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Dealt a bad hand: A review of Doc
Mary Doria Russell
394 pages, hardcover: $26.
Random House, 2011.
Versatile novelist Mary Doria Rusell's captivating reimagining of the life of Doc Holliday ends before the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral, that eternal wellspring for Western novels and movies. In her new book, Doc, Russell sees Holliday as more than a gambler and gunslinger, opening the novel with a dismissal of "the journalists of his day" who seized on the last few years of his life story and "embellished slim fact with fat rumor and rank fiction." Instead, she introduces us to a refined, educated Southern gentleman and skilled dentist whose path through life is distorted by his worsening tuberculosis.
Born in Georgia in 1851, Holliday earned his degree in dental surgery at 21, only to discover that he'd developed the same disease that killed his mother when he was 15. Forced to leave his beloved Georgia for a drier climate, Holliday moves to Texas, where he meets the woman who becomes his longtime lover, Kate Harony. In Russell's telling, she is the orphaned daughter of a Hungarian physician, "raised at the imperial court of Maximilian of Mexico" -- an educated firebrand who speaks Latin and French and works intermittently as a prostitute. Holliday describes her life as "a fairytale in reverse," not unlike his own illness-forced exile from the kind of privileged family that, as Russell notes in her afterword, helped inspire the magnolia-scented O'Haras and Wilkeses in Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind.
Harony convinces Holliday to move to rough-and-tumble Dodge City, Kan. (a community created with "a single purpose: to extract money from Texas"). In Dodge, Holliday works as a dentist when his health allows, and as a gambler when he's sick or business is slow. He's particularly sympathetic toward decent people forced to violate civilized norms to survive, especially prostitutes; as he tells his new friend, Wyatt Earp, "all these girls have some story." Russell suggests that Holliday's gambling and gunfighting are largely the adjustments he is forced to make due to his illness and the exigencies of life on the frontier.
Russell has fashioned an engrossing story out of the difficult hand Doc Holliday was dealt. In vigorous prose, and with great wit and fascinating historical detail, she conveys the distinct inner life of each of her flawed, endearing characters.


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Schewe, do not cheat... it is not "anti-CC", it is "anti-CC only"... add this small word and half of your long diatribe is useless... and what is left from it is simple - Adobe just wants to make more money by going "subscription only" for legit users, that's it... and we understand that... as for pirates they will continue to pirate CC as they do with M$ products now... because CC is not really a cloud based application, it sits on your computer - it just rings back, so they will make it ring back to their servers... only legit users will end up paying more.
Sorry, no, you don't understand...the technical issues relating to dual-coding both perpetual and subscription licenses was proven to be difficult to impossible when the 13.1 and 13.0.4 was released...there was an all-hands-on-deck reaction to fix major and substantial issues with two separate code branches and updating them at the same timeread what Winston was quoted as saying. Adobe made a call, drop the perpetual licensing, go all in on subscription only because in a pro production environment there is no room for error...you wake up one day, log into your computer and suddenly, you are locked out (that's what happened when that update occurred). For pros, that can't be allowed to happen!
And whether or not you accept and believe that the main reason for the killing of perpetual was really based on technical issues
so somehow it was easy to code for LR to keep both options (subscription and perpetual) and difficult for CS
as for "locked out" - if I have a perpetual license why shall I be locked out at all ? there is no calling Adobe servers once I activated and if that happens that again just speaks about very poor coding by those Adobe developers in charge of licensing.
Why should users that paid in advance NOT getting the new features, but people that rent do? It should be exactly vice versa.Sorry, but all your argueing is nothing but hot air.
The coding for LR5 is perpetual license only...it also happens to also be available for the CC-have you actually got any Adobe subscription products? Have you ever registered a subscription product? Do you actually know what you are talking about are are you just trying to spread FUD? (and if trying to spread FUD, you ain't doing a very good job-in this debate, you are way, way down the "useful" rankwhat you are spouting is bullshyte).
Talking about LR? LR isn't an activation required product...(care to wonder why?)
so ?
Sorry, I'm done with this shit...I got stuff to do...videos to shoot with Mike and a book to finish, I'll not be bothering to answer you any further. So, Vladimirovich, buzz off...I'm done with ya.
The coding for LR5 is perpetual license only...it also happens to also be available for the CC
Samuel O writes: It seems to me that a significant problem with their new business model is the long-term impact it will have on their creativity and innovation. Currently, with a new version coming out every eighteen to twenty-four months, Adobe knows they will have to have significant improvements to entice their customer base to upgrade. Without this incentive, I fear their products will suffer as management will make the easy decision to increase profits by cutting development budgets and not by investing in product enhancements. This is a sad decision for a once proud, and innovative, company.MPG: It is a fair statement. Renters know that landlords dont really want to fix up old appliances until they become totally unusable.
Exactly what statements from Adobe have you read or watched? I watched the keynote announcement at Adobe MAX, have you? I watched the Tom Hogarty session on Scott's Grid, have you? I've read Winston's answers on PDReview, have you? I've read the web statement Adobe posted, have you? Or, are you getting your information second hand from various media outlets? You realize the media is like a shark when there's blood in the water, right? Their job is to "inform" but they generally do more inciting than informing...etc., etc, ad nauseum
well, you shall know that here it is OK to imagine various fears about proprietary raw files and it is NOT OK to imagine the same about anything Adobe's...

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I didn't find any sheds today, but we went for a drive around the countryside yesterday evening and saw more than 150 deer. In fact, there were 74 in one field alone! I think they were eating scraps of last year's soybeans. In that group, we saw two small bucks that were still carrying their antlers.
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NEW YORK (AP) — "Mob City" is beginning what is surely TV's first "adaptweetion."
The series, premiering on the TNT network, is tweeting the screenplay of its first episode before it airs.
The Twitter account @MobCityTNT will transport followers back to the crime world of gritty 1940s-era Los Angeles, 140 characters at a time. The posts will leave off just before the end of the debut episode, with a startling development awaiting viewers Wednesday when the series debuts at 9 p.m. Eastern.
"Mob City" is from writer-director-executive producer Frank Darabont, who previously helmed "The Walking Dead." It stars former "Walking Dead" regular Jon Bernthal.


