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It happened in San Francisco and now it could happen in New York:
No more Happy Meals.
Yes, just as San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to ban most of McDonald's Happy Meals last year, a New York city councilman, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., has introduced a bill for toys to be banned from fast food meals unless their fat, salt and sugar content is reduced. From the New York Times City Room blog:
Mr. Comrie's bill, which he is to introduce in the City Council on Wednesday, would restrict toys to meals that contain fewer than 500 calories and 600 milligrams of sodium, and in which less than 35 percent of the calories come from fat (making exceptions for nuts, seeds, peanut butter or other nut-based butters). In addition, the meal would have to contain a half a cup of fruit or vegetables or one serving of whole-grain products.
So you know: A meal with a cheeseburger, French fries and low-fat chocolate milk has 700 calories and 1,060 milligrams of sodium, while one with Chicken McNuggets and apple slices, low-fat caramel dipping sauce and apple juice has 380 calories and 460 milligrams of sodium.
Corrie's proposal is actually more stringent than the San Francisco one, which called for fewer than 600 calories and 640 milligrams of sodium in those meals that come in brightly decorated paper boxes with little plastic figurines of characters from whatever is the latest movie or toy trend.
Corrie cites his personal experience of raising his two sons, now 17 and 13, as motivation for his proposal:
"Both are fast-food aficionados, and it's my fault…I'm not healthy. I'm the typical parent with no time and limited options, so you're grabbing whatever is going to make your child happy. My wife has yelled at me repeatedly for grabbing Happy Meals."
Corrie notes that he himself is "seriously overweight."
McDonald's is, surprise surprise, not pleased about the proposal. Says one McDonald's executive for the New York region:
"Taking away toys from kids' meals won't solve childhood obesity."
"Our Happy Meals make it easier for families to choose the right foods in portions just for kids…We provide options for our customers and trust them to make the decisions that are right for their families. Politicians should, too."
Well, sure, one does always have the option of not buying fast food for one's child.
It could be argued that Happy Meals actually make it harder for families to "choose the right foods in portions just for kids." Amid all the colorful packaging and the plastic gizmos that kids clamor for over a rather dry hamburger patty and spongy-crisp fries, do you ever just want to ask, where's the beef?
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I hope it spreads world wide.
Thanks, can't help but think it's really up to the parents.
Delana, you state that your kids' toybox is filled with those Happy Meals toys - and you'd rather they didn't get those toys?
Remind me again, who actually purchased those Happy Meals, with toys, for them?
I think you can ask them not to put a toy in it guys.
Well, I like this idea... :) Fast food is not for kids...
Or why not just have educational toys instead? Once Wendy's was giving away small color books or something.
Or how about using those small sand pals with shovels as the containers AND as the toy? Less waste, and then it's also an outdoor toy to use at the beach, camping or other activities, and so could help work off the calories.
then add choices like bottled water that could be used as a scoop or water carrier. Anyway, make other adjustments to serve a vegetarian option, it would be better.
I say do away with the toys PERIOD. Then the kids won't be bugging Mom or Dad or a "Happy Meal" and woud have to eat whatever you give them or go hungry!!
My kids toybox is ful of little plastic toys from happymeals that never get played with so yes this is a strate it won't fix the problem but it will help.
One way to use happy meals to the advantage of children and parents is to make children EARN them. It could be a reward linked to school performance, complying with chores.
Another method could be that children could get marks or points for every additional 15 or 30 minute exercise, for every additional piece of fruit children consume, for each extra serving of salad. The posibilities are endless. Of course this would required for parents to take on responsibility.
Fast food just be illegal. Disgusting stuff.
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Process View Link in Email template
Working on migrating to 7.5, so I'm setting up email templates for various events. I'm not seeing an available field for the process view link when creating/editing a template. I had expected to find it as the task response url is there. Am I missing it or is it just not available in 7.5?
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Hi Michael.George,
Are you trying to create email templates for your technicians to use when sending emails from the Process View page?
If so, all Process Event type email templates are available from the Send Email link on the Process View page. This includes Process Event type email templates that you create specifically to use in your automation rules.
