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Ten years ago, on July 1, 1999, American Rivers and our partners celebrated a historic success when Edwards Dam was removed from the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine. The dam removal marked a turning point for river conservation in our country. Since then, more than 600 outdated dams have been removed nationwide, and the number of recorded dam removals has grown each year.
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Above: An artist's rendering of the future Twin Towers in the same place they used to be. "Today, the American people can finally take comfort in the fact that justice has been served for the organizer of the September 11th plot. Our work, however, is just beginning. We turn our focus now to the search for the New York City buildings which were so tragically and abruptly taken from us," said Obama, speaking in a televised statement from the White House. "The Twin Towers did not simply vanish into thin air. They have been stolen and hidden away by al-Qaida in an attempt to undermine our national security, organizational skills, and vertical office space."
A top military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said theories on the disappearance of the Twin Towers range from the possibility that underground al-Qaida members sank them into their lair through two giant trap doors, to the more likely scenario that bin Laden's sons employed Romulan cloaking devices to whisk them away in broad daylight. The official also added that there is a slim chance New York City firefighters simply misplaced the towers during an evacuation drill, though he would not elaborate, given the potential embarassment to city and federal government.
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This was clearly done in haste, and isn't really funny at all. One of the worse PIC pieces in recent memory.
...and yet you read it.
...you see funny 9/11 jokes are funny. This... I'm not sure what it is... you're clearly a 15 year old that had a thought one day and just wrote in haste.
What you should do, next time, is write this down and spend a few hours reading through it over and over again, perhaps changing bits here and there, making it funnier... perhaps if you highlighted the text and pressed 'delete' you may have had a better artical.
there should be justice to the victims, Us should do their best to solve the problem...
You are a fucking dick
I agree this is terrible, done in haste, and in bad taste.
Court for real man you should no longer be editing PIC. I can't even imagine what would've made you think that this was ok to write. Comedy site or not homey, this is absolutely unacceptable and I'm completely furious over it.
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Court, after reading this article I have decided that you are clearly and/or obviously 15 years old, 5'6", 249 lbs, your favorite food is orange Jell-o, you have a dog named Mr. Scruffles, your uncle Fred touched you in a bad way when you were seven, you once got food poisoning from a tuna sandwich while vacationing in Montana with your grandparents, aaaaaaaaand you're gay. Also, I like this article.
These comments above are really strange.Why should we upset the comments of a man who does not know us. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but it is essential that there are no more Bin Laden.
This is by far one of the funniest and sharpest pieces of satire I have read on PIC or elsewhere. When we recall the enduring popularity of Justin Bieber, we can put 90% of comments to this piece in the category of "uninformed and worthless". The author should be proud that people who laugh at corny "knock-knock" jokes took offense to this one. On the charge of being cool, the Court finds you all innocent.


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They are both FS bikes. If I just want a good all-around FS (no extreme stuff) MTB, what is the better suited for me?
They are both FS bikes. If I just want a good all-around FS (no extreme stuff) MTB, what is the better suited for me?
If you are not jumping or hucking I would go with the Stumpy
More versatile in my opinion.
But, I have been thinking my next frame may be the sworks enduro for some light 'freeriding'.
Or maybe a horst sixpack before they are gone, but I digress.................
the fsr stumpy is going to climb better, be a little faster, a little more resposive.
they say the stumpy is a 'fast all mountain bike' but i would not put it through alot of am use. like unsuspended said, if you arent doing drops and hucks alot the fsr stumpy should be fine.
*they are both excellent bikes*
What the basic design difference? They look the same to this newbie?
Buy the Enduro and have fun!! I know some folks that ride em' and they like them...............BUY SOMETHING!!!!!
Like a circus monkey on a stolen Harley......
I will, but I find MTB a leeuva lot more compliacted than roadies with all of the differnet shocks, adjustable geometries, arrggghh!Originally Posted by mtnbiker66
A roadie can be tested in the parking lot but how can you test a MTB? A LBS won't let you take it to the trails and dirty it all up?
"How did all those 'Keep Off the Grass' signs get there?"
Stupid bikeshops!Originally Posted by Sincitycycler
Like a circus monkey on a stolen Harley......
Jump it off a few curbs and ride up and down the stairs a bit.Originally Posted by Sincitycycler
You will notice a difference even if you are riding on the cement. I have an Enduro and its great, however if you love to climp and that is going to be the majority of your rides, then go with the stump jumper. If you favor more of the downhill aspect and you see the climbs as a means just to get to the top, then go with the Enduro.
Ditto, my exact thoughts.Originally Posted by Raiyn
An Enduro will last longer.
I LOVE my stumpy, but there are times I wish I had one more gear on the top. Either bike would be great!
Has anyone ridden the stumpy with the carbon fiber frame? I saw one the other day, I wonder how it compares to my regular flamed stumpy.


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Driving Oil & Gas Innovations
Alliance to focus on artificial lift, advanced drilling technologies, water treatment innovations
GE Oil & Gas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.A., energy exploration and production company Devon Energy Corp. have signed a new technology collaboration agreement (TCA).