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The dollar (NYBOT:DXZ13) extended a weekly decline as measures of business conditions and industrial production dropped, adding to bets the Federal Reserve won't stop its monthly asset purchases anytime soon.
The yen extended a third weekly slide versus the dollar as gains in stocks and the outlook for further global economic stimulus trimmed demand for haven assets. The greenback headed for a weekly drop versus the euro after Federal Reserve Chairman-nominee Janet Yellen said yesterday the quantitative- easing program was needed to spur growth. Australia's and New Zealand's dollars strengthened.
"The currency market appears to be saying, 'We get the message from Yellen, the Fed's not going to taper,'" Jonathan Lewis, chief investment officer at Samson Capital Advisors LLC and manager of the Samson Strong Nations Currency Fund, said in a telephone interview from New York. "Monetary conditions are going to be easy for a very long period, and that's particularly positive for currencies geared to growth and commodity cycle."
The Bloomberg U.S. Dollar Index, which monitors the greenback against 10 major counterparts, fell to 0.2% to 1,017.01 at 9:41 a.m. in New York after dropping to 1,015.83 yesterday, the lowest since Nov. 7. It is down 0.5% this week.
The yen fell 0.1% to 100.15 per dollar after depreciating to 100.44, the weakest level since Sept. 11. It has lost 1.1% this week. Japan's currency slid 0.4% to 135.11 per euro. The dollar fell 0.2% to $1.3490 per euro, set for a decline of 0.9% this week.
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South Africa's rand climbed 2% this week and the Mexican peso added 1.8%, the most among the 16 most- traded currencies versus the dollar. The yen dropped 1.1% for the biggest decline, followed by the Brazilian real's 0.9% slide.
The Australian and New Zealand dollars rose today as optimism there will be further monetary stimulus from major central banks buoyed demand for higher-yielding assets.
"The central bank outlook will remain supportive in the near term," said David Forrester, a senior vice president for Group of 10 foreign-exchange strategy at Macquarie Bank Ltd. in Sydney. "With the weaker yen, the Aussie and kiwi tend to outperform."
The Australian dollar rose 0.7% to 93.81 yen, and gained 0.5% to 93.66 U.S. cents. New Zealand's dollar rose 0.8% to 83.40 yen and strengthened 0.6% to 83.26 U.S. cents.
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Discounts can drive down the cost of auto insurance
You don't pay sticker price for your car, why should you pay full price for your car insurance? There are lots of discounts available that might reduce your monthly premium.
Bankrate.com just surveyed the marketplace and found that all of the top 10 auto insurers offer a discount for bundling - that's when you insure both your home and your car with the company.
There are also discounts for insuring multiple vehicles, having a vehicle with an anti-theft device or daytime running lights. You might qualify for a newer vehicle discount.
"It can vary what they mean by new, but typically we're talking three years old or less and they will knock some dollars off your premium," explained Doug Whiteman, an insurance industry analyst with Bankrate.
It's always expensive to insure a teen driver, but your son or daughter may qualify for a price break if they're a good student. And You may qualify for a discount based on your occupation.
"If you're a teacher for example, you're probably not going to be on the road as much as somebody who is working for sales for a living and making a lot of sales calls," Whiteman said.
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Today, Roe v. Wade is 35 years old. If you're tired of rehashing the same debate every Jan. 22, here are two ideas that would advance the debate to a better place by this time next year. To pro-choicers: Talk about abortion the way you've been talking about teen sex, embracing an ideal number of zero. To pro-lifers: Accept that the best way to advance toward zero is through voluntary prevention.
Last week's abortion numbers, showing a huge reduction since 1990, make a strong case for the second point. So today I'll focus on the first.
Pro-choice leaders, to their credit, have become increasingly explicit about the importance of lowering the abortion rate. A year and a half ago, in a plea for emergency contraception, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards argued that it would "reduce the need for abortion. That's a commonsense goal supported by the overwhelming majority of Americans." Last year, she boasted, correctly, that Planned Parenthood did "more to prevent unintended pregnancies, and the need for abortion, than any organization in America."
Five days ago, in a speech honoring Roe's 35th anniversary, NARAL president Nancy Keenan reaffirmed the prevention message. "If we could prevent unintended pregnancy," said Keenan, "we could therefore reduce the need for abortion."
But when the conversation turns from numbers to the moral qualms that make reduction popular, movement leaders still flinch. Last year, in a New York Times op-ed, journalist Melinda Henneberger (now a Slate contributor) argued that public sentiment against abortion was hurting Democrats. "Most people differentiate between a fetus in the early weeks of development and at nearly full term," she wrote, citing the party's defense of partial-birth abortions. To this, Richards replied that most Americans "support women making their own decisions about pregnancy—even when those decisions are complicated or difficult. … [E]ven if they might make a different decision about abortion, they recognize that every woman's case is different."
You can see Richards edge right up to the line of discussing whether some abortions are worse than others, before smoothing it over with the nonjudgmental language of "complicated," "difficult," and "different."
In her speech, Keenan wrestled with the same dilemma. "We need to acknowledge this moral complexity: that you don't need to think abortion is the appropriate decision to believe that government shouldn't be the one making the decision," she observed. But for her part, Keenan rejected the language of appropriateness: "I will never stand idly by while women who take responsibility for their own lives, and those who depend on them, have to contend with guilt and shame, with judgment and scorn heaped upon them—rather than the support and respect they deserve."
Guilt, shame, scorn, judgment. You can see what holds back people like Keenan and Richards. Part of it is that they're personally open-minded. They really do believe every case is different—and they're right. Part of it is that they feel institutional obligations, as heads of their organizations, to protect legal abortion generally. And part of it is that they've seen morality invoked to humiliate good people and pass bad laws.
It doesn't have to be that way. It's absurd to have to say this, but judgment isn't a bad word. You can moralize without losing your soul. In fact, pro-choice leaders are already doing this—not against abortion, but against teen sex.
"The more young people have their questions answered openly about contraception, relationships, and sexual health, the more likely they are to delay sexual activity," Richards wrote last year. "And when they do become sexually active, whether in their teen years, or optimally, later on, the more likely they are to have safer sex and use contraceptives correctly." Optimally, later on. That's not a recommendation to delay pregnancy. It's a recommendation to delay sex.
Last week, Keenan went much further. "In a perfect world, no teenager would be having sex," she declared. "We all know there isn't a 15-year-old alive who is ready emotionally, physically, spiritually, or financially to live with the consequences. We absolutely need to teach our children that they should abstain from having sex too early."
That's the kind of language that makes people wake up and listen. It's not an endorsement of some oafish law. It's a call for social action toward a moral ideal of zero.
Leaders who have graduated from the movement recognize that this kind of candor has to apply to abortion as well. In today's Los Angeles Times, Kate Michelman and Frances Kissling, the former presidents of NARAL and Catholics for a Free Choice, write, "The specter of women forced into back alleys as a result of a one-time 'mistake' has been replaced with hard questions about why women get pregnant when they don't want to have babies." They conclude, "Our vigorous defense of the right to choose needs to be accompanied by greater openness regarding the real conflict between life and choice, between rights and responsibility."
Abortion and sex are different in many ways. But both are private, complex, and poorly suited to restrictive legislation. That doesn't stop pro-choice leaders from speaking the truth about teen sex. It shouldn't stop them from speaking the truth about abortion, either.