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No, I was setting up templates to be used during rules in process automation, e.g. a template for on new incident received. In 7.1, we had an email going back to the submitter letting them the IM number that also contained a link to the process view page so that they could follow the process if they wanted.
If a post solves your issue, please mark it as a solution. It makes these forums better for everyone.
As far as I've seen, there isn't an option that adds a clickable URL in an email which takes the client to the incident directly like there is in 7.1. I could be missing something but I have tried all of the options listed. There may be a way to build the URL manually but I haven't had time to play with to that extent yet.
That's what I was finding, but wasn't sure if I was just blind. My fallback is to just provide a link to the main SD login page, hoping that if the email has a link and an IM number, users could login and find that ticket.
I wonder if I could just grab the base process view page url and feed it the session id via the workflow tracking id variable. I'll have to try that one out.
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You might be able to do that actually. The URL to the ticket is the following:
The PageID is the same for each ticket and the ReportSessionID is the WorkflowTaskID as far as I've seen. You could generate a little html link in the email template and combine the majority of the raw URL with the workflowTaskID which can be supplied.
NOTE: Your PageID may be different because it may vary per installation but that's the idea. I am going to try that right now.
I was already ahead of you on this, but you did confirm something that I was curious about. It does appear to be working for me, so this will be a decent solution for now. I'm a little unhappy having to hardcode the servername and such, as I'd much prefer that to be coming from a variable, but it'll do.
What you confirmed I found surprising though. I was wondering as I built the link if the page ID is the same across installations. Given that your install and mine share the same page, I'm starting to think they are, which is not what I expected.
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Well, in theory it would work something like this:
Awesome. I'm marking your post as the best solution here. Can you edit that post to include the lowercase d just so that anyone who comes along can get the right answer without reading too many replies?
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Caution would be wise, I suppose, but part of me also says that if that main IM view page gets blown away, I'll have other some bigger issues going on. As for the variable when using the send email, I'm not sure. That's a feature that we rarely use in our organization, actually. A quick click on it doesn't reveal that I have any options on the page, so I'd have to setup a template for the purpose of checking. However, as there is no variable for process view page within the template editor in the process automation section, I think I'd be in the same boat.
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Sorry had the wrong link up there before but it should be something like this below so you don't have to put in the page id. I agree, they forgot to put this link in so anywhere you want to show it you'd have to manually build it.
View Incident
I was referring to when you create an email template and it's used in the Send Email form. It shows the variables in the email i.e. ${ProcessTitle} but when I send it out it doesn't replace the variables. Just curious if it's my installation.
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Can you please check if your variables are being replaced when sending out an email using the Send Email form? My email templates work if they're triggered from an automation rule but when using the form it doesn't change. I'm selecting it from the list of variables and not manually typing them in so that can't be it. If you can try different email templates that would be great.
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I've been living in the bay area for 2 1/2 years now, (moved out from NYC.) Currently, I'm in San Fran's sunny and burrito delicious Mission District with my finance Kristine and our dog Milo.
I'm the co-founder of lefora.com – a free forum hosting platform that's like blogger, but for forums.
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Judging nine TV judges
I just never got into soap operas. Well, there was that period decades ago when I spent the summer home with a broken foot before the advent of the internet. But I digress. What I watch these days during the daytime hours tend to be the judge shows. Well, to digress a moment again -- WGN airs Homicide: Life on the Street at noon here. I can't miss that, of course. But then it's justice served. Who judges the judges? I do, naturally!
Gallery: The TV Judges
The real-life courtroom drama began back in the '80s with The People's Court and the TV judge who started it all -- Judge Joseph A. Wapner. It was a new dawn, a new day, for those of us who desperately needed something outside of the soap opera offerings on daytime television. As time went on, the judges changed ranging from Mayor Ed Koch to Judge Jerry Sheindlin (the husband of the infamous Judge Judy) to the present day Judge Marilyn Milian. But it was Judge Wapner who started it all, thus he's the number one judge on my list.
