Aid workers were reportedly wounded and two trucks carrying food and medical supplies were said to be targeted by roadside bombs Saturday, when the Homs cease-fire broke down. Aid groups have struggled to reach rebel-held parts of the city for over a year.
Anger over unemployment and political paralysis lead to unrest and riots in Bosnia this week, leaving hundreds, mostly police officers, injured. Fear of a return to the country's 1992-95 war kept demonstrations in check for years.
A Ukrainian man who allegedly tried to hijack a plane bound for Turkey and divert it to Sochi, said he wanted freedom for 'hostages' in Ukraine. Turkish authorities do not believe he is linked with a specific terror group.
A report by the United Nations found total casualties in Afghanistan rose 14 percent in 2013, and cited a 'alarming' increase in women and children casualties. The single biggest killer remains bombs in public places.
The Ukrainian Security Service is not conducting an investigation into the bugging of a phone call in which the US Assistant Secretary of State used an expletive in reference to the EU while talking with the US ambassador to Ukraine.


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Senate Democrats and Republicans Name New Members to Banking Committee
The Senate Banking Committee will have five new members during this session, as a result of assignments announced by the party leaderships on Thursday.
Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) is the sole new Democrat on the panel.
The new Republicans are Sens. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Mark Kirk of Illinois, Jerry Moran of Kansas and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) is the panel's chairman and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) is the top Republican.


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decline of christianity
The recently released Pew Research Center Report has revealed that Christianity within the United States is on the decline. Christians are freaking out and the fear mongering has begun — many seeing it as an apocalyptic sign of the moral downfall of our secular society coinciding with a theological weakening caused by "liberalism."
Everyone seems to have an explanation of the data, and among Christians, the infighting has already begun, with most denominations rationalizing their growth, decline, or stagnancy by offering the same explanation: We're theologically sound and remaining faithful to God while everyone else is getting it wrong.
What Christians must understand — and accept — about these statistics is that religious data about a country doesn't accurately reflect its corporate actions pertaining to following Christ.


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Crime Bulletin: 07-132
|Robbery / Commercial
07-132 12/19/07
Suspect: Black male, 20-25 years, 5'10"-6', medium build, black hoodie, large silver metal rope style neckland with red stones, black jeans with gold or white bands around the legs, black tennis shoes with red toe caps.
On 11/18/07, 2048 hours, the suspect entered a food store on the 900 block of Valencia St. The suspect was talking on a cell phone and initially roamed around the store. the suspect then approached the front counter and produced a gun. the suspect robed the clerk and fled.


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American Poop
A college playa graduates and his life instantly turns to shit. So bring on the booze and boobs! Lesson: Stay in school, kids. RoadDogPictures.com
Human Giant: Season 1
Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer star in MTV's funniest sketch-comedy ever. Even better than The State, so shut up. TheHumanGiant.com
Left for Dead
If you've wondered what Saw would be like as a Western (and who hasn't?), here's Clem and her posse huntin' baddies. I said posse. Lionsgate.com
Magnum PI: Season 8
The final season, wherein Magnum comes back from the dead and gets in a shootout with Carol Burnett. Other stuff happens, too. NBCUni.com
Not the new version with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman, but an old BBC production with actors you don't care about. BBCAmerica.com
Things We Lost in the Fire
Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro in the feel-good hit of the season: Death! Grief! Despair! Guilt! But surprisingly little actual fire. Paramount.com
More New DVD Releases (March 4)
Ben 10: Season 3, Cellar Door, Into the Wild, The Kill Point: Season 1, The Love Boat: Season 1, Megasnake, My Kid Could Paint That
Dirt News Video
Even though you rarely see Courteney Cox's Dirt Now magazine utilizing the Internet (it's about print, man!), the show's Website has a fun feature wherein you can create a scandalous news video about a friend. Or enemy. Or favorite state senator named after a popcorn topping.
Listen to Bill Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96's Radio From Hell. Carol Burnett blogging at BillFrost.tv.


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Klopp replaces Doll as Borussia Dortmund coach
BERLIN, May 23 (Reuters) - Borussia Dortmund have hired Juergen Klopp as Thomas Doll's replacement as coach of the Bundesliga club after the former German international midfielder resigned at the end of the season.
Klopp spent 18 years as a player and coach at second division Mainz but left the post at the end of the last campaign after the club failed to win promotion to the Bundesliga.
The 40-year-old would take charge of the 1997 Champions League winners on a two-year contract through June 2010, club officials said at a news conference on Friday.
Although they were beaten by Bayern Munich, the Bavarian Bundesliga winners had already qualified for the Champions League allowing Dortmund to take a UEFA Cup berth.
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Steve Jobs' last words were revealed by his biological sister in her eulogy printed in the New York Times Sunday, reports Fox News.
"Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow" were the last words uttered by the late Apple CEO before his death on October 5.
Mona Jackson, Jobs' sister whom he did not meet until later in life, remembered her brother as idealistic and a hard worker, as well as a romantic who believed love could be found anywhere, according to her eulogy in the New York Times. Simpson wrote the following in her eulogy to her brother:
Steve cultivated whimsy. What other C.E.O. knows the history of English and Chinese tea roses and has a favorite David Austin rose?
