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On Saturday, August 15 the Kansas Rural Center conducted a Rapid Market Assessment at the Emporia Farmers Market. A Rapid Market Assessment (RMA) is the farmers market industry's chosen method for analyzing the health, impact, and success of a farmers market.
Kansas farmers market experts, volunteers and representatives from other markets conduct the RMA, compiling data from customer counts, dot surveys (interview questions answered with a sticky dot on a poster), market observations, and customer feedback. This provides an outside perspective of the market, helping it grow to benefit the entire region. The host market benefits from the perspective of "outside" team members who benefit themselves by taking home good ideas from the market they visit.
RMA team members conducted customer counts and dot surveys. Using these tools, the team is able to estimate shopper attendance on August 15.
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In December 1909, an article written by the late R.D. Wyckoff appeared in Ticker Magazine, which became known as the magazine of Wall Street. The article described W.D. Gann as "An operator whose science and ability place him in the front rank, his remarkable predictions and trading record." This article was written before 1912. That was when, according to Gann's own marketing brochures in the 1930s, he successfully publicly predicted the election of Woodrow Wilson and each U.S. president up to that time. He specifically called for the end of the1920s bull market in a September 1929 panic; he recorded this prediction in November 1928.
To accomplish this and other successes in a 50-year track record, Gann used a mixture of geometry, psychology, volume patterns and astrology. He developed specific grids and circles based on cycles of numbers such as 9, 12, 144 and others to forecast everything from stock to cotton prices. He developed a calendar that uses March 21 as the most important date in the financial year. Through everything, he considered his most useful and valuable discovery to be the squaring of price range and time.
But Gann analysis is as mysterious as it is effective. One of the reasons is Gann didn't want to just hand over the keys to the novice or intermediate trader. He guided his students, but insisted they do their own due diligence. He was a firm believer that students would better appreciate and understand what was learned if they did it on their own. Consequently, many of his methods and theories have been overlooked for nearly 100 years.
In the February 2011 issue of Futures, "Master forecasting methods of W.D. Gann" described how Gann uncovered trends of larger degree. For instance, the Dow 1987 crash range was 1,108 points, and a span of 1,108 weeks bridged the time gap from the August 1987 top to the first Nasdaq bottom in the bear market.
The 21st century Gann analyst often must combine one or more indexes simply because markets are more complex than in Gann's day, but the concept is the same. Range and time squaring can help the trader understand the overall long-term conditions of the market. But modern Gann analysis also requires an adjustment when it comes to trading individual instruments.
Modern stock analysis
Because stocks or sectors never are traded in a vacuum, it's important to have a way of ascertaining the intermediate trend. Gann considered this subject to the Law of Vibration. He stated, "Through the Law of Vibration every stock in the market moves in its own distinctive sphere of activities, intensity, volume and direction. Stocks, like atoms, are really centers of energies; therefore, they are controlled mathematically."
If we can uncover the key vibration, or square, of a market sector, we can leverage that information to gain an edge as a trend emerges.
Such a case materialized in the housing sector in November 2009 (see "Housing bounce"). The HGX housing sector index bottomed on March 6, 2009, along with the rest of the market, at 54.31. The top of the old bull market was 293.66, for a range of 239.35 points. As in all cases, when it comes to market timing, a margin for error of plus or minus one point is acceptable. In some scenarios, two days works as well.
In this case, on Nov. 2, 2009, the HGX completed a 22% correction in roughly six weeks. More important, the low was 241 calendar days off the bottom, missing an exact range and price square by 1.5 days. Armed with that knowledge, the trader not only can pursue opportunities in the housing sector, but elsewhere, as the S&P 500 also bottomed on that day. This turn led to an immediate 11.75% rise in the SPX to the January 2010 high. Overall, the HGX kept going until April 2010 with a gain of 46%.
Here are the adjustments that need to be made when working with stocks. The chart may not line up with the range exactly, as in the Dow/NDX example. It's important to be cognizant of symmetries on the chart and put on a detective hat to uncover opportunities. Be aware of prior highs and lows. For instance, if a stock is trading at the $60 handle, the trend may have begun 60 days ago. With the same high at $60, the next pullback may end at $6 lower. Let's consider an example that is fairly close to this concept.
RIMM provided several interesting examples in late 2010 (see "Price/time pullback"). The first symmetry lines up at the 55.49 handle to complete a pullback 55 trading days off the low. The price action then hits a near-term peak at 63.94 in 64 trading days. The action pulls back again for a correction of 6.46 points. The 6.46 lines up with the 64-day high. The 6.46-point low also lines up with the 200-day moving average and an Andrews median line.
Finding symmetry of points and days is the key. This could work out in trading days or calendar days. Once the symmetry is spotted, don't front run the calculation. A candle reversal formation either on the daily or smaller time frame will confirm the action on the chart.
Discipline is key
Because trading is psychological and all pivots are not created equal, trader discipline is critical. Conviction is the most important characteristic of a successful trader. Consider a trade the way a trial attorney views a jury. The most persuasive, consistent and self-confident argument often wins the case. Traders need to stack the evidence in their favor, but we don't have to convince a jury. We just have to convince ourselves. The better symmetries are a great tool to do just that.