Oh, yes. I'm ranking these from my favorite to least favorite. Hey, if I started the other way around, you'd see my surly nastiness right of the bat. It's best to save that for last, I'm sure. I don't want people to realize I'm the cranky curmudgeon I am. So, here's my ranking --
1. Judge Joseph A. Wapner, judge of The People's Court from 1981 to 1993. His shtick? He didn't really have one. After all, he was the original judge in the genre. He didn't need no steenkin' shtick. Judge Wapner was pretty much no nonsense, but yet not into the one-liners which later characterized the courtroom shows. Perhaps he was the childhood boyfriend of Lana Turner during his schooldays, but he was the epitome of a dedicated family man and the ultimate judge for the TV viewing world. He later became a judge for an Amimal Planet show, but it just didn't seem the same for me. I'd love to revisit some of the early cases of The People's Court with Wapner. He started it all.
2. Judge Judy takes my second place slot. I consider her the impetus for the one-liners in the genre. Her self-named show, Judge Judy, has been on the air since 1996 and is still popular. Her shtick of one-liners has spawned books and even sneaked into my own personal vernacular. "Does it say stupid on my forehead?" She's been nominated ten times for Daytime Emmy Awards and we can expect to see her at least through 2010 based on her contract renewals. I've grown a bit weary of the insults she slings in the courtroom, but it's due to her quick insulting quips that she makes the ranking of second on my list -- she did it before anyone else and does it so well. I'd be horrified if treated that way in a trial in real life circumstances. However, it's entertainment and not personal for me. It's been those very insults which turned her into a leader in the field of TV judges. The latest buzz has it that she doesn't want black litigants on the show. Yikes. Since that news came out, I've noted the lack of litigants of color while the other judge shows are rampant with them. Hmmm ... not sure what I make of that, but I never claimed the genre is all that real despite the fact it's supposed to be real. Well, now I'm just confusing myself.
3. Judge Marilyn Milian, the current judge of the now syndicated The People's Court, makes this slot for me. Her shtick is her Cuban-American background and various Cuban sayings handed down by the generations before her. I enjoy her sense of humor on the show, but sometimes her spontaneous bursts of loud laughter frighten me. She's the first Hispanic judge of a national show of the ilk and has been presiding over The People's Court since 2001.
4. Judge Joe Brown is a Los Angeles based judge with his self-named show (apparently the way to go in the genre). His real life judge experience was mainly in Tennessee, but he was a young child growing up in South Central L.A. with all of its gritty urban life at his disposal. So, that's his shtick along with the ever present "be a man about it" lines to ne'er-do-wells, street thugs, and those men who do a woman wrong. In a way, he's a fatherly figure. In another way he's street smart, albeit a bit removed from the times and temptations of the present day ne'er-do-wells. But I like him anyway.
5. Judge Greg Mathis comes from Detroit and isn't about to let us forget it. His shtick? Detroit and a vow to his dying mother that he would stop his criminal activities. While he's reminiscent of Joe Brown, apparently Mathis spent some time himself as a hoodlum, thug, and ne'er-do-well. Again, though, we have a judge somewhat removed from the sort of life claimed in the shtick. Yet, the show entertains me when I happen upon it.
6. Judge Hatchett with her self-named show gives us a bit different view. Her shtick is compassion and trying to solve the world's problems one defendant at a time. From the times I've watched her show, she seems to concentrate on juvenile offenders whose families want to give them a bit of tough love or something. She often sends the youthful offenders off on field trips to open their eyes or give them new hopes and dreams. Does it work in the long run? I don't know. But Scared Straight it usually ain't.
7. Judge Lynn Toler currently presides over Divorce Court, a branch of the genre outside of the basic small claims circuit. The show itself is the oldest in the genre, but it didn't really kickstart it all like The People's Court did. Variations ran from 1957-1969 and 1986-1992. The latest version began in 1999 with Judge Mablean Ephriam wearing the robes. Judge Toler is a fairly recent addition as she came aboard in 2006. I think I enjoy more of the wacky marriages which never should have been than the different judges on the show. Why do people put up with nutso spouses? They don't. They bring them to Divorce Court.
