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Schools across the GTA will be shuttered on Tuesday as elementary teachers at three of the province's largest school boards, Toronto, Durham and Peel Region, will be walking out.
The day of protest will be the largest yet, with tens of thousands of teachers set to picket outside schools, board headquarters and the offices of candidates for the leadership of the provincial Liberal Party, including former education minister Kathleen Wynne.
The impact of the walkouts could extend beyond schools, as parents in Canada's financial centre struggle to make alternative childcare arrangements.
"I feel that the only ones that are getting hurt in this are the kids," said Linda Kessler of Toronto, who has a nine-year-old daughter in the public school system.
Ms. Kessler is travelling to New York for business next week. She is unclear if the daycare attached to her daughter's school will remain open during the walkout. If not, her husband will have to take Tuesday off work, or her mother will watch the little girl.
"It's very disruptive," she said of the one-day walkouts. "I'm not sure how effective they will be."
Peel, Durham and Toronto are three of the province's largest boards.
The boards have said they will likely have to close schools without teachers there to supervise students.
Daycares in the buildings may remain open, and parents are being encouraged to call their local provider to find out.
Teachers are angry at the Ontario government over Bill 115, legislation that cuts their sick days and limits their ability to strike. Members of the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) began staging walkouts on Monday, with two to three school boards at a time.
"This is not about pay increases," said David Clegg, president of ETFO's bargaining unit for York, where teachers walked out on Thursday.
"This is about Bill 115 and the constraints that it has imposed on any form of successful collective bargaining."
The legislation gives Education Minister Laurel Broten the power to block a strike, but she has said she will not act as long as teachers limit their walkouts to a single day.
Mr. Clegg is among union leaders who are advocating for teachers to walk out for more than one day in an effort to goad the provincial government, and put pressure on the Ontario Liberals to repeal Bill 115.
"I've certainly advocated for that," he said. "[Members] are prepared to defend their rights, and they are prepared to do whatever it takes."
A day of student protest wrapped up late on Thursday. High school teachers have stopped running extracurricular activities such as clubs and sports teams to protest against Bill 115, and more than 1,000 students descended on Queen's Park to show their frustration.
John Kang, a Grade 12 student at Northview Heights Secondary School in Toronto, was among the students who crowded on the lawn.
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By Rebecca Hertz
Killeen Daily Herald
Four Central Texas JROTC cadets were recognized Tuesday for completing the Cadet Flight Indoctrination Program, a summer scholarship program in academics and flight training sponsored by Fort Hood Flight 103, Order of Daedalians.
The fully funded aviation course is conducted by the Central Texas College each summer.
"From a potential total of approximately 700 ROTC and JROTC cadets enrolled in seven high schools and three colleges in the Central Texas area, four JROTC cadets have made it to this point," Awards and Scholarship Chairman Don MacWillie said.
When the program began in June, the students completed a discovery flight to gauge their interest in the program, followed by safety training, ground school and actual flight instruction.
Solo flights lasted 20 to 30 minutes and included three takeoffs and three landings. Each student was awarded a flight jacket and certificate of recognition for soloing in a light fixed-wing aircraft.
Cadet Robert Lee Rousey is a senior at Killeen High School who plans to apply to Texas A&M University and Embry Riddle to study aviation with the goal of joining the Air Force later.
He was recommended for the flight program by his senior Army instructor, retired Lt. Col. Lennon Tatum.
Rousey is commander of the Killeen High School Rifle Team and an NRA air rifle distinguished expert. He completed his solo flight Monday afternoon in a Cesna 152 aircraft.
"My mom wasn't worried," Rousey said. "She taped my touch-and-go landings."
Cadet Heriberto Guevara, a Temple High School senior, is a member of the National Honor Society and distinguished Summer Leadership Camp graduate. He plans to attend the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., after completing high school to study engineering or architecture. Guevara had never flown in an airplane prior to the program.
"This is an experience I will remember forever. I will tell my children and grandchildren," Guevara said. "I would definitely do it again and wouldn't trade the experience for anything in the world."
Cadet Mathew Erwin Christiansen, a senior at Copperas Cove High School, was recommended for the program by his senior Army instructor, retired Chief Warrant Officer-3 Enrique Herrera.
Christiansen maintains a 4.0 grade-point average and participates in the All-Region Band, varsity baseball and is a member of the Honor Blues Color Guard.
Christiansen hopes to attend the Air Force Academy and would like to study psychiatry. Having completed his solo certification, he hopes to complete the minimum 40 hours of flight time necessary to become earn his private pilot's license.
"I had only flown in big airliners before, I was so excited." Christiansen said. "The plane is so small you can feel every little detail, but once you go up, it's like nothing."
Cadet Thomas James Reid Jr. was recommended for the program by his senior Army instructor, retired Lt. Col. Lennon Tatum.
Reid is a senior at Shoemaker High School and hopes to attend the U.S. Army flight school at Fort Rucker, Ala., to become a helicopter pilot.
He is a member of the Shoemaker Rifle Team.
Reid was the first in the group to solo. He said he picked up the training very quickly. Reid's father is currently deployed, but was able to attend the discovery flight with his son before leaving.
"I was really excited to do this," Reid said. "I liked the solo best – I was up there by myself and it was a blast."
The cadets all agreed that the experience was amazing and they would recommend the opportunity to anyone.
Cadets Christiansen and Guevara, who plan to join the Air Force, were awarded models of the F-100F aircraft.
Two separate scholarships fund the program, The Brig. Gen. David Lee "Tex" Hill Scholarship, and the Retired Lt. Col. Leslie "Les" Leavoy Cadet Flight Indoctrination Program Scholarship.
"The program is designed to guide young people toward a career in the military and to help perpetuate the spirit of patriotism and love of country," MacWillie said.
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TOKYO — Sony Corp. plans to release its new Playstation 4 home console this year for around US$430, giving the successor to the popular PS3 a touch panel control and easy access to social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, Japan's Asahi newspaper reported.
Sony's game chief, Andrew House, will reveal the new features at a Playstation meeting in New York on Feb. 20, the paper said, without saying where it obtained the information.
Sony declined to comment on the report.
The gathering in New York is the first major Playstation meeting in two years. The last time Sony held such an event it revealed the prototype for its handheld Vita. The meeting before that in 2005 came two months after it revealed its concept for the PS3, which sold 70 million units.
It has been more than six years since Sony launched the PS3, a longer gap than between the PS3 and its PS2 predecessor. The gaming market has since been transformed by the rise of tablet PCs and smartphones that are wooing away casual gamers with free or cheap games.
The shift to mobile devices has forced console makers such as Sony, Nintendo Co Ltd and Microsoft Corp to try to find new ways to win back consumers to consoles.
In a sign of the competitive pressure they face, Nintendo last month cut its sales target for the Wii U, successor to its 100 million-selling Wii, to 4 million machines by the end of March from its launch in November, compared with an earlier forecast for 5.5 million.
Since the start of the year Sony's shares have gained nearly 60%, rebounding from 30-year lows, compared with a 9% rise in the benchmark Nikkei 225. Its shares rose 2.6% on Thursday to close at 1,519 yen before it released its results for the quarter.
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Toyota refuses to predict that its brand new Corolla will overtake the ageing Mazda3 that currently leads both the small car and passenger car market in Australia, despite asserting it is "the best thing in the market".
