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Survivor: Nicaragua — Libertad Camp Up In Flames
November 17, 2010 07:45 PM by Ryan Haidet
This season keeps getting better and better. Tonight's episode of Survivor: Nicaragua on CBS showed true devastation as the Libertad tribe found their possessions reduced to ashes after a fire tore through the camp. Strategies were also heavy tonight as the game winds down with power players becoming the targets of some castaways once in the shadows.
Night 24 at the Libertad camp, Brenda thought Marty's elimination really showed everybody where the power players sit. She admitted in confessional that she and Sash are running the game while calling herself a king and Sash the queen. But her aggressive strategies started becoming obvious to Holly and Jane. "It has to change soon," Holly said in confessional.
The next morning, the weather was looking gloomy, and the tribe felt like their fire was at risk of fizzling out while they were away at a challenge. So to protect the flames, they built a makeshift barricade around the fire with their wooden crates. Yes, wooden crates. Obviously we're dealing with a group of geniuses. More on this brainiac decision in a bit.
Backlash Against Brenda
While out for a walk, Holly and Benry talked about the domination exhibited by Brenda and Sash. Benry was easily convinced they needed to go next. Moments later on another part of camp, Jane asked NaOnka for help in getting rid of Brenda. Despite her friendship with Brenda, NaOnka was also in. Holly then went to Chase with the plan. "She's the ringleader," Holly told him. Chase thought it was better to target Benry next because he's a physical threat and untrustworthy. Holly disagreed, which started to raise concerns in her eyes about his thought process in the game.
Barrel Battle
At the Reward Challenge, the 10 castaways were divided into two teams of five. After the random draw for teams, they had four barrels, two planks and 10 feet of rope at their disposal to get across the beach without touching the ground. The first team to cross the beach would win Reward, which included a trip to an active volcano where they would also chow down on pizza, brownies and soda.
It was a slow race, but something that required extensive teamwork. The blue team featuring Chase, Fabio, NaOnka and Kelly S. were much more successful getting across the beach and easily won. It wasn't even close.
Volcano Ride & Angry Flames
After taking a helicopter, the winning team landed at the volcano where they got to ride down the mountainside on a sled. After that ashy rush, the five of them chowed down on the pizza and discussed strategy. NaOnka quickly pulled Fabio aside and told him that Brenda was everybody's next target. Fabio was thrilled with the idea because it might keep him under the radar while taking out a power player.
Their excitement was 180 degrees different than the emotions back at camp. When Dan, Holly, Brenda, Sash and Benry returned after losing the challenge they found their possessions in ashes. They lost most of their food and machetes in the blaze. Several glass containers also melted. Hmmm. I wonder how this happened. Oh yeah, putting wooden crates within inches of a fire to protect it from the rain. Benry called the situation "the day from Hell."
Chase Talks
When Chase returned to camp from the Reward, he rushed to Brenda and revealed the plans that others were pursuing to vote her out next. Although she seemed surprised by the plan, Brenda said she was unimpressed with their strategy. In his continuing paranoia, Chase then went to NaOnka and said he was sticking with Brenda. This sparked a reaction from NaOnka where she went to everybody else saying Chase is too wishy-washy and can't be trusted.
Immunity Battle
Standing on a small platform over a pit of water, the castaways had to use their strength to hang onto a rope as long as possible. Every five minutes they had to move their hands to a lower knot on the rope making it more difficult to hang on. The last person standing would claim Immunity. This is obviously one of those challenges that seems easy in concept sitting on the couch at home scarfing down potato chips. But the pain in their faces truly captured how difficult this challenge was.
After we lost seven players in the competition within the first five minutes, it came down to Chase, Jane and Benry. When host Jeff Probst ordered them to move their hands to the next knot, Benry's face turned red as he grunted and struggled to hang on. Although he fought hard, Benry was out next.
Jane quickly announced she was going to let go and drop out of the challenge because her hands were hurting, which Probst couldn't believe. He questioned her decision and told her not to give up. She switched her choice and decided to hang on a little longer, and it paid off because she won Immunity when Chase fell off a few moments later.
Brenda's Plan
Although Chase was desperate to take Benry out next, he went to Brenda and told her things were looking bad for their alliance. Chase said he didn't believe they had the numbers to spare her from elimination. Brenda, trying to remain confident, wanted to make sure Chase and Sash realize the other players will come after them next. That's when she pitched a plan for Sash to give up his hidden Immunity Idol for her.
At Tribal Council, trust was the central topic. Although Brenda didn't think trust has been an issue for her, she was surprised to hear that NaOnka wanted to jump ship on their alliance. When Probst asked Brenda if she scrambled to stay in the game, Brenda wouldn't use the word "scrambling" to describe her efforts at all. She believed scrambling allows others to view you as somebody who has already lost.
When Probst gathered the votes and asked if somebody wanted to play a hidden Immunity Idol, Brenda nudged at Sash with a smirk on her face almost asking him to hand it over. He simply sat there and looked away.
Brenda was easily voted out of the competition with all but two ballots against her. Interestingly, the only person (other than Brenda herself) who didn't cast a ballot against Brenda was Kelly S. She wound up voting against Benry, which shows she truly has been kept out of the loop. Even Sash and Chase voted against their main ally.
Only nine contestants remain.
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A chance encounter with Johnny Depp backstage at the MTV Movie Awards earned Lindsay Lohan an invitation to his private island in the Caribbean, which he and Vanessa Paradis affectionately refer to as "Fuck Off Island." The Pirates of the Caribbean actor extended the offer to La Lohan stay at his secluded tropical getaway any time she needs, an offer which reportedly pleased the paparazzi-attracting starlet.
Reminiscent of Mel Gibson's offer to Britney Spears, Depp reached out to the troubled starlet because, as a source dished, "Johnny realizes the pressures of fame and can see Lindsay could do with a break."
Damn, I need to get famous and troubled. Or figure out how to become that guy behind Lindsay. I bet it's not too hard being him.
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The turbulence of today's business environment—volatility in market positions, unpredictability of competitive outcomes, and a widening gap in performance between winners and losers—makes classical strategic planning increasingly limiting. To keep pace with incessant change, companies need a more adaptive and dynamic approach to strategy. In "Adaptive Advantage," we described an approach that involves iterative experimentation through a process comprising variation, selection, and amplification, with modulation at its center.
Companies adapt to rapid changes in competitive markets by introducing variation into their products and internal routines. They select the most promising variations through stage gates, portfolio management, pilots, or full-scale tests. And they amplify and embed their successes through resource allocation, internal or external competition, and specialization. These activities are fine-tuned through modulation—the locus of strategic intent in the process—in response to the environment, corporate goals, and outcomes.
The choices a company makes in modulating variation, selection, and amplification are at the heart of adaptive strategy and its organizational implications. They affect organizational structure, governance, external relations, innovation, marketing strategy, and culture, to name but a few elements. The mechanisms of modulation are fundamentally organizational in nature: they are embodied in the way people make decisions and behave in the workplace. There is no adaptive strategy without an adaptive organization. Hence the critical importance of people advantage.