GE said the agreement aims to enhance the performance and economics of unconventional oil and natural gas projects. The companies will work with GE's Oil & Gas Technology Center in Oklahoma City – now under construction – to research unconventional oil and natural gas technologies.
GE and Devon will collaborate on advancing innovations in three specific areas: artificial lift systems used for increasing the flow of liquids from production wells; advanced drilling technologies to improve performance and reduce costs and environmental impact; and water treatment and processing to reduce water use and better utilize water resources for unconventional oil and natural gas development.
GE's new US$125 million Oil & Gas Technology Center in Oklahoma is due to open in the third quarter of 2015.


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Targeting Perpetrators
Targeting Perpetrators
- Thirteen defendants—including the lawyer who headed the law firm involved—have been charged in San Diego in a scheme that defrauded more than $11 million from desperate homeowners by using high-pressure sales tactics and outright lies to convince customers to purchase loan modification services…including the "fact" that they had a team of attorneys who pre-screened clients and had a 98 percent success rate in obtaining loan modifications. Details
- A former Chicago lawyer was sentenced to 15 years in prison for engaging in mortgage and bankruptcy fraud schemes involving a mortgage bail-out program that purported to rescue financially distressed homeowners, but instead tricked victims into relinquishing the titles to their homes and declaring bankruptcy. Details
- A Phoenix man admitted to his role in a mortgage rescue scheme that specifically targeted Hispanic homeowners having financial difficulties. Prospective victims were told that they could get a smaller mortgage balance, a lower interest rate, and lower monthly mortgage payments all by paying an upfront fee of $1,595. Details
- Two individuals from a foreclosure rescue company in Miami were convicted in a scam involving promises made to distressed homeowners to sell their homes to investors while allowing the homeowners to stay in their homes and possibly buy their homes back later. The scammers used straw buyers to induce loans from lenders, drew the equity of the homes, and then let the loans go into foreclosure. Details
- Five individuals in Dallas were indicted for their roles in a foreclosure rescue scheme. The group ran a foreclosure rescue service, telling homeowners in trouble they would rent their homes out and use the rent money toward the mortgage, but in reality just pocketed the money. They were able to buy extra time by filing phony military paperwork with the homeowners' lenders under the auspices of the federal Servicemember's Civil Relief Act. Details
- A Virginia man who operated a mortgage rescue business was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for accepting substantial fees for promising to modify the mortgage loans of a number of distressed homeowners but in reality only modifying the loans of a few clients. Details
- A California man agreed to plead guilty in a scheme that falsely promised to eliminate mortgage debts for approximately 200 distressed homeowners who each paid a $15,000 fee. Instead of working on behalf of the homeowners, the man simply sent to lenders worthless papers—based on "sovereign citizen" claims that the mortgages were invalid because the banks didn't actually lend the money to fund mortgages—that did nothing to affect the mortgage of a single homeowner. Details


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Can someone tell me who makes the lightest sub $1000 hardtail? (less than $1000)
Can someone tell me who makes the lightest sub $1000 hardtail? (less than $1000)
I doubt you're going to find someone on here that's actually been able to weigh every sub-$1000 hardtail. I'm sure you'll get lots of interesting opinions, though.
Relying on the few manufactuers that provide such info is dicey at best, plus the minute weight difference you'll see in this price range don't really have an impact in terms of your riding enjoyment/speed.
I'm not expecting people to "weigh in" with exact weights. I am just talking in generalities. Every manufacturer seems to have a price point around $700 where they start with higher end aluminum frames. I am just interested which bike most people would regard as being "light weight." If nothing else, bike shop employees have occasion to handle and discuss many of these bikes with people all of the time.Originally Posted by Waldo
BTW, I am contacting several manufacturers with the same question. I will report back.
Well, let's see...I've found the Cannondales we have to be marginally lighter than the Fishers/Treks or Specializeds in the same range. They are about comparable to Rocky Mountains in the same range, though those have beefier forks and hydro discs while the Cannonballs do not. It's all subjective...and I'd be worried more about my weight and condition than a marginal weight difference. But that's just me...
I can't help but this site might be able to
They tend to weight everything (including bolts) so you may get some info there.
I thinkn motonbecane makes one for around a grand
I can say for certain that the Kona Caldera is not even close to being the lightest.
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trek 6500 or 6700?
Stumpjumper maybe...
Although list price is $1100, I've purchased a new 2004 Giant XTC2 for $779; which seems quite light in comparison to similar bicycles.Originally Posted by Ranger
to get a reasonably light bike, by most peoples standards (under 24lbs), I think you'd either have to pay a good deal more than a grand, or build it up yourself. I can't think of any off the rack bikes that in that weight class in that price range. Of course, if you consider under say 27lbs light, then there are many options. Giant XTCs are pretty light, but the supergo Access is lighter. Thats where I would start if I were building a light hardtail. Its just like a homegrown, but a little heavier and a lot cheaper.
Here is what I heard from the manufacturers:
Trek (from Pete)
From Josh at Trek....(actually he responded for Gary Fisher to which i actually sent email)Thanks for writing. I don't have any weights listed for bikes under
$1000. I do have frame weights, the lightest frame is going to be the
6500 frame. It weighs approx 3.7lbs.
