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- Includes 85" wide x 20" tall blade
- Uses hydraulics to lift & lower the blade
- Includes hydraulic angling system
- Includes blade markers
- Includes skid shoes
- Includes snow deflector
- Comes with wheels for easy storage
- Include vehicle specific front mounting brackets
Stop breaking your back shoveling snow this winter with FirstTrax Prosumer snow plows. The Prosumer snow plow is the fully hydraulic version of FirstTrax's Home Series snow plow. Using a FirstTrax snow plow will make keeping your driveway clean simple and easy, all winter long.
FirstTrax is a first-rate snowplow manufacturer. They use a steel blade and powder coat it with industrial grade yellow paint so you get years of service without rust, plus added visibility going down the road. All other plow components go through a hot-dip galvanizing process to keep the parts looking new without worrying about paint chipping or being rubbed off.
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You get plenty of options to choose from with the Prosumer plows. You have 3 different blade sizes to choose from – 6'8", 7'1", or 7'6". The fully assembled kit includes a galvanized scraper blade, rubber snow deflector, heavy duty skid shoes, and bright red blade markers. Handy adjustable wheels attached right to the plow make it easy to maneuver when attaching or detaching the plow from your truck, not to mention putting it away for the summer.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Can I drive on the road with my snowplow attached to my truck/SUV?
A: To drive on the road with your snowplow attached, most provinces and states require the installation of a light kit with turn signals, and it must be fully operational while on the road.
Depending on the year and model of you vehicle, you may need additional components to install this feature. We suggest you have a trained technician wire in the plugs supplied at your local dealer. A safety chain is also required, which will not allow the plow to fall off the front of the truck. Always consult your local regulatory agency for their particular requirements.
Note: Driving at highway speeds with the plow attached is NOT recommended as it may cause your engine to overheat.
Q: Is an actuator or hydraulic lift system better than using a winch mechanism?
A: Yes, an actuator or hydraulic system offers a more reliable, repetitive-use mechanism than winches, which are typically known for acting up or burning out.
Q: Why is FirstTrax's finish superior to other brands?
A: The hot dipped galvanize coating we apply is an extremely tough finish which doesn't seem to mind too much about getting roughed up a little. We all know we're pushing around a lot more than just fluffy snowflakes when clearing a path. Gravel, salt and who knows what other abrasive items are lurking below that white blanket of snow.
No, our product isn't clear coated for that out of the box one day shine or tested at the salt water spa like our competitors, sorry no useless marketing schemes here.
Our hot dip galvanizing provides consistency. Our snowplows will look great the first year and the next, and the next…and the…well, you get the picture.
1 Year Warranty
FirstTrax offers a 1 year limited warranty against manufacturing defects in workmanship and materials for the original end user. The warranty offered is limited to the replacement or repair at the manufacturer's facility, or at a point pre-approved by the manufacturer to service and repair the product if defect is found. The warranty is void if alterations have been made to the original product, or for equipment misused, neglected or improperly installed.
FirstTrax plows reserves the right to improve any product through changes in design or materials. FirstTrax is not obligated to present or incorporate such changes in products previous manufactured. A copy of your original receipt must be forwarded when sending parts for warranty work. Expenses which have been incurred by the buyer without approval or authorization by FirstTrax will not be accepted or reimbursed.
The FirstTrax Prosumer snow plow is easy to install at home with no drilling, cutting, or welding required. All mount brackets are custom designed for a bolt-on installation and a precise fit. An example of how your snow plow installation instructions is below for you to look over. The mount installation instructions will be specific for your vehicle. For additional information or if you have any questions, please feel free to give us a call. We have representatives available 7 days a week.

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SAO PAULO (AP) — Protesters returned to the streets in smaller, sporadic protests in a handful of Brazilian cities Tuesday, demanding better education, transport and health services.
The protests came one day after President Dilma Rousseff proposed a wide range of actions to reform Brazil's political system.
Protesters left a slum in Rio and peacefully marched toward a rich beach neighborhood. In Sao Paulo, some groups blocked major highways while others marched earlier in the day in impoverished neighborhoods. About 1,000 people in Niteroi marched and other demonstrations took place in five other states.
Police in Rio de Janeiro charged into the Nova Holanda slum and killed at least eight people as they hunted for the killer of a police officer who died after a protest the night before that devolved into a clash with demonstrators who looted stores and robbed bystanders.
"We think the people who are most interested in the demands being made in the street demonstrations of the past several days are those who live in these kind of poor areas," said Guilherme Boulos, one of the leaders of Tuesday's protests on Sao Paulo's outskirts.
So far, Brazilian protesters don't appear appeased by Rousseff's proposals, which shifted some of the burden for progress onto Brazil's widely loathed Congress by calling for a plebiscite on political reform lawmakers will have to approve. The divided Congress would likely struggle to take any quick action on such a plebiscite.
Protesters have filled cities to air a wide spectrum of grievances including poor public services and the high cost of hosting next year's World Cup soccer tournament and the 2016 Olympics.
About 100,000 people were expected to march in the city of Belo Horizonte on Wednesday before Brazil plays Uruguay in the semifinals of the Confederations Cup. City officials declared a holiday and said they were expecting confrontations with demonstrators.
Sepp Blatter, president of international soccer organizing body FIFA, was scheduled to attend the game. FIFA officials have said security has been boosted because of the protests, but it wasn't immediately known if any changes were expected in Belo Horizonte because of Blatter's presence.
In Porto Alegre, Ronaldo Sielichow, president of that city's Association of Store Owners, asked law enforcement to beef up security after looting hit the southern city over the past few days during demonstrations.
Rousseff told governors and mayors Monday that her administration would allocate $23 billion for new spending on urban public transport, but she didn't provide details on what the new projects would be. Four leaders from the free-transit activist group that launched the demonstrations more than a week ago said she also gave them no concrete plans while meeting with them.
She said her government would focus on five priorities: fiscal responsibility and controlling inflation; political reform; health care; public transport, and education.
In her weekly column posted Tuesday on the presidency's website, Rousseff said: "The money spent to build or renovate stadiums for the World Cup is not part of the federal budget and does not affect funds earmarked for health and education."
Rousseff added that the World Cup cost "was financed and will be paid back by the companies and state governments that use these stadiums."
Many of the actions proposed by Rousseff, including using all oil royalties to fund education and attracting foreign doctors to work in underserved areas, weren't new and had already met with stiff resistance in Congress.
Associated Press writer Tales Azzoni in Belo Horizonte contributed to this report.


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Oregon court certifies driver card ballot title
Oregon court certifies driver card ballot title
Apr. 02, 2014
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's Supreme Court has upheld the title and summary for a referendum to restore driving privileges for people who can't prove they're legally in the United States.
The court last week certified the ballot title written by Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum. The referendum remains titled: Provides Oregon resident "driver card" without requiring proof of legal presence in the United States.
Ballot titles are regarded as crucial information for swing voters or those who haven't done homework on an issue.
Lawmakers last year granted driving privileges, with some restrictions, to people who can't prove their legal presence. Critics collected signatures to refer the measure to voters in November.
Supporters of driver cards wanted a ballot title that refers to improving public safety rather than to legal presence.


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A specification for a standard multi-threading Common Lisp API. It has been superseded by Bordeaux-Threads.
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The CLOS Specification describes the standard Programmer Interface for the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). This document extends that specification by defining a metaobject protocol for CLOS - that ...
CDR 2: A generic hash table interface specification for Common Lisp
The hash table interface specified in the Common Lisp standard is only guaranteed to work with keys that are considered equal with either of EQ, EQL, EQUAL or EQUALP. It is sometimes useful for an app...
CLoX: Common Lisp Objects for XEmacs
CLoX is an ongoing attempt to provide a full Emacs Lisp implementation of the Common Lisp Object System, including its underlying meta-object protocol, for XEmacs. This paper describes the early devel...
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OMG CORBA Common Lisp language mapping specification.
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Downton Abbey Gets a Fourth Season
You might've guessed it, but now you can be sure: Downton Abbey will run for a fourth season. The third season premieres in the U.S. in January, and the series will be back into production by February, filming eight episodes and another Christmas special that should air around next autumn in the U.K. Executive producer Gareth Neame assures "more drama, comedy, love, hatred, jealousy, rivalry, ambition, despair and romance." So many things.


