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Many individuals fret over how to land the Boeing 747 in FSX. Many articles only tell you how to get on the runway. The truth is that the easiest way to land the 747 is to be prepared before you even take off. Good luck!
1Create an IFR flight plan. You can do this before starting the simulation or while in the air. This is just in case you enter IMC and the airport at which you wish to land is under IFR only.
2After establishing an IFR flight plan, proceed via GPS or VOR routing to you destination. Once ATC informs you of your approach clearance, begin landing procedures.
3Decrease speed to about 200 KIAS using the autothrottle. This will allow for some time to go through the landing checklist.
4If you haven't done so already, dial the ILS frequency into Nav 1 and set the omnibearing selector to the runway heading if you are under IFR to an airport with ILS. Otherwise, Determine the best approach using you GPS to line you up with the runway if possible or determine the best approach yourself under VFR and skip through irrelevant steps.
5Once you have determined you approach, decrease your speed to 160 KIAS and apply flaps to full according to the maximum flap placard speeds. once flaps are at 10, lower the landing gear(V speeds can be found in the reference section of the kneeboard)
6Once the readings on all of the instruments have stabilized, set the auto-brake to 3 and arm the speedbrake(shift+F10).
7you have now completed all of the steps necessary in the approach for now. You should contact the tower now if you haven't already to inform them that you are inbound on the approach if possible.
8Once you have informed the tower, check your instruments to see when the plane picks up the ILS.(you may need to turn off the GPS to check). at this point, switch from GPS to NAV and select the NAV hold button if not already on.
9The next step is to wait until the vertical guidance indicator begins to move. once this happens, switch from NAV hold to APR hold.
10When beginning the descent, check to make sure that autobrake is set to 3, flaps are at 30, and the speed-brake is armed.
11When you are about 500 feet (152.4 m) above the runway, turn off the autothrottle.
12When you are beginning to level out, prepare to turn off the autopilot once the nose seems to abruptly drop.
13after confirming you are on the ground, set the throttle to full reverse. When decelerating through 70 KIAS terminate the reverse thrust, set throttle levers to idle. (Reverse thrust below 60KIAS will damage the engines)
14after reaching 15 KIAS, turn off the autobrake, and taxi off of the runway.
15You have now safely landed.
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you know, I can understand that somebody in the Obama campaign thought it would be clever to use robots in a campaign ad with Halloween coming up, but Gort?
There is a twisted irony in the Obama campaign using the image of one of the most beloved science fiction robots ever (probably #2 right after Robby) as the vehicle for anti-Obama robocalls. The Day the Earth Stood Still is considered by many to be the liberal science fiction masterpiece in film and some yahoo in Chicago is using it in a stupid context. Stop tainting Gort! I forgive them because they probably had no idea, but sheesh, use the Terminator or something. Or better yet, how 'bout those robot spiders Gene Simmons created to kill Tom Selleck in Runaway.
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PALO ALTO — Dr. Helene Gayle has a vision. She sees a glimmer of promise in the earthquake that destroyed Haiti in January.
Maybe, just maybe, the disaster has changed the dynamics on the ground, bringing an end to the vicious cycle that has wasted billions upon billions of donor dollars over the last 20 years, leaving Haitians just as malnourished, destitute and uneducated as they would have been had the international community done nothing at all.
Gayle is president and chief executive officer of CARE, the international aid organization. Her organization plans to spend $100 million in Haiti over the next five years — fully aware of how hard it is to put that money to effective use.
As the World Bank put it in 2005, just after Hurricane Jeanne devastated the island and brought another spasm of humanitarian aid, Haiti offers "dysfunctional budgetary, financial or procurement systems making financial and aid management impossible." The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had already concluded that "Haiti's public institutions were too weak and ineffective to provide the level of partnership needed with USAID or other donors to promote development."
But then, nothing so terrible as January's earthquake had every happened to Haiti. Sure, the island has suffered hurricanes, storms, floods and every manner of political upheaval. But none of those quite literally destroyed the island's infrastructure. Even the presidential palace fell down. And that, Gayle hopes and believes, could serve as "a great equalizer, almost a focusing mechanism.
"When even the president of the country doesn't have a home, he is walking around in a daze, just like the rest of the people, you know that something has to shift if we don't want to waste another $8 billion." Maybe the Haitian government and the donors will finally wake up.
Haiti, of course, is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Its location is both a blessing and a curse. Laos, Senegal, Bangladesh, Yemen and many other countries are just as poor. But Haiti lives in the shadow of the world's wealthiest nation, full of people who want to do good.
"Haiti is so close to a resource-rich country," Gayle noted. "It's small and confined." So aid workers cannot help themselves; they want to help. Haiti is the perfect place to try. But after decades of effort, very little has changed.
Aid workers are certainly self-aware. They know when their programs are not working. A few years ago they staged a major world conference and issued a call for action entitled the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. It offered a list of recommendations, but chief among them was "the need for effective partnerships among donor and recipient countries based on the recognition of recipient countries' leadership and ownership of development plans."
That's the problem. Haiti effectively has no government, despite President Rene Preval's insistence to the contrary. The State Department puts Haiti in the same category as Somalia, the two nations with the weakest governments in the world, both of them inept, incapable and thoroughly corrupt.
When former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush visited a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince last month, Preval joined them, and they were greeted with catcalls. Refugees wanted to know why Preval had done nothing for them. In the months since the earthquake, he and his government had essentially gone into hiding.
Late last month, donors met at the United Nations and pledged almost $10 billion for Haiti over the next three years. The United States pledged $1.15 billion; Montenegro offered $10,000. Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary general, offered an expansive vision of "a wholesale renewal, a sweeping exercise in nation building on a scale and scope not seen in generations."
"To put this effort in perspective," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the conference, "after the 2004 tsunami" in Southeast Asia, "more than 80 countries provided immediate humanitarian assistance and more than 20 countries pledged assistance for reconstruction. "As of today, more than 140 countries have provided humanitarian assistance to Haiti and nearly 50 countries have made pledges of support for Haiti's building."