Josh again after he realized he gave me Trek info instead of Gary Fisher...this time he gave for Gary Fisher.The 6700 would be the lightest at that price point @ 29 lbs
Im sorry, the Hoo Koo E Koo for the fisher line


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|Charter College of Education
Michael J. Carter
Office: King Hall C-1067
Dr. Carter has been at CSULA since 1990 and has served as Coordinator of the School Based Family Counseling Program (MFCC-PPS) graduate program since 1991. In addition, he is primarily responsible for teaching the Family Counseling Clinical Courses (COUN 520, 521,523 and 589) and serves as the Director of CSULA's Counseling and Assessment Clinic. Dr. Carter received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at UCLA, has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since 1984 and is a Credentialed School Psychologist and School Counselor. His research interests are in the area of School-Based Family Counseling and has published five articles in this area. He has served as the Chair of the CCOE School as A Whole (SAW) three times and is on the Board of Directors of Centros de Ninos y Padres. He is a lucky husband and fortunate father of three children. He also loves to play basketball.
Dr. Carter is primarily interested in developing the field of school-based family counseling which focuses on preparing counselors to work with families and children in public agency settings such as schools and clinics. This approach addresses the fact that families can be the greatest positive influence on the academic and social development of children. The view is that this influence is maximized by actively involving parents in collaborating with teachers in the schools.
Dr. Carter's research interests are in School Based Family Counseling, children diagnosed with Attention-Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and mood disorders, and Early Childhood Education
Representative Professional Activities
Ph.D. Educational Psychology 1993
M.A. Educational Psychology 1982
M.A. Early Childhood Education 1982


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Security, Hiding Your Preps It In Plain Sight
How secure are your valuables in your home? If you left for a week and someone broke into your home and could leisurely go through your stuff, how much would they find?
How much would they be able to walk away with? There are somethings that can't really be secured, like appliances, TVs, stereos, computers and such, but what about jewelry? Weapons? Money? Precious metals? How do you protect your assets within your home?
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The bankruptcy hearing will be on 1st of April?
I see lots of April fools day jokes coming.
The embattled MtGox Bitcoin exchange has been thrown a lifeline by a US bankruptcy court in the northern district of Texas – which has shielded the company from litigation. Judge Harlan Hale granted a motion [PDF] to place the company under Chapter 15 bankruptcy, a classification that will help it fend off, for the time being, …
I see lots of April fools day jokes coming.
Lawyers still getting rich.
At least some things stay the same.
I don't have bitcoins, and never intend to, but this whole shebang makes me curious.
The bit I don't understand is this:
If I own some bitcoins, then surely all I need to do is store the bitpatterns somewhere. It might be a laptop, it might be in drop box or printed out and stored in a hole in the ground.
This is supposed to be a liberating financial instrument. Something like gold or whatever, but without the problems of physical existence and hassles moving it around.
Why would anyone want to park bitcoins in an institution like a bank, exchange or Mt Gox? It would be stupid to park, say, gold in a bank where they could slam the doors shut and loot the deposit boxes (or if I was a crim, shut down access). Surely parking bitcoin in an account defeats the whole purpose?
Ideally, yes.. you would keep Bitcoins somewhere safe, as in: not in an exchange.
The problem is, that bitcoins in and of themselves are completely useless and valueless, they have no backing of "the equivalent of...." anywhere in their description. This means that their value is determined by their going rate in exchanges, where they are traded for Stuffz that are actually worth something in Real Life ( be that in legal or "illegal" goods or services.) So like with a bank, you need an account with a positive amount of bitcoins with an exchange to actually convert your bitcoins in anythign other than a string of numbers. Unfortunately an exchange is not like a bank, but more like the wallet you leave on the bar in the pub because "you know the blokes here"... No-one will touch it...right? right!..
Compounding factor is that there's also an insane amount of speculation on the value of BC, which requires you to have serious amounts of "BC value" in accounts in exchanges, since actual transfers of BC need propagation through the chain, and are as such not really suited for cowboy-style shenanigans, *unless* they are in an exchange, which (presumably) evens out the transaction lag , so people can use the usual daytrading tricks using other peoples' money.
But hey...anyone with a sane mind stayed off BC even when mining them was way cheaper than their current perceived value. The tech is nice, but it's still based on a couple of impractical and insane notions, and the whole structure of the BC trade amounts to a rat race, with the usual winners. And a whole lot of losers starting useless litigation after their perceived wealth goes up in smoke.
This means that their value is determined by their going rate in exchanges, where they are traded for Stuffz that are actually worth something in Real Life
Theoretically you can make bitcoin payments without an exchange. The wallet application lets you transfer coins to someone else's address without any exchange involved.
One weak point of Bitcoins, however is the time this transfer requires. Usually you have to wait several minutes, until the transfer is finished.
If the two parties have both an account on an exchange, however, they can just swap the (virtual) money from one account to another. In this case the exchange is supposed to keep the coins in their wallet. Btw. an exchange should always keep all currency, entrusted to them in their custody. Otherwise it would be doing banking business, for which a licence is required.
Newer cryptocurrencies like litecoins, etc. are designed to allow faster transfers of virtual funds, btw.