Sales and marketing director Matthew Callachor says "production capacity" could prevent the 11th-generation Corolla from reeling in the 3, which last year led the Australian passenger car market for the first time with sales of 41,429 compared to the previous model Corolla's 36,087.
"I'm not projecting that because I don't know what their production capacity is, and how that is going to compare with what we can get in terms of production," he says.
So far this year Mazda has sold 32,434 units of its 3, which is available in both sedan and hatch configurations, and offers a choice of two petrol engines and one diesel. Toyota has sold 28,089 Corollas in the same time frame.
The current Mazda3 is nearing the end of its life, with images released last week purporting to show what the next generation of the car will look like. It's believe it will be launched later next year, and will boast the same fuel efficiency improvements that have turned its CX-5 compact SUV into a class leader.
The latest Corolla will be offered in hatch-only guise until a sedan arrives in about 12 months. That leaves a big dent in the new line-up, as sedans accounted for almost four out of 10 Corolla sales this year. Toyota hopes to offset the problem by continuing to sell the old model sedan alongside the new hatch.
A sole 103kW 1.8-litre petrol engine will carry the four-model Corolla range.
Toyota has sold more than 1.2 million Corollas in Australia across the preceding 10 generations stretching back to 1966, and with sales of more than 39 million around the world it remains the best-selling car of all time.
Callachor says he believes the latest Corolla is the best yet following improvements to driving dynamics, ride refinement, styling and pricing.
"I personally believe the new Corolla is the best product in the marketplace when you consider all factors. OK, some might be more powerful, some might be more spacious. But if you look at the total package, I believe it's the best thing in the market," he says.
There are no current plans to offer a diesel engine, while a petrol-electric hybrid version that is available in the UK won't be offered here because it is too expensive to import.
"The only place we can source a hybrid for Corolla is out of England, and to be frank, it's too expensive for us," Callachor says. "So what we've done is we've sourced Prius C, which is a far more competitive price on hybrid as a package, and then Prius V, and then rolled back the price of the Prius as well."
A diesel option is also unlikely to pop up soon. "Diesel in the Australian passenger car market in the private area was only 8 per cent last year," he says.
However, a recent alliance with German prestige maker BMW offers a glimmer of hope for the eventual addition of a torquier, more fuel-efficient turbo diesel unit.
"I actually hope that (the alliance) really succeeds because there might be an opportunity there to get some mass production of diesels that would suit in terms of price," Callachor says.
"I don't think it's make-or-die because we don't have a diesel in the Corolla in this marketplace. It's still got a bit to go in terms of sheer numbers. I'd love more variants, but you've got to look at engineering resources, what people will pay."


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Dan Bylsma has a big problem on his hands and almost no time to fix it.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have registered exactly one goal with a man advantage in their first-round series against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
That's with 30 power plays, including five that produced nothing on Monday night in a 4-2 loss.
During Game 6, the Penguins' power plays amounted to defenceman Kris Letang carrying the puck to the Tampa blue line. Usually, his teammates were standing still, and even when they were in motion, the Lightning had little trouble intercepting the puck and sending it back the other way.
"It was a big factor in the game," Bylsma said. "It's an area where we know it is a decisive thing in the playoffs. We will look at what we can do better."
Don't count on an improvement. Even during the regular season, when Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin were not always hurt, the Penguins finished 25th.
The puck gave the Penguins fits all night. Chris Conner had a penalty shot in the second period, but the puck bounced over his stick and he frustratingly swatted at it, only to see Dwayne Roloson make an easy save.
Despite the swing back to Tampa's side with two wins in a row, Steven Stamkos does not see an advantage for Game 7.
"Now it's a best of one," Stamkos said. "Both teams, there is no momentum, there is nothing. It's a new game."


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The state media in Saudi Arabia says Crown Prince Nayef, who is heir to the aging king, has received the country's senior officials in the United States, where he's been undergoing medical tests.
The Saudi Press Agency says the 78-year-old Nayef has received U.S.-based Saudi diplomats at his residence in Cleveland, Ohio. The report Wednesday does not say whether the prince finished taking what officials said were routine tests at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Nayef was named crown prince in October following the death of Prince Sultan.
He has served as interior minister for three decades in the oil-rich kingdom. Nayef is considered highly conservative and close to the hard-line Islamic clerical establishment that holds vast power in Saudi, a critical Western ally.


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Austal Commences JHSV Construction
Austal has received authorization from the U.S. Navy to commence construction on the first of up to ten 338-ft Joint High Speed Vessels (JHSV).
After Austal successfully completed the Production Readiness Review (PRR) and necessary DoD approvals were obtained, the Navy authorized Austal's Mobile, Ala. facility to immediately begin construction of Fortitude (JHSV 1).
As the US Department of Defense's next generation multi-use platform, the JHSV will provide rapid intra-theater deployment/transportation of personnel, equipment and supplies. The vessel will support military logistics, sustainment and humanitarian relief operations and will be capable of speeds up to 43 knots.
Austal was selected as Prime contractor in November 2008 to design and build the first JHSV, with options for nine additional vessels expected to be exercised between FY09 and FY13.
Fortitude will be the first Austal design to be constructed using the new procedures and processes developed in conjunction with Austal's recently-competed Module Manufacturing Facility (MMF). The MMF provides Austal with assembly line efficiency, resulting in significant cost savings and reduced lead times.
Austal USA President and Chief Operating Officer, Joe Rella, commented, "What makes this program destined for success is the high degree of maturity of the design, coupled with the module manufacturing process to be completed in our new facility. Our workforce is in place and ready to start construction."
The Austal JHSV will transport medium-size operational units with their vehicles, or reconfigure to provide troop transport for an infantry battalion, allowing units to transit long distances while maintaining unit integrity. The vessel also supports helicopter operations and has an off-load vehicle ramp which enables use of austere piers and quay walls, common in developing countries. A shallow draft (under 13 ft) will further enhance theater port access.
The Austal JHSV team includes platform systems engineering agent General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, which is responsible for the design, integration and testing of the ship's electronic systems.
Austal USA is also currently building two 416.6 ft Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) for the US Navy, with the first, Independence (LCS 2), scheduled for completion by the end of the year.


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Savannah River Site MOX costs worry some congressional leaders
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WACH, AP) -- A congressional committee is expressing concern over rising costs and potential delays at the U.S. Energy Department's mixed oxide fuel project at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
The mixed oxide, or MOX, plant is designed to dispose of plutonium from dismantled bombs by blending it with uranium to make commercial reactor fuel.
House Appropriations Committee members wrote in the fiscal 2012 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill that the program's costs continue to escalate, with current estimates as high as $9.7 billion.Related Stories NRC releases last safety report for SRS MOX site Feds: No violations found at MOX facility in SC Feds: Harder work needed to find MOX customers Former SC bomb plant offering tours to the public
The National Nuclear Security Administration says the program remains within its budget projection of $4.8 billion, with an additional $345 million needed for a waste solidification building.
The Augusta Chronicle reports that other committee concerns include the NNSA's inability to find clients willing to use MOX.
The General Accountability Office said last year the National Nuclear Security Administration needs to do better outreach to utilities who could become customers for the fuel made from weapons-grade plutonium.
The GAO also said that the mixed oxide fuel facility at the Savannah River Site near Aiken is on schedule to open in 2016.