Haiti stands alone; no other nation is showered with such largess. No other nation has squandered so much.
The government and the donors have agreed to form a so-called reconstruction committee through which all the aid will flow. Bill Clinton and Jean-Max Bellerive, the Haitian prime minister, are to chair it. And you can hear both Clinton and his wife, the secretary of state, now talking about accountability — making sure the funds do not slosh down the corruption sewer. The government is asking for $350 million in direct aid right up front. All this offers a depressingly familiar ring.
But Gayle hopes and believes this time will be different. What choice does she have? "I hate to think that the great equalizer has to be this earthquake. But take what you can get. It's a missed opportunity if you don't use it for positive change."


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(Johan) Emil Kriebel was born in Trondheim, Norway nov. 15 in 1853. He was son of Philip Emil Kriebel and Ingeborg Johanna Skaanes.
He was brother of the famous singer in the Scala opera in Milano, Anna Kriebel Vanzo.
According to the emmigration papers in 1881 he was heading for Chicago Ill, "not married" and as occupation "worker in shop".
In 1914 he was visiting Trondheim, Norway again. No he was called "farmer" and"widower". His destinationafter this visit wasN-Y.
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Testimony on FY 1997 Appropriations for the Department of Defense
This testimony was delivered by Prof. Robert Plemmons on 1 May 96 before the House Appropriations subcommittee on National Security and on 18 June 96 before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Defense. For more information on JPBM's policy and government affairs activities, please contact Lisa Thompson, JPBM Congressional Liaison. For more information on the work described by Prof. Plemmons, visit his home page. A summary of this testimony is to be found in the June 1996 SIAM NEWS, p.2.
Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee. I am Robert Plemmons, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Wake Forest University. I appreciate this opportunity to comment on FY 1997 appropriations for the Department of Defense. I speak on behalf of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, which represents three associations of mathematical scientists whose concerns encompass fundamental and interdisciplinary research; the applications of the mathematical sciences in science, engineering, and industry; and mathematics education at all levels. Today I would like to address DOD's investment in basic research in support of the defense mission, an activity funded out of the 6.1 R&D account.
Mr. Chairman, JPBM urges Congress to continue recognizing DOD's investment in basic research, including research conducted at universities, as an integral and foundational component of R&D efforts undertaken to meet the Nation's defense needs. We ask that you provide full funding for this investment, approximately $1.16 billion, including about $820 million for Defense Research Sciences, in FY 1997.
Since World War II, the United States has relied on the superiority of its military technologies to achieve its national security objectives. Basic research is essential to the process of developing new technologies, improving existing ones, employing them as effectively as possible, and therefore maintaining superiority over the long term. By engaging the Nation's research universities in this process, DOD has access to first-rate researchers and the latest discoveries in pursuit of its R&D objectives. The origins of many key defense technologies can be traced to DOD support for basic research conducted at U.S. academic institutions.
The defense agencies that sponsor basic researchoethe Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agencyoehave an excellent track record for making decisions about which areas are vital to DOD's technology goals and which researchers are best able to mine the scientific opportunities for contributions to national security. Rigorous internal decision-making processes guide these investments to ensure both scientific excellence and consistency with DOD's strategic priorities. They take full advantage of the robust U.S. research system, supporting work at a mix of universities, governmental laboratories, and sometimes in cooperation with industry.
These thoughtfully planned investments need stable year-to-year funding to avoid curtailing the scope of promising research that DOD has identified as relevant to its mission.
Let me demonstrate the importance of basic research to DOD's mission with some examples from my own field, the mathematical sciences. DOD's support for research in the mathematical sciences is most often motivated by the need to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and reliability of US defense hardware and capabilities, for example, communications systems, cryptographic capabilities, and smart weapons technology. The field also underpins many critical and emerging technologies that are crucial to national security, like materials, robotics, and information technologies.
In many of the mathematical areas relevant to defense, university researchers are in an excellent position to make very productive advances. DOD-supported mathematical researchers often work very closely with their counterparts in DOD laboratories. I would also like to stress that university-based defense research makes an important contribution to mathematics, science, and engineering education, ensuring that we have a cadre of graduates who are acquainted with defense-related research.
I have been working with DOD support since 1973. In recent years my work has centered around the improvement of ground-based, air-to-air, and air-to-ground imaging systems through the development of adaptive optics and image post-processing techniques. The problem is that atmospheric turbulence and other optical aberrations impose serious limitations on the quality of data captured by optical imaging systems, whether it's satellites taking pictures of the earth or ground-based telescopes taking pictures of the sky.
Adaptive optics techniques involve measuring the atmospheric distortions and making real-time adjustments in how the images are captured, resulting in data that is of significantly higher resolution than it otherwise would be. For instance, telescopes can be built with deformable mirrors that change their shape depending on the level and nature of the atmospheric effects they need to overcome. Similar measurements and adjustments are used by imaging hardware on observational satellites. The accuracy of these images can be restored further, subsequent to their capture, by employing even more sophisticated computations. The resulting improvement in image clarity is easily demonstrated in "before" and "after" photographs.
Each stage of this "de-blurring" processoemeasuring the distortion, adjusting the equipment, and restoring the imagesoerelies on rigorous mathematical and computational techniques to determine what compensations are needed to generate images of the best possible clarity. These techniques are being continually refined through frontier mathematical research, including my own, supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Another area in which mathematical research is leading to very useful results is the handling and analysis of large volumes of data, something defense personnel and technology are faced with every day. For instance, let's again focus on observational satellites taking pictures of the Earth's surface. Those images have to be conveyed somehow back down to Earth before we can use them. The images are compressed into digital form and a digital signal is beamed to a receiver. It is imperative that the data be compressed in a way that allows the receiver to decompress it into usable form that accurately reflects the original data.
In the mid-1980s mathematical scientists invented a mathematical method to represent and convey signal and image data in a very efficient way. It enables compressed data to be retrieved and used as needed, very quickly, at different scales of resolution, and with little loss of accuracy, so that the most precise data can be used in real-time situations. DOD scientific personnel recognized early that this was a breakthrough that would lead to significant improvements in defense operations. The Air Force and DARPA continue to support research into these mathematical techniques, which go by the name of "wavelets", and DOD is putting them to work in a variety of ways.