Ok, so the only real value in an exchange is to overcome the useless transaction time of a wallet to wallet transfer?
If so, surely it would make sense to only keep a few $ worth there (eg. if you're pub crawling on bitcoins then a few quid's worth).
From what you say that is now an issue that litecoin addresses, so there would be no reason to keep litecoin in an exchange. Correct?
In this day and age, where even swiping a credit card takes too long, and NFC payment has emerged, any "currency" that requires multi-second, let alone multi-minute, transactions is doomed for day to day usage.
When bitcoin was, or was at least perceived by many to be, the One True cryptocurrency, it had some value. Now there are lots of them and there seems no reason why Mike down the road can't start Mike'sCoin in his mom's basement. This must surely undermine any "scarcity" value and erode confidence in bitcoin as a medium of transferring value.
The variety of cryptocurrencies now in existence doesn't really matter.
While I could easily start up "Richard12Coin" in my shed, it would have zero value unless a critical mass of people agreed that it had a value and began to accept it as payment.
It's the same as if I printed out notes with my face on.
Currencies work because people accept them as payment.
Bitcoin itself may or may not be doomed, but if it dies it'll be replaced by an alternative crypto currency because it's clear that there is a market for these.
It may be that a small number survive the next couple of decades and become at least as dominant as some smaller countries' "real" currency, or that they rise and fall in quick succession, with speculators losing big each time.
Who knows? I'm not going to put my money behind any of them, but others will.
"In this day and age, where even swiping a credit card takes too long, and NFC payment has emerged, any "currency" that requires multi-second, let alone multi-minute, transactions is doomed for day to day usage." - Depending on your definition of day to day usage, there's an important exception to this: Online shopping makes any delay irrelevant (unless you're buying purely digital goods and expect instant delivery - and even that's a grey area; download times might be comparable anyway).
Yes, pretty much everyone could start a new crypto currency, just as pretty much every country can start its own currency. If it has any value is a completely different issue. (Certain companies seem to think 1£=1US$, but that is another story).
Bitcoins, litecoins, dodgecoins or whatever have no value by themselves other than what the people are willing to give them.
Right now the market is driven by speculation. Yes - you can already buy some real world stuff with bitcoins, but this is mostly a gag driven by marketing, not by any customer demand. I haven't heard of any shop accepting litecoins, dogecoins or any other altcoins.
IMO cryptocurrency has mainly one big advantage. As long as you have access to your wallet, people cannot STOP you from transferring them. This means, even if the US of A decides, they don't like a certain web page and US based payment processors (-> pretty much all of them) stop fund transactions to that page, you can still transfer your cryptocoins.
The US will still know, that you transferred the coins, however. All transactions are registered forever in the blockchain.
That said, my personal feeling regarding cryptocurrency is that the computing power to mine them would be better spend, on calculating asteroids' movements or analysing galaxies.
"The US will still know, that you transferred the coins, however. All transactions are registered forever in the blockchain."
Surely all they know is that someone transferred the coins, not necessarily who?
Surely all they know is that someone transferred the coins, not necessarily who?
Your wallet has a unique ID, that will never change. As soon as you register in an exchange, they will ask you for a proof of residence and will have your wallet ID.
Depending on the country of residence of the exchange, the local three letter agency will have access your credentials. You think they will somehow not swap this information with each other?
Yes, no proof of residence is 100% sure. Organised crime can certainly find ways to provide a nice, good, false, proof of residence. But the question is - can you?
"In this day and age, where even swiping a credit card takes too long, and NFC payment has emerged, any "currency" that requires multi-second, let alone multi-minute, transactions is doomed for day to day usage."
I would challenge that.
You are forgetting that its only for the past year or so that same day clearing has been happening for consumers. Apart from a simple available funds check there are very few requirements for consumers to be updated on their balance instantly - for the last 20 years banks have been doing 3 day clearing and having their merry way with your funds in the meantime. No doubt in the future many Crypto Currency exchanges will do the same if they can get away with it.
Agree that super fast transactions are not always necessary.
If you are standing in the queue at WH Smiths at a train station then yes you want to pay and get the eff away.
But if you are making a purchase off Amazon even for next day delivery, or downloading a software purchase, does waiting 5 minutes for the confirmatory email, or the purchase to show up in your online account really make that much difference?
And a whole lot of losers starting useless litigation after their perceived wealth goes up in smoke.
I thought that was the point of BTC, lovely pungent thick smelly smoke. Slight whiff of feet, slight whiff of cheese. Mmmmm.
This doesn't really answer his question, and is rather inaccurate. You can use Bitcoin stored on your own computer just fine - you don't need an exchange to spend them in a pub, online shop, or whatever that accepts Bitcoin. The fact that the value is mainly determined by the trading on exchanges doesn't require you to store any on an exchange.
In fact, having money on an exchange in most cases would be useless for spending - you'd usually first have to transfer to a wallet (e.g., on a phone or your computer) to spend it.
Using exchanges with online wallets is the easiest way to obtain Bitcoin (though not the only way), but one can immediately withdraw.