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Streetwear giant Supreme, despite having just four brick and mortar locations worldwide, is a dominant force with almost no competition in the category. The gap is about to be stretched because the brand has plans to open up shop in several cities, and Paris will finally house its own prized Supreme location this March 10th. According to High Snobiety, the store is located on 20 Rue Barbette in the heart of the Le Marais shopping district. This lone photo taken from the store's exterior features some recognizable decor like the wall of skatedecks, while the black facade and logo is similar to the Supreme location in London, which opened in September of 2011. The shop opens next Thursday, and you can bet that the lines to get in will be really, really long.
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Kelly Klaas from News Radio 1310 built this handmade wooden tractor entirely from scratch. Check out the detailing – movable wheels & swing bar on back. Twin Falls has some ridiculously talented builders.
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50% of business networkers come home with your business card and look at your website.
You can imagine what it's like. You might want to know more, or you could be looking for something to write in your "follow up" email. Either way, you're likely to start getting to know another business by looking at their business website.
Effectively, your business website is the face of your business when you're not around.
If you're taking the time to make up your appearance everyday, it doesn't make sense to be ashamed of your website.
So the question is, what features of your website are working? Are there are parts of your website you'd like to change? Did you spend money on a graphic artist and a web developer and quickly 'throw up' the content yourself?
There's an important difference between the terms "content" and "copy". Sure, as the business owner, you supply the content of your business–you know your business best. Website copy is a refined, reader-friendly version of your business content. So you can express yourself to your best customer on every visit–with pride.
When you want to improve your 20 second company infomercial (commonly called your 'elevator pitch'), one of the tips is to have a variety of leading sentences. Put simply, this means that you don't start your infomercial the same way every time.
Have you ever wondered why you have a hard time remembering somebody's name? In Attract More Customers in 20 Seconds I suggested that listening to people start their with "Hi, I'm…" is dull to any audience. We stop listening when we hear the same thing over and over which means your infomercial will lose it's impact.
Even fellow networkers (who support your business) will only listen to what is interesting to them. You have to be able to stop every potential customer in their tracks and explain how your business gives them what they want. Most people hire copywriters for this, but if like me you're a fan of DIY, here are 3 ways you can make sure that in a room of business networkers, your infomercial still has an impact.
To better illustrate my point, I'll give you an example with a person selling happiness. (Imagine a life coach, a physiotherapist, a naturopath–anyone in the health and wellbeing professions are selling happiness; they make people feel better).
A slight change to the way your business infomerical begins can have a profound impact. Audiences will want to listen because they think, "Ah, here's something NEW! I need to know about this!"
Note that none of the three introductions start with "Hi, I'm…". And, every company representative will have something unique to say. Plus, you won't fall into the trap of sounding exactly like the person who spoke before you, dimming audience attention.
This is just another way to ensure your business networking is efficient and productive.


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The most dangerous security threat facing the United States today comes from missiles armed with nuclear, biological, or chemical warheads capable of reaching U.S. soil from locations around the world. The danger stems not only from the fact that these weapons are the most destructive man has ever created, but also from the decision by American leaders to adopt a posture of purposeful vulnerability to these weapons. Long-range ballistic missiles are the only weapons against which the U.S. government has decided, as a matter of policy, not to field a defense.
Given the stakes involved, policymakers need to be able to talk to their constituents about this issue in a clear and compelling manner. The technical aspects of the missile defense debate can be quite complex, and policymakers will risk confusing their audiences if they try to address these issues in too technical a manner. By contrast, explaining the current policy of vulnerability and the need to end that vulnerability is simple and straightforward. Policymakers can do this by showing why leaving the American people vulnerable to missile attack is wrong and describing what is needed to deploy an effective national missile defense. Equally important, they must be ready to answer commonly asked questions about missile defense without recourse to confusing jargon or bewildering acronyms.
Policymakers should focus the attention of their constituents on the need to end the existing policy that purposely keeps them vulnerable to missile attack. But convincing Americans of the need for such a shift in policy requires more than stating the obvious fact that today's posture of vulnerability should be unacceptable. It requires articulating an alternative vision: one based on defending the American people against missile attack. Such an explanation requires that policymakers emphasize five related points:
The missile threat to the United States is growing with each passing day. Supporters of the current policy of vulnerability, including the Clinton Administration, would have the American people believe that the missile threat to the United States is either non-existent or remote. Policymakers need to convince their constituents that this assessment is wrong. They can do so by pointing to the report of a special bipartisan commission chaired by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. This expert commission issued a unanimous report on July 15, 1998, stating that the threat was serious and that "the U.S. might well have little or no warning before operational deployment" of new missiles. One of the reasons for this assessment is that a Third World menace like Iran could deploy the shorter-range missiles it already has on boats and launch them from off the U.S. coast. As the commission report notes, "This could enable a country to pose a direct territorial threat to the U.S. sooner than it could by waiting to develop [a long-range missile] for launch from its territory." Policymakers should emphasize that the release of the report was followed in July by Iran's test of an intermediate-range missile, and in August by North Korea's test of a three-stage missile.
A firm decision to deploy a missile defense system is imperative. The United States has been developing missile defense systems for years. America remains vulnerable to missile strikes today because the country's leaders have lacked the political will to make a firm decision to deploy these systems. An example of this lack of will is the September 9, 1998, vote in the Senate to end a filibuster against a bill sponsored by Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi (S. 1873) that would mandate such a decision. The 59 votes in favor of ending the filibuster were just one vote shy of the 60 needed to end debate.
A specific deployment plan for missile defense exists. In 1995, The Heritage Foundation convened "Team B," a group of experts led by Ambassador Henry Cooper, former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program, to develop an alternative to the Clinton Administration's approach to missile defense. Team B proposed the deployment of a global missile defense system to provide limited protection against missile strikes for U.S. troops deployed overseas, U.S. friends and allies, and U.S. territory. The first element of this proposal involves the upgrading of existing Navy ships (AEGIS cruisers) to provide them with the ability to counter ballistic missiles. The system would be augmented with the Brilliant Eyes sensor satellite constellation, which is now under development. The Team B plan envisions the later deployment of a combination of space-based interceptors and space-based lasers. The Team B plan offers the American people a coherent approach for deploying missile defenses in a way that is both affordable and achievable.
An effective missile defense program is impossible without proper funding. The deployment plan crafted by Heritage's Team B in 1995 will require adequate funding. For example, the upgrading of the Navy's ships would take advantage of the approximately $50 billion already invested in these platforms. But developing and deploying this system, assuming deployment started in the year 2002, would on average require about $300 million a year more than the Clinton Administration has budgeted for its version of this program. Using the Team B plan, however, the United States could field a limited defense against missile attack without spending any additional money if the government eliminated an unnecessary program like the Legal Services Corporation. The budget policies of the Clinton Administration would have the American people pay the cost of nuisance suits filed by ideologically driven lawyers against individual Americans and corporations rather than devote those funds to defending the country against missile attack.
The 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty is no longer binding on the United States. The ABM Treaty barred the deployment of a nationwide missile defense system. The treaty was signed in 1972 by the United States and the former Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991. The law firm of Hunton & Williams, in a June 15 legal memorandum prepared for The Heritage Foundation, states that because no single state (including Russia) or any group of states born out of the former Soviet Union proved capable of fulfilling the obligations of the Soviet Union under the treaty, the treaty is no longer in force. Thus, the United States is entitled to regard the ABM Treaty as void, and to develop and deploy missile defense systems without regard to the Treaty's restrictions. On this basis, policymakers should be able make a solid case that there are no legal impediments to the deployment of missile defenses, only political impediments.