Jackson delivered her remarks on October 16 at the very private memorial service for family and friends of the tech innovator at Stanford University, reports ABC News.
Another personal reflection of Steve Jobs' life, his biography by Walter Isaacson, was released last Monday. While official book sales will not be released for a few more days, the book, titled "Steve Jobs," is at the top of the Kindle bestseller list, the Nook bestseller list, and the Apple iBookstore chart, according to the Edmonton Journal.
The biography reveals Jobs' thoughts on his diet, the Android, Bill Gates, and his battle with cancer, among other things, reports the Los Angeles Times.
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But when the celebrity obstetrician turns out to be her husband Luke's glamorous, intellectual ex-girlfriend, Becky's perfect world starts to crumble. She's shopping for two, but are there three in her marriage?
Shop therapy: don't miss more in the Shopaholic series.
©2007 Sophie Kinsella; (P)2007 Random House, Inc.
"Through it all, Becky never loses her spark, making this fifth entry in the Shopaholic series every bit as delightful and hilarious as its predecessors." (Booklist)
"A light, entertaining read"
This book follows the same formula as all the other books in the Shopaholic series. Becky tells a bunch of lies, gets herself into a heap of trouble, and then the truth all comes out in the end. Sometimes this predictability can be tiresome, since Becky often acts completely irrationally, or in ways that no normal human being would act. That being said, it is a light, fun read, and passes a few hours without being boring. It got quite a few chuckles out of me. The ending was pretty over-the-top, but that is typical of the series and nothing new.
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WATER levels in the Hastings River at Settlement Point have now fallen to a safe level.
The NSW State Emergency Service has issued an all-clear for Settlement Point and low-lying parts of Port Macquarie CBD - including Short Street and the western section of Clarence Street.
This means it is now safe for residents to return to these areas. Other areas affected by the evacuation order are still in effect until advised.
Returning evacuees should be aware of precautions to be taken in flood-affected areas.
It is understood about 150 people made the most of the evacuation centre at Port Macquarie Panthers.


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Four Points by Sheraton Kelowna Airport
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Four Points by Sheraton Kelowna Airport
About the hotel
Property Location
When you stay at Four Points by Sheraton Kelowna Airport in Kelowna, you'll be connected to the airport and convenient to Okanagan Golf Club and Shadow Ridge Golf Club. This eco-friendly hotel is within close proximity of UBC-Okanagan and Ancient Hill Estate Winery.
Make yourself at home in one of the 120 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming provides entertainment. Bathrooms have bathtubs or showers and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and desks, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities
Enjoy a range of recreational amenities, including an indoor pool, a waterslide, and a spa tub. Additional amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access and tour/ticket assistance.
You can enjoy a meal at a restaurant serving the guests of Four Points by Sheraton Kelowna Airport, or stop in at a snack bar/deli.
Business, Other Amenities
Planning an event in Kelowna? This hotel has 3400 square feet (306 square meters) of space consisting of a conference center and conference space. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided at no charge.
Hotel Facilities
- Spa tub
- Conference center
- ATM/banking
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Free WiFi
- Waterslide
- Indoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Conference space size (feet) - 3400
- Number of meeting rooms - 7
- Restaurant
- Conference space size (meters) - 306
- Conference space
- Snack bar/deli
- Free airport transportation
- Total number of rooms - 120
Room Facilities
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Air conditioning
- Flat-panel TV
- Desk
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Room service
- Pay movies
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Digital TV service
- In-room safe
- Bathtub or shower
- Free newspaper
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Free WiFi
- Refrigerator
- Climate control
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free local calls
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Soundproofed rooms
- Iron/ironing board
Hotel Policy
Know Before You Go
- The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Self parking fee: CAD 8.00 per day
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RENewsletter | August 21, 2011
The Free environmental newsletter from RochesterEnvironment.com
"Our Environment is changing: Keep up with the Change."
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* Got news? | Go to my blog: Environmental Thoughts - Rochester, NY or Tweet me @ http://twitter.com/#!/FrankRrrr On Twitter, I post local environmental events, news, and commentary as soon as it happens. If you think this newsletter, which continually informs our community on our local environmental news, events, actions, is worthwhile, please encourage others to sign up.
The great conundrum of our times is that in a time of rapidly occurring Climate Change and a rapid disintegration of the environment that we need to thrive and survive, mainstream media still marginalizes environmental concerns. [Check often for this continually updated list on the possible consequences of Climate Change in our region--supported by facts.] If there isn't a quick and substantial change in how environmental concerns are reported, edited, and chosen in mainstream media, the public will continue to believe that environmental concerns are merely special interest matters, issues they can avoid if they choose. How can we inform the public and monitor our environment without abridging our Freedoms--in enough time to safe ourselves?
Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet. -- Carl Sagan
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Opening Salvo: "Who's prettier: wind turbines or fracking sites? The New York energy argument from aesthetics."