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Hospice care for non-nursing home patients was among the dollars Gov. Bobby Jindal placed on the chopping block Friday as part of midyear budget cuts.
Jindal had to erase a $166 million shortfall in the current $25 billion budget year. The reason for the shortfall is twofold. Sales and personal income tax collections are weaker than economists expected, forcing them to lower their projections. Adding to the problem is the need for more dollars for basic student aid and a college scholarship program.
"We are acting swiftly," Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols told legislators Friday in announcing how the governor would balance this year's budget.
The reductions mark the fifth year of budget cuts in the middle of the fiscal year. The trimming started at the end of the governor's first year in office, coinciding with a rare snowfall in Baton Rouge.
For the latest round of cuts, the governor was able to fill the gap without needing legislators' approval. Nichols outlined a combination of spending cuts, found money and streamlining savings to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.
Among the deepest cuts were at the state Department of Health and Hospitals and the state Department of Children and Family Services.
Doctors, hospitals, mentally ill patients, pregnant women and dying patients will be affected by the state's financial problems.
State Sen. Sharon Broome, D-Baton Rouge, complained that the reductions affect departments that deal with the state's most fragile residents. "I hope we can see these reductions with faces on them," she told Nichols.
Nichols said the administration avoided across-the-board reductions that would have dealt heavier cuts to health care and higher education. Instead, she said, the governor made cuts and drew in dollars from a legal settlement, a prison closure and a self insurance fund.
Higher education received $22 million in reductions. Nichols said that is softened by tuition increases producing more money than expected.
Other reductions include:
- Contract reductions for health care providers who help the poor, the mentally ill and the drug-addicted.
- A 1 percent cut in the rate that doctors and hospitals are paid by the state to care for the poor.
- The elimination of dental benefits for pregnant women relying on the state for health care.
- Possibly laying off 63 state government workers.
Additionally, the administration will use money in a maintenance fund to operate state parks. Domestic violence victims will move into hotels or seek shelter with their families, reducing the cost of residential care. Some children at risk for mental illness might not receive treatment.
Several legislators zeroed in on the hospice program cut.
State Sen. Dan Claitor, R-Baton Rouge, said the cut amounts to the state not assisting people on their death beds unless they are in a nursing home.
"That's pretty rough," Claitor said.
Nichols said tough decisions had to be made.
Later in the day, DHH Secretary Bruce Greenstein said the hospice funding reduction will become effective Feb. 1 and will not affect those currently receiving the services through Medicaid.
When the reduction does take effect, Greenstein said patients still will receive medication to keep them comfortable. He said numerous nonprofits and faith-based organizations also provide end-of-life services.
Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne said the diversion of money from a maintenance fund to save park operation dollars will prevent him from making the necessary state match to receive federal funding for repairing Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville. Hurricane Isaac battered the park.
Dardenne said the Jindal administration did not consult him before taking the money.
"They didn't ask us about this cut nor did they tell us it was coming," he said.
Midyear budget reductions have hit higher education especially hard in the past four years, including a $55.2 million mid-year cut in 2008; a $76.2 million mid-year cut in 2009; a $34.7 million cut in 2010; and a $50 million cut last year.
Jindal and the Legislature have cut total funding for higher education by $426.5 million since 2008, a 26.5 percent reduction, according to the Board of Regents. Jindal's spokesman, Kyle Plotkin, said Friday that budget cuts to higher education have been offset by tuition increases, therefore total funding for higher education has been reduced by roughly $220 million, or 7 percent.
State Commissioner of Higher Education Jim Purcell said he appreciates the governor's efforts to minimize the latest round of cuts to higher education.
"The Board of Regents will distribute these cuts on a pro rata basis," he said.
Louisiana Hospital Association President John Matessino said the constant cuts may come to a breaking point in health care.
"At some point they are going to start breaking down. Hospital margins are getting smaller and smaller," he said.
Matessino said hospitals are already getting $100 a day less in reimbursements than what they were in 1995. "We can't keep on," he said.
Koran Addo and Marsha Shuler of the Capitol news bureau contributed to this report.


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Barker scores twice in 2-0 Bulldogs victory
ADRIAN — The Adrian College women's soccer team hosted Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association rival Olivet College at the Multi-sport Performance Stadium on Wednesday night. The defending MIAA champion Bulldogs beat Olivet 2-0.
Adrian (7-2-1, 4-2-1 MIAA) was looking for a win against Olivet (1-10, 1-6) after a loss against Calvin on Saturday.
Adrian pulled ahead in the first half with a goal by forward Sam Barker at the 6:58 mark. The All-American was assisted by forward Ellery Karsten with a pass in front of the goal five yards out. It was the third goal of the season for Barker, who is coming off of a recent injury.
"We got some very close chances in the first half," said Adrian coach Ali Almadari. "We were very happy with the amount of position we were able to keep during the game. It gave us a chance to play an offensively strong game."
Chayna Wallace had a strong first half performance serving in goal for the Bulldogs with three saves. Two of which came less than 10 minutes into the game.
Adrian totaled six shots in the first half to Olivet's four. The Bulldogs went into halftime with a 1-0 lead over the Comets.
Adrian came back strong in the second half with early shots by Erin Weide, Karsten and Barker. The Bulldogs played strong defense and were able to keep the ball in Olivet's territory.
Barker scored her second goal of the game and fourth of the season at 75:21. Barker was assisted by forward Courtney Pomeroy to give the Bulldogs a 2-0 lead over the Comets.
"Playing such a strong game gave us the chance to put in some younger players and give them a chance to make an impact" said Almadari. "We were also able to rest two of our center backs, giving them a chance to take a break and be back to full strength for our next game. Olivet's goalkeeper [Deanna Zolnoski] played a strong second half and gave us a strong fight. We were very happy to get the second goal and able to lock it away."
Adrian totaled nine shots in the second half against Olivet. The Bulldogs kept a strong defense in order to keep their 2-0 shutout lead. Adrian outshot Olivet in the game 15-8.
Wallace totaled two saves in the second half for a total of five to help earn the shutout. Adrian totaled seven fouls against Olivet, while the Comets totaled 10 fouls.
The Bulldogs host MIAA rival Albion on Saturday.