8. Judge David Young has earned the ranking of next to last on my list here. Oh, he's not so bad. But I thought he'd be more. You see, he was touted as the first gay TV judge and the shtick is "justice with a snap" and all. For me, as I watch him preside, there just isn't much there there. Occasionally he'll come up with something witty, occasionally he'll reach out to his inner gayness. Sometimes he shows compassion, sometimes he's very judgmental. I think what happened is they promoted a shtick without really reinforcing it in the every day cases. A show like Texas Justice did better -- they chose a shtick and stuck with it.
9. Judge Maria Lopez hits my dregs of the TV judges placing last with her syndicated self-named show. I suppose I shouldn't even list her as I've never been able to watch an episode in its entirety. But I've never watched a whole episode because the show causes me to sneer in disdain. I can't keep doing that or my face will freeze that way and I'll lead a life of scaring small children. I find her show to be a low budget take-off of Marilyn Milian with little or no personality.
No matter which courtroom judge show you watch, the defendants all seem pretty much the same. Well, perhaps one show doesn't seem to have any litigants of color, but I'm talking besides that issue. As for me ... if I'm ever suing or being sued, I'll thank you not to televise the event.
The shows are yet another guilty pleasure for me during my one weekday home. I don't watch them enough to bother recording them, but I find them better than soap operas. How about you?
|Joe Wapner
|195 (9.9%)
|Joe Brown
|130 (6.6%)
|Judge Judy
|509 (26.0%)
|Greg Mathis
|220 (11.2%)
|Lynn Toler
|59 (3.0%)
|Mablean Ephriam
|79 (4.0%)
|Ed Koch
|14 (0.7%)
|David Young
|75 (3.8%)
|Judge Hatchett
|68 (3.5%)
|Maria Lopez
|18 (0.9%)
|Jerry Sheindlin
|6 (0.3%)
|Judge Larry Joe of Texas Justice
|44 (2.2%)
|Mills Lane
|46 (2.3%)
|Judge Alex
|130 (6.6%)
|Marilyn Milian
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Over the past two weeks I have done my best to explain the dire need in repealing our current tax code in its entirety. It violates the Constitution as it stood before the passage of the 16th Amendment and the amendment itself, and the unlimited power it grants, violates the spirit of the document it inhabits. Understanding that no mere tweaking of the current code will suffice it would now be necessary to discuss what method of taxation should replace it when we hopefully move on. There are two main alternatives to the current tax code discussed on a national level. One is the FairTax and the other is a flat tax. For the purposes of this particular article we will examine the flat tax plan released by Heritage Foundation this past December called the New Flat Tax.
As the FairTax has enjoyed quite a bit of discussion and examination on this website it is only fair to examine the New Flat Tax first. It is a flat tax rate of 28% on income. It repeals the death tax, payroll taxes, and all excises not dedicated to a trust fund. It is designed to be revenue neutral, it has one flat rate, two credits and three deductions. It caps the rate of taxation to 18.5% of GDP in an attempt to alleviate the stress of additional taxes down the line.
The New Flat Tax, as stated, does have two credits and three deductions within it. One credit is a $3,000 credit for purchases of health care insurance and the other is the existing Earned Income Credit. The three deductions are for higher education costs, charitable contributions, and an optional home mortgage interest deduction. Reading further through the description of the plan there exists an additional credit for research and experimentation. It is merely the continuation of the Alternative Simplified Credit that we have today and not counted with the credits above because it is not available to everyone.