In many cases, the symmetry will line up as simply as it does in the RIMM study. Other times, it's not so obvious. This was the case with Celgene in 2010 (see "Seeking symmetry"). In November, the stock peaked at 63.46. The downtrend started the next day on Nov. 3. After the first leg down, a countertrend rally peaked at 60.90 on Jan. 3, that was roughly 61 calendar days off the start of the downtrend near the close on Nov. 2. (Always look at the topping and bottoming candle to approximate where the trend begins.)
Once the symmetry at the 61 handle lined up, prices in the stock collapsed. It's not easy to catch such a free fall. However, from the real Nov. 3 start of the trend, prices bottomed at the 64th trading day, and price promptly turned up near the open the next day. This case study highlights that symmetry can be more complex. Traders are limited only by our creativity.
Commodity connection
In addition to observing whether a high squares to the beginning of the trend, you also need to be aware of the low price. Also, recognize that these methods are not limited to equities. Gann vibrations are felt across sectors and markets.
One of the most complex charts to understand is the heating oil market (see "Cold case"). In 2010, Gann analysis cracked the code on the weekly rollover chart. There was a huge pullback in May with a high of $2.3574 per gallon and low of $1.8368 for a range of 52.06¢. As the rally developed, there was a good pullback at 52 trading days and a huge rally began after another pullback materialized at 182/183 calendar days off the May bottom because that was the origin price of the move. As it turned out, lesser pullbacks materialized at 183 trading days off the low and 235 calendar days off the original high.
The value of cracking the code on the heating oil chart is not limited to a heating oil trade. This confirmation provides insight into other commodity charts that may move in sympathy.
Word of warning
A couple of caveats are necessary. Because all pivots are not created equal, symmetries do not appear each time a particular pullback materializes. So, when one does appear, the conviction to take the trade and stay with it is warranted. If a watch list is kept, you'll find that symmetries show up somewhere on that list. You don't need more than a couple in a month to do well.
The next point to consider is to use another method in concert with the symmetry finding. Make sure the market confirms what you see. One good method to pair this technique with is candle reversal formation analysis. If the reversal formation doesn't appear on the daily time frame, it may appear on the hourly one. In that case, manage the trade in the time frame where the candle formation materialized.
There are various psychological pitfalls the intermediate-level trader must overcome, as well. Most important, you must trust and act in a timely manner. Traders put trust in several tools and indicators that are included in most commercial software packages. On the surface, it might appear that a 6.46 pullback after a $64 high may be too simple to believe. Do the due diligence, find a handful of these kinds of setups and watch what happens. It took Gann many years of patient study to prove to himself and others that these simple methods explain what he termed "every possible phase and condition of the market."
Jeff Greenblatt is the author of "Breakthrough Strategies for Predicting Any Market," editor of the Fibonacci Forecaster, director of Lucas Wave International LLC and a private trader.


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Against the Wind
A Dissenting Opinion By Robert Kimber.
Photograph by Butch Moor/Aerial Photography of Maine
For years now, one Maine newspaper editorial after another has characterized wind-power opponents as retrograde Nimbys who would rather see the planet cook itself to death than let a few hilltop turbines spoil their view. How, the wind-power champions argue, can anyone worry about such trivial matters as views when the fate of the planet is at stake?
If polls are to be believed, wind-power skeptics constitute a distinct minority. A 2009 poll of Maine residents done for Critical Insights, Inc., in Portland, found nine out of ten respondents in support of developing wind power in Maine. But polls or no, anyone who has been watching the wind-power skirmishes can't fail to realize that every group formed to battle those projects swells the ranks of the disenchanted — Friends of the Boundary Mountains, Friends of the Western Mountains, Friends of the Highland Mountains, Friends of Maine's Mountains, the Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power.
As the names of most of these groups suggest, they formed in opposition to grid-scale wind-power installations in the western mountains where many of the most desirable sites, from a wind-power developer's point of view, are located. The opponents' objections have focused not only on the site-specific damage wind-power projects inflict on fragile high-elevation soils, alpine plant communities, and rare animal species, but also on the degradation of scenic and recreational values and on the transformation of Maine's wildlands to industrial sites with skyscraping turbines that can be seen for miles around.
While the western mountains may have been the first places the developers were after because of the strong and consistent winds at high elevations, other ridges throughout the North Woods with lower elevations and wind speeds are proving commercially viable for wind projects now, too. A Bangor Daily News story reported on December 16, 2010, that the Maine Professional Guides Association, the Maine Sporting Camps Association, and the Partnership for the Preservation of the Downeast Lakes Watershed joined together and petitioned Governor-elect LePage to impose a moratorium on wind-power development and even repeal the Wind Power Act.
"The unspoiled lands, waters, and natural character of inland Maine's landscape are what attract clientele to our associations' doorsteps," the group's statement said. "Unfortunately, industrial-scale wind power projects have far-reaching impacts well beyond the actual project site. Our current knowledge of the impacts that these wind farms may have on wildlife large and small is insufficient to provide comfort to those of us who depend on that resource for our economic survival."
For people who believe one of Maine's highest conservation priorities should be the preservation of the state's unorganized territories as the timberlands and outdoor-recreational lands they have traditionally been — and I count myself among those people — the greatest threat to the North Woods is large-scale development of any kind. What the state's goal of three thousand megawatts of installed wind-power capacity by 2020 means on the ground, assuming use of three-megawatt turbines spaced approximately as they are in the Kibby project, is a minimum of a thousand turbines spread over three hundred miles of high-elevation ridges and mountaintops.