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This column is going to be about my recollections of what, in my mind, Pratt High School sports have come to stand for.
By Neil DePew
For those whose only interest in local sports is either Skyline or Pratt Community College, you may want to stop reading right now. This column is going to be about my recollections of what, in my mind, Pratt High School sports have come to stand for.
I feel certain that Thunderbird and Beaver supporters have reflections that are every bit as valid and as relevant. It's just that, as a Greenback for 28 years, I have a lot more direct, personal insight into Greenback sports than I do to either Skyline or PCC.
So with no disrespect or slight intended to the other sports programs in the community, I continue with my own thoughts on what it means to be a Greenback. If anyone wants to write a column on being T-Birds or Beavers, I will run it—I'm just not qualified to write one myself.
For those who don't know, I was a coach at PHS for 28 years, the majority of that time serving as an assistant in cross-country and track. My two children both attended Pratt High, my son playing football, basketball and baseball and my daughter cheering on the spirit squad. So I have a long-standing direct, personal insight into Greenback sports IMHO.
The first things that you might think come to mind when I reminisce about PHS sports are the moments of triumph along the way. Just to name a few: Sitting in the stands in 1995 in Emporia with thousands of other Prattans, cheering as our Greenbacks won the state football championship. As assistant coach, being a part of two state championship girls' track teams in the early 2000s. Watching my next door neighbor, after all she had been through, win the 2011 state crosscountry title.
Yes, there have been some glorious times. But what defines PHS sports for me, and what made me stick with it as long as I did, were some of the OTHER things I associate with them.
#1) Pratt athletes always represented our community well. I cannot begin to tell you the number of compliments I received or overheard about our PHS kids during my time there. Other PHS coaches and sponsors would tell you the same thing. It doesn't matter whether it is the athletes, or the band, or forensics kids or whatever-Pratt could always be proud of the way our kids conducted themselves.
As just one illustration, a restaurant manager of a place one of our teams used to frequent once told us coaches, "I wish I could afford to feed those Pratt kids for free. They come in here, they're always so nice and respectful and polite. And when they leave, the place is cleaner than it was when they got here." That's the kind of kids we have had in Pratt, ones that brought credit to the community and ones that I wanted to continue to be associated with.
#2) Greenbacks keep trying to improve. I remember one regional track meet in particular. The way they run field events there, with prelims and finals, it can drag out. All competitors must complete prelims before finals can start, and if someone is in multiple events, people can sit around a long time waiting for everyone to complete their prelims.
I had a girl thrower that year who was a senior. She was a hard-worker and a good kid, threw all 3 implements decently, though was never outstanding at any of them. At regional that year, people had been waiting at the shot put for a long time waiting for this girl to get there—she had gotten hung up at javelin and discus.
Finally she gets there, has to throw probably 34, 35 feet to make finals. She's never thrown even 33 in her life. But she gets a chance to throw in prelims just like everyone else. On her last throw, she throws one like 32-something, and I, her coach scream "YESSSSSS!!!!" People are looking at me like I'm insane, probably thinking, "We've been waiting for this girl forever, then she comes over and throws a lousy 32 feet, and her coach is screaming like an idiot?"
What those people didn't know was that, no she didn't 'win' anything. She didn't even make finals. But on the last throw of her high school career, that girl had thrown a PR. Greenbacks know that you aren't going to 'win' every time on the scoreboard. But you keep trying to do your best. As long as you work hard and keep trying to improve, you are a Greenback and you are a winner.
#3) Greenbacks never quit, Greenbacks never give up. There are probably dozens of examples of this from every sport in the time I have been familiar with Pratt athletics. For some reason, though, one that always sticks in my mind is a football game the Greenbacks played against Pittsburg, who at the time was a 5A power.
The Greenbacks had put up a valiant effort, but it was apparent throughout the game they were a little bit overmatched. Although not getting thrashed, they were down by a couple of scores late in the game. Pittsburg had the ball and was driving down the field for an exclamation point TD. But inside the 3-yard line, the Pratt D dug in for a goal line stand.
Time was running out, Pratt was going to lose, but you couldn't tell that from the way the Greenbacks played. Twice Pittsburg ran the ball at the Greenbacks, and twice the Greenbacks turned them aside. Finally, on the last play of the game, Pittsburg just took a knee. When our coaches asked theirs after the game why they hadn't tried to punch it in one more time, the Pittsburg coaches said simply, "We had to respect your kids."
No matter what the score, no matter what the situation, Greenbacks never quit, Greenbacks never give up.
So that's my little trip down memory lane here as 2012 draws to a close. I have no way of knowing what the future holds. What I do know is that for Pratt High School Greenback athletics to continue as we have known it, we are going to keep needing kids who #1) bring credit to the community through their behavior; #2) continually strive to improve and #3) never give up and never quit.


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Fiji have opened their world cup campaign with a 32-12 victory over the Irish Wolfhounds in Spotland tonight.
Monday's only contest was between the two lower ranked sides in Group A. Fiji and Ireland showed though that they could produce some entertaining rugby league despite constant rain.
The Bati were bolstered by a litany of NRL stars like in 2008 when they reached the semi-finals before the run was ended by Australia. Akuila Uate was the star of the side then and showed he hadn't lost his finishing touch from a nice backline movement.
Kevin Naiqama pounced off a rebound to cross for Fiji's second as it looked like a long night loomed for the Wolfhounds in front of a sold-out crowd in Rochdale.
Much like last night in the New Zealand/Samoa game - aggression brought the losing side back into the contest. Ireland were camped down the Bati line with several penalties and clashes between the forwards. Tyrone McCarthy put this pressure to the scoreboard after a barging effort to reduce the deficit.
Wes Naiqama added a penalty goal just before the halftime break despite the binning of interchange forward Eloni Vunakece to give Fiji a 12-4 lead at halftime.
The rain arrived during the halftime break forcing Fiji to play further through the middle. This ended up benefiting the Bati who put the game beyond doubt in a slew of points between the 54th and 70 minute.
Both Tariq and Korbin Sims got their name on the scoresheet with Tariq popping up in the right place in the 54th minute to cross after a collision between Marika Koroibete and Damien Blanch. Korbin showed athleticism in latching onto a bouncing bomb from Aaron Groom.
Akuila Uate was down on his prolific try-scoring effort in the NRL this season but had no problem tonight in Rochdale. He produced a typical Uate effort in his second and third tries of his hat-trick. Uate ran over defenders despite a juggle for his second and showed strength to wriggle free to complete the treble.
The Irish would take some late consolation in the contest with Catalan winger Damien Blanch crossing from some tricky play down the right side. Manly young gun James Hasson slipped through the defense right on the buzzer after a massive touch-finder from Pat Richards to put the final score at 32-12.
Match Details
Fiji 32 Ireland 14
Venue: Spotland Stadium
Crowd: 8872
Halftime Score: Fiji 12-4
LeagueUnlimited.com Players of the Match:
3 points - Kevin Naiqama
2 points - Aaron Groom
1 point - Akuila Uate
Tries: Akuila Uate (3), Kevin Naiqama, Tariq Sims, Korbin Sims
Field Goals:
Conversions: Wes Naiqama (3/6)
Penalty Goals: Wes Naiqama (1/1)


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Don't get your hopes up with Kadri B Mac, he will have the kind of success in the NHL like your Josh Holdens, Steve Kariya's, Jeff Tambellini's, Brandon Reids, Bill Muckalts did. I read him like a book, been in the hockey fan business a long time B Mac, I can see deadweight from a country fucking mile.Blob Mckenzie wrote:Apparently Canuck scouts are living at Marlie games these days. Fucking great.....unless Jake the Snake is coming back I want no part of that team........ or unless Frattin comes with Finn and a 1st rounder/Tyler Biggs.
I will absolutley scream if Colborne comes back here at all. Kadri has a hair of intrigue with his skill but this team needs more chutzpah in it's top 9 forward group not less.
I would hope that more teams other than the Leafs would be all in on Luongo.
Is it just me or does it seem like this place is fucking dead ??? I can only boot the dudes sorry ass around this board for so long before it gets old. I guess some of you kids like to go to hf boards and see people rack up their 40 or 50 posts a day. What a dump that place is and the mods are fucking Nazis.
All things do point to a deal with the Leafs, which would not surprise me cause I am so used to being underwhelmed by Gillis transactions. There ain't fuck all that I like in that system, unless it's Morgan Reilly, which might explain why they fucking suck.


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Owen Wilson in Talks for Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice
Moving from one Anderson to another.
Owen Wilson, intimately familiar with what it's like to work with one auteur named Anderson, is now mulling a Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice. No word on who Wilson would play in the Thomas Pynchon adaptation, but TheWrap hears he'll have a lead role. Anderson's The Master star Joaquin Phoenix is starring, Benicio del Toro is also in talks for a part, and it's all terribly exciting and can't hit theaters soon enough.


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Cave dwelling developers and hermit programmers may have missed it, but most of the rest of the software application profession is aware that Microsoft's core development IDE, Visual Studio 2012, was officially released along with the .NET Framework 4.5 on September 12.
Focused for the first time on Windows 8 development, this iteration of Microsoft's central developer product is perhaps the result of more "re-engineering" than previous updates, which could perhaps be said to have been "augmented and finessed" rather than "repositioned" for a more radically new user environment.
As noted in Dr. Dobb's full review here, Visual Studio comes in multiple versions: Ultimate, Premium, Professional, Test Professional, and Express. The last of these is a free (as in beer) edition that contains a bare set of tools and a stripped-down IDE.
Microsoft says that it plans to run a continuous cycle of product updates on a year-round basis. The already planned Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 will offer new support of Agile teams, continuous quality enablement, SharePoint, and Windows development. Clearly then, the momentum of the general product release has already carried forward into this additional development.
This release will see the availability of Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop. This free desktop-focused tool will ship with Express tools for building applications in C#, VB.NET, and C++.
As well as new support for Windows Embedded and what Microsoft says is "continued strong VSIP support", there are also new community language packs (VS2012 launches with 10 local languages) for developers to use a UI in their native tongue.
Also in the mix with this release are Visual Studio 2012 Productivity Power Tools, a branded name that Microsoft is using to group a set of enhancements, tools, and command-line utilities that the firm says will help developers accomplish tasks more efficiently.
Tool enhancements also go further here — according to Microsoft, "TFS Power Tools provide development teams everything they need to get the most out of their Team Foundation Server 2012 installation, including advanced backup tools, extensions for Windows Explorer as well as PowerShell, and a process template editor."
For an in depth and detailed review of this new release head to Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Reviewed.