Q. Where's the threat? The Cold War is over and the "rogue" states don't have missiles capable of reaching the United States.
A. Prudence dictates that the United States should deploy a national missile defense before, not after, rogue states acquire long-range missiles capable of destroying U.S. cities. North Korea's satellite launch in late August provided yet another stark reminder of the growing vulnerability of the United States to long-range missiles. Pyongyang's three-stage rocket sailed over Japan and splashed into the Pacific Ocean, leaving debris nearly 4,000 miles from the launch site. In assessing this test, some experts have concluded that North Korea has the ability to strike parts of Alaska and Hawaii right now. It is a virtual certainty that North Korea will have missiles capable of reaching the continental United States within a few years.
North Korea is not the only threat the United States should worry about. According to U.S. intelligence, more than 20 Third World countries have ballistic missile programs. Even President Bill Clinton has admitted that the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the means to deliver them poses an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the United States. America should not have to play "catch-up" when it comes to defending its citizens against rogue states. The failure to deploy a national missile defense will leave unpredictable Third World despots with the initiative, both politically and militarily.
Moreover, the rogue threat is not the only missile danger facing the United States. Russia and China, two countries with very uncertain political futures, already have long-range missiles capable of devastating America. Unfortunately, the United States lacks the means to intercept an accidental or unauthorized missile launch. These dangers are not hypothetical. In 1995, for example, the Russian government initially mistook the launch of a scientific rocket by Norway as a missile attack on Russia by the United States. Russian President Boris Yeltsin reportedly initiated the sequence for a Russian missile launch to counter this misperceived threat. For its part, the Rumsfeld Commission determined that the risk of an accidental or unauthorized missile strike from Russia "could increase sharply and with little warning if the political situation in Russia were to deteriorate." The political situation in Moscow has already deteriorated since the commission released its report.
Q. Hasn't the United States already deployed a missile defense system?
A. No. The United States currently has no system for defending U.S. territory against long-range missiles. Under the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program announced by President Ronald Reagan in March 1983, many promising missile defense technologies were developed and readied for deployment. In 1991, President George Bush announced, and Congress approved, a deployment plan called Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS). President Clinton canceled both the SDI program and the GPALS plan in 1993, thus keeping the United States defenseless against the growing missile threat.
Q. There appears to be bipartisan support for the deployment of theater missile defense. Wouldn't it be wise to proceed with these regional defenses now and address questions related to national missile defense at a later date?
A. Congressional proponents of missile defense already tried a version of this approach in 1991, with little success. Opponents of missile defense proposed steps for "dumbing down" theater defense systems even as they continued to argue against a defense of U.S. territory. The distinction between "theater" and "national" missile defense is arbitrary: The United States should seek to deploy a global missile defense system that is capable of countering missiles of all ranges. It makes no sense to deprive citizens living in the United States of protection that is provided to U.S. troops deployed overseas.
Q. Isn't the Clinton Administration right to argue that a premature deployment decision could waste money because better technology will be available in the future?
A. No. The Clinton Administration's rhetoric about allowing technology to mature is an excuse for inaction. Future technology will always be more sophisticated than current technology. By the President's logic, the time for deployment will never be ripe. A police chief who decided to withhold bulletproof vests from his patrol officers because more technologically advanced vests were being researched would not last five minutes in office. Yet the Clinton Administration has embraced this faulty logic to justify postponing deployment of a national missile shield. Unfortunately, rogue states are working overtime to develop long-range missiles capable of striking the United States. Congress therefore needs to insist on a deployment plan that makes the best use of available technology. As with all military programs, upgrades should be considered as more sophisticated technology becomes available.
Q. Won't the deployment of a missile defense system bust the budget?
A. No. The best estimates indicate that missile defense for U.S. territory is readily affordable. The projected costs of even the most ambitious deployment plans for missile defense are measured in the tens of billions of dollars. These costs would be stretched out over a period of a decade or more. Given current budget projections, it is unlikely that any of these plans will consume more than 3 percent of defense expenditures during this time frame. The potential costs in lives and property of failing to deploy a national missile defense against even a limited attack, however, are staggering. Even in the absence of an actual attack, moreover, the United States risks paying a heavy political cost for remaining defenseless. Lacking a national missile defense, the United States leaves itself open to potential nuclear blackmail.
Q. Won't a decision to deploy a national missile defense system undermine arms control, including the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty?
A. On the contrary, the decision to move forward with a defensive system is more likely to spur meaningful arms control. The greatest progress in arms control was achieved during the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the United States appeared most determined to deploy a missile defense system. The decision to deploy a national missile defense will require the United States to move beyond the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. This anachronism from the Cold War should no longer be considered an impediment to deploying a national missile defense because it is no longer legally binding on the United States. This conclusion, detailed in a comprehensive legal study prepared for The Heritage Foundation by the law firm of Hunton & Williams earlier this year, has been endorsed by numerous legal and foreign policy experts, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, an architect of the original treaty.
Q. Won't letting the ABM Treaty lapse ruin relations with the Russians and make the threat worse?
A. No. U.S.-Russian relations are influenced by many political and economic factors quite apart from the status of the ABM Treaty. In any event, the United States already faces the danger of accidental or unauthorized missile launches from an increasingly unstable Russia. Allowing the ABM Treaty to lapse will not ruin relations with Moscow. Revealingly, Russia has opposed U.S. policy initiatives on many fronts that have nothing to do with the ABM issue. For example, Russia has thwarted U.S. initiatives in the Middle East and opposed NATO enlargement. While Russia's future political course remains uncertain, the United States has a duty to protect its citizens against missile threats, whatever their source. The United States should not allow its national security to be held hostage by Russian ultra-nationalists who reflexively oppose U.S. policies. Responsible Russian leaders have no reason to feel threatened by a defensive system designed to save lives. After all, Russia has deployed an extensive anti-ballistic missile site around Moscow to protect its own citizens.
Q. Should national missile defense be considered a moral issue?
A. Yes. Missile defense is a moral issue because the government's first duty is to provide for the common defense. A policy that purposely leaves a nation's citizens vulnerable to attack, when the means for defending them is readily available, is an immoral policy. Moreover, the United States' exclusive reliance on retaliatory threats to dissuade aggression is morally questionable in light of the availability of defensive technologies that can serve the same purpose. If a state attacked the United States with missiles, the President would have no alternative but to retaliate, which likely would result in the deaths of many innocent civilians, or to capitulate. The deployment of a national missile defense presents a morally sound alternative between these two extremes. As President Reagan emphasized in his initial SDI speech in 1983, it is better to have a policy based on saving lives rather than avenging them.
Q. The United States still has thousands of nuclear weapons. Why isn't the threat of nuclear retaliation enough to deter rogue states from launching missiles at the United States?