For instance, it appears that one day the techniques can be used for automatic detection and recognition of targets, which is simply not possible with older methods. That is, the analysis of data while it is still compressed can be automated, so that when, say, a satellite finds something that might be of interest to DOD, the appropriate personnel can be instantly alerted to its existence. Presently, separate and cumbersome processes must be used to analyze collected data after it is decompressed.
Incidentally, it turns out that the FBI found wavelets to be the ideal method for compressing fingerprint images, because the fine details of the images are preserved so well.
Here is another instance in which powerful mathematical techniques, used in combination with advanced computers, are providing dramatic solutions to key national security problems. DOD needs to be able to predict the scattering of radar signals from aircraft so their vulnerability to detection can be analyzed and so that new aircraft with low radar visibility can be designed. The programs currently used to make the predictions take a long time to run, so they are only practical when applied to small components of an aircraft, rather than to the entire aircraft.
Mathematical researchers are working to develop computational codes that can predict the radar-scattering patterns of large objects more efficiently. The new, faster techniques will make it possible to compute patterns across major components or entire aircraft in an acceptable period of time. For example, as the size of the object to be analyzed increases by a factor of 10, the computing time using existing methods increases by a factor of 1000, while the newer algorithms would run in just one percent of that time.
I hope these examples demonstrate how research in the mathematical sciences leads to time- and money-saving technologies for use in critical defense systems. DOD's ongoing pursuit of new developments in basic science will no doubt continue to yield these kinds of results. So let me again urge you to continue your support for DOD's investment in basic research and for the contributions of university-based researchers. Thank you for this opportunity to express our views for the record regarding FY 1997 appropriations. I would be pleased to answer any questions you might have.
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The individual members of the band remember the time period in a new interview with Classic Rock magazine, with drummer Butch Trucks remembering how he had walked out of the hospital "stunned" with the knowledge that Allman, less than a month away from celebrating his 25th birthday, was dead.
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Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler gave the eulogy at Allman's service and reminded all that were in attendance that Duane had left behind a lot to remember in the short time that he was alive. "This young, beautiful man who we love so dearly, but who is not lost to us, because we have his music – and the music is imperishable."
For Gregg Allman, the loss of Duane was something that he called "a nightmare that I can't exactly remember."
Gregg would play a big part in helping the band move forward. "We had a long meeting after everybody got their brains back," he recalls. "I said that if we didn't keep playing and recording and traveling, we were going to fall by the wayside and we'd never amount to much at all."
After a short tour, the band was back in the studio working on the album that would become 'Eat A Peach.' One of the first songs that they put down was Gregg's 'Ain't Wastin' Time No More' and Allman credits that composition as being the "song that helped me get back on my feet after Duane passed."
Forty years later, the Allman Brothers Band have been celebrating the legacy of 'Eat A Peach' by performing the full album in its entirety, and Gregg says "I think 'Eat A Peach' has just the right sequence. I really love the album." He goes on to say that he considers 'Peach' and 'Live at Fillmore East' as "the roots of our whole thing as a band."
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Someone get in and do the Noah. Go to each ref and tell them to fuck themselves.
Are we gonna need an NBA apology for this game too? Refs must be betting. It's be horrendously obvious. Not that the Raps coulda beat Pheonix tonight anyway, but still.
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That's a foul too. Novak useless today.
Ok so Demar let's go ahead and not kick the ball ever again, turns out the refs really don't like that.
Novak can't catch a ball. Oh well.
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JV dominates in first Q
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The British American Rules: An experimental examination of pre-trial bargaining within the shadow of the law
A commonly held view is that the frequency and value of pre-trial settlements in civil disputes are greatly influenced by the cost allocation regime that is in place if the case goes to trial. There is a large and growing theoretical literature on this subject but almost no empirical evidence. This is due simply to the scarcity of relevant data owing to the confidentiality generally associated with such matters. However, the area is an ideal one to analyse experimentally. In this paper we consider the effect of the British and American rules for cost allocation using such an experimental methodology. We find that the two rules produce no difference in the frequency of re-trial settlements but that the British rule produces higher settlements (pro-pursuer) if the probability of the pursuer winning is large.
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Venugopala Reddy has termed as a "lie" the allegation that he was carrying a knife inside the House and claimed that he was assaulted by 10 members.
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* Behind Venugopala Reddy's anti-Telangana protests may be the need to protect the business interests of Ramky Group, headed by his brother-in-law A Ayodhra Rama Reddy. Venugopala Reddy is a director and promoter of Ramky Group, which has invested in multi-crore real estate projects in Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts, infrastructure and pharma companies.
* Ramky is one of the leading groups building luxury apartments and villas in the IT corridor, and has invested over Rs 1,000 crore in these projects.
* Ramky was named in the CBI chargesheet in the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy disproportionate assets case for allegedly making a quid pro quo arrangement with then CM Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, who allotted 136 acres of land for Ramky Pharma SEZ in Vizag.
* Ramky has also invested thousands of crores in a real estate project called Discovery City, near Maheshwaram in Ranga Reddy. The company was touting the project as an integrated township designed to rival Lavasa.
* Sources said Ramky has projects adding up to over Rs 9,000 crore in the Telangana region.