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Intuitive Lawmaking: The Example of Child Support
- Robert MacCoun, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
- Ira Mark Ellman, Arizona State University College of Law
- Sanford L. Braver, Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Psychology
- Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper: GSPP08-009 (July 2007)
Legal rules are often understood as setting the appropriate balance between competing claims. One might expect policymakers to identify these competing claims and employ a systematic and comprehensive analysis to assign them relative values, and to generate legal rules that follow from those values. But probably, they will not. If policy is instead set by intuitive assessments of the fair balance between competing claims, policymakers would do well to have a good understanding of the public's intuitions about these policy questions. Would a careful study of such intuitions reveal a coherent analytic framework in lay policy judgments, even if most people are unlikely to articulate their views in that way? This study examines that question in the context of child support rules. Child support awards necessarily involve tradeoffs in the allocation of finite resources among at least three private parties: the two parents, and their child or children. Using a sample of citizens called to jury service, we find that our respondents follow a predictable and rational course in their intuitive lawmaking. Their judgments in individual cases varied systematically with their views about four basic principles, suggesting that our respondents largely share a common understanding of the relevant factors that should influence decisions in particular cases, even though they differ in their judgment of the appropriate support level in many of them. Once anchored by their initial judgments, our respondents decide individual cases with considerable consistency and predictability. While gender differences conform to stereotypic expectations, the magnitude of these differences shrink when those with personal experience in the legal child support system are removed from the sample. Additional findings to be presented in future papers are also foreshadowed here.
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STEAM Ahead New Hampshire forging ahead with Bean Foundation grantsBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 24. 2014 10:47PM
MANCHESTER — The education innovation program, STEAM Ahead New Hampshire, is living up to its name in the fundraising department.
Project director Robert Baines told the school board on Monday that STEAM is in line to get $75,000 through grants from the Bean Foundation, and he said other philanthropies are also considering lending their support.
The STEAM Academy is set to begin in the fall at Manchester High School West with an inaugural class of 75 students.
The goal of the academy is get students excited in careers in science, technology, engineering, arts and math — hence the acronym — and provide them real-world experience in those fields.
Students would eventually take college-credit earning courses (at no cost to their families) and intern at various companies, including Dyn and SilverTech, the two Manchester companies that are playing lead roles in the program.
Baines, the former city mayor and West principal, said the Bean Foundation initially agreed to provide a $25,000 grant to the program, but then offered an additional $25,000, to be matched with $25,000 in outside donations.
Baines said he was confident that additional donors would step forward, and he noted that Mayor Ted Gatsas had secured commitments for nearly $100,000 in scholarship money.
"This is going to create a revolution in education in this city," Baines said. "This will be a catalyst, a shining star for what's happening in public education in Manchester because of the commitment the business community has made."
Baines said the Manchester office furnishings company Office Resources is also pitching in, agreeing to fashion classrooms that defy the traditional layout.
"When you talk what a classroom is, we think of students in rows and the teacher in front of the class," West Principal Christopher Motika said. "We want to turn that on its head ... The idea is we want kids to be able to work in pods in small groups, to work together, and collaborate in critical thinking tasks."


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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky will receive more than $900,000 in a settlement with Pfizer Inc. over its marketing of drugs Zyvox and Lyrica.
Attorney General Jack Conway said Thursday that Kentucky's share is part of a $42.9 million settlement between the pharmaceutical company and 32 states and the District of Columbia. The states claim that Pfizer used unfair and deceptive practices in promoting Zyvox, an antibacterial agent, and Lyrica, which is used to treat fibromyalgia.
Under the settlement, Pfizer does not admit wrongdoing but says it will change how it markets Zyvox and Lyrica.
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Country and Western
From Conservapedia
Country and Western is a genre of music that is popular in the United States of America as well as other countries.
Country and Western originated in the Southern United States and remains most popular there today. It is a mix of Blues and folk music. Some of the most famous country musicians include Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Bonnie Langford, Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld and Jimmy Rogers. Modern country artists today include The Dixie Chicks, Brad Paisley and Kris Kristofferson. Many rock and roll musicians overlap into country and western too.


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Just as rods have become stronger and lighter, the Super 9/10N has become the reel of choice for anglers looking for a light weight 9 & 10 weight setup. Designed for some of their larger quarry such as Permit, big bull Redfish, and King Salmon. What these fly fishers have realized is that the Super 9/10N has both the backing capacity necessary to keep these big boys on the hook, and the stop-a-sub drag strength to bring them to hand.


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Ever feel helpless when it comes to medical knowledge? When a doctor or other medical provider orders a test or procedure, do you just blindly go along?
Ever feel helpless when it comes to medical knowledge? When a doctor or other medical provider orders a test or procedure, do you just blindly go along?
The least you should be doing is asking what the test is for. It's certainly good if you know how much it costs, even if you're insured. It's been shown often that a lot of the tests the doctor ordered are unnecessary, and some might even harm you. But without some basic knowledge, how would you know?
It's these types of procedures that contribute to the ever-escalating cost of health care. With the new ease of the Internet to link information, you now have the ability to gain some of that knowledge yourself to make an informed decision and do your part to help contain costs.
That's a big reason that Covered California, the state's new health insurance exchange that goes into operation Oct. 1, has partnered with Choosing Wisely (ChoosingWisely.org), a program of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, Consumer Reports and two dozen national medical societies to encourage discussion between patients and physicians.
"Choosing Wisely provides specific, evidence-based recommendations to help physicians and patients make wise decisions about appropriate care based on individual situations. The campaign reduces duplication and waste and makes sure each patient gets the right care for them," said Peter Lee, Covered California's executive director.
Here's how it works: When you go to ChoosingWisely.org, click on "lists." You will see a list of 26 medical societies for specialists such as allergists and ophthalmologists. Click on a society and it will take you to a list of five things patients and physicians should question within that specialty.
You will also see a list of easy-to-understand resources from the specialty societies and Consumer Reports magazine. Examples of those resources include "Antibiotics: When children need them for respiratory illness" and "Colonoscopy: When you need it," where you'll learn that having a colonoscopy more than once every five or 10 years usually isn't necessary.
S�lo Los Hechos (Just the Facts) is the title of a new Spanish-language guide to the Affordable Care Act and health reform for small-business owners.
"Many employers and employees are still confused about the health care law and what will - or will not - be required of them when the law takes full effect in January," said Mark Martinez, president and CEO of the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce. "While some rules continue to be made about how the law will work, all employers - including those who do business primarily in Spanish - must have reliable, unbiased information on which to make decisions about what health insurance is best for them and their employees. That's what's so unique about S�lo Los Hechos. ... It provides information important to small business owners in a format that's useful for Spanish speakers."
The guide is online at healthlawguideforbusiness.org/espanol.
Contact Joe Goldeen at (209) 546-8278 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/goldeenblog.