Large organizations need to be especially aware of the challenges they are likely to encounter in developing adaptive capabilities. Classical approaches to managing scale—delegation and specialization—can be highly efficient under stable conditions, but the hierarchical structures they produce are too rigid for the rapid learning and change required in turbulent environments.
A narrow focus on leanness, too, can impede adaptability. Under pressure from competition and capital markets, some large companies have squeezed out not only inefficiency but also the diversity and variation needed to adapt to rapid change. What's more, once adaptive capabilities in highly structured and specialized organizations have atrophied, they can be challenging to re-create. (See Exhibit 1.)
In addition, the cultures of large organizations—often internally oriented and with an intolerance of failure, an obsession with efficiency, and a bias toward consensus and obedience—can be ill suited to adaptability. And their management paradigms die hard, especially when they have been the basis for historical success, are integrated into training programs, and offer the comforting illusion that a company can perfectly foresee and control its destiny.
Nevertheless, some companies—even large, established ones—have discovered a way to overcome the barriers to adaptability. These organizations display five key attributes:
Modular organizational units provide flexibility in a changing environment. Standardized (plug-and-play) interfaces enable the organization to recombine parts and rapidly introduce variations in products and processes at low cost and risk, as well as rapid shifts in resource allocation.
The free flow of knowledge and power enabled by decentralized decision-making allows operations to detect and respond quickly to changes. This attribute is often reinforced by weak or competing power structures and a culture of constructive conflict and dissenting opinions.
A limited number of guiding principles replace detailed standard operating procedures, which are impractical for managing unpredictable change. Adaptive organizations favor simple universal principles over strict rules for determining how individuals and teams should interact and how decisions should be made.
Adaptive values encourage the organization to pursue economics favorable to experimentation rather than focus on avoiding failure, which is seen as a necessary part of experimentation. Adaptive values also promote productive dissidence, cognitive diversity, and an external orientation in order to allow a faster and more accurate response to a changing environment. And because adaptive organizations rely on individual creativity and initiative, they articulate a credible common purpose that transcends financial goals and mobilizes employees.
Leadership through context setting acknowledges that in adaptive organizations, strategies are emergent rather than dictated. Therefore, leadership's role is to shape the context for decision making rather than to specify and oversee the execution of an instruction set. The emphasis shifts from command and control to contextualize and catalyze.
Netflix, a U.S. video-rental company, embodies many of these characteristics. It is unique in the way it has codified a very explicit set of adaptive management beliefs and principles. Here are two examples from its "Reference Guide to Our Freedom and Responsibility Culture":
Process-driven companies are "unable to adapt quickly, because the employees are extremely good at following the existing processes. . . . We try to get rid of rules when we can."
"The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people."
Even large industrial players can become more adaptive, as Cisco Systems demonstrates. Early on, Cisco relied on a hierarchical customer-centric organizational model to become a leader in the market for network switches and routers. However, as the company's core market matured, CEO John Chambers created a novel management structure of cross-functional councils and boards to facilitate a move into 30 adjacent and diverse markets (ranging from health care to sports), as well as into developing countries. Cisco transformed itself from a company in which a few people made all the decisions to one with a decentralized, externally focused council structure. Employees are allowed to form boards even without a formal leader, thereby increasing agility and exploration. The company built a culture that is more amenable to risk taking and more accepting of failure. As a result, it successfully met Chambers's aggressive target of generating 25 percent of revenues from new markets by 2010.
We believe that an increasing number of companies will find themselves requiring adaptive strategies and organizations. But how they achieve them will depend upon the nature of their business environment. In "Adaptive Advantage," we explained that the appropriate adaptive strategy is determined by two characteristics of the business environment: the degree of turbulence and the degree of required change.
The degree of turbulence—the volatility of market position and the degree of unpredictability in the business environment—determines how an adaptive company makes decisions. Relationships among key variables are more stable and predictable in environments with low turbulence, but they become unpredictable and difficult to analyze under conditions of high turbulence. Therefore, when turbulence is low, an organization can solve problems through analytic approaches and explicit decision-making, but it should rely more on experimentation and implicit decision-making when turbulence is high.
The degree of required change—in terms of business model, capabilities or knowledge set, and number of affected areas in the company—determines the breadth of the solution space and the participation model of the adaptive enterprise. A broader solution space demands greater cognitive diversity and hence broader organizational participation. If a high degree of change is required, companies need to use collective decision-making to access a greater diversity of knowledge and opinion. If less is required, they can explore a narrower set of solutions and rely on a smaller, more focused group of specialists, experts, or leaders.
In that earlier Perspective, we also introduced four styles of adaptive strategy—sprinter, experimenter, migrator, and voyager. Each has its own organizational approach and is appropriate to different combinations of turbulence and required change. (See Exhibit 2.)
Sprinter organizations operate in markets of low turbulence that require little change. They generate solutions in localized, discrete units; make explicit decisions based on analysis; and exhibit more specialization and centralization than the other adaptive styles. Still, they are adaptive: they rapidly and dynamically reoptimize their routines to the changing environment.
Experimenter organizations use continual empirical testing to make decisions in a turbulent environment, but because the degree of change required is low, they can allow discrete parts of the organization to generate solutions. Therefore, the parts of the company that face uncertainty must empower the frontline to make choices and act, while other parts can behave like sprinters.
Migrator organizations face environments that require significant change, so they generate solutions through broad-based collective participation. However, because turbulence is low, decisions can be based on analysis and deliberation. A migrator's modulating unit is often a cross-functional group that collates inputs from multiple sources and makes deliberate, analytical decisions.
Voyager organizations navigate environments of high turbulence in which a high degree of change is also required. Since no central authority can "know" the correct path, these companies rely on collective decision-making. They also make decisions empirically, since it is not feasible to analyze their way to a solution. And since problem solving at voyager organizations is collective, the periphery is empowered to detect and act on weak signals within an overall context set by management.
Traditionally, strategists have regarded organization and strategy as quite distinct, or they have viewed organization as merely a consequence of strategy. We have seen, however, that achieving adaptive advantage critically depends on having the right organization in place to solve the challenges posed by a dynamic environment. Strategy has therefore become intimately connected with organization, and the companies that succeed will be those that understand and seize a people advantage.
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Manmohan around 9.30 am. Mrs Singh said he's packing because all the staff were watching TV and cheering. I told her get him on the phone. He took his time coming, which has never happened before.... I should have known what to expect. Anyway, I told him my plan. Manmohan, I am offering you the highest honour I can think of, I said. Bharat Ratna, he said.