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Petition to Nexon for Changes
This is a petition by the players of Mabinogi for Nexon to make the following changes to its game and premium shop. 1: Instead of needing services to maintain Spirit/Ego Weapons, amend this so that they are free for everyone, paid service users AND free service users alike. 2: Change the prices of Basic Cards in the Premium shop to either 5,000NX or, at the LEAST, 7,000NX. These changes are both very fair and reasonable. Making Spirit Weapons free to use for all players would bring more attention to the game, drawing in more potential customers who may have been previous reluctant to join. A number of players that I, myself, have questioned about this or have asked to come and play Mabinogi, have told me that they refuse to play the game because of how they must pay money for some of the more simpler features. One of the things that DID get their attention were, in fact, the Spirit Weapons. But upon hearing that you needed paid service to acquire/maintain them, they immediately lost interest. While Paladin and Dark Knight are still for paid service users only, having Spirit Weapons free would be a cheap means to draw in more players to the game, in turn bringing in more profit for Nexon in the long run. The idea would be to get people to "start" playing the game, then let the MMO natural addiction take its course with them. Eventually, they will desire to rebirth and become Paladins/Dark Knights. In addition to this, changing the price of Basic Cards in the Premium Shop would also lend to this strategy. 5,000NX is ideal, of course, as players would look upon this as being not so expensive as the prior 7,900NX price. This would also give them money leftover for a pet (As most of the people I know use Nexon Game Cards. A 10 dollar card would give them enough for one Basic Card and 5 dollars leftover for either another Basic Card or a pet). The whole point of this is to sell the pets and rebirths. The idea is that the player is getting more bang for their buck, which results in them being more keen/accepting of spending their hard earned money on the game. Once you get the players in that mindset, you have acquired more customers. Sheer numbers equate to more profit, so by "reducing" the price, you would ACTUALLY be making "MORE" money than you are now.
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Attention Parrotheads! [lastfm]Jimmy Buffett[/lastfm] And The Coral Reefer Band play the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Thursday night. The Parking Lot opens at 3PM, the doors open at 6:30, and the show starts at 8:00. There's lots more to know about the show, so read on.
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Please note… due to the large attendance expected and the normal weekday rush hour traffic, please plan accordingly and leave for the venue early. On this map, are a few ideas how to get around the congestion and avoid traffic delays. After the show, to expidite the clearing of the parking lot, all cars on Riverport Drive North will be forced to turn left on Earth City Expressway. All cars on Riverport Drive South will be forced to turn right onto Earth City Expressway. For more info on the exit pattern check out the following maps:
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Right after I fixed my computer tower's retractable drink tray (it's a big circle but a full 32 oz. was too heavy), we asked you to send funny pictures of your family playing in the snow to be entered for Bluewood tickets. Then we created a submission form that wouldn't accept photographs. So we fixed that and apologized and asked you to resend images. Meanwhile I hurt my thumb trying to drive it in. But all along the form would not accept dashes (-) or dots (.) in the telephone numbers. So we didn't get anything RE-submitted. This morning the problem was corrected and the form is working again and we're asking a third time for people submit funny pics. This time, WE'LL POST YOUR PICS so you can SEE that we got them.
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Bengaluru: All the doors appear to be shut for underworld don Rajendra Kumar aka Bannanje Raja. If all goes according to the police plans perfectly, he is likely to be extradited to India within a week.
Rajendra Kumar aka Bannanje Raja
He has been a fugitive since 1996. He has been named in many cases like firing on Chandra Upadhyaya, owner of a travel agency in Bengaluru, killing of entrepreneur R N Nayak on Dec 21, 2013, life threats to Karwar MLA Satish Sail and firing at the residence of Yellapur MLA Shivaram Hebbar.
A recent file photo, said to have been clicked after his arrest
On February 10 last, while flying to Casablanca, the capital of Morocco, he was caught by chance as the passport bore a different name as Raja Hemant Kumar Hegde. As he had an Interpol red notice issued against him, the Moroccan authorities, with the help of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) from India, arrested and jailed him.
A team of high-level police officers, including Bengaluru's additional police commissioner and erstwhile inspector general of the western range, C H Pratap Reddy, is getting set to fly to Morocco. A formal permission from the state government is being awaited. Reddy, while serving in Mangaluru as the IGP, had familiarized himself with the past history of Raja. A 'white passport' is being prepared to bring him along.
The team will include well-experienced officials from Karwar, Udupi and Mangaluru. Raja had taken a lot of trouble to ensure that he would not be repatriated to India. But the RAW officials persisted with their pressure and finally, the topmost authority in Moroccan government is said to signed the extradition papers on Friday.
Chequered career of Bannanje Raja:
1. Born and brought up in Baputota in Malpe, as son of two teachers, and named Rajendra Kumar
2. His mother being in a transferable job, she used to take her three childrean wherever she was posted.
3. From IV standard onwards, studied in Kundapur.
4. In standard IX, had a row with his teacher and he was made to repeat a year in the same class.
5. His mother shifted him to Udupi and put him in her brother's house in Bannanje. Hence he came to be referred to as 'Bannanje Raja'.
6. Since mid-1960s, there used to be regular group fights between Malpe and Udupi youngsters. Raja, although hailing from Malpe, identified himself with the Udupi group.
7. While in college, he indulged in fights and scuffles.
8. Getting into private enterprise, he set up an STD booth, followed by a travel agency in Udupi. He went on to own buses plying between Udupi and Bengaluru. He tried to gain control over the bus travel industry by threat and extortion.
9. In 1996, he fled to Dubai. Then on, sitting in the Gulf, he kept control over an empire of crime and extortion.
10. His recent call of extortion made to a Dubai-based hotelier of Mangalurean origin, happened to be his bane. The hotelier, with good contacts in Dubai, succeeded in having Raja arrested in Morocco.
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Nearly seven years ago, eventual RSL Founder Dave Checketts was deeply engaged in the process of investigating whether or not professional soccer – the MLS brand thereof – would thrive in the Salt Lake Valley. A long-time sports and entertainment entrepreneur who had stabilized the NBA Utah Jazz' presence in Utah and restored past glories to legendary venues such as Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall, the Wasatch native found the potential of soccer in the Beehive State quite intriguing.
Checketts, while working at the highest levels of the NBA's International division with Commissioner David Stern, had experienced first-hand what futbol/football/soccer meant to people in places such as Barcelona, London, Milan and Madrid. The game transcended the two-hour spectacle witnessed in-stadium or on television – it commandeered virtually every aspect of their lives, instilling itself in one's blood, evoking passion rarely associated with other endeavors.