For a moment, let's forget about Climate Change and renewable energy and greenhouse gas emissions and all the usual stuff about what's right for the environment and our economy. Let's look at the energy options in New York State only from the perspective of a beauty contest.
I mean, when you're out in
the country enjoying the landscape as it melts because of Climate… (Whoops,
sorry, I promised I wouldn't go there) and you grab your morning coffee and go
out on your porch, what would you rather see?
The visage of fracking or the looming towers of wind turbines?
So, with wind turbines you
have these gigantic monsters whirling away, ugly as sin to some, destroying the
landscape visage with their incessant droning of those spindly blades.
With fracking sites you have a landscape scarred by trucks, newly built roads, and open dirt scars and little pools of grey water that look like you wouldn't want to swim in them.
Just based on looks, what method of getting energy is prettier? Wind turbines or fracking?
From the perspective of the
wind turbine haters, wind turbines are just downright ugly. But then there are
those who just love them, as they whirl away producing energy from the wind
making the planet inhabitable. (Sorry, there I go again.)
I heard a lot about fracking; but I haven't heard anyone say that they just look terrific. Not even their proponents have said how great tearing up the New York State countryside and placing drilling apparatus all over the place will enhance our state's looks.
There you are: on the whole, wind turbines are prettier than fracking sites.
I know, this probably isn't a fair or a sane argument, but a beauty contest is a beauty contest. We tend to judge our environmental issues on their surface appeal at times and I thought I'd just go ahead and see what the argument looks like. With a beauty contest one wins and goes on to promote events and sell stuff in skimpy attire and the loser goes on to live a normal 'just-get-over-it' kind of life.
With the environment, it's a little more complex.
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FLOWOOD — Magnolia State Bank has opened its new location in Flowood, and has completed the acquisition of Advantage Mortgage Corp.
The new mortgage division is set to open Nov. 1 as Advantage Mortgage, A Division of Magnolia State Bank. The office is located at 437 Katherine Drive and will house seven employees.
The location will have a night deposit and ATM in the near future.
Marcus Robinson, president and CEO of Magnolia, said, "The banking business in Flowood will be built around the mortgage operation, much like we have done successfully in Hattiesburg through our acquisition of Prime Mortgage in 2009."
An approved lender for HUD, FHA, VA, Rural Development and Mississippi Home Corporation (MHC), Advantage Mortgage now extends those services through Magnolia.


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Skillet Brought Their 'American Noise' to 35,000 in Russia
Platinum selling Christian rock band Skillet returned to Russia's Black Sea last week and played to over 35,000 fans at the Kubana Festival with System of a Down.
Simultaneously their new single became their second No. 1 hit from RISE as "American Noise" reached the top spot on the Christian Hot AC Chart. "American Noise" is the follow up to their Top 10 Mainstream Active Rock and No. 1 Christian Rock single, "Sick of It."
RISE is currently the No. 1 selling Christian album seven weeks after being released.
Skillet will also be appearing at the 50th anniversary of the "I Have A Dream" speech.
The event is hosted by THE DREAM@50 and American Eagle Outfitters, and invited fans to Times Square on Saturday, Aug. 28 at 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. to stand in support and honor of Dr. King's vision of a world free of racism and full of equality.
Those in attendance will have their own dream for a better world videotaped and posted worldwide for the "My Dream" video series.
Other celebrity participants include John Legend, Forest Whitaker, Mayor Cory Booker, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and more.
The band also recently announced they would be joining the Carnival of Madness tour Aug. 13 in promotion of their new album. They have posted the tour dates on their site.
The tour is hosted by Monster Energy and features Papa Roach, In This Moment, and Shinedown.
"I'm very passionate about bringing it every night," singer John Cooper said in a statement released by the band. "People paid to get there, and that's how you make fans. I do think that philosophy is part of that million records that we sold."


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Country's Hottest Guy (Day 2)
I'm on a quest this week to find Country's Hottest Guy and I need your help! Each day this week, I'm going to post pictures of hot guys in Country Music. If there's someone you'd like to see enter the competition, let me know in the comments section!
On Friday, I'll post a poll, with all the week's Hot Country Guys, and YOU can help pick the winner! Voting will go on all weekend, and I'll post the winner on Monday. So, what do you think? Who is Country's Hottest Guy?
Today, we're featuring best friend hotties Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney! Each one has his own, very different appeal. Tim is the picture of sexy domesticity while Kenny is a sexy single with a Caribbean lifestyle.
Check out yesterday's Hottest Guy candidate, Billy Currington! And don't forget to post in the comments section who you'd like to see featured this week! And help me decide who is Country's Hottest Guy?


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Being green doesn't necessarily mean throwing around a lot of money. The city of Plano is sending that message from its "greenest building" – the Environmental Education Center.
The facility serves as an example of environmentally friendly construction and a model for the city's future. "We are built out," said Melinda Haggerty, Plano's Sustainability Communications Coordinator. "The challenge for us in terms of conserving energy is how do we retrofit these existing homes?"