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Lorain, Ohio, July 14, 2006 – Shops wanting high speed, rigidity, and precision in a competitively priced horizontal machining center should take a look at the HMC-500H by Johnford. Absolute Machine Tools, Inc. offers this 50 taper HMC, which has been designed to meet today's heavy duty, high accuracy machining requirements. Key to the 24,200 lb machine's performance is its box-in-box structure, which delivers high performance and rigidity. In addition, the HMC-500H sports features not found on competitive machines at any price, including Schneeberger roller type linear ways on all axes, large diameter pre-tensioned ballscrews, and a state-of-the-art spindle for excellent finishes.
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Esther Boese - December 24, 2008Esther Boese was born on Dec. 20, 1921 in York County, Neb. She was one of eight children born to George and Sarah Huebert. The family moved to Madrid, Neb. when she was a young child. She grew up in Madrid where she attended elementary school. The family moved to Salem, Ore. when she was 16.
Esther was married to Albert Boese Aug. 10, 1948. They adopted two children. Soon after they married, they moved to Caldwell, Idaho, where they farmed. They remained there until 1970 when they moved to Warden, Wash. They moved to Grant, Neb. in 1986. She remained in Grant after her husband, Albert, passed away in that same year. She moved to Arlington, Texas in 2006.
Esther loved to garden and was a member of the Grant Garden Club. She was very accomplished in anything to do with crafts–embroidery, quilting and crocheting.
She was an active member of the New Life Fellowship Church as well as the Perkins County Senior Center.
Esther lived in the Arbrook Senior Apartments while living in Arlington. She began having heart troubles in 2008 and passed away on Dec. 24, 2008 at the age of 87.
In addition to her parents, Esther was preceded in death by her husband, Albert; her sisters, Sarah Dick, Margaret Penner, Eva Krause and Marie Flaming; brothers, Abe, Ben and Nicholas.
She is survived by her daughter Denise and husband Craig Wehrli; son Joey Boese; grandchildren, Christine, Deanna, Susan, Phillip and Debra Wehrli and Abigal and Jonathon Boese.
There will be a graveside service at the Madrid Cemetery, Saturday August 1 at 10 a.m.
Bullock-Long Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.


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Have anyone upgrade from open source edition zcs-3.0.1_GA_160.FC4 to the latest Network edition 3.1?
If yes,
1. Does it work without hiccups?
2. Which folders needs to be backup so that the data will not be lost?
3. Are there any problems after upgrading? (Just to check whether it is worth it to reinstall on a new machine?)
4. I just bought the license for 3.0 which comes with a network.sh.gz file in the subcription, BUT I have not used it till date. Can I run it on the network edition 3.1 as well? Or i need to get another file for this? I repeat that I have not use that file before.


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JC Penney ousts CEO Ron Johnson
NEW YORK J.C. Penney's board of directors has ousted CEO Ron Johnson after only 16 months on the job as a risky turnaround strategy backfired and led to massive losses and steep sales drops.
The department store chain said late Monday in a statement that it has rehired Johnson's predecessor, Mike Ullman, 66, who was CEO of the department store chain for seven years until November 2011.
The announcement comes as a growing chorus of critics including a former Penney CEO, Allen Questrom, called for his resignation as they lost faith in an aggressive overhaul plan that included getting rid of most discounts in favor of everyday low prices and bringing in new brands.
The biggest blow came last week from his strongest supporter, activist investor and board member, Bill Ackman, who had pushed the board in the summer of 2011 to hire Johnson to shake up the dowdy image of the retailer. He reportedly told investors on Friday that Penney's execution "has been something very close to a disaster."
On Saturday, Ullman received a phone call from Penney's chairman Thomas Engibous asking him to take back his old job, according to Penney spokeswoman Kate Coultas.
Neither Johnson nor Ullman were available for an interview.
Until early last week, some analysts thought the board would give the former Apple Inc. and Target Corp. executive until later this year to reverse the sales slide. Johnson was in the midst of rolling out shops devoted to brands like Joe Fresh and home furnishings designer Jonathan Adler. The new shops, which started opening last year, had been faring better than the rest of the store.
"I truly believed that he had until holiday 2013," said Brian Sozzi, CEO and chief equities strategist Belus Capital Advisers. "Today's announcement is an indictment of his strategy."
Penney's stock price showed investors' frustration with Johnson. When news began to leak after the market closed that Penney was ousting Johnson, the stock, which had closed at $15.87 in the regular session, climbed nearly 13 percent to $17.88 in after-hours trading. But as pleased as investors were about getting rid of Johnson, they didn't appear impressed with his replacement. After Penney announced Ullman would take over, the stock reversed course falling as far as 11 percent from its regular closing price, to $14.10 and 21 percent from its after-hours high.
Under Ullman, the chain brought in some new brands such as beauty company Sephora and exclusive names like MNG by Mango, a European clothing brand, but he didn't do much to transform the store's stodgy image or to attract new customers. He's expected to serve mostly as a stabilizing force, not someone who will make changes that will completely turn the company around.
"What they need is a little bit of stability and essentially adult supervision," said Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners, a retail consultancy. "(Ullman) did nip and tuck surgery," said Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners, a retail consultancy. "But this was a place that needed radical surgery."
Sozzi said he thinks that Ullman will only serve as an interim CEO. He expects the Plano, Texas company's board will hand off the job to another executive who may want to take the company private.
Johnson's future at Penny became uncertain after the department store retailer reported dismal fourth-quarter results in late February that capped the first full year of a transformation plan gone wrong. Penney amassed nearly a billion dollars in losses and its revenue tumbled almost 25 percent, from the previous year, to $12.98 billion.
Under Johnson, 54, Penney ditched coupons and most of its sales events in favor of everyday low prices. It's bringing in hipper designer brands such as Betsey Johnson and updating stores by installing specialty shops devoted to brands such as Levi's to replace rows of clothing racks. Johnson's goal was to reinvent Penney's business into a trendy place to shop in a bid to attract younger, wealthier shoppers. Johnson, who was hired from Apple and was the mastermind behind its profitable stores, rolled out his plan and it turned off shoppers who were used to heavy discounting. Once-loyal customers have strayed from the 1,100-store chain. It hasn't been able to attract new shoppers to replace them.


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(StatePoint) It's no wonder gardening is growing in popularity, as it offers a wealth of physical and mental health benefits.
Indeed, gardening is on the upswing, as more than 2 million households were added to the ranks of Americans partaking in the pursuit, versus the prior year, according to the recently released 2013 National Gardening Survey from the National Gardening Association.
One of those most important benefits of gardening is the harvest itself. Consider incorporating vegetables into your gardening repertoire. The food you grow will taste way better than the store bought variety. And since you can pick your tomatoes, carrots, squash and herbs when they are actually ripe, they will contain more nutrients as well.
If you hate the treadmill, don't fret. You can burn upwards of 150 calories by gardening for approximately 30 to 45 minutes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Regular physical activity can help you regulate weight and reduce your risk for such diseases as diabetes and heart disease.