Checketts and his business partners envisioned the establishment of the world's game in his childhood home. Major League Soccer, not even a decade old at the time, should be able to tap into the 2002 Olympic host's increasingly cosmopolitan makeup and quickly establish that powerful and rare emotional connection that sports fans – soccer fans – have with their uniform, their colors, their TEAM.
What would that team look like? At the time, Dave couldn't have envisioned a dreadlocked "Braveheart" patrolling the field, nor did anyone expect an athletic, non-prototypical goalkeeper guarding the posts behind the perfect combination of centerbacks, one cerebral and American, the other a Colombian-born linebacker type. Who knew the fan favorite would be the former Jamaican National Team captain whose journeyman MLS career – five teams in seven years – would thrive after putting roots down in Utah?
Family is a constant now in the organization, with Santi Morales and Jett Rimando emulating the actions of their beloved fathers in the locker room after games, everyone fighting for their brothers and sisters, united by a common cause: the betterment of the organization. Players are celebrated not only in the stands with post-game embraces by the fans, but throughout the community in restaurants, coffee shops and breakfast nooks. The head coach pacing the sidelines is none other than the organization's former captain and first-ever player, Jason Kreis, the first man to notch 100 MLS goals and the one who abruptly traded in his studs – the ones that saw him retire as the League's all-time leader in the only stat (besides wins) that matters – for sartorial splendor on the sidelines, molding the team – and changing the culture of the organization – with his interpretation of the Checketts' vision, so closely aligned with his own.
While those specifics probably weren't part of the original blueprint, once Checketts decided to pay the expansion fee, he knew in his heart that simply being the second major-league professional team in Utah would not satisfy either his aspirations, nor those of the individuals who had come together as a team – fighting for each other every step of the way – to dedicate their lives to fulfilling a vision. Becoming first a regional power, as the club did by capturing the Rocky Mountain Cup in 2007, was the initial step. Bucking the odds in 2009, first by even qualifying for the postseason, then by knocking off the defending champions, finally going on the road and winning on penalties not once but twice over star-studded, DP-laden sides suddenly gave Real Salt Lake the national profile its founder had always hoped for – nay, EXPECTED.
But as we've come to expect with Mr. Checketts, that wasn't enough; the charge, just minutes after hoisting the Philip F. Anschutz Trophy on a misty evening in Seattle, was to do it again. The team dropped only five games in eight months from May 1 to Nov. 6 during its title defense, scoring more goals than any other MLS team, allowing the fewest goals any had in 15 prior seasons, making American soccer history as the first-ever side to win its CONCACAF Champions League group, placing a trio of players on the League's "Best XI" selection, extending its home unbeaten streak to 33 consecutive games in all competitions.
Yet, as the 2011 campaign beckons, the air of unfinished business consumes this team and this organization. Dissatisfied with the lack of hardware last year, Real Salt Lake also seeks to deliver the last facet of Checketts' original vision, international supremacy. Only through CONCACAF success will this side earn the right represent North American soccer on the grandest stage possible, the FIFA Club World Cup, against the likes of Barcelona or InterMilan or Boca Juniors and other continental champions.
It is that thirst for excellence and desire to test itself against all limits that inspires this club and its seven year old fan base; fans who were awakened to the power of the sport via missions to faraway lands, a visit by the iconic Real Madrid side, or simply a happenstance run-in with someone representing the Claret-and-Cobalt.
These are the fans whose offspring Dave Checketts and his partner Dell Loy Hansen imagine playing on fields across the Salt Lake Valley and in the shadow of Rio Tinto Stadium, aspiring to one day defend and bring honor to the shield of the team they grew up loving. Their dream – OUR dream, that of the entire RSL Nation – is not even a generation away, yet we see it embodied in the task at hand starting today, Feb. 22, 2011, as RSL commences its quest for a CONCACAF Champions League title.


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PG&E recently asked the state of California to approve plans to turn to space-based solar systems as a source of clean energy. With plans for the satellite which would relay the solar energy to be designed and completed by Solaren Corp by 2016, it sounds far off, but, as reported by Scientific American, the promises of such a near-constant source of renewable energy are abundant.
Analysis of renewable energy sources takes center-stage in the Science Buddies science fair project idea: Free Lunch? Can Solar Energy Systems Pay for Themselves with Utility Bill Savings?. Additional Science Buddies information on renewable energy can be found in this abbreviated project idea: Renewable Energy Sources.


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Energy Prices and Carbon Taxes under Uncertainty about Global Warming
This paper extends the strategic interactions between producers of fossil fuels concerned about their profits and a taxing government concerned about the consumers' welfare for uncertainty: global warming follows an Itô -process. Stochasticity requires to differentiate between reversible and irreversible emissions in contrast to the deterministic version. The unconstrained (= reversible) case allows for a closed form solution but not the more realistic and constrained case. Nevertheless interesting analytical properties (e.g. about when to stop emissions, implicit conservation due to monopolistic supply) are derived and complemented by a numerical example. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2007
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The first simple way to speed up your office wireless network is to add nothing but 802.11ac routers and access points from this point forward. Many vendors support both the 5GHz and 2.4GHz frequency range, covering all the wireless network standards so equipment purchased earlier remains effective. As existing routers and access points are refreshed, plug in new 802.11ac equipment. In areas where only the 5GHz frequency range is in use supporting the 802.11a standard, you can skip the dual-mode wireless routers and just go with the 5GHz standards like 802.11a, n, and ac.
Pricing for routers and access points has bumped upwards slightly for the 802.11ac standard, but not much. Many outstanding routers now sell for under $200. Most vendors seem to have held their price increase to a maximum of $20 over the 802.11n models.
Second, insist on 802.11ac (or at least 802.11n) support on all new laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Both ASUS and HP have shipped 802.11ac laptops for over a year already, and all the other major brands are catching up as new models roll out. Apple's new MacBook Air natively supports 802.11ac, as do the new models of MacBook Pro and Mac Pro.
Smartphones are catching up as well. The Samsung Galaxy 4 and Note 3 natively support 802.11ac. LG Optima and Nexus 5 models were the first smartphone from LG to support 802.11ac; every vendor has announced some plans to support the expected explosion of tablet data.