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The book that has resulted is one of the stranger ones I have read recently -- I mean that as a compliment. It's not exactly literary criticism, though it contains paragraphs that could be construed as such. It's not a memoir, though moments of memoir materialize between other elements. It's not a book of literary history, nor is it a how-to guide or a scientific manual or a cookbook. It's like a long conversation late at night with a gregarious and intelligent man who loves to find connections between disparate things. And provides marvelous illustrations (the book is worth owning merely for its physical beauty).
Maps of the Imagination may also be a bit of a revolution, because it is a book by a writer who is himself devoted to writing traditional stories of psychological realism, but who can get excited by John Barth, Italo Calvino, OULIPO, and other writers of what Turchi calls "post-realism".
I have never heard a writer who is a self-described realist admit as strongly as Turchi does that realism is simply one mode among many:
Words can never be a simple reflection of life. Our very limited set of symbols, the letters of our alphabet, are forced to translate the unspeakable data of our senses, our thoughts, and our emotions. This is why it is important for all of us realists, damned by that word "conventional," to remember, always, that we have chosen a particular projection -- one that seems to us to minimize distortion and to speak powerfully. This is our choice. And simply to learn how others have done it, to pick up the graph paper and begin plotting our points, limits us from the start. Realism, like very other artistic endeavor, fails when it becomes an exercise in filling in the blanks. Realism succeeds when the author remembers to question his or her assumptions. ...As you can see from that excerpt, Maps of the Imagination is a book-length exploration of a single metaphor: writers are cartographers. It is copiously illustrated with maps of all sorts, and is a beautiful artifact simply for that. In addition to posing questions about writing, art, and the relationship of creators with their audiences, the book is a good introduction to the history of cartography. It not, though, a book of conclusions; rather, it is a book of contemplations. Early on, Turchi admits that "The structure of each chapter is associative. At times the leap from figure to ground is left to the reader, while at other times the connection is more clearly drawn." This will probably annoy readers seeking a concrete, thesis-driven argument. "That's all very interesting," I'm sure some readers will say, "but what, my dear Mr. Turchi, is the point?!" To which there is an adequate reply in the book itself:
The same holds true for surrealists, experimentalists, modernists, postmodernists, and romantics, hopeless or otherwise. All of our approaches are possible projections. "How to choose?" Denis Wood asks. "This is the question, for the answer determines the way the earth will look on the map.... The selection of a map projection is always to choose among competing interests, to take...a point of view."
...while some writers may appreciate lists and categories, catalogs of options and examples, others resist the prescriptive, inclined toward analogy rather than explication, exceptions rather than rules. For those of us in the latter group, metaphor is as comfortable as a sweatshirt: sufficiently defined to serve as clothing, but loose enough to allow freedom of movement.Among the many admirable things about the book is its eclecticism: Turchi discusses the most literary of lit on one page, while on the next page may be an analysis of "Road Runner" animator Chuck Jones ("For all their looniness, Road Runner cartoons are not so far removed from the experimental formalism of the Oulipo.") or the movie Memento ("Just as video games teach their players how to negotiate the landscape and avoid or overcome various obstacles by carefully introducing both the obstacles and their solutions, the makers of Memento teach us how to 'read' the film.") Provocative little insights peep from every page: "...the constraints on the scripts of a network situation comedy are as knotty as a sestina's. The most popular fiction of our day, on screens large and small and in genre novels, is by far the most rigid."
It's not a perfect book, but that's okay. Perfection is boring. I have some quibbles -- ideas I would love to have seen Turchi elaborate, a general desire for footnotes (the references and citations are maddeningly incomplete) and an index. But it's such a lovely book to hold, and a book that contains so much unpretentious wisdom, that I have no desire to fault it. It is what it is -- a map, a metaphor, a collage, a conversation. "We want to see, and we want to see in ways that make sense to us, enlighten us, and delight us." Here, then, is a book that offers something new to see, and does so in a way that I found sensical, enlightening, and delightful.