After a thorough examination of the idea it becomes increasingly clear that it does nothing to solve the underlying problems of an income tax. Not only does the Earned Income Tax Credit feed directly into the class warfare debates that continue to mar Washington D.C. it violates the purpose of a flat tax itself. This New Flat Tax also makes the mistake of taxing corporations that will only lead to those same costs being passed down to the consumer in a variety of ways. All it amounts to is a reduction of 7% of the current corporate tax rate. While a 7% reduction is nothing to ignore it loses its luster when realized that we currently operate at a crippling 35% rate which is the highest in the industrialized world. The New Flat Tax plan would still leave us 3% above China and the UK but at the exact same level as Mexico. Most interestingly about the corporate tax level in this New Flat Tax plan is that it does not seem confident that it truly is good for business. For instance it gives business ten years to continue under our current system. In fact, the year after the New Flat Tax is passed the corporate tax rate will still remain at the punitive 35% level. In order not to grant certain companies "tax windfalls" by removing the burdens that they currently strive under the New Flat Tax will decrease the corporate income tax by 1% per year until it coincides with the 28% level that individuals pay. Yes, the last thing we want is the removal of an incredibly burdensome tax code to lead to windfalls in a paining economy….
One might ask how keeping the earned income tax credit could work to equalize a tax code that has removed any and all payroll taxes. The final sentence is the key to understanding this and many other questions surrounding the New Flat Tax. It reads as thus,
"Finally, saving out of either capital income or labor income is tax exempt under the New Flat Tax—but tax is levied on all capital income used for consumption. Thus, upper-income citizens who spend much of their income generated from their past saving will pay a large amount of tax."
There in black and white is the problem with any tax code that is interested primarily with income. Even a supposed flat tax, new and improved or otherwise, will devolve into class warfare. The same rules espoused above apply to any gift or estate (read death) tax. The passing of such money from one hand into another is not taxed, but the use of that money during consumption is taxed. All savings are deducted from income but are taxed as spent.
The inherent problems should be easily identifiable. Any tax concerned with income will never be flat and if truly flattened will not stay that way for long. The cap of 18.5% is a politically astute tool to keep politicians from easily tinkering with the system away from prying eyes until the cap is removed. One congress cannot constrain another and if the cap becomes a roadblock to congressional authority then it will be removed. Our constitution has only and specifically eighteen enumerated powers given to congress. It does not take an expert political scientist to see that congress has taken upon itself far more than its eighteen appointed tasks to the detriment of the states and people whose control was taken from them. As long as the 16th Amendment remains our government has the legal authority to tax with unlimited access.
This New Flat Tax participates in the same class warfare sphere that has consumed our current code and it is also politically disingenuous. To say that it encourages investment without removing the Capital Gains Tax or to claim that it repeals the death tax without allowing you to spend any money received is tantamount to a lie. Shifting the burden is not removing it, renaming an unpopular political practice does not make it likeable. This New Flat Tax also does nothing to the egregious affront to religious liberty found in the tax code. By classifying the church to a tax exempt charitable status gives the government the right to regulate its speech nullifying in part the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.
The FairTax on the other hand solves many of the problems highlighted by the New Flat Tax. It is a 23% sales tax that repeals any and all federal taxes and the authority behind them, the 16th Amendment. It restores us to constitutional first principles and treats all American citizens equally under the law. It shares the same exemption of higher education costs because it views a higher education as an investment in human capital; for the same reason there is no Capital Gains tax. It ensures the viability of the Social Security system by placing all of the collected money in a general fund allowing the government to fund priorities first including promises already kept. It increases the transparency of government by setting all Americans in a single class, set against any increase in taxes by the government. It does not use an arbitrary designation of GDP as a cap in tax revenue, but only the watchful eyes of 311 million Americans who would notice a single change to the tax code. It removes the class war inhabiting the tax debate allowing congress to more efficiently do its business. It allows American businesses the freedom that comes with a 0% tax rate that will serve as an open invitation to any international competitor ready to reduce the cost of doing business and to access one of the most highly trained workforces this world has seen. The FairTax does not slowly implement itself over the course of a decade; it removes the antiquated framework we currently deal with and replaces it with a simple, transparent, and fair system.
In the 1912 presidential election, the American voter did not have a choice. All of the major candidates supported an income tax. Today we are given an opportunity; tax reform has become an increasingly popular term and shows that people are ready to see a change up to the current system. We can choose to reset ourselves to the system of 1913, or we can carve out a new path. One that takes the government out from behind the pulpit, one that frees businesses to create the jobs we need, one that treats all Americans equally, and one that does not pander to those interested in dictating to us how our money is spent. It seems that the New Flat Tax has gone the way of New Coke. The only problem is that "Classic Tax" is not popular either. In a free market people vote with their wallets, in the free market of ideas people vote with their voice. Support the FairTax, there really is no other option.