If possible, give new 802.11ac equipped devices to employees with heavy use patterns, not the executives. Tell the execs their 802.11n smartphones are just as fast, and the "n" stands for new.
Finally, verify your router and access point locations are optimized for 802.11ac. Radio waves get easily confused inside offices, making placement tricky. But 802.11ac includes more frequency "beams" that can be directed to some extent. Better radio frequency reach will help you centralize more of the access points than you could with earlier 802.11 standards.
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Gus Macker has put Cicero on the map.
"People talk about it as a destination on the New York Macker circuit," said Julie Raddell, director of the Syracuse-Cicero Gus Macker 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament, held this past weekend at Drivers Village. "Cicero actually gets mentioned as a place now where people want to come and participate. Last year, we were too new, but this year, we're much more part of the Macker circuit."
Raddell, who works in the Cicero Youth Bureau, Parks and Recreation Department, organized the Gus Macker 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament in the town to raise money for the CanTeen teen center, which is run by the Youth Bureau. The center provides a home away from home after school for teens, allowing them a place to do homework, play games and keep them safe and entertained during their out-of-school time. Because of state budget cuts, the program has found itself in jeopardy and in need of a new source of funding. So in 2010, Raddell started looking for a new way to come up with some money.
"We needed a big fundraiser to make a lot of money, because we were doing a lot of little fundraisers, just nickel-and-diming and just bringing in small amounts," Raddell said. "We were just using up our committee members year-round, and they were getting tired. So we wanted one big one that we could put a lot of work into for part of the year that could bring in a lot of money."
That's when Raddell thought of Macker.
"I grew up in Michigan, and that's where Macker started," she said. "I grew up playing in lots of Mackers and going from city to city to city, and I said, 'Why don't we look at this?'"
Gus Macker tournaments have become a tradition for people across the country. The first Gus Macker tournament was played by Scott McNeal (known to friends as Gus Macker) on his parents' driveway basketball court in Lowell, Michigan in 1974, and it only grew from there. By 1987, it had become a statewide phenomenon. The first year, more than 10,400 players participated in five cities. Since then, the Macker tournaments have expanded, holding both indoor and outdoor games in more than 75 cities, with more than 200,000 players taking part each year.
The Macker tournament is designed so that anyone can play, regardless of age or ability. Since 1987, a total of 972 tournaments have been held nationwide, with more than 2.2 million players participating —male and female from 7 years old to over 50 — and more than 23 million spectators.
Teams are computer-matched into male and female divisions within one of the following categories: Junior, Adult, or Top. The age, height and experience of all four players are considered when making teams. Teams are guaranteed at least three scheduled games. At each tournament site, the local organizing committee donates proceeds from their event to a local charity — in Cicero's case, the CanTeen.
Also, in many cities local non-profit clubs, groups, and organizations raise funds through on-site food concession sales, special events and other on-site activities. The Gus Macker official Web site estimates that since 1987, about $15 million has been raised for numerous charities throughout the United States.
And it's not just the charities that benefit, Raddell said.
"It's great for Cicero," she said. "It's great for the local businesses. The hotels are packed with athletes and their families who come in from all over the place. The restaurants are feeding everyone at lunch and dinnertime. It's huge for the businesses. And for the community, it's something that brings us together as a major community event."
This year's event drew 55 more teams than last year, with a total of 792 athletes compared to roughly 600 last year. Teams came in from all over the country to compete in the Cicero Macker, and community members, athletes, families and friends participated in events like the Macker Block Party at Drivers Village preceding the tourney Friday night, autograph signings from former Syracuse University basketball star Scoop Jardine, bounce houses, face painting, crafts and more.
"It's much more than a basketball tournament," Raddell said. "It's a festival."
And none of it would be possible without the support of the town, she acknowledged.
"We're so thankful to the town of Cicero for their support for all of this," Raddell said. "The community and businesses' support for all that we do is tremendous. There would be no tournament without them."
Sarah Hall is the editor of the Eagle Star-Review and the Baldwinsville Messenger. The 2012 winner of the Syracuse Press Club's Selwyn Kershaw Professional Standards Award, she has been with Eagle Newspapers since 2006. She is a Liverpool native.
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My wife is graduating from graduate school in March 2015 and I want to surprise her with a trip to Italy in April 2015. She is the one who always plans our vacations and she always does such a great job so I want to do a great job planning this one (even though I am at a complete loss, this will be our first trip to Europe). We will have three weeks to travel and I would prefer to keep the trip under $7,000 (NOT including airfare). The only place I know for sure we want to go is Rome and we would be interested in pompeii. We love history, museums, hiking/outdoor activities, tours, and trying local cuisine. We aren't really big into art but I know there are some great pieces to see in Italy and we would like to see some of it. My wife also loves castles and we enjoy seeing and doing things off the beaten path.
I have been reading a lot of the forums on here and I know you guys can help me plan an amazing trip for my wife to celebrate her accomplishment. Where to go, what to see, tours to take, hotels to stay in, places to eat, tips for getting around, itineraries or advice on how long to stay in each location
Also, neither of us speak a word of Italian, any advice on that front?
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Surprise Italy trip for my wife
My wife is graduating from graduate school in March 2015 and I want to surprise her with a trip to Italy in April 2015. She is the one who always plans our vacations and she always does such a great job so I want to do a great job planning this one (even though I am at a complete loss, this will be our first trip to Europe). We will have three weeks to travel and I would prefer to keep the trip under $7,000 (NOT including airfare). The only place I know for sure we want to go is Rome and we would be interested in pompeii. We love history, museums, hiking/outdoor activities, tours, and trying local cuisine. We aren't really big into art but I know there are some great pieces to see in Italy and we would like to see some of it. My wife also loves castles and we enjoy seeing and doing things off the beaten path.
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Speaking as the planner in our family, surprise your wife with the trip and let her do the planning -- if she has enough free time during the push to her degree. She's good at planning, she likes to do it.
Don't worry about not speaking Italian. Almost all people you encounter as a tourist can speak English. And, even if they can't speak English, Italians are very helpful and good at conveying information.