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I am a long time Fedora fan. Last week, I couldn't resist dire to try Ubuntu 10.10. After installed a desktop using Ubuntu live CD. It's a relatively easy ride, but the desktop is a bit annoying.
It's a big headache when I tried dual monitors. The desktop got a searing screens. I can't find a way to restart X windows without reboot. the Fedora way (init 3; init 5) won't work
Finallly, got a few fix.
Restart X windows without reboot
start a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+F1,
login as root or using sudo
/etc/init.d/gdm restart
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Nov. 19, 2008
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Bulldogs make their first trip to the state of Oregon since 1968 to play a pair of games, starting Friday at the University of Portland. Tipoff at the Childs Center is slated for 7 p.m. PST. Pay-per-view video, Audio, and Live Stats are all available from portlandpilots.com.
Yale then heads to Corvallis to meet Oregon State on Monday. One of the pleasant surprises of the early season has been the play of Garrett Fiddler, who scored a career high 11 points in Tuesday's loss to Vermont. After scoring only 25 points in his entire rookie season, Fiddler is averaging 9.0 points in the first two games this year. Ross Morin, who leads the team in scoring (12.5 ppg.) had 13 points against the Catamounts. He was 5 of 7 from the field and added four rebounds and three steals. The Bulldogs opened the season by hosting Stanford and dropped a hard-fought 75-67 decision before a sellout crowd of 2,532 at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. Yale led by three early in the second half before the Cardinal went on a 20-8 run to take command. Alex Zampier paced the Bulldogs with 15 points.
Yale and Portland are playing for the second time. The teams played last year at the John J. Lee Amphitheater, an 88-70 Bulldog victory. Yale made 16 of 22 shots from the field in the second half and shot a sizzling 63.3 percent from the field in the game. The highlight of the night came when Eric Flato '08 scored the 1,000th point of his career midway through the first half. Caleb Holmes '08 paced the Bulldogs with 15 points. Robin Smeulders led the Pilots with 22 points off the bench.
The Pilots (1-1) opened the season with an impressive 80-74 victory over Washington. Robin Smeulders and Nik Raivio combined for 39 points and 13 rebounds. All five Portland starters scored in double figures. Smeulders was named the WCC Player of the Week for his 20-point, six-rebound performance. The Pilots fell to Portland State 81-76 on Tuesday night. Raivio scored 19 points and Smeulders added 16 points and six rebounds. Eric Revino is in his third year at the helm of the Pilots program.
Yale was picked to finish third in the Ivy League preseason media poll, released during a media teleconference on Oct. 21. Defending champion Cornell was the unanimous first-place selection. The Big Red return four starters and four All-Ivy picks from a team that went undefeated in league play last year. Penn was picked second. Harvard was fourth followed by Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth and Princeton. The Bulldogs, who finished 13-15 overall and 7-7 in Ivy play last year, lost four players to graduation, but return a pair of second team All-Ivy selections in seniors Ross Morin and Travis Pinick.
2008-09 Ivy League Men's Basketball Preseason Media Poll
1. Cornell - 128 points (16 first-place votes)
2. Penn - 110
3. Yale - 80
4. Harvard - 77
5. Brown - 75
6. Columbia - 45
7. Dartmouth - 33
8. Princeton - 28
Four Yale players are currently playing professional basketball in Europe. Edwin Draughan '05 is in his first season with FOS Ouest Provence in France after playing in Switzerland. Dominick Martin '06 is a member of Plasencia in Spain after playing for Real Madrid. Matt Kyle '08 signed with Galitos FC in Barreiro, Portugal, after graduating last May, and Caleb Holmes '08 is coaching and playing for UMFH, a team in Iceland's first division.
Mark Gilbride, who spent last year as an assistant coach at Stonehill College, has joined James Jones' staff this year. Stonehill won 18 games and reached the semifinals of the Northeast-10 Tournament during his tenure. Gilbride also spent one season at Amherst, helping the Lord Jeffs capture the NCAA Division III national championship, and three years at his alma mater, Bowdoin.
The 2008-09 schedule features 11 home games and 17 road contests. Nine of the first 11 games are away from home.
The Stanford game marked the first time a Pac-10 school played the Bulldogs in New Haven. The last opponent from a major conference to play in Lee Amphitheater was Penn State of the Big Ten in 2000-01. Yale hosted ACC foe Wake Forest at the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport in 2003-04.
When the Bulldogs face Oregon State on Nov. 24, former Brown head coach Craig Robinson will be guiding the Beavers. Robinson, the brother-in-law of Barack Obama, was 2-2 against Yale in his two seasons at Brown.
Yale plays its first game against Alabama on Dec. 28. The Crimson Tide is coached by Mark Gottfried. Gottfried and James Jones served as assistant coaches to Villanova's Jay Wright for the 2007 USA Basketball Men's Pan American Games Team. Among the players the two coached are Georgetown's Roy Hibbert, Michigan State's Drew Neitzel and Indiana's D.J. White.
A familiar face will be on the sidelines when Yale visits Bryant on Jan. 2. Tim O'Shea, who was named Bryant's head coach on June 23, spent two years as an assistant coach at Yale under Dick Kuchen.
Alabama and Bryant are two of three first-time opponents for the Bulldogs. Yale plays at NJIT on Jan. 7.
The 14-game Ivy League season begins on Jan. 16 at Brown. First-year Brown head coach Jesse Agel and Yale Associate Head Coach Curtis Wilson worked together on Tom Brennan's staff at Vermont.
Five of Yale's first six Ivy League games are on the road.
The Bulldogs play defending Ivy champion Cornell on Jan. 31 in Ithaca and host the Big Red on Feb. 20 at Lee Amphitheater.
Free live video is available for all Yale home games that aren't televised. Fans can access the games at yalebulldogs.com by clicking on the Yale All*Access logo in the top right corner. An e-mail address and password are required to subscribe to the service. WYBC (1340 AM) provides audio.
James Jones, who is in his 10th year at Yale, is the longest tenured coach in the Ivy League. His younger brother Joe is the head coach at Columbia. The Jones brothers are one of only two active brother duos coaching at the Division I level. Seth and Brad Greenberg are the head coaches at Virginia Tech and Radford... Yale had private scrimmages against Army and Stony Brook... Senior Brandon Rose has joined the roster after serving as the team manager for the last two years. Rose was a second team All-Dade County selection as a senior at Palmer Trinity School.
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With winter here, these are the glory days in Everglades National Park. Cold fronts chase the mosquitoes, alligators congregate where visitors can easily see them, and, as if on cue, anhingas and herons preen and pose to accommodate anyone toting a camera. "It is very peaceful, and so different from any other park anywhere," Wolfgang Germann, a 59-year-old Munich engineer, says as he strolls the boardwalk at Royal Palm Visitor Center.
Germann, camping in the park the week of December 15th with his wife Ellen, is among the vanguard of an estimated 800,000 seasonal tourists, many of them European, who in the next five months will drive or boat into the largest national park in the eastern U.S. And as he meanders through the saw grass, peering down at soft-shelled turtles and foot-long garfish that hang motionless at his feet, Germann says that what he has seen of the vast wetland on this visit looks like what he remembers when he first came eleven years ago.
But behind the scenes, Everglades National Park is in trouble. Park buildings are dilapidated; trucks, tractors, and other equipment are falling apart; exotic species -- melaleuca trees and wild boar, for example -- are multiplying; and rangers and police and fire protection are stretched thin. "Visitors don't know we are in dire straits," admits park Superintendent Maureen Finnerty. "That's the good news -- they are happy. But from the inside we see enormous problems."
The problems of which Finnerty speaks go beyond the much-publicized woes of pollution and ecosystem degradation being targeted by the eight-billion-dollar restoration project. The 30-year plan to restore the flow of fresh water to historic patterns is called the world's biggest replumbing job, and ultimately will determine whether the Everglades survives as a designated World Heritage Site or becomes a landfill and then a site for a Wal-Mart Supercenter (a big one).
No, Finnerty's concerns are more immediate. "We need another $10 million a year to run this park in the way it should be run," she says. "And in this budget climate, it's doubtful we're going to get it."
Indeed to cope with an unprecedented budget crunch, on the eve of the park's high season, managers have quietly made some drastic changes: cutting back on ranger-led tram tours, canoe trips, and walks; canceling scores of environmental programs; and closing down some recreation areas inside the park, including Chekika, the campground at the west end of SW 168th Street. At the same time, Finnerty and other park officials have begun to speak candidly about the condition of many park facilities. Their word: "shabby."
"The exteriors of many park facilities are 'shabby' and have been the subject of numerous visitor complaint letters," according to a 30-page business plan that documents the park's financial malaise. "The erosion of funding for maintenance programs has all but eliminated routine maintenance of buildings, trails, and roads."
Nowhere is shabbiness more apparent than at Flamingo, the campground and recreation area on Florida Bay, 35 miles south of Homestead. Here, where the Florida Peninsula peters out, the park operates a restaurant and a 102-room motel that was built in the 1950s and is usually sold out over winter weekends despite antique plumbing and furnishings so funky as to appeal only to hard-core birders-- who are too obsessed to care -- and time-trippers nostalgic for the Eisenhower era. Throw in Flamingo's decaying outdoor toilets, dingy visitor center, primitive outdoor movie theater, and tiny gift store-cum-bait shop and you've got a vacation experience so retro, confess park officials, that visitors "are unable to partake in substantive learning and enjoyment ..."
This year Everglades National Park has a base budget of just over $14 million, of which 86 percent goes to pay the salaries of the park's 230 full-time employees. That leaves just two million dollars for facilities maintenance, fire and police protection, visitor programs, control of exotic plant species, and upgrades to equipment and water and sewage treatment plants. "The park is suffering," laments the red-haired Finnerty, who has spent 30 of her 58 years with the National Park Service and was named superintendent here in September 2000. "People have the perception that we're rich because of the money for restoration. But most of that eight billion dollars goes to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers."
When President Bush joined Finnerty for a sweaty early-June photo-op in the River of Grass in 2001, he mentioned the uniqueness of alligators and crocodiles living side by side, made a joke about his hopes that Republicans and Democrats could do likewise, and voiced support for preserving the Glades. But that endorsement did not translate to any congressional boost in the operating budget.
Part of the problem is that despite its ecological rarity and diversity, Everglades National Park is not all that popular in comparison with some other big parks in the federal system. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for example, drew 9.1 million visitors last year. More than 4 million went to Grand Canyon National Park, almost 3.5 million each to Olympic National Park and Yosemite.
By comparison, just one million people took in the Everglades in 2002, making the 1.5-million-acre preserve the 20th most popular of the nation's national parks, and 71st in the rankings among all 384 parks, recreation areas, and monuments in the federal system, according to the National Park Service. And the number of visitors is declining, down from the 1972 peak of 1.7 million. Sure, the restoration is a massive project with major scientific significance. And important research is going on concerning many of the 68 threatened and endangered species fighting for life on the watery prairie. But the allure of the Everglades is subtle -- too subtle, perhaps, for the drop-in tourist with Disney-ized expectations. One of the rarest birds in the world, the Cape Sable sparrow, lives just off the park's main road (called the Ingraham Highway), but how many people ever see it? No mountains, no invitingly cool pine forests, no charismatic mega fauna -- like a moose, for example. There are plenty of alligators, true, but most of the time these toothy predators just lie there like logs, and poking at them is not only unadvised but forbidden, because they're quick when aroused.
Park surveys find that repeat visitors are rare, and so too are locals. German and French are more often heard along the Royal Palm boardwalk than the two most-used local tongues, English and Spanish.
Sagging attendance has been a factor in the Everglades budget dilemma since Congress six years ago authorized each park to retain 80 percent of gate admissions and concession fees. (The park entrance fee is now $10 per car.) Luring visitors with Indian-style alligator wrestling, or by salting the marshland with rutting moose, is not an option. But according to park spokesman Rick Cook, there are some potential attractions. One is the abandoned Cold War-era Nike missile base not far from the park's headquarters and main visitor center. The National Park Service wants to list it on the National Register of Historic Places. Unfortunately it's not much to contemplate now, however -- some underground bunkers and a few concrete block buildings that once housed nuclear-tipped Nike Hercules missiles, meant for Cuba; now they're honeycombed with wasp nests.
Another possibility are airboat tours, now forbidden in the park. Along the south side of Tamiami Trail (U.S. Route 41), the park's northern boundary, are three commercial swamp buggy businesses that are within the acreage the federal government is buying back as part of the restoration project. One or all of those operations could survive as a park-managed concession, says Cook.
Raising money for the park, and persuading locals that there is more to do in the Glades than swat bugs and be solicitous of alligators, is also one of the missions of the South Florida National Parks Trust, created just this year. "We want to integrate the park into the fabric of South Florida life," says Miami attorney T. Neal McAliley, one of fifteen South Floridians named to the trust's board of trustees by the Washington-based National Parks Foundation. Other trustees include chairman Robert Chisholm, a Miami architect; University of Miami law professor Mary Doyle, who served as counselor to the Secretary of the Interior in the Clinton administration; Miami advertising executive Leslie Pantin, Jr.; and noted environmentalist Nat Reed of Hobe Sound.
The trust does start out with some money in the bank -- $1.9 million, most of it collected in fines from Carnival Cruise Lines and Norwegian Cruise Lines as penalties for polluting nearby waters.
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But McAliley, who before entering private practice litigated several environmental cases as a lawyer for the U.S. Justice Department, says the trust is not going to fork over that money to Finnerty and her staff simply to pay for more rangers, or to conduct pest control. "The purpose of the trust is not to make up for government shortfalls," he explains. "And we don't want to be just another environmental group which gets money and spends it."
Rather, what McAliley wants is to build in the local community an appreciation for the park that will generate both corporate grants and first-time visits. But he acknowledges it's a tough sell.
"[It] is never going to be a resort," grants McAliley, a 37-year-old native Miamian who grew up hiking, canoeing, and camping in the Glades. "There are some hardships involved, and some things you need to learn to enjoy it. I think one of the greatest attributes of the park is the silence, the serenity. Camping in the Everglades, I get a sense of peace and contentment I don't find anywhere else. And as South Florida gets more crowded and crazier, that becomes more important."
In keeping with his family tradition, McAliley will spend New Year's Eve with friends and relatives at Flamingo, not camping this time but staying instead in a no-frills $95-a-night room. He acknowledges the lack of luxury. "There is water there, and it's ... warm," he laughs. "But I don't go there to stay in a hotel room. I go to the park to see nature, and it's there in spades."