A. Deployment of a national missile defense is imperative because some foreign leaders may not be deterred by the threat of reprisal. It is difficult to fathom the mindset of a leader like North Korea's Kim Jong-Il, who spends millions of dollars acquiring ballistic missiles while many of his countrymen are starving. A U.S. threat to inflict widespread destruction on North Korea may not dissuade that country's leader from launching missiles against the United States or its allies. Foreign despots do not always behave predictably, as Saddam Hussein has demonstrated repeatedly in the Middle East. A policy of deterrence supposes that the heads of foreign governments will react to U.S. threats of retaliation in rational and predictable ways. But history has demonstrated that many of these leaders are neither rational nor predictable.
Q. Wouldn't a national missile defense be vulnerable to cheap countermeasures, such as decoy warheads?
A. No. A properly designed missile defense should be able to anticipate and neutralize potential countermeasures. For example, a defensive system that can intercept enemy missiles shortly after liftoff (a "boost-phase intercept capability") will allow the destruction of enemy missiles before they can release individual warheads and decoys. By exploiting its impressive technological advantages, the United States should be able to deploy a defensive system that can anticipate and offset a wide range of potential countermeasures.
Q. Does building a national missile defense mean the United States will put nuclear weapons in space?
A. No. None of the deployment plans under consideration today call for putting nuclear weapons in space. In the 1970s, the United States deployed some anti-ballistic missile interceptors with nuclear warheads. Extremely primitive by today's standards, these weapons have long since been dismantled. In contrast, the anti-ballistic missile systems being developed today are so sophisticated that they do not require any warheads at all. A national missile defense would not require the United States to build any additional nuclear weapons.
Q. Why spend money on a national missile defense when terrorists might try to sneak nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons into the United States in a suitcase?
A. The possibility of a terrorist attack on U.S. soil is no reason to leave the United States defenseless against ballistic missile attack. Opponents of national missile defense often exploit the suitcase bomb threat as a red herring. Tellingly, their concerns about terrorism seem to arise only in the context of opposing a national missile defense. Taking the missile threat seriously does not imply that the terrorist threat or any other threat to U.S. national security is somehow unimportant. A homeowner aiming to deter burglars would not take pains to lock the doors and yet deliberately leave the windows wide open. The point is that the United States needs to defend against a full range of lethal threats, whether they arise from suitcase-toting terrorists or long-range missiles tipped with nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons.
Q. Might the deployment of a national missile defense spur rogue states to build more missiles than they otherwise would?
A. The opposite is more likely true, for the absence of a national missile defense provides potential adversaries with the incentive to accelerate their offensive missile programs. According to a November 1997 Pentagon report, at least 20 states already are developing ballistic missiles. It is unlikely that countries like North Korea and Iran would be spending such huge sums on long-range missiles if the United States already had fielded a defensive system capable of shooting them out of the sky. In the 1980s, the mere prospect of the U.S. deploying strategic defenses helped convince the Soviet Union to agree to significant arms reductions. Many leaders of Third World countries harbor such an intense hatred for the United States that they will do whatever possible to threaten and harm U.S. interests. Iran, for example, took U.S. Embassy personnel hostage in 1979; the Libyan government bombed a discotheque in Berlin visited by U.S. soldiers in 1986; Iraq committed itself to a war against the U.S. in 1990. In this environment, it makes no sense to defer deployment of a national missile defense, especially when so many rogue nations are working feverishly to develop long-range missiles.
Q. Will deployment of a national missile defense lead the United States to retreat from its overseas commitments?
A. No. The opposite is true, since the United States' continued vulnerability to long-range missile attack will undermine its ability to honor security commitments abroad. President Bush's response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 probably would have been different if Saddam Hussein had possessed long-range missiles capable of striking the United States. Far from encouraging any retrenchment or any Fortress America mentality, deployment of a national missile defense would enhance the credibility of the United States to honor its security obligations to allies and friends overseas.
Q. Given that there is no such thing as a perfect missile defense, why build one in the first place?
A. The perfect defense argument is a red herring used by those who remain unalterably opposed to missile defense. If perfection were the standard by which all military programs were judged, then the United States would not be able to deploy any programs whatsoever. A perfect defense is not necessary to deter. A potential adversary contemplating a missile attack on the U.S. would still face grave uncertainties even if confronted by a less than perfect defense. The attacker could not be sure how many missiles would get through or what targets they would destroy; unknowns such as these strengthen deterrence. And if an irrational actor decided to attack the United States, an imperfect defense clearly would be preferable to no defense whatsoever.
Q. What is the Rumsfeld Commission report, and why has it attracted so much attention?
A. The Rumsfeld Commission report attracted attention for highlighting missile proliferation dangers overlooked by official intelligence estimates. On July 15, the congressionally mandated Rumsfeld Commission report rejected a 1995 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate that the United States would face no direct ballistic threat before 2010. After an exhaustive review of classified evidence, the nine-member bipartisan commission found that the United States "might have little or no warning before operational deployment" of threatening ballistic missiles. The panel asserted that the "threat to the U.S. posed by these emerging capabilities is broader, more mature and evolving more rapidly than has been reported in estimates and reports by the Intelligence Community." In short, this report provided Congress with a much-needed wake-up call to get serious about the growing threat of missile proliferation.
-- Baker Spring is a Senior Policy Analyst and James H. Anderson, Ph.D. is former Defense and National Security Analyst in The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis International Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation.


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THE LONG RUN; Writing Memoir, McCain Found a Narrative for Life
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: October 13, 2008
WASHINGTON -- For 25 years after his release from a North Vietnamese prison, Senator John McCain tried to build a reputation as more than a famous former captive. ''I never want to be a professional P.O.W.,'' he often told friends. He refused to let his campaigns use pictures from his incarceration, and he never mentioned his torture.
''When somebody introduces me like, 'Here is our great war hero,' I don't like it,'' Mr. McCain complained in a 1998 interview with Esquire magazine. ''Jesus,'' he said, ''it can make your skin crawl.''
Mr. McCain's impatience with his war story soon changed, however, when he became not only its protagonist but also its author. His 1999 memoir, ''Faith of My Fathers,'' for the first time put his prison camp ordeal at the center of his public persona. In its pages, he recalled the experience as much more than a trial: a turning point from glory-seeking flyboy to responsible patriot, the final resolution of a rebellion against his father's expectations, and the origin of a drive ''to serve a cause'' larger than himself.
A descendant of Navy admirals who wrote unpublished novels and quoted Victorian poetry, Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, often surprises aides and friends with his literary musings and bibliophilic appetite. He cites characters from fiction and film as role models.
As he recounted his history to his speechwriter and co-author, Mark Salter, Mr. McCain echoed their stories; his memoir incorporated some of the defiance of Marlon Brando's outlaws, the self-discovery of W. Somerset Maugham's ''Of Human Bondage'' and the stoicism of Ernest Hemingway's dying hero in ''For Whom the Bell Tolls.'' (''You know he is a fictional character?'' Mr. Salter said he once asked Mr. McCain, who replied, ''I know, but he was influential!'')
Mr. Salter, taking a little literary license, assembled from Mr. McCain's recollections a neat narrative that he had never before articulated. It became a best seller, a television movie and the first of five successful McCain-Salter volumes. And on the eve of Mr. McCain's 2000 Republican primary run, its story line reshaped his political identity. In interviews and speeches, Mr. McCain has increasingly described his life in the book's language and themes, and never more so than during his current campaign, which has turned back to the story of ''Faith of My Fathers'' for everything from its first television commercial to his speech at the Republican convention.