And wherever turbines are installed, transmission lines, which further fragment the landscape, must be built.
So, to keep development out of the wildlands, why not locate wind-power plants in already settled areas that have acceptable wind resources, places like Mars Hill and Vinalhaven? That seemed like a good idea until the plants were up and running and nearby residents started complaining about noise and the flicker effect. Now add these people to people like me who advocate for keeping the wildlands as wild as possible, and finally include the people who have been reading about the unhappy folks in Mars Hill and Vinalhaven, and you have a growing number of people increasingly antagonistic toward it.
But even more telling is the entrance of some new voices, members of the establishment who can't be dismissed as disgruntled cranks and who are beginning to raise questions about the long-term impacts of wind power in Maine and failings in the wind-power permitting process.
Prominent among them is Alan Stearns, deputy director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL). Responding to a Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC) request for comment on TransCanada's application to expand its Kibby Mountain wind-power project about four miles westward onto Sisk Mountain, Stearns is highly critical of TransCanada's scenic-impact assessment. This Kibby Expansion application was certainly deserving of scrutiny because of Sisk Mountain's location adjacent to the Arnold Trail to Quebec Historic District, the Chain of Ponds Public Land Unit, and several miles of a Maine Scenic Highway. But as Stearns made clear, he was not, as a spokesman for BPL, opposing the Kibby Expansion. He uses this case to address the larger issue of cumulative impacts: If you put one big wind-power plant on a mountaintop and follow it by another and another, then after a while you'll see wind-power plants wherever you are, and Maine's unorganized territory will have lost the beauty and that quality of remoteness that make it so attractive both to visitors and residents alike.
Simply by raising the question of cumulative impacts on scenic values, Stearns homes in on an issue that wind-power skeptics feel has gotten short shrift in the wind-power discussion so far. Where the permitting process and the state's recently adopted Wind Power Act focus on the protection of "scenic resources of state and national significance," critics feel that focus is too narrow. Of course people in Maine care about the mountains along the Appalachian Trail, but don't they care just as much about the hills and mountains they see out their kitchen windows? Scenic beauty makes up about 90 percent of what the think tankers and politicians are really talking about when they talk about "quality of place." Scenic beauty is, I would wager, one of the most important reasons why Maine people, whether native or from away, choose to live here. Maine's natural beauty is its defining characteristic, its greatest attraction.
But scenic impacts were not the only ones at issue in the Kibby Expansion case, which LURC, in its first round of deliberations, decided against TransCanada. The project's opponents convinced the commission that TransCanada's proposal for fifteen turbines on Sisk Mountain would indeed inflict "undue adverse impacts" not only on the scenic resources but also on breeding habitat for the Bicknell's thrush, listed by Maine's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife as a species of special concern, and on Sisk's fir-heart-leaved birch subalpine forest. However, after LURC's August 2010 meeting, when the commission voted to deny the fifteen-turbine proposal, TransCanada petitioned to reopen the record and subsequently submitted an application for an eleven-turbine project, a compromise that won over five of the commissioners. The only dissenter was Rebecca Kurtz. "If we can't protect this [area]," she said, "let's just throw away the CLUP [Comprehensive Land Use Plan]. This is the most sensitive of the sensitive, and the benefits [of the project] do not warrant destroying — and when I say 'destroying' I do not use that word loosely or lightly — that habitat and the ecosystem on that ridgeline."
What the Kibby Expansion proceedings demonstrated once again is how helpless LURC is under current law to prevent cumulative impact from wind-power development and protect sensitive mountain resources. The self-contradictory nature of LURC's statutes and guiding policy documents makes the commission's task well nigh impossible to begin with, but if you add into that mix the Wind Power Act with its imperative to build installed capacity of three thousand megawatts by 2020, the commission's task becomes outright impossible. The balancing game played with as land-hungry and highly visible projects as wind-power installations will inevitably result in progressive degradation of Maine's mountain and backcountry terrain.
Doubts and second thoughts about Maine's Wind Power Act are not, however, the exclusive property of state agency officials like Alan Stearns. Energy-industry insiders and observers, both in Maine and nationwide, are raising objections to big, centralized wind farms and the massive transmission lines that go with them.
Mark Isaacson of Competitive Energy Services in Portland has been a partner in two hydroelectric plants in Maine and, after some experience trying to site wind projects in the face of citizen opposition, is now promoting the idea of dispersed solar facilities, which have several advantages over wind: They can be located in and near communities because they are neither noisy nor visually intrusive and require less land area. Because sunlight is available everywhere, there is no need to place them on remote mountaintops to capture optimum winds or to build long, expensive, landscape-disruptive transmission lines.
Looking at ISO-New England's 2030 transmission scenario for 12,000 megawatts of wind-power capacity in New England, 4,500 of which would be land-based in Maine, Isaacson found this plan would require a new high-voltage transmission loop that would encircle most of northern Maine and extend south as far as Connecticut. In short, the landscape impacts would be massive, as would the cost, an estimated $25 billion for the main line alone.
In an article titled "Think Solar, Think Small" that appeared in The Nation, Craig D. Rose echoes Isaacson's conclusions and makes the same case for small-scale, widely dispersed generation. "Although massive expansion of the electric grid threatens to despoil the last of America's undeveloped places," Rose writes, "some environmentalists mistakenly believe the urgency of dealing with climate change leaves no alternative…. In fact, there is an alternative: 'distributed generation,' or smaller solar technology installations on rooftops and near existing transmission lines, or even scaled-down wind farms sited closer to consumers."