The center harnesses wind and solar energy and conserves water. It's also home to sustainable and recycled materials, using EnviroGLAS counter tops in its kitchen.
In the meantime, local businesses say the demand to "go green" is a growing one.
"The Plano location has turned out to be the biggest consumer of those green products," said Gary Rogers, general manager of Elliot's Hardware.
Rogers works with the city of Plano, leading do-it-yourself workshops at the Environmental Education Center.
The city currently offers the classes alongside other programs, like rebates for energy efficient upgrades.
The class covers things you can mainly do inexpensively – like changing light bulbs, insulating switch plates and learning how to caulk windows. "I think everyone is concerned with saving money, and that's what's driven them toward the green products," Rogers said.
Other upgrades, like low-flush toilets, can cut home water consumption by as much as 25%.
"Think globally, but act locally. It's the power of one – the collective one – and it really does start with an individual."
The city's classes start Thursday, November 17th.
For more information, visit livegreeninplano.com
Published at 5:05 PM CST on Nov 15, 2011 | Updated at 6:39 PM CST on Nov 15, 2011


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While all eyes are turned toward the conflict with Iraq, the U.S. has already learned several critical lessons in the prologue to military conflict with Baghdad. Simply put, American forces in Europe are not deployed to meet the coming challenges of the 21st century. The Bush Administration should seriously consider redeploying NATO forces further east in greater numbers.
As National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice recently observed, throughout history there have been a few events that triggered systemic changes in international politics. The attack of September 11, 2001, was such an occasion and, like similar events in the past, has tested long-lasting alliances and institutions.1
This is currently true as coalition forces are working to enforce United Nations resolutions that call for the disarmament of Iraq. Institutions such as the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and alliances such as NATO are being tested. The UNSC was unable to agree on a path to enforce its own resolutions, and long-time allies in NATO disagreed on how to neutralize the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
As the coalition defeats tyranny in Iraq, those alliances and institutions will still have an opportunity to re-emerge stronger than ever and prepare for the many challenges of the 21st century. However, they have yet to move beyond the status quo and redefine themselves to become relevant to the new era. The United States can lead this effort by restructuring its bases in Europe, as part of a global base realignment and closure program, to be more consistent with the realities of today's threats.
Whether globally or only in Europe, the United States should adhere to four principles to ensure that its decisions on restructuring its forces and base structure advance the national interests of both the U.S. and its allies:
- Strategically
a base must advance America's overall strategic objectives.
- Operationally
a base must increase America's ability to respond to current threats as well as facilitate and enhance America's ongoing military transformation from an industrial age force built to fight the Cold War to a digital-age force built to address the varied and unpredictable threats of the future.
- Politically
the decision to maintain an existing base or open a new one must not be driven by recent political differences; yet it must take into consideration the evolving political realities of the 21st century.
- Economically
the decision to maintain an existing base or open a new one must not be driven by economics but should embrace economically prudent practices.
Strategic Considerations
The highest priority for any restructuring of America's bases in Europe must be advancing America's strategic objectives. Those objectives include nurturing existing alliances and friendships, preventing a hostile power from dominating Europe or the Middle East, and ensuring access to regional natural resources. Committing to regional stability and increasing geostrategic flexibility will facilitate these objectives.
With the increasing need for operability outside Europe, bases in the heart of Germany alone no longer serve the strategic purpose they did during the Cold War. Berlin is no longer the fault line for future military conflict, and America's European basing structure should reflect that reality. Given that flashpoints for future conflict are likely to revolve around the Caucasus, Iraq, the Middle East, and North Africa, establishing forward positions in closer geographical proximity to those regions would demonstrate America's commitment to the long-term security of the region. It would also allow the U.S. to respond rapidly to crises in those regions.
Furthermore, restructuring America's military bases in Europe would increase its geostrategic flexibility. Currently, the United States is too dependent on a few countries. Developing a presence in other nations of the region would decrease America's dependence on Turkey, for example, and therefore ease pressure on that vital American ally. It is important that Ankara, situated in a very tough neighborhood, not be the sole pressure point when the U.S. projects forces eastward and southward from Europe. The political situation inside Turkey might force even a generally sympathetic regime in Ankara to resist America's using Turkey as a jumping-off point, as has happened over Iraq. Basing in Bulgaria and Romania would shift some of the burden away from a hard-pressed American friend.
Likewise, basing in Bulgaria and Romania would provide Turkey, which will remain a key partner, the diplomatic cover it may need to help the United States by emphasizing such actions are regional in nature and not solely a case of the U.S.'s asking an embattled Ankara for yet more military assistance.
Operational Considerations
The United States should revisit its current European base structure for operational reasons as well. Although base restructuring would incur significant financial costs, Soviet-era bases are available throughout Eastern Europe; and while most would require significant improvements, some nations, such as Romania and Bulgaria are already upgrading their bases in Constanza and Burgas under the terms of the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP).