Politics was imitating art, said Stephen Wayne, a political scientist at Georgetown who has studied Mr. McCain's career and memoir. ''It is almost as if McCain had described himself as a literary character,'' Professor Wayne said, ''and then he tried to be that person in real life.''
Some friends say it is only natural that Mr. McCain would begin to sound like his autobiography. ''If I have some thoughts in my mind and I take the time to write them down,'' said Orson Swindle, a close friend from prison camp, ''I find that I will be inclined to say them exactly that way over and over, too.''
Still, other friends say they marvel at how heavily the McCain campaign relies on the chastened-hero image created by ''Faith of My Fathers,'' for example, citing his prison experience to deflect questions on array of unwelcome questions about his campaign tactics, his personal wealth and his health insurance, among other matters.
Robert Timberg, a marine wounded in Vietnam who became Mr. McCain's biographer and admired his memoir, said the John McCain he knew 15 years ago would never have suggested that he was more patriotic than a rival the way the senator has in attacking his Democratic opponent, Senator Barack Obama.
''Political campaigns have a way of distorting reality and turning political candidates into caricatures of themselves,'' Mr. Timberg said, adding, ''In some ways that has happened to him, and in some ways he may have contributed to that.''
Mr. Salter called that assertion ''deeply offensive.''
''People who say that kind of thing -- I know a lot of reporters who have said it -- don't have the faintest concept or grasp of what motivates John McCain and his personal conception of honor,'' Mr. Salter said. ''He earned the right to tell that story.''
Reluctant Memoirist
Mr. McCain's career as an author began not long after the 1995 publication of Mr. Timberg's book, ''The Nightingale's Song,'' which explored the legacy of Vietnam through the lives of the senator and four other graduates of the Naval Academy. It drew critical praise but moderate sales. Mr. Timberg's literary agent, Philippa Brophy, saw a whole book in Mr. McCain alone.
When she visited his office, however, Mr. McCain resisted. He had turned down plenty of other book offers, and he worried that the image of him as a prisoner could make him look weak, several advisers said. He preferred to rely on black humor in talking about the period -- telling an anecdote about stealing a fellow prisoner's wash rag, or falling out of a shower trying to catch a glimpse of a ponytailed Vietnamese laundress.


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Named the #1 Steakhouse in Chicago by Chicago magazine, Primehouse redefines the modern American steakhouse with its culinary creativity. Meats are dry-aged in a Himalayan salt-filled room on premises. The Primehouse Bar is perfect for happy hour or a full meal.
Best Anytime Steakhouse Experience – Thrillist.com
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Chicago, IL 60611
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Steakhouse, Contemporary American, Steak
Hours of Operation:
We are open 7 days a week for breakfast, lunch & dinner.
Breakfast | 7AM - 11AM
Lunch (Bar Only) | 11AM - 3PM
Dinner: Sunday - Thursday | 5:30PM - 9:30PM, Friday & Saturday | 5:30PM - 10PM
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An intimate destination for special gatherings, the Private Dining Room is a noteworthy addition to the hotels signature restaurant, Primehouse. Conceived as a modern interpretation of the classic "chef's table" meant for private dining, it serves to complement the chef's progressive fare.
A sophisticated setting within the acclaimed steakhouse, the room seats up to 20 guests and features a striking, temperature-controlled wall of wine, contemporary furnishings and artwork. Its menu is ever changing and revolves around seasonal ingredients.
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Primehouse Ratings and Reviews
I've always enjoyed the menu at Primehouse. The steaks were exceptional this time, as always. However, my friends and I were slightly disappointed that the pop-over bread is no longer on the menu. The bread is definitely one of the highlights and unique thing about Primehouse. The sourdough bread is something that we find at every other restaurants and it wasn't that great compared to other places we've been at. The overall experience was still great, because we obviously came for the steak, not the bread, but definitely something I was looking forward to coming back for.
Service was excellent. Knowledgeable, helpful, friendly staff collaborate as an impressive team. Super attentive. We had not expedienced dry aged before and after the first experience we are not fans. It doesnt help that although the ribeye came medium rare as ordered, the strip also ordered medium rare came medium to well. The salads were wonderful. Great presentation and taste. Sides were tasty though very modest portions. Fortunately an additional side came out compliments of the house.
We had a great first-time experience. I have a food allergy and our waiter was extremely in tune with everything on the menu and was very helpful and accommodating; worry free dining is hard to find sometimes. We made a reservation got seated right away. It was a quite night and we had excellent food and excellent service!
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First Impression is extremely poor. Felt judged by look by the hostess.
Our server Jackie (Jack) was amazing! Great knowledge about food and wines, was excellent. Food was delicious.
However, experience with hostess ruined all experience. Hostess gave bad looks about most of the customers while looking at colleagues and walking them to the table.
I am working in Park Hyatt in California and my partner is working in The Peninsula Chicago and we were extremely disappointed.
Inform your hostess not to give a look to people from head to the bottom. She looked how we dressed, our jewelry. Felt very uncomfortable. Training will be appropriate.
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We were visiting Chicago and heard great reviews about Primehouse. I can only say that our meal was superb. The steak melted in my mouth and the favor was amazing. I would highly recommend this restaurant to anyone visiting Chicago. The staff was also an added extra bonus. Very knowledgeable and friendly!!
We went here (9/11/17 6:30 table of 3)on the recommendation of a coworker who had visited in 2015. Upon arrival, it looked like a standard hotel steakhouse. That being said, it was actually far from. It would be an understatement to say it was the best steak (35 day KC Strip) I've ever had (and I've had plenty). We asked about the dry aging process and were invited to take a tour of the storing area. Everything we saw was explained in great detail. It was refreshing to SEE that what we were promised was actually what we were getting...NOT a marketing gimmick.
I apologize for not having names of staff to thank. Kudos to all 11/10.
Hands down best steak we have ever had! 35 day Kansas City strip is the one to get. It's big enough to split and it won't disappoint. We ordered it medium rare like we would a filet. It was tender and better than any filet we've ever had. Order some wine and a couple of sides and you won't be disappointed.
We've been going to David Burke's Prime House for years. Last Friday went for my wife's birthday and found out it is no longer David Burke's. It's just Prime House. And it's just not good. The steaks were barely fair, and I had to send mine back because the meat quality was terrible. The potatoes had no taste. And they no longer serve the popovers. Now that it's no longer associated with David Burke, it's not longer anywhere near the same restaurant. Expect for the prices. Those are still as they used to be . . . high. Won't go back. It's the disappointing end to what was a very special restaurant.
We had a family dinner here as we were in town for the air show. The food is great. I am happy that they have kept the tableside Caesar salad but sad they no longer have the cheesecake lollipops or fill your own doughnuts. They steaks were incredible as were the desserts. We will definitely come back again.
I've enjoyed Primehouse very much in the past. And I was fine that it is no longer tied to David Burke. However, the service was very slow, and there were only 2 other tables while we were there for 3 hours. And the meal wasn't that great. We were excited to see the tableside Caesar still on the menu, yet it was just a so-so salad. We asked to see the salt/meat drying room as we had done in the past and the waiter disappeared to ask and never came back.