According to a study by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Maine has renewable-energy potential nearly six times its current energy production, with about half that potential in onshore wind. But if Maine is to become the chief source of wind-generated energy to feed southern New England's appetite for power — a role that wind-power companies and Maine's state government have fast-tracked us into assuming — then the future for Maine's quality of place looks bleak indeed. Offshore wind —should it prove practical and economically feasible — will not change that picture. Onshore development will always be cheaper than offshore, and as long as government subsidies are available for wind, developers will be in line with new onshore projects.
But that need not be the case. Think energy conservation first of all, then think small. Think microgrids and micropower, think rooftop solar and backyard wind, think solar panels on highway rights-of-way and on canopies over parking lots. Think tidal and geothermal and whatever other options there are that most of us haven't even heard of yet. Who knows? We may even find a little room for some of those "scaled-down wind farms sited closer to consumers" that Craig Rose mentions. Above all, don't think big, remote power plants that need hundreds and thousands of miles of transmission lines to deliver power to their customers.
It's time the legislature replaced Maine's Wind Power Act with a Renewable-Energy Act that provides unequivocal protection for Maine mountains over 2,700 feet and redefines wind power's role as just one source of renewable energy among many, limiting it in scale, location, and type to protect Maine's backcountry and the small-town, rural landscapes that are the heart and soul of this state.
Even a Nimby might be willing to consider that kind of wind power.
Wind turbine companies intimidating resident in Mojave, CA
Hand gliding in the Tehachapi Pass, anyone?
I'm citizen of rural Tehachapi, located in southern California on the edge of the Mojave Desert. We're located about 42 miles east of Bakersfield. We are at war with the wind farms and the push back keeps building by the moment.
Like Maine, we are under the same attack. It may take a national effort to get these foreign companies and investors out of our country.
This is global insanity. I can't help but speculate what people would think if they went to the zoo into the bird aviary section and saw spinning wind turbines and transmission lines in them. Beaks, heads, wings, feet and parts and pieces would be everywhere. Where there are wind turbines, there are NO birds.
Our subsidies should be spent on research and development to identify and develop best of breed off-grid solutions, NOT be enslaved to expensive mandated electricity at the hands of those energy rats. California rats are the EPA/CPUC Southern California Edison and the worst, our legislators, whose ignorance of 21st century CO2 reduction urgency, is wrecking the land like they are killing our ocean. It's time to make it stop by any and all non violents methods it takes, starting with voting them out of their offices and their positions and start sending them out to pasture from any other political position. Enough.
Wind and NIMBYs
Thank you, Mr. Moore, for this well-written and insightful article.
Yes, Mainers are becoming educated about the true impacts of mountaintop industrial wind, and commentaries such as yours are a great help to those of us who have been working to encourage folks to research this issue for themselves. It is imperative that we ask hard questions about this current energy policy, and that we demand factual answers.
On April 25th and 26th, several 'wind' related bills are being heard before the Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee in Room 211 of the Cross Building in Augusta. This is an opportunity for Maine citizens to make our voices heard. We were not consulted before the expedited wind permitting law was passed, but we have an opportunity to testify to our Legislators and ask them to support protective measures which will ensure that Mainers retain their quality of life, and that Maine stays 'the way life should be'.
Industrial scale wind does not solve the problems which the wind lobby claimed it would when this plan was sold to the Legislature. They cannot prove that it reduces carbon or counters the effects of global warming-- and scientists with no stake in the game say it will not. Wind will not reduce Maine's dependence on 'foreign oil'. In the first place, Maine's oil consumption is due to our heating and transportation needs, and not due to electric generation. And the 'foreign' countries we purchase our oil from are our next door neighbors and our friends. Wind will not reduce electric rates-- just the opposite, in fact, and the MPRP transmission costs are just one of the ways in which Mainers will pay for an energy source which is not needed in Maine, and which we will not, for the most part, use.
Yes, there is much about this wind energy plan which must be studied. Scientists and economists should shape our energy policies, and not the corporate lobby, which stands to make billions of dollars in tax-payer subsidies if their developments are allowed to be built on our mountain ridges. Conservation would do far more for the environment and Maine's tourist-based economy than industrial wind sprawl will do.
If you would like to 'have a say' in the fashioning of Maine's future, please consider contacting your legislators and coming to Augusta on the 25th and 26th of April.
Thanks again,
Karen Pease
Lexington Twp., Maine
Thanks for including this excellent piece
This is an excellent exploration of the issue from someone who cares deeply about the north woods. I am grateful that the editors of Down East have included Robert Kimber's voice in the debate. Though I don't agree with him that only mountains over 2,700 feet deserve protection from industrial wind projects, this piece is thoughtful and I hope it will beckon Down East readers to investigate the very good reasons for the increasing alarm of Maine's small businesses, residents, property owners, and visitors about the ever-expanding array of wind projects across the precious hills and forests of Maine.


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Students who have completed twelve credits in speech and have an outstanding academic record may be eligible for induction into Epsilon Delta, the St. John's chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, a national honor society sponsored by the National Communication Association. The purposes of Epsilon Delta include recognizing outstanding academic achievement, stimulating interest in the field of communication, promoting professional development among Rhetoric and Public Address majors, and encouraging strong relationships between students and faculty. Epsilon Delta induction events are held at least once a year. Eligibility information is available in the departmental office.