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Buy the Michelin Green guide for Italy and hide it with your "men's magazines" so your wife does not see it. It will give you an excellent explanation of the sights major and minor.
I am hopeful the women will chime in, but I think you need to tell your wife that she will going away for three weeks and what the weather will be generally, so she can prepare clothes, etc.
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I agree with the advice to tell your wife the surprise, but I know plenty of women who go to Italy and all of them like to do different things, including seeing castles, as yours does, which supposedly is for men.
I won't even comment on the assumption that you have "men's magazines" but might clue you in on why you want your wife's help planning her trip, not strange people you and she don't know on the internet.
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If your wife is a planner, I would suggest surprising her with the gift of the trip well in advance, and thus let her have the fun of planning it with you, and doing the shopping and packing most people like to do. A surprise weekend is one thing, 3 weeks in Italy is another.
And congrats to her for finishing her graduate studies. Kudos to you for wanting to give her this trip.
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All you really need to do is pick a few places, buy airfare, and book accommodations. With your budget, I suggest looking for an apartment rental for Rome, and anywhere else you decide to stay for more than a few days.
Plenty of people go to Italy not knowing one word of Italian. I like to learn a few polite phrases at the very least.
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I am the planner in our family. Others are giving you good advice. Trip planners often do not like surprise plans. We always know what we want to do. She may be busy and need your help, so you can research, but do let the final plan be up to her.
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I agree that it would be wise to let your wife in on the surprise so she can help plan and prepare. Wrap a Michelin Green Guide to Italy and give it to her on a special occasion (anniversary, birthday, etc.) well before the trip. Based on what you enjoy doing and on the time of year you plan to travel, I would start with Venice, Florence and Rome and add another area, perhaps Naples ro Sorrento so you can easily visit Pompeii.
Start there and modify as you go along. Plan to fly "open jaw" - into one city and home from another to avoid backtracking.
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I am with the let her do the planning camp.
If she is experienced, she would know which resources must be aligned property for things to work. Beginners assume that they can arrange different components in piecemeal manner: flight and accommodations, etc., only to find that they need to expense additional days and fund to integrate disjoint components together.
Whether she has to do it her way or that she know the pitfalls of creating itineraries, you might not achieve a win-win outcome if you do the planning.
If she still needs a passport, it is impossible to keep it a complete surprise. You need a couple months lead time to obtain the passport. Also, depending on where you live and what she already has, the wardrobe suitable for Italy for April may only be available in brick and mortar stores, if they are where she goes, in your area right now but not in Feb-March 2015.
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Another vote for "let your wife do the planning." I have been the day trip, long weekend, overseas, local, and everything in between planner for the family for almost 20 years, and DH wouldn't have it any other way. He "surprises" me with, "I have to be in CITY for a meeting. Can you (and the children) come with?" and I love it. As others have written, there is considerably more to travel planning (for most) than you might think; it's best to leave it in an experienced set of hands.
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I agree completely with the advice to tell her well in advance to preclude the possibility the "surprise" could backfire. Some surprises are better than others and this one could go wrong in a moment, especially as she obviously likes to be the planner (= in charge of things).
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The reason she likes to do the planning is that planning is half the fun. Do it together.
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What a thoughtful husband you are. A good compromise might be to surprise her with a timeline and air tickets. Since she is a good planner let her fill in the details. Fly into one airport and out of another. Maybe into Naples (see Pompeii and the Almaphi Coast) and out of Rome. Spread out the map and think about what might make a logical route. Also think about what would make YOU happy (a good meal, a particular museum, a beautiful sunset....). Then post here and you will get lots of suggestions.
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I won't even comment on the assumption that you have "men's magazines"
It was a joke, that is why you didn't understand.
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I say let her plan. My husband planned our first European trip and planned on making it a surprise but the tickets were mailed to the house despite his best efforts to send them to his Mom. He had some ideas and research done but in the end I finished the planning and have been the planner ever since. He tells me what he wants to see and it is a collaboration. So you can have the rough plan of what cities and when so that you can surprise her with the trip. If you are not big Italian art fans, you could skip Florence and put Pompeii in its place, I wish we would have home there on our last trip. It is true that the planning is almost as much fun as the trip itself.
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BTW, I think it is more romantic, not to cram 20 cities into 3 days, but add time for a coffee or a wine at outdoor cafe overlooking a fountain or valley or leisurely breakfast on a terrace.
We now live in a society consumed by the idiotic term metrics. Very rarely does that measure satisfaction and their is no place for intuition.
Figure out how to enjoy your trip as much as what you want to see.
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Thanks everyone for your replies. My wife is in Anesthesia school and she spends 60-80 hours a week in the hospital. You are right that she likes to make the plans and be in charge! I just don't want her to feel like she has all this work to do planning a trip on top of her very busy schedule. I will certainly buy the Michelin Green guidebook. I think that will be a great gift to give her as a way of telling her about our trip. I also like the idea of flying open-jaw so we don't have to back track. Someone had mentioned having a rough plan and letting her fill in the details. Any thoughts on that? Like if I had a general itinerary: x-number of days in Rome, x-number of days in Venice and so forth and make arrangements for accommodations and transportation and she got to fill in the "fun stuff"?
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My wife is in Anesthesia school
I hope see comes to.
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I plan all of our trips. If my wife wanted to give me a gift it would be the effort she would put into planning a trip for us. Who cares if she picked the wrong town or museum or restaurant. My return gift to her would be to let her know how much her effort was appreciated.
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April is not a busy time in general and you could plan to not plan. Buy your tickets, book your first couple of nights' accommodation and play it as it comes. Don't even bother with a a general itinerary. Believe it or not, it's done all the time, and a spontaneous trip can be the greatest!
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Gawainator, I think that is a great idea. You can choose where you fly into/out of (try flying into Venice, it is a great place to recover from jetlag), the number of days in a few cities, then she can fill it with what she wants to do in each city.
You could make it even more flexible and book only hotels with good cancellation policies.