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SEATTLE (AP) — A Harborview Medical Center spokeswoman says both young men who were pulled unconscious from Seattle's Green Lake have died.
The Seattle Times reports that spokeswoman Leila Gray says one man died Friday. The other died shortly after he was brought to the emergency room.
Seattle Fire Department spokesman Kyle Moore says the two were unconscious and unresponsive when divers found them Thursday night.
They were not immediately identified.
One had reportedly been underwater for 30 minutes and the other for 45 minutes.
A total of four men had decided to go for a swim about 9:30 p.m. Thursday but only two made it back to shore. Witnesses saw the other two men struggling.
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Do you take Facebook with you on your mobile device?
Turns out 543 million people access Facebook while out and about!
To explore the marketing implications of mobile Facebook users, I interview Mari Smith for our new Social Media Marketing podcast.
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In this premier episode, I interview Mari Smith, author of The New Relationship Marketing and co-author of Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day.
Mari shares insights into Facebook mobile and the opportunities this new mobile environment gives businesses today.
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Outdoor Boot Camp Launched at Planet Fitness Wanderers On the 29th October, Planet Fitness launched their outdoor boot camp, filled with everything from Tyre flips, tyre pulls and a small outdoor obstacle course. It is hosted by the well known celebrity trainer (who was actually my very first trainer) Caz Abrahams and the Wanderers Wellness Manager, Elijah. These two guys had everyone running around and working up a sweat. There is something awesome about training outdoors - and luckily
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What is fasted cardio? Fasted cardio is something I did when I lost all my weight. Funny thing is I didn't know I was doing it – but I was. So if you still have no idea what fasted cardio is – let me explain it to you....
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About Linda Ridgway
Linda Ridgway was trained as a printmaker, but has used her knowledge to create delicate sculptures in bronze, steel, silk, and cloth. Her bronze reliefs are based on organic and cultural imagery—such as plants and clothing—but also include text and geometric elements. A recurring theme across her works is repetition, the interplay of positive and negative space, light and cast shadow, and linear forms. Her methods and techniques are intermingled with craft practices, like knitting, weaving, and lace-making. On occasion, Ridgway presents photographs and assemblages. Ridgway relates her practice to the poetry of Robert Frost, which she read as a child, and cites one of her greatest influences as Eva Hesse.
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We need to make a move for him. We might be able to get him without trading Lee. All the Thunder gave up is Joe Smith and Wilcox.
Wow the signs are so obvious. I mean it's more obvious than if God slapped Donnie Walsh in the face and said "hey you better trade for Chandler cause I have the Knicks as my 8th seed in my NBA pool and I don't feel like paying Satan 200 bucks again...who the **** though Tampa Bay would have made the World Series"
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Country music's most popular woman singer still awesome after all these years
Always … Patsy Cline offers remarkable singing and terrific acting in the service of country legend.
Patsy Cline met ardent fan Louise Seger at a Houston concert in 1961. A brash sort, Louise introduced herself and invited Patsy to her home for a late-night breakfast. The meal turned into an overnight stay and that stay turned into several years of correspondences always signed by Patsy with the closing that gives this show its title.
I wish the story gave us as much.
Jenny Lee Stern as Patsy Cline is utterly convincing, (this is her third time in the role), belting and crooning her way through 27 of Cline's memorable songs. The achievement is notable as Cline charted new ways to present her music, blending styles in untraditional ways. Costumer Kurt Alger provides dozens of dazzling costume changes that reflect how Cline also broke fashion tradition for female country singers.
Robin Baxter as Louise Seger matches Stern's musical flair with her own acting and comedic flair. To Louise falls the duty of narrating how she came to become friends with a country music superstar. Being told what happened rather than seeing it acted out could become tedious, but Baxter is a Carol Burnett/Ethel Merman blend who simply charms all night long. The conventional fourth wall of theatre is broken as Seger speaks directly to you, and you become an active participant in the show.
Infinity Theatre's sound system, which proved problematic last year, is now superb. A band led by musical director Tim Rosser is on stage throughout the show. Their excellent musicality can now be heard cleanly and clearly as a strong backdrop to Stern's vocals.
Director and east Texan Chan Harris brings authenticity to the characters and uses a clever set design by Anshuman Bhatia to showcase a concert stage, suburban living room, kitchen and seven-piece band all at the same time. The action flows seamlessly through the space. My only complaint is that so many patterns in the wallpapers, upholstery, lattice and lace tried to distract from the performers. The two women overpowered their visual competition.
But playwright Ted Swindley falls short in his ode to a singer who changed the way women were seen in the music industry and an artist whose impact continues to this day. Louise tells the story of a friendship and Patsy sings her beloved songs. But in only a handful of moments do the two actors speak to each other.
Don't go to see this play for insight into Patsy Cline's life.
Do go to see the joyful singing talent that Infinity Theatre is becoming known for, to see bravura comedic acting that can turn on dime into heartbreaking sorrow and to hear 27 of the great songs Patsy Cline made memorable with her unique voice.


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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina is refusing to budge in its billion-dollar debt showdown in New York federal court, preparing an appeal Monday that it hopes will stave off another devastating default.
Judge Thomas Griesa left Argentina without any wiggle room, ordering the government of President Cristina Fernandez to pay $1.3 billion into an escrow account for the so-called "vulture funds" by Dec. 15, even as it pursues its final appeals.
If Argentina pays the plaintiffs, then lawyers representing other holders of defaulted debt, totaling more than $11 billion, are expected to demand immediate payment as well.
If it refuses, the judge said the Bank of New York Mellon must stop payment on the quotas Argentina has religiously honored to a much bigger group of bondholders who agreed to provide the country with debt relief in 2005 and 2010. That group together holds more than $20 billion in restructured debt, and some of them announced they too would appeal.
The ruling in favor of NML Capital Ltd., a fund run by billionaire Paul Singer, was issued just before the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, and the consequences for Argentina were severe. The value of Argentina's restructured bonds slipped in Monday trading, and the cost of insuring this debt against default jumped 51 percent on Friday alone, according to data from Factset.
This insurance — in the form of credit default swaps — now reflects a 75 percent probability that Argentina will stop paying within the year, Argentina's El Cronista newspaper reported Monday.
Argentina's Economy Ministry was closed Monday for another national holiday, Sovereignty Day. The government's appeal had yet to appear on the court's web site by Monday evening.
But Economy Minister Hernan Lorenzino told the pro-government Pagina12 newspaper that the appeal will restate the same arguments Argentina and others made already: that by enabling holdouts who refuse to go along with debt restructurings to tap into payments made to other innocent parties, the ruling endangers the U.S. financial system as well as the ability of any government to rescue its people from economic crisis.
These arguments were already made by the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Clearing House trade group of commercial banks and other interests holding $20 billion in restructured Argentine debt, and Griesa dismissed them.
Now Argentina is counting on a long-shot appeal. But the judge's ruling has already made borrowing more expensive in Argentina, not only for the government, but for any enterprise that needs financing.
And that has some analysts predicting dire consequences.
Economist Arturo Porzecanski at American University in Washington told The Associated Press on Monday that he believes this could be the beginning of the end of the Fernandez government, as Argentina's deepening recession and financial turmoil lead to growing social unrest and to political crisis.
"The endgame is here and the Argentine authorities and bondholders who went into the exchange are just refusing to acknowledge this reality," Porzecanski said. "If they don't put that money in the escrow account, chances are the Argentine economy and financial system will start grinding to a halt."
On the other hand, if it does pay, Porzecanski agrees that Argentina will immediately face other creditors, who are likely to win as well in New York courts.
"It's true that most other creditors are likely to piggyback on this decision. It's true that probably Judge Griesa would agree to it. It's true that another 10 or so billion dollars would become payable," he said. But "forestalling a default cliff is better than falling over one. It may be that their choice is between bad and worse, but realistically that's their choice ... That's why I don't think she'll last very long. I think she's doomed politically whether she makes the payment or not."
Leading Argentine politicians — even those opposed to Fernandez — have nearly unanimously criticized the judge's ruling in the last few days, for threatening the success of the debt relief that enabled Argentina to grow again. But many also question how the government has handled the legal case, and some called on Lorenzino on Monday to explain his actions to Congress.
All agree that if Argentina does go into default, it won't be because of an inability to pay. No other country has defaulted over such a low amount of debt relative to the size of its economy — just 2.2 percent of the GDP, according to analyst Ramiro Castineira with the Econometrica firm in Buenos Aires.
The total debt unpaid since Argentina's 2001 economic collapse is about $11.2 billion, and any U.S. precedent set in this case would apply to two-thirds of that, $6.2 billion. The rest is subject to jurisdictions outside the United States, Castineira said.
Still, Argentina seems to have run out of pain-free remedies. If the ruling is upheld, as expected, the Argentine government will need to pay out a total of nearly $5.5 billion in December alone. That is more than 10 percent of the total reserves for a country already struggling to pay salaries to public employees and maintain subsidies that have shored up vast sectors of the economy.
Fernandez and her ministers didn't offer any comments Monday on the case. But the president earlier this month said Argentina "won't pay debts at the cost of hunger and the exclusion of millions of Argentines, generating more poverty and social conflict so that the country explodes again."