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"We have made the Enterprise Integration layer the center piece of the IT organization, and we have had tremendous success with that."
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As IT systems have grown exponentially, companies have been left to handle increasingly complex software architectures.
More than ever before, IT departments need to respond quickly to new business requirements, continuously reduce the cost of IT to the business, be agile and flexible, and seamlessly onboard and integrate new business partners and customers. Meanwhile, traditional architectures have reached the limit of their capabilities. So, new solutions should be able to leverage the capability of existing architecture and build on it.
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The solution is not to "rip and replace" systems or applications, nor to completely renovate them, but rather to find a way to "leave and layer" to maximize existing IT investments. SOA Integration helps to accomplish these goals by making systems open and more responsive to business needs, simpler to develop, and easier to maintain and manage. Implementing a solution architecture based upon service orientation helps organizations plan ahead for change, rather than responding reactively.
Reusable services
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style to reuse and integrate existing systems for designing new applications. The goal of SOA Integration is to expose an organization's computing assets as reusable services that can communicate and integrate more readily. This can eliminate the "integration spaghetti" that exists in most companies today.
From the beginning, Cordys has always perceived Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based Integration and BPM as key technology domains to cover. We have taken a pretty fundamental approach. The Cordys platform not only provides SOA Integration to support the next generation BPM but the whole platform itself is built on a Service Oriented Architecture. All components and modules in the Cordys platform, both for design and execution are implemented as services and are hosted and managed on the Cordys Smart Services Grid.


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To say that Rosie Huntington-Whitley is on an all time career high since signing on to star in the most recent instalment of 'Transformers' is quite the understatement. All you need to do is look at the Times' annual Rich List which was released last week, in which the British model made her debut after racking up a £5 fortune. With all of that success it's hard to remember the time when many were critical of Christopher Bailey's decision to book her as Lily Donaldson's replacement as the face of Burberry several years ago.
And it looks like things are only getting better for the 25 year-old. Not content with modelling, today Marks & Spencer announced that she will also turn her hand to design to create an exclusive lingerie line for their line, Autograph, to which Rosie is the currently the face. The collection, titled Rosie for Autograph, includes 33 pieces ranging from French knicker sets to silk pieces and kimono robes and will hit stores in September.
'M&S is an iconic British brand, adored by many so I'm very excited to be launching my debut lingerie line with them,' she said in a statement. 'I thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with the design team to create my dream collection, and I'm looking forward to a fun and creative time ahead.'


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More than 100 people are homeless after a three-alarm fire destroyed a four-storey apartment complex at 3526 Smith Ave. early Sunday morning.
Many of those residents attended a Monday morning meeting at the Accent Inn in Burnaby, where local emergency officials briefed them on what help they could offer.
According to Sue Walters, 60, who was living at the apartment for the past two years while she was on a waiting list for other accommodation, that meeting wasn't a lot of help.
"I lost everything and all they're offering us is an application form to get on a waiting list," said Walters. "I flipped out. I told them they're not here to help. I had to come outside and get some air."
Walters was traumatized by Sunday morning's fire.
"There was no time to get many of my possessions," said Walters. "All I could think of was 'I'm going to burn to death.'"
"I have no idea what the plan is from here. I don't know what to do, I don't know where to go, I don't even have a suitcase."
Walters said she didn't have insurance, but the week before the fire, she had gone to an agency to see if she could purchase some insurance. It was there that she was told that because of a previous fire at the building in 2009, she needed further documentation before she could buy insurance, but Sunday's fire occurred before she could get that information.
The residents are entitled to 72 hours of provincially-funded assistance, which ends Tuesday.
Walters' neighbour, Mike Fex, also lost everything, but he's trying to make the best of a bad situation.
"It sucks," said the tradesman who works with central vacuuming systems. "I lost everything, but there are a lot of people a lot worse off than me."
Fex said he remembers Sunday morning vividly, as flames and black smoke were coming up through the floorboards.
"The floor was burning underneath me and there was black smoke coming through so fast," said Fex. "I couldn't see more than 10 feet in front of me, and I knew I had to get out of there as quick as possible."
Fex, who stayed with friends on Sunday night after the fire, had to take the day off work Monday to attend the meeting and he expects to start looking for a new place to stay later this week.
Emergency workers gave each of the residents a $50 clothing voucher to use at Wal-Mart and Fex said that was where he was headed. Fex added he was lucky that he kept his tools in his work van, which didn't sustain any damage from the fire.
"I'll find a place," he said. "I have to start over, but that's the way it is."
As of Monday morning, there were no reports of any human lives lost in the fire. However, several pets were trapped in the building and are believed to have died in the fiery blaze that had Burnaby firefighters spending most of Sunday putting out hot spots in the wood-frame complex.
The fire occurred just after midnight on Sunday and Burnaby fire investigators are looking into how the fire started. The building, which is approximately 50 years old, did not have a sprinkler system.
According to Burnaby Fire Department acting assistant chief Rick Weir, there were 41 firefighters who fought the blaze and the department utilized seven engines, three ladder trucks, a rescue truck and a command unit.
Weir said at least 15 people were brought down by the ladder trucks.
"It was a huge fire for our department," said Weir. "We had to call people from home to work on the trucks."
Weir said the department had to deploy a truck on Monday to the apartment to make sure the smouldering building didn't catch on fire again.