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ALBANY -- New York schools were preparing Sunday for a return to classes following a mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut.
State Education Commissioner John King sent an e-mail to superintendents Friday advising school leaders to be alert for students or staff who might be struggling in the aftermath of the national tragedy.
"It is important in the coming days and weeks to listen to your students' concerns and reassure them when they ask questions, and encourage parents to do the same," King wrote. " I trust your judgment and wisdom to lead your staff and students through this difficult time."
A gunman killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Ct., Friday morning, including 20 children. The shooter, Adam Lanza, 20, also killed his mother and later killed himself.
Whether to make school counselors available specifically to address this issue will be a district-by-district decision, a state education department spokesman said.
Carl Korn, spokesman for New York State United Teachers, a statewide union, said teachers and school staff will be perceptive of students' needs, and any discussion of the event will be age-appropriate.
"There are guidance counselors and school psychologists, who are always vigilant, keeping an eye open for students who might look like they need to talk about it or like they've been affected by it, particularly in those areas of New York near the Connecticut border," he said.
Adele Bovard, superintendent of Webster Central School District in Monroe County, said school officials will work to create a nourishing environment.
"This tragedy touches us all at a very personal level," she said. "Our focus tomorrow will be to be sensitive to the thoughts and feelings of our school community and to provide support as we come back together."
The event has compelled school leaders in New York to review emergency preparedness plans and the State Police's reporting protocols for suspicious activity.
"While the Newtown, CT tragedy is believed to be an isolated incident and there is no credible information to indicate there is a threat to any school in New York State," King wrote to superintendents, "you are encouraged to speak to your staff to highlight the need to remain vigilant and cognizant of suspicious individuals, behavior or threats."
King wrote that the state police is working to keep lines of communication open with schools and is prepared to respond to any schools needing assistance.
Thomas Manko, superintendent of Mahopac Central School District in Putnam County, said there will be a police presence at the district's elementary schools this week, mainly to assure parents that their children are safe.
"Send your children to school," he said. "The best thing we can do is return to a normal schedule. There is a lot of anxiety, so we have these added measures for security this week. We want to put people's minds at ease."
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Proposed Michigan K-12 Science Standards
In 2011, Michigan became a lead state in a 26-state consortium to develop new standards, based upon the Framework for K-12 Science Education from the National Research Council. Since that time, Michigan's science education community has been involved in the development and review of the standards, the creation of supplemental resources around these standards, and the development of a professional learning support structure to aid in the implementation of these standards.
Starting in May 2014, the State Board of Education was presented with a series of informational presentations and discussion opportunities around the standards and the impact they would have on students and educators in our state. The Michigan Department of Education (MDE), at the request of the State Board, engaged in dialogue with individual legislators and other stakeholders to inform them of the standards, and the implementation considerations for adoption. Along the way, multiple stakeholder groups and their representatives have engaged in dialogue with MDE representatives to further inform the standards and the implementation plan that would support the transition to these standards, if adopted.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Three former employees of a cotton warehouse in Memphis have filed a federal lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in the workplace.
Lawyers for former Atkinson Cotton Warehouse workers Vashone Ford, Untonia Harris and Marrio Mangrum filed a complaint Monday in U.S. District Court.
The workers claim they were subjected to racial harassment, including statements from a supervisor that only "white people" could use a microwave and a water fountain at the business.
The lawsuit was filed against Atkinson Cotton Warehouse and Federal Compress, which provides workers for the warehouse. The suit seeks unspecified damages.
Some comments were recorded by one of the workers. When the recording was disclosed in June, Federal Compress said it fired the supervisor and it has a zero-tolerance policy prohibiting racial or other discriminatory conduct or language.