Amazing dinner. We spent about $300 for the two of us for an anniversary celebration. The service is superior. Our server, Kevin, was great at explaining the different foods. We started with half a dozen oysters and received a set of oysters from 3 different regions. The bread and butter provided was delicious. Coffee was strong and plentiful. We decided to do a 55 day dry aged steak each and it was DELICIOUS! Learning about the dry age process made us have to try. We added the Mac and cheese as well as mashed potatoes. The flavor was phenomenal. We were STUFFED but had to try dessert. We ordered the creme brûlée and million dollar cake. The pastry chef even added a "happy anniversary" message to our plate to personalize it. We definitely over ate but we're able to walk it off! This place is a must try but be prepared to spend a small fortune!
What a total disappointment! Over rated, the steak was average and over priced. Typically when we visit Chicago we enjoy the Chop House, which is always perfect, but this time decided to try Primehouse, what a mistake, the seafood tower was a flop, unless you enjoy dry flavorless seafood. The Caesar salad was ok, and the steaks (porterhouse & rib eye) simply ok.. Not worth the money nor time.
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Board looks into second phase of renovation project
As the first phase of a county building renovation nears completion, commissioners voted Wednesday to see if the second phase is possible due to a "perfect storm" of factors.
"We should look into doing it now to take advantage of favorable bids and low interest rates," said Hubbard County commissioner Kathy Grell.
"In five years we may not be able to afford it."
Two proposals have been floated for renovation of the county's 38-year-old office building. Both would entail a new entrance to the south wall of the building.
One would cost $3.6 million. The second would be $4.8 million.
"It fixes the security issues having one south entrance," commissioner Greg Larson said.
"If we act now we're really doing it prudently," Grell said.
She presented a comprehensive case as to why the county could afford to do it, deflecting the stumped looks of her fellow board members.
"We have $2 million in our building fund," she told the board. "We have $1.3 million to $1.4 million in our maintenance fund."
She calculated interest savings of $63,000 annually and energy savings at $45,000, leaving an annual savings of $108,000.
Financing the cheaper option would cost the county $60,000 in annual payments, she estimated. It would be offset by the savings. Financing the second option at 1.5 percent would leave the county with an annual payment of $140,000.
"That's one squad car," Larson said. "We need to take the next step and look at it."
Board member Cal Johannsen said the county should get the city's financial analysts involved "to see if Kathy was actually typing in the right numbers."
"I'm not one that believes in putting on Band-aids," board chair Dick Devine said, noting the county will have added revenues coming in from increased timber sales.
The board, with Lyle Robinson absent, voted 4-0 to get the financial analysts involved and see whether the county could get a favorable bonding rate for the work.
In other business, the board:
n Authorized a recount of Helga Township votes on Measure 2, whether a new town hall should be built. The yes votes were 398; no votes were 400. The township pays for the recount.
Cass Lake School District 115 will hold a recount on another close vote, with costs borne by the district.
And Laporte School District will hold a special election Dec. 18 for a question that was not on the November ballot.
n Authorized levying up to about $12,000 for veterans transportation costs.
Social Services Director Daryl Bessler and Veterans Service Officer Greg Remus said many vets qualify for public assistance anyway.
"If you don't fund it, it'll come back on us for general public transportation," Bessler said. Most veterans qualify to use the Heartland Express bus for low- income ridership, which is a county program.
"The program has grown," Bessler said. "Vets should have as much (access) as everybody else to transportation."
Remus said he has around $2,300 in funding to use, after a state program to transport vets to doctors' appointments was cut off for 2013.
"The U.S. spent $10.5 million to $14.6 million on veterans in Hubbard County," Remus noted. Funds for compensation and pensions "get spent here," he added. "If vets can't get transportation funding they would go back on medical assistance" and state and county programs would pickup the tab.
Although county social services does get some reimbursement, Remus worries that vets' quality of care might suffer.
A frustrated Grell asked, "How many things are we gonna be asked to pick up? I like to support the vets," but she said the state trend of forcing costs on local government is getting to be onerous.
The Park Rapids American Legion has pledged $1,000 toward the transportation program, and commissioners wondered if any other civic groups could get involved.
n Noted that requests for public assistance are up for October, a trend that alarms Bessler.
Caseloads for October were up significantly, including requests for cash assistance, food support, health care programs and other economic assistance.
"We're seeing a lot more out-of-state people," Bessler said.
But he noted that Hubbard County has a lot of working poor, employed persons who still qualify for public assistance.
"We've got people working at the potato plant who are still eligible for our programs," Bessler said, pointing out one of a number of employers whose workforce needs assistance.
n Authorized spending $42,000 for radio interoperability and recording equipment for the Sheriff's Department. The county, and all counties, are in the process of converting to a narrowband radio system by yearend.
Sheriff Cory Aukes also said he's looking into a different public warning system called Code Red. The county has had Global Connect for a little over a year and used it in emergency cases about 10 times. It was used last week to alert residents to look for a missing Nevis woman who was eventually found. It is also used to warn of severe weather.
"It's a fantastic system," Aukes said. "But Code Red is faster and it can do non-emergency notices."
Aukes said if the department wants to use the Global Connect system for non-emergency informational messages, it would have to pay a separate cost.
And he said he's worried about county-wide notification.
With Global Connect "it takes an hour and a half to notify all 13,000 households," Aukes noted. With a fast-moving weather system, a storm could pass over before some residents get the notice.
"With the ability to use it a lot more, we will," he said of the Code Red system. The system would run around $8,500 annually. The board took it under advisement.
"The speed thing to me is a huge benefit," Aukes urged the board in supporting the Code Red program.
n Discussed the process of streamlining the new Land Records Department as the county faces several retirements and resignations in key offices that will eventually merge. No vacancies were filled yet.
"We need to get away from the mentality that we need more money to do more work," Johannsen said. Many employees are undergoing cross-training to fill in at a variety of county functions.
"We need to look at efficiency."
But county Assessor Bob Hansen, who needs a replacement worker, said much of the work involves repetition. "Right now we have five counters to maintain," he said. Until the county office building is renovated, it will be impossible to shuffle people around.
Hansen said while multi-tasking might save money, county services could suffer if employees are frequently switched around to new tasks.
He said the county mindset should not be, "Now who is available?"
n Authorized a Dist. 4 replacement member to the Board of Adjustment. Tim Johnson, an at-large member of the Planning Commission, will move into the seat vacated by Charles Knight last week.
But the county will need a new Planning Commission member and the board deadlocked over whether it should advertise the position, or let interested persons approach county commissioners, who make the appointments.
n Learned it may not be feasible to merge the County Attorney's Office with the Victims Services Coordinator because it "would be a bookkeeping nightmare."
Commissioners agreed informally to restore funding cut from the Victims Services office, but took no formal vote. The office regularly runs into the red and commissioners want to find a more stable funding source.


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Sunday, March 14, 2010
POTD: The Exchange
Trinity Church Network meet together in the Gardiner Street location. Built as a church in 1839, this building housed the Dublin Labour Exchange (i.e., unemployment office) for many decades. Our church bought the building in 2006 and last year completed a major restoration project.
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- Charles said...
Whew - finally! I have been checking for your POTD every few hours. Where did y'all eat after church?
- March 15, 2010 at 2:50 AM
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- March 15, 2010 at 3:21 AM
- Sharon said...
We were invited over to friends' for lunch.