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Harnon wrote:Thx
But i still don't understand exactly how to shadow the function name with the compiler-macro.
Looking at the documentation, it appears you have to (funcall (compiler-macro-function 'name) (name args) nil)
where name is the name of the compiler-macro. If i define a function with the same name, the function will always be used I also tried (setf (symbol-function 'name) (compiler-macro-function 'name)), but this doesn't work...
it appears to always want 2 args even if i only define it with one.
(define-compiler-macro fib (n &whole w)
(if (integerp n)
;Compute the nth fib. number
makia wrote:hmm, but how you have such info at compile time ?
qbg wrote:Then when you compile functions that call FIB with an integer literal ...
(invoke array :insert-object thing :at-index position)
(invoke-by-name array (selector '(:insert-object :at-index)) thing position)
(define-compiler-macro selector (&whole form method-name)
(if (constantp method-name)
(selector-load-time-form (eval method-name))
(defun selector-load-time-form (method-name)
`(load-time-value (handler-case
(find-selector ',method-name)
(serious-condition ()
(make-condition 'simple-style-warning
"~S designates an unknown ~
method selector."
(list ',method-name)))
(defun selector-load-time-form (method-name)
`(load-time-value (find-selector ',method-name)))
makia wrote:... but then there is no huge impact in real programs ...?
(defun m* (matrix-1 matrix-2 &optional target)
(if (null target)
(setf target (make-matrix-of-right-size))
; blas call to multiply matrix-1 by matrix-2 and save to target
(defun m+ (matrix-1 matrix-2 &optional target)
(if (null target)
(setf target (make-matrix-of-right-size))
; blas call to add matrix-1 by matrix-2 and save to target
(define-compiler-macro m+ (matrix-1 matrix-2 &optional target)
(when (and (null target) (listp matrix-2) (eq (car matrix-2) m*))
`(let ((m2 ,matrix-2))
(m+ ,matrix-1 m2 m2))))
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Sunday were trying to confirm whether a "pulse signal" reportedly picked up by a Chinese ship in the Indian Ocean came from the missing Malaysian jetliner.
The Australian agency coordinating the search for the missing plane said that the electronic pulse signals reportedly detected by the Chinese ship are consistent with those of an aircraft black box.
But the agency's head, retired Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, said they "cannot verify any connection" at this stage between the signals and Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared March 8 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
China's official Xinhua News Agency reported late Saturday that a Chinese ship that is part of the search effort detected a "pulse signal" at 37.5 kilohertz (cycles per second) — the same frequency emitted by flight data recorders — in southern Indian Ocean waters. Xinhua, however, said it had not yet been determined whether the signal was related to the missing plane, citing the China Maritime Search and Rescue Center.
Malaysia's civil aviation chief, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, confirmed the frequency emitted by Flight 370's black boxes were 37.5 kilohertz.
Houston said his Joint Agency Coordination Centre had asked China for "any further information that may be relevant." He said the Australian air force was considering deploying more aircraft to the area where the Chinese ship reportedly detected the sounds.
"I have been advised that a series of sounds have been detected by a Chinese ship in the search area. The characteristics reported are consistent with the aircraft black box," Houston said. The agency had also received reports of white objects sighted on the ocean surface about 90 kilometers (56 miles) from where the electronic signals were detected.
"However, there is no confirmation at this stage that the signals and the objects are related to the missing aircraft," Houston said.
The agency said up to 12 military and civilian planes and 13 ships would take part in the search on Sunday, which would focus on three areas totaling about 216,000 square kilometers (83,400 square miles). The areas are about 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) northwest of the Australian city of Perth.
It was not immediately clear if the report of pulse signal being picked up helped to determine the areas to be searched on Sunday.
China has nine ships and eight planes in the southern Indian Ocean looking for the lost flight, according to an article on the China Maritime Rescue Center's website. The Haixun01, which Xinhua reported was the ship that detected the pulse signal, is equipped with sophisticated search equipment including underwater robots, an underwater sonar locator, and a black box locator, the article said.
After weeks of fruitless looking, the multinational search team is racing against time to find the sound-emitting beacons and cockpit voice recorders that could help unravel the mystery of the plane. The beacons in the black boxes emit "pings" so they can be more easily found, but the batteries only last for about a month.
Finding floating wreckage is key to narrowing the search area, as officials can then use data on currents to backtrack to where the plane hit the water, and where the flight recorders may be.
As officials tried to verify the Chinese reports, Malaysia's defense minister and acting transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, was hopeful. "Another night of hope — praying hard," he tweeted in response to the latest discoveries.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott also expressed caution about the unconfirmed Chinese report.
"We are hopeful but by no means certain," Abbott said in comments on Australian Broadcasting Corp. television. "This is the most difficult search in human history. We need to be very careful about coming to hard and fast conclusions too soon."
There are many clicks, buzzes and other sounds in the ocean from animals, but the 37.5 kilohertz pulse was selected for underwater locator beacons on black boxes because there is nothing else in the sea that would naturally make that sound, said William Waldock, an expert on search and rescue who teaches accident investigation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona.
"They picked that (frequency) so there wouldn't be false alarms from other things in the ocean," he said.
Honeywell Aerospace, which made the boxes in the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, said the Underwater Acoustic Beacons on both the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder operate at a frequency of 37.5 kilohertz plus or minus 1 kilohertz.
Waldock cautioned that "it's possible it could be an aberrant signal" from a nuclear submarine if there was one in the vicinity.
If the sounds can be verified, it would reduce the search area to about 10 square kilometers (4 square miles), Waldock said. Unmanned robot subs with sidescan sonar would then be sent into the water to try to locate the wreckage, he said.
John Goglia, a former U.S. National Transportation Safety Board member, called the report "exciting," but cautioned that "there is an awful lot of noise in the ocean."
"One ship, one ping doesn't make a success story," he said. "It will have to be explored. I guarantee you there are other resources being moved into the area to see if it can be verified."
Hishammuddin told reporters in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday the cost of mounting the search was immaterial compared to providing solace for the families of those on board by establishing what happened.
"I can only speak for Malaysia, and Malaysia will not stop looking for MH370," he said.
He said an independent investigator would be appointed to lead a team that will try to determine what happened to Flight 370. The team will include three groups: One will look at airworthiness, including maintenance, structures and systems; another will examine operations, such as flight recorders and meteorology; and a third will consider medical and human factors.
The investigation team will include officials and experts from several nations, including Australia, China, the United States, Britain and France, Hishammuddin said.
Officials have said the hunt for the wreckage is among the hardest ever undertaken, and will get much harder if there are no confirmed debris sightings and the beacons fall silent before they are found.
If that happens, the only hope for finding the plane may be a full survey of the Indian Ocean floor, an operation that would take years and an enormous international operation.
The search agency said Friday that sophisticated sound locating equipment from the U.S. Navy had been deployed for the first time from the Australian navy vessel Ocean Shield. The British navy ship HMS Echo was fitted with similar equipment.
Because the U.S. Navy's pinger locator can pick up signals to a depth of 6,100 meters (20,000 feet), it should be able to hear the plane's data recorders even if they are in the deepest part of the search zone — about 5,800 meters (19,000 feet). But that's only if the locator gets within range of the black boxes — a tough task, given the size of the search area and the fact that the pinger locator must be dragged slowly through the water at just 1 to 5 knots (1 to 6 mph).
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I happen to play a lot of pen-and-paper role-playing games with friends. When playing in a future-based world, especially one with a more cyberpunk setting like Shadowrun, a central theme is that paper money has been replaced with anonymous digital currency.
It makes for a neat idea because the ubiquitous, black-suited "Mr. Johnson" from some shadowy corporation can pay for your team's nefarious services without any trail going back to him or his organization. He just hands you a credit chip.
I never thought I would see this start to happen in real life, but it seems the Canadian government wants to do just that. Canada would like to eliminate all paper money in exchange for anonymous credit chips that could be carried around on your smart phone, your computer or some other device.
The trick, if it is to act as real currency, is making the money both secure and untraceable, which should prove quite the challenge.
The Canadian Mint has issued just such a challenge to developers to see if such a system could be built. Called the MintChip Challenge, winners will divvy up $50,000 in gold bars from the mint, plus plenty of free publicity, so this is a seriously big deal.
One would assume that winners would also have a leg up should the government decide to move forward with the next steps of the program. The challenge certainly has attracted a lot of interest — so much, in fact, that the Canadian Mint has closed registration, which was originally to be open until July 18.
My first reaction to all this was that it couldn't be true. I couldn't understand why a government would want to implement a system whose primary beneficiaries could be money launders and terrorists.
I mean, it's the choice payment in Shadowrun for a reason. Runners aren't working the front offices. They're hacking computers, assassinating targets, engaging in corporate espionage and other activities where there can't be a money trail. My group even once rigged a futuristic football game. Even in the real world, Bit Coins, an untraceable digital currency, has been linked to the operations of organized crime.
But putting aside the reason why for a moment, I have to admit that I'm a bit skeptical at how such a system could really be done. The companies in the challenge will have their work cut out for them, that's for sure.
First off, we all know that no system is unhackable. My PlayStation 3 account got hacked once. Credit card numbers have been stolen in mass. Government agencies have had their data compromised. Creating a credit chip whose data — the money on it — can't be stolen is a huge deal if it can be done.
Not only would you have to prevent people from taking money that does not belong to them, but you'd also have to prevent them from creating fake money and filling up a credit chip with funds that don't actually exist, a sort of futuristic counterfeiting. And you'd have to do all that while creating an anonymous and fee-free way for legitimate users to spend their money. I don't see how money is going to get onto the credit chips without a user verifying who they are first. And once that is done, it will be impossible to decouple that authorization from the chip. If you have to present your ID and your credit card or whatever to load up your anonymous chip, then you've created a trail that someone could follow.
The only possibility that I could see is if you had one chip that you loaded up with your money that was linked to you, and then you could transfer that money to any number of anonymous, generic chips that could then be used however you wanted. Those secondary chips would have to be smart enough to resist hacking, but dumb enough to reject any personal data whatsoever. Quite the challenge, indeed.
In the end, I think companies in this challenge will earn their Canadian gold bars. One thing to consider is that if Canada is successful in getting a system like this working, then pressure will fall on other governments to quickly follow suit. That could be a long ways off. But it also might be closer than you think.
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John Breeden should look up "en masse" and realize it is not an English phrase before he tries to use it in a sentence.
Just another step on the way to people being mandated to have the "mark of the beast" on their bodies!
You realize this is going to lead to the apparent solution for everything - immigration, crime, sex offenders, security, money and that is embedded (in your body that is) chips. It seems like a great idea and would solve a lot of problems but is a major intrusion of privacy but it is likely to happen sooner rather than later. I am majorly opposed. Interesting article and I always knew it was inevitable...Ill be running to the hills sooner than I thought.
I'd support it for technology alone, but I don't know if I would use it as an all purpose replacement. Not all applications would be nefarious, also. the primary benefit that would arise out of this endeavour is not the trail-less money, but the possible advances in technology, security, and cryptography. The ability to create secure connections and transactions that can be verifiable but not traceable could benifit other industries outside of economics and computers where anonymity is important, such as medical.
The better question is why. Beyond the cool techie feel to it, it doesn't really serve any legitimate economic purpose. We've already gone to a paperless economy for the most part and this doesn't change the fluidity of transactions in the slightest. I agree with the author that it would mainly benefit criminals. Maybe Canada's looking to become the new haven for laundering money. Works for me since I have some investments with Canadian banks and could maybe see a better return.
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It's time to cheer Team USA
Written by Neil A. Davis, Gothenburg Thursday, 15 August 2013 14:31
When I hear the phrase "raising the bar," I fondly associate it with high school track and field and the high jump event. In this event, participants compete by jumping over a bar placed upon two vertical poles called standards. To determine the winner, the standards are raised until no one can jump over the bar. In this respect the words "bar" and "standards" can be interchanged. Please indulge me in creating an analogy between this sporting event and politics.
Think of the citizenry as team owners, coaches and fans. The Executive Branch and Congress would be the athletes. The Supreme Court could be in charge of officiating. As fans, we watch the event with all eyes on the bar, to see whether or not it stays in place when the athlete makes a jump. The standards are secondary, if noticed at all. In politics, I believe too much emphasis is placed on "raising the bar" and not enough attention given to the standards. We tend to forget where the bar is being raised from. Societies over centuries, have suffered much tribulation in developing standards of behavior (including values and morals if you will) that can be agreed upon by the majority as acceptable. The Founders took this into account when they made the Constitution our political standards "rule book."
When we send representatives to Washington, we like to think that they are a good representation of our standards, as a model to be followed. Not only in this country, but worldwide as well. Sadly, this is not always the case. Too often we see that politicians will simply attempt to duck under the bar. At this time cheating is running rampant among our athletes and our officials. This is a result of the fan base being too busy to attend the track meets. As team owners it is way past time for our intervention. When the rule book isn't followed, everyone loses.
Certainly, we need team leaders who can inspire the other athletes to better their skills, but we don't want superstars on steroids either. We need to train them so that they can consistently jump over the bar where we have it set. That is to say, as team owners we want them to perform in the manner we are paying them to do and as coaches, tell them what that manner is. We do not want to lower the bar. If they can't compete, we need to recruit new athletes who can.
When was the last time you talked to your team? When was the last time you reprimanded a non-performing member of your team? How much time do you spend training your team? We all need to be cheering for Team USA.