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Lea Seydoux & Adele Exarchopoulos Reunite at 'La Belle et La Bete' Paris Premiere
Lea Seydoux steps out looking gorgeous at the premiere of her film La Belle et La Bete held at the Gaumont Opera on Sunday (February 9) in Paris, France.
The 28-year-old actress was joined at the event by her co-star Vincent Cassel, as well as her Blue Is the Warmest Color co-star Adele Exarchopoulos, and Salma Hayek with her husband Francois-Henri Pinault and their daughter Valentina.
The film hits theaters in France on February 12.
Also pictured inside: Salma at the Tryptiques Atypiques – Agnes Varda Photo Exhibition preview with the photographer herself at the Galerie Nathalie Obadia the day before in Paris.
FYI: Lea is wearing an Elie Saab dress and Christian Louboutin shoes.


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Trial set for woman accused of faking a hate crime
Rogers will appear in court Jan. 7
Trial set for woman accused of faking a hate crime
Rogers will appear in court Jan. 7
LINCOLN, Neb. —
A Lancaster County judge sets a Jan. 7 trial date for the former Husker Star accused of faking a hate crime.
Charlie Rogers, 34, appeared in court Tuesday with her attorney, Brett McArthur.
Rogers reported in July that three masked men broke into her home, bound her naked, and carved hate messages on her arms and stomach. She told police they spray painted the walls and tried to set her home on fire.
Last week, McArthur asked the judge to move the trial to another county because of the local and national media attention to the case.
The judge will decide on that motion later.
Rogers posted a video on YouTube saying she was innocent and the police botched the investigation.


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Erica Brignac is the 2012 Mom Congress Delegate for Delaware. She is a mother of two boys, ages 5 and 9. Professionally, Erica works as an art director and volunteers her design services to many non-profit children's organizations and schools. Unprofessionally, she loves to decorate cupcakes, make costumes and spend time with her husband, children and extended family.
What book is currently on your nightstand? Bossypants by Tina Fey.
School Involvement: Develop and perform music and movement curriculum enrichment for preschool classes, Homeroom mom for 3 years, design and produce fundraising and informational flyers for public schools and children's non-profit organizations.
One thing that is going great in education in your state: School choice.
One thing you wish could be improved in education in your state: Pre-service teacher training.
Your favorite teacher (and why): Miss Sarah Preston is my favorite teacher because her parental communication and mentorship taught me a great deal about how to better help my young son with PDD-NOS (pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified).
Secret indulgence: French fries and chocolate chip cookies (but it's no secret).
Favorite quote: "Instead of thinking outside the box, just get rid of it!" — Unknown
Biggest wish for your kids: To be independent, happy, compassionate people.
Most rewarding/challenging stage of parenthood thus far (and why): The most challenging stage was getting my younger son diagnosed and services needed to address his delays from age 21 months to present. My most rewarding is becoming a mom of a child with a disability which has also opened my eyes to the tremendous dedication I see in other parents of children with needs and the incredible perseverance these children have in their everyday lives.
Favorite family tradition: Celebrating birthdays with unique themed parties.
Favorite family activities: Playing games, building things out of LEGOS, movie nights, and staying in our pajamas all day once in a while!


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Picking the Pattern for a Stealth Antenna
F. De Vita, S. Di Marco, F. Costa and P. Turchi
Altran, Italy
Stealth airplanes and ships avoid radar detection by optimizing the shape of surfaces to reflect away from the radar source or absorb its energy. Yet, if a ship or aircraft's antenna for communication purposes is to operate properly, it cannot be completely covered up. This makes it one of the remaining components with a large radar cross section and can essentially destroy the overall system's ...
Analysis of Spiral Resonator Filters
S.P. Yushanov, J.S. Crompton, and K.C. Koppenhoeffer
AltaSim Technologies
As the world becomes more digital, there is growing demand for advanced wireless systems. Increasingly high data rate transmission systems mean that components like microwave filters must fit into smaller and smaller spaces, and multiple filters need to be integrated into compact designs. Engineers are challenged to meet a filter's specific passband frequencies and quality requirements within ...
Silent Air Cooling: A New Approach to Thermal Management
Nels Jewell-Larsen,
Tessera Technologies, CA, USA
Removing heat from electronic devices is a necessity that up until now was achieved by rotary fans. Tessera, a company that delivers innovative miniaturization technologies and products for next-generation electronic devices, developed a replacement for rotary fans that can satisfy demanding space and noise constraints. They designed a silent air cooling system that uses an electric field to ...
When it's Impossible to Take Actual Measurements, Multiphysics Provides the Answers
Simon Chiartano,
Terres Réfractaires du Boulonnais (TRB), France
To contain splashes and provide protection at plants where metal is fabricated, blast furnace runners need a roof made of cast iron and concrete. Terres Réfractaires Du Boulonnais, a manufacturing company in France, has hundreds of blast furnaces with a short functional lifespan, so engineers need to design roof runners as economically as possible while maintaining overall safety. During the ...
Understanding the Origin of Uncertainty in Thermometer Calibration
Jonathan Pearce
National Physical Laboratory
Thermometers have widespread application and like any measurement device, they must be calibrated. Many do this with the International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90), which is a platinum resistance thermometer that calibrates using a fixed point cell, which is a container with a well running through its center for insertion of the thermometer. The container has a material of 99.9999% purity. ...
Sonar Dome Vibration Analysis
Francesca Magionesi
There has been a recent move towards utilizing bulbous bows on ships to house different types of sonar systems, but it is not definite how much structural vibration might interfere with the functioning of a transducer array inside the sonar dome. INSEAN, the National Institute for Studies and Experiments of Naval Architecture in Italy, needed a way to simulate what is happening when the ...
Highly Accurate Li-ion Battery Simulation
Mikael Cugnet
French Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission
Battery management systems (BMSs) are designed to protect the batteries and predict their charge level. They use circuit models often derived from electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements to construct an equivalent circuit model (ECM) that consists of resistors and capacitors connected both in series and in parallel. Yet, ECMs do not provide any information about important cell ...
Multiphysics Simulations Help Track Underground Fluid Movements
A. Haas, H. Mahardika, M. Karaoulis, and A. Revil
Colorado School of Mines, USA
Combining acoustic and electromagnetic analyses helps scientists to more efficiently measure and survey subterranean regions. Acoustic waves can travel long distances, but have limitations when it comes to providing details about formation properties, and cannot be used to identify the liquids flowing through them. Electromagnetic waves do not propagate as far as acoustic waves, but can identify ...
Modeling the Electrochemistry of Blood Glucose Test Strips
Stephen Mackintosh
Lifescan Scotland
Lifescan Scotland is a medical device company that designs and manufactures blood glucose monitoring kits for the global diabetes market. These involve the self-monitoring of blood glucose levels through specialized monitoring systems and test strips that comprise of a plastic substrate, two carbon-based electrodes, a thin dry reagent layer, and a capillary volume where the blood is placed. ...
Multiphysics Simulation Helps Miele to Optimize Induction Stove Designs
Christian Schröder
mieletec FH Bielefeld
Holger Ernst
The induction stove was designed to meet a consumer need for better precision and speed than traditional stoves. Designers were tasked with improving the energy efficiency of the induction coils-stovepot interaction considering both the thermal and electromagnetics of the system. Miele, a world leader in domestic appliances and commercial machines, along with researchers from mieletec FH ...