Furthermore, due to less stringent environmental regulations than those found in Germany, such bases allow American troops to train more fully, critically maintaining military readiness at a higher level. Indeed, General James Jones, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, is currently visiting 26 nations (the 19 full members of NATO and seven prospective members) to determine what each nation could provide if the U.S. decides to restructure it bases.
Each country in Eastern Europe has attractive basing opportunities. The Taszar air base in Hungary, which was used by U.S. forces to conduct operation into the Balkans, could be upgraded and expanded. Bulgaria offers Black Sea access with its ports of Varna and Burgas and air bases such as Dobritch in the Northeast and Kroumovo in the South.2 The Czech Republic, as well as other nations, offers a variety of basing options.
Training has become more difficult in Western European countries, especially Germany. That country has severely limited America's ability to fly helicopters at night, conduct live-fire exercises, and conduct training maneuvers in heavy, tracked vehicles.3 This is not the case with America's new allies in Eastern Europe. In fact, America and other NATO allies are already taking advantage of training opportunities there.
NATO countries have been holding military exercises in Eastern Europe since 1994.4 In early February, for example, the United States began training members of the Iraqi opposition in Hungary. Last year, European Command decided to move its largest training exercise from Germany to Poland because German regulations put too many restrictions on the exercise for them to be optimally effective. This training exercise, Victory Strike III, is V Corp's biggest annual exercise, lasting three weeks and involving 5,000 U.S. soldiers.5 The Czech Republic also has allowed U.S. forces to train on its territory.
The Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland offer a variety of terrains on which to train, from vast flatlands and swamps to the Baltic Sea and rugged mountains. This has attracted eight countries, including Germany and Italy, to train regularly in Poland.6 These training opportunities not only help increase the readiness of U.S. forces, but also facilitate interoperability among allies.
The issue of interoperability between American forces and those of its allies should be of great concern, and the more NATO allies train together, the better they will operate together. The success of any military coalition comes down to the ability of its members to work together. This was notably demonstrated in Operation Iraqi Freedom when American tankers refueled British jets.
NATO members and Eastern European nations have already established a track record of working together. For example, Eastern European nations and Russia worked under American command during missions in Bosnia in 1995, nearly every Eastern European nation sends representatives to work with American National Guard units, and many of those same nations send top military officers to study in American military schools.7 Expanding America's basing to include its new Eastern European allies would greatly enhance NATO interoperability.
Developing bases in Eastern Europe, however, does not mean that the United States should abandon all of its current bases in Western Europe. The United States has many state-of-the-art facilities throughout Europe, especially in Germany, that it should not leave.
New bases in Eastern Europe could also facilitate the Pentagon's ongoing transformation from an industrial-age force built to defeat the Soviet Union to a digital-age force prepared to take on the varied and unpredictable threats that are sure to emerge in the 21st century. The current base structure was developed to defend against a largely static and predictable enemy--the Soviet Union. The current threat environment is dynamic and unpredictable. As demonstrated by the September 11 attacks that required a response in Afghanistan, it is very difficult to predict where America's armed forces will be asked to fight next. Therefore, a flexible basing structure that promotes adaptability in a world of diverse political, strategic, and diplomatic interests is necessary.
The new bases in Europe will likely be smaller and used to maintain a rotational force. These new bases can help foster the mobility and strategic agility that today's force lacks. A series of small bases used by rotational forces will, by their very nature, facilitate the lighter and more mobile force that the Pentagon is trying to restructure. On the other hand, by remaining dependent on the status quo of permanent bases in Europe, the force will have less incentive to transform.
The added flexibility will give U.S. military commanders more options than are currently available. Turkey's hesitancy to give full cooperation to coalition forces had a deleterious effect on U.S. military planning in the war with Iraq. Essentially, the pendulum of Turkish politics, which happened to be swinging in the wrong direction at the wrong time, limited the options available to the coalition. Turkey's legislature success-fully did, albeit for vastly different reasons, what America's adversaries will attempt in the future: deny American forces the access that they require to achieve optimum advantage in times of conflict.
The result was that the attacking forces really had no significant strategic reserve or maneuver force. The 4th Infantry Division was stuck floating in the Mediterranean instead of charging Baghdad, thus increasing risk by weakening the northern front of the offensive. The result was that available forces were put under undue strain when they were given the order to attack. Luckily, Saddam was unable to take full advantage of the opportunity provided to him.
Political Considerations
It is no secret that the further east one travels in Europe, the generally more pro-American the governments become. After being oppressed by the tyrannies of Nazism and communism, Eastern Europeans recall American efforts for those on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. As a result, they see American political, economic, and military engagement in Europe as essential for their long-term stability. This is often not the case with some of America's friends such as France and Germany.
That said, however, both old and new Europe remain important to America's future. Therefore, while the U.S. works with its new friends in Eastern Europe to develop new bases, it should maintain a good relationship with its old allies.
The series of letters proclaiming support for the position of the United States and the United Kingdom in Iraq shows conclusively that, despite arguments to the contrary, many European countries are still ready, willing, and able to support the United States in its hour of need.8 To nurture this political reality, America should increase its ties with these strongly pro-American countries.