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You are lucky to be going at a time when (mostly) things won't be too mobbed - so you should be able to get some hotel deals and see things without standing on line for hours in the sweltering sun.
I would definitely let her know far enough in advance that she has input (perhaps she would ADORE - or HATE - Venice) but let her plan as much as she wants and leaves the rest to you.
I would book only air travel and hotels (to get nicer ones on a budget) and leave trains and signing up for tours until just before you leave or you get there.
Not sure what your travel style is - but in 3 weeks I would do Rome (week including 1 or 2 day trips)
Florence (4 days)
Tuscany (stay in the countryside and visit several towns - 5 days)
Venice (4 days)
This will give you a day or so to play with. I would rent a car for Tuscany and do the rest by train.
But - do start looking early - since pleasant hotels at bargain prices go early and this is not a generous budget.
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I would fly into Venice to start the trip. It is a romantic city and good to just wander around while recovering from jetlag. Stay there 3 or 4 nights then train to Florence for several nights. From there you could rent a car and drive through Tuscany or take the train to Rome for a week then train to Naples or Amalfi Coast for the remainder of your time. We have flown out of Naples and it was an easy airport to maneuver. However, if Pompeii is the only thing you are interested in then you could just do it as a long day trip from Rome.
Once you decide on your itinerary we can give you advice on where to stay. Don't be afraid to rent a car for Tuscany, it is very easy to drive in Italy, especially if you have a GPS.
As for not speaking Italian, don't worry about it. We've been to Italy 5 times and do fine with only knowing a few words as so many people speak English.
This is a fabulous gift for your wife and I'm sure she will love it (and you)! Now, do you think you could talk to MY husband about this kind of a surprise???!
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Personally I don't think there is any great skill involved in planning a trip -- in fact, the logistics are rather tedious, which is why travel agents were paid so poorly.
What I'd do is borrow a few books from the library and get a feel for what you and your wife would like to do in Italy. For example, Florence is primarily an art city. If, as you say, you two are not terribly interested in art, cut it down to a day or two, or skip it. There is good hiking in the Dolomites and also along the Amalfi Coast, or maybe you'd like Cinque Terre.
Once you've got a rough idea, come back for hotel and restaurant recommendations. Generally speaking, when you're planning your visits to the cities, think two or maybe three sites a day, maximum, unless you are very energetic indeed.
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I have never seen anyone on these boards say, "That's a perfect itinerary."
You know what they say, opinions are like.....itineraries. Everyone has got one.
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Well since you like history and not art, I will suggest heading south instead of just a day trip (long) from Rome to Pompeii.
If you go to Naples (amazing archeological museum) you can visit Pompeii and Herculaneum, maybe see the Amalfi Coast and even Paestum.
Venice is crammed with history and atmosphere.
Venice, Rome and Naples and south would be one possible itinerary. And what IMDonehere says is absolutely true.
I hope someone comes up with some castles for you.
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Here's another idea: Give her the wrapped Michelin guide when she graduates in March and, if your schedules permit, plan the trip together over the summer and leave for Italy in early October.
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After enduring months of traffic and detours, drivers are finally starting to see progress in the expansion of U.S. Highway 75 in McKinney.
But while the opening of new exit ramps and frontage road lanes in recent weeks may be an encouraging sign, it probably won't speed up traffic. Work will simply move to other places along the highway, transportation officials say.
And state and local officials warn that it will be at least a year — and likely much longer — before one of Collin County's main arteries is completely clear of construction.
The Texas Department of Transportation is leading the project to add lanes, widen frontage roads and improve entrance and exit ramps in McKinney near Eldorado Parkway. Agency spokeswoman Michelle Releford said the expected completion date is July 2015, though McKinney officials have said late 2015 might be more likely.
And by the time that work is done, construction may have already begun farther south, where TxDOT plans to add lanes and reposition entrance and exit ramps on seven miles of highway from Plano to Allen.
Work on that project was originally scheduled to begin in early 2014. Releford said a construction contract has been awarded, but logistics still need to be worked out.
"There is no telling how long it is going to take to start that project," she said Friday.
TxDOT's goal is to add highway capacity in Collin County, which expects to see its population surpass 1 million within the next decade. Before work started, there were often bottlenecks where the highway transitioned from eight lanes to six lanes in Plano and six lanes to four in McKinney.
But, as is usually the case, traffic has gotten worse before it will get better. Construction has narrowed lanes and confused drivers, causing some to worry about their safety.
Preston Hollow resident Mackie Morris said he regularly drives north on the highway to see his mother in Denison. But he has encountered wrecks that shut the whole highway down and bumpy pavement that could damage his car.
"The first few of those drives on U.S. 75 proved so dangerous that I eventually began … using a more westerly route," he said.
Businesses along the highway, meanwhile, have complained that the construction has repelled customers and made their parking lots inaccessible.
McKinney officials say they have heard the complaints and tried to help as much as they can.
"We have really just been a sounding board," said Gary Graham, transportation engineering manager for McKinney. "And we try to be a voice for the businesses to TxDOT."
Graham said he tries to emphasize that the construction will eventually help the area grow.
"The gain we will experience is definitely going to be worth the pain," Graham said. "75 is the highest volume road in McKinney. We think it is going to help everybody."


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We are expecting a new niece this summer which is the perfect opportunity to practice the art of creating that awful squeeeeeeee noise that ladies love to shatter windows with so much. Let me demonstrate:
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Ka-nitters, the pattern is a freebie and you can find it here: Lazy Daisy Baby Jacket. It was not terribly complicated though the instructions could use improvement. Beware- the instructions top of page and instructions bottom of page are not identical so pick one version and stick with it.
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Unanswered: Oracle 8.1.7, Borland BDE & Objectpal
Have a client who is busy converting a largish Objectpal app on Paradox to Oracle 8.1.7 on Windows 2000 (Yup, I know all of this is yuck!). We are using the direct oracle driver in the BDE (5.01) and having serious performance problems and sessions hanging when they have been idle for a while. Has anyone had any experience with this. I know Delphi via the BDE into Oracle is not a problem but the Paradox Objectpal does not seem so hot.