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You've probably heard of Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Now, we also have XML-based messaging and envelopes. The MessageML Forum, an industry standards body, is working on MessageML, an open standard for sending XML messages. Somewhere around a billion emails go out every day, some of which contain important information that the recipient would take action on, given the opportunity. For example, companies send email to customers for trading alerts, flight delays, and bid confirmations. At the same time, customers have an ever-increasing number of endpoints: multiple email addresses, pagers, mobile phones, fax numbers. Ideally, companies should be able to send mail to a single address and let the recipient determine the disposition and priority of different kinds of messages.
The MessageML standard defines a "SmartMessage" as an electronic message that provides a single, standard envelope to deliver its content to a host of communications devices and applications. These endpoints include mobile phones with messaging capability, wireless Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), pagers, fax machines, PC email inboxes, instant messaging (IM) applications, and standard telephones. Thus, a SmartMessage sent to a pager looks the same as a SmartMessage sent as an email in HTML format. The MessageML architecture separates the content from the presentation and lets the sender define how the message content appears on these various endpoints.
A SmartMessage also contains a robust set of self-descriptive attributes, or metadata, about its content. A process or recipient can examine this metadata and determine how to process, prioritize, and deliver the message.
The MessageML standard also incorporates message stylesheets that are applied to the message content to create communications device-specific message formats. Again, by separating the content from the presentation, a SmartMessage can transform its content to any other presentation format, letting MessageML interoperate with and leverage other proprietary and XML-based communications formats. For example, you could send a SmartMessage to a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)-enabled phone by transforming its contents to Wireless Markup Language (WML), or you could initiate a speech-recognition dialog over a telephone by transforming a SmartMessage into a VoiceXML document.
The following process flow describes a simple SmartMessage life cycle:
- An Informant creates an Informant Stylesheet that defines metadata about the Informant and its valid sources or locations from which its associated SmartMessages can originate. The Informant stores this document on its Web server.
- The Informant creates a SmartMessage Stylesheet for each type of activity it wants to deliver to its recipients (e.g., a stylesheet for a Travel Itinerary activity). Within this activity is a collection of event classes associated with that activity (e.g., a Flight Cancellation event, an Itinerary Change event). The Informant defines XML schemas, which are embedded in the SmartMessage Stylesheet, to describe what the message content, or payload, looks like for each event class. The Informant also creates Extensible Style Language (XSL) documents and embeds them in the SmartMessage Stylesheet to define how each event's payload should display on the various endpoints. The Informant also stores this document on its Web server.
- A SmartMessage service provider hosts SmartMessage users who sign up to receive SmartMessages from the Informant. Each user decides where the service provider should deliver the Informant's various SmartMessage event classes, specifically to which endpoints.
- The Informant creates and sends a SmartMessage to a set of SmartMessage user accounts that the SmartMessage service provider hosts.
- The SmartMessage service provider receives, processes, and delivers the SmartMessage to each addressed user's specified endpoint(s).
As the MessageML standard becomes more solid, you can expect to see platforms such as Microsoft Exchange, AOL, and Hotmail adopt it. United Airlines, for instance, is experimenting with this technology today. Visit the MessageML Web site for more information about MessageML.


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Wild Animal Orphanage tiger rescue: On the road!
Bali, Titan and Java are now making their way to their new home at the Carolina Tiger Rescue sanctuary in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Their life-changing voyage started early yesterday morning in San Antonio when IFAW staff met with colleagues from the Wild Animal Orphanage (WAO) and the Texas Animal Resource Team (TXSART) near the big cat enclosures at 7:00 am.
The sun was barely over the horizon and through the early morning fog we caught the first glimpse of these magnificent cats. At first, they were just lying down, they looked relaxed but their eyes would not leave us. While they were comforted by the familiar voices of their life-long keepers Michelle and Mary Reininger, there were many of us there for the first time, strangers. The tigers stood up and started pacing the enclosure fence, 'something is up'.
What would possess anyone to get too close to the tiger cage and risk getting clawed or bitten is beyond me, a quick look at their size and canines is enough to keep me at a safe distance, nevertheless, we had the necessary cautionary message from the veterinarian before proceeding and had all the media folks sign liability waivers before attending the event!
We all took our positions and we carefully aligned and strapped the transport cages to the enclosure doors.
Michelle and Mary have known these tigers for more than a decade and have built such a tight bond that the best way to describe their relationship is to say they are like children to them. They know them inside out and we would soon see why.
First off for caging was Java. "She is such a sweet girl" said Michelle. She gets along really well with most tigers and humans which is surprising knowing that she spent the first years of her live in private ownership with no interaction with other tigers. Following the call of her caretakers, Java walked into the transport cage voluntarily just a minute or two after they opened the door for her. For a second there you forget she is a tiger and all you see with Java is a docile and giant cat, purring along and getting close to the fence looking for affection.
Titan was next and he too walked straight in. "Titan is a bit of a show-off, always playful, always cool and he's Bali's best friend" said Mary. Once again, he did just what they had predicted, everything was running smoothly and we were ahead of schedule, moving tigers is easy!
Not so fast... we soon found out that Titan's tiger buddy was not so comfortable with the idea of walking into a cage. Bali's reluctance was again no real surprise, we had been warned that is was very unlikely that he would follow Titan and Java's example. "Bali is a gentle tiger but he gets very nervous around people he doesn't know" warned Michelle. We all cleared away from the enclosure area to give him a chance to settle down but all he did was poke his head into the cage a couple of times. It was plain to see that he knew something was just not right and his suspicious nature got the best of him.
We waited for about 20 minutes and then we realized there was no other choice but to sedate and manually place him into the cage. So a tranquilizing dart hit him on the side and 15 minutes later, Bali was sound asleep, snoring heavily and with his tongue sticking out! Only then did we feel somewhat comfortable to open the door and step in with him. The vet and support staff lifted his heavy body and placed him on a stretcher. It took 5 people to get him into the transport cage but soon enough he joined Java and Titan on a forklift drive to the transport trailer stationed about a quarter of a mile down the dirt road.
All of the tigers were in and ready to start their long trip by midday. And so after we said our farewells, the IFAW-donated TXSART trailer set-off on its 26-hour journey to North Carolina.
As I'm writing this, we got news that the trailer had crossed the state of Louisiana and the tigers are doing well. So comfortable in fact that they spend most of the time dozing off to the constant rocking motion of the trailer and the sound of the engine running.
The IFAW team is now positioned in North Carolina, ready to welcome the tigers to their new home. Please stay tuned to further updates on this move and check out our live webcast scheduled for Friday night (8:00 Eastern Time) on www.ifaw.org/live to see the tigers arriving!
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[...] Wild Animal Orphanage Tiger Rescue: On The Road! — Animalwire [...]
As of Aug. 23 2010 this name was not on the animal inventory list.
WAO has or had a tiger named Dakota. Can anyone tell me what has happened to him? If he is alive, where he is going?
[...] IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare) is moving three tigers from a closed sanctuary in San Antonio, Texas to Pittsboro, North Carolina. The tigers will be transported on a 36-foot rescue trailer and cover more than 1,300 miles to their new life-long home at the Carolina Tiger Rescue sanctuary. Learn more about the move, see pictures and watch the video! [...]
Words cannot express the depth of emotion I feel to know that these beautiful animals have found a home. The work of IFAW and the other volunteers must be recognised and commended...it takes more than just a conscience to extend so much of yourselves to help another sentient being....it takes a heart and a brave spirit that transcend self-imposed personal boundaries of helplessness and frustration to walk this difficult road. Thank you is never enough but when it is given from a sincere place, it ripples across the silent spaces of the universe to create more awareness and love. Thank you!
Thank you, Michael, for this great coverage. For the time it took me to read the article, I was moved in time and felt that I was experiencing this special occasion for real.
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by action4ifaw, MJ. MJ said: RT @action4ifaw: UPDATE: Report from the field: Wild Animal Orphanage Tiger Rescue: On The Road! https://bit.ly/9Tb85x #tigers #rescue [...]