The attempt by certain members of the German parliament to limit American use of German airspace for a campaign on Iraq failed. If it had succeeded, it would have severely impeded U.S. operations. While the effort amounted to little, its very existence should send shivers through all conscientious members of the alliance; in a world of rogue states, weapons of mass destruction, and global terrorist networks, such a threatened hampering of America's ability to act decisively and quickly with coalitions of the willing depends on the critical word "willing."
On the other hand, Bulgaria and Romania opened their airspace unconditionally and offered use of their land and sea ports to U.S. forces during the Afghanistan conflict.9 Similar cooperation among Eastern European friends is ongoing in the war in Iraq.10
It will also be important to ensure that any restructuring of American forces is not seen as a reaction to Germany's opposition to the war with Iraq. While fissures have emerged over the war, it will be imperative to reaffirm that the U.S. values its traditional alliances, especially with Germany, and that its restructuring efforts will benefit all of Europe.
Similarly, this move will require conferring with Russia, possibly even renegotiation of the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, to emphasize that it is not directed at Moscow but could form the basis of a closer NATO-Russia relationship embodied in the new NATO-Russia council. The Administration should engage in this conversation with the Russians as soon as possible, stressing to the Russians that such a renegotiation is also in their interest given that the threat they face is no longer from the West, but from the South.
Economic Considerations
Financing this project remains an issue. This is precisely why Congress and the Bush Administration should authorize a feasibility study for the restructuring of forces in Europe.
Some have argued that moving bases eastward would be prohibitively expensive. While there are costs involved, the economic costs should not prohibit such a move if it enhances overall national security. Furthermore, by establishing smaller bases set up for rotational forces in Eastern Europe, the U.S. would not incur the same sort of costs that it takes to build bases for soldiers and their dependents in more expensive parts of the world.
It should also be noted that, while the United States already maintains an extensive base network in places like Germany, it still invests billions of dollars in new facilities in countries where it already has a presence. For example, the Army is scheduled to begin construction soon on a $692 million base in Grafenwoehr, Germany, which will house 3,500 soldiers and 5,000 dependents.11 One must ask how many smaller bases could be built in Eastern Europe for that same expenditure when in Qatar, 30 kilometers outside of Doha, the United States recently built the world's largest store of pre-positioned Army equipment for only $110 million.12
If new bases are established in other parts of Europe, they should not be the sprawling complexes that dot the European landscape today. Instead, they should be smaller and more Spartan. America's European bases are not only home to over 104,000 troops, but also home to 125,000 dependents. This is because troops are stationed at these bases for periods of years rather then on a rotational basis as they are in the Balkans, where U.S. forces rotate in and out on six-month rotations. The result is that the U.S. government needs to provide support services for their entire families for most of the troops permanently stationed in Europe.
In South Korea, on the other hand, troops are deployed on annual assignments. The equipment and infrastructure stays while troops rotate in and out. Families are not brought along because the troops are there for a relatively short period of time. Although over 37,000 troops are stationed in South Korea, there are just over 4,000 dependents. In Germany, the U.S. maintains 68 schools to educate the children of its 70,000 troops, but in South Korea, the U.S. maintains only eight schools. The result of a rotational deployment strategy is a much smaller infrastructure footprint because fewer support facilities are required.
The size of the bases and the services they provide to dependents will have a long-term economic impact. The Pentagon can save significant resources by minimizing support infrastructure on foreign bases. Base operations support13 is a significant line item in the Pentagon budget, accounting for a little over $18 billion in 2003. While there are sound reasons at some installations for maintaining a family support structure, with support requirements in Europe reduced, more military dependents could stay stateside, thus reducing the overall support costs as military families are able to take advantage of new programs that encourage them to seek housing and other services in the private sector.
There would be no logic behind redeploying forces in Europe if it were not a win-win situation for all parties involved. The reality is that Western Europe prospered greatly in the post-World War II years in large part because of the stabilizing presence of U.S. forces. Similarly, the United States could never have won the Cold War if it had been unable to establish a credible military presence in Western Europe. Additionally, America's presence in Europe facilitated positive, long-term relations with those nations.
The same results would flow from establishing a presence in Eastern Europe. Those countries still have vivid memories of oppression by vicious dictators. A credible American presence in those countries would allow them to put the Cold War behind them once and for all. The security provided by this close military relationship would allow these nations to fulfill their economic potential.
An American presence would also be hugely positive from an American point of view. The relationship would solidify a long-term friendship with many past adversaries and have a positive economic impact on the U.S. economy. Most important, however, is that it would advance America's national security.
For the political, military, and strategic reasons outlined above, base restructuring is certainly in America's interests. The world has entered a new era; it is well past time for U.S. force structure in Europe to reflect this seminal fact.
Jack Spencer is Senior Policy Analyst for Defense and National Security and John C. Hulsman, Ph.D., is Research Fellow in European Affairs in the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
1. Condoleezza Rice, "Our Coalition," WSJ.com Opinion Journal from The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page, March 26, 2003, at www.opinionjournal.com.