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HSN was featuring the Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ as a todays special value the other day and they highly recommended tablets for college students. HSN said that you can get your class books on the tablet and not have to carry around heavy books to classes.
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Matt Bellamy and Kate Hudson has asked for "celebration trees" to be planted for their baby.
The 32-year-old actress ' who gave birth to her second son in Los Angeles on Saturday (10.07.11) ' and fiance Matt Bellamy have urged pals to mark the arrival of the tot by using the Barcham Trees website to create new plants. It is the same request the blonde beauty made at her baby shower in Malibu last month.
According to Usmagazine.com, Kate also revealed in an email to friends that the baby ' whose name has not yet been disclosed ' weighed in at 7lbs 12oz.
Matt and Kate ' who has a seven-year-old son, Ryder, with ex-husband Chris Robinson ' plan to spend the next few weeks at the rocker's London home while his band Muse record a new album.
The 'Fool's Gold' star recently revealed she couldn't wait to meet her unborn baby because she wanted to find out its sex.
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The mass media have repeated the official results for the Maine GOP presidential caucuses that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney narrowly beat Texas Congressman Ron Paul by a 39 percent to 36 percent margin. But the official results are incomplete. And postponement of the results from one of Ron Paul's strongest counties, Washington County, because of a forecasted snowstorm may alone have tipped the balance in Romney's favor.
Ron Paul's campaign confidently predicted victory when the final votes are tallied. "Only 194 votes [statewide] stand between Paul and a first place victory," RonPaul 2012 blogger Jack Hunter pointed out in a post after the media declared Romney the winner. "Washington County is a stronghold for Paul and has yet to report. It might be a week before we know the final outcome there and Washington County is expected to yield 200 votes or more." Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum placed third with 18 percent of the vote in the official Maine caucus statewide vote tally, while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich placed fourth with six percent of the vote.
Hunter's prediction is not braggadocio. In south Washington County, Maine, Paul beat Romney by 132 votes in a February 7 Cottage Grove precinct-level caucus preceding the county "super-caucus" that was supposed to be held February 11 but will now be held February 18. Maine's South Washington County Bulletin reported February 8: "In District 57 ... Texas Congressman Ron Paul was the favorite among Republicans. Paul earned 237 votes in the non-binding poll, followed by Santorum's 209 votes. Mitt Romney had 105 votes in the district, Newt Gingrich 61 votes." The February 7 south Washington precinct-level caucus results, which were not reflected in the official statewide total, were alone sufficient to offset two-thirds of the difference between Romney and Paul in the official statewide totals.
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Giro unveil new Aeon helmet
Like an Ionos but two-thirds the weight? We're interested...
Tomorrow at the Tour of Flanders Giro will launch a new helmet on an unsuspecting world. The Aeon is designed to combine the ventiliation and fit of their Ionos helmet with the low weight of their Prolight model, currently the lightest CPSC certified helmet currently available. Riders from Garmin Cervelo, Rabobank and Radio Shack will be sporting the new lid as they tackle one of the toughest classics and it will be available to the public in June of this year.
The Aeon purportedly tips the scales at 189g for a size M, which is almost on a par with the Prolight. The Prolight's simple elasticated retention system was always a bit of a love-it-or-hate-it affair, depending on your head, whereas the Aeon features the latest RocLoc 5 fit system as featured on Giro's other top-end lids.
It also borrows the SL Roll Cage technology from the Ionos lid, essentially a hard thermoformed skeleton within the low-density foam that allows for big vents whilst keeping the helmet's structural integrity. It's not an idea unique to Giro but they were an early adopter, and this new incarnation of the system is a claimed 49% lighter, which along with ultra slimline webbing straps goes some way to explaining the fact that the Aeon is 100g lighter than the Ionos.
"After 25 years of continuous refinement, it isn't easy to make significant leaps in performance without compromising features," said Greg Shapleigh, Senior Vice President for Giro and Easton Cycling. "But we took the leading attributes of our best helmets and applied our best technologies and ideas about design, and optimized every component." Given that at first look Giro appear to have been able to cram all of the technology of a lid like the excellent Ionos into a package two-thirds the weight, the Aeon is certainly some achievent. When it hits the shelves in June there'll be eight colour schemes to choose from, including 3 limited editions: World Champion, Garmin‐Cervélo, and Rabobank. Don't expect much change out of two hundred quid though...