The main reasons for having lots on an exchange are (a) laziness/stupidity, (b) someone who's filthy rich from Bitcoin anyway, so even a small proportion represents a large amount, (c) people who are day trading large amounts.
"Compounding factor is that there's also an insane amount of speculation on the value of BC, which requires you to have serious amounts of "BC value" in accounts in exchanges"
I don't understand this - the amount you want to invest in Bitcoin (whether on an exchange, or not) isn't affected by the price of Bitcoin.
As for "completely useless and valueless, they have no backing of "the equivalent of...."", they have uses; nothing has "inherent" value, other than what people give to it, and Bitcoin isn't backed in the same way that gold isn't backed by anything (and nor are modern currencies backed by anything else, either). Your last paragraph is just an ad hominem rant.
The time isn't for the transaction, rather it's to receive "confirmations".
Pubs I've seen accepting Bitcoin don't care about waiting for confirmations. Yes, theoretically this means someone could fraudulent buy beer with Bitcoins, but then they'd just come over to you a few minutes later.
It's true that Bitcoin is less suitable for a physical shop where you can walk away with the goods straightaway, but that's not really where people are expecting it to be useful. The potential uses are lower transaction fees for online ordering, international money transfers, and transferring money between individuals in countries that don't have as good a banking system as the UK (and not having to rely on Paypal for any of these).
As I say in my other comment, there are other reasons why people might end up having money on exchanges. Whilst eliminating the time for confirmations is an interest use of an exchange/online wallet, this requires the recipient to have an account of the same site, and I'd say is only of minimal use in practice.
"Now there are lots of them and there seems no reason why Mike down the road can't start Mike'sCoin in his mom's basement. This must surely undermine any "scarcity" value and erode confidence in bitcoin as a medium of transferring value."
But there is also value in how many places accept the currency. Even now, there are far more places accepting Bitcoin than your Mike'sCoin, so why would I buy any of Mike'sCoin? No doubt we may see several virtual currencies come into mainstream use, but creating new currencies doesn't automatically reduce the scarcity of existing currencies.
In addition, I expect there's a bit of "I don't Pherd van Tomskrat, so I don't know if I really trust to transfer direct to him, but I know Mt Gox. All my friends are using Mt Gox so I do trust them."
Granted you probably would have been better off trusting Pherd, but that's not the way herds tend to think.
You still haven't quite grasp one of the essentials of spying yet have you?
For all they abuse their own citizens, three letter agencies must at least genuflect to the laws of their country. It's the citizens of other countries where they don't give a rip snort about local laws. So the local three letter agency is more likely getting their data about its citizens from a foreign three letter agency. With a spot of cross verify from a sample collected about their own citizens.
"If people start shouting Ad Hominem, you know you've got them by the balls" to paraphrase an old teacher of mine.
Will the lawyers take Bitcoins for payment? I somehow suspect not.
At least one lawyer here in .nl does. But he is (AFAIK) not involved with the suits against MtGox.
"Sod the government, sod the banks, freedom FTW!"
*MtGOx goes titsup*
"Government! Government! Make MtGOx repay us in bank money for our lost pretend money!"
Ahhh Libertarians.
And they wonder why no-one takes them seriously.
Hey, at least Bitcoin logic is a lot less fuzzy headed than their plans to fund the government by selling litigation insurance or whatever they call it these days.
<hooting laugh>Janet Yellin</hooting laugh>
I did try to warn you chaps.
Can't we just give them all monopoly money and call it even? Don't think the difference (if any) would be realized.


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Brooklyn borough president: "Get investors, pension funds to rebuild NY/I-278 BQE/Gowanus"
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz has written Andrew Cuomo the New York state governor lambasting the decision to abandon planning for a rebuild and modernization of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) and the Gowanus Expressway (GE), both NY/I-278 and urging they be financed with a public private partnership and pension fund investments.
The final paragraph of the letter to the Governor: "I urge your administration to reverse the decision to terminate these projects. You have recently proposed funding infrastructure through the expansion of public-private partnerships including the use of pension fund investments to pay for our roadways and bridges.
"Although the details of your proposal need to be finalized, I believe it is a great start and should be used to immediately address Brooklyn's I-278.
"Additionally, I request that your administration open a new dialogue with other elected officials at the City, State, and Federal levels to find opportunities to revive and continue these projects to the fulfillment of their expressed goals of solving the current traffic, economic, and environmental nightmare they create."
Priority as P3
Cuomo's administration has a request for qualifications out for investors to support rebuilding of the New York State Thruway's Tappan Zee Bridge at Tarrytown New York on NY/I-287. (The Thurway uses the Tappan Zee Bridge to transition from the east bank of the Hudson River just out of New York City to the west bank and also carries major east-west traffic.)
The Brooklyn Borough president says the highways of 2x3 tight lanes built mostly in the 1940s suffer both "insufficient capacity and structural decay" and the state wants to give up on addressing the problem.
Abandonment of project "absolutely unacceptable and an insult to the residents..."
He goes on:
"This means that the current egregiously negative environmental impacts that these antiquated and crumbling highways have on the thousands of Brooklynites who live near them -- or on the millions of roadway users who must travel on them while facing near-constant congestion -- will not be substantively addressed for a generation or more.