Just be sure to take some safety precautions so you don't stress your back. New ergonomic tools can help support safer gardening. For example, the EZ Leaf Hauler, functions like a giant dust pan for leaves, so you can rake leaves directly into it before transport. With built-in handles, hauling is quick and easy on your back. Already using a tarp to drag your haul? Make it simple by clipping EZ Tarp Tugger handles to it. More information can be found at www.EZlawnandgarden.com.
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Don't just take your own health into consideration — think of the health of the planet, too. When hauling mulch, leaves, weeds and yard debris, skip the gas-guzzling leaf blower and opt for manual options.
Reduce the waste you create while gardening by packing more leaves into bags. Breaking them down first can help you bag them more efficiently and ultimately use fewer bags. An easy way to get the job done is with a tool like the EZ Leaf Stomper that packs about four times as many leaves per bag as traditional bagging.


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Remington Park in Oklahoma City was the first major track in this country to install an artificial racing surface that over time could have wound up on the government's hazardous site list.
This occurred about two decades ago.
Racing over materials has always sounded like a good idea to at least the manufacturers and select track management. Racing over a concoction of rubber and hemp and old boots or whatever else went in there has always sounded high and dry, safe and dry; or, as safe as breathing and running over artificial surfaces turns out to be. One argument made in favor of the use of make-believe racing surfaces has been it worked in Europe. Yeah, well, it doesn't get 111 degree in the shade of paramedics in Europe, does it. Not everything from Europe works in this country, see soccer and Jerry Lewis film fests.
To say that a horse bounced over the Remington Park oval was no descriptive license.
That surface seemed highly rubberized, almost as though old golf driving range mats had been run through a chipper and spread thoroughly over the race course. Whereas no riders or horses came back bug-eyed and clutching their throats and gagging, health concerns, both respiratory and structural, arose. Different racing surfaces use different muscles. And throughout the course of horse racing on product, injuries haven't seemed to occur less frequently, they just show up around different muscles and joints; and breakdowns haven't seemed to have been reduced appreciably.
I remember standing at the rail at Remington Park one afternoon -- as horses that couldn't have stirred up dust on dirt were winning for artificial fun where the rubber met the hoofs -- and thinking: This is no fun. This wasn't handicapping. This was gambling.
So in the early nineties, Remington Park dug up the artificial surface and sent the remains to who knows where, a tire retread factory, or down a hole in remote Nevada, the points being: If it's not provably safe, and if it's not fun, and if the best owners don't want to risk it, let's create some jobs and vacuum up the fuzz and get back to basics.
A few years ago, a great horse crashed through a starting gate, was quickly reloaded, and then broke down after the start. Horse racing found itself caught in a PETA sandwich. It did some things wisely, dumping drugs. But instead of instilling a rule that says any horse blasting through a gate is an automatic scratch, some began plowing up tracks and spreading synthetics. It's no surprise that the red carpet center of the universe, LA, would lead the parade toward cosmetic rejuvenation. But perhaps instead of spinning their hoofs, tracks strapped for action might be better advised to spin bars and cherries on slots.
There are plenty of reasons to dig up what's patented and return to nature.
Mud pays: Much the way the mind-altering August heat in Tulsa drove the PGA major golf tournament toward Canada, so, too, did the eastern monsoons seem to park the Breeder's Cup in LA for two years running. But off tracks are major handicapping elements that tend to produce monstrous payoffs that can occasionally be envisioned.
Health: If artificial tracks aren't safer, on all points, legs to lungs, what's the point?
Competition: Even if it's only a handy excuse for some looking to dodge a challenger, the artificial circuit does seem like a private club of specialty racers.
I can't pick winners on artificial tracks: angles accepted.
It's fake: It's a green world out there. Jockeys are supposed to use towels to clean up, not lint rollers.
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An Issue Of Diligence
Today's guest blog for our America's Most Endangered Rivers® series is from John Ely, an attorney working for Pitkin County, Colorado:
In 1958, the Colorado River District received a decree for water rights for a project known as West Divide. This project was to burden the Crystal River of Colorado with a series of dams and miles of water diversions, pipelines, conduits, and canals.
Because the project was not physically constructed, the water rights the District obtained were conditional, not perfected. They were conditioned on the diligent pursuit of completion of the West Divide Project and the use of the water rights associated with the project.
Under Colorado law, every six years, the District must demonstrate its diligence. For the District, diligence means working toward damming and diverting the Crystal, one of a diminishing number of free-flowing rivers in Colorado.
The citizens of the Crystal River Valley were always aware of the proposed project. Some citizens thought the project farfetched because of its size and grandiose plan. But this year, that awareness has grown to an alarmed concern because in these days of water shortages the destiny of the Crystal River is in doubt.
This concern is shared by the greater community of Pitkin County. The Crystal Valley citizens and Pitkin County are now showing their diligence to steadfastly oppose the plan to dam the Crystal.
Every six years since 1958 the District has been awarded a diligence decree unchallenged. This year, the size of the project was reduced to placate the anticipated resistance from the Crystal Valley citizens and Pitkin County.
However, the locals are not surrendering this gem of the Rockies. The citizens of the Crystal Valley and Pitkin County are now engaged in a fight to defeat the dams of the West Divide Project that would determine the fate of a river, the life of an ecosystem, and the soul of the entire valley.
Environmental preservation efforts are sometimes a war of attrition. Forces are always present to dam, divert, extract, and sever resources, beauty, and balance from the land. This may be the case, but the difference in the Crystal River Valley is diligence. If what you see in our valley is of value, stand up for it, be on guard for it, and diligently fight to preserve it.
Join the residents of Pitkin County and protect the Crystal River from this harmful dam project by encouraging local water districts to abandon their water rights!


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Yes Greg, great article. I was thinking of buying the CGEM mount [not DX] for astrophotgraphy for a load of no more than about 37 lbs.
Greg or anyone,
Any good alternatives?
Also, short of buying one, how would we have any assurance that Celestron has fixed the problem or minimized it?
Edited this link to be correct
I'm still thinking of buying one. Is this really a problem, a non-issue, or has it been resolved?


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For this week's "Scenes of the City" we're adding to our ongoing series of street portraits of different San Francisco neighborhoods (check out Castro Street Portraits here). We staked out at Washington Square Park in North Beach and captured some of the people milling about.
On their way to a "vintage optical store" on Polk Steet, Lee (left), 20, and Sara, 22, enjoyed each others company at a bus stop near the park.


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Obama - Let's Do Another Fannie
The Treasury Department came out with some proposals today on how to fund infrastructure investments. Nothing new; an infrastructure bank that would borrow money outside of the government using government guarantees, and a newfangled debt instrument called:
America Fast Forward Bonds
I love the name. AFFs will be the Street name. AFFs will be structured like BABS (Build America Bonds). This is a hybrid security that will be issued by a Muni. It will be taxable (unlike regular muni's), it will therefore have a premium yield to non-taxable muni paper. The Federal government will pay (1/3) of the interest due on the bonds. There will be no direct Federal Guarantee on the bonds, but there will be a perception that the Feds are behind the notes.
The Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) will be expanded and it will provide - "loan guarantees, and lines of credit to regionally or nationally significant transportation projects". Loan guarantees and lines of credit are off balance sheet financing. (Note: What is TIFIA? Never heard of it)
The infrastructure bank the President wants is also going to be involved with raising money outside of the Federal budget and debt limits. According to the White House the new bank will - "invest through loans and loan guarantees."
All of the proposed borrowing will be outside of what is defined at the Debt Limit. These new debts will not be included in the calculation of Debt to GDP. The President's proposals are gimmicks to hide debt. The description provided by the White House on how the infrastructure bank would work tells it all. I think there are at least two lies in this statement:
The Bank will operate as an independent, wholly owned government entity outside of political influence.
This language is very similar to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. F/F were supposed to be independent. They were quasi government entities, but politics dictated what they did.
The liabilities and guarantees of the proposed infrastructure bank, and the AFF bonds will be off of the federal balance sheet - identical to what happened with F/F. Every bond that F/F issued said in bold print on the front page: This Bond is not an Obligation of the USA.
Of course the USA was forced step up and assume all $6 Trillion of F/F debt that was issued before 2008. The outcome for the infrastructure bank will be no different. Who was it that said that repeating the same mistake over and over, and expecting a different outcome each time was the true definition of insanity?
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I am so tired of paying for the consequences of other people's financial prolifigacy. Get the government out of the debt markets altogether. Let debtors suffer their own consequences for a change.
The Latin acronym for these AFF bonds is probably LOL.
Under the current debt is money arrangement, ie, that MORE money(debt) is always required to repay Debt + Interest, somebody has to be issued more Money (debt) otherwise the system freezes up.
Since consumers are tapped out (see all the screaming going on by Walmart Execs for example) SOMEBODY has to be spending AND the White House KNOWS that infrastructure (plus education and some other things) will yield growth via money being spent by contruction workers and money being spent on building materials etc, so it is as good an idea as any.
Better issuing more debt for infrastructure than giving it to the banks like has been done for the past 5 years. Alot of good that has done.
Until the system is restructured fundamentally, the only option is to issue more money(debt) to provide the growth necessary to support the ponzi structure.
And that's exactly what Keynes said. He didn't say to socialise the losses of for-profit enterprises. He said until you're out of the woods, build roads and schools and hire teachers and cops.
Don't know how such a sound, fundamental idea got so perverted as this.
In the 1930s, this type of arrangment was called FACISM.
When was the last time we got the government we pay for?
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers
There is no mistake. Its just another way to fund entitlements and avoid social unrest. It will work for a few years.
Great oxi-morons of the world. Military Intelligence. Where from the goverment and where here to help. Independent, wholly owned government entity outside of political influence. In fact the last one offers a double dose, independent and government owned and government owned an no political influence. It's hard to believe that anyone would fall for this again with the exception of all of the banks which are nothing more than proxies for the Fed and Washington. So instead of allowing capital to flow and be distributed through normal market conditions and mechanisms, the proxies will be crammed with even more governmental or quasi-governmental debt that further displaces the private sector and rewards the most inefficient user and deployer of capital in the market, the public sector. I can only think of one quote from a movie that sums this up, stated by Marlon Brando in Apocolypse Now - "The horror, the horror, the horror".
"Yo Tony,
Time to dump the trash an go into asphalt, ya know what I'm sayin?"
"Fuckin A, Pussy, nuthin beats free money."
This ought to work out fine.
So, building and maintaining infrastructure is now considered outside the direct resposibility of a system of government which consumes 38% of GDP?
this is true. if white racists would stop covering for the vacationer thepeople might see how truly awful kingbamama is and how fucked in the ass we are. excluding dc and the honchos and retards in the dem party
AKA advancing fascism.
Sounds like a variation on Iran Contra to me.
Accounts that ansewer to no one.
I'm sure local govs will gobble them up with relish. Mmmmm more debt! We can pay for our retired 100k per year civil workers, none for pot holes though. We are still technically broke.
The Democrats are desperate to find some way for the Federal Government to bail out the state and local governments that are under increasing debt problems. The BABs and this new proposal are just the first attempts at this. Money is fungible, fungible, fungible. It may say "infrastructure", but will be something else.
Americans always do the right thing, after they've tried everything else. W. Churchill
Precisely! California has crumbling infrastructure because tax receipts go to unionized public sector overpaid underworked perma-employees.
The national democrat party is desparate to bail out the political machines in public-union captured states like California, to keep the Party going for a few more years.
Yep - this is their plan to fund Jerry Brown's high-speed-rail-to-nowhere. Bacon Act all the way.
government agency without political influence is an oxymoron, with an a in front.
sounds like another Barney Frank scam.......if the Feds (taxpayers) are on the hook for it...it has got to be another scam to spend $$$ we do not have. simple as that, but I am sure Wall Street will have no problem selling it after rebundling it with other securities........
The money will go toward bolstering infrastructure in states where the infrastructure has been neglected by state government machines dominated by public sector unions, whose preferences lie toward their pay, working conditions, and retirement benefits.
Americans always do the right thing, after they've tried everything else. W. Churchill
The first thing we tried was limited government, i.e. the right thing first.
Grow up man! There never was and never will be such a thing as limited government. The oligarchs love rubes like you because your infantile call for limited government allows them to extract wealth from the middle and lower classes without impediments.
As opposed to the un-limited government we have now that, um, doesn't extract wealth from the middle and lower classes without impediments?
The only reason the US has big government is because of fiat. That's the only reason. The masses could demand as much cheese as they want, and the "leaders" could pass as many laws as they want, hire as many slackers as they want, and promise everyone 1000% pensions, but...
without fiat, the US government would be limited.
Implicit in limited governement is a money supply backed by PMs, preferably containing PMs in the currency itself.
What nation isn't fiat right now other than some small outliers?
Obviously FIAT via FED is bullshit and allows this to continue unabated (for now) along with every other central banker around the globe.
The better point to make here is that government in any form is ALWAYS going to involve redistribution of something, the question is to degree and from whom to whom and for what purpose.
In terms of PM, EVERY government would be limited without fiat.
"There will be no direct Federal Guarantee on the bonds, but there will be a perception that the Feds are behind the notes."
If the TBTF banks buy them, then they will be guaranteed; indirectly and only for the TBTF banks, of course.
those who hold the paper are guaranteed, but the share holders get screwed
Is there some sort of correlation between government desperation (to hide the truth, cover over bad debts, and keep the illusions alive) and the frequency / proliferation of bad ideas?
When the accountants say you're broke and breaking down, it's time to change the accounting. Actually changing the operations is unnecessary, at best.
Sounds exactly like Kalifornia but seeing how the Mexican mafia runs SEIU and SEIU elected Obama it all makes sense.
Amerika prepare to finance your street lightbulb replacement program.
YOO TOO can have $700,000,000.00 high schools for Latino drop outs.