"The third floor collapsed into the second floor and the second floor collapsed into the first floor," said Weir. "There has been no visible flames, but we'll keep on monitoring the situation."
Weir said Burnaby fire investigators and Burnaby RCMP investigators are looking into the cause of the fire.
Cpl. Dave Reid of the Burnaby RCMP told the Burnaby NOW on Tuesday morning that RCMP fire investigators are treating the fire as "suspicious in nature, simply due to the sheer severity of the fire."
"We don't know what caused this fire and the way we investigate this is we have to treat it as suspicious until it's proven not to be suspicious," said Reid.
Mike Burtwell has lived in the building for 10 months and said he was one of the first people to realize the building was on fire.
"I heard some crumbling, a crunching sound on the south side, and I only had enough time to grab my wallet and my cellphone," said Burtwell.
Burtwell said many of the residents had complained about the lack of heat in the building and to combat the winter chill, were using space heaters. But because the building was old, there weren't many electrical outlets in each unit, meaning their circuit breakers would often be overloaded.
Walters agreed, saying a lot of the wiring was old and the fire alarm that did go off on Sunday was very faint.
"I don't think the emergency lights came on either," said Walters.
The Salvation Army Metrotown at 6125 Nelson Ave. is coordinating donations of household items and cash from the public to assist the people impacted by the fire. Burnaby-Deer Lake MLA Kathy Corrigan is also accepting donations at her office at 150 - 5172 Kingsway.
Corrigan said she has talked with Liberals Shirley Bond, Rich Coleman and Moira Stilwell about fast-tracking any applications from residents to get replacement birth certificates and other documentation. Corrigan also said residents can use her office address as an interim mailing address.
The complex where the fire occurred has been in the news previously, as in March, 2009, Sudeshna Nath, 60, died of her injuries after another fire in the same building.
Sudeshna's 19-year-old son, Ravi, also suffered serious burns in that fire. An eight-year-old boy was also seriously hurt in the fire.
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6600 Search and Seizure
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6835 Contests for Students
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Get More Out of Tabs in Opera
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Did you know that Opera has some of the most advanced tab features out there? From private tabs to tab stacking, tabs help you do more of what you want, the way you want to do it, on the web.
Sometimes we take for granted just how much you can do with tabs in Opera, which is why we were glad to see this super-helpful tutorial on tabs put together by the kind people at HowToGeek !
Learn how to pin your most-used sites such as Choose Opera, Opera Mail and Facebook. Then with the sessions management tool you can group the tabs that contain your work, school and personal stuff, and keep it separate from everything else. If you are one of those tab power users who love to keep hundreds of tabs open at a time, you probably already know how to use grouped tabs.
For the rest of us, there's always more to learn. From basic shortcuts like Shift+Ctrl+left-click to open a background tab (i.e., staying in the tab you're already in, while opening a new one at the end of the row) to using some of our most popular extensions to manage tabs on a computer, you can get a lot more out of Opera when you know more about tabs.
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The Howling Wind
Into The Cryosphere
Every few months or so, five or ten killer bands suddenly appear on my radar from different places, all playing roughly parallel styles, and all somewhat new to my ear. Recently, two similar bands have made themselves newly known to me, one being the UK's murderously heavy Dragged Into Sunlight, while the second is The Howling Wind, a duo from Brooklyn, NY, and Portland, Oregon, featuring the revered Killusion (Ryan Lipynsky) of Thralldom/Unearthly Trance and Parasitus Nex from folk metal band Hail and Aldebaran. While Dragged Into Sunlight is undoubtedly the more nihilistic of the two, the bi-coastal pair that makes up The Howling Wind are most assuredly plotting to make a pronounced statement of their own with Into The Cryosphere.
I've seen THW being referred to as black metal (and they are), but they also hurl monolithically heavy, morbidly obese sludge relentlessly into the mix, at times coming across like some sort of pissed-off blackened offspring of Swarm Of The Lotus and Kylesa on a violent meth binge. Look no further than the drug-addled soloing and grinding trudge of "Teeth Of Frost" for ample proof of this. Yet it isn't quite the raging musical temper tantrum like Hatred For Mankind, instead The Howling Wind makes more of repetition with subtle shifts, keeping the anger thoroughly managed and restrained by avoiding an overabundance of high and low dynamics.
While being a bit direct, simplicity isn't always the path they choose to destroy, but they lay waste when it happens. The rare and varying blast beats, obnoxiously sustained notes, and rumbling double bass drums mesh and swell with harsh groove under acridly sodden vocals. It's old-school black/death metal played through a screen of modern, sludgy doom, and it works. For having only seven tracks and thirty-three minutes of music, these two sick bastards seem determined make this worth your time.
I think what works best is how good songwriting is always the focus, with effects being kept to a minimum while incorporating enough ethereal musicality to still produce a moderately spiritual air. They give themselves a little room to prepare and take breaths between the beatings, like with the mild beginning static of opener "The Seething Wrath Of A Frigid Soul", Neur/Isis instrumental "Impossible Eternity", and the deceptively dark interlude called "Obscured Pyramid" that does a great job at keeping things on track with a minimalist approach. "Ice Cracking In The Abyss" lays down a world of hurt with a franticly wild blast frenzy of 100% pure black metal nastiness that takes aim for the jugular, and on "Will Is The Only Fire Under An Avalanche," they break out more disjointed leads and then settle into a rollicking doom midsection that makes for an excellent highlight. They close things on a fantastically hyperactive note with "A Dead Galaxy Mirrored In An Icy Mirage" a quick and clean blast of a tune that would set the ears of almost any Absu fan on fire, bringing to mind the gnashing rawness of Pestilence & Peril with a newfound serrated edge.