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Was going to write my own FAX software in VB Classic, but couldn't find all the needed
info or sample in time allocated. Used the following procedure to Scan and Fax
some documents. Hopefully, may help others as little available on web of
actual steps you go through.
HowTo Scan and FAX
Windows XP
Step 1 – Verify Hardware
1) Verify dial-up modem is installed and telephone line connected
2) Verify scanner power plug is plugged in and USB connector is connected.
Step 2 – Create Directory to Hold Scanned Documents
1) Scanned documents are pictures
2) Logical directory to place them is:
Desktop \ My Documents \ My Pictures \ <user named directory>
3) Create the needed directory (folder)
Step 3 – Scan Documents
1) From Start Button, select:
Programs\Accessories\Camera\Scanner and Camera Wizard
2) Choose option button:
Black and White Picture or Text (best), or
Grayscale picture
3) Choose TIF image from dropdown combobox
(unknown whether other than TIF will fax?)
4) Enter document in scanner and follow the wizard selections.
5) Scan all your documents into the previously created directory
and make sure to change the document name. The wizard will
automatically append a number if a duplicate file name is used
so the previously scanned document is not over written.
6) NOTE: There appears to be a bug in the Scanner and Camera Wizard.
as it will only let you scan one page at a time, and after scanning
it appears to hang the system. I needed to use Task Manager to
clear it after every page.
Step 4 – Fax the Scanned Documents (now TIF pictures)
1) Goto directory which holds scanned documents
2) Left double-click one image
3) The "Photo Printing Wizard" will appear along with all the pictures in the directory.
4) Select document(s) to be faxed.
You can select one, several (click checkbox in upper right corner of picture), or choose all.
5) Under "What Printer" choose FAX
6) Select Print. The "Send Fax Wizard" will appear.
7) Follow the Wizard and all documents previously selected will be faxed.
After faxing, is finished, a window appears which seems to be some default
to put you in "receive fax" mode??. I have "receive fax" turned off so not
sure what is this window. I closed it.
9) To confirm faxes were sent go to Start Button:
Then go to "Sent Box" and confirm FAX was sent.


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Leon Panetta honored at California State University, Monterey Bay
Leon Panetta honored at California State University, Monterey Bay
SEASIDE, Calif. —
California State University Monterey Bay held a welcome home reception for former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta Thursday night.
Panetta, who helped establish the university in the 1990s, gave his thoughts on the state of Washington, D.C. at the event.
"There's a fundamental dysfunction when people cannot come together to find solutions to the problems facing this country," he said. "It takes risk. If you're an elected leader, damn it, you have to take risks in order to be able to achieve what needs to be done."
Panetta said he was busy working in his orchard in Carmel Valley.