$120,000,000.00 4 mile long busways to serve 400 riders
That's the real problem with infrastructure projects, besides what was mentioned above about lining the unions pockets: it's always some pol's pet project, for their district.
What about a nationally organised program overseen by real live construction engineers. How about triaging the most dire? How about keep politics out of it?
Man, am I naive, or what?
Right, the all powerful unions. The same unions whose membership has declined drastically over the last thirty years and the same unions who are being routed throughout state and local governments. So much for causal relationships.
The financial oligarchs love rubes like you. Keep up the intellectualism.
Okay. Substitute "union" for "graft entrepreneur" and you'll understand the point.
Why don't we hire companies based on performance? They should come in on-time and on-budget. Then they can build the next road. Works here in Texas.
It seems most on here are ready to throw in the towel to our oligarchical overlords because we are simply "rubes" and simply not as "intellectual" as the "all-powerful" banks.
Speak for yourself. There's a better way and ninety-nine percent of the people would like it better that way.
Berlusconi can keep his bribery is not a crime idiocy. Doesn't mean we have to embrace it over here.
Oh god noes! Engineers? We are building and fixing political machines here, not the kind having to do with engineers.
yeah the pork barrel just got a lot bigger and a lot more vicious. with this sort of competition you can guess that only about 10% of the money will actually get to the projects, the rest wasted on bribes to lobbyists, elaborate campaign fund kickback schemes, inflated costs. i been wondering just how Obama would be remembered, i think rackateer in chief is pretty close.
Orly -Who pays the real live construction engineers? How much are they paid? How much should the "project" cost ?
Yes...you are being terribly naive.
it is possible, in CA they created an independent politcal agency to draw up new district lines, and so far it seems to be working.
How about kiling FRE and FNM and starting a new housing authority. Then buy every existing primary home mortgage in America. Refinance them at decent terms, even cutting some principal for those underwater. By the time they get paid off government will have recouped all their money plus about 25%-40% in profits. Use those profits to reduce our national debt.
Once you have everyone refinanced, then start a program where every new primary housing loan is issued by the government. Do it through social security, giving them a credible income stream and letting another government program finance what social security cannot. Profits the government makes goes toward paying off current debt, reducing the need for new debt.and will allow a lower tax rate. people thinking about stiffing the government better think again as any failure to pay your mortgage will reduce your social security benefits down the road.
Banks and investors? It will hurt them but they will get paid in full on their loans outstanding. They will still be able to make second property, personal and business loans but no more fleecing the people on mortgage loans. They would still be eligible to make money originating primary loans on behalf of the government and servicing them.
I can think of no downsides and the upside is more disposable income for families, less taxes and investors being forced into more productive endeavors in order to get their profits. All good for the economy.
Look, when Fannie Mae and Fredie Mac were created, that pretty much was the government 'buying' every existing primary mortgage.
You want to refinance the mortgages at 'decent terms', which presumably means lower than market interest rates.
Has it occurred to you that our entire finance system is on the verge of collapsing because the cost of money doesn't match the availability of capital?
If the government directly owned the electorate's debt, how long do you think it would be before the ballot box overturned any kind of loan repayment discipline?
The system now is fucked, yes. But getting government even more involved would only make in fuckeder.
Idea: Maybe we don't borrow to pay for housing anymore. Because maybe the actual problem is debt.
Bingoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! you are spartaucs! maybe not quite so draconian, but perhaps a 25% deposit would ptu the right amount of skin in the game.
it is very hard to kick those who took out jumbo option arm liar loans when that is precisely what the TBTF banks did..why bail out TBTF and not all homeowners? that could be means tested of course. maybe have a hurdle (not RICO) that says if you had a mortgage for a minimum of three years and made at least 30 monthly payments, you can get a refi'd mortgage at the same rate as the government guaranteed fraudie and funny rates..you know..60 bps over treaury rates for five and ten years.
all that needs ot be done then is to correct the massive rip-off that goes for home and contents plus building insurance at the actual values of homes and not the inflated values lying on fraudie and funnie's MBS portfolio and people might actually be better off.


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Kate Bosworth pulled out the big guns on Monday night.
Dreamy, dazzling and, quite frankly, to die for, the actress, Topshop collaborator and all-round style setter was on stand-out form at the premiere for her latest flick, Big Sur.
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Video: PARKatlanta protest
ATLANTA -- PARKatlanta has proposed some changes, and local business owners think, if passed, these changes will hurt their businesses and deter customers.
"Right now we have 7 p.m. enforcement on the meters and they're wanting to take it to 24 hours," said Grant Henry, an O4W business owner. "[Customers] wouldn't come. We would not be able to have a business on Edgewood Avenue."
The first proposal limits overtime parking, which means if a spot is marked "three hour MAX", you cannot feed the meter after those three hours are up. You'll be forced to move your car.
And the second proposal affects when parking is enforced. If the proposal is passed PARKatlanta would be able to enforce parking rules 24 hours, every day, except Sundays.
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Posted By Jim On 03/26/2012 @ 9:55 am In Personal Finance | 20 Comments
It's no secret that the United States Postal Services makes more money when there are more pieces of mail to deliver. It's also no secret that they make a ton of money delivering business mail, so it should come as zero surprise that the USPS is now offering [3] a direct mail service to businesses (it's been live since last April), called Every Door Direct Mail [4]. It lets a business send mail to a "neighborhood" without knowing names or addresses and only costs 14.5¢ a piece. So while the current stamp price [5] is over forty cents, businesses can spam you for a fraction of the cost.
This is the physical world equivalent of spam and you can't opt out of the service. You have to tell the business you do not want to receive unsolicited mailings!
How are you going to know which businesses are using it? You'll get unsolicited mail!
How do you opt out? You'll need to contact each one of them individually. Welcome to your new game of whack a mole.
I find that the best way is to use Catalog Choice [6], since they have a free database of contact information to help make the arduous process just a little easier.
As a business, this idea is brilliant… it just needs a centralized opt out database.
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MORRISTOWN - Barnesville's Zach Houston was not going to let his senior teammates end their careers Wednesday night at Union Local High School. He just wouldn't let it happen.
The Shamrocks (8-15) squandered a 13-point lead late in the third quarter and trailed, 55-54, after Frontier's Drew Schneider knocked down a pair of free throws with 19.7 seconds remaining to play.
That's when Houston kicked it up a notch.
Barnesville pushed the ball down the floor and got it to the 6-foot-1 junior on the block to the right of the lane. He pump faked one Cougar into the air before kissing the ball gently off the glass for a 56-55 lead with 13.8 showing.
''It was fast,'' Houston said of the Shamrocks pushing the ball up the floor.
Frontier, with no timeouts remaining, got the ball into Schneider's hands, but the ball was jostled away as he drove down the lane and bodies went flying.