OK but can you tell me when the last time was that you noticed the weight of your head? Sometimes weight saving has other avenues than just affecting speed. For me one of the things that can get tired and aching on long rides is my neck. Saving weight seems to me to be a good way to minimise discomfort or extend the period before discomfort sets in.
posted by bikeandy61 [495 posts]
2nd April 2011 - 13:54
100g sounds like a big improvement, but it is only about 2% of the weight of a human head (don't ask me how I know) so if I were really performance-orientated, I'd buy a 50 quid helmet and use the other 150 quid on coaching, or put it towards a spring training camp. If I had a consumerist itch to scratch, I'd buy equipment that really benefits from low weight (wheels, chainset, pedals, etc.)
posted by handlebarcam [545 posts]
2nd April 2011 - 13:55
If you're worried about performance, I'd recommend not wearing a helmet. The aerodynamic disadvantage of a helmet has got to be more significant than its weight.
two wheels good; four wheels bad
posted by cat1commuter [1449 posts]
2nd April 2011 - 14:42
At $250 it better be made made better than most Giros! Guess they'll charge extra for 'limited editions' as well.
Make mine an Italian with Campagnolo on the side
posted by monty dog [433 posts]
3rd April 2011 - 15:46
Shame it doesn't have the same retention system as the Prolight - for my money the Prolight's is the most comfortable system I've worn. And with regards to reducing helmet weight by 100g+ - it's definitely worthwhile. Try going back to a 300g helmet after a 180 and you'll feel the difference immediately. Faster? No, merely more comfortable. What's wrong with that?
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Climate Change Has Parched Aussie Farmers Looking North ; Scientists Predict That Rainfall in Australia's Agrarian South May Reduce by 15 Percent in the Coming Decades
Squires, Nick, The Christian Science Monitor
When the heavens open over the savanna flood plains and billabongs of northern Australia, it seems like it will rain forever. Great black storms march across the landscape, drenching the cattle ranches, national parks, and Aboriginal reserves which make up Australia's "Top End."
Thousands of miles to the south, however, in the most populous states of New South Wales and Victoria, the fields are parched, livestock are dying, and farmers face ruin as the worst drought in a century grinds on.
Two-thirds of Australia's freshwater flows down the great tropical rivers of the north, compared with less than five percent in the depleted waterways of the south.
It is hardly surprising, then, that a government task force this week will begin studying the prospects of encouraging Australia's farmers to bow to the harsh realities of drought and climate change, and head north. Critics, however, warn that the north's own climate peculiarities, lack of infrastructure, and indigenous land claims could make industrial-scale farming a risky venture.
"Northern Australia is one of the last agricultural frontiers left on the planet," says Bill Heffernan, a government senator who is presiding over the task force's $15.7 million budget. "Because of the way Australia was settled, it really hasn't been tapped."
Many older farmers will be reluctant to leave land their families have worked for generations, concedes Senator Heffernan, who has the ear of Prime Minister John Howard.
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Suffused with the pioneering spirit of the 19th century, this grand vision is backed by towns across the undeveloped north, a great belt of tropical savanna renowned for its lingering frontier feel, crocodile-choked swamps, and plain-talking locals.
"Someone needs to make a hard decision and say, 'Let's move the people to where the water is,' " John Wharton, an outspoken mayor from northern Queensland, said last month.
"One of the things [the government] should do is stop development in dry areas and say, 'you can't build here for the next five to 10 years.' "
Many farmers in the southern states of Victoria, South Australia, and New South Wales are battling their seventh consecutive year of drought. The mighty Murray and Darling rivers on which they have relied for decades are exhausted, dwindling to weed-tangled streams.
It's no wonder farmers are turning their eyes to the north, hatching dreams of opening up northern Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory to cotton, rice, and citrus fruits.
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