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Samsung may be top dog in the global TV market, but it's still rankled by the fact that it's not truly regarded as a high-end brand. Despite critical plaudits and mass-market success, its moniker isn't bandied around as a premiere league name. Samsung doesn't resonate the way Ferrari or Dunhill does. But it has a plan to change all that - and that plan has a number: nine.
To change people's perceptions, the Korean giant has decided to produce money-no-object home entertainment products in the shape of the 9 Series. The first fruit of this audacious initiative is the 9000 Series LED TVs, of which the UE55C9000 is reviewed here. It'll be joined shortly by the 9 Series HT-C9950W 7.1 home theatre package, a gleaming confection of titanium speakers, 3D Blu-ray and digital amplification. These nines purport to embody Samsung's finest proprietary technology and no-compromise design aesthetics.
The 55-inch UE55C9000 (also available as a 46-incher) is certainly a spectacular example of cutting edge TV design. Impossibly thin at just 7.98mm, with a slim brushed-grain bezel, this sliver of a set is unquestionably beautiful. The rear of the panel is just as eye-catching as the front, with no ugly ventilation grilles to spoil its lines and a chrome bulge which joins the screen to stand.
The stand itself is actually far more than just a pedestal. It houses the speakers (rated at 2 x 15W) which fire forward from the front rim, and also functions as a connection hub. Given how slim this stand is, a bunch of fiddly adaptors are supplied for connecting Scart, phono AV, Component, Ethernet, etc. Around the side of the stand are USB ports, for media playback or adding a Wi-Fi dongle if a wired network connection isn't available or desired.
The feature specification is extremely good. The set has extensive multimedia playback support (JPEG, MP3, DivX, MKV and AVI), is DLNA compliant and offers access to Samsung's fast-growing Internet@TV online portal, which now has such diversions as YouTube, BBC iPlayer, Lovefilm and assorted apps.
Picture quality is rarely less than ravishing. The panel itself is preternaturally sharp. Still images have a ruthless clarity that's quite mesmerising. Colour vibrancy is bold and there's a well-like blackness to its images which creates tremendous depth. We're not sure TV and movies are meant to zing quite as loudly as they do with this set, but for sheer eye-candy it's difficult to beat.
The pencil-thinness of the screen has been achieved through edge-LED backlighting. Given the size of the panel, the light distribution is reassuringly even. Greyscale performance is excellent and deinterlacing is extremely good. To protect your retinas we'd advise you set brightness no higher than 45.
While all Full HD LCD screens look sharp with static or slow moving images, they lose a good deal of fine detail during movement. We're not talking about the comet tails and image blur that used to afflict first generation LCD panels, but the subtle loss of clarity that can come from even modest amounts of motion. This panel suffers less than most in this regard.
The UE55C9000 has a variety of picture processing modes to protect motion picture resolution, including LED Motion Plus and variable high frame rates, up to 240Hz on 60Hz sources and 200Hz on 50Hz. Using a motion resolution test pattern developed by the Advanced PDP Development Centre, we noted a drop-off in sharpness at 6.5ppf (pixels per frame) from 1080 lines to between 850-950. Not too shabby.
Obviously, 3D will be a key attraction for many buyers. The screen is compatible with all current 3D formats: Full HD 3D Blu-ray, side-by-side Sky 3D and some other modes you'll never need. We auditioned the screen with a selection of 3D Blu-ray movies (not that there are that many), Sky 3D and gaming in the shape of the Avatar Xbox 360 game.
The initial impression (certainly from friends and family who viewed this set) was that its 3D effect is a wow. Stereoscopic images are extremely bright and colour fidelity is robust, given the filtering that occurs from the Active Shutter glasses. While the 3D Blu-ray standard delivers 60Hz to each eye, a 120Hz refresh rate for LCD is just too slow. So Samsung doubles this to 240Hz, and embellishes it with a technique called Dual Black Insertion.
While other brands double LCD refresh to 240Hz by running a left/left/right/right image sequence, Samsung inserts a black frame (so we get left/black-frame/right/black-frame etc) to reduce image retention and improve image definition.
Side-by-side formats look fine but its Blu-ray images which have the greatest tangible depth. That said, crosstalk is an obvious issue (as indeed it is on all of Samsung's 2010 3D screens). Crosstalk occurs when part of an image intended for one eye leaks into the other, creating a slight ghosting. With fast moving material this is often impossible to spot, but high contrast verticals (usually buildings) are a dead giveaway.
Is this a deal breaker? Probably not. While TV manufacturers and creators like James Cameron insist that in time all our content will be viewed in 3D, we have no intention of spending our entire TV viewing time behind uncomfortable glasses. We suspect we're not alone.
3D addicts starved of real 3D content can also take advantage of the set's 2D-to-3D conversion. This takes regular video content and adds faux dimensionalisation. What we have here is probably the best 2D conversion process currently available. It's a totally unpredictable process, but seems to work better with HD source material.
Samsung has taken a slightly different approach to creating fake 3D. Instead of dividing an image vertically, and placing the bottom segment to the foreground, treating the middle as mid-distance and top as far distance, it uses a high-intensity algorithm based on depth processing. This divides a 2D image into 96 segments which are individually analysed for depth. The resulting data soup is then used to create the stereoscopic image. It should be noted that the process creates thin vertical black bars, left and right.
As impressive as the UE55C9000 is, we do have some reservations. If there's one aspect of the 9000 Series which doesn't convince it's the touchscreen remote. It's an ambitious replacement for the standard zapper which can link via Wi-Fi to display streaming media and TV channels. But the simple fact is it's just a monumental pain to use. The screen itself is frustrating to operate: it's all too easy to hit the wrong command. It's also excessively power hungry. In general viewing it doesn't have the stamina to last a day and invariably spends most of its time recharging via a USB wall wart. After just a couple of days we predict you'll be desperate to wield a traditional remote handset. Indeed, we feel strongly that Samsung should have bundled a simple remote control with the screen as an option.
The UE55C9000 is a head-turner of a TV. Exquisitely made, and blessed with Samsung's most advanced picture technology, it's much more than just another big 3D telly. For the market-leading Koreans this is a statement product - and comes with a price tag to match. In truth, the screen isn't flawless, its 3D performance is compromised by crosstalk and the touchscreen remote is a spectacular fail. But to carp is to miss the point. While every other TV manufacturer is aiming low, Samsung has reached high. Awesome job, guys.