It just so happens the ball went right to Houston, who was fouled immediately. He calmly stepped to the line and dropped in the first shot, giving his team a 57-55 edge. His second rolled off the rim and into the hands of the Cougars' Taylor Merckle who let loose a desperation heave the clanked off the backboard.
''We kept believing and it ended our way,'' Houston said.
Barnesville coach Chris Pack was all smiles afterward, but that wasn't the case for much of the fourth quarter as Frontier made its charge.
Houston led Barnesville with 16 points, including 10 in the final quarter, while Dylan MacMillan added 14 and Isaac McGee a dozen.
Houston and Brandon Burkhart each pulled down seven rebounds.
Schneider had a huge night as he threw in six 3-point goals en route to a game-high 29. Jordan Jefferson chipped in 15 points and a game-high 11 rebounds. Merckle had 10 boards.
Barnesville advances to a Saturday date with Shadyside at 1 p.m.


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So I raced the Cascade Classic this past weekend.
After Saturday's race I was stupid. I didn't get my recovery drink down until about an hour and half after the race. Then, I was an idiot and didn't eat enough that night- and stayed up past midnight.
Needless to say, my legs felt like crap the next day for the circuit race. They hurt. Bad. So bad I knew I knew I would be popped. So I said screw it. I'm not going to go out with a whimper dammit.
I attacked the 2 field- and luck has it.... Dave Brannen was sitting there with his camera...
And that folks... is how to go out with a bang.
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Embedded in the stimulus bill approved February 10, by the Senate on a 61-37 vote is a provision for the government to pay 50 percent of COBRA health care premiums for up to 12 months for employees who are laid off from September 1, 2008, through December 31, 2009.
The legislation would require employers to locate employees laid off since September 1, 2008, who had declined COBRA to tell them they have a new right to opt for the health care coverage with the government picking up 50 percent of the premium.
Individuals would have 60 days after receiving a notification from their former employers of their new right to receive subsidized COBRA coverage. The subsidy would be prospective.
Congressional negotiators now have to iron out differences—including those involving COBRA—between the Senate stimulus bill and a stimulus bill earlier approved by the House of Representatives.
Under the House bill, the federal COBRA premium subsidy would be set at 65 percent and would last for up to 12 months. That measure also would allow employees terminating employment after 10 years with one employer and those 55 and older to retain COBRA until eligible for Medicare at age 65.
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I think the photograph as a whole is very moving, however they only thing that seems to strike me as out of place is the composition. The subject is a tad bit far right, but not far enough where it isn't visually pleasing, and there are a lot of lines pointing to empty space (the sky). The texture however is very original, and the photo itself really reflects the title. The subject isn't screaming for attention, yet one can feel his sorrow. It speaks to a viewer in a very unique way, which is hard to find amongst the instagram "photographers" we have today.


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I would like to respond very briefly to Dave's e-mail, speaking more on my
own behalf than as a representative of FairTest. Before I began working
here at FairTest, I was employed as a Research Associate for TERC, a
non-profit math and science reform organization. In this capacity I spent
a lot of time thinking, writing, and working on the issue of
"standards." My work focused in particular on equity and math education,
and on how "standards-based" curriculum impacts the way students from
different backgrounds interact with mathematics in the classroom. One of
the things we talked about over and over is the importance of having high
expectations - high standards, if you will - for ALL students. That is
why the TERC elementary mathematics curriculum, "Investigations," draws
from the "standards" set by the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics (NCTM). These benchmarks provide guideposts for teachers,
students, administrators, and parents, and are intended to help more - not
fewer - students have access to high-quality mathematics.
Unfortunately, a lot of the rhetoric surrounding standards, high-stakes
testing, standards-based reform, accountability, ed reform and the like
all gets jumbled together. Supporting "high standards", in the way that
FairTest and TERC do, does not mean supporting accountability mechanisms
(e.g. MCAS) that rely on bad standardized tests which hinder rather than
help educational equity. Supporting "high standards" means believing all
students can engage in higher order, in-depth thinking and learning, and
all schools can become active, rigorous, and equitable places of
learning. This is the vision, at least, that I use to guide my work.
As for the other parts of Dave's message about what FairTest and CARE
chooses to include in print materials and on the website, I would simply
offer that each organization and individual has their own way of
approaching this work. Rather than critique each other, it might be more
helpful to find the places our work overlaps and concentrate on those instead.
Christina Perez, University Testing Reform Advocate
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Subject: [care] A change of direction for FairTest?
Hi, everyone--
I was very pleased to see the preferred course of action against the
standards movement which Monty recommended recently on the ARN list, that
"People see through [the corporate push for tests], organize and mobilize,
connect it to other powerful issues... "
I hope that Monty's words here suggest a change of direction for FairTest
and CARE, which have long been working in the opposite direction:
--FairTest and CARE vigorously promote "high standards," the
conceptual underpinning for high stakes testing, through the "Alliance
for High Standards NOT High Stakes" which they organized and to which
they provide ideological leadership.
--FairTest and CARE refuse to expose the corporate backers of high
stakes testing. People need to know who is behind the tests and standards
and why, but one would search in vain for any mention in the voluminous
CARE and FairTest literature for any suggestion that these tests are
promoted by the most powerful corporate forces in the land, or that the
intentions of these forces might be to lower educational attainment
rather than to raise it as they claim. The business organizations which
are the principal backers of MCAS in Massachusetts--MassInsight, the
Massachusetts Business Roundtable, the Mass Business Alliance--seem not
to exist as far as FairTest and CARE are concerned. When CARE leaders
talk publically about why these tests are being imposed, they attribute
them to the right-wing Pioneer Insititute or to ex-BoE chair John Silber,
never to the corporate forces behind them.
--FairTest and CARE assiduously avoid examining the relationship
between education reform and corporate attacks on people in other areas
of their lives. Rather than "connect it to other powerful issues," as
Monty now suggests, instead they limit discussion of education reform to
high stakes testing, and then limit opposition to high stakes testing
merely to high stakes testing as a graduation requirement, rather than to
MCAS (the HST in Massachusetts) at all levels. Indeed they speak as if
MCAS were merely a flaw in an otherwise positive 1993 Education Reform
Act, rather than the centerpiece of an act which promotes charter schools
and school choice, attacks the seniority and tenure rights of teacher and
leaves principals unprotected, promotes School to Work and Gifted and
Talented programs, provides for tiered diplomas, pits schools and school
staffs against each other in a struggle for survival in the face of
threats of state takeover, and in other ways intensifies competition and
inequality in the schools.
New Democracy has long argued that, if we wish to oppose high stakes
testing effectively, we must understand it in its context in the standards
movement and the broader corporate-led education reform movement. Our
problem is not only high stakes testing but a panoply of reforms all of
which serve to intensify competition and inequality in the public
education system.