2. "Speculation in Eastern Europe on the US Military Move to the Region," Agence France-Presse, March 4, 2003.
6. Elizabeth Williamson, "Poland's Rent-a-Battlefields Bring in the War Games," The Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2002.
8. The first of these letters was published in The Wall Street Journal on January 20, 2003, and was signed by the leaders of Spain, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Denmark; the second was signed by Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
10. Ian Traynor, "Threat of War: NATO Allies in Eastern Europe Line Up to Offer Services," The Guardian, January 24, 2003.
11. Brian Whitmore, "US-German Friction Grows with a Plan to Redeploy Troops," The Boston Globe, March 16, 2003.
13. According to the Department of Defense, base operations support includes the resources to operate the bases, installations, camps, posts, and stations of the military departments and the Defense Health Program. These resources sustain mission capability, ensure quality of life, and fund personnel and infrastructure support. Personnel support includes food and housing services, religious services, and recreational services for members of the military and their families. Infrastructure support services include utility systems operations, installation equipment maintenance, engineering services, and law enforcement.


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6 thoughts on "Some say… that I nicked Cameron's bike…."
I am shocked and frankly disappointed in your behaviour. I never pegged you for a bicycle thief. You have let me down, but more importantly, you have let yourself down.
P.S. Are you wearing a skirt in that photo?
Excellent…. I'm going to do it again…. and… No… they are shorts from World War II.
Now… get back to work!
Only God took the seventh day off. Bloggers never rest.
That bike was so darn easy to nick… are you sure DC wasn't drumming up a little column-inches before disappearing off to his Man On The Beach photo shoot in Cornwall? I mean, really… what numpty "chains" their bike to a bollard?!?
Hi helga
Funnily enough I am just writing West London Man (19) George and Caroline take a short break in Cornwall.
I hope to finish the episode tonight…. provided I can fit it in with my continuing professional development requirments – a rioja drinking course (3 hours CPD)
"Bloggers never rest" – heh but true. We're like rust.
if i am to trust the sun's take on it, dave made a rather humorous jape about sharia law and introducing it for bike theft. oh how we laughed – we who live on an estate that is more muslim than christian (or even non-believing CofE like, i presume, dave) where some of the 7-7 bombers lived, where the bulk of muslims concentrate on getting their heads down and providing for their families (you know a bit like us normal people do) . we have a name for them round here – quite amusing really – we call them 'the neighbours' because they are. and sharia law is all about them savages hacking each others limbs off.
dave clearly knows as much about that as he does about the pointlessness of repealing the HRA without leaving europe.
truly a prime minister for the sun – he will be well at home with the ignorant, too self-satisfied to think crowd down in cornwall wondering how to spend their next million without having to extract their heads from their fundaments. useless tossers – somebody should do a satirical column about them.


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"It's really hard for it to sink in," she said. "Now I can go days without wearing make-up, eat cheeseburgers, get back to my life walking the dogs and doing the things everybody else does.[>
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Oklahoma State University–Tulsa and OSU Center for Health Sciences will team up to create a new facility that will be used by both Tulsa campuses.
The Oklahoma State University/A&M Board of Regents recently approved the selection of an architect and construction manager for a new medical and academic center for OSU-Tulsa and OSU Center for Health Sciences. Regents selected Dewberry of Tulsa as architect and Flintco LLC of Tulsa as construction manager at risk to design and construct a new academic building on the corner of Detroit Avenue and John Hope Franklin Boulevard. The team recently designed the OSU-Tulsa Helmerich Research Center.
"This new facility will provide essential space for both of our OSU campuses in Tulsa," said Howard Barnett, president of OSU-Tulsa and OSU Center for Health Sciences. "The joint project will combine the resources of OSU in Tulsa to provide a facility to benefit all our students and the Tulsa community."
Tentative concepts for the medical and academic center call for classroom space, faculty offices and areas for student services.
"As we continue to grow our class sizes in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, we'll be able to utilize the new space to best serve our students," said Dr. Kayse Shrum, OSU-CHS provost and dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine. "The joint project will provide vital space that can be utilized by both our campuses."
Representatives from OSU Center for Health Sciences and OSU-Tulsa will begin Phase I of the design process by meeting with architects to discuss the specific needs for the facility. The architects will use the input to design the facility and create a proposed budget for the project.
Oklahoma State University has saved more than $20 million through its energy conservation efforts over the last five years. Since July of 2007, OSU has saved nearly $20.4 million in energy costs. The savings figure includes all five campuses in the OSU system. OSU in Tulsa saved more than $2 million.
Earlier this year, using OSU as a model, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed into law Senate Bill 1096 that directs all state agencies and higher education institutions to achieve at least 20 percent improvement in energy efficiency and conservation by the year 2020. OSU's $20 million in energy savings represents a 19 percent improvement.
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SOPA-PIPA Protests Blossom Across the Country
It's not just Wikipedia that's throwing its weight today behind the movement to stop the controversial anti-piracy bills moving through the U.S. Congress.