Not only does Into The Cryosphere impress me with the songwriting, the solid production, and all those white-hot primitive black metal riffs, they don't leave me drained and burned out wondering if I enjoyed what I just listened to or not. There's an ugliness to these compositions that isn't exactly unattractive, and though it is abusive and frequently heartless, there's also a downplayed depth to the music this duo perform so damn well, and with so little needless melodrama. While it's no replacement for Thralldom, nor is it intended to be, The Howling Wind is an excellent choice if you're in the mood for something along the lines of Dragged Into Sunlight, but just can't subject yourself to such a profound ear-raping. A highly valued find, and they better stick around for a while.


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Behind Algeria's Tattoos: A Portrait Series
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is featuring this gorgeous set of images on its website documenting elderly Algerian women with facial tattoos. The portraits are the work of student journalist and anthropologist Yasmin Bendaas of Wake Forest University in the US. Half-Algerian and half-Iranian, she became intrigued by her grandmother's facial tattoos and … Read more


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Are Cuts to the Defense Budget Necessary? >
Defense Spending Not to Blame for Deficit
The solution to the debt crisis lies in entitlements and taxes, not the military budget
November 21, 2011
Cutting defense spending is not necessary to reduce the federal budget deficit and the national debt. Focusing on defense ignores the central causes of growing deficits and debt: lower tax revenues and expanding entitlement programs.
There is no doubt that the defense budget grew rapidly over the past decade. Between 1990 and 2010, outlays for Department of Defense and Department of Energy nuclear weapons activities grew by more than 130 percent, according to the Office of Management and Budget. Much of that growth supported operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Between 2001 and 2010, Congress provided over $1 trillion in contingency operations funds. However, current plans are to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011, and from Afghanistan through 2014. Thus, defense spending will significantly decline from the 2010 peak.
[See photos of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.]
But for the goal of containing deficit spending, the defense budget—and, indeed, all discretionary programs—is a distraction. The real task is to contain growth in healthcare and entitlement spending, and to increase federal revenue.
Health and Entitlement Spending: Federal outlays grew by over $2.2 trillion between 1990 and 2010. Over one third of this growth came from Social Security and Medicare. (By contrast, defense accounted for less than 18 percent of this growth.) But what makes these programs truly daunting is their rate of growth over the next decade. OMB projects that the Social Security and Medicare programs will grow by more than 80 percent between 2010 and 2021.
Other federal healthcare programs, whether for Medicaid, veterans, or retired federal employees, are subject to the same growth dynamic.
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Whether it is by raising the retirement age, indexing benefits to income level, or some other means, these are the portions of the budget that must be contained to curb the explosion in outlays.
Taxes: On the opposite side of the ledger, federal revenue has declined significantly. In 2010, federal receipts dropped to less than 15 percent of gross domestic product, the lowest level since 1950, according to OMB. (The average level since 1980 is 18 percent.) This decline has been prompted by two factors: the Bush tax cuts of the early 2000s, and the recent period of recession and slow economic growth.
Reasonable people can debate the appropriate level of defense spending. There may be efficiencies to be gained in an agency as sprawling as DoD. But the solution to our growing fiscal peril simply lies elsewhere.
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It was good. The wife didn't buy me my ATV but I got a new PS3 and normal stuff. How was yours BTG your next
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12-27-2012, 06:46 PM #2372Im sniping today. At hooters looking at lift kits for my truck that I hopefully get next week . Tired of taking taxis everywhere. Surreal is gonna hit his turn next I think.
If at first you don't succeed, chances are, you are using too small of a cheater bar
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12-27-2012, 09:15 PM #2373Nope he will be on after me.
@Curky mine was fine i got a new xbox 360 and accesorys for it. It has been pretty good1994 GMC Yukon, 2 door, Victory Red: 1992 Buick Park Avenue
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12-28-2012, 06:36 AM #2375nope, but donyms will be up next. I have another long weekend
12-28-2012, 08:33 AM #2376Good morning all, It seems I got a cold for Christmas. Curky, come back..........
12-28-2012, 09:18 AM #2377I hope you get better by the new year. BTG next?
12-28-2012, 11:46 AM #2378I hope he gets better BEFORE the new year so he can celebrate the coming of the new year in good health! Donyms might check in, again...
12-28-2012, 01:30 PM #2379I feel like crap but it's just a cold. Thank God I didn't get the flu. I'm fine guys just a little slow and Kleenex is now my best friend. Curky?
12-28-2012, 02:01 PM #2380yes sir.... 45mins and counting for another long weekend. BTG is MIA. Donyms is up
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"You`re going to start to see both (chambers) put out their budgets, laying out visions for how to keep the economy strong and also deal with the deficit," Kaine said, adding: "At the end of the day, we`re going to have to find a balanced solution and it will involve all elements. It will involve talking about revenues, talking about expenses, talking about entitlements. We have to do that."