To limit discussion and analysis on their web sites and public
announcements to testing alone and then to endorse the standards movement,
as FairTest and CARE do, undermines the movement against testing or
standards. To refuse to expose and analyze the role played by the Business
Roundtable and other corporate forces in promoting testing and education
reform allows the corporate enemies of public education to pretend to
occupy the moral high ground, as if their critique of the schools is true
and it is they who have the welfare of the community at heart while
we--teachers and parents--are mere "special interests." Not to examine the
relationship between the corporate attack on public education and the
corporate attack on other aspects of our society is both to waste an
important means for building our movement and to leave people in the dark
about some of the most troubling developments in the history of American
Monty and FairTest have made significant contributions to the anti-testing
movement by maintaining these listservs and providing useful technical
information about testing. But much more is required for us to succeed.
The change of direction which Monty's words here imply is much needed and
can have very positive effects on our movement.
Dave Stratman
Editor, New Democracy
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Boston, MA 02130
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Android tablets open up new, affordable experiences for learning in schools, and News Corp has launched a tablet geared specifically for the education market. Back in July, the mass media corporation rebranded its educational unit to Amplify and this tablet was built out of that after months of testing. Specs are scarce at the moment, but what we do know is it's a 10-inch Android tablet running custom software.
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The Bible Says What? Discovering Scripture Anew in Jesus' Company
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Presentations are geared to pastors and other leaders, but all are welcome!Christians have long claimed the Bible as a central source of authority for faith and life. Yet churchgoers today are often at a loss as to how to interpret Scripture when dealing with difficult questions.
Like us, Jesus and the people of his time faced many contentious religious and political issues. Like us, they had to figure out how to respond to their "hot-button" issues in light of the commands and stories of the Holy Scripture they loved and revered. Today we don't think of their issues as controversial. "Plucking grain on the Sabbath" or "eating with defiled hands" doesn't faze us. But Jesus was interpreting and re-interpreting the ancient, divinely inspired Scriptures of the Jewish community to address these difficult issues. And he was working with Scripture in ways that would surprise Christians on all sides of today's theological and political debates.
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Jewel is dean of lifelong learning at AMBS. She is passionate about connecting congregations and leaders with tools for in-depth Bible study. She recently completed a PhD in Leadership at Andrews University where her dissertation focused on how six seminary-educated Mennonite pastors are successfully leading congregants to informed, enthusiastic engagement with the Bible.
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Head coach Steve Farley and the Butler baseball program have announced the team's individual awards. Five awards were presented, as determined by a team vote at the end of the season. Junior outfielder Corey Moylan was honored by his teammates with three of the program's six awards, including Team MVP.
Sophomore Mike Hernandez was selected as the team's pitcher of the year, junior catcher Michael Letzter was voted defensive player of the year and sophomore catcher Brian Padove was selected as the team's mental attitude award winner.
Moylan, playing in his first season at BU after transferring from the University of Vermont, led the Bulldogs in hitting (.369), runs (43), doubles (15), walks (32) and on-base percentage (.469). He batted .368 in Horizon League play and was one of three Dawgs named to the HL's all-newcomer team. He started in centerfield for all 50 of the team's contests.
"Corey had an outstanding year," Farley said. "He made some great plays in the field and he got plenty of big hits on offense. He and Grant Fillipitch both had outstanding seasons with the bat and they are a big part of why our team batting average climbed 50 points this spring."
Hernandez (4-5) was quite possibly the team's ace starter in league play this season. He made 13 starts and pitched a team-high 78.2 innings. He led the team in wins (4) and strikeouts (57) while also throwing both of the team's complete games.
"When Mike is on his 'A' game, he has been as good as any pitcher in the Horizon League," Farley said.
Letzter started the majority of the time behind the plate this season batting .280. The Johnsburg, Ill., native showed considerable power this season, leading BU in home runs (7) and slugging (.553). But despite his stellar showing at the plate, it was his work behind it that got him a team award.
"Mike did a good job of handling the game from his catcher position," Farley said." "He really works well with our pitching staff."
Padove was voted mental attitude award winner for the second consecutive year. The Hammond, Ind., native saw action in 20 games and is noted for his defense at catcher. He also hit .250 with a homer and seven RBIs this season.
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im gonna be right honest with ya man. ive done right much duck huntin since i was 11 an ive never been much on a semi auto. id rather shoot a pump anyday. you just rush too much with a semi auto in my opinion.
the one your most comfortable with is always the best i hunted almost my whole life with an old rem 1100 then i lost it in katrina i now have a verona semi auto and a yildiz over/under both are cheap guns but they are also good guns and i shoot very good with both you dont need a high dollar gun to kill
The reason so many have read this but not commented is due to the way you posed the question: asking which is the 'best' semi-auto for duck hunting. This debate has gone on and on and will indefinitely, no doubt. As such, I won't state which gun I think is 'best' but rather the one I shoot and have 110% confidence in, which also happens to fit me well, thus I typically shoot it well. I shoot an Xtrema2, just wrapped up my 6th season with it and won't shoot anything else. It goes bang when I pull the trigger, ridiculously easy to break down for cleaning, works as a paddle, marsh walking stick, and never ever jams no matter what brand of ammo I run through it. That's just me.
If you've got the funding, I'd look hard at Beretta Xtrema2 or A400, or Benelli SBEII, or some of the new offerings from Winchester (SX3) and Browning (Maxus). See which gun FITS you then go from there. If you're not looking to spend that much, there are some decent models from Stoeger, Franchi, Remmy, etc. but don't lose sight of 'you get what you pay for', it certainly rings true when gun buying. Money can buy an expensive duck-killing machine but it cannot buy dead ducks when it's time to put them down over the decoys.
Awesome gun a breeze to clean and half the cost of a Binelli which it is made by. love this gun
I agree with vineytree I love my franchi. Its is not as smooth as a benelli SB2, but its made by benelli and basically uses the same inertia system. If your not looking to spend over a thousand I would recommend it.
Let me start out by saying I would never pay that kind of money for a gun personally. We are not able to hunt enough in a season for me to justify pay that kind of money. I was able to to get $1400 of Cabela points to buy one.
I bought it in 07 before going to Canada. I shot 2 boxes of 3.5 Mags for the Goose hunts and never felt a thing. I am not a good gun stewart (another reason I don't buy expensive guns) and think I have cleaned it once since buying it and have had no trouble. With the kick off pad absorbing a lot of the recoil it allows u to realign your 2nd and 3th shot faster. Not that I want to be fast but shoting my 3rd shot at 45 yards instead of 55 yards starts to add up.
I shoot a Browning silver and love it. I've shot a few new model guns and it really comes down to what you are comfortable with.
Browning! I shoot a Gold but the silver is a awesome! Im gonna buy the NEW auto 5 in camo soon.I would never shoot anything but a Browning.Never had any problems and I shoot ALOT.Me and my buddy killed over 400 birds this year alone and that doesnt include dove season,only clean it when seasons over
Superblack eagle II -- 12 gauge
i shoot the super black eagle 2 and love it. its a paddle a pry bar and one hell of a meat stick. i hunt some nasty conditions and never once a problem. also look at the maxius.
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