While the English version of the world's most-visited encyclopedia site has gone dark for the day to call attention to the perceived dangers of the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, a number of other organizations are stepping into the spotlight, making their case that the laws—which, in their original form, would have given federal prosecutors and courts the power to block access to Internet domains deemed to be supporting "infringing" activities—would deter free speech and undermine the Internet's technical infrastructure.
Given indications that markup of the bill is being delayed, as well as the Obama Administration's recently declared opposition to SOPA (the House version of the bill) and PIPA (the Senate version), it's doubtful that the anti-piracy bills will make it into law this year. But protesters and Internet entrepreneurs are saying today's actions are necessary to forestall future Congressional action and call attention to the extent of popular opposition to the bills.
Here's a quick survey of protest actions going on today around the San Francisco Bay Area and Xconomy's other home cities.
—Hackers & Founders plans a live protest against PIPA and SOPA at San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza at noon Pacific Time today. The group of programmer-entrepreneurs says it's joining forces with other groups such as 106 Miles, SV NewTech, SF NewTech, Designers and Geeks, Hacks & Hackers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Internet Archive, and TechNet to stage similar events in New York, Seattle, Silicon Valley, and Washington, D.C. Speakers expected at today's protest in San Francisco include angel investor Ron Conway, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, TechNet vice president Gideon Lett, and Hackers & Founders founder Jonathan Nelson.
—The Occupy Oakland website used by coordinators of grassroots protests in the East Bay has gone dark for the day—but features a nifty mouse-tracking spotlight that allows you to read a statement explaining the action.
—The 20,000-member New York Tech Meetup group has blacked out its site and is organizing an "Emergency NY Tech Meetup" today at 12:30 Eastern time at 780 Third Avenue in Manhattan, outside the offices of Senator Charles Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Speakers will include Meetup.com CEO and NY Tech Meetup founder Scott Heiferman, NYU media studies scholar Clay Shirky, Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and Tumblr vice president Andrew McLaughlin. New York Tech Meetup chairman Andrew Rasiej said in a statement that the tech community in New York is "appalled" by Schumer and Gillibrand's support for PIPA.
–A Seattle Against SOPA rally originally planned for 11:30 a.m. Pacific time today has been postponed due to the city's poor weather, but organizers say they will reschedule the event.
—Google is censoring itself by placing a symbolic black square over its logo. The search and advertising giant has also posted a petition urging members of Congress to vote against PIPA and SOPA.
—Craigslist has interposed a black landing page protesting SOPA and PIPA before users can reach its online listings (which are still accessible).
—Flickr, the photo sharing site owned by Yahoo, offered users the ability to black out up to 10 photos each as a symbolic way to"deprive the web of the rich content that makes it thrive."
—Crowd-curated news site Reddit said it would go black for 12 hours beginning at 8:00 am Eastern Time, and Boing Boing has posted a mock 503: Service Unavailable notice.
—Automattic has redacted itself, placing black bars over most of the content on the WordPress.com home page.
—Wordnik, the San Francisco startup that maintains a huge database of words and definitions, has chosen a pseudo-Latin word, spiflicate, as its word of the day in protest of PIPA and SOPA. The site defines spiflicate as a verb meaning "to beat severely; counfound; dismay" and offers this usage example: "SOPA and PIPA are set to spiflicate the Internet; but before that happens we hope to spiflicate them!"
—danah boyd, a researcher at Microsoft's New England Research & Development Center in Cambridge, MA, has blacked out her popular blog Apophenia in protest of SOPA and PIPA, saying the bills would "undermine the very architecture of the Internet, silencing both legitimate and illegitimate voices."
—According to SOPAStrike, a site created by non-profit Internet freedom group Fight for the Future, hundreds of other sites are also participating in today's symbolic protests, including the icanhascheezburger network, O'Reilly Media, Moveon.org, Mozilla, PostSecret, Tucows, Tumblr, Vimeo, and Wired.
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I won last month a $10 Cerfticate. I know I should be excited. BUT I'm so disappointed . The store I won it from doesn't have much at all to pick from.No sale items just expensive fabric and looks like I could get 1 yd of fabric. And still have to pay the postage for fabric I really don't like. Oh well the site saved $10. I won't be able to use mine.
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Hi All,
Thanks to Darkseid our technical woes have been fixed. A huge round of applause is in order since he litlerally got up from his sick bed to fix it.
We also combined the Quench Your Thirst and Book Beyond Expectations Forums. Once Eclipse releases in fall 2007 we'll create an Eclipse forum, but for now all book related discussions are in basically the one place.
Welcome to all our newcomers. It seems that Twilight and New Moon were under many a Christmas tree and we have had a huge influx of members. If you haven't yet introduced yourself in the New Kid in Town forum please do. We like to get to know you, plus it helps identify real people from Spam accounts.
A lot of people don't realize that we have information other than the forums. Many frequently asked questions can be found in the character bios and personal correspondence listed on the main page www.twilightlexicon.com Try checking out those locations for information.
Another great feature is our search feature found at the top of the forum page. Use the search to see if the topic you want to start already exists. The mods hate locking topics, so do a little detective work and it won't get locked.
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