"This is absolutely unacceptable and an insult to the residents of Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens, and New Jersey who live or work near these structures or depend on them to access the region's commercial core."
I-278 is a major traffic route between northern New Jersey and lower Manhattan and Queens. It uses the Goethals Bridge, the Staten Island Expressway, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, then the Gowanus Expressway and the BQE.
The Gowanus is 6.1 miles, 10.2km and the BQE is 10.4 miles, 17km with a 1.2 mile, 2km spur or 'eastern leg.' Both were designed in the 1930s, substantially built in the 1940s and 1950s with some widening in the early 1960s. Since then all work has been on the established structures.
They are generally built with 10.5ft, 3.20m lanes (versus modern 12ft, 3.66m lanes,) without shoulders, with short merge/weave distances, steep and narrow ramps. They carry 120,000 to 160,000 vehicles/day (over 15% of them trucks) on six lanes.
Built with toll-$s
The Gowanus and BQE were built as free roads by the Triborough Bridge and Toll Authority (now part of MTA as the Bridges and Tunnels department) so they were built with toll money, although a toll was never collected on them.
Their planning and construction was a major preoccupation of the now historic figure, Robert Moses.
Robert A. Caro in his book The Power Broker, describes how New York City's great road, bridge, tunnel and park builder Moses (1888 - 1981) watched the construction of the BQE from an office nearby:
Moses watched
"During construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Moses rented the penthouse floor of the Marguerite Hotel - an old, sedate establishment right next to the expressway - and used it as an office.
"It had two advantages: only very few people knew of its existence, so he was interrupted by few telephone calls, and he could look down on the construction as he worked.
"And he spent a lot of time looking down at it, watching the cranes and derricks and earthmoving machines that looked like toys far below him moving about in the giant trench being cut through mile after mile of densely packed houses, a big black figure against the sunset in the late afternoon, like a giant gazing down on the giant road he was molding. 'And I'll tell you,' said one of the men who spent a lot of time at the old hotel with him, 'I never saw RM look happier than he did when he was looking down out of that window.' "
Markowitz also says that the shutdown of the project at this point after years of planning represents "a colossal waste of time and money."
"(T)housands of hours of time by public participants and city and state employees has been invested in stakeholder meetings and in the scoping and planning process. Additionally, millions of dollars have been spent on contracts, data collection, engineers, outreach, and everything else that accompanies environmental review. Terminating these projects tosses nearly all that public money and time away."
Cripples property values and commerce
The Gowanus has "blighted miles of the communities facing it, crippling property values and commerce."
The traffic jams that turn this expressway into a "parking lot" are a public health issue from Bay Ridge to Sunset Road to Red Hook, Markowitz says, because of the air pollution caused by stopped or slow moving vehicles.
Markowitz letter contains no explicit reference to toll financing, but it is difficult to imagine how public private partnerships or pension fund investments could be attracted without a solid toll revenue stream.
A proposal with wide support would build a direct 1.5 mile, 2.2km tunnel from Red Hook to near the Brooklyn Navy Yard to take the through traffic away from Brooklyn Heights while making use of the rights of way of the west looping elevated for spurs to the East River crossings.
New York State DOT do not even seem to have considered toll financing for this project, so with a lack of tax funds they simply abandoned it. In doing so they have generated a powerful protest movement, and an immediate realization that toll financing must be investigated.
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I'm interested in generating a daily report that displays the number of messages sent per user each day, which will help us identify accounts that may be compromised and spamming.
I thought a simple script that grepped and counted "from=<$username" from the mail logs would work but I've run into a hitch. When a user sends a message, the mta accepts it into the queue, but then requeues it and relays it through the content filter. Since it's queued twice, it shows up as two separate messages in the logs, and simply grepping and counting "from=<$username" returns a misleading value. (Note that spam with the sender address spoofed as someone in the domain will cause this as well).
I modified the script to handle this but it's much too slow. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this? I thought I saw that there was a Zimbra command that actually generated these types of reports but I can't seem to find it now.


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Great Britain's Princess Kate and Prince William are expecting a baby. The bad news: Prince Harry is already planning a huge baby shower in Vegas.
One day that child could grow up to be one of the most powerful unemployed people in the world.
Happy birthday to Britney Spears, who is now 31 years old. At her birthday party, all her family and friends got together and lip-synched "Happy Birthday."
President Clinton and President Obama played a round of golf over the weekend. President Clinton asked Obama what his handicap was, and Obama said, "Joe Biden."
The Obamas have decorated the White House with 54 Christmas trees. It's all part of their "For the last time, we're not Muslim" campaign.
Prince William and Kate Middleton are expecting. They don't know whether it's going to be a boy or a girl, but they do know it's not going to work a day in its life.
Lindsay Lohan says she does not need rehab because she says she has no problem with alcohol. However, Lindsay did admit that her car is a total drunk.
It's a very proud night for myself and my family and my staff and my friends. I received a Kennedy Center Honor. And today the Republicans are trying to block it.
With the Kennedy Center Honors, I am now 17th in line for president.
I'm worried about the fiscal cliff in the same way I'm worried about Martians. Every now and then I look for them but I don't know what I'll do when I see them.