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Qatari Royals Order Custom Pagani Zonda Uno
The average joe buys hits suits off the rack, but the man of means has his custom made. So why would we assume that, given the means, the same wouldn't apply to supercars? Well, the price of entry is much higher, for starters, but that should act as no deterrent for the ruling family of an oil-rich Persian Gulf emirate like Qatar.
As it turns out, one member of the ruling Al-Thani clan orders all his supercars in the same shade of turquoise so they all match. In this case, the car in question is the one-of-a-kind Pagani Zonda Uno. The supercar borrows elements from the exclusive Zonda Cinque and blends them with parts from the track-only Zonda R to make a unique creation made especially for the Qatari royals. The 690-horsepower 7.3-liter V12 engine might turn others away for fear of exorbitant fuel prices, but like the issue of where to drive such a beast, that's just one more thing the Al-Thanis don't need to worry about.


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Within one hour, the Top 20 were going to become the Top 16. About 27 million votes would determine which four contestants were leaving. Was that Ace Young or an Ace Young look-a-like in the audience? You know, he just became a part of "Hair," but I digress.
Simon said that when he watched the show back last night, he realized he got it a little wrong. Oh good! I love when he apologizes for being too harsh to the contestants! But this wasn't one of those moments. Simon said that there was someone who was so awful he had to turn the TV off, but thankfully he didn't call out which girl it was.
The Top 20 took the stage with an energetic performance of the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling." Ironically they were singing "I gotta feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night," but the night ended with four people going home and tears running down 20 faces.
"Dim the lights, here we go" and here come my nerves! Ryan revealed that Tim Urban was safe, and that Todrick Hall would need to continue standing, whatever that means! Michael Lynche was safe, which means his wife and baby are hopping on a plane. Casey was safe, and Todrick was still standing. It came down to him and John Park. John received the fewest votes and was going home. He sang "Gravity" and told America that Shania was the highlight of his experience. On the bright side, Purple Haze has their leader back.
When we came back from the commercial, John Park was already an audience member. Aww, that's kind of sad! Ryan said that Lee Dewyze, Aaron Kelly, and Alex Lambert were safe. The final boy going home was either Jermaine Sellers or Andrew Garcia, and it ended up being Jermaine who was leaving. Jermaine's advice to America was, "Everybody gotta go out and get a onesie." Note taken. I hope they make the ones with the slip grips on the bottom of the feet for adults, that way I won't have to wear shoes. Is he wearing wrist braces or fashion accessories? I'm so not with it, although I am dressed almost identically to Didi Benami tonight. Jermaine sang "What's Going On" and seemed relaxed and at peace.
Season 8's second runner-up, Danny Gokey, took the stage to sing his hit single "My Best Days Are Ahead Of Me." Danny released his debut album, "My Best Days," on Tuesday. He was wearing new glasses and was very talkative with Ryan about his road from Idol to his country label.
When it was time to find out which two girls were leaving, Ryan told Lilly Scott, Paige Miles, and Katie Stevens that they were safe. The girl going home would either be Didi Benami or Michelle Delamor, two ladies who took risks with song choice the previous night. Ultimately, it was Michelle that was leaving the show. She sang her Creed song as Jermaine and John swayed along in the audience.
The last batch of results had Katelyn Epperly, Crystal Bowersox, and Siobhan Magnus taking a seat in the safety zone. It was down to the two girls who love hair accessories: Haeley Vaughn and Lacey Brown. Simon said it's fairly obvious who would be leaving, but it's not fairly obvious to me because I never know how America is going to vote! We never found out if the person sent home was the obvious one, but Haeley was sent packing. After some playful banter between Ryan and stage manager Debbie, the clips package for John Park, Jermaine Sellers, Michelle Delamor, and Haeley Vaughn rolled, which made everyone cry. Then, with tears rolling down her face and a lump in her throat, Haeley had to take the microphone and sing "The Climb." At the end of the performance everyone huddled together for a group hug, and I couldn't find a dry eye! This must be a tight-knit group. Katie seemed especially devastated, probably because she lost a classmate.
Next week is a big week -- the Top 16 become the Top 12 finalists. Who will make it to the big stage?


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Just because he has switched countries, does not mean he has lost his sleazy ways. This former B+ list mostly television actor who made his fame on a very hit cable show has always been sleazy. This one might take the cake though. He was out to dinner with his girlfriend of the week when he spotted this resurgent B-/C+ list mostly movie actress who still looks great and has a new hit movie. Our actor went over to her table where she was dining with another woman and sat himself down without being invited and started hitting on our actress who could see his date at the other table. Our actress got up and went and sat down next to the girlfriend and told her to run from the actor very quickly and never look back.
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Name: Eagle Creek Pack-It Complete Organizer
What it is: A hanging organizer pack-it bag that combines three Eagle Creek Pack-It cubes into one organized bag by featuring two half-size cubes and a full-size cube with a zippered pocket. The organizer includes a swivel hook that tucks away when the organizer is folded in half and zipped shut. The organizer is designed to nestle perfectly in a 22-inch-long carry-on.
The good: This is an item for packing-challenged, unorganized packers like me. I tend to use one cube for underwear, one for socks and the full-size pocket for sleepwear and miscellaneous clothing. The zippered compartment is perfect for stashing vitamins and medication. When I stay at my brother's house, I have no room to unpack, so this bag makes my life easier because I can hang it up, and it has almost all my essentials. For weekend trips to hot destinations, it's the only cube I need to pack, because I won't be wearing layers.
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