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Zeptolab is teaming with McDonald's on a new multi-market Happy Meal promotion for its popular mobile game brand, Cut the Rope. The deal was brokered by Zeptolab's master licensing agent in Europe, ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE).
Through October, the promotion will run in 37 markets across Europe and will offer a new and exclusive app, Cut the Rope: Hungry for Fruit, which is available on McDonald's Happy Studio on the iOS and Android platforms. The goal of the game is to get the candy-eating monster, Om Nom, a steady diet of fruit by popping floating bubbles that contain the fruit or Om Nom himself. During the promotion, every Happy Meal purchase will come with one of eight Om Nom fruit-themed toys.
Store window takeovers, fruit sampling, fun fruit recipe cards, and premium demos are among the activations that will support the new Cut the Rope game for the duration of the promotion.


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- What is Business Aviation?
- Membership
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- Aircraft Operations
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The word safety refers to the management of risk with the goal of eliminating, reducing, and/or mitigating injury and loss as a result of accidents and incidents. NBAA's vision statement begins with an unqualified commitment to enhance the safety of business aviation. Safety is fundamental to business aviation's role within the nation's transportation system. It is also a key expectation of those who we personally transport. Our community must not only be safe, it also must have the perception of safety.
The following concepts and actions are elements of safety culture that can be found in many organizations:
- Unqualified commitment to safety as a behavioral pattern and pervasive way of life by
top management.
- Unambiguous expectations by each level of management as well as each peer group that,
for all employees, safe life patterns and work habits are as normal as breathing and must
be practiced off the job as well as on the job.
- Availability of quality, standardized equipment with which to accomplish the assigned
- Clear, easily understood operating procedures, followed without deviation.
- Inclusive system of communications for collecting, analyzing, and exchanging incident
data related to safety.
- Non-retribution for submission of incident data.
- Retraining without penalty or stigma when safety is involved.
- System for tracking incident and accident data, analysis of trends, and feedback of results.
- Peer acceptance that accidents are preventable, regardless of operations.
- Peer acceptance that safety is a matter of lifestyle - a matter of culture.
In order to assist the membership in developing or refining a formal safety program, the NBAA Safety Committee has compiled this Prototypical Business Aviation Safety Manual. The motivation for this project was to ensure NBAA Member Companies a means of addressing risk within their organizations. The NBAA Safety Committee has identified both flight and ground safety programs that may be necessary to reduce risk in any business aviation organization. These programs are prototypes only and should not be construed as recommended policy. Each organization should tailor their own safety program to its own specific needs.
Follow the links below to download a specific program element.
- General Safety Policy
- 46 KB Microsoft Word File
33 KB Adobe PDF File
- Safety Committee
- 33 KB Microsoft Word File
18 KB Adobe PDF File
- Standard Operating Procedures - Fixed Wing
- 243 KB Microsoft Word File
185 KB Adobe PDF File
- Standard Operating Procedures - Rotary Wing
- 213 KB Microsoft Word File
163 KB Adobe PDF File
- Flight Deck Automation
- Refer to NBAA Alert Bulletin 99-1 Attachment: Prototypical Crew Guidance for Advanced Cockpit Aircraft
- Training
- 66 KB Microsoft Word File
117 KB Adobe PDF File
- Hazard and Incident Reporting and Investigation
- 53 KB Microsoft Word File
62 KB Adobe PDF File
- Accident Preparedness Plan
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272 KB Adobe PDF File
- Facility Emergency Plan
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67 KB Adobe PDF File
- Compliance Assessment
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555 KB Adobe PDF File
- OSHA Recording and Reporting
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27 KB Adobe PDF File
- Hazard Communication
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51 KB Adobe PDF File
- Hazardous Waste
- 117 KB Microsoft Word File
79 KB Adobe PDF File
- Regulated Wastes
- 41 KB Microsoft Word File
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- Personal Protective Equipment
- 90 KB Microsoft Word File
138 KB Adobe PDF File
- Respiratory Protection
- 55 KB Microsoft Word File
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- Hearing Conservation
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- Fall Protection
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- Powered Industrial Vehicles (Tugs, Scissorlifts, Forklifts)
- 62 KB Microsoft Word File
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- Bloodborne Pathogens
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- Employee Exposure and Medical Records
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- Contractor Safety
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- OSHA Compliance Inspections
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- OSHA Compliance Checklist Added May 2003
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In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the rebuilding of New Orleans made it more important than ever for the city to modernize its cumbersome and inefficient paper-based purchasing process. Thanks to the Web-based BuySpeed e-procurement system, the city was able to accomplish that – saving more than $1.25 million along the way.
Since being implemented in 2006, BuySpeed has helped the city cut its processing time by 80 percent and increase its purchase orders by fivefold, even after staff cuts.
BuySpeed, which is a product of Periscope Holdings, integrates with the city's Microsoft Dynamics-GP general ledger system, and combines Web requisitioning, electronic approvals, contract purchases and electronic purchase-order delivery to reduce purchase cycle time citywide.
BuySpeed also gives the city self-service vendor registration and secure bid management, which reduce costs and improve the efficiency of the competitive bidding process.
Electronic receipt and invoice entry close the procurement loop by automating the entire "procure-topayment" cycle.
The city's initial investment in BuySpeed was $256,200, which included software and professional services for implementation and consulting. The initial cost of the BuySpeed system, when compared to the actual cost savings gained, delivered a 4:1 return on the city's investment.
"BuySpeed was clearly the best solution we evaluated," said Andrée Cohen, purchasing administrator for the city of New Orleans. "None of the other solutions came close to demonstrating the range of e-procurement functionality offered by Periscope, let alone Web-based."
Paper-based process created headaches
In 1997, the city of New Orleans implemented a mainframe financial management system but elected not to implement any electronic purchasing functions. Instead, city staff manually processed and documented procurements. The lack of automation for purchasing processes created a range of problems for the city, including:
No automated vendor management. The city had no automated process for registering and maintaining vendor information, which made it very difficult for departments to effectively source purchases. City staff received paper bid applications and manually input this information into the vendor database. The database contained duplicate vendor records and did not include city-required DBE certification and other retrievable vendor information.
Time-consuming formal bidding. The purchasing staff spent a considerable amount of time documenting every step of the bidding process, including:
- Bid development and release.
- Written vendor notifications.
- Advertising.
- Tabulation.
- Document approval.
- Document security and management.
- Recommendation of award and contract.
Inefficient requisitioning. The city's Department of Purchasing was responsible for processing requisitions originating from departments citywide. Staff initiated these in the mainframe financial system but system limitations meant:
- Requisition status was not available during the approval process.
- Staff members had no ability to attach documents to the mainframe financial system.
- Data could not be automatically transferred onto bid and purchase-order (PO) documents.
- Document tracking and reporting were not automated.
- Links to awarded POs were not available.
Inability to access purchasing information. No centralized repository existed for those procurements in the process of negotiation or for those executed by the city. As a result, two different departments could have had completely separate bids or requests for proposal (RFPs) released for identical products or services with different vendors and contract terms. This increased costs for both goods purchased and contract management. Without a tightly integrated purchasing process, departments had insufficient information about purchases and document workflow. Consequently, the city had limited capabilities to know how and where its departments were actually spending funds.