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"This incident is very unpleasant," said Sergei A. Gorbunov, spokesman for the Russian Space Agency. "Our competitors from the United States, China and France will no doubt use this opportunity to discredit our space program and lure away our customers." The wandering satellite is not considered a threat to re-enter the atmosphere and cause any damage on Earth--that is, beyond the black eye it has already given the Russians.
Mir We Go Again
MOSCOW: When a booster on a Russian-made Proton-K rocket failed six hours into launch Friday, a $100 million U.S.-built communications satellite was lost in space. The Russian Space Agency looks to be close behind. The satellite, built by Hughes Space & Communications International in El Segundo, Calif., was fully insured, and a replacement will be ready in two years. But this was the third major failure of the DM-3 booster in the two years that the RSA has been carrying foreign satellites into space for desperately needed cash (charging about $70M a ride). Will Hughes ask again?


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It has been almost six months since the November election, and three months into the new year, 2013, and nothing has changed dramatically in this country.
It's almost like the election was a waste of money in one sense of the word, while more like a ritual in another sense. This government we have is getting this country deeper in debt, while other things are way out of control like higher health costs, food, prescription drugs, higher gas prices, and the list goes on.
And what is our so-called government doing? Arguing over gun control (which they will never completely control) and school security (that either). Legalizing all these immigrants and giving them control in this country is also costing our government, and it seems like it is making second-class citizens out of the American people.
In summary, these politicians are putting this country in a bad state of affairs, and it shows. You would think that as much money is being spent on education in this country that the American people would have wised up by now instead of being so vulnerable. This next generation doesn�t have the slightest idea of what's going on, and doesn't seem to care.
They are and seem to be enjoying this poor economy like it's an intermission at a ball game. Thing is, a ball game and a poor economy differ. Ball games end, and poor economies linger. Get the picture.
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NIMROD, TEXAS (Liberty County). Nimrod was on the Houston, East and West Texas Railway forty miles northeast of Houston in northwestern Liberty County. The heavily forested area was opened up to extensive lumbering by the construction of the railroad in the late 1870s. By 1905 Nimrod was the site of a sawmill and lumbering camp. It appeared on the official railroad and county map of Texas as late as 1918, although more contemporary maps do not show the community.
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Ok, after writing these suggestions, i want a job at organizing NBA dunk contest events:
1) NBA should put a list of dunkers who are willing to participate in the dunk contest (for exmple, 10-12 dunkers are willing to participate in the dunk contest event) and then let fans vote and decide who should enter
2) NBA should bring back the old day system - 6 dunkers
3) First round should be like in 2000 - each contestant has to make 3 dunks and 2 best dunks count (each player has 2min to complete a dunk, and then 2 more tries, because we will be able to see each player give their best), then 3 dunkers advance and have to make 2 dunks
4) No more fans voting (only voting 6 dunkers they want to see participate)
5) Bring the judges back and they should be able to see the replay, so there will be no more robberies (2007 dunk contest, when judges didn't understand Howards sticker dunk)
6) No more Kenny Smith commenting the dunk contest on the court (let players have their own), instead bring Kenny back to TNT with Chuck and others.
7) Attract more sponsors, 1st place takes it all - 1million $.
You will see a MAJOR improvement!
Pretty much covered everything. Fan voting is a joke.
Kinda off topic but a couple of my suggestions for last night contest... If your going to do a glow in the dark dunk you need to have you, the ball, and the basket glowing.... For the kevin hart dunk i think it would of been better if he had Hart stand by the baseline and start running towards him. then right before they collide jump over him while hes throwing mail in the air....
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The soldier, named as David Lee Collins, from Manchester, was stabbed to death in the popular resort of Ayia Napa in the early hours of Sunday.
Two of the suspects are 17, while the third one is 19, a Cypriot police spokesman said. They appeared at the Famagusta District Court and were remanded in custody for eight days.
The three have not been formally charged with the murder and will remain in custody pending an investigation, the spokesman added.
The incident occurred in an area that British troops stationed on the island have been ordered to avoid.
Mr Collins was with three other soldiers when they became involved in the brawl with three British holidaymakers, according to Cypriot investigators.
One of them allegedly stabbed Mr Collins with a knife, according to police spokesman Georgios Economou. He was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital.
His family told the Manchester Evening News they were "devastated", while tributes poured in on Twitter and Facebook for Mr Collins, from the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
He was reportedly stationed at an Army base in Dhekelia in the east of Cyprus.
Ayia Napa, a clubbing resort that is popular with young tourists, has a reputation for drug use, heavy drinking and occasional violence.
The Foreign Office said it was aware of the arrest of three British nationals in Ayia Napa and was providing consular assistance.
Two of the suspects are reportedly of Pakistani origin and one of Somali origin.
Around 3,000 British military personnel are stationed in Cyprus at bases retained after the former British colony gained independence in 1960.
In 2008 nine British soldiers went on trial on the island accused of trashing a pub and beating up its owner during a mass brawl.
The servicemen, who were celebrating finishing tours of Iraq and Afghanistan and coming home to the UK, were all acquitted.


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My old PC appears to have officially and fully died, however, I would like to attempt to recover some files from the drive if it's possible.
Does anyone know of any programs (compatible with Windows 8.1) I can use to do this?
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Fragrant Himalayan Champaca
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Michelia champacaItem #6148 USDA Hardiness Zone: 10 - 11
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Excellent ornamental tree displays an abundance of extremely fragrant yellow flowers over a long season. Matures to a bold, broad form. Terrific specimen for yard or garden. Evergreen.
- OverviewLight Needs:Full sunWatering Needs:Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat.Average Landscape Size:Slow grower to 25 to 30 ft. tall and wide.Key Feature:FragrantBlooms:Mid-winter through spring.Landscape Uses:
- DetailBotanical Pronunciation:my-KEE-lee-a CHAM-pac-aPlant type:TreeDeciduous/evergreen:EvergreenSunset climate zones:16 - 24Growth habit:RoundGrowth rate:SlowAverage landscape size:Slow grower to 25 to 30 ft. tall and wide.Special features:Attracts Butterflies, Attracts Hummingbirds, Year-round InterestFoliage color:GreenBlooms:Mid-winter through spring.Flower color:YellowFlower attributesFragrant, Showy FlowersDesign IdeasBig and evergreen, this is a perfect free-blooming accent tree with a bonus of fragrance. Plant in the front yard or entry court to welcome guests with fragrant shade. Perfect for disguising safety fences surrounding a swimming pool or spa. A reliable semitropical foundation plant for the backyard. Creates an excellent hedge for screening along a fence. Size and density is also good for absorbing adjacent noise from streets or schools.Companion PlantsLantana (Lantana); Butterfly Bush (Buddleja); Coneflower (Echinacea); Verbena (Verbena); Salvia (Salvia)
- CareCare InformationFollow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring.Pruning time: winter.Light Needs:Full sunWatering Needs:Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat.
- History & LoreHistory:This plant falls into a genus of about 45 Asian trees and shrubs that are closely related to the genus Magnolia. It was classified in the 18th century and named for Florentine botanist, Peter A. Michel (1679-1737). This is a native of the Himalayan regions of northern India and southern China where it is commonly called fragrant champaca.Lore:According to Tibetan beliefs, the Buddha of the next era will find enlightenment under the white flower canopy of the champaca tree.
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Trees. Prominent, long-lived, and valuable, they set the look for the landscape helping to determine both the style and function of the outside space. Most yards will have "heritage" trees...