Prince William and his lovely bride are pregnant. Buckingham Palace announced Kate is pregnant. They've been married for a year and a half. That's like five marriages for a Kardashian.
Kate is said to be very nervous about giving birth. Giving birth to a baby wearing a crown is very hard.
Today it was confirmed that Prince William and Kate Middleton are expecting their first baby. You can tell the baby's a member of the royal family, because Kate said she can already feel it waving.
A new survey found that "Sophia" and "Aiden" were the most popular baby names this year. The least popular baby name was Kim Jong Sandusky.
While he was in Pennsylvania on Friday, President Obama said that he's been keeping his own "naughty and nice list" of lawmakers. Then Biden was like, "Great, now I've got to worry about his list AND Santa's?"
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Previous Seasonal Exhibitions
(June 1st to October 12th 2012)
Production du Musée de la Gaspésie
1766, the year Charles Robin walks on the Gaspe ground for the first time, is the beginning of about 200 years of contact and migration between the Channel Islands and the Gaspe. Thousands of people, leaving those small islands cast between France and England, will come to work for a fishing season. Others, less frightened by the rigor of Gaspe's climate, will see their adventure lasts for a few years. Finally, some of these Islanders will make of Gaspe their home. Still today, the presence of the Dumaresq, Lelièvre, Béchervaise, Chabot and Hotton families, among others, are a testimony of the link which still unites these two territories.
Come and discover the inheritance of the Jersey, Guernsey, Sercq and Alderney Islands! You might discover that your ancestors were in fact among those brave Islanders...
"Here I was three thousand miles away from home, having experienced my first travels by steamship, railroad train, subway and schooner. I was excited with it all".
Cyril Dufeu , 15 years old, after his journey from Jersey to Rivière-au-Renard, July 1919.
(From June 17th to September 10th 2012)
Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie
Over the last two years Gabor Szilasi has put down roots in the Gaspé during two artist's residencies each lasting two weeks. Using photography as a medium, in 2010 he documented his visit to the north coast, and then in 2011, to Matapedia Valley by way of Baie-des-Chaleurs. The result of that work will be exhibited during Rencontres in 2012. Additionally, a publication, issued by Rencontres, will be released in 2013.
Le Pont
The charm with which some of us, as a child, plunged into a lilliputian world catches up with us once in a while by the discoveries made along a random walk. The pebble which we notice at the edge of a brook because its color, its shape, contrast with its environment... Although, how disappointing can our finds be once taken out of their context. On the other hand, some keep their strong attraction force afterwards. It is this fragile thread which I try to recreate with my miniatures so that they act as transmitters, a visual whisper.
There was this visit in Gaspé to find traces of the past.
There were the lost souvenirs of a small boy.
There was the dream about the discovery of a temporal bridge.
Sketches I made last spring were the inspirations for my miniatures
Forty portraits are to be discovered on the bridge.
Animal lovers! Choose a travel destination and begin an adventure. You will have to pass through customs, but before you do, make sure you know what souvenirs you can bring back. There you are in an exotic bazaar, where animals are at the basis of many offered products. You will discover which animals are the most threatened by trade. Will you be of those who will contribute to their disappearance by bringing back an illegal travel souvenir? We will know, when you pass through customs.
(From April 30th to May 18th 2012)
Produced by the Musée de la Gaspésie
Eugene Klimoff was born in Russia in 1901. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Riga in 1929.He emigrated to Canada in 1949 and settled in Quebec. Eugene Klimoff is a lover of the Canadian wilderness. He traveled the country many times and visited several times the Gaspé. In 1951, the Quebec Ministry of Fisheries asked Eugene Klimoff to make 31 paintings on artisanal fishing in the Gaspé. Of these, 13 breed methods capture various species of fish, gutting, drying, washing and setting catch barrels. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of Quebec has donated this collection to the Museum of the Gaspe in 1995.
(October 14th 2011 to April 20th 2012)
Produced by the Corporation culturelle de Shawinigan and the Musée de la nature et des sciences de Sherbrooke
Dive into the heart of a fantastic universe, through Quebecois, Canadian and Amerindian folklores. Jump aboard the flying boat, hunt the werewolves or dance with the Devil... Leave the reality of every day behind to investigate the imaginative component of our culture so beautifully orchestrated by our numerous storytellers. Even if at first the objective was to explain the big mysteries of life and misunderstood natural phenomenon, legends and tales aren't only left to become grandmothers' stories...
This recent works exhibition presents a space in between drawings, collage and the ready-made. Recoudre des rideaux de sable is the reflection of the artist's own mythology. We are all blind gods with thousands of memoirs not yet awakened. It is about the research for the transitional space, for the reflection of the visible where neither present, nor the past, or the evil exists. In this eternal continuation between actual souvenirs and intuition, there is an imprint of a deep memory ...
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to create some healthier eating habits for me at least.
The wife is out of town for the week enjoying the benefit of one of the 3 college tuitions I'm paying. I have two kids at home this summer so tonight I attempted to create a healthier meal for us all. I've been on a fish kick lately so I picked up some Tilapia and rice from the grocery store on the way home.