High administrative costs. Manual processes require very costly resources – people. In 2005, the city carried a staff of nine full-time buyers and three full-time administrators to support citywide purchasing. The city charter required purchasing staff to secure competitive pricing for all purchases. Louisiana State Public Bid Law requirements imposed varying rules based on the type of procurement and its total estimated price. On average, the staff hours required to issue each purchase order cost the city $80 and – in some cases – exceeded the cost of goods purchased.
Problems compounded by Katrina
Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005. More than 80 percent of the city remained under water for two weeks, and the city's infrastructure was decimated.
The drinking water system was contaminated, gas lines were filled with salt water (corroding copper gas pipes) and power lines all across the community were down. Streets were unnavigable – except by boat – and hundreds of roads sustained severe damage because of their extensive exposure to saltwater. Katrina damaged or destroyed more than 100,000 homes and left 50,000 vehicles submerged.
The situation was exacerbated by Hurricane Rita re-flooding parts of the city when it made landfall on Sept. 24, about three weeks following Katrina.
After Katrina's devastation, the New Orleans population was cut by more than half – to approximately 220,000 – and the city struggled to rebuild. Performance of many city services – including purchasing – became nearly impossible because of the loss of staff and resources such as computers, phones and available office space. Of the 12 staff members working in the Department of Purchasing prior to the hurricane, only three returned during the days immediately following Katrina.
More pressure than ever was put on the city's purchasing process after this natural disaster. Hundreds of construction and capital improvement projects needed funding and management by the city as part of its rebuilding effort. The engineering and logistical challenges to support this required a substantial level of management, control and the coordination of thousands of suppliers and contractors.
The city needed to perform efficiently and respond rapidly to this crisis to bring order to the chaos left in the hurricane's wake, and to handle the increased requisitions necessary to rebuild the community's severely damaged infrastructure.
The additional demands placed on the city's purchasing system included the need to:
Manage increased spending. Spending and procurement activity would continue to increase over the coming months and years as New Orleans' rebuilding effort progressed. This activity could not be managed using the existing infrastructure.
Rebuild the network of vendors that supply the city with goods and services. Following Katrina, many of the contract vendors previously in place for the city had moved or no longer were in business. The city had to immediately re-engage the vendor community and establish a usable database of providers.
Increase productivity. The pre-Katrina staff of 12 was challenged to perform purchasing activities under normal circumstances with the previous processes and infrastructure. With only seven Department of Purchasing staff working after Katrina, the city had to dramatically improve staff efficiency and productivity by automating its manual processes.
BuySpeed software implemented
Prior to Katrina, the city had recognized the deficiencies in its manual purchasing process and issued an RFP for an electronic purchasing system. The city's primary objective was to acquire a Web-based purchasing system that would allow it to automate the requisition, bid, purchase-order and contracting process, manage the vendor database and integrate with its financial system.
Just months before Katrina, the city awarded a contract to Periscope Holdings for its Web-based e-procurement software, BuySpeed. Periscope is an Austin, Texas-based company that provides e-procurement software and services to government clients across North America.
Under the contract, BuySpeed would be integrated with the city's Microsoft Dynamics-GP general ledger system. Periscope would provide professional services for the software's implementation and consulting.
BuySpeed was set to go live the first week in September 2005. But just a few days before the new system's planned launch, Katrina hit New Orleans and chaos ensued. Periscope quickly responded to the city's call for help.
"The Periscope team worked quickly to establish a field purchasing environment that provided access to the state of Florida emergency supplier list," Cohen said. "They also helped us procure desperately needed items such as computers and clothing."
Periscope's 'priority project'
Periscope worked closely with the city not only to provide temporary disaster support but also to continue implementation of BuySpeed. The urgency to get the new system up and running was made more pressing by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s purchasing procedures implemented as a stopgap measure immediately following the disaster.
FEMA's system gave the city little ability to track the history of purchases at a time when it was making an unprecedented number of them. The city was relying heavily on federal assistance and donations to fund recovery efforts.
City officials knew they had to automate, control and account for the city's spending or else compromise the city's ability to continue to receive this funding.
"We knew it was critical for the future of New Orleans that the city get its automated system in place quickly – despite the unimaginable challenges faced after Katrina," said Brian Utley, Periscope president and CEO. "It immediately became Periscope's priority project."
The city launched BuySpeed in March 2006. The software not only provided the functionality to address the problems the city had faced with its manual purchasing system but it also gave the city the ability to efficiently control and account for the increased purchasing necessary for the city's reconstruction.
"BuySpeed did not require special features or functions that were unique to the city of New Orleans," said Chris Kennedy, Periscope's vice president of professional services. "New Orleans' needs were very similar to those of many large municipal governments. BuySpeed is designed to meet the challenges unique to governments and purchasing professionals."
BuySpeed's Web functionality addressed the multiple challenges the city of New Orleans had faced pre-Katrina under its manual system by providing:
Improved vendor management. Self-service vendor registration and file maintenance now gives the city current and accurate vendor information. Emergency suppliers of goods and services can be identified by category and purchase order notifications are sent immediately via e-mail.
Electronic requisition and approvals. Department requisitions can be created electronically by staff and approved in minutes. Approval paths are managed dynamically depending on the requisition origin, dollar amount, commodity or account code.
Improved purchase orders and contracts management. Staff can manage the encumbrance of funds, electronic notification of awards, control of spend against contracts and reporting on contract history.
Electronic tracking of receipts and invoices. Staff can enter receipts directly into BuySpeed. Full or partial receipts are supported based on quantity or dollar amount. Invoice entry also is supported, enabling an accurate match between the PO and the receipt.
Entirely automated bid management. Taking advantage of up-to-date vendor data collected online, BuySpeed allows the city to manage the entire bid process from creation, sourcing and distribution through tabulation and award. Encrypted online bid responses provide a highly secure, competitive process that enables the city to contract at the best available price.
BuySpeed by the numbers
The city has reaped dramatic savings through the use of the BuySpeed purchasing automation system. Fewer staff now handle more purchases in less time, supporting New Orleans' massive reconstruction effort following Katrina.
If the city had continued to use its manual purchasing system in 2007, the city's total purchasing costs would have been $1,595,143. The city's total costs using BuySpeed to perform procurement activities in 2007 were $336,000, including all staff salaries, training and benefits.
With BuySpeed, the city's cost per bid has been cut by two-thirds, and the number of bids processed has almost doubled, even with reduced staff. In 2004, it cost the city an average of $3,360 per bid to complete 120 bids. Through BuySpeed, that cost was reduced to $1,126 per bid for 207 bids processed in 2007.
Among other benefits of BuySpeed:
The city's cost per purchase order is nine times less, even with reduced staff. By using BuySpeed, the city reduced the cost per PO from $80 with 12 staff members in 2004 to $9 with seven staff members in 2007. Twelve staff members processed and distributed 2,144 purchase orders in 2004 using the traditional manual processes. Seven staff processed 11,162 purchase orders completed electronically in 2007.
The city quickly collected muchneeded information from local suppliers – information that was practically nonexistent while the city used the FEMA stopgap system after Katrina. BuySpeed allowed the city to target local and regional vendors, as well as national vendors – without a fee – and collect specific information necessary to source its purchasing needs. Today, BuySpeed manages more than 6,600 vendors for the city and serves as the foundation for purchases of commodities and services supporting New Orleans' redevelopment.
Average cycle-time for requisition completions dropped from 4.5 days to one day, translating into an 80 percent reduction in processing time to complete the entire requisition to PO process.
Liz Carmack, a freelance writer and a professional communicator for 25 years, wrote this case history on behalf of Austin, Texas-based Periscope Holdings.


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