Since I was grilling I decided I might as well grill a couple of things to let the kids have a choice so I also picked up some ground Turkey and made Turkey burgers. I didn't realize that the Tilapia was not that expensive considering the alternatives. Even the turkey seemed reasonable-or maybe it was because what I bought was on special as it was labeled as needing to be prepared today.
I fixed the Tilapia with several different spices to also give us a choice. I think I liked the Cajun spice the best but I tend to go for things a little spicer anyway.
I don't know if it's because I've starved the kids the past few days but they actually seemed to really enjoy the food and didn't hold back a lick. Could just be the appetitie of teenagers as well. I'll have to check out the dogs' dishes to make sure none of it shows up there. Maybe it will help to get them away from the fried foods for a day or two.
Anybody have any fish recipes they'd like to offer???


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Seeing as it is no simple task to find a company with the right mix of good management, competitive products, and attractive long-term markets, I understand why investors are slow to give up on companies that feature these attributes. All the same, it looks like the Street has already looked past this lull in Cummins' (NYSE:CMI) business. Not only is the stock up about 15% over the past year and within 10% of its all-time high, but today's valuation already presumes a pretty solid future outlook with respect to growth.
First Quarter Results Reflect The Global Slowdown
If investors hadn't already gotten the message from companies like Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), Eaton (NYSE:ETN), Navistar (NYSE:NAV), or Volvo (Nasdaq:VOLVY), Cummins drove home that the global vehicle, industrial power, and energy markets are seeing tough times.
Cummins reported that revenue fell about 12% from the year-ago period and a further 9% from the fourth quarter, missing the Street average of estimates by a small margin. The weakness was worst in the company's largest business (engines), as revenue fell 19%, with heavy duty trucks, medium duty trucks, industrial, and stationary power sales all down by double digits (27%, 15%, 17%, and 23%, respectively). Cummins' power gen business held up better (down 4%), while components fell 7% and distribution revenue was flat.
As a company that drives significant operating leverage when revenue is strong, that leverage cuts the other way in slowdowns. To that end, gross margin fell almost two and a half points, and missed the Street average estimate by more than a point. Operating income fell more than a third, and the company missed average expectations for operating margin, but if this proves to be the bottom an operating margin above 10% (10.6%) is actually pretty encouraging.
SEE: Analyzing Operating Margins
Will Energy Become More Significant For Cummins?
Cummins has changed a lot over the past decade, and almost all for the better as the company actually gained market share in its core vehicle engines business. Looking ahead, the company has made it clear that emerging markets growth in its core engines business is a priority. I also wonder, though, whether more activity in energy is in the cards.
Investors don't seem to talk about it much, but companies like Caterpillar, Eaton, Allison (NYSE:ALSN), and Cummins have meaningful presences in the energy sector. For Cummins, it is worth close to 10% of revenue, though weakness in the North American well servicing market has certainly slowed things down.
Looking ahead, though, the company will be launching the huge new "Hedgehog" engine with an eye toward growing its addressable market in the energy sector (as well as other market sectors). I don't expect Cummins to become an energy company, but I think investors shouldn't lose sight of the opportunities Cummins has to bring its core technologies to markets like energy, rail, and general industrial.
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Trucking Is Going To Be An Up And Down Market
Some analysts and investors seemed to get lulled by the latest bull run in heavy equipment into thinking that markets like trucking/commercial vehicles, mining, and construction aren't still deeply cyclical markets. I think that thesis has been put to bed (until the next time...), but that's not to say that there isn't more growth to be had.
It's true that countries like China, Brazil, and India are going to see more trucks on their roads in the coming years. It's also true that a conversion to natural gas or other alternative fuels could lead to meaningful business for Cummins in the coming years.
All of that said, though, investors should get carried away with their growth expectations. Even if Navistar's recent efforts to develop its own engines went badly wrong (and the company came back at least partially to Cummins), others are going to try again sooner or later. Likewise, companies like Daimler and Volvo are both going to look at emerging markets like China as growth opportunities for themselves as well, to say nothing of local players like China Yuchai (NYSE:CYD). So while I do believe that Cummins will win its share of business, it's not going to win *all* of the business out there.
The Bottom Line
It's not surprising for a company searching for a cyclical bottom, but there is a wide range of analyst estimates for Cummins earnings over the next few years. That sort of spread often points to above-average volatility (for good or bad) as investors dial in their expectations.
SEE: Manage Your Clients' Expectations
For my part, I'm looking for Cummins to grow revenue at a mid-single digit rate for the long term, with a recovery from this lull powering a low-to-mid-teens free cash flow growth rate. Were the company to find real success in new non-vehicle markets, there could certainly be some upside to the revenue figure (though perhaps at the cost of some margin). That works out to a fair value near $120. Although I usually like a wider margin of error before buying, Cummins is too popular to really hope for much more. While there is definitely a chance that the recovery in demand takes longer (and pushes down results, estimates, and the stock price in the meantime), investors should realize that this stock often snaps back quickly, so investors waiting for a pullback will need to move quickly if and when it happens.
At the time of writing, Stephen D. Simpson did not own shares in any of the companies mentioned in this article.